Those who do not mind making
the paper cover, which seems rather incon-
the acquaintance of several new people after
Philosophy.
the paper cover, which seems rather incon-
the acquaintance of several new people after
Philosophy.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
pleasant sentiment.
enthusiastic and rather thin. The fact is
John Murray
Bojer (Johan), Treacherous Ground, translated
that people with a knowledge of Tennyson have
For notice sec p. 381.
from the Norwegian by Jessie Muir, 6/
been over-using their material, so that it has
Wilson (J. Cook), Aristotelian Studies : 1. On
Sidgwick & Jackson
become stale. As we said in 1900, Canon the Structure of the Seventh Book of the Though sad, this story is not depressing, and
Rawnsley's book is valuable for its details of
Nicomachean Ethics, Chaps. I. -X. , 5/
does not lack interest. The author's style is
Lincolnshire, where his family were old friends
Oxford, Clarendon Press
occasionally reminiscent of Ibsen, especially in
and neighbours of the Tennysons. The mistake This paper upon the parallel passages which his brief recital of tragedy. The characteriza-
we noted about the acquaintance of FitzGerald are visible in the Seventh Book of the Ethics' tion is good, particularly that of the peasants ;
and Tennyson at Cambridge remains in the was first published in 1879. In view of the
and the scenery and details of everyday life
text.
revived interest in Aristotle, its reissue is are pleasantly and concisely described.
Scottish Historical Review, April, 2/6 net.
timely. Prof. Cook Wilson has not in the Burgin (G. B. ), Dickie Delver, 6/ Hutchinson
Glasgow, MacLehose meantime modified his ingenious theory much, In order to escape from a mariage de con-
The main features of this number were men-
but he adds a postscript upon the authorship venance arranged for him by an autocratic
tioned by us last week.
of the parallel versions, suggesting that the parent, the hero, a wealthy young American,
Seafield Correspondence from 1685 to 1708, edited, difficulty of attributing both the repeated seeks refuge in a small Canadian village, where
with Introduction and Annotations, by James passages to Aristotle may be met by supposing he has many adventures, and eventually meets
Grant.
Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable that he rewrote a previous composition without his fate in a young and charming neighbour,
These letters have in the main been furnished
the original before him, and that a disciple, The machinations of a preposterous female
from the documents of the Countess-Dowager
revising the manuscript, and wishing to include
character provide a mild excitement, and a
of Seafield. A few are taken from the State
all the master's words, set the duplicates side delicate situation is created by the inopportune
Papers of Scotland in the London Record by side, as if in a continuous text, with perhaps arrival of the jilted bride, disguised as
Office. The period and matter of the corre-
some connecting link or minor rearrangement. Indian squaw. Notwithstanding its improba-
spondence cover the reigns of James II. , Prof. Cook Wilson now rejects the view that bility, the book is rendered attractive by its
William and Mary, and Anne. Under William the works of Aristotle are to any large extent quaint humour.
Sir James Ogilvie was Secretary of State for
notes of lectures.
Dickens (C. ), Dombey and Son, 3/6 net.
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In this edition the colouring of the well-
High Chancellor. The letters end at the Selected Essays from English Literature, edited known pictures is the chief feature.
It is a
French invasion of Scotland in the spring of by E. Lee, 2!
Arnold light wash which does not accord well with the
1708. They shed much light on the several A well-chosen volume, beginning with Bacon blacker parts of the plates, and is generally
periods mentioned.
and ending with Dr. John Brown, representative crude in effect.
Story (Alfred Thomas), The Building of the of the best, yet avoiding what is hackneyed. Fairless (Michael), The Gathering of Brother
British Empire : the Story of England's We commend the inclusion of Leigh Hunt, and Hilarius, New Edition.
Growth from Elizabeth to Victoria, two Parts, the choice of personal revelation rather than In Murray's Shilling Library.
1558–1895, 5/ net.
Putnam's Sons criticism and dissertation. The notes Forman (Justus M. ), The Court of the Angels, 6/
New edition.
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Ward & Lock
Story (The) of a Printing House : being a Short Thorley (Wilfrid C. ), Examples and Exercises in A gay, lighthearted, and pleasantly discursive
Account of the Strahans and Spottiswoodes, English for Foreign Students, 9d. Macmillan book. The Quartier Latin is the scene, and
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A second edition of this interesting memoir. for Foreign Students. ' It is an ingenious and mild mystery, and everybody is left happy at
There is much additional material of importance, sensible manual.
the finish.
an
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Futrelle (May), Secretary of Frivolous Affairs, 6/ days he seems to have been educated in the Arnold as a “ triad of great names
" in the
Gay & Hancock belief that the power of money was unlimited, Victorian era is perverse.
