No More Learning

A. KIRKPATRICK, M. A. , Trinity College
William Dampier. Woodes Rogers. Anson. Cook. James Bruce.
Clarke. Barrow. Waterton. Darwin. Wallace. Richard Ford.
Borrow, Warburton. Eothen. Curzon's Monasteries of the
Levant. Sir Richard Burton. W. G. Palgrave. A. H. Layard.
Speke Winwood. Reade, Mary Kingsley, Peaks, passes and
glaciers. Dilke's Greater Britain
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CHAPTER VIII
THE LITERATURE OF SCIENCE
A. PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
PAGE
By W. W. ROUSE BALL, M. A. , Fellow of Trinity College
Cambridge mathematicians. The British Association. Whewell's
History of the Inductive Sciences. Michael Faraday. De Morgan.
Sir William Rowan Hamilton. J. J. Sylvester. John Couch
Adams. Cayley. H. J. S. Smith. Sir George Darwin. George
Green. Sir George Stokes. Lord Kelvin. James Clerk Maxwell
257
B. CHEMISTRY
By M. M. PATTISON MUIR, M. A. , Fellow of Gonville and
Caius College
The study of material changes. Four main lines of advance in chemistry
since the later years of the eighteenth century. Priestley and
Cavendish. Black. The Atomic Theory. Dalton. Williamson.
Frankland. Sir Humphry Davy. Electricity and Chemical
Affinity. Thomas Graham. Faraday
271
C. BIOLOGY
By A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc. D. , F. R. S. , Master of Christ's College
The Royal Society. Nehemiah Grew. Ray and Willughby. Robert
Hooke. Stephen Hales. Museums. Botanic Gardens. Learned
Societies. Scientific Journals. Exploration. Sir Joseph Banks.
Robert Brown. J. S. Henslow. Lindley. Berkeley. James
Hutton. John Playfair. William Smith. Adam Sedgwick.
Scrope. de la Beche. Lyell. Sorby. Murchison. Buckland.
Richard Owen. Edward Forbes. The voyage of "The Challenger. '
Central America. Darwin. Wallace. The Origin of Species.
Sir Joseph Hooker. Huxley.
281
CHAPTER IX
ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE
By ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES, M. A.
Gaelic and Classical Literature. Gaelic Poetry. Translations. Irish
influence on English Literature. Geoffrey Keating. James
Ussher. The Sheridans. Le Fanu. National Folk-ballads and
other writings. Maginn. Lever. Lover. Crofton Croker. Carleton.
Patrick Kennedy. Mahony. The Banims. Thomas Osborne
Davis. M Gee. Sir Samuel Ferguson. Griffin. Women writers.
Synge.
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CHAPTER X
ANGLO-INDIAN LITERATURE
By EDWARD FARLEY OATEN, M. A. , LL. B. , Indian Educational
Service, Professor of History at the Presidency College,
Calcutta
P 3
Early historians. William Browne Hockley. Philip Meadows Taylor.
The mutiny. The later historiang. Sir Edwin Arnold. Sir Alfred
Lyall. Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Torulata Dutt
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CHAPTER XI
ENGLISH-CANADIAN LITERATURE
By PELHAM EDGAR, Ph. D. , F. R. S. C. , Professor of English
Literature in Victoria College, University of Toronto
Haliburton. Isabella Valancy Crawford. Archibald Lampman.
William Henry Drummond. Lesser Poets. Historians. Novelists 343
CHAPTER XII
THE LITERATURE OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALANT
By HAROLD CHILD
Charles Harpar. Henry Clarence Kendall. Adam Lindsay Gordon.
James Brunton Stephens. Henry Kingsley and William Howitt.
Marcus Clarke. “Rolf Boldrewood. Historians
351
CHAPTER XIII
SOUTH AFRICAN POETRY
By Sir T. HERBERT WARREN, 'K. C. V. O. , President of
Magdalen College, Oxford
The Bechuana Boy.
Thomas Pringle. Afar in the Desert.
Anthologies
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CHAPTER XIV
EDUCATION
By J. W. ADAMSON, Fellow of King's College, London, and
Professor of Education in the University of London
PAGB
The industrial revolution. French and German education. The uni-
versities. Nonconformist academies. Public schools. Education
of girls. Elementary education. Chesterfield's Letters. The
Edgeworths. Wordsworth. Priestley. Study of English. Thomas
Sheridan. The Scottish School of Rhetoric. Education and the
state. Mrs Trimmer. Bell and Lancaster. Robert Owen. Brougham
and The Edinburgh Review. Mechanics' institutes.
