)-These letters have been
expected
to
throw new light on Chateaubriand.
throw new light on Chateaubriand.
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sense
" the
are
SO
and concisely. The little book is a master- "view of the world of experience is of
PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC. piece of plain English. Notwithstanding, the nature of a metaphysical construction,
we would reiterate the piece of advice which with difficulties of its own. Has, he for
THE Bergsonian philosophy, which was Mr. Carr in the Preface offers to his gotten Berkeley, and cleared his mind of
somewhat slow to cross the Channel, and readers, namely, that if they are interested, Kant ?
did not, in fact, arrive in this country very and therefore desire to become genuine A word as to “ Traditional Logic. ” Dr.
long before the philosopher himself, has, students of the Bergsonian philosophy, their Mercier includes in this compendious title
even as he did, made itself thoroughly at bounden duty is to go on to tackle M. nearly every thinker from Aristotle to the
home amongst us.
We recently reviewed Bergson in the original.
present day. But he objects most strongly
two short studies of his writings, Mr. Lindsay's
to a system which is less Aristotelian than
(Athen. , July 22, 1911) and Mr. Solomon's
A New Logic. By Chas. Mercier. scholastic. Unfortunately, his opposition
(Jan. 13, 1912), the one more critical and
new thing leads him to cover the same ground, and so
technical, the other more expository and (Heinemann. ) -—“There is no
under the sun," said the Preacher. “Per to share the infertility of what he combats,
popular, but both excellent after their own
haps," adds Heine,
manner. Already there appear two more
sun himself, He cannot hate such barren rubbish as the
who now beams so imposingly, is only an
Palæstra Logica " more intensely than we
essays, differing in scope from each other in
much the same way, namely, An Examination old warmed-up. jest. ”. A claim to novelty do. The Predicables move us not. Fesapo
But all this
of Professor Bergson's Philosophy, by David
rouses admiration, but provokes scepticism. and Felapton our soul abhors.
Balsillie (Williams & Norgate), and Henri One of the boldest of the philosophers is nearly extinct nowadays, and A New
Bergson : the Philosophy of Change, by H. called his system only a new name for some Logic' will hardly fill the gap. It is more
Wildon Carr (T. C. & E. C. Jack).
old ways of thinking. Not so Dr. Mercier. I like the epitaph of a process long complete.
We wish to say nothing harsh of Mr.
As Euclid was superseded yesterday, he
Balsillie, who is always thoughtful, and, logic of to-day.
means "A New Logic' to supersede the
But the moral of his
in some of his criticisms, decidedly pene-
trating. In the literary presentation of parallel is two-edged. Lobatchewski, Rie-
FRENCH BOOKS.
mann, and Poincaré have shown that
his argument, however, he seems to us to
fall between two stools. If his book is
Euclidian geometry is not the only possible Robert Herrick. By Floris Delattre. (Paris,
addressed to the general reader, as would system, but to limit Euclid's application Félix Alcan. )-
Few modern critical works
is not to supersede him. This is
a bad
seem to be the case, it offends by an over-
thorough, discerning, and com.
start.
free use of the current jargon of the schools.
But with Dr. Mercier's next con plete as this study of Herrick and his place
clusion we disagree even more profoundly in lyric poetry.
If, on the other hand, its final appeal is
The biography is treated
to the trained thinker—not that he, any also an art, and an art in the sense that historical. Here the book is erudite and
He holds that logic is not only a science, but first, and
our approach to Herriek is
more than the general reader, is tolerant it is practical.
of jargon--the absence of exact references futility of the old logic. Does he think that facts as to Herrick’s life, and passing in the
He makes much of the solid, bringing out many new and important
to M.
serious defect. Capable
as the work is, it his own, or any other system, will be any second part to a synthetic and analytical
better? ' Only a pedant could hope to aid treatment of special aspects of his art.
might, we are convinced, be rendered at
least twice as effective by thorough recasting. man's reasoning by a study of the conditions It has thus a double object, namely, that
of
Full to overflowing of his subject, the M. Jourdain talked prose without knowing it, struction. But when the elements which
material certitude and psychological recon.
writer plunges headlong into the tangled and mankind reasoned validly before 'A New
tale of his disagreements with M. Bergson, Logic' appeared, though its author claims plained, it remains to determine the quality
compose the work of Herrick have been ex.
of the positions he is about to attack. Nor that the subject is there correctly stated
of the æsthetic emotion which it provokes,
for the first time.
does ho make his own standpoint clear at
and which constitutes its essential interest.
the start, as every critic should do who Dr. Mercier's system appears to us to This is comprehensible only by personal
hopes to carry his reader along with him. confuse throughout the spheres of logic sympathy, and it is his sympathy and insight,
Not till we reached the final chapters was and psychology. It does not matter to which lift M. Delattre's study high abové
our suspicion verified that the Hegelian logic how we pass from one proposition the ordinary level of criticism, and give
conception of evolution was being through to another, or how from particulars we arrive it exceptional vitality.
out contrasted with the Bergsonian to the at a universal. What logic has to do is to It is essentially as a poet of society that
disadvantage of the latter. As must be inquire how our conclusion is valid if we M. Delattre envisages Herrick, a poet loving
laid to the credit of other modern Hegelians do so. Induction seeks a general principle the town, its company, and all things
--for instance, Lord Haldane-Mr. Balsillie underlying the particulars, and whether they urbane. Further, it is this play, unceasing
is in touch with the progress of science, and, be few, or many before we perceive the and changing, of elegant, fine sentiment,
with all his respect for an absolute logic, principle, it matters not, for the number of this alternation of polite ideas and poetic
is not afraid to plunge into cosmological instances, though psychologically important, fancy, which is the mainspring of Herrick's
speculations of the more concrete kind. is not the guarantee of our conclusion. Dr. cha m-“ nuance, irisé souvent comme le
We confess, however, that his hints about Mercier so far ignores this fact that he looks nacre.
the action of contraries in the constitution on simple enumeration as the criterion of
M. Delattre supplies a series of close and
of matter, or about the co-operation of certainty in such matters. He cannot discerning critical studies on the various
contrary tendencies in the ascent from abide Aristotle ;, but Aristotle's account of aspects of the Hesperides,' bringing out the
lower to higher forms of organic being, the relation of aroonous to voûs contains for underlying egotism and paganism of Her.
do not suffice to reveal to us herein à dia- us the substance of a truer view. When induc.
rick's creed. It is rare that Herrick pierces
lectic process
shedding verisimilitude on tion has arrived at the principle it seeks, below the surface, and in his treatment of
the Hegelian doctrine that thought and conclusions can be drawn with syllogistic the peasants of Devonshire he is often
being are one. " For the rest, he undoubtedly necessity. We do not pretend that we con. merely brutal. With Rabelais the riot and
convicts M. Bergson of certain inconsis- sciously follow this method in actual life, intensi y of animal spirits sweep before
tencies, such as may well be incidental to but it is nevertheless a condition of the it the gro sness o observation. The im-
the development of a philosophy, the last validity of thought. As for exalting induc-
pression given by Herrick's personal powers
word of which is not yet spoken. Some tion at the expense of deduction, one might M. Delattre finds to be that of perpetual
of Mr. Balsillie's most interesting results as well exalt multiplication at the expense contradiction and antithesis. Lacking, in-
follow, by the way, from his examination of of division.
