Honeybun
: on sensitive readers.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
, at which Saunders (Lois), Strangers and Foreigners, 1/ net.
Matthews.
Hereford, Jakeman & Carver
the following prices were realized : (Euvres de
Elkin Mathews The author's researches have had productive
Brantôme, 15 vols. , morocco, with the arms of These translations in English verse from results, not only from the antiquarian point of
Madame de Pompadour, 371. Hours of the the French, Italian, and German have a view, but also from that of a general historical
Virgin Mary, Simon Vostre (1613), printed on genuine and conscientious ring about them. survey of the former prosperity of a county now
vellum, 381. Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Their blemishes are a somewhat bald diction largely depopulated and desolate, except for the
by Graves and Cronin, 341. Smith's British and the similarity of the rendering, whatever abundance of its natural beauties. The hundred
Mezzotinto Portraits, 5 vols. , 171. 108. A Persian the original. Heine and Verlaine, whom the is the district lying between Hereford and Mon-
manuscript of the Shah Nameh, 501. The Etched translator tones to the same level, and inter- mouth, The book displays great exactitude,
Work of J. McNeill Whistler, by Kennedy, New prets as though they were of a uniform spirit, and is compiled for the most part from un-
York, 1910, 521.
do not run well together thus harnessed published records.
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Eversley (Lord), Gladstone and Ireland : the
including the earlier correspondence of William West (Alfred S. ), The Revised English Grammar :
Irish Policy of Parliament from 1850 to 1894, Strahan with Franklin and David Hall; Dr. a New Edition of The Elements of English
10/6 net.
Methuen Johnson's last letter to Strahan, of which there Grammar,' based upon the Recommendations
A book from Lord Eversley, who was a is a reproduction; and an engraving of William of the Committee on Grammatical Terminology.
member of several of Gladstone's Administra- Preston.
Cambridge University Press
tions, is a valuable contribution on the intimate Towle (Eleanor A. ), A Poet's Children: Hartley This serviceable manual has run to several
movements and activities revolving round the
and Sara Coleridge, 10/6 net.
Methuen new editions and reprints since it was first pube
Home Rule controversy at its most acute For notice see p. 387,
lished in 1893. It is a good average grammar
stages. His writing is at once polished Trevelyan (Sir George Otto), The American Revo- and worth a reissue. We think that the choice
and authoritative.
lution : Vol. IV. Saratoga and Brandywine, of essay-subjects might have been more com-
Jeans (William), Parliamentary Reminiscences, Valley Forge, England and France at' War, prehensive. In the Pitt Press Series.
10/6 net.
Chapman & Hall
5/ net.
Longmans
The author of these reminiscences was, except A new edition of this accurate and spirited
Science.
for a short break, in the Press Gallery from
history is greatly to be welcomed.
1863 till last year, and writes as familiarly of
Lucas (Edwin), The Essence of the Universe, 5/
the controversies over the American Civil War
Geography and Travel.
Duke's Road, W. C. , the Author
as he does of the Parliament Act. In this
Pennell (T. L. ), Among the Wild Tribes of the
The author's hypothesis is that “the one
volume he sketches, with abundant anecdote
Afghan Frontier : a Record of Sixteen Years'
sole purpose underlying all purpose is the
and very little dry detail, the political history
Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian production of mankind, and that this is achieved
of the years 1863–86. His style is refreshingly
Marches, 5/ net.
Seeley & Service
by the mighty marriage of spirit and matter. "
free from feverishness and clichés, and, although
The fourth (and cheaper) edition of an
Thus all things from the beginning are sexual,
rarely exciting, is never dull. His most interest.
ing new
and tend towards the elaboration of mankind.
matter concerns the celebrated
interesting if superficial account of the untamed
“Hawarden kite," in flying which he took a
Afghan tribes on the North-West Frontier.
Even gravitation is merely the operation of
It has an Introduction by Earl Roberts.
sex. He exhorts us to conceive of Design or
prominent part.
Lloyd (J. A. T. ), A Great Russian Realist, 10/6
Queen' Newspaper Book of Travel, 1912, 2/6
Purpose, originated by Cosmic Mind, enforced
net.
Horace Cox
by Cosmic Power, regulated by Cosmic Intel-
net.
Stanley Paul
ligence, and enfolded by Cosmic Love; but
Following on Mr. Lloyd's studies of Turgenev
Sociology.
his excursions into the elemental, primordial,
and Tolstoy in 'Two Russian Reformers,' we
have now
fundamental, auric, and psychic characteristics
a life of Dostoieffsky. As the
Levine (Louis), The Labor Movement in France :
Russian steppes dwarf the country-sides of
a Study in Revolutionary Syndicalism, with an
of the Beginning (and, presumably, of the
Middle and the End) leave us unconvinced of
the rest of Europe, so the story of Dostoieffsky
Introduction by Prof. F. H. Giddings, 8/
dwarfs and beggars the life of the ordinary
New York, Columbia University;
the basic and primal activities of the Great
London, Longmans
Silent Spirit.
European man of letters. He belongs, even
For notice see p. 387.
United States National Museum : 1888, Descrip-
more entirely than does Tolstoy, to that level
Taxation and Anarchism : a Discussion between
tions of Five New Genera and Twenty-Six New
where life and literature run into one, because,
the Hon. Auberon Herbert and J. H. Levy,
Species of Ichneumon-Flies, by H. L. Viereck;
far more deeply than Tolstoy, he had himself
experienced the bitter and terrible sufferings of
1/ net.
