Syno-
recommends what he calls an Anglo- by an inherent genius for feeling and thinking two
things at once.
recommends what he calls an Anglo- by an inherent genius for feeling and thinking two
things at once.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
But of wisdom.
The second is intended for blood and consequent commanding manners,
of the Pyrenees themselves, which form the children under 12 years of age, and is still but her doings and personality are of the
main part of his title, he says nothing, and more avowedly propagandist and humani- material of which good fiction is made.
in his company we only see the mountains tarian. The habits of animals and of chil- The choice of so unconventional a type as
from a distance. Mr. Jackson's book is dren in relation to them are closely studied, the pivot of his book is much to the author's
devoted to churches and church archi- and many salutary lessons advised. Both credit,she links the different "adventures, "2
tecture, and on his special subject no more these books deserve recommendation.
and animates them all with a strong,
competent guide could be wished. He must Phillips Exeter Academy Bulletin, March.
healthy optimism.
be congratulated on the beauty of his
drawings, and on the excellence of the
Exeter, New Hampshire, the Academy Hardy (Thomas), JUDE THE OBSCURE ; and
photographs by Mr. Ashton. One photo-
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Philology.
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In this new edition of 'Jude the Obscure
France, of which our author speaks feelingly
there is
the
a postscript to earlier
Eton College, Spottiswoode & Co: preface in which Mr. Hardy animadverts
more than once. There are
one or two
An exercise
trifling misprints in the text, and the index adapts the Greek of Herodotus to modern furore of antagonism which this sombre book,
Sent up for Play " which with wise and gentle irony upon the
is incomplete; but a useful map makes conditions of Eton life. The idea is not
up for these defects, and all who care for
on its publication, created. He gives an
the churches of France will be glad to have spirit, and at considerable length.
new, but is carried out with ingenuity and entertaining account of the lengths that
Mr. Jackson's valuable work.
his detractors thought fit to go.
Artistic
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Thurston (Edgar), OMENS AND SUPERSTI- Baker (W. M. ), THE CALCULUS FOR BEGIN- a few lines of postscript to 'The Return of
TIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA, 12/6
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Mr. Thurston's severely businesslike notes parts of the Calculus, which assumes little third and fourth of the fine new series
the magico-religious phenomena of and leads to a great deal, for instance, which Messrs. Macmillan are issuing as
Southern India may be caviare to the its application to the laws of motion. The the Wessex Edition. The frontispieces
general,” but for the anthropologist they printing of the answers on perforated pages, are respectively of Christminster (Ox-
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Of course, the recorded observations differ thought necessary, is an ingenious innovation. — The Mayor of Casterbridge? and “The
greatly in value. Many of them are the In the Cambridge Mathematical Series. Woodlanders '-will appear this month.
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the region in question-a matter of some
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venture to suggest that, to render the the author for the purpose of teaching pupils hardly of the subtlety of the Little Novels
a volume of excellent short stories, though
information of the fullest utility, to social the correct methods of observation to be of Italy. Eight volumes of this series have
anthropology, which is becoming more followed in order to acquire the maximum
precise and critical every day, there should, of knowledge. The scheme presented cannot
now been issued. The printing and design
are superior to those of the average six-
as far as possible, be given with each piece fail to train the five senses, and teachers will
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shilling novel.
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was at one time Superintendent of the HEROES, A FIRST LATIN READER, 1/6
Fergus Hume.
Both these stories have the elements of
Madras Government Museum, records that A collection of the favourite stories of
some veteran Khonds who, in 1908, came mythology rendered in simple Latin, and popularity, but neither is a model of com-
across at the Museum a relic of their bar- | published in attractive style. They form
barous custom in the shape of the Meriah a good introduction to Latin translation Lurgan (Lester), A MESSAGE FROM MARS, 3/6
sacrifice-post, became wildly excited. This for those who have acquired the accidence of
Greening
and many other objects illustrative of the language. The notes on translation are Differs but little from the popular, if
superstitions bygone or still prevailing just what beginners require. There are somewhat sentimental play by Richard
are figured in the excellent photographs numerous illustrations and a full vocabulary. Ganthony upon which it is founded. As
that accompany the text.
One of Macmillan's Elementary Classics. we have remarked before, this type of play
AND
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some
war
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complications—might have been cut down subjective tone is commonplace, but the
ture. They abound in sentiment, and the loss of interest.
melodious. She is blind to the demands of
details of everyday life are described with
artistic selection. She does not offer us
a precision which illustrates their insignific-
General.
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collect and republish them. They have
clear and presents the salient points, its
Chaytor; THE BALLAD IN LITERATURE,
caught the secret which makes London language is too childish. It is written with
by T. F. Henderson ; LIFE IN THE
London, and no mere assemblage of houses knowledge and enthusiasm, and will prob-
MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY, by R. S. Rait,
-all the several details of experience, im- ably be of more use as a school reading-book
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Mr. Bainbridge in this booklet repeats their subjects, and they cover the ground as
well as can be expected in the allotted space.
