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explained earlier in the volume. Here a
wheat expert gave his interviewer the infor- Shaking his head and tearing at the hook,
Reade (Aleyn Lyell),_JOHNSONIAN GLEAN- cultivated area to that which has never
mation that in Canada the proportion of he gave me a very similar feeling to what a mad,
keen horse does when, impatient of control, he
INGS : Part II. FRANCIS BARBER, THE
been broken up is as a cabbage patch to a
fights and tears at his bridle as he gallops along,
Doctor's NEGRO SERVANT, 6/
for we were paddling after and hanging on to that
thousand-acre farm. To demonstrate the big fish as hard as we could. '
Liverpool, the Author
opportunities presented to intending pur. After a long fight it was landed, and proved
Besides possessing greater unity of interest chasers, an instance is cited where a farm
than its predecessor, Mr. Reade's new volume in New Brunswick, with house and two barns, to be" 5 ft. 8 in. in length-as long as I am. ”
shows much improvement both in type and only four miles distant from a railway sta- The illustrations deserve praise ; indeed, in
paper, whilst the same high standard of tion, was offered for sale at the low figure of every respect author and publisher may be
careful research and dispassionate judgment 801. , twenty-five of its hundred acres having congratulated.
is maintained. All that seems likely to be been already cleared! In the matter of dis-
known about the negro, whom Johnson had advantages, the severity of Canadian winters
Education.
educated and made his residuary legatee, to women is not dismissed lightly but Freeman (K. J. ), SCHOOLS OF HELLAS : AN
is here collected; and some unpublished certain benefits attendant upon it are justly
ESSAY ON THE PRACTICE AND THEORY
letters to him from Boswell, asking for touched upon. More serious is the sparsity
OF ANCIENT GREEK EDUCATION FROM
Barber's assistance in his forthcoming bio- of accommodation for
workers,
600 TO 300 B. C. , edited by M. J. Rendall,
graphy, are printed, as well as a letter (given which seems to manifest itself throughout the
Second Edition, 5/ net. Macmillan
in facsimile) of the negro himself to Bishop great towns of the Dominion. No one contra-
Percy. A curious error of Dr. Hill's, trace- dicts it, and no one seems in a position to
We noticed this essay by a brilliant
able to a misprint in Croker, is corrected in remedy it.
young scholar too early lost on July 6th,
chap. vi. The author expresses himself as The unpopularity of emigrants from our
1907, and now we share the pleasure expressed
dissatisfied with the evidence that either own shores is a subject which has often been memoir of the author, in which he
by Mr. Rendall in a little addition to his
of the portraits he reproduces really re-
that
discussed. This inimical feeling seems to
presents Barber, though the frontispieco be gradually passing away as men and women
the book has already fought its way well
is certainly after Reynolds, who in all proba- of more solid worth are sent to replace the
into the third thousand of copies. ''
bility painted Johnson's servant among family rubbish which previously was often Livingstone College Year Book, 1912, 6d.
other black subjects.
tipped into the Colony.
Leyton, E. , the College
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SONAL
IN
AND
we
Teacher's Encyclopædia (The), Vols. VI. and Munro (J. Iverach), Essay I. : A RESEARCH and entirely practical, may be justly praised.
VII. , 8/6 each.
INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE THIRD PER- We regret, however, that Miss Althaus,
Caxton Publishing Co.
PRONOUN X1 EPICENE like other phoneticians of the moment,
It was on May 13th, 1911, that we re-
PENTATEUCH, AND ITS CONNEXION WITH teaches a somewhat slovenly and affected
viewed the first volume of “The Teacher's
SEMITIC INDO-EUROPEAN LAN- form of Southern English pronunciation. ,
Encyclopædia,' and we have now before us
GUAGES, a Contribution to Philological | Arnold's School Series : THE ALBION PHONIC
the last two volumes (vi. and vii. ) of this Science, 1/6 net.
