No More Learning

accorded to each writer, and the bulky volume This little work is a short allegory in blank
claims further to be comprehensive and up verse, which seems to us pedestrian and history and Biography.
to date.
somewhat obscure.
American Historical Review, April, 1$.
Readings from the Bible and Apocrypha, Pickering (James E. ), THE CAP OF CARE, 1/
Macmillan
selected and arranged by Edith Mary net.
Fifield
Bagot (Richard), THE ITALIANS OF TO-DAY,
Ecroyd, 2/ net.
Frowde A rhymed, decasyllabic adaptation of one
2/6 net.
Mills & Boon
We cannot profess much sympathy for of Boccaccio's tales, told with much supple-
the purpose
of this collection. Neither ness and charm of rhythm. Mr. Pickering has so successfully bridged the gulf that
No other English writer of this generation
“strength 2
training is needed has already shown elegance and delicacy, and
nowadays to enable a person who desires his new venture cannot but enhance this separates the Anglo-Saxon from the Italian
to do so to discover the finest things in the reputation. Always effortless, rounded, and book, which is appearing in Italian as well
as Mr. Bagot, and in this interesting little
Bible, and it takes little more time to read harmonious, his verse is never trivial. It
as English, he proposes to give the man
passages in their proper context than to is starred throughout with gay, tender, and
in the street some account of the actual
read them disconnectedly in snippets. whimsical fancies. Some of the lyrics are Italian of to-day. He pleads for “a wider
Welch (Rev. Adam C. ), THE RELIGION OF
delightfully fresh and spontaneous melodies. and less superficial attitude towards Italy
ISRAEL
KINGDOM : THE
Mr. Pickering's metrical faculties are as deft than the sentimental and somewhat flabby
KERR LECTURES, delivered in the
and cunning as those of any one now writing regard for Italian pretty things and Italian
United Free Church College, Glasgow,
pretty manners and faces," and he has
during the Session 1911-12, 7/6 net. Roberts (E. Cecil), “THE TRENT" : dwelt rather upon the best characteristics of
Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark RECORD OF FRIENDSHIP, 6d.
Italians than upon their defects. He sets
The object of the book is to trace the
Nottingham, Needham to work to remove a number of popular
development of religious thought in Israel, This record of friendship and wandering prejudices. A great deal of nonsense has
through the various interactions of prophecy on Oxford waters is without much tragic or been talked about the poverty of the
and the kingdom. The argument moves poetic merit, but is endowed with a tranquil peasants. In the mountain districts they
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are
are poor, but in Tuscany most of them are Green (Thomas Hill), FOUR LECTURES ON the world's great men. His writing is both:
prosperous; and the breaking-up of many THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, with an lucid and pointed, and he shows good judg-
largo estates, which has often freed the land
Introductory Note by Kenneth Bell, 1/ment in weighing the motives and excuses,
from owners who had little sense of responsi- net.
Longmans successes and disappointments, which make
bility, has greatly increased the number of We know no better illustration of Seeley's up so large a part of the record.
well-to-do peasant-proprietors. Nor
dictum that history without political
they dirty and ill-dressed. Mr. Bagot science is without fruit than these lectures
Scott (Charles Newton), THE AGE OF MARIE
rightly protests against the idea that the of T. H. Green. He certainly differed from
ANTOINETTE: A SKETCH OF THE PERIOD
OF EUROPEAN REVIVAL WHICH CLAIMS
Italian is idle and a poor physical specimen. the orthodox historian in being neither a
Yet he is not, we believe, instinotively professional narrator nor
AMONG ITS REPRESENTATIVES GOETHE,
a specialist in
respected by the negro in America, like a evidence, but his theoretic interests give
PRUDHON, GAINSBOROUGH, AND MOZART.
German or an Anglo-Saxon. Gambling is & peculiar value to his study of a period
New York, Scribner's Sons ;
one of his worst failings, and we think that when political theory was a vital element
London, Leadenhall Press
the harm done through the official en- in practical politics. Vane, Harrison the Third edition, revised.
couragement of this vice by the weekly State Fifth-Monarchy Man, and Lilburne the
lottery is here underrated. In Naples it is Leveller are at least as important as the | Shelley: (Frances, Lady), Diary of, 1787–1817,
edited by her Grandson, Richard Edg-
a source of endless misery.
Battle of Marston Moor. The lectures are
cumbe, 10/6 net.
