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literary ffebv* and Criticism.
, f a mbridfff History of English
lAtrrature.
_ 4 MKRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LJT-
V&.1 7-?-'-rs Edited by A W. Ward and A R.
EH V,, r In fourteen volume* Vol. I. From
" ii.r'minip to the Cycles of Romance.
*?i? i ilThe End of the Middle Ages. Svo..
Xtr'. IK: iT - 604 - G - F - Putnam's Sons.
not often that students are Invited to use
-k Hk e the onP Tvho!<e flrst two vol *"n^s
• v °^ before us. Of briefer -works there have
re ' man y quite as scholarly, not a few more
*SLnt « 1 d attractive alike to the easygoing
*"* t-at -a the delver after literary- lore. But if
? * t rt!l already finished forecast the character
„. *,- elve volumes which remain to be pub
<f>ed. Mr. -Ward and Mr. Waller promise to
!i^.'re a history of such magnitude and au
r*ZZL hat n ° other worlc can he found with
vjch to compare it. With umisual felicity the
«!•«* ha^•e struck the polden mean between
' encyclopedia and a handbook. The History
nßoenfls the latter Institution, not merely by
rtnt . °* F;Z e and thoroughness, but perhaps
*^«t effectively by avoiding the cardinal sin of
-l brief histories and historical compendium?.
*tlci If the centring of affairs about a few
-MBt men or event?. The first result of this
**Z , w fl often useful, distortion Is the dwarfing
. ill the many lower orders of genius. The
-at ref'-.t is the total neglect of broad, pik
ificar.t. but hardly visible, movements of
OTJ _j jt and style and th*> consequent overestl
ttSticn -,r the few great men of originality and
•yyxctr. Scarcely a chapter In either of the two
nlumes row at hand fails to fulfil the pledge.
made In the preface, "to consider subsidiary
movements and writers below the highest rank,
,-3 to trace. In apparently arid period?, proc
e»ys which were often carried on. as It were,
underground *
The attention riven to fugitive literature add?
.- th* ::sefu'ness of the History quite as much
is It 'heightens its charms. For. after all. Is not
ny creatr-ess of our literary lineage made ap
♦ytrest Da leys by the multitude of good forgot
ten writers than by the few solitary immortal??
However much the scenes may thereby be crow.l
ri, ... perspectives are cleared by the. editor*"
treatment of the literature of science, philosophy,
politics, parliamentary eloquence, collegiate and
rrfigicu? matter*, newspapers and magazines,
publishers ar.d booksellers; "homely books deal
lac with precept and manners and social life;
ll^Bßrte letters and street songs: accounts if
■-■--< and records of import — whole range of
I'tterr. in its •widest acceptance, from the Cam
bridge Plator.ists to the fraternity of vagabonds."
That this unfenced territory Is being covered
■Kitiout turning the History into ■ mere encyclo
pedia or a stilted chronology is a happy circum
rasce which finds Its explanation chiefly in th
*ia*lear <X* and literary skill of the many di?
iigiiished contributors, but also In the flexible
combination of the historical and topical meth
ds of exposition wisely adopted by the editors.
Tf» Srft -rolume demonstrates the worth of
tils editorial policy and the rare merit of
the individual essays. Its twenty chapters
fell with as many phases of pre-cyclic Eng-
Jsh. and the** com* from the pens of sixteen
t^awriti*"" To do Justice to all these contribu
tions booklet of reviews -would have to be writ
ten The peculiar value of the volume, though,
my be shown in a comment or two upon the
Ouagr-. treatment here accorded to more or
Tsa recondite topics. Mr. A. C. Paul's brief
ciajter on "Rune* and Manuscripts" summa
tz«eiertainingly the world's scanty knowledge
c! jsißitive Germanic alphabets and writing
serials. On the controversy over the origi
«*Br*rt«»r and purpose of runes Mr. Paves
uke* the most conser\-ative stand; he admits
rhm. imT>n««<viti<r -« 4-^t-*l»»»t •WettaßT the marlis
were primarily letters. Ideographs, or, as their
tame, auggests. "m>-stical sign?, bearers of po
tent magic." Many interesting anecdotes from
primitive literature are cited to chow their magic
reaction; and other cases prove that, even when
runes were used as a means of communication,
the air of mystery and witchcraft hung about
them. Passing into the realm of hypotheses, Mr.
