English Predecessors Research Articles

Haly Heron: Elizabethan Essayist and Euphuist

RANCIS BACON'S well-known observation regarding the essay that word is late, but the thing is ancient may imply, though it does not affirm, that the essay had already been cultivated in England, but the roll of his few English predecessors who cultivated the form has not yet been completed. The Idlenes (I 586) of William Paulet, third Marquis of Winchester, and the anonymous Remedies against Discontentment (1596) have been shown to contain pieces which bear a sufficiently close resemblance to the essay as popularized by Bacon and later writers.' Beyond some attention to the claims of these, however, little if anything has been done to explore the problem. To these works I should like to add that of Captain Haly Heron, whose claims as a still earlier English essayist have never been placed on record. I refer to his one work, A Newe Discourse of Morall Philosophie, which was published in I 579.2 Oversight of

The American Fabian Movement

American Fabian socialism was established in what seemed to be propitious circumstances. Its inauguration occurred in a period that had produced a proliferation of populist ideas; it had the example of more than a decade of practice by its English predecessor and model; its leaders included men of capacity and enthusiasm. But in spite of these advantages, American Fabian endured for less than a decade. It is the purpose of this article to examine the development of this movement and to assess the reasons that contributed to the brevity of its existence.

Dryden's "Georgics" and English Predecessors

Dryden's "Georgics" and English Predecessors

XXV.—The Prose Dialogue of the Commonwealth and the Restoration

Literary historians, in characterizing the pamphlet literature of the English Civil War and the early years of the Restoration have, as a rule, contented themselves with the statement that much of the prose of the period was written in dialogue. It is the purpose of this paper to give some idea of the varying popularity of the dialogue during the period from 1640 to 1700, to characterize the commonest type more precisely than has been customary, and briefly to suggest its possible relation to English predecessors and to foreign works, ancient and contemporary.

On the Porphyritic Rocks of the Island of Jersey

Having been supplied some years ago, through the kindness of my friend the Rev. C. Noury, of St. Helier, with a good series of specimens of porphyritic rocks from the Island of Jersey, I was struck by the exceptional appearance of some felsitic and globular varieties, in which the spheroidal concretions, instead of being minute globules, as in the usual pyromerides, attained a size of two feet and more in diameter. According to the information which I then possessed, the porphyritic rocks occupied the whole of the north-eastern part of the Island, resting on Cambrian schists, and underlying, from Rozel to St. Catherine's Bay, a coarse conglomerate, which had been described by Ansted as New Red Sandstone . At that time I strongly advocated the views entertained by my distinguished friend M. Michel-Lévy, on the relation between structure and geological age in eruptive rocks; and, judging from many examples collected in various districts of France, I believed that every felstone and pyromeride would be found to be of Permian age. Accordingly, as this belief seemed to be warranted by the facts in Jersey, I described the whole of the porphyritic rocks of the Island as Permian . Moreover, I even ventured to lecture my English predecessors for having failed to recognize the true age of the eruptive series, the felsites of Jersey having been described by Mr. Davies as “ old rhyolites .” This was a mistake on my part, which I now feel myself bound to confess before the Geological Society of