No More Learning

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to the beginning of the fifth century B. C. , ductions is as easy and flowing as the London's Underworld. By Thomas Holmes.
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now
as
a
So much for theory. Let us
Mr. Holmes tells many a good story
consider a man who may perhaps be said against himself, certainly with no rancour,
on the whole to have had too little time but with an appreciation for those who
NEW NOVEL.
to theorize over the past and future of possess some virtue, though it be a
the Kingdom of God, being wholly taken negative one. Rather does he reserve his Love's Pilgrimage. By Upton Sinclair.
up with that part of His Kingdom which anger for those who are perpetuating
(Heinemann. )
is full of evil and failure in the year of evil conditions by making it possible MR. UPTON SINCLAIR'S new novel, al-
disgrace 1912.
for people to exist on doles of food though greatly superior to the average
given indiscriminately at stated hours,
Every life to have a chance” in enorm-
run of modern fiction, is far from being as
happens on the Embankment.
ous type on yellow bills met the astonished All the agencies which exist only to been. Surely also it was unwise to handi-
good as it ought to be and might have
gaze of many Londoners
only a few days alleviate-not to eradicate—are severely cap it by calling the hero “ Thyrsis” and
ago. We wonder if Mr. Holmes felt and justly condemned. Mr. Holmes has a the heroine “ Corydon. ”
as we did for his penny before it occurred right to speak, for he has done as much
to him that the news bills were as usual
The theme is the isolation, in a com-
as any single man to ensure that mere
misleading, although perhaps
only uninten- existence shall give place to life, if only mercial world, of a genius who refuses to
tionally-in so far as the chance spoken for a short period, as many can witness devote time and labour to any occupation
of in the head-line was meant to be con- who have enjoyed his and his wife's
other than that which his genius dictates
fined to those in ships. For the moment hospitality at“
hospitality at "Singholme. "
to him. But, not having early laid to
the heart leapt with the thought : Was
heart the advice given by Mrs. Siddons
there no need for the writing of Mr.
No higher reward for the entertainers at the end of her career to Macready at
Holmes's book to convince people that than the naive delight of their guests the beginning of his, he permits himself
thousands have no chance of life with
can be imagined, and we thank Mr. to marry, at twenty, a girl of eighteen ;
all its many glories ? Was the nation Holmes for so charmingly relieving the and the appalling struggle with poverty
suddenly awake to its responsibilities? sordidness which inevitably predominates becomes the struggle, not of the man
Had a statesman arisen ? Or perhaps
in his pages by his chapter concerning alone, but of the man, his wife, and their
group of millionaires, faced with hospitality. The old ladies make holiday child.
the last great disaster, had decided in a manner to excite the envy of weary
In his love-letters-the egotism of
to devote their capital' to real needs globe-trotters, and other searchers after which is pardonable only because of his
instead of picking up their fine dividends distraction.
youthful ignorance the genius proposes
out of the life - blood of the people. As he affirms, our first duty to the to mould the girl whom he loves into the
Was a real attempt to be made to community is to seek out and give wife who will help him best; and, with
ensure that the common folk should brains and grit a chance. One quotation all his imagination, he does not see the
receive according to their needs, not from his chapter on 'Prison Oft' we must danger and injustice of marrying a
according to their means ? Were the permit ourselves, as it represents what woman who is admittedly different from
ill-nourished to receive the best of food we would fain hope is the height of the person into whom she is to be changed.
and drink instead of the epicure? Were perversity to which the official mind can Life, of course, avenges itself, as in such
the ill-housed to be offered accommodation attain :-
cases it always does, upon both husband
by those who had empty mansions ?
and wife. That the experienced reader
“I am going, then, to reiterate a serious
but rebellion steals into the
But no, Mr. Holmes's work is still charge! It is this: no boy from eight years mind against the unrelenting vindictive-
accepts;
needed, and we must try to help him to of age up to sixteen, unless sound in mind
readers—for the great British public is
and body, can find entrance into any re-
ness with which Mr. Sinclair pursues his
neither blackguardly nor heartless, but how often he falls into the hands of the variably met, at every tentative lifting
formatory or industrial school! No matter puppet. Not Tess herself is more in-
only criminally ignorant.
police, or what charges may be brought of the head, by a blow. Even geniuses,
Unfortunately, many will be distracted homeless. ' Again, eno youthful prisoner in this commercial world, seldom fare
by the gesticulatory style of the book, under twenty-one years of age, no matter quite so badly as this young man does
here.
