VIEWS AND REVIEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2120, 11 April 1914, Page 9

VIEWS AND REVIEWS.

■John Bull, Business Man. < ''Tho Dignity of Biisi'ness,". thoughts and theories .on business and training .for business, by H. E. Morgan (Ewart, .Seymbur, and.Co.), is the 'title of a collection of well-written articles which are principally addressed to parents and all those guiding .and .influencing young men in the choice of a career ana training them for the work of life. The author contends that the recognition. <oi business by the British Public Schools ,and .Universities; in establishing suitable curricula, would-train our youiig men towards business rather than away from it. 'The- suggestions he. develops in his .book may be summarised as, first, the establishment of business curricula at Public Schools and Universities, as well its specialised commercial training schools; secondly, to secure for business fuller.. recognition as a career of dignity; thirdly, to urge the need of a better understanding between employer ■ and employed; and, finally, to secure for our national trade additional and more enterprising Government support. The most interesting of Mr.Morgan's chapters; is that entitled; ."A Lessbn \ from; Germariy7 r 'ih. which"it js shbyh-that Germany 3 rapid commercial progress is largely the result-of her educational 39i); .'rS -ViifiW-.^Ui.

Burnalana. ' Those o,f my readei-s who are interested, hi Burnsiana, should secure : a 'copy of Lohdbn "Sphere" for January 24,. which paper • contains' a , long and interesting article, - "New Facts; About Robert Burns," 'by Arthur Keith". The article has special reference ,?o a cast of the poet's skull,-.recently presented to the' museum of the Royal College of Surgeons'of arid placed cheek by jowl with.a similar cast of another famous Scotsman, Robert tho Bruce. Mr. Keith maintains that the cast affords evidence that Burns came of Highland stoch;, and that "it is within highlands, rather than the lowlands, we'must seek his kith and kin," and puts forward other theories of interest to admirers of the poet. ■ The 'ISphere" also publishes a reproduction of Raobum's hitherto unpublished portrait of Burns, .about which there has been so much controversy.

"Liber's" Note-Book, Home papers record the death, early in February, of Canon Jessopp, who passed away at the ripe ol'd ago of ninety. Jessopp, whose "Trials of a Country Parson" and "Arcady for Better, for was a good type of tho fast disappearing class of literary parsons. He wa3 headmaster of King Edwards the Sixth's Grammar School, at Norwich, for a few years; and' waa a- friend of George Meredith. Jessopp was, i 6 is said, the last,.survivor .of those who knew Charles Lamb. Lamb was a friend'-'of his father's, arid when Jessopp was very young, Lamb laid his hand on his head. -He was a great book collector; but a few years ago, when ho was .very ill and expected to die, his library was disposed of, and many of his treasures found their way into the catalogues of second-hand booksellers. From one of these "Liber" picked up,, for somo three shillings, a copy, of , beautifulbook on' Fitzgerald, "An Aftermath" (including Francis Hindo Gfooine'e . "Two Suffolk Friends"), inscribed as follows: "To my good old English friend, Dr. Jessopp," Thero are some interesting essays/in Jessopp's "Frivola," a collection of papers' mainly contributed to "The Athenaeum." v He was a.contributor to that noble work, "The; Dictionary of National Biography/ ; " and a personal friend of its first editor, Sir Leslio Stephen, despite the'fact that Stephen was ax well-known Agnostic.

English papers favourably "notice the first series in Dent's now series, '".Che Wayfarers' Library" (Is. net, English price). 'Titles which'appeal to me, in tho first batchy-are H. G. Wclls's

"Wheels of Chance" (in the same vein as, and almost as good as, "Kipps" and "Mr. ' Polly"), Quiller Couch's "Troy Town/', Chesterton's "The Defendant," and "The Lotters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple." Tho latter work first appeared, edited by Judge Parry (of "Katawumpus" fame), in "Tho King's Classics" series. The printing and general format of tho new series are fell spoken of.

Sir Cyprian Bridge has written an ! introduction to a new edition ("World's j Classics") of Sir John Barrow's "Event--] ful. History of the Mutiny .of the I Bounty." Barrow's account of the [ famous mutiny is said to be much fairer i than Captain Bligh's necessarily par-; tisan "Narrative," which, by the way, i so it may not bo generally known, inspired Byron's poem, "The Island," as well!as Miss Mitford's"Christina, the Maid of the Sea." . I.am glad to we that Constablo are ! to publish a shilling edition of Mr. G. S. Street's "Ghosts of Piccadilly," ono of the best books on tho romance of London ever written, The articles first appeared in tho "Pall Mall Magazine," , and ■ when collected were- published in i rather expensive 'form:- | ■ ■ ■ I Dog-lovers should make a note of an ; I excellent new American storv, "Kazan, ■ the Wolf- Dog," by J: 0. Curwood ■ (Cassells). 14 is said to rival Jack London's famous dog-story. I hope to give a review in a week or two. [: