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EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings Corporation Reference Library.

Henry V. that there were enough of the enemy to kill, enough to take prisoners, and enough to run away. Gam died of wounds received in the battle, but according to some accounts he lingered for several months (see Williams's 'Eminent WelshE. W. men').

tion is not reported, might be considered conclusive that it never was made. Surely such a remarkable case could never have been omitted. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. Foleshill Hall, Longford, Coventry. Such an application was certainly made by Mr. Capel Lofft. The process was found to be inBorrow, in his delightful book, 'Wild Wales,' applicable to an alien. An attempt was made to sub-chap. lxxix., gives a short account of Dafydd Gam, poena Napoleon as a witness in an action for libel, from which I extract the following particulars. but this also fell through; and Lord Keith pre- Gam was a petty chieftain of Breconshire, who vented the attorney from serving the writ. See owed his surname to a personal deformity. He Hazlitt's 'Life' and Bussy's 'History.' was, however, a man of immense strength. Early in life he was driven from his own country for killing a man named Big Richard of Slwch in the High Street of Aber Honddu (Brecon), and took service under John of Gaunt, for whose son, Henry Bolingbroke, he conceived a violent friendship. Henry, upon his accession to the throne, restored Gam to his possessions, and gave him employments of great trust and profit on the Welsh border. He was thus brought into conflict with Owain Glyndwr, whose insurrection against Henry he so violently resented that he swore "by the nails of God" to assassinate him, and actually went to Machynlleth for the purpose; but his design being discovered, he was seized and thrown into prison, where he remained until the fall of Glyndwr. His subsequent achievements under Henry V. in France are well known. C. Č. B.

AMSTERDAM BOURSE OPEN TO CHILDREN (7th S. vi. 447).—Baedeker's Guide to Holland' states that the Exchange is converted into a playground for boys during one week in August and September, the time when the Kermis, or church dedication festival, used to be held. The tradition is that some boys playing there in 1622 discovered a plot of the Spaniards against the city, and that this privilege was granted in commemoration of the event. I have not met with any account of

this in the histories I have consulted. H. B. A. Derby.

A Hollander informs me that fairs are annually held throughout Holland, but of late years they had been discontinued in Amsterdam; and so as not to deprive the children of that city from enjoying the fun of such times, they were allowed to make free of the Bourse, and to disport themselves in the manner described by your correspondent. My informant regards the story of the heroic deed and the accompanying wish as a pure fable.

M. I. J.

'L'Indispensable, Passe-Partout dans les PaysBas,' by J. F. Flöcker, notes, pp. 186-7, concerning the Exchange at Amsterdam:

"L'ancienne Bourse que les Espagnols voulurent faire sauter en 1622 ayant échappé à ce danger par l'intermé diaire d'un enfant alimenté dans un des hospices, ce garçon demanda comme récompense la permission de s'amuser annuellement à la Bourse à faire sonner des fifres, des tambours et des trompettes pendant toute une semaine avec les enfants d'Amsterdam ce qui fut accordé; on observe scrupuleusement cet usage jusqu'à nos jours." ST. SWITHIN.

BATTLE OF AGINCOURT: DAVY GAM (7th S. vi. 444).—David Gam was a gentleman of Breconshire, "whose vision was distorted." He attended the parliament held by Owain Glyndwr at Machynlleth, in 1402, professedly to support his claims, but with the secret intention, it is said, of assassinating the Welsh warrior. The plot was discovered, but Glyndwr was persuaded not to put Gam to death, and he remained a prisoner for ten years. It is related that at Agincourt, where he was knighted for helping to save the king's life, he reported to

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Sir David Gam is stated by Dr. Clark to be of the family of Games of Newton, of the great house of Maenarch. See his fine work, Genealogies of Morgan and Glamorgan.' ARTHUR MEE. Llanelly.

He was Owen Glendower's brother-in-law. A note in French's 'Shakspeareana Genealogica' (p. 121) asserts that some of his descendants" are buried in the church of Llanfrynach, county of Brecon. And in the church of Merthyr-Cynog there is a monument to Roger Gam, dated 1600."

ST. SWITHIN.

