His output as yet, however, impulse, yet
continues
to rely upon it.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
Knight, Frank & 4to, £25 (unbound, title defective); and
this sale a copy on vellum of the so-called Rutley, at a sale of the late Mr. Moberly books, MSS. , &c. , relating to Oscar Wilde.
“Mazarine Bible” fetched the equivalent Bell's effects, obtained £120 for Voltaire's Anything by Wilde, not consisting of late
of £10,000, the largest amount over paid for works, printed at Kehl in 1785-9, and com- reprints, is in great demand.
a book, the sum of £7,100 obtained at Paris plete in 70 volumes. The reason of this
The new season of 1911-12, opened by
in 1909 for ' Les Euvres de Molière,' 6 vols. , unusually high price was that the work was
1773, with Moreau's original drawings bound on large paper, with all the portraits and has so far been almost completely domi-
Messrs. Puttick & Simpson on October 5th,
up,
ranking second. The Huth copy of the plates by Moreau in colours. Beaumarchais nated by the Huth Sale, and the compara-
Mazarin Bible” was bought by Mr. Quaritch established a printing-office at Kehl for the tively few books which have fetched sub-
for £5,800, and it was perhaps better than purpose of producing this edition, bought stantial prices have been so recently referred
that belonging to Mr. Hoe, for priority is Baskerville's types, and expended from first to in The Athenæum that there is no need
given to the unmixed issue on paper, to
to last upwards of three million francs upon to mention them again. It may, just be
which the Huth book belonged, over the it.
copies printed on vellum. Mr. Alfred W. Sir Theodore Martin's library (see Athen- Vol. II. ' (only) of Lamb's Tales from
observed, however, that on October 19th,
Pollard refers to this aspect of the matter in æum, July 8th), extensive and good of its Shakespeare, 1807, 8vo, sold at Messrs.
his Early Illustrated Books' and else- kind, was composed almost entirely of Hodgson's for £71, simply because it was in
where.
standard works of English literature, and, its original grey boards as issued. In May,
collection fetched
The next sale of importance was held at though the
$2,770, 1903, the two volumes so bound, fetched
Messrs. Sotheby's on May 1st and following individual amounts were mostly small.
£110 at Messrs. Sotheby's. Again, on
That the racy books of Pierce Egan and November 17th, Messrs. Hodgson sold for
day. It was dealt with in The Athenoum of
May 13th and was of a miscellaneous charac- his school have not lost their interest is the large sum of £226 Thackeray's Flore
ter, comprising inter alia a number of works apparent from the results of the year’s et Zephyr,' in its original wrappers, and this
on Aeronautics, now fashionable, and of sales ; in fact, it is evident that good copies notwithstanding the fact
that they and
these Blanchard and Jeffries's broadside are held in higher regard than ever.
At a
one of the lithographic illustrations were
Account of a Voyage in the Atmosphere sale on the last day of June, Carey's 'Life
slightly torn. During the last twenty-five
from England to France,' 1785 fetched in Paris, containing 21, coloured plates by years only nine copies of this
“ Ballet
£14 10s.
George Cruikshank, 1822, 8vo, fetched £26 ;
Mythologique have been publicly offered
This sale gave rise to the conclusion that first editions of the three Tours of Dr.
for sale, and of these two were mutilated
presentation copies of books rank high in Syntax;" 1812-20-21, 8vo, £37; Pierce Egan's and one incomplete. The nearest approach
the estimation of collectors, and there is Life in London,' 1821, and the 'Finish,
1830, together 2 vols. , 8vo, £30 ; and West- realized £56 in May, 1892. That, too, was
to this most recent example was that which
every indication that they will in the future
macott's
rank higher still.
English Spy,' 2 vols. , 1825-6,
also £30. All these were fine copies, uncut
in its original cover, and one of the plates
The late Sir Charles Dilke's library, or
was damaged.
and bound either in calf or morocco extra.
rather a selection from it, was sold at Messrs, At the same sale the first edition of 'La
Taking the Book Sales of 1911 as a whole,
Christie's on May 9th, in company with a Divina Commedia' having the Commentary
one cannot say that they have proved
number of other
properties. Blake's of Benvenuto da Imola, 1477, small folio, very remarkable. . If the Huth Sale is left
Songs of Innocence, with 27 coloured brought £66 (original vellum, two leaves
out of the calculation, the average disclosed
plates and that of 'The Schoolboy from repaired), and a little later a set of The is about £2 158. -higher, certainly, than that
Songs of Experience' added, 1789, 8vo, Sporting 'Magazine from the beginning in of the previous year, which stood at about
fetched £250 (mor. ); Keats's ' Lamia,' 1820, 1792 to its conclusion in 1870, together 156
£2 108. , but lower than that of 1909 (£3 108. ),
£50 (boards);
Poems, 1817,, £30 (calf vols. , with Sir Walter Gilbey's privately and much lower than the average for 1907
extra); 'Endymion,' 1818, $v0, £48 (boards); printed index to the engravings, £70 (ht. (about £4. 48. ), which is the highest on
and the ‘Poetical Works' of 1876, with calf). The last 46 volumes were not uni-
. We may gather from this that of
autograph inscription by Lord Houghton to formly bound, and several of the plates were
late an unusually large number of unimpor-
Sir Charles, and the latter's pencil marks missing. Sir Walter Gilbey's set sold for
tant books have been thrown on the market,
and notes, £20 (calf extra). Among the £378 in March, 1910 ; and at a miscellaneous and that appears from other evidence to
miscellanea was a unique set of the Royal sale at Messrs. Sotheby's in July, 1909, as
have been the case. The records of many
Academy Catalogues from 1769 (the date of much as £920 was obtained for what was
years show plainly that books of an ordinary
the first exhibition) to 1834, containing described as the finest set ever offered.
