written, 'the vision of all this bloodiness is less terrible than that vision of the sheep triumphing, so dear to us moderns?'

The book is essentially stimulating; one feels that Goethe's words on Tieck's Dramaturgische Blätter are no less applicable to the earlier Kommentar: 'Gar mannigfaltige Betrachtungen erregte mir dies merkwürdige Büchelchen.' While the editors' work is not faultless the first volume of their new Neudrucke has a real value.

OXFORD.

M. MONTGOMERY.

MINOR NOTICES.

Professor G. McLean Harper of Princeton is known as the author of the Life of Wordsworth. In John Morley and other essays (London, H. Milford, 1920, 6s. 6d.), writing an easy and graceful English, in a tone of unaffected sincerity, he shows his thoughtful interest in many sides of life and literature. His own view of life is revealed in his very sympathetic essay on John Morley, written in 1911: but he is so far from being a narrow agnostic that he devotes one essay to an admiring study of a forgotten Christian mystic of the 18th century, David Brainerd. He writes finely of the austere sonnets of Michael Angelo: and with discriminating enthusiasm of the Comédie Humaine, which he has read from end to end. He introduces us to a new critic of marked individuality, W. C. Brownell: and he makes a further contribution to our knowledge of Wordsworth in two notable essays, one on Wordsworth's Love Poetry, the other on his life at Blois. Professor Harper in a visit to Blois read through the manuscript minutes of the Blois revolutionary society, 'Les amis de la constitution,' and found a minute of 3 Feb. 1792 in which permission was given to two Englishmen to attend the meetings of the society-one of them, with little doubt, being Wordsworth-and other minutes relating to the part played by Wordsworth's friend, Beaupuy. G. C. M. S.

Professor Henry A. Beers' Four Americans (New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press; London, H. Milford, 1920, 4s. 6d.) consists of four slight but pleasantly written essays on Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman. The treatment of the two former is something fuller than that of Emerson, who only appears as one figure in the society of Concord, and of Whitman who only receives a 'Wordlet' of five small pages, but in no case does the critic allow himself to be shaken from an attitude of rather cool detachment. Those among us whose view of life's values has been profoundly affected by Whitman will rub their eyes at being told that 'his poetry though animal to a degree is not unhuman.' But after this generous concession, the advocatus diaboli proceeds:

'Where was his perfect poem, his gem of flawless workmanship?' 'Was he the great poet of America, or even a great poet at all?' 'Our really democratic writers have been such as Mark Twain and James Whitcomb Riley.'

'I do not stand in terror of any critics, however authoritative; remembering how even the great Goethe was taken in by Macpherson's "Ossian.'

So if Professor Beers had only been a Goethe, he would probably have felt Whitman's sweep of soul and his sheer power as an artist. As it is, he cannot be 'taken in.'

The 'Wordlet' is provocative: the other essays contain much that will be interesting, at least to English readers. The qualities of Hawthorne are delicately discriminated: and the society of Concord is pictured once more. Professor Beers even assents to the opinion that the one of the Concord authors who will live longest is not Emerson, but Thoreau. G. C. M. S.

Bacon tells us that he found in his own nature a special adaptation for the contemplation of truth. 'For I had a mind at once versatile enough for the recognition of similitudes, and at the same time sufficiently steady and concentrated for the observation of subtle shades of difference.' Professor L. N. Broughton, author of The Theocritean Element in the Works of William Wordsworth (Halle, Max Niemeyer, 1920, M. 18), has hardly this double equipment. His essay, while laboriously showing points of resemblance between the two poets, shows little sense of the differences between them, and seems to me to add very little to our knowledge of either. G. C. M. S.

We have received the third volume of Studi danteschi edited by Michele Barbi (Florence, Sansoni. 1921. Lire 12,50). Under Il bacio di Ginevra e il bacio di Paolo, V. Crescini investigates, with illustrations drawn from both romantic and feudal sources, the apparent discrepancy between the scene in the Lancelot and Dante's famous lines in the fifth canto of the Inferno. Pio Rajna, in Il casato di Dante, discusses the history and correct spelling of the surname 'Alighieri.' Michele Barbi (L'ufficio di Dante per i lavori di via S. Procolo) places in its right perspective that curious episode in the life of the poet when, in the spring of 1301, he appears as officialis et superestans, for the straightening out of a Florentine street. The article is supplemented by an interesting appendix of documents. Among the Chiose e note varie are notes by Vandelli, Barbi, and Rajna illustrating readings adopted in the sexcentenary critical edition of the Opere; all, we think, convincing. Enrico Bianchi leaves us unsatisfied in an attempted defence of the theory that refers the 'disdegno di Guido' to Beatrice, but gives a suggestive interpretation of the 'cerchie eterne' of Inf. XVIII, 72. In addition there are critical notices of recent publications on the question of the Fiore and the Garisenda sonnet, and some useful bibliographical matter.

E. G. G.

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CORRIGENDUM. Vol. XVI, p. 271, line 5: Delete the sentence Evelyn describes, etc.,' for which the writer desires to express his regret.

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