Director of the Survey, communications entitled The Potash Salts of the Punjab Salt Range and Kohat," and Suggestions regarding the Origin and History of the Rocksalt Deposits of the Punjab and Kohat," by Dr. Murray Stuart, Assistant Superintendent of the Geological Survey. 600 USEFUL ARTS.

333.8

Longmans, 1919. 8 in. 32 pp. pamph., 1/. Four articles reprinted from the Times, with a short introduction, represent Dr. Shadwell's critical views on the main problem considered by the Coal Commission. Nationalization, he states, is demanded solely as a specific for the grievances of the miners; he opposes it because he thinks the benefits will not counterbalance the working of the psychology of low production.' If nationalization is unavoidable, he recommends that the mines should be delegated to a statutory body like the London Dock Authority, and asks for attention to the new German scheme of a Coal Council representing management, miners, consumers, and the State.

Gladstone (Hugh S.). BIRDS AND THE WAR. Skeffington, 598.2 1919. 7 in. 187 pp. il., 5/ n.

The author deals with the utility of birds in the war, their behaviour in the war zones, and their sufferings during the period of hostilities. The effects of air raids upon birds are described; and some account is given of the changes in the habits of birds which have been recorded by war-time observers. The concluding chapter relates to ornithologists who were killed during the war.

Halkyard (Edward). THE FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA

OF THE

BLUE MARL OF THE CÔTE DES BASQUES, Biarritz. Ed.
with additions by Edward Heron-Allen and Arthur
Earland ("Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester
Manchester,
Literary and Philosophical Society ").

36, George Street, 1919. 8 in. 197 pp. 9 plates, app.
563.12
bibliog. paper, 8/6.
The editors describe this as "one of the most important
contributions to the literature of the Eocene Foraminifera,"
and have taken great trouble to complete Halkyard's post-
humous work, giving a short but interesting account of this
remarkable scientific recluse.

India. RECORDS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, vol. 50, part 1, 1919. Calcutta, Geological Survey (Wesley & Son), 1919. 10 in. 100 pp. il. maps, paper, 1 rupee. 555.4 This part contains, besides the General Report of the Geological Survey of India for 1918, by Mr. H. H. Hayden,

Phillpotts (Eden). ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONS:
comedy in three acts. Duckworth, 1919. 7 in. 105 pp.
822.9
paper, 2/6 n.

But

St. George is a bishop, and the only good character in the play, though his rôle is to be a spoil-sport. Mr. Phillpotts raises hopes of a love match between a peer's daughter and a farmer's son, only to disappoint. But the Dartmoor yeoman is such a bounder that we can only wonder why a high-spirited girl ever fell in love with him; and what her sister could see in the Rev. Cecil McKinley is equally mystifying. St. George slays the dragons, and almost saves the play. Proust (Marcel). PASTICHES ET MÉLANGES. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française [1919]. 7 in. 276 pp., 5 fr. 25. 847.9 On the case of Lemoine, the man who claimed to have invented the synthetic diamond, M. Proust writes a series of little stories in the style of Balzac, Flaubert, Renan, de Régnier. These pastiches are followed by two essays of considerable length.

7 in. 49 pp. paper. Mr. Strong possesses a scholarly felicity of technique that is especially effective in his lighter verses, such as "Love in the Library," a poem which contains stanzas that would not do discredit to a Matthew Prior. His serious poems have a dignity that is somewhat academic; they give the impression that they have been written to produce a certain effect, not spontaneously at the dictation of some urgent emotion.

FICTION.

*Conrad (Joseph). THE ARROW OF GOLD: a story between two notes. Fisher Unwin [1919]. 8 in. 346 pp., 8/ n. See review, p. 720.

Croker (Mrs. B. M.). ODDS AND ENDS. Hutchinson [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 304 pp. 6/9 n.

A collection of well-written short stories, the majority relating to Ireland, and ranging from ghosts to racing. Whatever the subject, the author handles it skilfully.

Fox (R. M.). FACTORY ECHOES;

44

and other sketches.

Daniel [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 79 pp. paper, 1/6 n.

