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as
one
Castle at Ardglass,' and Tradition in Mr. Charles Major,
entitled • The
Literary Gossip .
History,' the last-named being reprinted Touchstone of Fortune. ' The same firm
from The Nineteenth Century. The sepa- hopes to issue shortly three other works
rate studies are linked by the indications of fiction. The first, * Pan's Garden,' by
edition of Medwin's 'Life of Shelley' before and after the Norman invasion.
The forthcoming revised and annotated which they give of Irish civilization both Mr. Algernon Blackwood, is described as
a volume of nature stories. " In it the
has led Mr. Buxton Forman to
examine anew the journals and other
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. have in author treats aspects of nature from
papers of Mary Jane Clairmont, better preparation a series of textbooks dealing various points of view in their effect upon
known “Člaire ”-the mother of with philosophy from the historical point human beings. The second, The Sign,
Byron's ill-starred little daughter Allegra, of view. The series, which is edited by by Mrs. Romilly Fedden, is a story of
and the house-companion of Shelley and Sir Henry Jones, will comprise : (1) the art life, with the scenes laid in Brittany.
The third, “The Friar of Wittenberg,' by
his second wife during the eventful History of Greek Philosophy as
years between 1818 and 1822. The papers continuous development ; (2the History Mr. William Stearns Davis, is a novel
in question have by no means declined in of Modern Philosophy in parallel move built round Martin Luther.
interest by being allowed to slumber for ments from Descartes to Kant, and from
MESSRS. CASSELL have written to us
twenty years or so ; and during that lapse Hobbes to Reid ; and from Kant through with regard to our remark, in a favour-
his idealist successors on the one side, able notice of their publication
of time many persons whose feelings
• Wild
might have been wounded by disclosures and through his naturalist successors on
have passed beyond pain or annoyance. the other. Finally, the application of Flowers as They Grow that the frontis-
Claire Clairmont has been far too well Philosophy will be shown (a) in Educa- attached in the copy sent to us for review'.
abused not to be allowed a word in reply tional Theory, (b) in Political Theory.
They say that they have had the stock
The first volume will be The Evolution thoroughly examined, and each copy
when her turn comes ; and it is by no
means unlikely, if we are rightly informed, of Educational Theory,' by Prof. John appears to be in perfect condition, so
that the final result of this fresh examina- Adams, which is to be published im- that we are compelled to think you must
tion of her journals will be their publica- mediately. “The History of Greek Philo- have received the exceptional copy. ' "
tion in extenso, duly elucidated.
sophy from Thales to Aristotle,' by Prof.
John Burnett, and of Modern Philosophy MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES of Cambridge
MR. HILAIRE BELLOC will deliver a
lecture on The Mechanics of Books. at from Hobbes to Reid,' by Prof. G. F.
from Hobbes to Reid,' by Prof. G. F. are about to publish, under the title of
Other
the Essex Hall, Essex Street, Strand, on
Stout, are due in the autumn.
* Tales of Madingley,' a romance by Col.
Monday evening, at 7. 30. 'Sir William volumes arranged are the History of T. W. Harding, which is based on the
Robertson Nicoll will occupy the chair. Philosophy from Descartes to Kant by traditions and legends of the old Tudor
Edward VII.
The lecture is given to members of the Prof. Latta; Hegel and his Idealist mansion where King
book-trade and their friends, under the Successors,' by the editor ; and Political stayed when keeping his terms at
auspices of the National Book-Trade Philosophy,' by Dr. R. A. Duff.
Cambridge. The volume has numerous
Provident Society. Tickets can be had The series, when complete, will give illustrations by Mr. H. M. Brock.
from leading booksellers, or from the English students a history of the move-
MESSRS. M. H. GILL & Son of Dublin
Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. H. Crocket, ment of philosophical thought with a
ment of philosophical thought with a will shortly publish · The Neighbourhood
Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
more intimate appeal than could be trans- of Dublin its Topography, Antiquities,
It will be of interest to Shakespeare
mitted through a foreign medium.
and Historical Associations,' by Mr.
students to know that, on the suggestion which Messrs. Smith & Elder will publish years past has identified himself with the
IN 'The Church in the Pages of Punch,' Weston St. John Joyce, who for many
of Prof. Gollancz, a Shakespeare Library
on the 14th inst. , with seven illustrations, subject. The volume will contain an
Exhibition. It is under the management the Rev. D. Wallace Duthie, author of ' A Introduction by Dr. P. W. Joyce, and
of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son, and is Bishop in the Rough,' has gathered the will be profusely illustrated with the
receiving the support of the leading pub- points of view from which public opinion, author's photographs
and sketches.
lishers.
as reflected by Mr. Punch, has regarded
the clergy and their action during the last The death of Dr. Henry Sweet, Uni-
The NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION DE- seventy years. Mr. G. W. E. Russell has versity Reader in Phonetics at Oxford since
PARTMENT prints a monthly illustrated written a Prefatory Note to the volume.
1901, at the age of 67, is a great loss to
paper, The School Journal, for free circu-
Vol. VII. of Mr. J. W. Fortescue's English philology, of which he was one of
lation among pupils attending public
the most vigorous and skilled exponents.
primary schools. It is composed largely great History of the British Army
of articles dealing with the history and may be expected shortly. It covers the His editions in Old and Middle English
geography of New Zealand, of the rest Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are the publishers Anglo-Saxon are used everywhere. His
are of standard value, and his 'Primer,'
operations of the years 1809 and 1810.
'Reader,' and 'Student's Dictionary of
of the British Empire, and foreign of the work.
countries. Nature knowledge is also in-
books on Phonetics are of special import-
* WAR AND THE PRIVATE CITIZEN,' by ance, and his brief History of Language
cluded.
