; and it is with the view
our elementary schools, and of fitting boys 22 The Lure of the Sea, by J.
our elementary schools, and of fitting boys 22 The Lure of the Sea, by J.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
The
but the large portion that we have read truthful volume.
choice of details strikes us as occasionally
convinces us of a considerable waste of time Men about Town, by F. O. L. , 1/ net.
odd. Thus we get instructions how to dress
and material.
Humphreys for the Academy Private View in the morning
Wetherell (Elizabeth), THE WIDE, WIDE These whimsicalities are well done, and and afternoon, but an insufficient account of
WORLD.
the supposed interviews with well-known the theatres. Was it necessary to say that
One of Nelson's Sixpenny Classics.
people make points which might well lead they contain men and women of note in
to some needed self-realization.
Beneral.
stalls and boxes during a successful run ?
Taunton Public Library Souvenir : A BRIEF
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ACCOUNT
Portsmouth, Griffin
selected by Stanley V. Makower and
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This issue, edited by Viscount Hythe,
MOVEMENT IN THE BOROUGH OF TAUN-
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in British shipbuilding yards. ” Part I.
Taunton, Barnicott & Pearce
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net.
Black strength of navies, and includes chapters by
Tous les Chefs-d'Euvre de la Littérature
These essays are
a faithful mirror of Sir William White on ‘Recent Changes in
Française : MONTAIGNE, LES ESSAIS, II. ;
easy optimism. ” Lady Doughty comes Warship Design,' and by Commander C. N.
and THOMAS, LE ROMAN DE TRISTAN,
to us from Australia, with proselytizing Robinson on The Turco-Italian War. ' Parts
1/ net each.
Dent
zoal for redeeming our downheartedness II. and III. are occupied with lists and tables,
Neat little editions, though the type is
by the exercise of cheap and sentimental and Part IV. mainly with estimates of the somewhat small. The first translation in
platitude. She moves genially from sub- navies of the world. There are seven illus- modern French of the romance of Thomas
ject to subject, from truism to truism, from trations of battleships, and a striking diagram
is due to the care of MM. Jules Herbomez
levity to insipidity.
showing the expenditure on new construc-
and Rémy Beaurieux, who add a scholarly
Fitzgerald (Percy), PICKWICK RIDDLES AND
tion from 1880-81 to 1912–13, beginning at
Preface to their work.
PERPLEXITIES, 1/ net. Gay & Hancock less than two millions and ending at fourteen. Tyranny (The) of Trade Unions, by One who
The author is so firm a Dickensian as to Nitrate Facts and Figures, 1912, 2/6 net.
Resents It, 1/ net.
Eveleigh Nash
express a positive joy in the various slips and
Mathieson If the author had only given evidence in
inoonsistencies to be found in ‘Pickwick. ? In the opinion of the editor, there was an his opening of a reasoned rather than par-
Some of his difficulties seem to us over- increasing demand for the constant supply tisan statement of his case, and could have
stated, and, in returning with cheery enthu- of nitrato during the past year, which will divulged his name, he might have usefully
siasm to a subject he has dealt with often lead to a probable “shortage. ”
before, he might have made more research. Printers' Pie, 1912, 1/ net.
appealed to others than those who choose
their reading in accordance with preconceived
“Cows,' for instance, is Kentish dialect for
chimney cowls. The lack of arrangement,
No doubt those who feel a warm glow ideas.
references, and index is irritating, and the pervade their being at the thought that
Pampblets.
little book is not free from trivialities.
their purchase-money is going in the cause
SUMMARY
of charity will find nothing to cavil at Clothing and Textile Trades :
Fuller (Robert A. ), RECOLLECTIONS OF between the covers of this “record” issue.
TABLES, hy L. Wyatt Papworth and
DETECTIVE, 1/ net.
Long
Dorothy M. Zimmern, with a Preface
These recollections of a retired detective Rubber Facts and Figures, May, 1912, 1/
by Sir Athelstane Baines, and an
inspector cover the years from 1881 to 1908,
Mathieson Introduction by B. L. Hutchins, 2d.
and the crimes and incidents recorded wilí Snell (F. J. ), THE AGE OF ALFRED, 664-1154,
Women's Industrial Council
be within the memory of many readers. 3/6 net.
Bell This modest pamphlet, with its ten pages
There no startling disclosures, The title of this book is to be accounted of text and its twenty of tables and diagrams,
straining after effect; nothing, in fact, for by the fact that it is one of the Hand- the whole of which can be bought for 2d. ,
which may not be read in old newspaper books of English Literature series, the other is perhaps the most valuable collection of
files ; yet the book is interesting as
volumes of which have such titles as 'The industrial facts that has appeared since the
presentment of detective work as a trade. Age of Chaucer (1346-1400),? . The Age of Report of the Committee upon Home Work.
Wo find the weaknesses of mankind tabu- Shakespeare (1579-1631),' and 'The Age of Miss Wyatt Papworth and Miss D. M.
lated as methodically as a City clerk files Tennyson (1830-70). ' In these instances, Zimmern have carefully systematized official
letters, and the book is marked by a tolerant as the appended dates show, the word “age figures (from the Census, tho Factory
contempt for criminals, and incidentally is applied to the few decades covered by Returns, and certain special 'inquiries of the
for the discrepancies of justice.
the literary activity of the author named, Board of Trade) relating to the employment
Guth na Bliadhna, the Voice of the Year, with such subtraction or addition as may be of women in the Clothes-making, Laundry,
Spring, 1912, 1/ Stirling, Mackay necessary, to avoid overlapping. In the and Textile industries, an aggregate ” which
The text is a mixture of Gaelic and English, title of this volume the word, is used dif- comprised, “ according to the 1901 census,
an interesting article in the latter being extend over five centuries. The book, in girls of the United Kingdom returned as
no less than 37 per cent of the women and
devoted to the “
who traditionally washes at fords and lochs fact, is intended as a survey of the whole engaged in occupations. Especially valu-
the shrouds of those about to die. We do
of the literature written in what is commonly able are the averages of women's wages in
known as
not like to see a page of advertisements
Anglo-Saxon Old English. " various occupations. In the cotton trade
inserted in the middle of a Gaelic play.