but, read simply as a very human how bad his record, is allowed the benefit of
document due to one who has kept a sane
Borstal training unless he, too, be sound in Two qualities in the book touch great-
outlook in spite of being in constant mind and body. This is not only an enor- à ruthless sincerity, and a full
touch with the nether world, it will
be mity, but it is also a great absurdity;
for realization of the
burdens and
found full of vivid interest.
it ultimately fills our prisons with weaklings, exhaustion that oppress the domesticated
and assures the nation a continuous prison
population. "
woman. Never has a truer picture been
Largely the book may be said to be
given of what existence on an inadequate
a collection of thumbnail portraits of Here we have no superman overcoming weekly income means to the wife and
people who relatively represent the good difficulties by sheer force of character, mother who
“keeps house" single-
and the bad on the one hand, those whose but a human being now indignant with handed. Clearly the eyes of the American
only idea in life seems to be to support the crass stupidity of people calling them- man are opening to a spectacle which has
themselves by their labour at whatever selves educated, but at other times passed unseen before the eyes of men for
cost to their health and happiness, and shamefaced himself. When he goes to generations. When, however, Mr. Sin-
those others whose only object in life preach in a prison chapel he feels with clair shows us the overburdened young
is to secure a comparatively easy living discomfort the gimlet-like eyes of those wife reaching out unconsciously and in-
at whatever expense to the community. who understand him intimately-who stinctively for some second man to bear
We agree with Mr. Holmes that it is know that but for something which her away from conditions into which she
not until we recognize that the former has been termed the “Grace of God” is sinking, his observation may be ques-
are only less detrimental to progress than the positions of preacher and listener tioned. The modern woman's theory of
the latter that we can seriously tackle might well have been reversed.
emancipation is increasingly economic ;
the problem of the over-employed, the
not by way of clinging to a fresh man,
unemployed, and the unemployable. We be the means of sending him many re-
We hope that Mr. Holmes's book may but by way of earning a livelihood for
must also face the half-hearted -as to cruits, healthy in mind and body, who will
herself.
cruits, healthy in mind and body, who will Look" is typical of her.
Mr. Barrie's Twelve - Pound
whom we again agree with Mr. Holmes
that they are more disastrous to the world
carry on and widen his work with his own
When all exceptions have been made,
than the absolutely wicked. Have we not sympathetic virility.
however, 'Love's Pilgrimage' remains a
an authoritative statement concerning the It is men of such experience and fine attempt, and Mr. Sinclair has raised
lukewarm ? _“I will spue thee out of my humanity who best deserve an attentive his already high literary position by
mouth. ”
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means
explained by corruptions of such a text St. Dominic's contribution towards solving
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. underlying them, and there are actual cita- them is, in proportion, altogether too slightly
[Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
tions in early patristic literature.
indicated. Moreover, the writing, though
roviow. )
The question arises, Was the Greek the often good, is in many places rough and
first, or was there an original Hebrew text ? careless, and numerous misprints still
Tbeology.
Mr. Box agrees with the most recent investi- further disfigure it.
gators in asserting that the phenomena
Coats (R. H. ), TYPES OF ENGLISH PIETY, 41 point to a Semitic original. He affirms that O'Leary (Rev. de Lacy), THE SACRAMENT OF
net.
Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark the syntax reflects characteristically Hebrew
HOLY BAPTISM, 2/
S. P. C. K.
This writer is possessed of a facile pen. features, and he contends that the Hebrew
The types under which he ranges English text and the Greek version embraced the Christian baptism, the witness of the Fathers
This is an excellent work. The history of
piety are the “ Sacerdotal,", the “Evan- Apocalypse proper, to which in the third to its manifold significance, and the customs
gelical," and the 'Mystical" ; each in
century the additional chapters were ap- connected with it are set forth with ample
turn, with a rather. complacent fluency pended. There is a further question : Is illustration and in a style unusually easy and
and
great multitude of words, he the present form of the Ezra-Apocalypse a pleasant.
describes, illustrates, and appraises, first
recounting its merits, then dilating on its compilation made from different sources, that on the relation
of baptism to confirma-
or is it a uniform composition which goes tion; and such an expression as
66 the fact
defects. His authorities seem to be mainly back to a single author ? Mr. Box thinks that the gift of the Holy Spirit is made more
certain already oft-discussed originals, to that it is a composite production, and that definitely in Confirmation"
gether with a number of recent
(the italics are
works of
popularization. " He has an odd way
the most important part, the Salathiel-ours) ought surely not to have been allowed
of
We think, too, that the history of
solemnly exposing what he considers to be is inclined to regard the whole as proceeding other than the Jewish and Christian might
adducing Scott as a witness: thus, as he is | Apocalypse, was written and put forth in to pass.