SIR HERBERT S. LEON will preside chapters on the conversion of merchant
Dr. A. Pearce Higgins, will contain
is an excellent introduction to com-
at the annual dinner of the Rationalist ships into warships, and the opening by
parative philology.
Press Association, which is to
THE REV. ALFRED JOHN CHURCH, who
place at the Trocadero, Piccadilly, next belligerents to neutrals of closed trade,
Tuesday. The speakers will include by the Naval Conference of London.
two questions which were left unsolved died on Saturday last at the age of 83,
was a master at the Merchant Taylors'
Sir B. Ray Lankester, Earl Russell, Sir The former topic is examined at length, School, Head Master in turn of the Gram;
Edward Brabrook, Mr. J. M. Robertson, the arguments for and against conversion mar Schools of Henley and Retford, and
M. P. , and Mr. George Greenwood, M. P. ;
on the high seas are stated—it is hoped, Professor of Latin at University College,
Arnold Bennett, Mr. Eden Phillpotts, Sir as to the steps which Great Britain and work on the classics. He began by writing
Arnold Bennett, Mr. Eden Phillpotts
, Sir impartially—and suggestions are made London. He will be remembered for his
Hiran Maxim, and Sir W. P. Byles, M. P.
other Powers holding similar views may a translation of Tacitus with the Rev. W. J.
UNDER the title Old Irish Society,' | take to give effect to their contention. Brodribb which has become the standard
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will publish im. Mr. Arthur Cohen, K. C. , contributes an rendering in English. His Stories from
mediately a volume of historical essays Introductory Note to the volume, which Homer, Stories from Virgil,' and similar
by Mrs. J. R. Green. The essays deal will be published by Messrs. P. S. King & popularizations of the classics for young
with the following subjects : The Way Son.
people, have been the delight of many,
of History in Ireland,' The Trade Routes MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. publish and have not been improved upon by
of Ireland,' 'A Great Irish Lady,' 'Alto-day a new historical romance by many competitors.
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of the day have not been sufficiently in-patient beds as well-in fact, copy the forms the basis of the present work. Not-
consulted, is largely responsible for the system of our general hospitals. By our withstanding its elaborate nature, it does
attitude of hostility assumed by a con- present arrangements, directly the patient not pretend to be anything like a complete
siderable number of the profession at
is admitted into the infirmary, the resident treatment of the subject, but is rather
the present time. The author of this
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volume points out that it is the generall he is unable in these circumstances to fitted for this purpose, inter alia, by useful
family attendant loses sight of the case ;
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to original work. ” The volume is well.
practitioner who is going either to mar
or make the Act, here criticized some-
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what severely, and that our legislators the course of events, which would be a to the different chapters.
could scarcely have realized how intimate great educational advantage to him.
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He would in most
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De Carle Woodcock was at one time a Poor would know the homes from which the
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saying that
which was presided over by a skilled a large store of useful knowledge. Every
pathologist, he could have the sputum chapter deals with some process or article
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titioner seeks the aid of a specialist ; but he could certainly treat the patients in their aid of experiment whats course should the
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homes (which is at present being done minimum of cost and of labour. The
health to; the specialist is not. ”
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disease.
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the future of medicine lies in this direction, the ultimate harm that will result if the It is likely to rank as a standard work on
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also in the early recognition of disease young man fresh from the hospitals, and the subject.
when present. The author shows clearly willing to live amongst the poor is pre-
that the “G. P. " has not had the requisite vented from treating cases which ought National Physical Laboratory Roport for the
opportunity to develope his art on modern to form an important part of his practice.
Year 1911.
Teddington, Parrott
lines.
Embodies the reports of the various
During the last few years Schools for
departments of the Laboratory, epitomizing
the activities of the year. There are also
Mothers have been started, of which the
lists of scientific papers published by mem-
“Infant Consultation " forms an import-
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and acquisitions, and other items relevant quartz fibre. A strong beam of light was sent formed a longitudinal trunk along the correspond-
to the year's work.
obliquely through the cube, the angle of incidence ing supra-renal body. The hepatic portal vein
having been so adjusted that the beam entered arose by two roots, one from each renal portal
Paget (Stephen), FOR AND AGAINST EXPERI- through one half of one face, and emerged through vein, and ran the whole length of the gut up to
MENTS ON ANIMALS: EVIDENCE BEFORE
the half face diagonally opposite. The torque the liver. By the side of each oviduct was a
was determined from the observed angular de- conspicuous oviducal sinus, a vessel which had
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON VIVISECTION, flection of the cube. Observations were made not been described previously in snakes.
3/6 net.
Lewis in hydrogen and air with pressures ranging from The right carotid artery was not present in the
Lord Cromer's Introduction is a sensible meter action was found to be inversely propor
•1 to 70 cm. Hg. The disturbance due to radio- adult, and to compensate for this the left side
of the head received its arterial blood by means
and moderate statement of his reasons for tional to the gas pressure, and could be eliminated. of three anastomoses-one beneath the medulla
supporting vivisection. The book itself After allowing for the reflected beams, the ob- oblongata, one beneath the fore-brain, and one
is a useful summary of the report of the
served torque (of the order 2 x 10-6 dyne cm. ) was beneath the sympbysis of the lower jaw. The
recent Royal Commission, giving evidence within 2 per cent of that calculated from the part of the anterior cardinal vein in the head of the
on both sides of this much discussed and
embryo was completely replaced during develop-
Dr. T. C. Porter read a third paper on 'The ment by a new vessel, the lateral cephalic vein.
difficult subject, and the chief results ob- Study of Flicker. '
Mr. Julian S. Huxley read a paper containing
tained during the past thirty years by the
an account of The Courtship of the Redshank
help of experiments on animals. The author
(Totanus calidris). ' The first purpose of this
writes as Secretary of the Research Defence
paper was to draw attention to the many valuable
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. -- April 24. -
Society.
