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NOTES AND QUERIES.

VIL MAY is, 1901.

something more than the sum of its members.? I so, ought it not to be called a person ? Now thi question, or the attempt to answer it, really in volves the formation of a complete theory as t the relations of the individual to society; i.e., i touches on one of the fundamental problems o theology, ethics, politics, philosophy, so far as the; are to affect practice. More, however, we will no say here. The pages must be read and re-read and they should attract a far wider public than th comparatively few students of scientific jurispru dence.

' WOODCUTS AND THE ILLUSTRATION OF BOOKS, in the Edinburgh Review, is by one who has made i study of modern illustration, and is by no mean satisfied with the present condition of the art whei contrasted with what it was even a short time ago He speaks of the " execrable form of draughtsman ship evoked by the exigencies of the process-block.' We fully agree with his condemnation. Such thing should be reserved for advertisements and fashion books. We are in full sympathy with most of hi criticisms. No one has received praise who die not deserve it ; but we do not by any means accep the relative positions allotted to Rossetti am Millais. Is it quite fair to say "beside Millais Rossetti was a giant " ? It should not be forgotten that we have much more of Millais's work thai we have of that of Rossetti, and consequently we encounter more that is second and third rate Sometimes, too, praise is given in the wrong place, as when 'Was it a Lie?' (which appeared in the Cornhill) is spoken of as a "superb picture." In ' The Harley Papers ' we have sound and con- scientious labour. It is painfully dull ; but this is manifestly the fault of his subject, not of the writer. Harley was never intended by nature for a poli- tician, and consequently could never throw his whole heart into the game with sufficient spirit to make his career interesting to any but his imme- diate contemporaries. Though he rose from cir- cumstances over which he had little control to a high place, his merits and shortcomings alike were those of a Government hack. As a collector of manuscripts and printed books he deserves, and will retain, our warmest regard, but in other lines we must class him with the men who have mis- taken their vocation. The paper on Mr. Leslie Stephen s ' English Utilitarians ' deserves attention especially as we fear the work is far too good and evenly balanced to be read as widely as it deserves. Ine review is one of the very best commentaries on a mode of thought which, narrow and unscientific as it was, led directly to many beneficent changes in the law, and indirectly to much of the social improve- ment of modern days. The estimate of Bentham is not a flattering one. Of the sage's perfect honesty no fair man can now have any doubt, and that hi's practical ability was great it is unreasonable to call in question but his power of abstract thought was small perhaps even less than the writer himself realizes. He was never able to dissociate ideas from the environment in which they at the moment presented themselves to his understanding The remarks on the younger Mill are just and kindly. The utilitarianism which he taught is so divergent from that of his predecessors that a careless reader who knew little of the ways of "thinkers" might read many pages, and then close the book with the impression that Mill belonged to an opposite school of thought from that of which he was fcy far

the widest- minded representative. The paper on I

Canada hardly comes within our province. We may I

say, however, that the historical portion that is, I nearly the whole is of great value. ' M. Maurice

Maeterlinck, Moralist and Artist,' will repay I

perusal ; but we wish the writer had put more I clearly the ideas he wishes to convey.

Man for May opens with a description by Mr. I Henry Balfour of ' Memorial Heads from the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum.' That these strange and primitive designs involve an effort at portraiture is established by the realistic manner in which the deformity known as hare-lip is reproduced in Figures I. and II. of the accompanying plate. Dr. Rudolf Herzog fur- nishes some curious specimens of pre-Hellenic script found in the island of Cos. Prof. Franz Cumont gives some observations on the 'Acts of St. Dasius,' which contain a recantation of views previously expressed as to the possibility in the fourth cen- tury of human sacrifice to the Roman deities. This paper is sent in by Dr. J. G. Frazer. Articles on 'Relics from Chinese Tombs' and on 'Carved Doorposts from the West of Africa ' are conspicuous in an excellent number.

WE hear with much regret of the death on the 3rd inst., at St. Petersburg, aged fifty-two, after a short illness, of Henry East Morgan, the grandson of Stephen Morgan, of St. Petersburg. H. E. M. was a regular contributor of bright and interesting notes to these columns on a variety of subjects, mainly connected with Russia, for some years. The family have been prominent members of the' British colony at St. Petersburg for the greater part of a century.

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