No More Learning

Dana's Two Years before the Mast
all alive, graceful and humorous, that form
welcome, introduced by a sailor of literary
the triumph of the book. The technical The third volume of Standard Books talent, Mr. J. E. Patterson; and Mr. H. B.
skill shown is amazing. Here is the best (Nelson) deals with the Fine Arts, Sport, Wheatley is the very man to put readers in
portrait of Miss Christabel Pankhurst that Philology, Literature, and Children's Books. touch with The Survey of London, by John
has yet been done and the top of a fountain While all the lists will be of value to students Stow, an admirable record first reprinted in
pen would eclipse it. Then there are peeps and librarians, the sections dealing with 1842' by W. J. Thoms. Mr. C. J. Holmes
of landscape, all so minute and true and Philology and Literature stand out as being introduces Leslie's Memoirs of John Con-
beautiful that one can hardly bear to shut of the highest value. We know of no account stable, and Mr. Ernest Newman, Holmes's
the book upon them. Mr. Markino is to be of the books that a working philological Life of Mozart, both books which
deserve
congratulated on seeing the lovely things library should contain which approaches the preface of an expert. The latter is
that he does, and we on having him here this section in utility or completeness. The little known, but a really striking biography
to draw them for us.
section on Literature, in attempting to give of the wonderful boy genius.
The Story of the Women's Suffrage Move-
a conspectus of the best books in the world
under 1,500 headings, has at any rate covered
Carlyle's version of Wilhelm Meister
By Bertha Mason. (Sherratt &
Hughes. )
We are the more disappointed
the ground with some show of completeness, (2 vols. ) is a classic which, apart from the
in the treatment of a pressing subject which
and the annotations are in general of con-
two great names, might be coldly received
The book is bound in a
siderable value.
to-day, but The Vicomte de Bragelonne
this booklet presents because its compre-
hensive title, coupled with the honoured
very effective form of loose-leaf binding (3 vols. ) should give many golden hours to
Dame of its author, had led us to expect supplements, and should find a place on
with a view to the interpolation of annual those who
are fortunate enough not to have
read it Finally, The Rise and Fall of César
something at once authoritative and ex-
Birotteau is one of those books which time
haustive.
As a finger-post to students of the catalogue desk of every public library,
has brought up to date again. Balzac's
the movement it might serve a useful pur.
wonderful study of the stupid and successful
pose if a full bibliography, were added.
shopman of forty, the tricks of advertise-
Room has been found for eighteen photo-
ment, the use made of the learned, the
graphs of past and present pioneers.
The THE LATE DR. SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE. shady ways of financiers and speculators,
latter would have been better omitted if
Windydene, Mark Cross, Sussex. might almost, with a few differences of no
place could not be found for Mrs. Pankhurst
or Mrs. Despard. The work of the
I HOPE to write the life of my friend Dr. great moment, have been penned by one of
our admired novelists of to-day. It is full
tant” Suffragists is dismissed in a few lines. Sophia Jex-Blake, and shall be grateful if of that human nature in its weakness and
No one who has followed public events during old friends will sende me letters. com par: strength which makes one man a magnate
the last five or six years needs to be told
Any such
entitled “The Story of the Women's Suffrage and returned without delay.
botellas such a book can justifiably the munication will be desired be copied and another a bankrupt. As Prof. Saints
bury's Introduction refers to the translator,
her name might have figured on the title-
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mental gifts, who records his “ Impressions ideal of beauty has its evolution, like every
THE FRENCH LITERARY WORLD. of a country that is perfectly familiar in other element, and after passing through
THE most interesting movement in French
these days of universal travelling, really various historical phases, and running
literary circles at the present time is to
renders å disservice to literature. During counter to our preconceived views, will
be found in the league founded last year fewer than five books of mediocre " Impres. of expression, interpreting differences of
the past week we have had in our hands no emerge
in increased individuality
by M. Jean Richepin, under the name of
• La Culture Française," the object of which sions. We must except from this criticism character and intellect. With this indi.