Frowde
READERS, FIRST PRIMER, 3d. ; SECOND
admirable reference book. Vol. vii. contains Mr. Munro is making a bold attempt to
PRIMER, 4d. ; FIRST INFANT READER,
a general index, which is useful so far as revolutionize our ideas regarding the original
6d. ; SECOND INFANT READER, 6d. ;
it goes. Since, however, the plan of the forms of Semitic speech, and to establish the
and PREPARATORY READER, 8d.
whole work is not on alphabetical lines, theory of a common foundation for the latter
but according to broad headings and groups and the great Indo-European family of Bruyère (Jean de la), CARACTÈRES, PAGES
of subjects, it would have been wiser to give languages. As is indicated on the title- CHOISIES, Notes de Hardress O'Grady,
more space to the index and make it so page, the argument of the present essay Préface d'Augustin Filon; and Sainte-
comprehensive that there would be little hinges on the use of hw' (X117) in the Penta- Beuve (C. A. ), PROFILS ANGLAIS,
chance of missing the correct reference teuch for the pronoun of both the third Notes de Hardress O'Grady, 1/6. Dent
even on matters of detail. In vol. vi. the person singular masculine and feminine. There has long been wanting in this
articles on special schools are completed by The prevalent opinion on this point may here country a series of French classics for the
an article on the teaching of the blind and be stated in the words of Dr. Driver, who English reader which should, while avoiding
deaf. Then follows an adequate treatment says that “the view formerly held,” accord- the voluminousness of the library edition,
of the organization of education in various ing to which “the epicene 17 was an supply something more than the mere class-
countries, including England, Scotland, Ire- archaism in Hebrew, cannot. . . . be any room textbook. These two volumes give
land, France, Germany, America, Canada, longer maintained ; Hebrew must have comprehensively what is best in La Bruyère
and Australasia. Vol. vii. devotes some possessed the double form from the begin- and the criticism of Sainte-Beuve on English
200 pages to a useful history of educational | ning. " Our author, on the other hand, sets literature, and are further furnished with
thought from the time of the Greeks to the out to prove that we have here to deal with useful Introductions and notes, which do
present day. Here we have in reasonable an archaism of very old standing, and he not intrude on the text. They are pleasingly
compass a complete textbook of the subject, believes that the still earlier forms lying bound in cloth covers.
the work of Mr. James Drevor and Prof. behind the pronoun in question are hau Eliot (George), Silas MARNER, THE WEAVER
Alexander Darroch, but mainly of the latter. for the masculine, and hai for the feminine.
OF RAVELOE, edited, with Introduction
It is illustrated by fourteen full-page por. The basal hypothesis which underlies and Notes, by F. E. Bevan, 1!
traits of such leaders in education as Abelard, this result is that the original mode of express-
Cambridge University Press
Erasmus, Comenius, Rousseau, Kant, ing the active in verbal formation was by This charming story is a suitable addition
Herbart, and Spencer. This sketch of means of au placed between the two conso- to English Literature for Schools. The
educational history comes appropriately at nants in the biliteral stage of Semitic speech, editor's Introduction, meant more,
the close of the work, welding together as and that the passive was similarly expressed imagine, for teachers than for readers, gives
it does the many subjects discussed in the by the diphthong ai. It was at this biliteral | all that needs to be said about the book
previous volumes. It was a common Greek stage, Mr. Munro maintains, that the Indo- and its author. The notes, too, are capably
saying that you must see a man's end before European family of speech separated from done, though on the first page we meet
you called him happy; we have read the last the Semitic, “when pronominal forms were with Yahweh in & Bible reference,
of The Teacher's Encyclopædia,' and may themselves verbal nouns, and their order, which strikes us as a foolish piece of pedantry,
with confidence call it excellent.
with regard to the verbal noun required to and find the explanation that • Merry
make what we call a verb, was still fluid. "
England' is not much more than Alma
Philology.
Has our essayist proved his case? It is, Mater," which is hardly helpful without a
perhaps, not fair to pronounce a decisive knowledge of Latin. Vicinage" and a
Juvenal, Fourteen Satires of, translated into judgment before the appearance of the few more of George Eliot's learned para-
English by Alexander Leeper, New and other essays promised in continuation of phrases might have been explained.