results to be obtained by simple watching of very
Prof. A. O. Benson in the chair. -Mr. Joseph common British birds; and the second was to
Offord read a paper upon Recent Discoveries of show how the facts observed in the redshank
Tables annuelles de Constantes et Données Classical Literature,' in which he gave an account bore on the theory of sexual selection. In this
numériques de Chimie, de Physique et of these for the last twenty years. With few species there was no rival display between several
de Technologie : Vol. I. , Année 1910, treatise by Archimedes, all the more important single male, as in man.
males at once : a single female was courted by a
21/6 net. Paris, Gauthier-Villars ;
The courtship, started
remains recovered have been preserved upon with a pursuit, the hen running in a circuitous
London, Churchill Egyptian papyri, or vellum pieces found in course, followed by the cock. The pursuit was
Egypt. Of the many authors enumerated, the
United States National Museum :
followed by a display, but only if the hen were
1887, chief were the comedies by Menander, the Odes willing that the courtship should continue.
CENSERS AND INCENSE OF MEXICO AND of Bacchylides, the Commentary of Didymus During display the cock uttered a special note,
CENTRAL AMERICA, by Walter Hough;
upon the Philippics of Demosthenes, the Pæans spread his tail, raised his wings above his back,
1890, VARIATION IN THE SKULL AND
of Pindar, the Apology of Antiphon, and the and advanced with a curious high-stepping action
HORNS OF THE ISABELLA GAZELLE, by is particularly valuable for the many extracts he
If the female
poems of Callimachus. The work by Didymus towards the now stationary female.
so wished, pairing followed the display. But in
Gerrit S. Miller, jun. ; 1897, NAMES gives of lost historians. To these were added quite 90 per cent of observed courtships the
APPLIED TO BEES OF THE GENUS OSMIA a description of the part recovered of the History female rejected the male, either during the pursuit
FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA, by T. D. A.
of Cratippus, which covers some of the period or during the display, by simply flying away,
Cockerell ; 1898, NEW ARENACEOUS
contained in Xenophon's 'Hellenica'; and a when the cock was quite powerless to enforce his
summary of one of the missing books of Livy, and desires. Thus the consent of the hen was abso-
FORAMINIFERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE several anonymous chronologies and lists of Olympic lutely necessary if pairing were to take place, and
ISLANDS AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS, by victors. Poets were represented by the Ætia' this consent was usually withheld : in other words,
Joseph A. Cushman; and 1899, THE and ' lambi' of Callimachus, containing the story selection by the female was a reality in the
CHIMÆROID FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE Meliambi of Cercidas, and the curious exultant
redshank.
ISLANDS, with Description of a New poetry of Timotheus of Miletus celebrating The plumage of the two sexes was identical, and
Other interesting points were as follows :
Species, by Hugh M. Smith.
Salamis. The author, whilst commenting upon was decidedly cryptic when the birds were at
Washington, Govt. Printing Office these discoveries, carefully specified scores of rest. During flight the white underside of the
fragments of authors of every description, dis- wings and the white tail were conspicuously
Pampblets.
cussing the attributions of these pieces. He
revealed, and probably served as recognition
included all departments of literature, musical, marks. The significance of the red legs was
Bell (Robert), THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF aries, lexicographers, and grammarians
medical, and scientific works, scholia, comment-
unknown. During display the male drew atten-
from
tion to the underside of the wings by raising and
OF CANCER.
the last trio many precious quotations from vibrating them, to the tail by fanning it out,
This pamphlet is issued by the Society for thus afforded a store for reference in the compila-
perished books being obtainable. The paper and to the red legs by his slow, high steps ; besides
the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, an
this he uttered a note heard at no other time.
tion of any future corpus of classic authors. Thus, since the actual colours and structures used
organization evidently started by anti-
in display were found in both sexes, the only
vivisectionists. Dr. Bell tells us that, if
peculiarly male possession—the only secondary
we eat no meat or fish and no cooked
sexual character of the redshank—was a special
vegetables, we shall never suffer from cancer.
ROYAL
INSTITUTION. --May 1. - Sir James behaviour, devoted to showing off these common
He considers all research in which experi- chair. -The Annual Report of the Committee of
Crichton-Browne, Treasurer and V. -P. , in the
colours and structures in a special way.
ments are made as useless. He gives no
This seemed to show that secondary sexual
Visitors for the year 1911, testifying to the con- differences in birds were originally differences of
justification for his own extraordinary views, tinued prosperity and eficient management
of behaviour, and that only when these were estab-
but refers to another medical man as the Institution, was read and adopted, and the lished did differences of colour and structure come
maniac because he is reported to have said report on the Davy Faraday Research to be developed.
that cancer was due to the eating of tomatoes.
Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which Mrs. E. W. Sexton contributed a paper based
on a small collection of brackish-water Amphipoda
The whole pamphlet is one that we cannot accompanied it, was also read. Forty-six new
а
were elected in 1911. Sixty-three from Bremerhaven. Special reference was made
treat seriously.
lectures and nineteen evening discourses were to a new species of Gammarus, which inhabited
delivered in the year. The books and pamphlets both fresh and brackish water, and was interesting
presented amounted to 281 volumes, making, as showing in a marked manner the effects of
with 677 volumes (including periodicals bound) environment on development.
purchased by the Managers, a total of 958
Mr. c. Tate Regan read a paper containing
SOCIETIES.
volumes added to the library in the year.
descriptions of ten new species of South American
fishes of the family Loricariidæ in the British
ROYAL. -April 25. - Sir Archibald Geikie,
Museum collection.
