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some one will catch it.

ness.

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an American

From the remarks that have fallen from my friend the Senator from....I can readily understand that he is wholly incapable of appreciating the motives which influenced me in severing myself from Mr. Gladstone."

The story of Mr. Chamberlain's engagement to Miss Mary Endicott and of the political reasons which necessitated its being kept secret for a while is tactfully told. But some of the newspaper extracts about Mr. Chamberlain's voyage on the Aurania, when his passage was booked in Sir Willoughby's name, appear superfluous; that particularly from a comic journal beginning" Mr. Willoughby Joecock?' I inquired facetiously," and continuing in the same strain.

Sir Willoughby sets forth very clearly the ins and outs of the fisheries dispute

between the United States and Canada which Mr. Chamberlain's mission endeavoured

to settle. He also gives the essential documents, the Treaty which the American Senate rejected, and the Protocol which formed a modus vivendi until, in 1912, the question was finally solved. But, from motives of discretion in themselves praiseworthy, he tells us little about the negotiations that we do not know already. The most important disclosure is that, when matters seemed to be at a deadlock, Sir Lionel Sackville West, on Sir Willoughby's suggestion, went to Mr. Bayard with a gloomy countenance, and told him that Mr. Chamberlain's patience was exhausted. The British plenipotentiaries thereupon obtained all that they wanted by way of

concession.

National Library of Ireland.-Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature. (Dublin, Stationery Office.)

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SINCE 1853, when Zeuss published his Grammatica Celtica,' the basis of all exact study of the Celtic languages, a vast deal of work has been done on the language and literature of Ireland by native and Continental scholars. Students of Indo-European philology recognized how important the early records of the language were for their study; all those the antiquities of the Celts attracted felt that here alone could be heard the authentic voice of the Celt in its earliest accessible form; and to students of comparative literature and folk-lore a rich field of research was opened. The scholars who took advantage of the new opportunities were of all nationalities, except English, and as a consequence their work on the subject is scattered through a multitude of periodicals in Germany, France, Austria, &c. It was, therefore, a matter of the last importance to collect all this dispersed literature into a bibliography. And by a happy chance this Bibliography appears in the year that sees the completion of the new Grammatica Celtica-Holger Pedersen's 'Vergleichende Grammatik der Celtischen Sprachen.' These two publications sum up a full half-century of work in this field of research, one of the most fruitful periods in the history of any study since the Renaissance. It is now possible to see where we stand in our subject, and from the vantage-ground of past achievement to predict the future developments of scholarship. Those who know Mr. Best's previous work in Irish literature will recognize here at once his characteristic thoroughness and method. It is no secret that the School of Irish Learning in Dublin, which has done so much for the furtherance of the scientific study of the language and literature, owes a great deal to his devoted labours. His position at the National Library has of his subject, and the fine collection of naturally inclined him to the bibliography books there has supplied him with all material. necessary His publication of Irish texts has shown his competence as a scholar, and one may mention also that in the field of the palæography of Irish MSS. he has done pioneer work of the most important order. Thus the enterprise has fallen into the hands most competent to carry it to a successful conclusion, and all Celtic scholars will congratulate themselves on the result.

Here we have at last an orderly and exhaustive literature which is accessible in printed survey of that part of Irish form. The exposition is divided into two parts: first, the helps to the study of the language under the heading of Irish Philology; secondly, the literature itself. A table at p. ix enables one to find immediately any subject required, and an elaborate Index at the end makes every detail immediately accessible. There is little to criticize in Mr. Best's arrangement and treatment. Occasionally there

are odd omissions, as in the case of

Plummer's Vitæ Sanctorum Hiberniæ, which is as important for the study of the Irish as of the Latin lives of the saints, and contains in its introductions a vast amount of material for the elucidation of the early Christian literature of Ireland. And here and there some further information might have been given. Thus a reference to Backer, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus,' under Segneri,' would have shown that the True Wisdom' attributed to the latter on p. 248 is not by him, but by Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti. It is, however, regularly attributed to Segneri in translations, and this proves that the Irish translator worked But this is a from an English version. small point, and, so far as we have been able to test, it is only in similar unimportant details that Mr. Best's Bibliography' is open to criticism.

It is interesting to note what in the literature has chiefly attracted editors. Apart from the more technical productions-the annals, glosses, vocabularies, &c.-it is natural that attention should have centred on the epic tales and the early poetry. For here Irish literature

stands alone and unrivalled in the litera

tures of Europe. The characteristics of the epic tales are well known. Abrupt and forcible in style, in subject by turns heroic, grotesque, and tender with a sort of fierce and involuntary tenderness, and penetrated throughout by the singular humour of the Irish Gael, they are in their kind unique and unapproachable. The poetry of the early Christian period is as remarkable, and now almost equally well known in its main character-its simplicity, directness, and passion, its exact and sensitive language, and above all its exquisite sense of all that natural setting of wood and marsh, hill and sea, in which the drama of the old Irish religious life was played.

