"
crushing beyond all her powers of resistance, working as a navvy, of unknown identity gestion strikes us as distinctly odd and
and a breach is opened through which a
in one of his father's construction camps bizarre, and is not further commended by
crimson passion steals into her pale Paradise.
crushing beyond all her powers of resistance, working as a navvy, of unknown identity gestion strikes us as distinctly odd and
and a breach is opened through which a
in one of his father's construction camps bizarre, and is not further commended by
crimson passion steals into her pale Paradise.
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After.
A brief Epilogue deals with the
sources, and particularly from informa-
“modernity” of Greek literature. The
tion received as an official connected with
Philosophy.
book is decidedly attractive.
the Juvenile Protection Association of
Chicago. In England we are spared the
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in all those States in which
spur which has driven Mr. Kirkham to seek the three sisters, but it is informed with women are enfranchised, has raised the age
the calm of trout-streams and the pleasures much delicacy and intimacy of treatment. of consent to 18 years. As an example of
of & meditative life. Emerson is his an- Miss Masson is much indebted to Mrs. Miss Addams's sane optimism we quote her
cestor, and Thoreau his spiritual father, Gaskell’s biography, but is not subservient reflection that in the midst of a freedom
with here and there a strain of the Whit- I to it. She writes agreeably and with strong such as has never been accorded to young
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OF
as
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own.
women in the history of the world, under The numbered paragraphs of the Articles of a literary as well as a pedagogic
an economic pressure grinding down upon Introduction, with its emphasized headings, character are wisely included, and the
the working girl at the very age when she point the same way; and if any are a little present number includes a paper on 'Current
most wistfully desires to be taken care of, more lazy than others, they will find in $13 Opinion 'of considerable interest, another on
it is necessary to organize a widespread a neat summary of everything they want Bacon as Writer,' and a third on Some
commercial enterprise in order to procure a to know about the composition of Hero- Obstacles to Spelling Reform. ? We hope that
sufficient number of girls for the white slave dotus's history. The point is, that the student the Journal will take an early opportunity
market. " It would seem to show that the need not have exercised any judgment at all, of examining newspaper English, which has
virtue of women is holding its own in that yet he may produce on paper an answer to so vast an influence to-day, and explaining
slow-growing civilization which ever demands satisfy the examiner by learning a dozen its merits or demerits as a vehicle for thought
more self-control on the part of the indi- lines of the Introduction.
and expression.
vidual.
When we have said this, we have said
Bremner (C. S. ), DIVORCE AND MORALITY,
almost all that we wish to say in the way of Thornton (R. H. ), AN AMERICAN GLOSSARY,
2 vols, 30/ net.
Francis & Co.
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The sub-title of these volumes is “An
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morality is the regulation of conduct in such torical questions elucidated, ethnology, geo- upon Historical Principles," and the feature
antiquities,
a way that pain shall not be inflicted” graphy,
grammar
which makes them of exceptional value is
- nothing
the admirable wealth of citations, 14,000 in
bears so little relation to the law of divorce omitted. Longer essays are given in the
obtaining in England that it is small wonder appendixes. Here is all the information number. These will enable writers and
if its anomalies give birth to a copious about Herodotus that the heart can wish. It is readers to verify or correct many vague
journalistic output. The author's is an
an extremely useful book to the student who beliefs and ideas. Mr. Thornton, a well-
historical study of matrimonial regulations has read his text and wants to fill in the known correspondent of Notes and Queries,
in different countries and at different periods. details accurately-wants to know, for deserves our warm thanks for a work of
Inexactitude and clumsiness of expression instance, that large families are commended much learning and industry, which cannot
disfigure it, but so long as ministers are to in the Zend Avesta, and many another fail to be of permanent value.
be found unaware that the divorce law of truth that he might otherwise miss.
He
1857 presses unequally on the sexes " --the will close the book with a new respect for
Scbool-Books.
present writer recently met a similarly
Herodotus, and thank him that he has
Contes de Voltaire, edited by H. W. Preston,
ignorant archdeacon of the Church of Eng- managed to convey so much information to
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Bell
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A collection apparently designed for the
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use of
crammers,
," and subdivided into
important educational event.
No. VIII. of these oræ Semiticæ, and three six periods, with a general heading for
Philology.
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found pressed between the leaves of vellum,
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person singular in -eth. ” The notes, Her awakening to the knowledge that her
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8
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the views of scholars upon disputed points. secondary schools, and they will find here making hostess's four guests have managed,
Indeed, the compilation is, from some points suggestive papers on ‘Oral Composition in in spite of her, to shuffle themselves into a
of view, too careful : it obviously meets the Schools' and 'Shakespeare in School,' a position to drink to their married happiness,
purpose of those who are content to take subject also fruitfully discussed in the this, the slightest of sketches, comes to an
others' opinions rather than to form their section of " Teachers in Counsel. '
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A collection of short stories and personal This powerful and remarkable collection like heroine who develops into the truest of
reminiscences dealing with the lighter side of short stories was first published not true women, and finds the reward of merit
of Army life in
war and poace.