President, in the chair. -Mr. J. S. Townsend read
a paper on The Diffusion and Mobility of Ions
ZOOLOGICAL. –April 23. -Dr. 8. F. Harmer,
in a Magnetic Field. '
V. -P. , in the chair.
Mr. J. J. Manley read a paper. On the Observed The Secretary, exhibited a living specimen of CHALLENGER. -April 24. —Dr. E. J. Allen in
Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a young female dorsal hyrax (Dendrohyrax the chair. —Dr. H. Muir Evans read a paper on
Precision Balance. ' In this paper was given an dorsalis) from Nigeria, recently presented to the the Poison Organs and Venoms of Poisonous
account of experiments which supplement and Society by Mr. J. L. McKellar, and also a number
Fishes. ' After reviewing previous work, he
extend an earlier research (Phil. Trans. , A, 210, of photographs of an elephant kraal in Siam pointed out that the researches of Briot were
p. 387) dealing with changes which may be which had been presented to the Society by Sir incorrect, and that this observer had obtained
observed in the resting-points of precision balances. Cecil Clementi Smith.
his results by means of a filtered glycerine extract
Dr. Guy Barlow read a paper ‘On the Torque Mr. C. H. O'Donoghue read a paper on 'The of the spines of Trachinus (the weever). Dr.
produced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refrac- Circulatory System of the Common Grass-Snake Evans had used fresh venom for his experiments,
tion through a Glass Plate. ' In accordance with (Tropidonotus natrix). ' Several interesting features and found that hæmolysis took place with fresh
the principle that light carries with it a stream of correlated with the loss of limbs and the elonga- venom alone, without the addition of heated
momentum, the passage of a beam of light tion of the body were stated to occur in the blood-
But if fresh venom were mixed with
through a refracting plate should give rise to a vessels. The vessels, like the viscera they sup- glycerine and filtered through_filter-paper, the
torque on the plate, it being supposed that the plied, were asymmetrical; not only were those results were similar to those of Briot; they were,
reaction is on the matter through which the beañ on the right anterior to those on the left, but they | however, different if a Berkefeld filter were used
is passing. In 1905 Prof. Poynting and the were also noticeably larger. No indication of instead of filter-paper, just as the action of liver-
author made experiments which confirmed this the descent of snakes from a limb-bearing ancestry extract is affected according as it is filtered
result; but as disturbances, due to gas action, was to be found in the circulatory system, save through cloth or through filter-paper. Dr. Evans
were not eliminated, more exact measurements perhaps a small pair of veins which might corre- then described the conclusions of Porta, from
appeared desirable. In the present experiment spond to the pelvic veins in Lacertilia. There was examination of sections of the spine of the sting
the original double-prism arrangement was aban- a marked tendency for the vessels to form longi- ray (Trygon pastinacea)-conclusions which had
doned in favour of a single cube. A glass cube, | tudinal systems, e. g. , the arteries supplying the | been disputed by Pawlowsky, who stated that
of 1 cm. edge, was suspended axially by a fine ' gut and the fat-bodies ; and each ovarian artery Porta had confused glandular tissue with
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can
seen
deformed blood-corpuscles, and denied that
poison-glands with groups of small cells existed
in Trygon. By microphotographs Dr. Evans then
Science Gossip.
showed not only that Porta's triangular glands
FINE ARTS
really existed, but also that they were only part A
of a large system present throughout the whole
PRELIMINARY programme has been
spine. The latter was described as consisting :
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terbury Tales, and Halfway House, 2/ net each.
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as
one
Castle at Ardglass,' and Tradition in Mr. Charles Major,
entitled • The
Literary Gossip .
History,' the last-named being reprinted Touchstone of Fortune. ' The same firm
from The Nineteenth Century. The sepa- hopes to issue shortly three other works
rate studies are linked by the indications of fiction. The first, * Pan's Garden,' by
edition of Medwin's 'Life of Shelley' before and after the Norman invasion.
The forthcoming revised and annotated which they give of Irish civilization both Mr. Algernon Blackwood, is described as
a volume of nature stories. " In it the
has led Mr. Buxton Forman to
examine anew the journals and other
MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. have in author treats aspects of nature from
papers of Mary Jane Clairmont, better preparation a series of textbooks dealing various points of view in their effect upon
known “Člaire ”-the mother of with philosophy from the historical point human beings. The second, The Sign,
Byron's ill-starred little daughter Allegra, of view. The series, which is edited by by Mrs. Romilly Fedden, is a story of
and the house-companion of Shelley and Sir Henry Jones, will comprise : (1) the art life, with the scenes laid in Brittany.
The third, “The Friar of Wittenberg,' by
his second wife during the eventful History of Greek Philosophy as
years between 1818 and 1822. The papers continuous development ; (2the History Mr. William Stearns Davis, is a novel
in question have by no means declined in of Modern Philosophy in parallel move built round Martin Luther.
interest by being allowed to slumber for ments from Descartes to Kant, and from
MESSRS. CASSELL have written to us
twenty years or so ; and during that lapse Hobbes to Reid ; and from Kant through with regard to our remark, in a favour-
his idealist successors on the one side, able notice of their publication
of time many persons whose feelings
• Wild
might have been wounded by disclosures and through his naturalist successors on
have passed beyond pain or annoyance. the other. Finally, the application of Flowers as They Grow that the frontis-
Claire Clairmont has been far too well Philosophy will be shown (a) in Educa- attached in the copy sent to us for review'.
abused not to be allowed a word in reply tional Theory, (b) in Political Theory.
They say that they have had the stock
The first volume will be The Evolution thoroughly examined, and each copy
when her turn comes ; and it is by no
means unlikely, if we are rightly informed, of Educational Theory,' by Prof. John appears to be in perfect condition, so
that the final result of this fresh examina- Adams, which is to be published im- that we are compelled to think you must
tion of her journals will be their publica- mediately. “The History of Greek Philo- have received the exceptional copy. ' "
tion in extenso, duly elucidated.
sophy from Thales to Aristotle,' by Prof.
