” Keats's writing, two stanzas of The Pot
to speak with certainty as to this great work
which the philosopher contemplated, and
Wo once more thank Mr.
to speak with certainty as to this great work
which the philosopher contemplated, and
Wo once more thank Mr.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
M.
the author no longer endeavours to dis-
simulate the religious æstheticism with
period of Mr. Russell's political energies Smith. (Duckworth. )
The inspired trans-
The
has been closely scrutinized already by lator is almost as rare as the inspired author, Wyzewa, who writes an interesting Preface.
book is admirably translated by_M. de
many a witness.
He was
one of the
founders of the National Liberal Club, and in a tongue that might be called trans-
and many a writer comes to alien readers
records amusingly Gladstone's austere ex-
lators' English.
No pamphlet more informing about the
pectations concerning that enormous cara-
In this dialect, mainly, ideas underlying latter-day labour combina-
vanserai, which was to be a contrast to the Capt. Rowland Smith has composed his tion has come to our notice than The Labor
temples of luxury and ease elsewhere. '
obviously faithful version of Garshin's Movement in France, by Louis Levine,
short stories. The construction and arrange which forms No. 3 of Vol. XLVI. of the
There is some trivial detail, as well as ment of the words are, in many places,
Studies in History, Economics, and Public
interesting matter, in the account of Harrow unlike what any person would naturally Law edited by the Faculty of Political
days. Was it necessary nowadays to sup. write in English. Člinging too closely to the Science of Columbia University," and pub-
press the well-known name of the master form produces a false effect, but Garshin's lished by their agents in New York and by
who was found after his death to possess a talent can be discerned--powerful, original, Messrs. King & Son in London. We think a
wife and family in a seaside resort? There various, and unequal. Of the seventeen better arrangement of chapters, at least for
is little doubt that his butler, as is hinted, stories, four—' From the Reminiscences of English readers, might have been adopted
know the secret, and bullied him in con- Private Ivanoff, The Action at Aislar,' with advantage. Had chap. v. , headed. The
sequence. What is more extraordinary, 'Four Days,' and 'Officer and Soldier Doctrine of Revolutionary Syndicalism,'
and not mentioned by Mr. Russell, is the Servant '--are drawn from experience and been the initial one, it would probably
fact that one of the boys in the school knew observation of military life, and bear the have made those which now precede it,
it too, and never revealed it, though there impress of profound truth. All these are dealing as they do with the ebb of failure
is ample evidence that the master in question very fine. The Bears' and 'The Meeting and the flow of success, more interesting
was an implacable tyrant to boys. At the are of the same strain, but not of the same
to the less initiated in the problems of
disclosure every one was shocked, if not material, and are also good, though less industrialism.
disgusted ; and we record with pleasure the profound; but the two stories dealing
It is not possible for us to do more here
comment we have heard of the saintly with a mysterious Byronic lady called than make one or two allusions to the con-
John Smith: “I am glad there was some. Nadejela Nicolaievna are absolute failures. tents, which, we believe, will serve t make
body to love him. ". In this chapter and There is, indeed, no sign that Garshin could readers anxious to investigate more tho-
elsewhere Mr. Russell is slack about bringing draw a woman. Two or three little alle. roughly the past, present, and the future
his details up to date. He does not give gories in the manner of Hans Andersen are
of Syndicalism. As in
tho
case
of
us an index, but he thinks it worth while to full of delicate ironical sprightliness. Finally, all such movements, repressive measures
reproduce in full (pp. 218–31) his own speech in ' A Night' and 'The Scarlet Blossom ’a have been its life-blood, and periods which
to his constituents at Princes Risborough vein of wild genius shows itself. Not even ensured it a measure of toleration-such
concerning the Phoenix Park murders, with in ‘Wuthering Heights' or in any of Poe's as the year 1868, when the French Govern.
“cheers, hear, hear," and " loud cheers tales has madness been drawn so ment first acknowledged the legality of
inserted. This creditable effort is much vincingly, or so subjectively. Indeed, poor working. men's organizations most
less interesting than the chapter on 'Oratory' Garshin knew what he was writing about, critical times for continued existence. The
for the latter years of his short life--the rise and suppression of the organization
years that followed his campaign and his which corresponded to our labour bureaus,
A Poet's Children : Hartley and Sara | wound- were clouded by intervals of in. owing to a distrust similar to that which
Coleridge. By Eleanor A. Towle. (Methuen. ) sanity. The translator, even though his recently seemed to presage the early break-
The biographer's task 'has in this instance version is not adequate, deserves the up of our own system, will be of interest,
been accomplished with gravity, tact, and gratitude of English readers for introducing as well as the fact that the miners abroad
sympathy, and without a trace of the them to a talent so individual and genuine. have shown as ours havema marked supe-
spirit of purveying small beer which
vulgarizes so many modern memoirs and Le Livre de la Route. By J. Joergensen.
riority of combination over other trades.
biographies. We confess to a great affec-(Paris, Perrin. ); We welcome heartily
If a definitive argument is needed to show
tion for Hartley Coleridge, not only because this translation from the Danish. It is not wherein Revolutionary Syndicalism differs
of the wistfulness, gaiety, and tenderness only, as its title indicates, a book of travel, from organized labour revolt at home, it can
of his verse, but also the charm of his dis- | but something more. Full of picturesque
be found in this passage on p. 110:-
position. He was the only person in the description and free poetic fancy, it resembles
“The syndicats are not only to carry on their
circle of which he was a member who not a little the Reisebilder' of Heine. struggle directly against employers by strikes,
possessed a sense of humour.
boycotts and sabotage, but also against the State,
He is por. The book, treating of some of the mediæval and not only against the State appearing as the
trayed here without reserve, and at the same cities of South Germany, as, for instance, enemy of labor, but also against the State wish.
time without harshness. To understand Nuremberg and Rothenburg, is yet largely ing to become the protector and benefactor of the
Hartley, in spite of his weakness, is to concerned with Umbria. It created some
workingmen. This hostility to the State and to its
appreciate him. Sara was a brilliant woman amazement at the time of its publica of the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism. "
reform · legislation marks a further accentuation
in her way, but had less of the keen savour tion in Denmark, for Herr Joergensen,
of personality, about her than her brother. sceptic and Darwinian, revealed in it for
This pamphlet is a contribution from the
Sho is engagingly treated here. Wo wish the first time his admiration for the poetry French side to that larger history of the
that all writers of personal reminiscence and beauty of the Catholic religion. Herr emancipation of the world's labour now
would
realize that the essay can be under- Joergensen is the possessor of an original being written.
It will supply valuable
taken in no light or leisurely spirit. We artistic personality, an idealist, and full dates for various stages of the movement,
find in this volume numerous indications of real 'tenderness under the seeming
and suggest that emanations, which appear
of the delicacy, care, and discrimination cloak of irony. In the last chapters to be local and spasmodic, are parts of
that have been bestowed upon it.
of the book we find him explaining with puzzling but coherent whole.
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* We
countries far distant from one another are the prehistoric Ægean civilization was Aryan,
JAPAN AND GREECE,
supported by modern investigation. How and that the Greeks invaded the settlements
far he is correct in his view as to the inter- of older kinsmen. Indeed, he adds that the
The Creed of Half Japan : Historical action upon each other of Christianity and Spartans, coming last, were the most foreign
Sketches of Japanese Buddhism. By Arthur Buddhism is a matter for expert scholars to the older population, and therefore
Lloyd. (Smith & Elder. )--The claim put to decide, but what he says is the result of were the first to decay. " We dispute
forward in the title of this book on behalf of much study and thought, and deserves the both the fact and the inference. When he
Buddhism, as being the creed of half attention of all students of comparative informs us elsewhere that the Etruscans weru
Japan," is a modest one. The author himself religion.
originally Greeks, we feel even more sceptical.
tells us it is the religion of the great bulk
of the people. “ The farmers,” he says,
The promise of further studies in Japan. On the other hand, in what he says about
ese Buddhism from the same pen will un-
the Ionians as an earlier wave, not so con-
are Buddhists, so are the shopkeepers, so
happily never be fulfilled, as Prof. Lloyd did trasted with the population they conquered
are the rank and file of the people. The not live to see his present work published. in Asia Minor, his observations are both
ladies of the upper classes are Buddhists; so His death is
a great loss to Oriental reasonable and suggestive.
are most of their husbands, if they will be
scholarship.
He notes the interesting fact that Athenian
honest with themselves. " In any estimate
radicalism was strongly imperial, and dis-
to be formed of the Japanese nation this
posed to foreign conquests, and contrasts
fact must needs be taken into consideration. The Glory that was Greece : a Survey of it in this respect with our modern Socialists.
