a slight hint as to the general trend of this suggestive chapter, but they may serve as fair examples of Prof. Prinsen's vivacious style and picturesque characterisation. It is of course hardly possible in a book like this to keep up a high standard of style throughout; there are links, transitions, merely informative passages for which a bald, matter of fact prose may be called excusable; there is, however, in parts also a certain hurry and slovenliness and such shaky or illogical sentences as the following should have been avoided :

"Hoewel verwant aan Voltaire, kan hij door de chronologie van beider werken moeielijk invloed van hem ondervonden hebben."

"In Engeland vestigden zich een 70 à 80000 Franschen. Na 1688 kwamen ze volop naar Londen, waar ze hun industrie brachten, maar ook een propaganda vormden voor de wetenschap, wijsbegeerte en literatuur van Engeland". "Plotseling is hij beroemd door de beantwoording van de vraag der Académie van Dijon: "Si le progrès des sciences et des arts a contribué a corrompre ou à épurer les moeurs." Hij antwoordt in ontkennenden zin." .... dien Richardson geheel en volkomen mist."

"Napoleon maakte den schrijver gezantschapssecretaris te Londen, later tot gezant in Valais."

On the whole, however, the style is remarkably fresh and vigorous; there may occasionally be a hurried, careless passage, there are really no tiresome parts in this big volume.

After the introduction and the preliminary history the author treats the novel up to 1740, taking Pamela as the turning-point, the dawn of a new era, and dividing the novels of the first period into three groups: the descendants from the picaresque novel, those in which the spirit of the gallant heroic tale survives and novels with a pronounced didactic, often philosophical character.

We get a great many short biographies and very clear excerpts of the principal works, but these are never merely given for their own sake, they serve as the necessary bases for exposition, criticism and comparison. The connection between the various countries is continually kept in view; notwithstanding the considerable number of novels treated there are clearly perceptible great lines in this well-composed study and many original remarks elucidate the mutual influence of the great writers, the spread and growth of their ideas and their conceptions of art.

We can warmly recommend the book to the readers of this journal, not only on account of its excellent introduction or because Prof. Prinsen, showing a certain preference for the English masters, treats their work very fully and competently, but more especially because the English novelists appear here on all sides surrounded as it were by their continental colleagues. The student of English literature is apt to confine himself to his particular domain, to compare the English authors only among themselves. As a matter of fact he can hardly be expected to make an adequate study of the other European literatures as well. And yet the importance of some knowledge of the interrelations between English and foreign literary art cannot easily be overrated. Prof. Prinsen's book which, based on extensive study and reading, gives a very readable und interesting critical account of novelwriting, and incidentally of the allied arts, in England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain, enables him to acquire this knowledge without undue demands upon his time.

In conclusion we want to give a few detached comments and remarks. Much more attention should, we think, have been paid to the cognate

pictorial arts. The very few references, to Greuze, Chardin, Hogarth and one or two others which are given, clearly show how helpful and illuminating such comparisons may often be.

If in the Introduction Shelley had to be mentioned at all - and we agree the aim and scope of it demanded this he should have been given a more prominent place. The short quotation from Prometheus, that from Brandes' Hauptströmungen and the few words accompanying them are of little or no avail.

We cannot see why a discussion of Benjamin Constant's interesting and very important Adolphe should have "transgressed the limits of this study", nor why Goethe's Wahlverwandschaften is not mentioned.

On the authority of H. Beers Prof. Prinsen states that as early as the 17th c. the word 'romantic' was used in English to express "het wilde en geweldig treffende". This is not, we think, quite correct. Logan Pearsall Smith has shown that the word had then only an unfavourable meaning: false, fictitious, impossible, ridiculous.

The date 1700 assigned to the first Danish translation of Robinson Crusoe can hardly be correct, as the original appeared in 1719. This is evidently one of the not inconsiderable number of printer's errors that have remained in the text.

The book leaves off without any definite conclusion; a few final observations or a short survey of the period treated would not have been amiss. A. G. v. K.

Brief Mention.

We have recently received from Messrs. Harrap several publications intended for school use, to which we will briefly direct attention. Under the editorship of G. B. Harrison and F. H. Pritchard they are bringing out The New Readers' Shakespeare, in which some ten plays have thus far appeared. The Editors have made a new departure by setting out the plays with elaborate directions, in the manner adopted by Shaw and Barrie. The price of each volume is 1/-, limp cloth, 1/6, cloth boards.

The same publishers have sent us A Systematic Course of Précis-writing, by J. Compton (2/6); The Lure of the Sea, edited by F. H. Lee (2/6); Goldsmith's Essays, edited by A. H. Sleight (2/6); and a history of British Drama, by Prof. Allardyce Nicol', of which we hope to insert a review before very long.

Our bibliographical collaborator, Dr. Egon Mühlbach, Librarian to the University of Leipzig, has contributed a section on 'Englische und amerikanische Sprache und Literatur' to the Jahresberichte des Literarischen Zentralblattes über die wichtigsten Neuerscheinungen des gesamten deutschen Sprachgebietes, 1924. All important publications on the subject, both books and articles, are mentioned, and many entries are provided with notes on the contents. Three of them seem to be out of place in a bibliography of 'Neuerscheinungen des gesamten deutschen Sprachgebietes'; they are an article by Max Förster in Namn og Bygd: a review by Mrs. Vechtman-Veth in the Dutch Museum; and an article by Walther Fischer in Neophilologus. The first and third would be in place in a list of contributions by German Anglicists to foreign periodicals; the second in a similar one of foreign reviews of German books. Either list would probably run into several pages! — Z.

English by Wireless.

We have received the following communication from Mr. A. Lloyd James, Lecturer in Phonetics at University College, Gower Street, London, W. C. 1.

Dear Sirs,

22-ix-1925.

This is to let you know that the British Broadcasting Company has arranged to devote one half-hour weekly to a talk on English designed to meet the needs of students in foreign countries.

The talk will be radiated from the Daventry station every Friday evening from 6.30-7 p. m., beginning on Friday Oct. 2nd.

I will talk for 15 mins. on points of English pronunciation, and there will be a short reading of modern English literature.

May I ask you, as a great favour, to bring this to the notice of readers of English Studies, and to invite them to contribute to the success of this new departure in language study by wireless.

I shall be pleased to receive suggestions from any of your readers, and to answer, in my talks or by letter, any questions they care to ask relating to the subject.

Yours faithfully,

A. LLOYD JAMES,

Lecturer in Phonetics in the University of London.

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