Revised Edition, 5! Macmillan the theme. But one may, so far as the pre-
This rendering well deserves its place in the sent argument justifies an opinion, say that Goldsmith, THE DESERTED VILLAGE, edited,
with Introduction and Notes, by G. G.
familiar dark blue
series, being both spirited there is here, amidst much that is instructive,
Whiskard, 6d.
and idiomatic. First published in 1882 suggestive, and of some likelihood, much that
as the joint work of its author and Prof. is fanciful and that rests on mere assump-
Oxford, Clarendon Press
H. A. Strong, it was revised ten years later tions.
The editor, in his Introduction and notes,
We will refer to only two points.
by Dr. Leeper, and now again has been so It does not strike us that Mr. Munro has puts before the young reader all that needs
largely rewritten by him as to be virtually produced a sufficient amount of evidence explanation.
a new book. Comparing the present issue against the view that the vowel u was used Hood (G. F. ), PROBLEMS IN PRACTICAL
with that of 1882, which he has long used, as a sign of the passive in the original struc- CHEMISTRY FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS,
the reviewer finds an elaboration of style ture of Semitic languages. As an instance
5/ net.
Mills & Boon
and phrase which generally brings out the of fancifulness in the argument, his treatment
The problems collected in this volume
meaning better. Juno virguncula," once of the verb müth (to die) may be mentioned. require in the student a thorough knowledge
“a little wench,” is now “a bashful maid. ” “ The imperfect," he says, ' has the old of the elementary groundwork of chemistry,
But occasionally longer versions add nothing active form [yāmûth] because it expressed
as many of the exercises are of an advanced
to the rendering; Juvenal's points are
the struggle. The perfect [mêth) was used nature and of considerable difficulty. The
sharply made, and do not need any emphasiz. when all
was over, and therefore had the old author's directions are, however, fully and
ing. Why, for instance, in xiii. 172 add passive form. ”
lucidly given, and should be effective for
yet” after the though 22 clause? It is We think, however, that Mr. Munro has students preparing for higher examinations.
neither in the Latin nor needed in the done well to reopen the whole question.
English.
Studies like these are sure to promote the Jenks (Paul R. ), A MANUAL OF LATIN WORD
There are a few notes as to the text interests of true linguistic and ethnological FORMATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS,
adopted, “where there might seem to be science, though the final result may not be 1/6
Harrap
room for doubt. ” More, we think, should quite what the zealous pioneer expected. Examples of derivatives are arranged in
have been done in this way, especially
lists to illustrate word-formation, as seen
Scbool-Books.
since Prof. Housman's drastic examination
in Cæsar, Cicero, and Virgil, the com-
of the claims of MS. Pithoeanus in 1905. Althaus (L. H. ), THE SOUNDS OF THE MOTHER piler's aim being to supply a three years'
The “mulio consul " of viii. 148, unknown TONGUE, A MANUAL OF SPEECH-TRAIN-
course for students of Latin.
in 1882, is now duly rendered, and deserved
FOR PREPARATORY AND LOWER Laurie (André), MÉMOIRES D'UN COLLÉGIEN,
to be recorded at the side of the text.
FORMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND Authorized Edition, edited, with Exer-
Encouraged by the success of Mr. J. D. FOR VTH, VITH, OR VIITH STANDARDS
cises, Notes, and Vocabulary, by O. B.
Duff in dealing with Satire VI. , Dr. Leeper IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 2/ net; and Super, 1/6
Harrap
has now added a vigorous translation of it SOUND-DRILL AND READING EXERCISES
This interesting story of school life in
to this issue. On the other hand, the IN PHONETIC SCRIPT FROM THE ABOVE, France should prove a welcome textbook
critical notes, mainly as to corrupt passages,
6d.
Hodder & Stoughton for English students, as the French is of
which occupied some pages in the edition of Speech-training in the vernacular is un-
the easy type required of candidates for
1882, have disappeared, and we get instead doubtedly necessary for children in ele- the Junior Local examinations. Exercises,
others on four passages in which Prof. T. G. mentary schools entoring secondary schools, notes and vocabulary are given in the
Tucker plays a leading part.
and these publications, admirable in method appendix.
