always receive exceptional treatment in school, but it should at the same time be remembered that exceptional treatment is in itself a calamity of greater or less gravity to the scholar so treated. though he has not omitted the absolutely indispensable revolvers and bowie knives, he has used them only as furniture to add a touch of picturesqueness to his scoundrels. This makes a pleasant variety. The best In the lives of English boys, and to a less quality of the story is its complete lucidity (although now an increasing) extent of Eng-a quality often wanting where the details lish girls, school play is almost as important of the plot are intricate. a factor in education as school work. The chapter devoted to this part of school hygiene is very interesting; it embraces various topics, including much about training and diet and the like, and shows that Dr. Farquharson has been a shrewd but sympathetic observer of school life. less justice than his due, as he is fiercely in love with his wife according to his lights) is not killed in the hunting-field, like Miss Marryat's peer, but smashed on a drive in the park more Americano. 'Arlegh Clough' is a somewhat dreary story with a tragic climax, much impaired by the author's habit of showing his hand. Miss Marryat has been ill served by We have a great deal of mystery and susher printers in her present volumes. The pense, but very little to justify it. Obviously stout and objectionable lord whom the intended to thrill and horrify the reader, heroine marries for his title before she dis-Arlegh Clough' fails completely in its aim. covers her undying passion for his cousin Besides the fault mentioned above, the un"Jemmie," the heir presumptive, is variously fortunate resemblance borne by the plot to called Mountcarron, Mountcarrow, and that of 'Jane Eyre' is no doubt answerable The typical medical officer must be a very Mountcarroh. It is polite to set down to for this failure. There is little or no attempt superior person indeed, for we learn from the printer's account some rather wild at character drawing, and the local colouring the preface that in all hygienic arrange-grammar, too, of which several instances is almost confined to the title. ments "the medical officer must work could be given. "Let they" can hardly be cordially and harmoniously with his em- a deliberate improvement on "let them." ployer, and whilst fully instructed in the But apart from these artificial stumblingbest schools of hygienic science, he must be blocks Miss Marryat's volumes are tolerably prepared to enforce his views with all the easy to peruse. Directly the reader finds out modesty yet decision of a savant, tempered the existence of so strong an attraction bewith the give-and-take diplomacy of a man tween the heir presumptive and the peeress, of the world." A readable chapter is de- he presses on to the inevitable chalk-pit which voted to "the duties of the school doctor," dismisses the hunting peer with a broken and a catalogue of "a few attainable quali- back. Of course there is much of misery, fications" which he should possess; in tears, and despair on the road, but the exmany passages the personal pronoun of first perienced reader will waste no time in symperson singular is prominent, so that we are pathy. The conversion of Jemmie by the reminded of the "decision" more often than counsels of his dying friend to the substituof the "modesty" of the savant. In the tion of a higher Platonism for his mundane last chapter, devoted to school diseases passion for the heroine is to some extent an (where the author, "fully instructed in the original stroke, but some counter balance of best schools of hygienic science," speaks this nature was necessary to elevate the with the "decision of a savant," presum-story, so hopelessly immoral in its inception. ably little tempered by anything else), the style becomes somewhat stilted, and is not unfrequently ungrammatical-as, indeed, is the case throughout the book; and this concluding part of the work is rather too. technical, if not too pedantic, for ordinary readers, while it is not technical enough for professional students. 6 NOVELS OF THE WEEK. The Sacred Nugget. By B. L. Farjeon. Le Garde du Corps. Par George Duruy. (Paris, Hachette & Co.) Le Roman d'un Fataliste. Par Henry Rabus- that the author padded the early part too As it is, Gladys comes too well out of her on the side of virtue. The author of 'Not Easily Jealous' has composed a successful love story out of the discordant elements she has selected. A greater contrast than that between Clara Leyton, the English beauty, and "Lanus" Jones, the single-hearted Californian farmer, could hardly be imagined; but given their juxtaposition, they were sure to agree like fire and tow. The chance that sends Clara to visit her distant cousins on the ranche is a momentous one for poor Coriolanus. Clara is so ingrained a coquette that nothing can prevent her trying to train this new shy giant in the art of love-making, and, as she says, "teaching her bear to dance." Indeed, she is much attracted to him, and loves him No one who read 'Andrée' could doubt that