at the top of the house in which you and X. and I and others can read and write. Party Politics leave me cold. But the country-side of England and the literature of Europe make me glow. . . . 'Incidentally to the two main purposes of my life, I am finishing a chapel in the basement. 'It is exhilarating to make things yourself. The carpenter and I, without architect or contract, have made the library, the chapel, the new cow-farm and much else. When I told X. a few weeks ago that this would be my work and not party politics, he was shocked. But after seeing what I was at he came round to my view. Some people inherit an estate and go on as if nothing had happened. I can't do that. My father never told me anything about this place. I lived and worked in Cheshire and Ireland; suddenly I find myself responsible for farming myself 2400 acres, and for paying sums that stagger me by way of weekly wages and repairs. So I ask myself, "What are you going to do?" I mean to use all my imagination and energy to get something done that shall last and remind.' W. W. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 437. PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER, 1913. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. NEW YORK: LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY. 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, 10. Disraeli: the First Two Phases 11. The Majority Report of the Divorce Commission 12. The Strategy of the Balkan War 13. The Crisis in the Near East 1. Andrew Lang. 2. The Alban Hills 3. The French Revolution in Contemporary Literature 4. Autolycus' Pack: the Ballad Journalism of the Sixteenth Century 372 5. The Postage Stamp and its History 6. Adenet le Roi: the End of a Literary Era 7. The Territorial Waters and the Sea Fisheries. 8. The Battleship and its Satellites 9. The Rumanian Factor in the Balkan Problem 10. The Past and Future of Rural England 11. Madame du Deffand and Horace Walpole 12. The Royal Commission on University Education in London 13. Some Results of the Parliament Act 14. British Policy in the Near East Index to Vol. CCXVIII. 3. The Life of Descartes 4. Dry-Fly Fishing for Sea Trout 5. Dramatic Construction and the Need for a New Technique 12. The Poetry of Robert Bridges 392 413 433 13. The Marconi Affair. 14. Eastern Problems and British Interests 15. George Wyndham : Some Impressions by a Friend. |