THE COPLAS OF MANRIQUE COPLAS DE JORGE MANRIQUE. WITH HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW'S RENDERING. (Oxford, Blackwell. 5s.) J than of the Brianza or the Como region. We cannot pretend ORGE MANRIQUE is one of the poets who owe nearly all their fame to a single composition. In the Cancioneros" he is represented by about fifty poems, most of which are artificial and mediocre; in the "Coplas" on his father's death he attains a height which he never reached before or afterwards. The "Coplas" have had an extraordinary run of luck. They enabled Jorge Manrique to eclipse completely the fame of his uncle, Gómez Manrique, whose endowment was perhaps superior to his own. Consisting of some forty stanzas, they express in phrases of uncommon energy sublime commonplaces; they were written just when printing was a novelty in Spain. Their conciseness and solemn sincerity, contrasting with the mannered songs and interminable allegories heretofore in fashion, combined to force them into general circulation. Their popularity knew no limits; later writers shared the enthusiasm of the crowd; the "Coplas" were "glossed by authors as conspicuous as Jorge de Montemayor and Gregorio Silvestre ; Luis de León, perhaps the most inspired singer that Spain has ever produced, quoted the "Coplas " in one of his devout prose treatises; and Lope de Vega said that they deserved to be printed in letters of gold. Manrique's reputation fell a little during the eighteenth century; but he had a renaissance during the Romantic movement, and some lines of his are introduced with slight changes at the beginning of the "Morisca de Alajuár" of the Duke of Rivas. These lines, it is true, are not from the "Coplas." The vogue of this latter poem has never ceased; it finds place in all the anthologies of Spanish verse, even in the selection of Quintana, who, as a typical poet of the eighteenth century, scarcely appreciated the "Coplas" as much as they deserved; and they have had the good fortune to be admirably translated into Latin by-as is supposed-that sound humanist, Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, and into English by Longfellow. COSMOPOLIS. No. 7, July. (Madrid, Sociedad española de librería. 2 pesetas.)-Señor E. Gómez Carrillo, the editor of this new Spanish monthly, is a much-travelled man and a keen observer. He has written on Greece and the Holy Land ; his latest book, La sonrisa de la Esfinge" ("The Smile of the Sphinx"), has been translated into French. It is a little disconcerting, but not, perhaps, altogether surprising, that his Cosmopolis is Paris. He looks at the world through the spectacles of a cosmopolitan Parisian rather than with the eyes of a Spaniard, and the pages of his review which deal with Spanish things treat them from a standpoint which is decidedly French. Thus M. Ernest Martinenche contributes an historical essay on the study of Spanish literature in France, and M. Clémenceau has provided some interesting memories of his life in Argentina. More important, however, is the collection of extracts from a posthumous work of Onésime Reclus, " L'Atlantide," which deals with the relations which exist between French and Spanish settlers in Algeria. The colonists of Spanish origin are almost entirely Catalans, from the provinces of Barcelona, Valencia and the Balearic Isles; and their mother-tongue is not Castilian, but Catalan. Men from Limousin, Perigord, Gascony, Languedoc and Provence can understand natives of Barcelona, Lérida, Tarragona, Alicante and Majorca without an interpreter. On the other hand, the French patois which is the Umgangssprache_of North Africa has been only slightly modified by them. instance, between Jerba and Agadir they say "D'on tu viens?' Comment tu vas? si je saurais (for "si je savais "), and "si j'aurais su (for si j'avais su "). A reproduction of Longfellow's version, edited by Mr. Reginald Hewitt, is now issued as the fifth of the Sheldonian series of reprints and renderings of masterpieces in all languages. It may be said at once that Mr. Hewitt has done his work adequately, and, except that his preliminary note is too bald and brief, scarcely