HERRICK (7th S. vi. 268, 436, 496).-There were people in England who appreciated Herrick before the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1796. In that amusing book, 'Naps upon Parnassus,' 1658, he is thus noticed :-

And then Flaccus Horace,
He was but a sowr-ass,
And good for nothing but Lyricks:
There's but one to be found
In all English ground

Writes as well; who is hight Robert Herick.
A 3, verso.
Phillips does not "pass him over" in his "Thea-
trum Poetarum,' but gives an average amount of
space to him, and says he was

"not particularly influenc't by any Nymph or Goddess, except his Maid Pru. That which is chiefly pleasant in these Poems, is now and then a pretty Floury and Pastoral

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BEANS IN LEAP YEAR (7th S. vi. 448).This strange superstition that beans grow differently in the pod in leap year from what they do in other years is prevalent in Surrey. My informant, an old labourer, and a native of the county, told me that "in leap year the eye is to the point, in other years to the strig" (i. e., the stalk); and he added that the old men would tell me the same. I have opened several pods of this year's growth, and find the eye is to the point, and probably it will be so next year. The prevalence of the belief in different parts of England is curious.

G. L. G. LORD LISLE'S ASSASSINATION (7th S. vi. 467). -Bp. Burnet's account of the assassination is :"Her [the Lady Lisle's] husband had been a regicide, and was one of Cromwell's lords, and was called the Lord Lisle. He went at the time of the restoration beyond sea, and lived at Lausanne. But these desperate Irishmen hoping by such a service to make their fortunes, went thither, and killed him as he was going to church; and being well mounted and ill pursued, got into France." Hist. His Own Time,' A.D. 1685, vol. iii. p. 59, Ox., 1823.

ED. MARSHALL.

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ROLLING A BALL DOWN THE TABLE AFTER DINNER (7th S. vi. 489).-Your correspondent's second instance seems a relic of the ancient days when the ball was the stake played for in country matches, and the act of rolling it down the table after dinner was probably the method adopted to exhibit the trophy. In my young days it was always understood that the winners of the match kept the ball, and every match, of course, was played with a new one. ROBERT GODfrey. [Is there any connexion with the proverbial advice in Yorkshire to keep the ball rolling; that is, do not let the fun of a meeting flag ?]

WESTMINSTER LIBRARY (7th S. ii. 447; vi. 240, 298).-The book to which MR. JOHN AVERY, Jun., referred me deals only with the Library of Westminster Abbey, and consequently does not serve my purpose. As the Westminster Library was situated in Jermyn Street, I am surprised that it should have escaped the attention of Mr. Wheatley when writing his book 'Round about Piccadilly and Pall Mall.' It is mentioned more than once

by Crabb Robinson in the 'Diary' as a place at which he was accustomed to read. It was there that "Dante" Cary in 1819 found the copy of Selden's Table Talk' with the marginal notes in the hand of S. T. Coleridge, Cary's transcript of which is printed in the 'Remains.' I have not met with any later mention of the Westminster Library. It had nothing to do, I believe, with the Westminster Institution, established about 1840, afterwards merged into the existing Free Library in Great Smith Street. I have a copy of "A Catalogue of Books in the Westminster Library, with the Bye Laws and Regulations of the Library. To which is added a List of Officers and Members. Corrected to 1803." Written on the title is "Le Grice, Sept. 22nd, 1804." This was doubtless Charles Valentine Le Grice, the friend and schoolfellow of Coleridge and Lamb. He has bound up the volume without the "List of Officers and Members," but has included a portion of “A Catalogue of the Books contained in the London Library." Although this fragment only begins with sheet E, p. 33, the list of books seems complete. Is anything known of this earlier London Library? The literature in both collections is of the most solid character, with a mere sprinkling of poetry and novels. J. DYKES CAMPBELL.

HAMMONDS OF SCARTHINGWELL (7th S. i. 107; vi. 252).-Would MR. HAMMOND kindly send me his address, as I wish to write to him concerning J. A. WHITLA. the above family?

Ben Eadan, Belfast.

POISON (7th S. vi. 327, 477).—At the last reference is a paragraph on the celebrated "Aqua Tophania," in which the REV. E. MARSHALL quotes from C. Mackay's 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,' vol. ii. pp. 202-16. It is evident that the author quoted has hastily paraphrased from the article on the above-mentioned poison in the well-known 'Curiosities of Medical Experience,' pp. 152-3, by J. G. Millingen, M.D., 1837, and for some unexplained

cause he has omitted to mention the source of

his knowledge. The "Abbé Gagliardi" should be Abbé Gagliani, "Toffina" should be Tufinia. MR. MARSHALL is there corroborated as to the poisoning by this preparation having taken place in the seventeenth century, "during the pontificate of Alexander VII." ST. CLAIR BADdeley. 5, Albert Hall Mansions, S. W.

