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Spanish romantic novel, and Carliell owed much
who have claims on posterity. His power of professor incidentally is burnt in his own home,
of his tepid inspiration to foreign sources. He
conjuring up men and women and stamping The same process is to be observed in Mr.
translated one of Corneille's plays. Like most
them with vital significance in a curiously Spencer's novel as in 'The Mysteries of Udolpho. '
of the dramatists of the seventeenth century
haphazard and semi-abstracted way gives Our imagination is stimulated to eerie pitch who wrote heroic plays, Carliell embroiders his
his individual charm and creative force unity. by the implication of supernatural agencies at
plots round the eternal theme of love and
His confident and at the same time plastic style
is effective for his purpose.
work, only to be promptly disillusioned by the
honour. His volubility and edifying magnilo-
banality of a hoax. The style is a nice blend
quence are inexhaustible. He never deviates
Herbertson (Agnes Grozier), The Ship that came of the Johnsonian and the interjectional.
from the conventional regulations which this
Home in the Dark, 6/
dramatic genre imposed upon him.
A woman living in strained relations with her
Stevens (E. S. ), The Lure.
husband, who is blind, falls in love and runs
This describes two episodes, altogether Le Braz (Anatole), The Night of Fires, and other
Handy Newspaper List, 1912, 6d.
away with another man. The situation is
different in character, in the career of Huntly
interesting, but we decline to believe in the
Goss, adventurer. In the first we find him
Breton Studies, put into English by Frances
M. Gostling, 5/ net.
success of the impersonation practised on the
managing a journal" by the aristocracy, for
blind man.
Introduces the reader to types of Breton
The story, however, is well told,
the aristocracy. ” In the second part of the
book he reappears connected with a fraudulent
peasants and customs.
and the interest sustained throughout.
A good deal of the
Holdsworth (Annie E. ), Dame Verona of the
crocodile-farming business, the situation of
matter is commonplace, and for this we do not
Angels.
which enables the author to give some convin-
conceive the blame rests entirely with the
translator.
This book is a study of temperament to
cing descriptions of Sudanese scenery. Ap.
which pre-natal influence is supposed to supply
parently, the two years' interval between the Morgan (Charlotte E. ), The Rise of the Novel of
the key.
physical conceits, plunging about among them
in naive delight. We do not take his hypnotic
wireless telegraphy on the open sea ; the Casa Materials for the Study of the English Drama
Blanca incident;
trances seriously, but we readily appreciate
the International Prize
Court; the Second Hague Convention and the
(excluding Shakespeare): a Selected List of
the cunning that has gone to their manufac-
Books in the Newberry Library.
ture and his evident and sincere pleasure in
Declaration of London, have been incorporated. McClymont (J. R. ), Metrical Romances and
them.
Though the new matter, including additions to
the text and bibliography, amounts to “ nearly
Ballads, 3/8 net.
Music.
a quarter of the former work,” the bulk of the
The author of these verses, distrustful of
London College of Music : _Annual Report upon
book, owing to discreet and economical arrange-
analyzing his own emotions and expressing his
the Local and Higher Examinations for the
ment, is not materially increased. The new
own spiritual experiences, relies on purely exotic
Year 1911; and Syllabus of Requirements for
portions fulfil the functions of comprehensive
sources to convey his meaning. His perceptions
the Local Examinations for Certificates in
statement, and are smoothly interwoven with lack the stamp or the authority
of a passionate
Practical and Theoretical Music, and for the
the old.
and individual expression. He sings with
Higher Examinations, 1912, and part of 1913.
Fine Art and Archeology.
fine abandon on his little greenhouse, without
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penetrating his self-made house of glass. His Proceedings of the Musical Association, Thirty-
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Preliminary Reports, by Richard Norton, M'Neal-Sweeney (Mildred), Men of No Land, and
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The memorandum and annual report of the
Joseph C. Hoppin, Charles D. Curtis, and
Association. It is hardly as interesting as some
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Other Poems, 4/6 net.
reports of former years, though Mr. Bernard
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of
uses terms and words as symbols of feeling. Her
metre is faulty; her expression uncertain, Norman O'Neill has embodied some suggestive
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ality. The book has no political pretensions,
for it simply reiterates the familiar causes
célèbres of Charles II. 's Court.
