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STUDIES OF ENGLISH POETS. By J. W. MACKAIL. Longmans, Green. 10s. 6d. net.

Ten studies of English poets are contained in this new volume by Professor Mackail. The poets considered are Shakespeare; then Pope, Thomson, Young and Collins as representing the poetical movement of the earlier 18th century; three Victorians-Tennyson, Morris and Swinburne; and Fanshawe, as a typical figure of the transitional period of the 17th century. To these the author has added a brief review of the surroundings in which Keats wrote " Endymion."

THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM PLATO TO THE PRESENT. By R. H. MURRAY., Litt.D. Cambridge: Heffer. 12s. 6d. net.

The author analyses the main conceptions of the political philosophies of the past. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, he passes on to St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Calvin, Montesquieu and Rousseau, Burke, the Utilitarians, down to recent political theories such as Syndicalism and Bolshevism. There is also a chapter on American political theories. In handy form the book covers much ground. BEOWULF, Translated into Modern English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes, by ARCHIBALD STRONG, Jury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide. With a Foreword by R. W. CHAMBERS, Quain Professor of English in University College, London. Constable. 125. net.

Sir Archibald Strong has produced an attractive version in modern English verse of the great Anglo-Saxon epic. The value of this work is increased by the author's authoritative introduction and by Professor Chambers' interesting foreword on "Beowulf and the Heroic Age," in itself an essay of value to all students of English literature. LANFRANC: A Study of his Life, Work, and Writing. By A. S.

MACDONALD, M.A., Oxford University Press. 12s. 6d. net. Mr. Macdonald was encouraged to undertake this biography of Lanfranc because of the lack of any "Life" in English, and the fact that in French there are only two short studies, those by M. de Crozals and the Abbé Longuemare, which are deficient in their treatment of Lanfranc's English pontificate. The book is a careful study not only of Lanfranc himself, but of the religious controversies of the time. An account is given of Lanfranc's quarrels with the undue claims of the English crown, and particularly of his disputes in his later years with William Rufus ; also of his differences with the Pope, who accused him of ignoring the papal authority once he had achieved his English archbishopric.

TAXATION IN AUSTRALIA. BY STEPHEN MILLS, C.M.G. Macmillan. 12s. net.

Mr. Mills here provides a comprehensive examination of the origins growth and forms of taxation in the different States, and finally in the Commonwealth of Australia.

In the course of his book he examines the development of the constitution, which was responsible for the alteration in certain forms of taxes, and he concludes with a review of the present position in relation to the War Debt. He finds that on the whole the Australian community is carrying its tax burdens with a remarkable resilience and courage. The book is not intended as a criticism of fiscal policies, but merely as a record, and it is indeed an interesting record, showing, as it does, the intimate connection between the forms of taxation evolved and the particular circumstances and industries of each State of the Commonwealth.

THE ENGLISH BRASS AND COPPER INDUSTRIES TO 1800. By HENRY HAMILTON, M.A., D.Litt. With an Introduction by Sir WILLIAM ASHLEY. Longmans, Green. 18s, net. The history of the English brass and copper industries is, in effect, as Sir William Ashley remarks in his introduction, a contribution to the history of Birmingham. The book opens with the introduction into England of the copper and brass industries by foreign enterprise, assisted by the policy of Queen Elizabeth's government under Burleigh. The later chapters deal with the methods by which Birmingham was able to overcome other competitors, and the author adds to English economic history by his acute and detailed analysis of the forces at work behind the intricate negotiations.

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By EMILE LEGOUIS

and LOUIS CAZAMIAN. In Two Volumes. Volume I. The
Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660) by EMILE
LEGOUIS. Translated from the French by HELEN DOUGLAS
IRVINE. Dent. 10s. 6d. net.

This is the first volume of the English translation of a history of English Literature originally written by two professors at the University of Paris for French students. The French edition received such favourable notice in England, however, that it became apparent that there was space for an English translation. In their introduction the authors say that, while they are conscious that they cannot have the innate love of English literature of the native, they feel that perhaps the detachment of those who approach a literature first as men, with no prejudices of childhood to distort their judgment, may counterbalance this lack. The book is, indeed, a monument to French thoroughness in scholarship, and in its English translation a serious rival, in very compact form, to the "Cambridge History."

No. 497 will be published in July, 1926.

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VOLUME 243

January, 1926-April, 1926

Titles of Articles are printed in heavy type

Abd el Krim, 92
Accountancy, Public, 1-16

Addison, Dr. C.-housing policy, 310
Admiralty Committee on humane
slaughtering of animals, 293, 300
Africa:-

Arab nationalism, 19

Colour question, 23; the Ethiopian
movement, 27; treatment of Brit-
ish Indians, 27

Africa, North-France in North Africa,
81-101

Africa, South :-

Colour question, 24 et seq.; labour
and franchise restrictions on colour-
ed peoples, 25

Alexander I. of Russia, 50-65
Algeria-French administration and
policy, 81, 95

Algiers centenary of occupation of, 82
Ali brothers, the, 225 et seq.
Allier, Raoul, La Cabale des Dévots; Une

Société Secrète au XVII Siecle, 321
Anderson, A. O., Early Sources of
Scottish History, 360
Anglo-Catholic movement, 177
Animals, The Slaughter of, 293-303;
reports in favour of use of humane
killer, 294; traditional and humane
methods compared, 295
Apostolic succession, doctrine of, 179
Apollonius, the dioiketes, 125, 136
Arab nationalism, 19; failure of
agitators in French Morocco, 90 et seq.
Arakcheyev, Count, 63

Argenson, Le Comte Rene de Voyer d,'
Annales de la Compagnie du Très-Saint
Sacrement, 321
Argentine-financing of wheat crops,

288
Army :-

Expenditure-report of committee on
administration and accounting, 1-
16; control by regulation, 5; the
reforms of 1920, 4; decision to
revert to old system of accounting,
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411

Bagehot, Walter, quoted, 366

Banerjea, Sir Surendranath, A Nation in
the Making, 200
Banking, 398

Baptism-Church doctrine regarding,
183

Bardo, treaty of, 98

Barker, W. R., Local Government
Problems, 188-198

Beaconsfield, Lord (Disraeli)-Queen
Victoria and, 371 et seq.

Beauchet-Filleau, R. P. Dom., Annales
de la Compagnie du Très, Saint
Sacrament, 321
Belgium-The Flemish question: The

"Great Netherlands" Idea, 240-252
Bell, Mr. H. Idris, A Greek Adventurer
in Egypt, 123-138

Belloc, Mr. Hilaire-controversy with
Mr. H. J. Randall over review of Mr.
Belloc's history, 205-208
Benedictines-Annales de la Compagnie
du Très Saint Sacrement, 321
Bethune-Baker, Rev. Dr. J. F., Evolu-
tion and a New Theology, 158-173
Bevan, Edwyn, Idolatry, 253-272
Bible-Catholic doctrine of authority,
181

Biology-modern ideas on theory of
evolution, 163

Bismarck, Prince, 379
Blackett, Sir Basil, 233
Blair, Dr. W. Reid, quoted, 299

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