No More Learning

of Milton's life, together with a selection from
Two volumes which can only be cha- his poems. The little book will be useful to
racterized as a collection of handbooks, each young students, but would have been even
on a cathedral. To the vast bulk of such lite- better if the author had refrained from bestow-
rature already in existence they add little ing injurious adjectives upon the Stuart kings.
or nothing. The author apparently tries to To call James I. " that foolish and contemptible
steer between the Scylla of the book which monarch merely in passing distracts the
goes into detailed elaboration about cathedrals, reader's attention from the matter in hand, and
and the Charybdis of the guide-book, which is needlessly offensive.
epitomizes salient features. He has only James I. of England, New Poems, from a Hitherto
ultimately succeeded in furnishing scraps of Unpublished Manuscript (Add. 24195) in the
information calculated to please those tra- British Museum, edited with Introduction and
vellers who scurry through places of anti- Notes by Allan F. Westcott, 6/6 net.
quarian and historical interest in the modern More than half of the fifty-seven poems and
style.
all the prose contained in the MS. referred to
Stearns (Frank Preston), The Midsummer of have not been hitherto published. They are
Italian Art, 6/ net.
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This volume deals with the culminating edited and annotated. But the book is too
achievement of the Italian Renaissance and long for the value of James I. 's poetic pro-
the four great figureheads of the period-
duction. Many of the pages in the introduction
Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci,
are irrelevant. The notes, though efficient,
and Correggio. There is an appendix on betray a similar lack of proportion. Such
Morelli, Rubens, and the Aphrodite of Melos.
superabundant scholarship is a check rather
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perspicuity and spirit, the reproductions are
mediocre. Nor is there a bibliography.
Mayne (Rutherford), The Drone, and Other Plays.
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Stein (M. Aurel), Ruins of Desert Cathay : Per- National Federation of Class Teachers, edited
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1908. The valleys of the Indo-Afghan border; ment of minor verse.
the snow-capped peaks of the Hindukush; Osmaston (F. P. B. ), The Future of Poetry.
the broad Oxus ; Khotan and the great desert
Mr. Osmaston's dissertation contains some
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clever, though not new reflections on the nature
range, south of Khotan, and the solitary
and functions of poetry. His thought is
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decidedly immature, nor can the fact be hidden
sible regions and the remains of their civiliza-
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For the ancient historian his researches will
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covered the most western portion of the great variety of argument, does not appear to us to
wall of the Chinese Empire.
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net.
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exceptions he is in the line of wise thinking. receiving another, differing in no essentials Moorhouse (E. Hallam), The Story of Lady
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excellently.
by the author's laboured efforts after piquancy. The author has already written one book on
Shakespeare, Coriolanus, edited by Stuart P. Resolved to outdo the pageantry of other writers, Lady Hamilton. We cannot see the necessity
Sherman.
he heads his chapters, The Cloudy Dawn, for this one, which is of the brief, popular order,
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thought without becoming uncritical, or lapsing them into a sensational perspective.
tolerance, magnetism, and forensic ability made
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We have found the references to Joseph Knight apportion to their limitations of space the
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Education.
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men.
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Citizenship, translated by A. J. Pressland.
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University Correspondence College Calendar, Ocean and southward into the Mexican border-
1911-12.
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Political Economy.
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papers and their solutions. It is headed by the which proceeds, we imagine, from excess rather Brunker (E. G. ), Notes on the Fiscal Controversy,
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