A good popular handbook on this subject the average, in a week of September, 1906,
Hearne (I. ), THE VERITABLE MIRROR OF
is certainly needed, and it is not absolutely was actually 18s. 8d. ; but in some other
DESTINY: A FANTASY.
trades, such as fustian-cutting (a process in
necessary that it should be written by a
Nutt
An odd little allegory introducing the profound scholar. The author of such the manufacture of velveteen),
per cent of women over 18 earn less than
Fates and Dame Fashion. The apparent good knowledge of old English, and to be 108. a week; in the case of hair, the per-
purport of it is that, if “ Votes for Women
bocame fashionable, it would soon be an
familiar with the original texts and the centage is over 50 per cent. " In glove-
more important of the contributions made making 76. 6 of the workers earn below 15s.
accomplished fact, which seems to be too by modern scholars to their criticism and weekly, of whom 25. 5 are below the ten-
obvious to need stating.
interpretation. Unfortunately, Mr. Snell shilling lino; only 1. 9 earn 208. or. over.
Letters to Myself, by a Woman of Forty, 5/ comes far short of_fulfilling this mini- The average rate per hour earned in this
net.
Werner Laurie mum requirement. He appears, indeed, to trade is twopence and four-fifths.
"The unnamed writer of these essays has have made considerable efforts; but it is In the clothing trades-largely seasonal
much literary skill, delicacy, and insight, evident that he is a stranger in the land in character--the percentage of earners
and any parent or guardian of girls would over which he has undertaken to act as a under 15s. is 67, and of earners under 108. ,
be the wiser for reading them. Her per- guide.
22. Workers employed in factories earn
ception is generally so just and free from He has, nevertheless, an attractive style, rather more than those in workshops—in
exaggeration that it is disappointing to find considerable skill in the lucid arrangement other words, the ready-made trade, in dress-
her reiterating the old axiom that all of his material, and a keen eye for what making, &c. , pays slightly better than the
childless women are unhappy, and that to ordinary readers are likely to find interesting. bespoke trade, and at the same time the
be a parent is every woman's greatest bliss. All he lacks is a thorough knowledge of his hours of work are rather shorter. It is
This is too much to say of either sex nowa subject, a qualification which does not seem pointed out that the minimum rate of 31d. per
days; and the tendency to regard mother- as yet to be considered indispensable for hour fixed by the Trade Board for Tailoring
hood rather than humanity as the highest 'the writer of a popular handbook.
would afford a material increase to the
are
no
a
66
or
over 40
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THE ATHENÆUM
23
average worker, and a considerable increase students of Mr. Edward Johnson, Mr.
FORTHOOMING BOOKS.
to the many who fall below the average. ” It Graily Hewitt, and others represent another
MAY
is also pointed out that the actual cost of side of the School's work which is bound to
Theology
maintaining a woman worker in health and have important results.
St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, by Canon
physical efficiency “cannot be less than 148.
R. B. Girdlestone, in the Devotional Commentary,
Though London is the centre of the modern 21
R. T. S.
to 158. a week a figure certainly not revival of printing, our typefounders seem to Taking Men Alive: Studies in the Principles
attained for every week in the year by half be the last to feel its effects. It is to Germany and Practice of Individual Soul-Winning, by
the women engaged in these necessary trades. that we have to go to study these. One of
C. Gallaudet Trumbull, Cheap Edition, 1/ R. T. S.
Moreover, any person at all acquainted with the first pupils at the Central School of Arts
Poetry and Drama.
working women knows how large a propor- and Crafts in lettering was Fräulein Anna 30 Plays and Players in Modern Italy, by
tion of them are helping to support relatives. Simons, and on her return to Germany she Addison McLeod, 7/6 net,
Smith & Elder
The sad conclusion is that, in the richest was appointed teacher of a class of art- Songs of Love and Earth, by John Drinkwater.
country in the world, half of the employed masters from all parts of the country to 1/6 net.
Nutt
women cannot actually command enough explain English methods, and aroused a
Philosophy.
pay to keep themselves healthily fed and great enthusiasm for them. As a result, a
22 The Young Nietzsche, by Frau Förster-
Nietzsche, Vol. 1. , 15/ net.
Heinemann
clothed.
number of German type-foundries com-
History and Biography.
Durning-Lawrence (Sir Edwin), THE SHAKE- missioned new founts of type designed on
30 Recollections of a Great Lady, by Madame
SPEARE MYTH, ld. Gay & Hancock these principles, examples of which are
de Boigne, 10/6 net.
Heinemann
A brief embodiment of the author's shown; and these were so successful that one
Geography and Travel.
Baconian views, which include a belief in of our oldest English type-foundries have
the significance of the words
31 Pygmies and Papuans : the Stone Age
pig
1 and adopted one of them for sale in this country. To-day in Dutch New Guinea, by A. F: R. Wol-
" hog discovered by cipher in the First It is to be hoped that this example may have laston, 16/ net.
Smith & Elder
Folio.
On p. 5 we read that Shakespeare's the effect of sending other firms to the
Education.
"wealth was simply the money—1,0001. — original source of the movement.
22 The Montessori Method, 7/6 net.
given to him in order to induce him to incur The Day School of Book - Production is
Heinemann
the risk entailed by allowing his name to
an attempt to solve the problem of com-
Science.
appear upon the plays. ” It is useless to bining the apprenticeship system with the
31 The Darkness, the Dawn, and the Day,
argue with writers who put forward such need for technical education. Boys enter
statements without a word of comment at the age of 13, a year before they would by J. C. Thomas, paper, Bd. net ; cloth, 1/ net.
