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DISCOVERY 



and also the boys and men who went so blithely to 

 hiy down their lives for France in the recent war. 



Many of the younger generation of French writers 

 were killed in action — Renan's grandson. Ernest 

 Psichari, author of a very beautiful study of religious 

 conversion ; Charles P<5guy, the mystic, around 

 whom rallied the young Catholics of the intellectual 

 and artistic world ; Alain Fournier, whose Grand 

 Mcaiilnes {Big Meaulnes) was awarded the Prix Gou- 

 ■court, and is now widely read in British schools ; all 

 of these were stamped by that simple earnestness, love 

 of beauty, and belief in righteousness, that seem to be 

 the watchwords of the new era in France. They are 

 gone, but others are taking their places, and if we would 

 have something of the real France, we cannot do better 

 than read the works of men hke Marcel Proust. Henri 

 Bachelin,Estaunie,Claudel, Rene Boylesve, and Georges 

 Duhamel. They share our interests and our experi- 

 ences, and it is for us they write. WTiether they arc 

 geniuses or not, time alone can show. As Marcel 

 Proust wisely remarks : "It takes us a very long time 

 to recognise, in the particular physiognomy of a new- 

 author, that brand which is labelled ' great talent,' 

 among our collection of general conceptions. Precisely 

 because it is new, we feel it does not exactly correspond 

 to what we call talent. We prefer to name it origin- 

 ality, charm, delicacy, force ; and then one day wc 

 become aware that all those qualities are — talent." 

 (Du Cote de chez Swann.) 



KE.\DING LIST 

 Adventure : 



L'Allantide (Atlantis), Pierre Benoft. (.•Vlbin-.Michcl, Paris, 



(>ft. 75.) 

 Le Lac Sali (Salt-Lake). Pierre Benoit. (.\lbin-Michel, Paris, 

 6 A. 75) 

 Pastoral : 



Nine, P^rochon. (Plon-Nourrit, Paris. 6 fr. 75.) 



Vie d'un Simple (Life of a Simple Man), Guillaumin. (Stock, 



Paris, 6 fr. 75.) 

 Le Serviteur (The Servant), Bachelin. (Flammarion, Paris, 

 5 A.) 



Childhood : 



Mon Petit Trott (My Little Trott), Lichtenberger. (Plon- 

 Nourrit. sfr. 95.) 



' Le Petit Pierre (Little Peter), Anatolc France. (Calmann 

 Uvy, 6fr. 75.) 



La Mire et L'Ettfanl (Mother and Child), Charles-Louis 

 Philippe. (Nouvelle Revue fran^aise, 5 fr. 75.) 



- Le Grand Meaulnes (Big Meat4lnes), Alain Fournier. 

 (Emilc-Paul, 6 fr. 75.) 



' Jean Christophe (vols, i and ii), Romain RoUand. (Ollen- 

 dorff, yfr.) 



' English translation published by John Lane. 



» Annotated edition for schools published by the O-xford 

 University Press. 



' John Christopher, published by William Hcinemann, trans- 

 lated by Gilbert Cannan. 



Krlicious : 



L'Empreinte (The Impress), Estaunid. (Perrin, fr. 75.) 

 L'jtpreuve du Fits (The Proving of a Son), Mayran. (Plon- 

 Nourrit, 7 fr.) 

 La Colline inspirie (The Hill of Inspiration), Barrds. (Eraitc- 



Paul, bfr. 75.) 

 Pour moi Seute (For Myself Alone). Corthis. (Albin-Michel. 



f>fr. 75) 

 La Symphonie pastorale (The Pastoral Symphony), Gide. 



(Nouvelle Revue frani;aise, 4/r.) 

 La Resurrection de la Chair (The Resurrection of the Body), 



Bordeaux. fPlon-Nouritt, y fr. 50.) 

 Special Psychology ; 



Dansons la Trompeuse (Let us Dance " La Trompeuse "). 



Escholier. (Grasset, ^ fr. 75.) 

 Confession de Minuit (Midnight Confession), Duhamel. 



(Mercure. f> fr.) 

 Solitudes (Solitude), Estauni6. (Perrin, 6/r.) 

 Du C6ti de chez Swann (Towards Swann's House), Proust. 



(Nouvelle Revue £ran9aise, sfr.) 



Reviews of Books 



Zoology for Medical Students. By J. Gr.vil\m Kerr. 

 485 PP- (Macmillan & Co., 1921, 25s.) 



Professor Kerr has added another to the long list of 

 zoological textbooks. In spite of their number, it cer- 

 tainly cannot be said that tliere is no room for an addition 

 to the list ; probably most of those engaged in teaching 

 elementary zoology find it difficult to recommend any 

 book that seems adequate. But Professor Kerr's work 

 cannot be judged solely as an attempt to produce a book 

 that should supply a general want inasmuch as it is written 

 with a particular sj-Uabus in view — namely, that of 

 Glasgow University. And this syllabus must be a 

 remarkable one if " in a period of ten weeks " a student 

 is supposed to cover the ground gone over in this book. 

 There are nearly 500 pages of almost pure morphology, 

 touching upon practically all the groups of the animal 

 kingdom, while the illustrations are not very numerous. 

 It may be remarked at once that the illustrations given 

 are excellent. 



The existence of this type of syllabus is not unknown 

 in England, and, leaving aside for the moment the question 

 as to how far this book is adequate for the syllabus, it 

 may be suggested that this state of things is a misfortune 

 for Zoology. Morphology is but one aspect of Zoology ; 

 there is the huge field of experimental zoology ; there is 

 ecology ; there is the study of variation, inheritance, 

 and evolution, even if physiology is altogether excluded. 

 Surely it may be said that an elementary zoological 

 course should deal with the elements of branches of 

 Zoology other than the purely morphological. They 

 can be so taught as to afford as good an intellectual 

 discipline as morphology' affords, and, further, knowledge 

 of them is as essential to a medical student as is Mor- 

 phology. The fact is that the teaching of elementary 

 Zoology requires overhauling in our universities. 



If, however, we ask how far Professor Kerr has sue- 



