The book before us, in fact, and Rome, with power to
suppress
any
is largely a record of difficulties and which they deemed injurious to the State.
is largely a record of difficulties and which they deemed injurious to the State.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Bertram Mills will fantastic comedy by Leon Brodzky, which
"THE HUMOUR OF IT,' described as
afternoon included Brahms's Sonata in F
minor, of which he gave a fervent reading, who was originally announced.
sing in place of Mr. J. Campbell McInnes,
was produced on Monday afternoon at the
and Schumann's 'Fantasia,' Op. 17, the
Court Theatre, is_composed of purely
rendering of which, except for a few artificia.
The production of Racine’s ‘Esther' farcical elements. The action takes place
lities, was excellent. In Liszt's Ricord. at the Théâtre - Sarah · Bernhardt last on a summer morning in the front garden of
anza' and two of his own Studies Herr Sauer week proved a great success. This play, a suburban villa, a poet, intent on worship-
displayed perfect technique, also in familiar restored, we believe, by, Madame Sarah ping under the window of his unknown
pieces by Chopin, in which, however, the Bernhardt to its original form, as given beloved, being mistaken alternately for a
interpreter's skill was more prominent than in the presence of Louis XIV, at St. Cyr, burglar and a lunatic, and various situations
That
the poetry of the music.
only by women, was presented some time being built round this slender theme.
ago with the original music, but for the some of the players were ill at ease did not
The first of Mr. Balfour Gardiner's choral performance in question special music had help matters. Miss Irene Clark and Messrs.
and orchestral concerts took place at Queen's been written by M. Reynaldo Hahn.
Lawrence Anderson and W. G. Fay did
Hall on Wednesday evening, and opened An honorary committee has been formed their best with futile parts.
with a setting of a portion of Shelley's with the object of erecting a monument at
The play was preceded by Mr. John
* Prometheus Unbound for two soprano the Trocadéro to the memory of the eminent Austin's
one-act comedyHow One Woman
voices (the Misses Caroline Hatchard and organist and composer Alexandre Guilmant,
Did It,' the moral of which was apparently
Carrie Tubb),
chorus, and orchestra, by Mr. who was one of the founders of the Troca effected by the adoption of masculine attire.
that the cure of women's ills would be
Arnold Bax. Shelley's poetry suggests déro and of the Schola Cantorum. At the
musicof a thoroughly romantic character. The head of the list of names on the committee While not uninteresting; the
piece is
setting in question is unsatisfactory, because stands that of Saint-Saëns. Subscriptions amateurish, and practically resolved itself
it lacks the qualities hat make for either should be sent to the treasurer, M. E. Gaveau, into a propagandist monologue by the
strength or beauty. The vocal parts are 45, Rue la Boétie, Paris.
leading character.
not gratefully written for the voices, neither
An edition of Weber's letters will shortly This evening and Wednesday next the
is the orchestration good. A better balanced be published at Leipsic. The editor, Herr Hippolytus' of Euripides is to be produced
rendering might, to a certain extent, modify G. Kasser (Dresden, Striesener Strasse, 41), by the Poetry Society in the Marble Hall
this opinion. Mr. Percy Grainger's setting
of a fine old Irish tune which he has har of the composer to enter into communica- lation used will be Prof. Gilbert Murray's.
The trans.
requests all who possess autograph letters of the University of London.
monized for unaccompanied mixed chorus, tion with him. We make this announce-
without words, was impressive. It was
SPECIAL matinées are to be held at the
followed by 'Father and Daughter,' an
ment as there are no doubt a good many Little Theatre on Tuesdays and Fridays,
English version of a Färöese Dancing.
to be found in private collections in England.
when the same scholar's translation of
Ballad ('Fadir og Dóttir ’). The melody is
Euripides's 'Iphigenia in Tauris ’ is to be
genuine Færöese, but the harmonic and
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
acted. The first performance takes place
orchestral treatment of Mr. Grainger is a
next Tuesday.
Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall,
substitute—and a very clever one-for the
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
"piling-up” effect produced by the thud
To CORRESPONDENTS. -J. C. -H. P. C. -H. A. M. -
of the feet, the movements of the bodies,
W. M. -R. S. -Received.
and the general excitement of the islanders
H. K. H. -Many thanks.
when they sing it. Both numbers were
F. 8. Kelly's Orchestral Concert, 8. 15,
Queen's Hall,
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.
Alida Loman and Jetty Ingenius's Concert, 9. 30, Steinway
effectively rendered under the composer's
We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
direction. Three settings by him of poems
WED. Classical Concert Society, 3, Bechstein Hall.
appearance of reviews of books.
Mrs. Kennedy-Fraser's Kecital, 8, Bechstein Hall.
from Kipling's 'Second Jungle Book
Miss Marjorie Blyth and Madame Howell-Jones's Concert,
interesting, though not so characteristic.
Τ Η Ε Α Τ Η Ε Ν Ε Ο Μ.
Oxford House Choral Society8. 80, Queen's
Hall.
There was also a short, but strong setting Thurs. Polted Clock the pherefoncerto intelian kechis
of a ballad,
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
News from Whydah,' poem
Winifred Christie's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
by John Masefield, music for chorus and
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hobday's Concert, 8. 25, Broadwood's.
(Hall-column)
orchestra by Mr. B. Gardiner, though the
A Column
accompaniment somewhat heavily
scored.
Auctions and Public Institutions, Five Lines 48. and 8d. por line
Mr. W. H. Bell's Scotch Border
Wessely String Quartet, 3, Bechstein Hall.
ballad "The Baron of Brackley,' set for
IN TIR MEASUREMENT OF ADVERTISEMENTS, CARE
chorus and orchestra, shows a marked ad-
vance in clearness on some of his earlier
compositions.
Bramatic Gossip.
The works were performed
.
The Athenxam Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. C.
by the London Choral Society and the New
Symphony Orchestra. The conductors were
PROUD MAISIE,' Mr. Hemmerde's new
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
Mr. A. Fagge, Mr. Balfour Gardiner, and, as play at the Aldwych, belongs to that class
mentioned, Mr. Grainger.
of artificial drama for which the stage of
to-day has no use at all. It is pseudo- AUTHORS' AGENTS
A PAPER on Schumann's music, written tragedy written in a rhetorical verse that is BOOKBINDING
by Miss Fanny Davies, was read last Satur. full of florid conceits, and exploits all the
day evening by Dr. W. H. Cummings worn-out conventions and sentiments of EDUCATIONAL
before the members of the Incorporated
romance, It asks acceptance for the
ENO'S FRUIT SALT
Society of Musicians at the Morley Hall, preposterous old fancy that a girl could
INSURANCE COMPANIES
George Street, Hanover Square. Miss Davies masquerade successfully as a man in a duel LECTURES . .
MACMILLAN & Co.
is not only an excellent pianist, but also
-could fight her lover in her brother's
MAGAZINES, &c.
one of the few performers of the present day place, and not be detected by him long METHUEN & Co.
who interpret the music of Robert Schumann
MISCELLANEOUS . .
before he administered the coup de gráce.
MUDIE'S
in the right spirit. Her principal illustra- Scotland of the '45 provides the setting, MURRAY
tion was the F sharp minor Sonata. She and the stage properties of tartans and
NOTES AND QUERIES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
gave graphic specimens of modern readings bagpipes are pressed into service. The most
of the Romance,' Op. 28, No. 2, and 'Auf- effective act opens with dances and a‘ White PROVIDENT INSTITUTIONS
schwung,' also an account of the monstrous Cockade song, introduces Prince Charlie "
SHIPPING . .
maltreatment of ‘Vogel als Prophet' and delivering an impassioned harangue, and SITUATIONS VACANT
other short pieces used for ballet music at ends with a staircasa scrimmage, during SCTUATIONS WANTED
Monte Carlo,
Bux,
Sunday League Concert, 7, Queen's Hall.