An amateur free from all longing for journalistic fame,"

is the description of himself given by the author of these

sketches, which

rattle and roar of machinery.'
"took shape in the workshop amid the
The reader's attitude to life

"

must determine whether they should be called literature of

despair or literature of revolt. gloss on Samuel Butler:

"

The Roar " is an illuminating
This is the Machine Age: we are
the machines." Out of the roar come
The Irreconcilable,"
"The Slacker." and, indirectly, the Cabinet Minister who
talks claptrap about the nobility of self-sacrifice by the
worker and the vileness of those who shirk their duty to the
Empire. Most of these provocative sketches have appeared
already in the New Age and kindred periodicals.

Kerr (Sophie). THE BLUE ENVELOPE ("The Wayfarer's
Library," 108). 7 in. 187 pp. front., 2/ n.

Secker [1919].

A tale of an ill-matched couple. The hero has been invalided home from the war, and loves a country life, which his wife detests. Selfish and frivolous, the latter neglects her home, and resumes an intrigue which she had carried on prior to her marriage. The main feature of the story is the clear-cut study of the weak but good-natured hero.

MacHarg (William) and Balmer (Edwin). THE INDIAN DRUM. Stanley Paul [1919]. 7 in. 371 pp. front., 7/ n. The mystery surrounding the birth of Alan Conrad, the hero, is eventually cleared up by discoveries concerning the wreck of a ship on Lake Michigan. Alan turns out to have been the only soul saved from the Miwaka," which had twenty-five on board. Thus was confirmed the Indian legend of the spirit drum which in stormy weather beats the roll of the dead for each ship lost on the lake; for, when the "Miwaka " foundered, the Indian drum " beat twentyfour-one short. The story is well told; and the account of the destruction of a lake ferry-boat is impressive. Martin (Helen R.). MARTHA OF THE MENNONITE COUNTRY ("The Wayfarer's Library," 110). 7 in. 254 pp. front., 2/ n.

O'Donnell (Elliot). HAUNTED PLACES IN ENGLAND. Sands, 1919. 7 in. 228 pp., 5/ n.

A collection of short stories of the supernatural, among the best of which are the tale dealing with the apparition of a head, and the narrative of the haunted cupboard. The creepiness of the stories, for the most part, is a little forced.

"

Proust (Marcel). A L'OMBRE DES JEUNES FILLES EN FLEURS ("A la recherche du temps perdu," tome 2). Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française [1918]. 7 in. 446 pp., 7 fr. 50.

843.9 The long-anticipated sequel to M. Proust's first novel, 'Du Côté de chez Swann."

910 GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, &c. Johnson (Gifford H.). THE CHURCH OF WALTHAM HOLY CROSS, WALTHAM ABBEY. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with 19 illustrations and a plan. Milford, 1919. 9 in. 64 pp. bibliog. apps. ind. paper, 1/ n.

914.267

There is considerable difference of opinion in regard to the date of the nave of this fine old church. Some authorities, including Professor Freeman and the late Mr. J. Arthur Reeve, have believed the nave to be in great part King Harold's work. Others consider it an example of early Norman rebuilding. A third view is that only the two eastern bays, on both sides of the church, were rebuilt in Norman times. However this may be, a sacred edifice which was founded by Knut's standard-bearer, rebuilt by the last of our Saxon rulers, and consecrated in the presence of the Confessor and his queen-which is generally regarded as the place whither the bones of Harold were borne from the cairn on the seashore near Senlac, and later was the temporary sepulchre of Edward I.-is of peculiar historic importance. Waltham Holy Cross is without doubt one of the oldest churches in the country. The fact that Thomas Fuller for a number of years held the incumbency adds to the interest of Waltham. The village is easily accessible from London; and the new edition of Mr. Johnson's guide should be welcomed by all visitors to the venerable shrine.

"

920 BIOGRAPHY.

Botchkareva (Maria). YASHKA: my life as peasant, exile
and soldier; as set down by Isaac Don Levine. Con-
stable [1919]. 8 in. 351 pp. por.
The autobiography of the Commander of the Russian
920
Women's Battalion of Death," as this is described on the
wrapper, has been put into book-form, or, rather, the form
of a novel, by M. Levine, to whom she told her story.
first part of the life of this peasant girl is as grim as the
The
underworld life depicted in Tolstoy's
Soon after the outbreak of war, Mme. Botchkareva was
Resurrection."
allowed to enlist, and distinguished herself as a soldier,
being wounded several times. After the Revolution, when

the armies began to break up, she organized the famous Women's Battalion. Later she escaped through Siberia to the United States. Yashka is an out-and-out hater of Lenin and Trotsky and the Bolshevik régime.