To read them gives one the same kind of
pleasure as to look at the cushions of green barbarity of war, and has brought to-
as to the economic futility and the moral The former has to leave some details and
words unexplained-e. g. , "Minne " and
where plants are coming up in a summer
gether
border: not a dead leaf or a dead cell any description of an engagement in modern
Adoptionism”—which are likely to puzzle
valuable quotations. The
the ordinary reader. Mr. Henderson has a
where, and one can all but feel the life
pushing upwards and outwards in them. witness, is vivid and realistic. But records perhaps, not of importance, and the points
warfare, given in the words of an eye- bias in favour of Scottish ballads, which is,
This is to acknowledge the presence of of the horrors of war never have induced with which he has to deal largely depend
exceptional power.
men to desire peace.
on questions whether this or that ballad is
Half the sketches have to do with chil-
dren:
The author does not indulge in uncom-
effective as art-on which opinions may
strange little dreamers, cruelly
differ. His chapter on 'Origin and Author-
bruised already against the hardness of promising, condemnation of the wars of
ship ? is mainly an argument with Profs.
reality ;,
or else normal little souls mystified the past, but his contention is that
has served its time. Its offices are
Child, Kittredge, and Gummere concerning
by death or by tragedies in the life of the
their views, in which he scores points, but
grown-ups belonging to them. The
longer needed. ”. He is probably nearer
the mark when he says, ~ All the nations
does not give us much that is solid to go
other half have to do with death or failure,
or with divers futilities of egoism, the
of the world talk about Peace, but they upon. Perhaps there is really not much
most cheerful being the one exception, the
can't hear what each other is saying for available. The little book is neatly and
fantastic ‘
clearly written.
the sounds of hammers with which men are
Ghost Ship,' which gives its beating cruisers and battleships together,"
Mr. Rait depends obviously for much of his
title to the volume. Strong and vivacious
?
matter on Dr. Rashdall's mediæval studies,
as we feel the writer's genius to be, we thus than when he declares with enthusiasm but he has managed to produce a careful
have it actually exercised only within
that the “ long deferred age of war's cessa-
narrow limitsmin a region, too, where the
tion, bloodshed's end, of universal peace
summary, not lacking lively touches. The
space allotted to discipline seems somewhat
effect of strength can be produced at least and goodwill, has dawned at last. "
excessive.
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'A Hoosier Chronicle' stands out as peace and contentment are not only an Gaelic version of the Thebaid' of Statius
exceptional among modern novels written essential preliminary of international good is continued, with an English translation.
in English by the mere fact of not being will, but in themselves of more immediate An account of the controversy between
amorphous. Like the higher animals or importance. In the concluding pages there Ewen Maclachlan and Inverness Academy
a well-made pattern, it has a backbone ; is a useful summary of recent arbitration is given, and there is a second instalment of
and the coherence that comes of a proper cases, showing how pacific measures have the erudite and sympathetic article “The
construction imparts interest even to the repeatedly settled in a cool, judicial atmo- Literature of the Scottish Gael. ?
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enjoyed pages of witty, and even brilliant, evidence.
of the future. He considers that at this
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moment the British Empire holds we may remark, in passing, that to us he People's Books : A DICTIONARY
enormous strategic superiority over any scarcely seems to do justice to English SYNONYMS, by Austin K. Gray, 6d. net
other Power in the Pacific ; but in this humour. While we cannot cavil at our each.
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sence of a Mid-Pacific fortress, and the Dickens-it strikes
curious that good grasp of his subject, and his matter is
emptiness of the Northern Territory of modern humour should be entirely neglected. well arranged in a type small enough to
Australia. " On the other hand, in certain Some of the Scottish examples are far from include a good deal. Even so, he gives, for
contingencies the ocean might become “an new, but Ireland is fair game for the racon- instance, but nine words under J, and he
American lake," but only after a mighty teur. Mr. Johnston is of opinion that really has not room for the explanations
contest with the Yellow Races and another
the essence of Irish humour consists in the fact which seem to us necessary for a profitable
fratricidal struggle,” in which the British that it is not humorous at all, but simply the use of his book by those uninitiated in
possessions would be subdued. The author shortest and best way of saying something, attained English, a vast class nowadays.
Syno-
recommends what he calls an Anglo- by an inherent genius for feeling and thinking two
things at once.
nyms are tricky things to play with. The
Celtic union, viz. , that the two Powers,
book does at least give derivations of words,
neither of which could succeed without the The Hebrews are not forgotten, and some which is a great point in its favour.
other, should agree to act in concert ; and of King Solomon's unofficial examples of Treasury (A) of Prose and Poetry for Learning
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the United States, Great Britain, and those America are lost on us, and the description
In spite of the gaudiness of the covers and
members of the Empire which have interests of Robert Burns as & profane and vain
the excess of material, this anthology, is
in the Pacific. Some sensible remarks on
babbler" is ridiculous. The book abounds
chosen with care and skill
. Its catholicity
the future of Latin-America, and on the in entertaining pleasantries.
does not extend over the boundary of
diplomatic methods of British and American Mathews (Shailer), SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT sterling literary merit, but the collector
negotiators, deserve careful consideration
has ranged extensively in her search. If
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the Pacific, with its principal routes and London, Cambridge University Press slight tendency to emphasize a doctrinaire
coaling-stations, accompanies the volume.
The need for the application of the attitude towards life. Such an undertaking
Hamilton (Cosmo), IMPERTINENT REFLEC- principles of scientific management in the requires good prose and good poetry rather
TIONS, 6/
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Many of Mr. Hamilton's “reflections here as well as in the States, whence this Walling (William English), SOCIALISM AS IT
are cheap and jejune enough; the sketches booklet emanates. It would have been
A SURVEY OF THE WORLD-WIDE
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Macmillan
Here and there we find an amusing chapter, who desire, by training, to escape the The author has seriously handicapped
the author's impressions“ behind the scenes
pitfall of inefficient service.
himself in his effort to gain a large reading
are full of insight—but on the whole the Milton's Areopagitica ; and Shakespeare's public by over-dogmatic assertion, ill-con-
good places are few and far between. The
Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of structed sentences, and making it necessary
Reflections are fifty-two in number, and
Denmark, Parts of the New Place Edi- to turn over 400 pages to find references.
they could have been cut down to half that
number with advantage.
tion de Luxe, edited by Sydney Hum-
Pampblets.
phries.
