FICTION. Long Cross (Victoria), THE GREATER LAW, 6/ Another of the author's stories of passion. Green (E. Everett), THE DOUBLE HOUSE, 6/ Stanley Paul A story of many unsolved murders in India and the East, and of several love-affairs in the West of England. The hero and heroine live in a double house in Somerset, and the former's adventures in bringing to justice the man of the many murders are described. Heilgers (Louise), MORE TABLOID TALES, 1/ net. Odhams A collection of short stories, to which Mr. Bottomley has contributed a Preface describing the author as "facile princeps-the ne plus ultra of the storyette world.' Housman (Laurence), THE ROYAL RUNAWAY AND JINGALO IN REVOLUTION, 6/ Chapman & Hall See p. 15. Connoisseur, JULY, 1/ net. 35-39, Maddox Street, W. Mr. F. E. Washburn Freund discourses in this number on The Darmstadt Historical Art Loan Exhibition,' Mr. Maciver Percival on 'Bead-Work Trinketry,' and Mr. Claude V. White on The Evolution of the Shoe.' Contemporary Review, JULY, 2/6 10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C. Mr. Harold Spender analyzes the present political situation in an article entitled The Last Stand'; Mr. Thomas Seccombe writes on 'Scott Waverley: July, 1814,' and Judge MacArness on The Law in England and in India regarding Confessions to the Police.' Among the other contents we note The Insurance Act at Work,' by Mr. Sidney Webb and Rose Gardner. Navy Annual (The), 1914, edited by Viscount Hythe and John Leyland. Clowes con The Navy Annual' appears this year somewhat later than usual, owing to the activities of Viscount Hythe in another direction. Mr. Leyland reviews the progress of foreign navies, and also describes some German dockyards he has visited. Capt. Robinson reviews, as usual, the progress of armour and ordnance, and tributes in addition a chapter on the naval events of the Balkan War. Competent officers have written articles on British and Foreign Aircraft and Wireless Telegraphy in the Navy'; and Vice-Admiral Sir Edmond Slade contributes a survey of the arguments for and against the Right of Capture. The volume contains the usual comparative tables. GENERAL. Celibate's Apology (The), by a Misogynist, 6d. net. Watts Purports to be a paper read at a London club, and consists of sweeping generalizations on the foolishness and faults of woman. English Association (The), BULLETIN No. 23, June. Contains notes on the annual meeting, proceedings of committees and branches, new members, &c. The author is of opinion that the laity should have full representation and an authoritative voice on secular questions-in Church Councils Smith (G. C. Moore), THE POET AND THE ARTIST, AND WHAT THEY CAN DO FOR US, Pamphlet No. 28. English Association An address to Sheffield artisans. Walker (Rev. T. R.), THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 2d. net. S.P.C.K. A paper read at Reading before the St. Luke's Branch of the C.E.M.S. SCIENCE. Akers (C. E.), THE RUBBER INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL AND THE ORIENT, 6/ net. Methuen The author aims at describing the essential conditions so as to enable accurate deductions to be drawn, and a correct comparison made between the plantation industry of the East and the production of wild rubber in the Amazon Valley." Blumgarten (A. S.), MATERIA MEDICA FOR NURSES, 10/6 net. New York, Macmillan Co. Intended to develope intelligent, trained observation of the effects of drugs, and to enable the nurse to administer medicines accurately. Davies (George Mac Donald), GEOLOGICAL EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON, 3/6 net. Murby Mr. Davies has aimed at providing a handy guide to geological field-work in localities easily reached from London. Galileo (Galilei), DIALOGUES CONCERNING TWO NEW SCIENCES, translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio, 8/6 New York, Macmillan Co. A rendering into current English of the text of Favaro's National Edition. Signor Favaro contributes an Introduction. Galloway (T. W.), BIOLOGY OF SEX FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS, 2/ net. Harrap The material for this book was first delivered as a series of talks to meetings of mothers and teachers. Marvels of Insect Life, Part III., 7d. net. Hutchinson A series with attractive illustrations. FINE ARTS. Gotch (J. Alfred), EARLY RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, 15/ net. Batsford Second edition, revised. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari, newly translated by Gaston du C. de Vere, Vol. VII., 25/ net. Lee Warner Pierino (Piero) da Vinci, Baccio Bandinelli, and Simone Mosea are included in this volume. The set will occupy 10 vols. Ogilvy (James S.), A PILGRIMAGE INSURREY, 2 vols., 50/ net. Routledge Mr. Ogilvy has tramped about Surrey during the last three years painting and studying, and there are, he tells us, few roads or footpaths which he has not explored. The two volumes are enriched by 141 coloured plates-his own work. Van de Put (Albert), ARMORIAL PORTRAITS, Pt. I. Plates I.-III. Temple Sheen Press Three plates, with descriptive notes. Claudel (Paul), DEUX POEMES D'Été, La Cantate à Trois Voix, Protée, 3fr. 50. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française.' HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. An exhaustive study of the subject, beginning with the earliest association of the Jews with the Romans. Mémoires du Vice-Amiral Baron Grivel, RÉVOLU- Baron Grivel, whose memoirs are edited by his grand-nephew, had a varied and interesting career. He went to sea in 1796 at the age of 18, and in addition to taking part in numerous naval actions was present at Austerlitz with a detachment of marines. Unfortunately, his notes stop abruptly at the Restoration, though his death did not occur until 1869. M. G. LacourGayet contributes a Preface. (now of Trinity, Oxford), out of a strong taste for Irish medieval studies, sympathy enable this useful ornament to be SHELLEY'S 'ODE TO LIBERTY.' 130, Victoria Drive, Eastbourne, 25 June, 1914. The other topic of interest, not only to the College, but also to its graduates throughout the world, is the want of an adequate pavilion in the College Park, for the use of students and of teams of visitors for games and sports. The present building, at all times inadequate, is now nearly a ruin, and seems to those who use it not worth keeping in order, so that its existence is discreditable to the College. But an adequate new building will not cost less than 6,0007., and, in a system where the Collegiate funds have also to cover all University expenses, it is not possibiʊ for the Governing Board to allocate such a NOTES FROM DUBLIN. sum for a modern want indirectly connected THIS week a very agitated and anxious with education. It remains to be seen term came to its close. Perhaps its plea- whether the thousands of Trinity men santest feature was the election to Fellow-throughout the world will not by their active ship of Mr. J. H. Henry, whose examination did not disclose a tithe of his various talents. But every year it is becoming more obvious that the old system of electing after a tremendous examination, with hardly any other factor than the marks, has lived out its time, and must be replaced by some more elastic method. Hence there was all through the term a controversy about the possibility and the conditions of electing an occasional Fellow without examination; of alternating Fellowships yearly between science and classics; of adding new subjects, such as modern languages, which are necessary for the teaching even of ordinary classes in the College. But great bodies move slowly. Any important changes require the assent not only of the Governing Board, but also of a majority of the thirty-five Fellows, and any one who knows that Society knows how they agree on anything. The Provost's prolonged and serious illness prevented him from adding his force to that of the advocates of reform, nor, I regret to say, does it seem likely that he will recover his former health and vigour. The control of the College has therefore devolved upon the Vice-Provost, who can hardly inaugurate a new policy so long as his rule is temporary. Still, progress has already been made, and there is good hope that the old College may presently be invigorated by an infusion of new blood. This has, indeed, already taken place by the appointment of Mr. Alison Phillips to the new Lecky Chair of Modern History. There has been delay in this appointment owing to the difficulty of realizing or estimating the value of the landed estate bequeathed to the College by the generosity of the late Mrs. Lecky. over, the death and succession duties amount to a veritable plunder of the donor's benevolence. The moment these obstacles were even partially overcome the appointment was made. Mr. Phillips is so well known as an authority on the nineteenth century, in add ition to his other various learning and experience, that no further words are here necessary. For the second (Erasmus Smith's) Chair, formerly held by Mr. J. H. Weaver 66 MR. COBDEN-SANDERSON's proposal to 66 66 66 All ye have thought and done Time cannot dare conceal "from a seal" is a weak In the dim West; impress us, form a seal ; J. NETTLESHIP. THE TRANSLITERATION OF