THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. PENGE PUBLIC LIBRARY. No. 435. PUBLISHED IN APRIL, 1913. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. GENERAL INDEX TO THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 401, forming Volume CCI., and containing a General Index to the volumes from CLXXXII. to CC. of the QUARTERLY REVIEW, is Now Ready. The QUARTERLY REVIEW is published on or about the 15th of Price Twenty-four Shillings per Annum, post free. LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Limited, 1. La Campagna Romana nel Medio Evo. By G. Tomas- setti. In 'Archivio della Società Romana di Storia Patria,' and separately. Rome: Loescher, 1884-. 2. La Campagna Romana, Antica, Medioevale e Moderna. ART. 3.-THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN CONTEMPORARY 1. List of the Contents of the three Collections of Books, Pamphlets and Journals in the British Museum relating to the French Revolution. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1899. 2. Rapport sur les documents relatifs à la Révolution Française à Paris conservés au British Museum. Par M. F. Braesch. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1907. 1. Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts and Printed Books bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfred H. Huth. Printed for the Trustees. 1912. 2. Ancient Ballads and Broadsides published in Eng- land in the Sixteenth Century, chiefly in the earlier years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Reprinted from the unique original copies, mostly in the Black Letter, preserved in the library of Henry Huth, Esq. ART. 5.-THE POSTAGE STAMP AND ITS HISTORY 1. Catalogue des timbres-poste créés dans les divers états du globe. [By Alfred Potiquet.] Paris: Lacroix, 2. A Hand-Catalogue of Postage Stamps. By John PAGE ART. 6.-ADENET LE ROI: THE END OF A LITERARY ERA 413 1. Les Enfances Ogier; Berte aus grans piés; Bueves de Commarchis. Edited by A. Scheler. Brussels: Closson, 1874. 2. Cléomadès. Edited by A. van Hasselt. Brussels: Devaux, 1865-66. And other works. ART. 7.-THE TERRITORIAL WATERS AND THE SEA FISH- 1. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Annual Report of Proceedings under Acts relating to Sea Fisheries for the year 1911. [Cd 6291.] London: Wyman, 1912. 2. Thirtieth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, being for the year 1911. [Cd 6182.] London: Wyman, 1912. And other works. ART. 8.-THE BATTLESHIP AND ITS SATELLITES 433 1. The Ship of the Line in Battle. By Admiral Sir Reginald Custance. Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1912. 2. The British Battle Fleet. By Fred T. Jane. London: Partridge, 1912. And other works. ART. 9.-THE RUMANIAN FACTOR IN THE BALKAN PRO- - 477 ART. 10.-THE PAST AND FUTURE OF RURAL ENGLAND - 490 1. The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields. By Gilbert Slater, D.Sc. London: Constable, 1907. 2. The Disappearance of the Small Landowner. By A. H. Johnson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. And other works. ART. 11.-MADAME DU DEFFAND AND HORACE WALPOLE 513 ART. 12.-THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON UNIVERSITY EDU- ART. 13.-SOME RESULTS OF THE PARLIAMENT ACT ART. 14.-BRITISH POLICY IN THE NEAR EAST 532 PENGE PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 435.-APRIL, 1913. Art. 1.-ANDREW LANG. ANDREW LANG's first historical work was a sketch of the history of St Andrews (1893). It made no pretence to original research, and it differs from all of its author's subsequent writings in being based on printed books and not on Ms. sources. In a characteristically frank preface, he explained that he understood that a much more elaborate history of the town was in preparation, and that he gladly left the department of manuscript to a far better qualified student.' His modest attempt to present some pictures of the half-obliterated past' remains the only modern history of St Andrews, and it offers a sympathetic sketch of his dear city of youth and dream.' Lang, in its pages, took an obvious and, at times, a mischievous pleasure in indicating his own views on questions much controverted in Scotland. His remark-Here, among the fruits of the Reformation, we have, thank God, a Christian at last, and one who, we may say, would not have been consenting to any deed of murder'though a fair description of James Melville, was a challenge to the admirers of other sixteenth-century heroes; and his comment on the executions at St Andrews in 1646 -'Others might have forgiven; these flowers of the kirk never forgave-could not fail to rouse the defenders of 'a theocracy modelled on the wildest passions of ancient Israel.' His critics had their revenge, for the book contained both slips of the pen and more serious errors. Its author used to speak of it as his apprenticeship to the historian's task; 'it showed me that I did not know the rules of the game.' While he was at work on his first historical essay, his friend R. L. Stevenson applied to him for information about the Jacobites. Lang had been Vol. 218.-No. 435. Y |