Pan*? remarks that, "since the power and force
-' •- ppoken Mil easily pass into the symbol
lor vhich it ptand?, it is not improbable that
th* latter meaning is secondary, the spell be
comin*. so to speak, materialized in the graven
letter." la making this conjecture he sterns to
coe?*«« Ignorance, or at least disregard, of the
tnessive anthropological records showing the
attitude taken by primitive tribes toward in
rripT^ns Had the author considered these he
tvH& doubtless have seen in runic magic noth
int but & function conveniently added to ordi
nary writing by priestcraft.
Mr. W. Lewis Jones and Mr. J. E. Sandys con
sibute each a chapter upon neglected themes
•nfl succeed in showing their historical Impor
ting. Mr. Jones, writing about "Latin Chroni
r>Tß from the. Eleventh to the Thirteenth Cen
tnries' goes far beyond the beaten path of
English literature. His subject belongs rather
19 the literature of England, but it is none the
Ha relevant to the task of the Cambridge His
l«T.l «T. However natural the scant attention may
*» which the Latin chroniclers usually receive
In literary histories, their writings deserve seri
«■* notice. Mr. Jones properly calls the latter
th* most remarkable literary monument of the
Msil of learning following the Norman Con
west. He says:
% Prir*'!^,, ap these documents are to the modern
•-Keriasi, they ere far from being, as a whole, the
HBtos records which concern the student of
political t,n(s constitutional movements alone
-.- • Far more than their embellishments of
rr X (safer Julnese and accuracy of detail and
»* patriotic motives, what gives life to the
« E slo-JCermaa chronicles ie the sense which they
«-om*y of intimate relationship with great men
*}& gnat affaire The chroniclers describe events
7 ■*** they were eye- witnesses; they preserve
«*"um«n<« to which they bad special privilege Of.
*■***: they retail anecdotes gathered from tn<»
■ssssr the marketplace and th« court.
Mr. rmsTls accounts of Bede. William of
J&knesbury. Geoffrey of Monmouth and others
•"Sect this sympathetic appreciation, and are
■4s«| succinct. Mr. Sandys moves acro-s
II! &tJy more familiar ground when he writes
«boct "English Scholars of Paris and Francis
cans si Oxford." These men. among whom John
• Salisbury. Roger Bacon and Duns Scotus
*"* out prominently, have been noticed, and
•?« BOBBssf betimes, by students of philosophy.