M. George Duruy had talent, just as no one who had read his book on Cardinal Caraffa could doubt that he has the advantage (which talent has not always) of a solid education. But some misgivings were excited by Andrée' in the minds of aged critics, deceived in their hopes of many generations of promising young men. These misgivings will be confirmed by 'Le Garde du Corps.' It is not that M. Duruy is otherwise than lively. His description of an elderly dandy rising rheumatically from his chair-a nineteenth century Anadyomenos is like M. Zola, if M. Zola, perchance, could become clean and amusing; and his epigrams (for instance, "Un mari qui s'ennuie devient assez vite un mari qui s'amuse") deserve praise. But his subject and his handling of it are as conventional as the subjects and the handling of our own Ouida. The club talk on the one hand; the complication of husband who gets tired of his wife and meddles with the wife of another husband, wife who suspects nothing, has a virtuous friend, and at last virtuously rewards him, on the other, can surely now give no delight of novelty to any mortal who has been accustomed to seek that delight in French novels. All M. Duruy's light and lively writing, all his en deavours to introduce minor changes into what is at bottom so dreadfully "la même chose," are useless. His characters finish off by going over a lasher with fatal conse quences. M. Duruy himself has gone over the adultery-lasher which gapes and foams for all French novelists. Let us hope that in his case the consequences will not be fatal. as far as she can-only not enough to induce love him, may lose some of its piquancy ry orders for the marriage, that she does not in its a purely English reader. But it is very consequences; and the book, as a whole, | it. deserves praise. the ANTIQUARIAN PUBLICATIONS. His ignorance of architecture and heraldry is painfully conspicuous. It seems doubtful whether he knows more than the very rudiments of Latin, and even his accuracy is by no means to be depended on. It is hardly worth while to substantiate these assertions by quotation, but we write we happen to have turned to Mr. Dew's report of his visit to the town of Holt, and we must take leave to assert that the tower of the church is not embattled; that the windows of the chancel are not "filled with as No. 164 of the same journal completes vol. xli., and contains an account of discoveries at Lanuvium by Mr. R. P. Pullan. The temple of Juno Sospita was in ruins in Pliny's time. A statue of the goddess, found somewhere at Lanuvium, is in the Vatican. Aided by Sir J. Savile Lumley, Mr. Pullan dug in this place, and found, besides enormous blocks of stone, a series of piers of reticulated masonry, indicating the plan of a building measuring 113 ft. by 41 ft., and probably the nymphæum attached to a villa. A noble horse's head of Greek character (which seems to have belonged to a quadriga), more archaic than the sculptures of the Mausoleum, and resembling the horses of Helios and Selene in the pediment of the Parthenon, was found in the ruins, with two other horses' heads, part of a spoke of a chariot wheel, fragments of horses' legs, tails, and hoofs, six torsos of Roman warriors of late Roman work, the head of a female divinity, and other sculptures. A curious paper on the Percies in Scotland is contributed by Mr. Bain. A novel account of Roman antiquities from San, by Mr. W. M. F. Petrie, describes domestic relics unearthed from the wreckage of a burnt house. The most valuable instance was a plano-convex lens of very clear glass, 2 in. in diameter, the first found in Egypt. Likewise were discovered in this spot a large sheet of glass, 13 in. square, painted with heads of the months, with their attributes, which enclose astronomical signs laid in gold foil; seventeen ounces of silver chain; glass mosaics; a bronze lattice; a fragment of gilt wall, &c. Mr. W. H. St. J. Hope has carefully described Repton Priory and its buildings, the site of which has been exhaustively excavated. The churches of Austin Canons are in every proper sense illustrated in the first portion of a paper by the Rev. J. F. Hodgson. beautiful stained glass"; that the modern brass VERY few men in England have printed so much valuable antiquarian matter as Mr. Walter Ere. He is an enthusiast in a department in which enthusiasm is not rare; but he is an enthuLast who does not stop at acquiring and storing up unwieldy masses of recondite learning; he gives to the world with extraordinary liberality the results of his labours as soon as he has made them his own. The two volumes of 'The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany,' the Rough Materials for a History of the Hundred of North Erpingham,' the Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk,' from the reign of Richard I. to the end of the reign of Edward I., and the 'Monumental Inscriptions of the Hundred of Holt,' while apparently no more than contributions to the history of a single County, are in reality publications which will prove of interest to the general historian who has eyes to see and intelligence to use the wealth of