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English Literature as a Liberal Study in Primary Teachers' Colleges.

In 1972, in a survey of literature teaching in Victorian primary teachers' colleges, all but one had a year of compulsory adult literature. At the time, most English lecturers considered this to be essential. However, now much has changed, and literature lecturers, faced with offering courses which are no longer compulsory, have thought again.

Drugs and Human Values

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam KayOffprints can be obtained from Dr William Kay, Senior Lecturer in Literature, Languages and Philosophy, Trent Polytechnic, Clifton, Nottingham NG11 8NS.

Individualization in the Literature Lecture?

The traditional approach to planning and teaching an undergraduate literaturt~ course (be it in the FL or in translation) has become so standardized, it sometimes seems to have been God given or natural law; the professor prepares a reading list in advance; the students all purchase the required texts; in the course of the semester, these texts are read and discussed by the group as a whole. The method remains the same whether there are 5 or 50 or 150 students in the class, except that as the numbers go up, the discussion inevitably goes down.

The Harvest on the Ground: Coleridge's Marginalia

In March 1820, when he was forty-seven years old, Coleridge wrote a long letter to his young friend Thomas Allsop to thank him for a generous gift of money. Allsop, a London business man twenty years younger than Coleridge, had attended the literary lectures in 1818, had fallen under Coleridge's spell, and was now a close friend. Coleridge now unfolded in some detail the work he had in progress and discussed the prospects of completing what he hoped to do, in the face of ill health, public neglect, and the interruptions forced on him by the need to meet his obligations to his hosts in Highgate and to his scattered family. He had five works in hand, he said: "The Characteristics of Shakespeare's Plays"; a philosophical analysis of the genius and works of Dante, Spenser, Milton, Cervantes, and Calderon, with shorter studies of Chaucer, Ariosto, Donne, and Rabelais; the history of philosophy (the "Philosophical Lectures" delivered between December 1818 and March 1819); letters on the Old and New Testament; and "my GREAT WORK, to the preparation of which more than twenty years of my life have been devoted" — the Opus Maximum — to which (he said) all his other writings, except the poems (and perhaps even those too) were preparatory. Altogether, not including the Opus Maximum, these would make about ten large volumes.

Genesis One Reconsidered. By D. F. Payne, M.A., Lecturer in Biblical History and Literature, University of Sheffield. (London: The Tyndale Press. 1964. 29 pp. 2s.)

Genesis One Reconsidered. By D. F. Payne, M.A., Lecturer in Biblical History and Literature, University of Sheffield. (London: The Tyndale Press. 1964. 29 pp. 2s.)

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AT PHILADELPHIA

The Bibliography of American Creative Literature was started in August 1938 under the auspices of the Works Projects Administration of the United States. At that time Dr. Luther H. Evans was in charge of the historical projects under the WPA. The University of Pennsylvania agreed to furnish the necessary space and certain of the supplies, and Mr. Edward H. O'Neill, a lecturer in English literature at the university, was placed in charge of the project. He remained in that position until the suspension of the work on 22 April 1942. At that time there had been spent upon this project about $150,000, and a force that varied from forty to sixty workers had been employed.

Sir Frank Heath, G.B.E., K.C.B

HENRY FRANK HEATH was born on December 11, 1863. He was the eldest son of Henry Charles Heath, miniature pointer to Queen Victoria. He was educated at Wesminster School and University College, London, after wnich he spent a year at the University of Strassburg. When he came back to England he was appointed professor of English at Bedford College, London, and lecturer in English language and literature at King's College, London. He held these posts until 1895, when he became assistant registrar and librarian of the University of London. He was appointed academic registrar in 1901, holding the post only for two years, when he joined the Govern ment service as Director of Special Enquiries and Reports under the Board of Education (1903–16). He became principal assistant secretary of the Universities Branch of the Board from 1910 until he was appointed secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1916. He retired from the Department in 1927, and from then until the end of his life gave voluntary service to a number of important institutions. He died on October 5.

