The versity Reform put forward in his famous
in the volume, which affords a compro- American edition became current in Eng; Memorandum.
in the volume, which affords a compro- American edition became current in Eng; Memorandum.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Gunther, 7/6 net.
John Murray
London Stories : BEING A COLLECTION OF
Mr. Gunther has collected in one volume
rise of the general level of prices; but it
THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF LON-
has yet to be shown that the assertion that
a series of
written
DONERS IN ALL Ages, edited by John last seventy years by Oxford men in the gold production determines price-level can
oLondon, Vol. II. , 6/
Jack periodicals, describing from one point of land, for example, the number of sovereigns
be applied outside certain limits. In Eng-
A popular mixture of all sorts. Like the
view or another the attractions of the
first volume, which we noticod on March 23rd, country round about the city. The beauty of
in circulation is not in direct proportion to
this one lacks revision and care in writing. Bagley Wood, the historical associations of period, and the quantity in circulation is
the amount of gold produced in any given
Thus on p. 205 we learn that “it is better Godstow Nunnery, Edgehill, or Chalgrove surely’a more potent factor in determining
to be accurate than picturesque," and on Field, the charm of the Cotswolds or the
p. 204, we find two famous lines given thus : Chilterns and the Windrush Valley, the Mr. Webb states his case trenchantly against
the level of prices than the absolute quantity.
Here, thou, great Anna ! Whom three nations obey, archæological interest of the Rollright Stones the finsacial methods of the India Ofice
, but
Dost sometimes counsel talk, and sometimes tea.
or Dorchester Camp-these and a hundred
We think it a pity that such casual work other features which constitute the rich and his suggestion, in so far as it is designed as a
should be put even before an undiscerning varied fascination of the Oxford country are prophylactic against industrial stagnation,
public.
is hardly convincing.
known to every scholar gipsy of our genera-
tion. But the country is paying the penalty
Napier (David), Engineer, 1790-1869 :
Education.
of its beauty and its fame. Perhaps even
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
Girls' School Year - Book (Public Schools),
NOTES, 10/ net.
some of these essayists themselves are re-
Glasgow, MacLehose
1912, 3/6 net.
This is a memoir, mainly by its subject's sponsible for the desecration they deplore in
own hand, of one of the pioneers of steam Poulton's
the haunts they lovingly describe. Mr. Story (The) of the People's College, Sheffield,
navigation who flourished from 1790 to
Geological Walk over Shotover 1842-78, compiled by G. C. Moore
1869. He claims to have made the first share Mr. Warde Fowler's Thoughts on
Hill? can do no_lasting harm, but to Smith, 2/6 net.
steamer that ran from Glasgow to Dublin, Boar's Hill is to stimulate the building
Sheffield, J. W. Northend
and thus crossed the open sea, as also the
The opening sentences of this small
, but
trade.
first steam carriage " for conveying pas-
important volume adequately describe the
gengers along the public roads. The book These things must be. The "new people ? lack of educational facilities for any except
is well printed and illustrated, the chief are spreading from Hinksey and Boar's Hill the well-to-do up to the period under
objection to it being that it is rather belated.
to Burford and the Chilterns. The red review. Mr. Moore Smith has presented a
Pedigree Register, JUNE, 2/6 net.
roofs of bungalows and villas begin to lucid account of an enterprising attempt
227, Strand
destroy the green-mufied " hills, oven to bring secondary education within the
to threaten Bagley Wood itself. The wild grasp of working men and women,
Wickham (Rev. J. D. C. ), RECORDS BY life, which several later essayists describe deed, the education provided might well be
SPADE AND TERRIER.
so well, tends to disappear as bricks and described as primary as well as secondary,
Bath, Gregory : London, Harrison mortar invade its solitudes. How swift for, although the People's College was open
The Rev. J. D. C. Wickham has chosen and sudden are the changes which the de- to 'adults only, many of those attending
a picturesque and homely title for the velopment of Oxford society brings upon the classes had had little or no previous
science of excavation. The remains of neo- Oxford country is well shown by Mr. education.
lithic man, and his followers of the Celtic, Macan's delightful record of the migrations To the Rev. R. S. Bayley, a Congrega:
Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon times, are of the Oxford golf links. Golfers were ever tional minister, the inception and practical
discussed. It is stated in the Introduction a nomad race; but never surely in the working of the scheme were due, and the
that terriers, which aro land registers, and history of the game have the members of author draws a vivid picture of the pare
usually glebo inventories -- are tithe - maps ! one club moved, by choice
or compulsion, sonality of the first Principal, and the
We have had an intimate acquaintance from course to course so rapidly: Now, if struggles of the College at the various critical
with every form of old parish document, we include the two that have been aban- periods of its existence.
especially in Somerset, and this is the doned at Headington and Hinksey, the
first time that we have heard such a word links within hail of Oxford, like the stars in (1842) there was general public apathy.
When the People's College was founded
some
460 pages purports to deal in the main with ' In an age of decay so rapid and development I the efforts of public authorities were feeble
For a considerable period after that date
:
AN
WITH
O
Year-Book Press
2
2
66
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severe.
6/
and sporadic. Yet this modest educational disillusionment. The unquestionable talent than the pulpit manner into which he some-
experiment was carried forward over and accomplishment of the author are not times lapses. Philip Du Cane, the keeper
period of thirty-six years, and during its steadied, as they might be, by adherence of the Bond Street emporium, is too obtuso
existence turned out many men who after to the realities of character and situation ; over his passion for a man of marked
wards distinguished themselves in various and this story, which begins in the manner commercial ability ; but otherwise his
spheres of usefulness.
of Gissing, concludes in that of the con- character is cleverly sketched.
The little volume includes various portraits ventional shocker. "
Kaye (Michael W. ), A Robin Hood OF
of those who were instrumental in carrying a Coppée (François), THE GUILTY MAN (LE
FRANCE, 6/
Stanley Paul
bold experiment to a successful conclusion. COUPABLE), translated by Ruth Helen Being out of favour with La Pompadour
Philology.
Davis, 6!
Greening and accused of murder, a young French
Like other authors of stories intended to courtier flees to the Forest of Fontainebleau,
Harrison (Honry), SURNAMES OF THE UNITED preach a moral, M. Coppée has driven home and establishes himself as leader of a band
.
Eaton Press
his point so hard as to tax the belief of of robbers. On the whole, the author's
his readers. The position of illegitimate style is readable enough, but he is prono
fiction.
children under the French law is admittedly to the melodramatic ; for instance, in one
Balzac (Honoré de), LOVE IN A Mask, 1/ net. cruel; and it is sadly probable that the place the hero's eyes "glinted like steel,”
Madame la Comtesso
Wo are informed that this novel, trans- conditions of their lives help to drive many and in another
lated for the first time into English, has of them into crime. But the succession of turned green with rage. '
been hitherto omitted from Balzac's pub- misfortunes accumulated upon the central Moberly (L. G. ), HIS LITTLE GIRL, 61
lished works. We can hardly wonder at figure of this tale is too unvarying and
Ward & Lock
it, for it by no means enhances his reputa-
The novel is carefully constructed
The title speaks for itself, and the author
tion. It is the story of a widow's caprice. Dis- -indeed, the lines of the scaffolding, are
is entirely unable to escape the sentimental
illusioned concerning matrimony
by her first unduly, perceptible - and there are no irre-
conventions. The little girl in question
venture she obtains by unorthodox means levancies, Ruth Helen Davis has made it is left in the care of the hero by a mother
the child she desires, and finally, touched by readable but American.
who dies in giving utterance to an uncom.
his sufferings, marries the man. It is as Co-Respondent (The), 6/ Murray & Evenden pleted sentence. The child has the inevitablo
flimsy and weak a tale as any in a popular
novel. The poverty of its composition is ful wife in the Divorce Court, with a sleep-
An unfaithful husband placing his faith- jewelled locket, and the handsome but
equalled by the stiffness and unreality of the walking major, mistaken for a ghost upon story. It is all related fluently-so fluently;
ful wife in the Divorce
Court, with a sleep sinister-looking gentleman with dark designs
on the said locket also finds a place in the
characters and their conversation.
Battersby (H. F. Prevost), THE LAST RESORT, these are the characters which predominate indeed, that one could wish the talent
exhibited had been better employed.