Watts
as if they were facts. We are also told leave the elementary schools, with a County
Fiction.
that Bacon, after the translators had done Council scholarship. During the first year
20 The Spinster, by Hubert Wales, 6/ Long
their work, wrote every word of the English a pupil devotes two-thirds of his time to
20 Crowns, by Winifred M. Macnab, 6/
Authorised Version of the Bible, 1611. " ordinary school subjects, and one-third to
Lynwood
learning something of the trade. He then 21 The Sign, by Mrs. Romilly Fedden, 6/
decides whether he will take up printing or
Macmillan
THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING. bookbinding, and is provisionally appren-
24 Under the She-Oaks, by E. Boyd Bayly,
ticed. In the second year he devotes one
Leisure Hour Library, 6d.
R. I. S.
A LITTLE exhibition was opened this week half of his time to school subjects, the
25 A Black Martinmas, by Mrs. Disney Leith,
6/
Lynwood
at the Central School of Arts and Crafts remainder to learning his trade, and in the Money and the Man: the Story of the Girl
in Southampton Row which attests the third year two-thirds to technical training. who stopped a Coal Strike, by H. M. Ward, New
complete success of ono of the most inter. After three years the boy joins his master
Edition, Bouverie Florin Library.
R. T. S.
esting experiments in technical education of as a third-year apprentice. The founding Bouverte Florin Library.
Peggy Spry, by H. M. Ward, New Edition,
R. T. S.
our time. The London County Council has of these day-apprenticeship schools is a dis- The Belfast Boy, by J. A. P. , 61
Nutt
of recent years established trade schools for tinct step forward in the direction of supple-
cabinet-making, silversmiths' work, book- menting and utilizing the education given in
General.
production, &c.
; and it is with the view
our elementary schools, and of fitting boys 22 The Lure of the Sea, by J. E. Patterson,
of interesting the trade and the public in and girls to earn a useful living.
5/ net.
Heinemann
the results of the classes concerned with
The Story of The Miracle,' by H. Hamilton
The Catalogue of the exhibition, set up
Nutt
book-production that this exhibition is held. and printed by the boys of the School,
Fyfe, 1/6 net.
An Athenian Critic of Athenian Democracy,
It consists mainly of the work of evening shows that they are receiving a knowledge by F. Brooks, 1/6 net.
Nutt
students in printing, lettering and fine of their trade which cannot fail to be of
writing, illustration - making, and book- the highest value to them in after years.
NEXT MONTH'S MAGAZINES.
binding, together with a small collection
of examples of fine printing, ancient and
The Cornhill Magazine contains an instalment
modern, serving as a criterion and a model.
of The Grip of Life,' by Agnes and Egerton
BOOK SALE,
Castle, and the conclusion of Blinds Down,'
Typography and presswork are taught in
the Regent Street and Borough Polytechnics, sold a choice library formed' by a well-known
On Thursday, the oth inst. , Messrs. Sotheby
by Mr. H. A. Vachell. In 'Sixty Years in the
Wilderness' Sir Henry Lucy, among other
the Aldenham and St. Bride Institutes, and collector, the chief lots being the following:
extracts, social and political, from his diary,
the L. C. C. Camberwell and Central Schools Alken, National Sports of Great Britain, 1821,
tells of his meetings with no fewer than six famous
• One
of Arts and Crafts; bookbinding in L. C. C. 841. Apperley, Life of a Sportsman,' 1842, explorers. Dr. W. H. Fitchett writes on
Hammersmith, Camberwell, and Central 391. 108 Boccaccio, Decamerone, 5 vols. , 1757, of the Puzzles of Waterloo : Napoleon's Scaffold. "
Schools and the Northampton and Borough wick Club, 1837, 331. Egan, Real Life in London,
201. Dickens, Posthumous Papers of the Pick-
Travel and exploration are represented by two
articles : Towards Ararat,'* by Miss Mary
Polytechnics; while the work of the L. C. C. 2 vols. , '1821–2, 691. Lafontaine, Fables et Meinertzhagen, and The Most Primitive People,
School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography Nouvelles, 4 vols. , 1755_9, bound by L. Chenu,
by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston, whose forthcoming boots
is shown by its title. We must confess to 1351. ; Contes et Nouvelles, 2 vols. , 1762, 481,
on the Pygmies of New Guinea is announced
Mrs. Mary J. H. Skrine writes of
a feeling of surprise at the high level of another copy, 851. Louvet, Les Amours du above.
attainment in the specimens shown of the garet of Navarre, Heptameron, 3 vols. , 1780,
Chevalier de Faublas, 4 vols. , 1798, 661. Mar
The Church in Mary Ferrar's House,' memorable
to readers of 'John Inglesant. ' * On Sir Thomas
printing of these schools : most of them 421. Ovid, Les Métamorphoses, 4 vols. , 1767-71,
Lawrence's Doorstep,' by Miss Emily H. Buck.
would do credit to the best printers of the 351. Rabelais, Euvres, 3 vols. , 1741, 501. ingham, is a reminiscence of the Waterloo year
day in design and execution, and some are Shakespeare, Works, 1 vols. , 1709–10, 411.
from a member of the Merivale family ; while
* The Eleventh Hour' is a short story by Mr.
perfect examples of pure typography. The Surtees, Jorrocks's Jaunts and follities, 1843,
displayed pieces are less satisfactory. Vanity Fair, in the 20 original numbers, 1847–8,
471. ;. Handley Cross, 1854, 661. Thackeray, Austin Philips.
Chambers's Journal will contain : 'The Cahusac
The various examples of reproductions in 1701. "Voltaire, La Henriade, 2 vols. , 1769–70, Mystery,' by K. and Hesketh Prichard, chaps.
half-tone, lithography, and 441. ; Romans et Contes, 3 vols. , 1778, 201. XXV. -xxviii. ; 'Carlotta,' by Howard C. Boyes ;
collotype are excellent.
