, and
FINE ARTS
were communicated : by Mr.
FINE ARTS
were communicated : by Mr.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
H.
S.
suggestions of his reviewers, whom he Office Boys" is an amusing record based on the
Gamley. The inscription is Alexander
wishes to thank for their appreciative Diary,' by Mr. Joseph C. Bridge. • A New
Ascent, by the Northern Face of the Weisshorp,'
Anderson, 'Surfaceman,' born 1845, died criticisms.
is a mountaineering article by Mr. G. Winthrop
1909. He sleeps among the hills he MESSRS. CONSTABLE will publish shortly Tapreii Dorling-an episode of the Russo-
Young. Short stories are The Hill,' by Lieut.
knew. '
the official record of the Duke of the Japanese War and The Silver Tea-Service,
MRS. CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES
Abruzzi's expedition to the Karakoram by Mr. Christopher Stone.
has been elected an Honorary Fellow of range in the Himalayas. The account Harper's Magazine will contain: The Variety
the Royal Society
of Literature, a welcome who accompanied the Duke through United States, Fourth Paper, by Arnold Bennett ;
the Royal Society of Literature, a welcome is written by Dr. Filippo de Filippi, of Valladolid," by W. D. Howells ; "The Copy
recognition of her indefatigable work on
all his adventures.
Shakespearian records.
The book will be The Secret Shelf, by Mrs. Henry Dudeney
illustrated with numerous plates from
The Dilemma of the Public School,' by Robert
W. Bruère ; the conclusion of The Street called
A MEETING of the English Goethe photographs by Signor Vittorio Sella, Straight Truth Silent, a poem by Anne
Society is to take place at the Medical whose mountaineering pictures are well by Arthur Sherborne Hardy, o Giorno Felice!
Hall, Chandos Street, next Tuesday, at 8. known.
a poern by Florence Earle Coates ; Mark Twain,'
After the reception Dr. A. W. Ward the expedition. A feature of the book Ninth Paper, by Albert Bigelow Paine ;
(President) will read a paper on
Goethe will be the panoramic views taken by Finch, The Black Pawn, by Norman Duncan
and the French Revolution. '
him.
• Within the Walls of Fez,' by Sydney Adamson ;
'City Nights,' by. James Oppenheim ;
ENGLISH readers of Zola will be glad Bubble," a poem by Mary Eleanor Roberts ;
It is proposed to commemorate the
life and work of the late Dean of St. Paul's, to hear that · A Zola Dictionary,' dealing The Secret of the Big Trees,' by, Ellsworth
Huntington; and The Conference,' by Alta
Dr. Gregory, by the foundation of a leaving with the various characters and scenes
Brunt Sembower.
scholarship at the Cathedral Choir School, of the
the Rougon - Macquart novels of
to be called "The Dean Gregory Memorial Zola, will shortly be issued by Messrs. The cahusac Mystery, byna and Hesketh
Journal will :
Scholarship
Routledge & Sons in their series
Prichard, chaps. xxix-xxxiv. ; The Roots of
The late Dean was intimately associated J. G. Patterson, the compiler, supplies Our Woods, by F. E. Green Tho'sacrifices of
of dictionaries to famous authors. Mr. Honour,' by Mrs. J. H. Needell ;
with all the transactions which led to the
a biographical and critical Introduction, the Book-Lover, by A. Stodart Walker ; The
building of the present Choir School in together with synopses of the plots and Wreck of the Lima The Solan Goose, by
Carter Lane and the establishment of the
a Bibliographical Note.
'Henry Hills, Printer to Cromwell';
Choir School on its present basis, and he
lian Cricket in Scotland'; 'Lake Fish'; The
always took a lively and practical interest The death of Dr. Ernest S. Roberts, Last Service'; The She-Wolf's Legacy, by
in the School and all that concerned the the Master of Caius College, on Sunday Robes," by E. L. Arnold;
F. J. St. Aubyn ; 'The Undying Note. '; Python
Excavating a Buried
later welfare of the choristers. Dona- last removes an admirable servant of the Forest, by D. W. 0. Fagan ;
tions may be sent direct to the Treasurer College and of Cambridge. Dr. Roberts Things, by Henry Leach; and State Insurance
of the fund, Mr. E. M. Harvey, at was indefatigable as a - tutor for many | Gough.
>
A
• The
Mothers of
Work in
3
Austra-
in Great Britain and Germany,' by George W.
• The Heart of
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are
The belief in the hereditary transmission operations appear to be just as satis
of tubercle seems to have been firmly factory in children as in adults, if only
SCIENCE
upheld, and it was thought that even a they performed early enough.
tendency to malnutrition was inherited. Surgeons in this country have lately been
Malnutrition and malassimilation of food writing to the medical press on this
were also put down to an habitual dis- question of early operation in the case
regard of hygienic laws, and were said to of children. They are unanimous in
THE CHILD AND ITS AILMENTS. be the chief cause of tuberculosis. At advising operation within twenty-four
The last volume of The Diseases of the present day we certainly believe that hours after the diagnosis of appendicitis
Children’ has been written by Dr. Hans attack of the bacillus, but we do not in
malnutrition prepares the way for the has been made. It appears that children
Spitzy of Gratz (Austria). It forms a
are peculiarly susceptible to the poison
brief and concise survey of those condi. any way regard it as an inherited factor.
(streptococcus) lurking in the appendix,
tions in which surgical or orthopædic told to do in these tubercular conditions. is far greater in them than in the adult.
