Dr. A. Lohff's treatise will be read with interest by all students of our language, especially by those to whom Homer in the original is a perennial source of delight. The novel features of the sixth edition of Travellers' Colloquial French, by Mr. Howard Swan, are phrases for cyclists and amateur photographers. It would be no easy matter to exaggerate the practical value of this excellent little manual, which differs from all other books of the kind in containing an analysis of French sounds, as compared with English, in accordance with the recent researches of English and French phoneticians. It is to be hoped that, at no very distant date, the study of phonetics will form part of the curriculum of every secondary school, to the exclusion of some more showy, but less important, subject. It is curious to note how proverbs take a different complexion whilst passing from one country to another. This fact is of itself sufficient to prove that national characteristics lie too deep to be uprooted. For instance, a Frenchman will say, "Sleeping water is the worst"; the Italian changes this into, "Peaceful waters break down bridges"; whilst the English variant is, "Still waters run deep." In the first may be discerned the expansive nature of Molière's countrymen; in the second the Machiavellian distrust that sees a snare in every retinence; in the third, the meditative spirit, represented by Wordsworth and his school, which coexists with John Bull's brutal positivism. L'Eau profonde,2 by Paul Bourget, shows us the depths of infamy into which an ambitious and unscrupulous woman can sink when bent on humiliating another, whose worldly prosperity contrasts so cruelly with her own fallen fortunes. The cynical moral of this story is that no greater mistake can be made than to attempt to disarm hostility by kindness and generosity. The six shorter stories in this volume are all deeply saturated with melancholy. These two publications of the Statistical Bureau of Budapest3 give a most interesting account of the recent development of the Hungarian capital. The population has increased, between 1871 and 1901, from 200,176 to 717,681-a rate that has been exceeded by no place in the world except Berlin. And these inhabitants have plenty of room; for they average only 36 to the hectare, while in London, 149 are crowded in a similar space, and, in Paris, 322. No less satisfactory an advance is recorded in matters of sanitation, notably in water-supply. In the five years, 1896-1901, 2669 new houses were built, containing in all some 130,000 rooms; and many 1 Travellers' Colloquial French. By Howard Swan. London: David Nutt. 1903. 2 L'Eau profonde. Par Paul Bourget. Paris: Librairie Plon. Die Hauptstadt Budapest im Jahre 1901, Resultate der Volkszählung und Volksbeschreibung. Von Dr. Josef v. Körösy und Dr. Gustav Thirring. Die Sterblichkeit der Haupt und Residenzstadt Budapest in den Jahren 1901-1905 und deren Ursachen. Von Dr. Josef v. Körösy. Die Bauthätigkeit in Budapest in den Jahren 1896-1900. Von Dr. Josef v. Körösy. Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht. public buildings were also erected. The capital invested i latter amounted to £16,000,000 sterling. Taking for his text Voltaire's axiom, "Tous les raisonnements des hommes ne valent pas un sentiment de femme," M. Henri Doris preaches, in Amour et Science,1 a sermon on the vanity of rationalistic philosophy when confronted with the intuition of the heart. Félicien Desloges, agrégé de Sorbonne and rhetoric master at the High School of Blois, may be taken as a fair representative of a certain type of schoolmaster produced by the injudicious system of cramming to which so many young peasants are subjected by the widespread abuse of scholarships. "Je réponds hardiment qu'ils (les boursiers) sont voués, par leur education même à l'impuissance, à l'envie et conséquement à toutes les compromissions morales." Amour et Science is a powerfully written story which emphasises the moral of Paul Bourget's L'Etape. From the standpoint of the geographer, the historian, and the anthropologist, few books, issued within recent years, can vie in interest with Great Benin, its Customs, Art, and Horrors,2 by Mr. H. Ling Roth. Although the Portuguese and Dutch chroniclers of the sixteenth century, especially Dr. Barros, afford much information on the subject, yet very little was known about it at the time of its accidental destruction during the Punitive Expedition of 1897. Our ignorance was due partly to the fact that Benin was a decaying city off the great high-roads of European commerce, and partly to the obstacles which the natives placed in the way of Europeans getting there. No "little war" waged by England was ever more justified than this. The awful abominations witnessed by the British troops, when they entered Benin, were