Stirling (Amelia Hutchison), James Hutchison
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This biography should be much appreciated
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Stirling's connexion with the great men of his
day, especially Carlyle, adds to its interest.
Philosophy.
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Adamson (Robert), A Short History of Logic,
his fellows have become, in the phrase of the
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King (Henry Churchill), The Moral and Religious
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a statement of various processes which civiliza-
initiative had learnt a sturdier self-reliance.
tion is labouring to bring to the birth, his work
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clusions which have little relevance to his
cussed. If Mr. Johnson's manner is vacillating,
data, and are too meagre to meet the compre-
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people who read literature, however cursorily,
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geneous material with the judiciousness it
evolves. The volume is issued by Yale Univer
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tained in the last chapter, and is tentatively
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advanced. He maintains the reality of time
his. The book contains a number of unpub-
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lished letters from Hearn to his half-sister,
other theses deal principally with the monist
Mrs. Atkinson.
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One of the publications of the Academy of
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Morgan.
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original compositions in verse, which the
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hardly worth the permanency of print. Though
it be proper
at Omar's tomb" to join
in quaffing
the sparkling cup in his name, and to turn
down the empty glass, what are we to say of
the regret " that some of Omar's admirers in
the Occident do not provide a suitable inscrip-
tion on the spot" ?
Young (Filson), Christopher Columbus and the
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Holder, who has written a biography of
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99
and “
fishing, now publishes a large volume on Southern
School-Books.
California, which he depicts as the paradise of
Fiction
sportsmen. He deprecates the conception of Pring (! . N. ), Laboratory Exercises in Physical Adams (Evelyn), Tales of Seven Islands, 61
sport as a desperate killing, a plethoric bag Chemistry, 4/ net.
A volume of short stories, reprinted from
or creel," and interweaves almost as much For notice see p. 71.
Good Words and various Australian magazines.
naturalism and botany into the fabric of his
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narrative as there is sport. His story is told
Science.
tralia and the islands of the Pacific with con-
with a wealth of picturesque detail, and is
happily embroidered
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with many engaging
Armytage (H. ), Darwin and the Bible, 6/ net.
touches. He writes of the country with deep
The author, before making this belated
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successful.
feeling, and supplies many spirited pictures of
attack upon Darwin, read the Origin of Species?
Californian life and scenery.
Towards the
dipped into the ‘Descent of Man. ' Balfour (Ethel), In Time's Storerooms, 6/
close of the book he drifts, almost unconsciously,
The result is not calculated to inflict severe This story suffers from the very defects
back to his old love-angling.
damage upon the Linnean Society. Nor which appear as virtues to a large section of
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wish of her dead mother that she should offer
Butler (H. J. ), Motor Bodies and Chassis : a Text-
to live with her real parent, his eccentric ways
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and the dour sister who plots unscrupulously
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social phenomena which influenced the forma-
motor-car, with which Mr. Butler deals. It is
author's talent better employed.
tion of Western civilization into an analysis
natural that the mechanism of a car should
Barclay (Marguerite and Armiger), The Activities
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styles of bodies has certainly been inadequate. fine disregard for probabilities and in most
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cases possibilities. The first chapter is appro-
forces. His work is therefore prone to incon.
of bodies hitherto invented, and devotes chap- priately named 'Lavie Starts In,' and the
clusiveness and generalization.
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ham on 'Cambridge,' are more interesting than
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Kanuri,' published by the Church Missionary Research, and five on the Construction of
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The phenomenon of a restricted birth-rate,
style. Frankly, the book is gloomy, and the
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sociology, gives supreme importance to the
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The Kanuri are the dominant tribe of Bornu, subject.