Let us see what the modern surgeon is and that the danger of leaving the case
interference may become necessary on
the part of the practitioner, though it He is warned that any injury to the No one can tell at the beginning of an
avoids an exhaustive description of various barrier formed by nature, although this attack how a particular case will end,
pathological types and changes, and minute may be composed of broken-down tissue, whether the inflammation will be mild or
presentation of surgical technique.
will ultimately be detrimental to the virulent; and, when we consider that the
recovery of his patient. With regard to operation in the early stages, before
The work is essentially practical, and glands, he is never to scrape them; he adhesions have formed, is one of the
is founded on extensive experience. There must open all abscesses by small incisions, easiest and most successful in the whole
are numerous illustrations both in colours and then apply heat, or, better still, cups realm of surgery, we feel confident that
and black-and-white, most of them being invented by Bier which cause local the modern view, at any rate in early life,
taken from actual cases occurring in the congestion, thus adding reinforcements should be adopted in the great majority
practice of Dr. Spitzy; and altogether it to the defending army. The wholesale of cases, as this will mitigate the grave re-
forms one of the best
medical publications removal of glands is deprecated, because sponsibility which naturally rests both
we have seen for many years.
with fresh air, good food, and tuberculin on parents and their medical advisers,
The immense progress which has taken the glands will subside in the vast when they decide on the questionable
place during the last twenty years in the majority of cases; nature will by these course of laisser faire. Science can, un-
treatment of tubercular disease of glands, means be able to manufacture sufficient fortunately, at present, give us no advice
bones, and joints in children is scarcely antibodies" to neutralize the poison of in the prevention of this common scourge,
realized by the public. This salutary tubercle.
and research is urgently needed.
change is due to the increased knowledge With regard to joints, it is advised, in
that we possess of the method by which cases where suppuration has taken place,
"The Healthy Baby' has been written
nature protects the body from the inva- that the abscess should be aspirated, and with the object of instructing mothers in the
sion of the tubercle bacillus. The zone of that there should be no interference with
care of their children. The quantities of
inflammation which is formed around the bones that enter into the formation milk recommended in the case of artificial
the offending organism acts as a barrier of the joint. Rest, fresh air, good food, feeding appear to us to be excessive.
between the healthy
and unhealthy tissues
, and possibly tuberculin, will
, combined, Dr. Dennett should have impressed upon
and forms as it were a field of battle, in give far better results ultimately than mothers the importance of asking, a
which the wounded and dead tissue cells resection any major operation. medical practitioner to advise them with
are represented by an abscess. It is of It is worth while to mention
in this regard to the quantity of milk to be given,
the greatest importance to the patient connexion the splendid results in the instead of leaving this to chance or
that this barrier should remain intact, treatment of tuberculosis of the hip- unskilled advice. The powers of diges-
and that the defending army should, if joint obtained by Calot and Bowldy, tion vary enormously in individual cases,
possible, receive recruits in their struggle which show what can be done when the and for this reason it has been found
against the enemy.
patient is placed in favourable sur necessary to institute Infant Consulta-
It
was the practice of surgeons roundings. Bowldy has treated 900 tions and Schools for Mothers, where the
some twenty or thirty years ago, before cases without any major operation or opinion of a qualified practitioner can
this newer pathology was adequately removal of portions of bones, and these be obtained. We therefore cannot recom-
understood, to destroy this barrier in the satisfactory results were obtained with mend the book as a safe guide to mothers.
hope of eradicating all tubercular material only a 4 per cent mortality (Hospitals on this important question.
from the wound. The results were not at at the Seashore ').
all favourable in many cases, and we now It is no exaggeration to say that one of
know the reason: the barrier having the greatest advances in modern surgery is
been removed, the poison was free to exemplified in the treatment of tuberculous
disseminate itself all over the body. joints in children, and that this result dent, in the chair. The following papers were
ROYAL. -June 13. - Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
If we refer to Erichsen's work on surgery, has been obtained by curtailing the work read by Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, on an Expansion
edited by Marcus Beck in 1888, we find of the surgeon, and at the same time apply. Apparatus aforici making a visible, the miracles uit
that surgeons were advised to scrape a ing the modern doctrine of buttressing obtained by its Use, Mr. R. J. Strutt on A
tubercular gland if it was broken down nature to form protective substances. Chemically, Active Modification of Nitrogen,
and could not be removed en bloc. In The diminution of suffering due to this produced by then nelectrica Piechac
tubercular disease of joints, for instance, change in practice, combined with the the Arc Spectrum of Mercury, and on the
portions of bones were removed in all fact that the growing ends of the bones
Constitution of the Mercury Green Line =
cases associated with abscess formation. have not been interfered with, would have Satellites by an Echelon Grating, both communi-
5461 AU, and on the Magnetic Resolution of its
astonished the readers of Erichsen in cated by Sir J. Larmor, - Prof. W. H. Young,
The Diseases of Children: a Work for the 1888. In Dr. Spitzy's volume there is no
'On the Convergence of Certain Series involving
the Fourier Constants of a Function' and 'On
Practising Physician. Edited by Dr. M. mention of the hereditary factor in the Classes of Summable Functions and their Fourier
Pfaundler and Dr. A. Schlossmann. English causation of tubercle.
Series,'-Mr. H. G. Moseley on 'The Number of
Translation edited by Henry L. K. Shaw,
M. D. , and Linnaeus La Fétia, M. D. In
Under the heading The Surgical Treat Particles emitted in the Transformation of
Radium,' communicated by Prof. E. Rutherford,
5 vols. -Vol. V. (J. B. Lippincott Comment of Appendicitis' the author raises -Mr. S. D. Carothers on “Portland Experiments
pany. )
many important points. Dr. Spitzy says on the Flow of Oil, communicated by Prof. W.
The Healthy Baby: the Care and Feeding that the mode of treatment of this disease Solution of Laplace's Equation suitable for
of Infants in Sickness and in Health (in children) seems to be definitely settled. Problems relating to Two Spheres, communicated
By Roger H. Dennett, M. D. (New York, In his opinion early operation offers the by Prof. L. N. G. Filon, and Mr. A. 1. Hughes,
the Macmillan Company. )
On the Emission Velocities of Photo-Electrons,'
best chances of recovery. The results of communicated by Sir J. J. Thomson.
or
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
WxD. British Numismatic, 8.
1
Chemical, 8. 30. -Cannizzaro Memorial Lecture, Sir W.
Tilden.
MATHEMATICAL. —June 13. -Dr. H. F. Baker,
waves emanate from the Tower each evening
President, in the chair. The following papers exactly at 11h. 45m. Os. , 1lh. 47m. Os.
