Before his social cataclysm,
the whole poetic experience is single, yet and if we pass over the decorative plagiarism
includes a world of space and persons.
the whole poetic experience is single, yet and if we pass over the decorative plagiarism
includes a world of space and persons.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
It is
good. The witch who on Gavon's Eve from the few who care for literature as
Margaret of France, though herself a
conjures up the dead body of a girl such, and will read him with a view to
learned and remarkable woman, has been
drowned in a pool; the ghost of the completing thus far their knowledge of famous Margarets, with whom she is, indeed,
overshadowed and obscured by two more
murderer who, after his execution, comes European literature as a whole, that this sometimes confused— Margaret of Navarre,
to the telephone, and over it contrives volume may best claim a welcome. This sister of Francis I. , and Margaret of Valois,
to confess his guilt; the weird tale of being
so, it is a pity that the translation wife of Henry IV. -our Margaret's aunt
the black hares on a Scotch shooting
runs awkwardly in places, that the dia- and niece. She herself was the daughter
4:
An’ the sickness about an’all," he added logue is sometimes halting, and that little of Franciz I. , and spentímost of her life at
indignantly. When the puir folk escape
the French Court, first of her father and then
from their peching fevered bodies an hour into the English.
or no“ atmosphere" has been carried over
of her brother Henry II. , for she did not
or two to the caller muirs'";
marry the Duke of Savoy until she was 36
the man who, for a mere song, got one
A main part of the interest of Suder- La great age for a Renaissance bride. Most
of the best rooms in a Swiss hotel—with mann, belonging as he does to the school of her biography deals, therefore, with French
a second bed in it; the Thing in the of the great obsession, lies in discovering describing such matters as the duel at which
Hall’ and the House with the Brick- what is his peculiar contribution to it. the "coup de Jarnac was struck, and the
Kiln': these ought to have made one's We saw him the other day compared to lawsuit that lasted thirty-four years between
flesh creep in proper fashion.
Maupassant. No attentive reader of these Mademoiselle de Rohan and the Duc de
The fact is that Mr. Benson's style stories will endorse that comparison. Nemours. Margaret's great political ability,
or lack of style—is precisely that least There is no evidence of a sense of form though foreshadowed in her brilliant ad-
fitted to give effect to a ghost - story. akin to Maupassant's ; none of the spirit, its highest until her marriage. At this time
It is all words, a flow as if from the pen detached and irresponsible, of the
the fortunes of Piedmont were very low ;
rather than the mind, full of tedious des- teur”; no humour ; and but little in five of its chief towns were occupied by
criptions and facetious digressions, which the characterization which keeps one the French, and two by the Spaniards.
relax and weary the reader to no purpose-
aware-as the French writer commonly Margaret, as a French princess, had excep-
and apt, when the climax is reached, to does—that the great obsession represents, tional influence, and this she used for her
husband's country with such successful
fall rather helpless. We catch too, 'not after all, but one side of a life.
diplomacy that before her death the French
seldom, that tone of half-complacent These stories of Sudermann's have some- had evacuated Piedmont, and the year after
coaxing with which an uneasy speaker or thing of the quality
of tragedy in that one the Spaniards followed them. Perhaps a
teacher will try to cover up a weakness sees nothing outside or around them. hardly smaller achievement was the conver-
in his discourse. Mr. Benson does not They read, too, like manifestos of revolt- sion of her apparently ruthless husband to
believe in his ghosts sufficiently. He though a revolt already half repented of the heretical Waldenses, which she man-
the idea of religious toleration on behalf of
suffers when compared with Stevenson His roués look with envy at the smiling, aged, in the teeth of the Pope (and Philip
in Thrawn Janet,' or to take an clear-eyed fathers of families. They them- of Spain. Margaret's influence seems, in-
example where the horror springs hardly selves, in their satiety, are filled with deed, to have been uniformly exerted in the
at all from the subject-matter, almost mortal disgust. The Teuton is not as the noblest directions, and one feels that she
entirely from the style with Borrow in Gaul. The naughtiness which comes
deserves De Thou's encomium, which Miss
'Wild Wales,' where he describes the lightly and naturally to the Gaul is in the Stephens appropriately writes on the title-
« Devil's Bridge over the Mynach, and Teuton the violation of an ancient racial eminente par sa sagesse, son irréprochable
“ Une femme
tells of the “ Plant de Bat. ” This lack | tradition—“ Nemo enim illic vitia ridet, vertu et l'énergie d'une âme vraiment virile. "
of grip is the more unfortunate, because
nec corrumpere et corrumpi sæculum
- unless you are to have your flesh vocatur ”-and it would seem that when
creep-it seems rather a futile occupation the moment comes the blood of the
* Under this heading we include notices which are
to read merely fictitious ghost-stories.
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any particular eminence; on the other hand, and the many other societies which are
YET another agreeable volume from an all appear to have been decent, well-living working for Women's Suffrage. Even more
active pen is given us in Afterthoughts, by persons, industrious landlords, painstaking remarkable is the statement on p. 64 that
G. W. E. Russell (Grant Richards). The clergymen, and honest magistrates. An
" the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
personal touch lends peculiar attractiveness early document is a writing book containing transferred the leadership
of the movement to the
to the papers on notable people whom Mr. specimens of decorated calligraphy from the National Women's Social and Political Union,
George Russell has known-James Payn, for hands of schoolboys, besides observations of whose members are known by the name of suffra-
example, and John Talbot, the late member
a simpler kind, such as the note that on
gettes. This transference of leadership took place
for Oxford University. Where that touch" the vij day of July
* Wyllam Prylles" in the autumn of 1905. "
is absent, we sometimes encounter dis- did pollº“ my Haar. ”
The statement that Mrs. Fawcett is the
appointment; thus the chapter on 'The
Young Disraeli’ does not rise above the
In the earlier part of the sixteenth century leader of the Suffragettes only adds to our
one John Betts was
level of an ordinary review of Mr. Mony amateur physician, and has left behind a
a traveller and an bewilderment.