Lane in the little company of unnatural people
The author's sympathies are evidently who are made to discuss matters of sex Pain (Barry), STORIES WITHOUT TEARS, 6/
not with Liberal Governments. At a crisis in a dismal manner upon every possible and
Mills & Boon
Mark Sarroll, the honest soldier who, with many an impossible occasion.
Last January Mr. Pain filled his wallet
a handful of native troops, represents Croker (B. M. ), THE SERPENT's Tooth, 6!
with fresh
wares-many of them little
British influence over about seventy thou-
Hutchinson
tragedies in cameo. Unfortunately they did
sand square miles of African territory,
not agree with the other contents, of which
appeals to England for four thousand highly unpleasant and uninteresting
people ; pedlar, and the combination did not make
We are introduced by Mrs. Croker to some
Mr. Pain is & consummate and diverting
men within a month's time. The ar-
rogant Colonial Secretary,
“ himself con-
even the heroine is too vacillating to engage
& digestible whole. This time he has
stitutionally lacking in principle," only our sympathy. She marries a wealthy cad,
answers by summoning him home to talk and their daughter gives her cause to think returned to his accustomed genre, and dis-
of Lear's remark about ingratitude. Fin- Such a method as in his peculiar way he
ports himself with ease and flexibility.
the matter over ! Political wirepulling
ally, her husband-from whom she has long has perfected can do much with slight
attention ist held Tess by the unpleasant been divorced-dies, and she sails for India materials. He is the most amiable and irre-
Mrs. Heseltino
, whose drawing-room sent with the somewhat shadowy hero. The sponsible of raconteurs, but at his best an
least one Cabinet Minister loved to grace writing is occasionally careless.
accomplished craftsman. Finished trifling is
with his presence, than by the woman whom Frere (Edgar), REBELS, 6/
Drane perhaps too severe an expression for his
Sarroll eventually marries, and the girl
work which has undertones of a sage and
from the costume department of a big incompetent solicitors who decides to seek his ironic perception of human values and
. Besides, his work has a kind
racters are considerately conveyed to the fortune in the Colonies; his fiancée is a young
of spell. Mr. Pain is a Mephistopheles of
seat
of the trouble in Africa when the story self - supporting existence in London rather artistry shows here more gaps and seams
lady who chooses to lead an industrious and
literature, shorn of his terrors. His
necessitates the focussing of our attention
than be subject to the vagaries of a wealthy,
than in Eliza,' but he still wears his motley
leaves the besieged residency on hands but selfish and hypochondriacal mother, and
as a good fit, though perhaps it is becoming
and knees under the enemy's fire, in order Their vicissitudes provide the plot.
.
& trifle threadbare.
to bring the surgeon from the hospital to
amputate the arm of the man she wishes The author's quasi-humorous and realistic Parker (Sir Gilbert), DONOVAN PASHA AND
to marry-an idea which is bizarre enough.
style should have rendered superfluous the
SOME PEOPLE OF EGYPT, 7d, net.
Nelson
various time-worn artifices of the romantic
Bussell (Dorothea), The New Wood NYMPH, story-teller.
Reynolds (Stephen), How 'Twas, 5/ net.
6/
Stanley Paul
Macmillan
The wood nymph is apparently so called Glyn (Eleanor), HALCYONE, 6/ Duckworth
While much above the average in merit,
from her predilection for the New Forest, A story limpid and pleasant as the days Mr. Reynolds's short stories will not satisfy
described with much charm in these pages. of the immortal sea-bird's nesting are in those who are familiar with any of his longer
But she has other tastes of a more sophis: legend. Halcyone, elusive and adorable, a work. If we were asked for a reason for his
ticated order, “ expresses herself in clothes, maid of high degree, lives with her aunts comparative failure, we should assign it
becomes a student at a London college, and in elegant penury, sitting occasionally at the to the fact that his presentments are rather
shows a pretty turn for flirtation. Some feet of neighbour Chevron. Jason, a senior silhouettes than portraits. In his longer
of her adventures in this last field are disciple, bent on healing the people's ills by work we get his outlines from so many
audacious enough, yet she is throughout a means of a Tory party programme, is almost angles that we are at length familiarized
likeable young woman. Her more common- | captured by Medea, an American divorcée, with his types, and mistake familiarity for
place sister, and that sister's egoist hus- and has to suffer much for his error in intimacy. The best of the stories here
band, are in our opinion the best-drawn seeking aid from so evil a source before the have to do with fishing and fishermen,
characters. The scholarly caravanner carries loving dryad wins him.
subjects which he knows as well as any man
too strong a suggestion of a recent popular Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF ST. AN.
novel.
Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF Sr. And in England. He is so informative about
THONY, 6d, net.
Swift
them and their work that it is the more
Capes (Bernard), JESSIE BAZLEY, 6/
New edition.
provoking that we just fail to know the men
Constable
themselves.
Readers who once believed that in Mr. Holmes (Alec), THE EMPORIUM, 6/ Allen
Steward (B. D. ), TREASURE OF THULE, 6/
Bernard Capes they saw the making of a This mildly entertaining story is some-
Sidgwick & Jackson
distinguished and individual novelist have what disturbed by the introduction of a A radiant healthfulness both mental and
been somewhat disheartened by his later secret society and bombs. The author's physical, and a spirit of adventure which
writings, and 'Jessie Bazley will be a fresh conversational guise is more successful i might awaken enthusiasm oven in inveter-
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THE
ately bad sailors, pervade this "romance of one of the foremost among novelists envisag-
Orkney:" The three principal characters, ing American society. This novel deals
NOTES FROM OXFORD.
who all, as master, pupil, and old boy re- with a domestic tragedy in the mountains
spectively, “hail from a well-known public of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Wharton brings
“The Chancellor. . . . expressed his dis-
school, are spending their summer holidays in out clearly and strikingly the fatalism appointment that the progress made in
sailing a tiny boat among the Orkney islands. engendered by solitude, poverty, and the carrying out the proposals of 1909 had not
Before long, the simple nautical record is rigours of climate. The picture is well been more rapid. " So runs the official
complicated by the appearance of a Scotch drawn, and the treatment of emotion re-
account of Lord Curzon's answer to the
lawyer and a Danish professor, each pos- strained and effective.
Memorialists who put before him “certain
sessing a daughter; and it develops into &
considerations which suggest that the time
pleasing tale of treasure-hunting diversified
by love-making.
has come for the University itself to press
PROF. W. W. GOODWIN. upon the Government the expediency of
Taj, ZORAH, A TALE OF ZENANA LIFE, 6/
In William Watson Goodwin, who died appointing a University Commission. ”
Methuen in his 81st year in his home in Cambridge,
Who are the Memorialists! The list,
* Zorah’ is loss a story than a set of Mass. , in the early part of last week, the which is public property, has been carefully
descriptions strung upon a thin thread of world of letters has lost a great scholar and scanned by the supporters of things-as-they-
narrative. Many pages are devoted to
an inspiring personality.
are, and certain hard words have been
an exposition of Mohammedan precepts ;
Born in Concord in 1831, Goodwin, after used about those who appear therein. If
many others to an elaborate account of graduating at Harvard, studied for a time not for the most part notoriously evil
the ceremonies at a rich wedding.
character - drawing or construction the
in the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and livers, nevertheless many of them
writer has no power at all; but she Bonn, and took the Ph. D. degree at Göt- connected with institutions such as Balliol
succeeds in rendering
or New College, are given over to research
tingen in 1855. In 1860 he was recalled to
an atmosphere Harvard as Eliot Professor of Greek Lite-
and similar forms of intellectual debauchery,
curiously different from that of English rature, a post which he held until 1896.
and have even been known to sign petitions
novels about Indian life. Her command Even 'after he became Emeritus Professor for Reform before. How much solider and
she has a tiresome trick of using a pair occasional lectures, but during the last year
of our language is remarkable, although he continued for some years to deliver sounder the strong, silent men who constituto
our Boards—the wooden walls of old Oxford,
of synonyms in place of a single word.
or two failing health obliged him to refrain
as we proudly call them !
Verne (Jules), MICHAEL STROGOFF, from active work.
