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expenses at Cambridge less, and thus attract- what one hears and reads, one might reason.
ing a wider public. Had the Senate thrown ably believe that the University is a clerical
Jesus College has been conspicuous in
out proposals of such a character, a cry for corporation where dons spend most of the
two very different ways : by securing the
reforms would have at least
merited atten- Anglican Toryism, and a few scanty hours has produced a goodly crop of controversy,
a Commission empowered to make drastic day in scheming to promote the interests of headship of the river, and putting up a
tion.
in teaching the classics. Their nights are
whilst the Cranmer celebrations have aroused
But the Senate has committed no such
devoted to drinking old port. A few ardent
enormity, it has simply injured the amour
spirits are supposed to teach mathematics,
interest. The rowing world is divided
propre of certain persons responsible for
because there is a saying that “ Cambridge
between the supporters of the “Jesus
is mathematical and Oxford classical. '
style" and the majority, who are in favour
suggestions which have neither inspired the
enthusiasm, nor received the acquiescence
Only the other day I heard a really disa orthodoxy seems to consist in looking all
of orthodoxy. At Cambridge, as elsewhere,
of a majority.
tinguished man of letters, in proposing
the health of Cambridge, remark with his
right and doing very little, and those who
The first scheme which was recommended usual courtesy that the name of no Cam-
manage to win are blamed for looking as
by the Council of the Senate was, it may be bridge scholar or scientist was known
if they were not getting the boat along, yet
recalled, to create a House of Residents in in the universities of the Continent, as if contriving to make it go faster than those
place of the Electoral Roll, and allow it
whose methods are in accordance with the
German anthropologists had borrowed from
to pass measures, reserving a right of appeal Dr. Frazer in complete ignorance of his established order. Good, however, will,
to the Senate. It is to be regretted that existence, or Sir Joseph Larmor was not
I trust, come out of a somewhat unseemly
Jesus
the Conservative opposition defeated
listened to with even more respect by French squabble, as it appears that the
proposal so innocent. But they did, and mathematicians
is only serviceable in shallow water,
than by an enraptured and that, if the Cam is deepened, the club
there is no more to be said except that House of Commons. Absurd as such
nobody would have been the better, or for charge is, it is only too readily believed, and
will go down—not in the river, but in the
that matter the worse, for its passing, nor
list of boats. On the need of dredging
the wickedness of this premature demand
would the cause of education have been in for a Commission is that it induces people it is to be hoped that an appeal for funds
the river there is perfect unanimity, and
any way advanced. The
econd reform to believe that Cambridge is now what its
was an ingenious financial scheme devised traducers falsely represented it to be sixty
will meet with a generous response.
by the Bursar of Trinity, spreading the years ago. Clericalism is indeed a feeble Cranmer's monument was unveiled on
payment of degree fees over the whole of a plant; it requires a brave man to proclaim June 13th in Jesus Chapel by the Bishop
man's course instead of exacting it in two that his sympathies are conservative, whilst of Ely, Visitor of the College, who made a
lump sums, when he is admitted a B. A. port wine is no longer a symbol of the peculiarly happy address on the martyred
and a M. A. How this would have really don. Any one who knows Cambridge must Archbishop, avoiding thin ice with remark-
met the need for reform no one can clearly know that it is a place where a great deal able skill, and dwelling on Cranmer's ser-
Yet, because these petty reforms of hard and unselfish work is done for a vices to liturgical reform and to the English
have been rejected, men who really ought scanty competence, in which progress since language. Cranmer was certainly no poet,
to know better clamour for a Commission. the last statutes came into operation in but he had the merit of knowing that he
This is what they say :
1882 has been truly remarkable, where new had not that gift. The music in the Chapel
was by Tallis and Martin Luther, and was
"In the five years. . . . various proposals for studies are welcomed with ardour, and
Constitutional reform have been brought before endowed as liberally as possible out of the conducted by Dr. Mann. Mr. Bruce Joy's
the Senate of the University of Cambridge by the meagre resources of the University and the likeness of Cranmer was universally com-
Council of the Senate : but they have been without Colleges. This progress has been secured mended.
exception rejected by the Senate; and it is clear to
us that no further attempt of the kind is likely of events. To take a single example: in a
not by legislation, but in the natural course
I must strike a sad note in alluding to
to be successful. We, therefore, make our present college which had in 1882 two classical and
the death of the Master of Caius. Mr.