M. Pierre Chanteul's
is to promote the study of the classics, and
Visions et Impres. viduality there will come, according to M.
of Russia. The
to counteract the " utilitarian tendency” of
sions
book is worth Finot, greater individuality of dress, the
most of the time-tables and courses. A preg. reading for its brilliant impressionist pic. finer personal differences and distinctions
nant sign of the time is the fact, that, though
tures of contemporary life in Russia.
being thus accentuated, and not lost, as
this movement has the support of the French
The Woman Question
as it presents now, in the
“ collective” fashions that
Academy, and of such a distinguished savant itself in the life and thought of to-day, prevail. The author, so far from sharing
as M. Henri Poincaré, it is not a purely though it takes a less violent form in France the belief that the outward aspect of the
academic one, but is distinctly designed than in England, and a different one, being woman of the future will become more
on democratic lines; whilst its object is to rather intellectual and æsthetic than political, virile, insists that this “personal quality
be attained by means of lectures, conferences, in one shape or another is constantly engaging will mean greater fineness and distinction.
and pamphlets, for the last of which the the attention of French novelists and drama. Woman will prefer "une grande âme,” in
,
services of M. Poincaré have been enlisted, tists, and even poets. This time it is the poet place of being the expensive animal of
his brochure · The Sciences and the HumaM. Jules Bois, his latest volume, Le whom Plautus said : “ The two most costly
nities' differing from the generality of such Couple futur, being the subject of pas. things in the world to equip are a ship and a
productions in its clearness of style and sionate controversy both in the newspapers woman. ”
the lofty key in which it is pitched. But even
and in the salons. It, we venture to It cannot be said that M. Finot brings
more striking than the contribution of the prophesy, will please neither the extreme any convincing arguments to bear on this
eminent mathematician is the 'Address to feminists nor their opponents; not because part of his theory, and his assertion that the
French Mothers ’of M. Jean Richepin, associ-
of its uncompromising, advocacy of any
increase of the personality will result in the
ating them in his appeal as the guardians set of theories or maxims, nor, as in the increase of any type of beauty such as has
of the French intellectual tradition and
case of Marcel Prévost's powerful con-
been hitherto recognized, is being caustically
culture with the members of the Academy. tributions · Frédérique' and ' Léa,' because handled by one artist at least. Neverthe-
In an admirable passage (which we prefer it pursues to the bitter end certain primal less, his ideal of a less sensual standard of
to leave in the original) he declares :
facts, but rather because M. Jules Bois, in his beauty is striking, if not new. Herbert
Nous n'estimons pas assez d'avoir la raison avec
attempts to solve the problem of an ideal Spencer's axiom that perfection of the mind
nous, il nous faut encore le cæur, dont Pascal a dit : marriage which shall be adapted to the and perfection of the face are in funda-
qu'il a ses raisons que la raison ne connait pas. ”
most up-to-date modern theories, shows mental relationship has been constantly
“For this reason,” he concludes,
himself in reality an incurable " traditional challenged. But M. Finot works out his
ist,” who au fond cherishes the old con- theory, based upon a lofty idealism, with
“We ask French women, and above all French ventions about women.
ingenuity and sincerity.
mothers, to collaborate with us in this undertaking
No doubt M. Jules Bois would energetic-
so essential to the national education. "
ally protest against this inference. Yet let
One of the immediate effects of the league, any unbiased person compare his address
it is stated, has been a marked increase to the young wife-when, notwithstanding
CORNISH MSS.
in the number of students devoting them- his admiration of the modern woman's
Bardwell Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds.
selves to the classics. What is interesting charme nouveau and his frequent counsel
In your number of December 30th, 1911,
to note, too, in this movement, particularly not to suppress her talents and indi- you allowed me to challenge Prof. Lindsay's
in contrast to the increasing specialism
viduality for any one,” he speaks in classification of Bodl. MŠ. 572 as Welsh
favoured by an important body of educa- almost the same breath of her fragility
rather than Cornish, Since then, in a letter
tional authorities generally in this country, and sensibility and
the necessity for which he kindly permits me to publish in
is the strong underlying conviction that the “sacrifice -with a chapter in the famous
whole or part, he says :-
study of the classics constitutes the most book by Michelet, in which he draws a 'You are right. The opening leaves of Bodl.