John Murray
Much of the material in this volume will reprinted from the Works of T. H. Green,
Clearly Lady Shelley must, in real life,
be familiar to readers of the excellent ‘My Vol. III.
have been a charming woman, beautiful,
Italian Year,' but it would be well worth
gay, spirited, and sensible ; even from the
perusal were it only for the account of the Guildhall (The) of the City of London, to-
gether with a Short Account of its disadvantageous angle of a diary, which
attitude of the average Italian of all classes
Historic Associations and the Municipal reflects ungracefulness upon any record of
towards his Church and his religion. Cynical
and even sceptical by nature, he will abuse
Work carried on therein, compiled by personal triumphs, we see how natural it was
Sir John James Baddeley, 6d. Fisher
that aristocratic circles should make her
the priests, laugh at the ceremonies, deny
Revised edition.
their centre, and that the Duke of Wellington
the dogmas, yet cherish the profoundest
should delight in her society. Her times
respect for the Church as a great national Liverpool Vestry Books, 1681–1834, edited and her surroundings give interest to her
institution. He will conscientiously con-
by Henry Peet: Vol. 1. , 1681-1799, 15/journal, although she had neither a good
form to it, and leave to the priests all
Liverpool, University Press; style nor the gift of drawing character.
questions of dogma, which seem to him
London, Constable
Only by acts does she reveal her own; but
matters of secondary importance, and hardly The suggestion which Mr. and Mrs.
an heiress who, defying counsel, marries
worth discussing. This practical attitude Sidney Webb made in their 'English Local the man against whom every friend warns
makes it improbable that Modernism will Government, that the Liverpool Vestry her, and thereafter makes life happy both
ever obtain any real hold in the country. A Books should be printed, is being carried for herself and him, does not need the inter-
sceptical peasant will pay a high price to out by the School of Local History and pretation of words. Her baldly eloquent
a priest (whom he abuses for accepting it) Records of the University of Liverpool, and narrative of her early years reads like the
for a good position in the procession in the first volume, covering the period 1681- scenario of a Thackeray novel, and the
honour of a local, miracle-working Madonna 1799, is now issued.
lovely, disreputable aunt, rouged and un-
whose fame brings profit to the district, and Mr. and Mrs. Webb describe the Liverpool repentant, in the background, fills in the
will be proud to have a son a priest. Yet Vestry as by far the most remarkable picture appropriately. In short, the Diary
Mr. Bagot declares there can be no doubt example of its kind to be found in the is a valuable document, and we hope that
that, whereas Anglo-Saxons and Teutons, kingdom, and devote much space to a dis- there may be more of it to come.
if deprived of their faith, may remain good cussion of its constitution and methods, so
citizens, this is far from being the case with that the Local School is probably well
Vincent (John Martin), HISTORICAL RE-
Italians, unless they have been unusually advised in selecting this group of records as
SEARCH, AN OUTLINE OF THEORY AND
highly educated.
one of its first publications.
PRACTICE, 7/6 net. New York, Holt ;
At last the old inter-provincial feeling
London, Bell
The Introduction to the present volume
seems to be rapidly breaking down, thanks deals in an able manner with the main
Prof. Vincent of the Johns Hopkins Uni-
to the spread of education and the sending features of the records, giving a sketch of versity has written this outline of a large
the
of conscripts from the north to the south, the development of the Poor Law authority and difficult subject expressly for
and vice versa. Mr. Bagot even tells us in Liverpool. The transcript has evidently advanced student who is about to enter the
that a genuine Italian language, spoken been very carefully prepared; but, until field of research, either as a profession or
throughout the peninsula, will have super- an index is available (which is promised
as a serious avocation. " To this class of
seded the dialects in another fifty years, with the second and concluding volume),
readers the book may be useful. His analysis
though this point needs some reservation, so the aspect of the text may dismay all of various kinds of historical evidence is not
far, at least, as the South is concerned. but the most enthusiastic students.
so stimulating as the late Mr. H. B. George's
little book, but it is well thought out and
Caius (John), M. D. , Second Founder of Gon- People's Books : JULIUS CÆSAR, SOLDIER, illustrated with typical examples, such as
ville and Caius College, and Master of the
STATESMAN, EMPEROR, by
by Hilary the pseudo-Ingulf, the William Tell legend,
College 1559–73, Works of, with
Hardinge ; FRANCIS BACON, by Prof. and the St. Ursula myth. His chapter on
Memoir of his Life by John Venn, edited A. R. Skemp, 6d. net each. Jack The Newspaper as the source of History'
by E. S. Roberts, 18/net.