, and
FINE ARTS
were communicated : by Mr. H. Hilton, 'Some 11h. 49m. Os. , Greenwich mean time, to
Properties of Symmetric and Orthogonal Sub: supply navigating officers at sea, railway
stitutions '; Prof. F. R. Moulton, ‘Closed Orbits
of Ejection and Related Periodic Orbits'; Prof.
companies, or any to whom such knowledge
W. H. Young, (1)' On a Certain Series of Fourier,
is important, with the accurate time of the NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
(2) 'The Fourier Series of Bounded Functions"; prime meridian. But for some purposes a
Mr. G. N. Watson, Some Properties of the
(Notice in those columns does not preclude longer
more accurate comparison of clocks than
Extended Zeta-Function'; and Miss H. P. Hudson,
review. )
these signals can give is necessary, and to
Curves of Contact of any Order on Algebraic meet this want signals are sent consisting Clark (J. Cooper), THE STORY OF
EIGHT
. '
of a series of beats at equal intervals rather
DEER IN CODEX COLOMBINO, 21/ net.
GEOLOGICAL. -- June 5. -- Prof. w. W. Watts, longer than one second, the signal beats
Taylor & Francis
V. P. , in the chair. Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins losing one in 120 on mean time. The method
A book produced for the Eighteenth Con-
read a paper O. “The Further Evidence of Borings of comparison by coincidences in such a
gress of Americanists concerning & curious
field and of the Palæozoic Floor, and as to the series is well-known.
series of crude pictures in vivid colours on
Thickness of the Overlying Strata. ' Mr. C. J.
carefully prepared deerskin. This record,
Gilbert, Dr. J. W. Evans, and the Chairman
PROF. KÜSTNER, the Director of the now called the Codex Colombino, is pre-
contributed to the discussion, and the author of Observatory at Bonn, has reported to the served in the National Museum of Mexico,
the paper replied. -Mr. J. W. Stather read a Astronomical Institute at Kiel that he has is the only MS. of its class there, and is in-
paper
Shelly Clay dredged from the discovered the spectra of both uranium complete both at the beginning and the end.
Dogger Bank. ' Mr. C. Reid, Mr. A. S. Kennard,
Mr. S. H. Warren, and Mr. H. Whitehead took
and radium in the new star in Gemini. By the aid of comparison with five other
part in the discussion. The following specimens The uranium seems to be in the ordinary codices-one of them is the Zouche or
and map were exhibited as illustrations of the metallic form, but the radium in that of Nuttall Codex, another is Bodleian, No. 2858
papers : Specimens from borings in the South. the gas or emanation which Sir William -Mr. Clark makes out very ingeniously the
Eastern Coalfield and the Paleozoic Floor, of Ramsay calls Niton. If this discovery is meaning of the pictographs and hiero-
Southern England, by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins;
and specimens of moorlog " and shelly clay
confirmed by other observers, it should be glyphics which represent the early Mexican
dredged from the Dogger Bank, by Mr. J. W. of great importance, not only in cosmo-
form of writing. The group of codices was, he
Stather.
gonical speculations, but also in chemistry, as suggests, the work of Zapotecs, and “Eight
showing in some measure that the dis. Deer, also called “Ocelot's Claw," was a
integration of the highly radio-activa sub- Zapotec warrior, and was born probably in
stances plays its part in the formation of 1439. We see him conferring with his sister
MON. Geographical, 8. 30.
new stars.
Institute of British Architects, 8. 30.
and younger brother, the latter being dressed
PROF. WEGENER (of Marburg), at a recent
in a coat with a multicoloured fringe and
Geological, 8. -"On the Geology and Palæontology of the
Warwickshire Coal Field Mr. R. Da Weronon the Dis meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung at border which is still worn by the Indian
Hamstead Quarries, near Birmingham, Mr. W. 1. Hardaker. Frankfort, gave a now theory of the forma- women of Mexico. Besides scenes of war,
tion of inequalities in the earth's surface, the pictures show a ball_game_of great
Trurs. Royal, 4. 30. - Electrical Vibrations on a Thin Anchor Ring,
which he declared to be partly due to the difficulty ; the piercing of Eight Deer's ear
Setiom Derivative Struttura di Morphological studies te sinking of certain parts from the weight of with a sharpened bone, one of various
(Isomorphous) of the "Rare Earth" Elements-a Means of ice piled upon them. This, in its turn, penances; the piercing of his nostril to
Elprente Rototom pleberrimstrong and it . Roda leads, according to him, to the gradual wear a nose ornament;. the exchanging of
his marriage; the
Magnetic Rotatory Dispersion in quartz of Light in the separation of the higher parts of continents, symbols of peace ;
Parpolo. Region of the Spectrum,' br. 1. M. Lowry; and other and he gave figures by which he sought to sacrifice of his brother above-mentioned by
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
show that the shores of Greenland, during priests; and finally his own death in a
the last eighty-four years, have receded similar way on his fifty-second birthday.
from Europe by a space of 940 metres. In Not all these details are given in the
the same way, he said, Cambridge, Massa- Codex Colombino, but they are worked
chusetts, has increased its distance from out from the others, which also supply some
Science Gossip .
Greenwich by 90 metres in the course of pictures in colours with the glyphs which
twenty-six years. The figures on which identify the characters. The illustrations
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL will be “ At these calculations are based are, it has been thus make comparative criticism easy. We
on the afternoon of Wednesday, pointed out, already ten years old, and congratulate Mr.
Mr. Clark on
& work of
July 3rd, when his guests will have an more correct ones could now be obtained. fascinating interest, bringing, as it does,
opportunity of inspecting the telescopes
M. L. RAYBAUD has recently made some highly primitive society.
before us the manners and customs of a
and other instruments of the Royal
Observatory.
experiments as to the effect of ultra-violet
light upon insects which go to show that it Notes on the Parish Church, Lymington, and
SIR ALMROTH WRIGHT will give a lecture is fatal to certain species. Working with
the Daughter Church of All Saints, and
Other Matters Ecclesiastical, compiled
at the Royal Societies' Club next Wednes. a mercury-vapour lamp, he found that it
and then death
from Various sources by Charles Bostock
day evening on “Microbes and the Way produced first torpor,
and Edward Hapgood, 3/ net.
the Body Protects Itself against Them, within the space of a few hours, in snails,
with lantern-slide illustrations.
houseflies, and tadpoles, while spiders and
Lymington, King
the sacred scarabæus remained unaffected
The authors acknowledge that this record
A SERIES of meetings, lectures, and by it. Young grasshoppers succumbed to
is largely a compilation from research
exhibitions which make up the programme the radiation
within two days, while adults already accessible in various forms. The
of the Optical Convention, 1912, is being supported it for
a week without apparent not appear to be much discrimination in the
in the Imperial College of Science and explain the objection which many insects information imparted. The history has
Technology, South Kensington. This week appear to manifest to strong sunlight,
been assiduously collected.
the members of the Convention have met the
Official Crests of the British Army now in
Physical Society and the Photographic. On
THE EARLY NATURALISTS : THEIR LIVES
Daily Use, 1/ net. Gale & Polden
Monday next, after papers dealing specially AND WORK (1530–1789),' by Dr. L. C. Miall,
with colour and spectra, a visit will be made is announced for early publication by Messrs. Town Planning Review, APRIL, 2/6 net.