TONY ASTON'S 'BRIEF SUPPLEMENT' (7th S. vi. 489).-In your review of the new edition of 'An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber' a statement is twice made that Aston's "Brief Supplement' is reprinted for the first time. This is an error. It was printed in the Cabinet; or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, London, 1807-8. W. H. CUMMINGS.

A NIGHTCAP STRATAGEM (7th S. vi. 48).-The following historic story, which is doubtless that sought in PROF. BUTLER'S inquiry, I take from 'A Thousand Notable Things, published by J. Gleave, Manchester (1822); whence derived the author does not impart :

think, in 'N. & Q.' I will not pillory the bookseller who was thus illtreated by his printer. He was made to advertise for sale "Marryat (Capt.), Pirate and Three Butlers, beautifully illustrated," &c. The association of the two great predatory classes, by sea and by land, seemed to me, as the aesthetics would say, "distinctly humorous." JULIAN MARSHALL.

PENDULUM CLOCKS (7th S. vi. 286, 389).—

"A clergyman in Glasgow possesses [1849] a clock made for George Mylne [master mason at] Holyrood House, Edinburgh, and on the dial-plate,

Remember, man, that die thou must,
And after that to judgment just.

"Henry, Earl of Holsatia, surnamed Iron because of his strength, having got into favour with Edward III., King of England, by reason of his valour, was envied by the courtiers, whereupon they one day, in the absence of the king, counselled the queen, that forasmuch as the earl was preferred before all the English nobility, she would make trial whether he was so noble born as he gave out, by causing a lion to be let loose upon him, saying, That the lion would not so much as touch Henry if he was noble indeed.' They got leave of the queen to make trial upon the earl. He was used to rise before day, and to walk in the outward court of the castle to take the fresh air of the morning. The lion was let loose in the night, and the earl, having a nightgown cast over his shirt, with his girdle and sword, coming down stairs into the court, met there with the lion bristling his hair and roaring. He, nothing astonished, said with a stout voice, 'Stand, stand, you dog. At these words the lion crouched at his feet. To the great amazement of the courtiers, who looked out of their holes to behold the issue of this business, the earl laid hold of the lion, and shut him up within his den; he likewise left his nightcap upon the lion's back, and so came forth, without so-My copy, which I have always regarded as bemuch as looking behind him. Now,' said the earl, calling to them that looked out of the windows, let him amongst you all that standeth most upon his pedigree go and fetch my night-cap': but they, being ashamed, withdrew themselves."

Bishopwearmouth,

R. E. N.

CURIOSITIES OF CATALOGUING (7th S. v. 505; vi. 54).—“Junior's (D.) Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is," &c., hardly needs explanation.

"Bart (S.), Anaesthesia, Hospitalism, Hermaphroditism, and a proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases, embellished with wood engravings, thick 8vo., cloth, 2s., pub. 14s., 1871"; and "Bart (J.), Selected Obstetrical and Gynecological Works, containing the substance of his lectures on Midwifery, thick 8vo., cloth gilt, 6s. 6d., 1871." Both by Sir James Y. Simpson,

Bart.

"Bart (C. A.), A Treatise on Discolourations and Fractures of the Joints, embellished with wood engravings, thick 8vo., cloth gilt, 2s., 1862," i. e., Treatise on Dislocations,' &c., 1822, by Sir Astley Cooper, Bart.

78, Wimpole Street, W.

J. F. P.

Under the heading "Numismatic" in a catalogue of second-hand books lately received I find a list of eighteen works relating to coins, tokens, and medals wound up by "Money, a Comedy, a poor copy, 18., 1841." This is a curiosity of classification. ST. SWITHIN.

It is generally a rather cheap laugh which is got out of printers' errors; but the following, which occurred in a recent catalogue, deserves a niche, I

This is the oldest pendulum clock we have seen, except
John Sanderson, Wigton, fecit 1512.
one in the possession of Mr. Sharp, watchmaker, Dum-
fries, dated 1507, which is considerably prior to the date
of Galileo's first application of the pendulum to me-
chanism."-Mackie's 'Prisons, &c., of Mary, Queen of
Sir R. Phillips says, The first pendulum clock
was made 1641 for St. Paul's, Covent Garden."
R. W. HACKWOOD.

