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more than any man here. " . . . " Yea, forsooth, 

 good master (quoth this old man), for I am well 

 nigh a hundred years old. . . . [and] forsooth, sir, 

 (quoth he), I am an old man; I think that the 

 Tenterton-steeple is the Cause of the Goodwin 

 Sands. For I am an old man, sir, (quoth he), and 

 I may remember the building of the Tenterton- 

 steeple, and I may remember when there was no 

 steeple at all there. And before that Tenterton- 

 steeple was in building, there was no manner of 

 speaking of any flats or sands that stopped the 

 haven, and therefore I think that the Tenterton- 

 steeple is the cause of the destroying and decay 

 of Sandwich haven. ' ' And so to my purpose, is 

 preaching God's word the cause of rebellion, as 

 the Tenterton-steeple was cause that Sandwich 

 haven was decayed. 



Maximilian Beaam 

 Hughes High School, 

 Cincinnati 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 

 Roger Bacon. Essays contributed by various 

 writers on the occasion of the commemora- 

 tion of the seventh centenary of his birth. 

 Collected and edited by A. G. Little. Ox- 

 ford University Press, Oxford. 1914. Pp. 

 viii -f 426. 



American universities and American schol- 

 ars are fortunate in the undisputed right to 

 celebrate the anniversaries of any of the great 

 teachers that the world has known. Oxford 

 has the first claim to commemorate the name 

 and fame of Eoger Bacon, for there the 

 " learned doctor " spent many years, both as 

 teacher and student. The committee on the 

 commemoration of the seventh centenary of 

 Roger Bacon's birth has erected a statue of 

 Eoger Bacon, by Mr. Hope Pinker, in the 

 University Museum at Oxford, has issued the 

 volume of memorial essays under discussion, 

 and has raised funds for the publication of 

 certain unpublished works of the great Fran- 

 ciscan. In America Columbia University has 

 celebrated this anniversary with appropriate 

 exercises, including a pageant; at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan the Eesearch Club devoted 

 its annual memorial meeting to public exer- 

 cises on Eoger Bacon, with papers by Pro- 



fessors Dow, Lloyd, Guthe and Tatlock, dis- 

 cussing the life and times, the philosophy, the 

 scientific activity and the relation to magic 

 and astrology of Eoger Bacon. The Open 

 Court Magazine dedicated the issue of Au- 

 gust, 1914, entirely to Bacon, and foreign 

 journals, such as the Revue des deux Monds, 

 have taken this time to discuss the contri- 

 butions to various fields made by Bacon. 



Simply the titles of the essays in the pres- 

 ent volume, and the list of contributors, pay 

 such a high tribute to the intellectual activity 

 of Eoger Bacon that it seems desirable to pre- 

 sent the list of contents : 



I. Introduction: On Eoger Bacon's Life and 

 Works. By A. G. Little, M.A., Lecturer 

 in Paleography in the University of Man- 

 chester. 

 II. Der Einfluss des Robert Grosseteste auf die 

 wissenschaftliche Eiehtung des Roger 

 Bacon. Von Universitatsprofessor Dr. 

 Ludwig Baur in Tubingen. 

 III. La Place de Roger Baeon parmi les Philo- 

 sophes du xiii" sifeele. Par Francois Pica- 

 vet, Secretaire du College de France, Di- 

 recteur 4 I'Ecole pratique des Hautes- 



Etudes. 

 IV. Roger Baeon and the Latin Vulgate. By 

 His Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal 

 Gasquet, D.D., O.S.B., President of the 

 International Commission for the Revision 

 of the Vulgate. 

 V. Roger Bacon and Philology. By S. A. 

 Hirseh, Ph.D. 

 VI. The Place of Roger Bacon in the History 

 of Mathematics. By David Eugene 

 Smith, Professor of Mathematics, Teach- 

 ers College, Columbia University. 

 VII. Eoger Bacon und seine Verdienste um die 

 Optik. Von Geheimer Hofrat Professor 

 Dr. Eilhard Wiedemann in Erlangen. 

 VIII. Roger Bacons Lehre von der sinnlichen 

 Spezies und vom Sehvorgange. Von Dr. 

 Sebastian Vogl in Passau. 

 IX. Roger Bacons Art des wissenschaftlichen 

 Arbeitens, dargestellt nach seiner Sehrift 

 "De Speculis. " Von Dr. J. Wiirschmidt 

 in Erlangen. 

 X. Eoger Bacon et I'Horreur du Vide. Par 

 Pierre Duhem, Membre de I'Institut de 

 France, Professeur a 1 'University de Bor- 

 deaux. 