It is little wonder that these texts should have attracted editors. And many more of the same kind remain hidden in this book reveals to one who knows the manuscript. Moreover, a glance through manuscripts that whole classes of Irish literature remain as yet almost entirely among unrepresented in print. Chief these is the bardic poetry, one of the most characteristic forms of Irish literature. Then there is the long list of translations of foreign texts, most valuable not only for the light they throw on the state of knowledge in Ireland, but also often for the criticism of the early forms of many themes widely spread in the mediæval literature of Europe. Indeed, wherever we look there is work to be done.

School of Irish Learning, contains regularly contributions of high excellence. In London the Irish Texts Society steadily improves in the interest and accurate editing of the work it puts forth. But it comes on one with something of a shock to look through Mr. Best's Index and see among the German, French, Austrian, Scandinavian, Dutch, and other names

crowding there only two names of Englishmen who have done important work in these studies—those of Robert Atkinson

and Charles Plummer.

This book marks an epoch in Irish studies, the close of a period of preparation, the beginning of a period of creative criticism. Already Prof. Thurneysen, with his critical study of texts and themes; Prof. Kuno Meyer, with his investigation into the earliest poetry; Prof. John MacNeill, with his recasting of the early history and genealogies; and Mr. Best himself, by his palæographical study of the Leabhar na huidhre, have shown us the way, and others will follow. Until only the other day the Old Irish language was as a book sealed with seven seals. The book is open now, and the treasures hidden in it reveal themselves readily to the earnest student. And to any such student, anxious to know what has been done and what remains to do, one can recommend no more accurate and inspiring guide than the present book.

Life and Human Nature. By Sir Bamp

fylde Fuller. (John Murray, 9s. net.) We have here a volume of 339 pages on 'Life and Human Nature,' written by a distinguished Indian Civil Servant in his retirement. The author rightly claims that his long occupation with the task of governing men has prepared him for the discussion of these large topics; he has supplemented this preparation by reading a number of books on biology and psychology; and he writes in a clear and crisp style. Yet, in spite of these advantages, it is difficult for the candid reviewer to think of any class of readers

to which the book can be recommended.

It falls into three parts: Part I., entitled 'The Attributes of Life,' is a treatise on psychology introduced by some biological reflections of a vitalistic tendency; Part II. discusses Race, Environment, and Culture'; Part III. treats of Human Achieve

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ments under the heads of Material and Social Progress,' Modern Economics,' and Modern Politics.' In all these sections the discerning reader will note that the author has profited by the work of the writers to whom the Preface makes acknowledgment, fifteen in number, from W. James to M. Bergson. cannot be said that he has distilled from the works of these writers or from his first-hand observations any consistent and well-digested account of human nature, or made any noteworthy contribution to the existing stores of fact, theory, or speculation.

Nor can the book be regarded entirely successful as a popular exposition of

contemporary currents of thought. If it was designed to serve that purpose, greater care should have been taken to distinguish and denote the sources laid under contribution. The fields entered are too large and too many to be satisfactorily discussed in so small a space, even by a master of the subjects. The sciences of human nature and human

society have now progressed beyond the stage at which the amateur, however brilliant, may hope, by devoting to the study of them a little learned leisure, to make any serious contribution to them, or even to master them in a degree which will qualify him as a popular expositor. The best-perhaps the only good-result to be expected from the publication of a book of this sort is that it may whet the appetite of some of its readers, and send

them to the works of the writers to whom

the author makes his acknowledgments. This function, however, it can subserve but indifferently, owing to its lack of all detailed references.

WOMAN AND ECONOMICS. THE fourth edition of Miss Maude Royden's 'Votes and Wages' supplies a fund of useful information in an inexpensive form, with abundant references to whence the facts are drawn.

sources

The blank half of p. 30 might usefully be devoted to showing, under the existing heading Demand and Supply can be, and are, affected by Legislation,' the possible effect on supply of legislation regarding the raising of schoolage, compulsory military service, the State-pensioning of widows with young children, or "Old-Age Pensions at 60. Öld-Age Pensions at 60." A word or two might also be included, when dealing with the subject of sweated labour, on the ratepayer's interest in the abolition of parasitic industries. Of the supposed resentment of protective factory legislation by enfranchised or progressive women Miss Royden says it is proved to be entirely without foundation," but of Jus Suffragii opposes the suggested we note that the Norwegian correspondent prohibition by law of women's night-work in factories and mills. No closed doors for women in this country, where women are voters, where women have the same "" she says. political rights as Strong factory legislation is favoured, but not special regulation for women.