Westmacott, English Spy, 2 vols. , 1825–6, 1321. Aspects of Latin-American Revolutions'; "The
The bookbinding classes have already loft Life in Paris, 1822, 251. ; Crowquill, The Holiday
Works illustrated by the Cruikshanks : _Carey, Cattle-Drover,' by E. D. Cuming;. 'The Mineral
Wealth of the Red Sea Borders,' by A. J. Park
& deep mark on the trade in London, and
Grammar, 1825, 421. ; Egan, Life in London, Crawford; 'British Machine-Tool-Making Achieve
the examples here seen, when one remembers 1821, 221. ; Finish to the Adventures of Tom, ments'; The Future Bridge,' by B. S. Townroe ;
that they are the work of very young work- Jerry, and Logic, 1830, 531. ; Ireland, Life of "" The Square
and The Cross," by Lieut. -
men produced under unfavourable condi- Napoleon Bonaparte, vols, 1823–8, 481. ; Ken- Col. Sir Henry Smith ; "The Great Lone Land of
tions, do them the highest credit. We feel, 1817-21, 271. ; The Meteor, or Monthly Censor,
rick, British Stage and Literary Cabinet, 5 vols. , Australia,' by F. A. W. Gisborne ; . 'A Novel
Form of Chimney Construction'; The Associa-
however, that they aro, as a rule, overloaded 2 vols. , 1813-14, 711.
tions of the Strand and Fleet Street,' by E.
with ornament, and that more attention Works illustrated by Rowlandson: Combe, Beresford Chancellor; Tay Pearls, and a Few
should be given to displaying the fine Dr. Syntax's Three Tours, 1812-21, 201. 108. ; Fishers whom I Have Known, by w. Dow
qualities of the leather surfacó itself, instead
Compendious Treatise on Modern Education, • The Diesel Engine and Vegetable Oils'
1802, 301. ; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, Heart of Things,' by Henry Leach ; When
of covering it with gold. The specimens of 1817, 291.
Private Stubbs Smiled,' by C. Benbow; and
writing, lettering, and illumination by The total of the sale was 3,1901. 38.
• The Month : Science and Arts. '
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567
on
an
on
a
to
the Year-Books of the courts at West- / of the Garter and the Great Officers of
Literary Gossip minster, with which we are more familiar. the State. Among those who have con-
The pleas are given in alphabetical order tributed special articles are the Rev.
PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, who was in of the causes of action, and in this volume A. B. Beaven, Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte,
vited by Amherst College, U. S. A. , to
range
from Account to “Mesne. ” A Dr. J. H. Round, and Mr. G. W. Watson.
lecture Greek study, has drawn third volume, also undertaken by Mr. A large part of vol. iii. is already in type.
audiences at Columbia University of Bolland, will complete the work.
nearly a thousand. In the course of his
THE GERMAN-ANGLO COMMITTEE for
remarks he stated it as his opinion that,
The Society hope to publish this year the promotion of friendly relations
additional bonus volume the
if one begins by understanding classical Charters of Trading Companies, by Mr. draw attention to a literary undertaking,
between the two countries desires to
Greek, one has as it were a clue to almost C. T. Carr. The publication for last year, several volumes of which will begin to
every great movement of thought that the fifth volume of the Year-Books of appear in a week's time. The general
has taken place since.
Edward II. , edited by Mr. Turner, is still title will be
title will be “ Modern England,” and Dr.
UNDER the presidency of Prof. R. unfinished.
E. Sieper, Professor of English Philology
Menendez Pidal a summer school is to
UNDER the general editorship of Mr. at Munich, will be the editor.
be held at Madrid, beginning on June 15th, s. E. Winbolt and Mr. Kenneth Bell will
for the purpose of furthering the study of shortly appear a series of
GENERAL HOMER LEA, in his new book
English The Day of the Saxon,' deals with the
Spanish literature and Spanish history History Source Books. ” Messrs. Bell
at home and abroad. By the aid of a & Sons are the publishers. The whole affect national existence, his object being
new phases of military science as they
Government subsidy about a hundred ground of English history, from Roman to examine the security of Britain's
Spanish students are now in residence at Britain to 1887, will be covered by some present position among the nations of the
foreign universities and technical schools. eighteen volumes of about 120 pages each. world. The book will shortly be issued
The Saturday Review is starting this Issued at a shilling each, these volumes by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
week a series of " Saturday Portraits ”
should be a valuable aid to the rational
* THE GREAT STATE,' which the same
by a well-known writer-personal studies teaching of history in secondary schools.
of people of all sorts who are prominently Among the writers will be found public firm will publish very shortly, should
before the public eye. The Attorney- school masters and workers in the British be an interesting political symposium.
General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, will be the Museum and the Record Office.
It is not a collection of disconnected
but
papers,
concerted effort
opening subject.
By arrangement with Sir A. Conan present a modern social ideal. In it
THE SELDEN SOCIETY is about to issue Doyle and Messrs. Longmans, Messrs. individualists like Sir Ray Lankester
the twenty-seventh volume of its pub- Smith & Elder are including in their 38. 6d. (who writes on Science
in the Great
lications, being the work for the current edition of Sir Arthur’s works his four books State'), Mr. Roger Fry (who deals with
year. This is one of the “ Year-Books Micah Clarke, '. The Refugees,'The art), and Mr. E. S. P. Haynes (who fore-
Series," and makes the second volume Stark Munro Letters,' and 'The Captain shadows the legal methods of the Great
of the Year-Books of the Eyre of Kent of the Polestar. . Messrs. Longmans will State) combine with declared Socialists
held in the sixth and seventh years of continue to publish the volumes in other like Lady Warwick, Mr. Chiozza Money,
the reign of Edward II. (A. D. 1313-14). editions as hitherto.
but the large portion that we have read truthful volume.
choice of details strikes us as occasionally
convinces us of a considerable waste of time Men about Town, by F. O. L. , 1/ net.
odd. Thus we get instructions how to dress
and material.