Liverpool University Press
to the National Physical Laboratory at Macmillan & Co. The Introduction to the
Teddington. Tuesday will be devoted to work deals with natural history down to Webb (Wilfred Mark), THE HERITAGE OF
optics as applied to astronomy, and some
the sixteenth century. The rest of the DRESS, Revised Edition.
members of the Convention will visit the book is divided into nine sections, which
' The Times ? Book Club
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at the treat respectively of : (1) The New Biology; This edition has been little amplified and
invitation of the Astronomer Royal. The (2) The Natural History of Distant Lands; modified from the original one. It is issued
programme will come to an end on Wednes- (3) Some Early English Naturalists; (4) in a more compact form, without undergoing
day.
Ray and some of his Fellow-Workers; the “potting" process. We criticized the
(5) The
Minute Anatomists; (6) Early book in The Athenæum of February 1st,
It is to be gathered from a contemporary Studies in Comparative Anatomy: (7) The 1908 (pp. 124–5). The author, who writes
that it has been found possible for certain School of Réaumur; (8) Linnæus and the interestingly of the evolution of dress,
possessors of wireless-telegraphy receiving Jussieus ; (9) Buffon. In selecting his might, as we pointed out, have recognized
apparatus in the neighbourhood of London authors Dr. Miall has aimed at giving fair that certain colourings and prominences in
to detect the time-signals sont out from the space to the pioneers who opened out new dress have a utilitarian rather than orna-
Eiffel Tower in Paris. By co-operation with fields of inquiry or introduced new methods, mental raison d'être. There are 12 plates
the Paris Observatory, signals by Hertzian ' rather than workers at details.
and 169 figures in the text.
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are rare.
which he was able to render to Prof. Lucian revolts against Math, chief priest of the
Fine Art Gossip.
Scherman's Ethnographical Expedition, 1911, Druids, at whose instigation he seized it.
undertaken on behalf of the Bavarian At the opening of the piece he slays King
Ethnographical Museum.
WE congratulate Dr. Charles Waldstein
Arawn, its possessor ; and, at the close,
and Dr. Charles H. Read, prominent ex-
M. SVONOROS has an article in The Archæo. Math. Nodens, a male Erda, foretells a
ponents of archæology, on their knighthoods. logical Journal of Athens, in which he spacious future for the race of Don, of
contends that the statue of Eubouleus found whom Gwydion is a son; while Dylan,
MESSRS. ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS have at Eleusis is not intended for that god, but the child who is seen at the end of the
been fortunate in discovering an interesting for Iacchus, or, in other words, the reborn
collection of hitherto unknown water-colour Dionysus. He further thinks that its type third act, is the son of Elan, Gwydion's
drawings by Thomas Girtin, and they will was fixed by the famous group of Demeter, sister.
bo included in their forthcoming exhibition Core, and Iacchus which Pausanias tells
us was, in his time, still to be seen at Athens of inspiration and science,"
Gwydion's rape of the magic “cauldron
of which
with special
reference to the art of Thomas in the temple of Demeter called the Tacchaum, Taliesin sang, constitutes the main feature
Girtin,” which opens on the 28th inst. at from which started the procession along
the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square. the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis for of the Prologue. Some portions of the
The drawings have not been exposed to the the celebration of the Mysteries. The poem are excellent, but, considered as a
daylight, and are in a fine state of pre- article is well illustrated by cuts showing whole, it is not well constructed for a
servation.
the likeness of the head of the so-called music-drama. The action is fettered to
Girtin was born in 1775, and died at the statue of Eubouleus to that of Iacchus as
the discussion. Neither the gods nor the
early age of 27, and authentic works by typified on several bas-reliefs, coins, and
tho like.
men, Gwydion and his brother Govannon,
him
His influence on many
and still less the two women, Elan and
painters of his time was considerable, M. ALFRED Loisy, in his just-published Goewn, stimulate the imagination. In
notably on Turner, his friend from boyhood. work · L'Évangile selon Marc,' again draws reading the poem one can understand the
SIR CHARLES HOLROYD presided at a
attention to the difference which he thinks
crowded meeting at Crosby Hall
, held he perceives between the historical Jesus reason of much that they say, but when
under the auspices of the Society of' Mural of the Gospels and the Christ of St. Paul. the words are sung (none too distinctly)
Decorators and Painters in Tempera. Prof. The distinguished Modernist points out the it is difficult to grasp their meaning.
Selwyn Image spoke of the new enthusiasm likeness between the saviour God of St. Paul
There is a lack of contrast: everybody
of art-lovers for mural painting, and Mr. and the deities of the pagan mysteries,
Walter Crane pleaded for larger freedom such as Osiris, Adonis, or Åttis, who died is unhappy, or angry, or cursing. Wagner
for the young artist. Owing to the great Reinach, in mentioning the book,
draws is not free from loquacity, but his contrasts
for the salvation of mankind. M. Salomon sometimes prolongs a mood, and Wotan
Hall, it will remain open a further week, attention to its indebtedness to Dr. R. are always striking. Through the atmo-
until next Saturday.
Reitzenstein's treatise on “Die Hellenist. sphere of Cimmerian gloom, no comparison
ischen Mysterienreligion,' published two with The Ring' is possible.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has purchased years ago, and says that M. Loisy's theory
for the permanent collection at the Luxem: would be more plausible if we supposed two Mr. Holbrooke had no easy task when he
bourg Museum a pastel entitled Effet centuries to elapse between the death of undertook to set the poem to music, and
d'Hiver : Matin,' by Mr. Wynford Dewhurst, Jesus and the appearance of the Pauline it would be interesting to know whether
a collection of whose works was recently doctrine.
exhibited the Galerie
he had anything to do with the shaping
Durand-Ruel,
Paris.