any serious fault is to be found with him. We doubt, indeed, if he was well advised in retaining the verses beginning "O mundo, pues que nos matas." It is true that Rades de Andrada says these supplementary stanzas were found on the dead body of the author when he was taken to Uclés. But is there any sound reason for thinking that these stanzas were intended to form part of the "Coplas"? These are supposed to have been written some two years earlier. The supplementary stanzas would seem to be the opening of a new poem " contra el mundo." J. F. K. Pro " ,, For THE July number of Groot Nederland (Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf) contains the text of the first of two lectures on The Significance of Personality in Goethe's Life and Art" delivered by Herman Wolf in the International School of Philosophy at Amersfoort in August, 1918. The writer traces the development of the philosophic Ego from the Renaissance to the period of "Sturm und Drang.” Possibly because the memory of the terrestrial and concrete oppression of war is still fresh we are rather out of sympathy with youthful ebullitions of cosmic individualism. It is the privilege of genius to take itself very seriously, and we are to-day as far from denying the privilege to Goethe as his contemporaries were when he staggered them with Götz von Berlichingen" and Werther." But we take small pleasure in the spectacle of great men posturing in the now hackneyed attitudes of the superman. Passionate professions of self-confidence now read like advertisements for the Pelman Institute. In our present mood we shall doubtless feel more in sympathy with the picture of Goethe as the mature artist which is promised in the second lecture. Cyriel Buysse contributes a short war story. The vast majority of war stories have proved to be not literature but propaganda. There is, however, no ulterior motive in this tale. It is convincing because it is self-contained. It is also simply and vividly told. It is a story of panic in a remote Belgian village which is suddenly invaded by a company of Death'sHead Hussars, and of the fate of four drunken Flemish peasants who danced a lurching defiance in the middle of the road. Other contents are poems by Dr. Felix Rutten and J. F. Hees, and the second part of Rinke Tolman's appreciation of the Young Frisian literary revival, which does full justice to the influence of D. Kalma. SULLE ORME DI RENZO: PAGINE DI FEDELTÀ LOMBARDA. Da Carlo Linati. (Roma, La Voce. 2 lire.) If the messi Sposi" is a part of the heritage of every Italian, it runs in the very veins of a Lombard, and still more of a Milanese. So when Signor Linati leaves the Porta Orientale for the Naviglio della Martesana, and strikes across the Gorgonzola country towards Brescia, he is naturally following Renzo in his flight over the Adda to Venetian territory. Manzoni has, however, become a little dim, for the young man of letters of But to-day has a way of leaving him behind in the nursery. the trip sets him thinking on the relations between the Lombard, his literature and the scenery. A northerner may feel some surprise at his talking of lack of colour and beauty, though in seeking to explain Lombard realism by the landscape, he is probably thinking of the great Lombardiplain rather BIBLIOG Wrong Stew Cadwall ་ List of New Books Prepared in co-operation with the Library The method of classification adopted is a series of groups roughly Those works in the List which appear most suitable for purchase by Public Library Authorities are marked with an asterisk. GENERAL WORKS. BIBLIOGRAPHY, ENCYCLOPÆDIAS, MAGAZINES, &c. Wrong (George M.), Langton (H. H.), and Wallace (W. Stewart), edd. REVIEW OF HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO CANADA (" University of Toronto Studies "'). Toronto, Univ. Press, 1919. 9 in. 203 pp. ind. paper, $1.50. 016.971 Divided into six sections-relations of Canada to the Empire; history of Canada; provincial and local history; geography, economics, and statistics; archæology, ethnology, and folklore; and law, ecclesiastical history and bibliography-this is a comprehensive register and review of the works published during 1917-18. 