June 19, 1914. MAY I, through your columns, put in a plea for uniformity in the transliteration of Russian names ? Both the Liverpool School of Russian Studies and the Royal Geographical Society have published schemes of transliteration; these are virtually identical, and are natural and simple. Yet editors and publishers, in the majority of cases, are apparently content to let writers difficulties for the bibliographer, the memory, go their own way and create unnecessary and for pronunciation. Those of us, to take an example, who read by eye alone, rather than by eye and ear, have some difficulty in recognizing Tourguénieff as an equivalent renderings, such as Tolstoï, permissible by for Turgenev; while the imitation of French the rules of French pronunciation, leads to ridiculous errors in English mouths. Chekhov, with an initial T, is absurd, so is the termination -ef or -ef; the Russian ending is always -ev. A TRANSLATOR. THE BELFAST BOOKSELLERS. I AM delighted to have been the means of drawing such a charming, chatty chapter of fresh reminiscences from Mr. Frankfort Moore. It shows that his long traffic with romance has not affected his memory for facts, after all. He now admits that in the Belfast of his youth there were no less than seven new booksellers' shops of sorts. Not bad, say I, for an Irish provincial town of some 160,000 inhabitants, and a rather different condition of things than any reader could ascertain from his book. They were all there in the sixties. Early in the seventies W. H. Smith & Son appeared on the scene, and as I left Belfast in the summer of 1878, I have no personal knowledge of the businesses in the eighties and nineties. As regards their stock, no bookseller can be expected to have on hand at all times a copy of the latest popular work. I have had to wait a day or two to procure such, even from a West-End bookseller. Mr. I used the word "branch" in reference to Wm. Mullan's London house advisedly. The parent stem remained in Belfast before and after, and their books bore the imprint "London and Belfast," even as Blackwood's do that of "London and Edinburgh." Moore would have your readers believe that Mullan only published Jenkins's books, an Elocutionist, and "about half a dozen other works. In their last list of publications I find no less than 106 titles enumerated, comprising works by Gladstone, Freeman, Sir Richard Burton, Capt. Mayne Reid, Blanchard Jerrold, Robert Buchanan, Henry Kingsley, and George Mac Donald. THE TRAINING OF GIRLS AND BOYS. Highgate, June 29, 1914. AT the close of the report, in your last issue, of my speech at a recent educational conference occurs the following passage :- But it must not be forgotten that the future of each sex is, in the majority of cases, different, and that it is the more difficult task of the two to train girls so as to prepare both the majority who marry, and the minority who do not.' Nothing-not even . a fresh paragraphindicates that the opinion expressed is not mine, but the reviewer's. He ought surely to have written his report in such a form as to make misattribution impossible. Not only did I not say anything at all resembling the words quoted above, but I entirely dissent from them. a What married women need in order to fulfil their domestic duties properly is, in the first place, more money, and, in the second, better training of the mind. A woman who has been thoroughly taught a skilled trade can almost always earn comparatively considerable addition to the family income; and a woman who has received the excellent training in professional skill, combined with further general education, which is given in the London Trade Schools (the subject under discussion), has also become incidentally capable of managing a household competently. Experience shows that the homes of skilled and intelligent London craftswomen are, in fact, well kept, clean, and comfortable, and that such women become not only devoted, but enlightened mothers. It is a current-may I venture to say, a masculine ?