MR. G.
Gamley. The inscription is Alexander
wishes to thank for their appreciative Diary,' by Mr. Joseph C. Bridge. • A New
Ascent, by the Northern Face of the Weisshorp,'
Anderson, 'Surfaceman,' born 1845, died criticisms.
is a mountaineering article by Mr. G. Winthrop
1909. He sleeps among the hills he MESSRS. CONSTABLE will publish shortly Tapreii Dorling-an episode of the Russo-
Young. Short stories are The Hill,' by Lieut.
knew. '
the official record of the Duke of the Japanese War and The Silver Tea-Service,
MRS. CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES
Abruzzi's expedition to the Karakoram by Mr. Christopher Stone.
has been elected an Honorary Fellow of range in the Himalayas. The account Harper's Magazine will contain: The Variety
the Royal Society
of Literature, a welcome who accompanied the Duke through United States, Fourth Paper, by Arnold Bennett ;
the Royal Society of Literature, a welcome is written by Dr. Filippo de Filippi, of Valladolid," by W. D. Howells ; "The Copy
recognition of her indefatigable work on
all his adventures.
Shakespearian records.
The book will be The Secret Shelf, by Mrs. Henry Dudeney
illustrated with numerous plates from
The Dilemma of the Public School,' by Robert
W. Bruère ; the conclusion of The Street called
A MEETING of the English Goethe photographs by Signor Vittorio Sella, Straight Truth Silent, a poem by Anne
Society is to take place at the Medical whose mountaineering pictures are well by Arthur Sherborne Hardy, o Giorno Felice!
Hall, Chandos Street, next Tuesday, at 8. known.
a poern by Florence Earle Coates ; Mark Twain,'
After the reception Dr. A. W. Ward the expedition. A feature of the book Ninth Paper, by Albert Bigelow Paine ;
(President) will read a paper on
Goethe will be the panoramic views taken by Finch, The Black Pawn, by Norman Duncan
and the French Revolution. '
him.
• Within the Walls of Fez,' by Sydney Adamson ;
'City Nights,' by. James Oppenheim ;
ENGLISH readers of Zola will be glad Bubble," a poem by Mary Eleanor Roberts ;
It is proposed to commemorate the
life and work of the late Dean of St. Paul's, to hear that · A Zola Dictionary,' dealing The Secret of the Big Trees,' by, Ellsworth
Huntington; and The Conference,' by Alta
Dr. Gregory, by the foundation of a leaving with the various characters and scenes
Brunt Sembower.
scholarship at the Cathedral Choir School, of the
the Rougon - Macquart novels of
to be called "The Dean Gregory Memorial Zola, will shortly be issued by Messrs. The cahusac Mystery, byna and Hesketh
Journal will :
Scholarship
Routledge & Sons in their series
Prichard, chaps. xxix-xxxiv. ; The Roots of
The late Dean was intimately associated J. G. Patterson, the compiler, supplies Our Woods, by F. E. Green Tho'sacrifices of
of dictionaries to famous authors. Mr. Honour,' by Mrs. J. H. Needell ;
with all the transactions which led to the
a biographical and critical Introduction, the Book-Lover, by A. Stodart Walker ; The
building of the present Choir School in together with synopses of the plots and Wreck of the Lima The Solan Goose, by
Carter Lane and the establishment of the
a Bibliographical Note.
'Henry Hills, Printer to Cromwell';
Choir School on its present basis, and he
lian Cricket in Scotland'; 'Lake Fish'; The
always took a lively and practical interest The death of Dr. Ernest S. Roberts, Last Service'; The She-Wolf's Legacy, by
in the School and all that concerned the the Master of Caius College, on Sunday Robes," by E. L. Arnold;
F. J. St. Aubyn ; 'The Undying Note. '; Python
Excavating a Buried
later welfare of the choristers. Dona- last removes an admirable servant of the Forest, by D. W. 0. Fagan ;
tions may be sent direct to the Treasurer College and of Cambridge. Dr. Roberts Things, by Henry Leach; and State Insurance
of the fund, Mr. E. M. Harvey, at was indefatigable as a - tutor for many | Gough.
>
A
• The
Mothers of
Work in
3
Austra-
in Great Britain and Germany,' by George W.
• The Heart of
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are
The belief in the hereditary transmission operations appear to be just as satis
of tubercle seems to have been firmly factory in children as in adults, if only
SCIENCE
upheld, and it was thought that even a they performed early enough.
tendency to malnutrition was inherited. Surgeons in this country have lately been
Malnutrition and malassimilation of food writing to the medical press on this
were also put down to an habitual dis- question of early operation in the case
regard of hygienic laws, and were said to of children. They are unanimous in
THE CHILD AND ITS AILMENTS. be the chief cause of tuberculosis. At advising operation within twenty-four
The last volume of The Diseases of the present day we certainly believe that hours after the diagnosis of appendicitis
Children’ has been written by Dr. Hans attack of the bacillus, but we do not in
malnutrition prepares the way for the has been made. It appears that children
Spitzy of Gratz (Austria). It forms a
are peculiarly susceptible to the poison
brief and concise survey of those condi. any way regard it as an inherited factor.
(streptococcus) lurking in the appendix,
tions in which surgical or orthopædic told to do in these tubercular conditions. is far greater in them than in the adult.
Let us see what the modern surgeon is and that the danger of leaving the case
interference may become necessary on
the part of the practitioner, though it He is warned that any injury to the No one can tell at the beginning of an
avoids an exhaustive description of various barrier formed by nature, although this attack how a particular case will end,
pathological types and changes, and minute may be composed of broken-down tissue, whether the inflammation will be mild or
presentation of surgical technique.
will ultimately be detrimental to the virulent; and, when we consider that the
recovery of his patient. With regard to operation in the early stages, before
The work is essentially practical, and glands, he is never to scrape them; he adhesions have formed, is one of the
is founded on extensive experience. There must open all abscesses by small incisions, easiest and most successful in the whole
are numerous illustrations both in colours and then apply heat, or, better still, cups realm of surgery, we feel confident that
and black-and-white, most of them being invented by Bier which cause local the modern view, at any rate in early life,
taken from actual cases occurring in the congestion, thus adding reinforcements should be adopted in the great majority
practice of Dr. Spitzy; and altogether it to the defending army. The wholesale of cases, as this will mitigate the grave re-
forms one of the best
medical publications removal of glands is deprecated, because sponsibility which naturally rests both
we have seen for many years.
