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Many of them retain a half-pagan
Whose only joy is killing some one else. of thought, depth of emotion, and freshness note, and show evident signs of pre-Christian
He will speak of a “ spirit” in one line and of vision that were beginning to mark his origin ; even as we possess them, coloured
as they are by later Christian influence,
"
sprites" in the next, without distinction, prose.
they are among the most precious testimony
and translate mia donna" as “Milady. "
The Widow in the Bye-Street. By John
we possess to the native cults of these
It is unnecessary to give further examples
of the kind of difficulties which Mr. Pound
Masefield.
islands. But, apart from all scientific uses,
(Sidgwick & Jackson. )- The
has added to those created by a poet of Widow in the Bye-Street, which appeared well worthy of the labour bestowed upon
another age and another tongue, difficulties in the pages of The English Review, has by their collection and publication. For many
months before his death Dr. Carmichael had
conceal the translator's insight. He has Everlasting. Mercy, which, if an unequal, been busied in arranging for the press a
never overcome the disadvantage of not
was a genuine product of the imagination. second collection, almost equal in number
knowing that a writer of verse may do any-
We expect rather better things from Mr.
to the first; but ill-health has prevented
thing rather than be both unreadable and Masefield than the former, in which the the fulfilment of this design.
unintelligible. Rossetti, at least, is seldom realism inclines to be mechanical and the
Dr. Carmichael was a well-known figure
either and never both ; Mr. Pound's version versification bare and arid. The elimination
cannot, as poetry, supersede his, and as a
of all ornament is too evident; to attain wherever the native tongue and the old
crib it is not sufficient.
to the baldest diction becomes a kind of customs survived. He was President or
ideal. There is nothing here of the romantic,
Chief of many Gaelic societies, and he was
magical naturalness of Wordsworth's sim- the inspirer of many younger men. Fiona
Poems and Songs. By Richard Middleton.
plicity. After all, metrical exigencies do Macleod's best work, in particular, was done
With an Introduction by Henry Savage. entail some poetic vraisemblance. Prose and when in his company or under the influence
(Fisher Unwin. /Richard Middleton's death,
verse are not interchangeable ; their spirit of his writings and spirit. He helped Dr.
at the age of twenty nine, has robbed us of one
of our most promising young prose - writers.
may approximate, but they are separate William Forbes Skene substantially in the
media of expression. The Widow in the preparation of his third volume of Celtic
It will not, we think, be so generally agreed Bye-Street' tends to be wilfully prosy and Scotland,' contributing to it a study of the
that the poetical loss is as great. Seen one to select the sordid.
native system of land-tenure and the tillage
by one in the weekly periodicals to which he
of the soil in the Western Hebrides, and he
contributed, Middleton's poems never failed
was the companion of Campbell of Islay in
to impress the reader with their grace,
Song in September. By Norman Galo.
many of his wanderings in the West. His
dexterity, and verbal pleasantnoss. At (Constable. )-The author's rustic muse re-
own university of Edinburgh conferred upon
his best he could sweep away criticism by mains undisturbed in a sophisticated age, and
him an honorary degree of LL. D. on the
his rapid, though careful, exuberance; in
those who liked his Orchard Songs' will publication of his great work. It is probablo
contrast with most periodical verse, his find this new volume as unpretentious and
that no other single man has done so much
poems impressed themselves upon the as pleasing. Mr. Gale writes with taste
as he to stimulate a love for the national
memory.
and feeling of trees and flowers and birds
customs and traditions of his native country
Collected here, they reveal Middleton's distinguished, it is as rarely faulty; if his spirit of Scottish nationality.
and country love If his manner is rarely and to keep alive in its best sense the
good qualities more insistently than ever,
but at the same time bring his limitations once or twice in this book the marriage of
matter is never striking, it is never tedious. spirit of Scottish nationality.
ELEANOR HULL.
forcibly into the light. Opened anywhere, sincere, gentle emotion and simple language
the book displays an unusual fluency and
against poetic success. Little of this writing second verse :
ease ; but the poet's very ease has militated produces genuine poetry, as in "A Christen-
The Voice, with its charming
comos straight from the heart; rarely does
JANE AUSTEN FOR SCHOOLS.
the poet stop to find the just word or the
It was my mother's name. A part
Of wounded memory sprang to tears,
YOUR reviewer of ‘Pride and Prejudice'
illuminating phrase. Usually he is content
And the few violets of my heart
(Athenaeum, June 1st, p. 617, col. 1) com-
to weave round any subject a pleasant
Shook in the wind of happier years.
Quicker than magic came the face
plains that no detailed explanation is given
fabric of familiar symbols-roses, dreams,
by the editor, of the intrusive
stars, and 80 on-caring little for their
The garden shawl, the cap of lace,
The collie's head against her knee.
which he notices on p. 366 and elsewhere. It
appropriateness; and the effect is sometimes
did not seem necessary to correct," for
merely that of skilful bouts-rimés.
the benefit of school children, the charac.
