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In that case our thanks will be mainly due to Sir Israel Goilancz. He has already edited The Pearl," a poem on the highest level of mediaeval mysticism he has worked with entiiusiasm at the origin and development of "that metre. "The Sir Gawayne and tha Green KnjL'ht," and now Winner and Waster." are delightful things and he has done moro than anyone io moMe tuem accessible to a public with no epeeioiised knowledge of their very difficult dialect. The niediajval poem, Winner ant Waster," has just been published by Sir Israel in a very attractive edition. six hundred years old, it is atAl as topical as the morning newspaper.

It is one among many, handed down io us from the century, whose authors aTe namojess and whoso orimn is uulmvu-n. 1r. in 1 itA-n na in Kiit. 17:" mrT7 Tf. I it was an age the mind and genius of tlio inuivkiual were harmonised and almost merged into the life of the whole oommundtv, So their erpiLt.

nomq. lik fjuir oivut churches, hate a curioua sense nf di remote and impersonal. Vhay express not the ideal of one mind, hut th innumnra.Vilrt t.lii7h,ta making up that intangible thiag, th spirit of an ace. As in a caiJiedral thcra are nLoin stones and wrought, so with, a poem like Winner and Waster." To the mass of medieval literature it is like some ezquisito fragment of Gothic carving the capital of a pillar or an uncouth gargoyle strongly eze-cutod. Both are stamped with the personality of nameless craftsmen, but hoth are a small part of an ifljuitely greater "work.

Yet how often a study of a fregnicint gives no the key to the whole I Winner and Waster belongs to group of poems very much to the fourteenth, century what newspapers are to us. They are satiric in effect, if not in purpose. They express frankly the attitude of a certain olasa towards the Government of the day and existing economic evils, Sopietixnes, as in Piocrs Plowman," this frankness is embittered into a merciless deounoiatooin of corruption ia Church, Law, and State. But Winner end Waster, fl more worldly in tons, is also more genial. It is the tale of the vision 4 wandering who fell asleep under a hawthorn hedge.

Ho safes on a grecu lawn two hosts armettfcr battle one the army of Winner," ia whose ranks wave tho standards of the Pops, the Merchants, the Lawyers, and the Monks; the1 other tho army of Wostior," whjfth ia thronged with noblemen men-alarms. The Block Prince leads ah emissary from each side. They argue their case beforo King Edward III. of the berry-brown brfard," who is seated in a gorgeous naviliqn adorned "With English besanta ull bright, beaten of gold." Ths poem has, pt course, a peculiar interest now, apart u.om tne iresnnrosB 01 lis pictures and its fins irony. It deals with topics in fourteenth-century social history curiously parallel to the hot problems of our own time.

We realise thnt tho Profiteer (i.e., Winner) was as formidable a neasonags then as now. Tho country BrumblerT as much at the" ways of Government and the cost of the' war with France at the resulting heavy taxation and tho heedless extravagance' of the upper classes in food and clothing. The Profiteers are pilloried thus, to quote the translation, 1 Now are they freaks of the saw ftahios. In fancj (Qitire, With loff trailing sleeves that sweep to the ground, Tho edged with ermine about. And we hear how the Wasters let their estates gj to wrack and' ruin while tljey enjoy themselves In town.

Everywhere they squander their heritage in feasting and revelry. Edward prodigality, the incessant drain of the wars and the ravages of the Black Death, made the Economic situation loojk grave in 1351. Thero are allusions in the poem to the desperate scarcity of labour and the like demand for it; to the growing power of tho labouring classes, and their clamour for impossibly high wages. The Government of the day, with as little wisdom as most Governments but the governed are nover more wiso tried to standardise wagA andprices by the Statute of Labourers iq 1351. The result was tho Peasants' Revolt of 1381 1 Bimllar conflicts of purpose in our own time, and the hreach of sympathy between capitalist and wago-earner, hovt? led to the strikes and troubles of the years since the war.

In ordinary times "Winner and Waster" would perhaps appeal chiefly to students of cur early language and literature but it has now a vivid interest for a very much wider class of readers. Sir Israel has equipped tho book with a very excellent modernised version, and with an illuminating introduction dealing with problems of date and authorship, and with the historic background. TheVe is, then, nothing to Under the enjoyment of an ordinary reader. There is much to attract in tho picture of an age which in the gentle art of grumbling surpassed our own. LORD DUNS ANY.

Tu.es or Trans HninRpinnuss. (Fisher Unwin. 6s. net.) By Txrrd Dunsaay. The line between fancy and Imagination is sometimes hard to draw.