Prof. Sanday, on the other hand, the idea and practice of baptism in religions
the dangers of confession, he quotes a
from a single hand.
soliloquy of Anthony Foster's in “Kenil-
with advantage have been brought out more
worth. The " Evangelical
type fares
The highest praise is due to Mr. Box for fully. A few misprints and slips in construc-
his work.
best at his hands.
His exposition of the theology tion might be corrected in a later edition,
and eschatology of the book, and his state and, this being a cheap, popular book,
Cuthbertson (David), A TRAGEDY OF THE ment of its aim and importance for Jewish for the benefit of those who do not happen
REFORMATION, being the Authentic theology, are lucid dissertations. The trans- to know that κλινικός
“ sick,”
Narrative of the History and Burning lation and the commentary reveal the hand “ lying in bed,'*
122 “ clinic baptism” might be
of the ' Christianismi Restitutio,' 1553, of an accomplished scholar. Prof. Sanday, explained.
with a Succinct Account of the Theo- who testifies that the quality of Mr. Box's
logical Controversy between_Michael work may be seen on every page, heartily Robinson (Fr. Paschal), THE RULE OF ST.
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Ecra-Apocalypse (The): BEING CHAPTERS III. question of the origin of the Roman rite, poverty, the disciple and friend of St.
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Ezre-Apocalypse corresponds to chaps. iii. - brought together
Nutt
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xiv. of 2 Esdras of our Apocrypha, which than this we can hardly praise the book. A reading-book for students of Hebrew
is the Fourth Book of Ezra of the St. Dominic is a shadowy figure thrust into which the author believes, both on linguistic
Vulgate. Several versions exist, and of the background by the author's preoccupa- and thematic grounds, to be specially suitable
these the most important is the Latin, which tion with the details of the Albigensian for the purpose. In the course of the four
contains chaps. i. , Ü. , XV. , and xvi. ; but the crusade; the claims made for him as a chapters most of the commoner Hebrew
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xiv. With the exception, perhaps, of the nor is it clear, on the showing of these pages, the vocabularies 127 verbs and 129 nouns
Armenian, the versions depend on a lost why he was considered so great a saint. The and other parts of speech form a valuable
Grook text, for their differences can be problems of the time are well stated, but I foundation for study.
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dialect to compensate for the too frequent
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In five latter's ‘Introduction to Logic' he is par- a summary of the work done in Walworth
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have been enlarged.
or a stanza of an old song and woven it into
we find those references and quotations
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There are other notable features here. sailing vessel in the early sixties, when the
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Murmur, thou stream,
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Would I could tell what thou sayest;
The
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world ! " is a line which may serve as an de Champeaux and Gilbert de la Porrée. less of preoccupation with things that, so far
illustration of the style.
Indeed, the book, though written largely for as Ælfric is concerned, are neither here nor
an
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there. He repeats himself as to details In the meantime she had known, pretty now by the Italian Renaissance. Poland,
unnecessarily often; he does not bring out intimately, Maria Theresa, Frederick the always receptive in the deeper arts, stood
anything particular concerning Ælfric's tem- Great, and Voltaire. The King of Sweden open to both influences. Its creative
perance work or keenness about military was her rejected suitor, the Empress Cathe- energy found expression in gorgeous and
training, though these are dwelt on rather rine of Russia her cousin, and the government imaginative costume-why does no Polish
emphatically at the start; and his anxiety of the whole continent was in the hands of sculptor give us one of Sobieski's hussars,
lest an acquaintance with the good Abbot people with whom she was acquainted. those winged heroes whose panoply is surely
should lead anyone to compromise his Her own politics were of that high aristo- the most impressive that was ever seen on
adhesion to Reformation principles is surely cratic variety which the atmosphere of battle-field ? -likewise in music, if so one
superfluous. Apart from this the book is minor German courts seemed especially to may describe such an apotheosis of the
delightful, mainly by reason of the lengthy foster, and the letter in which she explains dancer's art as survives even to-day in the
and excellently chosen quotations from to Voltaire the unbecomingness of quarrel- mazurka, the polonaise, and the krakoviak,
Ælfric's homilies and other work, including ling with a king is eminently characteristic. as these are rendered in the Polish capitals.
the ‘Colloquy for Boys. A simple quito The Countess Bentinck, living at 75 among Cracow, therefore, in so far as the city's
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AND THEIR SALONS, 7/6 net.