appeal for the appointment of a Commission. "
five mathematical lecturers and one in rallied, and passed away suddenly on
Roberts was taken ill at the Boat Races,
The names of those who signed for a theology, and eight of the fellows were
Commission supply food for thought. The occupied neither in teaching nor in the Sunday. Of him it may be said that the
better he was known, the more he was liked
list opens with twenty-three professors or work of research, instruction is now pro-
ex-professors. Of
of these no fewer
than eight vided in the subjects already mentioned, devotion to his college, which, in numbers,
and respected, and that he showed a lifelong
are not Cambridge men, and four of them and in history, anatomy, chemistry, modern learning, and general tone, thanks greatly
are comparatively recent importations. Of languages, mechanical science, &c. , and
the remaining sixty-nine, thirty-nine are
to him, now stands in the very forefront
every single fellow is engaged in active in Cambridge. His honest, strenuous life
members of two colleges Trinity and King's work as a teacher, University official, or
-and four colleges contributo only one
will long be remembered in the University,
research student. Yet this has been effected
name each. Six collegesClare, Pembroke, entirely from within, and in a society which
and especially in the College he served so
Queens', Jesus, Magdalene, and Sidney-
J.
has by no means a reputation for zeal for
well.
have held completely aloof, and these all reformation or progress.
i Of almost every
bear a good reputation for being wisely college as much, if not more, could be said
and cautiously administered. Trinity hoads with perfect truth,
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AND
FOR THE
priests " ; the God of Israel, and also dots. The key - note of the book is struck
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. Christ, are the sun ; Moses, Aaron, and in the first four lines :-
Miriam are
celestials”; the kingdom
I have dreamed the dream of the unknown mens
INotice in those columns does not preclude longer of heaven is the “ celestial zodiac,? ? and so And stood on the sightless shore ;
review. )
We are invited, as the title suggests,
I have looked in the eyes of reality. . . .
And I am young no more.
Theology.
to adopt these values as the final truth
about the Bible.
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The interpretation here offered is astral. magazine type, pretty, but vague, with the from photographs. It would have been
The Bible is the work of “
astronomical ! inexpressible indicated by serried rows of wiser if the writer had frankly stated in
wax
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the preface her indebtedness to some of
her English predecessors; but the book Geography and Travel.
Sports and pastimes.
shows originality in the skill with which a
slight sketch of the poet's life is interwoven
Cambridge County Geographies : DUMFRIES- St. Quintin (Col. T. A. ), CHANCES OF SPORTS
with local descriptions of Florence and SHIRE, by James King Hewison ; OF SORTS.
Blackwood
Ravenna. With Florence in particular the
PERTHSHIRE, by Peter MacNair ; and
"I'm a great believer in chances, and I've
author displays an intimate acquaintance ;
RENFREWSHIRE, by Frederick Mort,
had my sbare. Chances of high position, chances
and her efforts to disentangle the city of
1/6 each
Cambridge University Press of big fortunes, chances at big heads, chances at
Dante's time from the far-different Florence The humanistic view of geography is all the many varied games I've played. Some
of modern guide-books, by which it is now successfully adopted in those interesting little
I've grasped, some l've missed, and when the
chances came, whether it was hit or miss, I never
overlaid and almost concealed, are pre- books. Mr. MacNair's 'Perthshire' suffers
felt quite certain on each occasion whether it
eminently successful. After a brief introduc- from over-technical terminology.
was from being too confident and sanguine, or
tion on the origin and early history of the
not enough so. Never mind; after all, whether
city, she devotes two chapters to the Florence
Outfit and Equipment : FOR THE TRAVELLER, ill or good, it is the varied chances that create
Without
of Dante, and to that quarter of it in which EXPLORER, AND SPORTSMAN, edited by the excitements and pleasures of life.
them what is it? ”
he lived. Admirable as these pages are for
Eustace Reynolds-Ball, with Contribu-
their clearness and accuracy, their effect tions by Sir H. H. Johnston, Harry de Thus Col. St. Quintin in his Introduction.
would have been enhanced, for those who Windt, F. C. Selous, and others.
He further wisely lays down and obeys the
have seen Florence, by a plan of the modern
Reynolds-Ball's Guides rule that religion, politics, and the ladies
city, showing the position of the Cerchia This volume is evidently intended for
are not to be discussed. He thanks various
Antica, and of the wider circuit of walls inexperienced travellers in the first place, persons for aid, specially Mr. William Black-
erected in Dante's day by Arnolfo del though probably those with some experience wood-in whose magazine many of the
Cambio.