100 PHILOSOPHY. Cadwallader (Frank Irish). THE FARCE OF FEDERAL PROHIBITION. New York City, the Author, 154, Nassau Street, 1919. 9 in. 53 pp. paper, 25c. 178.5 A vigorously worded attack on Prohibition in the United States. *Galloway (George). THE IDEA OF IMMORTALITY: its development and value ("The Baird Lecture," 1917). The Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, traces and uses " final ground of hope." 133.9 Inkersley (Frances Fearn). LOVE'S SURVIVAL After Death. " 170.8 Hell is a place of cleansing; only when we resist its lessons does it become a place of torment." This is a specimen of the best of these very miscellaneous maxims and adages. But too many are more commonplace, like the following: To testify is to bring forward the Truth, "" not to conceal it." Culbertson (William Smith). THE 'OPEN DOOR" AND COLONIAL POLICY (reprinted from the American Economic Review Supplement," vol. 9, no. 1, March, 1919). 9 in. 16 pp. pamph. 337.3 A strong case is made out for the treatment by an International League of all exceptions to the general abandonment of preferential or discriminatory measures, the net result of which is usually small advantage to the Power enforcing them and the hampering of trade in general. Hamp (Pierre). LES MÉTIERS BLESSÉS: LA PEINE DES HOMMES. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1919. 7 in. 368 pp. paper, 7 fr. 50. 331 A series of essays on the labour problem, in all its aspects, as it presented itself in France during the war. M. Hamp writes with directness and clarity, and his essays are inte esting not merely as a history of French labour in the war, but also for the reflections on the labour problem as a whole which they contain. Kellogg (Paul V.) and Gleason (Arthur). BRITISH LABOR AND THE WAR. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1919. 8 in. 512 pp. index, apps., $2 n. 331 A long and copiously documented account of the British labour movement during the war. Its relations to American labour are touched upon. 500 NATURAL SCIENCE. *Lovell (John H.). THE FLOWER AND THE BEE: plant life and pollination. Constable, 1919. 8 in. 286 pp. il. ind., 10/6 n. 581.16 In order to become familiar with the economy of pollination, the author turned practical bee-keeper, and the result is a fascinating book on this important branch of the ecology of plants. Thoroughly scientific, the work is written in a non-technical manner, and will interest the general reader as well as the botanist and entomologist. The plates reproducing Mr. Lovell's photographs of flowers and insects are a delight. Cotton-grass is Eriophorum (not“ Eriphorum '') virginicum; and there is a good English name, milkwort, for the Polygala. Woodbine is a usual name for the honeysuckle it is applied here to Psedera quinquefolia. The index is not full enough. Wilson (Charles Branch). NORTH AMERICAN PARASITIC COPEPODS BELONGING TO THE NEW FAMILY SPHYRIIDÆ (no. 2286, from the Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 55). Washington, Govt. Printing Office, 595.34 1919. 10 in. 56 pp. il. bibliog. paper. This paper, the fifteenth in the series dealing with the parasitic copepods in the U.S. National Museum, relates to a new family to be called the Sphyriidæ, the genera of which are closely related to the Lernæidæ, but differ in their life-history and in several important morphological characters. 600 USEFUL ARTS. *Klickmann (Flora), ed. NEEDLEWORK ECONOMIES: a book Masterman (E. W. G.). HYGIENE AND DISEASE IN PALES- An authority on Biblical diseases, Dr. Masterman now Sampson (E.). ADVERTISE! Heath [1918]. 8 in. 254 pp. il. ind,, 5/ n. 659.1 A very interesting and amusing book There is evidently a science and art of advertising: this book makes it obvious that we are helpless in the hands of a man who knows his business. The chapters on Advertising Strategy, Writing the Headlines, and Putting in the Ginger are perhaps the funniest and most informative. Each chapter is followed by suggestions for study. A collection of these would be simply invaluable. As a specimen we give a suggestion from the "Putting in the Ginger" chapter: Glance through Maeterlinck's Life of the Bee.' Do you find material here for future honey advertisements?" 