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Collected Essays, Papers, etc., of Robert Bridges, V: George Darley by Robert Bridges The Review of English Studies, Vol. 8, No. 31 (Jul., 1932), p. 371 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/508627 . Accessed: 17/12/2014 13:36 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Oxford University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Review of English Studies. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 128.235.251.160 on Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:36:19 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Collected Essays, Papers, etc., of Robert Bridges, V: George Darley by Robert BridgesThe Review of English Studies, Vol. 8, No. 31 (Jul., 1932), p. 371Published by: Oxford University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/508627 .

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Page 2: Collected Essays, Papers, etc., of Robert Bridges, V: George Darleyby Robert Bridges

REVIEWS 371

allowed as much as six pages, while some other work, generally considered to have great merit, may be allotted only a few lines. For instance, The Passing of the Third Floor Back is referred to as a play " whose great success is ununderstandable to us to-day," while Three Men on the Bummell and The Diary of a Pilgrimage, being almost exclusively about Germany, are spoken of at great length. On the other hand, his choice of quotations is large and varied, and shows great insight and understanding. It is really through them that the author has gained the most help in what he set out to prove, namely, that Jerome has written artistic and at the same time popular successes, and has thereby enriched English literature very considerably.

J. K.-F.

Collected Essays, Papers, etc., of Robert Bridges, V: George Darley. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, London. 1930. Pp. xvi+I73-20I. 2s. 6d. net.

This part of Dr. Bridges' Collected Essays, left partly in revised proof at his death, has been seen through the press by Mrs. Bridges, who has completed the Preface and Note from her husband's rough draft. It contains two essays on Darley, which originally appeared (one only in part) in I906 and 9go8, and have been to some extent rewritten. There are not many new symbols introduced in this essay; indeed, only one is altogether new, a symbol to denote the vowel in " the " and "feel." Dr. Bridges calls this " the true romance I " and seems to regard the vowel of " the " as short and to feel it as." somewhat heavier than the short true English I of hit." The pronouncement seems a little confusing, for, at least in the cultivated pronunciations of the day, " the " has different sounds before a vowel and before a consonant (" the oak " and " the dog "), neither of which is, of course, the same as when we talk of " the article 'the.'" In the next essay "u" "is to be treated, thus completing the vowels.

The Huntington Library Bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Number I, May 1931. Pp. 214. IOS. 6d. net. Number 2, November I93I. Pp. 176. 2os. net.

This bulletin, which is to appear from time to time as material accumulates, is primarily intended to " particularize the resources of the Huntington Library and attempt to estimate their importance." It will include bibliographical and other information about collections and individual items in the Library, and texts of important MSS. and printed books, which are too brief for separate publication, and in view of the number of unique or very rare works which the Library contains it is evident that the Bulletin is likely to be of great importance and interest to students, and that it will be necessary for them to keep a watchful eye on its contents. It is unfortunate that the price should be somewhat high.

The full contents-list of the first two parts is given among Periodical Publica- tions, but one or two items may be mentioned here. In Number I we have an interesting account of Henry E. Huntington and of the building-up of his Library, and an article on the more important collections which were purchased more or less en bloc for incorporation in it, such as the Kemble-Devonshire plays, purchased in 1914, and the Bridgewater House Library, purchased in I917, as well as many American libraries, such as those of Elihu D. Church (19 I) and Beverly Chew (I192), both very strong in Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry. In the second number there is a valuable check-list of English Newspapers to I8oo contained in the Library, and, perhaps most interesting of all, at any rate to the bibliographer, facsimiles of the outer formes of Sheet B of the Bridgewater and Kemble-Devon- shire copies of the First Part of the Contention, 16oo, the first of which is one of the very rare examples of Elizabethan proof-correction, the errors marked being duly corrected in the other copy. The facsimiles are accompanied by a note by Professor Tucker Brooke.

R. B. McK.

REVIEWS 371

allowed as much as six pages, while some other work, generally considered to have great merit, may be allotted only a few lines. For instance, The Passing of the Third Floor Back is referred to as a play " whose great success is ununderstandable to us to-day," while Three Men on the Bummell and The Diary of a Pilgrimage, being almost exclusively about Germany, are spoken of at great length. On the other hand, his choice of quotations is large and varied, and shows great insight and understanding. It is really through them that the author has gained the most help in what he set out to prove, namely, that Jerome has written artistic and at the same time popular successes, and has thereby enriched English literature very considerably.

J. K.-F.

Collected Essays, Papers, etc., of Robert Bridges, V: George Darley. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, London. 1930. Pp. xvi+I73-20I. 2s. 6d. net.

This part of Dr. Bridges' Collected Essays, left partly in revised proof at his death, has been seen through the press by Mrs. Bridges, who has completed the Preface and Note from her husband's rough draft. It contains two essays on Darley, which originally appeared (one only in part) in I906 and 9go8, and have been to some extent rewritten. There are not many new symbols introduced in this essay; indeed, only one is altogether new, a symbol to denote the vowel in " the " and "feel." Dr. Bridges calls this " the true romance I " and seems to regard the vowel of " the " as short and to feel it as." somewhat heavier than the short true English I of hit." The pronouncement seems a little confusing, for, at least in the cultivated pronunciations of the day, " the " has different sounds before a vowel and before a consonant (" the oak " and " the dog "), neither of which is, of course, the same as when we talk of " the article 'the.'" In the next essay "u" "is to be treated, thus completing the vowels.