The volume forms
A brightly written story of an American girl but later his wealth is associated with many part of the Guild Library.
who lost her fortune and found an agreeable forms of trouble. The one great obstacle to
Women's Labour League, Annual Report for the
occupation. During her season's secretaryship his selfish desires is a young lawyer, who is
to a wealthy, but much-worried lady she moved a significant figure in the labour movements of
Year 1911, together with Report of Proceedings
at the Seventh Annual Conference, held at
in the highest circles of American Society, the country. On the whole, the story is in-
Birmingham, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2d.
where all the dukes were thieves and no mov- teresting, but would have been improved by
3, Lincoln's Inn Fields
able property was safe, and she was plunged revision. The illustrations are worthy of
The tone of the Report is saddened by the
from one exciting incident to another. The mention.
deaths during the year of both joint Honorary
plot is ingenious, and the treatment superficial, Wemyss (George), The Secret Book, 6/
but agreeable.
Secretaries, Mrs. Middleton and Mrs. Ramsay
Ham-Smith
MacDonald.
Garshin (W. M. ), The Signal, and Other Stories, Here the long arm of coincidence is over-
translated by Capt. Rowland, 6/ Duckworth worked, and the style, though fluent, may jar
Yale Review, April, 75 cents.
Horn (Kate), Edward and I and Mrs. Honeybun : on sensitive readers. The secret book is
a Romance of Married Life.
a woman's diary, which a man finds and reads.
Pamphlets.
One of Stanley Paul's Clear - Type Sixpenny His determination to discover the owner and
Novels. For notice see Athen. , Feb. 19, 1910, marry her supplies the events of the story.
Chamberlain (B. H. ), The Invention of a New
p. 213.
It comes from America, and seems more likely
Religion, 3d. net.
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Jacomb (A. E. ), The Faith of his Fathers : & to win recognition there than in this country.
Prof. Chamberlain in this pamphlet supplies
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New edition. For notice see Athen. , Feb. 13, Those who Love Yesterday, 6/ Greening
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1909, p. 193.
The first chapter of this novel—The Coming
resuscitated to make their Imperial policy more
Mackellar (Dorothea) and Bedford (Ruth), The Revolution '-ís devoted to views on Modernity.
effective. The old ancestor. and Mikado-
Little Blue Devil, 6/
Alston Rivers The author thinks that this “monster," as
worship was aptly manipulated to patch up a
The little blue devil of this story, who was he terms it, has abolished all our old institu-
creed which was a blend of Imperialism and
cast out to sea in his eggshell, had plenty of tional ideals. The characterization is defec-
Cæsarism, a religion the spiritual and super-
pluck. He had to steer for himself from the tive throughout. The chief figure is
natural elements of which were kept studiously
age of ten, when his one relation left him in a romantic young woman, who goes through
in the background or engineered to further
Parisian boarding-house with a capital of a various vicissitudes incidental to her tempera-
the new materialistic conception of a Westernized
few francs. He visited many countries and ment; and there are a number of commonplace
civilization. Buddhism and the old traditions
underwent many hardships, but he made friends, love • complications. After sundry ramifica-
were discredited, and a hierarchy grew up
and eventually undertook the steering of the tions, including a suicide, the story winds
under the new shibboleths,
somebody sinking outside. " The book is of to its close.
Friendly Relations with Germany: Correspond-
decided interest, but suffers from overcrowding | Yonge (Charlotte M. ), The Caged Lion, 1/ net. ence with British and German Governments
of material, and incidents which leave no mark New edition.
Macmillan and German Municipalities, following upon
on the plot or on the characters. Yet the
Public Meeting held in the City Chambers,
latter, including the numerous uncles and aunts
General Literature.
Glasgow, on Monday, 29 January. Glasgow
and cousins, are clearly defined. We only wish
A résumé and classification of the letters
there were not quite so many of them.