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SWIFT'S 'POLITE CONVERSATION' (7th S. vi. 403).

longing to the first edition, bears date 1738, being printed at London for B. Motte and C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet Street. Lowndes mentions the same edition.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

'BOMBASTES FURIOSO' (7th S. vi. 379).—In your "Notices to Correspondents" at this reference you say you "believe the author of Bombastes Furioso' is unknown." Davenport Adams, in his 'Dictionary of English Literature,' states him to be William Barnes Rhodes. I suppose the 'Dictionary' is an authority.

JOHN TAYLOR.

CHAUCER'S 'BALADE OF GENTILNESSE' (7th S. vi. 326, 454).-That there were two Scogans is a fact which I never doubted; and on looking further that the author of the ballad sent to the young into the matter, I now think it equally certain princes was named Henry, and that Caxton made a mistake (thinking, probably, at the time of his own contemporary) in calling him John. Having thus answered my own query, I cannot but express my surprise at A. H. failing to see the connexion with the 'Balade of Gentilnesse,' which shows that he cannot have read my note very carefully, for otherwise, or if he had ever read Scogan's ballad at all, he must have seen that the connexion is very close, and it is just this connexion which makes Scogan's ballad so specially interesting to Chaucer students.

F. N.

P.S. Since writing the above, I have found that a John Scogan, who died in 1391, was succeeded in the lordship of the manor of Hanyles (? Haviles), in East Rainham, co. Norfolk, by his

brother Henry, who appears a few years later, viz., 9 Hen. IV., as owner of this and other property in the same parish. This Henry was doubtless our poet, and at his death (11 Hen. IV.) the estate passed to his son Robert.

THE BRUSSELS GAZETTE' (7th S. v. 127, 374; vi. 31, 134).—It would appear that the lines quoted from a letter of Charles Lamb's in 'Eliana,' at the first reference, had originally nothing whatever to do with Napoleon. I find that they were part of a song which is still well known and popular, namely, 'Hearts of Oak.' This was published, together with the music, in the Universal Magazine for March, 1760, pp. 152-3, and is there entitled "A New Song, sung by Mr. Champness in 'Harlequin's Invasion."" As it has been much altered, the original version may, perhaps, be deemed worthy of record in the pages of 'N. & Q.' It runs as follows:

Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year:
To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,
For who are so free as we sons of the waves?

Heart of oak are our ships, heart of oak are our men,
We always are ready, steady boys, steady,
We'll fight, and we 'll conquer again and again.
We ne'er see our foes, but we wish them to stay;
They never see us, but they wish us away;
If they run, why we follow, and run them ashore;
For, if they won't fight us, we cannot do more.
Heart of oak, &c.

They swear they 'll invade us, these terrible foes;
They frighten our women, our children, and beaus;
But should their flat-bottoms in darkness get o'er,
Still Britons they 'll find to receive them on shore.

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“OUR FATHER" (7th S. vi. 388, 474).—The date 1552 was misplaced in my query. It belongs to the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI. That trespass should have so deviated from its original sense is remarkable. Trépas (a passage, hence a passage from life,—death) has never meant sin, or fault of any kind, in French. The main purpose of my query was to ascertain the origin of the popular form of the English Lord's Prayer.

Barnes.

HENRY ATTWELL.

ARBUTHNOT (7th S. vi. 427).-Chalmers's 'Biographical Dictionary' states that in 1727 Arbuthnot took a house in Dover Street," and that he died