character-those in fact, which are not as
many hundreds of interesting autograph
The extensive and valuable collection of yet mirrored in the glass of fashion-are
letters from the chief artists of the period, medical works formed by the late Dr. cheaper than they were ten or a dozen years
also a large number of original drawings. Frank Payne was sold enºbloc for £2,300, ago, but that the aristocrats of the book-
This collection, in 16 thick quarto volumes, in the comparatively quiet month of July: shelf are much dearer, and are likely to be-
bound in morocco extra, fetched as much as
It consisted mainly of works in English,
£504.
Latin, and German (printed in this country copies are rapidly finding their way into the
Later in the month occurred the sale and abroad during the sixteenth and seven-
great public libraries of the world.
detailed in The Athenaeum of May 27th. teenth centuries) by such celebrated prac-
J. HERBERT SLATER,
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scene.
are
upon her as his property, the friend because he if precious article entitled “The Theatre of the
is constitutionally polygamous. Such a sub- Soul,' and Miss Dorothy Nevile Lees writes
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
ject offers dramatic possibilities, but they are with sympathy and enthusiasm upon the
poorly utilized, the author in particular missing * Sacre Rappresentazioni' of Florence. Mr.
the opportunity offered by the collision of John Semar has a note on The New Censor,'
ENGLISH.
the principal dramatis personæ in the closing though, as he does not mention Mr. Redford's
Theology.
The technique is faulty, and bears retirement, it is somewhat out of date.
Mr.
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evidence of immaturity; the plot is loosely Arthur Symons talks about ‘Pantomimes and
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him a considerable debt. His poems are long,
Emmanuel. There is also some interesting impossible to daunt him. He has fine im- trailing descriptions interspersed with lyrical
matter on town planning, with one more addi- petuosity, but his lusciousness and flamboyance
effusions and prosaic disquisitions. His writ-
tion to the myriad schemes for the beauti- of phrasing outrun all bounds. So far as ing is but loosely disciplined, for he constantly
fying of London-this time not the City, but intrinsic meaning is concerned, he might, by lapses into rhymed prose, and at best he is
the neglected Surrey side.
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in Mr. Coffey's papers in the Transactions and latter, indeed, when transferred from his Mr. Rickards has a fatal facility in writing
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the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries works and kaleidoscopic obscurity. But for skilful, and he juggles with one verse-form after
of Ireland. His materials have been thoroughly faults of taste, the poetic quality of this volume another with consummate agility. His utter-
overhauled, and the revisions and additions have would be considerable.
ance has precisely that air of dashing insouciance
resulted in the embodying of his researches in Hartley (L. Conrad), The Poet and the Poetic
that we are wont to associate with Tom Moore.
this book. Mr. Coffey estimates the influence
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Like Moore, he runs loquaciously on, casually
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equipped with illustrations and quotations from
that of elucidating the esoteric laws of beauty uninformed by any profound unity or earnest-
authorities and old manuscripts.
which govern the poetic principle. His treatise
ness of feeling, ripples shallow and trans-
Every Man his own Engraver : How to Commence
resolves itself into a vague metaphysic, saturated parent. Mr. Rickards is simply a poetic con-
the Half-tone and Line Photographic Zinco
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Process, by J. L. and a Mutual Friend, 1/
appreciation avoids being crystallized into others brilliantly pointed.
precise definitions, like those of Wordsworth Shakespeare, Comedies, 2!
Marchant (William) & Co. , A Reply to an Attack and Arnold, his argument can lay no claim to The first volume of the new edition of Shake-
made by one of Whistler's Biographers on pioneer work outside the area that we
Oxford
speare in the
Standard
a Pupil of Whistler, Mr. Walter Greaves, and
Authors
already cognizant of. Moreover, his insistence Series.
his Works.