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Personal Rights Association
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which he wrote, It is a life to which a Western
This volume embodies the controversy
European can with difficulty do justice, how-
between Mr. Auberon Herbert and Mr.
by W. D. Pierce; 1891, Description of a New
ever real his sympathy, and Mr. Lloyd has not
J. H. Levy concerning the functions of the
Isopod Crustacean belonging to the Genus
Livoneca from the Atlantic Coast of Panama,
State in relation to taxation, voluntary and
entirely avoided the temptation to eke out his
matter with rhetoric. Greater severity in this
compulsory. Anarchism looms large on the
by Harriet Richardson ; 1893, Instructions for
horizon of Mr. Levy's mind. Individualism,
collecting and fixing, Rotifers in Bulk, by P.
respect, and less repetition, would have
he says,
made the figure of Dostoieffsky stand out more
maximizes " freedom, and other
de Beauchamp; and 1895, Naumachocrinus,
a New Genus belonging to the Crinoid Family
impressively and clearly. Still, this genius is
conceptions of State • control are, in classic
too little known to the general reading public
phrase, “ the end of all things. " Mr. Herbert
Phrynocrinidæ, by A. É. Clark.
in England, and we welcome a book which
delivers himself with wisdom and tolerance.
Fiction.
should do good service in revealing him more
Philology.
widely.
Barclay (Florence L. ), Through the Postern Gate,
Rawnsley (Canon), Memories of the Tennysons, 6/ Harrison (Henry), Surnames of the United King-
6/
Putnam
net.
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dom : a Concise Etymological Dictionary, This last work of the popular novelist is
A new edition, with two additional chapters,
Vol. I. Part XVII. , 1/6 net. Eaton Press not meritorious. It is feeble, sentimental (with
giving an account of the Tennyson Centenary
This instalment of a useful and interesting that sugary, self-admiring sentimentality that
meetings at Somersby last August. The compilation consists of surnames beginning the worse sort of American readers appear
celebrations on that occasion were suitable,
with the letter L.
to love), and lacking in originality.
and owe much to Canon Rawnsley's keenness,
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles : Blundell (Agnes), Pension Kraus, 6/
but we can hardly think it worth while to Th-Thyzle (Vol. IX. ), 5/
Herbert & Daniel
reproduce two sermons and the short addresses
Oxford, Clarendon Press
The “centre-piece ” of this well-written
given, which contain no novelties, and include
Part of the ninth volume of Sir James Murray's
story is a forest in Germany, where the heroine
journalistic compliments like the deep per:
Dictionary. Three thousand five hundred and found solace for past sorrows and promise
sonal satisfaction ” of Mr. Cuming Walters at thirty-six words are dealt with in this instal-
of happiness. The cosmopolitan inhabitants
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Warren. " Canon Rawnsley's article on the
to Thyxtill or Thyzle.
though there is a good deal of sentiment, it is
meeting, reprinted from The Spectator, is Weekley (Ernest), The Romance of Words, 3/8 net.
pleasant sentiment.
enthusiastic and rather thin. The fact is
John Murray
Bojer (Johan), Treacherous Ground, translated
that people with a knowledge of Tennyson have
For notice sec p. 381.
from the Norwegian by Jessie Muir, 6/
been over-using their material, so that it has
Wilson (J. Cook), Aristotelian Studies : 1. On
Sidgwick & Jackson
become stale. As we said in 1900, Canon the Structure of the Seventh Book of the Though sad, this story is not depressing, and
Rawnsley's book is valuable for its details of
Nicomachean Ethics, Chaps. I. -X. , 5/
does not lack interest. The author's style is
Lincolnshire, where his family were old friends
Oxford, Clarendon Press
occasionally reminiscent of Ibsen, especially in
and neighbours of the Tennysons. The mistake This paper upon the parallel passages which his brief recital of tragedy. The characteriza-
we noted about the acquaintance of FitzGerald are visible in the Seventh Book of the Ethics' tion is good, particularly that of the peasants ;
and Tennyson at Cambridge remains in the was first published in 1879. In view of the
and the scenery and details of everyday life
text.
revived interest in Aristotle, its reissue is are pleasantly and concisely described.
Scottish Historical Review, April, 2/6 net.
timely. Prof. Cook Wilson has not in the Burgin (G. B. ), Dickie Delver, 6/ Hutchinson
Glasgow, MacLehose meantime modified his ingenious theory much, In order to escape from a mariage de con-
The main features of this number were men-
but he adds a postscript upon the authorship venance arranged for him by an autocratic
tioned by us last week.
of the parallel versions, suggesting that the parent, the hero, a wealthy young American,
Seafield Correspondence from 1685 to 1708, edited, difficulty of attributing both the repeated seeks refuge in a small Canadian village, where
with Introduction and Annotations, by James passages to Aristotle may be met by supposing he has many adventures, and eventually meets
Grant.
Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable that he rewrote a previous composition without his fate in a young and charming neighbour,
These letters have in the main been furnished
the original before him, and that a disciple, The machinations of a preposterous female
from the documents of the Countess-Dowager
revising the manuscript, and wishing to include
character provide a mild excitement, and a
of Seafield. A few are taken from the State
all the master's words, set the duplicates side delicate situation is created by the inopportune
Papers of Scotland in the London Record by side, as if in a continuous text, with perhaps arrival of the jilted bride, disguised as
Office. The period and matter of the corre-
some connecting link or minor rearrangement. Indian squaw. Notwithstanding its improba-
spondence cover the reigns of James II. , Prof. Cook Wilson now rejects the view that bility, the book is rendered attractive by its
William and Mary, and Anne. Under William the works of Aristotle are to any large extent quaint humour.
Sir James Ogilvie was Secretary of State for
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Dickens (C. ), Dombey and Son, 3/6 net.
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It is a
French invasion of Scotland in the spring of by E. Lee, 2!
Arnold light wash which does not accord well with the
1708. They shed much light on the several A well-chosen volume, beginning with Bacon blacker parts of the plates, and is generally
periods mentioned.
and ending with Dr. John Brown, representative crude in effect.