Mr Ban<Jyn. however, wisely devotes his pages
'■''<!."• to a broad, yet reasonably complete, ac-
BftM of the firt-t faint stirrings of humanism
■■■MBMBi In the writings of scholars and
Kfas lava to the days of Richard of Bury,
■kaa Oxford was Just ceasing: to be "the beauti
** *ty. fprea>Jln« her gardens to the moonlight
•™5 *h!»p»-r1ng from her towers the last en-
of the Middle Age." Among the re-
Jsatalng chapters those which supply lnforma-
U< * tsuaHy lacking in pi*-Chaucerian history
•*«» roliowing: Miss M. Bentinck Smiths
<o; a English Christian Poetry." Mr. Montague
Ri »^f James's "Latin Writings in England to
<£ Ttae or Alfred/ Mr. A. R- Waller's and
**«« Clara Thomson's "Later Transition En?
**" £n<J Mr F. W. Maitland's "Anglo-French
*** Language." This last contribution is a dis
'fPointnient/ being only a meagre sketch of
J»«al ndPncl< , 8 in an interesting, though no
Or <*r important, transition
StJOicg with the prolific and eventful done of
"•Middle Ae.y. the second volume of the- His
**T Is richer than its pred«-c*-ssor in both criti
tsKa an<l description of literary epochs. The
***** ea»y, indeed, suffers from a surfeit Of
*■* rkhe ? . wh * n considered as an Integral
*«<** larit*. comprehensive work rather than
**«n impendent stttdy. Professor J. M. Manly.
••*«; deals here « ith "Piers the Plow:
man and Its Sequence." He is interested al
most exclusively in the question of authorship
so that the essay is little more than an admir
able, but somewhat irrelevant, piece of textual
criticism. Were it not for the fact that, in
proving the multiple authorship of "Piers the
Plowman." Mr. Manly had to summarize the
poem, the contribution would have wholly missed
its proper aim. This aim. we take It. is to set
forth the nature and historical significance of
that great group of poems which, for more than
two hundred years, were on every Englishman's
lips, and almost adored as inspired prophesy
by the great leaders of the Reformation. But.
less than two pages out of the erudite forty
fight touch this matter directly. Without
belittling the value of textual criticism, the read
er may well conclude that Mr. Manly has
swerved widely from the purpose of the History.
Were every contributor to approach his special
topic as this distinguished scholar has his own
the enterprise would benefit only the minute
critics, not the lovers of literature. Happily,
though, the twelve other writers of this volume
have studiously kept in their own private note
books all details that do not make clear im
portant historical bearings.
The Rev. J. P. Whitney's estimate of Wyclif and
the Lollards, in his chapter on "Religious Move
ments in the Fourteenth Century.*' is not only
readable, but exceedingly pane; without dispar
agement. Mr Whitney shows that Wycilf's intel
lectual influence was not so enduring, and his lit
erary influence not so great as tradition has
made them. Mr. G. C. Ifacaulay's treatment of
John Gower is substantial and straightforward.
Professor George Salisbury's two chapters on
Chaucer and the English Chaucerians combine, a
wealth of information and genial, yet acute, crit
icism with his familiar vivacity of style. Doubt
less the two most widely interesting topics arc
the Rev. T. A. Walker's "English and Scottish
Education. I'niversities and Public Schools toth»
Tim« of Colet" and Mr. Francis B. Gummere's
"Ballads." Th*» former is handled briefly, but
without niggardliness, and is relieved with light
touches about student life, Mr. Gumme.re is as
tonishingly successful in pressing a veritable en
cyclopaedia of ballads into a few pages without
a dull or .-skimping paragraph. His is a perfect
short essay on this huge and fascinating sub
ject. The byway explorations, which, as we
have said. are a distinguishing feature of the
Cambridge History, are nearly all in the field of
Scottish literature in this second volume. Four
Important chapters deal solely with language
and writings from north of the Tweed, and two
others are partly devoted to the same subject.
Mr. F. M. Padelfords study of "Transition Eng
lish Song Collections" and Mr. Waller's review
of "Political and Religious Verse to the Close of
the Fifteenth Century" likewise discourse upon
them?:, untouched by most students, but withal
profitable.
A review of the History cannot end without
mention of the well sifted and ordered bibli
ography appended to each volume. Compiled by
each contributor for his own topic, it is made ex
ceptionally valuable by the descriptive and criti
cal comments on the works there listed. As an
aid to even th° more advanced specialists, it ia
almost worthy of separate publication.
Til E VOVXG IDEA.
Note* on the Art of Teaching It
t Hozc to Shoot.
WHICH COLLEGE FOR THE BOY? LEADING
TYPES IN AMERICAN EDT'CATION. By John
«'orl>ln Illustrated. 12mo, pp. svi, 873.. Hough
ton. MifPlin & Co.
ON THE TRAINING OF PARENTS. By Ernest
Hamlln Abbott. 12mo, pp. 141. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.
