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Classical Articles in Non-Classical Periodicals Author(s): Adolph F. Pauli Source: The Classical Weekly, Vol. 29, No. 9 (Jan. 6, 1936), pp. 71-72Published by: Classical Association of the Atlantic StatesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4339646Accessed: 08-09-2015 10:07 UTC

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JANUARY 6, 19361 THE CLASSICAL WEEKLY 71

A Puerto Rican land policy to give vigor to Con- gressional legislation of thirty-five years ago-passed but never enforced-and which may affect American investments here estimated as high as $150,000,000 is being considered by the insular Legislature. The legis- lation would limit land ownership or use to 500 acres.

Bills pending would apply equally to individual pos- session, through ownership or lease, and to corporations and partnerships. Existing Federal legislation applies only to corporate land holdings. Directly or otherwise the bills are designed to end latifundia as a step essential for improving insular economy. One bill makes island residence essential for land ownership.

Section 3 of the Joint Resolution of May i, I900, provides that every corporation authorized to engage in agriculture shall be restricted by its charter "to the ownership and control" of not to exceed 500 acres. Members of corporations engaged in agriculture were restricted by the same law from being "in any wise" interested in other agricultural corporations. Discus- sions in Congress at the time the resolution was pend- ing indicate clearly that some of the law makers feared island land monopoly by American investors, chiefly those interested in expanding the island's sugar in- dustry.

Practical evasion of the spirit if not the letter of the law has been easy. Congress failed to provide for en- forcement. However, Congress kept the prohibition alive, for, when it passed a new Organic Act for Puerto Rico in 19I7, a paragraph was inserted reading "that nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as to abrogate or in any manner impair or affect the pro- visions contained in Section 3 of the Joint Resolution approved May I, I900, with respect to the buying, selling or holding of real estate."

Bills now under discussion provide for laws with teeth....

The <Liberal> bill <introduced by Senators Luiz Mufioz Marin and Antonio R. Barcelo> asserts that "the concentration of lands has created a serious social condition, putting the main source of livelihood of the people under the control of large interests, the ma- jority of them absentees. The great mass of farmers and laborers are suffering from a hopeless situation, the former tending to become laborers and the laborers to become beggars."

The <Socialist> measure introduced by Senator <Bolivar> Pagan in the form of a concurrent reso- lution petitions Congress to amend the resolution of May I, I900, and the organic act of 1917, to apply also to individual ownership.

Few corporations have held outright title to more than 500 acres of land, but through partnerships, asso- ciations and leases have managed to get control of the use of large tracts of land considered essential particu- larly in the sugar industry. Many of the largest tracts have been held in single families, kept intact through "successions" or undivided estates. Many of these date back to the old Spanish days. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY,

MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT JOHN W. SPAETH, JR.

CLASSICAL ARTICLES IN NON-CLASSICAL PERIODICALS

VII

The Burlington Magazine June, A Masterpiece of By- zantine Sculpture, Georges Duthuit [with three pho- tographic illustrations. This masterpiece is a marble head of the fourth century which may be a portrait of Constans I]; July, Review, favorable, by Egerton Beck, of A. J. B. Wace, An Approach to Greek Sculpture.

The Catholic Historical Review-July, Review, quali- fiedly favorable, by Martin R. P. McGuire, of A. D. Nock, Conversion, The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo.

The English Historical Review-April, Short notice, mildly favorable, by A. W. L., of H. D. Hansen, Early Civilization in Thessaly; Short notice, favor- able, by H. H. Br., of Angelo Celli, The History of Malari4 in the Roman Campagna; Short notice, un- critical, by K. St. J., of John Clarke, The Roman Fort at Cadder; Short notice, favorable, by G. P. G., of Humphry Trevelyan, The Popular Background to Goethe's Hellenism; July, Review, favorable, by W. W. Buckland, of Fritz Schultz, Prinzipien des R6- mischen Rechts.

The Expository Times-July, A Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron in Greek, D. Plooij ["The fragment is one out of a series of startling discoveries made by the excavations of Yale University in co-operation with the French Academy in Dura-Europos on the Euphrates.... " 1; August, The Lachish Letters, Charles Marston ["...the translations now suggest that they were communications, from officers in com- mand of the watch towers or outposts outside the city <of Lachish >, either to the Captain of the Guard at Lachish, or to whoever was in command of the city, probably just before it was captured by Nebu- chadnezzar, King of Babylon <about 6oo B. C.> .... The foregoing results, of the decipherment made of the Lachish letters up to the present time, in- dicate that they are the most valuable documents which have yet been found in Biblical archaeology

The Fortnightly-May, Imagination in Archaeology, Stanley Casson ["Guesswork, behind which is a long and patient history of study, research, and compari- son, is the conclusion of a process, not its inception, and guesswork becomes as illicit as it becomes im- proper when the guesser is not so equipped or when the hypothesis on which his guesswork is based is not founded on a proper knowledge and arrangement of the facts.... The particular claim of the Diffusionists that Egypt was the tountain-head of all things is slowly but inevitably being whittled away by the in- crease of knowledge....; August, English Liter- ature and the Latin Tradition, G. K. Chesterton ["The Latin culture lives in Britain in the uncultured people.... The old influence of the southern civili- zation had sunk so deep in Britain from the begin- ning, that it was really almost as impossible to weed out the Latin culture from England as to weed it out from Italy.... The best, the most responsible and re- spectable sort of Englishman will no longer be per- suaded that his highest boast is being related to a few Danish pirates. Rather will he stand up, with ten centuries of his civilization behind him, and say those words which Shakespeare put into the mouth of one of the noblest of his characters; 'I'm more the antique Roman than the Dane'.... " 1.

Golden Book Magazine August, Fervent Lover, <Ca- tullus, > Richard Crashaw [this is a verse translation of Catullus 5 1.