Werner Laurie Whitshed. Friendship seems to have sprung representing the Passing of the Virgin. '
the other was James Hawkins, afterwards Christ round a panel of life-sized figures
The salons of Frenchwomen have been up at first sight: the young sailors were From Italy came other masters, who, taking
written about rather more than enough, agreeable and intelligent; the grandmother service with the Jagellonic kings, carried
It is quite refreshing to turn for a change to incredibly alert, brilliant, and eager. Other the new art to this far outpost, enriching the
Germany; and all the seven women in this grandchildren came to see her ; one of them cathedral and its many chapels with tombs
collection are interesting. Some readers fulfilled her hopes by marrying “mon cher and decorative memorials that would not
may be annoyed by finding a frontispiece Hawkings,” whom she loved like a son, come amiss in any tourist-haunted city of
labelled in the list as Mabel Tieck- a though she never learnt to spell either the South.
lady for any mention of whom they may
of his surnames. There began a constant To exhaust this volume in a brief notice is
ransack these pages (and others) in vain. interchange of letters, which, being carefully impossible. We have but handled a fraction
It is, really, Tieck's portrait of Mabel Varn- stowed away, were forgotten until Mrs. of its many interests, which extend to the
hagen. A curious double plural, “ Herzens Le Blond discovered them, and used them Cracow of to-day and embrace a note on the
for the proper name Herz, appears twice. as the chief material for her interesting applied arts, and especially that jeweller's
Mabel, the greatest figure of the group, is volumes. The portraits are numerous and work wherein the Polish craftsmen showed
not adequately represented by the samples unusually good.
such excellence. On at least two of the
of her sayings that have been chosen. She
pictures in the Czartoryski Museum we
said some things more profound and pene- Lepszy (Leonard), CRACOW, THE ROYAL should like to hear our author reply to the
trating than any of these. It is much,
CAPITAL OF ANCIENT POLAND : authorities. Müntz, for instance, denied
however, for the ordinary English reader to
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES, translated the authenticity of the Cecilia Gallerani
be made acquainted with her at all, and he by R. Dyboski, 10/6 net. Fisher Unwin portrait ascribed to Leonardo ; and we should
will be well advised to seek the fresh pastures This handsome volume is an abridgment like to hear more of the Prince [sic] of
of Miss Hargrave's volume.
of a more ambitious work issued by the Urbino' by Raphael which every recognized
Cracow Society of Antiquaries in 1904, expert records as “ lost. "
Hart (R. J. ), CHRONOS : A HANDBOOK OF and, whereas that monograph, compiled by Melville (Lewis), AN INJURED QUEEN, CARO-
COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY, 6/ net. leading authorities with small fear of weary-
Bell & Sons ing a patriotic audience, may be described
LINE OF BRUNSWICK, 2 vols, 24
Hutchinson
On the title-page these “chronological as intended for consumption on the spot, the
notes on history, art, and literature from present volume is put forth as an attempt
Familiar though the facts are, it seems
8000 B. C. to 1700 A. D. " are described as to interest a wider circle, less tolerant of scarcely credible that an English monarch
“ for the use of travellers. " They are an detail
, and therefore to be treated with dis- should have been able, less than a century
enlargement of tables made by the author cretion. The Austrian Government itself ago, to behave as George IV. did to the
during many winters spent in Egypt, Greece, has subsidized the venture, which is well wife who was also his first cousin ; and to
and Italy, and certainly supply in concise calculated to fulfil its main purpose and read the series of original documents
form a remarkable amount of information. attract attention to a city none too well brought together by Mr. Melville intensifies
Besides the usual details, we get a view of known in the English-speaking world. For both amazement and indignation. But
India, Japan, and China, the last including Cracow, more than Warsaw, is the shadowy although her husband treated her with
Wang-Chi, known the “Five-Bottle capital of the extinct Polish kingdom.