terior resonance, the sentiment is of short
M. Bergson's very recent utterances made
Dr. Mercier disdains all reference to duration. Woman is a gracious pastime
in the course of his English lecturing-tour. metaphysics, and therefore rejects all destined for man's pleasure, yet side
It becomes manifest that the philosopher modern views of the judgment. Analyzing by side with this irreverent conception of
of evolution has at present paid scant
attention to certain aspects of his many; ratio between them," he leaves
the proposition into two terms and the love is an amorous sentimentality, tender
us in and delicate. The ingenuousness of the
sided theme, notably to the ethical doubt whether subject is distinct from its imagination temper3 transmutes the
implications of that élan de vie which reaches relation to object, or object from its relation vehemence of desire. The charm of the
its highest manifestation in the life of man.
to subject, or relation from both subject Hesperides,' M. Delattre finds, is in these
Of Mr. Wildon Carr's work we have only and object. He seems to have mistaken “fresh and fragrant mistresses, so English
pleasant things to say. It would almost grammar for logic, and lost sight of the with their blonde tresses and clear com-
seem to be the case nowadays that the value unity of the judgment. Nor does his plexions, the r frankness and their candour,
of a book stands in inverse ratio to its price. system provide for any proof or necessity whose faces turn to us from the pages,
M. Bergson, who himself read through the in thought. With wearisome iteration he smiling beneath boughs of spring blossom,
proofs, must have been delighted to find speaks of the appeal to experience. But, or surrounded by garlands of jonquils and
his views sketched and interpreted so simply 'whether he likes it or not, the
If it be true that Herrick was unable
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to rise t the height of passion and emotion, While he is in Rome his friend Madame
and in the play of the imagination the heart de Beaumont dies. His letters to her rela-
Rome au Temps de Jules II. et de
has little place. Still no one has been more tions, in spite of their theatrical tone, are
Léon X. Par Emanuel Rodocanachi. (Paris,
subtly or gracefully in love with love itself, exquisite in their revelation of a devotion Hachette. )-To E. Rodocanachi's activity
Dweller in the tangible, he lives in a deep and sincere while it lasted. He begs in the field of Roman life and manners in the
walled and secluded garden full of exquisite to be allowed to defray the cost of a monu-
Middle Ages, as well as at the time of the
sensations, vernal freshness, and spring ment to her memory; this necessitates the first and second Renaissance, we are in-
blossom. Like the sentimentalist, he main selling of personalty, and, amongst other debted for this new volume, a masterpiece
tains untarnished his golden illusion.
Les
No. things, of one of his carriages. According of French editing. Coming after
|
thing in the beauty of the exterior escapes to an ancient law, consumption is accounted corporations ouvrières à Rome depuis la
him. His delicato nature, respondent to in Rome a contagious disease, and, as
in Rome a contagious disease, and, as chute de l'Empire' (1894), 'La Femme
every shade of colour and breath of per. Madame de Beaumont had driven sometimes italienne à l'époque de la Renaissance' (1907),
fumé, records its beauty and harmony within them, no one will buy.
and 'Le château St. Ange (1909), not to
perfect expression. When youth is long
mention minor works on Cola di Rienzo,
departed he retains this childlike quality he has passed the summit
of life. The joys Jewish colony of Rome, the Courtesans and
At 34 this aged young man considers that | Renée of Ferrara, Vittoria Colonna, the
of freshness, which renders his inspiration of fame are outbalanced by persecution Buffoons, &c. , this last volume makes the
light, fresh, and intangible. . . Poet of slight and vexation. The best men of letters are author's 'illustration of Roman life and
themes, he recognizes his limitations, and
remains in his narrow domain without rival. his friends, and he gets his meed of admirers' civilization complete.
epistles, but his championship of the faith
In his work he has had to contend with
will never be forgiven; the other side will
George Sand, sa Vie et ses Euvres, 1838–48. never be content till they have banished number and value of existing publications
two difficulties. The first concerns the
By Wladimir Karénine. (Paris, Plon-
Plon-him a second time.
Nourrit. )-M. Karénine, after an interval
on the same subject, which seem to have
of several years, publishes the third volume
The Breton aristocrat never becomes the left nothing unsaid on the state of the city
of his study of George Sand. From 1838 to
sincere democrat. In vain one looks for under the rule of Pope della Rovere and
1848 she lived in intimacy with Chopin signs of interest outside the affairs of his Pope de' Medici
. Domenico Groli, for
and Pierre Leroux, and round her during
own class.
Important public events are instance, whose delightful contributions
this period radiate, appear and disappear, than the literary genius often is, he rarely of the Origins of Pasquino, Raphael's
rarely mentioned. A better man of business to the Nuova Antologia include discussions
many famous representatives of politics, art,
and science. She is at the height of her appears ungloved-never en déshabille. House, the Trial of Christopher Longeuil,
power, and each of her works is an event M. Thomas's work of collation is a necessary
the Hunts of Leo X. , and the Census of
impatiently awaited.
and honourable task, and he is fulfilling it Clement VII. , is but one of Rodocanachi's
M. Karénine, treating in a full and com. with that Gallic enthusiasm and care which innumerable predecessors in this special line.
prehensive manner the circumstances lead.
“ transforma-
are our admiration on this side of the Channel.
I have myself described the
tion
ing to the production of Consuelo,' 'La
of Rome at the beginning of the six-
Comtesse de Rudolstadt,' 'Le Meunier
teenth century in chaps. i. and ii. of the
d'Angibault,' 'La Mare au Diable,' and the Smolensk. By Baron de Baye. (Paris, 'Golden Days of the Renaissance' (1906). I
l '
whole series of rustic romances, reveals the Perrin & Cie. )-Any fresh light on the drama | do not think I am wide of the mark if I reckon
veritable key to the understanding of George of 100 years ago which was enacted in and the names of previous writers quoted by the
Sand's best period.
around the ancient city of Smolensk is as author in the foot-notes as about a thousand.
What stands out clear and in high relief welcome to students of European history as The second difficulty is the comprehensive-
in the book is the superhuman serenity it must be of supreme interest to the grand-
which George Sand maintained in the midst children of those who took part in it. The under Julius II. and Leo x. exploded, as it
ness of the subject. The “spirit of the age
of her difficult and melancholy circum. author's concern has been to describe the
were, in so many directions, and led to such
stances. In spite of all she remained history of the town from the ninth century amazing results in public and private life
, art
mistress of herself and her talent. To no
onwards, the battle fought there before and literature, religion and politics, morals
one more than to M. Karénine is due the Napoleon could
march on to Moscow, and the and finance, that even the 460 pages of the
credit of elucidating her confused and elusive pillage which took place during the terrible text and the 72 full-page illustrations would
life.
flight. He sketches the events as they seem inadequate to exhaust the subject.
succeed one another in the terse, plain
manner of the military dispatch, but the
The author deserves credit for the way
Correspondance générale de Chateaubriand.