The eighteen months ago, and this is the third in an allianco with the disguised heir to
author's style is discursive and diffuse, but edition. A supplement to them is ‘The an English earldom. Tho story, written
the book is of a diverting nature, although Cigarette Case. Their art and naturalism throughout in dialect, includes somo curious
frequent technical allusions may prove some-
are of an unusual quality. We reviewed adventures, but does not add much to our
what mystifying to the civilian.
Widdershins' favourably in The Atheneum knowledge of men and things “out West. "
appeared in Blackwood, The Cornhill, and Pemberton (Max), WAR AND THE WOMAN, 6/
Many of the stories have previously of March 11, 1911.
General.
other magazines.
Cassell Halifax County Borough, Bankfield Museum
Curle (Richard), SHADOWS OUT OF THE Dominating the fortunes of this story Notes : No. 11, HAND CARD-MAKING,
CROWD, 61
Swift there
two financial magnates. One by H. Ling Roth, ld. ; and No. 12,
These short stories, many of which have believes that war can only be killed by LOCAL PREHISTORIC IMPLEMENTS, Loan
already appeared as middles in the trade, and is striving for the federation of Exhibition, May 11-June 6, 1912, by
weekly press, maintain a respectable level Europe, with no commercial barriers between
Hugh P. Kendall and H. Ling Roth, Bd.
of achievement.
the several countries ; the other, the new
The Museum
Krupp," desires peace also, but considers A careful record of hand card - making,
Evans (George), THE CHILD OF HIS ADOPTION, it his business to prepare the nations for and another of local prehistoric implements,
Herbert & Daniel Neither of these missionaries attains the latter including a bibliography. There
Mr. Goorge Evans shows promise of becom- much. There descends upon England a are numerous diagrams.
ing a good novelist, but he should think winter of unparalleled severity. The ima-
more of construction and selection. Origin- gination of journalists places invading People's Books : HOME RULE, by L. G.
ality and invention he has, though the armies upon a frozen channel ; as a fact, Redmond-Howard, with a Preface by
invention flags a little towards the latter however, what the country has to fear is Robert Harcourt, bd. net.
Jack
part of the story; but he has not that the consequence of war without its actuality.
instinct of form that enables an author to The Steel King corners the wheat market, attempts here a wide survey in a restricted
The nephew of Mr. John Redmond
write without plan; and if he is over to and the shipping trade is paralyzed by a
attain distinction, he must attentively study strike.
The woman
space, and some of his chapters (notably the
12 had long before historical ones) are necessarily sketchy:
composition—not in the sense of the school invited him to become a Vice-President of The volume is so frankly a propagandist
curriculum, but in that of the architect or
the painter.
he saves
the country by bidding his wheat pamphlet that it seems rather out of place
in the series ; but as such it is forcible and
ships sail for Europe, she marries him, now lively. One of Mr. Redmond-Howard's
Fisher (B. M. ), THE PLAYER, 6/ Drane
sharing his belief that, if peace is to be won
Boys reading this book will fail to recog: for humanity, it will be by the brains and “I defy Sir Edward Carson himself,” says
remarks conjures up a pleasing picture.
nize many types portrayed in it because of money of its leaders.
he, " to raise a theological controversy
their doubtful existence. But this
very
fact
about an egg.
may result in interesting them in a school. Powers (Capt. T. J. ), THE GARDEN OF THE
story which to one of their elders appears Sun.
Gay & Hancock
Pampblets.
dismally to miss the child's point of view. A story of military life in the Philippines
which belongs to the “ kiss me yet again-
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Against a background of Dutch stolidity Shedd (George C. ), THE
lieves that the author of the Sonnets is
and virtue and the petty interests and occu-
(George C. ), THE INCORRIGIBLE addressing himself—the better part of me,
DUKANE, 61
Stanley Paul
pations of village life, the Melissants-Eve's
as Sonnet 39 puts it. The Dark Lady is
father and mother-stand out like exotics
The incorrigible Dukane is a young man
the “worser part of his nature. The
in a farmyard, and exert an influence out of whose self-confidence and aplomb in all references to offspring, marriage, &c. , are
all seeming, proportion to their subsidiary circumstances are extraordinary. He is the to be taken as referring to intellectual
position. Close
your eyes on the ugly side, son of an American engineering magnate, creations. The Dæmon of Socrates is men-
and it isn't there, they say; but, when the and his disinclination for serious employment tioned in support of this theory, but here
first of their children leaves the nest so
is viewed with scant sympathy by his austere we have to believe in two separate individu-
aptly named Sans Souci, the changed atmo- parent, who decrees that he shall either work alities, a man and a woman, invented “ for
sphere to which her Adam takes her is
or starve. The story, which describes him the purpose of self-communing.
"
crushing beyond all her powers of resistance, working as a navvy, of unknown identity gestion strikes us as distinctly odd and
and a breach is opened through which a
in one of his father's construction camps bizarre, and is not further commended by
crimson passion steals into her pale Paradise. is breezily told, and the interest is skilfully the idea that Bacon was inspired by Hil-
Its coming and her purgatory constitute the
maintained. There are several illustrations liard's portrait of himself to write the
sonnets,
story—both in style and matter one to enjoy. by Mr. Stanley Wood.