Mr. John Corbin. who has aroused much in
terest and no little wrath by his criticisms of
American universities in general and of his
alma mater. Harvard, in particular, has brought
together in a readable volume several studies
of typical universities and colleges. The title
of the book— "Which College for the Boy?"—
is misleading. Mr. Corbin nowhere plays the
adviser to anxious, wavering parents, unless
his repeatedly expressed dislike of "the German
izing tendencies"— such as the exaggerated
elective system, copious science courses and the
degradation of the humanities— be construed as
a warning against most large universities. The
writer explicitly confines his efforts to discussing
leading types in American education. "I have
tried to show what sort of young men go to
ea<~h college, what its traditions are, what the
authorities aim to do. and what they actually
are doing." Mr. Corbin has accomplished this
task admirably. Any alumnus of the institu
tions described will soon discover that a close
personal investigation has been made and that
undergraduates have supplied almost as much
"confidential" information as faculty members
and archives have.
The schools portrayed as typical are Prince
ton, "a collegiate university"; Harvard, "a
Germanized university"; Michigan, "a Middle
Eastern university"; Cornell, "a technical uni
versity"; Chicago, "a university by enchant
ment"; Wisconsin, "a utilitarian university."
and Knox. "the small college." If Mr. Corbin
sometimes appears wofully blind to the advan
tages of scientific education and the elective
system, It is only because his righteous enthu
siasm over the thorough personally managed
education afforded in English colleges bubbles
over at the slightest provocation. Aside from
a somewhat inflated faith in the saving power
of the humanities, our college Baedeker dis
plays sober and accurate judgment. He is not
mistaken in his belief that these studies will
bring to parents and prospective collegian? a
well sifted fund of information hitherto inac
cessible.
Mr Ernest Hamlin Abbott's six essays. 'On
the Training o* Parents." are so many voices
crying in the wilderness of women's club?,
scientific kindergartens and sentimental
mothers. The author has discovered what not
all people who try to write or teach about
his topic have snspected-namely. that there are
no fixed and uniform rules for managing chil
dren. As in medicine there are no diseases, but
only patients, fo in the nursery there are no
faults to be corrected by Mrs. Fadds latest
method, but only large bundles of immaturi
ties commonly called "kids." Because Mr. Ab
bott has caught this Illusive truth, his little
volume fairly brims over with common sense;
and because he has an observant eye. cleverness
is absent from only a few pages.
This author condemns corporal punishment as
a rule and defends it as an exception. He hoots
at the elaborate toys which parents (who like
them of course) give their offspring in these
days 'of irrationality. He pays his respects— ln
mall change-to the wise pedagogues who by
managing children's play too solicitously rob
Z vouns of life* best fun. BuJ after all hi,
man'v diatribes the writer does not end in a
revolution He has no new theory to offer pa
rent- as a guide in bringing up their progeny.
Tho best advice of — experienced teachers ,is
brought home: develop habits, win obedience by
Si* the child's imagination into play. use
reason instead of brute authority whenever DOS-
Zt\, But the triteness of these Injunctions
tH not impair the little hook. For though
fhTy are trite among the persons who preach
Z m profo^ion.lly. the, M,un<| confusing y
i, the ears of parents who ought to
Mra T em £ Abbott, having orbed them
,v,lv anecdotal style, ou*hl to make them
c^t.liuie more in rea.Hfe than they now do.
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1908.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.
Houghton, Mlfflin & Co. will publish in the
early autumn Miss Mary Johnston's new novel,
"Lewis Rand," the first she has written in four
years. It Is a romance of American life in the
days of Thomas Jefferson.
. Some time ago there began to appear in Eng
lish periodicals bits of minor verse by a Mr. W.