Grace (William Gilbert).

Hawke (Martin Bladen, 7th Baron), Harris (George Robert
Canning, 4th Baron), and Gordon (Sir Home Seton
Charles Montagu), edd. THE MEMORIAL BIOGRAPHY

OF DR. W. G. GRACE. Issued under the auspices of the Committee of M.C.C. Constable, 1919. 9 in. 404 pp. il. pors. bibliog. note, ind. of names, 21/ n. 920 A sheaf of remarkable and unstinted tributes, by men famous in cricket, to the greatest all-round cricketer that ever lived-the genial W. G.. who, as a distinguished prelate once finely said, was the best known of all English

:

men and the king of that English game least spoilt by any form of vice."

Spring-Rice (Cecil Arthur).

*Chirol (Sir Valentine). CECIL SPRING-RICE: in memoriam. Murray, 1919. 8 in. 68 pp. por., 6/ n. 920

The diplomatic service could scarcely have provided a Position of greater delicacy and difficulty than that which was filled, in the critical period before the United States entered the war, by Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, Ambassador at Washington during the five memorable years 1913-18. Sir Cecil served his country throughout that difficult time without making a single false step, and did much to foster a feeling of unity between the two great English-speaking nations. Educated at Eton and Balliol, Cecil Spring-Rice was trained to high ideals; he was deeply patriotic, and displayed a refreshing impatience of conventions. The inscription on the stall-plate to his memory at Eton well describes him as Vir animæ cum poeticæ tum Christianæ, patriæ, ruris, suorum amantissimus."

"

930-990 HISTORY.

young readers in the closest touch with the countries and
periods of which they treat, by means of coloured maps,
profuse but carefully-selected pictures, and intelligible de-
scriptions of the contemporary life and the buildings, costumes,
weapons, implements, and things in common use. They are
well provided with suggestions for more extended reading,
questions, and subjects for essays and memoranda. The
new scheme is a capital example of this realistic method;
and, beginning with the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians,
and Minoans, it conducts the young student by graphic stages
down to the present time, closing with a chapter on social
reform and general progress, in which the authors show them-
selves alive to the need of training children for citizenship.
Hevesy (André de). NATIONALITIES IN HUNGARY. Fisher
Unwin [1919]. 8 in. 247 pp. tables, maps, bib. 6/ n.

*American Historical Review, vol. 24, no. 4, July. Macmillan, 1919. 11 in. 250 pp. ind. paper, $1. 905 In the current issue of this admirable review Mr. Wilbur C. Abbott has a long paper dealing with The Origin of English Political Parties"; M. Edouard Driault discusses The Coalition of Europe against Napoleon"; and Mr. Alfred H. Sweet gives an account of " The English Benedictines and their Bishops in the Thirteenth Century." The lastnamed contribution should be of special interest to students of that side of mediæval Church history which deals with the relations between the religious orders and the rulers of dioceses. Colonel J. R. M. Taylor, in the Notes and Suggestions," treats of "The History of the War of 1917 "; and entries in William L. Marcy's Diary, running from March 4 to April 6, 1857, are contributed by Professor T. M. Marshall. There is an abundance of other interes ting matter.

943.9

This study of the complicated question of the mixed
nationalities in Hungary is a reasoned argument against a
break-up of the country on the plea of satisfying Roumanian,
Jugo-Slav, or Slovak claims. Hungary is composed of 63
comitats or counties. The writer would base the polity of
the future on these units, to each of which he would allow
freedom to develop its local and racial character. He would
aim at realizing the conceptions of Kossuth and Deák-a
Danubian Confederacy laid on a régime of equity and progress
in Hungary. Internally, universal suffrage and proportional
representation; externally, independent Bohemia, Poland,
and a Jugo-Slav federation allowing Hungary access to the
sea-these would be the foundations of future peace and free
self-expression of nationality. This is a translation of the
second edition.

*History: the quarterly journal of the Historical Association :
new series, vol. 4, no. 14, July. Ed. by Professor A. F.
Pollard. Macmillan, 1919. 10 in. 62 pp. bibliog. paper,
1/6 n.