injustice and insult, even from a time
Scholar," who is credited with “good prose Warsaw represents the modern and “elec- antecedent to their wedding-although his
and verse in his lucid intervals. " The tive" Poland ; Cracow was the capital of hatred grew more venomous and more un-
volume is specially strong on art, to which her Jagellonic dynasty, after whom, except scrupulous with every year of her life-it
a supplement is devoted, in addition to the the four Vasas, came monarchs chosen either was not by him, but by the father who forced
notes in the main text, and contains several by force or fraud and three parts powerless, him into the marriage, that the first wrong
other useful appendixes. It is likely to be with here and there a Bathory or a Sobieski was done to her. George III. must have
popular with the intelligent tourist, and to justify a system-theoretically ideal-known something of his niece's character
relies for the most part on sound authorities. practically, however, disruptive and im- and habits, and must have been aware that
The index needs enlargement. We have possible in a state whose greater magnates she would inevitably be distasteful to her
failed to find, for instance, Artemis, Leo- stood above the law. It was Sigismund III. , bridegroom. The Prince of Wales was
nardo, and the Pleiad.
the first of the four Vasas, who in 1619 fastidious man, without principle or deep
Lo Blond (Mrs. Aubrey), CHARLOTTE SOPHIE, ancient capital was abandoned ; yet here good manners, elegancies, and external
removed with his Court to Warsaw. The feelings, who set an exaggerated value upon
COUNTESS BENTINCK : HER LIFE AND
alone in all Poland was a city that had its refinements. The Princess Caroline lacked
TIMES, 1715–1800, 2 vols. , 24/ net.
steady centuries of growth and accumulation. tact and taste, her voice was loud, her
Hutchinson The shrines of saints, the proud memorials manners rough, and her tongue singularly
Charlotte Sophie, born Countess of Olden- of a line of kings, a tradition of art, of indiscreet; she dressed incongruously, and
burg, and sovereign in her own right of culture, of learning-all these were set was not even particular as to perfect cleanli-
various small domains in the immediate aside, and Cracow fell
, to rise once more as ness of person and attire. That she was
neighbourhood of Wilhelmshaven, married the capital of an Austrian province. To-day generous, good-natured, frank, and coura-
in 1733 William Bentinck, second a benevolent but alien government encourgeous weighed nothing against the fatal
of the first Earl of Portland, whom, in ages its pride and helps in the work of pro facts that she was undignified and a little
order to make him a fitting consort for her, servation. As Poles go, the Austrian Pole grotesque. That she ever misconducted
the Emperor created Count Bentinck. The is fortunate.
herself seems improbable ; that she con-
marriage did not prove happy, and in 1739 Pan Lepszy is an efficient guide to the tinually misbehaved herself is certain.
she, being then but 24 years old, returned to city's history and ancient monuments, and, Moreover, such conjugal affection as George
her mother, and never saw again either her ably assisted by the photographer, he makes was capable of feeling had long since been
husband or her two sons. Not until she us realize the architectural beauties of the bestowed upon another woman.
had become a widow, more than fifty years cathedral, the major churches, and public Mr. Melville has done well in bringing the
later, did she make the acquaintance of her buildings, the projectors of which were now unhappy story before the modern roader in
own desoondants.
inspired by the Gothic German masters, and a fluent and readable narrative,
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No. 4412, May 18, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
OF
THE
OF
are
Sarson (Mary) and Phillips (Mabel Addison), for the grandfather, in 1857, at the age of visit. The book opens with ' A Tribute' to
THE HISTORY
PEOPLE 16 or 17, joined the Bengal Army. After a remarkable woman who wished the Diary
ISRAEL IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES.
some desultory service, he had the good to appear, Ida von Mohl, Baronin von
Longmans | fortune to be appointed to the Punjab as Schmidt-Zabiero, the niece of the leaders of
This book gives the impression of a run-
Assistant Commissioner. This means that a salon where the talk was always on
ning commentary, linking the Old Testament he left military for civil employment, in tall lines, but typically gracious, suave, and
de-
with book-narration and prophecy and those days more perhaps than now a decided distinguished. The illustrations
poetry. It also touches the history of step in advance; for, though drawing the cidedly attractive.
surrounding nations, the position of the better pay of the civilian, he was not de-
Hebrews amongst them, and the religious barred from future military service, in Book of the Knowledge of all the Kingdoms,
Lands, and Lordships that are in the
and other characteristics of contemporary which his rank advanced automatically
World, and the Arms and Devices of
civilizations. Quotations from the old under existing rules. He was sent to the
each Land and Lordship, or of the Kings
Testament text are printed in fuller type.