with fresh air, good food, and tuberculin on parents and their medical advisers,
The immense progress which has taken the glands will subside in the vast when they decide on the questionable
place during the last twenty years in the majority of cases; nature will by these course of laisser faire. Science can, un-
treatment of tubercular disease of glands, means be able to manufacture sufficient fortunately, at present, give us no advice
bones, and joints in children is scarcely antibodies" to neutralize the poison of in the prevention of this common scourge,
realized by the public. This salutary tubercle.
and research is urgently needed.
change is due to the increased knowledge With regard to joints, it is advised, in
that we possess of the method by which cases where suppuration has taken place,
"The Healthy Baby' has been written
nature protects the body from the inva- that the abscess should be aspirated, and with the object of instructing mothers in the
sion of the tubercle bacillus. The zone of that there should be no interference with
care of their children. The quantities of
inflammation which is formed around the bones that enter into the formation milk recommended in the case of artificial
the offending organism acts as a barrier of the joint. Rest, fresh air, good food, feeding appear to us to be excessive.
between the healthy
and unhealthy tissues
, and possibly tuberculin, will
, combined, Dr. Dennett should have impressed upon
and forms as it were a field of battle, in give far better results ultimately than mothers the importance of asking, a
which the wounded and dead tissue cells resection any major operation. medical practitioner to advise them with
are represented by an abscess. It is of It is worth while to mention
in this regard to the quantity of milk to be given,
the greatest importance to the patient connexion the splendid results in the instead of leaving this to chance or
that this barrier should remain intact, treatment of tuberculosis of the hip- unskilled advice. The powers of diges-
and that the defending army should, if joint obtained by Calot and Bowldy, tion vary enormously in individual cases,
possible, receive recruits in their struggle which show what can be done when the and for this reason it has been found
against the enemy.
patient is placed in favourable sur necessary to institute Infant Consulta-
It
was the practice of surgeons roundings. Bowldy has treated 900 tions and Schools for Mothers, where the
some twenty or thirty years ago, before cases without any major operation or opinion of a qualified practitioner can
this newer pathology was adequately removal of portions of bones, and these be obtained. We therefore cannot recom-
understood, to destroy this barrier in the satisfactory results were obtained with mend the book as a safe guide to mothers.
hope of eradicating all tubercular material only a 4 per cent mortality (Hospitals on this important question.
from the wound. The results were not at at the Seashore ').
all favourable in many cases, and we now It is no exaggeration to say that one of
know the reason: the barrier having the greatest advances in modern surgery is
been removed, the poison was free to exemplified in the treatment of tuberculous
disseminate itself all over the body. joints in children, and that this result dent, in the chair. The following papers were
ROYAL. -June 13. - Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi-
If we refer to Erichsen's work on surgery, has been obtained by curtailing the work read by Mr. C. T. R. Wilson, on an Expansion
edited by Marcus Beck in 1888, we find of the surgeon, and at the same time apply. Apparatus aforici making a visible, the miracles uit
that surgeons were advised to scrape a ing the modern doctrine of buttressing obtained by its Use, Mr. R. J. Strutt on A
tubercular gland if it was broken down nature to form protective substances. Chemically, Active Modification of Nitrogen,
and could not be removed en bloc. In The diminution of suffering due to this produced by then nelectrica Piechac
tubercular disease of joints, for instance, change in practice, combined with the the Arc Spectrum of Mercury, and on the
portions of bones were removed in all fact that the growing ends of the bones
Constitution of the Mercury Green Line =
cases associated with abscess formation. have not been interfered with, would have Satellites by an Echelon Grating, both communi-
5461 AU, and on the Magnetic Resolution of its
astonished the readers of Erichsen in cated by Sir J. Larmor, - Prof. W. H. Young,
The Diseases of Children: a Work for the 1888. In Dr. Spitzy's volume there is no
'On the Convergence of Certain Series involving
the Fourier Constants of a Function' and 'On
Practising Physician. Edited by Dr. M. mention of the hereditary factor in the Classes of Summable Functions and their Fourier
Pfaundler and Dr. A. Schlossmann. English causation of tubercle.
Series,'-Mr. H. G. Moseley on 'The Number of
Translation edited by Henry L. K. Shaw,
M. D. , and Linnaeus La Fétia, M. D. In
Under the heading The Surgical Treat Particles emitted in the Transformation of
Radium,' communicated by Prof. E. Rutherford,
5 vols. -Vol. V. (J. B. Lippincott Comment of Appendicitis' the author raises -Mr. S. D. Carothers on “Portland Experiments
pany. )
many important points. Dr. Spitzy says on the Flow of Oil, communicated by Prof. W.
The Healthy Baby: the Care and Feeding that the mode of treatment of this disease Solution of Laplace's Equation suitable for
of Infants in Sickness and in Health (in children) seems to be definitely settled. Problems relating to Two Spheres, communicated
By Roger H. Dennett, M. D. (New York, In his opinion early operation offers the by Prof. L. N. G. Filon, and Mr. A. 1. Hughes,
the Macmillan Company. )
On the Emission Velocities of Photo-Electrons,'
best chances of recovery. The results of communicated by Sir J. J. Thomson.
or
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MEETINGS NEXT WEEK.
WxD. British Numismatic, 8.
1
Chemical, 8. 30. -Cannizzaro Memorial Lecture, Sir W.
Tilden.
MATHEMATICAL. —June 13. -Dr. H. F. Baker,
waves emanate from the Tower each evening
President, in the chair. The following papers exactly at 11h. 45m. Os. , 1lh. 47m. Os.
, and
FINE ARTS
were communicated : by Mr. H. Hilton, 'Some 11h. 49m. Os. , Greenwich mean time, to
Properties of Symmetric and Orthogonal Sub: supply navigating officers at sea, railway
stitutions '; Prof. F. R. Moulton, ‘Closed Orbits
of Ejection and Related Periodic Orbits'; Prof.
companies, or any to whom such knowledge
W. H. Young, (1)' On a Certain Series of Fourier,
is important, with the accurate time of the NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
(2) 'The Fourier Series of Bounded Functions"; prime meridian. But for some purposes a
Mr. G. N. Watson, Some Properties of the
(Notice in those columns does not preclude longer
more accurate comparison of clocks than
Extended Zeta-Function'; and Miss H. P. Hudson,
review. )
these signals can give is necessary, and to
Curves of Contact of any Order on Algebraic meet this want signals are sent consisting Clark (J. Cooper), THE STORY OF
EIGHT
. '
of a series of beats at equal intervals rather
DEER IN CODEX COLOMBINO, 21/ net.
