No More Learning

The
sorrows of the agricultural labourer.
of English-perhaps hitherto somewhat
underrated-over
Walker (Syria), SOLITUDE: A ROMANCE OF
verses are steeped in a gentle sincerity and
a good deal of foreign
SHERWOOD FOREST, a Poem in Four
work. Especially useful should
be the resignation, but have no inspiration.
Parts.
Drane
second and third chapters, in which he gives Morris (William), THE DEFENCE OF GUENE- This poem follows the same plan of
a sufficient and well-balanced summary of VERE, AND OTHER POEMS, 1/ net.
arrangement as Thomson's 'Seasons,' and
the history of criticism affecting the Gospels,
Routledge in spirit is reminiscent of the meditative,
and discusses the Synoptic Problem. He 'Jason' and 'The Earthly Paradise are quietistic temper of the eighteenth-century
agrees with those scholars who believe that already available in the Muses' Library, school, which heralded with caution and
the non-Marcan portions of the Third Gospel and we hope that other of Morris's works determination the return to nature. 22
are derived from a source nover included will appear in this neat and portable edition, Unfortunately their blemishes are
in Q. The evidence for the Johannine as well as "The Defence of Guenevere. tuated in 'Solitude with a strong infusion
authorship of the Fourth Gospel might, For Morris's reputation is deservedly expand- of sentimentality and falsity of atmosphere.
we think, have been marshalled more ing every year. Besides 'The Defence, the
effectively, and, though we fully understand present volume contains a goodly store of
Bibliograpby.
the difficulty of want of space, we wish the the earlier short poems, mostly ballads and
question of " historicity had been directly dramatic verse, such as “Rapunzel," Sir Battersea Public Libraries, TWENTY-FIFTH
dealt with. A theory, however crude and Peter Harpden's End,' 'Father John's War
ANNUAL REPORT, 1911-12. Wightman
ill-found, which can be summed up in so Song, and the like. We are glad to see the Catalogue of the Huth Collection of Printed
simple a proposition as “ Jesus Christ never exquisite ‘Summer Dawn included. Some Books and Illuminated Manuscripts,
existed,” would seem, from a practical point of the selections, however, are less dis- Second Portion, 5/
of view, better worth refuting than many criminating, probably owing to copyright.
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
another, less unreasonable, but requiring There is an Introduction by Mr. John Drink. The second portion of the Catalogue of
more elaborate statement.
water.
the Huth library of printed books and
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MAN
manuscripts is contained in this volume. Modern Europe. It is written in a rapid, and found his true sphere at Durham,
The sale will occupy the 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th, picturesque style ; its reflections are in the The translations and versions are delightful,
12th, 13th, and 14th of June. It includes main moderate, if scarcely profound; and & happy embodiment of that grace and
many rare and fascinating books.
it displays much knowledge of events and fluency of scholarship which Eton produces
The story is, indeed, rather overlaid at its best. There is some excellent fooling
Wigan Public Libraries, Quarterly Record; with personages. Minor Spanish or Turkish with deft parody of famous originals. Here
JANUARY TO MARCH. Wigan, Wall
politicians may interest Mr. Browning, but is an epigram on women's degrees :
Pbilosopby.
their names and characters occur so thickly Propria quæ maribus mulier sibi munera poscit —
Leadbeater (C. W. ), A TEXTBOOK OF THco- | find them confusing. The author too, is
ut simili incedat, iure B. A. -ta, gradu !
on the page that the ordinary reader will
SOPHY, 1/6 net.
Adyar, Madras, Theosophist Office when he reaches certain events which appeal
inclined to let his pen run away with him Strother's Journal, WRITTEN BY A TRADES-
OF YORK AND HULL, 1784-5,
Given the unquestioning faith of a little to him. The revolution of 1830, for ex.
edited by Cæsar Caine, 3/ net. A. Brown
child, it is a delightful exercise to follow the ample, is treated in much greater detail The manuscript from which these extracts
author's guidance from stage to stage of than that of 1848, though it is of far less are taken forms part of the Egerton Collec-
theosophical study,, but for more sophis- importance; the battles of the Franco- tion, now in the British Museum. The
ticated folk it would be well if he stopped German war are described with spirit, but contents may be briefly described as the
occasionally to indicate the sources of his at inordinate length; and, while the Zulu impressions of a normal young man con-
assertions. The characteristic optimism of war receives more than its share of attention, cerning local events in a limited sphere.