For reasons of State policy, Buddhism at the Hellenic Culture and Civilisation. By J. C.
time of the Restoration in 1868 was dis- Stobart. (Sidgwick & Jackson. )-This hand- of France in 1793 would have been more
A comparison with the radical democracy
established, Shinto, the native cult, being some and attractive book is intended for apt. They, too, were keen to make con-
made the State religion. But three years those who have not learnt Greek, and quests, and have subject allies, for the same
later the reforming statesmen receded from has in many respects the air of a set reason as the Athenians. They plundered
the position they had taken up. To have of Extension Lectures,” which the old- unwilling allies, instead of giving them
persevered in the campaign in favour of fashioned scholar looks upon as an encourage the inestimable privileges of liberty and
Shinto, and pushed it to its logical conclu- ment to shallow and pretentious education. equality, in the most unmerciful manner;
sion, would have been to outrage the religious Since, however, such work meets an in: and
even alleged in excuse the same sort of
sentiment of the country, and disturb the creasing demand, it is important that it
reason as the Athenians. Our author esti-
social order. Very wisely, therefore, they should be done as well as possible, and mates Pericles very fairly, but when he says
abandoned the crusade against Buddhism, therefore that it should be carefully criticized. that Pericles “raised & fund” to pay the
and with the restoration of the two beliefs The selection of the pictures in this ruling democracy, he rightly explains it
to their previous status of joint official volume is particularly, good, not only, in in the context as applying the tribute of
recognition the normal state of things was giving all the most celebrated things, but the allies to home purposes.
resumed. Shinto retains its close associa- also in including some not yet well known, In other cases there are real inconsistencies
tion with the Court, and occupies to this such as the new fragments of the Ludovisi in the book, which we cannot but attribute
extent a privileged position; but Buddhism, throne from Boston. But why did not Mr. to the accepting from high authorities con-
though shorn of some of its prestige and a Stobart give us the equally remarkable Aicting statements. Thus we have the old
large portion of its endowments, remains Palestrina chariot now in New York ? The sentiment put into Pericles's mouth,
what it has been for centuries, the creed of execution of the photographs is not so good follow culture without extravagance
three-fourths of the nation.
as the selection, some being very faint and which is again disproved a few pages later by
These interesting sketches of Buddhism poor. Those of scenery—Marathon, Delphi, the statement that the Athenians spent more
begin with an explanation of the two main &c. —are particularly
, unsatisfactory, so that than 150,0001. on one statue. That would
forms of that religion: one which is purely we can understand the author's mistake in
mean a couple of millions in a modern state.
Indian, and rests on the 'Hinayana scrip- speaking of the latter as in “a valley of The writer does not seem to see that these
tures, and the later and more amplified type, Parnassus " !
two statements are irreconcilable. In the
which in various modified shapes exists in Coming now to his text, we are glad to same way he attacks the critics who have
Japan to-day. Having described the rise record that his style is easy and agreeable, expressed a low opinion of Sappho's morals,
and growth of Buddhism in India, the author when it is not too colloquial or jocose. and on the next page proceeds to state facts
passes on to the stage of Buddhist missionary He is seldom obscure-as he is when he says which are the very basis of that judgment.
enterprise. He traces the introduction of that the Athenians appointed “ three hostile But the history of Greek literature is not
Buddhism from India into China at various generals” to carry out the campaign his strong point. He speaks of Theocritus
dates in the course of several centuries, and against Syracuse. But he says that 6,000 as if he were the father of the prose mime;
tells us how it finally found its way to Japan of Xenophon's famous companions in his yet the ancients are unanimous in giving
by way of Corea. Not the least interesting Retreat marched home, and, we trust, that honour to Sophron, whom even Plato
portions of the narrative are those which lived happily ever afterwards. " We happen knew and appreciated. Still stranger is his
deal with the various missions of Buddhist to know they did not; a good many were estimate of the ‘Alcestis' as surely the
priests from China to India, and from Japan even sold as slaves by Anaxibius. He speaks most conspicuous failure in all dramatic
to China, in search of true doctrines. We of “ a horrid odour of self-consciousness and literature. '
learn, too, of the “pious device" by means of self-righteousness” in the tone of Isoerates, We have dwelt too long on special points
which Buddhism soon after its introduction which is surely a highly exaggerated phrase ; in which this agreeable author seems to us
into Japan identified itself with the native and when he says that Alexander played to have written or quoted hastily. Our
cult, the recognition of Shinto deities as in the Bayard and the Bluebeard in turns," defence is that the book before us has many
carnations of Buddha leading to the curious we suppose he must have been misled by the merits, and may be of service in showing
fusion of the two faiths which has had such alliteration. It is, of course, of little apparent the wider public what matchless things were
å marked influence upon the religious moment that he gives Pauly (of the Ency, produced by this unique race.
development of Japan. We find also a clopædia ') an l too many, and Mausollus of
detailed account of the growth and the Caria one too few; but he would find out
leading characteristics of each of the chief the inconvenience if he wanted to consult the
sects of Japanese Buddhism. Through the former, and looked for him in a catalogue.
ROGER BACON.
labyrinth of Buddhist philosophy, compli- We do not know why he calls Hesiod's
cated as it is by differences of sect, the brother Persis (not Perses), or the river that
Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi. -
author, who mado a prolonged study of his was turned over Sybaris the Traeis (Crathis). Fasc. III. Liber Primus Communium Natu-
subject, is a safe guide.
He thinks the “
wavy tail ” of Herodotus ralium, Partes Tertia et Quarta. Ed. Robert
While unable to accept the opinion that must have been a cat (as it was), but Steele. (Oxford, Clarendon Press. )—English
Chinese Taoism and Japanese Shinto are
confuses it with the yalî, which was certainly scholars owe a debt of gratitude to Mr.
but two names for the same thing, we are
a domesticated weasel of some sort. The Robert Steele for this edition of the 'Opera
grateful for the light thrown upon the fact Athenian hoplites did not slay their Inedita' of Roger Bacon, which he is pro-
that the favourite sect of the military class, thousands" at Platæa. These instances ducing in conjunction with the Clarendon
the zen— known to some of us through its show that the author, however familiar Press. Had this mediæval friar been &
relation to bushido-was the least turbulent with Greek life, should have had his proofs German or a Frenchman, we should long
and aggressive of all the sects of Buddhism. revised by some mature scholar, to whom ago have had on our shelves a critical edi-
Another point to which the author recurs
the correction of such statements would
tion of all his works, and it is a disgrace
with some insistence is the connexion which have been easy.
to English scholarship, and particularly to
existed in early times between Buddhism It is a different matter when we come to Mr. the learned members of the University of
and other systems of religion. The conclu- Stobart's judgments on moot points, in which Oxford, of which Roger Bacon was un-
sions he formed as to the constant exchange, he has a perfect right to his opinion, though doubtedly one of the most distinguished
in the past, of religious ideas between we cannot agree with him. He thinks that 'sons, that at this time of day there should
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samo
comes
be any 'Opera Inedita. ' J. S. Brower, the production of men and animals and
in his luminous Preface to the volume of plants, and has naturally a great deal about A KEATS AUTOGRAPH AT WELBECK
Bacon's works published more than fifty the soul. For any student of Aquinas it ABBEY: FRAGMENT OF THE
years ago in the Rolls series of Chronicles will be specially instructive to compare the
DRAFT OF THE POT OF BASIL. '
and Memorials, pointed out the position way in which these two philosophers ap-
that Bacon held in the learned world of the proached the
questions. Bacon's
46, Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, N. W.
thirteenth century. It is hardly too much Cap. V. , de virtutibus, utrum sint partes
to say that for his age and opportunities anime, is treated, for example, in the
THE last time Mr. Arthur Severn and I
this friar was one of the most extraordinary Summa,' I. , q. 78, &c. Bacon is not met on the Keats-Shelley Memorial Associa-
men who ever lived. The works he com- altogether “dryasdust reading, for fre- tion Committee, of which we both are
posed on the various branches of learning, quently the student
upon little members, conversation turned upon his
which he communicated to Pope Clement IV. , evidences of the man in the middle of his father's generous habit of distributing
by his order, about the year 1262, were treatment of some abstruse subject. There among his friends and acquaintances-as
known as the 'Opus Minus' (the Introduc- are not so many of these human touches in specimens of Keats's writing-snippets of
tion), the Opus Majus' (the "principal this fasciculus as usual, but they are not autograph drafts, &c. , of which many
work? ), and the “Opus Tertium, written altogether wanting. For example (p. 297), fragments remained in the hands of the
the philosopher speaks of “a damnable hapless poet's devoted friend up till a very
former," as Bacon tells us himself.