Edited
by Louis Thomas. Vol. I. (Champion, many of them hitherto unpublished—throw In the first place, he has drawn a considerable
vivid contemporary letters which followin which he has overcome both difficulties.
Paris.
)-These letters have been expected to
throw new light on Chateaubriand. How August and November, 1812, and give a
a blaze of light on the pitiless scenes of percentage of his information from unpub-
August and November, 1812, and gives archives, the correspondence of diplomatic
Iished documents in the State and Vatican
far they will do so is yet to be seen. The
volume before us goes only to the year 1817, graphic recital of suffering and mismanage-
ment.
agents at the Court of Julius II. and Leo X. ,
when Chateaubriand was forty-nine.
or rare contemporary pamphlets. Secondly,
The figure which emerges is of a converted
while limiting the text to an exposition of
pagan, whose piety is the fruit of strangely
La Chanson populaire de l'Ile de Corse. the main facts, and so making it intelligible
mixed sources. His defence of religion in By Austin de Croze. (Paris, Champion. ) and acceptable to all classes of readers,
· Le Génie du Christianisme paid him Happy, are those nations which preserve he adds in the foot-notes as complete a szt
well, but his practical use of it does not their folk songs, and all praise to those of references as any student of the Roman
seem extensive. He is blasé at an early who
them from the oblivion in Renaissance could desire,
age, and requires to be stirred out of his which a materialistic age buries its past.
The very existence of Corsican folk-lore has the former concorning The Pope's Court;
There are five chapters, and an appendix,
depression by flattering friends.
Women, too, stimulate him. He throws
been questioned, but to doubts of this kind Artists and Literary Men, The City and
a veil of innocence over tastes epicurean this little volume is a substantial and un-
the People, The Civic Administration, and
perhaps rather than amorous, and draws answerable challenge. It represents,
Feasts and Amusements. The Appendix
raw material from those who are willing to believe, the first attempt to collect, the refers to the Pillage of Rome in 1527 by the
supply emotional experience. With Madame
numerous voceri and vendetta of
Connétable de Bourbon, in consequence of
de Staël he seems at his best, most natural
Corsican tradition - the former, poignant which the Renaissance described in the five
and least affected; with her he can throw
in expression of a
of a grief that knows
chapters ended as suddenly as it had
off what he calls a normal sterility in the
no resignation, and the latter, with its blossomed. Those few days of destruction
expression of sentiments.
fierce chants of revenge, primitive and and massacre annihilated the civilizing work
His sincerity is an evasive quality. Thus tragical in character.
of a quarter of a century, and plunged the
on one occasion he avers that nothing but Many Corsican popular romances offer city again into a semi-barbaric state.
the hope of being of service to religion would striking comparisons with the folk-songs of The seventy-two full-page illustrations
have induced him to accept a post at Rome. Northern Europe, and there is a startingly include portraits, views, and panoramas of
Once there, he writes of “ le scandale des close analogy between our fifteenth-century the city, tombs, architectural details, medals,
mæurs”; his life is a hell; he can scarcely air "The Babes in the Wood' and the song furniture, jewels, bronzes, church vessels, &c. ,
be persuaded to stay out his year. Yet, of the bandit Nicolar. The book is well all carefully chosen from public and private
shortly after, his constant theme is a desire written, and is a timely production, for collections, or original sketches by Dutch
to return to end his days among the ruins Corsican nationality is becoming rapidly and Italian artists. The titles of these
of a bygone civilization. Truly, Job and merged in that of France. The collection is illustrations, however, are rather inaccurate,
Jeremiah are his familiar spirits ; grief his made the more useful by an exhaustive and certain names are misspelt; for instance,
element; tears his garment !
bibliography.
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6
» which
name
more
upon the
(Massimo), and the monastery of Santo of Thucydides, who is hardly a model for is odd that he should object to Boswell's
Scolastico (Santa Scolastica), Illustration Greek prose, though a storehouse of usages placing an index at the beginning instead
xxiii? is said to represent the Garden of which attract the scholastic expert. Mr. of the end. It seems odd, too, that so
Cardinal Cesi in the said Piazza Giudea, Edwards quotes good authorities for his careless a writer should take it upon him
whereas its interesting remains are still to verdicts, but has surely had enough ex- to abuse other people unscientific.
be seen near the Porta Cavalleggieri, at the perience as a reader and teacher to speak Finally, we note that Mr. Fitzgerald in.
foot of the Monte di Santo Spirito. Lafreri's for himself.
dulges in the parallels which he scorns in
representation of Pasquino, published in
others. In 'Pickwick' and 'Boswellhe
1550 (pl. xxxv), is attributed to the seven- THE title of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's book, detects curious similarities, and most
teenth century. Dosio's view of the Arco Boswell's Autobiography (Chatto & Windus), curious is the fact that Johnson and Mr.
di Portogallo, engraved about 1569 (pl. prepares us for his view that Boswell's Pickwick were both kissed by young ladies.
xxxvii), is attributed to Cavalieri and the chief aim in his 'Life' of Johnson was to
It is, indeed, prodigious.
period 1550 - 90. The rare and fine plate make a sort of apologia for his own life and
of the Benediction given by Pius iv. actions. His purpose was, we are told,
An Introduction to the Study of Prices. By
from the Loggia of St. Peter's, pub at all hazards to claim the first place in Walter T. Layton. (Macmillan & Co. )-It
lished by Lafreri, when Michelangelo's that chronicle. This ingenious paradox the is rarely that a book which is badly wanted
drum of the cupola (conspicuous in the author recently maintained in The Quarterly is as good as Mr. Laylon's. His competence
engraving) had already reached its full Review, and now, enlarges it in a loosely is in no need of testimony, and marks of
height, is attributed to 1540, the sixth year written book, full of repetitions, devoting care and thought abound throughout, e. g. ,
before the death of Giuliano da Sangallo, eight chapters to motor forces
in the valuable note on p. 54 dealing with
and the seventh before Michelangelo's impelled Boswell to advertise himself and his wheat prices from 1820 to 1875.
appointment as his successor in the director claims to notice. The book will interest
The plan adopted is excellent. The
ship of the works.
and entertain those--and they are probably text lays down plain broad tracks of thought
The text, on the other hand, is remark. many--who know little of Boswell's extra, along which even the beginner in economics
ably free even from slips of the pen.
Such ordinary life, and have not noted, or detected
can travel easily and profitably. These are
we may consider, however, the name of by means of other contemporary evidence, followed by neat and copious appendixes
Ferdinand the Fifth” given to the King the traces of his spite and prejudice. But containing the statistical materials on which
of Naples, Ferrante the First, who visited
much that the author says has been long the judgments are based.