It is a pleasant book to handle, is
on the essential need of vision in the poetic printed boldly, and contains an adequate
This brochure gives the outline of the contro- properties holds him back from diversifying his glossary. Swinburne's brilliant tour de force
versy which arose through certain published material and discussing other aspects and
remarks of Mr. Pennell, the biographer of
on Shakespeare supplies the general introduc-
promptings of the poetic afflatus. He reiterates tion. Two other volumes, containing the
Whistler, upon the exhibition of the works of ad infinitum the accepted premises. Though Histories and Poems and the Tragedies, are to
Mr. Walter Greaves held in May, 1911. The
leaning to romantic colouring, he writes a free
manifesto-for it is little else-makes
follow, with prefaces by Prof. Dowden. The
and sound style.
text is that of W. J. Craig, and the names of
elaborate effort at refuting Mr. Pennell's
the characters are printed in full. The lines
remarks, and emphatically supports the authen- Hazelhurst (John), Flashes from the Orient; or,
ticity of Mr. Greaves's picture ' Passing under
A Thousand and One Mornings with Poesy :
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so steeped himself in
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physical ;. turns his hand to word-painting,
Exhibition at the French Gallery.
quietists. Like them, he philosophizes in
and gravitates to the simple, pellucid lyric.
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songs. He has an ear for metre, and can fashion
introduction.
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in popular favour that it has assumed the pro- of outdoor life.
His output as yet, however, impulse, yet continues to rely upon it. Lacking
portions of a science. It is more than a
is amateurish, and he has not attained to the initiative to create new and vital things,
development of photography; it exists as a
harmony of expression and feeling.
he embroiders persistently on the old. His
new and independent mechanism. The infor-
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though its contents aim at reaching a wider
Canada, and other Homeland Lyrics.
melancholy about it.
public than that of the experts. As yet
One is apt to pay homage to a preconceived
Untermeyer (Louis), First Love, a Lyric Sequence,
commercial exigencies and the demand for superstition concerning Colonial poetry : that
$1 net.
diversion have made the cinematograph of
it is tarred with the Kipling brush, full of A lyric sequence visualizing the emotions
little utility, if not harmful, as an educative
strident and clamorous self-confidence. Mr.
engendered by first love. The thought has but
force, and Mr. Talbot does good service in Logan effectually falsifies this easy summary:
little continuity or development--no more
insisting on its achievements and possibilities His verse bears marks of timidity and lack of
than Meredith's sonnet“ sequences. The
in this field, and in the presentation of scientific assurance ; occasionally he gropes at his
author's work is endowed with many of the
phenomena. The study is comprehensive, and meaning. He is often curiously stilted, but
qualities incident to poetic expression without
the illustrations are varied and entertaining.
he never brays out clarion notes at us. Poetic
being poetry.
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Williamson (Frank S. ), Purple and Gold, 3/6 net.
Poetry and Drama.
ripening. The volume is introduced by a Mr. Williamson more frequently brandishes
Aristophanes, The Frogs, translated into Kindred
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significance of Canadian poetry.
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The January number is less attenuated in
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This play deals with the threadbare theme of its contents than is sometimes the case. Some the two would be less evident. Like certain
the selfish husband, the neglected wife, and the
picturesque quotations from Goethe, Heine, of Mr. Kipling's less creditable performances,
tertium quid, slightly varied by the fact that
Victor Hugo, Giorgio Vasari, Lafcadio Hearn, his rhetoric is apt to degenerate into noise. At
the wife chooses neither one
Oscar Wilde make it attractive reading. his best he has a ready and virile perception of
but rejects both the husband because he looks
melody.
M. Eduard Schuré contributes a charming
an
66
an
a
SO
'nor the other,
and
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Music.
the Duke of Gandio was not murdered by his
Folk-Song Society Journal, December, 1911,
brother, but by a revengeful person who
Philology.
10/6 annually.
remains incognito, is fantastic surmise. Nor
A collection of 105 vernacular folk-songs from
are his contra-allegations concerning the assas.
Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive
the Hebrides. The greater part of them are
sination of Alfonso of Aragon, the second
Originum Libri XX. , ed by W. M. Lindsay,
“ luinneagan,'
2 vols. , 9/ each.
or songs of occupation as they
husband of Lucrezia Borgia, any more satis-
are called, but their motifs cover a wide field of
factory. If vituperative chroniclers have
Part of Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca
human emotion. The music is given con-
made Cesare masquerade as a fabulous monster,
Oxoniensis. The fruits of research among
currently with the songs, and explanatory notes
no amount of assertion can sublimate him
ancient Latin documents. The preface and
are appended where needed. The rescue of
into heroic proportions. M. Sabatini does
notes are in Latin, as usual in this series.
this traditional poetry from oblivion is a good
better service to Lucrezia, who, indeed, cannot
Matzke Memorial Volume, containing Two Un;
feature of to-day. Many of the pieces are of
be convicted of the abominations attributed published Papers by John E. Matzke, and
great beauty. The translations are close and
to her by Victor Hugo and others.