John Burnett, and of Modern Philosophy MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES of Cambridge
MR. HILAIRE BELLOC will deliver a
lecture on The Mechanics of Books. at from Hobbes to Reid,' by Prof. G. F.
from Hobbes to Reid,' by Prof. G. F. are about to publish, under the title of
Other
the Essex Hall, Essex Street, Strand, on
Stout, are due in the autumn.
* Tales of Madingley,' a romance by Col.
Monday evening, at 7. 30. 'Sir William volumes arranged are the History of T. W. Harding, which is based on the
Robertson Nicoll will occupy the chair. Philosophy from Descartes to Kant by traditions and legends of the old Tudor
Edward VII.
The lecture is given to members of the Prof. Latta; Hegel and his Idealist mansion where King
book-trade and their friends, under the Successors,' by the editor ; and Political stayed when keeping his terms at
auspices of the National Book-Trade Philosophy,' by Dr. R. A. Duff.
Cambridge. The volume has numerous
Provident Society. Tickets can be had The series, when complete, will give illustrations by Mr. H. M. Brock.
from leading booksellers, or from the English students a history of the move-
MESSRS. M. H. GILL & Son of Dublin
Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. H. Crocket, ment of philosophical thought with a
ment of philosophical thought with a will shortly publish · The Neighbourhood
Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
more intimate appeal than could be trans- of Dublin its Topography, Antiquities,
It will be of interest to Shakespeare
mitted through a foreign medium.
and Historical Associations,' by Mr.
students to know that, on the suggestion which Messrs. Smith & Elder will publish years past has identified himself with the
IN 'The Church in the Pages of Punch,' Weston St. John Joyce, who for many
of Prof. Gollancz, a Shakespeare Library
on the 14th inst. , with seven illustrations, subject. The volume will contain an
Exhibition. It is under the management the Rev. D. Wallace Duthie, author of ' A Introduction by Dr. P. W. Joyce, and
of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son, and is Bishop in the Rough,' has gathered the will be profusely illustrated with the
receiving the support of the leading pub- points of view from which public opinion, author's photographs
and sketches.
lishers.
as reflected by Mr. Punch, has regarded
the clergy and their action during the last The death of Dr. Henry Sweet, Uni-
The NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION DE- seventy years. Mr. G. W. E. Russell has versity Reader in Phonetics at Oxford since
PARTMENT prints a monthly illustrated written a Prefatory Note to the volume.
1901, at the age of 67, is a great loss to
paper, The School Journal, for free circu-
Vol. VII. of Mr. J. W. Fortescue's English philology, of which he was one of
lation among pupils attending public
the most vigorous and skilled exponents.
primary schools. It is composed largely great History of the British Army
of articles dealing with the history and may be expected shortly. It covers the His editions in Old and Middle English
geography of New Zealand, of the rest Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are the publishers Anglo-Saxon are used everywhere. His
are of standard value, and his 'Primer,'
operations of the years 1809 and 1810.
'Reader,' and 'Student's Dictionary of
of the British Empire, and foreign of the work.
countries. Nature knowledge is also in-
books on Phonetics are of special import-
* WAR AND THE PRIVATE CITIZEN,' by ance, and his brief History of Language
cluded.
SIR HERBERT S. LEON will preside chapters on the conversion of merchant
Dr. A. Pearce Higgins, will contain
is an excellent introduction to com-
at the annual dinner of the Rationalist ships into warships, and the opening by
parative philology.
Press Association, which is to
THE REV. ALFRED JOHN CHURCH, who
place at the Trocadero, Piccadilly, next belligerents to neutrals of closed trade,
Tuesday. The speakers will include by the Naval Conference of London.
two questions which were left unsolved died on Saturday last at the age of 83,
was a master at the Merchant Taylors'
Sir B. Ray Lankester, Earl Russell, Sir The former topic is examined at length, School, Head Master in turn of the Gram;
Edward Brabrook, Mr. J. M. Robertson, the arguments for and against conversion mar Schools of Henley and Retford, and
M. P. , and Mr. George Greenwood, M. P. ;
on the high seas are stated—it is hoped, Professor of Latin at University College,
Arnold Bennett, Mr. Eden Phillpotts, Sir as to the steps which Great Britain and work on the classics. He began by writing
Arnold Bennett, Mr. Eden Phillpotts
, Sir impartially—and suggestions are made London. He will be remembered for his
Hiran Maxim, and Sir W. P. Byles, M. P.
other Powers holding similar views may a translation of Tacitus with the Rev. W. J.
UNDER the title Old Irish Society,' | take to give effect to their contention. Brodribb which has become the standard
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will publish im. Mr. Arthur Cohen, K. C. , contributes an rendering in English. His Stories from
mediately a volume of historical essays Introductory Note to the volume, which Homer, Stories from Virgil,' and similar
by Mrs. J. R. Green. The essays deal will be published by Messrs. P. S. King & popularizations of the classics for young
with the following subjects : The Way Son.
people, have been the delight of many,
of History in Ireland,' The Trade Routes MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. publish and have not been improved upon by
of Ireland,' 'A Great Irish Lady,' 'Alto-day a new historical romance by many competitors.
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ant part.