GEOLOGICAL. -- June 5. -- Prof. w. W. Watts, longer than one second, the signal beats
Taylor & Francis
V. P. , in the chair. Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins losing one in 120 on mean time. The method
A book produced for the Eighteenth Con-
read a paper O. “The Further Evidence of Borings of comparison by coincidences in such a
gress of Americanists concerning & curious
field and of the Palæozoic Floor, and as to the series is well-known.
series of crude pictures in vivid colours on
Thickness of the Overlying Strata. ' Mr. C. J.
carefully prepared deerskin. This record,
Gilbert, Dr. J. W. Evans, and the Chairman
PROF. KÜSTNER, the Director of the now called the Codex Colombino, is pre-
contributed to the discussion, and the author of Observatory at Bonn, has reported to the served in the National Museum of Mexico,
the paper replied. -Mr. J. W. Stather read a Astronomical Institute at Kiel that he has is the only MS. of its class there, and is in-
paper
Shelly Clay dredged from the discovered the spectra of both uranium complete both at the beginning and the end.
Dogger Bank. ' Mr. C. Reid, Mr. A. S. Kennard,
Mr. S. H. Warren, and Mr. H. Whitehead took
and radium in the new star in Gemini. By the aid of comparison with five other
part in the discussion. The following specimens The uranium seems to be in the ordinary codices-one of them is the Zouche or
and map were exhibited as illustrations of the metallic form, but the radium in that of Nuttall Codex, another is Bodleian, No. 2858
papers : Specimens from borings in the South. the gas or emanation which Sir William -Mr. Clark makes out very ingeniously the
Eastern Coalfield and the Paleozoic Floor, of Ramsay calls Niton. If this discovery is meaning of the pictographs and hiero-
Southern England, by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins;
and specimens of moorlog " and shelly clay
confirmed by other observers, it should be glyphics which represent the early Mexican
dredged from the Dogger Bank, by Mr. J. W. of great importance, not only in cosmo-
form of writing. The group of codices was, he
Stather.
gonical speculations, but also in chemistry, as suggests, the work of Zapotecs, and “Eight
showing in some measure that the dis. Deer, also called “Ocelot's Claw," was a
integration of the highly radio-activa sub- Zapotec warrior, and was born probably in
stances plays its part in the formation of 1439. We see him conferring with his sister
MON. Geographical, 8. 30.
new stars.
Institute of British Architects, 8. 30.
and younger brother, the latter being dressed
PROF. WEGENER (of Marburg), at a recent
in a coat with a multicoloured fringe and
Geological, 8. -"On the Geology and Palæontology of the
Warwickshire Coal Field Mr. R. Da Weronon the Dis meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung at border which is still worn by the Indian
Hamstead Quarries, near Birmingham, Mr. W. 1. Hardaker. Frankfort, gave a now theory of the forma- women of Mexico. Besides scenes of war,
tion of inequalities in the earth's surface, the pictures show a ball_game_of great
Trurs. Royal, 4. 30. - Electrical Vibrations on a Thin Anchor Ring,
which he declared to be partly due to the difficulty ; the piercing of Eight Deer's ear
Setiom Derivative Struttura di Morphological studies te sinking of certain parts from the weight of with a sharpened bone, one of various
(Isomorphous) of the "Rare Earth" Elements-a Means of ice piled upon them. This, in its turn, penances; the piercing of his nostril to
Elprente Rototom pleberrimstrong and it . Roda leads, according to him, to the gradual wear a nose ornament;. the exchanging of
his marriage; the
Magnetic Rotatory Dispersion in quartz of Light in the separation of the higher parts of continents, symbols of peace ;
Parpolo. Region of the Spectrum,' br. 1. M. Lowry; and other and he gave figures by which he sought to sacrifice of his brother above-mentioned by
Society of Antiquaries, 8. 30.
show that the shores of Greenland, during priests; and finally his own death in a
the last eighty-four years, have receded similar way on his fifty-second birthday.
from Europe by a space of 940 metres. In Not all these details are given in the
the same way, he said, Cambridge, Massa- Codex Colombino, but they are worked
chusetts, has increased its distance from out from the others, which also supply some
Science Gossip .
Greenwich by 90 metres in the course of pictures in colours with the glyphs which
twenty-six years. The figures on which identify the characters. The illustrations
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL will be “ At these calculations are based are, it has been thus make comparative criticism easy. We
on the afternoon of Wednesday, pointed out, already ten years old, and congratulate Mr.
Mr. Clark on
& work of
July 3rd, when his guests will have an more correct ones could now be obtained. fascinating interest, bringing, as it does,
opportunity of inspecting the telescopes
M. L. RAYBAUD has recently made some highly primitive society.
before us the manners and customs of a
and other instruments of the Royal
Observatory.
experiments as to the effect of ultra-violet
light upon insects which go to show that it Notes on the Parish Church, Lymington, and
SIR ALMROTH WRIGHT will give a lecture is fatal to certain species. Working with
the Daughter Church of All Saints, and
Other Matters Ecclesiastical, compiled
at the Royal Societies' Club next Wednes. a mercury-vapour lamp, he found that it
and then death
from Various sources by Charles Bostock
day evening on “Microbes and the Way produced first torpor,
and Edward Hapgood, 3/ net.
the Body Protects Itself against Them, within the space of a few hours, in snails,
with lantern-slide illustrations.
houseflies, and tadpoles, while spiders and
Lymington, King
the sacred scarabæus remained unaffected
The authors acknowledge that this record
A SERIES of meetings, lectures, and by it. Young grasshoppers succumbed to
is largely a compilation from research
exhibitions which make up the programme the radiation
within two days, while adults already accessible in various forms. The
of the Optical Convention, 1912, is being supported it for
a week without apparent not appear to be much discrimination in the
in the Imperial College of Science and explain the objection which many insects information imparted. The history has
Technology, South Kensington. This week appear to manifest to strong sunlight,
been assiduously collected.
the members of the Convention have met the
Official Crests of the British Army now in
Physical Society and the Photographic. On
THE EARLY NATURALISTS : THEIR LIVES
Daily Use, 1/ net. Gale & Polden
Monday next, after papers dealing specially AND WORK (1530–1789),' by Dr. L. C. Miall,
with colour and spectra, a visit will be made is announced for early publication by Messrs. Town Planning Review, APRIL, 2/6 net.