materials which these works contain. Jealous of a reputation which is great among specialists, but can never be appreciated by the unlearned, Mr. Rye confines the issue of his various publications to a very limited number, and sells them at a price which can never pay the printer's bill. The Rough Materials for a History of North Erpingham' is actually priced at five shillings, a charge quite inadequate to defray expenses of bringing out one hundred copies of a very costly volume of four hundred pages, the printing of which must have involved a considerable outlay. The second part of the second volume of the Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany is an even more munifcent gift to his subscribers. Besides being furnished with a complete index of names and places (though it is to be regretted that only the surnames are given), it contains some admirable illustrations, especially those that are added to Mr. Beloe's instructive paper on Our Lady's Chapel at King's Lynn. Nor are the papers in this part of a merely local and narrowly antiquarian interest. Mr. Howlett's contribution on the Customs Rolls for the port of Lynn in the reign of Edward I. lets in Some valuable light upon our knowledge of Enghah commerce in the thirteenth century. The paper by Dr. Jessopp on the Norfolk monastere at the time of the suppression gives the port of an important discovery on a matter about which sadly little is known; while the editor's own essay on Carrow Abbey is a monograph which any student will read with profit, parerer little he may care for the archæology of folk' might seem to be useful only for Norfolk Anglia. The Calendar of Fines for NorRen and that small company of professional pedigrees and trace descents in bygone times, energists whose business it is to ferret out and yet even here it must be remembered that No. 165 of the same publication, the first part of vol. xlii, is one of the best numbers published for some time past. It is exceptionally rich in the history of the Romans in Britain, and particularly distinguished by the Rev. J. Hirst's learned essay His On the Mining Operations of the Ancient Romans,' Canon Creighton's remarks on the history of the Northumbrian border, and Prebendary Scarth's Notices of Roman Baths at Bath, and Herbord near Poitiers.' Mr. Hirst has collected a mass of curious and valuable notes on his large subject and illustrated it in relation to many provinces of Rome. article is most readable and compact, and would bear development into a book. Canon Creighton has shown acuteness in proposing, or rather attempting, to make the Wall illustrate the character and prowess of those tribes against whom it was constructed. Some useful remarks on the tenure of land in the THE Archeological Journal (Oxford Mansions, W.), No. 163, contains, among other interesting papers, one on the Religious Symbolism of the Unicorn,' apart from the legendary and heraldic associations of the "monster beautiful." The subject is so rich that many works have been written on unicorns from various points of view. An elaborate enumeration of the Roman Forces in Britain,' by Mr. W. Thompson Watkin, is a very curious and learned account of the legions, their arrival in this island, their victories and defeats, and the names of their stations, as indicated by their stamps on bricks and their tombs. Many notes are added on the auxiliary northern and peculiarly circumstanced region troops, including some on the Aquitanian Cohors I. (which recorded itself on stones found at Haddon and on the Roman Wall), the Sarmatian Cavalry, the Numerus Barcariorum Tigrisiensium (probably a corps of for a good 200 years after the Conquest the estates pontooneers from the Tigris), archers from the of the great landowners were very widely dishas over the country, and it often happens Orontes, Tungrians, Thracians, and Usipii, that a magnate about whom nothing can be ships upon the Essex shore, and were nearly all in a man's life in the west which are obscure neglected subject. The most attractive paper and perplexing. When we come to Mr. Rye's is that in which Mr. E. C. Waters pronounces last publication, The Monumental Inscriptions himself in favour of a new reading of the history are included. The remaining articles are by Mr. E. Peacock, 'On Swan Marks'; Mr. R. S. Ferguson, On the Morpeth Great Mace'; and 'On the Churches of Austin Canons and Monks,' by the Rev. J. F. Hodgson. The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, Part XXXII. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co., is made valuable by the continuation of Mr. Stapylton's account of the Stapeltons of Yorkshire, which was separately reviewed in the Atheneum for May 16th. Mr. Leadman has, with award ll. at Byland. He tells us that of this complete English overthrow, which involved the loss of the regalia and other treasures, not a single local tradition remains, nor any re much detail spirit, described the defeat of the Hundred of Holt, we can hardly speak of of Gundrada de Warrenne, whose monument in miniscence except the name of "Scots' Corner," it in any Course it represents a certain amount of work; other terms than those of regret. Of Ifield Church has exercised the patience of not and Mr. Dew, the person whom Mr. Rye, during complicated and confused by rash assertions, borne by a piece of land. 'Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes, continued from an earlier part of the Journal, are reprinted, and prove to be a 3 own serious illness, employed to collect the blunders, and ignorance of manners and customs, perfect mine of curious illustrations of customs, materials, must have toiled hard. But, in the besides rst place, there was no need to hurry on if we are to believe Mr. Waters ancient unscrupulous falsification and forgery of land records, payments, with inventories of monuments and inscriptions in churches. Of this publication at all; in the second place, documents. We forbear to give the conclusions, course, the serviceableness of these "Notes" is a novice at this kind of Mr. Dew is evidently work, and by no means qualified to undertake which are destructive rather than constructive, immensely increased by making them more of the highly interesting essay. accessible. IN the Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Journal, Part XXXIII., being the first part of vol. ix., Mr. G. T. Clark has revised and enlarged a formerly published account of Richmond Castle, with new plans and sections of great additional value and interest. The fortress was distinguished, among other things of less moment, by the smallness of its Norman keep, and by the thickness of the walls of that building. The town at its feet-which the castle, being intended to occupy a strong site, does not seem to have been designed to defend-is and always was unusually small compared with the bulk of the grand structure. The area of the town was not much larger than that of the castle ! The " Registrum Honoris de Richmond" comprises a document of uncommon interest, being a bird's-eye view of the fortress showing groups of buildings, upon each of which is a banner of the arms of the knight whose duty it was to defend it. The Rev. J. Hirst dilates upon many curious data concerning a Roman garrison at Greta Bridge. The Rev. R. V. Taylor treats of Ribston and the Knights Templars, basing his article on the Ribston deeds. This is the third paper of a series. Mr. Clements Markham has put together all the easily accessible data about the battle of Wakefield. The History of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor Times. By Ernest Law, B.A. (Bell & Sons.)-Probably no one knows more than Mr. Law does about Hampton Court Palace and its surroundings as they are now to be seen. But such knowledge is by itself not enough to fit a man to write the history of the place, either in Tudor times or any other except those within his own remembrance. History of a sort, indeed, there is in the book, and it has an appendix of documents. But the history is of the easygoing, uncritical type, which is most irritating to men who use a book for the sake of getting trustworthy information from it. And the documents are the same as have been printed, some of them more than once, in the several guides which have been published within the last fifty years. But Mr. Law is great at gossip. He loves to tell tales about the great ones who have lived in the palace, and if they are spiced with a little scandal he likes them none the worse. Wolsey, Henry and his wives, Philip, Mary, and Elizabeth, all come in for their shares. And we have full and particular accounts of no fewer than three ghosts, two of them being those of queens. The story of one is given on p. 224, with a parade of authorities which should challenge the attention of the committee who meet at No. 14, Dean's Yard. The third ghost is only that of a king's nurse, but it-we suppose a ghost is it seems to be particularly active at the present time. A portrait is given of this one on p. 199; but we are not told who drew or photographed it. To a sceptical reviewer it looks suspiciously like a recumbent effigy from a monument set on its feet and drawn shakily to give it a ghostlike appearance. There are many illustrations of various degrees of value, the best being autotype copies of portraits. The scrubby outlines which purport to represent the great tapestries are distinctly libellous. And there are other cuts besides that of Mrs. Penn's ghost about the sources of which it would have been well to have said something. For instance, on p. 92 is a cut purporting to represent "Cardinal Wolsey in progress, from a contemporary drawing," in which the cardinal is shown with his hat on his head and a beard on his chin, concerning which a little more information would not be out of place. dignified size and proportions; it has a fine red The book is of cover, with the royal arms and V. R. in gold on it; it is dedicated to the Queen; 'there are plenty of pictures; and it is likely that it may be popular with such as love to lay the Peerage on the drawing-room table. OUR LIBRARY TABLE. Of the three ladies who appear to vie with each other in the introduction of absurdities into their novels Miss Mathers-for so she still calls herself on the