There have been imaginative artists who have had little or no fancy, and no Hiking for the lighter qualities which seem so romantic io the young and gallant; there have been artists, as, for instance, Gaatier or Boecklin, who are real masters of fancy but rarely show any trace of imagination. Lord Dunsany belongs, however, in his distinctive way to that rather larger school of writers who use fancy as a path to tho imaginative reality. He is not always successful. When ho invents a street off the Strand, callorl Go Bv-stroet, and puts there a little shop which has tho legend antique characters upon a mouldering bosird ticensu to sea ana jaae ear-rings, we feel ho is very merely fanciful, and in a way that leaves us cold and unmoved. There is in the latest book of his too much trifling of that kind, a facile playing with fanciful terror or fanciful phrases or fanciful pictures.

Lord Duxisany lias not worked at these sketches with the soime intensity of feeling v. vi. 1 By Appointment. Hunt a Roskellw In AlUancb with Choice Collection of Pearls TOLSTOI AS GORKY SAW HIM. Hr.Mnnsciscis or Lio NiconrrvrrcH Tolstoi.

By Maxim Gorky. (Hogarth Press. S. not.) For Tolstovana and non-Tolstovans there is peculiar interest in these fragmentary notes. Different in quality and in mental stature as they may be, both as artists and men, for the merely curious there is almost much interest to 'be got from the illumination of Gorky as of Tolstoi.

Gorky is obviously not a disciple, tut he has felt the greatness of the mini with the more conviction, it might almost i appear, beoau.se Uie messaua tint uoi t-oueJi attitude. on tho Bubioc And Tolstoi seems to havo boon content He hardly ever spoke to mo on the Bubjoct" (Tolstoi hod talked of uod), and its ser.ousii.'SS and the sud demies of it ratlier overwhelmed me. I was silent. He was sitting on the cout-b with his lege drawn up uuder him, and breaking into a triumphant littlo smile, ruid fdiiiiiii" hi3 finger at me, lie said You won't cot out oi wub by Biloiico, no. And I.

who do not believe in God. looked nl. him frvr anni rAnMii 1 Z. rr.TT u. u.to wmuii ttle timidly I looked is ad.

thought, "The man appears so, through all thes note "tho kind 01 Kussiau sod who Sits on a miwile throne under a golden lime-tree not verv majestic, hut perhaps more cunning than ail the other Gorkv returns acain and again to this liven liis name epeaka of power. In the flauntiuR ueiiory 01 me Crimea ifle was ot onco both out of place and in his place. Ho seemed a very ancient man, master of afli his surroundings a master-builder, who after centuries of absence has arrived in tho mansion built by him." His Titan stature among other men involves uvtenser preoccupations. The thought which beyond othera most often and conspicuously gnaws at hdm is tilio thought of God. At moments it seems, indeed not to bs a thought, but a violent resistance to something which he feels above him." There is violence, then, alongside of his pacificism, but contradictoriness is not folly." "Ho reminds mo of those pilgrims who all their life long, stick in hand, walk tho earth, travelling thousands of miles from one saint's relics to another, terribly homeless and alien to all men and things." This alien sense, almost Invariable attribute of greatness, roused at times in Gorky a feeling of antagonism, very like hatred.

His disproportionately overgrown individuality is a monstrous phenomenon, almost ugly, and there is In him something of Sviatogor, the bogatir, whom the earth can't hold. Yes, he is great. I am deeply convinced that, beyond all that he speaks about, there is' much that he is silent about, even in his diary." It would be hard "to match that, for pnrs illumination. The silence of the lonely giant a loneliness, which probably, no one but he has ezparlonced with suah terrifying clearness." We quote, and quote again, because nearly every line of those brief reflections or criticisms has 'its- own terrifying clearness." It is not th Tolstoi of "hio- graphers and disciples that is here displnyed. hit is the contradictory, helpless, tremendous creature in wnom Jtre was richer and more dreadful than in other men.

One is reminded of the eer of the bystanders at another tragedy" he saved others, himself ho cannot save," for Gorky's Tolstoi is unable to transcend. All his life he feared nnd hated death. The whole world looks towards him: from everywhere, living, throbbing threads stretch out to him his soul is for all and for ever. Whv should not Nature make an exception to her law. civa to one man physical Immortality He is too natural to believe in miracles, but on the other hand, he is a bogatir, and, like a young recruit, wild and headstrong from fear in face of the unknown barracke." How far these notes will satisfv th dnvnn.

those to whom Tolstoi sometimes showed jnst as much of tho barin as was needed for these serfs, is uncertain, but their peculiar value is unonestlonable. Thev do not Vi. little genius. They exalt and do honour to one wno was great in, some curious sense wide, indefinable by words." And there is somotuing in nun which made me desire to cry aloud, 'Look what a wonderful man is living on the OLD MANNERS. The Worcestek Ltiek Alius.