Story (Alfred Thomas), The Building of the of the best, yet avoiding what is hackneyed. Fairless (Michael), The Gathering of Brother
British Empire : the Story of England's We commend the inclusion of Leigh Hunt, and Hilarius, New Edition.
Growth from Elizabeth to Victoria, two Parts, the choice of personal revelation rather than In Murray's Shilling Library.
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the finish.
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Futrelle (May), Secretary of Frivolous Affairs, 6/ days he seems to have been educated in the Arnold as a “ triad of great names
" in the
Gay & Hancock belief that the power of money was unlimited, Victorian era is perverse.
The volume forms
A brightly written story of an American girl but later his wealth is associated with many part of the Guild Library.
who lost her fortune and found an agreeable forms of trouble. The one great obstacle to
Women's Labour League, Annual Report for the
occupation. During her season's secretaryship his selfish desires is a young lawyer, who is
to a wealthy, but much-worried lady she moved a significant figure in the labour movements of
Year 1911, together with Report of Proceedings
at the Seventh Annual Conference, held at
in the highest circles of American Society, the country. On the whole, the story is in-
Birmingham, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2d.
where all the dukes were thieves and no mov- teresting, but would have been improved by
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able property was safe, and she was plunged revision. The illustrations are worthy of
The tone of the Report is saddened by the
from one exciting incident to another. The mention.
deaths during the year of both joint Honorary
plot is ingenious, and the treatment superficial, Wemyss (George), The Secret Book, 6/
but agreeable.
Secretaries, Mrs. Middleton and Mrs. Ramsay
Ham-Smith
MacDonald.
Garshin (W. M. ), The Signal, and Other Stories, Here the long arm of coincidence is over-
translated by Capt. Rowland, 6/ Duckworth worked, and the style, though fluent, may jar
Yale Review, April, 75 cents.
Horn (Kate), Edward and I and Mrs.
Honeybun : on sensitive readers. The secret book is
a Romance of Married Life.
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Pamphlets.
One of Stanley Paul's Clear - Type Sixpenny His determination to discover the owner and
Novels. For notice see Athen. , Feb. 19, 1910, marry her supplies the events of the story.
Chamberlain (B. H. ), The Invention of a New
p. 213.
It comes from America, and seems more likely
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The first chapter of this novel—The Coming
resuscitated to make their Imperial policy more
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effective. The old ancestor. and Mikado-
Little Blue Devil, 6/
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worship was aptly manipulated to patch up a
The little blue devil of this story, who was he terms it, has abolished all our old institu-
creed which was a blend of Imperialism and
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Cæsarism, a religion the spiritual and super-
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natural elements of which were kept studiously
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in the background or engineered to further
Parisian boarding-house with a capital of a various vicissitudes incidental to her tempera-
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civilization. Buddhism and the old traditions
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under the new shibboleths,
somebody sinking outside. " The book is of to its close.
Friendly Relations with Germany: Correspond-
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of material, and incidents which leave no mark New edition.
Macmillan and German Municipalities, following upon
on the plot or on the characters. Yet the
Public Meeting held in the City Chambers,
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and cousins, are clearly defined. We only wish
A résumé and classification of the letters
there were not quite so many of them.
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consideration of the ties binding both nations,
It is difficult to believe that the author could
For notice of Part IX. see Athen. , Sept. 16,
after the public meeting specified. Transla-
have written so colourless a story. The chief
1911, p. 322.
tions of the German letters are included.
Mathews
character is a prig, and his wife bores us by Hine (Reginald L. ), Anima Celtica.
her adoration of him ; nor is the monotony
This little book has something of the true | Livingstone (Rev. I. ), Conservative Judaism and
relieved by any incident worthy of note.
quality of imaginative prose; it is written with Modern Thought: a Paper read at the Bangor
Macvane (Edith), Tarantella, 6/
enthusiastic appreciation, rising to a fine flow Hebrew Literary Society, January 14.
Hurst & Blackett
of eloquence. We cannot speak so highly of The author, whose object in this paper has
A picturesque story of Southern Italy, lively its penetration. The author's idea of the Irish been to reveal the compatibility of modern
and melodramatic. A beautiful American
spirit is too near to the conception of Renan and thought with Jewish faith and practice, in
woman, unhappily married, visits the grave of
Matthew Arnold for our taste; and the discussion virtue of his argument shows us exactly the
her mother at Sorrento, and there meets an
of a few obvious traits, humour, melancholy, opposite. The first part of his short ad-
Italian duke. So begins the tale. The "Taran-
and the like, is only redeemed by the charming dress is concerned with Judaic history.
tella is skilfully woven into the plot.
quotations from Irish literature which serve In it he mentions the astonishing discovery of
Martin (C. J. ), A Little Aversion, 81 "Arrowsmith
to point these discourses. Despite some faults, Capt. Weldon, whose theory it was that, as
The story describes family life in the early
good predominates.
gas, electricity, steamers, umbrellas, and
part of the eighteenth century, and the plot Lowry (Ernest Ward), Can the Doctors work the uniforms
mentioned in Nahum and
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temporary atmosphere is well suggested, but
important officials of the British Medical Asso- seriously.
the characters strike us as conventional and
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from the doctors' point of view is clearly stated,
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Fine Art and Archæology.
to notice the good things of the table. There
a kind of anti - toxin to current English
Mireur (Dr. H. ), Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art
criticisms.
are pathetic scenes, too, and a few pages,
We hear a great deal of the “ manly faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les
inserted here and there, of reflection and
and the “ womanly woman.
dix-huitième et dix-neuvième Siècles, Tome I. ,
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teenth-century paintings, drawings, water-
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higher by women than men. She draws
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some delightful people, but the book is some-
prattles on from subject to subject, moralizing
disjointedly, and in a manner that might very
prehensiveness, and cannot fail to be very
what long and overloaded with detail and
useful,
weil apply to anything. His portrait occupies
characters. Those who do not mind making
the paper cover, which seems rather incon-
the acquaintance of several new people after
Philosophy.
sistent with the self-effacement he conspicu-
having read half of it will find plenty to
ously advocates in these pages.