Humphreys for the Academy Private View in the morning
Wetherell (Elizabeth), THE WIDE, WIDE These whimsicalities are well done, and and afternoon, but an insufficient account of
WORLD.
the supposed interviews with well-known the theatres. Was it necessary to say that
One of Nelson's Sixpenny Classics.
people make points which might well lead they contain men and women of note in
to some needed self-realization.
Beneral.
stalls and boxes during a successful run ?
Taunton Public Library Souvenir : A BRIEF
Book (A) of English Essays (1600-1900), Naval Annual, 1912, 12/6 net.
ACCOUNT
Portsmouth, Griffin
selected by Stanley V. Makower and
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Basil H. Blackwell, 1/ net.
This issue, edited by Viscount Hythe,
MOVEMENT IN THE BOROUGH OF TAUN-
Frowde
One of the World's Classics.
records a year of unprecedented activity TON, by Arthur E. Baker, 1/ net.
in British shipbuilding yards. ” Part I.
Taunton, Barnicott & Pearce
Doughty (Lady), THE CHEERFUL WAY, 2/6 reviews the progress and comparative
net.
Black strength of navies, and includes chapters by
Tous les Chefs-d'Euvre de la Littérature
These essays are
a faithful mirror of Sir William White on ‘Recent Changes in
Française : MONTAIGNE, LES ESSAIS, II. ;
easy optimism. ” Lady Doughty comes Warship Design,' and by Commander C. N.
and THOMAS, LE ROMAN DE TRISTAN,
to us from Australia, with proselytizing Robinson on The Turco-Italian War. ' Parts
1/ net each.
Dent
zoal for redeeming our downheartedness II. and III. are occupied with lists and tables,
Neat little editions, though the type is
by the exercise of cheap and sentimental and Part IV. mainly with estimates of the somewhat small. The first translation in
platitude. She moves genially from sub- navies of the world. There are seven illus- modern French of the romance of Thomas
ject to subject, from truism to truism, from trations of battleships, and a striking diagram
is due to the care of MM. Jules Herbomez
levity to insipidity.
showing the expenditure on new construc-
and Rémy Beaurieux, who add a scholarly
Fitzgerald (Percy), PICKWICK RIDDLES AND
tion from 1880-81 to 1912–13, beginning at
Preface to their work.
PERPLEXITIES, 1/ net. Gay & Hancock less than two millions and ending at fourteen. Tyranny (The) of Trade Unions, by One who
The author is so firm a Dickensian as to Nitrate Facts and Figures, 1912, 2/6 net.
Resents It, 1/ net.
Eveleigh Nash
express a positive joy in the various slips and
Mathieson If the author had only given evidence in
inoonsistencies to be found in ‘Pickwick. ? In the opinion of the editor, there was an his opening of a reasoned rather than par-
Some of his difficulties seem to us over- increasing demand for the constant supply tisan statement of his case, and could have
stated, and, in returning with cheery enthu- of nitrato during the past year, which will divulged his name, he might have usefully
siasm to a subject he has dealt with often lead to a probable “shortage. ”
before, he might have made more research. Printers' Pie, 1912, 1/ net.
appealed to others than those who choose
their reading in accordance with preconceived
“Cows,' for instance, is Kentish dialect for
chimney cowls. The lack of arrangement,
No doubt those who feel a warm glow ideas.
references, and index is irritating, and the pervade their being at the thought that
Pampblets.
little book is not free from trivialities.
their purchase-money is going in the cause
SUMMARY
of charity will find nothing to cavil at Clothing and Textile Trades :
Fuller (Robert A. ), RECOLLECTIONS OF between the covers of this “record” issue.
TABLES, hy L. Wyatt Papworth and
DETECTIVE, 1/ net.
Long
Dorothy M. Zimmern, with a Preface
These recollections of a retired detective Rubber Facts and Figures, May, 1912, 1/
by Sir Athelstane Baines, and an
inspector cover the years from 1881 to 1908,
Mathieson Introduction by B. L. Hutchins, 2d.
and the crimes and incidents recorded wilí Snell (F. J. ), THE AGE OF ALFRED, 664-1154,
Women's Industrial Council
be within the memory of many readers. 3/6 net.
Bell This modest pamphlet, with its ten pages
There no startling disclosures, The title of this book is to be accounted of text and its twenty of tables and diagrams,
straining after effect; nothing, in fact, for by the fact that it is one of the Hand- the whole of which can be bought for 2d. ,
which may not be read in old newspaper books of English Literature series, the other is perhaps the most valuable collection of
files ; yet the book is interesting as
volumes of which have such titles as 'The industrial facts that has appeared since the
presentment of detective work as a trade. Age of Chaucer (1346-1400),? . The Age of Report of the Committee upon Home Work.
Wo find the weaknesses of mankind tabu- Shakespeare (1579-1631),' and 'The Age of Miss Wyatt Papworth and Miss D. M.
lated as methodically as a City clerk files Tennyson (1830-70). ' In these instances, Zimmern have carefully systematized official
letters, and the book is marked by a tolerant as the appended dates show, the word “age figures (from the Census, tho Factory
contempt for criminals, and incidentally is applied to the few decades covered by Returns, and certain special 'inquiries of the
for the discrepancies of justice.
the literary activity of the author named, Board of Trade) relating to the employment
Guth na Bliadhna, the Voice of the Year, with such subtraction or addition as may be of women in the Clothes-making, Laundry,
Spring, 1912, 1/ Stirling, Mackay necessary, to avoid overlapping. In the and Textile industries, an aggregate ” which
The text is a mixture of Gaelic and English, title of this volume the word, is used dif- comprised, “ according to the 1901 census,
an interesting article in the latter being extend over five centuries. The book, in girls of the United Kingdom returned as
no less than 37 per cent of the women and
devoted to the “
who traditionally washes at fords and lochs fact, is intended as a survey of the whole engaged in occupations. Especially valu-
the shrouds of those about to die. We do
of the literature written in what is commonly able are the averages of women's wages in
known as
not like to see a page of advertisements
Anglo-Saxon Old English. " various occupations. In the cotton trade
inserted in the middle of a Gaelic play.
