undertaking building. One such occasion was that of a fire at the stables of, I believe, Messrs. Tilling, and M. Mouchel called upon the architect, but I don't know the result. One of the early-not the earliest works undertaken by M. Mouchel was the construction, with that principle, of a ball-room at the French Embassy (? 1901 or 2). Further, at the same date, M. Mouchel had in his possession photographs of demonstrations (made in Cairo, I think, for the postal authorities there) shewing that in a building of ferro-concrete any fire of contents was isolated, and also that structurally, under strains and stresses, ferro-concrete was not only equal, but I believe, superior to girders not so treated. I knew M. Mouchel personally (he died, I think, in 1909) but the firm he founded, L. G. Mouchel and Partners, may still exist. W. B. 18 a "BRITISHER Winnetka, Illinois. PAUL MCPHARLIN. The Library. Travels in Spain and the East, 1808-1810. By HIS travelier was the sixth son of Erasmus a book of travels in which misfortunes fall thicker, or more numerous gruesome encounters occur. The mere hardship increased by the war-might have daunted many a traveller; but hardship is obliterated to the mind by fearful perils to life and limb, the actuality of which is brought home by the deaths, early in the journey, of all those who set out with Francis Darwin, excepting Theodore Galtonand Galton himself died on the homeward with the plague. In spite of a thousand diffijourney, in the Lazaretti at Malta, smitten culties and terrifying experiences, and the witnessing of grim tragedies, Darwin pressed on to Constantinople, Troy, Smyrna. He makes no attempt at fine writing, but, seeing an extraordinary amount, he sets down simply what he sees and packs his diary with and curiosities so close on one another that the " as facts ELEPHANT AS A CHRISTIAN NAME reader may hardly do them justice. The (clii. 423). It was formerly the custom more than it is now, to give children names found in the Bible.. It was considered lucky to have a Bible name. I have heard of some humorous results of this custom, and I cannot help thinking that it is possible that Elephant may be added to the list. What about Eliphas, pronounced wrongly by the godparent, and spelled phonetically by the parson? FRANK PENNY. JOHANN HEVELIUS (1611-1687) (clii. 407). It is possible that the distinction of his observatory was brought about by the spite of followers of Hooke, the "unamiable" scientist who quarrelled with Hevelius, and against whom Halley gave judgment. P. B. G. B. writer of the introductory memoir expresses Colingwood, we joined the Fleet off Toulon; and ten or fifteen minutes, he might have been hurled down the steep upon the ice. This use of opium as a stimulant struck us as remarkable, and the editor of the diary comments on it. To what extent is it, or has it been, used in mountain climbing? The Ettrick Shepherd. By Edith C. Batho. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.). THE Ettrick Shepherd has found in Miss Edith Batho a shrewd, careful and kindly judge. So little of his is familiarly known, even to tolerably well-read lovers of literature, that perhaps she will not get all the credit she deserves for the mere feat of having read and judged an immense output of prose and verse, of which, in spite of her freshness of mind and happy tolerance, she is fain to confess that much is feeble, dull and wearisome. For Hogg produced a vast quantity of stuff, and, moreover, the student determined to be acquainted with the whole of it has to search in many and various repositories. No " definitive ' edition of the Shepherd has ever been attempted; nor yet a regular biography. Most people will agree that such works would be waste; but Miss Batho's study may well prompt a suggestion that she should by and by give a full and "definitive" selection of his verse and prose and write what should count as his formal and authoritative Life. Biography in her present book plays a secondary, almost an occasional, part. It is perhaps to be wished that she had chosen to sum up the results of her reading of Hogg in a set critical piece, estimating his place and merits. There is not, indeed, a great deal to be said; and, in particular, the question of development, one for thorough discussion in the case of many writers, is here seen reduced to a minimum; but still, a book wants rounding up; and then, she pronounces so well and wisely on details that her pronouncement on the man as a whole would be interesting to have. However, we are grateful to her for what will prove to those who purpose reading Hogg a most useful guide, and to those who like to fill up what they do not mean to extend a welcome source of various information. A good deal of this last is concerned with the Shepherd's habit of adapting or appropriating other people's productions, a curious example of which Miss Batho examines for the first time in the imitations he made of Moore's Irish Melodies.' In the story of the publication of the Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott she has unravelled a small piece of literary history worth getting as straight as we can, though we are bound to add that we think she is far too lenient in her judgment of the Shepherd in regard to it. She gives an Appendix on the authenticity of Auld Maitland and on Otterburn. The Bibliography is a valuable piece of work on which much labour has been expended. 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Memorabilia. who at that FEW finds in the way of pictures have ever long paper, lavishly illustrated with facsimiles, on an old medical book 'The Byrth of Mankynde,' written in Germany and translated into Latin, which began its career in England in 1540 and was reprinted for the last time in 1654, having appeared in a great number of editions between the two. Besides the bibliographical information, the paper gives particulars of the different printers and publishers who dealt with the book. Thomas Raynolde, who edited an edition in 1545, and has his name on every subsequent title-page, is the most important. Medicine is represented by 130 tracts in the library of Dover Priory, Hippocrates and Galen the great authorities. Mr. C. R. Haines's analysis of the contents of this Library from the catalogue which survived the dissolution and has been in great part printed by Dr. M. R. James, is of quite outstanding interest. About a score of the volumes belonging to it are known to be still in existence-it had contained 450. As Mr. Haines shows in his careful account of them, several are MSS. of considerable importance. SWALING, the manorial right of burning gorse for fuel and to improve the pasturage, was the subject of legal proceedings before the Dunster Bench which, as recorded at clii. 415 reserved their decision. We have now to add the satisfactory postscript that on July 1 the magistrates dismissed the for unlawfully lighting a fire on So far, so good; but what is the relation between swaling and fuidge? FROM time to time Joanna Southcott and summons the common. organised the Exhibition had ecclesiastical authority to enter the houses of cloistered religious, and examine their treasures. her box (or boxes) have engaged the Accordingly this picture, hanging dirt- attention of our readers. One of these begrimed in a corridor, was submitted to receptacles was opened on July 11 at the them described as the work of a pupil of Hoare Memorial Hall in the Church House, El Greco. The true authorship was revealed Westminster, under the auspices of the when, by the process of cleaning, the signa-National Laboratory for Psychical Research ture of Velasquez was brought to light. The lines of the painting are said to be hard and the colours crude; but the painting shows clearly the Master's power in expression of character-as, indeed, the photograph reproduced in The Times itself makes plain. THE relation of the plots of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays to incidents in real life offers many interesting points for study. A new example will be found in the current Library, where Mr. Charles Sisson gives the first instalment of his article on a lost play of Dekker's which weaves together two stories of real life-both of them sufficiently revolting. Sir D'Arcy Power contributes a and in the presence of one Bishop, the Bishop of Grantham. Descriptions and photographs of the contents have appeared so widely in the press that it will suffice here merely to record the fact for purposes of reference. Joanna Southcott's admirers must be thrown into some perplexity, we fear, by the appearance of this little jumble of insignificant objects. IN the Translations of the Glasgow Archeo logical Society N.S. vol. viii Pt. i will be found the paper read to the Society on Dec. 18, 1924 by Dr. W. G. Black, the President, on How to Compile a Pedigree in Scotland. As one would expect this con |