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Wilson has pat at the disposal of tho lover of medieval times. There are letters from Kings and Queens, from barons and bishops, from Cardinals and devout women; there ars documents dealing with travels and quarrels there is the mystery of the lost mitre, and the difficult question as to how tlio prion' is to feed its assistant bishops from Ireland there are accounts of tha election of priors and" the appointments to benefices: there arc royal requests for food for the King's troops, and the monastery's refusal to accept a royal nominee on account of his bad character. A characteristic letter is that from the Prior to the Vicar of Stanweye, demanding repayment of a debt On the sight of tiesa presents, send us without delay By tho bearer tliet halt-mark, for tlie withholding of which you iwro, bs you know, perjured. But if you will havsno rosrard 10 your plerlo to us, broken to tiie peril of your sou), we cite you, for tho first, U10 second, and tho third timo, in ncremptorv wrins by this writing, to appear beforo tho lAjru 01 v-uiin'ruury ttj tmswvr for perjury committed and other charges 10 be brought offainst you in form of law, and further to do and to receive what justice shall decide. There is no record as to the reply mode to this fierce demand so presumably the debtor sont back his half-mark.

The following testimonial to a school-boy might well have mads ths bearer of it blush We have found Robert do Henleye, clerk, ths bearer of Uaa letter, during his stay Worcester an earlier date, to be wall mannered, peaceful, quiet: in faot, a. boy of eood disposition and praiseworthy lira; so that thus, from boyhood's years, like a young offshoot from some Doautitut nower spring-in; up to nerfection, and afterwards rooted in tho gar den of delights, ths Church militant, he has produced, to complete his virtue, tho fruits inspected of him. Thero oart be, no doubt that, starting from so virtuous a beginning, iiis character will justify tho hopes wo form of him. Dr. Wilson is to be thanked heartily for this volume, and we hope it will not be the last of its kind for there still remains plenty of tho Liber Albua besides what he has translated here.

i -i viuTint il I 4 NECKLACES ROPES Selections sent on 25 Old ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY. A History op English Phuosopht. By Professor W. R. Sorley, F.B.A.

(Cambridge University Press. "Price 20b. not.) (By J. M. Robertson.) The modesty of the aim Professor Sorley's book, in view of his unquestioned competence to write a more important one, would go far to disiu-m criticism if there were any serious grounds for it.

But he has done his work so candidly and so carefully thiit even students with a different philosophio bins rnut find in it much ground lor praise and littlo for cavil. The fact that grows out of the chapters he contributed i- the Cambridge History of Enirlish i Literature," indeed, is not quite so hiU a recommendation as the publishers claim. Chapters so written naturally givo more h-ed to biography than is proportionate to a history of philosophy as such, when the bulk of the whole is narrowly restricted and when we got down to the nineteentib. century the allocation of tpnee becomes Bomownat questionable. i xt vr wr xxciirv mure and fivo for Herbert Spencer would not bo the proportions assigned in an indepen- dentlv planned history of English thought.

I Hut there is much to be Baid for Professor Sorley's plea that it seamed more impor tant to recognise the fcignifioanee of early and now almost forgotten philosophers than to give a full account of the well-known writers who have lent distinction to the philosophical literature of this and the immediately preceding generation." Ar all, the obsolete) thinking forms pert of the history of thought) and a history of philosophy is properly a different thing from a study of permanently prominent philosophic doctrines. I We thus get from Professor Sorley's book I a knowledge of a large amount of old philo-j Bophio work that ia ignored in the ordinary handbooks, and thereby reach a truer notion of the history of culture Prafeasox Soxley knows the business of philosophy alike a3 a teacher and as a thinker and though he doubtless has a primary bias he Is far too capable a student to write a merely partisan history. Where he seems at times to deviate from a judicial method ho is but exemplify ing one of the drawbacks of his basda. It 13 permissible in a literary history to write) that lxrd Brooke has "the scor'a vision." We all know what such a plixas is worth It is literature, not philosophy. Trouble ensues, however, when, oftor Lord Brooke has been thus acclaimed, Bain is summarily and without argument declared to bo committed to a comprehensive illusion- In point of faot, the very citation given from Lord Brooke Bhows Titm to have annihilated his own philosophic standing-ground and perhaps Professor Sorley counted on his readers seeing this, though one cannot bo quite sure that he did.