An excellent
Rome in the jubilee year of 1475; and the
known to experts, and his special pleading-chart of average wholesale prices and the
statement that the present “Via Alessan.
we cannot call it anything else-frequently world's gold production follows.
drina,” which joins Trajan's Forum with fails to convince us. Boswell was not a
The book is an exposition of the theory of
those of Augustus and Nerva, derives its
gentleman in his behaviour,, but he was a prices, checked and supplemented by careful
from Pope Alexander VI. (1492–
great artist, with the artist's talent alike inquiries into the way in which they have
1503), since it was laid out only in 1567-70,
for veracious reconstruction and positive varied since 1820. How such changes affect
in consequence of the drainage and sanitaembroidery. Above all, he was, we take it, different classes of the community is carefully
tion of the Pantano, undertaken by Pius V.
a hero-worshipper with that intense_gusto considered. Similar care is devoted to the
and his nephew Cardinal Bonelli.
in life which distinguished Samuel Pepys, question whether periods of rising prices are
Apart from these trifling imperfections, the and we do not believe for a moment that best for trade, wherecn the conclusion is
detection of which needs a microscopic eye,
he intended to make Johnson play second that
Rodocanachi's book will be welcomed by all
fiddle. He was full of himself, like other
“nineteenth-century history shows that national
students of the “ Golden Days of the Renais-
vivid persons who have a special sense of
productivity depends much
sance”-and their number is legion-because, their own significance, and he had many advance of science and discovery, and on the
with the help of its amazing bibliography | scores to pay off, as is pointed out.
training, education, and organization of labour,
concerning known and unknown sources of
But the meaning of his phrases seems
than on the rise or fall of prices. "
information, it will give them a chance of sometimes overdone here, and in the attri. The relation in time between changes in the
learning a great deal more than the book bution of motives, always a dubious business, supply of gold and in the level of prices is
itself can tell.
R. LANCIANI,
this chronicle does not satisfy us. Boswell's considered, and the connexion between
case is not so strange as it is made out. them cautiously, but soundly demonstrated.
Many people find an annoying amount of The book should be read by all who are
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
Forster in the Life of Dickens,' and De interested in one of the burning questions
Quincey has left us in his views of his asso. of the day,
An English-Greek Lexicon, by G. M. ciations with the “ Lakers ” a masterpiece
Edwards (Cambridge University Press), is of apparently friendly innuendo.
the work of a sound scholar, and, as its Mr. Fitzgerald needs to go deeper than
PROF. HOPE W. HOGG.
320 pages supply a good grounding in he does if he means to convince. Take
vocabulary, separa ing verse and prose, it the case of Dr. Watson's Chemical Essays The death of Prof. Hope W. Hogg, to
is likely to be adopted for the use of young (pp. 126–7). He does not mention that which reference was made in the last issue
students. Mr. Edwards does not advocate they were introduced by Boswell because of The Atheneum, removes one of the best-
the constant use of the 'English-Greek’ in Johnson was reading them, nor would one known Orientalists in this country. Prof.
composition at school or at the University," gather from his subsequent comments that Hogg held the Chair of Semitic Languages
and in this view he will have
the support of these very · Essays' received a high eulogium and Literatures in the University of Man-
the majority of teache's. But some help from Sir Humphry Davy, that Watson chester, and, in addition to his tutorial
is needed, and a trustworthy selection of “ threw his science Aside for ever when duties, found time to undertake much
words with occasional references to the he was made Professor of Divinity, that he valuable work for the furtherance of Oriental
authors who use them, and some of the wrote very, forcibly”, on equalizing the studies.
paraphrase of the Gradus, should be appre- revenues of bishoprics without giving his own Born in Egypt in 1863, he acquired a
ciated. Additions and corrections will be case as an example, and that he was, in fact, sound knowledge of classical and modern
welcomed, and could be easily, supplied. a prominent figure in eighteenth-century Arabic, and with the help of his wife pre-
Our own experience tends to the belief that thought. Our quotations are from Leslie pared in 1896 a translation of the Arabic
the language of Euripides, simpler than Stephen, who was certainly not prejudiced version of Tatian's 'Diatessaron, with
that of his great riva's of tragedy, is unduly in the Bishop's favour.
introduction and notes. He also undertook
ignored. Thus ovdèv úylis is a convenient Writing concerning the Shakespeare the cataloguing of the Arabic MSS. in the
and idioma ic equivalent for unsound Jubilee at Stratford of 1769, Mr. Fitz- Rylands Library; and his wide acquaint-
which is mentioned in the Introduction. gerald says that Boswell's lament concerning ance with the literature shows itself in an
This feature of the book is more fitted Johnson's absence “ had no foundation. " admirable series of articles on 'Mesopo-
for advanced Grecians than for beginners. He wholly omits the fact, stated by Boswell, tamia, &c. , in the eleventh edition of 'The
It is, in fact, a sketch of great interest, that
that “ Johnson's connection both with Encyclopædia Britannica. '
depending on fine scholarship, and affording Shakspeare and Garrick founded a double As an Assyriologist, too, Prof. Hogg did
an admirable insight into the wonderful claim to his presence. ” He does not tell much useful work, especially in contributing
grace and variety of Greek, while it provides the reader, indeed, that the whole affair valuable summaries of Assyriological and
some of the details which will enable the was Garrick's special show.
other Oriental publications to The Inter-
examinee to solve his difficulties. The As usual, we find our author deprecating preter, and elsewhere. From 1895 to 1903
style of tragedy and Thucydides, of Xeno- the methods of Birkbeck Hill, and his
the methods of Birkbeck Hill, and his he was a member of the editorial staff of
phon, a bad authority for Attic,” and the "superfotation" of parallel passages. For the 'Encyclopædia Biblica,' into the pre-
now 'Hellenica' ascribed to Theopompus our own part, we cherish the illusion that a paration of which he threw himself with his
is briefly sketched. It would have been book requires an index. As Mr. Fitzgerald usual enthusiasm. Of his labours the
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IN The Athenæum of to-day's date your to the distinction between clerk and layman, or
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theme in a very readable way, and will prove
of Claverhouse-points out that the battle
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useful to lawyer and layman alike.
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sense
" the
are
SO
and concisely. The little book is a master- "view of the world of experience is of
PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC. piece of plain English. Notwithstanding, the nature of a metaphysical construction,
we would reiterate the piece of advice which with difficulties of its own. Has, he for
THE Bergsonian philosophy, which was Mr. Carr in the Preface offers to his gotten Berkeley, and cleared his mind of
somewhat slow to cross the Channel, and readers, namely, that if they are interested, Kant ?
did not, in fact, arrive in this country very and therefore desire to become genuine A word as to “ Traditional Logic. ” Dr.
long before the philosopher himself, has, students of the Bergsonian philosophy, their Mercier includes in this compendious title
even as he did, made itself thoroughly at bounden duty is to go on to tackle M. nearly every thinker from Aristotle to the
home amongst us.
We recently reviewed Bergson in the original.
present day. But he objects most strongly
two short studies of his writings, Mr. Lindsay's
to a system which is less Aristotelian than
(Athen. , July 22, 1911) and Mr. Solomon's
A New Logic. By Chas. Mercier. scholastic. Unfortunately, his opposition
(Jan. 13, 1912), the one more critical and
new thing leads him to cover the same ground, and so
technical, the other more expository and (Heinemann. ) -—“There is no
under the sun," said the Preacher. “Per to share the infertility of what he combats,
popular, but both excellent after their own
haps," adds Heine,
manner. Already there appear two more
sun himself, He cannot hate such barren rubbish as the
who now beams so imposingly, is only an
Palæstra Logica " more intensely than we
essays, differing in scope from each other in
much the same way, namely, An Examination old warmed-up. jest. ”. A claim to novelty do. The Predicables move us not. Fesapo
But all this
of Professor Bergson's Philosophy, by David
rouses admiration, but provokes scepticism. and Felapton our soul abhors.