in 1734, "at his house in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens." EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715 to 1886. Being the Matriculation Register of the University. Alphabetically Arranged, Revised, and Annotated by Joseph Foster. Vols. II., III., and IV., completing the work. (Parker & Co.) WITH expedition which seems "phenomenal," and for which his subscribers owe him their gratitude, Mr. Foster has completed his heroic task of printing the Alumni Oxonienses,' a record of the members of the birthplace, year of birth, and degrees. The appearance University of Oxford, 1715-1886, with their parentage, of the first volume was chronicled in N. & Q.' (7th S. iv. 378). Its completion shows how worthily Mr. Foster wears the mantle of Col. Chester, and establishes him in a foremost place among genealogists. Work such as Mr. Foster has crowded into the last half a dozen years is, indeed, in its line, unprecedented. Far beyond the genealogist extend the obligations conferred. Thanks to the information Mr. Foster is the first to supply, facts and dates of the utmost importance to biographical and historical research are now accessible. No sign of haste is there in the work he pours forth with industry so unfailing. So far as our researches extend-and his various works have been frequently tested-his compilations are as remarkable in accuracy as they are monumental in research. Of this matriculation register of Oxford University the mere title conveys an idea of the extent of labour involved. To give any insight into the contents which the simple mention of the book does not convey is not, of course, to be hoped. Under names from Matthew Arnold to Samuel Wilberforce the reader may satisfy himself of the plan and the execution of the work, which occupies between sixteen and seventeen hundred pages, closely printed in double columns. The book thus defying analysis, we will give it warmly such help as lays in our power. Mr. Foster's list of sup porters is largely-we may say principally-composed of subscribers or contributors to our own columns. It includes thirteen Oxford and five Cambridge colleges, the principal libraries in England and America, and other public institutions. Large as seems the list, however, the result so far is a deficit of 2,0007., which will necessitate an augmented subscription for the four volumes of the earlier series, 1500-1714, the MS. for which is in an advanced state. Mr. Foster naturally shrinks from committing himself to publication unless individuals it is, of course, frequently a question of his subscription list is greatly increased. With private means, or other similar cause, and it is no mission of ours to chide those whose names do not appear. It is, however, fair to point out that in Mr. Foster's list does Gray's Inn Library alone among the libraries of the not appear a single club, English or American; that Inns of Court figures in the list; that while the Royal Library at the Hague and thirteen American libraries secure the book, royal, parliamentary, and municipal patronage is refused to it in England; and that Sydney Public Library is the only institution in any English colony to support the undertaking. It is, indeed, remarkable that no name of nobleman, with the in the list. Of Mr. Foster's labours we can only say that exception of two bishops, or member of Parliament is they are of national importance, and that what reward or recompense a public or private recognition can afford

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Kensington, Picturesque and Historical. By W. J. Loftie,
F.S.A. (Field & Tuer.)

I local histories are henceforth to resemble that now
before us, they are destined to a place in the affections
of the bibliophile higher than has hitherto been assigned
them. Topographical works have (somewhat unjustly
perhaps) been depreciated as books appealing to others
rather than true book-lovers. Whatever truth the charge
might once have possessed must soon disappear. In
whatever light the new history of Kensington is regarded,
it merits praise. With its three hundred illustrations of
spots of interest or beauty, many of them in colours, and
all executed in a style of modern art, it puts in a claim
to general popularity, and is no less fitted for a place on
the dwelling-room table than on the library shelves. Its
importance as a record of whatever is known concerning
the "old Court suburb" commends it to the historical
reader, and its literary merits render it a worthy com-
panion to the homelier History of London' of the same
author. Those full and elaborate pedigrees which com-
mend a work of the class to the genealogist, and the
special information concerning remains of interest which
are the delight of the antiquary, are alike supplied, and
the whole information is conveyed in a style which is
easy, flexible, and void of affectation.

Mr. Loftie's avowed aim has been to trace the history of Kensington from the first appearance of the name till to-day. With regard to the name of Kensington, as with that of the hundred of Ossulton, in which it is situated, he has had to dismiss with more or less of derision not only the theories of "a number of writers who think that because 'Kensington' begins with a Kit must have something to do with a king," but those of the most important of his predecessors. From Thomas Faulkner, the author of the History and Antiquities of Kensington,' 1820, as well as of historical and topographical accounts of Chelsea, of Fulham, and of Brentford, Ealing, and Chiswick, and Daniel Lysons, the historian of The Environs of London,' 1792-6, to Mr. Walford in his "splendid book 'Old and New London,"" all writers are heretical as regards the derivation. Ossulton is, Mr. Loftie holds, Oswulf's "ton," though who Oswulf was who gave the name to the hundred he does not know, while Kensington is simply the "ton" of the Kensingas, a tribe who appear also in other parts of England. No contemporary reference to Kensington is discovered earlier than the Norman Conquest, though in the account of it in the Domesday Book there is a reference back to the time of Edward the Confessor. Twenty years later Kensington was held by Albericus de Vere, at first under the great Bishop of Coutances (Chenesitum), in which name Lysons, who is followed by Faulkner and others, found the origin of Kensington. The passage in the Domesday Survey is quoted with a translation, and from this text a sermon of interest is delivered on the condition of Kensington in the eleventh century. Of the family of Vere a pedigree is given, with the descent of the manor of Kensington. Other pedigrees of Cope and Rich, of Fox of Holland House, of Hicks and Noel of Campden House, are supplied. It is, of course, impossible to give a full account or analysis of Mr. Loftie's scheme or treatment. Beginning with the geography of Kensington, which is accompanied by maps, Mr. Loftie devotes his second chapter to the Veres and their connexion with the manor. Holland House is treated in a third chapter, Old Kensington in a fourth, and Kensington Palace and Gardens in a fifth. The growth of Kensington, in spite of the restrictions upon building in the suburbs enforced