But even in the least sincere-seeming
teristic punctuation of the first edition ; but
poems he often achieves some passage with
DR. ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL,
it would have been difficult to give a detailed
à sense of magic about it. The first stanza
of 'New Love' is an example :-
THERE are some personalities who sum
account of its differences from modern usage.
up in themselves a definite type-clear, Your reviewer will find in Mr. Percy Simp-
The boy weeps in the wild woods,
distinct, and individual.
son's Shakespearian Punctuation
Bis bright eyes are sore,
now obsolete. The
The old inhuman solitudes
Such a personality was that of Alexander classification of uses
May shield his heart no more ;
Carmichael, the author of Carmina Gade. principles_there examined continued to
A maid has happened out of hell
lica,' of 'Deirdre,' and of numerous papers
influence English punctuation at least as late
And kissed his crimson lips too well.
in the Journals of Scottish Antiquarian and
as 1813; they differed fundamentally from
The first four lines here have that quality Gaelic Societies, who passed away at a ripe the modern “ logical ” system.
that hangs around the best work of Mr. age on Wednesday week last, June 5th. In
In the passage quoted, Gave him to
Walter de la Mare; the last two bring us him the simple dignity, the quiet persistence, understand, that her sentiments had under-
back to easy deadness and artificial obvious. the grit of the West Highlander, found its gone so material a change, since the period
ness. This patchiness of quality is notice complete representative. As his friends to which he alluded, as to make her receive
able throughout the volume. Not one of received from him the warm Highland wel with gratitude and pleasure, his present
these four-score lyrics is completely satis- come given with outstretched hands, and assurances,” the comma before a substantival
fying. The best are, perhaps, The Bathing I looked at the grave, dignified figure clad in that clause' is normal; the comma after
9
That once was sun and moon for me;
commas
some
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pleasure " also follows the rhythm of the 4401. Les Chroniques de France, dites de St.
Law.
sentence and marks a natural pause. The
Denis, illuminated MS. , French, late fourteenth
century, with 50 fine ininiatures, 1,6501. Chro-
modern tendency is to balance one comma
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Higgins (A. Pearce), WAR AND THE PRIVATE
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present assurances. " The comma after“ ad. Familiares, printed at Venice by Joannes de wider diffusion of the knowledge of Inter-
Spira, 1469, 1001. Treatises of Old Age and
ceive is logical only; there is no pause,
Friendship, with the Declaration of Noblesse,
national Law, and particularly of that
So we now write, I told him that, if he did
&c. , printed by Caxton, 1481, 1,0001. Columbus,
branch of it which relates to war, the greater
not take an umbrella, he would get wet”. Epistola de Insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper is the hope of peace. ” This, no doubt, is
the old style would be, “I told him, that if inventis, the earliest issue, n. d. (1493), 2101. ;
true, and any one who helps to educate
he did not take an umbrella, he would get
the second issue, 1493, 2401. Eyn schön hübsch public opinion and spread the knowledge,
Lesen von etlichen Inszlen, &c. , 1497, 1321.
wet,"
R. W. CHAPMAN.
Columna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499, 2901.
not only of abstract Public Law, but also of
A Complaint of a Dolorous Lover, n. d. (c. 1540), actual international practice, is performing
*** I am obliged to Mr. Chapman for his 1001. Concilium Buch, of the Council of Con- a useful service in the cause of peace. The
explanations. They do not, however, con- stance, printed at Augsburg by Anton Sorg, 1483, author deals with the question how non-
vey any information which is new to me. 1901.
combatants would be affected by war, the
Like other reviewers, I am familiar with
rules relating to hospital ships and the
Mr. Simpson's excellent book; but I have
carriage of passengers, and the more contro-
no reason to suppose that its conclusions are
versial problems of the conversion of mer-
generally known either among teachers of
chant ships into ships of war.
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Ho treats all
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teristic punctuation of the first edition of a
(Notice in these columns does not preclude longer gives a lucid exposition of arguments on
classic is a pleasure to those who know it review.
both sides. With regard to the Hague
well; it can only be a stumbling-block to
Conference, his advice might well be taken.
those who are reading it for the first time,
Tbeology.
“ The work of future conferences," he sug-
, ,
of
of giving a detailed account is surely not an
Apostolic Pope
to be brought forward. "
on English Ordinations, 1/
If we intend
excuse for avoiding it. It seems to me
Longmans to treat the Hague Conferenco seriously,
one of several reasons for regarding the Addressed to the whole body of Bishops our delegates should be carefully picked
book as unsuitable for young readers.
of the Catholic Church in 1896 (and first men, and should confer with the Foreign
YOUR REVIEWER.
published March 9th, 1897), A translation office authorities for some months before
into English, reprinted with a Prefatory the Conference meets. If our representatives
Note and an Historical Introduction by are chosen merely for their names, appointed
John Wordsworth.
only a few weeks beforehand, and supplied
with vague and meagre instructions, our
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS.
Carpenter (S. C. ), A PARSON'S DEFENCE, 3/6 highly complex international problems must
contribution to the discussion of these
On Friday, May 31st, Messrs. Sotheby held a
net.
sale of autograph letters and documents, of
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which the most important were the following: This is “an attempt to put the clerical question of the immunity of private property
A Collection of eleven documents relating to
Eugene Aram, 201. John Evelyn, letter to position, to express the creed of Christen from capture in time of war in a very few
Ralph Thoresby, July 19th, 1699, 201. 108. dom from the parson's point of view. " The pages, maintaining that by spreading the
Oliver Cromwell, holograph letter, one page, writer is Warden of the Caius College burden of war over the nation the evils of
February 18th, 1650, 2151. ; another, September Settlement in Battersea, and brings to his war are brought home to the whole com-
1st, 1852, 2101. William Pitt the Younger, task a wide experience of laymen; he munity. But this subject requires far more
Tolstoy, five letters to Ivan F. Mazhivin, 1907-8, brings to it also humour and outspokenness, detailed consideration, and, indeed, Dr.
