CONTENTS OF No. 406. Page ART. I.-1. Acta Sanctæ Sedis. 1878-1903. 2. Sanctissimi Domini N. Leonis XIII. Allocutiones, II.-1. Science and a Future Life. By F. W. H. Myers. 2. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death. 3. Modern Spiritualism: a History and a Criticism. 275 1902, 304 II. 1. Life of Robert Emmet. By D. J. O'Donoghue. 2. The Emmet Family: with some incidents relating to 3. Projets et Tentatives de Débarquement aux Iles IV.-1. Turner. By Sir Walter Armstrong, Director of the 1902. 2. The Life and Work of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. By 3. 'Makers of British Art'-J. M. W. Turner, R.A. V.-1. Presidential Address to the British Association for 2. The Atomic Theory (The Wilde Lecture). By Pro- 3. The Cause and Nature of Radio-activity. By E. 354 374 Page ART. VI.—1. Pêcheur d'Islande. By Pierre Loti. Paris: Cal mann Lévy. 1886. 2. Ramuntcho. By Pierre Loti. Paris Calmann . . 400 VII.-1. Christopher Columbus: his Life, his Work, his Re- 2. History of the New World called America. By VIII.-1. Report of the Royal Commission on the War in South IX.-1. La Bohême depuis la Montagne Blanche. Par Ernest 2. Das Boehmische Staatsrecht. Von Kramarj. Prag: 3. Der Boehmische Ausgleich. Von Max Menger. Wien 1891. 4. L'Europe et la Question d'Autriche au seuil du XXe X.-1. The Collected Poems of William Watson. London: 2. Selected Poems. By William Watson. London: . 417 438 463 3. For England: Poems written during Estrangement. 2. Oxford at the Cross Roads. By Percy Gardner, XII.-1. The Parliamentary Debates. Fourth Series. Vols. 2. Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade. 513 By the . 534 ARTICLE I. THE BLOCKADE OF BREST. ON THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE SINCE 1803. THE NOVELS OF MR. HENRY JAMES. PANSLAVISM IN THE NEAR EAST. II. III. IV. VII. VIII. THE PAST AND FUTURE OF FACTORY LEGISLATION. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. EXPANSION AND EXPENDITURE. AN ELIZABETHAN TRAVELLER FYNES MORYSON. THE SUPERNATURAL IN NINETEENTII-CENTURY FICTION. ART HISTORY IN THE NETHERLANDS. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OCTOBER, 1903. No. CCCCVI. ART. I.-1. Acta Sanctæ Sedis. 1878-1903. 2. Sanctissimi Domini N. Leonis XIII. Allocutiones, Epistolæ, &c. Bruges and Lille: Desclée, de Brouwer et Cie. 1901. By the death of Leo XIII. in a venerable and honoured old age a striking personality vanishes from the European scene. No one who has ever seen it can forget the transparent figure, so white, so frail, so ghostlike; the nearest approach, it seemed, to a disembodied soul that could walk the earth, and mingle and converse with men. Yet in that feeble frame dwelt a masterful spirit, a tenacious temper, an iron will. These qualities rang out in his voice, which was resonant and sonorous; they were manifest in the vigorous lines of his face and in his hawk's eye. He could be gentle, but he could show himself on occasion stern and even terrible; he could be sympathetic, but he magnified his office; he was imperious; it was not good for those about him to anger him or cross his will. It is scarcely to anticipate the verdict of history to say that his was a great pontificate. Perhaps, had it ended earlier, it might have been greater. Certainly the unusual length of the last two pontificates has not been an unmixed blessing. In the case of Pius IX. it resulted in the stereotyping of the attitude of the exile of Gaeta for a generation; in that of Leo XIII., as years increased upon him, the malaria, which hangs about the base of the Rock of Peter, mounted higher; the least worthy elements of the theocratic bureaucracy which has its centre in the Vatican assumed the upper hand. A man of ninety, however marvellous his vitality, has outlived himself; he falls inevitably into the hands of others, and hears and speaks through them. Nor, should he on rare occasions VOL. CXCVIII. NO. CCCCVI. U |