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the total effect rather stiff than rich. Dr. W. L.
Courtney contributes the first instalment of a study
of Demosthenes from the point of view of the
principles of patriotism both good and excellently
well timed. ' Rhodes and Parnell on Imperial
Federation,' by Mr. J. G. Swift-MacNeill, includes
some noteworthy correspondence. Of the other
papers, seeing that they deal with the problems of
the hour, we will only mention Mr. Sampson
Morgan's 'Fruits for Health, Strength, and
Longevity.' We will not here attempt to appraise
its worth from a serious point of view; we only
note that the enthusiastic writer is sometimes
highly entertaining.
The, Nineteenth Century for July is a good number, albeit a large proportion of it is severely hortatory. Lord Cromer's article on ' Thinking Internationally ' needs no recommendation on our part. There are two studies in past history designed to throw light on the present both noteworthy : Dr. Murray's on
- Humbert's Invasion of Ireland in 1798,' and that
of M. G. de Rosco-Bogdanowicz on ' The " Royal Hand" of a Hohenzollern,' showing how, from their earliest appearance in history, the Hohen- zolierns have counted treaties but as " scraps of paper." Another interesting paper on somewhat the same lines is Mr. L. B. Namier's article on the Habsburgs and Mittel-Europa, though here the reference to the future is the main thing. The literary articles are unusually numerous. Mr. John Palmer contributes a rather clever paradoxical disquisition on ' The Present Disrepute of Shake- speare,' in which one chief feature is the decidedly exaggerated laudation of Maurice Morgann and his
- Dramatic Character of Falstaff/and another is an
exposition of Shakespeare's method in the creation of character which does not substantially differ irom what most of us have thought these hundred years. Mr. H. M. Walbrook writes pleasantly -from personal knowledge about Henry Janiee and the English Theatre, and though the burden of these reminiscences is reproof, we are glad to have them. Miss Constance E. Maud also contributes personal memories these being of the Patriot Poets of Provence. They include the French trans- lation of a charming poem written by one of their number, the Premonstratensian Dom Xavier, who was driven out of Provence into exile in England. The problem of education receives weighty treat- ment in these pages. Mr. Edmond G. A. Holmes discourses of ' Discipline and Freedom,' working out to support of the Montessori system. Many readers to whom objections will occur will yet be grateful to him for a number of good hints. Mr. D. R. Pye writes the first paper under the heading
- Reforms in Education ' on ' Science and the
Public Schools.' Physics Master at Winchester, he has a good word for the classics from the practical point of view of the schoolmaster. This is often neglected in the tirades against Greek and Latin now grown frequent, and we find it so in the vigorous denunciations and exhortations of Sir Harry H. Johnston's article on ' The Public Service and Education,' though with great part of it we find ourselves in thorough agreement.
The GonihUl for July contains three or four sketches of scenes in the vast theatre of war, which, not less clever and sympathetic than many we have seen before, yet call for no particular comment. Such are Mr. Frank Hoyt Gailor's ' An
American Ambulance in the Verdun Attack';
George A. Birmingham's ' Sweet Lavender '; Mr.
Boyd Cable's ' Long Odds'; and ' The Spine of an
Empire' by Major-General <i. F. MacM>mii. It is
otherwise with the vivid letters under the title
"Dublin Days: The Rising' by Mrs. Hamilton
Norway, which describe the spectator's view of
that astonishing and terrible week better than any
we have so far lighted upon, and with several
incidents which will be new to many people. Miss
Edith Sellers urges, in ' A War Saving worth
Making,' that we should follow an example set us
by the Relief Committee in Strassburg and, for
their health's sake as well as for the sparing of our
pockets, let our boys and girls run barefoot. The
subject is not exactly one upon which people will
seek an opinion from ' N. & Q.' Yet we venture
to give her our support both for the excellent
reasons she sets forth, and also because the footgear
with which the children of the poor are usually
provided is an outrage on the beauty and grace of
childhood. We liked Lieur. F. J. Salmon's paper
on 'The Spirit of France,' and still more Mr.
Jeffery E. Jeffery's ' Bilfred.' ' Bilt'red,' we suspect,
will prove to be the cause why this number ot The
Cornhill finds a permanent place on more than one
bookshelf, and we do not envy the person who
reads it to the end without getting "a lump in his
throat." Sir Henry Lucy, with ' A Peep at an
Old Parliament,' makes a welcome reappearance;
his fund of political and social anecdote seems
quite inexhaustible. We must not omit mention
of Lady Ritchie's sketch of the friendship between
the Tennysons and Julia Cameron illustrated by
quotations from many interesting letters, and by
several good stories.
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