121. 108. C. L. Dodgson, letter to Tom Taylor, and a knack of writing as if he were speaking, Higgins admits that in the near future it
asking to be introduced to Tenniel, December 20th, together with some turn for epigram and a will come into greater prominence. It is
1863, 241. 108. Washington, signed letter to facility in the choice of homely illustration. not improbable that the growing opinion
General Smallwood about the military operations In the method one is sometimas reminded in favour of immunity may receive more
which preceded the battle of Brandywine,
September 9th, 1777, 251. 108. ; letter to the Rev. of Mr. Chesterton; in the inner handling of sympathetic attention than it has hitherto.
W. Gordon, June 29th, 1777, 701. Charles and the matter there is something akin to Dr.
Mary Lamb, letter to Louisa Martin, March 28th, Figgis's books; but we say this, not to hint
poetry.
1809, 581. ; C. Lamb, letter to Miss Kelly, July 6th, that the book' is derivative far from it Campbell (Mrs. Victor), THE CHOICE, AND
1825, 301. Mary Lamb, letter to the same,
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largely depreciated by falling into the
July 10th, 1819, 1051. Shelley, letter to Byron,
December 21st, 1821, with a note from Byrºn to Chicago University: HISTORICAL AND LIN- alluring temptation of poetasters-allegoriz-
Moore on the back, 611. P. B. and Mary Shelley, GUISTIC STUDIES IN LITERATURE RE-
ing. She personifies the abstract stock-in-
letter to Jane Clairmont about Allegra, 1822, 961. LATED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, issued trade_hope, despair, memory, passion,
Charlotte Brontë, MS. verses beginning
The
under the Direction of the Department sorrow, pity, friendship et hoc genus omne,
trunpet hath sounded, it's voice is gone forth,”
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begun by Messrs. Sotheby on Wednesday, June four Gospels, written on parchment in a
5th. We append a list of the books which realized
grams,' and offers Latin on one page faced
minute cursive hand, which is assigned to by English on another-a severe test for
1001. and upwards during the first three days: the late eleventh or early twelfth century,
J. c. , Saint Marie Magdalen's Conversion, 1803, and is of special interest because it is not
any rendering. Mr. Krause keeps a good
1151. Jacques Cartier, A Shorte and Briefe
Narration of the Two Navigations and Dis-
mentioned in any of the published lists of average level, but does not equal the best
coveries to the North weast Partes called New Gospel
cursives. Now in the library of the inversions and feels the bondage of rhyme.
Fraunce, 1580, 2361. Cervantes, El Ingenioso University of Toronto, it was purchased by Still, it is pleasant to have this collection,
Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid, its former owner from an English dealer which brings together good things from
1605; the first issue, with the privilege for Madrid more than twenty years ago. The text has Catullus, Horace, and Propertius as the main
alone; with the second part, 1616, 1,4601. ; the
sarne, first part only, second issue, Madrid, 1605,
marks for lessons, omits the “
1651. Cessolis, The Game and Play of the Chess, which is added in a later hand in the margin, part of its attraction.
printed by Caxton, c. 1481, 4001. Chastising of and is described as fundamentally Syrian in Matthews (James Newton), THE LUTE OF
God's Children, printed by Caxton or Wynken de character. There is a late and faulty sub- LIFE, edited by Walter Hurt, $1. 50
Worda, c. 1401, 3301. " Chaucer, Canterbury scription at the end, which “must have
Cincinnati, Horton
Tales, printed by Caxton, c. 1478, 9051. ; another
edition, printed by Richard Pynson, 1628, 2801.
been copied from an earlier manuscript,' There is an exhilarating introduction to
Christine de Pisan, Book of Fayttes of Arines and gives a dato A. D. 793—too early for any this bulky collection of the late Mr.
and of Chyvabrye, printed by Caxton, c. 1489, part of the text.
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throwing what he calls a verbal violet on printed here, “the most extensive slave-
the grave of his friend, declares that men holder of his time, and the kindest. " Here
like Mr. Matthews are
Geography and Travel.
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tion, suggests that “this book of James limitations, with a charming naiveté. The
Newton Matthews should be reared in a pile two writers mentioned in the title are the Sargent (A. J. ), THE SEA ROAD TO THE EAST,
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tures prepared for the Visual Instruc-
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each the hero of a cause célèbre - are based versity of London is to be warmly congratu-
kindly personality, are entirely common-
place.
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Monoy (Mrs. Elliot), SPRING Songs, 1/6 net. Dewey admits, by original research. As maintaining throughout a high level of inter-
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est. Several of the slides prepared for
These verses lack individuality as much appreciable value, but they are marred by this course of lectures have been reproduced
in their rendering as their subjects. They frequent infelicities of style, especially as illustrations.
are prosaic, self-satisfied, and usually point in translation: the French title, for
less.