Mox, London Symphony Orchestra, 8, Queen's Hall.
Aurora Gerémi's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Lionel Tertis's Viola Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall
TUES. Godowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Audrey Richardson's Concert, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
Hall.
were
8. 15, Steinway Hall.
David Levine's Pianofo
Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall
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Philharmonic Society, 8, Queen's Hall.
Broadwood Concert, 8. 30, Xolian Hall.
Hegedüs's Violin Recital, 8. 30, Bechstein Hall.
Beecham Symphony Orchestra, 3, Æolian Hall.
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Hall.
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PAGE
329
THE PARTING OF THE ROADS
331
332
West London; The Making of London; London
333
The Old Testament in Greek, Vol. I. Part III. ;
Testament)
334-335
335--336
NOTES FROM OXFORD; THE NAME" CROSSRAGUELL";
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL Docu.
MENTS
336-337
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
FORTHCOMING BOOKS . .
341
SCIENCE - OUTLINES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY ;
REPTILES, AMPHIBIA, AND FISHES; SOCIETIES ;
342-344
FINE ARTS - BYWAYS IN BRITISH ARCHÆOLOGY ;
SPRING EXHIBITION AT MESSRS. SHEPIIKRD'S
GALLERY ; DRAWINGS BY ROWLANDSON ; ROYAL
SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS ; OTHER EXHIBI-
TIONS; PICTURES AND DRAWINGS; ENGRAVINGS
AND MEZZOTINTS; GOSSIP
345-346
MUSIC-Gossip
347
347–348
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
own
falsification and concealment in the inter feeling of indignation when one reads of
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1912. ests of the Church. Moreover, it is with Milner's constant antagonism to John
the hearty co-operation of Irish bishops Lingard. If there was one man of whom
and English Jesuits that the author has his fellow-Catholics were proud, and for
thrown open to all the world the long- whose literary labours they were thankful,
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY (The Eve of Catholic hidden things of the archives of West- it was the man who perceived and acted
Emancipation ; Leo XIII. and Anglican Orders).
minster, Stonyhurst, and Douay.
on the principle that true history could
MOROCCO IN DIPLOMACY
If the latest biography of Newman has only be based on contemporary records.
BOOKS ON LONDON (London, South of the Thames ; set aside sentiment and allowed us to see Lingard's History of England was at
Stories)
in him for the first time the full measure of
once recognized by Englishmen of varying
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION (Religious Liberty under the egoism of genius, not less does Mgr. faiths, as a sincere and impartial narrative.
Charles II. and James II. ; The Truth of Religion ; Ward reveal all the pliability of Bishop
One turns gladly from the strong but
Concerning the Genesis of the Versions of the New Poynter and all the acerbity of the sturdy unsympathetic personality of Milner to
and turbulent Milner, whom previous the more amiable Bishop Poynter, the
This WEEK'S BOOKS (The Normandy Coast; The
House of Harper; War and its Alleged Benefits;
writers have taken too much at his own contemporary Vicar Apostolic of the
Aspects of Home Rule)
valuation. The personality of the Right London District. During this prelate's
Rev. John Milner, Bishop of Castabala tenure of office many important changes
and Vicar Apostolic of the “Middle"
“ Middle " took place in the circumstances of the
337 District, stands out in these pages like still unemancipated Roman Catholics.
some grim, minatory notice-board in a The lay committees which, through penal
LITERARY GOSSIP
341 scrubby warren. His fierceness and irrecon- | times, had been the medium for the
cilable despotism are almost fascinating support and management of the “mis-
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK; GOSSIP
Such primacy as could be claimed by any
sions or parishes, all died out, having
of the Roman Catholic prelates in Eng- been found unsuitable. On the other
land lay either with Dr. Poynter, as pre- hand, an Emancipation Bill, approved
siding over the metropolis, or Dr. Gibson, (faute de mieux) by Dr. Poynter, provided
as the senior by date of consecration; for a committee of Roman Catholic noble-
but Milner would brook no divergence
men and gentlemen to examine ecclesi-
DRAMA-IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS ; GOSSIP. .
from his
views on discipline or
astical communications between England
348 expediency.
The book before us, in fact, and Rome, with power to suppress any
is largely a record of difficulties and which they deemed injurious to the State.
dissensions among the Roman Catholic Little wonder that Milner's eloquence
episcopacy and nobility in England, was evoked by such a proposal.
LITERATURE
in politics ecclesiastical
ecclesiastical and secular, A letter from the Bishop of London to
brought about by the impetuosity and the Vicar Apostolic, at vol. ii. p. 191, is an
headstrong nature of Milner, whose apo- | interesting illustration of the difference
stolic blows and knocks" made his between their positions at that time.
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY. orthodoxy as unpalatable to his col- The Anglican bishop addresses his Roman
leagues as their more easygoing methods neighbour in a tone which is not unkind,
Dr. E. BURTON's “Life of Bishop Chal-
were to him.
but very much de haut en bas.
loner,' Mr. Wilfrid Ward's ‘Dawn of the
New and strange light is thrown on
We notice (vol. ii. p. 215) a censure by
Catholic Revival,' and Mgr. Ward's
the relative characters of Milner and his Dr. Poynter on the priest Gandolfy for
‘Eve of Catholic Emancipation,' carry opponents. It can no longer be supposed applying the term “ beatitude” to the final
us from the penal era of William III. to that the militant Vicar Apostolic of state of unbaptized infants. No doubt
the final removal of Catholic disabilities the Midlands was a solitary and unfailing it is technically an incorrect expression
by the statute of 1829. Biographies of upholder of the purest Roman Catholic for the limbo infantium, where the un-
Lingard, of Wiseman, Manning, Newman, principles in a perverse generation of regenerated innocents enjoy
a happiness
and Vaughan, bring our knowledge of
fautors” of schism. At the beginning which falls short of the beatific vision.
the internal concerns of the Roman of his episcopal career he was prepared We remember, however, a German Gottes-
Catholic body in England down to our
Beatrix” on
to concede to the English Government the acker wherein the name
own time. We hope for an equally full right of veto which
would have given them tombstones invariably signifies the burial
account of their affairs at that particu- a voice in the selection of bishops of of stillborn girls.
larly interesting epoch, the restoration of his faith. True, he afterwards came to
A few misprints and slips have escaped
the hierarchy in 1850.
regard the veto as “lawful, but not correction. There is
an unintelligible
With such a completion of the cycle practicable,” and opposed its concession second paragraph with foot-note at vol. i.
we shall possess a trustworthy and con- with all the passionate force of his per- p. 94; and on p. 95 the Appendix is
tinuous record of the modern history of fervid character ; but he was more than referred to without mentioning the number
Catholicism in England, founded on ori once the subject of stern censures
or letter. In vol. ii. we have
ginal documents, collected and arranged the part of the Roman authorities, not quator” twice for exequatur (pp. 30 and
by competent and honest editors. The only on the score of his offensive attitude 31); and a foot-note on p. 222 gives, in
transparent ingenuousness of Mgr. Ward, towards his fellow-bishops, but also for
an Italian passage,
unanimemente”
as manifested in his two volumes, will his actions and writings in regard to various for unanimamente. These are small slips,
make many Protestant readers rub their purely religious questions.
however, in an excellent and scholarly
spectacles and wonder what has become
book. Interesting reproductions of old
of the crafty Romish priest of the novel Roman Catholic it is impossible not to volumes.
