The new classified re-issue in twelve volumes of Mr. Arber's "English Gar ner" is to be completed by the publi. cation of two volumes containing fifteen collections of Elizabethan Sonnets. Mr. Sidney Lee, in his introduction to the volume, which embodies a large amount of original research, deals with the dependence of the Elizabethan sonnet on foreign examples which he touched on in his "Life of Shakespeare." He shows that a mass of Elizabethan sonnets hitherto regarded as original are literal translations from the French and Italian. Sir Edwin Arnold, whose recent death has removed a well-known figure from London journalism and literature kept up an unfailing courage through his last years, which were full of physical affliction. Not long before his death he wrote: "My condition would be a sad one without patience and resignation. I am now totally blind and able to work only with assistance; but I never despair, but go on with my work thanking Heaven for my unimpaired powers." Up to a few days before his death he was writing upon the Japanese-Russian war, and his intimate knowledge of Japanese affairs enabled him to illuminate the present situation. Carlyle's contempt for autograph hunters found expression in an autograph recently sold in London which ran thus: "Here is the autograph. May it do you far more good than I expect. T. Carlyle." Another document disposed of at the same sale showed the anger which Browning felt with Gladstone after the introduction of the Irish Home Rule bill: "This week," wrote the poet, in July, 1887, "I have twice excused myself from dinners because Gladstone was to be present. How, years ago, I used to like the notion that so many of my friends were in the habit of asking me to meet him, and now the meeting handshake would be too painful. 'Oh, world! where all things change and nought abides!" " To judge from the following paragraph, which appears in The Academy, it would seem that certain newspaper tendencies which are deplored in the United States are hardly less conspicuous in England: Will the present halfpenny papers affect the prices of those journals which are still fixed at one penny? Will "The Standard" and "The Daily Telegraph," for example, ever announce a reduction of price? Also, when will competition cease? Will a farthing daily be the next move? Will the time come when readers will be paid to take in a daily paper the proprietors of which will reap their harvest solely from the advertising columns? Seriously, does this keen competition tend toward the dignity of journalism? We were wont as a nation to be proud that our newspapers were not as other nations' are, but soon we may find that comparisons will be odious. Startling headlines and "written up" news are not the be-all and end-all of journalism. Newspapers, too, often have a disastrous influence in diplo macy. IV. The Near East. By the RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE, M. P. XIX. Words That Go to the Bad... "The Deleterious Effect of Americanization upon Woman." By THE BEST THOUGHT OF THE CHURCH "The Church Eclectic" The ONLY MONTHLY MAGAZINE of the PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH The REV. ARTHUR LOWNDES, D.D., LL.D., Editor TWO DOLLARS A YEAR Subscriptions commence at any time Specimen Copies sent, post free, for Ten Cents OFFICES: 92 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N. Y. EDWIN S. GORHAM, PUBLISHER, 285 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK, N. Y. The Hand-book to the Protestant Episcopal Church The American Church Almanac and Year-Book EDITED BY NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Analytical Index for Volumes 1-25 Inclusive The EDUCATIONAL REVIEW completed its twenty-fifth volume in May 1903. A complete analytical index and table of contents to the entire twenty-five volumes is in course of preparation, and will be ready for distribution to subscribers within a few weeks. This index will be one of the most useful and comprehensive guides to the discussion of current educational topics yet made available. Orders for copies of the analytical index should be forwarded as promptly as possible, accompanied by remittance to cover the cost, which has been fixed at $2.00. A very few complete sets of the EDUCATIONAL REVIEW may still be obtained unbound at a cost of $85.00. $3.00 (14s. 6d.) a year 35 cents (1s. 8d.) a copy Ten numbers, none being issued for July and August Trial subscription (for new subscribers only), Three Months, Fifty Cents. Educational Review, Columbia University, N. Y. |