all such literature gives to the view that all | Lord Roberts's defeat of Ayub Khan is dis. They are chiefly remarkable for naiveté of
things work together for good the weight of missed in a line. The volumes are the out- expression, combined with a certain amount
scientific fact.
come rather of a wide interest in the ex- of business shrewdness.
history and Biograpby.
ternalities of history than of a penetrating The pedigree of the writer (forming part of
study of its origins. They will serve their the manuscript) is also included. He has a
Blok (Petrus Johannes), HISTORY OF THE turn, no doubt, with those who like easily quaint and outspoken manner of comment-
PEOPLE OF THE NETHERLANDS: Part V. written and easily digested history. The ing on the foibles of his forbears. Referring
EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CEN- story that Prince Alfred's fellow-midship- to his grandfather, he says:-
TURIES, translated by Oscar A. Bier- men crowned him with a bunch of tallow
stadt, 12/6 net.
Putnam's candles when he was chosen King of the act which I have mentioned, I have been told of
“Though Mr. Richard Strother did this good
The fifth and concluding volume of a Hellenes was hardly worth giving. There another to the contrary. By going to school and
history of Holland that has been twenty are also one or two slips : Sir Robert Peel observing a youth writing, he asked him to write
years in the making. Adequate space did not die of concussion of the brain, but his name at the bottom of a blank paper, to which
is devoted to the intellectual and scientific of a broken clavicle; and Shuvalov, not
he afterwards made a deed by which the young
man signed his title to an estate to the next heir,
developments of the time. There are five “ Skobelev," was Russian Ambassador in and for this Strother received a large sum of
somewhat inferior maps, an index, and an London at the time of the Berlin Congress. money. My grandfather had artfully given the
appendix upon the sources of Netherland
youth a shilling first, and after he had signed his
history between 1702 and 1900. The last two Butler (Henry Montagu), LORD CHATHAM name gave him another shilling. "
volumes have been translated by Mr.
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Oscar Bierstadt, the first three by Miss
Oxford, Clarendon Press foot - notes, together with some excellent
Ruth Putnam.
Dr. Butler, in the brief compass of his illustrations of various objects and places.
Romanes Lecture, succeeds in giving an im-
Bradsher (Earl L. ), MATHEW CAREY, EDITOR, pression of the elder Pitt that will remain with West Wales Historical Records : THE ANNUAL
AUTHOR, AND PUBLISHER: A STUDY IN
his hearers and readers. Evidently the mark MAGAZINE OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AMERICAN LITERARY DEVELOPMENT, of Chatham's oratory was that the heroic OF WEST WALES, Vol. I. , 1910–11,
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Carmarthen, Spurrell & Son
London, Frowde not his, and no man could be a worse The community of interests-social, poli-
An interesting survey of a publisher model. By the very fact that of him, as tical, and ecclesiastical-possessed by the
who was also indefatigable in patriotism of Garrick, a lively image has persisted, three western counties of North Wales, as
and public service. Carey, born in Dublin we may dimly divine how vivid his personality representing the ancient principality of
in 1760, began defending his oppressed and his speech must have been.
fellow-Catholics in 1779, and his enthusiastic
Gwynedd, and the diocese of Bangor, is
more than paralleled in South Wales, in
and violent writing led to his emigration McKilliam (A. E. ), A CHRONICLE_OF THE
to America in 1784. He established himself POPES FROM ST. PETER TO PIUS X. , the three counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen,
and Pembroke. They, too, represent an old
in Philadelphia, and began, in 1787, the first
7/6 net.
Bell
magazine which gave preference to Ame-
Welsh kingdom, that of Deheubarth, ruled
To write a history of the Popes in one by the princes of Dynevor; they formed the
rican writers and articles. He soon made volume was perhaps a laudable ambition, Chief nucleus of the diocese of st. Davids,
a success of his publishing. Also he taught but it is one really impossible to accomplish and from 1544 to 1830 they constituted one
himself political economy, and wrote effec- except at the cost of brightness and interest.
of the circuits of the Great Sessions of Wales.
