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Tue MepiavaL Mino, By Henry Osborn 
Taylor. New York: The Macmillan 
Company. Cloth. 8vo. 2 vols. Price, 
$5 net. 
It is safe to say that in The Medieval 
Mind its author, Henry Osborn Taylor, will 
open up to many new paths across the fer- 
tile fields of culture. No greater incentive 
for vital study of the past has appeared in 
the form of printed pages for several dec- 
ades than we find in Mr. Taylor’s volume. 
Especially in America have we been neg- 
lectful of cultural history, this being true 
of many of our large institutions of learn- 
ing, though the universities of Wisconsin, 
Illinois, Missouri, and Columbia University 
—perhaps one or two others—have special 
courses in the history of European culture 
now open to students. Mr. Taylor ad- 
vances pronounced views on the object of 
exact influences and channels of develop- 
ment, and it is possible that some critics 
will insist that his interpretation is too 
unswerving in its assumptions. Perhaps 
others will feel that Mr. Taylor might have 
given more space and attention to the ver- 
nacular aspects of medizval culture in his 
study of its Latin influences. Nevertheless, 
the writer’s erudition, scholarship and un- 
derstanding of developmental forces com- 
mand the respect and admiration of every- 
one, scholar, student and lay-reader alike; 
and he has succeeded in his difficult and 
self-appointed task of following through 
the Middle Ages the development of in- 
tellectual energy and the growth of emo- 
tion. 
Tue MATERIALS OF THE PAINTER’S CRAFT. 
By A. P. Laurie. ‘Philadelphiaj-ee 
Lippincott Co., 1911. Cloth crown 8vo.; 
Illustrated. 444 pp. $2.00 net. 
While many valuable and learned trea- 
tises dealing with the materials of the paint- 
er’s craft in past ages are to be found both 
in English and in foreign tongues, it has 
remained for Mr. Laurie to bring together 
in easily accessible form within a reason- 
able compass the information of this sort 
heretofore scattered through many volumes. 
The author of The Materials of the Paint- 
er’s Craft is an authority on the technique 
of painting and pigments both in ancient 
and in modern practice and this volume will 
find a hearty reception among students of 
the history of the craft of painting. 
TuHertrR Day In Court. By Percival Pol- 
lard. New York: The Neale Publish- 
ing Co. Cloth, 8vo; 486 pages. Price, 
$3.00 net. 
The recent loss to the literary world oc- 
casioned by the death of Mr. Percival Pol- 
lard a few months ago should be noted here 
in connection with Their Day in Court, 
one of his most entertaining books wherein 
the author surveys American literature, 
and European literatures incidentally, of 
the last ten years. “The case of pure liter- 
ature in America,” to quote, “is comparable 
to the case of My Lady Parvenu’s grand 
rout ; crowded and worthless. Quality is ut- 
terly sacrificed for quantity. The rout com- 
prises everybody, which to the discriminat- 
ing spells Nobody . . . Find for me, if 
you can, any tendency in our letters save the 
commercial! Show me any goal save the 
dollar! . . . It is impossible, we have 
been told, to indict a nation. The impos- 
sible, then, the indictment of all those re- 
sponsible for the fatal prosperity of letters 
among us, I will not attempt. Yet to ac- 
cuse, by chapter and verse, the two classes 
most directly responsible, this book is writ- 
ten. Those classes are: firstly, the Ladies ; 
secondly, the Critics.” 