At these institutions the
cdical attendant has a chance of regu- NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
lating the diet and general hygiene of (Notice in those columns does not proclude longor
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infancy. The results so far have been review. ]
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have an enormous influence on the general HEALTH, 1/6 net.
physique of the nation. Before this work
Adyar, Madras, 'Theosophist 'Office
The Doctor and the People. By H. De
was started, the doctor usually saw nothing There would seem to be justification for
Carle Woodcock. (Methuen & Co. )
of the child until he was suddenly called the statement that the dietetic instruction
in, so that he could sign the death certifi- given in medical colleges is superficial and
This book has been published just at the cate should it become necessary. The uncompromisingly orthodox, but it must be
right moment. The nation has to decide amount of disease which these institutions admitted that vegetarian enthusiasts do
before July next how the Insurance Act alone have prevented it is impossible to of ignorance. This book, which repeats
their best to remedy the prevailing condition
may best be applied, so that the health estimate. The regular attendance of the much that is familiar to all, tilts in un-
and strength of the great majority of mothers is, however, the best criterion of familiar fashion against the wool-wearers,
its citizens may be safeguarded. All their usefulness. We feel certain that any and describes the uses of the “ protective
other measures sink into insignificance alteration in our present system should web formed of atomic matter ” which safe-
when compared with problem of first be directed to raising the national guards man from hostile influences, and which,
such vast magnitude. Party strife and standard of health amongst our infant when rent, reveals to him the "sub-human
wirepulling under these conditions be- population.
creatures which throng the lowest levels of
the unseen world. "? It forms No. 2 of
come almost an insult to the understand- Mr. Woodcock says that, if we want the Manuals of Occultism.
ing, and their pettiness degrades the young enthusiast to join the ranks of the
traditions of our system of government. “G. P. " in the future, we must interest Forsyth (A. R. ), LECTURES ON THE DIFFER-
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The substance of & course of lectures
confidence, a feeling that the men who the practitioner as an out-patient phy- delivered by Dr. Forsyth during his tenuro
are going to bear the heat and burden sician or surgeon, who might have a few of the Sadlerian Professorship at Cambridge
of the day have not been sufficiently in-patient beds as well-in fact, copy the forms the basis of the present work. Not-
consulted, is largely responsible for the system of our general hospitals. By our withstanding its elaborate nature, it does
attitude of hostility assumed by a con- present arrangements, directly the patient not pretend to be anything like a complete
siderable number of the profession at
is admitted into the infirmary, the resident treatment of the subject, but is rather
the present time. The author of this
staff take the responsibility, and the intended, in the author's words,
volume points out that it is the generall he is unable in these circumstances to fitted for this purpose, inter alia, by useful
family attendant loses sight of the case ;
students who, later, may devote themselves
to original work. ” The volume is well.
practitioner who is going either to mar
or make the Act, here criticized some-
watch the effect of treatment and follow historical and bibliographical introductions.
what severely, and that our legislators the course of events, which would be a to the different chapters.
could scarcely have realized how intimate great educational advantage to him.
Health Habits, and How to Train Them, with
is the relationship existing between patient The Board of Education receives some
an Introduction by a Leading Physician,
and doctor, particularly amongst the poor. criticism for not appointing the general
1/ net.
Cassell
The “G. P. " is often the best friend of practitioner to the post of medical school
He would in most
A handy manual which will serve as a
the poor; he also not infrequently acts inspector in all cases.
the part of a guide and counsellor. Mr. instances be the man on the spot, who usefu! guide on such subjects as fatigue, over-
exertion, and the like. It gives sound advice
De Carle Woodcock was at one time a Poor would know the homes from which the
as to conserving the bodily activities, avoid-
children came.
Law Medical Officer, and he gives what
ing mechanical routine in taking exercise,
cannot be designated as other than a Then, again, with regard to the problem and the like.
thrilling account of his experiences. The of tuberculosis, the G. P. ," if he were
Jones (R. Henry), EXPERIMENTAL DOMESTIC
reader will obtain a very fair notion of given the opportunity, is by far the best SCIENCE, 2/6
Heinemann
the work which a medical man is called man who could be chosen to search out
This book should be a success, not only
upon to do. The situation is summed the cases requiring help. If he were al- with students of domestic economy, but
up from the patient's point of view by lowed access to a laboratory in his locality also with the general public, for it contains
saying that
which was presided over by a skilled a large store of useful knowledge. Every
pathologist, he could have the sputum chapter deals with some process or article
" in a proportion of cases the general prac. examined for tubercle bacilli ; and he connected with daily life, and explains by
titioner seeks the aid of a specialist ; but he could certainly treat the patients in their aid of experiment whats course should the
medicine. He is a safe man to entrust your through the tuberculosis dispensaries) just sections on the preparation of aftredol arts
homes (which is at present being done minimum of cost and of labour. The
health to; the specialist is not. ”
as efficiently as any one else. There is analysis and adulteration, are particularly
The discontent amongst both the people also no reason why he should not discover good.
and the doctor is due to the bad system contact cases, and give tuberculin when Methley (Noël T. ), THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS
at present in vogue, and not to want it is needed.
of skill on the part of the medical
STORY, 7/6 net. Sidgwick & Jackson
This is really a matter of the greatest
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An exhaustive and able study of the origin
importance. The public do not realize and development of the life-boat, its equip,
The nation has at last become fully the costliness of these dispensaries when ment, structure, methods of working, and
alive to the importance of preventing the work could be done by the men on the general practicability. Useful comparisons
disease.
There can be no question that spot, and, further, they do not consider with the life-boats of other nations are also
the future of medicine lies in this direction, the ultimate harm that will result if the It is likely to rank as a standard work on
furnished, and the book is well illustrated.
also in the early recognition of disease young man fresh from the hospitals, and the subject.
when present. The author shows clearly willing to live amongst the poor is pre-
that the “G. P. " has not had the requisite vented from treating cases which ought National Physical Laboratory Roport for the
opportunity to develope his art on modern to form an important part of his practice.
Year 1911.
Teddington, Parrott
lines.