* Barbé (Louis A.). SIDELIGHTS ON THE HISTORY, INDUSTRIES, AND SOCIAL LIFE OF SCOTLAND. Blackie, 1919. 9 in. 332 pp. ind., 10/6 n. 941 Biographical studies of several more or less obscure personages form the longest of these contributions to Scottish history, which are largely amplifications of articles written for the Glasgow Herald and Chambers's Journal. 'A Stuart Duchess of Brittany" is an account of the Princess Isabella, sister of James II of Scotland, who was left a widow and saw the extinction of the ducal house into which she had married. Perkin Warbeck figures in the study headed by his own name and in one of his wife, Lady Catherine, The White Rose of Gordon." Following some picturesque or curious episodes of the Middle Ages come a set of antiquarian studies on early coal-mining in Scotland, the old Scottish fisheries and the wine trade, food control in early times, high days and holidays, and the plague in Scotland. M. Barbé has quarried his materials from printed State Papers, Acts and other documents, as well as the standard histories.

905

The number opens with a paper by Mr. Norman H. Baynes, entitled" Greek Religion and the Saviour King." Dr. Vincent A. Smith follows with an article upon Indian History a subject treated with too much apathy by the average British reader. How to Mitigate the Evils of Examinations is the theme chosen by Professor C. H. Firth; and, under Historical Revisions," Mr. Geoffrey Callender has an admirable paper dealing with the battle of Flores (1591). Among the books reviewed are Sir G. W. Forrest's biography of Clive, and Dr. J. H. Moulton's The Treasure of the Magi."

*Botsford (George Willis and Jay Barrett). A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE WORLD: with special reference to social and
economic conditions. New York, the Macmillan Co.,
1917 [sic]. 8 in. 533 pp. maps, il. bib. ind.
909
The Botsford Histories " are well-arranged and well-
written books for American secondary schools, aiming to put

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The series begins with the impressive letter addressed on July 31, 1914, to the President's Cher et Grand Ami," King George V.; and it includes M. Poincaré's letter of condolence to Madame Jaurés upon the occasion of her husband's tragic death; the Proclamation to the French Nation, dated August 1, 1914; the speech delivered on July 14, 1915, when Rouget de l'Isle's remains were translated to the Invalides; the telegram of congratulation to King George upon the battle of Jutland; the eloquent and spirited address delivered when the decorations sent by the Allied Powers were presented to the City of Verdun; and the fine discourse pronounced in the Place de la Concorde on Sunday, November 17, 1918. These dignified compositions are, without exception, worthy of the occasions that inspired them, and they are models of good French.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS.

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Griffiths (Joseph P.). TRANSPORT: THE MAGIC CARPET OF
INDUSTRY: briefly describing the history and develop-
ment of transport by sea, road, canal, and railway.
Philip, 1919.7 in. 247 pp. il. bib. app., 2/6. J.656
Children will read this book with interest, and derive from
it an intelligent idea of the organization and machinery of
these four main branches of transportation.

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CONTEMPORARY

REVIEW

CONTENTS--AUGUST.

By EDWYN BEVAN: GERMANY AFTER THE PEACE
By PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY: IS AN ESTI-
MATE OF OUR OWN AGE POSSIBLE?

By R. H. TAWNEY: THE REPORT OF THE COAL INDUSTRY
COMMISSION

By H. WILSON HARRIS: HAS PRESIDENT WILSON FAILED?
By DR. C. HAGBERG WRIGHT: LETTLAND A GERMAN
SALLYPORT

By S. G. CHENG: WHY CHINA HAS NOT SIGNED THE PEACE
TREATY

By BARON ROSEN: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RUSSIA

By H. J. MASSINGHAM: EXTRACTS FROM A BIRD DIARY
By SISLEY HUDDLESTON: FRENCH INDUSTRY AND MOTIVE
POWER

By PROFESSOR A. T. ROBERTSON: THE CHRIST OF THE
LOGIA

By CONSTANCE SPENDER: RICHARD CRASHAW, 1612-1648
By EMMA MARIE CAILLARD: CURE BY SUGGESTION
LITERARY SUPPLEMENT-By J. E. G. DE
MORENCY: THE MAN FROM SPITZBERGEN.

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"THE CHRIST OF THE LOGIA" by Professor A. T. ROBERTSON, and "CURE BY SUGGESTION" by EMMA MARIE CAILLARD, are contributions of a different nature to the foregoing, and will be read with interest by students of philosophy and psychology.

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