The difficulties of compression which are is specially designed for American historians,
Cambridge University Press severely felt in the attempt to give a fair who have to make large use of newspaper
Edited by the Master of Caius in com-
account of a whole science in 100 pages or evidence; but it is not without value for
memoration of the four hundredth anni- less are not so evident in brief sketches of English students, because Prof. Vincent
versary in 1910 of the birth of John Caius. biography. Mr. Hardinge has, on the whole, disti uishes between the useful and the
Dr. Venn has revised and added to his bio- done well with Julius Cæsar, who now, trivial, from an historic standpoint, in the
graphy of the second great founder of the perhaps, gets a more just estimate of his modern newspaper. His remark that “in
college in his history of it. The curious achievements than was prevalent twenty modern newspaper life it may sometimes
works of Caius, with a translation of his
We think the author might be found that silence is agreed upon
12 is
'De Canibus Britannis, complete the have given some general idea of the powers noteworthy and true; the silence of the
volume, which is a worthy tribute to the and position of the Senate, for which there press is sometimes as misleading as the
Cambridge Doctor. There are learned notes is more to be said than is supposed. Cæsar's silence of mediæval chronicles. Prof. Vin-
by Dr. M. R. James, and excellent illustra- hold of supreme power after he had crossed cent makes two odd blunders on one page
tions—e. g. , of Caius's monument and the the Rubicon is highly praised, and he did in saying that the forger Simonides put
three famous gates of the college.
achieve wonders ; but he was hardly a forward most extraordinary manuscripts
prophet. Probably he was, like Napoleon, on Egyptian history," whereas his reputed
Dickson Manuscripts : BEING DIARIES, LET- a man of such transcendent ability that his finds included an early MS. of St. Matthew
TERS, MAPS, ACCOUNT BOOKS, WITH solution of constitutional difficulties, what- and a Homer; and, further, in saying that
VARIOUS OTHER PAPERS, OF THE LATE ever his motives, was the only one possible * An Englishman in Paris' purported to be
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ALEXANDER DICK-
at the time. Mr. Hardinge writes a lively the memoirs of “Sir William Wallace, at
Son, presented to the Royal Regiment style, including such phrases as Here one time English ambassador in France. "?
of Artillery by his Son, the late General swung the democratic leg,” and he evidently It was Sir Richard Wallace, who was not
Sir Collingwood Dickson: Series C, knows his period well. We should have in the diplomatic service, on whom the book
From 1809 to 1818: Chap. VII. (July 1 added Froude's' Cæsar' to the bibliography. was unwarrantably fathered. The text
to September 30, 1813), 2/6
Prof. Skemp has made an excellent little has far too many misprints, including
Woolwich, Royal Artillery Institution' book out of one of the least attractive of “Guacciadim " for Guicciardini,
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Education.
Juvenile.
A study of the great "Parliamentarian
and his times : able and interesting, but | Fletcher (C. R. L. ), TEACHER'S COMPANION Hunt (C. Ashley), JIMSIE ; OR, DOWNS AND
generally antagonistic in tone.
TO A SCHOOL HISTORY OF ENGLAND BY UPS.
Drane
C. R. L. FLETCHER AND RUDYARD
A story for boys written in a style which
Geograpby and Travel.
KIPLING, 1/ net.
is calculated to depress rather than elevate
Oxford, Clarendon Press the minds of its intended readers.
Jackson (F. Hamilton), RAMBLES IN THE The Companion contains many explana-
PYRENEES AND THE ADJACENT Dis- tory and critical notes, with references to
fiction.
TRICTS : GASCONY, PAYS DE Foix, AND the works of standard writers on the various
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Mr. Jackson tells us that in planning his Guest (George), ANIMAL LIFE LESSONS, A New edition.
book he thought some sort of connexion MANUAL FOR TEACHERS; and Wigley
between the places described could be found (Mary Agnes), LITTLE LESSONS ABOUT Gibbon (Perceval), THE ADVENTURES
in the circuit of the railway from Bordeaux ANIMALS, FOR THE USE OF TEACHERS Miss GREGORY, 6!
Dent
to Bayonne, and round by way of Perpignan IN JUNIOR CLASSES.