Besides, the Memorialists have displayed
COURIER OF THE CZAR, 6d. net. Nelson Goodwin went out to Athens in 1882 as --that is to say, have aped-moderation
the first Annual Director of the newly and even pụnctilio, in a way that none but
General.
founded American School of Classical Studies, the most scheming of revolutionaries would
and contributed to the first volume of School have taken thought to do. Instead of
Burdett's Hospitals and Charities, 1912, Papers an able account, based on careful appealing to the nation by way of the half-
10/6 net.
Scientific Press
local observation, of the positions and move- penny press, or threatening a general strike,
The present issue completes the twenty- ments of the two hostile floets at the Battle they merely laid their views before the
third year of publication, and includes the of Salamis.
Chancellor. Such conduct is extremely
latest figures available, those of 1910. A
mean. As Radicals of the worst type they
He is probably best known in this
special chapter is devoted to the National country as the author of a careful work on
must in their heart of hearts be obstinately
Insurance Act, and another to the United | the ‘Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the
set against Lord Curzon and all his works.
States, Canada, Australasia, and India. Greek Verb, which has had a lasting influ. friends and backers of the scheme of Uni-
Yet they represented themselves as the
Upwards of 6,000 institutions are dealt with once on the study of Greek grammar.
The versity Reform put forward in his famous
in the volume, which affords a compro- American edition became current in Eng; Memorandum. Thoy omitted to state
hensive view of the whole subject.
land in the early seventies, and a revised and though the fact must be known to them only
Robinson (Rosina), AIMS AND METHODS or
enlarged issue was published here by too well—that, in modern politics, an
Messrs. Macmillan in 1875. This work was
TEACHING, NEEDLEWORK, with a Preface followed in 1879 by a revised English edition arbitrator is appointed as a means of allay:
by Miss Susan Lawrence, 2/6 net. of his · Elementary Greek Grammar,' and of providing an impartial survey of the facts
Arnold
later by a 'School Greek Grammar. '
A shilling grant can no longer be earned three books still enjoy a considerable settlement. On the contrary, they treated the
All
and of attaining, thereby to a permanent
from the Board of Education in return for circulation. More recently he brought out Chancellor's suggestions as seriously meant;
one single garment and certain prescribed in America an elaborate edition of Demos-
samples, but the results of a discarded thenes de Corona' and of the oration against it, as follow-conspirator with themselves.
thus branding him, had he but perceived
system may be seen in the too-prevalent Meidias. In all these works the author
teaching of needlework as the art of stitch: showed not only a grasp of the minutiæ of him that he was for the moment surprised
So insidiously, in fact, did they approach
ing, and not of construction. Many highly Greek scholarship, but also insight into the into taking a serious view of himself, his
skilled in “ fancy” work are possessed with modes of Greek thought and understanding position, and his proposals
. In his haste
a mysterious fear of cutting out in inaterial.
of the Greek genius.
Anything, which tends to encourage the
he declared that "he claimed to be a Liberal,
construction of clothes as an intellectual
During the course of his long life Goodwin and even an advanced Reformer, in respect
exercise, as the systematic course sketched received the highest academic honours, of the University. " Thus do evil com.
here must do, relegating mere stitching to a including the LL. D. degrees of Cambridge munications corrupt good manners.
subordinate place, is valuable, not only as
and Edinburgh, and the Oxford D. C. L. In
Worst of all, the Memorialists, having
a means to a good end, but also as helping 1904 he became an honorary member of the
been told by Lord Curzon that he thought
incidentally to mitigate the evils of defective Hellenic Society.
it at the present juncture inopportune to
eyesight, which, statisticians tell us, is more Goodwin paid many visits to this country, press for a Royal Commission, have appa-
common among girls than boys.
and was held in affection and esteem by rently acquiesced in this policy: Having
many of our leading scholars, including said their say, they have decided to make
Royal Statistical Society Journal, JUNE, 2/6 such men as Sir Richard Jebb and Prof. no further move for the moment. There is
The Society Henry Jackson. Indeed, it was impossible something sinister in this show of self-
Smith (Thomas), EVERYBODY'S GUIDE TO
to know him without being attracted by his restraint. Honest Reformers would at least
THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1) net.
transparent simplicity of character and his have smashed the Chancellor's windows.
All
the regulations and forms recently personal charm. His massive head recalled Not to have done so argues a base intention
issued by the Insurance Cominissioners have
the type of the Olympian Zeus.
to inculpate him as a partisan and leader of
been incorporated in the second edition of New England descent and of his connexion
Goodwin was always proud of his pure window-smashers.
this useful handbook.
To return to the Chancellor's expression
with the town of Plymouth, where his ancestor of disappointment that so little has been
FOREIGN.
had landed from the Mayflower. Year after done, as the fruit of three years' internal
year lie spent his summers on an island in reform, we have the Faculty and Finance
fiction
Plymouth Bay, where he devoted himself Acts. Neither of these can be said to
Wharton (Edith), Sous LA NEIGE, 3fr. 50.
to his favourite pastime of yachting.
embody at all fully the principles originally
Paris, Plon-Nourrit Though it is some ten years since he formulated by Lord Curzon. The first
It was M. Paul Bourget who first recog- last came to England, Goodwin's death will measure leaves the Boards of separato
nized in Mrs. Wharton an author of promise, bo mourned here by many who valued his Faculties much as they were before, but,
and since the publication of Chez les friendship and appreciated his exceptional having abolished the old Delegacy of the
Heureux du Monde: she has taken rank as gifts.
T. Common Fund, which worked very well,
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sets up in its place a General Board of the mode of thought. In practice, however, male candidates for a Diploma ; the women,
Faculties, which, in regard to the pecuniary the representation of the University of meanwhile, have no such difficulties to
support of research and the newer studies, Oxford has usually left much to be desired. face, since a fee of 58. a term admits them
may or may not work as well. The best Such a burgess As Sir William Anson shows to their register. Some rich man is needed to
that can be said for it is that it ought to the system at its best, because, whatever put down 10,0001. or even 5,0001. to start a
relieve Council of a good deal of rather his political convictions may be, he stands Diploma College for men. Here a body of
niggling business concerning examinations primarily for an authority on educational post-graduate or virtually post-graduate
and the like. The second measure, though matters, and as such has every Oxford man students would band together for work on
well meant, is purely permissive in its pro- behind him. But too often the merest party modern and specialized lines. In particular,
visions, supplying the University and the politician, sometimes brilliant, sometimes it would be possible for them, under existing
Colleges with financial advisers whose advice obscure, has sat for this University. The conditions, to take a two years' course in
need not be taken.
politician in question, of course, was guilt. Social Science, the first year's work consisting
What of the immediate future? Certain less in this matter ; a seat is always a seat. in Anthropo-geography and Social Anthro-
constitutional reforms appear in next term's But the electors, by failing to keep the Uni. pology, the second year's in Economics and
programme. In the first place, Council is to yersity clear of the party machine, have Political Theory. These things are gradu.
be democratized. Neither the Head of a largely themselves to blame if those who ally coming of their own accord, but, as I
House, nor the Professor, will henceforth have temporary control of the aforesaid have suggested, an enlightened benefactor
be elected as a representative of his special machine propose to cast the University might cause them to arrive quickly.
order, but, if at all, as a citizen and an equal. vote, as if it were a piece of old iron, upon Meanwhile, the enlightened benefactor
No longer, when things go wrong, as even
the scrap . heap.
is no dream, but a reality. Mr. Walter
under a democratic system they are apt When the measures affecting the constitu. Morrison, of Balliol, has recently given the
to do, will it be possible to find the cause tion of the University have been settled, the University no less than 30,0001. to be
in the feebleness of a “gerontocracy. ” If question of degrees for women will have to be expended on various excellent objects. Cor-
we still persist in choosing our senators fought out. The first annual report of the porations, too, no less than individuals can
from amongst those whose infirmity it is to Delegacy for Women Students, constituted be generous. It is rumoured that a wealthy
take their pleasure chiefly in retrospect, in November, 1910, was published in the College has undertaken to make itself ro.
then on our own heads be the blame.
Gazette at the beginning of this term, and sponsible for the new Engineering Depart.
ment; which, if true, would mean that the
Secondly—and this change, if it come provides some interesting facts and figures.
about, may prove in the long run the con-
It appears that the registered women stu. future of that important interest is suffi-
ciently secure.