Otte (Heinrich), Kennt Aristoteles die sogenannte
interest them.
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I'he motto on the title-page, “This is as Mr. Watt's effort to crowd many
strange a maze as e'er man trod,” &c. , is a
common interpretation of παθημάτων κάθαρσις
literary theories and criticisms into a slender
very fair commentary on this lengthy story of
is entirely wrong
that κάθαρσις has
compass results in a complete lack of propor-
mystery and crime. There
many, we tion and no solid background for his canvas.
reference either to éNéos and poßos, or indeed
believe, who love a maze, and to them we
Moreover, he rushes too precipitately from
to the spectator at all ; and, secondly, that
heartily recommend this book.
generalizations to their antitheses. The actual πραγμάτων would be better than παθημάτων
Thieves, by Aix, 6/
Frank Palmer criticism strikes us as overwrought; the stress
as an emendation for padnuárwv, and that
The story of an enormously wealthy American and tension of style as artificial and over-empha.
the whole sentence describes tragedy as “ that
steel-magnate, who, in addition to his riches, sized. He gives far too much attention to which by means of pity and fear effects the
possesses an uncontrollable temper, a second Scott, and far too little to Keats and Burns. purification, or clearing up, of that which is
wife, and a charming daughter. In his early To select Barry Cornwall, Hood, and Matthew fearful or painful "-i. e. , in the pūlos itself.
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History and Biography.
of the reign of James VI. down to 1604.
Schlesinger (Max), Geschichte des Symbols : ein
So far as is known, this MS. has not
Versuch.
Berlin, Leonhard Simion
hitherto been catalogued or described.
Herr Schlesinger, if he has not dealt ex-
CONGRATULATIONS due to The
haustively as,
THREE lectures on George Petrie (the
could not in a single volume-has at least Daily Telegraph on the success of its Margaret Stokes Memorial Lectures, 1912)
given a comprehensive outline of it so far as
endeavours to raise a fund for the five
European, in ,
were given recently at Alexandra College,
historgans concerned. He begins with ety: necessitous granddaughters of Dickens. Dublin, by Mr. Alfred Perceval Graves.
mology, and proceeds then to a discussion of The final figures announced give the Mr. Graves dealt with Petrie's work as
the physiological and psychological aspects of
symbolism, showing an inclination to believe grand total of 9,4191. 78. : of this 6,6511. 78.
a collector of Irish folk · music, and
in the existence of a cerebral centre for sym•
was raised in England and 2,7681. in his position as archæologist, artist, and
bolizing, situated, so it is conjectured, in the America. The Daily Telegraph, in an-
parietal region.
man of letters.
nouncing its close on the 29th of March,
Geography and Travel.
states the pleasant fact that the amount
THE SCOTTISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Joergensen (Johannes), Le Livre de la Route, 5fr.
Paris, Perrin represents not a limited number of is to hold its annual meeting at St. An-
See notice on p. 387.
large contributions from the generous
drews on June 1st, when it will be enter-
Science.
rich, but a demonstration of the gratitude tained by the University.
-Schöner (Dr. Otto), Die praktische Vorausbestim- and affection entertained by rich and poor With the May number, Messrs. Constable
mung des Geschlechtes beim Menschen.
Berlin, Schweizer & Co.
alike for the memory of one who loved will undertake the publication in England
This monograph sets forth the methods and humanity from the highest to the lowest. ” of Scribner's Magazine.
results of certain researches by which the writer
claims to have discovered how the sex of a WE owe an apology to Mr. Colquhoun
STROTHER'S JOURNAL,' from a MS.
child may be predicted, and also determined,
before birth. If he is right, the determining
for having said in the review of his book in the British Museum, edited by the
factor is on the mother's side alone ; and the
China in Transformation' that “no Rev. Cæsar Caine, will be issued by Messrs.
principle by which calculations can be made foreign envoy of that period was seen at
A. Brown & Sons shortly. It is of value
is furnished by definite laws of sequence in ovu-
lation. The prima facie reason for hesitation
the capital before the visit of Mr. Ward, for Yorkshire topography, with special
about accepting the theory is that, as yet, it the American Minister. ” There is reference to Hull and York.
rests upon only a small number of cases actually published dispatch of August 10th, 1859, THE death is announced, at the age
observed.
from Mr. Bruce to Lord Malmesbury, in of 84, of Mr. Alexander Milne, a well-
which he reports that the Russian known Aberdeen bookseller of the firm
Minister, General Ignatieff, succeeded in of Messrs. A. & R. Milne.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS.
reaching Peking and in exchanging the
APRIL
With deep regret we record the death
Theology.
ratifications of the Russian treaty towards of Mr. Charles Awdry on Thursday,
8 How a Modern Atheist Found God, by the end of May. Dr. S. Wells Williams's the 28th of March. It was only last week
G.
the following prices were realized : (Euvres de
Elkin Mathews The author's researches have had productive
Brantôme, 15 vols. , morocco, with the arms of These translations in English verse from results, not only from the antiquarian point of
Madame de Pompadour, 371. Hours of the the French, Italian, and German have a view, but also from that of a general historical
Virgin Mary, Simon Vostre (1613), printed on genuine and conscientious ring about them. survey of the former prosperity of a county now
vellum, 381. Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Their blemishes are a somewhat bald diction largely depopulated and desolate, except for the
by Graves and Cronin, 341. Smith's British and the similarity of the rendering, whatever abundance of its natural beauties. The hundred
Mezzotinto Portraits, 5 vols. , 171. 108. A Persian the original. Heine and Verlaine, whom the is the district lying between Hereford and Mon-
manuscript of the Shah Nameh, 501. The Etched translator tones to the same level, and inter- mouth, The book displays great exactitude,
Work of J. McNeill Whistler, by Kennedy, New prets as though they were of a uniform spirit, and is compiled for the most part from un-
York, 1910, 521.
do not run well together thus harnessed published records.