From the standpoint of the staunch views and portraits illustrate both
and the stage, who was portrayed as
being equal to anything in the way of the anti-Roman tendencies of the Cisalpine
commend Milner's implacable opposition to
Interesting though the records of the
Club and the “ Staffordshire clergy,
The Eve of Catholic Emancipation : being the obviously schismatical Blanchardist the last years of George III. are, as leading
small body of Roman Catholics during
the History of the English Catholics during movement. It is, however, difficult to to the period of political emancipation
the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth
Century. By the Right Rev. Mgr. Bernard be patient with his perpetual girding at and religious tolerance, their historical
Ward. - Vols. I. and II. 1803 - 1820. Charles Butler, who, with a few evident importance is small when compared with
(Longmans & Co. )
shortcomings, was one of the most valuable that of the period when“ reunion was in
Leo XIII. and Anglican Orders. By Viscount members of the Roman Church in Eng- the air. ” Seventy years after the days
Halifax. (Same publishers. )
land. Still less can one refrain from a of which Mgr. Ward writes, the power of
on
exe-
or
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were
the English Romanists (though they have been subjected to very severe criti- a memorandum at the end of the book,
were still served principally by Irish and cism.
now states that he reminded Lord Halifax
foreign priests) had ceased to be negligible : Lord Halifax, who throws a good deal from the first
no Bishop of London could treat them of light upon the matter, writes with
de hart en bas, and Dr. Creighton and marked gentleness, great care, and with ledge the validity of Anglican Orders,
“ that Rome could never simply acknow.
his predecessor were not likely to wish obvious sincerity and accuracy. What- and that conditional reordination in place of
to do so. Their position is one of the ever interest the matter may have in unconditional was the utmost concession she
important matters upon which Lord the future, those who investigate it will could ever make. "
Halifax's book on · Leo XIII. and Angli- have to use his book as their chief Cardinal Vaughan was still more clear.
can Orders' throws light, and thus we storehouse of facts.
The question of Rome was the main
may not unfitly consider his volume side We arise from the perusal of the book, point, and it would have to be settled in
by side with Mgr. Ward's.
which is a long and a full one, with a the end, so it was best to begin with it :
A year ago we were let into some of the good deal more information than we
that was his view, and it was shared, we
secrets of the negotiations of 1894–6, possessed when we began, and with the remember from Mr. Lacey's ‘Diary, '
especially of the discussions at Rome, knowledge of several ideas very clearly by those at Rome in whose hands the
by Mr. Ť. A. Lacey and Abbot Gasquet : expressed. The first is that the real decision really lay. The Cardinal also
the former with a certain simplicity which reason why-as almost every one except was by no means clear that Anglican
showed how English scholars had been a few learned Frenchmen and a few enthu- sacraments and the Oxford Movement
played with by diplomatists of experience, siastic Englishmen knew, all through these were not the work of Satan, and he said
the latter with some statements and some negotiations or discussions - a genuine so plainly. It was unfortunate that the
reticences which were equally significant. approach towards reunion is at present olive-branches (and such they were really
Now comes Lord Halifax, who certainly impossible is
intended to be) put forth by the Pope were
may be regarded as the fons et origo-
“ that subjection to an external authority interpreted for the English public by
shall we say ? -mali, and he tells us with . . . . is what Roman Catholics have in view Cardinal Vaughan, and that The Times, in
transparent candour what no one can
one can when they speak of membership in the its comments on them, said (though, no
read the book without being convinced Church, rather than the profession of the doubt, from a different point of view) in
is the truth, the whole truth so far as
Catholic faith and the possession of valid
each case exactly what the English
sacraments
;
he knows it, and nothing but the truth,
cardinal would have wished to be said.
about the matter. Briefly, the question or, as Cardinal Vaughan put it, “the Lord Halifax thinks that the chief blame
of the possibility of a nearer rapproche question of Rome was the crucial ques of the “
great failure” lies at the door
ment between Rome and England than tion. ” This of itself accounts for this of Cardinal Vaughan ; it is certainly the
had seemed possible for centuries was
book being styled “the story of a failure,” case that he and Abbot Gasquet obtained
opened through the general attention, and
exactly what they desired. But second
which the spread of tolerance had fostered, “certainly, so far as those who had endea-only to the Cardinal's action Lord Halifax
directed in all parts of the Christian voured to approach the Holy See in the places what he believes to be the error
world during the last decades of the interests of peace concerned, no of Archbishop Benson—“ few men have
nineteenth century to Christ's emphatic failure could well have been more complete. ” ever had so great an opportunity offered
words about unity, and to the common If we pass on to the practical reasons
to them as the Archbishop ; no man, I
belief in “one Holy Catholic and Apostolic of the failure, we find them to be mainly think, ever so completely threw it away. ”
Church. ” Attention, thus aroused, was two : first, the want of knowledge among Here it seems to us that the author
concentrated on the single subject of Roman Catholics_of the history and understands the difficulties of an English
Anglican Orders, largely through the theology of the English Church ; and, primate as little as he understood the
studies of eminent French scholars. Lord secondly, the very strong and decided determination of a Roman cardinal. His
Halifax, who evidently knows French position of the Roman Catholic body in readers will hardly fail to perceive them
almost as well as he knows English, and England. As an illustration of the first when they observe that Lord Halifax
the Roman Church almost as intimately point we may note a letter from the late was anxious to dictate the chief lines-
as the Anglican, became acquainted with Lord Bute (himself, of course, a Roman in fact, did put them in writing-of a
a learned and sympathetic French priest, Catholic), who says :
letter from the Archbishop which was
the Abbé Portal, at Madeira in 1899.
" I remember once reading to the Duke of to be shown to the Pope, and of a letter
Personal interests joined those of learning. Norfolk some of the Book of Common Prayer, from the Pope which was to be sent to the
Leo XIII. , who had a way of knowing and his remarking that that was all very English primates.
everything that was worth knowing, took well, but that I must not take a Ritualistic Much more might be said on these and
a keen interest in the personal as well as manual based upon Catholic sources, such kindred points, but we have said enough
the theological sides of the matter. He as I was reading, as giving an utterance of
as I was reading, as giving an utterance of to show the main interest of the book.
summoned representatives of his own the Anglican Church. '
It has many other attractions, not least
communion to Rome, and he encouraged The Pope, again, found an obstacle in what the letters on the subject of Russia and the
others to come, for the purpose of discus- he believed to be the political difficulties: Eastern Church, which still holds, as she
sion or investigation of the Roman view of " to begin with, the dependence of the held in the seventeenth century, the key
Anglican Orders. He was earnestly eager bishops on the civil power. ” It is per- to the position. When De Maistre spoke
for peace and reunion in Christendom. haps most reasonable to put down to of the English Church as having the fairest
He was ready to be informed as to facts want of knowledge the remarkable mis- opportunity to reunite Christendom, he
of which he was ignorant. He addressed statements of the Risposta, a document was mistaken : it is with the Eastern
Englishmen, individually and collectively, which no unprejudiced historian would Church that the future of the question
with affection and piety; but he showed put his name to, and which is stated, and lies. From the Eastern Church we natur-
no sign whatever of diluting the modern apparently admitted, to be the work of ally turn to Bishop Creighton, whose
doctrines or practices of his Church. Abbot Gasquet. It had an obvious effect letter to Lord Halifax, explaining the
As to the discussions, or investigations, upon the Commission, and even upon the real difficulties and suggesting the real
which took place at Rome, it seems that language of the Bull itself. The Pope, it solution, is by far the most valuable
the members of the Papal Commission seems clear, did not know where to get thing in the book. Close to it is a clear
were bound to secrecy. In the end the accurate information, and he seems—80 and sagacious statement from the present
Bull Apostolicæ Curæ declared English Lord Halifax thinks—at length to have Primate. Mr. Gladstone again, in his
Orders invalid. But it has never been given up the attempt in despair.