title page of Murder or Manslaughter? (Routledge & Sons)-is the most conShe is never disappointing. sistently daring. Every fresh work contains some new gem besides exhibiting the old nonsense and the old blunders. The common mind would expect in a tale which that some sort of attention would have been involves a question of murder or manslaughter paid to the law. Passing over the absurdities of the trial, one may be pardoned for feeling some surprise on learning that the eminent barrister who defends the prisoner was accustomed in the course of his business to have interviews with all the women of note or beauty in London: "Did a lovely soul in despair swoon on his shoulder in one room, there were half a dozen others waiting in adjacent apartments ready to treat him to a never-ending crescendo of emotions." After the heroine had paid a good many visits to the barrister's "apartments" in Lely Place on business about her husband's lawsuit the eminent counsel began to feel for her very differently to when she had snatched his fancy," and ultimately she is tried for murdering her husband on account of the bad barrister. It turns out that there is nothing in the charge; though a tolerably good case of circumstantial evidence is made. It is useless to offer any ad vice to Miss Mathers; she has doubtless taken for herself a motto which she puts at the head of one of her chapters: "Fais ce que voudras, advienne qui pourra." If any one were to tell her that this is not good French, she could reply suis, ici j'y reste." with another quotation from herself: "Ici j'y And there she must be left. 66 We have received from Messrs. Ward & Lock the eighteenth edition of that standard and useful work Haydn's Dictionary of Dates. It has, says Mr. Vincent, been carefully revised, and we are glad to see that he has prefixed a notice to the dates under the heading which we called attention when the last edition Greece," to was published, that they are purely conjectural. Some warning should be given, however, of the mythical character of a good deal of the early Roman history. In many other points the revision might be pushed further. Some misprints yet remain uncorrected. For instance, in the account of the Colosseum (which might be shortened with advantage) we still read about "the Lake of Thorn in Switzerland"; oldfashioned spellings like "Adrian" for Hadrian about Berlin wool work survive from edition to are retained; antiquated statements like that edition. Other mistakes should be attended to. We turn to the paragraph "Caroline Islands," and we are told they were discovered in 1686, the earlier discoveries being ignored. "The invention of dice" should no longer be "ascribed" in a serious work of reference "to Palamedes of Greece about 1244 B.C." Nor should it be said that "the French army has been divided into legions since Francis I." But while making these adverse criticisms we are not blind to the great value of the work, which is a storehouse of facts of a highly useful character, and usually accurate. The present edition is considerably larger than its predecessor, and it is to be hoped may meet with as favourable a reception. might have been more wisely devoted to some the historical sites and buildings near Edinburg -Ravelston, St. Anthony's Chapel, Craigmilla Restalrig, &c. If Mr. Baddeley would atten to such matters, and drop his flippant style writing, his would be the best of the man Scotch guide-books.-Mr. Upcott Gill has issue a fifth edition of his Seaside Watering-Place So we may presume it has been found usefu little too much inclined to view every new row It seems to be accurate, but the compiler is lodging-houses as an added attraction to a sea side place. Another guide-book, Mr. Bevan convenient little Handbook to the County of Ken (Stanford), has also reached a fifth edition. THE Broads, a few years ago a little know district, are now tourist-haunted, and are be coming the subject of guide-books. Only a year and a half ago we reviewed Mr. Davies's excellent book, and now Mr. E. Suffling has the title of The Land of the Broads (Upcott Gil published a useful and concise guide-book unde Pasolini, compiled by his Son (Longmans), We have on our table Memoir of Count Giusepp The Representation of the People Act, 1884, wit Introduction by J. R. Seager (Warne),-The Municipal Act, 1884, by J. R. Seager (Warne) Paul),-Free England, by H. E. B. (Jarrold & -Fair Representation, by W. E. Smith (Kegan English Colonies of North America, by E. ChanSons),-Town and County Government in the ning (Baltimore, U.S., Murray),—Land Laws of Mining Districts, by C. H. Shinn (Baltimore, U.S. Murray), The Sixth Book of the Eneid, translated into English Heroic Verse by J. W. Moore (Parker),- From Opitz to Lessing, by T. S. Perry C. C. Everett (Chicago, U.S., Griggs),-Pro(Trübner),-Fichte's Science of Knowledge, by ceedings of the Linnean Society of New South actions of the Seismological Society of Japan, Wales, Vol. IX. Part III. (Trübner),-TransVol. VII. Part III. (Tokio, The Society),Coastal Navigation, by J. J. Curling (Portsmouth, Griffin),-Practical Guide for Compen sation of Compasses