Embodies the reports of the various
During the last few years Schools for
departments of the Laboratory, epitomizing
the activities of the year. There are also
Mothers have been started, of which the
lists of scientific papers published by mem-
“Infant Consultation " forms an import-
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and acquisitions, and other items relevant quartz fibre. A strong beam of light was sent formed a longitudinal trunk along the correspond-
to the year's work.
obliquely through the cube, the angle of incidence ing supra-renal body. The hepatic portal vein
having been so adjusted that the beam entered arose by two roots, one from each renal portal
Paget (Stephen), FOR AND AGAINST EXPERI- through one half of one face, and emerged through vein, and ran the whole length of the gut up to
MENTS ON ANIMALS: EVIDENCE BEFORE
the half face diagonally opposite. The torque the liver. By the side of each oviduct was a
was determined from the observed angular de- conspicuous oviducal sinus, a vessel which had
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON VIVISECTION, flection of the cube. Observations were made not been described previously in snakes.
3/6 net.
Lewis in hydrogen and air with pressures ranging from The right carotid artery was not present in the
Lord Cromer's Introduction is a sensible meter action was found to be inversely propor
•1 to 70 cm. Hg. The disturbance due to radio- adult, and to compensate for this the left side
of the head received its arterial blood by means
and moderate statement of his reasons for tional to the gas pressure, and could be eliminated. of three anastomoses-one beneath the medulla
supporting vivisection. The book itself After allowing for the reflected beams, the ob- oblongata, one beneath the fore-brain, and one
is a useful summary of the report of the
served torque (of the order 2 x 10-6 dyne cm. ) was beneath the sympbysis of the lower jaw. The
recent Royal Commission, giving evidence within 2 per cent of that calculated from the part of the anterior cardinal vein in the head of the
on both sides of this much discussed and
embryo was completely replaced during develop-
Dr. T. C. Porter read a third paper on 'The ment by a new vessel, the lateral cephalic vein.
difficult subject, and the chief results ob- Study of Flicker. '
Mr. Julian S. Huxley read a paper containing
tained during the past thirty years by the
an account of The Courtship of the Redshank
help of experiments on animals. The author
(Totanus calidris). ' The first purpose of this
writes as Secretary of the Research Defence
paper was to draw attention to the many valuable
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. -- April 24. -
Society.
results to be obtained by simple watching of very
Prof. A. O. Benson in the chair. -Mr. Joseph common British birds; and the second was to
Offord read a paper upon Recent Discoveries of show how the facts observed in the redshank
Tables annuelles de Constantes et Données Classical Literature,' in which he gave an account bore on the theory of sexual selection. In this
numériques de Chimie, de Physique et of these for the last twenty years. With few species there was no rival display between several
de Technologie : Vol. I. , Année 1910, treatise by Archimedes, all the more important single male, as in man.
males at once : a single female was courted by a
21/6 net. Paris, Gauthier-Villars ;
The courtship, started
remains recovered have been preserved upon with a pursuit, the hen running in a circuitous
London, Churchill Egyptian papyri, or vellum pieces found in course, followed by the cock. The pursuit was
Egypt. Of the many authors enumerated, the
United States National Museum :
followed by a display, but only if the hen were
1887, chief were the comedies by Menander, the Odes willing that the courtship should continue.
CENSERS AND INCENSE OF MEXICO AND of Bacchylides, the Commentary of Didymus During display the cock uttered a special note,
CENTRAL AMERICA, by Walter Hough;
upon the Philippics of Demosthenes, the Pæans spread his tail, raised his wings above his back,
1890, VARIATION IN THE SKULL AND
of Pindar, the Apology of Antiphon, and the and advanced with a curious high-stepping action
HORNS OF THE ISABELLA GAZELLE, by is particularly valuable for the many extracts he
If the female
poems of Callimachus. The work by Didymus towards the now stationary female.
so wished, pairing followed the display. But in
Gerrit S. Miller, jun. ; 1897, NAMES gives of lost historians. To these were added quite 90 per cent of observed courtships the
APPLIED TO BEES OF THE GENUS OSMIA a description of the part recovered of the History female rejected the male, either during the pursuit
FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA, by T. D. A.
of Cratippus, which covers some of the period or during the display, by simply flying away,
Cockerell ; 1898, NEW ARENACEOUS
contained in Xenophon's 'Hellenica'; and a when the cock was quite powerless to enforce his
summary of one of the missing books of Livy, and desires. Thus the consent of the hen was abso-
FORAMINIFERA FROM THE PHILIPPINE several anonymous chronologies and lists of Olympic lutely necessary if pairing were to take place, and
ISLANDS AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS, by victors. Poets were represented by the Ætia' this consent was usually withheld : in other words,
Joseph A. Cushman; and 1899, THE and ' lambi' of Callimachus, containing the story selection by the female was a reality in the
CHIMÆROID FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE Meliambi of Cercidas, and the curious exultant
redshank.
ISLANDS, with Description of a New poetry of Timotheus of Miletus celebrating The plumage of the two sexes was identical, and
Other interesting points were as follows :
Species, by Hugh M. Smith.
Salamis. The author, whilst commenting upon was decidedly cryptic when the birds were at
Washington, Govt. Printing Office these discoveries, carefully specified scores of rest. During flight the white underside of the
fragments of authors of every description, dis- wings and the white tail were conspicuously
Pampblets.
cussing the attributions of these pieces. He
revealed, and probably served as recognition
included all departments of literature, musical, marks. The significance of the red legs was
Bell (Robert), THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF aries, lexicographers, and grammarians
medical, and scientific works, scholia, comment-
unknown. During display the male drew atten-
from
tion to the underside of the wings by raising and
OF CANCER.
the last trio many precious quotations from vibrating them, to the tail by fanning it out,
This pamphlet is issued by the Society for thus afforded a store for reference in the compila-
perished books being obtainable. The paper and to the red legs by his slow, high steps ; besides
the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, an
this he uttered a note heard at no other time.
tion of any future corpus of classic authors. Thus, since the actual colours and structures used
organization evidently started by anti-
in display were found in both sexes, the only
vivisectionists. Dr. Bell tells us that, if
peculiarly male possession—the only secondary
we eat no meat or fish and no cooked
sexual character of the redshank—was a special
vegetables, we shall never suffer from cancer.