in the seventeenth century, in consequence of renewed outbreaks of the plague and the dangers of the journey along the lonely park wall after nightfall, and the manner in which it grew to be "the best, the most fashionable, the most secure, and most healthy of all the Middlesex villages," furnish matter of extreme interest. It is but natural that the associations, literary and artistic, of Kensington should receive full attention, and the houses of Thackeray, Sir F. Leighton, Sir John Millais, Mr. G. F. Watts, and others supply numerous illustrations. Some of the more noteworthy tombs in Kensal Green are also reproduced. A chapter is devoted to the church. On the present Church of St. Mary Abbots Mr. Loftie passes some strictures. The illustrations also include a view of the short-lived Hippodrome. The coloured illustrations include a dance in Kensington Square in 1815, the Row in 1793, Kensington Palace in the same year, Kensington Gardens and Kensington Palace in 1744, and a composite representation of travelling in sedan chairs. Whatever the publishers could do for this book, which by command is dedicated to the Queen, has been done, and the arrangement of the inner portion of the cover with a gold scroll on cloth is an attractive novelty due to Mr. Tuer, sure to come into general use for works of character and importance.

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An able number of the Fortnightly opens with a paper on War,' by Lord Wolseley, the importance of which it is not easy to overestimate. Mr. Swinburne rhapsodizes on Victor Hugo.' Mr. J. A. Symonds contrasts ‘Elizabethan and Victorian Poetry.' Mr. Oscar Wilde, under the title Pen, Pencil, and Poison,' deals with Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, of whom he disposes as a wholesale poisoner. Mr. Edmund Gosse writes on Ibsen's Social Dramas,' and the Hon. George Curzon describes A Visit to Bokhara.' As the Review is completed by Mr. H. H. Johnston on The Ethics of Cannibalism,' Mr. Mallock on The Scientific Basis of Optimism,' and Mr. Frederic Harrison on 'The Future of Agnosticism,' it is readable from cover to cover.-' Posthumous Vicissi tudes of James II.,' contributed by Mr. J. G. Alger to the Nineteenth Century, gives a curious account, in part taken from N. & Q.,' of the treatment accorded the body of this monarch. Under the title of The Decay of Lying,' Mr. Oscar Wilde sends a clever and paradoxical article. Dr. Jessopp has some valuable suggestions for turning to account the large stores of information still accessible and unused in the shape of MS. records. Other important articles, mostly political, are supplied, and bear very distinguished names.-Keeping up its high character, the Century begins with a paper on Giotto,' with reproductions of half a dozen pictures. Mr. Remington's Horses of the Plains' is equally excellent for letterpress and illustrations, both are from the same source. 'Pagan Ireland' has great. interest, antiquarian and other. Round about Galilee,' The West Point of the Confederacy'-a rather saddening record of boyish heroism-and 'The Life of Administrative Exiles' are excellent in their various ways. Not. to preserve and bind the Century is recklessness. The volumes are a delight.—In Macmillan, Dr. Johnson's Favourites' gives a very pleasing account of Bennet Langton and Topham Beauclerk.A Practical Philanthropist and his Work' depicts the life and doings of Jean Baptist André Godin. The Bloody Doctor' of Mr. Addrew Lang deals with a fly affected by trout, and not with any more than ordinarily zealous professor of the healing art. The Practice of Letters' is rather severe upon the latest translator of Cellini's autobiography.-Not very important are the Personal Recollections of the Great Duke of Wellington' contributed by Lady De Ros to Murray's, but they are agreeable reading, and show the great captain in a pleasant light.

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