without Bearings, by Lieut. Collet (Portsmouth, Griffin),-Notes on the Ear (Sonnenschein), Zoological Photographs, by J. Training of Children, by Mrs. F. Malleson Hassell (S.S.U.),-An Hour in the Temple, London, by J. C. Flood (Diprose & Bateman), The Bayswater Annual for 1885, edited by H. Walker (Bayswater Chronicle Office), Analysis of Wit and Humour, by F. R. Fleet (Bogue),-Typical Developments, by T. S. Good lake (Roworth),-Aspects of Fiction, by R. S De C. Laffan (Field & Tuer), -Lalun the Beragun, by M. M. A. Beg (Bombay, Ránina's Union Press),-Carrigaholt, by J. Burke (Dublin Hodges), The Neanderthal Skull on Evolution by the Rev. B. W. Savile (Longmans),-Eightee Eighty-Five, by a Civil Servant (Field & Tuer) -A Fortnight in a Waggonette, by One of the Party (Field & Tuer), Miss Jean's Niece, by the Author of 'Bride Picotée' (Bemrose),-Quee Stories for Boys and Girls, by E. Eggleston (Low GUIDE-BOOKS have again accumulated on our table. Mr. Baddeley sends us one of an unusual merit. Scotland, Part I. (Dulau & Co.), is excellent in all that respects inns, railways, and commendation. Mr. Baddeley's history is, howroads. The numerous maps, too, deserve special ever, a little dubious. To take the Edinburgh section as an example. It was not "the English Liturgy" which the Dean of Edinburgh read in St. Giles's, and Jenny Geddes's "cutty stool" (Mr. Baddeley accepts this tale without suspicion) certainly did not give prelacy "its death-blow." The Sack and its Treasure, by E. Wilmshur (Wilmshurst),-Second-Best, by E. B. Harriso (Griffith & Farran),-Louie White's Hop-Picking by K. A. Jenner (Griffith & Farran),-Bits Old China, by W. C. Hunter (Kegan Paul), The Sage of Thebes, by E. Eyre (Stock),Dawning Grey, by J. H. Dell (Simpkin) Edipus the King, by E. D. A. Morshead (Ma millan),-Driven Away: a Drama in Three Ad by a Radical (Infield), The True Story Catherine Parr, by Elsa D'Esterre - Keeling (Low),-How the First Queen of England wa Wooed and Won: a Play in Four Acts, b Fancy and Imagination, by F. J. Chancello Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling (Low).—Poems of th (The Author), Studies of Fire Living Poets, A. 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What's his Offence? by Author of 'The Two Miss Flemings,' 3 vols. cr. 8vo. 31/6 cl. ANCESTRAL TENDENCIES OF RICHARD III. Os the four hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bosworth (fought August 22nd, 1485) it may be interesting, to those especially who have followed Mr. Galton's inquiries into the permanence of family faculties, to look into the hereditary influences which may have helped to Take Richard III. what he was. We must dismiss from our minds, if possible, the deeply scheming Richard, who could change hapes with Proteus to advantages, and set the murderous Machiavel to school.' The true Pichard, like the rest of his family, made little attempt to conceal his crimes or character. Prave, able, energetic, almost alone unstained with bribery among his brother's followers in the invasion of France, ambitious, careless of violence and bloodshed, his character was the natural product of a time of civil war acting upon his ancestral temperament. He was probably no worse than his two brothers who reached manhood. Edward had more oppor tunity for the display of military ability than Richard, and less temptation to crime. No nephews stood between him and the crown. The death of Clarence was Edward's act, whether urged on by Richard or not. Richard was not free from the licentiousness notorious in Edward, and three natural children have been ascribed to him. George, Duke of Clarence, was apparently weaker, falser, but no better than his brothers. Violent passion disfigured the characters of such members of the house of Plantagenet as Henry II. and Edward I.; it is exaggerated in this house of York, who were Plantagenets of the Plantagenets by many intermarriages. They were descended in three lines from Edward III., through his sons Lionel and Edmund, and through John of Gaunt; for their mother's mother was Joan Beaufort, the legitimatized daughter of John of Gaunt, and wife of the Earl of Westmoreland. They were descended from Edward I. also through their father's grandmother Eleanor Holland, wife to Roger Mortimer, mother to Anne Mortimer, the wife of Richard, Earl of Cambridge. They were also descended in two lines from Henry III., through Elizabeth de Burgh, wife to Lionel, Duke of Clarence, whose father was grandson | of Joan, daughter of Edward I., and whose mother was granddaughter of Edmund Crouchback. Their ancestors in the three generations above them included a Neville, a Percy, and a Mortimer, of houses remarkable in the first two instances for courage, ability, and ambition, the last for ambition and general untrustworthiness. Four generations back they reach to Pedro the Cruel of Castile, who murdered his wife, his aunt, six of his half-brothers, and one of his mistresses, and whose mother was a murderess too. Of their immediate ancestors and relatives, in the three generations above them fourteen died by battle, murder, or judicial execution. Their