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Mr.
Scots invade England, and were defeated Although Widsith' has little poetic
HOME RULE.
outside London by the Romans ”; and merit, its value as a document is very
THE flood of Home Rule literature is his first chapter opens cheerfully with great. In the interpretation and criticism
upon us, and the quality of it varies. The "The Irish Question began with the of the statements of Roman writers
Unionist Irish Essays Committee, which Christian era. ” He tells us much of the respecting Germanic ethnography, and
has prepared “The Case against Home Earl of Essex, Tyrconnel, and Wolfe
Earl of Essex, Tyrconnel, and Wolfe of heroic legend as recorded in Beowulf'
Rule,' has certainly done its work very Tone; but the little he has to
Tone; but the little he has to say about and in German and Scandinavian poetry
thoroughly. Not only is the list of con- the Home Rule question to-day is squeezed and saga, its evidence is indispensable,
tributors imposing, but the method into a few pages, and even in these he while at the same time its obscure allu-
also of dealing with the subject is divagates from his particular branch of sions can only be understood by compari-
comprehensive. The paper - covered the subject. The most interesting novelty son with these fuller sources of information.
volume is avowedly a partisan affair ; but is one not of idea, but of expression.
in spite of these limitations its tone as a
On p. 87 he refers to Gladstone's The poem, apart from obvious interpola-
whole is quiet and judicious, and the policy as "a type of policy that never, tions, can hardly be later than the begin-
essays are marked by much industrious in history, failed to have any but one ning of the eighth century, and some of its
compilation and reasoned argument, and ending. "
traditions go back to times far earlier
a comparative lack of wild statement It is refreshing to turn to the volume than the settlement of the Angles in
Britain.
and heat. Mr. Bonar Law's contribu- by Mr. S. G. Hobson, an avowed Home
It may be described as
tion is a short Preface, in which he in- Ruler. He succeeds in putting the case somewhat inartistic attempt to provide a
dicates that to his mind the Ulster objec- with a freshness which is remarkable narrative framework for certain mnemonic
tion is the greatest obstacle to Home at this stage of the controversy, and his lists of names of peoples and of their
Rule-a statement which has special desire to face the truth leads him occa-
rulers most famous in heroic song, which
interest in view of recent rumours. Mr. sionally to say things that will be probably formed part of the regular
Balfour's contribution is also brief, and unpalatable to many Nationalists. Though education of a minstrel. The fiction is of
Sir Edward Carson's is little more than an not blind to the sentimental issue, he the simpleşt: a minstrel of ancient days,
introductory résumê of succeeding chapters, is chiefly interested in the economic named Widsid, “ the Far-travelled” (the
which range in subject from The question, and his chapters on finance, name actually existed, but is obviously
Religious Difficulty' to 'Private Bill the waste of Irish administration, chosen on account of its meaning), is sup- .
Legislation. ' Especially interesting are an agriculture, and the changes needed posed to recount his travels. As about
admirable article on · Éducation by Mr. for the development of Irish resources, every fourth word is a proper name, there
Godfrey Locker - Lampson; Mr. L. S. are most stimulating, vivid, and sugges- is not much room for story, but now and
Amery's article on the 'Colonial Analogy'; tive.
Hobson holds the view,
of
and Mr. George Wyndham's little treatise shared by many Irishmen to-day, that by an epithet expressing his traditional
on ‘The Completion of Land Purchase,' in the passage of Home Rule will mean
character, or by an allusion to some
which the author of the 1903 Act re- an immediate diminution of clerical in incident in his career. Tradition has no
iterates with Mr. Law's authority the fluence over local and national politics. sense of chronology, and the kings before
Unionist pledge that, should the party He also argues that the new régime will whom Widsith sang, and who bestowed
return to office, the land policy of 1903
see a fresh cleavage of parties in Ireland,
on him rich gifts, belong historically to
will be resumed. By contrast with the a cleavage not religious, but economic three different centuries. The strings of
restraint observed elsewhere, there is a He has a lively and personal style, and proper names are introduced abruptly,
deplorable feverishness about Earl Percy's his work may be commended to all who with little attempt to weave them into
essay on The Military Disadvantages of desire to consider a thoughtful presenta- the texture of the story. The author was
Home Rule. A good deal of his tion of the Home Rule case as it bears a skilled versifier, but the traces of higher
matter is only faintly, if at all, rele- on the great realities that underlie all poetic qualities that may be found in his
vant to the subject allotted to him, and politics.
work are probably due to echoes of the
he has seized the opportunity to spread Mr. de F. Pennefather's pamphlet is older songs from which he derived his
the view that war with Germany cannot concise and well - arranged.