AN INTERESTING MUSIC COLLECTION

FRANCK THOMAS ARNOLD (1861--940) was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. In x886 he was appointed lecturer in German Language and Literature at the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, a post he held for forty years. All his life he took a deep interest in music and was an enthusiastic amateur of the violoncello. The world has every reason to be grateful that Arnold's official duties at Cardiff left him with sufficient leisure to indulge his hobby which led him to explore minutely the subject of writing and playing from a thorough-bass. Besides contributing from time to time to many musical journals-' Bach-Jahrbuch ', 'Proceedings of the Musical Association', ' Musical Times', 'Music & Letters', 'Zeitschrift fur Musikwissenschaft ' -he suppljed the article on Thorough-bass for Grove's'Dictionary of Music and Musicians'. Years of research culminated in his writing a monumental treatise on thorough-bass which is recognized to-day as the standard authority. Ernest Newman, in 'The Sunday Times' of July 2nd I944, paid a glowing and well-deserved tribute to Arnold when he described his' Art of Accompaniment from aThoroughBass '1 as the greatest work of musicography ever produced in this country. This great book is a lasting monument of patient and exhaustive scholarship. Arnold in his search for a full knowledge of his subject was not content with drawing upon the resources of the libraries of Europe, but he also bought for himself all available literature and music from which he could absorb and note at leisure anything relating to thorough-bass. As a result of these activities, spread over a number of years, he gradually built up an important and valuable collection of music and literature of music. The theoretical works, especially those on harmony and thorough-bass, range from Zarlino's 'Le istitutioni harmoniche', I562, to Albrechtsberger's ' Kurzgefasste Methode den Generalbass zu erlernen ', 2nd ed., 1837, and include most of the recognized authorities. His other acquisitions form a remarkable collection of eighteenth-century instrumental music. Both sections contain works of great importance and rarity, indeed some editions and issues are unique. It is not intended here to describe the collection fully for, in addition to a printed list appearing in the 'Cambridge University Reporter' for February 6th 1945, a manuscript catalogue has been made containing the titles of the works, together with some notes pointing out the essential differences in some of the editions and issues, and answering (and no doubt raising) some curious bibliographical questions. Perhaps one should single out Praetorius, ' Syntagma musicum' as one of the show pieces . Complete copies of this work are very rare, and this copy is complete except for the title-page to Volume I. The curious puzzle date (I614) is given twice on the general title-page. Mersenne, ' Harmonie universelle ', is here to exasperate the bibliographer with its erratic and faulty pagination and its ever-changing order of the various sections. I have yet to see two copies bound in the same order, and indeed it must be one of the most tiresome of books to collate. What is said to be the best collation is to be found in the ' Hirsch Music Library Catalogue ', Vol. I.

REVIEWS

REVIEWS The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology, by R. NEWTON FLEW Tutor and Lecturer in New Testament Language and Literature, Wesley House, Cambridge. ( Oxford University Press, 1934) W. F. LOFTHOUSE W. F. LOFTHOUSE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume os-XXXV, Issue 140, October 1934, Pages 411–414, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/os-XXXV.140.411 Published: 01 October 1934

The Administrative System of the Marathas. By DrS. Sen, M.A., Ph.D., Lecturer in Maratha History and Literature in Calcutta University. Printed at the Calcutta University Press.

The Administrative System of the Marathas. By DrS. Sen, M.A., Ph.D., Lecturer in Maratha History and Literature in Calcutta University. Printed at the Calcutta University Press.

Fotheringham's Chronicles of Eusebius - The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius. Reproduced in Collotype with an Introduction by John Knight Fotheringham, M.A., Lecturer in Classical Literature at King's College, London; formerly Senior Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. 4to. Pp. vi + 66 + 242 Collotypes. £2 10s. net.

Fotheringham's Chronicles of Eusebius - The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius. Reproduced in Collotype with an Introduction by John Knight Fotheringham, M.A., Lecturer in Classical Literature at King's College, London; formerly Senior Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905. 4to. Pp. vi + 66 + 242 Collotypes. £2 10s. net.

Recent Literature Lectures upon the Principles of Surgery , delivered at the University of Michigan by Charles B. Nancrede, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in the University of Michigan; Professor of Surgery in Dartmouth Medical College; Chief Surgeon, United States Volunteers, etc. With an appendix containing a résumé of the principal views held concerning inflammation

Recent Literature Lectures upon the Principles of Surgery , delivered at the University of Michigan by Charles B. Nancrede, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in the University of Michigan; Professor of Surgery in Dartmouth Medical College; Chief Surgeon, United States Volunteers, etc. With an appendix containing a résumé of the principal views held concerning inflammation

Recent Literature Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry . By Dr. Emil Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Munich. Authorized translation from the second German edition. pp. 345. Revised and edited by Thomas Johnstone, M.D., Edin., M.R.C.P., London, etc. New York: William Wood & Co. 1906.