Besides opinión common in Paris "-perhaps he lata period in his long life.
these, and probably after the death of the only meant, after all, an opinion that should The talk about Severn and his liberal
Pope who had charged him with the task of be condemned. At p. 283, speaking of scissors arose out of an observation made by
setting down in order the results of his the opinion as to the creation of the in the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Harold Boulton,
forty years of study and experiment, Bacon tellect in man, he says, “For twenty that, when recently in the Duke of Port-
began a great encyclopædic work on the years all theologians of any worth and land's library at Welbeck Abbey, he had
sciences. At the present time, before all philosophers have proclaimed this view," and seen among some autographs á strip of
of the many fragments of his books and adds, And still so do all Englishmen, who paper bearing, in what purported to be
tracts are in print, it is somewhat difficult among all other men are and were students.
” Keats's writing, two stanzas of The Pot
to speak with certainty as to this great work
which the philosopher contemplated, and
Wo once more thank Mr. Steele for the of Basil, one written on the back of the
in part at least put into shape. It would excellent work he is doing. It must be other, and one being about the murder of
naturally have comprised much that he had
a labour of love on his part, and a tardy refer to the missing strip from the fragment
Lorenzo. The account seemed so likely to
previously written in the Opus Minus," recognition on the part of the Oxford Press
of the draft of "The Pot of Basil' which I
Opus Majus,' and 'Opus Tertium,' and of the merit of a distinguished Oxford man.
had handled as long ago as 1883, when it
the similarity of certain passages appears to
was in the hands of my friend Mr. R. A.
have misled many writers into supposing
Potts, that I was somewhat eagerly interested
that the extant fragments of this projected
in the little discovery, and wrote to the
encyclopædia were portions of Bacon's
THE ARTIST.
Duke's librarian, Mr. Goulding, to inquire
earlier books. Until we have the rest of Mr.
Steele's edition of the inedited works it is He shut his door, and mingled with the
whether by any means I could inspect the
manuscript. By Mr. Goulding's courtesy,
premature to pass any definite opinion, but throng.
I am now in possession of an excellent
in the present state of our knowledge it A smile, a something vivid, young, half-wild, photograph of each side, with his Grace's
would seem that Mr. Steele is right in his A gleam of understanding in his eyes, leave to make what use I think proper of
view as to the construction of the “Opus
All-tolerant, all-wise,
the document. The proper primary use
Tertium,' rather than M. Duhem, who dis- Drew a man to him. As they swung along,
to make of this permission is, I think, to
covered what he supposed to be a fragment A woman joined them ; last, a child.
send to The Athenæum for record, as in
of the 'Opus Tertium,' which was published
previous cases of the kind, the result of
by the Quaracchi Press in 1909.
And to all these that day was passing sweet; examining a fragment which turns out to
The latest fasciculus issued by Mr. Steele
at last, the man had found a friend,
be of textual interest and value.
contains the third and fourth parts of the The woman love, the child a fairyland ;
First Book of the Communia Naturalium. '
Each yearning, dumb demand It is clearly a snippet from the draft to
which the Potts fragment had belonged; but
This is almost beyond doubt a portion of each he heard, and could divinelier meet
of the monumental work planned by Bacon
Than any dream. The day had end.
it is a few stanzas earlier in the poem: that
fragment contained stanzas 30 to 40 of The
parts of this certainly dealt with physics And he fell silent-smiling still, withal,
about the year 1271. The third and fourth So through the sunset came they to his door. Pot of Basil” (as Keats called the poem at
that stage of its composition), but wanting
and metaphysics under the titles of Com-
Let
stanza 32, which had been cut off. For that
munia Naturalium and 'De Principiis But looking past and through them.
stanza of the draft, with probably stanza 29
Rerum Naturalium. In the preceding fasci.
us come,
They cried, “ into your home!
at the back of it, I have watched since 1883.
culus Mr. Steele printed the first two parts of Friendship, the Future
Love we hold in the stripath Welbeck
Abbey contains
fourth parts being here given. It may be
store
well to recall the fact that certain consider-
For you, who taught us of them all ! ” ceded by line 8 of stanza 27, on the verso.
The verso is of minor interest; but it is
able extracts from this tract of Bacon were
What
some time since we have recovered a piece
published as long ago as 1861 by M. Charles But he, as one who marvelled, said,
in his study of the works of the great me-
need
of Keats's easy, fluent drafting with more
diæval philosopher.
Have I of these, who dwell with them apart ? fascination for its hulk than this unregenerato
In the third part of this treatise, now
Behold now, and farewell ! ”—They looked, line 5, it seems to have been struck off at
octave stanza 25. With the exception of
and there
printed virtually for the first time, Bacon
a blow, and left with some technical imper.
A room showed, small and bare ;
discusses the question of motion and sub- Nought could they see within it. . . . save,
fections, reading as follows (I give it quite
jects which depend upon that question :
literally) :-
such as
“the infinite," "" time and place,
indeed,
&c. These are all treated in the true
The tools wherewith he shaped his art.
And as he to the Court yard passd along
Each third step did he pause, and listened soft
mediæval manner, and, of course, with abso-
V. H. FRIEDLAENDER.
If he could hear his Lady's matin-song
Or the light whisper of her footsteps soft
lute dependence upon the great master
And as he thus over his passion bung
Aristotle. In fact, it is obvious that, whilst
He heard a laugh full inusical aloft
Bacon laid such great stress upon the need
And looking ap he saw her smiling through
A little indoor Lattice, morning new-
of investigation and experiment, and pro-
fessed to have expended great sums of
wherein there is an unfinished and rejected
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY.
money on the purchase of instruments and
variant of line 5, ostensibly
March 23, 1912.
in carrying out his researches, he was loath
And as he stood from the gallery she hung-
to depart from Aristotle, even in his physics.
May I ask for space just to correct a slip
Still, for all who care to know the methods in the appreciative review of my recent but I do not believe the word hung was
and manner of thought of medieval philoso- | book The Eve of Catholic Emancipation ’ in really written as a part of that reading,
or at all until he made the ultimate line 5,
phors, a perusal of these tracts of Bacon your current issijo ?
will be profitable and interesting. This will 'The Dawn of the Catholic Revival,' to which stands (as above) till the present
be especially the case with the fourth which the present book forms a sequel, was
time.
part, where the dependence of the English written, not by my brother, Mr. Wilfrid When he got to the making of the holo.
friar on Aristotle and the Arabian philoso-Ward, but by wayself,
graph of the poem in the George Keats
phers is very marked. The part deals with
BERNARD WARD. manuscript book at the British Museum
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by his
(Egerton Manuscripts, No. 2780) he dis-
CUNNINGHAM'S EXTRACTS FROM THE of some play, at any rato,“ upon the 1st
That there was a performance at Court
covered the heterodox employment of soft
as a rhyme for soft, but passed on the un.
REVELS' BOOKS, 1842.
of November " is certain ; and that it was
necessarily sibilant footsteps soft, and, I
IV.
one of those in the repertoire of Shakespeare's
suspect, took exception to the somewhat
I WILL now deal with the arguments put company is likewise certain ; for the pay.
Leigh-Huntian survival from his earlier
forward by your correspondent* against the
ment to Hemynges for its presentation
style in the otherwise entirely delightful
authenticity of the play-list of 1611-12,
before the King is recorded by the Treasurer
morning new ; for he left the couplet for
although it is obviously by the same hand
of the Chamber.
further revision, only writing :
as the rest of the account, on the back of the
beginning of which it is written, its lettering to admit as much-though he fails to
Your correspondent, indeed, is constrained
And looking up be saw her smiling through being precisely the same in style; the ink appreciate the significance of the fact; and
A little in-door Lattice-
When Woodhouse made his transcript examined with a magnifying-glass revealing has gratuitously raised—“ but not in rela-
the same in effect, look, and colour, and, adds--to get over the difficulty he himself
(Houghton-Crewe collection) of the Museum nothing whatever different from that of the tion to this bill. "
holograph he left out the couplet, doubtless rest of the writing. If genuine, it is ex-
apprehending that Keats might alter it ceedingly interesting as fixing for us the
Whatever he may mean exactly by that,
altogether if he decided to reject the phrase
there can be no question that Sir George
much disputed precise date of the compo. Buc and his men were, according to custom,
morning new; and Keats did, for he in- sition of "The Tempest. '
serted in the Woodhouse book :-
in attendance at Whitehall Palace that
Your correspondent, however, has no night, superintending the performance, what-
When, looking up, he saw her features fair
hesitation in questioning it, and he indicates
Smile through an indoor lattice, debonair.
ever may have been the play presented.
several circumstances about it which to him
Your correspondent's only other point
Some one (Taylor, I believe) took exception appear to be highly suspicious.