This redoubtable spinster of mature
to Toulouse, thus returning to his starting- In each of these manuals for children, years would, a generation or so ago, have
point, and making occasional excursions from respect and consideration for animals are been classed as a “superfluous woman ;
these lines. He takes us to little places like inculcated as of primary importance for to-day she rejoices in a career and testifies
St. Macaire, St. Sever, Sauveterre de Béarn, understanding them. In the first, the in her own person to the prevalence of
Orthez, Hagetmau, Foix, Alet, Elne, Béziers, observations and instructions are full of humanity over sex. We could have spared
Auch, and Moissac, as well as to many places sanity, and the knowledge in it is the fruit the emphasis so constantly laid on her blue
better known to English travellers. But of wisdom. The second is intended for blood and consequent commanding manners,
of the Pyrenees themselves, which form the children under 12 years of age, and is still but her doings and personality are of the
main part of his title, he says nothing, and more avowedly propagandist and humani- material of which good fiction is made.
in his company we only see the mountains tarian. The habits of animals and of chil- The choice of so unconventional a type as
from a distance. Mr. Jackson's book is dren in relation to them are closely studied, the pivot of his book is much to the author's
devoted to churches and church archi- and many salutary lessons advised. Both credit,she links the different "adventures, "2
tecture, and on his special subject no more these books deserve recommendation.
and animates them all with a strong,
competent guide could be wished. He must Phillips Exeter Academy Bulletin, March.
healthy optimism.
be congratulated on the beauty of his
drawings, and on the excellence of the
Exeter, New Hampshire, the Academy Hardy (Thomas), JUDE THE OBSCURE ; and
photographs by Mr. Ashton. One photo-
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In this new edition of 'Jude the Obscure
France, of which our author speaks feelingly
there is
the
a postscript to earlier
Eton College, Spottiswoode & Co: preface in which Mr. Hardy animadverts
more than once. There are
one or two
An exercise
trifling misprints in the text, and the index adapts the Greek of Herodotus to modern furore of antagonism which this sombre book,
Sent up for Play " which with wise and gentle irony upon the
is incomplete; but a useful map makes conditions of Eton life. The idea is not
up for these defects, and all who care for
on its publication, created. He gives an
the churches of France will be glad to have spirit, and at considerable length.
new, but is carried out with ingenuity and entertaining account of the lengths that
Mr. Jackson's valuable work.
his detractors thought fit to go.
Artistic
Marlborough's Travellers' Practical Manual effort,” he says, always pays heavily for
Switzerland : a Practical Guide, 3/ net.
of Conversation in Four Languages : finding its tragedies in the forced adaptation
Berlin, Goldschmidt; ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN,
of human instincts to rusty and irksome
London, Williams & Norgate ITALIAN, 1)
moulds that do not fit them. ' Happily,
Second edition, with seven maps.
Third edition, revised.
that was sixteen years ago, and the passage
of years has eradicated the bitter animosity
Folk-lore.
cbool-Books.
of all except the most unenlightened and
unimaginative of readers. There are also
Thurston (Edgar), OMENS AND SUPERSTI- Baker (W. M.
), THE CALCULUS FOR BEGIN- a few lines of postscript to 'The Return of
TIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA, 12/6
NERS, 3/
Bell the Native concerning the topography of
Fisher Unwin A thoroughly practical guide to the easier Egdon Heath. The two volumes are the
Mr. Thurston's severely businesslike notes parts of the Calculus, which assumes little third and fourth of the fine new series
the magico-religious phenomena of and leads to a great deal, for instance, which Messrs. Macmillan are issuing as
Southern India may be caviare to the its application to the laws of motion. The the Wessex Edition. The frontispieces
general,” but for the anthropologist they printing of the answers on perforated pages, are respectively of Christminster (Ox-
provide material of the greatest importance.
which may be detached by the teacher if ford) and Egdon Heath. Two more volumes
Of course, the recorded observations differ thought necessary, is an ingenious innovation. — The Mayor of Casterbridge? and “The
greatly in value. Many of them are the In the Cambridge Mathematical Series. Woodlanders '-will appear this month.
fruit of the author's own wanderings about Dell (J. A. ), THE GATEWAYS OF KNOWLEDGE :
the region in question-a matter of some
Hewlett (Maurice), HALFWAY HOUSE; and
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE
New CANTERBURY TALES, 2/ net each.
182,000 square miles, with a population of SENSES, 2/6
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from more or less inaccessible printed This is a collection of exercises and experi- degrees, *2 and the New Canterbury Tales, .
