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AN ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE AND POETRY, SHEWING THE MAIN STREAM OF ENGLISH LITERATURE THROUGH SIX CENTURIES. Compiled and arranged by Henry Newbolt. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1921. 1011 pp.

The originality of this volume is not confined to the suggestive position of the word English and the antique form of the word shewing in the title. It is continued in the heavy print, the elimination of all notes, and the preservation of original spellings throughout. It is most prominently to be seen in the plan of the book, which aims to present the stream of English literature exactly as it flowed. This involves the inclusion of some material not usually included, such as selections fom scientific, philosophic and controversial writings, and a chronology based on the first appearance of the particular selection as a literary influence, rather than upon the writer's date of birth. It is nothing to the discredit of the volume that it does not accomplish its purpose-no one-volume anthology of a whole literature ever accomplishes even more moderate aims. Regarded as an ordinary anthology, aside from its special claim to originality, it contains some worth-while new selections and a host of old favorites, and is not noticeably better than some of the American anthologies of English literature already in print.

Trinity College.

NEWMAN I. WHITE.

HOW MUCH SHALL I GIVE? By Lilian Brandt. With an Introductory Note by Frank A. Fetter. New York: The Frontier Press, 1921, xiii, 153 pp. $2.00.

The multiplication in recent years of organizations and causes which appeal to the benevolence of the public has given new importance to the question which forms the title of this timely volume. Miss Brandt displays a thorough knowledge of the history of charity and a wealth of practical experience in the problem of securing financial support for undertakings of a philanthropic character. Especially clever are the chapters containing a clear and interesting analysis of the psychology of giving. Among the important motives to philanthropic

action, Miss Brandt discusses sympathy for suffering, desire for divine approval, desire for social esteem or to avoid disesteem, familiarity and habit, a sense of loyalty, the pleasure of doing good, considerations of reason and taste, the desire of the giver to distract attention from some anti-social conduct, and possibly in some instances the desire to keep the "lower classes" quiet. In conclusion she says: "The relative weight which various considerations have in determining contributions to philanthropy in America at the present time can be only a matter of speculation. As, however, we consider the nature of the appeals made by organizations which rely upon voluntary contributions for support, and as we notice how the public responds to these appeals, this much at least seems clear: that this is not so much a matter of reason or of conscience as of habit, tradition, imitation, social pressure and sentiment."

Miss Brandt examines the answers of the past and some of the experience of recent years in her effort to aid readers in arriving at an answer to the question: "How much shall I give?" No simple and universally applicable rule of giving is discovered, but a great deal of light is thrown upon the methods and considerations which should aid the individual in making a decision.

Trinity College.

WILLIAM H. GLASSON.

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The South Atlantic Quarterly

Published at Trinity College, Durham, N. C., by the
South Atlantic Publishing Company

OFFICERS:

ROBERT L. FLOWERS, President ALBERT M. WEBB, Vice-Pres.
D. W. NEWSOM, Secretary and Treasurer
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

W. P. FEW WILLIAM H. GLASSON

WILLIAM H. WANNAMAKER

ROBERT L. FLOWERS
D. W. NEWSOM

This journal was founded in January, 1902, in order to afford better opportunity in the South for discussion of literary, historical, economic, and social questions. It knows no sectional jealousy and aims to offer a publishing medium in which respectful consideration will be accorded to all who have some worthy contribution to make in its chosen field. The QUARTERLY was originally established by the "9019," a society of young men of Trinity College, but it later passed into the control of the South Atlantic Publishing Company, Incorporated. It is under the joint editorship of Dr. W. K. Boyd and Dr. W. H. Wannamaker.

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Contents of the Last Two Numbers:

JANUARY, 1922

The Place of Woodrow Wilson in American Politics-An
Estimate...

Racial Feeling in Negro Poetry.

Carlyle's Past and Present: A Prophecy.

Pro-Slavery Propaganda in American Fiction of the

Fifties...

Down the World With Marna.

..Edward J. Woodhouse

Political Problems of Hispanic America: Their Origin and

Nature.

The Dido Episode.

Book Reviews.

APRIL, 1922

Newman I. White
Stanley T. Williams

Jeanette Reid Tandy
Charles B. Shaw

.Mary Wilhelmine Williams
..Arthur L. Keith

Administrative Problems in United States Internal Taxation...... Daniel C. Roper

The Comedy of Stage Death..

The Americanism of Andrew Jackson.

Dr. Johnson and the Occult.

The Middle States and the Embargo of 1808.

Thornton S. Graves
.Frank J. Klingberg
Joseph M. Beatty, Jr.
Louis Martin Sears

Pro-Slavery Propaganda in American Fiction of the Fifties-Jeannette Reid Tandy
Book Reviews

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Volume XXI JULY, 1922

Number 3

The

South Atlantic Quarterly

The Discovery of America

BARKIE MELLISH*

"He has discovered America." The French, that ironic folk, are fond of using this expression of some one who has done something obvious. He has remarked, for instance, that peace is a blessing, or that most women have no beards. The idea underlying the phrase would seem to be that after the days of the great Genoese it is as easy to find America as it is to make an egg stand on end. Like many proverbial notions, this theory is utterly false. As a matter of fact, for more than four hundred years Europeans have had only an inkling of the existence of America, and no idea whatever of its importance. With the great war, however, the United States made its appearance upon the stage of world-history. American democracy inspired humanity. In consequence, in a thousand ways, Europe is now realizing our importance. The Old World is at last discovering America.

The participation of this country in the world war did more than to reveal to mankind our capacities for leadership. It also paved the way for an era in which America energy and ability and fair-mindedness will be justly appreciated, and American contributions to civilization properly appraised. The sun has set upon Lowell's foreigner, who found America "without arts, literature, culture, or any native hope of supplying them," and the American people "wholly given to money-getting." A day is coming when many men will say what the lonely radical H. G. Wells now says: "The United States is the greatest country in the world." The change is

* The pen name of an associate professor in a well known American university.

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