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The second Art lecture is
Maclagan's The Appreciation of Sculpture.'
The two "Master Minds dealt with
are Aristotle (by Mr. John Burnet) and
Erasmus (by Mr. P. S. Allen). The Raleigh
Lectures on History were given by Mr. Wallace
Notestein (The Winning of the Initiative by
the House of Commons') and by Mr. C. W.
Alvord (Lord Shelburne and the Founding of
British-American Goodwill '). Lord Balfour
contributed the philosophical lecture, Familiar
Beliefs and Transcendent Reason,' delivered in
1925. Four others which yield to none of the rest
in interest are Dr. R. L. Poole's Early Corres-
pondence of John of Salisbury'; Dr. Mar-
goliouth's Two South African Inscriptions;
Dr. Postage's dissertation On Ancient Greek
Accentuation,' and the Sir John Rhys Memorial
lecture delivered by Sir John Morris-Jones. It
may be useful to note that this volume includes
the following obituary notices: W. P. Ker
(R. W. Chambers); Sir Adolphus William
Ward (T. F. Tout); Sir Courtenay Peregrine
Ilbert (Sir Frederick Pollock); Alfred Marshall
(W. R. Scott); Francis Herbert Bradley (A. E.
Taylor); F. C. Conybeare (A. C. Clark and J.
Rendel Harris); Sir James Henry Ramsay (T.
F. Tout); Sir Paul Vinogradoff (W. S. Holds-
worth); and George Nathaniel Curzon (D. G.
Hogarth).

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Mr. Eric pictorial" is an unfortunate word to use concerning him. The selection seems to us all that it should be in each case, except the most difficult, Byron, in which several lyrics are omitted which we should certainly have expected to find.

An Introduction to the Reading of Shakespeare. By Frederick S. Boas. (Humphrey Milford. 2s. 6d. net).

It is addressed to the

THIS is one of the World's Manuals Seriesgeneral reader who has a tolerable experience in literature but is supposed to have nearly a blank mind in regard to Shakespeare; and on that basis Mr. Boas has happily contrived to give elementary information in such a manner and surrounded with such associations as to make it acceptable to any inquirer. We think he is right in what his Preface implies, that want of just these facts and explanations often keeps away from Shakespeare the very person to whom he should most appeal, the ordinary man, that is, to whom literature is but a parergon.

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WE have received with great pleasure from the Cambridge University Press Mr. H. P. V. Nunn's Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin in the second edition. We are not surprised that this has been called for. From the Oxford University Press we have received two more of The World's Classics': a third Series of Selected English Short Stories, and is new edition of the English Songs and Ballads compiled by the late T. W. H. Crosland, and first published in The World's Classics' in 1902. We have also received The Somerset Year Book, 1927.' We find it, in its mixture of humour, local lore, good stories, verse, notes scenery and topography and comment on affairs, nowise inferior to its predecessors, and that is good praise.

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The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth. Selected
with an Introduction by J. Dover Wilson.
(Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net).
THE sub-title to the volume before
1. an Anthology of the five major poets,"
these being Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,
Shelley and Keats. It is to be followed
"should [it] prove useful to the public for
which it is intended by a second dealing with
Scott, Blake, Cowper, Crabbe and Burns. We
hope the proviso will not be strictly taken,
for, though this first division may well justify
itself we think the second yet more likely to
do so.
Inevitably, these pages contain the
things which most people who care for English
literature with any energy have long known by
heart, and which those whose concern is tepid
can find in numberless books when they want
them; of the five lesser poets the same may
also be said, yet not with quite such emphasis.
However, Professor Dover Wilson's introduc-
tion should give to this volume a special value.
It is commendably brief: held close together;
but it sets each poet in his place, in the move-
ment of thought and life at the turn between
eighteenth and nineteenth century, and marks
the advance and true height of each not only
with a firm distinctness, but with that fine
mingling of a new detachment with a new un-
derstanding which we think is characteristic
of the best criticism of our best critics since
the war.
We are, nevertheless, not sure that,
for all his discriminating praise, he quite hits
the mark over Keats; or perhaps we should
rather say
that, addressing the beginner,
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OCTOBER 1, 1927.

Vol. 153. No. 14.

SIXPENCE.

Manchester Guardian of Sept. 27 quotes from
the New York Literary Digest an account of
this process, as observed in a tract lying
between Augusta and Belfast, Maine, U.S.A.,
by Mr. Ben Ames Williams, and described
'American Forests.' This tract
was permanently settled in the early part of
the nineteenth century; the hills and val-
leys, stripped and diligently cultivated, main-
tained a small township which was at its
height in population and prosperity in 1870.
Since then it has declined.. From 1,700, the
population had shrunk in 1917 to 700, and
the return of the forest had advanced far.
Between that time and this the observer had
watched the swift further encroachment. The
woods now hold traces of civilization, not
of a civilization so remote as that of ancient
Egypt, yet equally past and gone. Here are
roads so long abandoned that trees of four or
five inches' diameter now grow in their very
course. Meadows and pastures which were
clear nine years ago are now good cover for
woodcock, and spruce seedlings-spruce with
pine was the prevailing original growth-
have taken root under the birch, alder and
poplar which have invaded the cleared
meadows. Doubtless, the wild life of the
forest-largely fur-bearing species-is also
returning.

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Memorabilia.

THE Court of the Company of Master
Mariners held their annual meeting on
Sept. 28 presided over by the Lord Mayor,
an occasion memorable from the fact that
this is the first recognition of the kind
accorded to the British Merchant Service.
The Company is little more than a year old,
having been founded in June, 1926, by a
hundred of the leading men of the Merchant
Service-men who had all started as ships'
boys, and thus mounted to their distinguished
positions from the bottom of the ladder. The
first annual dinner took place last March,
graced by a cordial message from His Maj-
esty. The membership of the Company is at
present limited to 500; and a candidate is
required to have held for not less than five
years a Board of Trade certificate of com-
petency as master of a foreign-going vessel.
The Mastership of the Company remains as
yet vacant: the Deputy Master is Sir Burton
Chadwick, Parliamentary Secretary to the
Board of Trade, with whom six mariner
Wardens, and a dozen other members form
the Court of the Company. The list of hon-
orary members runs only to seven names, one
of which is Rudyard Kipling. The Com-ture of which, as I was informed, it was
pany's motto is" Loyalty and Service," and frequently utilized.”
the master mariner who is admitted into it,
though he takes no oath, solemn
promise to be true to the ideal the motto
enshrines. The permanent Court-room of the
Company is to be in the new Lloyd's build-
ing now being erected in Leadenhall St.
THE return of the wild upon cultivated
ground which has been abandoned is a
subject full of various fascination. The

THE delightful subject of rose hedges has
lately been much discussed in The Times
with promise, we are rather inclined to think,
On Sept.
of practical results next summer.
27 appeared a letter from Lord Bledisloe
praising the double white rugosa rose (Blanc
Double de Coubert) of which he has experi-
ence, which not only flourishes exceedingly
and flowers freely, but also bears transplant-
ing. It makes a really thickset hedge with
sharp thorns, effectually obstructive
intruding quadrupeds. But its most endear-
ing quality would seem to be its fragrance-
a pure white canopy," says its owner,
"of
several hundred intensely sweet blossoms,
redolent of Attar of Roses, for the manufac

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THE ship Discovery arrived at Falmouth land of two years in the South Antarctic. last Sunday, after an absence from EngThe expedition was organised with the view of gaining information which will help to preserve the whale industry in the south. Cape Town was the headquarters of the ship, and for nine months she was cut off from civilisation. Dr. Stanley Kemp, Director of