soliloquium and his letters, if a little
stated whether this Bull was, or was not, But equally important with this cause, ponderous, is eminently wise. There are
one of those Papal decisions for which and not unconnected with it, is the other letters, and passages of letters,
infallibility is claimed ; and the historical determined position of the Roman Catholic from English theologians which were
and theological arguments contained in it body in England. Mr. Wilfrid Ward, in well worth preserving. For it is as a
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more
а
לל
2
are
record that this book is of enduring How the Old Testament came into distinct Paulinism of Mark” as incon-
value. But we may be allowed to add Being. As it, however, deals much less clusive, he agrees that his Gospel was
that no
one can rise from its perusal with the formation of the Hebrew Canon destined for the Gentile world. A leading
without sympathy for the generous and than with the historical development of feature of Matthew he considers to be
charitable spirit in which it is written. the more important religious ideas which an
an attitude of pronounced pessimism
In the accuracy with which it has been
underlie the Biblical books, a towards Judaism ; and in Luke he finds
revised, and by the excellent Index, it is suitable title might have been found. embodied pre-eminently the Gospel of
well fitted to take its place among " docu- Among the topics treated are: Work of mercy and universal hope.
ments ; but we
may notice that on Jeremiah and Ezekiel,' The Importance
There are
number of debatable
p. 106, note, * p. 443" should be read for of the Growth of Apocalyptic, Why the points in the essay on St. Peter and the
p. 429, and that there is a redundant Jewish Law-book begins with a Baby. I'welve," which is contributed by the Rev.
negative, spoiling the sense, on p. 185.
lonian Chronology,' and 'The Bible in
W. K. Lowther Clarke, but a circumstance
Existence before our present Old Testa- like this does not necessarily detract
ment. ' A careful reading of the essay from the interest of a serious piece of
will amply repay the student for the time work. The author's principal aim is to
The Parting of the Roads : Studies in the spent on it. Teb on the First Cataract,
trace the development and expansion
Development of Judaism and Early in a foot-note on p. 42, is clearly a misprint of primitive Christianity under the
Christianity. By Members of Jesus for Yeb.
guidance of the original Apostles, with
College, Cambridge. With an Intro- The essay on The Devotional Value Peter as their chief, before the entry
duction by W. Ř. Inge. Edited by of the Old Testament,' by Mr. R. T. of the Pauline and Johannine phases of
F. J. Foakes Jackson. (Edward Howard, Chaplain of the College, does not, Church doctrine and life. It will, we
Arnold. )
strictly, belong to the study of origins believe, be held by many that too much
JESUS COLLEGE is to be congratulated which The Parting of the Roads was influence on subsequent Christian thought
on the appearance of this collection of intended to be, but its inclusion in the is here assigned to Petrine teaching, and
scholarly and highly interesting essays. series is nevertheless a matter for con- that the moulding effect of Pauline ideas
Their genuine religious feeling and high gratulation. It deals, from a standpoint is in an equal measure wrongly discounted.
Their genuine religious feeling and high which is both reverent and critical, with Nor is it easy to accept the opinion, bor
degree of mental energy bear eloquent
testimony to the healthy and strenuous
the difficulties which, to the mind of many, rowed from Sir W. M. Ramsay's book on
vitality which the institution is capable recent criticism has placed in the way of "The Education of Christ, that the Jews
of fostering in its members. Most of the a devotional reading of the Jewish Bible.
were at the beginning of the Christian era
contributors are men who—as we
By an earnest endeavour to exhibit the ** the most highly educated people of the
told in the editor's preface took their mind and inner purpose of the Biblical world. ” We note that Mr. Lowther Clarke
degree within the present century. It is compositions, Mr. Howard does his best accepts with perfect confidence the his.
to show
therefore only to be expected that there
that there can be a devotional torical connexion of St. Peter with Rome,
should be here and there evidences of a spiritual reading of the Old Testament a position which is, indeed, becoming
almost normal in Anglican circles.
striving for a full appreciation of their outside the old traditional method. "
theme rather than complete mastery Dr. Oesterley writes in his usual learned Mr. G. B. Redman's essay on
of it. But
compensation for and fluent manner on “Judaism in the Theology of St. Paul' is excellently and
the surprisingly few shortcomings, the Days of the Christ,' dealing with such vividly written, and will be read with as
reader will find in most of the essays topics as · Judaism and Hellenism,' Juda- much profit as pleasure. After drawing
freshness, fearlessness, brightness of dic. ism as a Law,' Judaism as a Religion of attention to the well-attested fact that
tion, and—best of all-hopefulness and Hope,' and New Testament eschatology. the original Apostles “ were slow to
cheerful search after truth for truth's Much may be learnt from the essay, but understand their Master's mind," and
sake.
many will doubt whether his statement affirming that “ they seemed for some
Dean Inge, till recently Professorial
" that the distinguishing feature of the time to imagine that the Christian Society
Fellow of Jesus College, opens the series Hellenistic faction was its presentation of a special brotherhood within the
of studies with an introductory essay so Judaism as a religion of Hope" can be Jewish Church "
(we should ourselves
full of life, colour, and movement that sufficiently substantiated. If the Jewish rather say that the Christian Society was,
one is impelled to read on whether one
Church at the time referred to had, in in their view, to remain on a thoroughly
agrees with him or not. After dwelling consonance with the ideal of the truest Jewish basis), he describes with sym-
for a little while on the twofold character Hebrew prophets, opened wide its portals pathetic insight the historical fact of
of the College as a “home of vigorous in order to admit the Gentile world into Paul's conversion, and traces the stages
athleticism and a school of learned free and full communion with the chosen of evolution which the Apostle's ideas
activity, he proceeds to paint in vivid people, such an act would have been underwent in the course of his varied
colours the characteristics of Hellenic prompted by a religion of hope. But activities. He, however, only admits
culture and the ancient Jewish civiliza- the main tendency of Hellenism within “change of emphasis
variation
tion, which found their meeting-point in Judaism was the absorption of the Jew in the language he uses, and in his views
Christianity; and he concludes by declaring into the Gentile fashions of the day, on the nearness of the end,” but not an
that “our Church-the Teutonic Catholic rather than the effort to obtain universal abandonment of his earlier ideas in favour
Church—is an ideal of the distant future. predominance for the prophetic ideal of of “conceptions quite different. ” One
But an ideal is an idea which is in process Hebrew monotheism and the higher moral may note in passing that the rendering of
of being realized. ” Rather startling is sanctions which that ideal carried with it. Maranatha as · Come, Lord ! ” (Marana
the statement that the Galileans had
In “Some Characteristics of the Synop- tha) which Mr. Redman accepts on the
probably hardly a drop of Jewish blood tic Writers," Mr. H. G. Wood, one of the authority of Prof. Burkitt, is open to some
in their veins," and not a few will think distinguished Nonconformist 'students of serious objections.
that the unlovable features of the Jewish the College, first combats Prof. Reinach's
and the attractive elements of the Greek | opinion that,
Very interesting also is the Rev.
