impression alike by his
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and his
The promoters of the “ Home Uni.
The promoters of the “ Home Uni.
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Katharine), The Coping Stone, 3/6
readings of the fourteen editions published
story the author takes us to a fashionable
between 1593 and 1674, set out with all the
Beard (Charles A. ) and Shultz (Birl E. ), Docu-
gambling place not far from Paris, where we ments on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum
care we expected of the distinguished editor.
find a pretty English widow, her friend, a
The print is good, but the book is somewhat
and Recall, 8/6 net.
Polish lady
jwith a passion for play, a French
bulky.
This volume is rather a defence, by implica-
count with the same failing, and a double tion and by the precedent of actual adoption,
Pamphlets.
allowance of villains. A suggestion of the of the legislative system of initiative and Eccles (Caroline A. ), of the Emancipation of
supernatural serves to heighten the interest, referendum, than propagandist advocacy. It is Women, 3d. net.
and the story goes with a swing to a well- in the nature of a compilation of the machinery An able and modest thesis, predicting the
managed dénouement.
of constitutional provisions in force or pend- moral and spiritual exfoliation of woman,
Marchmont (Arthur W. ), The Ruby Heart of ing experiment in a large number of the as Whitman calls it, into equality with man as
Kishgar, 6/
States of the Union. It contains, in addition, a development of her representation in the
This tale hangs upon the fortunes of a much documentary material, official statistics, government of the State. It incidentally
wonderful jewel, stolen originally from a temple and many instructive adjudications revolving urges those who are devoted to the cause to
in Asia. The usual association of devotees round the municipal referendum. Without eschew militant methods and set their faces
is formed, bound to recover it on pain of death. dogmatizing, the authors contend that repre- against the cult of sex antagonism.
The exciting events of their search, together sentative government is being displaced by this Fedden (Marguerite), How to do the Weekly
with the machinations of a Russian count and more immediate form of legislation. We doubt Mending ; How to do your Own Upholstery
a strong love-interest, should satisfy the lover whether their insistence on the permanency of and Machining; and How to do the Weekly
of sensational fiction.
the new method can be substantiated, until Wash, ld. each.
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The 400 odd pages teem with adventure, cess of time. They deal comprehensively with the auspices of the Women's Industrial Council.
conspiracy, and love-making. The scene is the safeguard of recall, and altogether give They are terse, and crowded with useful matter.
laid on both sides of the Channel in the time
us a useful book.
They have already had an exceptionally large
of Charles II. , and the story swings along gaily,
Bruce (Sir Charles), The True Temper of Empire, sale, and should be instrumental in checking
even if some of the incidents are a little far- with Corollary Essays, 5/ net.
waste and lack of method.
fetched.
The author regards these essays as a vindica- Machell (Percy), * What is my Country? My,
Stone (Christopher), The Shoe of a Horse, 6/
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Scarcely a week passes without a romance tion of the King-Emperor when he transferred Impressions of Canada and the New North-
in the Ruritanian key. At rare intervals the the seat of government from Calcutta to Delhi. West, 3d.
old theme is harmonized in a superior manner, This he looks upon as a recognition that the A rambling, flamboyant pamphlet, flavoured
as on this occasion. Within Clearly defined supreme function of Imperial statesmanship with rhetorical allusions to “ Limehouse,
limits the author successfully blends the flavour is to convert the spirit of nationality, with its
concerning the unplumbed possibilities of
of a military campaign, eliminating all that is pride of national traditions, from a separating Canada, if she will but do what the author
not for folk to read about in their
comfortable to a connecting force.
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Ponsonby (Arthur), Democracy and the Control | Pellissier (Georges), Le Réalisme du Romantisme, The Japanese books of the late
of Foreign Affairs, 3d. net.
3fr. 50.
Mr. Ponsonby's pamphlet is terse and For notice see p. 157.
W. G. Aston, a distinguished authority
effective. His argument binds up the shreds Fua (Albert), Le Comité Union et Progres contre on the history, religion, language, and
and tatters of criticism that have been levelled la Constitution, 2fr.
literature of Japan, have been acquired
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ment's foreign policy into an effective and to unmask the illiberal activities of members
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unified whole. He recapitulates the history of of a party heralded as saviours of the Ottoman There are over 1,900 works in about
the crystallization of the French entente into an empire. For many years, co-editor of the 9,500 volumes; and they represent every
alliance, the crisis of last summer, the Tripoli Mechveret, ex-editor of the Constantinople
expedition, and the Anglo-Russian ement. Indépendant, and lawyer, the uthor, in his kind of literature : classics, Shinto, fiction,
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Concert of Europe. All these strands he threads accompanies transference from opposition to
&c. Most of them are in the old block-
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violence of language, and with a certain as does M. Fua in a foot-note, a conversation be obtained, even in Japan. The Uni-
stately indignation that compels respect.
without witnesses on the morrow of a banquet ;
Public Utility of Museums : Copy of Letters and the challenge of open
criticism and the appeal versity Library, as is well known, already
Leading Articles in The Times and Other to the people to watch the actions of their contains the magnificent Chinese collection
Papers.
representatives are much more to the point.
Russell (George W. ), Co-operation and Nation-
presented by the late Sir Thomas Wade,
ality : a Guide for Rural Reformers from Au books received at the Ofice up to Wednesday which has been notably augmented by
this to the Next Generation, 1/ net.
Morning will be included in this List unless Prof. H. A. Giles; but of Japanese
A most interesting pamphlet, epitomizing previously noted. Publishers are requested
the operation and influence of the Irish Agri-
to state prices when sending books.
literature it has hitherto possessed nothing,
cultural Organization Society, which has done
so that by this accession an important
much to redeem Irish agriculture from the
lacuna is at least partially filled.
despair of opposition and unproductiveness.
It deals with the unfolding of more favourable
conditions for co-operation; the weaving of a
Ar the Annual General Meeting of the
new social fabric through the instrumentality
International Association of Antiquarian
of co-organized effort; its reaction upon
politics ; the status of women on the land ; THE recent death of Mr. Alfred Tennyson increase in the membership for 1911 was
Booksellers, on January 26th, a further
the ideals of the New Rural Society, and the
like the writing shows force, compactness, Dickens has led to the postponement of increase in the membership for 1911 was
and lucidity
some of the more convivial Dickens cele- reported. Mr. B. H. Blackwell of Oxford
was elected
brations, but we are glad to notice that Mr. F. Karslake was re-elected Hon.
President for 1912, and
FOREIGN.
it has not been allowed to interfere with
Secretary.
Music.
the work of charity which is so apt to the
Wyzewa (T. de) et Saint-Foix (G. de), W. -A. | occasion. These practical tributes to
Mozart, sa Vie musicale et son Euvre de the spirit of Dickens will add point to
The late John Bigelow, whose 'Retro-
l'Enfance à la pleine Maturité (1756–77):
spections of
Active Life' was
1. L'Enfant Prodige ; II. Le Jeune Maitre, the commemorations which took place in
in three volumes in 1910,
25fr.