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707
A
unseens
seem
BEING THE
COTT
AS
Macaulay, EssAY ON JOHN BUNYAN, 3d. Childo-Pemberton (Harriet L. ), THE SILENT Warwick (Anno), THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, 6/
paper, 4d. cloth.
VALLEY, AN EPISODE, 6/ Constable
Mills & Boon
Oxford, Clarendon Press The pages of this novel are abundantly There are here really two unknown
A slim booklet in the Oxford Plain Texts sprinkled with pieces of original poetry, women in the case. One, a pseudo-antiquo
which may well attract the adult as well as supposed to be sung or recited by those bust, becomes the centre of a neatly
the learner.
taking part in the action—a revival of an complicated intrigue; the other, to us less
Silya Latina, LATIN READING-BOOK,
antique fashion which we are not altogether interesting, is a femme incomprise valiantly
chosen and arranged by J. D. Duff, 2/
prepared to welcome. In other respects, making the most of a little unhappiness to
Cambridge University Press too, the atmosphere suffers from an excess the admiration of all beholders. The story
This book, the work of an accomplished of culture ; and the characters, like the presents & curious and lively picture of
teacher, contains a hundred and forty- story, which has a vague connexion with artistic circles in New York, and emphasizes
five extracts in the same number of pages,
the theory of reincarnation, lack definition. the pernicious influence of journalism as
followed by a few notes on each extract.
But the writing has a delicate and fantastic a factor in American social life.
Each passage is preceded by a short sum-
charm, especially in descriptive passages ;
and the refrain of at least one lyric recurs
General.
mary; and to aid the pupil in the verse
" the long vowels are marked. persistently to memory.
Annual Register : A REVIEW OF PUBLIC
No doubt the book will serve as an excellent Gerard (Dorothea), EXOTIC MARTHA, 6/
EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD FOR
introduction to Virgil and Cicero.
Stanley Paul
THE YEAR 1911, New Series, 18/
Swift, THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, extracted
“Exotic Martha " has all the hardiness of
Longmans
from Selections from Swift, edited by make a lively story. She arrives in Batavia
a healthy outdoor plant, and her adventures This time-honoured publication continues
Sir Henry Craik, 2/
to maintain its excellence as a work of
Oxford, Clarendon Press as a prospective bride, only to find the
reference. As usual, the chapters on domestic
A capable edition, with a Life of Swift. bridegroom-elect already married. Her sub- affairs
are chiefly Parliamentary ; but
We think the little book might have been sequent proceedings are unusual, but enter- social events, such as the railway strike
repaged. The text begins at p. 196, and the taining.
and even the stoppage of the Wells-Johnson
notes include references for explanations to Hewlett (Maurice), OPEN COUNTRY; and boxing match, are deftly woven into the
pages which do not exist here. If this
narrative. The international crisis of the
REST HARROW, 2/ net each.
section was worth separate printing, it was
Macmillan
summer naturally figures in several chapters,
surely worth revision in such points.
These two novels are the best known of
but its bearings on the history of England,
Tappan (E. M. ), THE STORY OF THE ROMAN
Mr. Hewlett's work, and are crowded, often to
Germany, France, and Morocco are kept
PEOPLE, 1/6
Harrap excess, with the peculiar output of his distinct. Mr. H. Whates has digested the
An account of the Roman people from mind. They are hardly, in our opinion, affairs of the African continent with his
The
earliest times to the fall of the Empire, so good as his shorter, more restrained and usual workmanlike thoroughness.
related in readable style, with an absence of harmonious stories.
They are further addi- scientific and literary retrospects
that uninteresting detail which characterizes tions to Messrs. Macmillan's handsome adequate; and Miss Eveline Godley writes
some school histories of Rome. Copious edition of his works.
brightly on the drama, though she dovotes
illustrations and the use of large type add Lincoln (Jeanie Gould), THE LUCK OF translation of The Witch. The obituary
rather too much space to Mr. Masefield's
to the attractiveness of the volume.