Macgrath (Harold), THE CARPET
CARPET FROM Symons (Beryl), PRINCE AND PRIEST, 61 London County Council, INDICATION
BAGDAD, 6/
Gay & Hancock
Stanley Paul HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST IN
George Percival Algernon Jones, of the This is a picturesque and spirited story
LONDON, Part XXXVI. ; and THE
HORNIMAN MUSEUM
LIBRARY,
Oriental Rug and Carpet Company, is an centring round Simon de Montfort's “
interesting hero in spite of his name. When sade " in Languedoc. Our sympathies are,
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the story opens he is feeling depressed because naturally, engaged on the side of the perse-
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cover of what stuff he is made. He falls part in the action. The love-interest is Permanent detention and segregation of
in love with the innocent daughter of a developed from the author's motif of the all who are classified as feeble-minded !
smart woman smuggler and thief ; they betrothed bride and her attendant knight, From all quarters comes this cry the first
and the rogue are kidnapped together by but the result is less disastrous than with article in the social reformer's creed. Every
the Arab guardian of the sacred carpet, and Tristram and Lancelot.
book, pamphlet, or article which furthers
all suffer many things in the desert. The
this end is an intrinsic good, but we could
final scene, in which the
thieves are caught Wason (Robert Alexander), HAPPY HAWKINS, wish that more enthusiasts would take the
at their work, which involves the meeting
6/
Grant Richards Fabian tracts as models of exact writing.
of mother and daughter, is excellent. There Like the cowboys of fiction generally, we should like to know how “ trade unions
are some dull pages, but on the whole the Happy Hawkins is endowed with a turn prevent ” prisoners being taught much that
writing is bright and easy to read, and the for dry humour, a rough exterior, and a is useful. The article is reprinted from The
plot is skilfully unfolded to its happy ending. heart of gold, dominated by an ennobling, 'Fortnightly Review for May.
OF
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career in the army of Russia in 1787, subse- traces with considerable power, to which is
FOREIGN.
quently an officer in the armies of Artois added at times real eloquence, the heroic
and Conde, and finally in the service of the struggle of the Polish peasantry against
bistory and Biograpby.
Bourbons in Naples, the Count was, during his Russian Orthodoxy: The_story takes us
Bratli (Charles), PHILIPPE II. , Roi d'Es- short, but adventurous and brilliant career, across the country-side of Podlachia, where
PAGNE, ÉTUDE SUR SA VIE ET SON
a shrewd and attentive observer of men and each village is in a stato of mutinous sub-
CARACTÈRE, nouvelle Édition, avec une
ovents. The memoirs, sincere and piquant, ordination, and where many victims have
Préface du Comte Baguenault de
a real contribution to the study of suffered in the national cause, As a faithful
Puchesse.
Paris, Champion
the epoch, and are carefully annotated by picture of Polish life, and an historical
There has long been an opening for a
M. Jacques Rambaud.
document, this book has equal claims on the
book which should present the results of Mermeix (M. ), CHRONIQUE DE L'AN 1911, sympathy and attention of the reader.
modern research on Philip II. It was the
3fr. 50.
Paris, Grasset
Education.
fault of historians of the last generation
M. Mermeix has written an instructive Byroniana und Anderos aus dem Englischen
to see in Philip either an implacable despot history of 1911. The major part of the
Seminar in Erlangen. Erlangen, Mencke
or a fanatical monk. Both these illusions narrative deals with the Morocco crisis,
A tribute to German keenness concerning
M. Bratli, in his conscientious study, in which is set forth with an abundance Byron. Various readings in ‘Manfred' are
some way dispels. The book is not a history of clearly analyzed detail. The attitude elaborately discussed ; there are notes on
of the reign, and wisely confines itself to a throughout is independent and impartial. additions to “Don Juan' and some unpub-
broad treatment of the personality of Philip Especially illuminating is the author's treat- lished letters of Byron in the British
himself. Since the discovery in 1884 by ment of the historic conference of Kissingen. Museum and in a publisher's catalogue ;
Gachard of the private correspondence of The causes of the rupture between M. de and the whole concludes with the Catalogue
Philip much has been done to rehabili- Selves and M. Caillaux are given, and M.
of Byroniana in the library of the Seminar,
tate his character, both as & man and Mermeix claims to have had access
to which offers exceptional opportunities for
a sovereign. It interesting to read M. the papers of the two secret missions in study. Several of the items noted are not
Bratli's contention that Philip, neither May and July. A chapter on social life in the British Museum.
bigot nor fanatic, is an expression of the and a brief survey of the present population
fiction.
same tendency towards mysticism which of France, based on the new census, are
produced in his century personalities like added.
Bois (Albert du), WATERLOO (BELGES OU
Louis Ponce de Léon and Louis of Granada. Münz (Sigmund), VON BISMARCK BIS BÜLOW,
FRANÇAIS ? ), 3fr. 50. Paris, Lemerre
Certainly in one respect Philip showed him- 3m.