Westminster Abbey and Rochester Cathe- published in
For notice see p. 171.
has left material for further volumes,
dral last Wednesday.
which will be prepared for press by his
Philosophy.
Brentano (Franz), Aristoteles Lehre vom Ursprung
The wide world of books and letters son, Major Bigelow.
des menschlichen Geistes.
was shocked by the news of the serious
This is a polemical work, in which the author illness of Mr. John Murray, which, coming
ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISM,' by
maintains that Aristotle believed the soul to
be implanted severally in each individual man
as it did in the midst of his many activities, William James, which we expect from
argues that Aristotle taught the pre-existence kept distressing knowledge from his twelve of Prof. James's philosophical
by a direct act of God, as against Zeller, who suggests that a kindly forethought had Messrs. Longmans this month, will contain
of the voûs, and its handing on from generation
to generation. Part I. is a reprint, somewhat
numerous friends. Anxiety is somewhat essays, collected and edited by Prof.
enlarged, but not essentially altered, of a paper allayed by the tidings of a successful Ralph Barton Perry. The book is de-
contributed in 1882 to the Vienna Academy operation, but the distinguished patient signed to carry out a plan which Prof.
, the
by Zeller; and Part II. takes up point by danger.
theory under six headings. This was attacked is, we regret to hear, not yet out of James himself projected several years
before his death. With one exception
point Zeller's objections, and, not without
these essays were written within a period
some heat, provides each with its refutation. · ACROSS AUSTRALLA,' which Messrs. of two years, and constitute a consecutive
Geography and Travel.
Macmillan are publishing for Mr. Baldwin and orderly exposition of a doctrine which
Hugo (Victor), Le Rhin : Lettres à un ami, 2 vols. , Spencer and Mr. F. J. Gillen, is a popular the author regarded as of more funda-
1fr. 25 net each.
This is a record of some months of wandering, the authors famous among anthropologists.
account of the travels which have made mental importance than his widely known
but the aim of the publication was originally. Some of the
illustrations which appeared the controversy over pragmatism, James
pragmatism. " In 1909, referring to
. to deliver
himself of his views on the vexed question of in their two earlier books will be repro- wrote :-
the Rhine, as well as on England and Russia :
the letters were to serve as a point d'appui duced, and there will be a good deal of
to prove that he possessed a sufficiency of description and anecdote which was not
“I am interested in another doctrine in
knowledge and sympathy. There
are fine
suitable for a scientific public.
pages in them, with all the magnificent enu-
An
philosophy, to which I give the name of
Radical Empiricism, and it seems to me
merations that one would expect, and the full account will be included of the little-
that the establishment of the pragmatic
magnificent egoism. On scenes and personages known Northern Territory, which is about theory of truth is a step of first-rate import;
holds its own ; but the politics, where they are
to be opened up by the Commonwealth. ance in making Radical Empiricism prevail. ”
not musty, now appear comic.
The same publishers are bringing out The volume will expound the “Radical
Fiction.
* The Verse of Greek Comedy, by Dr. Empiricism ”here referred to.
* '
Tolstoï (Léon), Hadji Mourad, et autres Contes, John Williams White. It presents a
traduits par J. W. Bienstock, lfr. 25 net.
Part of the Collection Nelson. For notice systematic study of the metres of
The same firm will shortly publish
of the English translation see Athen. of Jan. 27, | Aristophanes.
"An Introduction to Experimental Edu-
The
Next week Mr. Martin Secker will pub- book is based on E. Meumann's 'Vorle-
cation,' by Dr. R. R. Rusk.
General Literature.
Mècheroutiette, “ Constitutionnel Ottoman,"
lish for Laurence North · The Golightlys: sungen zur Einführung in die experimen-
Organe du Parti Radical Ottoman, Janvier, 50c. Father and Son. The novel, though it
To the general reader the most interesting displays the author's pleasant gift of
telle Paädgogik,' special emphasis being
items in this number will probably be the banter, here directed against commer-
throughout laid on the results of English
the criminal court concerning the murder of the cialism, has also a serious side.
investigations.
journalist Zeki Bey; the Correspondance de
Constantinople, and the letter of the editor, Mr. Secker is also publishing. The Out- MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER, who acted
Chérif Pacha, to Said Pacha. The hostility ward Appearance,' a novel of the middle
of the review to the “ Comité Union et Progrès
as publishers to Browning and Words-
is so ferocious as in some degree to defeat its
of the eighties of last century, by the worth, are to publish all the papers read
own end,
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edition of Mr. George Eliot's wit and gaiety in her
ing Centenary on May 7th, with an account Michael McCarthy's 'Priests and People youthful Coventry days.
of the Centenary Celebration, edited by in Ireland,' unabridged and in clear type,
Prof. Knight.
has just been issued at a shilling by the ist inst. , of Brigade-Surgeon Henry
We notice the death in London, on
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
NUMEROUS inquiries have been received
Elmsley Busteed, in his 80th year. At
by Mr. Murray as to the second volume MESSRS. CHATTO & WINDUS will publish one time Assay - Master of H. M. 's Mint,
of Mgr. Duchesne's “Early History of on the 15th inst. a new volume of stories Calcutta, he became considerable
the Christian Church,' which will certainly by Miss Netta Syrett, entitled ' The End authority on Anglo-Indian history. His
be published during the spring season, less Journey. '
historical notes, which were published as
interest being doubtless enhanced by the
· Echoes of Old Calcutta,' were warmly
Ultramontane policy recently adopted to-
For her forthcoming volume Mrs. Camp. received, and a second edition, greatly
wards the work by the Vatican.
bell Praed has gone to the regions of the enlarged, was issued in 1888.
psychic world. The story, which is en-
THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK has written titled 'The Body of his Desire,' deals with
“
The death on Sunday last of Mr. Hugh
a volume on William Morris. It will be the conflict in the soul of a popular Mackenzie Mackintosh, at the age of
published immediately by Messrs. Jack London revivalist preacher, and exhibits 56, removes a notable figure in the
as one of the “ Pilgrim Books,” and will the mental struggle which he undergoes world of journalism. Mr. Mackintosh
be illustrated with crayon drawings by A. in warding off the occult dangers of had been manager of the Standard news-
Forestier.
psychical science. Messrs. Cassell will
papers for seven years, and made a marked
publish the book on the 15th inst.
impression alike by his geniality and his
The promoters of the “ Home Uni.
