Catholic University Bulletin. HARVARD VOL. V.FINO. 6 18 JANUARY, 1899. WHOLE No. XVII. Archaeology: ALLARD, Etudes d'Histoire et d'Archéologie; ISHAM, The Homeric Palace; WORDSWORTH, Notes on Mediæval Services in England; HOFFMAN The Graphic Art of the Eskimos; DE HAMME, Ancient and Modern Palestine. Scripture and Church History: BLUDAU, Die Alexandrinische Uebersetzung Philosophy: MIVART, The Groundwork of Science; JAMES. Human Immortality; Sociology: GIDDINGS, Elements of Sociology; GRONLUND, The New Economy; Literature: PANCOAST, An Introductory to American Literature; ROBINSON AND Hagiography: JOLY. St. Ignace de Loyola; HORN, St. Etienne d'Hongroie; Catholic University Bulletin. Vol. V. JANUARY, 1899. No. 1. "Let there be progress, therefore; a widespread and eager progress in every century and epoch, both of individuals and of the general body, of every Christian and of the whole Church; a progress in intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, but always within their natural limits and without sacrifice of the identity of Catholic teaching, feeling and opinion."-ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, Commonit, c. 6. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, The "Odes" of Coventry Patmore are so well known to students of metres and to the lovers of what is called the mystic quality in poetry, that they may be considered in the interest of both with unfailing profit. They owe much of their essence to St. Teresa and to St. John, and all that attracts the lovers of the science of poetic form to the force of this essence exerted to find adequate expression. It may be said that the practice adopted by Mr. Patmore is, like the later musical forms of Wagner, not a sign of regular progress, but a vagary, or a mere diversion from the regular track of progress. For instance, what apparently answers in music to verbal rhyme is easily discovered in the scores of Haydn and Mozart; the absence of this is noticeable in Beethoven and Wagner. In verse the continual rhyme, accompanied by the regular cæsura, is a distinguishing characteristic of Pope and Scott; - Patmore accepts the rhyme and the cæsura, but, in his noblest poems, uses them irregularly, or rather spontaneously by making the pause depend on feeling and the rhyme on the emphasis of accent. The practice of Patmore is a sign of a finer conception of the clothing of poetry. Whether the changes in the musical forms be more than a vagary, I am not enough of a musician to know, but as to metres, I believe that Patmore's variations from classical English verse form indicate that the 3 |