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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. III. No. 76. 



Mountain Chant 



Wooing of Emer 



Volsunga Saga 



Isaiali, Job, Song o£ Songs, 



Homer , 



Catullus 



Chaucer 



Marlowe 



Shakespeare 



Thomson 



Blake 



Coleridge 



Shelley 



Keats 



WordsTvorth 



Poe 



Baudelaire 



Tennyson 



Rossetti 



Swinburne 



Whitman 



Pater 



Verlaine 



Olive Schreiner 



D'Annunzio 



Predominant. 



Black, white. 

 Eed, ■white. 

 Red. 



Green, red. 

 Black, white-yellow. 

 White, yellow. 

 White, red. 

 Black, yellow. 

 Eed, white. 

 Black, green. 

 Black, white-yellow. 

 Green, white. 

 Green-blue. 

 Green, red. 

 Green, yellow. 

 Yellow, black. 

 Black, red. 

 Red, white. 

 AVhite, yellow. 

 Red, white. 

 Red, white. 

 White, yellow. 

 Red, white. 

 White, red. 

 Red, white. 



these colors. Mr. Ellis's statistics are given 

 in the above table, the number of times each 

 of the colors is used by the author in selected 

 passages being reduced to percentages. 



Mr. Ellis makes a number of acute psycho- 

 logical and literary suggestions and concludes 

 that a numerical studj' of color vision ' ' pos- 

 sesses at least two uses in the precise study of 

 literature. It is, first, an instrument for in- 

 vestigating a writer's personal psychology, by 

 defining the nature of his a3sthetic color vision. 

 "When we have ascertained a writer's color 

 formula and his colors of prediction we can 

 tell at a glance, simply and reliably, some- 

 thing about his view of the world which pages 

 of description could only tell us with uncer- 

 tainty. In the second place, it enables us to 

 take a definite step in the attainment of a sci- 

 entific aesthetic, by furnishing a means of com- 

 parative study. By its help we can trace the 

 colors of the world as mirrored in literature 

 from age to age, from country to country, and 

 in finer shades among the writers of a single 

 group. At least one broad and unexpected 

 conclusion may be gathered from the tables 

 here presented. Many foolish things have been 

 written about the ' degeneration ' of latter-day 



art. It is easier to dogmatize when you thiuk 

 that you are safe from the evidence of precise 

 tests. But here is a reasonably precise test. 

 And the evidence of this test, at all events, by 

 no means furnishes support for the theory of 

 decadence. On the contrary, it shows that the 

 decadence, if anywhere, was at the end of the 

 last century, and that our own vision of the 

 world is fairly one with that of classic times, 

 with Chaucer's and with Shakespeare's. At 

 the end of the nineteenth century we can say 

 this for the first time since Shakespeare died." 



GENERAL. 



Peof. E. D. Cope has been elected an hon- 

 orarj' member of the Academy of Sciences of 

 Belgium. 



Nature gives the following details regarding 

 the approaching celebration of Lord Kelvin's 

 jubilee as professor of natural philosophy in 

 the University of Glasgow: On the evening 

 of Monday, June 15th, at 8:30 p. m., the 

 University will give a conversazione, when 

 there will be an exhibit of Lord Kelvin's 

 inventions. On Tuesday, June 16th, ad- 

 dresses will be presented to Lord Kelvin by 

 delegates from home and foreign university 