His first
against this play-list is that it is incom-
to this, and suggested :
point is that
plete. “Thirteen plays," he says,
are here
When lo an indoor lattice met his view
while the names of plays begin with 1st Novo | entered by name; but in the accounts [he
And her fair features smiling playful through. ember, at the end we find a noate of the Stufe,
,
can only mean those of the Treasurer of the
The obliging poet altered his own couplet 5th November, 1811. " That (says he) would imply Chamber) there were thirty paid for by
to that of the standing text :-
there was no service in preparation for a play item, and dated. " This is true, but of these
When, looking up, he saw her features bright on the first; the date of the contested play, 'The thirty many were plays not given before
Smile through an indoor lattice, all delight.
Tempest. '
the King and the Court, but privately, in
In answer to this I can show that it “would
At the same time he gave permission to
some smaller apartment for the amusement
substitute the Taylorian version! Ulti. imply” nothing of the sort. To begin with : of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and
mately he remedied the rhyme defect in
his quotation of the extract is incorrect. the Princess Elizabeth; while it was only
the first quatrain by substituting oft for In the original it is written thus :-
plays acted before the King, including,
the first soft ; but perhaps others beside
“A noat of what Stufe wth workmanshipe hath perhaps, sometimes those acted before the
myself might prefer the technical flaw to
bine bestowed one the branches for the Kinges Queen, as I have already pointed out, which
Matis (note the spelling) Servis this yeare begin-
the rather tedious pleonasm of the line ning the Vth of Novembar, 1611. ”
were attended and mounted
established :-
Majesty's Officers of the Revels. The
Your correspondent says of this “noat"
Queen, it will be remembered, had her own
Each third step did he pause, and listened oft.
that we find it “at the end. " If we give "Master of the Revels," and Prince Henry,
And, Leigh-Huntian or not, the term these words their obvious meaning, that is, as well as her Majesty, his own Company
morning-new is so vitally expressive of the at the end of the account, he is incorrect of Players.
eternal freshness to Lorenzo of his first daily again ; for it comes at the beginning of p. 4 In fact, the records, if carefully analyzed,
sight of Isabella that I would gladly see -the one following, and back to back with, are found to tally exactly with the list of
the text thus rather than as established that on which the play-list is written.
plays and their dates, as inscribed at the
with its comparatively commonplace features Next, he does not seem to have noticed beginning of the Revels' account for this
bright and all delight_pretty as that is.
that this bill, with all its items, relates not year. There are few, if any, discrepancies
Of the murder stanza (28) it is but to be to the Revels men in general, but to the to be accounted for; and the authenticity
recorded that soul is misspelt “ sould” “ wierdrawers in particular-only. Now of the play-list is not only supported, but
in line 3, that as ill at peace was first written the “wierdrawers” were those who mended, even confirmed, by the supposed ones,
for
is ill at peace
” in line 4, that what prepared, and garnished” the wires and which, when solved, demonstrate--apart
seems to be dull' is cancelled before rods from which hung the branch candle- from the physical proof-that no modern
“ break-covert bloodhounds” and the sin sticks and other lights in the auditorium hand, least of all one in 1842, could possibly
altered to such sin” in line 5, that line 6 and on the stage, as well as the lights them have concocted this document.
reads River"
for water (with the holo- selves; and although the wierdrawers However, your correspondent does “ not
graph), while in the couplet appear the seem usually to have attended the Court dwell on this record because,” he says, he
curious word “Horeses " and the still more performances at night, sometimes they did has
curious “ convusled ” for convulsed.
not do so. Their work, indeed, was quite as so much to say concerning what has been called
The manuscript is marked in Severn's much, if not more, preparing for the plays the Revels' Account of 1836. Mr. Law says
writing as given away on December 13th, in the daytime before-often several days expressly that no one has ever doubted it. I have
1862. It was to Lady Frederick Bentinck before-the performances ; and on the days always doubted it, and now, by careful research,
that he gave it; and another relative left between them.
I am able to prove that this list is a forgery” [his
own italics).
it (with a collection of autographs) to the Moreover, the dates on which the ac-
present Duke of Portland.
counts of the various officers of the Revels I propose to deal with this question in a
The disjecta membra of this draft are a began differ often by a day or two. Thus concluding article.
ERNEST LAW.
peculiarly interesting unknown quantity ; in the year under discussion (1611-12)
and I should be truly grateful to any auto- that of the Master begins on Allhollen
graph collector who would inform me of Eve," while those of“ the Clark Comptroler
BOOK SALES.
other fragments of what I believe to have and the “ Clark of his Matis Revelles" begin
On Monday, March 18th, and two following
been the draft Keats had begun and left in on Hallowmas Day.
days, Messrs. Sotheby sold the third portion of
his Folio Shakespeare when he joined his The explanation, then, of the supposed the library of the late Mr. Charles Butler. An
brother Tom at Teignmouth in the spring of discrepancy about the "wierdrawers" at interesting feature of the sale was the large
1818.
H. BUXTON FORMAN. tendance, which so perturbs your corre-
number of service books, both manuscript and
spondent, is simple and obvious enough. Antiphonale Romanum, French Ms. , 15th cen-
printed, the most important being the following :
It is that their work on Hallowmas Eve, tury, 221. Bible, Anglo-Norman MS. , late 13th
“ CROSSRAGUELL. ”
preparatory for the production of the play century, 1381. ; two others, similar, 601. and 491. ;
King's College, March 27, 1912. on Hallowmas Day, falling within the month another, Italian, 14th century, 361. Salisbury
I VENTURE to think that the origin of the of October, would have been charged for Breviary, 2 vols. , 1556, 29? . Of the numerous
place is to be traced to Raguel, one of the in their account for the previous
manuscript Horæ, the most important, a Flemish
Revels
MS. of the 15th century, fetched 1651. ; several
archangels mentioned in Enoch xx. 4. Up Year"-October 31st, 1610, to October
others ranged between 271. and 901. Among the
to about the eighth century Raguel and other 31st, 1611-an account which, unfortunately printed Horæ were several printed by G. Anabat
for the Hardouyns; others by Kerver, Simon
apocryphal angels were held in reverence ; missing, may perhaps have included also
after that date they were degraded. Hence
the charge for their attendance on the Vostre, Jehan de Brie, Pierre Jouault, &c. , fetched
from 201. to 901. ; and one printed for Geoffroy
Raguel in Middle English as one of the night of the performance.
Tory, 1525, 1971. Missale ad Usum Anglicanum,
names of the devil (cf. Ragnel in the alli- * The articles by "Audi Alteram partem" appeared in
English Ms. , 14th century, realized 601. Missale
terative poem of 'Patience,' where Ragnel, The Athenaeum for July 22nd and 29th of last year. Mr.
ad Usum Romanum, French MS. , 15th century,
unexplained, is the editor's error
for Raguel). 18th, and 30th"; and a brief rejoinder from Audi Alteram
Law replied in three articles published on September 9th,
2
Psalter, Anglo-German MS. , 12th-13th
centuries, 501. ; another, English, 14th century,
I. GOLLANCZ. Partem was printed in the number for October 7th.
711. ; another, 15th century, 1401.
391. ;
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The other books included Aristotle, Opera
The translations from selected sonnets of
Græce, 6 vols. , 1495–8, 561. History of the
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
Petrarch are, in our opinion, the best, being
Emperor Baber, Persian MS. , 17th century,
fuller and more harmonious in tone, and reflect-
2951. Boccaccio, Des Cas de Nobles Hommes, (Notice in these columns does not proolude longer
ing something of the Italian purity and dignity.
&c. , French Ms. , 15th century, 681. Caxton, roview. )
Scollard (Clinton), Songs of a Syrian Lover, 276 net
Chronicles of England, socond odition, 1482,
ENGLISH.
Elkin Mathews
imperfect, 115l. Chaucer, Woorkes, 1581, 281.
We fail to see why the lover should have
Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, 391. Clement V. ,
Theology.
dubbed himself Syrian. Except for the repe-
Constitutiones, Strasburg, 1471, 231. Columna, Abhedananda (Swami), Great Saviors of the
tition of place-names, the poems leave but
Hypnerotomachie, 1546, 211. ; the same, 1554, World, Vol. I. , 4/6 net.
little impression of Oriental atmosphere.
431. Dorat, Fables Nouvelles, 1773, 311. Gawin
New York, Vedanta Society
References to Allah's scimitar" and the like
Douglas, The XIII. Bukes of Eneados, 1553, Four of the lectures delivered before the
are but poor devices to realize “ local colour. '
281. 108. Suetonius, &c. , 3 vols. in 1, Milan, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences are em-
Mr. Scollard is, in fact, the English lyrist
1475, 201. 108. Houghton Gallery, 2 vols. , 1788, bodied in this volume, a general essay being
writing the normal commonplace verse to his
491. Isocrates, Orationes, 1493, 221. Ben Jonson, added.
simulate the religious æstheticism with
period of Mr. Russell's political energies Smith. (Duckworth. )
The inspired trans-
The
has been closely scrutinized already by lator is almost as rare as the inspired author, Wyzewa, who writes an interesting Preface.
book is admirably translated by_M. de
many a witness.