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It is surprising that such a lacuna in the of his lists and rules makes this second edition of
An elaborate criticism and condemnation of
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science of condensing multifarious and isolated practical value. He depends much on Prof.
information has not been filled before. The Chandler's 'Practical Introduction to Greek
ducing the author's own system. The syllogism contents are mainly gleaned from official guide- Accentuation, and has arranged his headings
is vigorously attacked. Even the regulation
fallacies are seemingly themselves fallacious
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scripts Commission, the Dictionary of National Wright (Joseph), Comparative Grammar of the
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implication,” for example, which are stated to lacks distinction.
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the Chair of Comparative Philology at Oxford,
he has enriched our knowledge upon a subject
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Boys (C. V. ), Soap-Bubbles : their Colours and
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the Forces which Mould Them, 3/
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what end ? Merely the revivifying of the
agricultural possibilities of the country are siderable impetus through the fishing industry
profligacies of the mediæval and Renaissance treated at some length. Moreover, the author
and the fierce rivalry with the Dutch which it
clergy. Innumerable episodes relating to Papal
is something of a naturalist as well as a hunter,
occasioned. The struggle was undecided until
love-intrigues are recounted. The author ex- and his big-game exploits are good reading,
maritime supremacy was wrested from the
plains that he is solely“ animated by the wish without displaying that love of indiscriminate
Dutch and secured to English hands. Mr.
to draw attention to the discrepancy existing
slaughter which disfigures similar works. The
Elder supplies a succinct account of the Royal
between the noble and sublime teaching of
volume is edited by A. E. Nellen, and has an
Fisheries of England and Scotland, and shows
Christ and the practice of His disciples. "
introductory note by Sir Ralph Williams, and how the gradual necessity for co-operation in
Sabatini (Rafael), The Life of Cesare Borgia of a foreword by F. C.
this sale a copy on vellum of the so-called Rutley, at a sale of the late Mr. Moberly books, MSS. , &c. , relating to Oscar Wilde.
“Mazarine Bible” fetched the equivalent Bell's effects, obtained £120 for Voltaire's Anything by Wilde, not consisting of late
of £10,000, the largest amount over paid for works, printed at Kehl in 1785-9, and com- reprints, is in great demand.
a book, the sum of £7,100 obtained at Paris plete in 70 volumes. The reason of this
The new season of 1911-12, opened by
in 1909 for ' Les Euvres de Molière,' 6 vols. , unusually high price was that the work was
1773, with Moreau's original drawings bound on large paper, with all the portraits and has so far been almost completely domi-
Messrs. Puttick & Simpson on October 5th,
up,
ranking second. The Huth copy of the plates by Moreau in colours. Beaumarchais nated by the Huth Sale, and the compara-
Mazarin Bible” was bought by Mr. Quaritch established a printing-office at Kehl for the tively few books which have fetched sub-
for £5,800, and it was perhaps better than purpose of producing this edition, bought stantial prices have been so recently referred
that belonging to Mr. Hoe, for priority is Baskerville's types, and expended from first to in The Athenæum that there is no need
given to the unmixed issue on paper, to
to last upwards of three million francs upon to mention them again. It may, just be
which the Huth book belonged, over the it.
copies printed on vellum. Mr. Alfred W. Sir Theodore Martin's library (see Athen- Vol. II. ' (only) of Lamb's Tales from
observed, however, that on October 19th,
Pollard refers to this aspect of the matter in æum, July 8th), extensive and good of its Shakespeare, 1807, 8vo, sold at Messrs.
his Early Illustrated Books' and else- kind, was composed almost entirely of Hodgson's for £71, simply because it was in
where.
standard works of English literature, and, its original grey boards as issued. In May,
collection fetched
The next sale of importance was held at though the
$2,770, 1903, the two volumes so bound, fetched
Messrs. Sotheby's on May 1st and following individual amounts were mostly small.
£110 at Messrs. Sotheby's. Again, on
That the racy books of Pierce Egan and November 17th, Messrs. Hodgson sold for
day. It was dealt with in The Athenoum of
May 13th and was of a miscellaneous charac- his school have not lost their interest is the large sum of £226 Thackeray's Flore
ter, comprising inter alia a number of works apparent from the results of the year’s et Zephyr,' in its original wrappers, and this
on Aeronautics, now fashionable, and of sales ; in fact, it is evident that good copies notwithstanding the fact
that they and
these Blanchard and Jeffries's broadside are held in higher regard than ever.
At a
one of the lithographic illustrations were
Account of a Voyage in the Atmosphere sale on the last day of June, Carey's 'Life
slightly torn. During the last twenty-five
from England to France,' 1785 fetched in Paris, containing 21, coloured plates by years only nine copies of this
“ Ballet
£14 10s.