Social and political conditions in Eng-
penny's, first volume. In 'Gladstone on book of strange prescriptions, in which he land are harder for foreigners to under:
Hymns' the author has a more congenial
mentions
visited
having
Taken
subject, and treats it charmingly.
Jerusalem, stand than those in other countries, and
Corphu,” and Rome. One prescription these blots, serious as they are, do not
to rank with Collections and Recollec- infirmities” and for “ye gouet,” as well as
as a whole, Afterthoughts’ is quite
worthy of an ointment good for all kindes of cold altogether detract from the value of what
tions," "Social Silhouettes,' and their com- for a gun-shot wound and a withered arm,
is in many respects a useful book. In a
panions. We like Mr. Russell much better begins thus :-
sense the writer has attempted an impos.
sibility-i. e. , to summarize in one small
when he has a definite person or movement
volume the economic, educational, political,
to write about than when he is discoursing “Taike a young dog of red haire : and keap him
and legal aspects of the Woman's Movement
at large on Coronation festivities or general 3 dayes without meat : and then strangell him with
elections. But the paper on
Christmas
& corde and let him lye dead a qwarter of an throughout the world, a task the harder
hower":
since, in the present period of change and
Cards' is a model of its kind, and that on
* Public Dinners' can be commended for after which the dog is to be boiled down date even before it is printed.
unceasing vigour, a chapter becomes out of
its good-natured banter.
in oil with various herbs and a good dish
full of great grownd wormes well washed,”
The Principle of Individuality and Value :
A Year with the Gaekwar of Baroda, by the and the oil finally drawn off for use.
Rev. Edward St. Clair Weeden (Hutchinson),
A fine damask cloth, woven with a
the Gifford Lectures for 1911, delivered in
is made out of letters written by the portrait of Queen Elizabeth, and another Edinburgh University. By B. Bosanquet,
(Macmillan. )
author during his stay of one year with with that of the young Prince of Orange
that monarch, and furnishes an interesting who was to become William III. , are historic “He that will write well in any tongue must
account of palace life. Some two months landmarks among the relics.
follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the
were spent in touring through familiar The opinion of counsel upon the case of
common people do, and to think as wise men do;
so shall all men understand him, and wise men
centres, such as Ajmere, Udaipur, Jaipur, Mrs. Martha Cullum, whose husband, being allow him. "
Rewah, Agra, and Delhi; and, later, a drunk, had betted that he would survive
visit was paid to his Highness's residence John Woolnoe, and had signed a statement The advice has been often repeated since
at Dotacamund, with glimpses en route to that effect, gives point to the saying, Ascham’s day, and as often ignored, especi.
of Khandalla, Kolhapur, and Poona, and“ Other times, other laws. ' He had, how ally by “wise men ” in the narrower sense.
the hill-station of Magableshwar.
ever, predeceased John, and counsel was clear Perhaps the presence of an audience re-
The writer, however, rarely probes below that Mrs. Cullum could not avoid paying minded Mr. Bosanquet that, besides satis-
the surface. The record consists of Durbar the money.
fying himself, he must be at pains to convince
functions and entertainments, and describes These and other papers formerly stored. Individuality and Value' he is convincing
others. Certainly, in 'The Principle of
palace life with Anglicized amenities and in the old house have been preserved ; because he is intelligible, and, whatever be
the usual shikar excursions.
indeed, towards the close of the book its and china were all dispersed by a sale after the cause, the result is happy. The Gifford
own criticism—that little or no
the death of the last surviving Miss Betts, philosophy, but never more so, we think
made of a unique opportunity to study when the heritage passed to a distant cousin, than in the volume before us.
native life, customs, and habits. The the descendant of a daughter of the family that it is not original, because it contains
author frankly admits that there is no place married more than 130 years earlier.
like the Raj Mahal, or State Palace, with
much that is not new, would be to have
its round of daily amusements and the
read it in vain. Besides, it is one thing to
charm of its Maharani and Princess.
The Modern Woman's Rights · Movement : suggest that in individuality we have a
The Gaekwar we see as a hospitable and macher. Translated from the Second German up the scattered threads and weave them
a Historical Survey. By Dr. Kaethe Schir- key to our difficulties, and another to gather
generous host, and incidentally a man of Edition by Carl Conrad Eckhardt. (New into an ordered whole.
princely moods, with a strong attachment
York, the Macmillan Company. ) Dr. Mr. Bosanquet begins by stating his
to theories of progress. But we find no hint Kaethe Schirmacher has for many years doctrine of the concrete universal. Its
as to the result of his ambitions upon the been associated with the Woman's Move character is to throw light on something
minds of his people, and no attempt to
ment.
grasp political and commercial problems, France and Germany, travelled in a number
Having lived and worked in both beyond itself, not because it is a general rule,
or to realize the many, administrative of countries, and acted for several years as
a principle depending on the repetition of
paradoxes of a modernized native State ;
similars and the recognition of them when
whilst the Anglo-Indian is viewed only at Suffrage Alliance, she has herself been a
an officer of the International Woman they occur, but because it is of the nature of
a world where every detail gains meaning
But the lighter side of palace
life, with the it with intimate knowledge. As no work time may be apprehended as part of
A second of
of the movement, and should speak of and intensity from the rest.