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Eversley (Lord), Gladstone and Ireland : the
including the earlier correspondence of William West (Alfred S. ), The Revised English Grammar :
Irish Policy of Parliament from 1850 to 1894, Strahan with Franklin and David Hall; Dr. a New Edition of The Elements of English
10/6 net.
Methuen Johnson's last letter to Strahan, of which there Grammar,' based upon the Recommendations
A book from Lord Eversley, who was a is a reproduction; and an engraving of William of the Committee on Grammatical Terminology.
member of several of Gladstone's Administra- Preston.
Cambridge University Press
tions, is a valuable contribution on the intimate Towle (Eleanor A. ), A Poet's Children: Hartley This serviceable manual has run to several
movements and activities revolving round the
and Sara Coleridge, 10/6 net.
Methuen new editions and reprints since it was first pube
Home Rule controversy at its most acute For notice see p. 387,
lished in 1893. It is a good average grammar
stages. His writing is at once polished Trevelyan (Sir George Otto), The American Revo- and worth a reissue. We think that the choice
and authoritative.
lution : Vol. IV. Saratoga and Brandywine, of essay-subjects might have been more com-
Jeans (William), Parliamentary Reminiscences, Valley Forge, England and France at' War, prehensive. In the Pitt Press Series.
10/6 net.
Chapman & Hall
5/ net.
Longmans
The author of these reminiscences was, except A new edition of this accurate and spirited
Science.
for a short break, in the Press Gallery from
history is greatly to be welcomed.
1863 till last year, and writes as familiarly of
Lucas (Edwin), The Essence of the Universe, 5/
the controversies over the American Civil War
Geography and Travel.
Duke's Road, W. C. , the Author
as he does of the Parliament Act. In this
Pennell (T. L. ), Among the Wild Tribes of the
The author's hypothesis is that “the one
volume he sketches, with abundant anecdote
Afghan Frontier : a Record of Sixteen Years'
sole purpose underlying all purpose is the
and very little dry detail, the political history
Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian production of mankind, and that this is achieved
of the years 1863–86. His style is refreshingly
Marches, 5/ net.
Seeley & Service
by the mighty marriage of spirit and matter. "
free from feverishness and clichés, and, although
The fourth (and cheaper) edition of an
Thus all things from the beginning are sexual,
rarely exciting, is never dull. His most interest.
ing new
and tend towards the elaboration of mankind.
matter concerns the celebrated
interesting if superficial account of the untamed
“Hawarden kite," in flying which he took a
Afghan tribes on the North-West Frontier.
Even gravitation is merely the operation of
It has an Introduction by Earl Roberts.
sex. He exhorts us to conceive of Design or
prominent part.
Lloyd (J. A. T. ), A Great Russian Realist, 10/6
Queen' Newspaper Book of Travel, 1912, 2/6
Purpose, originated by Cosmic Mind, enforced
net.
Horace Cox
by Cosmic Power, regulated by Cosmic Intel-
net.
Stanley Paul
ligence, and enfolded by Cosmic Love; but
Following on Mr. Lloyd's studies of Turgenev
Sociology.
his excursions into the elemental, primordial,
and Tolstoy in 'Two Russian Reformers,' we
have now
fundamental, auric, and psychic characteristics
a life of Dostoieffsky. As the
Levine (Louis), The Labor Movement in France :
Russian steppes dwarf the country-sides of
a Study in Revolutionary Syndicalism, with an
of the Beginning (and, presumably, of the
Middle and the End) leave us unconvinced of
the rest of Europe, so the story of Dostoieffsky
Introduction by Prof. F. H. Giddings, 8/
dwarfs and beggars the life of the ordinary
New York, Columbia University;
the basic and primal activities of the Great
London, Longmans
Silent Spirit.
European man of letters. He belongs, even
For notice see p. 387.
United States National Museum : 1888, Descrip-
more entirely than does Tolstoy, to that level
Taxation and Anarchism : a Discussion between
tions of Five New Genera and Twenty-Six New
where life and literature run into one, because,
the Hon. Auberon Herbert and J. H. Levy,
Species of Ichneumon-Flies, by H. L. Viereck;
far more deeply than Tolstoy, he had himself
experienced the bitter and terrible sufferings of
1/ net.
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Personal Rights Association
Weevils of Economic or Biological Importance,
which he wrote, It is a life to which a Western
This volume embodies the controversy
European can with difficulty do justice, how-
between Mr. Auberon Herbert and Mr.
by W. D. Pierce; 1891, Description of a New
ever real his sympathy, and Mr. Lloyd has not
J. H. Levy concerning the functions of the
Isopod Crustacean belonging to the Genus
Livoneca from the Atlantic Coast of Panama,
State in relation to taxation, voluntary and
entirely avoided the temptation to eke out his
matter with rhetoric. Greater severity in this
compulsory. Anarchism looms large on the
by Harriet Richardson ; 1893, Instructions for
horizon of Mr. Levy's mind. Individualism,
collecting and fixing, Rotifers in Bulk, by P.
respect, and less repetition, would have
he says,
made the figure of Dostoieffsky stand out more
maximizes " freedom, and other
de Beauchamp; and 1895, Naumachocrinus,
a New Genus belonging to the Crinoid Family
impressively and clearly. Still, this genius is
conceptions of State • control are, in classic
too little known to the general reading public
phrase, “ the end of all things. " Mr. Herbert
Phrynocrinidæ, by A. É. Clark.
in England, and we welcome a book which
delivers himself with wisdom and tolerance.