He was
one of the
founders of the National Liberal Club, and in a tongue that might be called trans-
and many a writer comes to alien readers
records amusingly Gladstone's austere ex-
lators' English.
No pamphlet more informing about the
pectations concerning that enormous cara-
In this dialect, mainly, ideas underlying latter-day labour combina-
vanserai, which was to be a contrast to the Capt. Rowland Smith has composed his tion has come to our notice than The Labor
temples of luxury and ease elsewhere. '
obviously faithful version of Garshin's Movement in France, by Louis Levine,
short stories. The construction and arrange which forms No. 3 of Vol. XLVI. of the
There is some trivial detail, as well as ment of the words are, in many places,
Studies in History, Economics, and Public
interesting matter, in the account of Harrow unlike what any person would naturally Law edited by the Faculty of Political
days. Was it necessary nowadays to sup. write in English. Člinging too closely to the Science of Columbia University," and pub-
press the well-known name of the master form produces a false effect, but Garshin's lished by their agents in New York and by
who was found after his death to possess a talent can be discerned--powerful, original, Messrs. King & Son in London. We think a
wife and family in a seaside resort? There various, and unequal. Of the seventeen better arrangement of chapters, at least for
is little doubt that his butler, as is hinted, stories, four—' From the Reminiscences of English readers, might have been adopted
know the secret, and bullied him in con- Private Ivanoff, The Action at Aislar,' with advantage. Had chap. v. , headed. The
sequence. What is more extraordinary, 'Four Days,' and 'Officer and Soldier Doctrine of Revolutionary Syndicalism,'
and not mentioned by Mr. Russell, is the Servant '--are drawn from experience and been the initial one, it would probably
fact that one of the boys in the school knew observation of military life, and bear the have made those which now precede it,
it too, and never revealed it, though there impress of profound truth. All these are dealing as they do with the ebb of failure
is ample evidence that the master in question very fine. The Bears' and 'The Meeting and the flow of success, more interesting
was an implacable tyrant to boys. At the are of the same strain, but not of the same
to the less initiated in the problems of
disclosure every one was shocked, if not material, and are also good, though less industrialism.
disgusted ; and we record with pleasure the profound; but the two stories dealing
It is not possible for us to do more here
comment we have heard of the saintly with a mysterious Byronic lady called than make one or two allusions to the con-
John Smith: “I am glad there was some. Nadejela Nicolaievna are absolute failures. tents, which, we believe, will serve t make
body to love him. ". In this chapter and There is, indeed, no sign that Garshin could readers anxious to investigate more tho-
elsewhere Mr. Russell is slack about bringing draw a woman. Two or three little alle. roughly the past, present, and the future
his details up to date. He does not give gories in the manner of Hans Andersen are
of Syndicalism. As in
tho
case
of
us an index, but he thinks it worth while to full of delicate ironical sprightliness. Finally, all such movements, repressive measures
reproduce in full (pp. 218–31) his own speech in ' A Night' and 'The Scarlet Blossom ’a have been its life-blood, and periods which
to his constituents at Princes Risborough vein of wild genius shows itself. Not even ensured it a measure of toleration-such
concerning the Phoenix Park murders, with in ‘Wuthering Heights' or in any of Poe's as the year 1868, when the French Govern.
“cheers, hear, hear," and " loud cheers tales has madness been drawn so ment first acknowledged the legality of
inserted. This creditable effort is much vincingly, or so subjectively. Indeed, poor working. men's organizations most
less interesting than the chapter on 'Oratory' Garshin knew what he was writing about, critical times for continued existence. The
for the latter years of his short life--the rise and suppression of the organization
years that followed his campaign and his which corresponded to our labour bureaus,
A Poet's Children : Hartley and Sara | wound- were clouded by intervals of in. owing to a distrust similar to that which
Coleridge. By Eleanor A. Towle. (Methuen. ) sanity. The translator, even though his recently seemed to presage the early break-
The biographer's task 'has in this instance version is not adequate, deserves the up of our own system, will be of interest,
been accomplished with gravity, tact, and gratitude of English readers for introducing as well as the fact that the miners abroad
sympathy, and without a trace of the them to a talent so individual and genuine. have shown as ours havema marked supe-
spirit of purveying small beer which
vulgarizes so many modern memoirs and Le Livre de la Route. By J. Joergensen.
riority of combination over other trades.
biographies. We confess to a great affec-(Paris, Perrin. ); We welcome heartily
If a definitive argument is needed to show
tion for Hartley Coleridge, not only because this translation from the Danish. It is not wherein Revolutionary Syndicalism differs
of the wistfulness, gaiety, and tenderness only, as its title indicates, a book of travel, from organized labour revolt at home, it can
of his verse, but also the charm of his dis- | but something more. Full of picturesque
be found in this passage on p. 110:-
position. He was the only person in the description and free poetic fancy, it resembles
“The syndicats are not only to carry on their
circle of which he was a member who not a little the Reisebilder' of Heine. struggle directly against employers by strikes,
possessed a sense of humour.
boycotts and sabotage, but also against the State,
He is por. The book, treating of some of the mediæval and not only against the State appearing as the
trayed here without reserve, and at the same cities of South Germany, as, for instance, enemy of labor, but also against the State wish.
time without harshness. To understand Nuremberg and Rothenburg, is yet largely ing to become the protector and benefactor of the
Hartley, in spite of his weakness, is to concerned with Umbria. It created some
workingmen. This hostility to the State and to its
appreciate him. Sara was a brilliant woman amazement at the time of its publica of the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism. "
reform · legislation marks a further accentuation
in her way, but had less of the keen savour tion in Denmark, for Herr Joergensen,
of personality, about her than her brother. sceptic and Darwinian, revealed in it for
This pamphlet is a contribution from the
Sho is engagingly treated here. Wo wish the first time his admiration for the poetry French side to that larger history of the
that all writers of personal reminiscence and beauty of the Catholic religion. Herr emancipation of the world's labour now
would
realize that the essay can be under- Joergensen is the possessor of an original being written.
It will supply valuable
taken in no light or leisurely spirit. We artistic personality, an idealist, and full dates for various stages of the movement,
find in this volume numerous indications of real 'tenderness under the seeming
and suggest that emanations, which appear
of the delicacy, care, and discrimination cloak of irony. In the last chapters to be local and spasmodic, are parts of
that have been bestowed upon it.
of the book we find him explaining with puzzling but coherent whole.
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* We
countries far distant from one another are the prehistoric Ægean civilization was Aryan,
JAPAN AND GREECE,
supported by modern investigation. How and that the Greeks invaded the settlements
far he is correct in his view as to the inter- of older kinsmen. Indeed, he adds that the
The Creed of Half Japan : Historical action upon each other of Christianity and Spartans, coming last, were the most foreign
Sketches of Japanese Buddhism. By Arthur Buddhism is a matter for expert scholars to the older population, and therefore
Lloyd. (Smith & Elder. )--The claim put to decide, but what he says is the result of were the first to decay. " We dispute
forward in the title of this book on behalf of much study and thought, and deserves the both the fact and the inference. When he
Buddhism, as being the creed of half attention of all students of comparative informs us elsewhere that the Etruscans weru
Japan," is a modest one. The author himself religion.
originally Greeks, we feel even more sceptical.
tells us it is the religion of the great bulk
of the people. “ The farmers,” he says,
The promise of further studies in Japan. On the other hand, in what he says about
ese Buddhism from the same pen will un-
the Ionians as an earlier wave, not so con-
are Buddhists, so are the shopkeepers, so
happily never be fulfilled, as Prof. Lloyd did trasted with the population they conquered
are the rank and file of the people. The not live to see his present work published. in Asia Minor, his observations are both
ladies of the upper classes are Buddhists; so His death is
a great loss to Oriental reasonable and suggestive.
are most of their husbands, if they will be
scholarship.
He notes the interesting fact that Athenian
honest with themselves. " In any estimate
radicalism was strongly imperial, and dis-
to be formed of the Japanese nation this
posed to foreign conquests, and contrasts
fact must needs be taken into consideration. The Glory that was Greece : a Survey of it in this respect with our modern Socialists.