RATHCOOLE :
ROMANTIC is more concise than was formerly the case,
Wallontin (Dr. Ignaz G. ), AN INTRODUCTION ADVENTURES OF MISTRESS FAITH Wol- and so the editor has been able to include
TO SCIENTIFIC GERMAN, being the First
(SOMETIME KNOWN “ MISS
& comprehensive list of persons of more or
Six Chapters of 'Grundzüge der Natur- MOPPET ? ? ) DURING HER SOJOURN IN less note.
lehre,' edited, with Notes and Vocabu. NEW YORK AT AN EARLY PERIOD OF
Clowes
lary, by P. M. Palmer, 3/6
Harrap
THE REPUBLIC, 6/ Gay & Hancock Army Annual (The), 1912, 3/6 net.
University students in science, who are The well-worn theme of a lost
Hereford : THE FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
required to know sufficient German to enable in the shape of a trinket, with a curse and
OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PUBLIC
them to translate into English extracts from a prophecy attached, appears here once more
LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND ART GALLERY
German works, will find in this book excel in print. The characters are of many nation-
TO THE TOWN COUNCIL, 1911-12.
lent materials for practice, with useful notes alities, they all speak in some distinctive
Hereford, Herefordshire Press Co.
and vocabulary to help them with the more tongue, they meet together in New York a India Omco List for 1912, 10/6 Harrison
difficult phrases.
hundred years or so ago, and the resulting Loa (Homor), THE DAY OF THE Saxon, 7/6
medley is passably amusing.
net.
Harper
Fiction.
Moore (George), SPRING DAYS, 6/
Mr. Homer Loa, like the Fat Boy, wants
Borovski (Antoine le), CAIRN LODGE, 2/ net.
Werner Laurie to make our flesh creep. He foresees the
Mr. George Moore declares prefatorially approaching dissolution of the British Em-
Murray & Evenden
that he has done his utmost to consign this pire, and gives his reasons with unreserved
The principal figure in this story is a
vicious and unprepossessing old man.
The
study to a merited (sic) oblivion. For all candour. His argument is developed in a
book has no literary merit or psychological that, we are glad to recognize its tenacity dull and pedantic style, like an exercise in
interest, and its only appeal must be to
in clinging to existence. The book did formal logic, but it amounts to this. The
lovers of sensation.
not receive the recognition it deserved on Saxon race is sunk in “a fat somnolence of
Bosanquet (Edmund), THE WOMAN BETWEEN, it is a remarkable and unerring piece of Empire as
its appearance twenty-four years ago, for satisfaction," and has failed to organize the
a military unit-to maintain
6/
Long work, with just a tinge of deliberate ultra- armies powerful enough to invade and defeat
We can scarcely suppose that Mr. Bosan- realistic selection. The picture of Frank any rival Power. On the other hand, the
quet intends this work as a serious essay Escott and the Brookeses is etched in with dreadful Dreibund” of Russia, Japan,
in fiction. It opens in fairly promising a ruthless precision and a fine malice which and Germany is a natural coalition," each
fashion, but about half way through lapses alone make the book remarkable. The treat- of whose meinbers is thwarted in its expan-
into melodrama, culminating in something ment is sometimes reminiscent of Flaubert. sion by the British Empire, and each of
not far removed from nightmare. The simple We reviewed it in The Athenceum of Sept. 8, whom is well organized, and not hampered
country squire involved in ruinous specula- | 1888, p. 317.
by democracy--for which Mr. Loa, as an
tions; the villainous financier who takes
advantage of the situation to press his un-
Rhodos (Kathlyn), THE Wax IMAGE, AND
American, appears to have an unexpected
welcome suit on the squire's daughter; the
OTHER STORIES, 6/
contempt. A supreme navy is insufficient
defence for the Empire, except apparently
more deserving, though less eligible lover
These crude sketches are inconspicuous hearted pessimist.
Holden & Hardingham in regard to Australia. Mr. Lea is a whole-
who rescues the financier's deserted mistress
“When England per-
from suicide, and thus acquires the clue to in merit, except for an occasional touch of
mitted the amalgamation of the Germanic
dramatic craftsmanship.
his rival's past-these are indeed familiar
The numerous
race, it prepared the plans of its own sarco-
figures, yet presented with a certain measure
murders, suicides, and excursions into the
phagus. He thinks that England can offer
of distinction. But
what can we say to the regions of the occult are monotonously
no serious resistance to a Russian attack on
abduction and illegal imprisonment of the
uniform.