M,
dition of many other vital changes-Con- dents, entitled as such to admission to any
of the University examinations in arts or
grogation is to be purged. The sleeping
music, amounted in the course of 1911
partner, the man who
pernoctates
within a mile and a half of Carfax, but in his
to 366, the sacred number associated with
waking hours has neither part 'nor lot in leap year, and hence of good omen when it is
the work of University education, is to be
a case of woman proposing and man dis.
eliminated. Vested interests, however, will
posing. Of these students, 93 belong to
THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE,
Somerville College, 74 to Lady Margaret
be respected, so that only with the lapse of
1497-1800.
years will the educational experts have Hall, 51 to St. Hugh's College, and 48 to
the chance of expressing a truly repre.
St. Hilda's Hall. The rest, numbering just THE promotors of the exhibition of
sentative opinion.
over a hundred, form the Society of Oxford English books and broadsides, with other
Home-Students. This body, by the way,
Thirdly, the bold but perfectly legitimate has a Principal in the person of Mrs. John-trade, held this week in Stationers' Hall,
documents throwing light on the book.
step of allowing the experts to have the last son, whose freely given services have made will have rendered a great service if they
word in regard to purely educational matters this effective organization what it is. But it convince the collector that, although the
is apparently not to be taken. On the
has at present no educational staff of its supply of Caxtons and Wynkyn de Wordes
contrary, a scheme is announced for pro.
own, and stands in urgent need of endow. is nearly exhausted, there remain for him
viding a special poll of Convocation "in
ment, at any rate to the extent of some a large number of almost untouched fields.
respect of any proposed Statute or Decree provision for a salaried Principal to take There has been, of course, always a market
which in its final form has been approved Mrs. Johnson's place whenever the duties for first editions of Shakespeare, Milton,
by Congregation. ” A hundred members of her office become too much for her strength, Spenser, Walton, Browne, and a few famous
of Congregation must proffer a request for Now these 366 students, whose doings occupy books, but the variety of the exhibits
such a poll within a certain time; and there the pages of that chastest of periodicals, will be a revelation to all but a few biblio.
upon arrangements will be made for holding the University Gazette, have foot graphical experts. All the books, with the
a three days' poll, every voter to attend in inside the door ; and if anything gives way ption of those lent by Lord Crawford,
person, and to give his vote in writing. In it will be the door. By way of putting off Mr. Littleton, and the St.
Bride Foundation,
this context it is to be noted that a statute the evil day of complete equality, there is are selected from the stock of the leading
was passed this term which makes a sub-
some talk of throwing Atalanta an apple antiquarian booksellers, and described by
stantial reduction in the composition fees in the shape of a gracious permission to do themselves. Of a few no other copies are
payable to the University by Masters of the work for our Research Degrees, though at present known, and many are of the
Arts. Those under forty years of age will not to receive the degrees themselves by way highest possible rarity,
pay only 101. , those between forty and of reward privilege which, of course, Mr. Barnard shows a few choice books and
fifty 76. 108. , and those over fifty 51. It is ought to have been conceded to women ages a fragment of one of Fulwell's Enterludes,
hoped by these changes to bring about ago. But Atalanta is heard to say that which may have been printed by John Day.
a correspondingly substantial increase in the she is not to be fooled twice.
Mr. Blackwell has a good collection of
numbers of Convocation. Every College will A statute was before Congregation this Oxford books, and Messrs. Bowes of Cam.
in common decency bo bound to second this term which, mainly for disciplinary pur bridge ones.
Messrs. Ellis show some very
policy by lowering its scale of charges to a
poses, would institute a register of Diploma rare books containing music. Mr. Leighton
like extent. But will many graduates take Students. All these students must hence- seems to be one of the largest exhibitors,
advantage of the new terms, and place their forth be members of the University, unless mainly of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-
names on the College books! The chances they belong to certain favoured classes such century books, most of them fine copies and
are that many will. Such attractive force
as officers of the public services, or graduates of great intrinsic interest. Messrs. Maggs
as manifests itself will, however, lie rather of other Universities, or members of Ruskin exhibit some valuable first editions; and
in pure loyalty to College and University College. This need of joining the University Messrs. Pickering & Chatto, Mr. Robson, and
than in any desire to take a part in polls of may press somewhat hardly on men taking Mr. Sabin are little inferior to Mr. Leighton
Convocation and the like. Even if the
& more or less short course of special study ; in the number and value of their treasures.
Parliamentary vote is taken away from us, for joining the University, under our present Mr. Quaritch and Mr. Tregaskis lend each
the roll of Convocation is not likely to be system, means likewise joining a College or of them a fow of the rarest books in the
much affected.
the non-collegiate body, and this at present exhibition, and Messrs. Stevens show somo
Touching this same matter of the Par. rates is apt to prove expensive. One College, fine Americana. The catalogue is well
liamentary vote, there is plenty to be said, however, has already made it possible for compiled and indexed, and is on the whole
from the standpoint of theory, for giving those who are accepted by a Diploma remarkably free from mistakes, though there
the great Universities of the country, one Committee to join as Special Students, are misdescriptions of proclamations, &c.
and all, the status of constituencies, even without the privileges of ordinary member. We hope that the Committee will be re-
if this runs counter to the territorial prin ship, at a more or less nominal charge ; warded for the evident pains they have
ciple. As M. Bergson would say, the Govern- and it is to be hoped that the University taken in getting up this admirable and
ment, in applying spatial metaphor to the will soon devise a reduced matriculation completo exhibition by a renewal of popular
things of the soul is guilty of a vulgar 'fee for this worthy and increasing class of interest in the work thoy bave showa.
one
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considerable number of English news-
HOW DID THUCYDIDES WRITE Literary Gossip.
papers and periodicals. Attached to the
NUMBERS ?
In the most recent number (May, 1917, his Ministers on their recognition of Mr. ing for the old armour worn by Kathiawar
We heartily congratulate the King and library is a museum, particularly interest
of The Journal of Hellenic Studies there is
a very elaborate and learned article by Mr. E. T. Cook's valuable contributions to chieftains in former times. Part of the
Guy Dickins on Spartan history, in the letters by the bestowal of a Knighthood. museum's collection was lent to the
course of which he comes to treat of the date our pages bear abundant evidence of his Exhibition of Old Bombay held in honour
of King Kleomenes, which rests on a story work, and on the 8th inst. we paid a well- of the Imperial visit to India last year.
in Herodotus as to the origin of the Platæan merited tribute to his authoritative “MARK TIME," the author of that
alliance with Athens, and a remark of
Thucydides, whose text (as we have it)
edition of Ruskin. His career both as clever work · A Derelict Empire,' is Mr.
says that this alliance lasted 93 years, tili editor of newspapers and writer of books H. C. Irwin, an ex-member of the Indian
the destruction of Platæa by the Spartans shows his versatility.
Civil Service. Thirty years ago he pub-
(428 B. c. ). That would make Kleomenes THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS has orga- lished “The Garden of India; or, Chap-
already King of Sparta in 521 B. c. , to which nized a course of instruction, comprising ters on Oudh History and Affairs,' *
Grote saw grave objections, and suggested tutorial classes, lectures, and practical delightful account of a great Indian
that we should read 83 for 93. How were
those figures written in Thucydides's original work, in Social Organization and Public province.
text ? Mr. Dickins cites two gentlemen Service. The course, extending over one
MR. HEINEMANN announces a new book
who have re-edited Grote's history and year, will lead up to a University diploma, of essays by Mr. John Galsworthy,
reject the great man's suggestion, but who but parts of it can be taken separately. entitled The Inn of Tranquillity. It
do not give us the appearance of the figures.
He himself does (p. 28), and from the evi: Oxford, and Mr. R. S. Dower of Trinity Motley.
Mr. Henry Clay of University College, will be uniform with his former book, ' A
dence quoted by Mr. Dickins in his article
it appears that some of them imagine College, Cambridge, have been appointed THE MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thucydides wrote out his figures as they University lecturers, with special reference are publishing this week 'Old Towns
appear in contemporary Attic inscriptions, to these new courses. Prof. Macgregor and New Needs,' by Mr. Paul Waterhouse,
so that the omission of a A would make the will be in charge of the scheme, and and The Town Extension Plan,' by Mr.
necessary change.