Liverpool University Press
to the National Physical Laboratory at Macmillan & Co. The Introduction to the
Teddington. Tuesday will be devoted to work deals with natural history down to Webb (Wilfred Mark), THE HERITAGE OF
optics as applied to astronomy, and some
the sixteenth century. The rest of the DRESS, Revised Edition.
members of the Convention will visit the book is divided into nine sections, which
' The Times ? Book Club
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at the treat respectively of : (1) The New Biology; This edition has been little amplified and
invitation of the Astronomer Royal. The (2) The Natural History of Distant Lands; modified from the original one. It is issued
programme will come to an end on Wednes- (3) Some Early English Naturalists; (4) in a more compact form, without undergoing
day.
Ray and some of his Fellow-Workers; the “potting" process. We criticized the
(5) The
Minute Anatomists; (6) Early book in The Athenæum of February 1st,
It is to be gathered from a contemporary Studies in Comparative Anatomy: (7) The 1908 (pp. 124–5). The author, who writes
that it has been found possible for certain School of Réaumur; (8) Linnæus and the interestingly of the evolution of dress,
possessors of wireless-telegraphy receiving Jussieus ; (9) Buffon. In selecting his might, as we pointed out, have recognized
apparatus in the neighbourhood of London authors Dr. Miall has aimed at giving fair that certain colourings and prominences in
to detect the time-signals sont out from the space to the pioneers who opened out new dress have a utilitarian rather than orna-
Eiffel Tower in Paris. By co-operation with fields of inquiry or introduced new methods, mental raison d'être. There are 12 plates
the Paris Observatory, signals by Hertzian ' rather than workers at details.
and 169 figures in the text.
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are rare.
which he was able to render to Prof. Lucian revolts against Math, chief priest of the
Fine Art Gossip.
Scherman's Ethnographical Expedition, 1911, Druids, at whose instigation he seized it.
undertaken on behalf of the Bavarian At the opening of the piece he slays King
Ethnographical Museum.
WE congratulate Dr. Charles Waldstein
Arawn, its possessor ; and, at the close,
and Dr. Charles H. Read, prominent ex-
M. SVONOROS has an article in The Archæo. Math. Nodens, a male Erda, foretells a
ponents of archæology, on their knighthoods. logical Journal of Athens, in which he spacious future for the race of Don, of
contends that the statue of Eubouleus found whom Gwydion is a son; while Dylan,
MESSRS. ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS have at Eleusis is not intended for that god, but the child who is seen at the end of the
been fortunate in discovering an interesting for Iacchus, or, in other words, the reborn
collection of hitherto unknown water-colour Dionysus. He further thinks that its type third act, is the son of Elan, Gwydion's
drawings by Thomas Girtin, and they will was fixed by the famous group of Demeter, sister.
bo included in their forthcoming exhibition Core, and Iacchus which Pausanias tells
us was, in his time, still to be seen at Athens of inspiration and science,"
Gwydion's rape of the magic “cauldron
of which
with special
reference to the art of Thomas in the temple of Demeter called the Tacchaum, Taliesin sang, constitutes the main feature
Girtin,” which opens on the 28th inst. at from which started the procession along
the Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square. the Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis for of the Prologue. Some portions of the
The drawings have not been exposed to the the celebration of the Mysteries. The poem are excellent, but, considered as a
daylight, and are in a fine state of pre- article is well illustrated by cuts showing whole, it is not well constructed for a
servation.
the likeness of the head of the so-called music-drama. The action is fettered to
Girtin was born in 1775, and died at the statue of Eubouleus to that of Iacchus as
the discussion. Neither the gods nor the
early age of 27, and authentic works by typified on several bas-reliefs, coins, and
tho like.
men, Gwydion and his brother Govannon,
him
His influence on many
and still less the two women, Elan and
painters of his time was considerable, M. ALFRED Loisy, in his just-published Goewn, stimulate the imagination. In
notably on Turner, his friend from boyhood. work · L'Évangile selon Marc,' again draws reading the poem one can understand the
SIR CHARLES HOLROYD presided at a
attention to the difference which he thinks
crowded meeting at Crosby Hall
, held he perceives between the historical Jesus reason of much that they say, but when
under the auspices of the Society of' Mural of the Gospels and the Christ of St. Paul. the words are sung (none too distinctly)
Decorators and Painters in Tempera. Prof. The distinguished Modernist points out the it is difficult to grasp their meaning.
Selwyn Image spoke of the new enthusiasm likeness between the saviour God of St. Paul
There is a lack of contrast: everybody
of art-lovers for mural painting, and Mr. and the deities of the pagan mysteries,
Walter Crane pleaded for larger freedom such as Osiris, Adonis, or Åttis, who died is unhappy, or angry, or cursing. Wagner
for the young artist. Owing to the great Reinach, in mentioning the book,
draws is not free from loquacity, but his contrasts
for the salvation of mankind. M. Salomon sometimes prolongs a mood, and Wotan
Hall, it will remain open a further week, attention to its indebtedness to Dr. R. are always striking. Through the atmo-
until next Saturday.
Reitzenstein's treatise on “Die Hellenist. sphere of Cimmerian gloom, no comparison
ischen Mysterienreligion,' published two with The Ring' is possible.
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has purchased years ago, and says that M. Loisy's theory
for the permanent collection at the Luxem: would be more plausible if we supposed two Mr. Holbrooke had no easy task when he
bourg Museum a pastel entitled Effet centuries to elapse between the death of undertook to set the poem to music, and
d'Hiver : Matin,' by Mr. Wynford Dewhurst, Jesus and the appearance of the Pauline it would be interesting to know whether
a collection of whose works was recently doctrine.
exhibited the Galerie
he had anything to do with the shaping
Durand-Ruel,
Paris.
MR. G.