-delusion that the best wives and mothers are to be produced by an education ad hoc. CLEMENTINA BLACK. *The account of the educational conference at which Miss Black spoke was not a report, but contained comments throughout. The remark to which she takes objection was not meant to be understood as referring to her opinions, and the phrase But it must not be forgotten seemed to me to show a differing view. 66 But I cannot understand Miss Black's entire dissent. Does she mean that it is not a more difficult task to train efficiently girls who will manage a home and girls who will follow a calling than it is to train boys who will all do the latter? That is all my statement implies. Or does Miss Black consider any training in housecraft unnecessary By all means let there be Trade Schools for girls, and let them be trained to earn a livelihood apart from marriage; but the ideal is not one wherein the mother leaves home to earn a considerable addition to the family income.' Nor is it an altogether masculine opinion that, given any particular girl, she will become a better wife and mother with a certain amount of education ad hoc. THE WRITER. THE DISCOVERY OF ISOLDE'S CHAPEL. IN The Athenæum of May 30th Mr. W. A. Henderson has a very interesting article on his discovery of the actual Chapel Izod or Isolde's Chapel at Palmerstown, co. Dublin. In view of the importance of this discovery, it may be well to point out a few facts. 1. Mr. Henderson states that the honour of discovering the genius loci of Chapelizod is due to Mr. Julian Moore in a communication to The Athenæum of April 12th, 1902. This is not so. I had pointed out the same fact in The Freeman's Journal of November 29th, 1901. 2. The first documentary proof of the existence of Chapel Isod was also pointed out by me, and communicated to Mr. Henderson. The exact date is July 20th, 1212. 3. Mr. Henderson has not thrown any light on how the modern parish of Chapelizod was formed. Lewis and Dr. Elrington Ball agree in the vague assertion that some time after the Restoration the churches of Palmerstown and Ballyfermot were united to Chapelizod. From a letter written by King Charles II. to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, dated June 10th, 1667, we learn that the Archbishop of Dublin had shortly before this date united the parishes of Ballyfermot and Palmerstown to the parish of Chapelizod. Moreover, the King directed that the Rev. James Jerome was to have 30l. a year out of the rent of the town of Chapelizod; to be paid for ever to him "and his successors who shall have the cure of souls in the said parish." 4. We can fix the date of the new parish of Chapelizod as 1668, for on July 14th of that year the King wrote to the Lord Lieutenant to grant a lease for ninety-nine years to the Rev. James Jerome of "a ruinous house and a small piece of land near the town of Chapel Izolde wherein to live," he having undertaken to lay out 3007. on the house and lands. 5. Evidently the present church of Chapelizod was repaired between the years 1668-70. The Rev. Dr. Jerome spent far more than 3007. on the rectory house, inasmuch as Capt. George Mathew, writing to the Duke of Ormond on June 21st, 1682, says that "Doctor Hierome has begun great and costly works which, in my judgment, cannot be finished for less than 1,000l. or 1,1007., besides the kennel." Jerome died in July, 1682, and on September 30th. the Bishop of Ossory recommended the Rev. Patrick Christian, S.F.T.C.D., as a likely successor (Ormond MSS., Hist. MSS. Com.). 6. On October 16th, 1694, Archbishop Marsh made a visitation of Chapelizod, and thenceforward old Chapelizod Church at Palmers town was allowed to get ruinous. W. H. GRATTAN FLOOD. THE PEMBROKE LIBRARY. ON Thursday, June 25th, and the following day, Messrs. Sotheby sold a selected portion of the library from Wilton House, Salisbury, the property of the Earl of Pembroke, the chief lots being: The Apocalypse, block book, c. 1460, 2,1201. Ars Moriendi, block book, 18 leaves only out of 24, 15th century, 5007. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, printed at Venice by Johann and Wendelin of Speier, 1470, 1007. Joannes Balbus, Catholicon, printed at Mayence, probably by Gutenberg, 1460, 4407. Berlinghieri, Geographia, printed by Nicolas Laurentii at Florence, c. 1480, 2157. The Book of St. Albans, 1486, 1,8007. Biblia Pauperum, block book, 30 leaves only out of 40, 15th century, 7801. Cæsar, Opera, editio princeps, Ex Horæ printed at Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1469, 6007. Cessolis, Game and Playe of the Chesse, printed by Caxton at Bruges, c. 1475, 1,8007.; another edition, 46 leaves only out of 84, printed by Caxton at Westminster, c. 1483, 3007. Cicero, De Oratore, printed at Subiaco by Sweynedition, printed by the same printers at Rome, heym & Pannartz, 1465, 1,000l. ; another 1469, 2007. Epistolæ ad Familiares, same place and printers, 1469, 1507.; another edition, printed by Johann of Speier at Venice, 1469, 345l.; second Venetian edition, same printers and same year, 1907. Epistolæ ad M. Brutum, &c., printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, 1470, 1357. Rhetoricorum Libri IV., &c., printed by Jenson at Venice, 1470, 2007. Tusculana Quæstiones, same printer and place, 1472, 1807. Tullye of Old Age, &c., printed by Caxton at Westminster, 1481, 1,0501. Columna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus at Venice, 1499, 150l. Dante, Divina Comedia, printed by Neumeister at Fuligno, 1472, 9907. Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophers, printed by Caxton at Westminster, c. 1489, 1,0507. Durandus, Rationale, printed by Fust & Schoeffer at Mayence, 1459, 1,950l. Eusebius Pamphilus, Liber de Preparatione Evangelica, printed by Jenson at Venice, 1470, 1007. Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticæ, printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, May 11th, 1469, 3707. Godfrey de Bouillon, printed by Caxton at Westminster, imperfect, 1481, 2551. Hieronymus, Epistolæ et Tractatus, 2 vols., printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, 1468, 1807. positio in Symbolium Apostolorum, and Aristotle, Ethics, both printed by Rood at Oxford, 1478 and 1479, 7607. Higden, Polycronicon, printed by Caxton at Westminster, 1482, 2707. Homer, Works, printed at Florence, 1488, 3607. B.V.M., French MS., 15th century, 600l.; another, printed by Pigouchet, 1491, 1801. Horace, Works, printed at Venice, c. 1471, 5007. Justinus In Trogi Pompei Historias, printed by Jenson at Venice, 1470, 2051. Lactantius, Opera, printed at Subiaco by Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1465, 8107. ; another edition, by the same printers at Rome, 1468, 2507. Lascaris, Grammatica Græca, printed at Milan, 1476, 2357. Le Fevre, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, printed by Caxton at Bruges, 1472-5, 5007. Livy, History, printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, 1469, 3201. Lucan, Pharsalia, same printers and place, 1469, 2407. Macrobius, Expositio in somnium Scipionis, printed by Jenson at Venice, 1472, 1,6007. Mirk, Festivall, printed by Caxton at Westminster, c. 1490, 3201. Ovid, Works, printed by Azzoguidi at Bologna, 1471, 2007.; another edition, 2 vols., printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, c. 1471, 1507. Petrarch, Sonetti, &c., printed at Venice, 1473, 1007. Plautus, Comedies, Venice, 1472, Treviso, 1482, and Milan, 1490, three editions in one volume, 3051. Pliny the Younger, Letters, printed by Valdarfer at Venice, 1471, 175/ Natural History, printed by Johann of Speier, 1469, 3407.; another edition, printed at Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1470, 1007.; Landino's Italian version, printed at Venice by Jenson, 1476, 2251. Priscianus, De Octo Partibus Orationis, &c., printed at Venice by Wendelin of Speier, 1470, 135l. Polyglot Psalter, printed at Genoa, 1516, 2607. 27 Maps illustrating the Geographia of Ptolemy, 1,8507. Quintilianus, Institutiones Oratoriæ, 1470, 1667.; another edition, printed by Jenson at Venice, 1471, 1407. Rodericus Zamorensis, Speculum Vitæ Humanæ, printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, 1468, 1147. Seneca, Tragedies, printed by Andreas Bellfortis at Ferrara, C. Servius 1474, 1607. Maurus Honoratus, Commentary on Virgil, printed by Bernardo Cennini at Florence, 1471-2, 7907. Silius Italicus, Punicorum Libri XVII., printed by Sweynheym & Pannartz at Rome, 1471, 1467. Speculum Humane Salvationis, block book, 15th century, 9007.; a Dutch translation of the same, 1,2001. Suetonius, Twelve Cæsars, printed at Rome by J. P. de Lignamine, 1470, 1357.; another edition, printed at Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz, 1470, 3601. Tacitus, Annals, &c., printed at Venice by Wendelin of Speier, c. 1473, 2007. Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta, printed by Schoffer at Mayence, 1471, 5007. Virgil, Works, printed at Venice by Wendelin of Speier, 1470, 3007.; another edition, printed at Milan, 1474, 3407. Voragine, Legende di tutti i Sancti, printed by Jenson at Venice, c. 1475, 1107. The total of the sale was 38,9361. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS. ON Thursday, June 25th, Messrs. Sotheby sold the following illuminated manuscripts belonging to Mr. Henry Yates Thompson: Hora B.V.M., with 16 large miniatures and other decorations, French, 15th century, 7007. Biblia Sacra Latina, with 133 initial miniatures, Anglo-Norman, 13th century, 5002. Literary Gossip. 