Balsillie (Williams & Norgate), and Henri One of the boldest of the philosophers is nearly extinct nowadays, and A New
Bergson : the Philosophy of Change, by H. called his system only a new name for some Logic' will hardly fill the gap. It is more
Wildon Carr (T. C. & E. C. Jack).
old ways of thinking. Not so Dr. Mercier. I like the epitaph of a process long complete.
We wish to say nothing harsh of Mr.
As Euclid was superseded yesterday, he
Balsillie, who is always thoughtful, and, logic of to-day.
means "A New Logic' to supersede the
But the moral of his
in some of his criticisms, decidedly pene-
trating. In the literary presentation of parallel is two-edged. Lobatchewski, Rie-
FRENCH BOOKS.
mann, and Poincaré have shown that
his argument, however, he seems to us to
fall between two stools. If his book is
Euclidian geometry is not the only possible Robert Herrick. By Floris Delattre. (Paris,
addressed to the general reader, as would system, but to limit Euclid's application Félix Alcan. )-
Few modern critical works
is not to supersede him. This is
a bad
seem to be the case, it offends by an over-
thorough, discerning, and com.
start.
free use of the current jargon of the schools.
But with Dr. Mercier's next con plete as this study of Herrick and his place
clusion we disagree even more profoundly in lyric poetry.
If, on the other hand, its final appeal is
The biography is treated
to the trained thinker—not that he, any also an art, and an art in the sense that historical. Here the book is erudite and
He holds that logic is not only a science, but first, and
our approach to Herriek is
more than the general reader, is tolerant it is practical.
of jargon--the absence of exact references futility of the old logic. Does he think that facts as to Herrick’s life, and passing in the
He makes much of the solid, bringing out many new and important
to M.
serious defect. Capable
as the work is, it his own, or any other system, will be any second part to a synthetic and analytical
better? ' Only a pedant could hope to aid treatment of special aspects of his art.
might, we are convinced, be rendered at
least twice as effective by thorough recasting. man's reasoning by a study of the conditions It has thus a double object, namely, that
of
Full to overflowing of his subject, the M. Jourdain talked prose without knowing it, struction. But when the elements which
material certitude and psychological recon.
writer plunges headlong into the tangled and mankind reasoned validly before 'A New
tale of his disagreements with M. Bergson, Logic' appeared, though its author claims plained, it remains to determine the quality
compose the work of Herrick have been ex.
of the positions he is about to attack. Nor that the subject is there correctly stated
of the æsthetic emotion which it provokes,
for the first time.
does ho make his own standpoint clear at
and which constitutes its essential interest.
the start, as every critic should do who Dr. Mercier's system appears to us to This is comprehensible only by personal
hopes to carry his reader along with him. confuse throughout the spheres of logic sympathy, and it is his sympathy and insight,
Not till we reached the final chapters was and psychology. It does not matter to which lift M. Delattre's study high abové
our suspicion verified that the Hegelian logic how we pass from one proposition the ordinary level of criticism, and give
conception of evolution was being through to another, or how from particulars we arrive it exceptional vitality.
out contrasted with the Bergsonian to the at a universal. What logic has to do is to It is essentially as a poet of society that
disadvantage of the latter. As must be inquire how our conclusion is valid if we M. Delattre envisages Herrick, a poet loving
laid to the credit of other modern Hegelians do so. Induction seeks a general principle the town, its company, and all things
--for instance, Lord Haldane-Mr. Balsillie underlying the particulars, and whether they urbane. Further, it is this play, unceasing
is in touch with the progress of science, and, be few, or many before we perceive the and changing, of elegant, fine sentiment,
with all his respect for an absolute logic, principle, it matters not, for the number of this alternation of polite ideas and poetic
is not afraid to plunge into cosmological instances, though psychologically important, fancy, which is the mainspring of Herrick's
speculations of the more concrete kind. is not the guarantee of our conclusion. Dr. cha m-“ nuance, irisé souvent comme le
We confess, however, that his hints about Mercier so far ignores this fact that he looks nacre.
the action of contraries in the constitution on simple enumeration as the criterion of
M. Delattre supplies a series of close and
of matter, or about the co-operation of certainty in such matters. He cannot discerning critical studies on the various
contrary tendencies in the ascent from abide Aristotle ;, but Aristotle's account of aspects of the Hesperides,' bringing out the
lower to higher forms of organic being, the relation of aroonous to voûs contains for underlying egotism and paganism of Her.
do not suffice to reveal to us herein à dia- us the substance of a truer view. When induc.
rick's creed. It is rare that Herrick pierces
lectic process
shedding verisimilitude on tion has arrived at the principle it seeks, below the surface, and in his treatment of
the Hegelian doctrine that thought and conclusions can be drawn with syllogistic the peasants of Devonshire he is often
being are one. " For the rest, he undoubtedly necessity. We do not pretend that we con. merely brutal. With Rabelais the riot and
convicts M. Bergson of certain inconsis- sciously follow this method in actual life, intensi y of animal spirits sweep before
tencies, such as may well be incidental to but it is nevertheless a condition of the it the gro sness o observation. The im-
the development of a philosophy, the last validity of thought. As for exalting induc-
pression given by Herrick's personal powers
word of which is not yet spoken. Some tion at the expense of deduction, one might M. Delattre finds to be that of perpetual
of Mr. Balsillie's most interesting results as well exalt multiplication at the expense contradiction and antithesis. Lacking, in-
follow, by the way, from his examination of of division.
terior resonance, the sentiment is of short
M. Bergson's very recent utterances made
Dr. Mercier disdains all reference to duration. Woman is a gracious pastime
in the course of his English lecturing-tour. metaphysics, and therefore rejects all destined for man's pleasure, yet side
It becomes manifest that the philosopher modern views of the judgment. Analyzing by side with this irreverent conception of
of evolution has at present paid scant
attention to certain aspects of his many; ratio between them," he leaves
the proposition into two terms and the love is an amorous sentimentality, tender
us in and delicate. The ingenuousness of the
sided theme, notably to the ethical doubt whether subject is distinct from its imagination temper3 transmutes the
implications of that élan de vie which reaches relation to object, or object from its relation vehemence of desire. The charm of the
its highest manifestation in the life of man.