Fiction.
should do good service in revealing him more
Philology.
widely.
Barclay (Florence L. ), Through the Postern Gate,
Rawnsley (Canon), Memories of the Tennysons, 6/ Harrison (Henry), Surnames of the United King-
6/
Putnam
net.
Glasgow, MacLehose
dom : a Concise Etymological Dictionary, This last work of the popular novelist is
A new edition, with two additional chapters,
Vol. I. Part XVII. , 1/6 net. Eaton Press not meritorious. It is feeble, sentimental (with
giving an account of the Tennyson Centenary
This instalment of a useful and interesting that sugary, self-admiring sentimentality that
meetings at Somersby last August. The compilation consists of surnames beginning the worse sort of American readers appear
celebrations on that occasion were suitable,
with the letter L.
to love), and lacking in originality.
and owe much to Canon Rawnsley's keenness,
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles : Blundell (Agnes), Pension Kraus, 6/
but we can hardly think it worth while to Th-Thyzle (Vol. IX. ), 5/
Herbert & Daniel
reproduce two sermons and the short addresses
Oxford, Clarendon Press
The “centre-piece ” of this well-written
given, which contain no novelties, and include
Part of the ninth volume of Sir James Murray's
story is a forest in Germany, where the heroine
journalistic compliments like the deep per:
Dictionary. Three thousand five hundred and found solace for past sorrows and promise
sonal satisfaction ” of Mr. Cuming Walters at thirty-six words are dealt with in this instal-
of happiness. The cosmopolitan inhabitants
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Warren. " Canon Rawnsley's article on the
to Thyxtill or Thyzle.
though there is a good deal of sentiment, it is
meeting, reprinted from The Spectator, is Weekley (Ernest), The Romance of Words, 3/8 net.
pleasant sentiment.
enthusiastic and rather thin. The fact is
John Murray
Bojer (Johan), Treacherous Ground, translated
that people with a knowledge of Tennyson have
For notice sec p. 381.
from the Norwegian by Jessie Muir, 6/
been over-using their material, so that it has
Wilson (J. Cook), Aristotelian Studies : 1. On
Sidgwick & Jackson
become stale. As we said in 1900, Canon the Structure of the Seventh Book of the Though sad, this story is not depressing, and
Rawnsley's book is valuable for its details of
Nicomachean Ethics, Chaps. I. -X. , 5/
does not lack interest. The author's style is
Lincolnshire, where his family were old friends
Oxford, Clarendon Press
occasionally reminiscent of Ibsen, especially in
and neighbours of the Tennysons. The mistake This paper upon the parallel passages which his brief recital of tragedy. The characteriza-
we noted about the acquaintance of FitzGerald are visible in the Seventh Book of the Ethics' tion is good, particularly that of the peasants ;
and Tennyson at Cambridge remains in the was first published in 1879. In view of the
and the scenery and details of everyday life
text.
revived interest in Aristotle, its reissue is are pleasantly and concisely described.
Scottish Historical Review, April, 2/6 net.
timely. Prof. Cook Wilson has not in the Burgin (G. B. ), Dickie Delver, 6/ Hutchinson
Glasgow, MacLehose meantime modified his ingenious theory much, In order to escape from a mariage de con-
The main features of this number were men-
but he adds a postscript upon the authorship venance arranged for him by an autocratic
tioned by us last week.
of the parallel versions, suggesting that the parent, the hero, a wealthy young American,
Seafield Correspondence from 1685 to 1708, edited, difficulty of attributing both the repeated seeks refuge in a small Canadian village, where
with Introduction and Annotations, by James passages to Aristotle may be met by supposing he has many adventures, and eventually meets
Grant.
Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable that he rewrote a previous composition without his fate in a young and charming neighbour,
These letters have in the main been furnished
the original before him, and that a disciple, The machinations of a preposterous female
from the documents of the Countess-Dowager
revising the manuscript, and wishing to include
character provide a mild excitement, and a
of Seafield. A few are taken from the State
all the master's words, set the duplicates side delicate situation is created by the inopportune
Papers of Scotland in the London Record by side, as if in a continuous text, with perhaps arrival of the jilted bride, disguised as
Office. The period and matter of the corre-
some connecting link or minor rearrangement. Indian squaw. Notwithstanding its improba-
spondence cover the reigns of James II. , Prof. Cook Wilson now rejects the view that bility, the book is rendered attractive by its
William and Mary, and Anne. Under William the works of Aristotle are to any large extent quaint humour.
Sir James Ogilvie was Secretary of State for
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Dickens (C. ), Dombey and Son, 3/6 net.
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High Chancellor. The letters end at the Selected Essays from English Literature, edited known pictures is the chief feature.
It is a
French invasion of Scotland in the spring of by E. Lee, 2!
Arnold light wash which does not accord well with the
1708. They shed much light on the several A well-chosen volume, beginning with Bacon blacker parts of the plates, and is generally
periods mentioned.
and ending with Dr. John Brown, representative crude in effect.
Story (Alfred Thomas), The Building of the of the best, yet avoiding what is hackneyed. Fairless (Michael), The Gathering of Brother
British Empire : the Story of England's We commend the inclusion of Leigh Hunt, and Hilarius, New Edition.
Growth from Elizabeth to Victoria, two Parts, the choice of personal revelation rather than In Murray's Shilling Library.
1558–1895, 5/ net.
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There is much additional material of importance, sensible manual.
the finish.
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Futrelle (May), Secretary of Frivolous Affairs, 6/ days he seems to have been educated in the Arnold as a “ triad of great names
" in the
Gay & Hancock belief that the power of money was unlimited, Victorian era is perverse.