Black
Johnston (Charles),
(Charles), WHY
WORLD
The first of these volumes is sold for the Brailsford (H. N. ), THE FRUITS OF
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benefit of the London Library; the second
the author, “ is laughing at
for that of the Shakespeare National Theatre.
Anglo-Russian Committee
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Mr. Brailsford's pamphlet would make an
It Both are handsomely bound with heraldic
was a happy thought which prompted Mr. designs on the cover, and printed on fine admirable model for a series of booklets
Johnston to collect the various forms of paper. Each page in the “Hamletis dealing with foreign questions. It gives
succinctly, and with force and lucidity, the
wit and humour by which the many peoples enclosed in a black line, and the names
of the world are moved to merriment, and of the characters are similarly treated. story of the British entente with the Russian
Government.
to set them before us for comparison–a The type is occasionally a little lacking in
task which requires the collector himself to straightness of setting, but otherwise very Dawkins (Hon. Prof. W. Boyd), THE ANCIENT
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seems, repartee :-
taken in the preparation of the text. supported by documentary evidence, that
“A blind man was passing along the roadway in
Milton's discourse, lacking the black lines endowments grow, both in England and
the darkness of the night, with a jar on his and having a larger type, exceeds in effect Wales, from private benevolence for special
shoulder and a lit lamp in his hand. A meddlesome
the 'Hamlet,' but both are covetable pos- and local purposes. The author states that
follow met him, who cried out, :0 fool, since day sessions, and advantage has been taken of he could not discover evidence that they
and night are alike to thee, what use hast thou of unsold copies to make some corrections and
were given by the State or for the good of
this lamp? ' But the blind man laughed, and
the general public, as is contended by those
answered him, 'This lamp is not for me, nor to
improvements.
who advocate digendowment.
guide these blind eyes of mine. It is for ignorant Modern Business Practice : A COMPREHEN-
fools like thee, that they may not knock against me
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The third volume of this encyclopædia is Among the many articles of interest to
in some of their sayings :-
more useful. The analysis of Britain's place this periodical is an appreciation of Gran-
Very detestable is the snoring of a man whom in foreign markets is completed ; articles ville Barker and his work. That trans-
you are trying to conceal and who has gone to sleep by Mr. Chiozza Money and Lord Furness, cendental phenomenon Jeanne d'Arc is
in a place where he has no business. ”
on the relation of coal to our prosperity, | the subject of two important publications
Mr. Johnston's chapter on American and the commercial future of Britain, follow ; reviewed; and a work which avowedly owes
humour is an essay on his country's humorous and the book concludes with a clear and much to Mr. Wilfrid Ward's Life of New-
literature. He gives Mark Twain the place well-indexed summary of the law of contract, man,' 'Newman Catholique,' by Thureau-
of honour, and claims with some justice agency, partnership, sale and hire, and other Dangin, a study of the long years when the
that American humour first discovered the legal matters closely connected with busi- great intellectual was under a cloud, receives
child for purposes of literature ; he acknow-
On the whole, the signed work of the warm commendation. Classical scholars
ledges, however, that Budge and Toddy and specialists mentioned on the title - page will find strong support from the author
Tom Sawyer have no sisters, and pays : appears to fall below the standard of the of 'Les Humanités et les Ingénieurs,' who
generous tribute to Alice in Wonderland as other contributions. We may except from exposes the widespread discontent which
perhaps the high-water mark among little this Mr. A. E. Cave's note on Municipal the aristocracy of industry feel with regard
girls in litorature. "
Trading. Sir Thomas Lipton's hints on to 80-called modern education, and sup-
Space forbids more than a glimpse at the building up a business do not rise above the ports on practical
grounds the ancient
many nationalities of which he treats, but level of Samuel Smiles.
method-Greek and Latin included.
Wit,” says
>
ness.
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The latest recruit to the ranks of the Studies in Philosophy,' by M. Émile
publishers is Mr. Herbert Jenkins. For Boutroux, Member of the Institute and
Literary Gossip. more than ten years Mr. Jenkins was
Professor in the University of Paris. The
manager for Mr. John Lane. His own rendering has been made by Mr. Fred
ventures into literature include the Rothwell, one of the translators of Prof.
DR. R. Y. TYRRELL has a delightful Life of George Borrow,' which Mr. Bergson's : Essay on Laughter'. The
article in the June Nineteenth Century on
Metrical Versions of Horace's Odes,' Jenkins is also known as a Blake enthusiast spectively with the history of philosophy,
Murray published in the spring. Mr. book contains six studies, dealing re-
considered from the literary point of view.
He puts side by side various renderings he who discovered the State Papers cartes, and Kant.
on original lines of research ; for it was Socrates, Aristotle, Jacob Boehme, Des-
of famous passages and phrases, and spends relating to the poet's trial for high treason,
some time in demolishing Gladstones and the position of his grave in Bunhill Works of Francis Parkman’ is announced
A NEW pocket edition of the Collected
eulogy quite undeserved by the English Fields Cemetery. Associated
with the new by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. It will be
Like our reviewer in 1894, Dr. publishing venture are Sir George H. Chubb complete in twelve volumes.
Tyrrell has no difficulty in showing the and Mr. Alex. W. Hill. The new firm is
to be known as Herbert Jenkins, Limited,
MESSRS. CHATTO & WINDUS will publish
weakness of the Right Honourable versifier, and will occupy premises at 12, Arundel next Thursday in their series of Two-
and applauds-justly, we think-the merits
Place, Haymarket.
Shilling Net Novels,” which already
of Conington as the most successful seeker
includes works by Mr. Arnold Bennett,
after the impossible.