tively on finance. His 'Vindiciæ Hibernicæ Mr. McKilliam has composed a careful sum-
and The Olive Branch, dealing with the mary of the best-known books, in the hope it is strikingly true, as stated in the pro-
to his high spirit and extraordinary powers many-tomed cyclopædia. " It is too much to Society of West Wales (meaning thereby the
three southern counties just mentioned), that
of work. The competition to secure early expect that such a summary should be not
copies of famous English books
and the whole only without bias, but also without mistakes; residents is so interwoven that it would
of
question of imported literature against yet Mr. McKilliam has avoided both as far
native afford many curious and interesting as human nature may. Possibly this result be extremely difficult to deal satisfactorily
with the chronicles and genealogies of each
pages. Adaptation and mutilation of books is achieved by an absence of enthusiasm, for
If further
were frequent on both sides of the Atlantic ; certainly only the most tepid interest could individual county separately. "
and the American playwright in particular be aroused in the Papacy by a history in justification for establishing this society
were needed, it is found in the great neglect
had no chance against English, French, and which there is hardly an anecdote, and the
German plays, Kotzebue being in great character-drawing is confined to a few meagre two of these counties Cardigan and Car-
which the documentary history of at least
demand. An alterer without acknowledg- sentences. No one could read such a book
ment from British comedy bore, we learn, through except in the way the criminal marthen-has suffered, while the absence of
the highly appropriate name of Mr. Prig- was offered the chance of Guicciardini-and any history of the latter is a standing
the absence of foot-notes or detailed refer- reproach to the men of that county - the
Many famous names appear in this record ences to authorities renders it of little use to largest and one of the most interesting in
Wales.
of Carey. Poo paid a warm tribute to his students.
The first number of the new Society's
character ; La Fayette helped him with Stone (Rev. E. D. ), HERBERT KYNASTON : A magazine-a thick well-bound volume of
money to start in Philadelphia ; and he
SHORT MEMOIR, WITH SELECTIONS FROM over 300 pages -- is creditable in every
corresponded with Cobbett and Dickens.
HIS OCCASIONAL WRITINGS, 3/6 net. respect. Its space is wholly devoted to
Browning (Oscar), A HISTORY
Macmillan four contributions (three of which are to be
MODERN WORLD, 1815–1910, 2 vols. , The memoir is all too short, and might, continued in the next issue), a far better plan
21/ net.
Cassell one thinks, have been enlarged with more than if double that number of minor articles
In this historical survey Mr. Oscar Brown- details, and improved in style. Kynaston, were given. The most valuable of these
ing has produced a work of much the same not exactly a success as a head master, contributions is a collection of materials
merits as the late C. A. Fyffe’s ‘History of was alike an amusing and inspiring teacher, 'illustrating the history of Dynovor Castle
a
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down to the close of the reign of Henry VIII. , shared between the President and Fellows Wharton (Anne Hollingsworth), IN CHÂTEAU
being the first of a series compiled for Sir of the Royal College of Physicians of London LAND, 8/6 net.
Lippincott
John Williams relating to all the mediæval and the governing body of Caius College. It This volume of good-tempered prattle
castles and boroughs of Carmarthenshire.
does not contain all the work of Caius, but about some of the charming castles of old
Pembrokeshire is represented by the there is enough to form a striking picture of France is neither new nor deep, but the
first instalment of a list of the incumbents of
the intellectual side of an exceptional man photographs are well-chosen and pleasing.
the county, compiled by the editor (Mr. at an interesting and important period of
Francis Green) and the Registrar of the English history.
Sociology.
Diocese of St. David's. An account of a Perhaps a similar service will some day Clay (Sir Arthur), SYNDICALISM AND LABOUR:
walking tour from Swansea to Aberystwyth be performed for Dr. Richard Caldwell, the NOTES UPON SOME ASPECTS OF SOCIAL
in 1819, and a collection of West Wales joint founder with Lord Lumley of that AND INDUSTRIAL QUESTIONS OF
pedigrees, brought down to about 1750, con- lectureship which was held by Harvey when DAY, 1/ net.
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stitute the other two items, both being he took as his subject 'De Motu Sanguinis,' We noticed this book on its first appearance
transcripts of MSS. in the National Library and for those other physicians of the time (Athen. , Sept. 9, 1911, p. 295). The author,
of Wales at Aberystwyth. As the pedi- whose names we know, but of whose life and in his Preface to this abridged and cheaper
grees are, however, variants of those given actions we are comparatively ignorant. edition, emphasizes his belief that “ a general
in the Dale Castle MS. printed by Sir Thomas
strike in this country is not primarily eco-
Phillipps in 1859, they need not perhaps Geography and Travel.
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Works (The) of John Caius, M. D. , Second by long and patient observation. Mr. Bell
a prolonged combat will have set in.