For reasons of State policy, Buddhism at the Hellenic Culture and Civilisation. By J. C.
time of the Restoration in 1868 was dis- Stobart. (Sidgwick & Jackson. )-This hand- of France in 1793 would have been more
A comparison with the radical democracy
established, Shinto, the native cult, being some and attractive book is intended for apt. They, too, were keen to make con-
made the State religion. But three years those who have not learnt Greek, and quests, and have subject allies, for the same
later the reforming statesmen receded from has in many respects the air of a set reason as the Athenians. They plundered
the position they had taken up. To have of Extension Lectures,” which the old- unwilling allies, instead of giving them
persevered in the campaign in favour of fashioned scholar looks upon as an encourage the inestimable privileges of liberty and
Shinto, and pushed it to its logical conclu- ment to shallow and pretentious education. equality, in the most unmerciful manner;
sion, would have been to outrage the religious Since, however, such work meets an in: and
even alleged in excuse the same sort of
sentiment of the country, and disturb the creasing demand, it is important that it
reason as the Athenians. Our author esti-
social order. Very wisely, therefore, they should be done as well as possible, and mates Pericles very fairly, but when he says
abandoned the crusade against Buddhism, therefore that it should be carefully criticized. that Pericles “raised & fund” to pay the
and with the restoration of the two beliefs The selection of the pictures in this ruling democracy, he rightly explains it
to their previous status of joint official volume is particularly, good, not only, in in the context as applying the tribute of
recognition the normal state of things was giving all the most celebrated things, but the allies to home purposes.
resumed. Shinto retains its close associa- also in including some not yet well known, In other cases there are real inconsistencies
tion with the Court, and occupies to this such as the new fragments of the Ludovisi in the book, which we cannot but attribute
extent a privileged position; but Buddhism, throne from Boston. But why did not Mr. to the accepting from high authorities con-
though shorn of some of its prestige and a Stobart give us the equally remarkable Aicting statements. Thus we have the old
large portion of its endowments, remains Palestrina chariot now in New York ? The sentiment put into Pericles's mouth,
what it has been for centuries, the creed of execution of the photographs is not so good follow culture without extravagance
three-fourths of the nation.
as the selection, some being very faint and which is again disproved a few pages later by
These interesting sketches of Buddhism poor. Those of scenery—Marathon, Delphi, the statement that the Athenians spent more
begin with an explanation of the two main &c. —are particularly
, unsatisfactory, so that than 150,0001. on one statue. That would
forms of that religion: one which is purely we can understand the author's mistake in
mean a couple of millions in a modern state.
Indian, and rests on the 'Hinayana scrip- speaking of the latter as in “a valley of The writer does not seem to see that these
tures, and the later and more amplified type, Parnassus " !
two statements are irreconcilable. In the
which in various modified shapes exists in Coming now to his text, we are glad to same way he attacks the critics who have
Japan to-day. Having described the rise record that his style is easy and agreeable, expressed a low opinion of Sappho's morals,
and growth of Buddhism in India, the author when it is not too colloquial or jocose. and on the next page proceeds to state facts
passes on to the stage of Buddhist missionary He is seldom obscure-as he is when he says which are the very basis of that judgment.
enterprise. He traces the introduction of that the Athenians appointed “ three hostile But the history of Greek literature is not
Buddhism from India into China at various generals” to carry out the campaign his strong point. He speaks of Theocritus
dates in the course of several centuries, and against Syracuse. But he says that 6,000 as if he were the father of the prose mime;
tells us how it finally found its way to Japan of Xenophon's famous companions in his yet the ancients are unanimous in giving
by way of Corea. Not the least interesting Retreat marched home, and, we trust, that honour to Sophron, whom even Plato
portions of the narrative are those which lived happily ever afterwards. " We happen knew and appreciated. Still stranger is his
deal with the various missions of Buddhist to know they did not; a good many were estimate of the ‘Alcestis' as surely the
priests from China to India, and from Japan even sold as slaves by Anaxibius. He speaks most conspicuous failure in all dramatic
to China, in search of true doctrines. We of “ a horrid odour of self-consciousness and literature. '
learn, too, of the “pious device" by means of self-righteousness” in the tone of Isoerates, We have dwelt too long on special points
which Buddhism soon after its introduction which is surely a highly exaggerated phrase ; in which this agreeable author seems to us
into Japan identified itself with the native and when he says that Alexander played to have written or quoted hastily. Our
cult, the recognition of Shinto deities as in the Bayard and the Bluebeard in turns," defence is that the book before us has many
carnations of Buddha leading to the curious we suppose he must have been misled by the merits, and may be of service in showing
fusion of the two faiths which has had such alliteration. It is, of course, of little apparent the wider public what matchless things were
å marked influence upon the religious moment that he gives Pauly (of the Ency, produced by this unique race.
development of Japan. We find also a clopædia ') an l too many, and Mausollus of
detailed account of the growth and the Caria one too few; but he would find out
leading characteristics of each of the chief the inconvenience if he wanted to consult the
sects of Japanese Buddhism. Through the former, and looked for him in a catalogue.
ROGER BACON.
labyrinth of Buddhist philosophy, compli- We do not know why he calls Hesiod's
cated as it is by differences of sect, the brother Persis (not Perses), or the river that
Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi. -
author, who mado a prolonged study of his was turned over Sybaris the Traeis (Crathis). Fasc. III. Liber Primus Communium Natu-
subject, is a safe guide.
He thinks the “
wavy tail ” of Herodotus ralium, Partes Tertia et Quarta. Ed. Robert
While unable to accept the opinion that must have been a cat (as it was), but Steele. (Oxford, Clarendon Press. )—English
Chinese Taoism and Japanese Shinto are
confuses it with the yalî, which was certainly scholars owe a debt of gratitude to Mr.
but two names for the same thing, we are
a domesticated weasel of some sort. The Robert Steele for this edition of the 'Opera
grateful for the light thrown upon the fact Athenian hoplites did not slay their Inedita' of Roger Bacon, which he is pro-
that the favourite sect of the military class, thousands" at Platæa. These instances ducing in conjunction with the Clarendon
the zen— known to some of us through its show that the author, however familiar Press. Had this mediæval friar been &
relation to bushido-was the least turbulent with Greek life, should have had his proofs German or a Frenchman, we should long
and aggressive of all the sects of Buddhism. revised by some mature scholar, to whom ago have had on our shelves a critical edi-
Another point to which the author recurs
the correction of such statements would
tion of all his works, and it is a disgrace
with some insistence is the connexion which have been easy.
to English scholarship, and particularly to
existed in early times between Buddhism It is a different matter when we come to Mr. the learned members of the University of
and other systems of religion. The conclu- Stobart's judgments on moot points, in which Oxford, of which Roger Bacon was un-
sions he formed as to the constant exchange, he has a perfect right to his opinion, though doubtedly one of the most distinguished
in the past, of religious ideas between we cannot agree with him. He thinks that 'sons, that at this time of day there should
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samo
comes
be any 'Opera Inedita. ' J. S. Brower, the production of men and animals and
in his luminous Preface to the volume of plants, and has naturally a great deal about A KEATS AUTOGRAPH AT WELBECK
Bacon's works published more than fifty the soul. For any student of Aquinas it ABBEY: FRAGMENT OF THE
years ago in the Rolls series of Chronicles will be specially instructive to compare the
DRAFT OF THE POT OF BASIL. '
and Memorials, pointed out the position way in which these two philosophers ap-
that Bacon held in the learned world of the proached the
questions. Bacon's
46, Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, N. W.
thirteenth century. It is hardly too much Cap. V. , de virtutibus, utrum sint partes
to say that for his age and opportunities anime, is treated, for example, in the
THE last time Mr. Arthur Severn and I
this friar was one of the most extraordinary Summa,' I. , q. 78, &c. Bacon is not met on the Keats-Shelley Memorial Associa-
men who ever lived. The works he com- altogether “dryasdust reading, for fre- tion Committee, of which we both are
posed on the various branches of learning, quently the student
upon little members, conversation turned upon his
which he communicated to Pope Clement IV. , evidences of the man in the middle of his father's generous habit of distributing
by his order, about the year 1262, were treatment of some abstruse subject. There among his friends and acquaintances-as
known as the 'Opus Minus' (the Introduc- are not so many of these human touches in specimens of Keats's writing-snippets of
tion), the Opus Majus' (the "principal this fasciculus as usual, but they are not autograph drafts, &c. , of which many
work? ), and the “Opus Tertium, written altogether wanting. For example (p. 297), fragments remained in the hands of the
the philosopher speaks of “a damnable hapless poet's devoted friend up till a very
former," as Bacon tells us himself.