* THE CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY Mrs. Perrin, and Mr. E. W. Hornung, a new
We hope he may be able to deal in ATLAS' will be published by the Cam- edition of Mr. John Ayscough's novel
another article with freer versions or bridge University Press on the 18th inst. Marotz. ' The book will contain a
paraphrases of Horace, such as that of The arrangement of the maps, 141 in specially written preface by the author.
Fortuna læto' by Dryden which was a
number, follows as far as possible the
favourite with Thackeray.
order of the narrative in The Cambridge
THE announcement by Messrs. Sampson
Modern History,' and an endeavour has Low of another edition of the sketches of
THE SPANISH ACADEMY OF LETTERS been made to insert all the place-names Caldecott shows that this delightful artist
has recently faced a problem similar to that occur in it. At the same time, the is not forgotten. His most active period
that which confronted French men of entire series is designed to stand by itself was during the seventies of last century,
science in the candidature of Madame as an atlas of modern history.
but his work has such charm and indi-
Curie. Public opinion and her profes-
viduality that he may be counted amongst
sional confrères favour the application in a series of maps of Europe and its edition Mr. Harold Armitage recalls the
The general idea is to illustrate, the immortals. In a preface to this
made by the Countess of Pardo Bazan, different countries,
as well as other
novelist and critic, for admission to the parts of the world associated with the tributions to The Graphic were received
pleasure with which his coloured con-
Real Academia Española, but that body progress of European history, the course at Christmas, 1876, and during a few of
maintains its conservative position, in
spite of the discovery of an eighteenth- fifteenth century has been transformed death in 1886.
of events by which the Europe of the the succeeding Yuletides until Caldecott's
century precedent in the person of a
into the Europe of the present day.
precocious young lady of seventeen years— Some of the maps are designed to illus-
CAVIARE' is the title of a novel which
honorary professor, examiner, and per: trate political divisions—others terri- Mr. Grant Richards has written, and which
manent adviser of the University of torial changes, wars by land or sea, the will appear on September 2nd. It will be
Alcala,
growth of particular States, the course of published at the same time in America
MR. WILLIAM P. LIVINGSTONE, chief religious changes, and the history of by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
sub - editor of the Evening News, has Colonial expansion.
' LIFE'S GREAT ADVENTURE' is a col-
been appointed editor of The Mission-
FOLLOWING on the Thackeray Centenary lection of essays on life for those at
ary Record of the United Free Church Celebrations in July, 1911, and the its threshold, from the pen of Mr.
of Scotland. Mr. Livingstone, who is a
recent Browning Centenary Celebrations, Francis Stopford, whose book of essays,
native of Fifeshire, had a business training it is the intention of the Fine Art The Toil of Life,' was favourably re-
in Edinburgh, after which he engaged in Society to hold an exhibition of MSS. , ceived when it appeared five years ago ;
editorial work in Jamaica, returning to letters, sketches, autographs, and relics it ran into a second edition, and still
England in 1904. Since then he has held of Thackeray and Browning in their finds new readers. Mr. Stopford's forth-
various journalistic posts.
Dudley Gallery, 169, Piccadilly. The coming volume follows the same lines, is
The first portion of the extensive exhibition will open early in July. With cheerful and optimistic in tone, and
library of the late Mr. Charles Letts will important as possible, the Society will different
a view to making it as complete and as contains many pen-pictures of scenes in
lands. The upbringing of
be sold next week by Messrs.
Hodgson, be glad to hear from any persons who children is dealt with in a frank manner:
and will occupy five days. Mr. Letts,
who was
a member of several of the MSS. connected with the novelist or the inspiration. The book will be published
possess objects of interest, sketches, of
f The author finds in nature his chief
learned societies, was widely known as an
enthusiastic collector of books. This por- poet, which owners are willing to lend for shortly by Messrs. Duckworth.
exhibition.
tion comprises the modern part of the
WITH the June number Rhythm,
library, and shows the many interests of In reply to the recent trade-union depu- which the St. Catherine Press publish,
the late owner.
tation to the Prime Minister which urged begins its monthly existence. It will
the nationalization of railways, Mr. contain, amongst other items, a short
A CORRESPONDENT writes :-
Asquith said that it was necessary for story by Frank Harris ; an article by
“ In your short notice of Mrs. O'Neill's further information to be obtained before Tristan Dereme; poems by W. H. Davies
'England in the Middle Ages' you repre any steps, one way or another, could be and W. W. Gibson ; _and drawings by
sent the statement that the University of taken. A book which Mr. Murray is Albert Marguet, J. D. Fergusson, and
Oxford 'came into being' in 1214. as publishing, by a well-known authority, Joseph Simpson.
minor inaccuracy. Is this fair in view of Mr. Edwin A. Pratt, entitled 'The State
the context of the passage ?
OWING to a regrettable oversight in
university 'with an autonymous constitu- Railway Muddle in Australia,' may pro-
tion of its own' (to quote Prof. Tout) did vide some opportune evidence on this proof-revision, we misprinted “Mabel”
for Rahel Tieck in our short notice of Mary
come into being in 1214. This is surely question.
suggested by the previous sentence : 'The
Hargrave's 'Some German Women and
Oxford schools had been active and dis-
MESSPS. MACMILLAN & Co. have nearly their Salons, published by Mr. Werner
tinguished since the days of Henry II. '” ready an English version of Historical | Laurie.
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man.
obtained his data, which
are called
We have entered into a somewhat
SCIENCE
“ Family Records,” from numerous col- elaborate criticism of this book, chiefly
laborators. These data are frequently to warn intending writers on this subject
referred to, but always anonymously, and that the science on which eugenics is
Heredity in relation to Eugenics. By are largely derived from professional based is at the present moment in its
Charles Benedict Davenport. Williams circles, though not a few farmers and busi- infancy, and that it is useless to propound
& Norgate. )
ness men are included. In making these theories dealing with the reorganization
DURING the last few years the study of records our author thinks it is not necessary of society until that science can give
the laws of heredity on Mendelian lines for physicians to aid in the work of col- them some secure foothold.