A good popular handbook on this subject the average, in a week of September, 1906,
Hearne (I. ), THE VERITABLE MIRROR OF
is certainly needed, and it is not absolutely was actually 18s. 8d. ; but in some other
DESTINY: A FANTASY.
trades, such as fustian-cutting (a process in
necessary that it should be written by a
Nutt
An odd little allegory introducing the profound scholar. The author of such the manufacture of velveteen),
per cent of women over 18 earn less than
Fates and Dame Fashion. The apparent good knowledge of old English, and to be 108. a week; in the case of hair, the per-
purport of it is that, if “ Votes for Women
bocame fashionable, it would soon be an
familiar with the original texts and the centage is over 50 per cent. " In glove-
more important of the contributions made making 76. 6 of the workers earn below 15s.
accomplished fact, which seems to be too by modern scholars to their criticism and weekly, of whom 25. 5 are below the ten-
obvious to need stating.
interpretation. Unfortunately, Mr. Snell shilling lino; only 1. 9 earn 208. or. over.
Letters to Myself, by a Woman of Forty, 5/ comes far short of_fulfilling this mini- The average rate per hour earned in this
net.
Werner Laurie mum requirement. He appears, indeed, to trade is twopence and four-fifths.
"The unnamed writer of these essays has have made considerable efforts; but it is In the clothing trades-largely seasonal
much literary skill, delicacy, and insight, evident that he is a stranger in the land in character--the percentage of earners
and any parent or guardian of girls would over which he has undertaken to act as a under 15s. is 67, and of earners under 108. ,
be the wiser for reading them. Her per- guide.
22. Workers employed in factories earn
ception is generally so just and free from He has, nevertheless, an attractive style, rather more than those in workshops—in
exaggeration that it is disappointing to find considerable skill in the lucid arrangement other words, the ready-made trade, in dress-
her reiterating the old axiom that all of his material, and a keen eye for what making, &c. , pays slightly better than the
childless women are unhappy, and that to ordinary readers are likely to find interesting. bespoke trade, and at the same time the
be a parent is every woman's greatest bliss. All he lacks is a thorough knowledge of his hours of work are rather shorter. It is
This is too much to say of either sex nowa subject, a qualification which does not seem pointed out that the minimum rate of 31d. per
days; and the tendency to regard mother- as yet to be considered indispensable for hour fixed by the Trade Board for Tailoring
hood rather than humanity as the highest 'the writer of a popular handbook.
would afford a material increase to the
are
no
a
66
or
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average worker, and a considerable increase students of Mr. Edward Johnson, Mr.
FORTHOOMING BOOKS.
to the many who fall below the average. ” It Graily Hewitt, and others represent another
MAY
is also pointed out that the actual cost of side of the School's work which is bound to
Theology
maintaining a woman worker in health and have important results.
St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, by Canon
physical efficiency “cannot be less than 148.
R. B. Girdlestone, in the Devotional Commentary,
Though London is the centre of the modern 21
R. T. S.
to 158. a week a figure certainly not revival of printing, our typefounders seem to Taking Men Alive: Studies in the Principles
attained for every week in the year by half be the last to feel its effects. It is to Germany and Practice of Individual Soul-Winning, by
the women engaged in these necessary trades. that we have to go to study these. One of
C. Gallaudet Trumbull, Cheap Edition, 1/ R. T. S.
Moreover, any person at all acquainted with the first pupils at the Central School of Arts
Poetry and Drama.
working women knows how large a propor- and Crafts in lettering was Fräulein Anna 30 Plays and Players in Modern Italy, by
tion of them are helping to support relatives. Simons, and on her return to Germany she Addison McLeod, 7/6 net,
Smith & Elder
The sad conclusion is that, in the richest was appointed teacher of a class of art- Songs of Love and Earth, by John Drinkwater.
country in the world, half of the employed masters from all parts of the country to 1/6 net.
Nutt
women cannot actually command enough explain English methods, and aroused a
Philosophy.
pay to keep themselves healthily fed and great enthusiasm for them. As a result, a
22 The Young Nietzsche, by Frau Förster-
Nietzsche, Vol. 1. , 15/ net.
Heinemann
clothed.
number of German type-foundries com-
History and Biography.
Durning-Lawrence (Sir Edwin), THE SHAKE- missioned new founts of type designed on
30 Recollections of a Great Lady, by Madame
SPEARE MYTH, ld. Gay & Hancock these principles, examples of which are
de Boigne, 10/6 net.
Heinemann
A brief embodiment of the author's shown; and these were so successful that one
Geography and Travel.
Baconian views, which include a belief in of our oldest English type-foundries have
the significance of the words
31 Pygmies and Papuans : the Stone Age
pig
1 and adopted one of them for sale in this country. To-day in Dutch New Guinea, by A. F: R. Wol-
" hog discovered by cipher in the First It is to be hoped that this example may have laston, 16/ net.
Smith & Elder
Folio.
On p. 5 we read that Shakespeare's the effect of sending other firms to the
Education.
"wealth was simply the money—1,0001. — original source of the movement.
22 The Montessori Method, 7/6 net.
given to him in order to induce him to incur The Day School of Book - Production is
Heinemann
the risk entailed by allowing his name to
an attempt to solve the problem of com-
Science.
appear upon the plays. ” It is useless to bining the apprenticeship system with the
31 The Darkness, the Dawn, and the Day,
argue with writers who put forward such need for technical education. Boys enter
statements without a word of comment at the age of 13, a year before they would by J. C. Thomas, paper, Bd. net ; cloth, 1/ net.