6 IT will be a hundred years next Tuesday since Archibald Constable & Co. of Edinburgh published Waverley' anonymously on the system of half profits. Though it was the dull season, the edition of 1,000 copies went in five weeks. A second of 2,000 copies followed immediately, and a third and fourth of 1,000 each in October and November. It had reached an eighth edition in 1821. Constable himself and the John Murray of the day at once detected the author. The variety of knowledge, the insistence on revealed must have given a pretty broad legend in verse, and the colossal memory hint. Clearly also the writer was not an exact scholar in Latin. Two quotations from Virgil in vol. ii. chap. xl. are both unmetrical, though the words substituted give the same sense. WHY are Government publications not circulated among the press, as publishers circulate their books for review? The public bears the expense of their production, and ought to be made more fully cognizant than it is of their contents. No doubt a large number of our contemporaries would be unable to make use of them, but the periodicals which concern themselves with the more serious national interests ought certainly to have them within their purview, and it is hard to see why they should be compelled to purchase copies. We suggest that at least any particular works should be supplied gratis to the editor of any paper or magazine who desires to have them. It is not likely that this small concession would be abused. As it is, we receive for notice publications of the British Museum and the Record Office, which are much more elaborate than the usual Government Papers. MR. R. E. PROTHERO was on Tuesday last elected as Burgess for Oxford University, and takes the late Sir William Anson's place in the House of Commons. He should be a real addition to that assembly, for he is both a man of letters and a man of business. THE first Civic Exhibition to be held in the United Kingdom will open in Dublin on the 15th inst. Advantage is being taken of the fact that the Municipal Authorities Conference will be held in Dublin on the 14th and 15th to organize a civic pageant at which many of the municipal authorities will be represented in state. The exhibition will be held in the Linenhall Buildings. THERE is a rather amusing article in The Library Journal for June on Social Activities of the Library.' The description seems to refer only to the Public Library at Rahway, N.J., but it no doubt proved suggestive to the librarians of other places when read at the bi-State Conference in Atlantic City last March. The Rahway Library seems to have realized with indignation that it was reputed to be nothing but a library of 66 fiction, and to have set about correcting public opinion by the performance of social"good works." It circulates copies of the laws of the various city departments"; advertises meetings of educational value; sets out bulletins and selected lists of plays that the playgoer will not find "impossible"; and gives advice on things in general, from the running of a school-paper in all its details to city problems such as those connected with the "shade tree commission.” It organizes elaborate flower shows, at which full information as to names and habits is furnished, the flowers being roses, asters, dahlias, and chrysanthe mums. It has also two good examples of By its courageous action in posting up important public service to its credit. the Health Officer's milk report within its walls it has suppressed the business of one untoward member of the milk trade, and troubled or encouraged others according to their deserts; and through the talks on civic questions which take place there, it has brought about the discontinuance of certain objectionable picture shows. MR. GEORGE WEBB HARDY has been writing to the papers to protest against the banning (unless specially ordered) of his book The Black Peril' by the Libraries' Association. He points out that not one of his reviewers has considered the book objectionable, and calls special attention to our own notice of it. He adds that his book represents ten years' study of the native question in South Africa. Yet its circulation is hindered by a commercial organization that puts on its shelves not a few novels that can only be described as frivolous and improper.' The Association is "a commercial organization"—that is the trouble; and those on whom its very existence depends make no adequate 66 effort to control its strange operations. 