H. Davies, which attracted attention by virtue
of their originality. Now he is publishing a book
of prose, "The Autobiography of a Super-
Tramp." In this he records the experiences of
a life which "The I»ndon Outlook" thus sum
marizes:
Bom near Bristol, the son of a sea captain, he
was bound apprentice to the picture frame trade.
He left, his house at the age of twenty or so. found
work In Bristol, spent six months wallowing In the
dissipations of the poor, and then went to America
with fifteen pounds in his pocket to make nil
fortun**. The money soon ■went, and one day. sit
tins in a park in a small town in Connecticut, he
ruck up an acquaintance with a tramp, and.
joining forces with him; set out on the career of
which this book is the record, and which only
ended when he tired of it and settled down, on
eight shillings a week left to him by his grand
mother, to write and publish verse.
L*dy Ritchie. Thackeray's daughter, who Is
perhaps best known as Annie Thackeray, years
ago showed that she. had a charming if rather
minor gift of her own as a novelist. Her "Vil
lage on the Cliff" is very pleasantly remembered.
In recent years the writings she has published
have beon of a biographical or purely literary
nature, but she has just returned to fiction. A
iipw novel by her is soon to appear.
In "Newness Art Library" the Frederick
Warne Company has issued a book on "Sir
Thomas Lawrence," one of those convenient
little collections of full page reproductions
which are. after all. as useful as a full fledged
biography. Mr. R. S. Clouston writes, cleverly
enough, th* bri*>f prefatory sketch of the
painter's career, but the important thing is
the series of halftones. These generously illus
trate Lawrence's elegance in the portrayal of
women and children, and the still courtly but
thoroughly masculine tou«-h which he brought
to his study of men. The frontispiece gives in
photogravure the beautiful unfinished portrait.
In the possession of the Royal Academy, which
Lawrence painted of himself.
Miss May Sinclair has another novel soon
coining from the press. It bears the title of
"Kitty Tailleur." The author of "Elizabeth and
Her German Garden" has also completed a
novel, but the title of this is as yet unknown.
The magnificent collected edition of the writ
ings of John Ruskln is drawing near to com
pletion. Two volumes in it are to be given to
his letters, many of which have never before
been printed. The series will Include letters
written to his parents, to Dr. John Brown, Car
lyle. Froude, the Brownings. Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs.
Stowe, Tennyson and many more notabilities.
Professor J. Arthur Thomson has contributed
to the "Science Series" a volume on "Heredity"
(G. P. Putnam's Sons). It is hard to say
whether it deserves to be called a popular pres
entation of the subject or not. It is a well
framed introduction to an absorbing study, but,
as the Aberdeen biologist remarks in the preface,
his exposition i? not simple, "although it is prob
abiy simple enough for those who have got be
yond the pottering, platitudinarian stage which
deals in heredity with a capital H." The reader
who approaches this volume must have courage
and pertinacity, for Professor Thomson has In
sisted upon thoroughness in every paragraph.
But this does not mean that a large foreknowl
edge of biological facts and terms is needed for
the understanding of the author's discourses.
He. has succeeded in avoiding technicalities,
winnowing out ambiguities and trifles and em
phasizing the practical bearings of essential
farts and issues. Constantly availing himself of
simple anecdotes and referring to his numerous
colored plates, he lucidly brings home to the un
trained reader the very soul and substance of
the central fact and puzzle of biology. This
has been done, too, without glossing over the
immense difficulties and the untouched mysteries
confronting the student of heredity. Professor
Thomson takes his stand for Weismannism— the
belief that the inheritance of acquired charac
teristics has not been proved. His discussion of
this mooted doctrine i* as interesting as it is
thorough and clear. If popularity is ever to be
measured by fascination of theme, truthfulness
and simplicity of language and style, then
•Heredity" may be called a truly popular book.