Gaekwar and his family circle as a paramount
centre, is warm with the Eastern sun.
on exactly the same lines exists in English, minute, of a musioal phrase, or of an act of
Oriental hospitality is apt to disarm criti. But the first condition of utility is accu-
a translation would naturally be welcomed. forbearance," and its meaning varies accord-
cism or to afford no leisure for it.
ingly. In each case we pass beyond the
The
writer chronicles his enjoyment in an un-
racy on the part of writer and translator, given, not, as in the abstract universal,
and this, unfortunately, is
fettered epistolary style, aided by some
not always attempting to reproduce reality with omis-
attained. Dr. Eckhardt
fine photographs of Baroda and its ruler. have ascertained from the American Suf- the whole, in thought which aims at con-
could easily sions, but by an impulse from the given to
The book as a whole is, however, limited frage societies, which are in close touch with stituting a world.
to matters of ephemeral interest.
the English, the equivalent for certain This distinction between the recurrence
titles before committing himself to the of similars and the identity of a differen-
Miss KATHARINE DOUGHTY has performed statement that the two great feminist tiated system is the root of Mr. Bosanquet's
an act of piety to the dead and usefulness associations in this country are the “ English theory. In the light of it he disposes of
to the living by collecting the memorials of Federation of Women's Clubs
" and the
the contention that the uniformity of nature
the ancient family of The Betts of Wortham “ Woman's Suffrage League. ” The former is inconsistent with the individuality of man,
in Suffolk (Lane), who dwelt from 1480 to is a mistranslation of Bund englischer Frauen. and draws the conclusion for which Dr.
1905 in a house of which the oldest portion vereine, known to us as the “National Union Bradley's destructive criticism in the open:
went back in all probability to the earlier of Women Workers,” while the latter appears ing chapter of his 'Ethical Studies had
date. The will of a maternal grandmother to comprehend the activities of the National prepared the way. There is a strange
is some twenty years older still. None of Union of Suffrage Societies, the Social and passage in Taylor's ‘Elements of Meta.
the Betts family seems to have attained to 1 Political Union, Women's Freedom League, physics,' where the desire to save personality
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makes the author argue that there is no is best calculated to feed and stimulate determined zealot and a prophet of realism,
uniformity of the kind which science de- the minds of his pupils. Mr. Carlile does will not bear examination,
mands. The plea is valueless, and the need not begin wi h money, and does not end In the plays Wilde carried his delicate
of it springs from the identification of with an orderly exposition of the outlines | jesting to a consummate pitch. The eclectic
scientific uniformity with logical coherence, of economics to his credit. He begins with phantasmagoria of . Salomé,' • Vera,' and the
or relevancy, as Mr. Bosanquet prefers to long girdings at the “ marginalists "—that other tragedies is too transparent to need
call it. To remember this is to see what is, at every living economist of repute, and criticism, but «The Importance of Being
lies at the root of M. Bergson's philosophy, then, after dealing with money and wealth, Earnest’ is in the line of great comedy,
and of the tendency to emphasize the tails off into disjointed chapters on topics Over Wilde's previous output the swelling
solvent and analytic character of intellect, selected, as far as we can see, because his harmonies of 'De Profundis' and the
or the antithesis of imitation and invention, views on them do not tally with those of poignant heart-cry of the ‘Ballad of Reading
of repetition and creation. ” To dissociato other people.
Gaol' were like a funeral oration. His work
identity and diversity is to make them un. For example, he will not have the quantity here displays the mellowing, humanizing
meaning, but to conceive them rightly is theory of money. In a new country where result of tragic experience, qualities it never
to see that “invention and creation are everybody had as much bread as he could had before. Nevertheless, even De Pro-
present in every pulse of thought," and that want, would an increase of money cause a fundis,' that mellifluous chant of a spirit
pure repetition is an impossibility for rise in the price of such bread ? He replies that had fed upon the bitter herbs of dis.
intelligence. Virgil's_ critics blamed him (p. 153):
illusion and social ostracism, is tainted by
for plagiarizing from Homer; he replied that * Why should it? If no one wanted more the artificiality which was Wilde's disease.
it was easier to rob Hercules of his club of it, what can be more certain than that no one
than Homer of a single verse.
would give any of his freshly gained wealth in
The transition to value from individuality, exchange for any of it. ”
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK.
thus conceived, is clear. If individuality This is just the sort of answer that gets a
St. Andrews, Feb. 12, 1912.
is that coherence and freedom from contra- “dead plough” in the Pass Schools. Unfortu-
From a note in ' Literary Gossip ' (Athe-
diction which is of the nature of a whole, nately for most of us, the prices of goods do
may not value also lie in a similar completo not depend solely on what we are willing that”Mgr. Barnes has'a "new candidate for
ness ? Some may seek to sever value from to pay for them. Motor-cars might be as
the title of “Man of the Mask. ” The Man
thought by saying that we cannot argue
common as perambulators if this were so.
about value, as though we do not argue A stern, strong determination to criticize is no longer “a son of Charles II. ,” but
daily and change it in consequence, or that makes the fortune of a leader-writer, but his own as such in a number of most
reputable
it depends on immediate feeling, as though ruins an economist. Mill and Marshall are
books on the Restoration. The 'D. N. B. ,'
immediacy was not a form which any content not such weak reasoners as Mr. Carlile
I think, must “ look sharply to its eye
!
may take and which is peculiar to none.
would have us believe. If he were more
What of indifference ? others will say.
modest and less pugnacious, his gift of clear Mgr. Barnes's new candidate appears to be
Mr. Bosanquet replies with Oliver Wendell writing and his wide and fruitful reading happens, a French student is engaged on a
Holmes's remark that in principle every
.
work in which the Man is emphatically not
man loves every woman, but individuals
Oscar Wilde : a Critical Study, by Arthur a Jesuit. I must not anticipate the dis-
may excuse themselves by non-acquaintance, Ransome (Martin Secker), is pitched on a closure of the secret, which, in my opinion,
special cause of dislike, or a limited capacity less staccato note than Mr. Sherard's, but, promises well; but why was a cleric de-
for affection. The same is true of the indi for all its brilliant composition, does not scribed as—and employed in prison as a
vidual's love of perfection. On this theory, reveal,"we think, the esoteric significance of valet? A French valet in England, wo
value gets its objectivity from the fact that Oscar Wilde. The present book leaves the know,
wanted by the French
individuals are not a mere plurality such as impression of a wilful, but misunderstood and Secret Service just before the Man was
cannot be unified in their contribution to a pathetic personality, whose " soul was like captured—and described as a valet. He
common experience.