Founder of Gonville and Caius College relies upon a succession of felicitous word-
Education.
and Master of the College, 1559–73, pictures to conduct his readers from south
WITH A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE BY JOHN to north, by town and country-side, through Cabot (E. L. ) and Eyles (E. ), CHARACTER-
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to be learnt about the physicians of the weary in the endeavour to retain, unaided, importance attached by the Japanese to
same period. Something is known of two the individual features of each district and the teaching of ethics, and perhaps have
of the physicians to Queen Elizabeth. The its inhabitants, which the writer has been reflected on the uses of such training at
elder, John Caius, was born in 1510; the at much pains to portray. There is a short home. In wisely graded sequence, its eight
younger, Walter Bayley, in 1529. Caius chapter on the language, besides many parts being so arranged as to cover the
was educated at Cambridge, Bayley at quotations usually well translated-from normal school-life, this book provides a
Oxford. Both amassed fortunes by the Portuguese literature ; but the text is too handbook which is as valuable for its direc-
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of twenty years in their ages made all the condition of the people Mr. Bell says little ; its author, believe in the quickening spirit
difference to their_outlook on life and to and on recent political events and their of such teaching. An entire absence of
their happiness. The younger man devoted bearing upon the country's future he is solemnity is characteristic of its method,
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those amongst whom he lived at Cambridge. writer of Two Dianas in Somaliland and ordinary school class-book on history. The
His lodgings were ransacked and his other books, and from Mr. W. E. W. Collins.
extracts deal with interesting and important
cherished possessions were destroyed by the His travels and their interests are varied.
We topics, each being selected for the informa-
very fellows who were living on his bounty.
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His surroundings finally became so uncon-
and to the West Coast of Africa, whither the piler's purpose of providing material not
One of Bell's
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author goes to the Cape and Johannesberg, arranged book by the French Master of
The present volume contains the published back to England, and to Spitzbergen. Here, Cheltenham Grammar School, suggesting
works of John Caius, collected and reprinted Womar from the most inveterate colds and in verbal expression beyond mere. common
we are told, the climate is such that free lines of study which should lead to facility
Master—the Rev. E. S. Roberts. To it is pulmonary disorders results in a short time, places of travel
, and that practical and
desirable attainment the good style in
added the hitherto unprinted first book of the and here Mr. Studley had an interesting
correspondence.
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Abraham Fleming's translation of the ſo. dalli)of which the illustration on p. 258 main facts of English history, interwoven with
treatise : On English Dogs,' written by Caius shows the pronounced difference from the imaginary matter in the form of a drama.
for his friend Conrad Gesner. The volume Rocky Mountain sheep-and for moose ; It is easier to endorse in Sir George
is completed by Dr. John Venn's account of and finally Iceland, where salmon were Alexander's prefatory note his commenda-
Caius ; and there are numerous valuable caught and game birds shot. The style is tion of the general principle of teaching
bibliographical notes by Dr. M. R. James, unpretentious, and there are thirty-nine history in dramatic form than to agree with
the learned Provost of King's College, Cam- illustrations, well chosen and well repro- his special praise. The subject is one of
bridge. The expense of the book has been 'duced.
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nowhere reached by these attempts to Harding (Col. T. Walter), TALES OF MAD- Roberts (Helen C. ), OLD BRENT'S DAUGHTER,
grapple with it. The figure-heads of history INGLEY, 6/ net.
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left a mystery.
little is known into a consecutive romance,
writers. She evidently confines herself to
Rippmann (Walter), DER SILBERNE SCHIL- the connecting link of which is an ancient
the life that she knows, and is no more
LING, AND OTHER TALES, & German house inhabited by the principal actors,
afraid of drawing ordinary people in a
Jane
Reader with Exercises.
Dent is an enterprise that might seem foredoomed country town than if she were
A good little book on the right lines. The to failure. Yet in the hands of Col. Harding Austen. Without exception her characters
questions which form the exercises are not
it has not failed. There is no literary
are well drawn—the children are a triumph
only ingenious and practical, but should dexterity about these tales, which are artless —and her humour does not lapse into ex-
also serve
as good models to the teacher. always and prolix sometimes, but succeed aggeration. True, her style has no indi-
We notice one or two misprints in the text: nevertheless in conveying the sentiment by viduality, but it is lucid, unaffected, and
a thing to be specially regretted in a reading which they were inspired. Evidently the agreeable to read. A writer so clear-eyed
book.
beautiful ľudor mansion which is now Col. and so loyal to reality should have a future.
Harding's has found an owner who knows Wallace (Edgar), PRIVATE SELBY, 6/
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