The John I.ane Company is bringing out this
month the first volume in Its collected edition
of the works of M. Anatole Prance. The trans
lations have been placed under th» genera!
editorship of Mr. Frederic Chapman, who has
himself put into English one of the books im
mediately to appear. -Mother of Pearl." Two
more volumes are scheduled for publication in
June. "The Red T.ily" and "The Crime of Syl
vr .<«pre Ronnard." th«» latter in the well known
translation of Ijafcadio Hearn. Next month
"The Garden of Epicurus" will be issued and
the remaining volumes, including 'Joan of
Arc." will appear during the autumn and next
year.
Mr. Andrew I^ang. by th» way. continue* to
lift up his voice in something very like wrath
against the attitude taken toward Joan of Arc
by M. Frame in his recently published work.
In a long letter to "The Ix-ndon Times" he
pounces on the reviewer who in that Journal
had s^id of the Maid's blo^raphT. "He deals
not in praise but in facts." Mr. Lang go*s on
to show that M. France "too often deals in
legends, apparently evolved by his subconscious
self, ' and though he protests that he would not
accuse ML EVance, of deliberate errors, he does
assert that the Frenchman has an "unceasing
.<pite against the Maid," adding that "it ap
pears even in trifles." Here is a specimen of the
brilliant critic's argument:
Not even good looks will M. France allow to th»
Maid! Every one. I suppose, would prefer to be
li^vf. what even the old hostile English legend of
the Maid aver?, that Ph.* was beautiful and charm
ing. From the evidence of men who knew her wll
we learn that she was ''belle et bien form£p"; "to
see her and hear her speak (h*r voice was woman
|v) «he seemed a thing all divine." "Her face was
glad and smiling." Her bust whs beautiful. That
her hair was black we know only by contemporary
report. The evidence here cited Is all from the
lips and pens of men who fought beside her, or saw
her at Chinon or Poitiers.
M France describes her as "robust, with a short,
strong- neck, and a full bosom, as far as could be
seen under her Jacket . - . even more surprising
than her leg gear wan her headgear. She wore a
woollen chaperon." We scarcely recognize the girl
hello ft bien formee; the •thing all divine" of
d'Alencon. <sul de Laval. d'Aulon, and th»» rest!
M France, to find his Bhort-necked Pucelle, has to
desert these witnesses, has gone to lat*» writers
who never paw the Maid-Mathleu Thomassin. the
perfectly mythical "Chronlque de Lorraine," and
the still later and equally mythopoeie Italian
r r » r . Philippe de Bergame, born after the. Maid
was dead. "He Is wholly devoid of credibility."
.... Queeherst. The "Chronique de Lorraine. '
„.,„ dof . s not say that the Maid was short, but
that she was tall! Not one of these late authors
. '„ that her ne<-k was short. Finding good con
femnorarv reports of the girl> looks. M. France,
nrefers late and valueless evidence. The long story
ihotit ' leanne # mal jugee. conduct and her con
jTmcd "disobedience to her parents In the matter
r,f"h«-r marriage (Vol. I. pp. 83-&O is absolutely
hazeless »nd has not a word of support from the
Sofuimentß rltf-d by M. France. If he "does not
deal in prats*." doe, he "deal in facts"?
Henry l"r.u\de. the»American representative of
the Oxtor4 University Press, announce? the first
volumes at a new "Oxford" edition of the works
, f Th.T keray It will be completed in seventeen
volumes, «a cn edited, with an introduction, by
Professor Saintshury. Sperlal pains will b«
taken •with the illustrations, of which there will
be more than fifteen hundred.
Some trifles of literary Interest appear in
"Queen Victoria as I Knew Her," the book origi
nally printed for private circulation by Sir The
odore Martin and lately reissued for a larger
audience. The author tells this droll story of
the Queen and one of her chaplains:
Charles Klngsley had preached before the Court
at Windsor, and was afterward lnvit'-d to tne
royal table, at the head of which sat the Queen
and Prince Consort. Klngsley himself sitting near
In a place of honor. The Queen presently ex
pressed her opinion that the best of the Preacher s
novels was "Hypatia": the Prince Consort, on the
other hand, maintained, with not less emphasis
that his greatest . book was "Alton Locks. The
conversation grew animated, but no appeal was
made to the embarrassed writer. At last her
majesty, turning to her guest. exclalme4 £*f *»£■
Mr. Klngsley has an opinion." There lives no
record of reply. Klngsley. who In some directions
was rather thtn-skinnpd. m a little nettled at the
moment, though he lived to smile over the incident.