Berlin, Stilke
Waterloo is a novel with a purpose,
self intellectually superior to his age, for
and has
This is a series of sketches journalistic
a long historical Introduction
according to Bermudez de Castro he was in alike in style and in choice of matter, but in favour of the contention that the Walloon
no degree superstitious. The murder of Don pleasant enough to read and in many points element in Belgium forms in reality part of
Carlos is justified by M. Bratli on the ground instructive. The first group is concerned the French nation, and remains separated
that Philip feared lest a turn in the wheel of with Bismarck himself; the second with only owing to the attitude of European
fortune should place the degenerate on the some half-dozen of the men who stood Powers. M. du Bois is an outright Franco-
throne, and that national interests demanded nearest to him and worked with him; the phile, and the depth of feeling which is shown
Don Carlos's death. While much is done in third with the private life and character of
is a further indication of the intensity of
the book to show the irresolution and Prince von Bülow and his wife. To the the internecine religious and linguistic
pessimism of Philip, we venture to think English reader the most interesting pages loons in Belgium. The story is well told,
struggle to-day between Flemish and Wal-
that sufficient stress has not been laid on are those dealing with Bismarck's views
his pettifogging instincts which in themselves on social questions and his attitude towards and the interest in the action carefully sus-
proved a bar to effective sovereignty. Neither England. Herr Münz takes occasion, when tained, though it is scarcely possible to share
can we concur with M. Bratli in his
conclusion
on this latter topic, to emphasize the exist-
the somewhat sanguine attitude of the
that in giving Spain religious unity at all
author.
ence in Germany of friendly feeling towards
costs Philip strengthened the forces of the us, and to express a just indignation at the Daniel-Lesueur, AU TOURNANT DES JOURS
nation.
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have become complex and difficult to follow German people.
of haste in its development. Gilles de
for the average English reader unacquainted Ussel (Vicomte Jean d'), ÉTUDES SUR
Clairceur, & prolific writer of popular
with the inner history of Cabinets. With L'ANNÉE 1813: L'INTERVENTION DE
feuilletons, takes upon herself the task of
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the causes which have led to the present
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Parlementarisme. His book is a valuable since for the first time an exhaustive survey facility, and relies too much on mere descrip-
summary of the important facts which have has been made of the archives of Paris and
tion for atmosphere.
created the present social, moral, and military Vienna, and, further, the obscure and vacil-
General.
disorganization in France to-day. Thanks lating diplomacy of Austria is placed in a Mercure de France, lf. 25 not.
to an admirable system of marginal insets, clear light. Care and precision are the
Paris, 26, Rue de Condé.
the reader is at a glance able to inform dominating note of the method, and thanks The current number of this encyclopædic
himself as to the details of the crisis, its to the author's severe and attentive analysis review opens with an article by M. Pierre-Paul
causes, effects, and the proposed solutions. we are able to form a reasoned opinion Plon on Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bi-
The relative strength of France and Germany on the consequences of the Imperial marriage centenary of whose birth is to be celebrated
in a future war is carefully considered, and and the illusions which Napoleon himself next month. It is surprising, in view of
there is added a study of our own resources entertained.
the countless works which the life of
and the possibilities of English intervention.
Rousseau
hear
has inspired, to
that
In his judgments on English politics M. Geograpby and Travel.
there have remained till
now in
the
Chéradame is not always sure.
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The keen attention which is to-day devoted
Paris, Perrin lowed by a lengthy appreciation of Joseph
to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period Not long since the Revue de Paris charac- Conrad and other articles. The reviews
could hardly fail to overlook the memoirs of terized M. Reymont as the most typical include a mass of works in every depart-
a character so chivalrous and picturesque as of modern Polish authors. This translation ment of art, literature, and science, besides
the Count de Damas.
published for the first time, give & vivid of those interested in the question of Polish letters from England, Italy, &c.
picture of the closing years of the ancien nationality. It is a sincere and moving The Mercure may be recommended as
érgime and the society of the émigrés in echo of the modern political and religious an admirable antidote to insularity in the
Germany and Naples. Beginning his I drama of the Slavonic world. M. Reymont I realm of letters.
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the calm of trout-streams and the pleasures much delicacy and intimacy of treatment. of consent to 18 years. As an example of
of & meditative life. Emerson is his an- Miss Masson is much indebted to Mrs. Miss Addams's sane optimism we quote her
cestor, and Thoreau his spiritual father, Gaskell’s biography, but is not subservient reflection that in the midst of a freedom
with here and there a strain of the Whit- I to it. She writes agreeably and with strong such as has never been accorded to young
OF
OF
as
ti which
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own.
women in the history of the world, under The numbered paragraphs of the Articles of a literary as well as a pedagogic
an economic pressure grinding down upon Introduction, with its emphasized headings, character are wisely included, and the
the working girl at the very age when she point the same way; and if any are a little present number includes a paper on 'Current
most wistfully desires to be taken care of, more lazy than others, they will find in $13 Opinion 'of considerable interest, another on
it is necessary to organize a widespread a neat summary of everything they want Bacon as Writer,' and a third on Some
commercial enterprise in order to procure a to know about the composition of Hero- Obstacles to Spelling Reform. ? We hope that
sufficient number of girls for the white slave dotus's history. The point is, that the student the Journal will take an early opportunity
market. " It would seem to show that the need not have exercised any judgment at all, of examining newspaper English, which has
virtue of women is holding its own in that yet he may produce on paper an answer to so vast an influence to-day, and explaining
slow-growing civilization which ever demands satisfy the examiner by learning a dozen its merits or demerits as a vehicle for thought
more self-control on the part of the indi- lines of the Introduction.
and expression.
vidual.