700 FINE ARTS. Herford (Mary A. B.). A HANDBOOK OF GREEK VASE PAINTING. Manchester, Univ. Press (Longmans), 1919. 10 in. 125 pp. il., 9/6 n. 738 Miss Herford divides her volume into two parts. In the first she deals with the craftsmanship of the Greek potter In the and with the shapes and various uses of his vases. second part the history of vase painting is traced from its beginnings in Crete to its end in Italy. The volume is well illustrated. Rodin (A.). THE ART OF RODIN. Introduction by Louis Weinberg ("Modern Library," 41). New York, Boni & 735 Liveright [1919]. 6 in. 37 pp. plates, 70c. n. Mr. Weinberg's introduction is chiefly concerned with defending Rodin against the charge of exaggeration. The rest of the volume consists of reproductions of a number 01 Rodin's works. Vell i nou: revista quinzenal d'art. Barcelona, Corts Catalanes 613. 12 by 9 in. 20 pp. paper, 50c. 759.6 Old and New, a fortnightly review of Catalan art, is a wellprinted and well-produced record of contemporary painting in Barcelona. The illustrations are in black and white. Isaacson (Charles 780 MUSIC. A useful summary of Catalan literary history, from the origin of the language down to the Renaixença" in the nineteenth century. It shows clearly what the " title-deeds " are on which is based the claim of Catalan to rank as a literary language. There is a good index. Pritchard (P. H.). STUDIES IN LITERATURE: an aid to literary appreciation and composition. Harrap, 1919. 71⁄2 in. 205 pp., 2/6 n. 808 'The average educated Englishman ought to write English as deftly as the average educated Frenchman writes French, and have, which at present he has not, an equal respect for his mother tongue." We agree with Sir A. Quiller-Couch, but with certain reservations. The average educated Frenchman writes French almost too deftly-writes it with a facile rhetoric that is peculiarly irritating to the normal Englishman. There must be some happy mean between inarticulateness and academic oratory, between an education that teaches nothing and one that teaches too much. Mr. Pritchard's "Studies in Literature" is a little book which seems to give the right amount and kind of instruction in composition and appreciation. His method is to analyse a series of selections in prose and verse from the best authors, showing the relationship between technique and thought, and pointing out what our forefathers would have called" the beauties" of each piece. He makes criticisms which seem a little obvious to the hardened literary man; but to the youthful students for whom they are intended they will come, we have no doubt, as something new and illuminating. ΤΟ D.). FACE FACE WITH GREAT MUSICIANS. New Introduction by Leopold Godowsky. York, Boni & Liveright, 1919. 7 in. 247 pp. il. 780.9 $1.50 n. Americans," says Mr. Godowsky in his introduction to the present volume, want to know what goes on underneath the skin of folks-not the scandal, but the real being irrespective of genius." Mr. Isaacson, accordingly, reveals to the American public what went on under the skin of some We see them unbuskined, in thirty eminent composers. slippers, talking in easy journalese-even ungrammatically, as when Beethoven is made to exclaim, "It is I with whom the blame should lay." It is to be hoped that these human touches may encourage a liking for classical music among the readers of Mr. Isaacson's work Rawson (Graham S.). THE MEASURE; AND DOWN STREAM: two plays. Fisher Unwin [1919]. 8 in. 132 pp. paper, 4/ n. An excellent selection from the works of Hazlitt, including the essays on Coleridge and Wordsworth and "My First Mr. Beatty's introduction, Acquaintance with Poets." chronological table, bibiography and notes are brief, businesslike, and adapted to the use of young students. Lowell (James Russell). COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY (For the OF THE BIRTH OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. American Academy of Arts and Letters) New York, 811.37 Scribner, 1919. 