"THE HUMOUR OF IT,' described as
afternoon included Brahms's Sonata in F
minor, of which he gave a fervent reading, who was originally announced.
sing in place of Mr. J. Campbell McInnes,
was produced on Monday afternoon at the
and Schumann's 'Fantasia,' Op. 17, the
Court Theatre, is_composed of purely
rendering of which, except for a few artificia.
The production of Racine’s ‘Esther' farcical elements. The action takes place
lities, was excellent. In Liszt's Ricord. at the Théâtre - Sarah · Bernhardt last on a summer morning in the front garden of
anza' and two of his own Studies Herr Sauer week proved a great success. This play, a suburban villa, a poet, intent on worship-
displayed perfect technique, also in familiar restored, we believe, by, Madame Sarah ping under the window of his unknown
pieces by Chopin, in which, however, the Bernhardt to its original form, as given beloved, being mistaken alternately for a
interpreter's skill was more prominent than in the presence of Louis XIV, at St. Cyr, burglar and a lunatic, and various situations
That
the poetry of the music.
only by women, was presented some time being built round this slender theme.
ago with the original music, but for the some of the players were ill at ease did not
The first of Mr. Balfour Gardiner's choral performance in question special music had help matters. Miss Irene Clark and Messrs.
and orchestral concerts took place at Queen's been written by M. Reynaldo Hahn.
Lawrence Anderson and W. G. Fay did
Hall on Wednesday evening, and opened An honorary committee has been formed their best with futile parts.
with a setting of a portion of Shelley's with the object of erecting a monument at
The play was preceded by Mr. John
* Prometheus Unbound for two soprano the Trocadéro to the memory of the eminent Austin's
one-act comedyHow One Woman
voices (the Misses Caroline Hatchard and organist and composer Alexandre Guilmant,
Did It,' the moral of which was apparently
Carrie Tubb),
chorus, and orchestra, by Mr. who was one of the founders of the Troca effected by the adoption of masculine attire.
that the cure of women's ills would be
Arnold Bax. Shelley's poetry suggests déro and of the Schola Cantorum. At the
musicof a thoroughly romantic character. The head of the list of names on the committee While not uninteresting; the
piece is
setting in question is unsatisfactory, because stands that of Saint-Saëns. Subscriptions amateurish, and practically resolved itself
it lacks the qualities hat make for either should be sent to the treasurer, M. E. Gaveau, into a propagandist monologue by the
strength or beauty. The vocal parts are 45, Rue la Boétie, Paris.
leading character.
not gratefully written for the voices, neither
An edition of Weber's letters will shortly This evening and Wednesday next the
is the orchestration good. A better balanced be published at Leipsic. The editor, Herr Hippolytus' of Euripides is to be produced
rendering might, to a certain extent, modify G. Kasser (Dresden, Striesener Strasse, 41), by the Poetry Society in the Marble Hall
this opinion. Mr. Percy Grainger's setting
of a fine old Irish tune which he has har of the composer to enter into communica- lation used will be Prof. Gilbert Murray's.
The trans.
requests all who possess autograph letters of the University of London.
monized for unaccompanied mixed chorus, tion with him. We make this announce-
without words, was impressive. It was
SPECIAL matinées are to be held at the
followed by 'Father and Daughter,' an
ment as there are no doubt a good many Little Theatre on Tuesdays and Fridays,
English version of a Färöese Dancing.
to be found in private collections in England.
when the same scholar's translation of
Ballad ('Fadir og Dóttir ’). The melody is
Euripides's 'Iphigenia in Tauris ’ is to be
genuine Færöese, but the harmonic and
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
acted. The first performance takes place
orchestral treatment of Mr. Grainger is a
next Tuesday.
Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall,
substitute—and a very clever one-for the
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
"piling-up” effect produced by the thud
To CORRESPONDENTS. -J. C. -H. P. C. -H. A. M. -
of the feet, the movements of the bodies,
W. M. -R. S. -Received.
and the general excitement of the islanders
H. K. H. -Many thanks.
when they sing it. Both numbers were
F. 8. Kelly's Orchestral Concert, 8. 15,
Queen's Hall,
No notice can be taken of anonymous communications.
Alida Loman and Jetty Ingenius's Concert, 9. 30, Steinway
effectively rendered under the composer's
We cannot undertake to reply to inquiries concerning the
direction. Three settings by him of poems
WED. Classical Concert Society, 3, Bechstein Hall.
appearance of reviews of books.
Mrs. Kennedy-Fraser's Kecital, 8, Bechstein Hall.
from Kipling's 'Second Jungle Book
Miss Marjorie Blyth and Madame Howell-Jones's Concert,
interesting, though not so characteristic.
Τ Η Ε Α Τ Η Ε Ν Ε Ο Μ.
Oxford House Choral Society8. 80, Queen's
Hall.
There was also a short, but strong setting Thurs. Polted Clock the pherefoncerto intelian kechis
of a ballad,
SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.
News from Whydah,' poem
Winifred Christie's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
by John Masefield, music for chorus and
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hobday's Concert, 8. 25, Broadwood's.
(Hall-column)
orchestra by Mr. B. Gardiner, though the
A Column
accompaniment somewhat heavily
scored.
Auctions and Public Institutions, Five Lines 48. and 8d. por line
Mr. W. H. Bell's Scotch Border
Wessely String Quartet, 3, Bechstein Hall.
ballad "The Baron of Brackley,' set for
IN TIR MEASUREMENT OF ADVERTISEMENTS, CARE
chorus and orchestra, shows a marked ad-
vance in clearness on some of his earlier
compositions.
Bramatic Gossip.
The works were performed
.
The Athenxam Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E. C.
by the London Choral Society and the New
Symphony Orchestra. The conductors were
PROUD MAISIE,' Mr. Hemmerde's new
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
Mr. A. Fagge, Mr. Balfour Gardiner, and, as play at the Aldwych, belongs to that class
mentioned, Mr. Grainger.
of artificial drama for which the stage of
to-day has no use at all. It is pseudo- AUTHORS' AGENTS
A PAPER on Schumann's music, written tragedy written in a rhetorical verse that is BOOKBINDING
by Miss Fanny Davies, was read last Satur. full of florid conceits, and exploits all the
day evening by Dr. W. H. Cummings worn-out conventions and sentiments of EDUCATIONAL
before the members of the Incorporated
romance, It asks acceptance for the
ENO'S FRUIT SALT
Society of Musicians at the Morley Hall, preposterous old fancy that a girl could
INSURANCE COMPANIES
George Street, Hanover Square. Miss Davies masquerade successfully as a man in a duel LECTURES . .
MACMILLAN & Co.
is not only an excellent pianist, but also
-could fight her lover in her brother's
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one of the few performers of the present day place, and not be detected by him long METHUEN & Co.
who interpret the music of Robert Schumann
MISCELLANEOUS . .
before he administered the coup de gráce.
MUDIE'S
in the right spirit. Her principal illustra- Scotland of the '45 provides the setting, MURRAY
tion was the F sharp minor Sonata. She and the stage properties of tartans and
NOTES AND QUERIES
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
gave graphic specimens of modern readings bagpipes are pressed into service. The most
of the Romance,' Op. 28, No. 2, and 'Auf- effective act opens with dances and a‘ White PROVIDENT INSTITUTIONS
schwung,' also an account of the monstrous Cockade song, introduces Prince Charlie "
SHIPPING . .
maltreatment of ‘Vogel als Prophet' and delivering an impassioned harangue, and SITUATIONS VACANT
other short pieces used for ballet music at ends with a staircasa scrimmage, during SCTUATIONS WANTED
Monte Carlo,
Bux,
Sunday League Concert, 7, Queen's Hall.