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Notices of the Celts in the Writings of the A series of fairy stories agreeable enough,. intellectual Apollo, who writes books on such
Greek and Latin Authors from the Tenth
but deficient in dramatic concentration. Each subjects as Antilegomena and Sermocination,
Century B. C. to the Fifth Century A. D. , of the longer tales comprises a number of which, we are told, are anxiously awaited by
arranged Chronologically, with Translations,
vignettes loosely strung together, and when both press and publishers! The number of
Commentary, Indices, and a Glossary of the
they are numerous too kaleidoscopic to be
Celtic Names and Words occurring in these
marriages recorded is extraordinary. Angus
coherent. “ (shbel's method is apparently himself loves at first sight, marries another
Authors, 15/ net.
to piece together the tags and shreds of fairy woman, and after her death loves again, all
Modern Language Review, January, 41 net.
lore into a mosaic.
in the space of about two years.
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an
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Fraser (Mrs. Hugh) and Stahlmann (J. I. ), The nent part. A medley of fighting, deeds of the Original Edition of 1629, with Introduction
Satanist, 6/
valour, witchcraft, and love ensue, which and Notes, 6/ net.
An unpleasant tale, which we are unable to should please readers who care more for the Dr. Gray has accomplished an effective
commend, concerning a sect of devil-worshippers tale than the method of its telling.
work in resuscitating Carliell, whose biography
at the beginning of the twentieth century. Spencer (Denton), Old Thane's Mummy, 1/
has never been written before, while his plays
Henry (0. ), Cabbages and Kings, 3/6 net.
The story of an antiquary's daughter who are buried under-in our opinion—a deserved
The work of this finished and subtle author
masquerades
Egyptian mummy
oblivion. 'The Deserving Favourite,' the least
has never received the meed that is its due.
brought to life. She disappears, is found, and
wearisome of those plays, is founded on a
He is one of the few writers of short stories
reunited to her distracted lover; while the
Spanish romantic novel, and Carliell owed much
who have claims on posterity. His power of professor incidentally is burnt in his own home,
of his tepid inspiration to foreign sources. He
conjuring up men and women and stamping The same process is to be observed in Mr.
translated one of Corneille's plays. Like most
them with vital significance in a curiously Spencer's novel as in 'The Mysteries of Udolpho. '
of the dramatists of the seventeenth century
haphazard and semi-abstracted way gives Our imagination is stimulated to eerie pitch who wrote heroic plays, Carliell embroiders his
his individual charm and creative force unity. by the implication of supernatural agencies at
plots round the eternal theme of love and
His confident and at the same time plastic style
is effective for his purpose.
work, only to be promptly disillusioned by the
honour. His volubility and edifying magnilo-
banality of a hoax. The style is a nice blend
quence are inexhaustible. He never deviates
Herbertson (Agnes Grozier), The Ship that came of the Johnsonian and the interjectional.
from the conventional regulations which this
Home in the Dark, 6/
dramatic genre imposed upon him.
A woman living in strained relations with her
Stevens (E. S. ), The Lure.
husband, who is blind, falls in love and runs
This describes two episodes, altogether Le Braz (Anatole), The Night of Fires, and other
Handy Newspaper List, 1912, 6d.
away with another man. The situation is
different in character, in the career of Huntly
interesting, but we decline to believe in the
Goss, adventurer. In the first we find him
Breton Studies, put into English by Frances
M. Gostling, 5/ net.
success of the impersonation practised on the
managing a journal" by the aristocracy, for
blind man.
Introduces the reader to types of Breton
The story, however, is well told,
the aristocracy. ” In the second part of the
book he reappears connected with a fraudulent
peasants and customs.
and the interest sustained throughout.
A good deal of the
Holdsworth (Annie E. ), Dame Verona of the
crocodile-farming business, the situation of
matter is commonplace, and for this we do not
Angels.
which enables the author to give some convin-
conceive the blame rests entirely with the
translator.
This book is a study of temperament to
cing descriptions of Sudanese scenery. Ap.
which pre-natal influence is supposed to supply
parently, the two years' interval between the Morgan (Charlotte E. ), The Rise of the Novel of
the key.