We feel
has given a great stimulus to the idea laboration, though they can do so if they sure that human progress can never be
wish; and presumably the Eugenic Record based on the materialistic views of
breeding.
of the Pyrenees themselves, which form the children under 12 years of age, and is still but her doings and personality are of the
main part of his title, he says nothing, and more avowedly propagandist and humani- material of which good fiction is made.
in his company we only see the mountains tarian. The habits of animals and of chil- The choice of so unconventional a type as
from a distance. Mr. Jackson's book is dren in relation to them are closely studied, the pivot of his book is much to the author's
devoted to churches and church archi- and many salutary lessons advised. Both credit,she links the different "adventures, "2
tecture, and on his special subject no more these books deserve recommendation.
and animates them all with a strong,
competent guide could be wished. He must Phillips Exeter Academy Bulletin, March.
healthy optimism.
be congratulated on the beauty of his
drawings, and on the excellence of the
Exeter, New Hampshire, the Academy Hardy (Thomas), JUDE THE OBSCURE ; and
photographs by Mr. Ashton. One photo-
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Philology.
each.
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graph of Carcassonne clearly shows the
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In this new edition of 'Jude the Obscure
France, of which our author speaks feelingly
there is
the
a postscript to earlier
Eton College, Spottiswoode & Co: preface in which Mr. Hardy animadverts
more than once. There are
one or two
An exercise
trifling misprints in the text, and the index adapts the Greek of Herodotus to modern furore of antagonism which this sombre book,
Sent up for Play " which with wise and gentle irony upon the
is incomplete; but a useful map makes conditions of Eton life. The idea is not
up for these defects, and all who care for
on its publication, created. He gives an
the churches of France will be glad to have spirit, and at considerable length.
new, but is carried out with ingenuity and entertaining account of the lengths that
Mr. Jackson's valuable work.
his detractors thought fit to go.
Artistic
Marlborough's Travellers' Practical Manual effort,” he says, always pays heavily for
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that was sixteen years ago, and the passage
of years has eradicated the bitter animosity
Folk-lore.
cbool-Books.
of all except the most unenlightened and
unimaginative of readers. There are also
Thurston (Edgar), OMENS AND SUPERSTI- Baker (W. M. ), THE CALCULUS FOR BEGIN- a few lines of postscript to 'The Return of
TIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA, 12/6
NERS, 3/
Bell the Native concerning the topography of
Fisher Unwin A thoroughly practical guide to the easier Egdon Heath. The two volumes are the
Mr. Thurston's severely businesslike notes parts of the Calculus, which assumes little third and fourth of the fine new series
the magico-religious phenomena of and leads to a great deal, for instance, which Messrs. Macmillan are issuing as
Southern India may be caviare to the its application to the laws of motion. The the Wessex Edition. The frontispieces
general,” but for the anthropologist they printing of the answers on perforated pages, are respectively of Christminster (Ox-
provide material of the greatest importance.
which may be detached by the teacher if ford) and Egdon Heath. Two more volumes
Of course, the recorded observations differ thought necessary, is an ingenious innovation. — The Mayor of Casterbridge? and “The
greatly in value. Many of them are the In the Cambridge Mathematical Series. Woodlanders '-will appear this month.
fruit of the author's own wanderings about Dell (J. A. ), THE GATEWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE :
the region in question-a matter of some
Hewlett (Maurice), HALFWAY HOUSE; and
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE
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182,000 square miles, with a population of SENSES, 2/6
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The Halfway House is a "comedy of
sources, such as official reports. We would ments with simple apparatus, arranged by
venture to suggest that, to render the the author for the purpose of teaching pupils hardly of the subtlety of the Little Novels
a volume of excellent short stories, though
information of the fullest utility, to social the correct methods of observation to be of Italy. Eight volumes of this series have
anthropology, which is becoming more followed in order to acquire the maximum
precise and critical every day, there should, of knowledge. The scheme presented cannot
now been issued. The printing and design
are superior to those of the average six-
as far as possible, be given with each piece fail to train the five senses, and teachers will
of evidence a circumstantial statement of find in it many useful hints for the class-
shilling novel.
the conditions under which it was obtained.
In the Cambridge Nature Study Long's Sixpenny Net Cloth Novels : HYPO-
The most interesting chapter, perhaps, is Series.
CRITES AND SINNERS, by Violet Twee-
the one relating to the former human sacri-
dale ;
and THE SILENT HOUSE, by
fices of the Khonds. Mr. Thurston, who Morton (T. S. ), LEGENDS OF GODS AND
was at one time Superintendent of the HEROES, A FIRST LATIN READER, 1/6
Fergus Hume.
Both these stories have the elements of
Madras Government Museum, records that A collection of the favourite stories of
some veteran Khonds who, in 1908, came mythology rendered in simple Latin, and popularity, but neither is a model of com-
across at the Museum a relic of their bar- | published in attractive style. They form
barous custom in the shape of the Meriah a good introduction to Latin translation Lurgan (Lester), A MESSAGE FROM MARS, 3/6
sacrifice-post, became wildly excited. This for those who have acquired the accidence of
Greening
and many other objects illustrative of the language. The notes on translation are Differs but little from the popular, if
superstitions bygone or still prevailing just what beginners require. There are somewhat sentimental play by Richard
are figured in the excellent photographs numerous illustrations and a full vocabulary. Ganthony upon which it is founded. As
that accompany the text.