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The writer of this collection of verses need and Experience,' with considerable supple- ing cycling dress and lamps. Baseball,
scarcely have told us that he “ does not mentary material of his own. Later, his rarely seen in England, occupies much space
& portentous list of rules. Golf-
imagine them to be poetry" As the work mysticism was entwined with Sweden- with
of upper schoolboys of Clifton College, they borgian theories, and he strove to elucidate croquet might have been mentioned, and
show a respectable standard. A superficial them to English people. The present work surely Badminton is now played with a
resemblance to the poems of Mr. Newbolt gives a pleasant, but exaggerated estimate of small racquet, a much less noisy implement
runs through them.
his powers, and is prone to superlatives. than the traditional battledore. The re-
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Swift
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Ap-
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parently artless, the book is really shaped the traditional aristocracy, except for the in general, and Englishmen as husbands in
and finished with the nicest skill. As usual unusual distinction of a perennial “luck,"?
particular; her artless philosophy, her
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the prose and drawings among the text, and tune discovery of a missing will
, and a mar-
herself, and her delightful ingenuousness
the resulting farrago is decidedly agree- riage, combining love and convenience,
able. Perhaps the little black-and-white between the impoverished representative throughout, at once arrest the attention of
vignettes are the most characteristic work of of the name and a wealthy daughter of the loves her husband, but he tends to take her
all.
English bourgeoisie. There are few original rather for granted, and leaves her for three
incidents, and the traditions of middle- months to go tiger-shooting. We incline
Bloundelle-Burton (John), The Sea DEVILS, class suburban society and an Irish country to agree with the youthful diarist when she
6/
neighbourhood are contrasted with a humour
A romance of the Spanish Armada. The which frequently lapses into conventionality. I regret, as the waste of me.
naively reflects : It's not so much he that
hero falls into the hands of the Inquisition, Mr. Hinkson has written better novels than
but is eventually rescued and marries this, but his style has its usual brightness little importance compared with the impres-
The plot—if such it can be called—is of
Juana, “his sweet thing. " The following and fluency.
sentences are typical of the author's taste Lethbridge (Sybil Campbell), THE SHORELESS recorded with disarming naturalness. In the
sions of people, places, and things, which are
and knowledge of style : Ha ! now for 't.
SEA, 6/
Holden & Hardingham absence of her husband, Phrynette_is
Spanyards. God wot ! ” “Not-now. No.
The sea without a shore is, of course, Fate. tempted, but does not actually fall. Her
'Tis true. Yet — yet--when-we- -have-
When the last page of the book has been husband, however, who is denseeven for
loved
we cannot bear - to-
reached, Lady Byfleet, who has a particularly
And so on ad nauseam.
an Englishman—thinks the worst, but is
altruistic disposition, has been well-nigh, eventually persuaded by a common friend of
Costantini (Anna), YESTERDAY, 6/
if not completely, drowned beneath its both, who shows him the journal without its
Greening
For it is, presumably, Fate that owner's knowledge. By such means the
The rich American girl who marries an
prompts her bored husband's other wife reconciliation is effected. Any one fatigued
Italian, and afterwards repents, is becoming to confront them during their honeymoon; by the banalities of the conventional modern
a familiar type in modern fiction, and this and Fate that causes Evan Fane, for whom novel will find here a welcome originality,
novel is as conventional as its predecessors. she had left him and by whom she had since mingled with infectious gaiety and
been deserted, to be present at their meeting healthy outlook on life.
The writing is facile, and the author steers
safely to the inevitable reconciliation without With this warning in the way of an opening,
undue effort.
readers will be able to imagine the gist of Wells (H. G.
Whose only joy is killing some one else. of thought, depth of emotion, and freshness note, and show evident signs of pre-Christian
He will speak of a “ spirit” in one line and of vision that were beginning to mark his origin ; even as we possess them, coloured
as they are by later Christian influence,
"
sprites" in the next, without distinction, prose.
they are among the most precious testimony
and translate mia donna" as “Milady. "
The Widow in the Bye-Street. By John
we possess to the native cults of these
It is unnecessary to give further examples
of the kind of difficulties which Mr. Pound
Masefield.
islands. But, apart from all scientific uses,
(Sidgwick & Jackson. )- The
has added to those created by a poet of Widow in the Bye-Street, which appeared well worthy of the labour bestowed upon
another age and another tongue, difficulties in the pages of The English Review, has by their collection and publication. For many
months before his death Dr. Carmichael had
conceal the translator's insight. He has Everlasting. Mercy, which, if an unequal, been busied in arranging for the press a
never overcome the disadvantage of not
was a genuine product of the imagination. second collection, almost equal in number
knowing that a writer of verse may do any-
We expect rather better things from Mr.
to the first; but ill-health has prevented
thing rather than be both unreadable and Masefield than the former, in which the the fulfilment of this design.
unintelligible. Rossetti, at least, is seldom realism inclines to be mechanical and the
Dr. Carmichael was a well-known figure
either and never both ; Mr. Pound's version versification bare and arid. The elimination
cannot, as poetry, supersede his, and as a
of all ornament is too evident; to attain wherever the native tongue and the old
crib it is not sufficient.
to the baldest diction becomes a kind of customs survived. He was President or
ideal. There is nothing here of the romantic,
Chief of many Gaelic societies, and he was
magical naturalness of Wordsworth's sim- the inspirer of many younger men. Fiona
Poems and Songs. By Richard Middleton.
plicity. After all, metrical exigencies do Macleod's best work, in particular, was done
With an Introduction by Henry Savage. entail some poetic vraisemblance. Prose and when in his company or under the influence
(Fisher Unwin. /Richard Middleton's death,
verse are not interchangeable ; their spirit of his writings and spirit. He helped Dr.