The following chapters deal with are the most likely to profit by its use. For stories have appeared—“ for having given
the more important buildings then, and discrimination is required in order to decide me my head and allowed me to blunder over
still, standing, and with the great churches what articles mentioned may safely be the country in my own way without a curb. ”
--the Duomo, Santa Maria Novella, and omitted when one is making preparations for In doing so Mr. Blackwood showed the
Santa Croce which were all begun during a journey. Many matters are discussed, and clearest perception of what would attract
that remarkable period. There is a short advice for the most part sound, though in readers, for from start to finish there is
review of thirteenth-century art, as seen cases difficult to follow- is freely given. not a dull page. No pretence is made of fine
especially in the master and pupil, Cimabue Outfit and equipment for hot and cold writing, but there is a strong flavour of the
and Giotto, and of the personal relations of countries, how to preserve health and to deal language of various sports.
Dante with the latter painter. The last with sickness, the batteries for sportsmen The charm of the book consists less in the
chapter, which is entitled 'Florence in various countries, and even an angling author's power of description, though that
Repentant, recalls the successive efforts outfit, are all dealt with reasonably.
is considerable, than in his manner of taking
made by the Republic to atone for her
the reader into his confidence and revealing
outrageous treatment of her great citizen Pullen-Burry (B. ), FROM HALIFAX TO VAN- much of his own life. Its scope is varied.
and to recover his bones from their last
COUVER, 12/6 net.
Mills & Boon The author served twenty-six years in the
resting - place at Ravenna. The author in-
clines to the view, which has recently been to be Imperialist first of all
, then traveller, the Remount
Department, visiting Australia
The author of the present volume claims Hussars for six years, and was employed in
10th Hussars ; he also commanded the 8th
much disputed, that Dante studied both at and lastly lecturer. She is able, therefore, in the course of business. During these
Paris and Oxford; but the evidence she
adduces for the Oxford visit rests only on
to find other subjects than Woman's Suffrage
tradition, though supported by a vague
to discuss, though her observations have years he saw much hunting, racing, pig-
expression in a poem of Boccaccio. “For the naturally been directed largely from the sticking, polo, and shooting in many parts
embassy to Rome in 1301, which has also
woman's point of view. Unfortunately for each sport. The account of his travels in
of the world, and has adequately described
been contested, and which she is inclined
to the Dominion; these observations have and beyond the Himalaya is true to nature.
reject, she gives only the late authority of resulted in the opinion that Canadian In the list of illustrations (p. vii) one is
Leonardo Bruni
, though it is expressly women in the West, at any rate hare less mentioned at p. 144, but does not appear
mentioned by the contemporary
Dino prosperous than any others of their sex
there in the copy before us.
Compagni, and is accepted in our own day amongst civilized people.
by Prof. Villari. As a whole the book is
It is noticeable that her book increases in
Col. St. Quintin is confessedly no fisher-
singularly free from inaccuracies and un-
interest
with the turning of its pages. Perhaps hooked a tarpon off the
Mexican coast which,
man, yet he can tell an angler's tale. He
balanced statements ; but on p. 154 the its most arresting chapters are those dealing after the manner of these fish, leapt pro-
entry of Charles of Valois into Florence is with Winnipeg, the great centre of the wheat
placed in 1303 instead of 1301, and on p. 219 industry. In this city are situated the digiously, and accidentally fell into the
boat; after being belaboured by the Colonel
the exile of Dante is referred to February, biggest railway yards in the world ; these
1303, instead of January, 1302. The proofs are owned by_one corporation, and the and frightening the boy who managed the
have been somewhat carelessly corrected genesis of the Pacific Railway Company is punt, it leapt out again, but the hooks
held.
as regards proper names.
explained earlier in the volume. Here a
wheat expert gave his interviewer the infor- Shaking his head and tearing at the hook,
Reade (Aleyn Lyell),_JOHNSONIAN GLEAN- cultivated area to that which has never
mation that in Canada the proportion of he gave me a very similar feeling to what a mad,
keen horse does when, impatient of control, he
INGS : Part II. FRANCIS BARBER, THE
been broken up is as a cabbage patch to a
fights and tears at his bridle as he gallops along,
Doctor's NEGRO SERVANT, 6/
for we were paddling after and hanging on to that
thousand-acre farm. To demonstrate the big fish as hard as we could. '
Liverpool, the Author
opportunities presented to intending pur. After a long fight it was landed, and proved
Besides possessing greater unity of interest chasers, an instance is cited where a farm
than its predecessor, Mr. Reade's new volume in New Brunswick, with house and two barns, to be" 5 ft. 8 in. in length-as long as I am. ”
shows much improvement both in type and only four miles distant from a railway sta- The illustrations deserve praise ; indeed, in
paper, whilst the same high standard of tion, was offered for sale at the low figure of every respect author and publisher may be
careful research and dispassionate judgment 801. , twenty-five of its hundred acres having congratulated.