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men,

Equal pay for equal work irrespective of sex has been legally secured since 1909 to all teachers in the Junior Grade of the Victorian Education Department, and also in New South Wales (head teachers excepted). No doubt when education comes under the control of the Federal Government equal pay for equal work Votes and Wages: How Women's Suffrage will improve the Economic Position of Women. By A. Maude Royden. Fourth Edition. (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 3d.) The Mother and Social Reform.

By Anna

Martin. (Same publishers, 3d.) Wheat and Woman. By Georgina Binnie Clark. (Heinemann, 6s. net.)

Reform' logically inveighs against the legislation

The author of The Mother and Social

which throws

additional

burdens on the classes which are already overtaxed. The uselessness complained of is no doubt only comparative, though Ultimately, after much suffering to those it may be in effect somewhat brutal. who are not really capable of bearing the burden, it will be shifted on to the shoulders of those who can. In days to come statesmen will no doubt wonder at

legislators who risked rebellion on the part of the people, rather than allow

their followers or themselves to run the

risk of the diminution of comfort.

We turn to another and a more hopeful aspect of the woman problem as we take up Miss Georgina Binnie-Clark's 'Wheat and Woman,' an account of the position of woman in the Far West of Canada. This is at once a sound piece of literary workmanship, a very true and sincere picture of the life of a homesteader on the Western prairies, and one of the

best books on Canada that we have recently come across. The public in this country and in Canada owes Miss Binnie - Clark a debt of real gratitude for the patient faithfulness and thoroughness with which she has discharged her self-imposed task of recording her actual experiences and observations as a woman farmer and a champion of women settlers in Western Canada. The author is mercifully brief where her reflections are concerned, and concentrates for the most part upon the narration of facts and events within her personal knowledge, leaving play for the reader's intelligence in the matter of the conclusions to be drawn.

With very little capital, but with a brave store of pluck and perseverance, in the Qu'Appelle district of Saskatchewan, Miss Binnie-Clark took up farming land and set herself to make the venture pay. After some years of by no means unsuccessful or unrewarded effort, despite difficulties and disappointments, she writes :

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The faithful chronicle of one's own diffi

culties may at first thought appear but a poor foundation for one's hope and firm belief that agriculture will prove to be the high road and basis of wealth and independence for Woman; but the strength of complete and uninterrupted success for an agricultural experiment on the Canadian prairie, or anywhere else, a certain amount of training in the theory and practice of agriculture is necessary, and also some knowledge of stock-raising, capital in adequate relation to one's proposition, whether it is to be worked out on five or five hundred acres of land, a commercial instinct, and a true vocation for life on the land, an innate love and understanding of animal and vegetable life. I had no training, inadequate capital, and my commercial instinct, though strong in theory, is weak in practice —I fail to hold my own in buying or selling,

a chain is in its weakest link. To command

and should never discuss price except or paper. But in spite of this, and the fact that I am still behind my conviction that three hundred and twenty acres of good land in Canada can be worked to produce a met profit of five hundred per annum to its owner, my weak link is very much stronger than at the time I set out for Ottawa to claim the right of women to their share in the homestead land of Canada."

It will be noted with special interest by those who have followed Canadian affairs with some little depression during the past twelve months that Miss BinnieClark, whose practical knowledge is not to be questioned, is able to write thus:"Never has the opening for the woman on the land in Canada been so easy or so full of promise as just now, in the hour that Canada, in spite of all her gifts, is shining through the film of a breath of suspicion, which no more emanates from her pure and splendid self than the burst of noisy enthusiasm that preceded it. Neither one nor the other can affect the value of her matchless

natural resources. Whichever way one tests

her value, Canada is rock-bottom. If she can hit hard, she strikes to urge and wounds

to heal. True daughter of a new day, she has the energy and will-power of health, and strength, and self-knowledge."

Here and there the author allows to escape her a hint of something like bitter

ness in her view of woman's position in the world. She refers to the time when she was

"still rebelling against the newly acquired knowledge that in every-day, shoulder-toshoulder life men take so much kindness and consideration from women for granted, but calculate the value of every scrap of their own service; and then, in their veneration for the world's opinion, demand that women shall also fill in the blank space, or erase the blot on the record which every man is still under the illusion he keeps with the wellnigh exhausted tradition of chivalry.'