Encyclopædia of Islam : No. XII. Berbers-
Macnaughtan (S. ), Four-Chimneys, 2/ net. Nelson
urging a more cordial intercommunication, in
Bu-&th, 3/6 Leyden, Brill; London, Luzac
consideration of the ties binding both nations,
It is difficult to believe that the author could
For notice of Part IX. see Athen. , Sept. 16,
after the public meeting specified. Transla-
have written so colourless a story. The chief
1911, p. 322.
tions of the German letters are included.
Mathews
character is a prig, and his wife bores us by Hine (Reginald L. ), Anima Celtica.
her adoration of him ; nor is the monotony
This little book has something of the true | Livingstone (Rev. I. ), Conservative Judaism and
relieved by any incident worthy of note.
quality of imaginative prose; it is written with Modern Thought: a Paper read at the Bangor
Macvane (Edith), Tarantella, 6/
enthusiastic appreciation, rising to a fine flow Hebrew Literary Society, January 14.
Hurst & Blackett
of eloquence. We cannot speak so highly of The author, whose object in this paper has
A picturesque story of Southern Italy, lively its penetration. The author's idea of the Irish been to reveal the compatibility of modern
and melodramatic. A beautiful American
spirit is too near to the conception of Renan and thought with Jewish faith and practice, in
woman, unhappily married, visits the grave of
Matthew Arnold for our taste; and the discussion virtue of his argument shows us exactly the
her mother at Sorrento, and there meets an
of a few obvious traits, humour, melancholy, opposite. The first part of his short ad-
Italian duke. So begins the tale. The "Taran-
and the like, is only redeemed by the charming dress is concerned with Judaic history.
tella is skilfully woven into the plot.
quotations from Irish literature which serve In it he mentions the astonishing discovery of
Martin (C. J. ), A Little Aversion, 81 "Arrowsmith
to point these discourses. Despite some faults, Capt. Weldon, whose theory it was that, as
The story describes family life in the early
good predominates.
gas, electricity, steamers, umbrellas, and
part of the eighteenth century, and the plot Lowry (Ernest Ward), Can the Doctors work the uniforms
mentioned in Nahum and
is mainly concerned with the fortunes of a
Insurance Act ? 1/ net.
Watts Isaiah, therefore the British people were the
heroine who is left penniless by the premature
A brightly written brochure which has lost tribes. When Mr. Livingstone stoops to
death of her grandfather and guardian. Con-
received the approval of the President and other quote such trivialities we can hardly take him
temporary atmosphere is well suggested, but
important officials of the British Medical Asso- seriously.
the characters strike us as conventional and
ciation. The case against the Insurance Act Long (Bernard), The Passing of Babel, or Esper-
uninteresting, and the author exhibits a stilted
from the doctors' point of view is clearly stated,
anto and its Place in Modern Life, Bd. net.
magniloquence which detracts from his work.
and special attention is given to Mr. Chiozza
British Esperanto Association
Raymond (George Lansing), Modern Fishers of
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Men among the Various Sets, Sects, and Sexes
The conclusion is that doctors cannot work the
A practical manual sketching the origin,
Act as it stands in a manner consistent either
functions, and diffusion of this curiously amor-
of Chartville Church and Community, New
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Edition, 5/ net.
with their own honour or with due regard to the
It describes its interrelation
Putnam's
This book has no doubt been found acceptable
health of their patients. The “six points
with commerce, industry, travel, social inter-
by reason of its kindly, hearty humour.
course, literature, and progress, and correlates
The
form the suggested amendments, and the case
social life of a congregation led by a young
for their adoption is vigorously stated.
a number of useful facts about it. In our
pastor well endowed both with wits and zeal,
Taube (Baron von), In Defence of America, 5/ net.
opinion the heterogeneity of its composition
the rivalries of sundry worthy but cross-grained
Stephen Swift debars it from profoundly affecting mankind. .
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This volume embodies a number of haphazard
It has no character or individuality.
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anecdotes, observations, and side-lights about
FOREIGN.
delights of church festivals and lectures, are
America. It is in no way a serious or systematic
described with a lively pen, which—in the old-
inquiry into American psychology, but a collec-
fashioned American way-by no means disdains
tion of wayside gleanings placed on paper as
Fine Art and Archæology.
to notice the good things of the table. There
a kind of anti - toxin to current English
Mireur (Dr. H. ), Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art
criticisms.
are pathetic scenes, too, and a few pages,
We hear a great deal of the “ manly faites en France et à l'étranger pendant les
inserted here and there, of reflection and
and the “ womanly woman.
dix-huitième et dix-neuvième Siècles, Tome I. ,
counsel.