Adult edu-
cation English and Scottish universities. The university of
London. Tutors versus professors. Public School reform. William
Ellis. Ruskin. The state assumes responsibility for elementary
education. The revised code. Spencer. Royal Commissions.
Arnold and secondary education. John Stuart Mill. Essays on
a liberal education. Edward Thring. The Education Act of
1870. Alexander Bain. The education of women. Universities
and research. The new universities. The legislation of 1902
381
CHAPTER XV
CHANGES IN THE LANGUAGE SINCE
SHAKESPEARE'S TIME
By W. MURISON, M. A. , Aberdeen
The world-wide expansion of the English language. Changes in pro-
nunciation, spelling and grammar. Vocabulary. Methods of
word-making. Influx of foreign words. Plain and ornate style
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464
467
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Bibliographies .
Table of Principal Dates
Index of Names
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
VOLUME XIV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. III
Second Impression, 1922, Corrections and Additions
The errata mentioned in volume xiv of the History have been corrected in the
present impression. In addition, some misprints noticed later have been corrected,
and a few alterations made of which the following may be noted:
pp. 318 a, 318 b. Pages numbered thus have been inserted in the present impression
containing the following addition.
But the most remarkable poet connected with The Nation, as a contributor to it of
fine rhetorical verse and several noble laments, was James Mangan or James Clarence
Mangan, as he had renamed himself. The son, like Thomas Moore, of a Dublin grocer
and, like him, destined to write Irish national lyrics of great beauty and oriental poems
of a very striking character and with a vein of satiric whimsicality as delicate, Mangan's
life was as conspicuous a failure as Moore's was a signal success. Moore had a happy
home in childhood, Mangan a most unhappy one; and so it happened that, at the age
of fifteen, when his great promise as a schoolboy should have been inducing his father
to give him those continued educational advantages which lifted young Moore to honour
and affluence, his wrong-headed generosity and credulity was bringing his household to
ruin till his brilliant boy was withdrawn from school to help to support his broken-down
parents by monotonous drudgery at a scrivener's desk, in rude and unsympathetic
company. Nor did Mangan's character enable him to fight his way up in the world
when he had only himself to care for. A victim to ‘red rum' or opium or both, he
struggled on as an occasional contributor in verse or a hack writer in prose to evanescent
journals like The Comet and The Dublin Penny Journal or as temporary clerk in various
Dublin attorneys' offices and under the Irish Ordnance Survey.
Patriotic and devotional verse and a certain amount of rough and ready translation
from the Irish, for the supply of the very necessaries of life, occupied Mangan's closing
days and he finally fell a victim to the cholera which succeeded the famine of 1846,
whose horrors are reflected in his New Year's Lay, his last fine effort in verse.
The vogue for German literature, largely attributable to Carlyle’s influence, made
good translations from the German poets most acceptable in his day; and this special
need was Mangan's opportunity as a sympathetic student of these authors and now &
considerable master of verse. He availed himself of this opportunity to the full and at
first quite seriously. In the rare instances where the character of the original lent
itself to literal translation into English he so rendered it with superlative skill, but he
was an adapter rather than a translator.
A tendency to edit and improve his German originals grew upon him. He found
that the occasional lapses of the minor German poets into dullness and sentimentality
would not have suited his readers, so he improved and improved them, as his stock
for translation, which had become his daily bread,' deteriorated until he improved
them almost entirely away and finally began to publish, as poems from the German of
Dreschler' and 'Selber' and other non-existent authors, lyrics of his own, more or
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When remonstrated with by Dr Anster for thus depriving himself of the credit of
such fine original work as was contained in a sham translation of Hafiz, he replied,
'Any one could see it was only Half-his. '
But, whatever their origin, there is no doubt of the rare poetical quality of some of
Mangan's so-called eastern poems, such as The Karamanian Exile, Gone in the Wind
and The Howling Song of Al Mohara. Through them runs an art-effect with which he
anticipated Edgar Allan Poe, namely that modern adaptation of the refrain which
consists of repeating it with musical variations, and this beautiful effect is found at its
finest in his greatest poem, Dark Rosaleen1, perhaps the most memorable Anglo-Irish
poem ever written. This alone would have won him immortality, but a few others of his
Irish poems—the Lament for Banba, the Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century,
his version of O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire and his desolate Siberia make his fame as
an Irish poet absolutely secure.