The Huntington Library Bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Number I, May 1931. Pp. 214. IOS. 6d. net. Number 2, November I93I. Pp. 176. 2os. net.

This bulletin, which is to appear from time to time as material accumulates, is primarily intended to " particularize the resources of the Huntington Library and attempt to estimate their importance." It will include bibliographical and other information about collections and individual items in the Library, and texts of important MSS. and printed books, which are too brief for separate publication, and in view of the number of unique or very rare works which the Library contains it is evident that the Bulletin is likely to be of great importance and interest to students, and that it will be necessary for them to keep a watchful eye on its contents. It is unfortunate that the price should be somewhat high.

The full contents-list of the first two parts is given among Periodical Publica- tions, but one or two items may be mentioned here. In Number I we have an interesting account of Henry E. Huntington and of the building-up of his Library, and an article on the more important collections which were purchased more or less en bloc for incorporation in it, such as the Kemble-Devonshire plays, purchased in 1914, and the Bridgewater House Library, purchased in I917, as well as many American libraries, such as those of Elihu D. Church (19 I) and Beverly Chew (I192), both very strong in Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry. In the second number there is a valuable check-list of English Newspapers to I8oo contained in the Library, and, perhaps most interesting of all, at any rate to the bibliographer, facsimiles of the outer formes of Sheet B of the Bridgewater and Kemble-Devon- shire copies of the First Part of the Contention, 16oo, the first of which is one of the very rare examples of Elizabethan proof-correction, the errors marked being duly corrected in the other copy. The facsimiles are accompanied by a note by Professor Tucker Brooke.

R. B. McK.

REVIEWS 371

allowed as much as six pages, while some other work, generally considered to have great merit, may be allotted only a few lines. For instance, The Passing of the Third Floor Back is referred to as a play " whose great success is ununderstandable to us to-day," while Three Men on the Bummell and The Diary of a Pilgrimage, being almost exclusively about Germany, are spoken of at great length. On the other hand, his choice of quotations is large and varied, and shows great insight and understanding. It is really through them that the author has gained the most help in what he set out to prove, namely, that Jerome has written artistic and at the same time popular successes, and has thereby enriched English literature very considerably.

J. K.-F.

Collected Essays, Papers, etc., of Robert Bridges, V: George Darley. Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford, London. 1930. Pp. xvi+I73-20I. 2s. 6d. net.

This part of Dr. Bridges' Collected Essays, left partly in revised proof at his death, has been seen through the press by Mrs. Bridges, who has completed the Preface and Note from her husband's rough draft. It contains two essays on Darley, which originally appeared (one only in part) in I906 and 9go8, and have been to some extent rewritten. There are not many new symbols introduced in this essay; indeed, only one is altogether new, a symbol to denote the vowel in " the " and "feel." Dr. Bridges calls this " the true romance I " and seems to regard the vowel of " the " as short and to feel it as." somewhat heavier than the short true English I of hit." The pronouncement seems a little confusing, for, at least in the cultivated pronunciations of the day, " the " has different sounds before a vowel and before a consonant (" the oak " and " the dog "), neither of which is, of course, the same as when we talk of " the article 'the.'" In the next essay "u" "is to be treated, thus completing the vowels.

The Huntington Library Bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Number I, May 1931. Pp. 214. IOS. 6d. net. Number 2, November I93I. Pp. 176. 2os. net.

This bulletin, which is to appear from time to time as material accumulates, is primarily intended to " particularize the resources of the Huntington Library and attempt to estimate their importance." It will include bibliographical and other information about collections and individual items in the Library, and texts of important MSS. and printed books, which are too brief for separate publication, and in view of the number of unique or very rare works which the Library contains it is evident that the Bulletin is likely to be of great importance and interest to students, and that it will be necessary for them to keep a watchful eye on its contents. It is unfortunate that the price should be somewhat high.

The full contents-list of the first two parts is given among Periodical Publica- tions, but one or two items may be mentioned here. In Number I we have an interesting account of Henry E. Huntington and of the building-up of his Library, and an article on the more important collections which were purchased more or less en bloc for incorporation in it, such as the Kemble-Devonshire plays, purchased in 1914, and the Bridgewater House Library, purchased in I917, as well as many American libraries, such as those of Elihu D. Church (19 I) and Beverly Chew (I192), both very strong in Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry. In the second number there is a valuable check-list of English Newspapers to I8oo contained in the Library, and, perhaps most interesting of all, at any rate to the bibliographer, facsimiles of the outer formes of Sheet B of the Bridgewater and Kemble-Devon- shire copies of the First Part of the Contention, 16oo, the first of which is one of the very rare examples of Elizabethan proof-correction, the errors marked being duly corrected in the other copy. The facsimiles are accompanied by a note by Professor Tucker Brooke.

R. B. McK.

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