à star and dwelt apart. ' But the time was the valet of a Huguenot conspirator
The book ends with a parallel illustrating when Wilde needed a rampart against his who had been broken on the wheel. In
the relation of the Absolute to nature and vilifiers is past. What we need now is not Scottish Covenanting circles it was reported
our finite selves. It is equally relevant
an apologia, but an estimate of him. The that the Duke of York, concealed behind a
to the whole course of the argument: The popular conception of Wilde also needs curtain, overheard a conversation held by
Absolute is compared to Dante's mind as revision. He is envisaged as the spokesman the valet's master, and betrayed him to
uttered in the Divine Comedy. ' Here exter of the sophists of the last generation, or as
Louis XIV. So writes the Rev. Mr. Law
nal nature, Italy, is an emotion and a value, the prince of a queer, rarefied, and dandified in his Memorials. The valet may have
not less but more than spatial ; each self, world of costumiers in art, which has known this (if the story be true), though
Paolo or Francesca, is still its real self, but vanished as swiftly as a shower of meteorites. even that is hardly a reason for keeping
is also a factor of the poet's mind which is These fanciful theories err in taking Wilde him so hermetically sealed.
A. LANG,
expressed in all these selves together; and too seriously.
Before his social cataclysm,
the whole poetic experience is single, yet and if we pass over the decorative plagiarism
includes a world of space and persons. of his poetic “ juvenilia,” he may be regarded
SALE.
The illustration is good, and our ideas
are the clearer for it. But this is true also ence, that he laughed at serious and re-
as primarily an artistic jester, with this differ- MESSRS. SOTHEBY held a sale of books and
manuscripts on the 5th, 6th, and 7th inst, which
of the book as a whole. To the critics of spectable people, instead of their laughing | lection of early eighteenth-century tracts, 68 vols. ,
included the following important lots : A col-
Absolutism, Mr. Bosanquet would say, at him. His band of exquisites were
Mark now, how a plain tale shall put number of foolish and idle young men, who 341. A complete collection of the laws of Vir:
221. Dresser, Birds of Europe, 8 vols. , 1871-81,
you down.
He has a full measure of gaped at his rodomontade and played the ginia, 1862, 221. 108. Mirabeau, a collection of
virtuoso with imitative relish. He would
Monetary Economics. By W. W. Carlile. Mr. Ransome says ; but we prefer him as a
rather have been a magician than a jester,” ford's, Birds of the British Islands, 8 vols. ,
,
another copy, 7 vols. , 451.
Recueil de petits Sujets et Culs de Lampe,
(Edward Arnold. )
Mr. Carlile is one of those jester. The serious portion of his work c. 1770, 251. Viane, Modelles artificiels de divers
writers who abound in economics more than before ‘De Profundis' is of small compass
Vaisseaux d'Argent, 441. Piccini, 152 coloured
in any other subject. He is about as satis- and not of permanent value. Wilde so
drawings of terminal masks, 2 vols. , 1727, 451.
fied with all his predecessors, living and dead, prided himself on his achievements, and Meissonier, Euvre, 1724, 911. Piranesi, Opere,
Cavilliés, Morceaux de Caprice, c. 1760, 541.
as Falstaff was with his recruits, though by was so intensely self-conscious, that perhaps 22 vols. , 1756-76, 1121. Le Pautre, Euvres
no means so good a judge of economists he himself lost the tracings of the line d'Architecture, 3 vols. , 1751, 271. Three original
as the fat knight was of soldiers. The very between the guffaw and serious self-realiza- pattern books of Messrs. Hunt & Roskell:
title of his book is meant to indicate that tion. The paramount effect that he gives Architectural
and Ornamentale. Posavines, 231: ;
ihe whole subject, as handled by poor is one of insubstantiality, which neither Engravings of Vases and Pottery, 161, Brang-
creatures in universities, is hopelessly awry; exotic tapestry work nor plausible ingenuity wyn, Etched Work, 1908, 231. Ruskin, The
They, remote from the counting-house and nor fantastic conjuring with ideas can hide. Gipsies, part of the original MS. written in 1837,
the bank parlour, put money in a compara- His thought, entertaining as it can be, is
191. 158. Bidpai, Fables, translated into Catalan,
tively subordinate position; whereas, in drowned by excrescences, superfluities, and
Saragossa, 1531, 291. 158. Holbein, Historiarum
Mr. Carlile's mind, business concepts
Shake-
Veteris Instrumenti Icones, 1538, 511.
effeminacies of all kinds. He opened to
speare's Works, 16 vols. , 1853–65, 651. Repro-
all important. In business “
money talks,"
the world a Pandora's box containing hardly duction of the Grimani Breviary, 12 cloth
as the worldly-wise say, and so in economics mischiefs, but little bediened dolls, strut- portfolios, 1904–10, 361. Reproduction of the
money must write.
ting their droll antics, but stuffed with saw.
Hortulus Animæ in the Imperial Library at
Every practical teacher of economics dust all the same. Mr. Ransome's theory Scotch MS. , 13th or 14th century, 561. Sacre
Vienna, 3 portfolios and 1 vol. , 1910, 181. Psalter,
knows well enough the difficulty he has in that his paradoxes are only, unfamiliar de Louis XV. , 1722, 201.
arranging his subjects in the order which 'truths,” which is to elevate him into a The total of the sale was 2,9051.