When we have said this, we have said
Bremner (C. S. ), DIVORCE AND MORALITY,
almost all that we wish to say in the way of Thornton (R. H. ), AN AMERICAN GLOSSARY,
2 vols, 30/ net.
Francis & Co.
with Preface by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle criticism. Given the point of view, the
The sub-title of these volumes is “An
The Spencerian dictum that “absolute is carefully considered, difficulties met, his-
is carefully considered, difficulties met, his- Attempt to illustrate Certain Americanisms
morality is the regulation of conduct in such torical questions elucidated, ethnology, geo- upon Historical Principles," and the feature
antiquities,
a way that pain shall not be inflicted” graphy,
grammar
which makes them of exceptional value is
- nothing
the admirable wealth of citations, 14,000 in
bears so little relation to the law of divorce omitted. Longer essays are given in the
obtaining in England that it is small wonder appendixes. Here is all the information number. These will enable writers and
if its anomalies give birth to a copious about Herodotus that the heart can wish. It is readers to verify or correct many vague
journalistic output. The author's is an
an extremely useful book to the student who beliefs and ideas. Mr. Thornton, a well-
historical study of matrimonial regulations has read his text and wants to fill in the known correspondent of Notes and Queries,
in different countries and at different periods. details accurately-wants to know, for deserves our warm thanks for a work of
Inexactitude and clumsiness of expression instance, that large families are commended much learning and industry, which cannot
disfigure it, but so long as ministers are to in the Zend Avesta, and many another fail to be of permanent value.
be found unaware that the divorce law of truth that he might otherwise miss.
He
1857 presses unequally on the sexes " --the will close the book with a new respect for
Scbool-Books.
present writer recently met a similarly
Herodotus, and thank him that he has
Contes de Voltaire, edited by H. W. Preston,
ignorant archdeacon of the Church of Eng- managed to convey so much information to
2/
the modern world without boring it.
land-any honest attempt to lighten the
Oxford, Clarendon Press
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The suggestive Preface of this book claims
Forty (The) Martyrs of the Sinai Desert and for the study of modern languages more
political Economy.
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IN THE CHILDREN'S HOUSES," with script, which contains an allusion to the Altogether it is a model of what a text
Additions and Revisions by the Author, death of Justinus I. , 527 A. D. , to a date not should be.
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original or in the foreign versions that have Introduction, translation, and text, a glos-
A collection apparently designed for the
already been made. Its appearance is an sary, a list of emendanda referring to
use of
crammers,
," and subdivided into
important educational event.
No. VIII. of these oræ Semiticæ, and three six periods, with a general heading for
Philology.
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found pressed between the leaves of vellum,
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person singular in -eth. ” The notes, Her awakening to the knowledge that her
British Museum and the archives of the and just the thing to interest readers. The the subtlety at which she has been aiming
Royal Geographical Society. The Hausa
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8
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the views of scholars upon disputed points. secondary schools, and they will find here making hostess's four guests have managed,
Indeed, the compilation is, from some points suggestive papers on ‘Oral Composition in in spite of her, to shuffle themselves into a
of view, too careful : it obviously meets the Schools' and 'Shakespeare in School,' a position to drink to their married happiness,
purpose of those who are content to take subject also fruitfully discussed in the this, the slightest of sketches, comes to an
others' opinions rather than to form their section of " Teachers in Counsel. '
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аге
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A collection of short stories and personal This powerful and remarkable collection like heroine who develops into the truest of
reminiscences dealing with the lighter side of short stories was first published not true women, and finds the reward of merit
of Army life in
war and poace.
The eighteen months ago, and this is the third in an allianco with the disguised heir to
author's style is discursive and diffuse, but edition. A supplement to them is ‘The an English earldom. Tho story, written
the book is of a diverting nature, although Cigarette Case. Their art and naturalism throughout in dialect, includes somo curious
frequent technical allusions may prove some-
are of an unusual quality. We reviewed adventures, but does not add much to our
what mystifying to the civilian.
Widdershins' favourably in The Atheneum knowledge of men and things “out West. "
appeared in Blackwood, The Cornhill, and Pemberton (Max), WAR AND THE WOMAN, 6/
Many of the stories have previously of March 11, 1911.
General.
other magazines.