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Paris, C. de Vincenti
and Other Papers on Character and Conduct,
Sidgwick (E. ), Herself, 6/ Sidgwick & Jackson
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No one
This sale catalogue of eighteenth- and nine-
can deny the cleverness of Miss
We have seldom encountered a treatise
teenth-century paintings, drawings, water-
Sidgwick's story, but it will probably be valued
conducted on such irrelevant lines. The writer
colours, miniatures, pastels, and the like is
higher by women than men. She draws
arranged with the utmost neatness and com-
some delightful people, but the book is some-
prattles on from subject to subject, moralizing
disjointedly, and in a manner that might very
prehensiveness, and cannot fail to be very
what long and overloaded with detail and
useful,
weil apply to anything. His portrait occupies
characters.
Those who do not mind making
the paper cover, which seems rather incon-
the acquaintance of several new people after
Philosophy.
sistent with the self-effacement he conspicu-
having read half of it will find plenty to
ously advocates in these pages.
Otte (Heinrich), Kennt Aristoteles die sogenannte
interest them.
Watt (Rev. Lauchlan Maclean), Literature and tragische Katharsis ? Berlin, Weidmann
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This is a vigorously written pamphlet, in
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which the author maintains, first, that the
I'he motto on the title-page, “This is as Mr. Watt's effort to crowd many
strange a maze as e'er man trod,” &c. , is a
common interpretation of παθημάτων κάθαρσις
literary theories and criticisms into a slender
very fair commentary on this lengthy story of
is entirely wrong
that κάθαρσις has
compass results in a complete lack of propor-
mystery and crime. There
many, we tion and no solid background for his canvas.
reference either to éNéos and poßos, or indeed
believe, who love a maze, and to them we
Moreover, he rushes too precipitately from
to the spectator at all ; and, secondly, that
heartily recommend this book.
generalizations to their antitheses. The actual πραγμάτων would be better than παθημάτων
Thieves, by Aix, 6/
Frank Palmer criticism strikes us as overwrought; the stress
as an emendation for padnuárwv, and that
The story of an enormously wealthy American and tension of style as artificial and over-empha.
the whole sentence describes tragedy as “ that
steel-magnate, who, in addition to his riches, sized. He gives far too much attention to which by means of pity and fear effects the
possesses an uncontrollable temper, a second Scott, and far too little to Keats and Burns. purification, or clearing up, of that which is
wife, and a charming daughter. In his early To select Barry Cornwall, Hood, and Matthew fearful or painful "-i. e. , in the pūlos itself.
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History and Biography.
of the reign of James VI. down to 1604.
Schlesinger (Max), Geschichte des Symbols : ein
So far as is known, this MS. has not
Versuch.
Berlin, Leonhard Simion
hitherto been catalogued or described.
Herr Schlesinger, if he has not dealt ex-
CONGRATULATIONS due to The
haustively as,
THREE lectures on George Petrie (the
could not in a single volume-has at least Daily Telegraph on the success of its Margaret Stokes Memorial Lectures, 1912)
given a comprehensive outline of it so far as
endeavours to raise a fund for the five
European, in ,
were given recently at Alexandra College,
historgans concerned. He begins with ety: necessitous granddaughters of Dickens. Dublin, by Mr. Alfred Perceval Graves.
mology, and proceeds then to a discussion of The final figures announced give the Mr. Graves dealt with Petrie's work as
the physiological and psychological aspects of
symbolism, showing an inclination to believe grand total of 9,4191. 78. : of this 6,6511. 78.
a collector of Irish folk · music, and
in the existence of a cerebral centre for sym•
was raised in England and 2,7681. in his position as archæologist, artist, and
bolizing, situated, so it is conjectured, in the America. The Daily Telegraph, in an-
parietal region.
man of letters.
nouncing its close on the 29th of March,
Geography and Travel.
states the pleasant fact that the amount
THE SCOTTISH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Joergensen (Johannes), Le Livre de la Route, 5fr.
Paris, Perrin represents not a limited number of is to hold its annual meeting at St. An-
See notice on p. 387.
large contributions from the generous
drews on June 1st, when it will be enter-
Science.
rich, but a demonstration of the gratitude tained by the University.