The volume forms
A brightly written story of an American girl but later his wealth is associated with many part of the Guild Library.
who lost her fortune and found an agreeable forms of trouble. The one great obstacle to
Women's Labour League, Annual Report for the
occupation. During her season's secretaryship his selfish desires is a young lawyer, who is
to a wealthy, but much-worried lady she moved a significant figure in the labour movements of
Year 1911, together with Report of Proceedings
at the Seventh Annual Conference, held at
in the highest circles of American Society, the country. On the whole, the story is in-
Birmingham, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2d.
where all the dukes were thieves and no mov- teresting, but would have been improved by
3, Lincoln's Inn Fields
able property was safe, and she was plunged revision. The illustrations are worthy of
The tone of the Report is saddened by the
from one exciting incident to another. The mention.
deaths during the year of both joint Honorary
plot is ingenious, and the treatment superficial, Wemyss (George), The Secret Book, 6/
but agreeable.
Secretaries, Mrs. Middleton and Mrs. Ramsay
Ham-Smith
MacDonald.
Garshin (W. M. ), The Signal, and Other Stories, Here the long arm of coincidence is over-
translated by Capt. Rowland, 6/ Duckworth worked, and the style, though fluent, may jar
Yale Review, April, 75 cents.
Horn (Kate), Edward and I and Mrs.
Honeybun : on sensitive readers. The secret book is
a Romance of Married Life.
a woman's diary, which a man finds and reads.
Pamphlets.
One of Stanley Paul's Clear - Type Sixpenny His determination to discover the owner and
Novels. For notice see Athen. , Feb. 19, 1910, marry her supplies the events of the story.
Chamberlain (B. H. ), The Invention of a New
p. 213.
It comes from America, and seems more likely
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The first chapter of this novel—The Coming
resuscitated to make their Imperial policy more
Mackellar (Dorothea) and Bedford (Ruth), The Revolution '-ís devoted to views on Modernity.
effective. The old ancestor. and Mikado-
Little Blue Devil, 6/
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worship was aptly manipulated to patch up a
The little blue devil of this story, who was he terms it, has abolished all our old institu-
creed which was a blend of Imperialism and
cast out to sea in his eggshell, had plenty of tional ideals. The characterization is defec-
Cæsarism, a religion the spiritual and super-
pluck. He had to steer for himself from the tive throughout. The chief figure is
natural elements of which were kept studiously
age of ten, when his one relation left him in a romantic young woman, who goes through
in the background or engineered to further
Parisian boarding-house with a capital of a various vicissitudes incidental to her tempera-
the new materialistic conception of a Westernized
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civilization. Buddhism and the old traditions
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were discredited, and a hierarchy grew up
and eventually undertook the steering of the tions, including a suicide, the story winds
under the new shibboleths,
somebody sinking outside. " The book is of to its close.
Friendly Relations with Germany: Correspond-
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of material, and incidents which leave no mark New edition.
Macmillan and German Municipalities, following upon
on the plot or on the characters. Yet the
Public Meeting held in the City Chambers,
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and cousins, are clearly defined. We only wish
A résumé and classification of the letters
there were not quite so many of them.
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urging a more cordial intercommunication, in
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consideration of the ties binding both nations,
It is difficult to believe that the author could
For notice of Part IX. see Athen. , Sept. 16,
after the public meeting specified. Transla-
have written so colourless a story. The chief
1911, p. 322.
tions of the German letters are included.
Mathews
character is a prig, and his wife bores us by Hine (Reginald L. ), Anima Celtica.
her adoration of him ; nor is the monotony
This little book has something of the true | Livingstone (Rev. I. ), Conservative Judaism and
relieved by any incident worthy of note.
quality of imaginative prose; it is written with Modern Thought: a Paper read at the Bangor
Macvane (Edith), Tarantella, 6/
enthusiastic appreciation, rising to a fine flow Hebrew Literary Society, January 14.
Hurst & Blackett
of eloquence. We cannot speak so highly of The author, whose object in this paper has
A picturesque story of Southern Italy, lively its penetration. The author's idea of the Irish been to reveal the compatibility of modern
and melodramatic. A beautiful American
spirit is too near to the conception of Renan and thought with Jewish faith and practice, in
woman, unhappily married, visits the grave of
Matthew Arnold for our taste; and the discussion virtue of his argument shows us exactly the
her mother at Sorrento, and there meets an
of a few obvious traits, humour, melancholy, opposite. The first part of his short ad-
Italian duke. So begins the tale. The "Taran-
and the like, is only redeemed by the charming dress is concerned with Judaic history.
tella is skilfully woven into the plot.
quotations from Irish literature which serve In it he mentions the astonishing discovery of
Martin (C. J. ), A Little Aversion, 81 "Arrowsmith
to point these discourses. Despite some faults, Capt. Weldon, whose theory it was that, as
The story describes family life in the early
good predominates.
gas, electricity, steamers, umbrellas, and
part of the eighteenth century, and the plot Lowry (Ernest Ward), Can the Doctors work the uniforms
mentioned in Nahum and
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A brightly written brochure which has lost tribes. When Mr. Livingstone stoops to
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temporary atmosphere is well suggested, but
important officials of the British Medical Asso- seriously.
the characters strike us as conventional and
ciation. The case against the Insurance Act Long (Bernard), The Passing of Babel, or Esper-
uninteresting, and the author exhibits a stilted
from the doctors' point of view is clearly stated,
anto and its Place in Modern Life, Bd. net.