Sir Theodore gives a quaint souvenir of the
Queen's mood where the subject of "women's
rights" was concerned. In 1870 she wrote to
him as follows:
The Queen is most anidous to enlist every one
who can speak or write to Join In checking this
mad wicked folly of "Woman's Rights." with all
Us attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble
sex is T bent. fretting every son.c of wom«ily
feeling and propriety. Ledy ought to get a
•jood whipping.
In the fourth volume of "Grove's Dictionary
of Music and Musician?.- which the Macmlllans
have just published, the letters Q, R and S are
disposed of. Under the editorship of Mr. Fuller
Maitland. old articles have be<»n r*vl*ed. ex
tended and brought down to date; new articles
have been added, and the scope of the dlctlonary
extended by the inclusion of material not con
templated in the original plan. Mr. H. E.
Krehbiel, the American editor, has added a num
ber of articles on American musicians.
In undertaking to present the doctrines, pol
icy, alms and practical proposals of British so
cialism. Mr. J. Ellis Barker grapples with a
task scarcely less prodigious and intricate than
that of describing the weather. As we scan the
well filled pages of hl3 volume, "British Social
ism" (Charles Scrlbner's Sons), the impression
grows that Mr. Barker has fallen a prey to the
chaotic swarm of wild, incoherent, revolution
ary and vague socialistic doctrines which It has
been his duty to sf>t forth in a purely historical
manner. The extravagances of British social
ism have got upon his nerves. His descrip
tions are. as a result, frequently vitiated by an
unnecessary display of petulance and sarcasm,
which, however warranted by the facts, is ex
ceedingly annoying to the reader who comes to
Mr. Barker's pasres for information. This is pe
culiarly exasperating because he has valuable
information to impart, and, on the whole, sub
jeots the manifold programmes of British so
cialism to searching criticism, sometimes over
zealously, but usually with much good sense.
He takes up in turn each problem which Brit
ish socialists have faced and sets forth each
remedy proposed. A confusing host of opinions
is arrayed. Space is found for all shades of
socialistic opinions about trade unions, co-oper
ation, land, landlords, capital, taxation, impe
rialism, the foreign policy. Parliament, local
government, agriculture, finance, education and
many other matters. As is inevitable when so
much is condensed into a small space, Mr. Bar
ker's expositions frequently become mere quota
tions from socialistic writers plus aphoristic ap
pendages of criticism. These sppendages are
often keen, but again they are nothing more
than commonplace gibes. It is inconceivable
that any student of British socialism could de
clare that "the majori'v of British socialist
leaders apparently desire to keep the workers
drunkon." Mr. Barker is an ardent advocate
of temperance; can it be that he is unable to
think of the detested brood of socialists as
entertaining a single idea in common with him
self? Instances like this one might be multi
plied. Although containing many excellent pres
entations of socialistic fallacies, every page is
colored with bitter partisanship and intoler
ance. The reader with socialistic leanings will
throw the volume aside, while the unbiassed
will be loath to trust the truths it speaks in
anger.
Readers of the letters of "Omar" FltzGerald
will remember the high regard in which he held
his East Anglian boatman. "Posh." The friend
ship is perhaps sufficiently Illustrated in the
letters, but Mr. James Rlyth has been making- a
little book about it, which is presently to ap
pear, with illustrations, under the title of "Ed
ward FitzGerald and 'Posh.' "
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THE WOMAN PAT." By Frederic P. Ladd. Illus
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