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Five Roman Emperors. Vespasian, Titus,
Domitian, Nerva, Trajan, A.D. 69-117.
By Bernard W. Henderson. (Cambridge
University Press. £1 1s.)

not by Marvell, in spite of their not having IT is a pity that it remains Dr. Henderson's

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foible the attitude of Clarindon's House-Warming is schoolboy's prejudices, sentimentalities, and what doubtfully allowed, Nostradamus's unnecessary discourtesies. It is the greater Prophecy nearly rejected; The Loyal pity because this source of inevitable irritaScot' in part accepted with certainty, in tion is a surface mannerism, to which he is and the not consistent. part rejected, The constant rejected portion sneers, printed in smaller type; and the Three example, at German scholarship are belied Satires on the Horses and Statues, in spite by the good use which he has made of it, and of lack of evidence affirmed to be probably German scholars, of whom, as of those of this also by just appreciations of many individual Marvell. The Elegy upon the Death of my Lord Francis Villiers,' reprinted for the first and other countries, there are, in fact, some time from a at Worcester more and some less sensible. The substance of College, Oxford, probably unique, is given in the book is good and useful. All of it is well individuals appendix as being possibly by Marvell and, informed. The judgment upon if So, throwing light on the royalist sympathies of which the famous lines in the Horatian Ode ' are the most striking expression. In dealing with the letters Mr. Margoliouth has very reasonably restricted his notes to textual or bibliographical matters. The text has been reproduced with admirable care: short of reading the actual script we have here Marvell's writing before us his correspondents saw it, with his variations of spelling, his punctuation, his use of capitals, abbreviations and what not. They have been printed for the most part from the original autograph. Considering that this may well be taken as the definitive edition, it seems to us rather a pity that no introduction has been bestowed on them. Some of them have a literary quality that calls for comment; the student might well have his attention drawn both to those of outstanding interest, and to દી certain modification of

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method observable between the earlier and the later. Nor would it have been amiss to bring out what may be elicited from them about Marvell's Own character and quality of mind. It seems to us not enough in this regard to say that the letters to the Hull Corporation are but substitute for the modern newspaper. Apropos of journalism it is amusing to notice how, in his frequent haste, Marvell will depart from the seventeenth century stateliness to the use of jerky sentences which presage the twentieth century. To the student of literature the thirty odd letters grouped as I miscellaneous " yield, of course, the most. Would it not have been as well to note directly in the text those letters which are here printed for the first time, and also those which depend on the earliest printed text?

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Mr. Margoliouth tells us that it is some thirteen years since he undertook this edition. We congratulate both him and those who will use it on his having brought it to completion.

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villains or angels. It is not really necessary
to whitewash Domitian in other respects be-
cause, a good point, his military exploits
have been too little appreciated. Upon
religious matters, pagan and Christian,
lines, though his touch here is not certain.
Dr. Henderson's doctrine is sound in its main
His real interest is, of course, in military
shown, he has a real flair.
history, for which, as previous works have
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the German-Raetian limes, a difficult matter
to condense effectively, is very well done and
is the best short description to date. The
Dacian Wars of Trajan are also admirably
narrated. In both these difficult and in
detail controversial matters, the notes to the
specialist literature seem to be just what is
Dr. Henderson writes in a lively
required.
and interesting way which the general
reader"
should appreciate, and his book,
adequately provided but not overloaded with
documentation, will be very useful to the
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1925 contains several things particularly well worth having. The Shakespeare Lectures were that of Mr. E. K. Chambers on what he calls the Disintegration of Shakespeare," Robertson and Mr. Dover Wilson, and Sir H. criticism of the methods and results of Mr. Granville-Barker's From Henry V to Hamlet.' The Warton Lecture of 1924 was Dr. Mackail's on Bentley's Milton,' and that of 1925 Mr. K. W. MacCullum's The Dramatic Monologue in the Victorian Period.' The Italian lectures are Signor Antonio Cippico's study of Ugo Foscolo, and Mr. G. F. Hill's Italian Portraiture of the Fifteenth Century,' with delightful illustrations. Illustrations, too, form great part of the interest of Dr. Tancred Borenius's learned discourse on English Primitives.

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

second Art lecture is Mr. Eric pictorial" is an unfortunate word to use Maclagan's The Appreciation of Sculpture.' concerning him. The selection seems to us Master Minds" dealt with all that it should be in each case, except the are Aristotle (by Mr. John Burnet) and most difficult, Byron, in which several lyrics Erasmus (by Mr. P. S. Allen). The Raleigh are omitted which we should certainly have Lectures on History were given by Mr. Wallace expected to find. 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 Correspondence of John of Salisbury'; Dr. Margoliouth'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. Holdsworth); and George Nathaniel Curzon (D. G. Hogarth).

The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth. Selected with an Introduction by J. Dover Wilson. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net). is THE sub-title to the volume before

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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 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 introduction 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 movement 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 understanding 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 that, addressing the beginner,

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THIS is one of the World's Manuals Seriesa good member. It is addressed to the general 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. 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 a 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 reThe Somerset Year Book, 1927.' We ceived 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 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 Majesty. 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 competency 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 honorary members runs only to seven names, one of which is Rudyard Kipling. The Company's motto is " Loyalty and Service," and the master mariner who is admitted into it, though he takes no oath, makes 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 building now being erected in Leadenhall St. THE return of the wild upon cultivated

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was permanently settled in the early part of the nineteenth century; the hills and valleys, stripped and diligently cultivated, maintained 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 growthhave 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.

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

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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

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