George Cruikshank, 1822, 8vo, fetched £26 ;
Mythologique have been publicly offered
This sale gave rise to the conclusion that first editions of the three Tours of Dr.
for sale, and of these two were mutilated
presentation copies of books rank high in Syntax;" 1812-20-21, 8vo, £37; Pierce Egan's and one incomplete. The nearest approach
the estimation of collectors, and there is Life in London,' 1821, and the 'Finish,
1830, together 2 vols. , 8vo, £30 ; and West- realized £56 in May, 1892. That, too, was
to this most recent example was that which
every indication that they will in the future
macott's
rank higher still.
English Spy,' 2 vols. , 1825-6,
also £30. All these were fine copies, uncut
in its original cover, and one of the plates
The late Sir Charles Dilke's library, or
was damaged.
and bound either in calf or morocco extra.
rather a selection from it, was sold at Messrs, At the same sale the first edition of 'La
Taking the Book Sales of 1911 as a whole,
Christie's on May 9th, in company with a Divina Commedia' having the Commentary
one cannot say that they have proved
number of other
properties. Blake's of Benvenuto da Imola, 1477, small folio, very remarkable. . If the Huth Sale is left
Songs of Innocence, with 27 coloured brought £66 (original vellum, two leaves
out of the calculation, the average disclosed
plates and that of 'The Schoolboy from repaired), and a little later a set of The is about £2 158. -higher, certainly, than that
Songs of Experience' added, 1789, 8vo, Sporting 'Magazine from the beginning in of the previous year, which stood at about
fetched £250 (mor. ); Keats's ' Lamia,' 1820, 1792 to its conclusion in 1870, together 156
£2 108. , but lower than that of 1909 (£3 108. ),
£50 (boards);
Poems, 1817,, £30 (calf vols. , with Sir Walter Gilbey's privately and much lower than the average for 1907
extra); 'Endymion,' 1818, $v0, £48 (boards); printed index to the engravings, £70 (ht. (about £4. 48. ), which is the highest on
and the ‘Poetical Works' of 1876, with calf). The last 46 volumes were not uni-
. We may gather from this that of
autograph inscription by Lord Houghton to formly bound, and several of the plates were
late an unusually large number of unimpor-
Sir Charles, and the latter's pencil marks missing. Sir Walter Gilbey's set sold for
tant books have been thrown on the market,
and notes, £20 (calf extra). Among the £378 in March, 1910 ; and at a miscellaneous and that appears from other evidence to
miscellanea was a unique set of the Royal sale at Messrs. Sotheby's in July, 1909, as
have been the case. The records of many
Academy Catalogues from 1769 (the date of much as £920 was obtained for what was
years show plainly that books of an ordinary
the first exhibition) to 1834, containing described as the finest set ever offered.
character-those in fact, which are not as
many hundreds of interesting autograph
The extensive and valuable collection of yet mirrored in the glass of fashion-are
letters from the chief artists of the period, medical works formed by the late Dr. cheaper than they were ten or a dozen years
also a large number of original drawings. Frank Payne was sold enºbloc for £2,300, ago, but that the aristocrats of the book-
This collection, in 16 thick quarto volumes, in the comparatively quiet month of July: shelf are much dearer, and are likely to be-
bound in morocco extra, fetched as much as
It consisted mainly of works in English,
£504.
Latin, and German (printed in this country copies are rapidly finding their way into the
Later in the month occurred the sale and abroad during the sixteenth and seven-
great public libraries of the world.
detailed in The Athenaeum of May 27th. teenth centuries) by such celebrated prac-
J. HERBERT SLATER,
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scene.
are
upon her as his property, the friend because he if precious article entitled “The Theatre of the
is constitutionally polygamous. Such a sub- Soul,' and Miss Dorothy Nevile Lees writes
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
ject offers dramatic possibilities, but they are with sympathy and enthusiasm upon the
poorly utilized, the author in particular missing * Sacre Rappresentazioni' of Florence. Mr.
the opportunity offered by the collision of John Semar has a note on The New Censor,'
ENGLISH.
the principal dramatis personæ in the closing though, as he does not mention Mr. Redford's
Theology.
The technique is faulty, and bears retirement, it is somewhat out of date.
Mr.
Catholic Who's Who, 1912, 3/6 net.
evidence of immaturity; the plot is loosely Arthur Symons talks about ‘Pantomimes and
Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics : Vol. IV.
woven, at least one of the characters being the Poetic Drama' with all his old verve.
irrelevant to the action. Perhaps the best
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Moore (William), The Fags, and other Poems,
feature of the play is its easy and unpreten- 3/6 net.
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Law.
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Church (Hubert), Poems, 3/6 net.
languorous metaphysical atmosphere. His
Mr. Church is an introspective writer.