at the age of twenty nine, has robbed us of one
of our most promising young prose - writers.
may approximate, but they are separate William Forbes Skene substantially in the
media of expression. The Widow in the preparation of his third volume of Celtic
It will not, we think, be so generally agreed Bye-Street' tends to be wilfully prosy and Scotland,' contributing to it a study of the
that the poetical loss is as great. Seen one to select the sordid.
native system of land-tenure and the tillage
by one in the weekly periodicals to which he
of the soil in the Western Hebrides, and he
contributed, Middleton's poems never failed
was the companion of Campbell of Islay in
to impress the reader with their grace,
Song in September. By Norman Galo.
many of his wanderings in the West. His
dexterity, and verbal pleasantnoss. At (Constable. )-The author's rustic muse re-
own university of Edinburgh conferred upon
his best he could sweep away criticism by mains undisturbed in a sophisticated age, and
him an honorary degree of LL. D. on the
his rapid, though careful, exuberance; in
those who liked his Orchard Songs' will publication of his great work. It is probablo
contrast with most periodical verse, his find this new volume as unpretentious and
that no other single man has done so much
poems impressed themselves upon the as pleasing. Mr. Gale writes with taste
as he to stimulate a love for the national
memory.
and feeling of trees and flowers and birds
customs and traditions of his native country
Collected here, they reveal Middleton's distinguished, it is as rarely faulty; if his spirit of Scottish nationality.
and country love If his manner is rarely and to keep alive in its best sense the
good qualities more insistently than ever,
but at the same time bring his limitations once or twice in this book the marriage of
matter is never striking, it is never tedious. spirit of Scottish nationality.
ELEANOR HULL.
forcibly into the light. Opened anywhere, sincere, gentle emotion and simple language
the book displays an unusual fluency and
against poetic success. Little of this writing second verse :
ease ; but the poet's very ease has militated produces genuine poetry, as in "A Christen-
The Voice, with its charming
comos straight from the heart; rarely does
JANE AUSTEN FOR SCHOOLS.
the poet stop to find the just word or the
It was my mother's name. A part
Of wounded memory sprang to tears,
YOUR reviewer of ‘Pride and Prejudice'
illuminating phrase. Usually he is content
And the few violets of my heart
(Athenaeum, June 1st, p. 617, col. 1) com-
to weave round any subject a pleasant
Shook in the wind of happier years.
Quicker than magic came the face
plains that no detailed explanation is given
fabric of familiar symbols-roses, dreams,
by the editor, of the intrusive
stars, and 80 on-caring little for their
The garden shawl, the cap of lace,
The collie's head against her knee.
which he notices on p. 366 and elsewhere. It
appropriateness; and the effect is sometimes
did not seem necessary to correct," for
merely that of skilful bouts-rimés.
the benefit of school children, the charac.
But even in the least sincere-seeming
teristic punctuation of the first edition ; but
poems he often achieves some passage with
DR. ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL,
it would have been difficult to give a detailed
à sense of magic about it. The first stanza
of 'New Love' is an example :-
THERE are some personalities who sum
account of its differences from modern usage.
up in themselves a definite type-clear, Your reviewer will find in Mr. Percy Simp-
The boy weeps in the wild woods,
distinct, and individual.
son's Shakespearian Punctuation
Bis bright eyes are sore,
now obsolete. The
The old inhuman solitudes
Such a personality was that of Alexander classification of uses
May shield his heart no more ;
Carmichael, the author of Carmina Gade. principles_there examined continued to
A maid has happened out of hell
lica,' of 'Deirdre,' and of numerous papers
influence English punctuation at least as late
And kissed his crimson lips too well.
in the Journals of Scottish Antiquarian and
as 1813; they differed fundamentally from
The first four lines here have that quality Gaelic Societies, who passed away at a ripe the modern “ logical ” system.
that hangs around the best work of Mr. age on Wednesday week last, June 5th. In
In the passage quoted, Gave him to
Walter de la Mare; the last two bring us him the simple dignity, the quiet persistence, understand, that her sentiments had under-
back to easy deadness and artificial obvious. the grit of the West Highlander, found its gone so material a change, since the period
ness. This patchiness of quality is notice complete representative. As his friends to which he alluded, as to make her receive
able throughout the volume. Not one of received from him the warm Highland wel with gratitude and pleasure, his present
these four-score lyrics is completely satis- come given with outstretched hands, and assurances,” the comma before a substantival
fying. The best are, perhaps, The Bathing I looked at the grave, dignified figure clad in that clause' is normal; the comma after
9
That once was sun and moon for me;
commas
some
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pleasure " also follows the rhythm of the 4401. Les Chroniques de France, dites de St.
Law.
sentence and marks a natural pause. The
Denis, illuminated MS. , French, late fourteenth
century, with 50 fine ininiatures, 1,6501. Chro-
modern tendency is to balance one comma
nicles, German illuminated MS. , fifteenth century,
Higgins (A. Pearce), WAR AND THE PRIVATE
by another : either “receive with gratitude with '204 curious illustrations, 3501. Anthony
CITIZEN : STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL
and pleasure his present assurances Chute, Beawtie Dishonoured, written under the LAW, 5/ net.