London Stories : BEING A COLLECTION OF
Mr. Gunther has collected in one volume
rise of the general level of prices; but it
THE LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF LON-
has yet to be shown that the assertion that
a series of
written
DONERS IN ALL Ages, edited by John last seventy years by Oxford men in the gold production determines price-level can
oLondon, Vol. II. , 6/
Jack periodicals, describing from one point of land, for example, the number of sovereigns
be applied outside certain limits. In Eng-
A popular mixture of all sorts. Like the
view or another the attractions of the
first volume, which we noticod on March 23rd, country round about the city. The beauty of
in circulation is not in direct proportion to
this one lacks revision and care in writing. Bagley Wood, the historical associations of period, and the quantity in circulation is
the amount of gold produced in any given
Thus on p. 205 we learn that “it is better Godstow Nunnery, Edgehill, or Chalgrove surely’a more potent factor in determining
to be accurate than picturesque," and on Field, the charm of the Cotswolds or the
p. 204, we find two famous lines given thus : Chilterns and the Windrush Valley, the Mr. Webb states his case trenchantly against
the level of prices than the absolute quantity.
Here, thou, great Anna ! Whom three nations obey, archæological interest of the Rollright Stones the finsacial methods of the India Ofice
, but
Dost sometimes counsel talk, and sometimes tea.
or Dorchester Camp-these and a hundred
We think it a pity that such casual work other features which constitute the rich and his suggestion, in so far as it is designed as a
should be put even before an undiscerning varied fascination of the Oxford country are prophylactic against industrial stagnation,
public.
is hardly convincing.
known to every scholar gipsy of our genera-
tion. But the country is paying the penalty
Napier (David), Engineer, 1790-1869 :
Education.
of its beauty and its fame. Perhaps even
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH,
Girls' School Year - Book (Public Schools),
NOTES, 10/ net.
some of these essayists themselves are re-
Glasgow, MacLehose
1912, 3/6 net.
This is a memoir, mainly by its subject's sponsible for the desecration they deplore in
own hand, of one of the pioneers of steam Poulton's
the haunts they lovingly describe. Mr. Story (The) of the People's College, Sheffield,
navigation who flourished from 1790 to
Geological Walk over Shotover 1842-78, compiled by G. C. Moore
1869. He claims to have made the first share Mr. Warde Fowler's Thoughts on
Hill? can do no_lasting harm, but to Smith, 2/6 net.
steamer that ran from Glasgow to Dublin, Boar's Hill is to stimulate the building
Sheffield, J. W. Northend
and thus crossed the open sea, as also the
The opening sentences of this small
, but
trade.
first steam carriage " for conveying pas-
important volume adequately describe the
gengers along the public roads. The book These things must be. The "new people ? lack of educational facilities for any except
is well printed and illustrated, the chief are spreading from Hinksey and Boar's Hill the well-to-do up to the period under
objection to it being that it is rather belated.
to Burford and the Chilterns. The red review. Mr. Moore Smith has presented a
Pedigree Register, JUNE, 2/6 net.
roofs of bungalows and villas begin to lucid account of an enterprising attempt
227, Strand
destroy the green-mufied " hills, oven to bring secondary education within the
to threaten Bagley Wood itself. The wild grasp of working men and women,
Wickham (Rev. J. D. C. ), RECORDS BY life, which several later essayists describe deed, the education provided might well be
SPADE AND TERRIER.
so well, tends to disappear as bricks and described as primary as well as secondary,
Bath, Gregory : London, Harrison mortar invade its solitudes. How swift for, although the People's College was open
The Rev. J. D. C. Wickham has chosen and sudden are the changes which the de- to 'adults only, many of those attending
a picturesque and homely title for the velopment of Oxford society brings upon the classes had had little or no previous
science of excavation. The remains of neo- Oxford country is well shown by Mr. education.
lithic man, and his followers of the Celtic, Macan's delightful record of the migrations To the Rev. R. S. Bayley, a Congrega:
Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon times, are of the Oxford golf links. Golfers were ever tional minister, the inception and practical
discussed. It is stated in the Introduction a nomad race; but never surely in the working of the scheme were due, and the
that terriers, which aro land registers, and history of the game have the members of author draws a vivid picture of the pare
usually glebo inventories -- are tithe - maps ! one club moved, by choice
or compulsion, sonality of the first Principal, and the
We have had an intimate acquaintance from course to course so rapidly: Now, if struggles of the College at the various critical
with every form of old parish document, we include the two that have been aban- periods of its existence.
especially in Somerset, and this is the doned at Headington and Hinksey, the
first time that we have heard such a word links within hail of Oxford, like the stars in (1842) there was general public apathy.
When the People's College was founded
some
460 pages purports to deal in the main with ' In an age of decay so rapid and development I the efforts of public authorities were feeble
For a considerable period after that date
:
AN
WITH
O
Year-Book Press
2
2
66
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severe.
6/
and sporadic. Yet this modest educational disillusionment. The unquestionable talent than the pulpit manner into which he some-
experiment was carried forward over and accomplishment of the author are not times lapses. Philip Du Cane, the keeper
period of thirty-six years, and during its steadied, as they might be, by adherence of the Bond Street emporium, is too obtuso
existence turned out many men who after to the realities of character and situation ; over his passion for a man of marked
wards distinguished themselves in various and this story, which begins in the manner commercial ability ; but otherwise his
spheres of usefulness.
of Gissing, concludes in that of the con- character is cleverly sketched.
The little volume includes various portraits ventional shocker. "
Kaye (Michael W. ), A Robin Hood OF
of those who were instrumental in carrying a Coppée (François), THE GUILTY MAN (LE
FRANCE, 6/
Stanley Paul
bold experiment to a successful conclusion. COUPABLE), translated by Ruth Helen Being out of favour with La Pompadour
Philology.
Davis, 6!
Greening and accused of murder, a young French
Like other authors of stories intended to courtier flees to the Forest of Fontainebleau,
Harrison (Honry), SURNAMES OF THE UNITED preach a moral, M. Coppée has driven home and establishes himself as leader of a band
.
Eaton Press
his point so hard as to tax the belief of of robbers. On the whole, the author's
his readers. The position of illegitimate style is readable enough, but he is prono
fiction.
children under the French law is admittedly to the melodramatic ; for instance, in one
Balzac (Honoré de), LOVE IN A Mask, 1/ net. cruel; and it is sadly probable that the place the hero's eyes "glinted like steel,”
Madame la Comtesso
Wo are informed that this novel, trans- conditions of their lives help to drive many and in another
lated for the first time into English, has of them into crime. But the succession of turned green with rage. '
been hitherto omitted from Balzac's pub- misfortunes accumulated upon the central Moberly (L. G. ), HIS LITTLE GIRL, 61
lished works. We can hardly wonder at figure of this tale is too unvarying and
Ward & Lock
it, for it by no means enhances his reputa-
The novel is carefully constructed
The title speaks for itself, and the author
tion. It is the story of a widow's caprice. Dis- -indeed, the lines of the scaffolding, are
is entirely unable to escape the sentimental
illusioned concerning matrimony
by her first unduly, perceptible - and there are no irre-
conventions. The little girl in question
venture she obtains by unorthodox means levancies, Ruth Helen Davis has made it is left in the care of the hero by a mother
the child she desires, and finally, touched by readable but American.
who dies in giving utterance to an uncom.
his sufferings, marries the man. It is as Co-Respondent (The), 6/ Murray & Evenden pleted sentence. The child has the inevitablo
flimsy and weak a tale as any in a popular
novel. The poverty of its composition is ful wife in the Divorce Court, with a sleep-
An unfaithful husband placing his faith- jewelled locket, and the handsome but
equalled by the stiffness and unreality of the walking major, mistaken for a ghost upon story. It is all related fluently-so fluently;
ful wife in the Divorce
Court, with a sleep sinister-looking gentleman with dark designs
on the said locket also finds a place in the
characters and their conversation.
Battersby (H. F. Prevost), THE LAST RESORT, these are the characters which predominate indeed, that one could wish the talent
exhibited had been better employed.