Watts
as if they were facts. We are also told leave the elementary schools, with a County
Fiction.
that Bacon, after the translators had done Council scholarship. During the first year
20 The Spinster, by Hubert Wales, 6/ Long
their work, wrote every word of the English a pupil devotes two-thirds of his time to
20 Crowns, by Winifred M. Macnab, 6/
Authorised Version of the Bible, 1611. " ordinary school subjects, and one-third to
Lynwood
learning something of the trade. He then 21 The Sign, by Mrs. Romilly Fedden, 6/
decides whether he will take up printing or
Macmillan
THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING. bookbinding, and is provisionally appren-
24 Under the She-Oaks, by E. Boyd Bayly,
ticed. In the second year he devotes one
Leisure Hour Library, 6d.
R. I. S.
A LITTLE exhibition was opened this week half of his time to school subjects, the
25 A Black Martinmas, by Mrs. Disney Leith,
6/
Lynwood
at the Central School of Arts and Crafts remainder to learning his trade, and in the Money and the Man: the Story of the Girl
in Southampton Row which attests the third year two-thirds to technical training. who stopped a Coal Strike, by H. M. Ward, New
complete success of ono of the most inter. After three years the boy joins his master
Edition, Bouverie Florin Library.
R. T. S.
esting experiments in technical education of as a third-year apprentice. The founding Bouverte Florin Library.
Peggy Spry, by H. M. Ward, New Edition,
R. T. S.
our time. The London County Council has of these day-apprenticeship schools is a dis- The Belfast Boy, by J. A. P. , 61
Nutt
of recent years established trade schools for tinct step forward in the direction of supple-
cabinet-making, silversmiths' work, book- menting and utilizing the education given in
General.
production, &c.
; and it is with the view
our elementary schools, and of fitting boys 22 The Lure of the Sea, by J. E. Patterson,
of interesting the trade and the public in and girls to earn a useful living.
5/ net.
Heinemann
the results of the classes concerned with
The Story of The Miracle,' by H. Hamilton
The Catalogue of the exhibition, set up
Nutt
book-production that this exhibition is held. and printed by the boys of the School,
Fyfe, 1/6 net.
An Athenian Critic of Athenian Democracy,
It consists mainly of the work of evening shows that they are receiving a knowledge by F. Brooks, 1/6 net.
Nutt
students in printing, lettering and fine of their trade which cannot fail to be of
writing, illustration - making, and book- the highest value to them in after years.
NEXT MONTH'S MAGAZINES.
binding, together with a small collection
of examples of fine printing, ancient and
The Cornhill Magazine contains an instalment
modern, serving as a criterion and a model.
of The Grip of Life,' by Agnes and Egerton
BOOK SALE,
Castle, and the conclusion of Blinds Down,'
Typography and presswork are taught in
the Regent Street and Borough Polytechnics, sold a choice library formed' by a well-known
On Thursday, the oth inst. , Messrs. Sotheby
by Mr. H. A. Vachell. In 'Sixty Years in the
Wilderness' Sir Henry Lucy, among other
the Aldenham and St. Bride Institutes, and collector, the chief lots being the following:
extracts, social and political, from his diary,
the L. C. C. Camberwell and Central Schools Alken, National Sports of Great Britain, 1821,
tells of his meetings with no fewer than six famous
• One
of Arts and Crafts; bookbinding in L. C. C. 841. Apperley, Life of a Sportsman,' 1842, explorers. Dr. W. H. Fitchett writes on
Hammersmith, Camberwell, and Central 391. 108 Boccaccio, Decamerone, 5 vols. , 1757, of the Puzzles of Waterloo : Napoleon's Scaffold. "
Schools and the Northampton and Borough wick Club, 1837, 331. Egan, Real Life in London,
201. Dickens, Posthumous Papers of the Pick-
Travel and exploration are represented by two
articles : Towards Ararat,'* by Miss Mary
Polytechnics; while the work of the L. C. C. 2 vols. , '1821–2, 691. Lafontaine, Fables et Meinertzhagen, and The Most Primitive People,
School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography Nouvelles, 4 vols. , 1755_9, bound by L. Chenu,
by Mr. A. F. R. Wollaston, whose forthcoming boots
is shown by its title. We must confess to 1351. ; Contes et Nouvelles, 2 vols. , 1762, 481,
on the Pygmies of New Guinea is announced
Mrs. Mary J. H. Skrine writes of
a feeling of surprise at the high level of another copy, 851. Louvet, Les Amours du above.
attainment in the specimens shown of the garet of Navarre, Heptameron, 3 vols. , 1780,
Chevalier de Faublas, 4 vols. , 1798, 661. Mar
The Church in Mary Ferrar's House,' memorable
to readers of 'John Inglesant. ' * On Sir Thomas
printing of these schools : most of them 421. Ovid, Les Métamorphoses, 4 vols. , 1767-71,
Lawrence's Doorstep,' by Miss Emily H. Buck.
would do credit to the best printers of the 351. Rabelais, Euvres, 3 vols. , 1741, 501. ingham, is a reminiscence of the Waterloo year
day in design and execution, and some are Shakespeare, Works, 1 vols. , 1709–10, 411.
from a member of the Merivale family ; while
* The Eleventh Hour' is a short story by Mr.
perfect examples of pure typography. The Surtees, Jorrocks's Jaunts and follities, 1843,
displayed pieces are less satisfactory. Vanity Fair, in the 20 original numbers, 1847–8,
471. ;. Handley Cross, 1854, 661. Thackeray, Austin Philips.
Chambers's Journal will contain : 'The Cahusac
The various examples of reproductions in 1701. "Voltaire, La Henriade, 2 vols. , 1769–70, Mystery,' by K. and Hesketh Prichard, chaps.
half-tone, lithography, and 441. ; Romans et Contes, 3 vols. , 1778, 201. XXV. -xxviii. ; 'Carlotta,' by Howard C. Boyes ;
collotype are excellent.
