Published monthly, from October to July, by the BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, 26 Brevoort Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. A TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT-BORN, 1721 LTHOUGH Smollett may not be read as widely now as formerly, he has yet kept his place-to use Saintsbury's phrase -as the man who built "one of the four strong wheels" of the novel, and set the wain going down through the centuries. Smollett died in the fifty-first year of his age. The world to him had seemed little more than a debtor's prison, so he once wrote to Garrick; and in order to keep out of such a prison himself, he wrote five novels of abiding interest, together with a mass of miscellaneous matter. The three novels by which he is best known are "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," and "Humphry Clinker." They are all of them half-spurious autobiographies, with incidents debased or heightened for purposes of satire, humor, or burlesque. "Ferdinand Count Fathom" and "Sir Launcelot Greaves" are, in comparison with the other novels, quite negligible. In addition to writing these novels, Smollett edited newspapers and magazines, and translated "Gil Blas," "Don Quixote," and (with the help of others) the entire works of Voltaire, in thirty-eight volumes. He furthermore supervised a "Compendium of Voyages," in seven volumes, and "The Present State of All Nations," in eight volumes, and composed a "History of England," in four volumes, subsequently continued in five additional volumes. After surviving in literary interest the first two hundred years since his birth, it is probably safe to say that Smollett's fame is good for another century at least. Of "Roderick Random," the Brooklyn Public Library has the following editions: New York (Derby), 1857; London (Gibbings), 1895, being Smollett's "Works," edited by George Saintsbury, with illustrations by Frank Richards, Vols. 1-3; New York (Athenaeum Society), 1902, being his "Works," Vols. 1-3; and a 1784 edition in Volume 2 of the Novelist's Magazine. Of editions of "Peregrine Pickle," the Library has the following; London (Gibbings), 1896, being "Works," edited by Saintsbury, with illustrations by Richards, Vols. 4-7; London (Bell), 1895, illustrated by George Cruikshank, two volumes, in Bohn's Novelists' Library; New York (Athenaeum Society), 1902, "Works," Vols. 4-7; and the Novelist's Magazine edition of 1781. Of "Humphry Clinker," the Library can supply the following editions: Second Edition, London (Johnston), 1771, three volumes; New York (Derby), 1859, with a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe; London (Routledge), 1884, a limited edition; London (Gibbings), 1895, being "Works," edited by Saintsbury, with illustrations by Richards, Vols. 1112; New York (Athenaeum Society), 1902, "Works," Vols. 11-12; Boston (Brainard), 1902, limited edition de luxe; New York (Century Co.), 1902, being the English Comédie Humaine, 1st Series, Vol. 4; and the Novelist's Magazine edition of 1785. Four editions each of "Ferdinand Count Fathom" and "Sir Launcelot Greaves" are available; also four editions of his "History of England from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second, designed as a continuation of Hume"; and an edition of his "Miscellaneous Works," with memoirs of his life and writings by Robert Anderson (Edinburgh: Mundell, 1806, 6 v.). His "Poetical Works," may be consulted in Anderson's "Works of the British Poets," Vol. 10; and his "Select Poems" in Sanford and Walsh's "Works of the British Poets," Vol. 33. Smollett's life and works may be studied further in such biographies as Robert Chambers' "Smollett" (1867), David Hannay's "Life of Tobias George Smollett" (1887), and Oliphant Smeaton's "Tobias Smollett" (1897).; also in Sir Walter Scott's "Lives of the Novelists" (various editions), Thackeray's "English Humorists" (various editions), Cary's "Lives of English Poets" (1846), Lawrence's Lives of the British Historians" (1855), Jeaffreson's "Novels and Novelists" (1858), Graham's "Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century" (1901), and Jackson's "Great English Novelists" (1908). Churches and Church Work Foster, George Burman. Christianity in its modern expression. 1921. 230F754 Restates the Christian fundamentals in the modes of thought and the fashions of expression that have newly come in. Author is late Professor of Philosophy and Religion in the University of Chicago. Lake, Kirsopp. Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. 1920. 270L19L Smith, L. M. The early history of the Monastery of Cluny. 1920. 271S65 Combats the theories that the Cluniacs were ascetic and uncompromising members of the Benedictine Order, and that the Gregorian tenets originated at Cluny and were promulgated by the Cluniacs, who thus prepared the way for Gregory VII. Tittle, Ernest F. What must the Church do to be saved? 1921. 204T62 Challenging lectures on such subjects as "What must the Church do to be Saved?" "The Changing and Conception of God," "Christianity Life,' "Sin," "Salvation," and "Jesus Christ, the Hope of the World." Author is Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Evanston, Ill. Miscellaneous Briggs, George W. The Chamars. ligious life of India.) 1920. (Re294B85 An account of the tanners of leather, the preparers of skins, the manufacturers of leather articles, and the makers of shoes in Upper India, who belong to a well-defined class in the Indian social order, and most of whom are to-day known as Chamars. Hill, Owen A. theology. 