On the same day the same house keen business powers. Twenty years ago
versity Library,” published by Messrs. will issue National Ideals and Race he was the inspiring centre, and, in a sense,
Williams & Norgate, are showing enterprise Regeneration,' by the Rev. R. F. Horton; the patron, of a considerable literary and
in many directions. We notice that the and Womanhood and Race Regenera- journalistic circle in Dublin, and since
following books are in preparation : 'Prac-
tical Idealism,' by Mr. Maurice Hewlett;
tion,' by Mary Scharlieb. Both of these that time his varied and interesting career
'
* The Civil Service,' by Mr. Graham publications belong to the “ New Tracts had included the successful establishment,
Wallas; “Missions,' by Mrs. Creighton ;
for the Times ” Series.
as well as the management, of a number of
journals in Scotland and other parts of
and English Village Life,' by Mr. E. N. * THE HOUSE OF Windows' is the title the kingdom. He was undoubtedly a
Bennett.
of a new novel written by a Canadian character, not a creature of the modern
MRS. HAMILTON KING, who has been author, Mrs. Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, machine-made type.
widely known for a generation past as the which the house of Cassell will publish
In the current Mercure de France articles
author of ' The Disciples,' a poem dealing on the 15th inst. The story deals with
with Mazzini and the liberation and unity
a its on Verlaine, Carlyle, and Lamartine are
followed by 'L'Expansion Coloniale et
of Italy, is about to publish, through quent adventures.
Messrs. Longmans & Co. , a
les Lettres Françaises,' in which the
new book,
· Letters and Recollections of Mazzini. ' | Hitchin on Tuesday last, at the age of by the title is examined by M. de Poupour-
WE record with regret the death at recent growth in French literature covered
It is a record of the more intimate side 78, of Mr. Frederic Seebohm. Of Quaker ville. Dismissing drama as an unsuitable
of Mazzini's life during those sad latter stock, he was sufficiently successful as a medium, he proceeds to argue that the
years when his cause was triumphing banker to be able to give much time to novel is the ideal repository for exotic
in the eyes of his friends, but not in his literature and education. In the latter annals and arts, which are the more
own. Some of his most characteristic his work for his district was notable, endangered as their natural custodians
letters will be included, also a description while the distinction of his literary come in contact with Western civilization.
of his last imprisonment at Gaeta, and studies was recognized by a Doctor's The gift for catching that subtle thing,
his death at Pisa, by the women who degree from Oxford, Cambridge, and the spirit of an alien race, is, he thinks,
witnessed these closing scenes.
Edinburgh.
peculiarly the possession of his own
The story of the sensitive intimacy
His book on 'The English Village nation. He is disdainfully familiar with
of a dog with his master is told by Major Community' is a classic of the subject, the author of 'Kim, but shows no
'
Gambier Parry in ‘Murphy: a Message and was followed by monographs on · The sign of acquaintance with “ John Bull's
to Dog-Lovers, which will be published Tribal System in Wales and
Tribal Other Island. Besides the usual review
by Messrs. Smith & Elder, with two illus- Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law,' which, of French and foreign literature, the
trations, in the course of the present reaching more debatable conclusions, are number includes a reasoned plea for the
month.
yet remarkable examples of pioneer work. abolition of graphology for evidential
Mr. Seebohm also wrote * The purposes.
MGR. BARNES is bringing out through Oxford Reformers, Colet, Erasmus, and FRIEDRICH STEPHAN, whose death in
same firm
and cheaper More,' and a little book on · The Era of
edition of his 'Man of the Mask. ' the Protestant Revolution. '
his 82nd year is announced from Berlin,
In this he embodies the corrections
was a student of philology, but in 1864
rendered necessary by the discovery
By the death, on the 1st inst. at Leam- turned to journalism, and in 1870 joine
made two years ago by himself in con- ington, of Mrs. Anna Sibree in her 89th of which he was chief editor for twenty
the editorial staff of the Vossische Zeitung,
junction with Mr. Andrew Lang. The year there passes away one of the last
identification of the “Man in the Iron survivors of the coterie of Coventry years, from 1880 till his resignation in
1900.
Mask” concerns a priest, and probably a intellectuals gathered round Charles and
Jesuit ; but it can no longer be claimed Caroline Bray and Sara Hennell, who We have to announce the death at the
that he was a son of Charles II.
exercised such an influence over George age of 55 of the Danish author Herman
Eliot in the days of her early womanhood. Bang, on January 29th, while on a lectur-
Those who are taking part in the Anti- Mrs. Sibree, who came of the Quaker ing tour in the United States. As author,
Home Rule Campaign will welcome a family of Cash, married the late John reciter, journalist, and stage manager,
volume to be published by Messrs. Rout Sibree, translator of Hegel, friend and Bang made a name for himself both in
ledge & Sons, containing selections from correspondent of George Eliot, son of the the Scandinavian countries and in Ger-
the speeches delivered by Mr. Balfour author of the History of Independency many. Among his more prominent works
during the Home Rule crisis of 1893, to- in Warwickshire,' and nephew of the Rev. were Tine' (reminiscences from his
gether with his address to the Noncon- Peter Sibree, who married Patrick Brontë's childhood during the war in Sleswick,
formist Unionist Association on November early love. Mrs. Sibree still retained at 1864), "Stucco, By the Roadside,' and
6th last.
her advanced age pleasant memories of ! . Those without a Fatherland. '
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author's preparations, that the nerve fibres of but the case is found to be otherwise with the
the dental pulp do not terminate, as considered allied variety, the so-called applied
" brooch.
SCIENCE
by most histologists, at the pulp margin, but that, Granted that the history of the West Saxons as
although they here form a narrow plexus, fine recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' even
neurofibrils pass out from it in great abundance approximates to the truth, statistics of the dis-
and enter the dentinal tubes, traversing the den- tribution of the saucer brooch in its wider sense
WITHIN the last few years the University
tine in intimate association with the dentinal show that it is as well represented to the east of
fibrils to the inner margin of the enamel and Bedford as further west, but that here the applied
of Chicago has acquired a remarkable collec. cementum.
type predominates. Moreover, an investigation
tion of amphibian and reptilian remains A paper on ' A Method for Isolating and Culti- of the decorative motives employed on these
from the Permian deposits of Northern vating the Mycobacterium enteritidis chronicæ brooches, while it casts some suspicion on the
accuracy of the Chronicle, proves that these
Texas and New Mexico, obtained chiefly pseudo - tuberculosa bovis (Jöhne), and some
Experiments on the Preparation of a Diagnostic brooches were in use as early in what may be
by exploring expeditions sent out by the
Vaccine for Pseudo-tuberculosis of Bovines,' by termed the Eastern as contrasted with the Western
University. These fossils have been the Messrs. F. W. Twort and G. L. Y. Ingram, was area. In the latter a predominance of geometric
subject of patient investigation by Prof. communicated by Mr. Leonard Hill. In 1910 designs points to the survival of Romano-British
Samuel W. Williston, who has also studied the authors demonstrated the possibility of obtain- motives, while in the former the true Teutonic
ornamental system, namely, the zoomorphic,
the typical collection of Permian vertebrates ing a pure growth of Jöhne's bacillus on a medium
containing the powdered substance of the dead prevails. At the end of the sixth century influ-
from New Mexico preserved in the museum human tubercle bacillus. This medium was sug- ences from Kent are observable in both areas in
at Yale. In American Permian Vertebrates gested by the possibility that previous failures the decoration of these brooches.