10 in. 88 pp. por. boards 822.9 The Measure" Mr. Rawson is trying to write the Congrevian comedy of witty conversation. But the dialogue is monotonous; all the characters speak in the same halfliterary, half-colloquial style, and the play is singularly undramatic. "Down Stream is a drama of Ruritanian politics constructed round a situation that might be effective on the stage. This volume is a collection of speeches made in the Ritz- of this celebration. 842.9 Pelleas and Alladine and 849.91 Folguera (Joaquim). EL POEMA ESPARS. Barcelona, 1917. 12 by 8 in. 72 pp., 3 pessetes. Delicate and introspective, moods and impressions. Besides the poem which gives its title to the book, there are poems on the four seasons, on Palm Sunday, and elegies. The author has evidently seen the Russian ballet. For sheer beauty of book-production, this work surpasses any others that have been printed in Barcelona in recent years. Locchi (Vittorio). LA SAGRA DI SANTA GORIZIA. Translated into English verse by Lorna de' Lucchi. With introduction by Ettore Cozzani. Milano," L'Eroica," 1919. 6 by 5in. 56 pp., 3 lire. 851.9 An Italian war-poem describing the first winter in the trenches, the Austrian advance and repulse in the Trentino, and the preparations that led up to the capture of Gorizia. The English translation is on the opposite page. López-Picó (J. M.). POESIES, 1910-15. 8 in. 224 pp. paper. POESIES, 1915-19. 8 in. 190 pp. paper. Barcelona, Societat Catalana d'Edicions 3 pessetes. 849.91 López-Picó (J. M.). LES ABSÈNCIES PATERNELS. Op. X. Barcelona, F. X. Altés, 1919. 7 by 51 in. 102 PP.. 3 pessetes. 849.91 M. López-Picó is recognized as a master of the modern trobar clus catalan, and one of the leaders of intellectual life in Barcelona. He has a fine sense of the beauty of words, and shows the possibilities of modern Catalan as a living literary language. Beyond the borders of Catalonia M. Sagarra is considered a renegade, for he began by writing in Castilian, but under the influence of Carner turned to Catalan. He is a painter of landscapes, which he renders in his verse with gentle pessimism. FICTION. Brodie-Innes (J. W.). THE GOLDEN ROPE. Lane, 1919. 7 in. 312 pp., 7/ n. There is no lack of incident in this tale of an Austrian countess who has married an English squire and lives in a wonderful old castle in Cornwall, where there are dangerous and secret passages, as well as an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue. The descriptions of the castle and its surroundings are rather well done; but the improbabilities of the story force themselves upon the reader, and, with the exception of the artist who narrates the story, the principal personages fail to carry conviction. Notwithstanding this, as a tale crowded with sensational episodes, the book is readable. Collins (Charles). THE NATURAL LAW. Mills & Boon [1919]. 7 in. 188 pp., 6/ n. 813.5 This novel, which is based upon an American drama of real life, the scene being laid in New York City, deals with the rivalry of a middle-aged doctor and a youthful athlete for the hand of Ruth Stanley. The leading motif of the story is that youth calls to youth"; and although the doctor is kindly and magnanimous, his young rival wins the lady. The athlete, indeed, is doubly favoured by fortune, for he has been the victor in the Marathon contest at Stockholm. " Doff (Neel). KEETJE. Paris, Ollendorff [1919]. 71⁄2 in. paper, 5 fr. 843.9 The author of Contes farouches and "Jours de famine et de détresse" has written another gloomy story in this life of a Dutch girl in Amsterdam sent out on the streets by her parents to save her brothers and sisters from starving. The theme and the method in the early part of the book recall Defoe in Moll Flanders." But Keetje is born with the artistic temperament. She learns French, she reads everything she can lay hands on, and as a model in Brussels studios she learns to appreciate pictures. After being successful as a courtesan, but unsuccessful at the Conservatoire, she loses a rich and devoted lover, and settles down, well provided for, to a life of contemplation in the country. Dunbar (Ruth). THE SWALLOW. New York, Boni & Liveright, 1919. 