Lane in the little company of unnatural people
The author's sympathies are evidently who are made to discuss matters of sex Pain (Barry), STORIES WITHOUT TEARS, 6/
not with Liberal Governments. At a crisis in a dismal manner upon every possible and
Mills & Boon
Mark Sarroll, the honest soldier who, with many an impossible occasion.
Last January Mr. Pain filled his wallet
a handful of native troops, represents Croker (B. M. ), THE SERPENT's Tooth, 6!
with fresh
wares-many of them little
British influence over about seventy thou-
Hutchinson
tragedies in cameo. Unfortunately they did
sand square miles of African territory,
not agree with the other contents, of which
appeals to England for four thousand highly unpleasant and uninteresting
people ; pedlar, and the combination did not make
We are introduced by Mrs. Croker to some
Mr. Pain is & consummate and diverting
men within a month's time. The ar-
rogant Colonial Secretary,
“ himself con-
even the heroine is too vacillating to engage
& digestible whole. This time he has
stitutionally lacking in principle," only our sympathy. She marries a wealthy cad,
answers by summoning him home to talk and their daughter gives her cause to think returned to his accustomed genre, and dis-
of Lear's remark about ingratitude. Fin- Such a method as in his peculiar way he
ports himself with ease and flexibility.
the matter over ! Political wirepulling
ally, her husband-from whom she has long has perfected can do much with slight
attention ist held Tess by the unpleasant been divorced-dies, and she sails for India materials. He is the most amiable and irre-
Mrs. Heseltino
, whose drawing-room sent with the somewhat shadowy hero. The sponsible of raconteurs, but at his best an
least one Cabinet Minister loved to grace writing is occasionally careless.
accomplished craftsman. Finished trifling is
with his presence, than by the woman whom Frere (Edgar), REBELS, 6/
Drane perhaps too severe an expression for his
Sarroll eventually marries, and the girl
work which has undertones of a sage and
from the costume department of a big incompetent solicitors who decides to seek his ironic perception of human values and
. Besides, his work has a kind
racters are considerately conveyed to the fortune in the Colonies; his fiancée is a young
of spell. Mr. Pain is a Mephistopheles of
seat
of the trouble in Africa when the story self - supporting existence in London rather artistry shows here more gaps and seams
lady who chooses to lead an industrious and
literature, shorn of his terrors. His
necessitates the focussing of our attention
than be subject to the vagaries of a wealthy,
than in Eliza,' but he still wears his motley
leaves the besieged residency on hands but selfish and hypochondriacal mother, and
as a good fit, though perhaps it is becoming
and knees under the enemy's fire, in order Their vicissitudes provide the plot.
.
& trifle threadbare.
to bring the surgeon from the hospital to
amputate the arm of the man she wishes The author's quasi-humorous and realistic Parker (Sir Gilbert), DONOVAN PASHA AND
to marry-an idea which is bizarre enough.
style should have rendered superfluous the
SOME PEOPLE OF EGYPT, 7d, net.
Nelson
various time-worn artifices of the romantic
Bussell (Dorothea), The New Wood NYMPH, story-teller.
Reynolds (Stephen), How 'Twas, 5/ net.
6/
Stanley Paul
Macmillan
The wood nymph is apparently so called Glyn (Eleanor), HALCYONE, 6/ Duckworth
While much above the average in merit,
from her predilection for the New Forest, A story limpid and pleasant as the days Mr. Reynolds's short stories will not satisfy
described with much charm in these pages. of the immortal sea-bird's nesting are in those who are familiar with any of his longer
But she has other tastes of a more sophis: legend. Halcyone, elusive and adorable, a work. If we were asked for a reason for his
ticated order, “ expresses herself in clothes, maid of high degree, lives with her aunts comparative failure, we should assign it
becomes a student at a London college, and in elegant penury, sitting occasionally at the to the fact that his presentments are rather
shows a pretty turn for flirtation. Some feet of neighbour Chevron. Jason, a senior silhouettes than portraits. In his longer
of her adventures in this last field are disciple, bent on healing the people's ills by work we get his outlines from so many
audacious enough, yet she is throughout a means of a Tory party programme, is almost angles that we are at length familiarized
likeable young woman. Her more common- | captured by Medea, an American divorcée, with his types, and mistake familiarity for
place sister, and that sister's egoist hus- and has to suffer much for his error in intimacy. The best of the stories here
band, are in our opinion the best-drawn seeking aid from so evil a source before the have to do with fishing and fishermen,
characters. The scholarly caravanner carries loving dryad wins him.
subjects which he knows as well as any man
too strong a suggestion of a recent popular Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF ST. AN.
novel.
Granville (Charles), THE GIFT OF Sr. And in England. He is so informative about
THONY, 6d, net.
Swift
them and their work that it is the more
Capes (Bernard), JESSIE BAZLEY, 6/
New edition.
provoking that we just fail to know the men
Constable
themselves.
Readers who once believed that in Mr. Holmes (Alec), THE EMPORIUM, 6/ Allen
Steward (B. D. ), TREASURE OF THULE, 6/
Bernard Capes they saw the making of a This mildly entertaining story is some-
Sidgwick & Jackson
distinguished and individual novelist have what disturbed by the introduction of a A radiant healthfulness both mental and
been somewhat disheartened by his later secret society and bombs. The author's physical, and a spirit of adventure which
writings, and 'Jessie Bazley will be a fresh conversational guise is more successful i might awaken enthusiasm oven in inveter-
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are
THE
ately bad sailors, pervade this "romance of one of the foremost among novelists envisag-
Orkney:" The three principal characters, ing American society. This novel deals
NOTES FROM OXFORD.
who all, as master, pupil, and old boy re- with a domestic tragedy in the mountains
spectively, “hail from a well-known public of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Wharton brings
“The Chancellor. . . . expressed his dis-
school, are spending their summer holidays in out clearly and strikingly the fatalism appointment that the progress made in
sailing a tiny boat among the Orkney islands. engendered by solitude, poverty, and the carrying out the proposals of 1909 had not
Before long, the simple nautical record is rigours of climate. The picture is well been more rapid. " So runs the official
complicated by the appearance of a Scotch drawn, and the treatment of emotion re-
account of Lord Curzon's answer to the
lawyer and a Danish professor, each pos- strained and effective.
Memorialists who put before him “certain
sessing a daughter; and it develops into &
considerations which suggest that the time
pleasing tale of treasure-hunting diversified
by love-making.
has come for the University itself to press
PROF. W. W. GOODWIN. upon the Government the expediency of
Taj, ZORAH, A TALE OF ZENANA LIFE, 6/
In William Watson Goodwin, who died appointing a University Commission. ”
Methuen in his 81st year in his home in Cambridge,
Who are the Memorialists! The list,
* Zorah’ is loss a story than a set of Mass. , in the early part of last week, the which is public property, has been carefully
descriptions strung upon a thin thread of world of letters has lost a great scholar and scanned by the supporters of things-as-they-
narrative. Many pages are devoted to
an inspiring personality.
are, and certain hard words have been
an exposition of Mohammedan precepts ;
Born in Concord in 1831, Goodwin, after used about those who appear therein. If
many others to an elaborate account of graduating at Harvard, studied for a time not for the most part notoriously evil
the ceremonies at a rich wedding.
character - drawing or construction the
in the Universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and livers, nevertheless many of them
writer has no power at all; but she Bonn, and took the Ph. D. degree at Göt- connected with institutions such as Balliol
succeeds in rendering
or New College, are given over to research
tingen in 1855. In 1860 he was recalled to
an atmosphere Harvard as Eliot Professor of Greek Lite-
and similar forms of intellectual debauchery,
curiously different from that of English rature, a post which he held until 1896.
and have even been known to sign petitions
novels about Indian life. Her command Even 'after he became Emeritus Professor for Reform before. How much solider and
she has a tiresome trick of using a pair occasional lectures, but during the last year
of our language is remarkable, although he continued for some years to deliver sounder the strong, silent men who constituto
our Boards—the wooden walls of old Oxford,
of synonyms in place of a single word.
or two failing health obliged him to refrain
as we proudly call them !
Verne (Jules), MICHAEL STROGOFF, from active work.