(University of Chicago; London, Cam- in attempts to cultivate the micro-organism of Although the evidence is slight, there appears
bridge University Press) he describes in
Jöhne's disease had resulted from an inability to be insufficient reason for regarding these
on the part of the bacillus to build up some brooches as in any way different from other
detail many of the forms which are either
necessary portion of its food material, and that Teutonic types by holding that their develop-
new to science or but little known. The this might be supplied ready formed in the bodies ment took place entirely in England. The germ
paleontologist will welcome the work as a of the dead tubercle bacilli. During the past of the form is probably traceable in North Ger-
solid contribution to our knowledge of year, they have tested the growth of Jöhne's many, proof of which is forthcoming in the
a fauna which is of exceptional interest to
bacillus on media modified by substituting 1 per occurrence of a few examples there.
cent of other dead acid-fast bacilli in place of
the student of evolution, inasmuch as it human tubercle bacilli. They have experimented duced into England by more than one route,
The knowledge of the type was evidently intro-
includes forms that help to bridge over some with seventeen varieties, and have obtained chiefly up the Thames valley, and along the Ouse
of the differences between reptiles and positive results with a large number, but negative and Cam from the Wash.
amphibians. The author, in describing the results with others, including the bovine tubercle Mr. Leeds also read paper on The Excava-
remarkable cotylosaurian reptile Şeymouria, hitherto unrecognized difference between the Peterborough, in which an account was given
tion of a Round Tumulus at Eyebury, near
raises his voice against the conclusion that human and bovine types of tubercle bacilli. They of the excavation of a tumulus situated on the
many of the resemblances are due to here- have also succeeded in extracting, by means of gravel close to the edge of the Fens, some three
dity rather than to adaptation to environ- hot ethyl alcohol and other solvents, the essential miles north-west of Peterborough. Owing to
ment, but he is laudably self-restrained in substance (existing in the various acid - fast cultivation, its original size is uncertain ; at
discussing morphological problems, and is bacilli, which is needed by Jöhne's bacillus for present it is some 40 yards in diameter' and
its vitality and growth.
5 ft. in height at the centre. Operations carried
anxious to secure more facts before indulging A paper on the Fossil Flora of the Forest of on at two different dates proved the presence
in much speculation as to the phylogeny of Dean Coalfield (Gloucestershire) and the Relation of remains of a large fire (perhaps funereal) above
these early land vertebrates. It is matter ship of the Coalfields of the West of England and the grave, which was sunk 1 ft. into the gravel.
In it was found the contracted skeleton of an
for satisfaction to learn that Prof. Williston, South Wales,' by Mr. E. A, N. Arber, was com-
while continuing his valuable work on the
municated by Prof. T. McKenny Hughes. adult man, accompanied only by two flint
A paper on Simultaneous Colour Contrast,' by scrapers. A small Bronze Age food-vessel was
Texas deposits and their fossils, intends to Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, was communicated by discovered in the side of the tumulus. In view
explore, in conjunction with Prof. Case, the Prof. E. Starling.
of another rich burial of a similar character and
fossil-bearing Permian beds of New Mexico, 1. The colours and changes of colour which are Mr. Abbott's discoveries at Fengate, Peter
with the view of obtaining further material to the exaggerated perception of objective
relative belongs to the earlicst period of the Bronze Are
seen on simultaneous contrast appear to be due borough, it is suggested that the interment
for the study of their remarkable fauna.
difference of the contrasted lights. Whilst all
The frontispiece reproduces photographs the known contrast phenomena are easily explic- work it is perhaps permissible to trace part of
of two mounted skeletons of new_species able on this view, there are many facts which are the limits of a game-park enclosed by Godfrey of
of theromorph reptiles from the Permian opposed to the older theories. For instance, Croyland, Abbot of Peterborough 1200–1321.
strata of Texas, fully described under the spectral yellow or pigment yellow contrasted
with green does not appear red when seen through
names Varanosaurus brevirostris and Casea
a blue-green glass which is impervious to the red
broilii. The work is further illustrated by rays.
LINNEAN. -Feb. 1. -Prof. E. B. Poulton, Vice-
numerous plates and text-figures, mostly
2. A certain difference of wave-length is neces. President, in the chair. -Dr. R. Vincent was
from the author's own drawings.
sary before simultaneous contrast produces any admitted a Fellow.
effect. This varies with different colours.
The five following papers, relating to the fauna
3. A change of intensity of one colour may of the Seychelles and other islands of the Indian
make evident a difference which is not perceptible Ocean, were communicated by Prof. J. Stanley
when both colours are of the same luminosity. Gardiner : * Fourmis des Seychelles et des
SOCIETIES
4. Simultaneous contrast may cause the ap- Aldabras, reçues de M. Hugh Scott,' by M. A.
ROYAL. -Feb. 1. -Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
pearance of a colour which is not perceptible Forel; Tipulidæ,' by Mr. F. W. Edwards ;
without comparison.
* Sciaridæ,' by Dr. Günther Enderlein; 'The
dent, in the chair.
Mr. Arthur Harden and Dorothy Norris read contrast, each colour appearing as if moved further
5. Both colours may be affected by simultaneous Ichneumonide,' by Mr. Claude Morley; and
New Fishes,' by Mr. C. Tate Regan. The
paper * The Bacterial Production of from the other in the spectral range.
Chairman, Prof. Dendy, the Rev. T. R. R.
Acetylmethylcarbinol and 2-3-Butylene Glycol 6. Only one colour may be affected by simul- Stebbing, and Prof. W. A. Herdman contributed
from various Substances. ' B. lactis aërogenes taneous contrast, as when a colour of low satura- some remarks on the value and importance
and B. cloacæ, when grown in a peptone solu- tion is compared with white.
of the results thus briefly summarized.
tion containing. glucose, lævulose, mannose, 7. When a false estimation of the saturation or The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen exhibited a snail
galactose, arabinose, isodulcite, or adonitol, hue of a colour has been made, the contrast colour found by him at Porto Pi, near Palma, Mallorca,
produce both acetylmethylcarbinol and 2:3-
butylene glycol. Glycerol, ethylene glycol, and
is considered in relation to this false estimation; in March, 1909. Its shell puzzled him, because
acetaldehyde under similar conditions also give deducted from (or added to) both.
that is to say, the missing (or added) colour is it had composite characters allying it on the one
hand to Helix aspersa, O. F. Müll. , and on the
rise to butylene glycol in presence of B. lactis 8. A complementary contrast colour sensation other to Otala vermiculata, 0. F. Müll. , both
aërogenes, but no acetylmethylcarbinol is produced, does not appear in the absence of objective light common Lusitanian forms. The Rev. E. H.
In these three cases a carbon synthesis is involved of that colour.
Bowell, having examined the anatomy of the
analogous to that which occurs in the butyric
fermentation of glycerol and lactic acid. The tributed a paper on 'Studies on Enzyme Action :
Prof.
readings of the fourteen editions published
story the author takes us to a fashionable
between 1593 and 1674, set out with all the
Beard (Charles A. ) and Shultz (Birl E. ), Docu-
gambling place not far from Paris, where we ments on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum
care we expected of the distinguished editor.
find a pretty English widow, her friend, a
The print is good, but the book is somewhat
and Recall, 8/6 net.