Mox, London Symphony Orchestra, 8, Queen's Hall.
Aurora Gerémi's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Bechstein Hall.
Lionel Tertis's Viola Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall
TUES. Godowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Audrey Richardson's Concert, 3. 15, Æolian Hall.
Hall.
were
8. 15, Steinway Hall.
David Levine's Pianofo
Recital, 8. 15, Æolian Hall
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Philharmonic Society, 8, Queen's Hall.
Broadwood Concert, 8. 30, Xolian Hall.
Hegedüs's Violin Recital, 8. 30, Bechstein Hall.
Beecham Symphony Orchestra, 3, Æolian Hall.
Queen's Hall Orchestra, 3, Queen's Hall.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE
329
THE PARTING OF THE ROADS
331
332
West London; The Making of London; London
333
The Old Testament in Greek, Vol. I. Part III. ;
Testament)
334-335
335--336
NOTES FROM OXFORD; THE NAME" CROSSRAGUELL";
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL Docu.
MENTS
336-337
LIST OF NEW BOOKS
FORTHCOMING BOOKS . .
341
SCIENCE - OUTLINES OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY ;
REPTILES, AMPHIBIA, AND FISHES; SOCIETIES ;
342-344
FINE ARTS - BYWAYS IN BRITISH ARCHÆOLOGY ;
SPRING EXHIBITION AT MESSRS. SHEPIIKRD'S
GALLERY ; DRAWINGS BY ROWLANDSON ; ROYAL
SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS ; OTHER EXHIBI-
TIONS; PICTURES AND DRAWINGS; ENGRAVINGS
AND MEZZOTINTS; GOSSIP
345-346
MUSIC-Gossip
347
347–348
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
own
falsification and concealment in the inter feeling of indignation when one reads of
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1912. ests of the Church. Moreover, it is with Milner's constant antagonism to John
the hearty co-operation of Irish bishops Lingard. If there was one man of whom
and English Jesuits that the author has his fellow-Catholics were proud, and for
thrown open to all the world the long- whose literary labours they were thankful,
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY (The Eve of Catholic hidden things of the archives of West- it was the man who perceived and acted
Emancipation ; Leo XIII. and Anglican Orders).
minster, Stonyhurst, and Douay.
on the principle that true history could
MOROCCO IN DIPLOMACY
If the latest biography of Newman has only be based on contemporary records.
BOOKS ON LONDON (London, South of the Thames ; set aside sentiment and allowed us to see Lingard's History of England was at
Stories)
in him for the first time the full measure of
once recognized by Englishmen of varying
THEOLOGY AND RELIGION (Religious Liberty under the egoism of genius, not less does Mgr. faiths, as a sincere and impartial narrative.
Charles II. and James II. ; The Truth of Religion ; Ward reveal all the pliability of Bishop
One turns gladly from the strong but
Concerning the Genesis of the Versions of the New Poynter and all the acerbity of the sturdy unsympathetic personality of Milner to
and turbulent Milner, whom previous the more amiable Bishop Poynter, the
This WEEK'S BOOKS (The Normandy Coast; The
House of Harper; War and its Alleged Benefits;
writers have taken too much at his own contemporary Vicar Apostolic of the
Aspects of Home Rule)
valuation. The personality of the Right London District. During this prelate's
Rev. John Milner, Bishop of Castabala tenure of office many important changes
and Vicar Apostolic of the “Middle"
“ Middle " took place in the circumstances of the
337 District, stands out in these pages like still unemancipated Roman Catholics.
some grim, minatory notice-board in a The lay committees which, through penal
LITERARY GOSSIP
341 scrubby warren. His fierceness and irrecon- | times, had been the medium for the
cilable despotism are almost fascinating support and management of the “mis-
MEETINGS NEXT WEEK; GOSSIP
Such primacy as could be claimed by any
sions or parishes, all died out, having
of the Roman Catholic prelates in Eng- been found unsuitable. On the other
land lay either with Dr. Poynter, as pre- hand, an Emancipation Bill, approved
siding over the metropolis, or Dr. Gibson, (faute de mieux) by Dr. Poynter, provided
as the senior by date of consecration; for a committee of Roman Catholic noble-
but Milner would brook no divergence
men and gentlemen to examine ecclesi-
DRAMA-IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS ; GOSSIP. .
from his
views on discipline or
astical communications between England
348 expediency.
The book before us, in fact, and Rome, with power to suppress any
is largely a record of difficulties and which they deemed injurious to the State.
dissensions among the Roman Catholic Little wonder that Milner's eloquence
episcopacy and nobility in England, was evoked by such a proposal.
LITERATURE
in politics ecclesiastical
ecclesiastical and secular, A letter from the Bishop of London to
brought about by the impetuosity and the Vicar Apostolic, at vol. ii. p. 191, is an
headstrong nature of Milner, whose apo- | interesting illustration of the difference
stolic blows and knocks" made his between their positions at that time.
ENGLAND AND THE PAPACY. orthodoxy as unpalatable to his col- The Anglican bishop addresses his Roman
leagues as their more easygoing methods neighbour in a tone which is not unkind,
Dr. E. BURTON's “Life of Bishop Chal-
were to him.
but very much de haut en bas.
loner,' Mr. Wilfrid Ward's ‘Dawn of the
New and strange light is thrown on
We notice (vol. ii. p. 215) a censure by
Catholic Revival,' and Mgr. Ward's
the relative characters of Milner and his Dr. Poynter on the priest Gandolfy for
‘Eve of Catholic Emancipation,' carry opponents. It can no longer be supposed applying the term “ beatitude” to the final
us from the penal era of William III. to that the militant Vicar Apostolic of state of unbaptized infants. No doubt
the final removal of Catholic disabilities the Midlands was a solitary and unfailing it is technically an incorrect expression
by the statute of 1829. Biographies of upholder of the purest Roman Catholic for the limbo infantium, where the un-
Lingard, of Wiseman, Manning, Newman, principles in a perverse generation of regenerated innocents enjoy
a happiness
and Vaughan, bring our knowledge of
fautors” of schism. At the beginning which falls short of the beatific vision.
the internal concerns of the Roman of his episcopal career he was prepared We remember, however, a German Gottes-
Catholic body in England down to our
Beatrix” on
to concede to the English Government the acker wherein the name
own time. We hope for an equally full right of veto which
would have given them tombstones invariably signifies the burial
account of their affairs at that particu- a voice in the selection of bishops of of stillborn girls.
larly interesting epoch, the restoration of his faith. True, he afterwards came to
A few misprints and slips have escaped
the hierarchy in 1850.
regard the veto as “lawful, but not correction. There is
an unintelligible
With such a completion of the cycle practicable,” and opposed its concession second paragraph with foot-note at vol. i.
we shall possess a trustworthy and con- with all the passionate force of his per- p. 94; and on p. 95 the Appendix is
tinuous record of the modern history of fervid character ; but he was more than referred to without mentioning the number
Catholicism in England, founded on ori once the subject of stern censures
or letter. In vol. ii. we have
ginal documents, collected and arranged the part of the Roman authorities, not quator” twice for exequatur (pp. 30 and
by competent and honest editors. The only on the score of his offensive attitude 31); and a foot-note on p. 222 gives, in
transparent ingenuousness of Mgr. Ward, towards his fellow-bishops, but also for
an Italian passage,
unanimemente”
as manifested in his two volumes, will his actions and writings in regard to various for unanimamente. These are small slips,
make many Protestant readers rub their purely religious questions.
however, in an excellent and scholarly
spectacles and wonder what has become
book. Interesting reproductions of old
of the crafty Romish priest of the novel Roman Catholic it is impossible not to volumes.