India, and that we no longer count as a
villain on the first day of his honeymoon, Rowlands (Effie Adelaide), HASTER TRE- power in the Pacific. Mr. Lea has a pathetic
or to the change of matrimonial partners
Hurst & Blackett belief in the maxim that history always
(equally illegal, as it seems to us) which An undistinguished réchauffé of the repeats itself. Because other empires have
brings everything to a happy conclusion ? Cinderella theme, an attempt at poisoning crumbled away, therefore, he contends, the
The crowning touch of unreality is added by and the unwelcome attentions of a black- British Empire must fall. But he disregards
& comic Irishman.
guard being added by way of seasoning. all facts which do not squaro with his dog-
“luck
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No. 4417, JUNE 22, 1912
LONIENS
UND
as
DE
LA
ET
matic propositions. The book is interesting Jastrow (Morris), jun. , DIE RELIGION BABY- editor's part to remove such difficulties.
as a violent counterblast to the peace move-
ASSYRIENS, Part 18, Surely letters seen by Thorkelin and accepted
ment, but is too extravagant to be taken lm. 50.
Giessen, Töpelmann; by later editors should be received into the
seriously.
London, Williams & Norgate text. Why do M. Pierquin and the printer
Letters to the Centre : DESCRIBING SOME
Prof. Morris Jastrow's 'Religion of Baby- between them mark vowel-length by apos-
acute
ASPECTS OF SALVATION ARMY WORK lonia and Assyria' is already well known trophe, macron, circumflex, and
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
to the English-speaking world. This is the accents ?
accents? In this particular, in the printing
101, Queen Victoria Street, E. C. eighteenth instalment of the German trans- of þ and ), and the separation and com-
Rousseau (J. J. ), LES CONFESSIONS, 2 vols. , which deals with
lation of that work, being a part of chap. xxi. , bination of words and prefixes, mere hap-
omens derived from hazard seems to have ruled.
1/ net each
Dent animals and monsters. The whole work The literal, yet spirited translation will
Two more volumes in Messrs. Dent's series will run to about twenty instalments, and help the student, though again errors
of French masterpieces issued as a com- is to be complete by the date of the abound : eofer is a boar, not a lance ;
panion series to Everyman. Selected works Leyden Congress.
syththan heofones gim gläd ofer grundas
from Gérard de Nerval, Stendhal, Alfred de
should not be rendered “ après que la perle
Musset, Corneille, and Saint-Simon are to
Bibliography.
des nuits eût glissé dans les profondeurs du
follow shortly in the same series, which will Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la firmament”; hafela is not a helmet, as the
not be completed until next February.
Librairie : TABLE ALPHABÉTIQUE DE translation declares, but the head,
Tarn (Pauline Mary), THE ONE BLACK SWAN,
LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE
FRANCE, in the lexicon which is provided by the
1/ net.
editor.
Constable
ANNÉE 1911.
Why do the notes cease at 1193
These parables are negligible both in
Paris, 117, Boulevard Saint-Germain out of 6358 half-lines ? Schipper's work
matter and treatment. The writer is repe-
has furnished the basis of a treatise on
Pbilosopby.
versification, the best thing in the book.
titive in style, and indulges too much in the Baumann (Julius), NEUES ZU SOKRATES, The author ignores the articles of Luick
affectation of placing nominatives after
verbs.
ARISTOTELES, EURIPIDES, 3m. 50 (Anglia, 11 and 12). In the accidence
Leipsic, Veit Anglian should have been distinguished
Pampblets.
The first two articles are designed as
from West - Saxon forms. Despite its
Eloction (The) of an Irish House of Commons models to show how ancient texts, read blunders, M. Pierquin's work is important
and Sonate, containing an Electoral Map with students, may be handled from a and praiseworthy, We hope to see it in a
and Schedule of Constituencies, 6d. philosophical point of view in accordance rigorously revised edition, the first of many
Dublin, Sealy, Bryers & Walker with modern systems of logic. The first is a coming French scholar's labours on our
Largely owing
to Lord Courtney's vigorous which merely a commentary is supplied,
Book I. of Xenophon's Memorabilia,' to earliest literature.
campaign, the Proportional Representation the reader being supposed to have the text
Fiction.