7 in. 246 pp., $1.50 n. 813.5 The hero of this novel is the Swallow: downy and unfledged and eager, with your soaring eyes. Just poised for high flights somewhere.” appeal to a certain type of patriotic Americans, and the The story should language is, we suppose, familiar to them. *Flaubert (Gustave). PREMIÈRES ŒUVRES: Tome Troisième, 1843-5: L'EDUCATION SENTIMENTALE (première version). Paris, Charpentier, 1914 [sic]. 7 in. 344 pp. paper, 843.84 3 fr. 50. The third of the eight volumes which are to form the complete edition of Flaubert's works. This first version of L'Education Sentimentale" is very different from the second, published in 1869. Personal reminiscences and autobiographical detail included in the first were suppressed in the later definitive edition. Gerard (Louise). THE MYSTERY OF GOLDEN LOTUS. One part the Gold Bug, one part the Rue Morgue, and a third ordinary love-romance, the professional and the amateur detective being both in love with the daughter of the supposed criminal, make up the ingredients of this clever story of the Orange Free State. Good luck in the form of opportune eavesdropping and providential bits of paper helps to solve the complication, which is, however, very skilfully entangled. London (Jack). THE RED ONE [and other stories]. Mills & 813.5 Sensationalism in the Rider Haggard vein, and buffconery in that of Morley Roberts, are the features of these four posthumous stories, in three of which low comedy predominates. The Red One," a grim adventure among the head-hunters of the Solomon Islands, is the most far-fetched, but the best. In "The Princess" three dirty old reprobates talk of their blue-blooded Maori loves in isles of paradise in Oceania. Some protest is required against the misleading practice of describing a collection of short stories on cover and title-page as if it were an ordinary novel. *Nodier (Ch.). CONTES DE LA Veillée. Notice et annotations par Gauthier-Ferrières. Paris, Larousse [1919]. 7 in. 175 pp. il. paper, 2 fr. 60. 843.72 A new volume in the admirable Larousse edition of cheap reprints. Four illustrations, reproduced from the charming vignettes of Tony Johannot which appeared in the Brussels edition of 1853, accompany the text. *Nodier (Ch.). CONTES FANTASTIQUES. Notice et annotations par Gauthier-Ferrières. Paris, Larousse [1919]. 71⁄2 in. 196 pp. il. paper, 2 fr. 60. 843.72 A selection from Nodier's Contes Fantastiques,' greater part of the volume is taken up by the fairy novel La Fée aux miettes." M. Gauthier-Ferrières contributes " a sketch of Nodier's curiously improbable life. *O'Grady (Standish). THE COMING OF CUCULAIN. *O'Grady (Standish). IN THE Gates of the NORTH. The 180 pp. 891.62 *O'Grady (Standish). THE TRIUMPH AND PASSING OF CUCULAIN. Dublin, Talbot Press (Fisher Unwin) [1919]. 7 in. 156 pp. front, 4/6 n. 891.62 Collected in these three volumes is to be found the whole cycle of tales centring in the hero Cuculain. In an eloquent introductory essay A. E. tells us that it was the reading of these tales of Standish O'Grady that first made him conscious of his Irish ancestry and of all the Irish past receding gloriously behind him. "It was the memory of race which rose up within me as I read, and I felt exalted as one who learns he is among the children of kings. That was what O'Grady did for me and for others who were my contemporaries." The writings of the Irish school of which A. E. is so distinguished a member have familiarized us with a good many of these ancient stories. But if anyone would read them in their entirety, divested of the literary subtleties with which they have since been clothed-if anyone would read them told in language that is indeed loud and sometimes over-emphatic, but not without a certain nobility and forcehe had better turn to the version which is to be found in these three volumes, and which, when it first appeared, helped to create the nationalist literature of modern Ireland. 910 GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, ANTIQUITIES, &c. India. ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT, HINDU AND BUDDHIST MONUMENTS, NORTHERN CIRCLE, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1918. Lahore, Superintendent Government Printing, Punjab, 1918. 