Recent Literature Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry . By Dr. Emil Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Munich. Authorized translation from the second German edition. pp. 345. Revised and edited by Thomas Johnstone, M.D., Edin., M.R.C.P., London, etc. New York: William Wood & Co. 1906.

Recent Literature Lectures to General Practitioners on the Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines, as well as the allied and resultant conditions, with modern methods of diagnosis and treatment . By Boardman Reed, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa., Professor of Diseases of the gastrointestinal Tract, Hygiene and Climatology in the Department of Medicine of Temple College, Philadelphia; Attending Physician to the Samaritan

Recent Literature Lectures to General Practitioners on the Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines, as well as the allied and resultant conditions, with modern methods of diagnosis and treatment . By Boardman Reed, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa., Professor of Diseases of the gastrointestinal Tract, Hygiene and Climatology in the Department of Medicine of Temple College, Philadelphia; Attending Physician to the Samaritan

Recent Literature Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry . By Dr. Emil Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Munich. Authorized Translation from the German, Revised and Edited by Thomas Johnstone, M.D., Edin., etc. pp. 302. New York: William Wood & Co. 1904.

Recent Literature Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry . By Dr. Emil Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Munich. Authorized Translation from the German, Revised and Edited by Thomas Johnstone, M.D., Edin., etc. pp. 302. New York: William Wood & Co. 1904.

Recent Literature Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System . Second series. Subjective Sensations of Sight and Sound, Abiotrophy and other lectures. By Sir William R. Gowers, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. 12 mo. pp. 250. With 18 illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1904.

Recent Literature Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System . Second series. Subjective Sensations of Sight and Sound, Abiotrophy and other lectures. By Sir William R. Gowers, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. 12 mo. pp. 250. With 18 illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1904.

Recent Literature Lectures on Diseases of the Lungs and the Heart . By James Alexander Lindsay, M.D., F.R. C.P., (Lond.) M.A., Professor of Medicine, Queen's College, Belfast, Physician to Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, etc. New York: William Wood & Co. 1904.

Recent Literature Lectures on Diseases of the Lungs and the Heart . By James Alexander Lindsay, M.D., F.R. C.P., (Lond.) M.A., Professor of Medicine, Queen's College, Belfast, Physician to Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, etc. New York: William Wood & Co. 1904.

Recent Literature Clinical Essays and Lectures . By Howard Marsh, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to and late Lecturer on Surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, President of the Clinical Society of London, Hon. Member of the Medical Society, State of New York. London: J. & A. Churchill, 7 Great Marlborough Street. 1902.

Recent Literature Clinical Essays and Lectures . By Howard Marsh, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to and late Lecturer on Surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, President of the Clinical Society of London, Hon. Member of the Medical Society, State of New York. London: J. & A. Churchill, 7 Great Marlborough Street. 1902.

Recent Literature Lectures on Chemical Pathology in its Relation to Practical Medicine . Delivered at the University and Bellevue Medical School, New York City. By C. A. Herter, M.D., Professor of Pathological Chemistry, University and Bellevue Medical School, New York; Visiting Physician to the City Hospital; Late Consulting Physician to the Babies' Hospital; Consulting Pathological Chemist to the Craig Colony

Recent Literature Lectures on Chemical Pathology in its Relation to Practical Medicine . Delivered at the University and Bellevue Medical School, New York City. By C. A. Herter, M.D., Professor of Pathological Chemistry, University and Bellevue Medical School, New York; Visiting Physician to the City Hospital; Late Consulting Physician to the Babies' Hospital; Consulting Pathological Chemist to the Craig Colony

Recent Literature Lectures on Nasal Obstruction . By A. Marmaduke Sheild, M.B., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to St. George's Hospital, London, and in charge of the Throat Department, etc. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1901.

Recent Literature Lectures on Nasal Obstruction . By A. Marmaduke Sheild, M.B., F.R.C.S., Surgeon to St. George's Hospital, London, and in charge of the Throat Department, etc. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1901.