From the standpoint of the staunch views and portraits illustrate both
and the stage, who was portrayed as
being equal to anything in the way of the anti-Roman tendencies of the Cisalpine
commend Milner's implacable opposition to
Interesting though the records of the
Club and the “ Staffordshire clergy,
The Eve of Catholic Emancipation : being the obviously schismatical Blanchardist the last years of George III. are, as leading
small body of Roman Catholics during
the History of the English Catholics during movement. It is, however, difficult to to the period of political emancipation
the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth
Century. By the Right Rev. Mgr. Bernard be patient with his perpetual girding at and religious tolerance, their historical
Ward. - Vols. I. and II. 1803 - 1820. Charles Butler, who, with a few evident importance is small when compared with
(Longmans & Co. )
shortcomings, was one of the most valuable that of the period when“ reunion was in
Leo XIII. and Anglican Orders. By Viscount members of the Roman Church in Eng- the air. ” Seventy years after the days
Halifax. (Same publishers. )
land. Still less can one refrain from a of which Mgr. Ward writes, the power of
on
exe-
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were
the English Romanists (though they have been subjected to very severe criti- a memorandum at the end of the book,
were still served principally by Irish and cism.
now states that he reminded Lord Halifax
foreign priests) had ceased to be negligible : Lord Halifax, who throws a good deal from the first
no Bishop of London could treat them of light upon the matter, writes with
de hart en bas, and Dr. Creighton and marked gentleness, great care, and with ledge the validity of Anglican Orders,
“ that Rome could never simply acknow.
his predecessor were not likely to wish obvious sincerity and accuracy. What- and that conditional reordination in place of
to do so. Their position is one of the ever interest the matter may have in unconditional was the utmost concession she
important matters upon which Lord the future, those who investigate it will could ever make. "
Halifax's book on · Leo XIII. and Angli- have to use his book as their chief Cardinal Vaughan was still more clear.
can Orders' throws light, and thus we storehouse of facts.
The question of Rome was the main
may not unfitly consider his volume side We arise from the perusal of the book, point, and it would have to be settled in
by side with Mgr. Ward's.
which is a long and a full one, with a the end, so it was best to begin with it :
A year ago we were let into some of the good deal more information than we
that was his view, and it was shared, we
secrets of the negotiations of 1894–6, possessed when we began, and with the remember from Mr. Lacey's ‘Diary, '
especially of the discussions at Rome, knowledge of several ideas very clearly by those at Rome in whose hands the
by Mr. Ť. A. Lacey and Abbot Gasquet : expressed. The first is that the real decision really lay. The Cardinal also
the former with a certain simplicity which reason why-as almost every one except was by no means clear that Anglican
showed how English scholars had been a few learned Frenchmen and a few enthu- sacraments and the Oxford Movement
played with by diplomatists of experience, siastic Englishmen knew, all through these were not the work of Satan, and he said
the latter with some statements and some negotiations or discussions - a genuine so plainly. It was unfortunate that the
reticences which were equally significant. approach towards reunion is at present olive-branches (and such they were really
Now comes Lord Halifax, who certainly impossible is
intended to be) put forth by the Pope were
may be regarded as the fons et origo-
“ that subjection to an external authority interpreted for the English public by
shall we say ? -mali, and he tells us with . . . . is what Roman Catholics have in view Cardinal Vaughan, and that The Times, in
transparent candour what no one can
one can when they speak of membership in the its comments on them, said (though, no
read the book without being convinced Church, rather than the profession of the doubt, from a different point of view) in
is the truth, the whole truth so far as
Catholic faith and the possession of valid
each case exactly what the English
sacraments
;
he knows it, and nothing but the truth,
cardinal would have wished to be said.
about the matter. Briefly, the question or, as Cardinal Vaughan put it, “the Lord Halifax thinks that the chief blame
of the possibility of a nearer rapproche question of Rome was the crucial ques of the “
great failure” lies at the door
ment between Rome and England than tion. ” This of itself accounts for this of Cardinal Vaughan ; it is certainly the
had seemed possible for centuries was
book being styled “the story of a failure,” case that he and Abbot Gasquet obtained
opened through the general attention, and
exactly what they desired. But second
which the spread of tolerance had fostered, “certainly, so far as those who had endea-only to the Cardinal's action Lord Halifax
directed in all parts of the Christian voured to approach the Holy See in the places what he believes to be the error
world during the last decades of the interests of peace concerned, no of Archbishop Benson—“ few men have
nineteenth century to Christ's emphatic failure could well have been more complete. ” ever had so great an opportunity offered
words about unity, and to the common If we pass on to the practical reasons
to them as the Archbishop ; no man, I
belief in “one Holy Catholic and Apostolic of the failure, we find them to be mainly think, ever so completely threw it away. ”
Church. ” Attention, thus aroused, was two : first, the want of knowledge among Here it seems to us that the author
concentrated on the single subject of Roman Catholics_of the history and understands the difficulties of an English
Anglican Orders, largely through the theology of the English Church ; and, primate as little as he understood the
studies of eminent French scholars. Lord secondly, the very strong and decided determination of a Roman cardinal. His
Halifax, who evidently knows French position of the Roman Catholic body in readers will hardly fail to perceive them
almost as well as he knows English, and England. As an illustration of the first when they observe that Lord Halifax
the Roman Church almost as intimately point we may note a letter from the late was anxious to dictate the chief lines-
as the Anglican, became acquainted with Lord Bute (himself, of course, a Roman in fact, did put them in writing-of a
a learned and sympathetic French priest, Catholic), who says :
letter from the Archbishop which was
the Abbé Portal, at Madeira in 1899.
" I remember once reading to the Duke of to be shown to the Pope, and of a letter
Personal interests joined those of learning. Norfolk some of the Book of Common Prayer, from the Pope which was to be sent to the
Leo XIII. , who had a way of knowing and his remarking that that was all very English primates.
everything that was worth knowing, took well, but that I must not take a Ritualistic Much more might be said on these and
a keen interest in the personal as well as manual based upon Catholic sources, such kindred points, but we have said enough
the theological sides of the matter. He as I was reading, as giving an utterance of
as I was reading, as giving an utterance of to show the main interest of the book.
summoned representatives of his own the Anglican Church. '
It has many other attractions, not least
communion to Rome, and he encouraged The Pope, again, found an obstacle in what the letters on the subject of Russia and the
others to come, for the purpose of discus- he believed to be the political difficulties: Eastern Church, which still holds, as she
sion or investigation of the Roman view of " to begin with, the dependence of the held in the seventeenth century, the key
Anglican Orders. He was earnestly eager bishops on the civil power. ” It is per- to the position. When De Maistre spoke
for peace and reunion in Christendom. haps most reasonable to put down to of the English Church as having the fairest
He was ready to be informed as to facts want of knowledge the remarkable mis- opportunity to reunite Christendom, he
of which he was ignorant. He addressed statements of the Risposta, a document was mistaken : it is with the Eastern
Englishmen, individually and collectively, which no unprejudiced historian would Church that the future of the question
with affection and piety; but he showed put his name to, and which is stated, and lies. From the Eastern Church we natur-
no sign whatever of diluting the modern apparently admitted, to be the work of ally turn to Bishop Creighton, whose
doctrines or practices of his Church. Abbot Gasquet. It had an obvious effect letter to Lord Halifax, explaining the
As to the discussions, or investigations, upon the Commission, and even upon the real difficulties and suggesting the real
which took place at Rome, it seems that language of the Bull itself. The Pope, it solution, is by far the most valuable
the members of the Papal Commission seems clear, did not know where to get thing in the book. Close to it is a clear
were bound to secrecy. In the end the accurate information, and he seems—80 and sagacious statement from the present
Bull Apostolicæ Curæ declared English Lord Halifax thinks—at length to have Primate. Mr. Gladstone again, in his
Orders invalid. But it has never been given up the attempt in despair.