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His thought, if not original, is certainly sincere.
This is a reprint, in clear and pleasant type, is befogged by conventional epithet and endear-
Lanchester (Rev. H, C. 0.
good. The witch who on Gavon's Eve from the few who care for literature as
Margaret of France, though herself a
conjures up the dead body of a girl such, and will read him with a view to
learned and remarkable woman, has been
drowned in a pool; the ghost of the completing thus far their knowledge of famous Margarets, with whom she is, indeed,
overshadowed and obscured by two more
murderer who, after his execution, comes European literature as a whole, that this sometimes confused— Margaret of Navarre,
to the telephone, and over it contrives volume may best claim a welcome. This sister of Francis I. , and Margaret of Valois,
to confess his guilt; the weird tale of being
so, it is a pity that the translation wife of Henry IV. -our Margaret's aunt
the black hares on a Scotch shooting
runs awkwardly in places, that the dia- and niece. She herself was the daughter
4:
An’ the sickness about an’all," he added logue is sometimes halting, and that little of Franciz I. , and spentímost of her life at
indignantly. When the puir folk escape
the French Court, first of her father and then
from their peching fevered bodies an hour into the English.
or no“ atmosphere" has been carried over
of her brother Henry II. , for she did not
or two to the caller muirs'";
marry the Duke of Savoy until she was 36
the man who, for a mere song, got one
A main part of the interest of Suder- La great age for a Renaissance bride. Most
of the best rooms in a Swiss hotel—with mann, belonging as he does to the school of her biography deals, therefore, with French
a second bed in it; the Thing in the of the great obsession, lies in discovering describing such matters as the duel at which
Hall’ and the House with the Brick- what is his peculiar contribution to it. the "coup de Jarnac was struck, and the
Kiln': these ought to have made one's We saw him the other day compared to lawsuit that lasted thirty-four years between
flesh creep in proper fashion.
Maupassant. No attentive reader of these Mademoiselle de Rohan and the Duc de
The fact is that Mr. Benson's style stories will endorse that comparison. Nemours. Margaret's great political ability,
or lack of style—is precisely that least There is no evidence of a sense of form though foreshadowed in her brilliant ad-
fitted to give effect to a ghost - story. akin to Maupassant's ; none of the spirit, its highest until her marriage. At this time
It is all words, a flow as if from the pen detached and irresponsible, of the
the fortunes of Piedmont were very low ;
rather than the mind, full of tedious des- teur”; no humour ; and but little in five of its chief towns were occupied by
criptions and facetious digressions, which the characterization which keeps one the French, and two by the Spaniards.
relax and weary the reader to no purpose-
aware-as the French writer commonly Margaret, as a French princess, had excep-
and apt, when the climax is reached, to does—that the great obsession represents, tional influence, and this she used for her
husband's country with such successful
fall rather helpless. We catch too, 'not after all, but one side of a life.
diplomacy that before her death the French
seldom, that tone of half-complacent These stories of Sudermann's have some- had evacuated Piedmont, and the year after
coaxing with which an uneasy speaker or thing of the quality
of tragedy in that one the Spaniards followed them. Perhaps a
teacher will try to cover up a weakness sees nothing outside or around them. hardly smaller achievement was the conver-
in his discourse. Mr. Benson does not They read, too, like manifestos of revolt- sion of her apparently ruthless husband to
believe in his ghosts sufficiently. He though a revolt already half repented of the heretical Waldenses, which she man-
the idea of religious toleration on behalf of
suffers when compared with Stevenson His roués look with envy at the smiling, aged, in the teeth of the Pope (and Philip
in Thrawn Janet,' or to take an clear-eyed fathers of families. They them- of Spain. Margaret's influence seems, in-
example where the horror springs hardly selves, in their satiety, are filled with deed, to have been uniformly exerted in the
at all from the subject-matter, almost mortal disgust. The Teuton is not as the noblest directions, and one feels that she
entirely from the style with Borrow in Gaul. The naughtiness which comes
deserves De Thou's encomium, which Miss
'Wild Wales,' where he describes the lightly and naturally to the Gaul is in the Stephens appropriately writes on the title-
« Devil's Bridge over the Mynach, and Teuton the violation of an ancient racial eminente par sa sagesse, son irréprochable
“ Une femme
tells of the “ Plant de Bat. ” This lack | tradition—“ Nemo enim illic vitia ridet, vertu et l'énergie d'une âme vraiment virile. "
of grip is the more unfortunate, because
nec corrumpere et corrumpi sæculum
- unless you are to have your flesh vocatur ”-and it would seem that when
creep-it seems rather a futile occupation the moment comes the blood of the
* Under this heading we include notices which are
to read merely fictitious ghost-stories.
too lengthy to appear in our • List of New Books '
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any particular eminence; on the other hand, and the many other societies which are
YET another agreeable volume from an all appear to have been decent, well-living working for Women's Suffrage. Even more
active pen is given us in Afterthoughts, by persons, industrious landlords, painstaking remarkable is the statement on p. 64 that
G. W. E. Russell (Grant Richards). The clergymen, and honest magistrates. An
" the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
personal touch lends peculiar attractiveness early document is a writing book containing transferred the leadership
of the movement to the
to the papers on notable people whom Mr. specimens of decorated calligraphy from the National Women's Social and Political Union,
George Russell has known-James Payn, for hands of schoolboys, besides observations of whose members are known by the name of suffra-
example, and John Talbot, the late member
a simpler kind, such as the note that on
gettes. This transference of leadership took place
for Oxford University. Where that touch" the vij day of July
* Wyllam Prylles" in the autumn of 1905. "
is absent, we sometimes encounter dis- did pollº“ my Haar. ”
The statement that Mrs. Fawcett is the
appointment; thus the chapter on 'The
Young Disraeli’ does not rise above the
In the earlier part of the sixteenth century leader of the Suffragettes only adds to our
one John Betts was
level of an ordinary review of Mr. Mony amateur physician, and has left behind a
a traveller and an bewilderment.