Besides opinión common in Paris "-perhaps he lata period in his long life.
these, and probably after the death of the only meant, after all, an opinion that should The talk about Severn and his liberal
Pope who had charged him with the task of be condemned. At p. 283, speaking of scissors arose out of an observation made by
setting down in order the results of his the opinion as to the creation of the in the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Harold Boulton,
forty years of study and experiment, Bacon tellect in man, he says, “For twenty that, when recently in the Duke of Port-
began a great encyclopædic work on the years all theologians of any worth and land's library at Welbeck Abbey, he had
sciences. At the present time, before all philosophers have proclaimed this view," and seen among some autographs á strip of
of the many fragments of his books and adds, And still so do all Englishmen, who paper bearing, in what purported to be
tracts are in print, it is somewhat difficult among all other men are and were students.
” Keats's writing, two stanzas of The Pot
to speak with certainty as to this great work
which the philosopher contemplated, and
Wo once more thank Mr. Steele for the of Basil, one written on the back of the
in part at least put into shape. It would excellent work he is doing. It must be other, and one being about the murder of
naturally have comprised much that he had
a labour of love on his part, and a tardy refer to the missing strip from the fragment
Lorenzo. The account seemed so likely to
previously written in the Opus Minus," recognition on the part of the Oxford Press
of the draft of "The Pot of Basil' which I
Opus Majus,' and 'Opus Tertium,' and of the merit of a distinguished Oxford man.
had handled as long ago as 1883, when it
the similarity of certain passages appears to
was in the hands of my friend Mr. R. A.
have misled many writers into supposing
Potts, that I was somewhat eagerly interested
that the extant fragments of this projected
in the little discovery, and wrote to the
encyclopædia were portions of Bacon's
THE ARTIST.
Duke's librarian, Mr. Goulding, to inquire
earlier books. Until we have the rest of Mr.
Steele's edition of the inedited works it is He shut his door, and mingled with the
whether by any means I could inspect the
manuscript. By Mr. Goulding's courtesy,
premature to pass any definite opinion, but throng.
I am now in possession of an excellent
in the present state of our knowledge it A smile, a something vivid, young, half-wild, photograph of each side, with his Grace's
would seem that Mr. Steele is right in his A gleam of understanding in his eyes, leave to make what use I think proper of
view as to the construction of the “Opus
All-tolerant, all-wise,
the document. The proper primary use
Tertium,' rather than M. Duhem, who dis- Drew a man to him. As they swung along,
to make of this permission is, I think, to
covered what he supposed to be a fragment A woman joined them ; last, a child.
send to The Athenæum for record, as in
of the 'Opus Tertium,' which was published
previous cases of the kind, the result of
by the Quaracchi Press in 1909.
And to all these that day was passing sweet; examining a fragment which turns out to
The latest fasciculus issued by Mr. Steele
at last, the man had found a friend,
be of textual interest and value.
contains the third and fourth parts of the The woman love, the child a fairyland ;
First Book of the Communia Naturalium. '
Each yearning, dumb demand It is clearly a snippet from the draft to
which the Potts fragment had belonged; but
This is almost beyond doubt a portion of each he heard, and could divinelier meet
of the monumental work planned by Bacon
Than any dream. The day had end.
it is a few stanzas earlier in the poem: that
fragment contained stanzas 30 to 40 of The
parts of this certainly dealt with physics And he fell silent-smiling still, withal,
about the year 1271. The third and fourth So through the sunset came they to his door. Pot of Basil” (as Keats called the poem at
that stage of its composition), but wanting
and metaphysics under the titles of Com-
Let
stanza 32, which had been cut off. For that
munia Naturalium and 'De Principiis But looking past and through them.
stanza of the draft, with probably stanza 29
Rerum Naturalium. In the preceding fasci.
us come,
They cried, “ into your home!
at the back of it, I have watched since 1883.
culus Mr. Steele printed the first two parts of Friendship, the Future
Love we hold in the stripath Welbeck
Abbey contains
fourth parts being here given. It may be
store
well to recall the fact that certain consider-
For you, who taught us of them all ! ” ceded by line 8 of stanza 27, on the verso.
The verso is of minor interest; but it is
able extracts from this tract of Bacon were
What
some time since we have recovered a piece
published as long ago as 1861 by M. Charles But he, as one who marvelled, said,
in his study of the works of the great me-
need
of Keats's easy, fluent drafting with more
diæval philosopher.
Have I of these, who dwell with them apart ? fascination for its hulk than this unregenerato
In the third part of this treatise, now
Behold now, and farewell ! ”—They looked, line 5, it seems to have been struck off at
octave stanza 25. With the exception of
and there
printed virtually for the first time, Bacon
a blow, and left with some technical imper.
A room showed, small and bare ;
discusses the question of motion and sub- Nought could they see within it. . . . save,
fections, reading as follows (I give it quite
jects which depend upon that question :
literally) :-
such as
“the infinite," "" time and place,
indeed,
&c. These are all treated in the true
The tools wherewith he shaped his art.
And as he to the Court yard passd along
Each third step did he pause, and listened soft
mediæval manner, and, of course, with abso-
V. H. FRIEDLAENDER.
If he could hear his Lady's matin-song
Or the light whisper of her footsteps soft
lute dependence upon the great master
And as he thus over his passion bung
Aristotle. In fact, it is obvious that, whilst
He heard a laugh full inusical aloft
Bacon laid such great stress upon the need
And looking ap he saw her smiling through
A little indoor Lattice, morning new-
of investigation and experiment, and pro-
fessed to have expended great sums of
wherein there is an unfinished and rejected
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY.
money on the purchase of instruments and
variant of line 5, ostensibly
March 23, 1912.
in carrying out his researches, he was loath
And as he stood from the gallery she hung-
to depart from Aristotle, even in his physics.
May I ask for space just to correct a slip
Still, for all who care to know the methods in the appreciative review of my recent but I do not believe the word hung was
and manner of thought of medieval philoso- | book The Eve of Catholic Emancipation ’ in really written as a part of that reading,
or at all until he made the ultimate line 5,
phors, a perusal of these tracts of Bacon your current issijo ?
will be profitable and interesting. This will 'The Dawn of the Catholic Revival,' to which stands (as above) till the present
be especially the case with the fourth which the present book forms a sequel, was
time.
part, where the dependence of the English written, not by my brother, Mr. Wilfrid When he got to the making of the holo.
friar on Aristotle and the Arabian philoso-Ward, but by wayself,
graph of the poem in the George Keats
phers is very marked. The part deals with
BERNARD WARD. manuscript book at the British Museum
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by his
(Egerton Manuscripts, No. 2780) he dis-
CUNNINGHAM'S EXTRACTS FROM THE of some play, at any rato,“ upon the 1st
That there was a performance at Court
covered the heterodox employment of soft
as a rhyme for soft, but passed on the un.
REVELS' BOOKS, 1842.
of November " is certain ; and that it was
necessarily sibilant footsteps soft, and, I
IV.
one of those in the repertoire of Shakespeare's
suspect, took exception to the somewhat
I WILL now deal with the arguments put company is likewise certain ; for the pay.
Leigh-Huntian survival from his earlier
forward by your correspondent* against the
ment to Hemynges for its presentation
style in the otherwise entirely delightful
authenticity of the play-list of 1611-12,
before the King is recorded by the Treasurer
morning new ; for he left the couplet for
although it is obviously by the same hand
of the Chamber.
further revision, only writing :
as the rest of the account, on the back of the
beginning of which it is written, its lettering to admit as much-though he fails to
Your correspondent, indeed, is constrained
And looking up be saw her smiling through being precisely the same in style; the ink appreciate the significance of the fact; and
A little in-door Lattice-
When Woodhouse made his transcript examined with a magnifying-glass revealing has gratuitously raised—“ but not in rela-
the same in effect, look, and colour, and, adds--to get over the difficulty he himself
(Houghton-Crewe collection) of the Museum nothing whatever different from that of the tion to this bill. "
holograph he left out the couplet, doubtless rest of the writing. If genuine, it is ex-
apprehending that Keats might alter it ceedingly interesting as fixing for us the
Whatever he may mean exactly by that,
altogether if he decided to reject the phrase
there can be no question that Sir George
much disputed precise date of the compo. Buc and his men were, according to custom,
morning new; and Keats did, for he in- sition of "The Tempest. '
serted in the Woodhouse book :-
in attendance at Whitehall Palace that
Your correspondent, however, has no night, superintending the performance, what-
When, looking up, he saw her features fair
hesitation in questioning it, and he indicates
Smile through an indoor lattice, debonair.
ever may have been the play presented.
several circumstances about it which to him
Your correspondent's only other point
Some one (Taylor, I believe) took exception appear to be highly suspicious.