6 MR. HARDRESS O'GRADY writes to point out that his book Reading Aloud and Literary Appreciation' is not a book on physiology, as our brief note on it last week (p. 888) might suggest, but deals with literary appreciation by means of reading aloud. DR. J. M. SPAIGHT, who some years ago wrote a work dealing with War Rights on Land, is about to issue a new volume, which should interest the same body of readers, treating of the laws governing the use of Aircraft in War. It will be published by Messrs. Macmillan. through the MR. HENRY HIGGS is issuing shortly same firm a volume setting forth the Financial System of the United Kingdom. He has, he states, limited himself, so far as possible, to describing the state of things which actually exists. MESSRS. LONGMANS are publishing The Romanticism of St. Francis; and other Studies in the Genius of the Franciscans,' by Father Cuthbert. He endeavours to set forth the underlying principles of the great Franciscan Movement in the thirteenth century and afterwards, and studies The same firm have in hand The Teacher's Day, and Other Poems,' by Mr. John Nickal. It will be interesting to see the modern elementary school life with which he deals on its poetic side. MR. GILBERT THOMAS, the author of Altar,' will publish a volume of poems Birds of Passage' and 'The Wayside through Messrs. Chapman & Hall during the early autumn. It will be entitled The Voice of Peace.' little volume entitled English Church MR. MURRAY will shortly publish a Ways,' which contains the matter put in Russia. It necessarily contains much together by Dr. W. H. Frere for the purpose of delivering a series of lectures that is obvious, but its special point of view may be expected to lend it some unusual interest. MESSRS. SMITH & ELDER will publish next ThursdayThe South Polar Times,' reproduced in facsimile as issued, typewritten, and in three parts, during Scott's last expedition. The book is edited by Zoologist to the expedition, and it will Mr. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Assistant include contributions by Scott and other members of the expedition, with numerous coloured illustrations, silhouettes, caricatures, and photographs by Dr. E. A. Wilson's pictures show the inner workings Wilson, Mr. H. G. Ponting, &c. Many of of the expedition. The edition for sale is limited to 350 copies, each copy being numbered. MESSRS. WILLIAMS & NORGATE are publishing next Tuesday a twelfth set of volumes in the " Home University Library of Modern Knowledge." These are 'The Alps,' by Mr. Arnold Lunn; an account life, and economic resources of the twenty of the history, political constitution, social republics of Central and South America, the Renaissance, by Miss Edith Sichel. by Prof. W. R. Shepherd; and a sketch of Canon Charles also contributes a volume on Religious Development between the Old and the New Testaments,' and Mr. J. M. Robertson a critical survey of Elizabethan Literature.' 66 THE death was announced last Sunday at Gourock of Mr. Arthur Guthrie, who contributed to the Glasgow press under the signature of Two of his plays, 'The Weaver's Shuttle Anthony Rowley." and The Probationer,' were produced with considerable success at the Glasgow In 1907 Mr. T. N. Repertory Theatre. Foulis issued the first of a series of Irresponsible Guides by him: Paris and Italy, being the Rowley Letters from France and Italy.' SCIENCE A FLORAL MIXTURE. THE weighty volume called 'The Horticultural Record' is occupied with the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition of 1912, its officers, arrangements, &c. But the compiler, Mr. Reginald Cory, has had the happy idea of adding to these official records a series of articles by experts on the progress of horticulture since 1866, when there was a similar exhibition. Thus we have a brief and highly interesting summary of the modern world of flower, tree, and vegetable, and the developments which have carried us far from the formal arrangements of earlier days for instance, the calceolaria, lobelia, and pelargonium which were repeated in so many Victorian gardens. The eleven articles are not all of equal merit. That on sweet peas, apparently unknown as an exhibit in 1866, seems hardly sufficient in view of the vogue and variety the flower has attained of recent years. In general, however, the surveys are much to the point, and tell us a good 6 deal within their limits. On Rock Gardens and Garden Design' Mr. Reginald Farrer writes in a lively and amusing style which sets off considerable taste and knowledge. He speaks of Mr. Robinson as arising 66 suddenly, flaming and audacious....with a crash among the Lobelias of the late Vic- 66 we have returned to a conception of The survey of roses, by Mr. H. R. Dar- 21. 28. net.) Pot-Pourri mixed by Two. By Mrs. C. W. G. Clarke Nuttall. Sixth and Seventh of roses agree with Lady Corisande in | contrivances for fertilization. Thus an The illustrations from photographs show form better than colour, but were taken, as Mr. Cory points out, under great pressure of time, and sometimes in a deficient light. we are 66 Some of the flowers included here are only "wild" to highly favoured observers, and might be sought for many years in vain. The book is not strong in philology, and the derivations offered do not always convince us; for instance, there is an earlier form of groundsel than that here regarded as decisive. Galton. 