to subject, or relation from both subject Hesperides,' M. Delattre finds, is in these
Of Mr. Wildon Carr's work we have only and object. He seems to have mistaken “fresh and fragrant mistresses, so English
pleasant things to say. It would almost grammar for logic, and lost sight of the with their blonde tresses and clear com-
seem to be the case nowadays that the value unity of the judgment. Nor does his plexions, the r frankness and their candour,
of a book stands in inverse ratio to its price. system provide for any proof or necessity whose faces turn to us from the pages,
M. Bergson, who himself read through the in thought. With wearisome iteration he smiling beneath boughs of spring blossom,
proofs, must have been delighted to find speaks of the appeal to experience. But, or surrounded by garlands of jonquils and
his views sketched and interpreted so simply 'whether he likes it or not, the
If it be true that Herrick was unable
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to rise t the height of passion and emotion, While he is in Rome his friend Madame
and in the play of the imagination the heart de Beaumont dies. His letters to her rela-
Rome au Temps de Jules II. et de
has little place. Still no one has been more tions, in spite of their theatrical tone, are
Léon X. Par Emanuel Rodocanachi. (Paris,
subtly or gracefully in love with love itself, exquisite in their revelation of a devotion Hachette. )-To E. Rodocanachi's activity
Dweller in the tangible, he lives in a deep and sincere while it lasted. He begs in the field of Roman life and manners in the
walled and secluded garden full of exquisite to be allowed to defray the cost of a monu-
Middle Ages, as well as at the time of the
sensations, vernal freshness, and spring ment to her memory; this necessitates the first and second Renaissance, we are in-
blossom. Like the sentimentalist, he main selling of personalty, and, amongst other debted for this new volume, a masterpiece
tains untarnished his golden illusion.
Les
No. things, of one of his carriages. According of French editing. Coming after
|
thing in the beauty of the exterior escapes to an ancient law, consumption is accounted corporations ouvrières à Rome depuis la
him. His delicato nature, respondent to in Rome a contagious disease, and, as
in Rome a contagious disease, and, as chute de l'Empire' (1894), 'La Femme
every shade of colour and breath of per. Madame de Beaumont had driven sometimes italienne à l'époque de la Renaissance' (1907),
fumé, records its beauty and harmony within them, no one will buy.
and 'Le château St. Ange (1909), not to
perfect expression. When youth is long
mention minor works on Cola di Rienzo,
departed he retains this childlike quality he has passed the summit
of life. The joys Jewish colony of Rome, the Courtesans and
At 34 this aged young man considers that | Renée of Ferrara, Vittoria Colonna, the
of freshness, which renders his inspiration of fame are outbalanced by persecution Buffoons, &c. , this last volume makes the
light, fresh, and intangible. . . Poet of slight and vexation. The best men of letters are author's 'illustration of Roman life and
themes, he recognizes his limitations, and
remains in his narrow domain without rival. his friends, and he gets his meed of admirers' civilization complete.
epistles, but his championship of the faith
In his work he has had to contend with
will never be forgiven; the other side will
George Sand, sa Vie et ses Euvres, 1838–48. never be content till they have banished number and value of existing publications
two difficulties. The first concerns the
By Wladimir Karénine. (Paris, Plon-
Plon-him a second time.
Nourrit. )-M. Karénine, after an interval
on the same subject, which seem to have
of several years, publishes the third volume
The Breton aristocrat never becomes the left nothing unsaid on the state of the city
of his study of George Sand. From 1838 to
sincere democrat. In vain one looks for under the rule of Pope della Rovere and
1848 she lived in intimacy with Chopin signs of interest outside the affairs of his Pope de' Medici
. Domenico Groli, for
and Pierre Leroux, and round her during
own class.
Important public events are instance, whose delightful contributions
this period radiate, appear and disappear, than the literary genius often is, he rarely of the Origins of Pasquino, Raphael's
rarely mentioned. A better man of business to the Nuova Antologia include discussions
many famous representatives of politics, art,
and science. She is at the height of her appears ungloved-never en déshabille. House, the Trial of Christopher Longeuil,
power, and each of her works is an event M. Thomas's work of collation is a necessary
the Hunts of Leo X. , and the Census of
impatiently awaited.
and honourable task, and he is fulfilling it Clement VII. , is but one of Rodocanachi's
M. Karénine, treating in a full and com. with that Gallic enthusiasm and care which innumerable predecessors in this special line.
prehensive manner the circumstances lead.
“ transforma-
are our admiration on this side of the Channel.
I have myself described the
tion
ing to the production of Consuelo,' 'La
of Rome at the beginning of the six-
Comtesse de Rudolstadt,' 'Le Meunier
teenth century in chaps. i. and ii. of the
d'Angibault,' 'La Mare au Diable,' and the Smolensk. By Baron de Baye. (Paris, 'Golden Days of the Renaissance' (1906). I
l '
whole series of rustic romances, reveals the Perrin & Cie. )-Any fresh light on the drama | do not think I am wide of the mark if I reckon
veritable key to the understanding of George of 100 years ago which was enacted in and the names of previous writers quoted by the
Sand's best period.
around the ancient city of Smolensk is as author in the foot-notes as about a thousand.
What stands out clear and in high relief welcome to students of European history as The second difficulty is the comprehensive-
in the book is the superhuman serenity it must be of supreme interest to the grand-
which George Sand maintained in the midst children of those who took part in it. The under Julius II. and Leo x. exploded, as it
ness of the subject. The “spirit of the age
of her difficult and melancholy circum. author's concern has been to describe the
were, in so many directions, and led to such
stances. In spite of all she remained history of the town from the ninth century amazing results in public and private life
, art
mistress of herself and her talent. To no
onwards, the battle fought there before and literature, religion and politics, morals
one more than to M. Karénine is due the Napoleon could
march on to Moscow, and the and finance, that even the 460 pages of the
credit of elucidating her confused and elusive pillage which took place during the terrible text and the 72 full-page illustrations would
life.
flight. He sketches the events as they seem inadequate to exhaust the subject.
succeed one another in the terse, plain
manner of the military dispatch, but the
The author deserves credit for the way
Correspondance générale de Chateaubriand.
Edited
by Louis Thomas. Vol. I. (Champion, many of them hitherto unpublished—throw In the first place, he has drawn a considerable
vivid contemporary letters which followin which he has overcome both difficulties.
Paris.
)-These letters have been expected to
throw new light on Chateaubriand. How August and November, 1812, and give a
a blaze of light on the pitiless scenes of percentage of his information from unpub-
August and November, 1812, and gives archives, the correspondence of diplomatic
Iished documents in the State and Vatican
far they will do so is yet to be seen. The
volume before us goes only to the year 1817, graphic recital of suffering and mismanage-
ment.
agents at the Court of Julius II. and Leo X. ,
when Chateaubriand was forty-nine.
or rare contemporary pamphlets. Secondly,
The figure which emerges is of a converted
while limiting the text to an exposition of
pagan, whose piety is the fruit of strangely
La Chanson populaire de l'Ile de Corse. the main facts, and so making it intelligible
mixed sources. His defence of religion in By Austin de Croze. (Paris, Champion. ) and acceptable to all classes of readers,
· Le Génie du Christianisme paid him Happy, are those nations which preserve he adds in the foot-notes as complete a szt
well, but his practical use of it does not their folk songs, and all praise to those of references as any student of the Roman
seem extensive. He is blasé at an early who
them from the oblivion in Renaissance could desire,
age, and requires to be stirred out of his which a materialistic age buries its past.