One of Macmillan's Elementary Classics. we have remarked before, this type of play
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complications—might have been cut down subjective tone is commonplace, but the
ture. They abound in sentiment, and the loss of interest.
melodious. She is blind to the demands of
details of everyday life are described with
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General.
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clear and presents the salient points, its
Chaytor; THE BALLAD IN LITERATURE,
caught the secret which makes London language is too childish. It is written with
by T. F. Henderson ; LIFE IN THE
London, and no mere assemblage of houses knowledge and enthusiasm, and will prob-
MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY, by R. S. Rait,
-all the several details of experience, im- ably be of more use as a school reading-book
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Mr. Bainbridge in this booklet repeats their subjects, and they cover the ground as
well as can be expected in the allotted space.
To read them gives one the same kind of
pleasure as to look at the cushions of green barbarity of war, and has brought to-
as to the economic futility and the moral The former has to leave some details and
words unexplained-e. g. , "Minne " and
where plants are coming up in a summer
gether
border: not a dead leaf or a dead cell any description of an engagement in modern
Adoptionism”—which are likely to puzzle
valuable quotations. The
the ordinary reader. Mr. Henderson has a
where, and one can all but feel the life
pushing upwards and outwards in them. witness, is vivid and realistic. But records perhaps, not of importance, and the points
warfare, given in the words of an eye- bias in favour of Scottish ballads, which is,
This is to acknowledge the presence of of the horrors of war never have induced with which he has to deal largely depend
exceptional power.
men to desire peace.
on questions whether this or that ballad is
Half the sketches have to do with chil-
dren:
The author does not indulge in uncom-
effective as art-on which opinions may
strange little dreamers, cruelly
differ. His chapter on 'Origin and Author-
bruised already against the hardness of promising, condemnation of the wars of
ship ? is mainly an argument with Profs.
reality ;,
or else normal little souls mystified the past, but his contention is that
has served its time. Its offices are
Child, Kittredge, and Gummere concerning
by death or by tragedies in the life of the
their views, in which he scores points, but
grown-ups belonging to them. The
longer needed. ”. He is probably nearer
the mark when he says, ~ All the nations
does not give us much that is solid to go
other half have to do with death or failure,
or with divers futilities of egoism, the
of the world talk about Peace, but they upon. Perhaps there is really not much
most cheerful being the one exception, the
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fantastic ‘
clearly written.
the sounds of hammers with which men are
Ghost Ship,' which gives its beating cruisers and battleships together,"
Mr. Rait depends obviously for much of his
title to the volume. Strong and vivacious
?
matter on Dr. Rashdall's mediæval studies,
as we feel the writer's genius to be, we thus than when he declares with enthusiasm but he has managed to produce a careful
have it actually exercised only within
that the “ long deferred age of war's cessa-
narrow limitsmin a region, too, where the
tion, bloodshed's end, of universal peace
summary, not lacking lively touches. The
space allotted to discipline seems somewhat
effect of strength can be produced at least and goodwill, has dawned at last. "
excessive.
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'A Hoosier Chronicle' stands out as peace and contentment are not only an Gaelic version of the Thebaid' of Statius
exceptional among modern novels written essential preliminary of international good is continued, with an English translation.
in English by the mere fact of not being will, but in themselves of more immediate An account of the controversy between
amorphous. Like the higher animals or importance. In the concluding pages there Ewen Maclachlan and Inverness Academy
a well-made pattern, it has a backbone ; is a useful summary of recent arbitration is given, and there is a second instalment of
and the coherence that comes of a proper cases, showing how pacific measures have the erudite and sympathetic article “The
construction imparts interest even to the repeatedly settled in a cool, judicial atmo- Literature of the Scottish Gael. ?
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enjoyed pages of witty, and even brilliant, evidence.
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sence of a Mid-Pacific fortress, and the Dickens-it strikes
curious that good grasp of his subject, and his matter is
emptiness of the Northern Territory of modern humour should be entirely neglected. well arranged in a type small enough to
Australia. " On the other hand, in certain Some of the Scottish examples are far from include a good deal. Even so, he gives, for
contingencies the ocean might become “an new, but Ireland is fair game for the racon- instance, but nine words under J, and he
American lake," but only after a mighty teur. Mr. Johnston is of opinion that really has not room for the explanations
contest with the Yellow Races and another
the essence of Irish humour consists in the fact which seem to us necessary for a profitable
fratricidal struggle,” in which the British that it is not humorous at all, but simply the use of his book by those uninitiated in
possessions would be subdued. The author shortest and best way of saying something, attained English, a vast class nowadays.
Syno-
recommends what he calls an Anglo- by an inherent genius for feeling and thinking two
things at once.
nyms are tricky things to play with. The
Celtic union, viz. , that the two Powers,
book does at least give derivations of words,
neither of which could succeed without the The Hebrews are not forgotten, and some which is a great point in its favour.
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In spite of the gaudiness of the covers and
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the excess of material, this anthology, is
in the Pacific. Some sensible remarks on
babbler" is ridiculous. The book abounds
chosen with care and skill
. Its catholicity
the future of Latin-America, and on the in entertaining pleasantries.
does not extend over the boundary of
diplomatic methods of British and American Mathews (Shailer), SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT sterling literary merit, but the collector
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The need for the application of the attitude towards life. Such an undertaking
Hamilton (Cosmo), IMPERTINENT REFLEC- principles of scientific management in the requires good prose and good poetry rather
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himself in his effort to gain a large reading
are full of insight—but on the whole the Milton's Areopagitica ; and Shakespeare's public by over-dogmatic assertion, ill-con-
good places are few and far between. The
Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of structed sentences, and making it necessary
Reflections are fifty-two in number, and
Denmark, Parts of the New Place Edi- to turn over 400 pages to find references.
they could have been cut down to half that
number with advantage.
tion de Luxe, edited by Sydney Hum-
Pampblets.
phries.