The result is, in any case, that ho eeoma to give the professed seer license to affirm without consistency, while the professed reasoner is convioted without trial. It is only when we remember that this Is with him ft very rare touch otStrbitrarinese, and note how has had to pack his history of English. philosophy into about 80,000 words, that we are willing to waive prott. The real test of Professor Sorley's fairness is his handling of such men aa Ixicke and Hume; and here he is entirely praiseworthy. Hume, of course, will always earn some goodwill from thinkers given to what they rather conventionally oftll the spiritual view of tho universe," inasmuch as his scepticism, partly inspired though it was by the desire to root out oil apriorism, has tho air of making tilings difficult for naturalism.

Perhaps that is why they have never compassed the not very difficult solution of his crux about causation tho solution, namely, that our assumption of causation is on oil fours with our oonccpts of phenomena, no better founded, but no worse. However that may he, Professor Sorley'3 handling of Hume is as intelligently and scrupulously sympathetic as his handling of Berkeley, whom he criticises very justly except perhaps when, in the aot of noting his litigiousuess, he calls him one of ths most perfect characters among men of letters." Tocke was surely the juster spirit; and Anthony Collins, whom tho Professor does not seem to have studied since he dismisses him, as did Pattison, on the strength of Bentley's unscrupulous and really hollow attack but who won the love of Locks by his love, of truth, was free from malice where Berkeley wns chronically swayed by it. Bentley's performance is no such victory ns Pattison and Professor Sorley have supposed, and is open to destructive counter-attack. But the Professor's study of- Locke, and indeed of nearly all the chief thinkers, is eminently fair and illuminating. Ho is perfectly frank, for instance, in his recognition of tho change of view which was latterly undergone by Adamaon, perhaps the most fully equipped all-round thinker of his time.

the recognition is the more com-mcmlahle hnuao it fallows on a panegyric of Professor James Ward) which goes tne if-nrth of rironouncinff that writer to have fif.hiaivd a nerhaps final criticism of I naturalism and agnosticism. I As a survey, tho book is almost surpris- 1 in'iv comprehensive, considering its small bulk. There is hardly one noteworthy omission. John Gay. indeed, does not receive the notice that his originality in ethics dr-cerves nr.d tlio bibliocraphv mentions only cti of his writings; while William i Heiirv.

h-'mitli gets no mention in the text, 1 mid the Hlilio-srrnriiiv overlooks his most im- ofK. A I'iseourse on r.wiics 01 wo School from Ft I's'py." which won high praise rkr, perhaps gave Spencer his cue for his formula of the unknowable. But thi'sc omissions are normal in our his- i tnries of ethics: nnd Professor Sorley on the other hand supplies welcome information 1 about thinkers whom no previous his-1 torisu had even named. As a wholo, too, his bibliography is truly valuable, and constitutes a great set-off to the compulsory brevity of the record. No less valuable in its way is tha CampaMc tivo Chronological Table," which in four parallel columns exhibits (1) the output of Kntnish works in Dhilosouhv, from Bacon to the end cf tho r.ineteenth cemtury (2) i'iei iiverarv and scientific output; fr.riicn literature and i siMcnce: i 1 1 the londine events in Kng-nnd Tho seleotion ir.adi with admirable judgment and breadth I of vi-jw.

To delete two works of Seeley's, i nnd to insert one or two bv heretics such as Charles Heimell and Winwood Reade, are about tho only nireirat-ions that the present crirle would venture upon. The compilft-i tion as a whole sets up ft wish that Professor Korlev would bring his gift of candour to bear upon a fuller survey of the matter 01 the leading philosophies, wirh all the cards on table" a procedure not yet attempted. Then should perhaps have a rp3! grapple with such self-etultifying formulas as merely phenomenal." which continue to pass current aa sound predicates, to the. paralysis of critical thought. In brief history thov ugb current oerfone.