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72 THE CLASSICAL WEEKLY [VOL. XXIX, No. 9, WHOLE No. 781

Harpers Magazine-May, Herculaneum Yesterday and To-day, E. V. Lucas [". . . the houses above <ancient Herculaneum> are of yesterday, and this time, even without personal ocular proof, I think it safe to assert that there is not a single object in any one of them which, in the distant future, would be worth any archaeologist's efforts to bring to light. A strange ex- perience to reside in the twentieth century amid trumpery furniture and cheap crockery, telephones and radio-sets, and to know that in the dark earth far below are annihilated homes where, although civilization as we think of it did not exist, everything is beautiful "' ].

The Hibbert Journal-April, Christianity and Hellen- ism, Richard W. Livingstone [regarding the relation of Christianity to the cultured achievement of Greece the view of the Church has been " . .. that Christianity is neither a cancellation of nor a declension from Hellenism, but a development and completion of it, that it enlarged the Greek conception of man, de- fined more fully the idea of God. and emphasized more justly the place of religion in life.... "1; July, Sur- vey of Recent Theological Literature, James Moffatt.

The Illustrated London News-March i6, Pottery From a Persian Site Occupied for Many Centuries B. C.: Fresh Discoveries at Syalck, R. Ghirshman [fourteen photographic illustrations accompanied by a descriptive note. " . . This picturesquely situated hill, near the town of Kashan, was inhabited from the fourth to the beginning of the first millennium B. C., and contains vestiges of divers cultures found at Rey, at Damgan, in the Turcoman plain south-east of the Caspian Sea, and at Susa..]: Greek Pottery in the Auction Room, Frank Davis [with five photo- graphic illustrations]; April 6, New Relics of Ru- manian Prehistory About 2500- I8oo B. C.; Art in Rumania Some 4000 Years Ago: Designs on Clay In- cluding a "Cretan Double-Axe" and a Potter's Mark; Fresh Discoveries at Vidra...., Dinn V. Rosetti [twenty-two photographic illustrations accompanied by a descriptive note]; April 27, A City With Twin Temples of Dagan an Baal: Ras Shamra Yields Fresh Treasure to the Spade; New Discoveries Concerning the God Whose Temple Samson Pulled Down Upon Himself and the Philistines, Claude F. A. Schaeffer [with twenty-eight photographic illustrations]; May I8, Byzantium and the West: Being an Appreciation <, favorable, of D. Talbot Rice,> "Byzantine Art" [with four photographic illustrations 1; June 8, A Transition Period in Ptolemaic Egypt: Fresh Evi- dence of Greek Influence in Middle Egypt; Discov- eries in Architecture and Wall-Painting at the Cos- mopolitan City of Hermopolis, Sami Gabra [with seven photographic illustrations. ". .. The discovery of the Oedipus fresco at Hermopolis last year, in a building at the necropolis, afforded ground for assum- ing the considerable influence of Greek civilisation in this province of Middle Egypt far away from Alex-

andria. This hypothesis has now been confirmed by the new discoveries of last winter....']; June 29,

Appreciation, favorable, by C. K. A., of Arthur Evans, The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Ac- count of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilisations as Illustrated by the Discoveries of Knossos, Volume IV, in two parts [with fifteen photo- graphic illustrations, four drawings, and one plan I; July 6, Finds From Biblical Lachish: A City of Changing Fortunes on the Westem Frontier of Ju- dah, J. L. Starkey [thirteen photographic illustra- tions and:two drawings]; July 27, The Roman Pave- ment at Woodchester Reopened for Public Inspec- tion: A General View. . .of the Largest Mosaic in England, and... a Closer View [two photographic illustrations with a caption]; August 3, "The Aphro- dite of Marseilles" Found to be Divided Between Lyons and Athens: The Statue Reconstructed From the Fragments in France and Greece, Humfry Payne [seven photographic illustrations. "Not long ago, Mr. Humphry Payne, working in the Acropolis Museum, Athens, came to the conclusion that the lower part of an archaic Greek statue exhibited there, with two joining pieces of its left arm, belonged to the head and upper part of the body which are the fragmentary 'Aphrodite of Marseilles' in the Museum of Lyons .... " ]; Hellenistic Tombs Under a British Camp in Egypt: Discoveries in the Mustapha Pasha Necrop- olis, Near Alexandria [four photographic illustrations accompanied by a descriptive note]; August IO, The Lachish Letters; and an Alphabetic "Missing Link": Military Despatches of Biblical Inscriptions One Thousand Years Older Than the Codex Sinaiticus, J. L. Starkey [with twelve photographic illustrations, two drawings, and "A Chart Showing the Different Forms of the Characters Used in the Lachish Letters ...."1; August I7, Neanderthal Man in the Tiber Valley: How the Second Skull of This Type To Be Found in Italy Came to Light in a Quarry Near Rome After Having Lain Buried For, Perhaps, 40,000 Years, unsigned [two photographic illustrations ac- companied by a descriptive note].

L'Illustration-July 6, Les Mosaiques de Sainte-Sophie, Marc-Andr6 Fabre [with two photographic illustra- tions ].

Isis-June, Review, uncritical, by Charles A. Kofoid, of Werner Jaeger, Aristotle: Fundamentals of the His- tory of His Development, Translated, with the Au- thor's Corrections and Additions, by Richard Robin- son; Review, descriptive, by Ch'arles A. Kofoid, of Robert T. Gunter, The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides, Illustrated by a Byzantine A. D. 512, Englished by John Goodyer A. D. i6.55, Edited and First Printed A. D. I933; Review, summarizing and favorable, by George Sarton, of V. Gordon Childe, New Light on the Most Ancient East.

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, ADOLPH F. PAULI MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT

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