1921. A complete college course in metaphysics. the matter is done into set and concise theses, with strict adherence to the scholastic methods of presentation. Author is a Lecturer in Fordham University. Psychology and natural 210H64 All Soper, Edmund D. The religions of mankind. 1921. 209S71 A book on comparative religion by the Professor of the History of Religion in Northwestern Untversity, Evanston, Ill. Trevelyan, William B. Prayers for Church 1921. and nation. 264T81 SOCIOLOGY General and Miscellaneous Churchward, Albert. The origin and evolution of Freemasonry connected with the 1920. origin of the human race. 366C56 Hobson, John A. Problems of a new world. 1921. 301H68 Describes, among other things, "the new ideals that are struggling to get themselves realized in the new industry, the new State, and the new worldorder." 1921. Adams, George B. Constitutional history of England. 342.4A21C Treats of "The Anglo-Saxon Age," "Growth of the Constitution and of the Common Law," "Parliament Versus the King," "The Making of the Cabinet," "The Rise of Democracy," "Democratic England," etc. Howe, Frederic C. Denmark: a co-operative commonwealth. 1921. 354H85 An account of Denmark as a democratic commonwealth, governed largely by farmers, and in which co-operation has been carried to a higher point of development than in any other modern State. International Relations Demangeon, A. America and the race for world dominion. 1921. 330D37 A translation of "Le Declin de l'Europe," in which the author sees Europe yielding her proud position as master of the world to America and Japan. Author is Professor of Geography at the Sorbonne. Dickinson, E. D. Equality of states in international law. (Harvard Studies in Jurisprudence. Vol. 3.) 1920. 341D553 House, Edward M. What really happened 341H83 at Paris. 1921. A book of revelations by Colonel House and his associate delegates,-Herbert C. Hoover, Samuel Gompers, Thomas W. Lamont, General Tasker H. Bliss, Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Dr. Charles Seymour, and others. Iyenaga, Toyokichi. Japan and the Cali325196 fornia problem. 1921. Includes chapters on "Japanese Traits and Philosophy of Life," "Japan's Asiatic Policy," "Background of Japanese Emigration," "Facts About Japanese in California," etc. Author is Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. Burns, C. Delisle. 1921. try. Government and indus300B96 A description of the existing relations between the British government and the industrial system. Dougharty, Harold. Pension, endowment, life assurance, and other schemes for employees of commercial companies. (British.) 1920. 331D73 Knowles, L. C. A. The industrial and commercial revolutions in Great Britain during the nineteenth century. 1921. 330K73 Lays special stress on the development of mechanical transport as a chief factor in the revolution and in the growth of the new constructive imperial. ism and the new agriculture of recent decades. Macara, Sir Charles W. In search of a peaceful world. 1921. 331 M11 Wright, Howard T. Organization as applied to industrial problems. 1920. Trade 331 W9492 Academy of Political Science (New York). American foreign trade relations. (Proceedings, Vol. 9, No. 2.) 1921. 306A16(Vol. 9) Clark, G. N. Unifying the world. (International relations series.) 1920. 380C59 A volume in a new series of "Handbooks on International Relations." Includes chapters on "Modern Methods of Communication," "Communications, National and International," and "Effects of War and Commerce on Communications." Pyre, James F. A. trated.) 1920. Wisconsin. (Illus378P998 Running through the historic facts are threads of college life as it was, stories of celebrated exploits, anecdotes of Wisconsin men, Wisconsin's place in sports, and the doings in the past of the college societies. Robbins, Charles L. The socialized recitation. 1920. 371.3R63 Seashore, Carl Emil. Survey of musical talent in the public schools. (University of Iowa Studies in Child Welfare. Vol. 1, No. 2.) 1920. 370164(Vol. 1) Shaw, Wilfred. The University of Michigan. 1920. 378S537 The story of the first American university to become the university of a State and the cap-stone of a State educational system. Illustrated with photographs and four etchings. Stinchfield, Sara M. Preliminary study in corrective speech. (University of Iowa Studies in Child Welfare. Vol. 1, No. 3.) 1920. 370164 (Vol. 1) Abnormal psychology and its educational applications. 1921. Watts, Frank. 370.1W34A Macdougall, Frank H. Thermodynamics and chemistry. 1921. Zoology 541M13 Brues, Charles T. Insects and human welfare. 595B88 1920. An account of the more important relations of insects to the health of man, to agriculture, and to forestry. Allen, Philip S. Everyday French: easy French conversation. 1920. 448A42E Cano, B. Sanin. Spanish reader. (Oxford Spanish series.) 1920. 468C22 Fifty-six extracts in Spanish, from past and contemporary authors, with brief notes and a fiftyfive page vocabulary. James, J. C. The language of Palestine and adjacent regions. 1920. 492J27 O'Beirne, J. J. R. Serbo-Croatian selftaught by the natural method, with phonetic pronunciation. (Thimm's system.) 491.8012 1921. Sharpe, Richard B. world. ?1921. Gurney, John H. (Jr.) Early annals of ornithology. 1921. 598G98E Wonders of the bird 598S53W |