Polish lady
jwith a passion for play, a French
bulky.
This volume is rather a defence, by implica-
count with the same failing, and a double tion and by the precedent of actual adoption,
Pamphlets.
allowance of villains. A suggestion of the of the legislative system of initiative and Eccles (Caroline A. ), of the Emancipation of
supernatural serves to heighten the interest, referendum, than propagandist advocacy. It is Women, 3d. net.
and the story goes with a swing to a well- in the nature of a compilation of the machinery An able and modest thesis, predicting the
managed dénouement.
of constitutional provisions in force or pend- moral and spiritual exfoliation of woman,
Marchmont (Arthur W. ), The Ruby Heart of ing experiment in a large number of the as Whitman calls it, into equality with man as
Kishgar, 6/
States of the Union. It contains, in addition, a development of her representation in the
This tale hangs upon the fortunes of a much documentary material, official statistics, government of the State. It incidentally
wonderful jewel, stolen originally from a temple and many instructive adjudications revolving urges those who are devoted to the cause to
in Asia. The usual association of devotees round the municipal referendum. Without eschew militant methods and set their faces
is formed, bound to recover it on pain of death. dogmatizing, the authors contend that repre- against the cult of sex antagonism.
The exciting events of their search, together sentative government is being displaced by this Fedden (Marguerite), How to do the Weekly
with the machinations of a Russian count and more immediate form of legislation. We doubt Mending ; How to do your Own Upholstery
a strong love-interest, should satisfy the lover whether their insistence on the permanency of and Machining; and How to do the Weekly
of sensational fiction.
the new method can be substantiated, until Wash, ld. each.
Orczy (Baroness), Fire in Stubble, 6/
it has been tested more adequately by the pro- Three very serviceable leaflets issued under
The 400 odd pages teem with adventure, cess of time. They deal comprehensively with the auspices of the Women's Industrial Council.
conspiracy, and love-making. The scene is the safeguard of recall, and altogether give They are terse, and crowded with useful matter.
laid on both sides of the Channel in the time
us a useful book.
They have already had an exceptionally large
of Charles II. , and the story swings along gaily,
Bruce (Sir Charles), The True Temper of Empire, sale, and should be instrumental in checking
even if some of the incidents are a little far- with Corollary Essays, 5/ net.
waste and lack of method.
fetched.
The author regards these essays as a vindica- Machell (Percy), * What is my Country? My,
Stone (Christopher), The Shoe of a Horse, 6/
tion of the principle underlying the Proclama- Country is the Empire. Canada is my Home,
Scarcely a week passes without a romance tion of the King-Emperor when he transferred Impressions of Canada and the New North-
in the Ruritanian key. At rare intervals the the seat of government from Calcutta to Delhi. West, 3d.
old theme is harmonized in a superior manner, This he looks upon as a recognition that the A rambling, flamboyant pamphlet, flavoured
as on this occasion. Within Clearly defined supreme function of Imperial statesmanship with rhetorical allusions to “ Limehouse,
limits the author successfully blends the flavour is to convert the spirit of nationality, with its
concerning the unplumbed possibilities of
of a military campaign, eliminating all that is pride of national traditions, from a separating Canada, if she will but do what the author
not for folk to read about in their
comfortable to a connecting force.
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Ponsonby (Arthur), Democracy and the Control | Pellissier (Georges), Le Réalisme du Romantisme, The Japanese books of the late
of Foreign Affairs, 3d. net.
3fr. 50.
Mr. Ponsonby's pamphlet is terse and For notice see p. 157.
W. G. Aston, a distinguished authority
effective. His argument binds up the shreds Fua (Albert), Le Comité Union et Progres contre on the history, religion, language, and
and tatters of criticism that have been levelled la Constitution, 2fr.
literature of Japan, have been acquired
against the anti-German trend of the Govern- This is the first of a series which purports
ment's foreign policy into an effective and to unmask the illiberal activities of members
for the University Library, Cambridge.
unified whole. He recapitulates the history of of a party heralded as saviours of the Ottoman There are over 1,900 works in about
the crystallization of the French entente into an empire. For many years, co-editor of the 9,500 volumes; and they represent every
alliance, the crisis of last summer, the Tripoli Mechveret, ex-editor of the Constantinople
expedition, and the Anglo-Russian ement. Indépendant, and lawyer, the uthor, in his kind of literature : classics, Shinto, fiction,
He throws into clear perspective the conflicting strictures, only tends to prove that in Turkey history, poetry, the drama, topography,
policies of the Balance of Power and the as elsewhere a metamorphosis of word and deed
Concert of Europe. All these strands he threads accompanies transference from opposition to
&c. Most of them are in the old block-
into the fabric of his contention without power. It weakens any argument to repeat, printed editions, which can now hardly
violence of language, and with a certain as does M. Fua in a foot-note, a conversation be obtained, even in Japan. The Uni-
stately indignation that compels respect.
without witnesses on the morrow of a banquet ;
Public Utility of Museums : Copy of Letters and the challenge of open
criticism and the appeal versity Library, as is well known, already
Leading Articles in The Times and Other to the people to watch the actions of their contains the magnificent Chinese collection
Papers.
representatives are much more to the point.
Russell (George W. ), Co-operation and Nation-
presented by the late Sir Thomas Wade,
ality : a Guide for Rural Reformers from Au books received at the Ofice up to Wednesday which has been notably augmented by
this to the Next Generation, 1/ net.
Morning will be included in this List unless Prof. H. A. Giles; but of Japanese
A most interesting pamphlet, epitomizing previously noted. Publishers are requested
the operation and influence of the Irish Agri-
to state prices when sending books.
literature it has hitherto possessed nothing,
cultural Organization Society, which has done
so that by this accession an important
much to redeem Irish agriculture from the
lacuna is at least partially filled.
despair of opposition and unproductiveness.
It deals with the unfolding of more favourable
conditions for co-operation; the weaving of a
Ar the Annual General Meeting of the
new social fabric through the instrumentality
International Association of Antiquarian
of co-organized effort; its reaction upon
politics ; the status of women on the land ; THE recent death of Mr. Alfred Tennyson increase in the membership for 1911 was
Booksellers, on January 26th, a further
the ideals of the New Rural Society, and the
like the writing shows force, compactness, Dickens has led to the postponement of increase in the membership for 1911 was
and lucidity
some of the more convivial Dickens cele- reported. Mr. B. H. Blackwell of Oxford
was elected
brations, but we are glad to notice that Mr. F. Karslake was re-elected Hon.
President for 1912, and
FOREIGN.
it has not been allowed to interfere with
Secretary.
Music.
the work of charity which is so apt to the
Wyzewa (T. de) et Saint-Foix (G. de), W. -A. | occasion. These practical tributes to
Mozart, sa Vie musicale et son Euvre de the spirit of Dickens will add point to
The late John Bigelow, whose 'Retro-
l'Enfance à la pleine Maturité (1756–77):
spections of
Active Life' was
1. L'Enfant Prodige ; II. Le Jeune Maitre, the commemorations which took place in
in three volumes in 1910,
25fr.