perfect preparation for every type of career, portrait of the young wife for, the edifica- ms, 572 must be Cornish, In the Liber Tobiæ
even the commercial; though it must be tion of the husband, and ask himself whether (foll. :14-25), which is indissoluble from the
admitted that M. Poincaré evades the real the essential
Expositio Missæ (foll. 2-13), are three glosses.
ideas not practically Two of these are indeterminate, but the remaining
point raised by critics in this connexion. similar in the minds of both writers as to one contains the preposition in its Cornish (or
Apropos M. Richepin, the interesting the functions, rôle, and destiny of woman Breton) form do, and not in its Old Welsh form di
announcement is made that he is to con. as wife and mother. The real criticism to
(modern Welsh dy).
tribute his memoirs to one of the leading be made on the book, in contradistinction
Of course the Missa S. Germani (fol. 1) is
a fragment of a separate treatise, whose present
French journals this year, under the title to the grim, almost brutal logic of M. juxtaposition with the Expositio Missæ and Liber
of ‘Toutes mes Vies. ' These memoirs will Prévost's novel, is its failure to come to Tobiæ may be a mere accident. But although
constitute a sort of Odyssey, full of adven close quarters with the questions, practical it has no glosses to determine its provenance, it
ture of the most picturesque sort, for in his and ethical, that spring up as one studies
has that sentence which you quoted in The
Athenaum,'
youth M. Richepin tasted the life of the carefully 'Le Couple futur. ' M. Jules
sea and that of the actor, whilst he is Bois would not place any obstacles in the and which establishes its Cornish character.
not the less a classical scholar and man of path of a woman pursuing her profession or
There are other points of difficulty con-
letters. In his youth he accompanied the avocation, or taking an active part in her
nected with Bodl. MS. 572, which Prof.
regiment in which his father was the surgeon husband's; but he exalts the home, and the Lindsay will discuss in a forthcoming book
all over France, becoming acquainted with necessity of the rearing of the children by with interest.
on · Early Welsh Script, which is awaited
the patois, local idioms, industrial terms, the mother, while he fails to throw any
F. E. WARREN,
and roadside songs, of which he has since light as to how the wife is to combine
made rich use. One of the great attractions of the two rôles of professional worker and
these memoirs will be the publication of the creator and maintainer of the home. The
BOOK SALE.
condemned piece, 'La Chanson des Gueux. ' book, though in no sense profound, sets the MESSRS. SOTHEBY's sale on Thursday, and
The vogue for memoirs during the reader thinking and questioning many Friday in last week included the following inter-
life of the writer is carried in France, established convictions.
esting books : Numismatic Society Publications,
no less than in England, to the limits of Whilst M. Jules Bois is sketching for us
1836–1906, 301. Statham, Abridgement of Cases,
absurdity. We forbear to make any com- the new wife, a confrère is examining the tions, 50 vols. and 32 parts, 1864–90, 231. . , Killi-
1490, 401. Early English Text Society Publica-
ment upon the latest announcement in this conditions, and inquiring into the changes, grew, Comedies and Tragedies,' 1664, 271. 108.
direction. M. Alexandre has compiled the that we may expect to characterize the Notes and Queries, 108 vols. and 9 Index vols. ,
thoughts, experiences, and so forth of M. physical aspect of the new feminine product. 1849–1909, 181. 58. Montaigne, Essays, trans-
Alfred Capus, the dramatist, under the Under the title of 'La Beauté de la femme
lated by Florio, 1603, 471. The Vulgate, Ulm,
1480, 181. 58. Sporting Magazine, 110 vols. ,
name of 'La Vie, l'Amour, l'Argent. ' There nouvelle,' M. Jean Finot contributes
1792–1858, 401. New Sporting Magazine, 25 vols. ,
are, as may be expected, some witty bon striking article to La Revue, tracing the 1853–70, 201. Psalter, French MS. , late 15th
mots, as, for instance, "Il y a des mauvais evolution of feminine beauty, in the course century, 341. Chronicle of St. Albans, 1498, 271.
conseils que seule une honnête femme peut of which he fairly states his own theory
Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, 1633, and
donner. " "In addition to this fashion of the that we are still under the influence of those another, 461. Views of Versailles, 3 vols. , 1874-8,
181. 108. Van der Meulen, Les Villes de France
hour for memoirs is the craze for “ Impres- Greek ideals and conceptions which—so he et de Flandres, 1685, 181. 108. Shakespeare,
sions," also characteristic of both countries. asserts—have often become untrue and Fourth Folio, 1685, 551.
