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H. PUGH. EPISCOPAL CONFIRMATIONS AT BOW CHURCH (7th S. x. 483).—G. M. E. asks a question about a story of a threatened opposition to the confirmation of a certain bishop, and says, "Henry Venn never lived in London, or he is just the man to have done it." Your correspondent is nearer the mark than he thinks. It was the Rev. Richard Venn, of St. Antholin's, London, the father of Henry Venn, who threatened a public opposition to the appointment of Dr. Rundle to the bishopric of Gloucester. His opposition was successful, and though Dr. Rundle was an intimate friend of the Lord Chancellor, the appointment was not made. The latter part of G. M. E.'s note seems, as you suggest, to be founded on the story of Andrew Marvell; but it is quite true that attempts were made both to bribe Mr. Venn and to deter him by threats from persisting in his opposition.

and country life, namely, 'What Will He Do thought such is the case from his knowledge of With It?' which first appeared in Blackwood's history. W. J. BIRCH. Magazine in 1857. Mr. Merle, the person I have referred to—who, by-the-by, "loved to talk out of nected. Such a sedentary occupation gives more Leather and atheism have always been conthe common way"-thus unburdens himself with respect to the superiority of his calling, intellectually, compared with that of a tailor:-"I'm for the old times; my neighbour, Joe Spruce, is for the new, and says we are all a progressing. But he's a pink-I'm a blue. I'm a Tory, Spruce is a Rad. And what is more to the purpose, he is a tailor, and I am a cobbler. You see, sir," quoth the cobbler, "that a man's business has a deal to do with his manner of thinking. Every trade, I take it, has ideas as belong to it. Butchers don't see life as bakers do; and if you talk to a dozen tallow-chandlers, then to a dozen blacksmiths, you will see tallow-chandlers are peculiar, and blacksmiths too."-" You are a keen observer," replied the hero of the novel admiringly; "your remark is new to me; I dare say it is true."- "Of course it is; and the stars have summat to do with it, for if they order a man's calling, it stands to reason they order a man's mind to fit it. Now a tailor sits on his board with others, and is always a talking with 'em, and a reading the news; therefore he thinks as his fellows do, smart and sharp, bang up to the day, but nothing 'riginal and all his own like. But a cobbler," continued the man of leather, with a majestic air, "sits by hisself, and talks with hisself; and what he thinks gets into his head without being put there by another man's tongue."-"You enlighten me more and more," said our friend with the nose in the air, bowing respectfully; "a tailor is gregarious, a cobbler solitary. The gregarious go with the future, the solitary stick by the past. I understand why you are a Tory, and perhaps a poet."-"Well, a bit of one," said the cobbler, with an iron smile; "and many's the cobbler who is a poet, or discovers marvellous things in a crystal; whereas a tailor, sir [spoken with great contempt], only sees the upper leather of the world's sole in a newspaper." (Vide vol. i. pp. 8 and 9, Knebsworth edition, Messrs. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1875.) HENRY GERALD HOPE.

6, Freegrove Road, N. "Somehow it always is journeymen shoemakers who do these things [self-suffocation by charcoal?]. I wonder what the reason is. Something in the leather, I suppose."-Mrs. Nickleby (quoted from memory).

JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

The connexion between leather and atheism is n 'The Revolt of Man,' by Mr. Besant, chap. x., "The First Spark." "It is a very odd thing," said the professor, when he heard the story, "that cobblers have always been atheists." The relation is not between leather and atheism, as reported in the Pall Mall Budget, but between cobblers and atheism. We may suppose that Mr. Besant

HENRY VENN, Vicar of Sittingbourne. BARON HUDDLESTON (7th S. x. 487).-The collar of SS. is, or was, worn by the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the Kings of Arms, the Heralds, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the Sergeant-Trumpeter. As a Justice of the Queen's Bench, Baron Huddleston would not have worn the collar of SS.

ALBERT HARtshorne.

LANCERS (7th S. x. 448, 495).-Whatever may be the case as to Paris in 1836, ten years before I knew the Lancers, and I heard the terms applied on the stage to a dance of devils (qy. at the Adelphi ?). HYDE CLARKE.

SWEDISH BAPTISMAL FOLK-LORE (7th S. x. 135, 236).—In Nidderdale, in Yorkshire, nightjars are known by the name of "gabble ratchets," and the people say that these birds contain the souls of infants that have never received baptism, and that, in consequence, are doomed to be perpetually wandering through the air.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

SUTTON WARWICK (7th S. x. 468).-After the Norman invasion the Conqueror retained in his possession the woods of Sutton-Coldfield, which had belonged to Edwine, Earl of Mercia, in the time of Edward the Confessor. The woods, which extended beyond the limits of the county, continued to form part of the royal demesnes till the time of Henry I., who granted them to Roger, Earl of Warwick, in exchange for the manors of Hockham and Lorgham, in Rutlandshire. The manor subsequently became the property of

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near Easington, in the county of Durham, who Richard Neville in right of Anne his wife, and, on his taking part with Henry VI., was seized by came into possession of the manor of Mainsforth, Edward IV. and granted to Sir Edward Mount-near Bishop Middleham, in the same county. His fort, one of the king's barons, for ten years, the son, another Robert Lynn, died (see Surtees's History of Durham,' vol. i. p. 276 and vol. iii. rangership of the chase being given to John Holt, Esq., for life. The property was afterwards settled p. 20) either in 1744 or 1745, and was my grandon the daughters of Lady Anne Neville, and father's grandfather, as I mentioned in 'N. & Q.,' me that there was a tradition in the family eventually came to the Crown by special grant, 7th S. ii. 288. I remember my father telling confirmed by Parliament. The manor-house was then taken down by one of the king's officers, who that a previous generation came from the county of W. T. LYNN. sold most of the materials to the Marquis of Dorset, Northumberland into Durham, so that relationship for the erection of his seat at Broadgate, in to William Lynne of Cambridgeshire is unlikely. Leicester. The chase and manor subsequently became the property of Harman, alias Vesey, Bishop of Exeter, and a native of Sutton-Coldfield, who, in the nineteenth year of the reign of Henry VIII., gave them to the Corporation of Sutton to be held by them at a fee farm rent of 581. per annum, and threw open the chase for the benefit of the poor. King John was the last monarch who took the diversion of hunting in the chase, which stretched from the river Tame to the river Bourne (See Dugdale's' Antiquities of Warwick '). WILLIAM GILMORE.

118, Gower Street, W.C.

"The chase of Sutton Warwick," according to Brayley's map of the county, must be the same as Sutton Park, a well wooded and watered tract of land, in which the inhabitants of Sutton Coldfield, or Colefield, had-and for aught I know have still "A rider of the -the privilege of free pasture. chase" I take to have been the king's agent, the ranger, an office that sometimes, as at Enfield Chase, included those of master of the game, woodward, bailiff, and one of the keepers. (Vide Robinson's 'Enfield,' vol. i. p. 204.)

H. G. GRIFFINHOOFE.

34, St. Petersburg Place, W. PALLAVICINI AND CROMWELL (7th S. x. 445, 497).—I thank LADY RUSSELL for her reply, which an answer to my query. It is, however, not gives some interesting particulars respecting the family of Pallavicini, but not of the relationship of the members mentioned to the Cardinal of that

name.

Blackheath,

GEORGE SAND'S PROVINCIALISMS (7th S. x. 449). -MR. BOUCHIER will probably find what he requires in 'Vocabulaire du Berry et de Quelques Cantons Voisins,' par Un Amateur du Vieux Langage, Paris, 1842. Probably it is now out J. G. ANDERSON. of print; if so, I shall be pleased to let MR. BOUCHIER Consult my copy.

Helvetia, Mountview Road, Finsbury Park, N.

BERKSHIRE INCUMBENTS (7th S. x. 448).-MR. SHERWOOD will do well to consult the Index of Institutions, in the Round Room of the Public Record Office, where the institutions are entered according to dioceses.

Q. V.

MR. SHERWOOD will find in the Bishops' Certificates of Institutions, Salisbury diocese (1580-1838), at the Public Record Office, numerous entries relating to the Berkshire clergy.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

34, Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell.

RAINBOW FOLK-LORE (7th S. x. 366, 471).-In Dorset, where I was brought up, half a century ago, the secondary rainbow was called the "watergull," and supposed necessary to make the weather sign I heard of no attempts to a satisfactory one. "cross out" or get rid of the bow; but one that was seen alone, or with only an imperfect "watergull," was deemed unlucky. In one of the Chaldean E. L. G. flood-stories the bow is called "sign of the great arches," whether dual or plural I have not heard.

BISHOP OF SODOR and Man (7th S. x. 487).— With regard to LADY RUSSELL'S last paragraph, I had no thought of my own ancestry when I He had, and has, his place in the island legislature. penned my query. It is quite certain that I am This is why he has no vote in the House of Lords, not lineally descended from William Lynne, of though in courtesy he is given a seat. However, I Bassingbourne, Cambridgeshire, who was the first have read this is outside the bar; and, if so, no husband of the Protector's mother, since (see my wonder he likes not to sit in it. As to his speakown reference to this in 6th S. iii. 184) he died the ing, I am not sure; but it would seem that this same year (1589) as his only child, an infant is (to some extent at least) "interfering in the C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. daughter. Whether there is any collateral relation-proceedings" of the House, and therefore that he ship I am quite unable to say. the name, of course, does not disprove it, as that termination seems to have been almost optional in those days. But I cannot trace my own ancestry further back than to Robert Lynn, of Shotton,

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WORDS IN WORCESTERSHIRE WILLS (7th S. x. 369, 473).-Chafe-bed.-Not "chaff-bed," but surely

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It seems to me impossible to interpret flitches of byest as "beast," "beef." Possibly it is a miswriting or a misreading for "gyest," or "gyste," or 'gist," payment for pasturage, then used of things given in such payment. Cf. the word Giste in 'Catholicon Anglicum,' p. 157, where some instances of the word are given in the note. In the Household Book of the L'Estranges,' A.D. 1519, occurs, "iiii conyes and a loyn of veile of gyste," and this is not the only passage, as two curlews are "of gyste," "iii spowes of gist. O. W. TANCOCK.

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Little Waltham,

ST. MILDRED'S CHURCH, POULTRY (7th S. viii. 443, 496; ix. 3, 113, 154, 190, 312, 435).—A reference to 6th S. viii. 105 will show that Mr. J. Fytche, of Thorpe Hal', near Louth, Lincolnshire, happened in June, 1872, to see this church in process of destruction, and thereupon bought it from the destroying contractor, and shipped the materials to his estate. There they remained, in his own words,

"lying in a green field near my house, called St. Katharine's Garth, from an old priory of St. Katharine which formerly stood there, and which I hope some day to rebuild as my domestic chapel."

I trust this intention has long since been carried out. Pity it is that so admirable, reverent, and pious an example has not always been followed in this country. If Englishmen will not act thus, it is to be hoped that whenever any other of our venerable public buildings is removed-whether by a railway company, a town council, or other vandals-some spirited American, possessing both culture and capital, may jump at the opportunity, and carry off the remains for re-erection in his own country. Such an opportunity lately threatened in the city of Worcester, but will, I trust, be averted by the prompt action of the local Committee for the Preservation of the Old Galleried House in the Trinity, treasurer, Mr. A. C. Cherry, Old Bank, Worcester.

The

JOHN W. BONE, F.S.A. HERALDIC (7th S. x. 327).—In the Sacrament House, or Ambry, at Airlie Church, Forfarshire, the arms of the Fenton family (three crescents) occur in the manner referred to by A. M. explanation is that the stone (which forms the back of the ambry) bearing the arms has been pilfered from some previously existing structure, and used in a careless manner by being turned upside down. T. Ross.

"EVERY BULLET HAS ITS BILLET" (5th S. viii. 68). At this reference the proverb-if such it is,

for it is not in common collections of proverbs-is attributed to King William III. I have seen just now a somewhat similar expression, but without the rhyming termination, in Gascoigne's 'The Fruites of Warre' (67):—

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,
That every bullett hath a lighting place.
ED. MARSHALL.

HENRI II. (7th S. x. 462).-Charles the Good, Count of Flanders, was murdered in the church of St. Donatian at Bruges on March 2, 1127 :

"The news, it was thought, flew over the world with miraculous celerity. The count was murdered on Wednesday morning, and the event was known in London, we are told, by the sunrise of the second day; and towards evening of the same day the inhabitants of Laon, in the opposite direction, also knew it. Galbert says he had these facts in the one case from students of his town, who were at that time studying at Laon; in the other, from merchants of Bruges who were on business in London."- Life of St. Bernard,' by J. C. Morison, 1877, p. 102.

W. C. B.

FREEMASON'S CHARGE (7th S. x. 449).-The two most learned Masonic experts living are W. J. Hughan, Esq., Torquay, and R. F. Gould, Esq., 8, St. Bartholomew's Road, W., either of whom would afford MR. HAMILTON any information he may require. The "T. W. Tew" MS. at the Masonic Museum, Wakefield, which contains the ancient charges and constitutions, very much resembles the MS. described by MR. HAMILTON, of which it may be a duplicate copy, although the date assigned to the Tew MS. is circa 1680. It would be interesting to compare the two MSS.

J. R. DORE, P.Z., P.P.G.D.

If MR. WALTER HAMILTON will write to Mr.

W. J. Hughan, Torquay, describing his MS. and giving any particulars he may possess as to its present and former ownership, he is certain to receive a courteous reply. Mr. Hughan takes the greatest interest in such documents. He was the pioneer of the modern school of Masonic historians.

E. S. N.

The charges form an important part of the work of the Freemasons, as may be seen in W. Preston's 'Illustrations of Masonry,' London, 1796, in which there is one of James I.'s reign, Companion,' containing, as appears in the title, note pp. 96-9; also in the Freemason's Pocket

A Collection of Charges, Constitutions, Orders, Regulations, Songs." The running title of pp. 128be learnt about the early literature of Freemasons 148 is "The Charges of a Freemason." Much may from these works.

ED. MARSHALL.

"SHEPSTER TIME" (7th S. x. 425).-Here the starling is known as the "shepster." I seldom hear it called by any other name. HERBERT HARDY.

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. Davison's Poetical Rhapsody. Edited by A. H. Bullen. 2 vols. (Bell & Sons.)

SCHOLARS, antiquaries, and lovers of our early literature who have hailed with delight the appearance of Mr. Bullen's gleanings from Elizabethan poets and songwriters will learn with regret that the two volumes now issued close the series of his lyrical anthologies. We have vainly sought to combat this decision, and we must yield to Mr. Bullen's judgment, He has given which is as unfailing as his taste. us two volumes of lyrics from Elizabethan songbooks, one from Elizabethan romances, and one from To these have to be added Elizabethan dramatists. his two volumes of love-songs, his Campion (a munificent gift), and his English Helicon.' These are followed by the Poetical Rhapsody,' leaving only the Phoenix' Nest,' the best portions of which he has used. To demand more is, we own, greedy; but "if it be a sin to covet" more such books, we will contest with Hotspur the right to be considered the worst offender alive. Something in the shape of consolation comes in the thought that the leisure now acquired may enable Mr. Bullen to make progress with his edition of the Eliza bethan dramatists. More imperiously, perhaps, than any book of Elizabethan times is a new and authoritative edition of Beaumont and Fletcher demanded.

To students of early literature Davison's Poetical Rhapsody' has been known in the edition published by Sir Egerton Brydges at the Lee Priory Press in 1814 in three volumes, or in that from Sir Harris Nicolas in two volumes, which followed in 1826. In literary merit Mr. Bullen regards it as inferior to England's Helicon'; in other respects it is, he holds, the most valuable of our old anthologies. In case of the destruction of England's Helicon,' almost the whole of its contents might be restored from printed books. The greater portion of the Rhapsody 'is, however, from unpublished writings, and its destruction "would mean the irretrievable loss of much excellent poetry."

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Among the contributors to the book is Sir Walter Raleigh, who, besides sending 'The Lie,' a thoroughly powerful and characteristic poem-which Mr. Bullen says unreservedly must be assigned to Raleigh, though the theory is contradicted by facts that he wrote it the night before his execution-adds one or two shorter poems. Edmund Spenser has one or two contributions of no very special merit. Sir Philip Sydney sends some verses which bear unmistakable proofs of authorship. His influence is felt through the volume, which is full of tears over his loss and manifestations of friendliness and admiration. Sir John Davies; Thomas Watson, who, according to Heywood,

wrote

Able to make Apollo's self to dote; Donne; Henry Constable, the Catholic poet and exile; Sir Henry Wotton, who lived to praise the "Doric delicacy" of Milton's Comus'; and Thomas Campion are among those who send poems. The most voluminous writer is a certain A. W., whom neither Sir Harris Nicolas nor Mr. Bullen has been able to identify. Mr. Linton hazards a not very satisfactory conjecture that the initials may stand for "anonymous writer." Concerning this man and the two Davison's, the sons of Secretary Davison, one of whom, Francis, is the editor of the book, we must leave Mr. Bullen to speak. That Mr. Bullen's introduction, arrangement, and notes are all models in their way, readers of N. & Q' have learned to expect. His book is, indeed, one of those possessions to which the owner clings. As is the case

with all books from the same source, it is issued in a
strictly limited edition, the copies being all numbered
and the type already distributed. In all respects of
get-up, moreover, it is perfect. By readers of a genera-
tion hence these handy beautiful volumes will be eagerly
collected, and at no distant time they will be rarities. In
bidding adieu to the garden in which he has long dwelt,
Mr. Bullen speaks of the enjoyment he has experienced-
as much, it is to be hoped, as that he has communicated
and quotes two lines from a masque writer, which are
quite in the line of the 'Poetical Rhapsody ':

Who would not hear the nightingale still sing;
Or who grew ever weary of the spring?
Warren Hastings. By Capt. L. J. Trotter. (Clarendon
Press.)
THE majority of readers who are not specialists in
Indian history are probably content to take their
estimate of Warren Hastings's career from Lord
Macaulay's brilliant essay. To the hasty and sweeping
generalizations of that clever piece of writing Capt.
Trotter supplies the antidote in a sober, matter-of-fact
relation which will serve to redress the wrongs of a
much maligned statesman. For if ever man was the
victim of partisan rhetoric-first at the hands of Burke
and Sheridan, and afterwards at the hands of the
picturesque historian-that man was certainly Hastings.
multiplication, we are surprised to find how the cruel
Even in these days of party exaggeration and political
butchery and expatriation of the Rohilla families to the
number of half a million, over which much fine im-
passioned invective has been expended, shrinks on
examination into the mere expulsion of a few Pathan
chiefs with their people from the country which they
had recently conquered, while Hastings did his best to
mitigate their sufferings. Apart from his public actions,
win the affections of another man's wife, and then to
that it was consistent with a character for honour to
buy over the collusion of the needy husband and provide
the money required for the divorce suit in order that
complaisantly as Capt. Trotter appears to do. The
he might himself marry the divorcée, few will admit so
writer has taken full advantage of the new matter and
Forrest's Letters, Despatches, and other State Papers
original records published this year in Mr. G. W.
(Foreign) of the Government of India, 1772-1785,' which
gives a special value to his little book.
Catalogue of Early Belfast Printed Books, 1694-1830.

Compiled by John Anderson, F.G.S. (Belfast Library.) MR. ANDERSON, the honorary secretary to the Linen Hall Library, has issued a new and enlarged edition of this work, a valuable contribution to Scottish bibliothe title of every book known to have been printed in graphy. It is believed that the Catalogue contains Belfast between the years 1694 and 1830.

An Account of the Conduct and Proceedings of the
Pirate Gow. By Daniel Defoe. (Sotheran & Co.)
Sotheran for this reprint than are admirers of Defoe.
READERS of Scott will be no less indebted to Messrs.
The book, of which a limited edition is issued, is
That the work, which is anony-
reprinted from a tract, apparently unique, in the
British Museum.

It has all
mous, is by Defoe admits of no question.
signs of his style, and has been accepted by all autho-
rities. Very forcible and graphic is the account given
of Gow, who, after the initial murders were committed
been a milder man than most of his associates. In the
which gave him possession of his ship, seems to have
high-handed proceedings among the Orkney Isles which
found. In the character of Cleveland, Scott has not
led to his capture and death the principal interest is

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very greatly sentimentalized the character of Gow, fornia, The Missions of Alta California,' and 'A Rowhose story he had learned from Bessie Millie, a Strom-mance of Morgan's Rough Riders' are excellent.-Mr. ness sibyl, who herself sat for Norna of the Fitful Head. W. J. Lawrence sends to the Gentleman's America in Gow was twice hanged, the rope breaking with him England,' a good summary of the American actors who the first time after he had been hanging for four have appeared in England. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald writes minutes. He is said to have remounted the ladder with about Spa,' and Mr. J. E. Taylor on Rambles among very little concern. A few good notes add to the value Algerian Hills.'-' Recollections of an Octogenarian Civil Servant' begins in Temple Bar, and gives a fair account of a judicious reprint. of life early in the century. A slight sketch of Havana is also readable.-Mr. W. J. Hardy sends to Belgravia a paper on Lord Melbourne,' and Mr. Maclean one on 'Christina of Sweden.'-Canon Overton contributes to Longman's an account of Lincolnshire which is in part a review of the new guide-book to that county recently noticed in our columns.-In the English Illus trated the Dean of Gloucester gives a capital paper, illustrated, on La Grande Chartreuse. Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's paper on Bookbinding' will interest our readers. Mr. Tristram's 'Cabs and their Drivers,' illustrated by Mr. Hugh Thomson, catches well the spirit of the day. -The ghost of Joe Haynes, if, after two to three hundred years, he revisits the earth, must be interested to find himself described, in Curiosities of Gaming,' which appears in the Cornhill, as a sharper. That of Charles II. also might be perplexed to find it was at cards, not bowls, that he offered to stake his soul against an orange (!), and was taken up by Rochester. These are not the only Winter on Exmoor' and' A Secret Religion' are readpeople with whom the article deals somewhat flippantly. is its title. The Sun has the usual variety of contents. able. The worst thing about A Pompeii in Bohemia

A SECOND volume of Le Livre Moderne is concluded in the number for December 10, which does not make its appearance until near the close of the month. Most interesting among its contents is the article on Portraits et Charges d'Alexandre Dumas Père. Nearly a score of portraits or caricatures of the great romancer, showing him at various ages, are given, and with the accompanying letterpress constitute a great attraction. Under the title Lueurs Littéraires' further autographs of interest are supplied. M. Gausseron has a causerie on recent books, and an account is given of the late meeting of the Académie des Beaux Livres. Quite fin de siècle is M. Uzanne, in whose hands Le Livre Moderne is. He does not intend to run it interminably, but after a year or two more will bring it to a close and replace it with something still more novel.

'SHUT UP IN THE AFRICAN FOREST,' in the Ninteenth Century, is a record of the dangers, sufferings, and privations experienced by Lieut. Stairs while waiting for Stanley. Of all foes, and they were numerous, the most dreaded appear to have been the most diminutive, namely, ants, concerning whose numbers and variety some remarkable experiences are narrated Random Roaming,' by Dr. Jessopp, gives an interesting semi-antiquarian account of spots of historical association in Sussex. Mr. Norman Pearson comes forward as an upholder of some form of Animal Immortality.' Dr. Kingsbury writes on Hypnotism, Crime, and the Doctors,' and Viscount Vert and Vinery.' - The Fortnightly, Lymington on which reaches us late, contains a poem by Mr. Swinburne, an account by Mr. Gosse of Ibsen's new drama, and Scientific Sins.'-In the New Review are some "Further Newly Discovered Papers by De Quincey." That on Why the Pagans could not invest their Gods with any Iota of Grandeur' is a wonderfully characteristic and scholarly production. A second, on Great Forgers,' deserves also to be preserved. Sir John The Starved Lubbock defends warmly Free Libraries.' Government Department,' by Lady Dilke, is a response to a previous paper on The Hard Case of the Labour Statistical Department of the Board of Trade.' While agreeing with her predecessor as to the expediency of having "frequently published statistics of all branches of labour, domestic and foreign," the writer would have the hands of the present labour correspondent strengthened.-In Macmillan's, Two Treatises on the Sublime' deals, as may be supposed, with Longivius and Burke, the latter of whom is sacrificed to the former. Burke's treatise is, we are told, "a mine of stale paradoxes and Night in the Cromarty Firth' exploded paradoxes." deals with sport.-'A Tour in Burmah,' by B. C. F., in Murray's, depicts our new possession as an enchanting spot for a visit. Mr. Arthur Waugh writes on 'The Poetry of Mr. Lewis Morris,' and Mr. Morley Roberts begins a series of papers on "Great Steamship Lines," the first being on The Western Ocean.' In the Century the great feature

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the series of extracts from

the Memoirs of Prince Talleyrand,' which begins in the present volume. For the historian the memoirs have much value and interest. So far as concerns the general public, it may be doubted whether they have not been too long kept. Among the illustrated contents, Along the Lower James,'' Pioneer Spanish Families in Cali

THE first number is issued of the Ladder, a sixpenny review of politics, literature, and art. An article on The Gold of Rabelais,' of which the first part appears, scarcely comes up to its title.

THE third volume of the sixpenny novels of Scott (A. & C. Black) is The Antiquary.

THE members of the Harleian Society have just had issued to them two volumes of Allegations for Marriage Licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury,' extending from July, 1679, to June, 1694, and edited by George J. Armytage, Esq., F.S.A., Honorary Secretary to the Harleian Society. Many notable entries occur in the books, which are of great value to genealogists.

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