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and refutation, of a theory of Dr. Theophilo Braga's which would make a Hebrew version of Amadis, of which two complete copies are known to be an earlier and a better representative of the original Portuguese than the Spanish version of Montalvo. Mr. Purser's ' Palmerin of England ' has left nothing for any subsequent student to do in the matter of settling the authorship. Dr. Thomas gives a good outline jof the reasons which fix it upon Francisco de Moraes, and demolish the structure it has been attempted to raise upon the acrostic of Luis Hurtado. We have nothing but praise for Dr. Thomas's careful studies of ' Tirant lo Blanch,' ' El Cavallero Cifar ' and other in- dependent romances, and for his pages on the less important members of the Amadis and Palmerin series. The chapters, however, which we would chiefly recommend to the student's attention are those on the extension of the romances to countries other than Spain and Portugal. They make a real and considerable contribution to our knowledge of the subject of the romances on what is, after all, its most im- portant side, their relation, that is, to European literature as a whole. Details with regard to publication, versions and literary allusions have "been searched out with an industry which has often been rewarded by the discovery, or re-discovery, of curious and interesting particulars. The larger questions are not only most carefully and satis- factorily discussed but are ([abundantly and happily illustrated. The chapter on ' The New Chivalresque Romances in England ' is especially good. The Quarterly Reviciv No. 464. July. (John Murray, Is. QcL) WE are informed by an inserted label that con- tinued increases in cost of production have made it necessary to raise the price of The Quarterly to Is. Qd. per i^sue, beginning with the one before us. This number should certainly go a good way towards reconciling readers to the new demand. It has the merit of unusual variety in the topics considered, and of freshness of treatment in those cases where these topics are not new. Lord Ernie cm the ' Golden Ass ' ; Mrs. Wharton on Henry James ; and Mrs- Woods on Mrs. Humphry Ward do not add much to what we knew before, but they severally cast their light upon their subject discreetly, and, having much faith in it themselves, give it life in the spectator's eyes. Mrs, Woods speaks of " the real Arnold, not the clever gargoyle recently presented to the public under that label. ' We agree with the protest and even with the natural irritation, implied in it, but we would submit that, to be effective, a gibe must correspond to the thing gibed at and " gargoyle " is surely not happily chosen to describe the quality of the quasi -caricature to which she refers. ' The Place of Dido in History ' seems to us not exactly what Prof. Conway is talking about ; but he has given us a beautiful and critical study of Virgil's mind and intention and knowledge of the world as seen in the Dido of the ' Aeneid.' Mrs. Strong's ' Greek Portraits in the British Museum ' is an essay of a kind that, to our thinking, might most advantageously be multiplied. Lord Esher's discussion of Mr. Buckle's recently published volumes completing the ' Life ' of Disraeli is not only, as might be expected, interesting and competent, but, as discussions of Disraeli too seldom are, pitched and sustained in a " possible " key. The shadow of Sidonia is reduced to bearable dimensions. Mr. Cecil Headlam has a good paper on the Censorship of the Press ; and Mr. Bertram Clayton gives us some good remarks on the Cinema. The remaining papers are Miss Oakeley's ' Sir Alfred Lyall and Indian Problems ' ; Mr. R. H. Murray's ' The Idea of Progress ' (these two are suggestive taken together) ; Mr. Harold Russell's ' Parasitic Flies ' ; Mr. Maretfs ' Primi- tive Relationships ' (not likely to be missed by the anthropologist) ; Prof. Pollard's ' The Navy in the War ' (an able review of Sir Julian Corbett's work) and Dr. Josef Redlich's ' Problem of the Austrian Republic.' WE are glad to learn that the series of ' Essays and Studies written by the members of the English Association,' published by the Oxford University Press annually from 1910 to 1914 has been resumed, It is hoped shortly to publish a sixth volume, collected (as was the first volume) by Prof. A. C. Bradley. This will include papers by Dr. Henry Bradley on the ' Caedmonian ' Genesis, and by Prof. Wyld on Dialects. 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