soliloquium and his letters, if a little
stated whether this Bull was, or was not, But equally important with this cause, ponderous, is eminently wise. There are
one of those Papal decisions for which and not unconnected with it, is the other letters, and passages of letters,
infallibility is claimed ; and the historical determined position of the Roman Catholic from English theologians which were
and theological arguments contained in it body in England. Mr. Wilfrid Ward, in well worth preserving. For it is as a
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are
record that this book is of enduring How the Old Testament came into distinct Paulinism of Mark” as incon-
value. But we may be allowed to add Being. As it, however, deals much less clusive, he agrees that his Gospel was
that no
one can rise from its perusal with the formation of the Hebrew Canon destined for the Gentile world. A leading
without sympathy for the generous and than with the historical development of feature of Matthew he considers to be
charitable spirit in which it is written. the more important religious ideas which an
an attitude of pronounced pessimism
In the accuracy with which it has been
underlie the Biblical books, a towards Judaism ; and in Luke he finds
revised, and by the excellent Index, it is suitable title might have been found. embodied pre-eminently the Gospel of
well fitted to take its place among " docu- Among the topics treated are: Work of mercy and universal hope.
ments ; but we
may notice that on Jeremiah and Ezekiel,' The Importance
There are
number of debatable
p. 106, note, * p. 443" should be read for of the Growth of Apocalyptic, Why the points in the essay on St. Peter and the
p. 429, and that there is a redundant Jewish Law-book begins with a Baby. I'welve," which is contributed by the Rev.
negative, spoiling the sense, on p. 185.
lonian Chronology,' and 'The Bible in
W. K. Lowther Clarke, but a circumstance
Existence before our present Old Testa- like this does not necessarily detract
ment. ' A careful reading of the essay from the interest of a serious piece of
will amply repay the student for the time work. The author's principal aim is to
The Parting of the Roads : Studies in the spent on it. Teb on the First Cataract,
trace the development and expansion
Development of Judaism and Early in a foot-note on p. 42, is clearly a misprint of primitive Christianity under the
Christianity. By Members of Jesus for Yeb.
guidance of the original Apostles, with
College, Cambridge. With an Intro- The essay on The Devotional Value Peter as their chief, before the entry
duction by W. Ř. Inge. Edited by of the Old Testament,' by Mr. R. T. of the Pauline and Johannine phases of
F. J. Foakes Jackson. (Edward Howard, Chaplain of the College, does not, Church doctrine and life. It will, we
Arnold. )
strictly, belong to the study of origins believe, be held by many that too much
JESUS COLLEGE is to be congratulated which The Parting of the Roads was influence on subsequent Christian thought
on the appearance of this collection of intended to be, but its inclusion in the is here assigned to Petrine teaching, and
scholarly and highly interesting essays. series is nevertheless a matter for con- that the moulding effect of Pauline ideas
Their genuine religious feeling and high gratulation. It deals, from a standpoint is in an equal measure wrongly discounted.
Their genuine religious feeling and high which is both reverent and critical, with Nor is it easy to accept the opinion, bor
degree of mental energy bear eloquent
testimony to the healthy and strenuous
the difficulties which, to the mind of many, rowed from Sir W. M. Ramsay's book on
vitality which the institution is capable recent criticism has placed in the way of "The Education of Christ, that the Jews
of fostering in its members. Most of the a devotional reading of the Jewish Bible.
were at the beginning of the Christian era
contributors are men who—as we
By an earnest endeavour to exhibit the ** the most highly educated people of the
told in the editor's preface took their mind and inner purpose of the Biblical world. ” We note that Mr. Lowther Clarke
degree within the present century. It is compositions, Mr. Howard does his best accepts with perfect confidence the his.
to show
therefore only to be expected that there
that there can be a devotional torical connexion of St. Peter with Rome,
should be here and there evidences of a spiritual reading of the Old Testament a position which is, indeed, becoming
almost normal in Anglican circles.
striving for a full appreciation of their outside the old traditional method. "
theme rather than complete mastery Dr. Oesterley writes in his usual learned Mr. G. B. Redman's essay on
of it. But
compensation for and fluent manner on “Judaism in the Theology of St. Paul' is excellently and
the surprisingly few shortcomings, the Days of the Christ,' dealing with such vividly written, and will be read with as
reader will find in most of the essays topics as · Judaism and Hellenism,' Juda- much profit as pleasure. After drawing
freshness, fearlessness, brightness of dic. ism as a Law,' Judaism as a Religion of attention to the well-attested fact that
tion, and—best of all-hopefulness and Hope,' and New Testament eschatology. the original Apostles “ were slow to
cheerful search after truth for truth's Much may be learnt from the essay, but understand their Master's mind," and
sake.
many will doubt whether his statement affirming that “ they seemed for some
Dean Inge, till recently Professorial
" that the distinguishing feature of the time to imagine that the Christian Society
Fellow of Jesus College, opens the series Hellenistic faction was its presentation of a special brotherhood within the
of studies with an introductory essay so Judaism as a religion of Hope" can be Jewish Church "
(we should ourselves
full of life, colour, and movement that sufficiently substantiated. If the Jewish rather say that the Christian Society was,
one is impelled to read on whether one
Church at the time referred to had, in in their view, to remain on a thoroughly
agrees with him or not. After dwelling consonance with the ideal of the truest Jewish basis), he describes with sym-
for a little while on the twofold character Hebrew prophets, opened wide its portals pathetic insight the historical fact of
of the College as a “home of vigorous in order to admit the Gentile world into Paul's conversion, and traces the stages
athleticism and a school of learned free and full communion with the chosen of evolution which the Apostle's ideas
activity, he proceeds to paint in vivid people, such an act would have been underwent in the course of his varied
colours the characteristics of Hellenic prompted by a religion of hope. But activities. He, however, only admits
culture and the ancient Jewish civiliza- the main tendency of Hellenism within “change of emphasis
variation
tion, which found their meeting-point in Judaism was the absorption of the Jew in the language he uses, and in his views
Christianity; and he concludes by declaring into the Gentile fashions of the day, on the nearness of the end,” but not an
that “our Church-the Teutonic Catholic rather than the effort to obtain universal abandonment of his earlier ideas in favour
Church—is an ideal of the distant future. predominance for the prophetic ideal of of “conceptions quite different. ” One
But an ideal is an idea which is in process Hebrew monotheism and the higher moral may note in passing that the rendering of
of being realized. ” Rather startling is sanctions which that ideal carried with it. Maranatha as · Come, Lord ! ” (Marana
the statement that the Galileans had
In “Some Characteristics of the Synop- tha) which Mr. Redman accepts on the
probably hardly a drop of Jewish blood tic Writers," Mr. H. G. Wood, one of the authority of Prof. Burkitt, is open to some
in their veins," and not a few will think distinguished Nonconformist 'students of serious objections.
that the unlovable features of the Jewish the College, first combats Prof. Reinach's
and the attractive elements of the Greek | opinion that,
Very interesting also is the Rev.