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the author, “ is laughing at
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It Both are handsomely bound with heraldic
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Johnston to collect the various forms of paper. Each page in the “Hamletis dealing with foreign questions. It gives
succinctly, and with force and lucidity, the
wit and humour by which the many peoples enclosed in a black line, and the names
of the world are moved to merriment, and of the characters are similarly treated. story of the British entente with the Russian
Government.
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seems, repartee :-
taken in the preparation of the text. supported by documentary evidence, that
“A blind man was passing along the roadway in
Milton's discourse, lacking the black lines endowments grow, both in England and
the darkness of the night, with a jar on his and having a larger type, exceeds in effect Wales, from private benevolence for special
shoulder and a lit lamp in his hand. A meddlesome
the 'Hamlet,' but both are covetable pos- and local purposes. The author states that
follow met him, who cried out, :0 fool, since day sessions, and advantage has been taken of he could not discover evidence that they
and night are alike to thee, what use hast thou of unsold copies to make some corrections and
were given by the State or for the good of
this lamp? ' But the blind man laughed, and
the general public, as is contended by those
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improvements.
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and break my jar. '”
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The third volume of this encyclopædia is Among the many articles of interest to
in some of their sayings :-
more useful. The analysis of Britain's place this periodical is an appreciation of Gran-
Very detestable is the snoring of a man whom in foreign markets is completed ; articles ville Barker and his work. That trans-
you are trying to conceal and who has gone to sleep by Mr. Chiozza Money and Lord Furness, cendental phenomenon Jeanne d'Arc is
in a place where he has no business. ”
on the relation of coal to our prosperity, | the subject of two important publications
Mr. Johnston's chapter on American and the commercial future of Britain, follow ; reviewed; and a work which avowedly owes
humour is an essay on his country's humorous and the book concludes with a clear and much to Mr. Wilfrid Ward's Life of New-
literature. He gives Mark Twain the place well-indexed summary of the law of contract, man,' 'Newman Catholique,' by Thureau-
of honour, and claims with some justice agency, partnership, sale and hire, and other Dangin, a study of the long years when the
that American humour first discovered the legal matters closely connected with busi- great intellectual was under a cloud, receives
child for purposes of literature ; he acknow-
On the whole, the signed work of the warm commendation. Classical scholars
ledges, however, that Budge and Toddy and specialists mentioned on the title - page will find strong support from the author
Tom Sawyer have no sisters, and pays : appears to fall below the standard of the of 'Les Humanités et les Ingénieurs,' who
generous tribute to Alice in Wonderland as other contributions. We may except from exposes the widespread discontent which
perhaps the high-water mark among little this Mr. A. E. Cave's note on Municipal the aristocracy of industry feel with regard
girls in litorature. "
Trading. Sir Thomas Lipton's hints on to 80-called modern education, and sup-
Space forbids more than a glimpse at the building up a business do not rise above the ports on practical
grounds the ancient
many nationalities of which he treats, but level of Samuel Smiles.
method-Greek and Latin included.
Wit,” says
>
ness.
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No. 4414, JUNE 1, 1912
The latest recruit to the ranks of the Studies in Philosophy,' by M. Émile
publishers is Mr. Herbert Jenkins. For Boutroux, Member of the Institute and
Literary Gossip. more than ten years Mr. Jenkins was
Professor in the University of Paris. The
manager for Mr. John Lane. His own rendering has been made by Mr. Fred
ventures into literature include the Rothwell, one of the translators of Prof.
DR. R. Y. TYRRELL has a delightful Life of George Borrow,' which Mr. Bergson's : Essay on Laughter'. The
article in the June Nineteenth Century on
Metrical Versions of Horace's Odes,' Jenkins is also known as a Blake enthusiast spectively with the history of philosophy,
Murray published in the spring. Mr. book contains six studies, dealing re-
considered from the literary point of view.
He puts side by side various renderings he who discovered the State Papers cartes, and Kant.
on original lines of research ; for it was Socrates, Aristotle, Jacob Boehme, Des-
of famous passages and phrases, and spends relating to the poet's trial for high treason,
some time in demolishing Gladstones and the position of his grave in Bunhill Works of Francis Parkman’ is announced
A NEW pocket edition of the Collected
eulogy quite undeserved by the English Fields Cemetery. Associated
with the new by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. It will be
Like our reviewer in 1894, Dr. publishing venture are Sir George H. Chubb complete in twelve volumes.
Tyrrell has no difficulty in showing the and Mr. Alex. W. Hill. The new firm is
to be known as Herbert Jenkins, Limited,
MESSRS. CHATTO & WINDUS will publish
weakness of the Right Honourable versifier, and will occupy premises at 12, Arundel next Thursday in their series of Two-
and applauds-justly, we think-the merits
Place, Haymarket.
Shilling Net Novels,” which already
of Conington as the most successful seeker
includes works by Mr. Arnold Bennett,
after the impossible.
* THE CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY Mrs. Perrin, and Mr. E. W. Hornung, a new
We hope he may be able to deal in ATLAS' will be published by the Cam- edition of Mr. John Ayscough's novel
another article with freer versions or bridge University Press on the 18th inst. Marotz. ' The book will contain a
paraphrases of Horace, such as that of The arrangement of the maps, 141 in specially written preface by the author.