Social and political conditions in Eng-
penny's, first volume. In 'Gladstone on book of strange prescriptions, in which he land are harder for foreigners to under:
Hymns' the author has a more congenial
mentions
visited
having
Taken
subject, and treats it charmingly.
Jerusalem, stand than those in other countries, and
Corphu,” and Rome. One prescription these blots, serious as they are, do not
to rank with Collections and Recollec- infirmities” and for “ye gouet,” as well as
as a whole, Afterthoughts’ is quite
worthy of an ointment good for all kindes of cold altogether detract from the value of what
tions," "Social Silhouettes,' and their com- for a gun-shot wound and a withered arm,
is in many respects a useful book. In a
panions. We like Mr. Russell much better begins thus :-
sense the writer has attempted an impos.
sibility-i. e. , to summarize in one small
when he has a definite person or movement
volume the economic, educational, political,
to write about than when he is discoursing “Taike a young dog of red haire : and keap him
and legal aspects of the Woman's Movement
at large on Coronation festivities or general 3 dayes without meat : and then strangell him with
elections. But the paper on
Christmas
& corde and let him lye dead a qwarter of an throughout the world, a task the harder
hower":
since, in the present period of change and
Cards' is a model of its kind, and that on
* Public Dinners' can be commended for after which the dog is to be boiled down date even before it is printed.
unceasing vigour, a chapter becomes out of
its good-natured banter.
in oil with various herbs and a good dish
full of great grownd wormes well washed,”
The Principle of Individuality and Value :
A Year with the Gaekwar of Baroda, by the and the oil finally drawn off for use.
Rev. Edward St. Clair Weeden (Hutchinson),
A fine damask cloth, woven with a
the Gifford Lectures for 1911, delivered in
is made out of letters written by the portrait of Queen Elizabeth, and another Edinburgh University. By B. Bosanquet,
(Macmillan. )
author during his stay of one year with with that of the young Prince of Orange
that monarch, and furnishes an interesting who was to become William III. , are historic “He that will write well in any tongue must
account of palace life. Some two months landmarks among the relics.
follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the
were spent in touring through familiar The opinion of counsel upon the case of
common people do, and to think as wise men do;
so shall all men understand him, and wise men
centres, such as Ajmere, Udaipur, Jaipur, Mrs. Martha Cullum, whose husband, being allow him. "
Rewah, Agra, and Delhi; and, later, a drunk, had betted that he would survive
visit was paid to his Highness's residence John Woolnoe, and had signed a statement The advice has been often repeated since
at Dotacamund, with glimpses en route to that effect, gives point to the saying, Ascham’s day, and as often ignored, especi.
of Khandalla, Kolhapur, and Poona, and“ Other times, other laws. ' He had, how ally by “wise men ” in the narrower sense.
the hill-station of Magableshwar.
ever, predeceased John, and counsel was clear Perhaps the presence of an audience re-
The writer, however, rarely probes below that Mrs. Cullum could not avoid paying minded Mr. Bosanquet that, besides satis-
the surface. The record consists of Durbar the money.
fying himself, he must be at pains to convince
functions and entertainments, and describes These and other papers formerly stored. Individuality and Value' he is convincing
others. Certainly, in 'The Principle of
palace life with Anglicized amenities and in the old house have been preserved ; because he is intelligible, and, whatever be
the usual shikar excursions.
indeed, towards the close of the book its and china were all dispersed by a sale after the cause, the result is happy. The Gifford
own criticism—that little or no
the death of the last surviving Miss Betts, philosophy, but never more so, we think
made of a unique opportunity to study when the heritage passed to a distant cousin, than in the volume before us.
native life, customs, and habits. The the descendant of a daughter of the family that it is not original, because it contains
author frankly admits that there is no place married more than 130 years earlier.
like the Raj Mahal, or State Palace, with
much that is not new, would be to have
its round of daily amusements and the
read it in vain. Besides, it is one thing to
charm of its Maharani and Princess.
The Modern Woman's Rights · Movement : suggest that in individuality we have a
The Gaekwar we see as a hospitable and macher. Translated from the Second German up the scattered threads and weave them
a Historical Survey. By Dr. Kaethe Schir- key to our difficulties, and another to gather
generous host, and incidentally a man of Edition by Carl Conrad Eckhardt. (New into an ordered whole.
princely moods, with a strong attachment
York, the Macmillan Company. ) Dr. Mr. Bosanquet begins by stating his
to theories of progress. But we find no hint Kaethe Schirmacher has for many years doctrine of the concrete universal. Its
as to the result of his ambitions upon the been associated with the Woman's Move character is to throw light on something
minds of his people, and no attempt to
ment.
grasp political and commercial problems, France and Germany, travelled in a number
Having lived and worked in both beyond itself, not because it is a general rule,
or to realize the many, administrative of countries, and acted for several years as
a principle depending on the repetition of
paradoxes of a modernized native State ;
similars and the recognition of them when
whilst the Anglo-Indian is viewed only at Suffrage Alliance, she has herself been a
an officer of the International Woman they occur, but because it is of the nature of
a world where every detail gains meaning
But the lighter side of palace
life, with the it with intimate knowledge. As no work time may be apprehended as part of
A second of
of the movement, and should speak of and intensity from the rest.