His poetry is tangled with conceits, and labours too
The Copyright Act, 1911, with Introduction
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fondness for abstruse thought often deflects consciously at verbal architecture. He leaves
the poetic impetus into channels of nebulous the impression that his inspiration is to trifle
Fine Art and Archæology.
and obscure speculation. He can hardly be
with fanciful and fugitive blossoms of poesy:
described as a poet, but is rather a dis- He lacks grip and force, and avoids the broad
Builder (The): a Journal for the Architect, ciplined and powerful thinker who expresses
currents of human feeling.
Engineer, and Decorative Artist, 4d.
himself in metrical form.
Pennypacker (Isaac Rusling), Bridle Paths.
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Longfellow, far more, unfortunately, than
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Angelo Zanelli, whose classic reliefs have been Mr. Fish, with perfervid zeal, runs through American poetasters. Mr. Pennypacker owes
selected to adorn Rome's monument to Victor a whole gamut of emotional experience. It is
him a considerable debt. His poems are long,
Emmanuel. There is also some interesting impossible to daunt him. He has fine im- trailing descriptions interspersed with lyrical
matter on town planning, with one more addi- petuosity, but his lusciousness and flamboyance
effusions and prosaic disquisitions. His writ-
tion to the myriad schemes for the beauti- of phrasing outrun all bounds. So far as ing is but loosely disciplined, for he constantly
fying of London-this time not the City, but intrinsic meaning is concerned, he might, by lapses into rhymed prose, and at best he is
the neglected Surrey side.
economizing, and so strengthening his thought, content to meander with somewhat lacka-
Coffey (George), New_Grange (Brugh Na Boinne) have delivered his message in half the number daisical satisfaction.
and other Incised Tumuli in Ireland, 6/ net.
of pages.
We frequently detect echoes of Rickards (Marcus S. E. ), Reflected Radiance,
The gist of this volume has already appeared
Beddoes and Swinburne. The genre of the
4/6 net.
in Mr. Coffey's papers in the Transactions and latter, indeed, when transferred from his Mr. Rickards has a fatal facility in writing
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy and masterful ends, is apt to degenerate into fire- verse. His metrical handiwork is always
the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries works and kaleidoscopic obscurity. But for skilful, and he juggles with one verse-form after
of Ireland. His materials have been thoroughly faults of taste, the poetic quality of this volume another with consummate agility. His utter-
overhauled, and the revisions and additions have would be considerable.
ance has precisely that air of dashing insouciance
resulted in the embodying of his researches in Hartley (L. Conrad), The Poet and the Poetic
that we are wont to associate with Tom Moore.
this book. Mr. Coffey estimates the influence
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Like Moore, he runs loquaciously on, casually
poetizing about any subject that is congenial
of Europe in early times. The book is well
Mr. Hartley sets himself a portentous task : to his alert mind. But the current of thought,
equipped with illustrations and quotations from
that of elucidating the esoteric laws of beauty uninformed by any profound unity or earnest-
authorities and old manuscripts.
which govern the poetic principle. His treatise
ness of feeling, ripples shallow and trans-
Every Man his own Engraver : How to Commence
resolves itself into a vague metaphysic, saturated parent. Mr. Rickards is simply a poetic con-
the Half-tone and Line Photographic Zinco
in the atmosphere of poetic aspiration. If his versationalist of talent, flaccid at times, at
Process, by J. L. and a Mutual Friend, 1/
appreciation avoids being crystallized into others brilliantly pointed.
precise definitions, like those of Wordsworth Shakespeare, Comedies, 2!
Marchant (William) & Co. , A Reply to an Attack and Arnold, his argument can lay no claim to The first volume of the new edition of Shake-
made by one of Whistler's Biographers on pioneer work outside the area that we
Oxford
speare in the
Standard
a Pupil of Whistler, Mr. Walter Greaves, and
Authors
already cognizant of. Moreover, his insistence Series.
his Works.
It is a pleasant book to handle, is
on the essential need of vision in the poetic printed boldly, and contains an adequate
This brochure gives the outline of the contro- properties holds him back from diversifying his glossary. Swinburne's brilliant tour de force
versy which arose through certain published material and discussing other aspects and
remarks of Mr. Pennell, the biographer of
on Shakespeare supplies the general introduc-
promptings of the poetic afflatus. He reiterates tion. Two other volumes, containing the
Whistler, upon the exhibition of the works of ad infinitum the accepted premises. Though Histories and Poems and the Tragedies, are to
Mr. Walter Greaves held in May, 1911. The
leaning to romantic colouring, he writes a free
manifesto-for it is little else-makes
follow, with prefaces by Prof. Dowden. The
and sound style.
text is that of W. J. Craig, and the names of
elaborate effort at refuting Mr. Pennell's
the characters are printed in full. The lines
remarks, and emphatically supports the authen- Hazelhurst (John), Flashes from the Orient; or,
ticity of Mr. Greaves's picture ' Passing under
A Thousand and One Mornings with Poesy :
are numbered, an important matter for the
Old Battersea Bridge. ' The matter is intricate,
Book IV. Winter, 1/6 net.
student.
and it can hardly be said that this pamphlet
Mr. Hazelhurst has
Stead (William Force), Windflowers, a Book of
so steeped himself in
offers an entirely satisfactory solution of it. the melodies of a bygone poetic fashion that
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his writing has a quaintly archaic ring.