Society of Ireland has now an influential beside him. The second is Book II. of Cassot, (Cécile), COMÉDIES, GAIES
membership. This pamphlet, in which the
D'AMOUR.
Paris, Daragon
familiar device of the single transferable vote Aristotle's 'Physics,' translated and com-
is advocated, is issued in the hope of pro- is an interesting and stimulating essay on
mented paragraph by paragraph. The third
In spite of their title, there is nothing that
is in any way diverting in these comedies.
moting the chances of a Proportional Repre Euripides's philosophy of life and its relation Not only are they lacking in point and
.
It is clearly demonstrated that a scheme for
to later. Greek thought-or we might better dramatic situation, but also both dialogue
and plot are inconsequential, crude, and
proportional representation could easily be say feeling, for it is rather his general emo-
adapted to the Government's plan for the in question. In the author's view the key: Pylkkanen (Hilma), Saïmi TERVOLA, Zfr. 50,
tional attitude than definite thought that is dull.
arrangement of constituencies.
note Euripides's philosophy would
,
National Women's Social and Political seem to be resignation-especially to the This is a novel which reaches a high
Union : SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT, 1911, facts of change and mortality-together standard,
and is written throughout
3d.
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with sincere feeling expressed lucidly
avails to support courage. The mordant and directly. The heroine, passionately
FOREIGN.
and ironic side of him is here little in evi- devoted to the cause of liberty in Finland,
Tbeology.
dence. The article is illustrated with an finds herself allied to a commonplace hus-
Gormann (Dr. Friedrich), LUKE SHEPHERD, fragments, then from the plays.
unusual fullness of quotation--first from the band incapable of sharing her idealism, and
possessed, further, of atavistic tendencies.
EIN SATIRENDICHTER DER ENGLISCHEN
An estrangement gradually takes place, and
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Augsburg, Lampart Pierquin (Hubert), LE POÈME ANGLO-SAXON & young doctor, a friend of her youth and an
This monograph was the writer's disser- DE BEOWULF: I. INTRODUCTION, LES ardent patriot, returns from abroad. Sym-
tation for the Doctorate of the University SAXONS EN ANGLETERRE ; II. LE POÈME pathy is soon established, leading to a frank
of Erlangen. It is a careful and thorough DE BEOWULF, Texte et Traduction, and open confession to the husband of their
study of a writer who was among the more Notes, Index, &c. , 15fr. Paris, Picard love. A divorce is obtained, and the last
popular of the English satirists of the time Hitherto, French scholars have generally prophetic words of the husband are that
of the Reformation. Of the floods of satirical avoided Old English, and it is there- the wife who has forsaken him will find the
writing which were then poured over the fore with keen interest that have memory of their former love and their child
world-chiefly from the presses of Ger- examined M. Pierquin's 846-page study of irresistibly destructive to future happiness.
many comparatively little has been pre- the ‘Beowulf,' the first published in France The author is to be congratulated on the
served to us; and for the most part the since, in 1877, Botkine gave an elegant but vividness of characterization, and the skill
value of that little is historical, or merely insufficient paraphrase of the poem. We with which the atmosphere is created.
curious, rather than artistic. Luke Shep- acknowledge the author's labour on plan
General.
herd's productions can hardly be accounted and detail; unfortunately, mistakes abound,
an exception. Dr. Germann gives a pre- many being misprints, but others not to Coulevain (Pierre de), ÈVE VICTORIEUSE ;
liminary sketch of Shepherd's predecessors be excused thus.
Hugo (Victor), DIEU; LA FIN DE SATAN,
and contemporaries-Barlow, Bale, Crowley, Part I. shows wide reading and interest and LE ROI S'AMUSE; LUCRÈCE BORGIA ;
Turner (whose botanical work is his more in the subject; a chapter on the March, and Mérimée (Prosper), CHRONIQUE
genial title to fame), and several less pro- for instance, is both sound and brilliant. DU RÈGNE DE CHARLES IX. , Ifr. 25 net
minent satirists; and then discusses Shep- But late Norse mythology is not identical
each.