is maintained. All that seems likely to be been already cleared! In the matter of dis-
known about the negro, whom Johnson had advantages, the severity of Canadian winters
Education.
educated and made his residuary legatee, to women is not dismissed lightly but Freeman (K. J. ), SCHOOLS OF HELLAS : AN
is here collected; and some unpublished certain benefits attendant upon it are justly
ESSAY ON THE PRACTICE AND THEORY
letters to him from Boswell, asking for touched upon. More serious is the sparsity
OF ANCIENT GREEK EDUCATION FROM
Barber's assistance in his forthcoming bio- of accommodation for
workers,
600 TO 300 B. C. , edited by M. J. Rendall,
graphy, are printed, as well as a letter (given which seems to manifest itself throughout the
Second Edition, 5/ net. Macmillan
in facsimile) of the negro himself to Bishop great towns of the Dominion. No one contra-
Percy. A curious error of Dr. Hill's, trace- dicts it, and no one seems in a position to
We noticed this essay by a brilliant
able to a misprint in Croker, is corrected in remedy it.
young scholar too early lost on July 6th,
chap. vi. The author expresses himself as The unpopularity of emigrants from our
1907, and now we share the pleasure expressed
dissatisfied with the evidence that either own shores is a subject which has often been memoir of the author, in which he
by Mr. Rendall in a little addition to his
of the portraits he reproduces really re-
that
discussed. This inimical feeling seems to
presents Barber, though the frontispieco be gradually passing away as men and women
the book has already fought its way well
is certainly after Reynolds, who in all proba- of more solid worth are sent to replace the
into the third thousand of copies. ''
bility painted Johnson's servant among family rubbish which previously was often Livingstone College Year Book, 1912, 6d.
other black subjects.
tipped into the Colony.
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comprehensive that there would be little hinges on the use of hw' (X117) in the Penta- Beuve (C. A. ), PROFILS ANGLAIS,
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even on matters of detail. In vol. vi. the person singular masculine and feminine. There has long been wanting in this
articles on special schools are completed by The prevalent opinion on this point may here country a series of French classics for the
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deaf. Then follows an adequate treatment says that “the view formerly held,” accord- the voluminousness of the library edition,
of the organization of education in various ing to which “the epicene 17 was an supply something more than the mere class-
countries, including England, Scotland, Ire- archaism in Hebrew, cannot. . . . be any room textbook. These two volumes give
land, France, Germany, America, Canada, longer maintained ; Hebrew must have comprehensively what is best in La Bruyère
and Australasia. Vol. vii. devotes some possessed the double form from the begin- and the criticism of Sainte-Beuve on English
200 pages to a useful history of educational | ning. " Our author, on the other hand, sets literature, and are further furnished with
thought from the time of the Greeks to the out to prove that we have here to deal with useful Introductions and notes, which do
present day. Here we have in reasonable an archaism of very old standing, and he not intrude on the text. They are pleasingly
compass a complete textbook of the subject, believes that the still earlier forms lying bound in cloth covers.
the work of Mr. James Drevor and Prof. behind the pronoun in question are hau Eliot (George), Silas MARNER, THE WEAVER
Alexander Darroch, but mainly of the latter. for the masculine, and hai for the feminine.
OF RAVELOE, edited, with Introduction
It is illustrated by fourteen full-page por. The basal hypothesis which underlies and Notes, by F. E. Bevan, 1!
traits of such leaders in education as Abelard, this result is that the original mode of express-
Cambridge University Press
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Herbart, and Spencer. This sketch of means of au placed between the two conso- to English Literature for Schools. The
educational history comes appropriately at nants in the biliteral stage of Semitic speech, editor's Introduction, meant more,
the close of the work, welding together as and that the passive was similarly expressed imagine, for teachers than for readers, gives
it does the many subjects discussed in the by the diphthong ai. It was at this biliteral | all that needs to be said about the book
previous volumes. It was a common Greek stage, Mr. Munro maintains, that the Indo- and its author. The notes, too, are capably
saying that you must see a man's end before European family of speech separated from done, though on the first page we meet
you called him happy; we have read the last the Semitic, “when pronominal forms were with Yahweh in & Bible reference,
of The Teacher's Encyclopædia,' and may themselves verbal nouns, and their order, which strikes us as a foolish piece of pedantry,
with confidence call it excellent.
with regard to the verbal noun required to and find the explanation that • Merry
make what we call a verb, was still fluid. "
England' is not much more than Alma
Philology.