The very existence of Corsican folk-lore has the former concorning The Pope's Court;
There are five chapters, and an appendix,
depression by flattering friends.
Women, too, stimulate him. He throws
been questioned, but to doubts of this kind Artists and Literary Men, The City and
a veil of innocence over tastes epicurean this little volume is a substantial and un-
the People, The Civic Administration, and
perhaps rather than amorous, and draws answerable challenge. It represents,
Feasts and Amusements. The Appendix
raw material from those who are willing to believe, the first attempt to collect, the refers to the Pillage of Rome in 1527 by the
supply emotional experience. With Madame
numerous voceri and vendetta of
Connétable de Bourbon, in consequence of
de Staël he seems at his best, most natural
Corsican tradition - the former, poignant which the Renaissance described in the five
and least affected; with her he can throw
in expression of a
of a grief that knows
chapters ended as suddenly as it had
off what he calls a normal sterility in the
no resignation, and the latter, with its blossomed. Those few days of destruction
expression of sentiments.
fierce chants of revenge, primitive and and massacre annihilated the civilizing work
His sincerity is an evasive quality. Thus tragical in character.
of a quarter of a century, and plunged the
on one occasion he avers that nothing but Many Corsican popular romances offer city again into a semi-barbaric state.
the hope of being of service to religion would striking comparisons with the folk-songs of The seventy-two full-page illustrations
have induced him to accept a post at Rome. Northern Europe, and there is a startingly include portraits, views, and panoramas of
Once there, he writes of “ le scandale des close analogy between our fifteenth-century the city, tombs, architectural details, medals,
mæurs”; his life is a hell; he can scarcely air "The Babes in the Wood' and the song furniture, jewels, bronzes, church vessels, &c. ,
be persuaded to stay out his year. Yet, of the bandit Nicolar. The book is well all carefully chosen from public and private
shortly after, his constant theme is a desire written, and is a timely production, for collections, or original sketches by Dutch
to return to end his days among the ruins Corsican nationality is becoming rapidly and Italian artists. The titles of these
of a bygone civilization. Truly, Job and merged in that of France. The collection is illustrations, however, are rather inaccurate,
Jeremiah are his familiar spirits ; grief his made the more useful by an exhaustive and certain names are misspelt; for instance,
element; tears his garment !
bibliography.
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(Massimo), and the monastery of Santo of Thucydides, who is hardly a model for is odd that he should object to Boswell's
Scolastico (Santa Scolastica), Illustration Greek prose, though a storehouse of usages placing an index at the beginning instead
xxiii? is said to represent the Garden of which attract the scholastic expert. Mr. of the end. It seems odd, too, that so
Cardinal Cesi in the said Piazza Giudea, Edwards quotes good authorities for his careless a writer should take it upon him
whereas its interesting remains are still to verdicts, but has surely had enough ex- to abuse other people unscientific.
be seen near the Porta Cavalleggieri, at the perience as a reader and teacher to speak Finally, we note that Mr. Fitzgerald in.
foot of the Monte di Santo Spirito. Lafreri's for himself.
dulges in the parallels which he scorns in
representation of Pasquino, published in
others. In 'Pickwick' and 'Boswellhe
1550 (pl. xxxv), is attributed to the seven- THE title of Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's book, detects curious similarities, and most
teenth century. Dosio's view of the Arco Boswell's Autobiography (Chatto & Windus), curious is the fact that Johnson and Mr.
di Portogallo, engraved about 1569 (pl. prepares us for his view that Boswell's Pickwick were both kissed by young ladies.
xxxvii), is attributed to Cavalieri and the chief aim in his 'Life' of Johnson was to
It is, indeed, prodigious.
period 1550 - 90. The rare and fine plate make a sort of apologia for his own life and
of the Benediction given by Pius iv. actions. His purpose was, we are told,
An Introduction to the Study of Prices. By
from the Loggia of St. Peter's, pub at all hazards to claim the first place in Walter T. Layton. (Macmillan & Co. )-It
lished by Lafreri, when Michelangelo's that chronicle. This ingenious paradox the is rarely that a book which is badly wanted
drum of the cupola (conspicuous in the author recently maintained in The Quarterly is as good as Mr. Laylon's. His competence
engraving) had already reached its full Review, and now, enlarges it in a loosely is in no need of testimony, and marks of
height, is attributed to 1540, the sixth year written book, full of repetitions, devoting care and thought abound throughout, e. g. ,
before the death of Giuliano da Sangallo, eight chapters to motor forces
in the valuable note on p. 54 dealing with
and the seventh before Michelangelo's impelled Boswell to advertise himself and his wheat prices from 1820 to 1875.
appointment as his successor in the director claims to notice. The book will interest
The plan adopted is excellent. The
ship of the works.
and entertain those--and they are probably text lays down plain broad tracks of thought
The text, on the other hand, is remark. many--who know little of Boswell's extra, along which even the beginner in economics
ably free even from slips of the pen.
Such ordinary life, and have not noted, or detected
can travel easily and profitably. These are
we may consider, however, the name of by means of other contemporary evidence, followed by neat and copious appendixes
Ferdinand the Fifth” given to the King the traces of his spite and prejudice. But containing the statistical materials on which
of Naples, Ferrante the First, who visited
much that the author says has been long the judgments are based.
An excellent
Rome in the jubilee year of 1475; and the
known to experts, and his special pleading-chart of average wholesale prices and the
statement that the present “Via Alessan.
we cannot call it anything else-frequently world's gold production follows.
drina,” which joins Trajan's Forum with fails to convince us. Boswell was not a
The book is an exposition of the theory of
those of Augustus and Nerva, derives its
gentleman in his behaviour,, but he was a prices, checked and supplemented by careful
from Pope Alexander VI. (1492–
great artist, with the artist's talent alike inquiries into the way in which they have
1503), since it was laid out only in 1567-70,
for veracious reconstruction and positive varied since 1820. How such changes affect
in consequence of the drainage and sanitaembroidery. Above all, he was, we take it, different classes of the community is carefully
tion of the Pantano, undertaken by Pius V.
a hero-worshipper with that intense_gusto considered. Similar care is devoted to the
and his nephew Cardinal Bonelli.
in life which distinguished Samuel Pepys, question whether periods of rising prices are
Apart from these trifling imperfections, the and we do not believe for a moment that best for trade, wherecn the conclusion is
detection of which needs a microscopic eye,
he intended to make Johnson play second that
Rodocanachi's book will be welcomed by all
fiddle. He was full of himself, like other
“nineteenth-century history shows that national
students of the “ Golden Days of the Renais-
vivid persons who have a special sense of
productivity depends much
sance”-and their number is legion-because, their own significance, and he had many advance of science and discovery, and on the
with the help of its amazing bibliography | scores to pay off, as is pointed out.
training, education, and organization of labour,
concerning known and unknown sources of
But the meaning of his phrases seems
than on the rise or fall of prices. "
information, it will give them a chance of sometimes overdone here, and in the attri. The relation in time between changes in the
learning a great deal more than the book bution of motives, always a dubious business, supply of gold and in the level of prices is
itself can tell.