-Schöner (Dr. Otto), Die praktische Vorausbestim- and affection entertained by rich and poor With the May number, Messrs. Constable
mung des Geschlechtes beim Menschen.
Berlin, Schweizer & Co.
alike for the memory of one who loved will undertake the publication in England
This monograph sets forth the methods and humanity from the highest to the lowest. ” of Scribner's Magazine.
results of certain researches by which the writer
claims to have discovered how the sex of a WE owe an apology to Mr. Colquhoun
STROTHER'S JOURNAL,' from a MS.
child may be predicted, and also determined,
before birth. If he is right, the determining
for having said in the review of his book in the British Museum, edited by the
factor is on the mother's side alone ; and the
China in Transformation' that “no Rev. Cæsar Caine, will be issued by Messrs.
principle by which calculations can be made foreign envoy of that period was seen at
A. Brown & Sons shortly. It is of value
is furnished by definite laws of sequence in ovu-
lation. The prima facie reason for hesitation
the capital before the visit of Mr. Ward, for Yorkshire topography, with special
about accepting the theory is that, as yet, it the American Minister. ” There is reference to Hull and York.
rests upon only a small number of cases actually published dispatch of August 10th, 1859, THE death is announced, at the age
observed.
from Mr. Bruce to Lord Malmesbury, in of 84, of Mr. Alexander Milne, a well-
which he reports that the Russian known Aberdeen bookseller of the firm
Minister, General Ignatieff, succeeded in of Messrs. A. & R. Milne.
FORTHCOMING BOOKS.
reaching Peking and in exchanging the
APRIL
With deep regret we record the death
Theology.
ratifications of the Russian treaty towards of Mr. Charles Awdry on Thursday,
8 How a Modern Atheist Found God, by the end of May. Dr. S. Wells Williams's the 28th of March. It was only last week
G. A. Ferguson.
Lindsey Press diary, recently published at Shanghai, that we mentioned his retirement as
8 The Church of To-morrow, by J. H.
Crooker, D. D.
Lindsey Press says
that the Chinese stated on the
Philosophy.
one of the trustees of the Booksellers'
13th of July that the Russian Minister Provident Institution. He had also been
25 History of Ancient Philosophy, by A. W.
was at Peking; it was not till the 20th Provident Institution. He had also been
Benn, New Edition, 1/ net.
Watts
that Mr. Ward landed at Pehtang, and
a trustee of the Newsvendors’ Institution,
History and Biography.
he did not arrive at the capital till the and the Festival at which he presided
11 My Memoirs, by Madame Steinheil, 10/6 net. 27th. General Ignatieff appears to have brought a large addition to its funds, as
Eveleigh Nash
every man and boy connected with the
25
A History of the Royal Family of England, gone overland from Russia.
firm of W. H. Smith & Son—with which
by Francis Bagshawe, 2 vols. , 21/ net. Sands
SOME indirect literary interest attaches on his retirement last year as senior
School-Books.
to the sale, at Edinburgh on Saturday acting partner he had been associated for
10 The Story of the Roman People, by_F. M. last, of the gilt spurs which belonged forty-one years determined to show
Tappan, 1/6; Prize Edition, 2/6 net. Harrap to Walter Scott of Harden, familiarly their regard for him.
He was looked
16 Grundzüge der Naturlehre, being
Introduction to Scientific German, by Dr. J. G.
known as Auld Wat. " It was of “ Auld upon by the entire staff
Wallentin, edited, with Notes and Vocabulary, Wat that Sir Walter Scott wrote: “I à kind and sympathetic friend than
by Prof. P. M. Palmer, 3/6
Harrap
15 Mémoires d'un Collégien, par A. Laurie,
am lineally descended from that ancient a master. In addition to supporting
edited, with Introduction, Notes, Exercises, and chieftain, whose name I have made to institutions connected with the trade, he
Vocabulary, by O. B. Super, 1/6
Harrap ring in many a ditty. ” Further, it was was for many years treasurer of King's
Auld Wat ” who married College Hospital, and took a prominent
Fiction
2002 The Woman who Tempted, burdertrude Browning's poem. The spurs date back to Denmark Hill.
Muckle-mouth Meg," the subject of part in the scheme for its transference
Warden, 6/
Ward & Lock
15 The Children of the New Forest, by Capt. | to the turbulent times of cattle reiving
Marryat, 1/ net.