Besides, the Memorialists have displayed
COURIER OF THE CZAR, 6d. net. Nelson Goodwin went out to Athens in 1882 as --that is to say, have aped-moderation
the first Annual Director of the newly and even pụnctilio, in a way that none but
General.
founded American School of Classical Studies, the most scheming of revolutionaries would
and contributed to the first volume of School have taken thought to do. Instead of
Burdett's Hospitals and Charities, 1912, Papers an able account, based on careful appealing to the nation by way of the half-
10/6 net.
Scientific Press
local observation, of the positions and move- penny press, or threatening a general strike,
The present issue completes the twenty- ments of the two hostile floets at the Battle they merely laid their views before the
third year of publication, and includes the of Salamis.
Chancellor. Such conduct is extremely
latest figures available, those of 1910. A
mean. As Radicals of the worst type they
He is probably best known in this
special chapter is devoted to the National country as the author of a careful work on
must in their heart of hearts be obstinately
Insurance Act, and another to the United | the ‘Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the
set against Lord Curzon and all his works.
States, Canada, Australasia, and India. Greek Verb, which has had a lasting influ. friends and backers of the scheme of Uni-
Yet they represented themselves as the
Upwards of 6,000 institutions are dealt with once on the study of Greek grammar.
The versity Reform put forward in his famous
in the volume, which affords a compro- American edition became current in Eng; Memorandum. Thoy omitted to state
hensive view of the whole subject.
land in the early seventies, and a revised and though the fact must be known to them only
Robinson (Rosina), AIMS AND METHODS or
enlarged issue was published here by too well—that, in modern politics, an
Messrs. Macmillan in 1875. This work was
TEACHING, NEEDLEWORK, with a Preface followed in 1879 by a revised English edition arbitrator is appointed as a means of allay:
by Miss Susan Lawrence, 2/6 net. of his · Elementary Greek Grammar,' and of providing an impartial survey of the facts
Arnold
later by a 'School Greek Grammar. '
A shilling grant can no longer be earned three books still enjoy a considerable settlement. On the contrary, they treated the
All
and of attaining, thereby to a permanent
from the Board of Education in return for circulation. More recently he brought out Chancellor's suggestions as seriously meant;
one single garment and certain prescribed in America an elaborate edition of Demos-
samples, but the results of a discarded thenes de Corona' and of the oration against it, as follow-conspirator with themselves.
thus branding him, had he but perceived
system may be seen in the too-prevalent Meidias. In all these works the author
teaching of needlework as the art of stitch: showed not only a grasp of the minutiæ of him that he was for the moment surprised
So insidiously, in fact, did they approach
ing, and not of construction. Many highly Greek scholarship, but also insight into the into taking a serious view of himself, his
skilled in “ fancy” work are possessed with modes of Greek thought and understanding position, and his proposals
. In his haste
a mysterious fear of cutting out in inaterial.
of the Greek genius.
Anything, which tends to encourage the
he declared that "he claimed to be a Liberal,
construction of clothes as an intellectual
During the course of his long life Goodwin and even an advanced Reformer, in respect
exercise, as the systematic course sketched received the highest academic honours, of the University. " Thus do evil com.
here must do, relegating mere stitching to a including the LL. D. degrees of Cambridge munications corrupt good manners.
subordinate place, is valuable, not only as
and Edinburgh, and the Oxford D. C. L. In
Worst of all, the Memorialists, having
a means to a good end, but also as helping 1904 he became an honorary member of the
been told by Lord Curzon that he thought
incidentally to mitigate the evils of defective Hellenic Society.
it at the present juncture inopportune to
eyesight, which, statisticians tell us, is more Goodwin paid many visits to this country, press for a Royal Commission, have appa-
common among girls than boys.
and was held in affection and esteem by rently acquiesced in this policy: Having
many of our leading scholars, including said their say, they have decided to make
Royal Statistical Society Journal, JUNE, 2/6 such men as Sir Richard Jebb and Prof. no further move for the moment. There is
The Society Henry Jackson. Indeed, it was impossible something sinister in this show of self-
Smith (Thomas), EVERYBODY'S GUIDE TO
to know him without being attracted by his restraint. Honest Reformers would at least
THE NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1) net.
transparent simplicity of character and his have smashed the Chancellor's windows.
All
the regulations and forms recently personal charm. His massive head recalled Not to have done so argues a base intention
issued by the Insurance Cominissioners have
the type of the Olympian Zeus.
to inculpate him as a partisan and leader of
been incorporated in the second edition of New England descent and of his connexion
Goodwin was always proud of his pure window-smashers.
this useful handbook.
To return to the Chancellor's expression
with the town of Plymouth, where his ancestor of disappointment that so little has been
FOREIGN.
had landed from the Mayflower. Year after done, as the fruit of three years' internal
year lie spent his summers on an island in reform, we have the Faculty and Finance
fiction
Plymouth Bay, where he devoted himself Acts. Neither of these can be said to
Wharton (Edith), Sous LA NEIGE, 3fr. 50.
to his favourite pastime of yachting.
embody at all fully the principles originally
Paris, Plon-Nourrit Though it is some ten years since he formulated by Lord Curzon. The first
It was M. Paul Bourget who first recog- last came to England, Goodwin's death will measure leaves the Boards of separato
nized in Mrs. Wharton an author of promise, bo mourned here by many who valued his Faculties much as they were before, but,
and since the publication of Chez les friendship and appreciated his exceptional having abolished the old Delegacy of the
Heureux du Monde: she has taken rank as gifts.
T. Common Fund, which worked very well,
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sets up in its place a General Board of the mode of thought. In practice, however, male candidates for a Diploma ; the women,
Faculties, which, in regard to the pecuniary the representation of the University of meanwhile, have no such difficulties to
support of research and the newer studies, Oxford has usually left much to be desired. face, since a fee of 58. a term admits them
may or may not work as well. The best Such a burgess As Sir William Anson shows to their register. Some rich man is needed to
that can be said for it is that it ought to the system at its best, because, whatever put down 10,0001. or even 5,0001. to start a
relieve Council of a good deal of rather his political convictions may be, he stands Diploma College for men. Here a body of
niggling business concerning examinations primarily for an authority on educational post-graduate or virtually post-graduate
and the like. The second measure, though matters, and as such has every Oxford man students would band together for work on
well meant, is purely permissive in its pro- behind him. But too often the merest party modern and specialized lines. In particular,
visions, supplying the University and the politician, sometimes brilliant, sometimes it would be possible for them, under existing
Colleges with financial advisers whose advice obscure, has sat for this University. The conditions, to take a two years' course in
need not be taken.
politician in question, of course, was guilt. Social Science, the first year's work consisting
What of the immediate future? Certain less in this matter ; a seat is always a seat. in Anthropo-geography and Social Anthro-
constitutional reforms appear in next term's But the electors, by failing to keep the Uni. pology, the second year's in Economics and
programme. In the first place, Council is to yersity clear of the party machine, have Political Theory. These things are gradu.
be democratized. Neither the Head of a largely themselves to blame if those who ally coming of their own accord, but, as I
House, nor the Professor, will henceforth have temporary control of the aforesaid have suggested, an enlightened benefactor
be elected as a representative of his special machine propose to cast the University might cause them to arrive quickly.
order, but, if at all, as a citizen and an equal. vote, as if it were a piece of old iron, upon Meanwhile, the enlightened benefactor
No longer, when things go wrong, as even
the scrap . heap.
is no dream, but a reality. Mr. Walter
under a democratic system they are apt When the measures affecting the constitu. Morrison, of Balliol, has recently given the
to do, will it be possible to find the cause tion of the University have been settled, the University no less than 30,0001. to be
in the feebleness of a “gerontocracy. ” If question of degrees for women will have to be expended on various excellent objects. Cor-
we still persist in choosing our senators fought out. The first annual report of the porations, too, no less than individuals can
from amongst those whose infirmity it is to Delegacy for Women Students, constituted be generous. It is rumoured that a wealthy
take their pleasure chiefly in retrospect, in November, 1910, was published in the College has undertaken to make itself ro.
then on our own heads be the blame.
Gazette at the beginning of this term, and sponsible for the new Engineering Depart.
ment; which, if true, would mean that the
Secondly—and this change, if it come provides some interesting facts and figures.
about, may prove in the long run the con-
It appears that the registered women stu. future of that important interest is suffi-
ciently secure.