Cassell Halifax County Borough, Bankfield Museum
Curle (Richard), SHADOWS OUT OF THE Dominating the fortunes of this story Notes : No. 11, HAND CARD-MAKING,
CROWD, 61
Swift there
two financial magnates. One by H. Ling Roth, ld. ; and No. 12,
These short stories, many of which have believes that war can only be killed by LOCAL PREHISTORIC IMPLEMENTS, Loan
already appeared as middles in the trade, and is striving for the federation of Exhibition, May 11-June 6, 1912, by
weekly press, maintain a respectable level Europe, with no commercial barriers between
Hugh P. Kendall and H. Ling Roth, Bd.
of achievement.
the several countries ; the other, the new
The Museum
Krupp," desires peace also, but considers A careful record of hand card - making,
Evans (George), THE CHILD OF HIS ADOPTION, it his business to prepare the nations for and another of local prehistoric implements,
Herbert & Daniel Neither of these missionaries attains the latter including a bibliography. There
Mr. Goorge Evans shows promise of becom- much. There descends upon England a are numerous diagrams.
ing a good novelist, but he should think winter of unparalleled severity. The ima-
more of construction and selection. Origin- gination of journalists places invading People's Books : HOME RULE, by L. G.
ality and invention he has, though the armies upon a frozen channel ; as a fact, Redmond-Howard, with a Preface by
invention flags a little towards the latter however, what the country has to fear is Robert Harcourt, bd. net.
Jack
part of the story; but he has not that the consequence of war without its actuality.
instinct of form that enables an author to The Steel King corners the wheat market, attempts here a wide survey in a restricted
The nephew of Mr. John Redmond
write without plan; and if he is over to and the shipping trade is paralyzed by a
attain distinction, he must attentively study strike.
The woman
space, and some of his chapters (notably the
12 had long before historical ones) are necessarily sketchy:
composition—not in the sense of the school invited him to become a Vice-President of The volume is so frankly a propagandist
curriculum, but in that of the architect or
the painter.
he saves
the country by bidding his wheat pamphlet that it seems rather out of place
in the series ; but as such it is forcible and
ships sail for Europe, she marries him, now lively. One of Mr. Redmond-Howard's
Fisher (B. M. ), THE PLAYER, 6/ Drane
sharing his belief that, if peace is to be won
Boys reading this book will fail to recog: for humanity, it will be by the brains and “I defy Sir Edward Carson himself,” says
remarks conjures up a pleasing picture.
nize many types portrayed in it because of money of its leaders.
he, " to raise a theological controversy
their doubtful existence. But this
very
fact
about an egg.
may result in interesting them in a school. Powers (Capt. T. J. ), THE GARDEN OF THE
story which to one of their elders appears Sun.
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Pampblets.
dismally to miss the child's point of view. A story of military life in the Philippines
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Against a background of Dutch stolidity Shedd (George C. ), THE
lieves that the author of the Sonnets is
and virtue and the petty interests and occu-
(George C. ), THE INCORRIGIBLE addressing himself—the better part of me,
DUKANE, 61
Stanley Paul
pations of village life, the Melissants-Eve's
as Sonnet 39 puts it. The Dark Lady is
father and mother-stand out like exotics
The incorrigible Dukane is a young man
the “worser part of his nature. The
in a farmyard, and exert an influence out of whose self-confidence and aplomb in all references to offspring, marriage, &c. , are
all seeming, proportion to their subsidiary circumstances are extraordinary. He is the to be taken as referring to intellectual
position. Close
your eyes on the ugly side, son of an American engineering magnate, creations. The Dæmon of Socrates is men-
and it isn't there, they say; but, when the and his disinclination for serious employment tioned in support of this theory, but here
first of their children leaves the nest so
is viewed with scant sympathy by his austere we have to believe in two separate individu-
aptly named Sans Souci, the changed atmo- parent, who decrees that he shall either work alities, a man and a woman, invented “ for
sphere to which her Adam takes her is
or starve. The story, which describes him the purpose of self-communing.
"
crushing beyond all her powers of resistance, working as a navvy, of unknown identity gestion strikes us as distinctly odd and
and a breach is opened through which a
in one of his father's construction camps bizarre, and is not further commended by
crimson passion steals into her pale Paradise. is breezily told, and the interest is skilfully the idea that Bacon was inspired by Hil-
Its coming and her purgatory constitute the
maintained. There are several illustrations liard's portrait of himself to write the
sonnets,
story—both in style and matter one to enjoy. by Mr. Stanley Wood.
Macgrath (Harold), THE CARPET
CARPET FROM Symons (Beryl), PRINCE AND PRIEST, 61 London County Council, INDICATION
BAGDAD, 6/
Gay & Hancock
Stanley Paul HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST IN
George Percival Algernon Jones, of the This is a picturesque and spirited story
LONDON, Part XXXVI. ; and THE
HORNIMAN MUSEUM
LIBRARY,
Oriental Rug and Carpet Company, is an centring round Simon de Montfort's “
interesting hero in spite of his name. When sade " in Languedoc. Our sympathies are,
FOREST HILL, S. E. : A HANDBOOK TO
the story opens he is feeling depressed because naturally, engaged on the side of the perse-
THE MARINE AQUARIA, Second Edition,
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adventure to touch his heart, his pocket, or
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cover of what stuff he is made. He falls part in the action. The love-interest is Permanent detention and segregation of
in love with the innocent daughter of a developed from the author's motif of the all who are classified as feeble-minded !
