November 6, 1915. 
L A'N D AND WATER 
BOOKS THAT EXCEL. 
" The Queen's Net." By Harold Be^bie. . (Hodder and Stoughton.) 
Jlr. liegbie's book is concerned with the characiers and 
lives of the people whom the Queen's " Work for Women " 
Fund is helping, and those who know Broken Earthenware 
will understand that in the hands of this author such lives can 
be made vitally interesting and real, as far as the book is 
concerned. The pathos and even tragedy of life on ten shillings 
a week, the irmate nobility that characterises so many poor 
homes and less than homes, the tremendous value of the work 
tliat is being done by this Fund — all these are expressed in 
the pages of the book, together with much beside that is of 
intense human interest. 
The fact that all profits from the sale of the book are to 
be devoted to the Fund makes it a book to buy ; its sincerity 
and its intense humanity make it a book to read. The author 
has chosen his stories with a view to their dramatic values 
and their variety in human personality, and in them he ex- 
presses the pathos, the humour, the kindness and heroism of 
London's underside. So well has he accomplished this that 
the success of the book is a foregone conclusion, and we recom- 
mend it unreservedlv. 
" The Honeysuckle." 
3s. 6d. net. 
By Gabriel D'Annuncio. (Helnemann.) 
Set in the form of a three-act tragedy, and limited to 
three scenes, this story bears comparison with a minor melody 
played on the E string of a violin. The bare descriptions of 
the scenery, at the opening of each act, and then the con- 
tinuing dialogue on the one theme, give an effort of a melody 
—always in the minor — that has not been harmonised, a 
work of simple notes, vividly and tragically intense. 
The story is simply that of Aude, who realised in her 
stepfather her father's murderer, and. of the completion of 
her vengeance and self-sacrifice. It is the work of a genius 
— of a Latin, impetuous genius, flinging forth that which is 
in him without restraint. Such is the effect, whatever may 
have been the craftsman's method, and the result - is un- 
English, novel, and irresistibly sincere. The laboured epi- 
gram and wrought phrase are conspicuous by their ab"sence ; 
the prose of the translation has not marred the poetic thought 
of the original. Here is a very welcome addition to our 
library of translated works. 
" Form and Colour." By L. March Phillips. 
7s. 6d. net. 
(Duckworth and Co.) 
Taking the west as form and the east as colour, the author 
shows in this work the part Christianity has played in recon- 
ciling one with the other,.and in blending them into a more 
accurate conception of life. " Form," as the word is used in 
this book, is synonymous with intellectual progress, with 
mental and practical development, with the material outlook 
of western civilisation ; " colour " is synonymous with 
emotion, with the negation of material things and the entirely 
spiritual development of the east ; Christianity, bringing 
emotion to the hard and practical development of the Greek 
ideals, brings about the development of the spiritual side of 
humanity through the material, rather than by contemplative 
negation of the practical side. This is the author's main 
thesis. 
But the work does not end with that. It is a minute and 
extremely interesting study of western and eastern archi- 
tecture, which is used in support o' the views here expounded ; 
it is a summary of art — and there are few criticisms of art 
that are more interesting than the author's comparisons of 
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 
AND AFTER. 
NOVEMBER. 
True National Service By A. j;*I180!l ROBBRTS 
A French View of Anglo-French Relations. By ii?NRT D. DAVmY 
The Teaching of Patriotism. 
liv the Riglit Hoo. the Earl of CROMER, CM., G.C.B. 
The Criiis in the Balkans: 
(1) The SlratcRlcal Significance ol Serbia. By Dr. NiKO Zot*nic 
(2) Germany's Latest Adventure. Bv JAMES W. OZA.NNS 
(3) A Postscript. By Sir ALFRED SHiinpp, K.C.M.G., C.B. 
Tho Real Austria -and her Relations with Germany. 
By the Oountefs Zaxardi Lasdi 
General Smuts: a Personal impression By Roderick Jones 
Monopoly In Religion liy tlic- Riglit Rev. the Lor* Bisho|> of Carlisle 
When the Dark Hosts are Vanquished, Bv .\. P. Sinnett 
The Land Settlement ol Ex-Service Men. By Captain Charles Haihlrst MP 
Government Measures on War Distress. By tlie Bight Hon.HfRCKRT StMliEi,' 
M.l'. tPontiiiaslrr-ai-ncial and the late Pretident of the Local Government 
Hoard). 
inhertted Variation In Animals. By Prince Kropotkin 
The Peasant Songs of Russia. By C. Haqbero Wright 
Under Four Editors. By H M Walbrook 
The Medical W oman : her Training, her Difficulties, and her Sphere of Uss- 
fulness. , ^ ^ _, ^ ^ „ By Dr. M,\:t? Scharlier 
THe Care of Wounded— Then and Now. Bv Miss S. Macnalghtan 
Japanese Policy in China. By J O P BLAsi) 
The Powers that Be. By Captain Cehl 'batti'nb 
London : Spom'swoode & Co., Ltd.-,>5 .NewSti^t SttuBre. 
the Florentine and Venetian schools ; yet he does not wander 
in byways, but every criticism that is made is a part of his 
whole task, which is to show the duality of the world, the 
intellectual and emotional sides of hfe, and the solution of hfe 
in the reconcihation of these two. The completion of this 
reconciliation forms " the very essence of the present and 
future purposes of art.'" 
It may be that the " art for art's sake " school will quarrel 
with many of the conclusions arrived at in this book, in which 
the fusion of spiritualism and realism is recognised as the 
underlying problem of many perplexities. However this 
may be, the book is one that will make for progress, not only 
in art, but in life itself. It is sincere and scholarly, a land- 
mark in criticism, and a work of exceptional interest. 
Mr. S. P. B. Mais, who is English Master of the Army 
Class at Sherborne School, has written " An'Enghsh Course 
for Army Candidates." It is designed to meet the ever- 
increasing demand for a highly specialized treatment of the 
subject as required by the Army Council. Messrs. Sidgwick 
and Jackson arc the publishers. 
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