M,
dition of many other vital changes-Con- dents, entitled as such to admission to any
of the University examinations in arts or
grogation is to be purged. The sleeping
music, amounted in the course of 1911
partner, the man who
pernoctates
within a mile and a half of Carfax, but in his
to 366, the sacred number associated with
waking hours has neither part 'nor lot in leap year, and hence of good omen when it is
the work of University education, is to be
a case of woman proposing and man dis.
eliminated. Vested interests, however, will
posing. Of these students, 93 belong to
THE ENGLISH BOOK TRADE,
Somerville College, 74 to Lady Margaret
be respected, so that only with the lapse of
1497-1800.
years will the educational experts have Hall, 51 to St. Hugh's College, and 48 to
the chance of expressing a truly repre.
St. Hilda's Hall. The rest, numbering just THE promotors of the exhibition of
sentative opinion.
over a hundred, form the Society of Oxford English books and broadsides, with other
Home-Students. This body, by the way,
Thirdly, the bold but perfectly legitimate has a Principal in the person of Mrs. John-trade, held this week in Stationers' Hall,
documents throwing light on the book.
step of allowing the experts to have the last son, whose freely given services have made will have rendered a great service if they
word in regard to purely educational matters this effective organization what it is. But it convince the collector that, although the
is apparently not to be taken. On the
has at present no educational staff of its supply of Caxtons and Wynkyn de Wordes
contrary, a scheme is announced for pro.
own, and stands in urgent need of endow. is nearly exhausted, there remain for him
viding a special poll of Convocation "in
ment, at any rate to the extent of some a large number of almost untouched fields.
respect of any proposed Statute or Decree provision for a salaried Principal to take There has been, of course, always a market
which in its final form has been approved Mrs. Johnson's place whenever the duties for first editions of Shakespeare, Milton,
by Congregation. ” A hundred members of her office become too much for her strength, Spenser, Walton, Browne, and a few famous
of Congregation must proffer a request for Now these 366 students, whose doings occupy books, but the variety of the exhibits
such a poll within a certain time; and there the pages of that chastest of periodicals, will be a revelation to all but a few biblio.
upon arrangements will be made for holding the University Gazette, have foot graphical experts. All the books, with the
a three days' poll, every voter to attend in inside the door ; and if anything gives way ption of those lent by Lord Crawford,
person, and to give his vote in writing. In it will be the door. By way of putting off Mr. Littleton, and the St.
Bride Foundation,
this context it is to be noted that a statute the evil day of complete equality, there is are selected from the stock of the leading
was passed this term which makes a sub-
some talk of throwing Atalanta an apple antiquarian booksellers, and described by
stantial reduction in the composition fees in the shape of a gracious permission to do themselves. Of a few no other copies are
payable to the University by Masters of the work for our Research Degrees, though at present known, and many are of the
Arts. Those under forty years of age will not to receive the degrees themselves by way highest possible rarity,
pay only 101. , those between forty and of reward privilege which, of course, Mr. Barnard shows a few choice books and
fifty 76. 108. , and those over fifty 51. It is ought to have been conceded to women ages a fragment of one of Fulwell's Enterludes,
hoped by these changes to bring about ago. But Atalanta is heard to say that which may have been printed by John Day.
a correspondingly substantial increase in the she is not to be fooled twice.
Mr. Blackwell has a good collection of
numbers of Convocation. Every College will A statute was before Congregation this Oxford books, and Messrs. Bowes of Cam.
in common decency bo bound to second this term which, mainly for disciplinary pur bridge ones.
Messrs. Ellis show some very
policy by lowering its scale of charges to a
poses, would institute a register of Diploma rare books containing music. Mr. Leighton
like extent. But will many graduates take Students. All these students must hence- seems to be one of the largest exhibitors,
advantage of the new terms, and place their forth be members of the University, unless mainly of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-
names on the College books! The chances they belong to certain favoured classes such century books, most of them fine copies and
are that many will. Such attractive force
as officers of the public services, or graduates of great intrinsic interest. Messrs. Maggs
as manifests itself will, however, lie rather of other Universities, or members of Ruskin exhibit some valuable first editions; and
in pure loyalty to College and University College. This need of joining the University Messrs. Pickering & Chatto, Mr. Robson, and
than in any desire to take a part in polls of may press somewhat hardly on men taking Mr. Sabin are little inferior to Mr. Leighton
Convocation and the like. Even if the
& more or less short course of special study ; in the number and value of their treasures.
Parliamentary vote is taken away from us, for joining the University, under our present Mr. Quaritch and Mr. Tregaskis lend each
the roll of Convocation is not likely to be system, means likewise joining a College or of them a fow of the rarest books in the
much affected.
the non-collegiate body, and this at present exhibition, and Messrs. Stevens show somo
Touching this same matter of the Par. rates is apt to prove expensive. One College, fine Americana. The catalogue is well
liamentary vote, there is plenty to be said, however, has already made it possible for compiled and indexed, and is on the whole
from the standpoint of theory, for giving those who are accepted by a Diploma remarkably free from mistakes, though there
the great Universities of the country, one Committee to join as Special Students, are misdescriptions of proclamations, &c.
and all, the status of constituencies, even without the privileges of ordinary member. We hope that the Committee will be re-
if this runs counter to the territorial prin ship, at a more or less nominal charge ; warded for the evident pains they have
ciple. As M. Bergson would say, the Govern- and it is to be hoped that the University taken in getting up this admirable and
ment, in applying spatial metaphor to the will soon devise a reduced matriculation completo exhibition by a renewal of popular
things of the soul is guilty of a vulgar 'fee for this worthy and increasing class of interest in the work thoy bave showa.
one
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considerable number of English news-
HOW DID THUCYDIDES WRITE Literary Gossip.
papers and periodicals. Attached to the
NUMBERS ?
In the most recent number (May, 1917, his Ministers on their recognition of Mr. ing for the old armour worn by Kathiawar
We heartily congratulate the King and library is a museum, particularly interest
of The Journal of Hellenic Studies there is
a very elaborate and learned article by Mr. E. T. Cook's valuable contributions to chieftains in former times. Part of the
Guy Dickins on Spartan history, in the letters by the bestowal of a Knighthood. museum's collection was lent to the
course of which he comes to treat of the date our pages bear abundant evidence of his Exhibition of Old Bombay held in honour
of King Kleomenes, which rests on a story work, and on the 8th inst. we paid a well- of the Imperial visit to India last year.
in Herodotus as to the origin of the Platæan merited tribute to his authoritative “MARK TIME," the author of that
alliance with Athens, and a remark of
Thucydides, whose text (as we have it)
edition of Ruskin. His career both as clever work · A Derelict Empire,' is Mr.
says that this alliance lasted 93 years, tili editor of newspapers and writer of books H. C. Irwin, an ex-member of the Indian
the destruction of Platæa by the Spartans shows his versatility.
Civil Service. Thirty years ago he pub-
(428 B. c. ). That would make Kleomenes THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS has orga- lished “The Garden of India; or, Chap-
already King of Sparta in 521 B. c. , to which nized a course of instruction, comprising ters on Oudh History and Affairs,' *
Grote saw grave objections, and suggested tutorial classes, lectures, and practical delightful account of a great Indian
that we should read 83 for 93. How were
those figures written in Thucydides's original work, in Social Organization and Public province.
text ? Mr. Dickins cites two gentlemen Service. The course, extending over one
MR. HEINEMANN announces a new book
who have re-edited Grote's history and year, will lead up to a University diploma, of essays by Mr. John Galsworthy,
reject the great man's suggestion, but who but parts of it can be taken separately. entitled The Inn of Tranquillity. It
do not give us the appearance of the figures.
He himself does (p. 28), and from the evi: Oxford, and Mr. R. S. Dower of Trinity Motley.
Mr. Henry Clay of University College, will be uniform with his former book, ' A
dence quoted by Mr. Dickins in his article
it appears that some of them imagine College, Cambridge, have been appointed THE MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thucydides wrote out his figures as they University lecturers, with special reference are publishing this week 'Old Towns
appear in contemporary Attic inscriptions, to these new courses. Prof. Macgregor and New Needs,' by Mr. Paul Waterhouse,
so that the omission of a A would make the will be in charge of the scheme, and and The Town Extension Plan,' by Mr.
necessary change.