smart woman smuggler and thief ; they betrothed bride and her attendant knight, From all quarters comes this cry the first
and the rogue are kidnapped together by but the result is less disastrous than with article in the social reformer's creed. Every
the Arab guardian of the sacred carpet, and Tristram and Lancelot.
book, pamphlet, or article which furthers
all suffer many things in the desert. The
this end is an intrinsic good, but we could
final scene, in which the
thieves are caught Wason (Robert Alexander), HAPPY HAWKINS, wish that more enthusiasts would take the
at their work, which involves the meeting
6/
Grant Richards Fabian tracts as models of exact writing.
of mother and daughter, is excellent. There Like the cowboys of fiction generally, we should like to know how “ trade unions
are some dull pages, but on the whole the Happy Hawkins is endowed with a turn prevent ” prisoners being taught much that
writing is bright and easy to read, and the for dry humour, a rough exterior, and a is useful. The article is reprinted from The
plot is skilfully unfolded to its happy ending. heart of gold, dominated by an ennobling, 'Fortnightly Review for May.
OF
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career in the army of Russia in 1787, subse- traces with considerable power, to which is
FOREIGN.
quently an officer in the armies of Artois added at times real eloquence, the heroic
and Conde, and finally in the service of the struggle of the Polish peasantry against
bistory and Biograpby.
Bourbons in Naples, the Count was, during his Russian Orthodoxy: The_story takes us
Bratli (Charles), PHILIPPE II. , Roi d'Es- short, but adventurous and brilliant career, across the country-side of Podlachia, where
PAGNE, ÉTUDE SUR SA VIE ET SON
a shrewd and attentive observer of men and each village is in a stato of mutinous sub-
CARACTÈRE, nouvelle Édition, avec une
ovents. The memoirs, sincere and piquant, ordination, and where many victims have
Préface du Comte Baguenault de
a real contribution to the study of suffered in the national cause, As a faithful
Puchesse.
Paris, Champion
the epoch, and are carefully annotated by picture of Polish life, and an historical
There has long been an opening for a
M. Jacques Rambaud.
document, this book has equal claims on the
book which should present the results of Mermeix (M. ), CHRONIQUE DE L'AN 1911, sympathy and attention of the reader.
modern research on Philip II. It was the
3fr. 50.
Paris, Grasset
Education.
fault of historians of the last generation
M. Mermeix has written an instructive Byroniana und Anderos aus dem Englischen
to see in Philip either an implacable despot history of 1911. The major part of the
Seminar in Erlangen. Erlangen, Mencke
or a fanatical monk. Both these illusions narrative deals with the Morocco crisis,
A tribute to German keenness concerning
M. Bratli, in his conscientious study, in which is set forth with an abundance Byron. Various readings in ‘Manfred' are
some way dispels. The book is not a history of clearly analyzed detail. The attitude elaborately discussed ; there are notes on
of the reign, and wisely confines itself to a throughout is independent and impartial. additions to “Don Juan' and some unpub-
broad treatment of the personality of Philip Especially illuminating is the author's treat- lished letters of Byron in the British
himself. Since the discovery in 1884 by ment of the historic conference of Kissingen. Museum and in a publisher's catalogue ;
Gachard of the private correspondence of The causes of the rupture between M. de and the whole concludes with the Catalogue
Philip much has been done to rehabili- Selves and M. Caillaux are given, and M.
of Byroniana in the library of the Seminar,
tate his character, both as & man and Mermeix claims to have had access
to which offers exceptional opportunities for
a sovereign. It interesting to read M. the papers of the two secret missions in study. Several of the items noted are not
Bratli's contention that Philip, neither May and July. A chapter on social life in the British Museum.
bigot nor fanatic, is an expression of the and a brief survey of the present population
fiction.
same tendency towards mysticism which of France, based on the new census, are
produced in his century personalities like added.
Bois (Albert du), WATERLOO (BELGES OU
Louis Ponce de Léon and Louis of Granada. Münz (Sigmund), VON BISMARCK BIS BÜLOW,
FRANÇAIS ? ), 3fr. 50. Paris, Lemerre
Certainly in one respect Philip showed him- 3m.