Mr. Awdry was the son of Sir John
Collins
15 Cerise, by Whyte Melville, 1/ net.
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Collins they were placed on the table by Harden's Bombay, and was born on the 12th of
15 Cynthia, by Leonard Merrick, 7d. net. wife Mary, the “ Flower of Yarrow,” as February, 1847. The funeral took place
Collins
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a significant hint that the larder was
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Askew, 7d. net.
Collins empty. They were bought on Saturday service being held at St. Člement Danes.
15 The Rommany Stone, by Sir Jas. H. for 485 guineas by Sir Harold Harmsworth Mr. Awdry will be long remembered for
Yoxall, Sixpenny Copyright Novels.
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Copyright Novels.
Collins M. P. , a descendant of the family of
15 Eugene Aram, by Lord Lytton, 4 d. net. Muckle-mouth Meg. "
THE SENIOR PRESIDENT of the Reichstag,
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At a recent meeting of the Glasgow year is announced from Berlin, was in his
15 The Fossicker, by Ernest Glanville, Copy Archæological Society, Mr. J. T. T. younger days welcomed as a poet who
|
sight Novels, 3}d. net.
16 The Stooping Lady, and Fond Adventures,
Collins Brown gave an account of an import- would do great things for German lite-
by Maurice Hewlett, New Editions, 2/ net each.
ant MS. of 923 pages folio, written rature ; but he disappointed this hope
Macmillan
17 Rogues in Arcady, by Sir Wm. Magnay, 8 picked up recently in a Manchester politics and seeking political rather than
in an early seventeenth-century hand, by devoting the best part of his life to
17 The Silver Medallion, by Percy J. Brebner, second-hand bookshop. The MS. con- intellectual liberty for his country. He
Mills & Boon tains the full text of : (1) Bellenden's was known in the seventies as the poet
General Literature.
translation of the Historia Gentis Sco- of the Gartenlaube,' then at the height
11. Cruikshank's Comic Almanack, Cheaper torum,' written by Hector Boece; (2) the of its reputation, and his poems were
Edition, 2 vols. , 6/ net each Chatto & Windus well-known continuation of that history widely read.
25 Penalties upon Opinion; or, Some Records
Many were pleasing, but
of the Laws of Heresy and Blasphemy, by Hy down to the year 1565, commonly cited their sentimentality is scarcely likely to
patia Bradlaugh Bonner, 6d. net. Watts' as Pitscottie; and (3) a short account I make them as a whole enduring.
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SCIENCE
it was left to chance whether a cheese tracted, most of the former having the head at
ripened in a normal manner or not; now
the west end of the grave, and the grave-furniture
we know for certain that the lactic-acid of the finds were given to York Museum, and
pointing to the close of the pagan period. Most
bacillus is essential in bringing about this comprise several bronze thread-boxes, a sword,
DAIRYING AND THE DAIRY FARMER. change. We also know that the bacillus and four sword-knives (or scramasa ses), often
should be obtained in as pure a form as
with steels or hones for sharpening; a bronze
MR. SHELDON's volume must be considered a possible—that is to say, without the addition and other jewellery of Kentish types, some of
bowl with drop-handles, two gold filigree pendants,
standard work on this subject. It contains of other bacteria.
the annular brooches having pairs of animal-
all there is to be known about dairying. The The modern dairy should, in fact, be heads in the style of the seventh century. Con-
author points out the extraordinary progress as free from bacteria as an operating theatre spicuous by their absence were spear-heads,
amber beads, and long brooches, all of which
of the last thirty years in this country, at a hospital, and only those bacteria usually accompany interments of the pagan period
a fact which makes it imperative for all which are required to act as ferments in in Saxon and' Anglian districts. The inventory
those engaged either in farm_or factory butter and cheese manufacture should be of the graves was taken from Canon Greenwell's
to use modern methods. In reading allowed to be present. All unpleasant publication as perhaps the latest found in uncon-
journal, and the cemetery merited detailed
this book we are struck by the fact that odours and tastes are caused by definite secrated ground.
some knowledge of science is absolutely bacteria, which, with our modern methods,
essential for all those engaged in the milk can be absolutely avoided.
March 28. —Dr. C. H. Read, President, in the
trade or the manufacture of butter or
Both books should be of great value to
chair. -Mr. P. M. Johnston exhibited by per-
cheese, and in the general management of those concerned in the milk trade.