Gaekwar and his family circle as a paramount
centre, is warm with the Eastern sun.
on exactly the same lines exists in English, minute, of a musioal phrase, or of an act of
Oriental hospitality is apt to disarm criti. But the first condition of utility is accu-
a translation would naturally be welcomed. forbearance," and its meaning varies accord-
cism or to afford no leisure for it.
ingly. In each case we pass beyond the
The
writer chronicles his enjoyment in an un-
racy on the part of writer and translator, given, not, as in the abstract universal,
and this, unfortunately, is
fettered epistolary style, aided by some
not always attempting to reproduce reality with omis-
attained. Dr. Eckhardt
fine photographs of Baroda and its ruler. have ascertained from the American Suf- the whole, in thought which aims at con-
could easily sions, but by an impulse from the given to
The book as a whole is, however, limited frage societies, which are in close touch with stituting a world.
to matters of ephemeral interest.
the English, the equivalent for certain This distinction between the recurrence
titles before committing himself to the of similars and the identity of a differen-
Miss KATHARINE DOUGHTY has performed statement that the two great feminist tiated system is the root of Mr. Bosanquet's
an act of piety to the dead and usefulness associations in this country are the “ English theory. In the light of it he disposes of
to the living by collecting the memorials of Federation of Women's Clubs
" and the
the contention that the uniformity of nature
the ancient family of The Betts of Wortham “ Woman's Suffrage League. ” The former is inconsistent with the individuality of man,
in Suffolk (Lane), who dwelt from 1480 to is a mistranslation of Bund englischer Frauen. and draws the conclusion for which Dr.
1905 in a house of which the oldest portion vereine, known to us as the “National Union Bradley's destructive criticism in the open:
went back in all probability to the earlier of Women Workers,” while the latter appears ing chapter of his 'Ethical Studies had
date. The will of a maternal grandmother to comprehend the activities of the National prepared the way. There is a strange
is some twenty years older still. None of Union of Suffrage Societies, the Social and passage in Taylor's ‘Elements of Meta.
the Betts family seems to have attained to 1 Political Union, Women's Freedom League, physics,' where the desire to save personality
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makes the author argue that there is no is best calculated to feed and stimulate determined zealot and a prophet of realism,
uniformity of the kind which science de- the minds of his pupils. Mr. Carlile does will not bear examination,
mands. The plea is valueless, and the need not begin wi h money, and does not end In the plays Wilde carried his delicate
of it springs from the identification of with an orderly exposition of the outlines | jesting to a consummate pitch. The eclectic
scientific uniformity with logical coherence, of economics to his credit. He begins with phantasmagoria of . Salomé,' • Vera,' and the
or relevancy, as Mr. Bosanquet prefers to long girdings at the “ marginalists "—that other tragedies is too transparent to need
call it. To remember this is to see what is, at every living economist of repute, and criticism, but «The Importance of Being
lies at the root of M. Bergson's philosophy, then, after dealing with money and wealth, Earnest’ is in the line of great comedy,
and of the tendency to emphasize the tails off into disjointed chapters on topics Over Wilde's previous output the swelling
solvent and analytic character of intellect, selected, as far as we can see, because his harmonies of 'De Profundis' and the
or the antithesis of imitation and invention, views on them do not tally with those of poignant heart-cry of the ‘Ballad of Reading
of repetition and creation. ” To dissociato other people.
Gaol' were like a funeral oration. His work
identity and diversity is to make them un. For example, he will not have the quantity here displays the mellowing, humanizing
meaning, but to conceive them rightly is theory of money. In a new country where result of tragic experience, qualities it never
to see that “invention and creation are everybody had as much bread as he could had before. Nevertheless, even De Pro-
present in every pulse of thought," and that want, would an increase of money cause a fundis,' that mellifluous chant of a spirit
pure repetition is an impossibility for rise in the price of such bread ? He replies that had fed upon the bitter herbs of dis.
intelligence. Virgil's_ critics blamed him (p. 153):
illusion and social ostracism, is tainted by
for plagiarizing from Homer; he replied that * Why should it? If no one wanted more the artificiality which was Wilde's disease.
it was easier to rob Hercules of his club of it, what can be more certain than that no one
than Homer of a single verse.
would give any of his freshly gained wealth in
The transition to value from individuality, exchange for any of it. ”
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK.
thus conceived, is clear. If individuality This is just the sort of answer that gets a
St. Andrews, Feb. 12, 1912.
is that coherence and freedom from contra- “dead plough” in the Pass Schools. Unfortu-
From a note in ' Literary Gossip ' (Athe-
diction which is of the nature of a whole, nately for most of us, the prices of goods do
may not value also lie in a similar completo not depend solely on what we are willing that”Mgr. Barnes has'a "new candidate for
ness ? Some may seek to sever value from to pay for them. Motor-cars might be as
the title of “Man of the Mask. ” The Man
thought by saying that we cannot argue
common as perambulators if this were so.
about value, as though we do not argue A stern, strong determination to criticize is no longer “a son of Charles II. ,” but
daily and change it in consequence, or that makes the fortune of a leader-writer, but his own as such in a number of most
reputable
it depends on immediate feeling, as though ruins an economist. Mill and Marshall are
books on the Restoration. The 'D. N. B. ,'
immediacy was not a form which any content not such weak reasoners as Mr. Carlile
I think, must “ look sharply to its eye
!
may take and which is peculiar to none.
would have us believe. If he were more
What of indifference ? others will say.
modest and less pugnacious, his gift of clear Mgr. Barnes's new candidate appears to be
Mr. Bosanquet replies with Oliver Wendell writing and his wide and fruitful reading happens, a French student is engaged on a
Holmes's remark that in principle every
.
work in which the Man is emphatically not
man loves every woman, but individuals
Oscar Wilde : a Critical Study, by Arthur a Jesuit. I must not anticipate the dis-
may excuse themselves by non-acquaintance, Ransome (Martin Secker), is pitched on a closure of the secret, which, in my opinion,
special cause of dislike, or a limited capacity less staccato note than Mr. Sherard's, but, promises well; but why was a cleric de-
for affection. The same is true of the indi for all its brilliant composition, does not scribed as—and employed in prison as a
vidual's love of perfection. On this theory, reveal,"we think, the esoteric significance of valet? A French valet in England, wo
value gets its objectivity from the fact that Oscar Wilde. The present book leaves the know,
wanted by the French
individuals are not a mere plurality such as impression of a wilful, but misunderstood and Secret Service just before the Man was
cannot be unified in their contribution to a pathetic personality, whose " soul was like captured—and described as a valet. He
common experience.
