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remarkable : when he knew it first it was a small collection of some 60,000 volumes, and he watched it increase to over 600,000. One son survives him, William L. Kiernan, who for some years served the College library in the third .generation, and is now assistant librarian of the .Massachusetts State Library.

The illustrations include the Children's 'Corner exhibit at the Leipzig Exposition.

THE October Cornh'M, with some predominance of the military element, covers yet a fairly wide range of subject. Thus Prof. Bryan contributes & paper on' The Popular Fallacy of " the Fourth Dimension," ' and next to it comes Miss Edith Sellers's most interesting and, as one may hope it will prove, suggestive account of a Shop-Girls' Restaurant at Copenhagen. This enterprise, strictly conducted on business lines, but managed both with extreme skill and with an unswerving regard to the welfare of a clientele of not far from 2,000 women and girls, was started by two women of the same class as those who use it, and with no better material resources at command. The writer of the paper does not seem to us far wrong in extolling them as among the greatest benefactresses of their kind now living. Major Greenhill Gardyne writes of his adventures on Sinai, which consisted first of buck-shooting, and secondly of an enthusiastic examination of the treasures of the convent. He has chosen to call his paper ' Shooting on Sinai,' but this part of it is inferior in every respect to the other. Mr. Edmund Vale describes charmingly a tramp through remote scenery in Japan ; and Mr. Alexis Roche gives the first of a humorous series of Irish sketches, ' Journeys with Jerry ' pretty good, we thought it, though wanting that last touch which would justify the favourite " puff " word " irresistible." Dr. Fitchett in ' One of the Fusiliers of Albuera ' (an excellent paper), and Mr. Harold Payne in ' Admiral Burney and the Death of Capt. Cook,' are working over unpublished . original matter of considerable interest. We must not omit Capt. Maxwell's ' Umedwars ' a . quite unusually pleasing sketch.

' THE WORKMANSHIP OF " MACBETH," ' of which we have the second instalment in the new Fortnightly Review, tends, we think, a little to

- throw back upon Shakespeare (from our highly self-conscious, reflective mode of working) prin- ciples which, as principles, hardly belonged to him. It strikes one with something of the same quaint incongruity as one savours in accounts of

evolution where astonishing feats of foresight . and intention are attributed to Nature. If we

may be allowed not to include definite purpose under the term " workmanship " to let it rather cover several instances of luck, the kind of luck, we allow, that befalls none but the good workman then we can agree with most of Sir Arthur Quilter - Couch's brilliant and easy dicta. There is the Abb6 Dimnet's ' How French Writers Think ' highly informing, a little unconvincing, certainly worth " taking in,' as the phrase goes. Mr. H. C. Lukach gives a study of ' Some Aspects of Islam in Turkey ' which also deserves atten- tion. Beyond these three there is no contribution save the serial story but what is directly con- cerned with the war and its problems. Mr. Arthur Waugh, writing on ' Literature and the

War,' takes an uncommonly cheerful view of the present situation and the immediate future, and we (being of a hopeful turn ourselves | see little more reason to quarrel with him on the score of likelihood than we do on the score of desir- ability.

THE October Nineteenth Century contains an instructive and original article, which takes us more effectively away from the Great War than perhaps an article on any other subject could unless it were astronomy. This is Mrs. Hash's ' The Music of India : a Classic Art.' The writer has some excellent remarks on the genesis and significance of our Western music, and its differ- ence from the music of Greece and India, and her forecast of our musical future is at any rate highly inspiriting. Miss Maynard, late Principal of Westfield College, writes pleasantly, and in some places fervently, on the progress and results of the University education of women. Mr. \V. S.Lilly relates at length the plot of M. Paul Bourget's last book, ' Le Demon de Midi,' inviting his readers to take psychology as a refreshment in some interval of leisure and inattention to the war. In the last Edinburgh Review Mr. Edmund Gosse notices that this book, which had been selling by thousands, had its sale stopped dead by the out- break of hostilities, and seems to imply that this would not be resumed. It should, however, find readers in England among those who realize and care about the psychological development which has recently been taking place, at least among a good part of the youth of France and that all the more oecause the war is likely rather to further that development than to stifle it.

The rest of the papers, most of them of the highest interest and value, are concerned with aspects of the one great subject the least directly so, though by no means the least valuable, bein$ Miss Edith 'Sellers's ' Experiments in Cheap Catering,' in which the writer shows that she has carefully studied conditions in Christiania and in Vienna, as well as in Copenhagen.

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