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Ah, well, don't impudent," the gentleman said, by way of miabto remonstrenos bef orei P' Jf 'TOUr dam panctirlo," said the A more sinister anonymous character, and one who sticks to the memory, is ths man in th-rod cloak who accompanied D'Artagnan the Three Musketeers to, Armentieres on the stormy night that Milady's career of crime 'was ended. Most of the waiters in fiction have no name except that of thsir calling. Some of those left by Dickens in this condition of anonymity deserved a bettor fate. Jiho can forget the waiter in tho hotel at Yarmouth who saved Jhe voutihlul David Gopperfleld item drinking the naif pint of ale Ha was ptaple-fcoe rasa, with his hair standing upright all over hli hoad; and he stood with one arm akimbo, holding up tho glass to the with tho other bind, he looked quite friendly. "There 'was gentleman horo yestordwy, he said, a stout gentleman, by the noma or Toro-awyer perhaps you know hfanP Mn'' don't think Ho cameTn here," sajd the waiter, looking at the light through the tumbler, "ordered a class of this lo would order It I told him if.

and fall dead. It was too old for him. It oughtn't to ba drawn; tiiat's the fact." nn Mrr nrnah hocked to near of fmi melancholy accident, and said I though I hod hotter have some water. wi. uid Hw waitar.

still look- in" at' the light through the with one of his eyes shut up, "our people dpn't like things fceing ordered sod left. It onenas nt. 711 drink it-if vou like. I'm used to it, end uss is everything. I don't think hurt' mo if 1 throw head back, and take it off quiok.

Shall If Tmn nrvwwmoHn waiters of a very different type assisted at tho marriage dinner of Bella Wilfer and John Hokesmith At ureenwicn, in "Our Mutual Friend." One was "a solemn crntleman in black clothes and white cravat, who looked more like a clergyman than (As clergyman, and seemed to hay mounted a great deal higher in tho Church not to say, scaled the steeple. This dignitary, conferring in secrecy with John Rokesmith on the subject of punch and wines, bent his head as though stooping to tho papistical practice of receiving auncuxar ctTjutjsBiuu. uuwnu v1 w- intr eii Rtion. which didn't meet his views. his face became overcast and reproachful, as enjoining penance." His attendant acolyte was no less deserving cf a names Thin wm innocent Tounff waiter of a form and with weakish lees, as yet un- vRrited in tho wiles of waitarhood, and hut too Ao-jdnnhlv of a romantic temDerament, and deeply (it were not too much to add hope lessly) In lovo with some young female not aware of hia merit.

This guileless youth, ds. erring tho position of affairs, which oven his innocence could not mistake, limited his wwt-anf to languishing admiringly against the sideboard when Bell didn't want anything, and swooping at her when she did. Him, his Grace tho Archbishop perpetually obstructed, cutting him out with his eibow at the moment of success, despatching him in degrading quest of melted butter, and, when by chance ho got hold of any dish worth having, bereaving him of it, and ordering him to stand back. David Gopperfield met during his career with a large number of parsonages whose names are not recorded. In contrast with tha waiter at Yarmouth, there are the landlord and landlady of the public-house where he asked for a glass of the Genuine Stunning ale when he was employed at Murdstone and Grinby's: They served me with ths ale, though I suspect it was not tho Genuine Stunning; and the landlord's wife, opening tho little half door of tho bar, and bending down, gave me my money back, end gave me a kiss that was half admiring, and' half compassionate, but all womanly and good, I am sure.

Another of David Copperfield's acquaintances whose name I should like to know is the gentleman to whom he resigned his seat on the box of the Tendon coach There ain't no sort of 'orse I ain't bred," said the gentleman, ond no sort of dog. 'Orses and dogs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me lodging, wife and children rooding, writing, and 'rithmetio snuff, tobacker, an sleep." "That ain't a sort of man to see stttln behind a coach box, is it, though?" said William in my ear, as ho handled the reins. BaIust Trotwood'a husband, in ths aunt, in Little Dorrit," and tho Marchioness, in "The Old Curiosity Shop." Perhaps reason for the Marchioness's anonymity could have been revealed by Miss Sally Brass, We are clad to know that before the book ended she bore the name of Mrs. Richard SwiveUer.

i I cannot help regretting that Charles Reade has not told us the same of the servant maid who found Gerard sleeping in the snow, in "Tho Cloister and ths Hearth," and who offered him money from her small store to help him forward towards the Rhine. Gerard painted her portrait for her sweetheart, and sent a copy of it to Margaret In Holland, One would like also to know the name ot the landlady who was so kind to Gerard in Rome. Thackeray, too, leaves us in ignorance of Uie name of the soldier who pointed out the Pretender to Esmond, and thus enabled him to see that resemblance between Frank Caatlewood and the Prince which suggested Esmond plan for his restoration. To giro fitting names these and to many of the other nameless characters of fiction that stick in the memory, would out be a bad game to play on a pleasant Sunday afternoon- It would certainly tax the Bfaety Ot perception, of the players. AURELIA and other Poems by ROBERT NICHOLS.

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