Westminster Abbey and Rochester Cathe- published in
For notice see p. 171.
has left material for further volumes,
dral last Wednesday.
which will be prepared for press by his
Philosophy.
Brentano (Franz), Aristoteles Lehre vom Ursprung
The wide world of books and letters son, Major Bigelow.
des menschlichen Geistes.
was shocked by the news of the serious
This is a polemical work, in which the author illness of Mr. John Murray, which, coming
ESSAYS IN RADICAL EMPIRICISM,' by
maintains that Aristotle believed the soul to
be implanted severally in each individual man
as it did in the midst of his many activities, William James, which we expect from
argues that Aristotle taught the pre-existence kept distressing knowledge from his twelve of Prof. James's philosophical
by a direct act of God, as against Zeller, who suggests that a kindly forethought had Messrs. Longmans this month, will contain
of the voûs, and its handing on from generation
to generation. Part I. is a reprint, somewhat
numerous friends. Anxiety is somewhat essays, collected and edited by Prof.
enlarged, but not essentially altered, of a paper allayed by the tidings of a successful Ralph Barton Perry. The book is de-
contributed in 1882 to the Vienna Academy operation, but the distinguished patient signed to carry out a plan which Prof.
, the
by Zeller; and Part II. takes up point by danger.
theory under six headings. This was attacked is, we regret to hear, not yet out of James himself projected several years
before his death. With one exception
point Zeller's objections, and, not without
these essays were written within a period
some heat, provides each with its refutation. · ACROSS AUSTRALLA,' which Messrs. of two years, and constitute a consecutive
Geography and Travel.
Macmillan are publishing for Mr. Baldwin and orderly exposition of a doctrine which
Hugo (Victor), Le Rhin : Lettres à un ami, 2 vols. , Spencer and Mr. F. J. Gillen, is a popular the author regarded as of more funda-
1fr. 25 net each.
This is a record of some months of wandering, the authors famous among anthropologists.
account of the travels which have made mental importance than his widely known
but the aim of the publication was originally. Some of the
illustrations which appeared the controversy over pragmatism, James
pragmatism. " In 1909, referring to
. to deliver
himself of his views on the vexed question of in their two earlier books will be repro- wrote :-
the Rhine, as well as on England and Russia :
the letters were to serve as a point d'appui duced, and there will be a good deal of
to prove that he possessed a sufficiency of description and anecdote which was not
“I am interested in another doctrine in
knowledge and sympathy. There
are fine
suitable for a scientific public.
pages in them, with all the magnificent enu-
An
philosophy, to which I give the name of
Radical Empiricism, and it seems to me
merations that one would expect, and the full account will be included of the little-
that the establishment of the pragmatic
magnificent egoism. On scenes and personages known Northern Territory, which is about theory of truth is a step of first-rate import;
holds its own ; but the politics, where they are
to be opened up by the Commonwealth. ance in making Radical Empiricism prevail. ”
not musty, now appear comic.
The same publishers are bringing out The volume will expound the “Radical
Fiction.
* The Verse of Greek Comedy, by Dr. Empiricism ”here referred to.
* '
Tolstoï (Léon), Hadji Mourad, et autres Contes, John Williams White. It presents a
traduits par J. W. Bienstock, lfr. 25 net.
Part of the Collection Nelson. For notice systematic study of the metres of
The same firm will shortly publish
of the English translation see Athen. of Jan. 27, | Aristophanes.
"An Introduction to Experimental Edu-
The
Next week Mr. Martin Secker will pub- book is based on E. Meumann's 'Vorle-
cation,' by Dr. R. R. Rusk.
General Literature.
Mècheroutiette, “ Constitutionnel Ottoman,"
lish for Laurence North · The Golightlys: sungen zur Einführung in die experimen-
Organe du Parti Radical Ottoman, Janvier, 50c. Father and Son. The novel, though it
To the general reader the most interesting displays the author's pleasant gift of
telle Paädgogik,' special emphasis being
items in this number will probably be the banter, here directed against commer-
throughout laid on the results of English
the criminal court concerning the murder of the cialism, has also a serious side.
investigations.
journalist Zeki Bey; the Correspondance de
Constantinople, and the letter of the editor, Mr. Secker is also publishing. The Out- MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER, who acted
Chérif Pacha, to Said Pacha. The hostility ward Appearance,' a novel of the middle
of the review to the “ Comité Union et Progrès
as publishers to Browning and Words-
is so ferocious as in some degree to defeat its
of the eighties of last century, by the worth, are to publish all the papers read
own end,
late Stanley V. Makower.
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edition of Mr. George Eliot's wit and gaiety in her
ing Centenary on May 7th, with an account Michael McCarthy's 'Priests and People youthful Coventry days.
of the Centenary Celebration, edited by in Ireland,' unabridged and in clear type,
Prof. Knight.
has just been issued at a shilling by the ist inst. , of Brigade-Surgeon Henry
We notice the death in London, on
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
NUMEROUS inquiries have been received
Elmsley Busteed, in his 80th year. At
by Mr. Murray as to the second volume MESSRS. CHATTO & WINDUS will publish one time Assay - Master of H. M. 's Mint,
of Mgr. Duchesne's “Early History of on the 15th inst. a new volume of stories Calcutta, he became considerable
the Christian Church,' which will certainly by Miss Netta Syrett, entitled ' The End authority on Anglo-Indian history. His
be published during the spring season, less Journey. '
historical notes, which were published as
interest being doubtless enhanced by the
· Echoes of Old Calcutta,' were warmly
Ultramontane policy recently adopted to-
For her forthcoming volume Mrs. Camp. received, and a second edition, greatly
wards the work by the Vatican.
bell Praed has gone to the regions of the enlarged, was issued in 1888.
psychic world. The story, which is en-
THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK has written titled 'The Body of his Desire,' deals with
“
The death on Sunday last of Mr. Hugh
a volume on William Morris. It will be the conflict in the soul of a popular Mackenzie Mackintosh, at the age of
published immediately by Messrs. Jack London revivalist preacher, and exhibits 56, removes a notable figure in the
as one of the “ Pilgrim Books,” and will the mental struggle which he undergoes world of journalism. Mr. Mackintosh
be illustrated with crayon drawings by A. in warding off the occult dangers of had been manager of the Standard news-
Forestier.
psychical science. Messrs. Cassell will
papers for seven years, and made a marked
publish the book on the 15th inst.
impression alike by his geniality and his
The promoters of the “ Home Uni.