ROYAL
INSTITUTION. --May 1. - Sir James behaviour, devoted to showing off these common
He considers all research in which experi- chair. -The Annual Report of the Committee of
Crichton-Browne, Treasurer and V. -P. , in the
colours and structures in a special way.
ments are made as useless. He gives no
This seemed to show that secondary sexual
Visitors for the year 1911, testifying to the con- differences in birds were originally differences of
justification for his own extraordinary views, tinued prosperity and eficient management
of behaviour, and that only when these were estab-
but refers to another medical man as the Institution, was read and adopted, and the lished did differences of colour and structure come
maniac because he is reported to have said report on the Davy Faraday Research to be developed.
that cancer was due to the eating of tomatoes.
Laboratory of the Royal Institution, which Mrs. E. W. Sexton contributed a paper based
on a small collection of brackish-water Amphipoda
The whole pamphlet is one that we cannot accompanied it, was also read. Forty-six new
а
were elected in 1911. Sixty-three from Bremerhaven. Special reference was made
treat seriously.
lectures and nineteen evening discourses were to a new species of Gammarus, which inhabited
delivered in the year. The books and pamphlets both fresh and brackish water, and was interesting
presented amounted to 281 volumes, making, as showing in a marked manner the effects of
with 677 volumes (including periodicals bound) environment on development.
purchased by the Managers, a total of 958
Mr. c. Tate Regan read a paper containing
SOCIETIES.
volumes added to the library in the year.
descriptions of ten new species of South American
fishes of the family Loricariidæ in the British
ROYAL. -April 25. - Sir Archibald Geikie,
Museum collection.
President, in the chair. -Mr. J. S. Townsend read
a paper on The Diffusion and Mobility of Ions
ZOOLOGICAL. –April 23. -Dr. 8. F. Harmer,
in a Magnetic Field. '
V. -P. , in the chair.
Mr. J. J. Manley read a paper. On the Observed The Secretary, exhibited a living specimen of CHALLENGER. -April 24. —Dr. E. J. Allen in
Variations in the Temperature Coefficients of a young female dorsal hyrax (Dendrohyrax the chair. —Dr. H. Muir Evans read a paper on
Precision Balance. ' In this paper was given an dorsalis) from Nigeria, recently presented to the the Poison Organs and Venoms of Poisonous
account of experiments which supplement and Society by Mr. J. L. McKellar, and also a number
Fishes. ' After reviewing previous work, he
extend an earlier research (Phil. Trans. , A, 210, of photographs of an elephant kraal in Siam pointed out that the researches of Briot were
p. 387) dealing with changes which may be which had been presented to the Society by Sir incorrect, and that this observer had obtained
observed in the resting-points of precision balances. Cecil Clementi Smith.
his results by means of a filtered glycerine extract
Dr. Guy Barlow read a paper ‘On the Torque Mr. C. H. O'Donoghue read a paper on 'The of the spines of Trachinus (the weever). Dr.
produced by a Beam of Light in Oblique Refrac- Circulatory System of the Common Grass-Snake Evans had used fresh venom for his experiments,
tion through a Glass Plate. ' In accordance with (Tropidonotus natrix). ' Several interesting features and found that hæmolysis took place with fresh
the principle that light carries with it a stream of correlated with the loss of limbs and the elonga- venom alone, without the addition of heated
momentum, the passage of a beam of light tion of the body were stated to occur in the blood-
But if fresh venom were mixed with
through a refracting plate should give rise to a vessels. The vessels, like the viscera they sup- glycerine and filtered through_filter-paper, the
torque on the plate, it being supposed that the plied, were asymmetrical; not only were those results were similar to those of Briot; they were,
reaction is on the matter through which the beañ on the right anterior to those on the left, but they | however, different if a Berkefeld filter were used
is passing. In 1905 Prof. Poynting and the were also noticeably larger. No indication of instead of filter-paper, just as the action of liver-
author made experiments which confirmed this the descent of snakes from a limb-bearing ancestry extract is affected according as it is filtered
result; but as disturbances, due to gas action, was to be found in the circulatory system, save through cloth or through filter-paper. Dr. Evans
were not eliminated, more exact measurements perhaps a small pair of veins which might corre- then described the conclusions of Porta, from
appeared desirable. In the present experiment spond to the pelvic veins in Lacertilia. There was examination of sections of the spine of the sting
the original double-prism arrangement was aban- a marked tendency for the vessels to form longi- ray (Trygon pastinacea)-conclusions which had
doned in favour of a single cube. A glass cube, | tudinal systems, e. g. , the arteries supplying the | been disputed by Pawlowsky, who stated that
of 1 cm. edge, was suspended axially by a fine ' gut and the fat-bodies ; and each ovarian artery Porta had confused glandular tissue with
à
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can
seen
deformed blood-corpuscles, and denied that
poison-glands with groups of small cells existed
in Trygon. By microphotographs Dr. Evans then
Science Gossip.
showed not only that Porta's triangular glands
FINE ARTS
really existed, but also that they were only part A
of a large system present throughout the whole
PRELIMINARY programme has been
spine. The latter was described as consisting :
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(i) of an intra-caudal portion, of bony mesh-work Association, which is to take place at
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