The Halfway House is a "comedy of
sources, such as official reports. We would ments with simple apparatus, arranged by
venture to suggest that, to render the the author for the purpose of teaching pupils hardly of the subtlety of the Little Novels
a volume of excellent short stories, though
information of the fullest utility, to social the correct methods of observation to be of Italy. Eight volumes of this series have
anthropology, which is becoming more followed in order to acquire the maximum
precise and critical every day, there should, of knowledge. The scheme presented cannot
now been issued. The printing and design
are superior to those of the average six-
as far as possible, be given with each piece fail to train the five senses, and teachers will
of evidence a circumstantial statement of find in it many useful hints for the class-
shilling novel.
the conditions under which it was obtained.
In the Cambridge Nature Study Long's Sixpenny Net Cloth Novels : HYPO-
The most interesting chapter, perhaps, is Series.
CRITES AND SINNERS, by Violet Twee-
the one relating to the former human sacri-
dale ;
and THE SILENT HOUSE, by
fices of the Khonds. Mr. Thurston, who Morton (T. S. ), LEGENDS OF GODS AND
was at one time Superintendent of the HEROES, A FIRST LATIN READER, 1/6
Fergus Hume.
Both these stories have the elements of
Madras Government Museum, records that A collection of the favourite stories of
some veteran Khonds who, in 1908, came mythology rendered in simple Latin, and popularity, but neither is a model of com-
across at the Museum a relic of their bar- | published in attractive style. They form
barous custom in the shape of the Meriah a good introduction to Latin translation Lurgan (Lester), A MESSAGE FROM MARS, 3/6
sacrifice-post, became wildly excited. This for those who have acquired the accidence of
Greening
and many other objects illustrative of the language. The notes on translation are Differs but little from the popular, if
superstitions bygone or still prevailing just what beginners require. There are somewhat sentimental play by Richard
are figured in the excellent photographs numerous illustrations and a full vocabulary. Ganthony upon which it is founded. As
that accompany the text.
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Thismiscellany of prose and verseis invested
situations
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complications—might have been cut down subjective tone is commonplace, but the
ture. They abound in sentiment, and the loss of interest.
melodious. She is blind to the demands of
details of everyday life are described with
artistic selection. She does not offer us
a precision which illustrates their insignific-
General.
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ance more emphatically than the author
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is in these fugitive papers of the late Richard and women of all classes. " for whom this Cambridge Manuals of Science and Litera-
Middleton which makes it worth while to book is intended. Although the work is
ture: THE TROUBADOURS, by H. J.
collect and republish them. They have
clear and presents the salient points, its
Chaytor; THE BALLAD IN LITERATURE,
caught the secret which makes London language is too childish. It is written with
by T. F. Henderson ; LIFE IN THE
London, and no mere assemblage of houses knowledge and enthusiasm, and will prob-
MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITY, by R. S. Rait,
-all the several details of experience, im- ably be of more use as a school reading-book
than as a history primer.
1/net each. Cambridge University Press
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fused. ” Indeed, they provoke to metaphor: with force and eloquence the arguments
Mr. Bainbridge in this booklet repeats their subjects, and they cover the ground as
well as can be expected in the allotted space.
To read them gives one the same kind of
pleasure as to look at the cushions of green barbarity of war, and has brought to-
as to the economic futility and the moral The former has to leave some details and
words unexplained-e. g. , "Minne " and
where plants are coming up in a summer
gether
border: not a dead leaf or a dead cell any description of an engagement in modern
Adoptionism”—which are likely to puzzle
valuable quotations. The
the ordinary reader. Mr. Henderson has a
where, and one can all but feel the life
pushing upwards and outwards in them. witness, is vivid and realistic. But records perhaps, not of importance, and the points
warfare, given in the words of an eye- bias in favour of Scottish ballads, which is,
This is to acknowledge the presence of of the horrors of war never have induced with which he has to deal largely depend
exceptional power.
men to desire peace.
on questions whether this or that ballad is
Half the sketches have to do with chil-
dren:
The author does not indulge in uncom-
effective as art-on which opinions may
strange little dreamers, cruelly
differ. His chapter on 'Origin and Author-
bruised already against the hardness of promising, condemnation of the wars of
ship ? is mainly an argument with Profs.