He takes wide knowledge of heroic tradition. Wid.
long, be avoided, to urge compulsory 25 “ Delusions” entertained by Home sith 'has for us moderns an interest like
service, and to inform us that Home Rulers, and subjoins the “ Facts which, that of a fragmentary catalogue of a lost
Rule will mean civil war,
accompanied in his opinion, should shatter them. Now library; we see from it how abundant
by atrocities which will be remembered and then he is somewhat vague, as when and various were the treasures of Old
for centuries. ” This is, to our thinking, he observes that “ To Hell with England” English epic poetry, of which, by the
almost solitary
prophecy of an unnecessarily specific is one of the mottoes of the Irish Nation- merest accident,
kind.
alists.
example survives in ‘ Beowulf. '
Sir Thomas Fraser's volume on The
Mr. Chambers's edition of · Widsith'-
Military Danger ’ is scarcely, more illu- Widsith : a Study in Old English Heroic for this is what the volume really is,
minating than Lord Percy's chapter. Legend. By R. W. Chambers. (Cam- the prolegomena and the text makes this
The author, in fact, occupies by far the
greater portion of his space with an his-
bridge University Press. )
description seem inappropriate-is a re-
torical survey which goes back to the THE Old English poem Widsith' con- markably thorough and serviceable piece
earliest times. The first words in his sists of only 143 lines, and the volume of work. There is no other single book,
Chronology are " 363. Picts and Irish which Mr. Chambers has devoted to its even in German, which contains so com-
illustration contains nearly double that plete a summary of what has been done
Against Home Rule : the Case for the Union. number of pages. He cannot, however, by scholars, from the days of Cony beare
By Arthur J. Balfour, J. Austen Chamber. be fairly charged with either irrelevance and Kemble to the present time, for the
lain, and others. Edited by S. Rosen- or diffuseness. Those who are acquainted elucidation of the poem. Although Mr.
baum. With Introduction by Sir Edo with the enormous mass of comment and Chambers’s general point of view differs
ward Carson, and Preface by A. Bonar controversy to which this brief text has considerably from that indicated in this
Law. (Warne & Co. )
The Military Danger of Home Rule for Ire not have been made much shorter, if it most of his conclusions on questions of
given rise will admit that the book could article, we find ourselves able to accept
land. By Major-General Sir Thomas
Fraser. (John Murray. )
was to include not only a reasoned expo- detail. That these are seldom novel is
Irish Home Rule: the Last Phase.
sition of the author's own conclusions, but no ground for reproach; the reasoning
By
S. G. Hobson. (Stephen Swift & Co. )
also an adequate discussion of the con- by which they are supported is often new
The Fundamental Delusions of Home Rule. flicting theories of eminent scholars with and ingenious. The textual conjectures
By de F. Pennefather, (Love & Malcom: regard to the manifold problems which are justified, and the translation and
son. )
the poem presents.
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over a considerable portion of the period of and persecuted woman, diabolically mal-
transition from the small wooden sailing treated. Whether or no this can be sub-
Sociology.
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Cross (Ira B. ), THE ESSENTIALS OF SOCIALISM.
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matical prejudices. The 'Summaries of lost any of the old characteristics.
It penchant for scientific research and high
Periodicals are valuable as affording a
must regretfully be admitted, however, society, and the rogues here in question are
clue to many scattered articles, especially that the authors have lost something of their unexceptionable members of their class. A
in German and French.
old spontaneity. The Bath Comedy country house party, rival detectives, and a
seemed to flow from a natural impulse ;
sea of diamonds and precious stones form
Scbool-Books.
'Love gilds the Scene' betrays, in its ten
a fitting background ; and a strong love-
Burke's Speech on Conciliation with Ame: separable episodes, an eye to the monthly interest and impossible conversations com-
rica, edited, with Introduction and magazine. Still, even in its fetters it has plete the tale.
Notes, by F. G. Selby, 1/6 Macmillan grace, charm, and the tone of the eighteenth Marriott (Charles), THE DEWPOND, 6/
The introductory chapter contains a brief century. It has a certain originality, too,
Hurst & Blackett
account of the life and works of Burke, since nearly all its prominent characters
This novel of over three hundred pages,
followed by an impartial statement of the are married from the outset, and only one
shorn of its specious literary atmosphere,
events that led to the War of Independence. of the episodes is a conventional love-story.
would have made an excellent short story.
The fifty pages of notes should enable any Dunster (Roland), THE Kiss OF CHANCE, 6/ The author has endowed all the characters
intelligent student to follow the argument
of the speech.
Eveleigh Nash with interesting temperaments, but has
The extraordinary incidents and scenes failed to give to any one of them sufficient
Dicks (A. J. ), CAMBRIDGE GEOGRAPHICAL in this book are described with a vitality individuality to fix them in the reader's mind.
TEXT-BOOKS : INTERMEDIATE, 3/ that leaves one breathless. In spite of a Modern questions are alluded to with
Cambridge University Press certain commonness of expression and outlook understanding, but all attempt at facing
In this textbook information is up to there is a good deal of clever writing, and the responsibilities they imply is avoided.
date, superfluous details are omitted, this makes it all the more regrettable that
cause and effect are duly explained, and the author should have chosen so melo- Nomad," THE WOMAN DECIDES, 6/
the whole is presented in a bright and read- dramatic a setting for his story. The
Ouseley
able style. The numerous illustrations are characterization is good.
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Du Toit (Alex. L. ), PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Three of these stories have appeared
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Cambridge University Press Chase,' is in Mr. Hewlett's usual vividly of this intricate romance is laid in Europe
The Love happy illustration of her theory: The scene
This volume covers the amount of physical descriptive style. He finds a congenial and Australia. The author's laborious style
geography required from pupils in second subject in the wooing of a beauteous maiden and weak sentimentality produce an effect
ary schools, but its outstanding feature is by a cardinal, a warrior, and a poet. The of unreality on us, and we find the manifold
the selection of types and examples from
scene is laid in Italy.
the region of South Africa. Illustrations,
complexities of the plot somewhat confusing,
diagrams, and general arrangement are
Hewlett (Maurice), THE STOOPING LADY, while the dialogue is too much given to
" gush. "
excellent.
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AND GREEN
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