'Pot Pourri mixed by Two' is admittedly composed of various materials. Life, Letters, and Labours of Francis But while in the making of the true By Karl Pearson. Vol. I. Pot-pourri each ingredient is carefully (Cambridge University Press, 17. ls. net.) chosen for its calculated effect on the THIS wonderful book is more than a story resultant fragrance of the whole, here, of a life, it is a practical lesson in heredity. inclined to think, anything The present volume deals with Sir Francis that would fill up has been thrown Galton's early life from the date of his into the vegetarian hotchpot. The first birth in 1822 to his marriage in 1853. It two chapters, for instance, include as is by no means confined, however, to that topics Bird Migration, Mr. Filson Young period, for Prof. Pearson, convincedon Lighthouses, Where to Buy Olive Oil, as was the subject of his memoir-of the Italian Freedom, Forcing Rhubarb, Bed-value to the individual of a good ancestry, lam, The English Review, Blue Bottles, devotes what some may consider undue space to an examination of the pedigree of Sir Francis, and the tracing back of different traits of character to the various families from whom he was descended. There is no need to quarrel with the author's method, for his genealogical and Bulbs under Glass. In the last chapter we find notes on Prison Reform, the tarian cooking. To criticize such a conglomeration is not an easy task. To some readers of simple taste and ample leisure the mixture may not be unpleasing. For the writing of both ladies is easy and natural, and, if it could be found, we would add a term implying its possession of the charm of cultivated womanhood. If one is now and again moved to gentle laughter by Mrs. Earle, it is laughter in which she herself would probably join quite readily, and it is mingled with admiration for her good heart and kindly happiness. The contributions of Miss Case include much interesting and useful gardening knowledge, but the shelf of books for garden reference has its limits, and is already crowded in these days. How much better it would be if the many good gardening folk who now write gossipy books would combine their often considerable knowledge and produce the work for which so many amateurs are looking-a reasonably complete and really systematic dictionary of garden plants and their culture ! Wild Flowers as They Grow' is now completed with a Sixth and Seventh Series. The pictures, photographed in colour, give a good idea of characteristic details of growth, as in the ground ivy. The specimens of the May lily pictured are poor, but usually both flowers and leaves are well shown. Our main interest, however, is reserved for the text, in which the writer has made a good mixture of folk-names and other associations with Nature's wonderful with many excellent pictures of Galton's illustrious forbears. It is rather a matter for astonishment, as well as satisfaction, that amid the claims of a busy life he should have been able to find the time necessary for the investigation of so much detail. The book is unique in the sense that probably no one but Prof. Pearson has the knowledge or experience indispensable for such a portrayal from the point of view of heredity. 66 In 1908 Sir Francis Galton himself published an autobiographical__volume called Memories of my Life.' He gives there only a picture of salient incidents as he was able to recall them. But Prof. Pearson's desire has been to compile a much more detailed study which should constitute a permanent memorial to the founder of the Galton Laboratory," and should depict not only the man and his life's work, but also the hereditary influences and mental aptitudes that helped to make him what he was. He has succeeded marvellously well, and his delineation of character is assisted by the reproduction of many letters written during these earlier years. Sir Francis Galton was, as is well known, a half-cousin on the mother's side to Charles Darwin. On his father's side he business instincts, the later members of came from an old Quaker stock of sound which had amassed a considerable fortune. On this side of his ancestry he was connected with the Barclays of Ury, who were descended from a notable stock. Prof. Pearson supplies in a pocket to this volume four separate pedigrees, and in Pedigree B he traces the Barclay descent from |