Westmacott, English Spy, 2 vols. , 1825–6, 1321. Aspects of Latin-American Revolutions'; "The
The bookbinding classes have already loft Life in Paris, 1822, 251. ; Crowquill, The Holiday
Works illustrated by the Cruikshanks : _Carey, Cattle-Drover,' by E. D. Cuming;. 'The Mineral
Wealth of the Red Sea Borders,' by A. J. Park
& deep mark on the trade in London, and
Grammar, 1825, 421. ; Egan, Life in London, Crawford; 'British Machine-Tool-Making Achieve
the examples here seen, when one remembers 1821, 221. ; Finish to the Adventures of Tom, ments'; The Future Bridge,' by B. S. Townroe ;
that they are the work of very young work- Jerry, and Logic, 1830, 531. ; Ireland, Life of "" The Square
and The Cross," by Lieut. -
men produced under unfavourable condi- Napoleon Bonaparte, vols, 1823–8, 481. ; Ken- Col. Sir Henry Smith ; "The Great Lone Land of
tions, do them the highest credit. We feel, 1817-21, 271. ; The Meteor, or Monthly Censor,
rick, British Stage and Literary Cabinet, 5 vols. , Australia,' by F. A. W. Gisborne ; . 'A Novel
Form of Chimney Construction'; The Associa-
however, that they aro, as a rule, overloaded 2 vols. , 1813-14, 711.
tions of the Strand and Fleet Street,' by E.
with ornament, and that more attention Works illustrated by Rowlandson: Combe, Beresford Chancellor; Tay Pearls, and a Few
should be given to displaying the fine Dr. Syntax's Three Tours, 1812-21, 201. 108. ; Fishers whom I Have Known, by w. Dow
qualities of the leather surfacó itself, instead
Compendious Treatise on Modern Education, • The Diesel Engine and Vegetable Oils'
1802, 301. ; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, Heart of Things,' by Henry Leach ; When
of covering it with gold. The specimens of 1817, 291.
Private Stubbs Smiled,' by C. Benbow; and
writing, lettering, and illumination by The total of the sale was 3,1901. 38.
• The Month : Science and Arts. '
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on
an
on
a
to
the Year-Books of the courts at West- / of the Garter and the Great Officers of
Literary Gossip minster, with which we are more familiar. the State. Among those who have con-
The pleas are given in alphabetical order tributed special articles are the Rev.
PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, who was in of the causes of action, and in this volume A. B. Beaven, Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte,
vited by Amherst College, U. S. A. , to
range
from Account to “Mesne. ” A Dr. J. H. Round, and Mr. G. W. Watson.
lecture Greek study, has drawn third volume, also undertaken by Mr. A large part of vol. iii. is already in type.
audiences at Columbia University of Bolland, will complete the work.
nearly a thousand. In the course of his
THE GERMAN-ANGLO COMMITTEE for
remarks he stated it as his opinion that,
The Society hope to publish this year the promotion of friendly relations
additional bonus volume the
if one begins by understanding classical Charters of Trading Companies, by Mr. draw attention to a literary undertaking,
between the two countries desires to
Greek, one has as it were a clue to almost C. T. Carr. The publication for last year, several volumes of which will begin to
every great movement of thought that the fifth volume of the Year-Books of appear in a week's time. The general
has taken place since.
Edward II. , edited by Mr. Turner, is still title will be
title will be “ Modern England,” and Dr.
UNDER the presidency of Prof. R. unfinished.
E. Sieper, Professor of English Philology
Menendez Pidal a summer school is to
UNDER the general editorship of Mr. at Munich, will be the editor.
be held at Madrid, beginning on June 15th, s. E. Winbolt and Mr. Kenneth Bell will
for the purpose of furthering the study of shortly appear a series of
GENERAL HOMER LEA, in his new book
English The Day of the Saxon,' deals with the
Spanish literature and Spanish history History Source Books. ” Messrs. Bell
at home and abroad. By the aid of a & Sons are the publishers. The whole affect national existence, his object being
new phases of military science as they
Government subsidy about a hundred ground of English history, from Roman to examine the security of Britain's
Spanish students are now in residence at Britain to 1887, will be covered by some present position among the nations of the
foreign universities and technical schools. eighteen volumes of about 120 pages each. world. The book will shortly be issued
The Saturday Review is starting this Issued at a shilling each, these volumes by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
week a series of " Saturday Portraits ”
should be a valuable aid to the rational
* THE GREAT STATE,' which the same
by a well-known writer-personal studies teaching of history in secondary schools.
of people of all sorts who are prominently Among the writers will be found public firm will publish very shortly, should
before the public eye. The Attorney- school masters and workers in the British be an interesting political symposium.
General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, will be the Museum and the Record Office.
It is not a collection of disconnected
but
papers,
concerted effort
opening subject.
By arrangement with Sir A. Conan present a modern social ideal. In it
THE SELDEN SOCIETY is about to issue Doyle and Messrs. Longmans, Messrs. individualists like Sir Ray Lankester
the twenty-seventh volume of its pub- Smith & Elder are including in their 38. 6d. (who writes on Science
in the Great
lications, being the work for the current edition of Sir Arthur’s works his four books State'), Mr. Roger Fry (who deals with
year. This is one of the “ Year-Books Micah Clarke, '. The Refugees,'The art), and Mr. E. S. P. Haynes (who fore-
Series," and makes the second volume Stark Munro Letters,' and 'The Captain shadows the legal methods of the Great
of the Year-Books of the Eyre of Kent of the Polestar. . Messrs. Longmans will State) combine with declared Socialists
held in the sixth and seventh years of continue to publish the volumes in other like Lady Warwick, Mr. Chiozza Money,
the reign of Edward II. (A. D. 1313-14). editions as hitherto.