à star and dwelt apart. ' But the time was the valet of a Huguenot conspirator
The book ends with a parallel illustrating when Wilde needed a rampart against his who had been broken on the wheel. In
the relation of the Absolute to nature and vilifiers is past. What we need now is not Scottish Covenanting circles it was reported
our finite selves. It is equally relevant
an apologia, but an estimate of him. The that the Duke of York, concealed behind a
to the whole course of the argument: The popular conception of Wilde also needs curtain, overheard a conversation held by
Absolute is compared to Dante's mind as revision. He is envisaged as the spokesman the valet's master, and betrayed him to
uttered in the Divine Comedy. ' Here exter of the sophists of the last generation, or as
Louis XIV. So writes the Rev. Mr. Law
nal nature, Italy, is an emotion and a value, the prince of a queer, rarefied, and dandified in his Memorials. The valet may have
not less but more than spatial ; each self, world of costumiers in art, which has known this (if the story be true), though
Paolo or Francesca, is still its real self, but vanished as swiftly as a shower of meteorites. even that is hardly a reason for keeping
is also a factor of the poet's mind which is These fanciful theories err in taking Wilde him so hermetically sealed.
A. LANG,
expressed in all these selves together; and too seriously.
Before his social cataclysm,
the whole poetic experience is single, yet and if we pass over the decorative plagiarism
includes a world of space and persons. of his poetic “ juvenilia,” he may be regarded
SALE.
The illustration is good, and our ideas
are the clearer for it. But this is true also ence, that he laughed at serious and re-
as primarily an artistic jester, with this differ- MESSRS. SOTHEBY held a sale of books and
manuscripts on the 5th, 6th, and 7th inst, which
of the book as a whole. To the critics of spectable people, instead of their laughing | lection of early eighteenth-century tracts, 68 vols. ,
included the following important lots : A col-
Absolutism, Mr. Bosanquet would say, at him. His band of exquisites were
Mark now, how a plain tale shall put number of foolish and idle young men, who 341. A complete collection of the laws of Vir:
221. Dresser, Birds of Europe, 8 vols. , 1871-81,
you down.
He has a full measure of gaped at his rodomontade and played the ginia, 1862, 221. 108. Mirabeau, a collection of
virtuoso with imitative relish. He would
Monetary Economics. By W. W. Carlile. Mr. Ransome says ; but we prefer him as a
rather have been a magician than a jester,” ford's, Birds of the British Islands, 8 vols. ,
,
another copy, 7 vols. , 451.
Recueil de petits Sujets et Culs de Lampe,
(Edward Arnold. )
Mr. Carlile is one of those jester. The serious portion of his work c. 1770, 251. Viane, Modelles artificiels de divers
writers who abound in economics more than before ‘De Profundis' is of small compass
Vaisseaux d'Argent, 441. Piccini, 152 coloured
in any other subject. He is about as satis- and not of permanent value. Wilde so
drawings of terminal masks, 2 vols. , 1727, 451.
fied with all his predecessors, living and dead, prided himself on his achievements, and Meissonier, Euvre, 1724, 911. Piranesi, Opere,
Cavilliés, Morceaux de Caprice, c. 1760, 541.
as Falstaff was with his recruits, though by was so intensely self-conscious, that perhaps 22 vols. , 1756-76, 1121. Le Pautre, Euvres
no means so good a judge of economists he himself lost the tracings of the line d'Architecture, 3 vols. , 1751, 271. Three original
as the fat knight was of soldiers. The very between the guffaw and serious self-realiza- pattern books of Messrs. Hunt & Roskell:
title of his book is meant to indicate that tion. The paramount effect that he gives Architectural
and Ornamentale. Posavines, 231: ;
ihe whole subject, as handled by poor is one of insubstantiality, which neither Engravings of Vases and Pottery, 161, Brang-
creatures in universities, is hopelessly awry; exotic tapestry work nor plausible ingenuity wyn, Etched Work, 1908, 231. Ruskin, The
They, remote from the counting-house and nor fantastic conjuring with ideas can hide. Gipsies, part of the original MS. written in 1837,
the bank parlour, put money in a compara- His thought, entertaining as it can be, is
191. 158. Bidpai, Fables, translated into Catalan,
tively subordinate position; whereas, in drowned by excrescences, superfluities, and
Saragossa, 1531, 291. 158. Holbein, Historiarum
Mr. Carlile's mind, business concepts
Shake-
Veteris Instrumenti Icones, 1538, 511.
effeminacies of all kinds. He opened to
speare's Works, 16 vols. , 1853–65, 651. Repro-
all important. In business “
money talks,"
the world a Pandora's box containing hardly duction of the Grimani Breviary, 12 cloth
as the worldly-wise say, and so in economics mischiefs, but little bediened dolls, strut- portfolios, 1904–10, 361. Reproduction of the
money must write.
ting their droll antics, but stuffed with saw.
Hortulus Animæ in the Imperial Library at
Every practical teacher of economics dust all the same. Mr. Ransome's theory Scotch MS. , 13th or 14th century, 561. Sacre
Vienna, 3 portfolios and 1 vol. , 1910, 181. Psalter,
knows well enough the difficulty he has in that his paradoxes are only, unfamiliar de Louis XV. , 1722, 201.
arranging his subjects in the order which 'truths,” which is to elevate him into a The total of the sale was 2,9051.
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