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tender,
meditative,
valiantly, personifies ;
objective modes of feeling which we are wont
spins his conceits ; tinkers with the meta-
Raeburn (Sir Henry), Pictures, the One Hundredth
to associate with the eighteenth century
physical ;. turns his hand to word-painting,
Exhibition at the French Gallery.
quietists. Like them, he philosophizes in
and gravitates to the simple, pellucid lyric.
He is an
homme à tout faire
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in the poetic
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the artifice of cataloguing the charms of nature.
craft. But he cannot climb to the higher slopes.
A superb collection of photographs of Italian He even imitates the classification of The
Talbot-Crosbie (Bligh), A Western Wakening,
baroque art, from its period of full flower to Seasons. ' His muse is more pedestrian than
2/6 net.
the middle of the eighteenth century, when it theirs, and his language is even more latinized ;
Mr. Talbot-Crosbie is an adept weaver of
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songs. He has an ear for metre, and can fashion
introduction.
his melodies into a plausible simulacrum of
Jephcott (Sydney), Penetralia, 3/6 net.
Talbot (F. A. ), Moving Pictures : How They are
poetry. Like many Irish poets, he can create
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an atmosphere ; he is rich in imagery and
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The cinematograph is so firmly established
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in popular favour that it has assumed the pro- of outdoor life.
His output as yet, however, impulse, yet continues to rely upon it. Lacking
portions of a science. It is more than a
is amateurish, and he has not attained to the initiative to create new and vital things,
development of photography; it exists as a
harmony of expression and feeling.
he embroiders persistently on the old. His
new and independent mechanism. The infor-
mation set forth is that of the usual textbook, Logan (John Daniel), Songs of the Makers of verse, moreover, has a taint of self-indulgent
though its contents aim at reaching a wider
Canada, and other Homeland Lyrics.
melancholy about it.
public than that of the experts. As yet
One is apt to pay homage to a preconceived
Untermeyer (Louis), First Love, a Lyric Sequence,
commercial exigencies and the demand for superstition concerning Colonial poetry : that
$1 net.
diversion have made the cinematograph of
it is tarred with the Kipling brush, full of A lyric sequence visualizing the emotions
little utility, if not harmful, as an educative
strident and clamorous self-confidence. Mr.
engendered by first love. The thought has but
force, and Mr. Talbot does good service in Logan effectually falsifies this easy summary:
little continuity or development--no more
insisting on its achievements and possibilities His verse bears marks of timidity and lack of
than Meredith's sonnet“ sequences. The
in this field, and in the presentation of scientific assurance ; occasionally he gropes at his
author's work is endowed with many of the
phenomena. The study is comprehensive, and meaning. He is often curiously stilted, but
qualities incident to poetic expression without
the illustrations are varied and entertaining.
he never brays out clarion notes at us. Poetic
being poetry.
quality is here in the bud, and holds promise of
Williamson (Frank S. ), Purple and Gold, 3/6 net.
Poetry and Drama.
ripening. The volume is introduced by a Mr. Williamson more frequently brandishes
Aristophanes, The Frogs, translated into Kindred
straightforward essay on the development and than plays his lyre. His careless impetuosity
Metres by Alfred Davies Cope, 3/ net.
significance of Canadian poetry.
and a metre as frequently careless spoil his
work. If he could inform the tenuity, of his
For notice see p. 52.
Mask, January, 4/ net.
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The January number is less attenuated in
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This play deals with the threadbare theme of its contents than is sometimes the case. Some the two would be less evident. Like certain
the selfish husband, the neglected wife, and the
picturesque quotations from Goethe, Heine, of Mr. Kipling's less creditable performances,
tertium quid, slightly varied by the fact that
Victor Hugo, Giorgio Vasari, Lafcadio Hearn, his rhetoric is apt to degenerate into noise. At
the wife chooses neither one
Oscar Wilde make it attractive reading. his best he has a ready and virile perception of
but rejects both the husband because he looks
melody.
M. Eduard Schuré contributes a charming
an
66
an
a
SO
'nor the other,
and
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Music.
the Duke of Gandio was not murdered by his
Folk-Song Society Journal, December, 1911,
brother, but by a revengeful person who
Philology.
10/6 annually.
remains incognito, is fantastic surmise. Nor
A collection of 105 vernacular folk-songs from
are his contra-allegations concerning the assas.
Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive
the Hebrides. The greater part of them are
sination of Alfonso of Aragon, the second
Originum Libri XX. , ed by W. M. Lindsay,
“ luinneagan,'
2 vols. , 9/ each.
or songs of occupation as they
husband of Lucrezia Borgia, any more satis-
are called, but their motifs cover a wide field of
factory. If vituperative chroniclers have
Part of Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca
human emotion. The music is given con-
made Cesare masquerade as a fabulous monster,
Oxoniensis. The fruits of research among
currently with the songs, and explanatory notes
no amount of assertion can sublimate him
ancient Latin documents. The preface and
are appended where needed. The rescue of
into heroic proportions. M. Sabatini does
notes are in Latin, as usual in this series.
this traditional poetry from oblivion is a good
better service to Lucrezia, who, indeed, cannot
Matzke Memorial Volume, containing Two Un;
feature of to-day. Many of the pieces are of
be convicted of the abominations attributed published Papers by John E. Matzke, and
great beauty. The translations are close and
to her by Victor Hugo and others.
Contributions in his Memory by his Colleagues.
excellent. Several experts, among them Dr.
Serjeantson (Rev. R. M. ), A History of the One of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Publications.
George Henderson, supply valuable annotation.
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Music Student Series : No. 1. Singing in Schools, Shelley (Henry C. ), The British Museum: its Swift (F. Darwin), A Plain Guide to Greek
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by Percy A. Scholes, 3d. each.
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Philosophy.
Survey of the Priceless Objects preserved within mentary student, but his hand sometimes
its Walls, 12/6 net.
wavers. However, the admirable compression
Mercier (Charles), A New Logic, 10/ net.
It is surprising that such a lacuna in the of his lists and rules makes this second edition of
An elaborate criticism and condemnation of
the whole system of Aristotelian logic, intro-
science of condensing multifarious and isolated practical value. He depends much on Prof.
information has not been filled before. The Chandler's 'Practical Introduction to Greek
ducing the author's own system. The syllogism contents are mainly gleaned from official guide- Accentuation, and has arranged his headings
is vigorously attacked. Even the regulation
fallacies are seemingly themselves fallacious
books, reports issued by the Historical Manu; and divisions with discrimination.
scripts Commission, the Dictionary of National Wright (Joseph), Comparative Grammar of the
A few of Dr. Mercier's criticisms can be met
Biography,' &c. The matter, scanty in some
with little difficulty: all the 22 illustrations
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implication,” for example, which are stated to lacks distinction.
be" unattainable by any method of Traditional Staunton (G. W. ) and Stenton (F. M. ), The Family
the Chair of Comparative Philology at Oxford,
he has enriched our knowledge upon a subject
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an Essay, 3/6 net.
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The authors piece together their story from treatise upon the phonology of Greek dialects.
the Staunton records, laying under contribu- Nevertheless it is wonderfully compressed
provocative manner.
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Royce (Josiah), William James, and other Essays thousand muniments nd documents extant, in classification and method on his ' Old English
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For the theory and practice of the sixteenth
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Agar (Madeline), Garden Design in Theory and
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summary of bis more important cases.
Hodson (Arnold W. ), Trekking the Great Thirst : Enlarged edition, in the Romance of Science
Rappoport (Angelo s. ), The Love Affairs of the Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert, 12/6 Series.
Vatican ; or, The Favourites of the Popes,
net.
British Astronomical Weather Almanac, 1912,
15/ net.
A well-written record of adventure by a edited by Miss Jenkins, 2d.
We deprecate the fashion of retailing
member of the Bechuanaland Police. The Elder (John R. ), The Royal Fishery Companies of
“chroniques scandaleuses,
when
book contains a good deal of interesting infor- the Seventeenth Century, 54 net.
ardour for historical investigation is avowedly mation on native life and customs, with some The volume treats with scholarly power of the
the motive. Patient and exhaustive research interesting sidelights on government in those
development of English commerce under the
has gone to the making of this volume. To remote regions, while the geography and the Stuarts, the resources of which received con-
what end ? Merely the revivifying of the
agricultural possibilities of the country are siderable impetus through the fishing industry
profligacies of the mediæval and Renaissance treated at some length. Moreover, the author
and the fierce rivalry with the Dutch which it
clergy. Innumerable episodes relating to Papal
is something of a naturalist as well as a hunter,
occasioned. The struggle was undecided until
love-intrigues are recounted. The author ex- and his big-game exploits are good reading,
maritime supremacy was wrested from the
plains that he is solely“ animated by the wish without displaying that love of indiscriminate
Dutch and secured to English hands. Mr.
to draw attention to the discrepancy existing
slaughter which disfigures similar works. The
Elder supplies a succinct account of the Royal
between the noble and sublime teaching of
volume is edited by A. E. Nellen, and has an
Fisheries of England and Scotland, and shows
Christ and the practice of His disciples. "
introductory note by Sir Ralph Williams, and how the gradual necessity for co-operation in
Sabatini (Rafael), The Life of Cesare Borgia of a foreword by F. C.