His first
against this play-list is that it is incom-
to this, and suggested :
point is that
plete. “Thirteen plays," he says,
are here
When lo an indoor lattice met his view
while the names of plays begin with 1st Novo | entered by name; but in the accounts [he
And her fair features smiling playful through. ember, at the end we find a noate of the Stufe,
,
can only mean those of the Treasurer of the
The obliging poet altered his own couplet 5th November, 1811. " That (says he) would imply Chamber) there were thirty paid for by
to that of the standing text :-
there was no service in preparation for a play item, and dated. " This is true, but of these
When, looking up, he saw her features bright on the first; the date of the contested play, 'The thirty many were plays not given before
Smile through an indoor lattice, all delight.
Tempest. '
the King and the Court, but privately, in
In answer to this I can show that it “would
At the same time he gave permission to
some smaller apartment for the amusement
substitute the Taylorian version! Ulti. imply” nothing of the sort. To begin with : of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and
mately he remedied the rhyme defect in
his quotation of the extract is incorrect. the Princess Elizabeth; while it was only
the first quatrain by substituting oft for In the original it is written thus :-
plays acted before the King, including,
the first soft ; but perhaps others beside
“A noat of what Stufe wth workmanshipe hath perhaps, sometimes those acted before the
myself might prefer the technical flaw to
bine bestowed one the branches for the Kinges Queen, as I have already pointed out, which
Matis (note the spelling) Servis this yeare begin-
the rather tedious pleonasm of the line ning the Vth of Novembar, 1611. ”
were attended and mounted
established :-
Majesty's Officers of the Revels. The
Your correspondent says of this “noat"
Queen, it will be remembered, had her own
Each third step did he pause, and listened oft.
that we find it “at the end. " If we give "Master of the Revels," and Prince Henry,
And, Leigh-Huntian or not, the term these words their obvious meaning, that is, as well as her Majesty, his own Company
morning-new is so vitally expressive of the at the end of the account, he is incorrect of Players.
eternal freshness to Lorenzo of his first daily again ; for it comes at the beginning of p. 4 In fact, the records, if carefully analyzed,
sight of Isabella that I would gladly see -the one following, and back to back with, are found to tally exactly with the list of
the text thus rather than as established that on which the play-list is written.
plays and their dates, as inscribed at the
with its comparatively commonplace features Next, he does not seem to have noticed beginning of the Revels' account for this
bright and all delight_pretty as that is.
that this bill, with all its items, relates not year. There are few, if any, discrepancies
Of the murder stanza (28) it is but to be to the Revels men in general, but to the to be accounted for; and the authenticity
recorded that soul is misspelt “ sould” “ wierdrawers in particular-only. Now of the play-list is not only supported, but
in line 3, that as ill at peace was first written the “wierdrawers” were those who mended, even confirmed, by the supposed ones,
for
is ill at peace
” in line 4, that what prepared, and garnished” the wires and which, when solved, demonstrate--apart
seems to be dull' is cancelled before rods from which hung the branch candle- from the physical proof-that no modern
“ break-covert bloodhounds” and the sin sticks and other lights in the auditorium hand, least of all one in 1842, could possibly
altered to such sin” in line 5, that line 6 and on the stage, as well as the lights them have concocted this document.
reads River"
for water (with the holo- selves; and although the wierdrawers However, your correspondent does “ not
graph), while in the couplet appear the seem usually to have attended the Court dwell on this record because,” he says, he
curious word “Horeses " and the still more performances at night, sometimes they did has
curious “ convusled ” for convulsed.
not do so. Their work, indeed, was quite as so much to say concerning what has been called
The manuscript is marked in Severn's much, if not more, preparing for the plays the Revels' Account of 1836. Mr. Law says
writing as given away on December 13th, in the daytime before-often several days expressly that no one has ever doubted it. I have
1862. It was to Lady Frederick Bentinck before-the performances ; and on the days always doubted it, and now, by careful research,
that he gave it; and another relative left between them.
I am able to prove that this list is a forgery” [his
own italics).
it (with a collection of autographs) to the Moreover, the dates on which the ac-
present Duke of Portland.
counts of the various officers of the Revels I propose to deal with this question in a
The disjecta membra of this draft are a began differ often by a day or two. Thus concluding article.
ERNEST LAW.
peculiarly interesting unknown quantity ; in the year under discussion (1611-12)
and I should be truly grateful to any auto- that of the Master begins on Allhollen
graph collector who would inform me of Eve," while those of“ the Clark Comptroler
BOOK SALES.
other fragments of what I believe to have and the “ Clark of his Matis Revelles" begin
On Monday, March 18th, and two following
been the draft Keats had begun and left in on Hallowmas Day.
days, Messrs. Sotheby sold the third portion of
his Folio Shakespeare when he joined his The explanation, then, of the supposed the library of the late Mr. Charles Butler. An
brother Tom at Teignmouth in the spring of discrepancy about the "wierdrawers" at interesting feature of the sale was the large
1818.
H. BUXTON FORMAN. tendance, which so perturbs your corre-
number of service books, both manuscript and
spondent, is simple and obvious enough. Antiphonale Romanum, French Ms. , 15th cen-
printed, the most important being the following :
It is that their work on Hallowmas Eve, tury, 221. Bible, Anglo-Norman MS. , late 13th
“ CROSSRAGUELL. ”
preparatory for the production of the play century, 1381. ; two others, similar, 601. and 491. ;
King's College, March 27, 1912. on Hallowmas Day, falling within the month another, Italian, 14th century, 361. Salisbury
I VENTURE to think that the origin of the of October, would have been charged for Breviary, 2 vols. , 1556, 29? . Of the numerous
place is to be traced to Raguel, one of the in their account for the previous
manuscript Horæ, the most important, a Flemish
Revels
MS. of the 15th century, fetched 1651. ; several
archangels mentioned in Enoch xx. 4. Up Year"-October 31st, 1610, to October
others ranged between 271. and 901. Among the
to about the eighth century Raguel and other 31st, 1611-an account which, unfortunately printed Horæ were several printed by G. Anabat
for the Hardouyns; others by Kerver, Simon
apocryphal angels were held in reverence ; missing, may perhaps have included also
after that date they were degraded. Hence
the charge for their attendance on the Vostre, Jehan de Brie, Pierre Jouault, &c. , fetched
from 201. to 901. ; and one printed for Geoffroy
Raguel in Middle English as one of the night of the performance.
Tory, 1525, 1971. Missale ad Usum Anglicanum,
names of the devil (cf. Ragnel in the alli- * The articles by "Audi Alteram partem" appeared in
English Ms. , 14th century, realized 601. Missale
terative poem of 'Patience,' where Ragnel, The Athenaeum for July 22nd and 29th of last year. Mr.
ad Usum Romanum, French MS. , 15th century,
unexplained, is the editor's error
for Raguel). 18th, and 30th"; and a brief rejoinder from Audi Alteram
Law replied in three articles published on September 9th,
2
Psalter, Anglo-German MS. , 12th-13th
centuries, 501. ; another, English, 14th century,
I. GOLLANCZ. Partem was printed in the number for October 7th.
711. ; another, 15th century, 1401.
391. ;
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THE ATHENÆUM
The other books included Aristotle, Opera
The translations from selected sonnets of
Græce, 6 vols. , 1495–8, 561. History of the
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
Petrarch are, in our opinion, the best, being
Emperor Baber, Persian MS. , 17th century,
fuller and more harmonious in tone, and reflect-
2951. Boccaccio, Des Cas de Nobles Hommes, (Notice in these columns does not proolude longer
ing something of the Italian purity and dignity.
&c. , French Ms. , 15th century, 681. Caxton, roview. )
Scollard (Clinton), Songs of a Syrian Lover, 276 net
Chronicles of England, socond odition, 1482,
ENGLISH.
Elkin Mathews
imperfect, 115l. Chaucer, Woorkes, 1581, 281.
We fail to see why the lover should have
Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, 391. Clement V. ,
Theology.
dubbed himself Syrian. Except for the repe-
Constitutiones, Strasburg, 1471, 231. Columna, Abhedananda (Swami), Great Saviors of the
tition of place-names, the poems leave but
Hypnerotomachie, 1546, 211. ; the same, 1554, World, Vol. I. , 4/6 net.
little impression of Oriental atmosphere.
431. Dorat, Fables Nouvelles, 1773, 311. Gawin
New York, Vedanta Society
References to Allah's scimitar" and the like
Douglas, The XIII. Bukes of Eneados, 1553, Four of the lectures delivered before the
are but poor devices to realize “ local colour. '
281. 108. Suetonius, &c. , 3 vols. in 1, Milan, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences are em-
Mr. Scollard is, in fact, the English lyrist
1475, 201. 108. Houghton Gallery, 2 vols. , 1788, bodied in this volume, a general essay being
writing the normal commonplace verse to his
491. Isocrates, Orationes, 1493, 221. Ben Jonson, added.