On the same day the same house keen business powers. Twenty years ago
versity Library,” published by Messrs. will issue National Ideals and Race he was the inspiring centre, and, in a sense,
Williams & Norgate, are showing enterprise Regeneration,' by the Rev. R. F. Horton; the patron, of a considerable literary and
in many directions. We notice that the and Womanhood and Race Regenera- journalistic circle in Dublin, and since
following books are in preparation : 'Prac-
tical Idealism,' by Mr. Maurice Hewlett;
tion,' by Mary Scharlieb. Both of these that time his varied and interesting career
'
* The Civil Service,' by Mr. Graham publications belong to the “ New Tracts had included the successful establishment,
Wallas; “Missions,' by Mrs. Creighton ;
for the Times ” Series.
as well as the management, of a number of
journals in Scotland and other parts of
and English Village Life,' by Mr. E. N. * THE HOUSE OF Windows' is the title the kingdom. He was undoubtedly a
Bennett.
of a new novel written by a Canadian character, not a creature of the modern
MRS. HAMILTON KING, who has been author, Mrs. Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, machine-made type.
widely known for a generation past as the which the house of Cassell will publish
In the current Mercure de France articles
author of ' The Disciples,' a poem dealing on the 15th inst. The story deals with
with Mazzini and the liberation and unity
a its on Verlaine, Carlyle, and Lamartine are
followed by 'L'Expansion Coloniale et
of Italy, is about to publish, through quent adventures.
Messrs. Longmans & Co. , a
les Lettres Françaises,' in which the
new book,
· Letters and Recollections of Mazzini. ' | Hitchin on Tuesday last, at the age of by the title is examined by M. de Poupour-
WE record with regret the death at recent growth in French literature covered
It is a record of the more intimate side 78, of Mr. Frederic Seebohm. Of Quaker ville. Dismissing drama as an unsuitable
of Mazzini's life during those sad latter stock, he was sufficiently successful as a medium, he proceeds to argue that the
years when his cause was triumphing banker to be able to give much time to novel is the ideal repository for exotic
in the eyes of his friends, but not in his literature and education. In the latter annals and arts, which are the more
own. Some of his most characteristic his work for his district was notable, endangered as their natural custodians
letters will be included, also a description while the distinction of his literary come in contact with Western civilization.
of his last imprisonment at Gaeta, and studies was recognized by a Doctor's The gift for catching that subtle thing,
his death at Pisa, by the women who degree from Oxford, Cambridge, and the spirit of an alien race, is, he thinks,
witnessed these closing scenes.
Edinburgh.
peculiarly the possession of his own
The story of the sensitive intimacy
His book on 'The English Village nation. He is disdainfully familiar with
of a dog with his master is told by Major Community' is a classic of the subject, the author of 'Kim, but shows no
'
Gambier Parry in ‘Murphy: a Message and was followed by monographs on · The sign of acquaintance with “ John Bull's
to Dog-Lovers, which will be published Tribal System in Wales and
Tribal Other Island. Besides the usual review
by Messrs. Smith & Elder, with two illus- Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law,' which, of French and foreign literature, the
trations, in the course of the present reaching more debatable conclusions, are number includes a reasoned plea for the
month.
yet remarkable examples of pioneer work. abolition of graphology for evidential
Mr. Seebohm also wrote * The purposes.
MGR. BARNES is bringing out through Oxford Reformers, Colet, Erasmus, and FRIEDRICH STEPHAN, whose death in
same firm
and cheaper More,' and a little book on · The Era of
edition of his 'Man of the Mask. ' the Protestant Revolution. '
his 82nd year is announced from Berlin,
In this he embodies the corrections
was a student of philology, but in 1864
rendered necessary by the discovery
By the death, on the 1st inst. at Leam- turned to journalism, and in 1870 joine
made two years ago by himself in con- ington, of Mrs. Anna Sibree in her 89th of which he was chief editor for twenty
the editorial staff of the Vossische Zeitung,
junction with Mr. Andrew Lang. The year there passes away one of the last
identification of the “Man in the Iron survivors of the coterie of Coventry years, from 1880 till his resignation in
1900.
Mask” concerns a priest, and probably a intellectuals gathered round Charles and
Jesuit ; but it can no longer be claimed Caroline Bray and Sara Hennell, who We have to announce the death at the
that he was a son of Charles II.
exercised such an influence over George age of 55 of the Danish author Herman
Eliot in the days of her early womanhood. Bang, on January 29th, while on a lectur-
Those who are taking part in the Anti- Mrs. Sibree, who came of the Quaker ing tour in the United States. As author,
Home Rule Campaign will welcome a family of Cash, married the late John reciter, journalist, and stage manager,
volume to be published by Messrs. Rout Sibree, translator of Hegel, friend and Bang made a name for himself both in
ledge & Sons, containing selections from correspondent of George Eliot, son of the the Scandinavian countries and in Ger-
the speeches delivered by Mr. Balfour author of the History of Independency many. Among his more prominent works
during the Home Rule crisis of 1893, to- in Warwickshire,' and nephew of the Rev. were Tine' (reminiscences from his
gether with his address to the Noncon- Peter Sibree, who married Patrick Brontë's childhood during the war in Sleswick,
formist Unionist Association on November early love. Mrs. Sibree still retained at 1864), "Stucco, By the Roadside,' and
6th last.
her advanced age pleasant memories of ! . Those without a Fatherland. '
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author's preparations, that the nerve fibres of but the case is found to be otherwise with the
the dental pulp do not terminate, as considered allied variety, the so-called applied
" brooch.
SCIENCE
by most histologists, at the pulp margin, but that, Granted that the history of the West Saxons as
although they here form a narrow plexus, fine recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' even
neurofibrils pass out from it in great abundance approximates to the truth, statistics of the dis-
and enter the dentinal tubes, traversing the den- tribution of the saucer brooch in its wider sense
WITHIN the last few years the University
tine in intimate association with the dentinal show that it is as well represented to the east of
fibrils to the inner margin of the enamel and Bedford as further west, but that here the applied
of Chicago has acquired a remarkable collec. cementum.
type predominates. Moreover, an investigation
tion of amphibian and reptilian remains A paper on ' A Method for Isolating and Culti- of the decorative motives employed on these
from the Permian deposits of Northern vating the Mycobacterium enteritidis chronicæ brooches, while it casts some suspicion on the
accuracy of the Chronicle, proves that these
Texas and New Mexico, obtained chiefly pseudo - tuberculosa bovis (Jöhne), and some
Experiments on the Preparation of a Diagnostic brooches were in use as early in what may be
by exploring expeditions sent out by the
Vaccine for Pseudo-tuberculosis of Bovines,' by termed the Eastern as contrasted with the Western
University. These fossils have been the Messrs. F. W. Twort and G. L. Y. Ingram, was area. In the latter a predominance of geometric
subject of patient investigation by Prof. communicated by Mr. Leonard Hill. In 1910 designs points to the survival of Romano-British
Samuel W. Williston, who has also studied the authors demonstrated the possibility of obtain- motives, while in the former the true Teutonic
ornamental system, namely, the zoomorphic,
the typical collection of Permian vertebrates ing a pure growth of Jöhne's bacillus on a medium
containing the powdered substance of the dead prevails. At the end of the sixth century influ-
from New Mexico preserved in the museum human tubercle bacillus. This medium was sug- ences from Kent are observable in both areas in
at Yale. In American Permian Vertebrates gested by the possibility that previous failures the decoration of these brooches.