reality ;,
or else normal little souls mystified the past, but his contention is that
has served its time. Its offices are
Child, Kittredge, and Gummere concerning
by death or by tragedies in the life of the
their views, in which he scores points, but
grown-ups belonging to them. The
longer needed. ”. He is probably nearer
the mark when he says, ~ All the nations
does not give us much that is solid to go
other half have to do with death or failure,
or with divers futilities of egoism, the
of the world talk about Peace, but they upon. Perhaps there is really not much
most cheerful being the one exception, the
can't hear what each other is saying for available. The little book is neatly and
fantastic ‘
clearly written.
the sounds of hammers with which men are
Ghost Ship,' which gives its beating cruisers and battleships together,"
Mr. Rait depends obviously for much of his
title to the volume. Strong and vivacious
?
matter on Dr. Rashdall's mediæval studies,
as we feel the writer's genius to be, we thus than when he declares with enthusiasm but he has managed to produce a careful
have it actually exercised only within
that the “ long deferred age of war's cessa-
narrow limitsmin a region, too, where the
tion, bloodshed's end, of universal peace
summary, not lacking lively touches. The
space allotted to discipline seems somewhat
effect of strength can be produced at least and goodwill, has dawned at last. "
excessive.
expense, nothing being so cheap as gloom.
Among peace heroes he includes the Tsar,
who, he states, “is consistently and per- Celtic Review, May, 2/6 net.
Nicholson (Meredith), A HOOSIER CHRO- sistently on the side of Peace. ” Mr. Bain-
Edinburgh, Hodge; London, Nutt
NICLF, 6/
Constable bridge may be reminded that national An interesting and scholarly number. The
'A Hoosier Chronicle' stands out as peace and contentment are not only an Gaelic version of the Thebaid' of Statius
exceptional among modern novels written essential preliminary of international good is continued, with an English translation.
in English by the mere fact of not being will, but in themselves of more immediate An account of the controversy between
amorphous. Like the higher animals or importance. In the concluding pages there Ewen Maclachlan and Inverness Academy
a well-made pattern, it has a backbone ; is a useful summary of recent arbitration is given, and there is a second instalment of
and the coherence that comes of a proper cases, showing how pacific measures have the erudite and sympathetic article “The
construction imparts interest even to the repeatedly settled in a cool, judicial atmo- Literature of the Scottish Gael. ?
intrigues of American local politics. More- sphere disputes which in a hot moment of Fox (Frank), PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC,
over, the book is totally free from senti- impulse would in former times have led to
7/6 net.
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In this book the Pacific is called, in a
cerity gives depth and originality to a situa- useful rather than inspiring.
tion that has been falsified again and again.
vague but intelligible phrase, the ocean of
the future. "
If the character-drawing, which is honest,
Barlow (Harry), THE RATEPAYERS' GUIDE
What appears to the author
but a trifle commonplace, and the style,
TO THE RATING OF HOUSES AND SHOPS its supreme problem is thus stated :-
Drane
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undistinguished, were on the level of the
A booklet which should be of assistance in war, the next great struggle of civilization, which
composition and the emotional perception,
to perplexed ratepayers, although it cannot will give as its prize the Supremacy of the World.
this would be a very fine story.
claim to be comprehensive enough for exten-
Shall it go to the White Race or to the Yellow
sive application.
Race? It to the White Race, will it be under the
British flag, or the flag of the United States, or of
Simpson (Katharine), THE FUGITIVE YEARS,
some other nation? "
6/
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does not succeed in attracting our interest.
A new journal of excellent, if somewhat self- on sensible lines; he is no alarmist with
Moreover, the characters themselves do not conscious seriousness, conducted by Oxford regard to the “ Yellow Peril,” but holds, on
invite sympathy: the hero is a self-centred undergraduates, and to be published every the contrary, that the future of the Pacific
prig, and the heroine little better.
two months. The opening number treats is with the White Races. The first sixteen
miscellaneous topics: an appeal for the realiza- chapters deal with the present position of
Stodart-Walker (A. ), THE WELL-INTEN- tion of Disraeli's political ideals—Mr. Henry affairs, and with the nations and races
TIONED, 6/
Melrose James Mr. Gordon Craig's art. It has a involved on either side of the ocean ; the
Mr. Stodart-Walker makes it difficult for short play, short essays, and some verse. last four, beginning with one on the Panama
us to appraise his work justly. After having | An atmosphere of the faux bon is a little in Canal, endeavour to arrive at some forecast
enjoyed pages of witty, and even brilliant, evidence.
of the future. He considers that at this
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moment the British Empire holds we may remark, in passing, that to us he People's Books : A DICTIONARY
enormous strategic superiority over any scarcely seems to do justice to English SYNONYMS, by Austin K. Gray, 6d. net
other Power in the Pacific ; but in this humour. While we cannot cavil at our each.