R. LANCIANI,
this chronicle does not satisfy us. Boswell's considered, and the connexion between
case is not so strange as it is made out. them cautiously, but soundly demonstrated.
Many people find an annoying amount of The book should be read by all who are
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
Forster in the Life of Dickens,' and De interested in one of the burning questions
Quincey has left us in his views of his asso. of the day,
An English-Greek Lexicon, by G. M. ciations with the “ Lakers ” a masterpiece
Edwards (Cambridge University Press), is of apparently friendly innuendo.
the work of a sound scholar, and, as its Mr. Fitzgerald needs to go deeper than
PROF. HOPE W. HOGG.
320 pages supply a good grounding in he does if he means to convince. Take
vocabulary, separa ing verse and prose, it the case of Dr. Watson's Chemical Essays The death of Prof. Hope W. Hogg, to
is likely to be adopted for the use of young (pp. 126–7). He does not mention that which reference was made in the last issue
students. Mr. Edwards does not advocate they were introduced by Boswell because of The Atheneum, removes one of the best-
the constant use of the 'English-Greek’ in Johnson was reading them, nor would one known Orientalists in this country. Prof.
composition at school or at the University," gather from his subsequent comments that Hogg held the Chair of Semitic Languages
and in this view he will have
the support of these very · Essays' received a high eulogium and Literatures in the University of Man-
the majority of teache's. But some help from Sir Humphry Davy, that Watson chester, and, in addition to his tutorial
is needed, and a trustworthy selection of “ threw his science Aside for ever when duties, found time to undertake much
words with occasional references to the he was made Professor of Divinity, that he valuable work for the furtherance of Oriental
authors who use them, and some of the wrote very, forcibly”, on equalizing the studies.
paraphrase of the Gradus, should be appre- revenues of bishoprics without giving his own Born in Egypt in 1863, he acquired a
ciated. Additions and corrections will be case as an example, and that he was, in fact, sound knowledge of classical and modern
welcomed, and could be easily, supplied. a prominent figure in eighteenth-century Arabic, and with the help of his wife pre-
Our own experience tends to the belief that thought. Our quotations are from Leslie pared in 1896 a translation of the Arabic
the language of Euripides, simpler than Stephen, who was certainly not prejudiced version of Tatian's 'Diatessaron, with
that of his great riva's of tragedy, is unduly in the Bishop's favour.
introduction and notes. He also undertook
ignored. Thus ovdèv úylis is a convenient Writing concerning the Shakespeare the cataloguing of the Arabic MSS. in the
and idioma ic equivalent for unsound Jubilee at Stratford of 1769, Mr. Fitz- Rylands Library; and his wide acquaint-
which is mentioned in the Introduction. gerald says that Boswell's lament concerning ance with the literature shows itself in an
This feature of the book is more fitted Johnson's absence “ had no foundation. " admirable series of articles on 'Mesopo-
for advanced Grecians than for beginners. He wholly omits the fact, stated by Boswell, tamia, &c. , in the eleventh edition of 'The
It is, in fact, a sketch of great interest, that
that “ Johnson's connection both with Encyclopædia Britannica. '
depending on fine scholarship, and affording Shakspeare and Garrick founded a double As an Assyriologist, too, Prof. Hogg did
an admirable insight into the wonderful claim to his presence. ” He does not tell much useful work, especially in contributing
grace and variety of Greek, while it provides the reader, indeed, that the whole affair valuable summaries of Assyriological and
some of the details which will enable the was Garrick's special show.
other Oriental publications to The Inter-
examinee to solve his difficulties. The As usual, we find our author deprecating preter, and elsewhere. From 1895 to 1903
style of tragedy and Thucydides, of Xeno- the methods of Birkbeck Hill, and his
the methods of Birkbeck Hill, and his he was a member of the editorial staff of
phon, a bad authority for Attic,” and the "superfotation" of parallel passages. For the 'Encyclopædia Biblica,' into the pre-
now 'Hellenica' ascribed to Theopompus our own part, we cherish the illusion that a paration of which he threw himself with his
is briefly sketched. It would have been book requires an index. As Mr. Fitzgerald usual enthusiasm. Of his labours the
well, we think, to emphasize the crabbedness provides nothing of tặe kind himself, it | editors say in the Preface: "To his zeal
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the numerous articles which he contributed,
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Morris (Robert C. ), International Arbitration and
the several Israelite tribes, and an extremely
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He devoted much time and trouble, also,
Theology.
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Rivingtons
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Mr. Morris sketches the history of arbitration,
have used and tested them.
old as
which is
authorship, and doctrines, with a brief com-
war itself, and the
Not to mention other work by the late mentary. Dr. Burn rejects Dom Morin's
conditions of its application, showing that,
while almost anything may become a
Prof. Hogg, it may suffice to say that he
recent theories, and adheres to Waterland's
view of an early fifth-century authorship.
issue " upon which no peaceful award is pos-
was a scholar of wide and accurate know.
There is a textual appendix. One of the
sible, the use of international agreement is
ledge, enthusiastic and minute in attention Oxford Church Text-Books.
yet extending beyond disputes which arise out
to detail, sober in judgment, and always Carlyle (A. J. ), The Influence of Christianity upon
of previous treaties or the friction of national
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Mowbray
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which he gave an all-too short life.
We are disappointed with this book. Not
Conference. President Taft contributes
be added that he originated and was the that it is bad, but if Mr. Carlyle had taken
“ Foreword. ”
first president of an Oriental Society in more pains with those parts of the subject | Robertson (George Stuart), The Law of Copyright.
Manchester, and had already completed the which are not covered by his ' History of
Oxford, Clarendon Press
Political Theory in the Middle Ages,' it might
In this book the text of the Conventions and
preparation and supervision of the first
have been infinitely better. His treatment is
Statutes is relegated to an appendix. The
number of its Journal.
S. A. C.
clear and simple-too simple, perhaps—for it
body of the work consists of a treatise on
suggests a single stream of Christian thought
copyright law as modified by the Act of 1911,
in relation to political ideas, instead of a
the whole subject being reviewed in a series of
separate system for nearly every one of the
well-arranged chapters. The effect of the statute
•GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE. ' myriad forms of religion with little in
law is stated in clear language, and is discussed,
5, John Street, Adelphi, W. C. , Feb. 24, 1912.
common but the name of Christianity. Nor
criticized, and interpreted, as far as possible, by
does he seem to us to give sufficient prominence
earlier legal decisions. The book has the great
IN The Athenæum of to-day's date your to the distinction between clerk and layman, or
merit of dealing with a dry and complicated
reviewer—when criticizing my biography the doctrine of the State as a pis-aller, if a pis-
theme in a very readable way, and will prove
of Claverhouse-points out that the battle
aller of divine institution, which runs through a
useful to lawyer and layman alike.
of Tippermuir was not won by
“ 300 High-
good deal of Christian thought even in our own
day. His work is one of the Christian Social
Fine Art and Archæology.
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Cust (Robert H. Hobart), Benvenuto Cellini,
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Methuen
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net. Mr. Cust's handbook shows sound judgment,
inserted at p. 256, where the misprint occurs.