King
receive, with gratitude and pleasure, his title of Shore's Wife, 1593, 3501. Cicero, Epistolæ “I believe," says Dr. Higgins," that the
present assurances. " The comma after“ ad. Familiares, printed at Venice by Joannes de wider diffusion of the knowledge of Inter-
Spira, 1469, 1001. Treatises of Old Age and
ceive is logical only; there is no pause,
Friendship, with the Declaration of Noblesse,
national Law, and particularly of that
So we now write, I told him that, if he did
&c. , printed by Caxton, 1481, 1,0001. Columbus,
branch of it which relates to war, the greater
not take an umbrella, he would get wet”. Epistola de Insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper is the hope of peace. ” This, no doubt, is
the old style would be, “I told him, that if inventis, the earliest issue, n. d. (1493), 2101. ;
true, and any one who helps to educate
he did not take an umbrella, he would get
the second issue, 1493, 2401. Eyn schön hübsch public opinion and spread the knowledge,
Lesen von etlichen Inszlen, &c. , 1497, 1321.
wet,"
R. W. CHAPMAN.
Columna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499, 2901.
not only of abstract Public Law, but also of
A Complaint of a Dolorous Lover, n. d. (c. 1540), actual international practice, is performing
*** I am obliged to Mr. Chapman for his 1001. Concilium Buch, of the Council of Con- a useful service in the cause of peace. The
explanations. They do not, however, con- stance, printed at Augsburg by Anton Sorg, 1483, author deals with the question how non-
vey any information which is new to me. 1901.
combatants would be affected by war, the
Like other reviewers, I am familiar with
rules relating to hospital ships and the
Mr. Simpson's excellent book; but I have
carriage of passengers, and the more contro-
no reason to suppose that its conclusions are
versial problems of the conversion of mer-
generally known either among teachers of
chant ships into ships of war.
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
English or school children. The charac.
Ho treats all
his points with judicial impartiality, and
teristic punctuation of the first edition of a
(Notice in these columns does not preclude longer gives a lucid exposition of arguments on
classic is a pleasure to those who know it review.
both sides. With regard to the Hague
well; it can only be a stumbling-block to
Conference, his advice might well be taken.
those who are reading it for the first time,
Tbeology.
“ The work of future conferences," he sug-
, ,
of
of giving a detailed account is surely not an
Apostolic Pope
to be brought forward. "
on English Ordinations, 1/
If we intend
excuse for avoiding it. It seems to me
Longmans to treat the Hague Conferenco seriously,
one of several reasons for regarding the Addressed to the whole body of Bishops our delegates should be carefully picked
book as unsuitable for young readers.
of the Catholic Church in 1896 (and first men, and should confer with the Foreign
YOUR REVIEWER.
published March 9th, 1897), A translation office authorities for some months before
into English, reprinted with a Prefatory the Conference meets. If our representatives
Note and an Historical Introduction by are chosen merely for their names, appointed
John Wordsworth.
only a few weeks beforehand, and supplied
with vague and meagre instructions, our
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS.
Carpenter (S. C. ), A PARSON'S DEFENCE, 3/6 highly complex international problems must
contribution to the discussion of these
On Friday, May 31st, Messrs. Sotheby held a
net.
sale of autograph letters and documents, of
Longmans be ineffective. The author dismisses the
which the most important were the following: This is “an attempt to put the clerical question of the immunity of private property
A Collection of eleven documents relating to
Eugene Aram, 201. John Evelyn, letter to position, to express the creed of Christen from capture in time of war in a very few
Ralph Thoresby, July 19th, 1699, 201. 108. dom from the parson's point of view. " The pages, maintaining that by spreading the
Oliver Cromwell, holograph letter, one page, writer is Warden of the Caius College burden of war over the nation the evils of
February 18th, 1650, 2151. ; another, September Settlement in Battersea, and brings to his war are brought home to the whole com-
1st, 1852, 2101. William Pitt the Younger, task a wide experience of laymen; he munity. But this subject requires far more
Tolstoy, five letters to Ivan F. Mazhivin, 1907-8, brings to it also humour and outspokenness, detailed consideration, and, indeed, Dr.
121. 108. C. L. Dodgson, letter to Tom Taylor, and a knack of writing as if he were speaking, Higgins admits that in the near future it
asking to be introduced to Tenniel, December 20th, together with some turn for epigram and a will come into greater prominence. It is
1863, 241. 108. Washington, signed letter to facility in the choice of homely illustration. not improbable that the growing opinion
General Smallwood about the military operations In the method one is sometimas reminded in favour of immunity may receive more
which preceded the battle of Brandywine,
September 9th, 1777, 251. 108. ; letter to the Rev. of Mr. Chesterton; in the inner handling of sympathetic attention than it has hitherto.
W. Gordon, June 29th, 1777, 701. Charles and the matter there is something akin to Dr.
Mary Lamb, letter to Louisa Martin, March 28th, Figgis's books; but we say this, not to hint
poetry.
1809, 581. ; C. Lamb, letter to Miss Kelly, July 6th, that the book' is derivative far from it Campbell (Mrs. Victor), THE CHOICE, AND
1825, 301. Mary Lamb, letter to the same,
OTHER POEMS, 2/6 net.
March 27th, 1820, 151. 108. Byron, his special but to suggest to what school of thought it
Lynwood
marriage licence, December 23rd,' 1814, 631. belongs.
The value of Mrs. Campbell's verse is
Autograph MS. of ten stanzas from Don Juan,
largely depreciated by falling into the
July 10th, 1819, 1051. Shelley, letter to Byron,
December 21st, 1821, with a note from Byrºn to Chicago University: HISTORICAL AND LIN- alluring temptation of poetasters-allegoriz-
Moore on the back, 611. P. B. and Mary Shelley, GUISTIC STUDIES IN LITERATURE RE-
ing. She personifies the abstract stock-in-
letter to Jane Clairmont about Allegra, 1822, 961. LATED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, issued trade_hope, despair, memory, passion,
Charlotte Brontë, MS. verses beginning
The
under the Direction of the Department sorrow, pity, friendship et hoc genus omne,
trunpet hath sounded, it's voice is gone forth,”
December 11th, 1831, 241. 108.
of Biblical and Patristic Greek. - First and declaims her exhortations to them after
the fashion of the scarlet 1} school. The
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her
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The sale of the second portion of the Huth A careful collation of a Greek MS. of the Mr. J. A. Pott's. Greek Love Songs and Epi,
This pretty little volume is uniform with
Library, comprising the letters C and D, was
begun by Messrs. Sotheby on Wednesday, June four Gospels, written on parchment in a
5th. We append a list of the books which realized
grams,' and offers Latin on one page faced
minute cursive hand, which is assigned to by English on another-a severe test for
1001. and upwards during the first three days: the late eleventh or early twelfth century,
J. c. , Saint Marie Magdalen's Conversion, 1803, and is of special interest because it is not
any rendering. Mr. Krause keeps a good
1151. Jacques Cartier, A Shorte and Briefe
Narration of the Two Navigations and Dis-
mentioned in any of the published lists of average level, but does not equal the best
coveries to the North weast Partes called New Gospel
cursives. Now in the library of the inversions and feels the bondage of rhyme.
Fraunce, 1580, 2361. Cervantes, El Ingenioso University of Toronto, it was purchased by Still, it is pleasant to have this collection,
Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Madrid, its former owner from an English dealer which brings together good things from
1605; the first issue, with the privilege for Madrid more than twenty years ago. The text has Catullus, Horace, and Propertius as the main
alone; with the second part, 1616, 1,4601. ; the
sarne, first part only, second issue, Madrid, 1605,
marks for lessons, omits the “
1651. Cessolis, The Game and Play of the Chess, which is added in a later hand in the margin, part of its attraction.
printed by Caxton, c. 1481, 4001. Chastising of and is described as fundamentally Syrian in Matthews (James Newton), THE LUTE OF
God's Children, printed by Caxton or Wynken de character. There is a late and faulty sub- LIFE, edited by Walter Hurt, $1. 50
Worda, c. 1401, 3301. " Chaucer, Canterbury scription at the end, which “must have
Cincinnati, Horton
Tales, printed by Caxton, c. 1478, 9051. ; another
edition, printed by Richard Pynson, 1628, 2801.
been copied from an earlier manuscript,' There is an exhilarating introduction to
Christine de Pisan, Book of Fayttes of Arines and gives a dato A. D. 793—too early for any this bulky collection of the late Mr.
and of Chyvabrye, printed by Caxton, c. 1489, part of the text.
Matthews's verses. Mr. Walter Hurt, in
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throwing what he calls a verbal violet on printed here, “the most extensive slave-
the grave of his friend, declares that men holder of his time, and the kindest. " Here
like Mr. Matthews are
Geography and Travel.
the cream of crea- he reveals all his strength, as well as his
tion, suggests that “this book of James limitations, with a charming naiveté. The
Newton Matthews should be reared in a pile two writers mentioned in the title are the Sargent (A. J. ), THE SEA ROAD TO THE EAST,
GIBRALTAR TO WEI-HAI-WEI : Six Lec-
to overtop the pyramids," and anticipates most interesting of his correspondents.
that in future years the village of Mason, Dewey (Stoddard), FOUR FRENCH ADVEN-
tures prepared for the Visual Instruc-
Illinois, where the bard was born, may
tion Committee of the Colonial Office,
TURERS (from the Causes Célèbres), 2/
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1) net.
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net.
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little prospect of it. The poems, although The histories of the four adventurers- The Reader in Foreign Trade in the Uni-
admirable in sentiment and revealing &
each the hero of a cause célèbre - are based versity of London is to be warmly congratu-
kindly personality, are entirely common-
place.
upon law reports, supplemented by reference lated upon the able manner in which he
to other authorities, though not, as Mr. continually suggests fresh fields of inquiry,
Monoy (Mrs. Elliot), SPRING Songs, 1/6 net. Dewey admits, by original research. As maintaining throughout a high level of inter-
Gay & Hancock human documents the narratives have an
est. Several of the slides prepared for
These verses lack individuality as much appreciable value, but they are marred by this course of lectures have been reproduced
in their rendering as their subjects. They frequent infelicities of style, especially as illustrations.
are prosaic, self-satisfied, and usually point in translation: the French title, for
less.
example, of a famous melodrama is rendered
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The writer of this collection of verses need and Experience,' with considerable supple- ing cycling dress and lamps. Baseball,
scarcely have told us that he “ does not mentary material of his own. Later, his rarely seen in England, occupies much space
& portentous list of rules. Golf-
imagine them to be poetry" As the work mysticism was entwined with Sweden- with
of upper schoolboys of Clifton College, they borgian theories, and he strove to elucidate croquet might have been mentioned, and
show a respectable standard. A superficial them to English people. The present work surely Badminton is now played with a
resemblance to the poems of Mr. Newbolt gives a pleasant, but exaggerated estimate of small racquet, a much less noisy implement
runs through them.
his powers, and is prone to superlatives. than the traditional battledore. The re-
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OTHERS, edited by his Son and D. W. party, should convey such an atmosphere Texts, Pronunciation of Latin and of Greek,
Forrest, with Biographical Introduction is a testimony to her inherent truthfulness. Teaching of Latin in Secondary Schools,
by Elizabeth T. McLaron, 1/ net. The tragedy of the passive woman born for
and a Four Years' Latin Course for Secondary
Nelson domesticity and condemned to royalty, Schools in which the leaving age is 16.