Jaok
position there are weak spots, as "the ab- representatives--Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Mr. Gray's Preface shows that he has a
sence of a Mid-Pacific fortress, and the Dickens-it strikes
curious that good grasp of his subject, and his matter is
emptiness of the Northern Territory of modern humour should be entirely neglected. well arranged in a type small enough to
Australia. " On the other hand, in certain Some of the Scottish examples are far from include a good deal. Even so, he gives, for
contingencies the ocean might become “an new, but Ireland is fair game for the racon- instance, but nine words under J, and he
American lake," but only after a mighty teur. Mr. Johnston is of opinion that really has not room for the explanations
contest with the Yellow Races and another
the essence of Irish humour consists in the fact which seem to us necessary for a profitable
fratricidal struggle,” in which the British that it is not humorous at all, but simply the use of his book by those uninitiated in
possessions would be subdued. The author shortest and best way of saying something, attained English, a vast class nowadays. Syno-
recommends what he calls an Anglo- by an inherent genius for feeling and thinking two
things at once.
nyms are tricky things to play with. The
Celtic union, viz. , that the two Powers,
book does at least give derivations of words,
neither of which could succeed without the The Hebrews are not forgotten, and some which is a great point in its favour.
other, should agree to act in concert ; and of King Solomon's unofficial examples of Treasury (A) of Prose and Poetry for Learning
that, before the opening of the Canal, an
wisdom are recounted.
by Heart, selected by Amy Barter,
informal conference should be held between Some of the author's allusions to modern
Books I. -VI. , 5d. each.
Harrap
the United States, Great Britain, and those America are lost on us, and the description
In spite of the gaudiness of the covers and
members of the Empire which have interests of Robert Burns as & profane and vain
the excess of material, this anthology, is
in the Pacific. Some sensible remarks on
babbler" is ridiculous. The book abounds
chosen with care and skill
. Its catholicity
the future of Latin-America, and on the in entertaining pleasantries.
does not extend over the boundary of
diplomatic methods of British and American Mathews (Shailer), SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT sterling literary merit, but the collector
negotiators, deserve careful consideration
has ranged extensively in her search. If
by our statesmen.
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Illinois, University
of Chicago Press we have a fault to find, it is that there is a
the Pacific, with its principal routes and London, Cambridge University Press slight tendency to emphasize a doctrinaire
coaling-stations, accompanies the volume.
The need for the application of the attitude towards life. Such an undertaking
Hamilton (Cosmo), IMPERTINENT REFLEC- principles of scientific management in the requires good prose and good poetry rather
TIONS, 6/
Stanley Paul Churches is one which bears emphasizing than good counsel.
Many of Mr. Hamilton's “reflections here as well as in the States, whence this Walling (William English), SOCIALISM AS IT
are cheap and jejune enough; the sketches booklet emanates. It would have been
A SURVEY OF THE WORLD-WIDE
and parodies of the manners and journalism interesting to have set forth exactly what REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT.
of to-day are rather cloying when collected. opportunities are available there for those
Macmillan
Here and there we find an amusing chapter, who desire, by training, to escape the The author has seriously handicapped
the author's impressions“ behind the scenes
pitfall of inefficient service.
himself in his effort to gain a large reading
are full of insight—but on the whole the Milton's Areopagitica ; and Shakespeare's public by over-dogmatic assertion, ill-con-
good places are few and far between. The
Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of structed sentences, and making it necessary
Reflections are fifty-two in number, and
Denmark, Parts of the New Place Edi- to turn over 400 pages to find references.
they could have been cut down to half that
number with advantage.
tion de Luxe, edited by Sydney Hum-
Pampblets.
phries.
Black
Johnston (Charles),
(Charles), WHY
WORLD
The first of these volumes is sold for the Brailsford (H. N. ), THE FRUITS OF
RUSSIAN ALLIANCE, ld.
LAUGHS, 6/ net.
Harpers
benefit of the London Library; the second
the author, “ is laughing at
for that of the Shakespeare National Theatre.
Anglo-Russian Committee
a man; humour is laughing with him.