13 in. 29 pp. il. paper, 6d. 913.54 The report is in two parts: (1) Departmental Notes, and (2) Preservation of Monuments, with an appendix of inscriptions and a list of photographs. Pilon (Edmond). SOUS L'EGIDE DE LA MARNE : histoire d'une rivière. Paris, Bossard, 1919. 6 in. 112 pp. 32 il. paper, 3 fr. 90. 914.432 Through a country fertile in corn and vines, from the plateau of Langres almost to Paris, the Marne flows, peacefully, limpidly, turning in its course mary busy millwheels, a gentle and profitable river. M. Pilon takes us with him along the stream, evoking, with a charmingly unpedantic erudition, all the great and noble memories by which the Marne is haunted. Round about Château-Thierry we travel through the country of Fable, where La Fontaine lived and wrote. At Meaux, where the river goes roaring under a row of tall overhanging mills, Bossuet was bishop. Watteau painted his last at Nogent. And there is a host of other names associated with the river. M. Pilon calls them out of the past to add lustre to the fifth anniversary of the great battle of 1914, of which the present volume is meant to serve as a celebration. was a Lutoslawski (W.) and Romer (E.). THE RUTHENIAN QUESTION The authors furnish an array of historical facts, statistics, This volume, which is a chapter extracted from the forthcoming fifth volume of M. de La Roncière's monumental "Histoire de la Marine Française," has been published as a tercentenary tribute to the memory of Louis XIV.'s Colbert minister. universal statesmangreat the cook and the captain bold and the mate" of the French monarchy, minister of finance, commerce, fine arts, the marine, and the colonies. M. de La Roncière writes of him in his capacity of head of the Admiralty. We see him at the beginning of his career, after the long struggle with Fouquet, rescuing the navy from the hands of the Fronde. His next task is to interest Louis XIV. in the sea, and with this end in view he constructs the "Little Venice" at Versailles, and lures the king aboard a frigate at Dunkirk. Then follow the naval reforms-reforms in the system of recruiting and promotion, in shipbuilding and the art of navigation, in expenditure, in everything to do with the fleet. M. de La Roncière tells this story admirably, and we lay down the volume with an enhanced respect for the great administrator who did as much as any man to make possible the glory of France in the great age. *Reed (John). TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD. Fourth A vivid and intensely interesting account by an eyewitness 940.9 THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR. 940.9 Many Croce (Benedetto). PAGINE SPARSE, raccolte da G. Castellano, Seconda Serie, PAGINE SULLA GUERRA. Napoli, Ricciardi, 1919. 8 by 5 in. 326 pp., 7 lire. Croce's utterances on the war are here collected. of them aroused no little discussion on their first appearance, for Croce refused to say what he was expected to say or to leave unsaid what he thought. Hence the volume is of greater interest than most of its kind, quite apart from the position of its author. Macedonia. REPORT OF THE INTER-ALLIED COMMISSION IN EASTERN MACEDONIA, part 1. G. S. Vellonis, 31, Wilson Street, E.C.2, 1919. 10 in. 31 pp. 940.9 A record of investigations in 339 localities out of a total of 493 affected by the Bulgarian occupation. The investigations were made on the spot, and, as far as possible, the evidence collected was carefully checked. Macedonia. REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE ON BULGARIAN ATROCITIES AND DESTRUCTIONS IN EASTERN MACEDONIA. G. S. Vellonis, 31, Wilson Street, E.C. 2, 1919. 8 in. 26 pp. 940.9 A record of the evidence collected from 53 depositions. J. CHILDREN'S BOOKS. *Klickmann (Flora), ed. THE LITTLE GIRL'S FANCY WORK. Office of The Girl's Own Paper" [1919]. 8 in. 84 pp. J.746 il. ind., 2/ n. A well-illustrated book of instructions for making useful and ornamental things. Printed for the Proprietors of THE ATHENÆUM by POLSUE LTD., 15 and 16, Gough Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C., and Published by THE ATHENÆUM PUBLISHING T No.4 |