ton for five guineas, said that he did not think "all Drayton ever wrote worth five guineas." Nor, as Bullen admits, is he to the taste of to-day. If he is known at all, it is by his ballad of Agincourt and by his famous sonnet: "Since ther's no helpe, come let us kiss and part." "The reason may be," says Bullen, "that the world grows older and life more sombre; the gospel of Science is spreading, the revels of Oberon have long been broken up, and not the Sicily of Theocritus is more remote from us than the London of Shakespeare." Yet Bullen was Drayton's faithful follower to the end; he at least held his memory dear, and has amply repaid the debt he owes him by a delicate appreciation. Bullen, indeed, had a deft hand at the lapidary style. He knew how to explain, in a few lines, the virtues of the poets whom he chose for his own and criticised. Admirable is his summing up of the qual ities which make Samuel Daniel memorable. "Few men," said Bullen, "ever cultivated literature with the frank wholehearted devotion of Samuel Daniel-literature for its own sake, and not for what it may bring of advantage or reward. He was impressed by the dig nity of his high calling; he knew that a perfect poem outlives the downfall of dynasties, and he longed to be numbered with those who have spoken things worthy of Apollo. His 'Civil Wars' and his Senecan tragedies may be forgotten, but his eloquent poems in in Learning's praise will live long as Learning is respected." But much as Bullen likes Daniel, it is Dekker who is nearest to his mind and heart. And this preference is easily intelligible. Dekker was a true Elizabethan, who could turn his hand to anything. Prose or poetry, dramas or satires, were all within his compass, and be fought for a living with his pen as a soldier of fortune fights with his sword. If he were unfortunate, he could bear his sufferings like a man, and, as Bullen says, "by no poet and no divine has the worth of patience been so touchingly described as in this thricenoble utterance of Dekker: Patience, my lord: why, 'tis the soul of peace: of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven, It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a Thus Bullen, with a well-balanced judgment, defines the qualities and the limitations of Dekker. He is not blind to his faults, and he would not have him other than he was. With the sympathy which comes of understanding, he has composed the best portrait of him that we know. But in portraiture, as in criticism, Bullen never fails us, and wherever you turn in his book you will find either a luminous judgment or a piece of genuine discovery. INDEX TO VOL. CCXV. FFAIR OF SOME GRAVITY, AN, 758. RMAGEDDON HUNT, THE (THE STORY OF THE VALE OF ACRE AND PLAIN OF SHARON FOXHOUNDS), 18. squith, Mr, as wrecker, 291-where he is leading the Liberal Party, 293. AUTUMN SHOOTING," 75. aldwin, Mr, our obligation to, 132. arrès, Maurice, death of, 149 et seq. EAMAN, Major ARDERN, D.S.O.: A SERMON IN THE ABBEY, 869. LAND, J. O. P. : AT THE SIGN OF THE LAUGHING GODS, 847. MEMORIES OF M'QUIGG, 1, 230, 295. RADLEY, SHELLAND: AN EPISODE IN MESPOT, 496. RAVIDA : THE ARMAGEDDON HUNT (THE STORY ANDLER, EDmund : A CASTLE IN SPAIN, 96. APTAINS, TWO GREAT: JENGHIZ KHAN AND SUBUTAI, 644. STLE IN SPAIN, A, 96. urehill, Mr, rats a second time, 879. MPTON, A. C. THE MILLIONS OF MONSIEUR LE COLONEL, 255. OCODILES, 542. mocracy, 432-a fragile and transitory system, 435. G, 100 PER CENT: I. A Dog's Life, 244; II. Joy of Battle, 246; III. Airs and Graces, 250; IV. Honoured Ease, 254. FFER'S LUCK WITH SPINNING TACKLE, A, 489. ST, YOUTH AND THE, I.-V., 445-VI.-XII., 595-XII.-XVII., 772. lizabethans,' the late Mr A. H. Bullen's, notice of, 885. ISODE IN MESPOT, AN, 496. NDER, A: THE KHAN'S TREasure, 105. Franchise folly of 1917-18, the, 283 et seq.-its immediate result: accession of Mr Ramsay MacDonald and his friends to office, 286. French Elections, the, 882. FROM THE OUTPOSTS: THE JUJU Rock, 266. THE KHAN'S TREASURE, 105. FROM TWO POINTS OF VIEW: Part I.His Friend's Wife, Chaps. I.-IX., 369. Part II.-His Friend's Cousin, Chaps. I.-VI., 468; Chaps. VII.XIV., 660. FULANAIN: THE HARVEST OF ABU SABA', 342. OF KHAN'S TREASURE, THE, 105. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, 721. "LAKE CHAD": THE JUJU ROCK, 266. LAST OUNCE, THE, 91. LAUGHING GODS, AT THE SIGN OF THE, LETTERS OF ERNEST AND HENRIETTE LOG OF THE "CUTTY SARK," THE, 693. M., A.: LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, MacDonald, Mr Ramsay, Prime Minis- A COUP THAT FAILED, 1. OF GOLF AND OTHER GRAVE MATTERS, MIDSHIPMEN RAMPANT, 687. MILLIONS OF MONSIEUR LE COLONEL, MONTREUIL-SUR-MER, 841. MR BROWN'S GUITAR, 626. MURE, B. G.: Two ON THE THAMES, Nobel Peace Prize, the notorious E. D. POWELL, T. A.: MIDSHIPMEN RAM- RENAN, THE LETTERS OF ERNEST AND "SAL," IN THE, 830. SCHOONER AND THE SOVIET, THE, 143. AN "OLD TERM" AT WOOLWICH, THE ROADS OF THE NORTH-WEST 'Scrap Book,' notice of Professor SIMPSON, T. B.: AN AFFAIR OF SOME Sincerity in politics, Mr Baldwin on the Singapore Base, Government attitude towards the, 731-the sane and insane method of policy, 733—the fate of Holland, 735. Socialist commonwealth, Mr and Mrs Webb's sketch of a, 289 et seq. Socialist Government, unreality of, 591 -a positive remedy for unemploy ment, 593. Socialists debauching the working SOVIET, THE SCHOONER AND THE, 143. STRAHAN, J. A.: BYRON'S BIOGRAPHER, TAKING OF ORMuz, The, 554. WARNER, SIR THOMAS, AND ST CHRIS- WESTERN FRANCE, IN, 308. 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