A traveller with no distinction of style or 'insincere for the modern. The modern The total of the sale was 1,1701. 18. 6d.
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:
Ridgeway (Frederic Edward), Calls to Service : Stephens. The lyrics are superior to the
being Sermons and Addresses delivered in the dramas. The volume is one of the Orpheus
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
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There is nothing unusual or exceptional in
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[Notice in these columns does not preclude longer
Æschylus, rendered into English Verse.
sermons. They represent the normal point of
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review. )
view of the Churchman; they reflect his atmo- The author is an admirer of Prof. Gilbert
ENGLISH.
sphere and his sentiments. They show us
Murray's work, and follows him in embroidering
the episcopal attitude towards social reform
unnecessarily, adding superlatives, and archaic
Theology.
or innovation. Dr. Ridgeway by no means
touches such as “the dry gule" of the dragon,
ignores the problems of industrial civilization,
Burrage (Champlin), The Early English Dis-
which do not exist in the text. Admitting the
and speaks with some passion on the matter,
difficulty of rendering the tremendous vocabu-
senters in the Light of Recent Research (1550– but he is unable to furnish any definite
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connected and unwoven. The author's achieve-
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Ireland are of Norman origin, which the
personification that does not in any way
There are
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churches of Aldermaston, Padworth, Englefield,
to more ethereal regions, her verse grows thin
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and inanimate. Cosmical agencies and per-
Farnell (L. R. ), The Higher Aspects of Greek There is also a short notice of the ancient
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Montefiore (Claude G. ), Outlines of Liberal
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There is a chapter on the churches of each
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A Lunatic's Grace
period, and such allied subjects as bells and
is printed between
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extracts from Turgenev and Ruskin. We have
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London, Simpkin & Marshali power and spontaneity, for she possesses a
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and powerful nations, their splendours suddenly
and real experience proper to Western Europe mysteries of pantheism. He runs on loqua- eclipsed by a line at the close of the stanza
during the last six centuries. For thirty year3
ciously, not writing poetry, but machining like the blast of a trumpet, declaring that to
the author taught as a disciple of Comte; to-day,
phrases with idyllic and ecstatic intonation. the modern British Empire they are as dust.
though he is outside the fold (he is not, and, Some of his simplesse is but childish prattle, The poem is crowded with these exciting
“under existing conditions cannot be, formally, a
and the extraordinary versatility of his talent climaxes and culminations, indeed, is
member" of the Catholic Church), his champion.
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Phillpotts (Eden), The Secret Woman, a Play in | Dickerson (Oliver Morton), American Colonial
Five Acts, 1/6
Duckworth Government, 1696–1765 : a Study of the
The printed version of the play which we
British Board of Trade in its Relation to the
deal with elsewhere in this issue.
American Colonies, Political, Industrial, Ad-
ministrative, $4 net. Ohio, A, H. Clark Co.
Second Book of the Poets' Club. Poets' Club The author has selected the most significant
The poems collected in this volume are period of development in Colonial self-govern-
evidence of the earnestness and activity of ment and American nationality. The subject
modern verse, even of its fullness of utterance, is centrifugal, branching out from the descrip-
also of its fearfulness of reality, its limited tion of the machinery of imperial control into
achievement, and its subjugation to certain that of general and complex governmental
moulds of expression and casts of thought. conditions and inter-relations between the
Much of the book is pseudo-dramatic. Indeed, Mother Country and its American colonies.
modern verse tends more and more to adopt a Indian settlement, the problems of population,
dramatic medium, to be abrupt, elliptical, industrial and commercial issues, and such
prone to transitions, and suggestive in its search important matters as administrative fluctua-
for fundamentals. But, as this volume demon- tion, the shifting degree of centralization, and
strates, that search still continues. We like the transference of legislative power, have all
Mr. Robert Ross's bitter and sardonic The been substantially treated, with much docu-
Landgrave' and Mr. Sturge Moore's dignified mentary citation. There is an adequate
and harmonious 'A Tragic Fate. '
bibliography.
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This edition fully maintains the high standard Since the last issue of 'Dod,' eighteen new
of the series, both in Introduction and notes. peers have taken their seats in the House of
Mr. Cuningham has made excellent use-duly Lords, and thirty new Commoners have been
acknowledged-of the work of his predecessors, elected to Parliament. By-elections have
especially Dr. A. C. Bradley's masterly survey reduced the Government majority from 126
in Shakespearean Tragedy. ' On the question to 116. But for these necessary revisions, the
of interpolation he gives precise views, holding, present edition tallies with its predecessor, and
for instance, that the authentic play begins at as a Parliamentary manual is too well known
I. iii. 38. While we are not inclined to admit to need comment.
that any weakness or extravagance of style or Figgis (Rev. J. N. ), English History from
excrescence of matter proves outright the
Original Sources, 1660-1715, 2/6
Black
presence of another hand, we can admire both
A new edition. The plan is a good one well
the courage and taste of the editor, and strongly carried out, and the sources are wisely
endorse the use of brackets or obeli which he
chosen for literary as well as historical interest.
suggests. The notes are full and learned, The diarists, Burnet, Swift, and contem-
and the volume, being published at a moderate
porary memoirs can be read with pleasure by
price, should win wide appreciation.
those who are naturally repelled by a mass of
Shakespeare (The Tudor): Troilus and Cressida, official documents. In the Historical Series.
edited by John S. P. Tatlock, 1/ net.
In Praise of Oxford Life and Manners :
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Anthology in Prose and Verse, compiled by
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Zangwill (Israel), The Next Religion, 2/6 net.
In the sequel to their earlier volume on Oxford
Heinemann history and topography the anthologists have
For notice see p. 235.
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predecessors with whom we are acquainted.
Bibliography.
Nothing is too obscure to escape notice, or too
Oxford Books : a Bibliography of Printed Works
modern to be turned to account. Contemporary
relating to the University and City of Oxford
literature fills, perhaps, & disproportionate
or Printed or Published There, with Appendixes,
space, but the effusions of modern poets are
Annals, and Illustrations : Vol. II. Oxford
pleasantly few, and we are glad to miss many
Literature 1450–1640, and 1641-50, by Falconer
of the hackneyed quotations which appear in
Madan, 25/ net. Oxford, Clarendon Press every guide-book. On the whole, the book
For notice see p. 221.
shows laudable care and judgment.
Jerrold (Clare), The Early Court of Queen Vic-
Philosophy.
toria, 15/ net.
Eveleigh Nash
An anecdotal and slight narrative of the early
Stephen (Leslie), The English Utilitarians : Vol.
life of Queen Victoria and her circle. It should
II. John Stuart Mill, 5/ net. Duckworth
appeal to that section of the public which
This valuable and comprehensive study is
reissued in the Crown Library-an excellent
peruses Court annals with avidity. Justifica-
tion on the score of insight, characterization,
series. The Utilitarians have received volu-
and even agreeable handling, such memoirs
minous notices from many points of view since
can seldom claim. They exist to gratify an
Leslie Stephen's time, but, except perhaps in
the philosophic criticism, which has gathered
appetite for peering into the lives of people
accretions, his outlook and definition hold the Kerr (Dr. Robert), Morocco after Twenty-Five
stationed on the pinnacles of social eminence.
field.
Years : & Description of the Country, its Laws
History and Biography.
and Customs, and the European Situation,
10/6 net.
Murray & Evenden
Antiquary (The), Vol. XLVII. , January-Decem-
ber, 1911.
Elliot Stock
In this undisciplined and mediocre book
the author relates the experiences of twenty-
Last year's volume reveals the miscellaneous
five years' sojourn in Morocco, and displays
character of its contents. It is largely depend-
considerable missionary bias. He intersperses
ent for its material on circumstance, some
descriptions of the country and its inhabitants
seasons yielding more fruitful results than
with diatribes against Christian Science, crude
others. But as a whole it is a storehouse of
and uncomplimentary criticism of the Moslem
out-of-the-way knowledge, which, were it not religion, and pious irrelevancies.