1 Over hills and through dales
Have I roamed for your sake;
All yesterday I sailed with sails
On river and on lake.
The Erne, at its highest flood,
I dashed across unseen,
For there was lightning in my blood,
My dark Rosaleen!
My own Rosaleen!
Oh! there was lightning in my blood,
Red lightning lightened through my blood,
My dark Rosaleen!
All day long, in unrest,
To and fro do I move.
The very soul within my breast
Is wasted for you, love!
The heart in my bosom faints
To think of you, my Queen,
My life of life, my saint of saints,
9
My dark Rosaleen!
My own Rosaleen!
To hear your sweet and sad complaints,
My life, my love, my saint of saints,
My dark Rosaleen!
Stanzas 2, 3.
Addenda to the present (2nd) impression.
The following should be added to the bibliographies:
pp. 484 ff. , chapter 11. Historians and Politicians.
Espinasse, Francis. Lancashire Worthies. 2 vols. 1874–7.
pp. 515 ff. , chapter II. Critical and Miscellaneous Prose.
Borrow, George. Bibliography of the writings in prose and verse of G. B. by T. J. Wise.
1914.
Brooke, Stopford A. Life and Letters, by Jacks, L. P. 2 vols. 1917.
Brown, John. The Story of Pet Margorie. With her portraits and complete Diaries.
Now first published. By Lachlan Macbean. Stirling and London. 4th edn.
1914.
Crackanthorpe, Hubert. Last Studies. . . . With a poem by Brooke, . A. , and an
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Hearn, Lafcadio. Interpretations of Literature. Selected and edited, with introduction
by Erskine, J. 2 vols. 1916.
Literary Appreciations. 1920.
Helps, Sir Arthur. Correspondence of, edited by his son. 1917.
Ruskin, John. Life of, by Collingwood, W. G. 2 vols. 1903.
Bibliography of, by Wise, T. J.
Stevenson, R. A. M. Peter Paul Rubens. New edn. 1909.
Wilde, Oscar. A Critic in Pall Mall. Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies.
Ed. Lucas, E. V. 1919.
pp. 529 ff. , chapter iv. The Growth of Journalism.
Neal, Samuel (1826–1901). The British Controversialist.
pp. 537 ff. , chapter v. University Journalism.
Under Trinity College, Dublin:
The College Magazine. 1857–8.
T. C. D. In progress.
Queen's UNIVERSITY, BELFAST
Belfast Monthly Magazine. 1878–9.
Q. C. B. In progress.
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND
The Quarryman. Cork. In progress.
The National Student Dublin. In progress.
U. C. G. Galway. In progress.
pp. 567 ff. , chapter ix. Anglo-Irish Literature.
Anster, John (1793–1867). Ode to Fancy, 1815; Poems, 1819; Faustus, 1835; Second
Part of Faust, 1864.
Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832–1916). Sermons, 1868-1877; Riquet of the Tuft
(anonymously), 1880; Christian Hymns, 1881; Poems, 1888.
Colgan, John (d. 1637). Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, 1645; Trias Thatmatūrga,
1647.
Eccles, Charlotte O'Conor (1860? –1911). Aliens of the West.
Knowles, James Sheridan (1784–1862). Virginius, 1820; The Hunchback, 1832; The
Wife, 1833; Love, 1840; Brian Boroihme, 1872; Works, 1874.
Luby, Thomas Clarke (1821–1901). Life of O'Connell, n. d. ; Lives of Representative
Irishmen, 1878.
O'Donoghue, David James (1866–1917). Poets of Ireland, 1892, 1912; Life of Carleton,
1896; Life of Mangan, 1897.
O'Grady, Standish Hayes (1830–1915). Silva Gadelica, 2 vols. 1892; Catalogue of
Irish MSS in British Museum.
O'Sullivan-Beare, Philip (1590? –1660). Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium,
1621, 1850; Life of St Patrick, 1629.
Stokes, Margaret (1832–1900). Notes on the Cross of Corig, 1895; High Crosses of
Ireland, 1898.
Whitley (1830-1909). Ed. and trans.