(University of Chicago; London, Cam- in attempts to cultivate the micro-organism of Although the evidence is slight, there appears
bridge University Press) he describes in
Jöhne's disease had resulted from an inability to be insufficient reason for regarding these
on the part of the bacillus to build up some brooches as in any way different from other
detail many of the forms which are either
necessary portion of its food material, and that Teutonic types by holding that their develop-
new to science or but little known. The this might be supplied ready formed in the bodies ment took place entirely in England. The germ
paleontologist will welcome the work as a of the dead tubercle bacilli. During the past of the form is probably traceable in North Ger-
solid contribution to our knowledge of year, they have tested the growth of Jöhne's many, proof of which is forthcoming in the
a fauna which is of exceptional interest to
bacillus on media modified by substituting 1 per occurrence of a few examples there.
cent of other dead acid-fast bacilli in place of
the student of evolution, inasmuch as it human tubercle bacilli. They have experimented duced into England by more than one route,
The knowledge of the type was evidently intro-
includes forms that help to bridge over some with seventeen varieties, and have obtained chiefly up the Thames valley, and along the Ouse
of the differences between reptiles and positive results with a large number, but negative and Cam from the Wash.
amphibians. The author, in describing the results with others, including the bovine tubercle Mr. Leeds also read paper on The Excava-
remarkable cotylosaurian reptile Şeymouria, hitherto unrecognized difference between the Peterborough, in which an account was given
tion of a Round Tumulus at Eyebury, near
raises his voice against the conclusion that human and bovine types of tubercle bacilli. They of the excavation of a tumulus situated on the
many of the resemblances are due to here- have also succeeded in extracting, by means of gravel close to the edge of the Fens, some three
dity rather than to adaptation to environ- hot ethyl alcohol and other solvents, the essential miles north-west of Peterborough. Owing to
ment, but he is laudably self-restrained in substance (existing in the various acid - fast cultivation, its original size is uncertain ; at
discussing morphological problems, and is bacilli, which is needed by Jöhne's bacillus for present it is some 40 yards in diameter' and
its vitality and growth.
5 ft. in height at the centre. Operations carried
anxious to secure more facts before indulging A paper on the Fossil Flora of the Forest of on at two different dates proved the presence
in much speculation as to the phylogeny of Dean Coalfield (Gloucestershire) and the Relation of remains of a large fire (perhaps funereal) above
these early land vertebrates. It is matter ship of the Coalfields of the West of England and the grave, which was sunk 1 ft. into the gravel.
In it was found the contracted skeleton of an
for satisfaction to learn that Prof. Williston, South Wales,' by Mr. E. A, N. Arber, was com-
while continuing his valuable work on the
municated by Prof. T. McKenny Hughes. adult man, accompanied only by two flint
A paper on Simultaneous Colour Contrast,' by scrapers. A small Bronze Age food-vessel was
Texas deposits and their fossils, intends to Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, was communicated by discovered in the side of the tumulus. In view
explore, in conjunction with Prof. Case, the Prof. E. Starling.
of another rich burial of a similar character and
fossil-bearing Permian beds of New Mexico, 1. The colours and changes of colour which are Mr. Abbott's discoveries at Fengate, Peter
with the view of obtaining further material to the exaggerated perception of objective
relative belongs to the earlicst period of the Bronze Are
seen on simultaneous contrast appear to be due borough, it is suggested that the interment
for the study of their remarkable fauna.
difference of the contrasted lights. Whilst all
The frontispiece reproduces photographs the known contrast phenomena are easily explic- work it is perhaps permissible to trace part of
of two mounted skeletons of new_species able on this view, there are many facts which are the limits of a game-park enclosed by Godfrey of
of theromorph reptiles from the Permian opposed to the older theories. For instance, Croyland, Abbot of Peterborough 1200–1321.
strata of Texas, fully described under the spectral yellow or pigment yellow contrasted
with green does not appear red when seen through
names Varanosaurus brevirostris and Casea
a blue-green glass which is impervious to the red
broilii. The work is further illustrated by rays.
LINNEAN. -Feb. 1. -Prof. E. B. Poulton, Vice-
numerous plates and text-figures, mostly
2. A certain difference of wave-length is neces. President, in the chair. -Dr. R. Vincent was
from the author's own drawings.
sary before simultaneous contrast produces any admitted a Fellow.
effect. This varies with different colours.
The five following papers, relating to the fauna
3. A change of intensity of one colour may of the Seychelles and other islands of the Indian
make evident a difference which is not perceptible Ocean, were communicated by Prof. J. Stanley
when both colours are of the same luminosity. Gardiner : * Fourmis des Seychelles et des
SOCIETIES
4. Simultaneous contrast may cause the ap- Aldabras, reçues de M. Hugh Scott,' by M. A.
ROYAL. -Feb. 1. -Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
pearance of a colour which is not perceptible Forel; Tipulidæ,' by Mr. F. W. Edwards ;
without comparison.
* Sciaridæ,' by Dr. Günther Enderlein; 'The
dent, in the chair.
Mr. Arthur Harden and Dorothy Norris read contrast, each colour appearing as if moved further
5. Both colours may be affected by simultaneous Ichneumonide,' by Mr. Claude Morley; and
New Fishes,' by Mr. C. Tate Regan. The
paper * The Bacterial Production of from the other in the spectral range.
Chairman, Prof. Dendy, the Rev. T. R. R.
Acetylmethylcarbinol and 2-3-Butylene Glycol 6. Only one colour may be affected by simul- Stebbing, and Prof. W. A. Herdman contributed
from various Substances. ' B. lactis aërogenes taneous contrast, as when a colour of low satura- some remarks on the value and importance
and B. cloacæ, when grown in a peptone solu- tion is compared with white.
of the results thus briefly summarized.
tion containing. glucose, lævulose, mannose, 7. When a false estimation of the saturation or The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen exhibited a snail
galactose, arabinose, isodulcite, or adonitol, hue of a colour has been made, the contrast colour found by him at Porto Pi, near Palma, Mallorca,
produce both acetylmethylcarbinol and 2:3-
butylene glycol. Glycerol, ethylene glycol, and
is considered in relation to this false estimation; in March, 1909. Its shell puzzled him, because
acetaldehyde under similar conditions also give deducted from (or added to) both.
that is to say, the missing (or added) colour is it had composite characters allying it on the one
hand to Helix aspersa, O. F. Müll. , and on the
rise to butylene glycol in presence of B. lactis 8. A complementary contrast colour sensation other to Otala vermiculata, 0. F. Müll. , both
aërogenes, but no acetylmethylcarbinol is produced, does not appear in the absence of objective light common Lusitanian forms. The Rev. E. H.
In these three cases a carbon synthesis is involved of that colour.
Bowell, having examined the anatomy of the
analogous to that which occurs in the butyric
fermentation of glycerol and lactic acid. The tributed a paper on 'Studies on Enzyme Action :
Prof.