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The
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Taube (Baron von), In Defence of America, 5/ net.
opinion the heterogeneity of its composition
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fashioned American way-by no means disdains
tion of wayside gleanings placed on paper as
Fine Art and Archæology.
to notice the good things of the table. There
a kind of anti - toxin to current English
Mireur (Dr. H. ), Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art
criticisms.
are pathetic scenes, too, and a few pages,
We hear a great deal of the “ manly faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les
inserted here and there, of reflection and
and the “ womanly woman.
dix-huitième et dix-neuvième Siècles, Tome I. ,
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We have seldom encountered a treatise
teenth-century paintings, drawings, water-
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conducted on such irrelevant lines. The writer
colours, miniatures, pastels, and the like is
higher by women than men. She draws
arranged with the utmost neatness and com-
some delightful people, but the book is some-
prattles on from subject to subject, moralizing
disjointedly, and in a manner that might very
prehensiveness, and cannot fail to be very
what long and overloaded with detail and
useful,
weil apply to anything. His portrait occupies
characters. Those who do not mind making
the paper cover, which seems rather incon-
the acquaintance of several new people after
Philosophy.
sistent with the self-effacement he conspicu-
having read half of it will find plenty to
ously advocates in these pages.
Otte (Heinrich), Kennt Aristoteles die sogenannte
interest them.
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This is a vigorously written pamphlet, in
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which the author maintains, first, that the
I'he motto on the title-page, “This is as Mr. Watt's effort to crowd many
strange a maze as e'er man trod,” &c. , is a
common interpretation of παθημάτων κάθαρσις
literary theories and criticisms into a slender
very fair commentary on this lengthy story of
is entirely wrong
that κάθαρσις has
compass results in a complete lack of propor-
mystery and crime. There
many, we tion and no solid background for his canvas.
reference either to éNéos and poßos, or indeed
believe, who love a maze, and to them we
Moreover, he rushes too precipitately from
to the spectator at all ; and, secondly, that
heartily recommend this book.
generalizations to their antitheses. The actual πραγμάτων would be better than παθημάτων
Thieves, by Aix, 6/
Frank Palmer criticism strikes us as overwrought; the stress
as an emendation for padnuárwv, and that
The story of an enormously wealthy American and tension of style as artificial and over-empha.
the whole sentence describes tragedy as “ that
steel-magnate, who, in addition to his riches, sized. He gives far too much attention to which by means of pity and fear effects the
possesses an uncontrollable temper, a second Scott, and far too little to Keats and Burns. purification, or clearing up, of that which is
wife, and a charming daughter. In his early To select Barry Cornwall, Hood, and Matthew fearful or painful "-i. e. , in the pūlos itself.
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History and Biography.
of the reign of James VI. down to 1604.
Schlesinger (Max), Geschichte des Symbols : ein
So far as is known, this MS. has not
Versuch.
Berlin, Leonhard Simion
hitherto been catalogued or described.
Herr Schlesinger, if he has not dealt ex-
CONGRATULATIONS due to The
haustively as,
THREE lectures on George Petrie (the
could not in a single volume-has at least Daily Telegraph on the success of its Margaret Stokes Memorial Lectures, 1912)
given a comprehensive outline of it so far as
endeavours to raise a fund for the five
European, in ,
were given recently at Alexandra College,
historgans concerned. He begins with ety: necessitous granddaughters of Dickens. Dublin, by Mr. Alfred Perceval Graves.
mology, and proceeds then to a discussion of The final figures announced give the Mr. Graves dealt with Petrie's work as
the physiological and psychological aspects of
symbolism, showing an inclination to believe grand total of 9,4191. 78. : of this 6,6511. 78.
a collector of Irish folk · music, and
in the existence of a cerebral centre for sym•
was raised in England and 2,7681. in his position as archæologist, artist, and
bolizing, situated, so it is conjectured, in the America. The Daily Telegraph, in an-
parietal region.
man of letters.
nouncing its close on the 29th of March,
Geography and Travel.
states the pleasant fact that the amount
THE SCOTTISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Joergensen (Johannes), Le Livre de la Route, 5fr.
Paris, Perrin represents not a limited number of is to hold its annual meeting at St. An-
See notice on p. 387.
large contributions from the generous
drews on June 1st, when it will be enter-
Science.
rich, but a demonstration of the gratitude tained by the University.
-Schöner (Dr. Otto), Die praktische Vorausbestim- and affection entertained by rich and poor With the May number, Messrs. Constable
mung des Geschlechtes beim Menschen.
Berlin, Schweizer & Co.
alike for the memory of one who loved will undertake the publication in England
This monograph sets forth the methods and humanity from the highest to the lowest. ” of Scribner's Magazine.
results of certain researches by which the writer
claims to have discovered how the sex of a WE owe an apology to Mr. Colquhoun
STROTHER'S JOURNAL,' from a MS.
child may be predicted, and also determined,
before birth. If he is right, the determining
for having said in the review of his book in the British Museum, edited by the
factor is on the mother's side alone ; and the
China in Transformation' that “no Rev. Cæsar Caine, will be issued by Messrs.
principle by which calculations can be made foreign envoy of that period was seen at
A. Brown & Sons shortly. It is of value
is furnished by definite laws of sequence in ovu-
lation. The prima facie reason for hesitation
the capital before the visit of Mr. Ward, for Yorkshire topography, with special
about accepting the theory is that, as yet, it the American Minister. ” There is reference to Hull and York.
rests upon only a small number of cases actually published dispatch of August 10th, 1859, THE death is announced, at the age
observed.
from Mr. Bruce to Lord Malmesbury, in of 84, of Mr. Alexander Milne, a well-
which he reports that the Russian known Aberdeen bookseller of the firm
Minister, General Ignatieff, succeeded in of Messrs. A. & R. Milne.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS.
reaching Peking and in exchanging the
APRIL
With deep regret we record the death
Theology.
ratifications of the Russian treaty towards of Mr. Charles Awdry on Thursday,
8 How a Modern Atheist Found God, by the end of May. Dr. S. Wells Williams's the 28th of March. It was only last week
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