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support the ultra-puritanical, for whom the writer expresses a vehement abhorrence, we would nevertheless suggest that social problems are so urgent at the present time that a positive attitude in this matter is the only one compatible with the designation Christian. By a positive attitude we mean the frank recognition that there is no middle course : а man is justified in taking alcohol if this is definitely helpful to him in the service of his fellows, but otherwise it behoves him to leave it alone. This should be the principle; as to its carrying out, in our opinion it is necessary for each person to use his own discretion, because, as the author says, it is still a disputed point among the medical profession whether or no alcohol in moderation is detrimental. On p. 100 we read :

"It does not belong to the State, nor even to the Church, to insist on all its members aiming at moral perfection." This sentence we find so inexplicable that we wonder whether there is not hidden in it some abnormal use of words. A similar explanation may be forthcoming on the subject of betting, where, again, we find ourselves somewhat out of agreement with our author. The attitude of acquiescence adopted here is in accordance with that of other manuals in the same seriesan attitude, we think, fundamentally unChristian, since it allows that a man may, without blame, make his own by "chance what another has acquired by long and arduous toil.

Readers of this booklet will obtain

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not only the Catholic standpoint on the question of drink, but also a succinct history of the question, as well as a chapter on its economic side. The author ends by discussing The Solution,' which he rightly looks for in the more enlightened moral outlook of the community generally. We no are surprised that allusion is made to the evils which attend our English fashion of drinking in closed public-houses, nor to the moral obloquy which must attach to a trade whose self-premises are not considered decent enough for children to enter. We are glad it is urged as an objection to the Cothenburg system that a profit from drink is made desirable on the ground that this is used in relief of rates.

Elsewhere and in brighter mood the author gladly admits the existence of very real chivalry among men neighbours on the prairie, where it is far from easy or simple to practise; and it is rarely indeed that her record shows her as other than a singularly brave, cheery, and plucky woman of admirable control and steadfastness of purpose.

THE DRINK QUESTION.

THE dominant note in Father Keating's Catholic manual on The Drink Question is, appropriately enough, temperance. It is a sane and judicial discussion of this most important question, which we commend to all our readers. The only serious criticism we have to offer is that, in our opinion, too purely negative an attitude is adopted on the question of use and abuse. A middle course between the two is assumed to be desirable and possible, in which personal pleasure is enjoyed by the individual, and yet no harm is done to the community. Without wishing to

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The temperance so conspicuous in the manual we have been discussing is certainly not characteristic of Mr. London's John Barleycorn.' A common way of trying to retain self-respect is to blame what we misuse, instead of blaming_ourselves for misusing it. This is Mr. London's method. He would have John Barleycorn banished off the face of the earth. If he is logical, he must find himself among those somewhat old-fashioned reasoners who argue against the existence of a God on the ground that God, if He man to be tempted to any sin whatever. had existed, would never have allowed

The Drink Question. By the Rev. Joseph Keating. Catholic Studies in Social Reform." (King & Son, 6d. net.) The absurdity of the main theme he is John Barleycorn. By Jack London. (Mills contending for is like a maggot in an & Boon, 68.) otherwise luscious apple. All sensible

people cut out the maggot and then enjoy the fruit, though the present author would have no logical complaint against those who, after his fashion, threw away his book before they were half way through it. We consider ourselves, nevertheless, among the fortunate in not having done so. Though far from edifying, this account of the making of a drinker, told as it is in autobiographical style, should prove instructive and wholesome, especially in the hands of young labourers. The lusty virility of the narrator is abnormal, otherwise there is no exaggeration in the portrayal of social intercourse in that stratum of society where a birth and a funeral and everything in between them are but the occasion for a drink.

The latter half of the book takes us into a more comfortable sphere, where cocktails rather than beer are relied upon to loosen the tongue and “ loosen the tongue and "round up" goodfellowship; and we are presented with a view of what is perhaps the most insidious, if least blameworthy, misuse of alcohol-the endeavour by means of it to force a greater momentary output of work than of itself a man's natural constituhas given us a book on drink which is tion will yield. Altogether, Mr. London most informing throughout all its stages. In addition, we get many an entertaining panorama of sea and land, and vivid word-descriptions of men and their ways in many climes.

GERMAN FICTION.