We welcome this new edition of a collec- constrained to go through the proper per-
tion of letters which we noticed at length on formance, even when a son or å daughter
Revised and Reprinted Porteau of the
December 7th, 1907. Dr. John Brown was lay dead, has never been more simply or
Bower MSS. , PARTS V. -VII. , INTRO-
one of the most lovable of men ; in fact, as effectively presented than in the portrait
DUCTION.
Mark Twain neatly puts it, in the last letter of Mario Amélie.
Calcutta, Government Printing Office
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1867,
p. 17.
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once-
waves.
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Harraden (Beatrice), OUT OF THE WRECK I Rowlands (Etie Adelaide), THE HOUSE OF
Fiction.
RISE, 2) net.
Nelson SUNSHINE.
Relates the course of the loves of two One of Stanley Paul's Clear-Type Six-
Belloc (H. ), THE FOUR MEN: A FARRAGO, women for a clever, but characterless man.
penny Novels.
2/ net.
Nelson There is a good deal of interest in the tale,
Troly-Curtin (Marthe), PHRYNETTE MARRIED,
In the person of Mr. Hilaire Belloc reside in spite of the predominance of abnormal
6/
Grant Richards
at least three different writers, and it is the psychology.
The psychological delicacy of the French
best of them, the Sussex-lover, the wanderer Hinkson (H. A. ), THE CONSIDINE LUCK, 6/
-which eludes analysis —- gently illumines
in country roads, the tarrier in country inns,
Swift
who has written The Four Men. '
the pages of this young wife's journal.
Ap-
The Considines were an Irish family of The engaging airiness of her conceits on men
parently artless, the book is really shaped the traditional aristocracy, except for the in general, and Englishmen as husbands in
and finished with the nicest skill. As usual unusual distinction of a perennial “luck,"?
particular; her artless philosophy, her
with Mr. Belloc, verse is scattered among shown in the present case by the oppor quaint reduction of everything to terms of
the prose and drawings among the text, and tune discovery of a missing will
, and a mar-
herself, and her delightful ingenuousness
the resulting farrago is decidedly agree- riage, combining love and convenience,
able. Perhaps the little black-and-white between the impoverished representative throughout, at once arrest the attention of
vignettes are the most characteristic work of of the name and a wealthy daughter of the loves her husband, but he tends to take her
all.
English bourgeoisie. There are few original rather for granted, and leaves her for three
incidents, and the traditions of middle- months to go tiger-shooting. We incline
Bloundelle-Burton (John), The Sea DEVILS, class suburban society and an Irish country to agree with the youthful diarist when she
6/
neighbourhood are contrasted with a humour
A romance of the Spanish Armada. The which frequently lapses into conventionality. I regret, as the waste of me.
naively reflects : It's not so much he that
hero falls into the hands of the Inquisition, Mr. Hinkson has written better novels than
but is eventually rescued and marries this, but his style has its usual brightness little importance compared with the impres-
The plot—if such it can be called—is of
Juana, “his sweet thing. " The following and fluency.
sentences are typical of the author's taste Lethbridge (Sybil Campbell), THE SHORELESS recorded with disarming naturalness. In the
sions of people, places, and things, which are
and knowledge of style : Ha ! now for 't.
SEA, 6/
Holden & Hardingham absence of her husband, Phrynette_is
Spanyards. God wot ! ” “Not-now. No.
The sea without a shore is, of course, Fate. tempted, but does not actually fall. Her
'Tis true. Yet — yet--when-we- -have-
When the last page of the book has been husband, however, who is denseeven for
loved
we cannot bear - to-
reached, Lady Byfleet, who has a particularly
And so on ad nauseam.
an Englishman—thinks the worst, but is
altruistic disposition, has been well-nigh, eventually persuaded by a common friend of
Costantini (Anna), YESTERDAY, 6/
if not completely, drowned beneath its both, who shows him the journal without its
Greening
For it is, presumably, Fate that owner's knowledge. By such means the
The rich American girl who marries an
prompts her bored husband's other wife reconciliation is effected. Any one fatigued
Italian, and afterwards repents, is becoming to confront them during their honeymoon; by the banalities of the conventional modern
a familiar type in modern fiction, and this and Fate that causes Evan Fane, for whom novel will find here a welcome originality,
novel is as conventional as its predecessors. she had left him and by whom she had since mingled with infectious gaiety and
been deserted, to be present at their meeting healthy outlook on life.
The writing is facile, and the author steers
safely to the inevitable reconciliation without With this warning in the way of an opening,
undue effort.
readers will be able to imagine the gist of Wells (H. G.