Has our essayist proved his case? It is, Mater," which is hardly helpful without a
perhaps, not fair to pronounce a decisive knowledge of Latin. Vicinage" and a
Juvenal, Fourteen Satires of, translated into judgment before the appearance of the few more of George Eliot's learned para-
English by Alexander Leeper, New and other essays promised in continuation of phrases might have been explained.
Revised Edition, 5! Macmillan the theme. But one may, so far as the pre-
This rendering well deserves its place in the sent argument justifies an opinion, say that Goldsmith, THE DESERTED VILLAGE, edited,
with Introduction and Notes, by G. G.
familiar dark blue
series, being both spirited there is here, amidst much that is instructive,
Whiskard, 6d.
and idiomatic. First published in 1882 suggestive, and of some likelihood, much that
as the joint work of its author and Prof. is fanciful and that rests on mere assump-
Oxford, Clarendon Press
H. A. Strong, it was revised ten years later tions.
The editor, in his Introduction and notes,
We will refer to only two points.
by Dr. Leeper, and now again has been so It does not strike us that Mr. Munro has puts before the young reader all that needs
largely rewritten by him as to be virtually produced a sufficient amount of evidence explanation.
a new book. Comparing the present issue against the view that the vowel u was used Hood (G. F. ), PROBLEMS IN PRACTICAL
with that of 1882, which he has long used, as a sign of the passive in the original struc- CHEMISTRY FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS,
the reviewer finds an elaboration of style ture of Semitic languages. As an instance
5/ net.
Mills & Boon
and phrase which generally brings out the of fancifulness in the argument, his treatment
The problems collected in this volume
meaning better. Juno virguncula," once of the verb müth (to die) may be mentioned. require in the student a thorough knowledge
“a little wench,” is now “a bashful maid. ” “ The imperfect," he says, ' has the old of the elementary groundwork of chemistry,
But occasionally longer versions add nothing active form [yāmûth] because it expressed
as many of the exercises are of an advanced
to the rendering; Juvenal's points are
the struggle. The perfect [mêth) was used nature and of considerable difficulty. The
sharply made, and do not need any emphasiz. when all
was over, and therefore had the old author's directions are, however, fully and
ing. Why, for instance, in xiii. 172 add passive form. ”
lucidly given, and should be effective for
yet” after the though 22 clause? It is We think, however, that Mr. Munro has students preparing for higher examinations.
neither in the Latin nor needed in the done well to reopen the whole question.
English.
Studies like these are sure to promote the Jenks (Paul R. ), A MANUAL OF LATIN WORD
There are a few notes as to the text interests of true linguistic and ethnological FORMATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS,
adopted, “where there might seem to be science, though the final result may not be 1/6
Harrap
room for doubt. ” More, we think, should quite what the zealous pioneer expected. Examples of derivatives are arranged in
have been done in this way, especially
lists to illustrate word-formation, as seen
Scbool-Books.
since Prof. Housman's drastic examination
in Cæsar, Cicero, and Virgil, the com-
of the claims of MS. Pithoeanus in 1905. Althaus (L. H. ), THE SOUNDS OF THE MOTHER piler's aim being to supply a three years'
The “mulio consul " of viii. 148, unknown TONGUE, A MANUAL OF SPEECH-TRAIN-
course for students of Latin.
in 1882, is now duly rendered, and deserved
FOR PREPARATORY AND LOWER Laurie (André), MÉMOIRES D'UN COLLÉGIEN,
to be recorded at the side of the text.
FORMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND Authorized Edition, edited, with Exer-
Encouraged by the success of Mr. J. D. FOR VTH, VITH, OR VIITH STANDARDS
cises, Notes, and Vocabulary, by O. B.
Duff in dealing with Satire VI. , Dr. Leeper IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, 2/ net; and Super, 1/6
Harrap
has now added a vigorous translation of it SOUND-DRILL AND READING EXERCISES
This interesting story of school life in
to this issue. On the other hand, the IN PHONETIC SCRIPT FROM THE ABOVE, France should prove a welcome textbook
critical notes, mainly as to corrupt passages,
6d.
Hodder & Stoughton for English students, as the French is of
which occupied some pages in the edition of Speech-training in the vernacular is un-
the easy type required of candidates for
1882, have disappeared, and we get instead doubtedly necessary for children in ele- the Junior Local examinations. Exercises,
others on four passages in which Prof. T. G. mentary schools entoring secondary schools, notes and vocabulary are given in the
Tucker plays a leading part.
and these publications, admirable in method appendix.
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