such as to shatter their nerves. "It is a misnomer to call it a city," wrote an eye-witness, "it is a charnel-house." It is thought that the custom of human crucifixions, as practised by the natives, is derived from the crucifixes introduced by the Portuguese missionaries. In religion the natives are devilworshippers, and Benin city a very powerful theocracy of fetish priests, of which the king, who is the principal object of adoration, is chief. Mr. H. Ling Roth deplores the apathy of the Government in not securing for the British Museum a far larger share of the many fine works of art discovered in the old city of Great Benin. The bulk of the bronzes were suffered to go to Germany; hence, for the sake of a few hundred pounds, the richest country in the world sacrificed treasures of incalculable ethnographical value. Many highly curious customs are described by Mr. Loth for the instruction of folk-lorists. The book is handsomely bound, and also enriched by 275 excellent illustrations. 1 Amour et Science. Par Henri Doris. Paris: Librairie Plon. 2 Great Benin, its Customs, Art, and Horrors. By H. Ling Roth. Halifax, England: F. King & Sons. 1903. The Rights of Publication in any language are reserved. INDEX. ALLAN, Andrew, The False Prophet, 141. Ansell, Evelyn, Free Trade or Federation, 500. Migration: an Example and an Opportunity, 640. Art, Contemporary Literature of, 116. Atkinson, W. A., A Recent Development in Journalism, 531. BACON, N. G., The Ethics of Wheels, 161. Bakewell, R. H., M.D., The Present Relation of the Self-Governing Colonies Battle of the Books, The, by H. W., 425. Belles Lettres, Contemporary Literature of, 109, 231, 353, 589, 712. Biography, Contemporary Literature of, 107, 352, 589, 709. Blind, Karl, Discovery of New Dante Portraits, 59. A Prehistoric Sun-Chariot in Denmark, 552. Burns, James, B.A., Maxim Gorki: a Voice from the Depths, 148. CHAMBERLAIN'S Knowledge of the Zollverein, Mr., by a Member of the Chipperfield, Stanley, The Ethics of Church Music, 466. Clergy, Want of Confidence in the, by One of Them, 462. Cobden Club, A Member of the, Mr. Chamberlain's Knowledge of the Corbet, W. J., M.R.I.A., The Irish Avatar, 117. Cosby, Dudley S. A., Home Rule and the King's Visit to Ireland, 37. Liberalism in Chaos: Is Government by Party Doomed? 375. DUVI, Save the Children; a Plea, 559. Diggs, Annie L., " Republics versus Woman"; a Review and a Rejoinder, 89. Dowman, James, Science and Sentiment in Temperance Reform, 522. Dramatic Notes, 711. EMERITUS, Headmasters and Efficiency of Schools, 180. FAITH and the New, The Old, by P. V., 448. Filipowicz, T., The Political Situation in Poland, 381. GODARD, Jno. Geo., Benevolent Despotism, 8. " Ecclesiasticism and Imperialism, 246, 357. Greenwood, George G., Ghosts and Telepathy, 271. HARVEY, W. F., Lesbia, 581. Henriques, H. S. Q., The Jew in History, 64. Hill, William K., The Essential Equality of Man and Woman, 647. VOL. 160.-No. 6. 3 с Hunt, Arthur H., The Physique of the Present and the Evolution of the IGNOTA, Justice to Womanhood, 77. JOËL, J. Edmondson, Husbands and Wives under the New Licensing Act of Johnson, F. C., Ormsby, Major H. P., Joys and Sorrows of a Penny-a- Jurisprudence, Contemporary Literature of, 103, 227, 348, 471, 585, 708. KNOTT, John, M.D., The Claims of Francis Bacon on the Homage of LEITPOLD, C. Louis, Multatuli and the "Max Havelaar,” 438. Lightbody, W. M., Taxing the Foreigner, 606. Lisle, Walter, Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister, 157. Lloyd, R. J., On the Economic Value of an International Business Language, MCILQUHAM, Harriet, Women's Suffrage in the Early Nineteenth Century, Miller, William, The Romans in Greece, 186. Moulder, Priscilla E., The General Servant Problem, 222. PHILOSOPHY, Contemporary Literature of, 100, 345, 582, 704. 113, 234, 355, 594. 103, 227, 471, 585, 708. READE, Hubert, How did Calderon know Shakespeare's Plays? 84 Rolfe, F. W., Suggestion for a Criterion of the Credibility of Certain His- SCIENCE, Contemporary Literature of, 100, 226, 469, 703. Seymour, H. Rippon-, The Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scot- Sillard, P. A., The Irish Priest as Novelist, 341. Sociology, Contemporary Literature of, 103, 227, 471, 585, 708. Swiney, Frances, The Last Prop of the Church, 298. THEOLOGY, Contemporary Literature of, 100, 345, 582, 704. Trobridge, G., The Humour of Ruskin, 415. Tyler, Edward S., Some Recent Experiments in Co-Education 313 V. P., The Old Faith and the New, 448. Vines, J. H., Physique of Scottish Children, 319. Voyages and Travels, Contemporary Literature of, 476. I. MR. MORLEY'S "LIFE OF GLADSTONE" II. TAXING THE FOREIGNER By W. M. Lightbody III. AN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT AND ITS WORK By Leonard M. Burrell IV. 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