Fortuna læto' by Dryden which was a
number, follows as far as possible the
favourite with Thackeray.
order of the narrative in The Cambridge
THE announcement by Messrs. Sampson
Modern History,' and an endeavour has Low of another edition of the sketches of
THE SPANISH ACADEMY OF LETTERS been made to insert all the place-names Caldecott shows that this delightful artist
has recently faced a problem similar to that occur in it. At the same time, the is not forgotten. His most active period
that which confronted French men of entire series is designed to stand by itself was during the seventies of last century,
science in the candidature of Madame as an atlas of modern history.
but his work has such charm and indi-
Curie. Public opinion and her profes-
viduality that he may be counted amongst
sional confrères favour the application in a series of maps of Europe and its edition Mr. Harold Armitage recalls the
The general idea is to illustrate, the immortals. In a preface to this
made by the Countess of Pardo Bazan, different countries,
as well as other
novelist and critic, for admission to the parts of the world associated with the tributions to The Graphic were received
pleasure with which his coloured con-
Real Academia Española, but that body progress of European history, the course at Christmas, 1876, and during a few of
maintains its conservative position, in
spite of the discovery of an eighteenth- fifteenth century has been transformed death in 1886.
of events by which the Europe of the the succeeding Yuletides until Caldecott's
century precedent in the person of a
into the Europe of the present day.
precocious young lady of seventeen years— Some of the maps are designed to illus-
CAVIARE' is the title of a novel which
honorary professor, examiner, and per: trate political divisions—others terri- Mr. Grant Richards has written, and which
manent adviser of the University of torial changes, wars by land or sea, the will appear on September 2nd. It will be
Alcala,
growth of particular States, the course of published at the same time in America
MR. WILLIAM P. LIVINGSTONE, chief religious changes, and the history of by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
sub - editor of the Evening News, has Colonial expansion.
' LIFE'S GREAT ADVENTURE' is a col-
been appointed editor of The Mission-
FOLLOWING on the Thackeray Centenary lection of essays on life for those at
ary Record of the United Free Church Celebrations in July, 1911, and the its threshold, from the pen of Mr.
of Scotland. Mr. Livingstone, who is a
recent Browning Centenary Celebrations, Francis Stopford, whose book of essays,
native of Fifeshire, had a business training it is the intention of the Fine Art The Toil of Life,' was favourably re-
in Edinburgh, after which he engaged in Society to hold an exhibition of MSS. , ceived when it appeared five years ago ;
editorial work in Jamaica, returning to letters, sketches, autographs, and relics it ran into a second edition, and still
England in 1904. Since then he has held of Thackeray and Browning in their finds new readers. Mr. Stopford's forth-
various journalistic posts.
Dudley Gallery, 169, Piccadilly. The coming volume follows the same lines, is
The first portion of the extensive exhibition will open early in July. With cheerful and optimistic in tone, and
library of the late Mr. Charles Letts will important as possible, the Society will different
a view to making it as complete and as contains many pen-pictures of scenes in
lands. The upbringing of
be sold next week by Messrs.
Hodgson, be glad to hear from any persons who children is dealt with in a frank manner:
and will occupy five days. Mr. Letts,
who was
a member of several of the MSS. connected with the novelist or the inspiration. The book will be published
possess objects of interest, sketches, of
f The author finds in nature his chief
learned societies, was widely known as an
enthusiastic collector of books. This por- poet, which owners are willing to lend for shortly by Messrs. Duckworth.
exhibition.
tion comprises the modern part of the
WITH the June number Rhythm,
library, and shows the many interests of In reply to the recent trade-union depu- which the St. Catherine Press publish,
the late owner.
tation to the Prime Minister which urged begins its monthly existence. It will
the nationalization of railways, Mr. contain, amongst other items, a short
A CORRESPONDENT writes :-
Asquith said that it was necessary for story by Frank Harris ; an article by
“ In your short notice of Mrs. O'Neill's further information to be obtained before Tristan Dereme; poems by W. H. Davies
'England in the Middle Ages' you repre any steps, one way or another, could be and W. W. Gibson ; _and drawings by
sent the statement that the University of taken. A book which Mr. Murray is Albert Marguet, J. D. Fergusson, and
Oxford 'came into being' in 1214. as publishing, by a well-known authority, Joseph Simpson.
minor inaccuracy. Is this fair in view of Mr. Edwin A. Pratt, entitled 'The State
the context of the passage ?
OWING to a regrettable oversight in
university 'with an autonymous constitu- Railway Muddle in Australia,' may pro-
tion of its own' (to quote Prof. Tout) did vide some opportune evidence on this proof-revision, we misprinted “Mabel”
for Rahel Tieck in our short notice of Mary
come into being in 1214. This is surely question.
suggested by the previous sentence : 'The
Hargrave's 'Some German Women and
Oxford schools had been active and dis-
MESSPS. MACMILLAN & Co. have nearly their Salons, published by Mr. Werner
tinguished since the days of Henry II. '” ready an English version of Historical | Laurie.
&
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man.
obtained his data, which
are called
We have entered into a somewhat
SCIENCE
“ Family Records,” from numerous col- elaborate criticism of this book, chiefly
laborators. These data are frequently to warn intending writers on this subject
referred to, but always anonymously, and that the science on which eugenics is
Heredity in relation to Eugenics. By are largely derived from professional based is at the present moment in its
Charles Benedict Davenport. Williams circles, though not a few farmers and busi- infancy, and that it is useless to propound
& Norgate. )
ness men are included. In making these theories dealing with the reorganization
DURING the last few years the study of records our author thinks it is not necessary of society until that science can give
the laws of heredity on Mendelian lines for physicians to aid in the work of col- them some secure foothold.
We feel
has given a great stimulus to the idea laboration, though they can do so if they sure that human progress can never be
wish; and presumably the Eugenic Record based on the materialistic views of
breeding.