IT is not easy to determine what class of readers Herr Häring had in view when he wrote his 'Der Märtyrer,' a sketch of Charles I.'s life and death. In any case the book, we fancy, will hardly make a wide appeal, for if it is regarded as a piece of historical fiction it is tame, and if it claims acceptance as history proper it can scarcely escape the charge of inadequacy and partiality. Not that the author has not studied the period: he has evidently done so with considerable care; but his method of presenting the results of that study somehow misses being either scientific or popular. The scheme of his narrative leads one to expect a certain amount of freedom in the disposal of the material, but as a matter of fact he never gives the rein to his imagination at all. However, his choice of Sir Thomas Herbert as the main spokesman is certainly apt enough when it is a question of presenting Charles in the most favourable light. Sir Thomas is here supposed to give his guest Lord Goring, the nephew of General Goring, an account of the King's life and of the events that led to the revolution, his narrative being supplemented now and then by William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is present on the occasion. Naturally Herbert's 'Memoirs of Der Märtyrer, eine Geschichte aus dem Siebzehnten Jahrhundert. Von Oskar Häring. (Berlin, Curtius, 3m.)

Der Sang der Sakije. Von Willy Seidel. (Leipsic, Insel-Verlag, 4m.)

the Last Two Years of the Reign of that Unparallell'd Prince, Charles I.,' are largely utilized, and it would seem that Herr Häring is pretty much in agreement with the estimate of the King's character given there. It is hardly possible, however, at this time of day to admit as justified a reading of history which represents Cromwell as a mere hypocrite and slave of personal ambition, and Charles as a uniformly high-souled ruler.

The style of the book, in spite of a certain lack of flexibility, is smooth and commendably clear.

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Slepmann's Advanced French Series : WORDAND PHRASE-BOOK FOR HISTOIRE D'UN CONSCRIT DE 1813, by the General Editors of the Series, 6d. Macmillan Containing a Vocabulary and a list of idiomatic phrases, arranged according to the page on which they occur in the text. Siepmann's Advanced French Series : KEY TO APPENDICES OF HISTOIRE D'UN CONSCRIT DE 1813, by the General Editors of the Series, Macmillan 2/6 net.

A Key to the words, phrases, sentences on syntax, idioms, and passages for translation into French, appended to the notes of Mr. Siepmann's edition.

The story of a young man who quarrels with his uncle and guardian on refusing to enter the army from religious principles.

Blyth (James), THE EXPROPRIATORS, 6/
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A story of a colony of Anarchists in the
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Boileau (Ethel), THE FIRE OF SPRING, 6/ Nash
A "Society" story, centred in an unhappily
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Co-Respondent (The), by the Author of 'The
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The heroine sets out on the road to freedom, and meets a Man-Turk, "one Honey Drawl and one Dried Uncle," a Young Cynic, and many others. We understand from the publishers' note that she is a symbol for Fortune.

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A cheap edition. See notice in The Athenæum, Oct. 10, 1903, p. 477.

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Two more volumes in the Standard Edition of Meredith's works, which we noticed a fortnight ago (p. 95).

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The heroine, revolting against the idleness of her class, leaves her husband and children in the hope of finding true happiness through work.

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The autobiography of a dog.
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A cheap edition.
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A story of artistic life in Munich and London, and the troubles that may follow when plebeian genius attracts, or is attracted by, patrician affection.

Vanewords (John Pre), THE GREAT MIRACLE, OR THE MAN WHO COULD NOT BE KILLED, 6/

Stanley Paul A story, written in the first person, of a clerk who obtains the secret of an African spell to keep him immune from pain and death.

Yardley (Maud H.), A MAN'S LIFE IS DIFFERENT ; Greening OR, THE SLEEPING FLAME, 6/

The hero, who has used a girl badly in his youth, meets her again some years after his marriage with another. The book describes the subsequent attitude of the two women towards

him.

'On the Dating of Glass Wine-Bottles of the Stuart Period,' by Mr. E. Thurlow Leeds; 'Barrow Notitia,' by Mr. John Ward; and 'Roman and Other Triple Vases,' by Mr. Walter J. Kaye, jun., are among the contents. Blackwood's Magazine, AUGUST, 2/6

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10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C. This number includes an appreciation of Joseph Chamberlain by Sir Edward Cook; Mr. William Poel writes on Trade in Drama,' and Prof. Vernon Bartlet discusses The Right to a Living Wage.'

Cornhill Magazine, August, 1/ Smith & Elder Mr. F. C. Conybeare writes a charactersketch of General Picquart, Sir James H. Yoxall 'Of Sundry Inns Abroad,' and Canon Vaughan In on' An Old Herbalist: Fuchs of the Fuchsia.' his concluding chapter of Sixty Years in the Wilderness,' Sir Henry Lucy records his reminiscences of a group of peers, ranging from Earl Wemyss to Lord Granard. Fortnightly Review, AUGUST, 2/6

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