Saleeby touches great existence of God are: (1) his commentary, on selected from Thackeray by Amy Barter, 1/6
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The Council have also established a PROF. L. G. KASTNER of the University
Professorship of the English Language, of Manchester is engaged upon an edition
Literary Gossip . in addition to the existing Chair of English of the “Poetical Works
Poetical Works of William
Language and Literature, and have ap- Drummond of Hawthornden,' which he
THE REPORT of the Director of the pointed to the new Professorship Mr. hopes may be published early next year
Department of Historical Research of F. W. Moorman, who has been Assistant by the University Press. One of the
the Carnegie Institution of Washington Professor of English Language and Litera- chief points of interest in Prof. Kastner's
for 1911 gives an interesting account of the ture in the University since 1904.
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Poems,' before that of 1616, sent out
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environment of Widsith,' with its embryonic
Catalogue of the Telugu Books in the Library of and in sequence, they should prove useful to
story material, the critical theories that have
the British Museum, coinpiled by L. D. Barnett, those entering for the examination and desirous
been expounded on it, its geography, language,
32/6
British Museum
and metre. The actual and small text is
of testing the standard of the questions set.
Telugu is the most important, numerically,
placed towards the end. The resurrection of
of the Dravidian languages spread in varying All Time Tales : Fairy Tales and Story Poems,
Juvenile Literature.
Müllerhoff's theories, which have received
strength over Southern India and Northern
scholarly depreciation, especially by the Oxford
Ceylon. The extant Telugu literature may be
edited by C. Eliot Norton; Northland Sagas, school, of late ycars, is interesting and curious.
Baid to have originated early in the eleventh
retold by Henry Gilbert ; and Tales from the
We are inclined to think that the author has
century with the version of the ‘Mahābhārata'
Kalevala, retold by Nannette Webb, 9d. each. somewhat overrated • Widsith' and under-
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the Song of Hiawatha,' little remains in a condition of terrestrial perfection which is to
pointed as an optional subject in geography. bald prose version to satisfy any of the needs emerge from the confusion of the present.
The author has again shown his ability in of youthful readers.
For robust souls this holds no lure compared
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data are obtained from recent sources, while Birmingham (George A. ), The Major's Niece, 3/6 struggle and growth. In outlining a scheme
the diagrams and other illustrations
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notice see Athen. , May 6, 1911, p. 502.
ciently appreciating, we think, the greater
Science,
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published this book. Its reflections
edition.
Thurston (E. Temple), The Apple of Eden.
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The Council have also established a PROF. L. G. KASTNER of the University
Professorship of the English Language, of Manchester is engaged upon an edition
Literary Gossip . in addition to the existing Chair of English of the “Poetical Works
Poetical Works of William
Language and Literature, and have ap- Drummond of Hawthornden,' which he
THE REPORT of the Director of the pointed to the new Professorship Mr. hopes may be published early next year
Department of Historical Research of F. W. Moorman, who has been Assistant by the University Press. One of the
the Carnegie Institution of Washington Professor of English Language and Litera- chief points of interest in Prof. Kastner's
for 1911 gives an interesting account of the ture in the University since 1904.
edition will be the rehabilitation of
progress of the descriptive lists of English
This month's issue of the Journal of he followed closely, both in omis-
Phillips, and the demonstration that
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now decided that Prof. C. M. Andrews's in addition to Mr. Sauerbeck's annual
Poems,' before that of 1616, sent out
* Guide to American materials in the article, two papers of great interest. One, privately by Drummond to a few intimate
Record Office shall be published in two by Mr. R. A. Macdonald, adduces privately by Drummond to a few intimate
friends. This edition, which appeared
volumes, and Vol. I. , comprising the earlier evidence to show that there is no essential without any date or place of publication,
State Papers, is in the press.
connexion between the accumulation of has been overlooked by former editors.
Vol. II. , dealing with departmental capital and the rate of interest, and that
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