Paris, Nelson
herd's life and works in general and in detail. with that of the Anglo-Saxons; and M. These four volumes continue Messrs.
Of the latter he prints as an appendix three Pierquin errs frequently-c. g. , in treating Nelson's enterprise of rendering the master-
hitherto unpublished specimens : The Vp the nicor, which in Old English literature pieces of French literature cheap and acces-
cheringe of the Messe, Phylogamus,' and is no water-spirit or fay, but a savage sea- sible to English readers. Dieu' and
'Pathose, or an inward passion of tho pope monster. From the list of English towns 'La Fin de Satan' are two of Hugo's more
for the losse of hys daughter the Masse. Kingston, the place of coronation, is omitted. ambitious poems, and their reputation has
The last does not appear in the list of What Saxon lord's property was surrounded greatly declined since the early nineteenth
Shepherd's works given by Bale in his by walls ?
century. 'Lucrèce Borgia,' a play which
*Index Britanniæ Scriptorum, and the Now for the text. It was a retrogression to heaps unnatural crimes upon the hapless
author devotes some pages to justifying the print it in half-lines—at least it should have daughter of Alexander VI. , is in all pro-
attribution. An interesting section is that been numbered in whole verses ; and the bability & false estimate. The other two
on the influence on the English of German Ms. has been followed in many of its scribal volumes are invaluable to the student of
satire of the period.
blunders and contractions where it was an
French literature.
we
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THE ATHENÆUM
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Society in 1880 until 1894, and he continued granting of the licentia before 1214, and
constant in attendance at its meetings until therefore it is idle to speculate as to how
PROF. VERRALL,
a few months before his death. Though it might have been conferred. All we know
a recluse in his habits so far as general is that the ordinary machinery of the
THOUGH Prof. Verrall had for some time
society was concerned, he was always studium generale came into being in 1214.
been crippled and enfeebled, the news of delighted to meet and extend his hospitality
his death will come as a severe shock to a
to philosophical students, and many memor.
In any case, even if your reviewer should
host of pupils and friends inside and outside
able gatherings took place in his rooms in
hold Dr. Rashdall's opinion, I cannot see
Cambridge. His appointment to the new
Conduit Street. His philosophy never gained any justification for his labelling my opinion
Cambridge chair of English last year was a
inaccuracy. "
the popularity and recognition he ardently
He might have said
surprise to many, but welcome to those longed for, but it received grateful acknow- how he could have done even this in face of
my view was not generally held, though
who knew his capabilities.
ledgment from his philosophical contem.
Denifle I do not see.
Taking the Classical Tripos in a year so poraries, notably from the late Prof. William argued at length, but I hope I have said
The case might be
exceptional that three Chancellor's Medals James.
sufficient to show that the word
were awarded, he became a Fellow of Trinity
in 1874,
and joined the staff of the College and his reading covered the whole range of
Mr. Hodgson was a great classical scholar, accuracy ” cannot be fairly used here.
three years later. As a tutor he was full of
E. O'NEILL.
kindness and attention for all his pupils. The close of his British Academy paper is
philosophical literature, ancient and modern.
As a lecturer and teacher of classical com-
a profound analysis of Plato's argument in substitution of
*** I regret sincerely my unintentional
position he provided to a high degree the Parmenides," with which he held his readable,” and add on the main question at
very
for especially
stimulus and delight, merits which were,
own theory to be identical. Yet very little issue a few words in reply. The author,
and are, by no means characteristic of some
of his work was taken up with direct criticism after remarking on the activity of Oxford
well-known scholars. His original and ex-
of past or contemporary theory. His own schools since the days of Henry II. ,
ploring mind excluded dullness.
A guess
writes,
by the half-instructed became in his hands method by which he could survey the whole of no special knowledge,
philosophy was not a system, but rather a
in a book designed, I presume, for readers
a fascinating and persuasive probability: field of human experience, the emotions
“ In 1214 the
His edition of the Medea' strayed far which form the basis of religion no less than model of Paris.