Berlin, Stilke
Waterloo is a novel with a purpose,
self intellectually superior to his age, for
and has
This is a series of sketches journalistic
a long historical Introduction
according to Bermudez de Castro he was in alike in style and in choice of matter, but in favour of the contention that the Walloon
no degree superstitious. The murder of Don pleasant enough to read and in many points element in Belgium forms in reality part of
Carlos is justified by M. Bratli on the ground instructive. The first group is concerned the French nation, and remains separated
that Philip feared lest a turn in the wheel of with Bismarck himself; the second with only owing to the attitude of European
fortune should place the degenerate on the some half-dozen of the men who stood Powers. M. du Bois is an outright Franco-
throne, and that national interests demanded nearest to him and worked with him; the phile, and the depth of feeling which is shown
Don Carlos's death. While much is done in third with the private life and character of
is a further indication of the intensity of
the book to show the irresolution and Prince von Bülow and his wife. To the the internecine religious and linguistic
pessimism of Philip, we venture to think English reader the most interesting pages loons in Belgium. The story is well told,
struggle to-day between Flemish and Wal-
that sufficient stress has not been laid on are those dealing with Bismarck's views
his pettifogging instincts which in themselves on social questions and his attitude towards and the interest in the action carefully sus-
proved a bar to effective sovereignty. Neither England. Herr Münz takes occasion, when tained, though it is scarcely possible to share
can we concur with M. Bratli in his
conclusion
on this latter topic, to emphasize the exist-
the somewhat sanguine attitude of the
that in giving Spain religious unity at all
author.
ence in Germany of friendly feeling towards
costs Philip strengthened the forces of the us, and to express a just indignation at the Daniel-Lesueur, AU TOURNANT DES JOURS
nation.
irresponsible utterances of third-rate journal. (GILLES DE CLAIRCEUR), 3fr. 50.
Chéradame (André), LA CRISE FRANÇAISE, ism, which would have us take the “* Anglo-
Paris, Plon-Nourrit
3fr. 50.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit phobe" views of a small section of the This is a mediocre novel. The theme,
Politics in France since the Dreyfus case population for the mind of the whole interesting at first sight, shows evident signs
have become complex and difficult to follow German people.
of haste in its development. Gilles de
for the average English reader unacquainted Ussel (Vicomte Jean d'), ÉTUDES SUR
Clairceur, & prolific writer of popular
with the inner history of Cabinets. With L'ANNÉE 1813: L'INTERVENTION DE
feuilletons, takes upon herself the task of
the downfall of M. Caillaux, inexplicable for L'AUTRICHE (Décembre, 1812 – Mai,
bringing up her niece, and showers upon her
a time to the mass of the French people, the 1813), 7fr. 50. Paris, Plon-Nourrit adopted child the frustrated tenderness of
climax has been attained. M. Chéradame The present work comes as a complement when her niece finally abandons her, leaving
an old maid. The castle in the air dissolves
gives a lucid and impartial statement of to the Vicomte d'Ussel's recent monograph her nothing in life but a vista of future
the causes which have led to the present
crisis, and the threatened breakdown of book has considerable historical interest, drudgery. The author writes with dangerous
Parlementarisme. His book is a valuable since for the first time an exhaustive survey facility, and relies too much on mere descrip-
summary of the important facts which have has been made of the archives of Paris and
tion for atmosphere.
created the present social, moral, and military Vienna, and, further, the obscure and vacil-
General.
disorganization in France to-day. Thanks lating diplomacy of Austria is placed in a Mercure de France, lf. 25 not.
to an admirable system of marginal insets, clear light. Care and precision are the
Paris, 26, Rue de Condé.
the reader is at a glance able to inform dominating note of the method, and thanks The current number of this encyclopædic
himself as to the details of the crisis, its to the author's severe and attentive analysis review opens with an article by M. Pierre-Paul
causes, effects, and the proposed solutions. we are able to form a reasoned opinion Plon on Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bi-
The relative strength of France and Germany on the consequences of the Imperial marriage centenary of whose birth is to be celebrated
in a future war is carefully considered, and and the illusions which Napoleon himself next month. It is surprising, in view of
there is added a study of our own resources entertained.
the countless works which the life of
and the possibilities of English intervention.
Rousseau
hear
has inspired, to
that
In his judgments on English politics M. Geograpby and Travel.
there have remained till
now in
the
Chéradame is not always sure.
Reymont_(Ladislas-Stanislas), L'APOSTOLAT Bibliothèque Nationale letters hitherto un-
Damas (Comte Roger de), MÉMOIRES : DU KNOUT EN POLOGNE : NOTES DE published which throw light on the strange
RUSSIE, VALMY ET ARMÉE DE CONDE, VOYAGE AU PAYS DE CHELM, traduites man whose writings prepared the way for
NAPLES (1787–1806), 7fr. 50.
du polonais avec l'autorisation de the French Revolution.
Paris, Plon-Nourrit l'auteur par Paul Cazin, 3fr. 50.
A poem by M. Catulle Mendès is fol-
The keen attention which is to-day devoted
Paris, Perrin lowed by a lengthy appreciation of Joseph
to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period Not long since the Revue de Paris charac- Conrad and other articles. The reviews
could hardly fail to overlook the memoirs of terized M. Reymont as the most typical include a mass of works in every depart-
a character so chivalrous and picturesque as of modern Polish authors. This translation ment of art, literature, and science, besides
the Count de Damas.
published for the first time, give & vivid of those interested in the question of Polish letters from England, Italy, &c.
picture of the closing years of the ancien nationality. It is a sincere and moving The Mercure may be recommended as
érgime and the society of the émigrés in echo of the modern political and religious an admirable antidote to insularity in the
Germany and Naples. Beginning his I drama of the Slavonic world. M. Reymont I realm of letters.
chose une noire
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