father, Richard, Duke of York, had twelve children, of whom five, Henry, William, John, Thomas, Ursula, died as infants; three, Edmund, George, Richard, died violent deaths; three died in or before middle age-Anne at fifty-seven. thirty-six, Edward at forty-one, Margaret at The death of Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk, occurred after she was forty, but when exactly I do not know. As Edward and Richard reproduce the more violent characteristics of their Plantagenet ancestry, so it is interesting to compare George of Clarence, "fickle Clarence," with his great-uncle Edward, Earl of Rutland and Duke of York, the "foresworn Aumerle " of Shakspeare, the traitor to all parties in turn under Richard II. and Henry IV. HENRY ELLIOT MALDEN. MRS. JACKSON. AMERICAN literature has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mrs. W. S. Jackson, who achieved her reputation under the initials H. H. Ten years ago Emerson welcomed her to his Parnassus : "The poems of a lady who contents herself with the initials H. H., in her book published in Boston (1874), have rare merit of thought and expression, and will reward the reader for the careful attention which they require." She was the daughter of Prof. Fiske, of Amherst College, Mass., and was born October 18th, 1831. She was married at an early age to Major Hunt of the United States Army, and for some years was distinguished in society at Washington and Newport-where her husband was stationed-as a fair, fashionable, and somewhat eccentric lady. In 1863 Major Hunt was killed by a submarine battery of his own invention. Their children had all died in childhood. Up to this time, her thirty-second literary men among her friends, she had never year, though Mrs. Hunt numbered many been supposed to have any inclination towards authorship herself. However, various poems appeared, chiefly in the Nation, under the initials H. H., in which a new and fine hand was detected Her without its being suspected beyond a small and intimate circle that it was that of Helen Hunt. After their publication, however, the authorship was speedily discovered. Her 'Verses' were received with warm admiration by the most eminent and critical authors in the United States. Several anonymous novels which gained wide success were subsequently discovered to be by her. These were Mercy Philbrick's Choice' and 'Hetty's Strange Story,' with which may be mentioned the "Saxe Holm" stories. For some reason the author chose to mystify the public about the latter work, for the authorship of which there were several "claimants." But there is not the slightest doubt that they were written by Mrs. Jackson. She travelled much in Europe and America, and her Bits of Travel' books are very readable. One of the best descriptions of Oberammergau is from her pen. In the year 1876 she was married to Mr. W. S. Jackson, of Colorado Springs, where she built an ideal sort of Western home, decorated with many curious animal skins and Indian ornaments. Western life and her travels brought her into contact with the aborigines and made her a witness of their sufferings. So suddenly this lady, who began as a lady of fashion in military circles, was surprised at finding herself a woman with a "mission." Her book 'A Century of Dishonour' (Chatto & Windus) caused a controversy four years ago in which the Office of the Interior at Washington did not figure very well. In the end Mrs. Jackson was appointed by the President one of two commissioners (the other Mr. Abbot Kinney) to investigate the condition of Indians in California. During her visits there she wrote her last work, 'Ramona,' concerning which she wrote to a friend from her death-bed: "Every word of the Indian history in it is literally true." Mrs. Jackson died at San Francisco August 12th. Her personal friends were devoted to her, and her death has caused profound grief in many circles. Socially she was very attractive, brilliant in appearance and in conversation, and with a charming play of humour, which in her earlier life had possessed a perilous tendency towards sarcasm. Jackson was all her life in good circumstances, and never wrote a line for the sake of money. She was at first inclined to escape from publicity of a personal kind altogether, and when her secret was discovered she was still never ambitious of fame. The only book whose republication in this country she sought was 'A Century of Dishonour,' which she hoped might excite comments that might have some effect upon her countrymen. She died serenely and cheerfully, consoling those who mourned the untimely approach of death by a constant Nunc dimittis" at the triumph of her efforts to change the policy of the nation towards the Indians. She was conscious to the end, and her last hours were made happy by the President's proclamation restoring to several tribes the lands that had been taken from them. M. C. 66 Literary Gossip. Mrs. MESSRS. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & Co. are to be the English publishers of General Grant's personal memoirs, as well as the agents through whom foreign editions of this important work will be negotiated. The English and continental copyright will be properly secured. The work will be printed in London as well as New York, and will be issued on the same day in both countries. Four days before his death the General handed the finished manuscript to his publishers, and the whole of the first volume is already in type, and rapid progress is being made with the second. The first volume is to be published December 1st, and the second some weeks later. MR. MURRAY is about to publish a new edition of the late Prof. J. S. Brewer's book on the endowments and establishment of the Church of England. The work has been revised and edited by Mr. Lewis T. Dibdin, of Lincoln's Inn, and will, it is hoped, be ready in October. Ir may be worth mentioning that the late Mr. Thoms was fond of saying that, though he could not have been quite three years old at the time, he had a distinct recollection of seeing Charles James Fox, and he used to add that he believed that he remembered the traditional blue coat and buff waistcoat, but he could not be quite sure of that. ANOTHER anecdote, which admirably illustrates the character of the lamented antiquary, relates to a conversation he had with Lord Macaulay in the Library of the House of Lords. Mr. Thoms mentioned to Lord Macaulay that he could not quite understand why Pope had satirized Dryden in 'The Dunciad.' Lord Macaulay said that Mr. Thoms must be mistaken, and, with his usual energy and eloquence (before an audience of a score of peers), he spoke for nearly half an hour in support of his opinion, and proved beyond all doubt that it was impossible that Pope could or would have lampooned Dryden. Mr. Thoms had all this time a copy of 'The Dunciad' in his pocket, with the page turned down at the passage. He was, however, much too kind and too well bred to produce the volume. NOBODY was ever more kind than Mr. Thoms in imparting information, or telling where it might be found, or in lending his books; but he never would lend odd volumes, he insisted on your taking the whole set. "I remember," says a correspondent, once wishing to borrow a couple of volumes of Nichols's Literary Anecdotes,' but Thoms would not hear of it. No, my dear,' he said, 'you must take them all; then, when you return them, I shall have the work complete, and [smiling good-naturedly] if you forget to return them you will have a complete set."" "I remember," continues the writer, 66 once mentioning to Thoms that I had some thoughts of publishing a little volume on 'Suppressed Books and Books placed on the Index.' He pretended to be very much annoyed, and declared that I was his rival, as he had intended to do something of the same sort. Next morning he sent me all the notes he had on the subject, with a few volumes from which he had intended to get further information, writing at the same time to say that he was too old to bring out anything new, and that he hoped I would undertake it in earnest. I, however, returned him his parcel and also my own notes and books on the subject." THE first two volumes of the new series of half-crown books which Mr. A. Lang is going to edit for Messrs. Longman, under the title of "English Worthies," will be Darwin,' by Mr. Grant Allen, and 'Marlborough,' by Mr. George Saintsbury. The other volumes in preparation are: Steele,' by Mr. Austin Dobson; Sir T. More,' by Mr. Cotter Morison; Wellington,' by Mr. Louis Stevenson; 'Lord Peterborough,' by Mr. Walter Besant; Claverhouse,' by Mr. Mowbray Morris; Latimer,' by Canon Creighton; Shaftesbury,' by Mr. H. D. Traill; Garrick,' by Mr. W. H. Pollock; Admiral Blake,' by Mr. D. Hannay; 'Raleigh,' by Mr. Edmund Gosse; Ben Jonson,' by Mr. J. A. Symonds; Isaak Walton,' by Mr. Lang; Canning,' by Mr. F. H. Hill. MR. NIMMO is going to reissue the late Capt. Jesse's Life of Beau Brummell,' which has been a scarce book for a long time. A quantity of new matter has been introduced, which had been collected by the author, but which it was not deemed fitting to insert in former editions. Many notes have also been added, as well as forty illustrations, after Dighton and others, of contemporaries of Brummell. MR. CHARLES G. PAYNE, the author of Matrimony by Advertisement, and other Adventures of a Journalist,' has two further volumes in the press. The first, Vote for Pottlebeck! the Story of a Politician in Love,' illustrated by Mr. W. Reynolds, of Funny Folks, will form one of Messrs. Vizetelly's "Amusing Series." The second will be published by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin. It will take the form of a 'Candidates' and Voters' Manual,' containing a summary and explanation of election law to date, inclusive of corrupt and illegal to date, inclusive of corrupt and illegal practices, an article on "Organization and Election Tactics," a collection of the principal arguments that are likely to be used by the contending parties, and some tables of facts and statistics. Apropos of Mr. Gilbert's report on Lord Fingall's MSS. referred to in our last issue, it is to be hoped that it contains a full account of the interesting Cartulary of Reading Abbey preserved among these muniments. This important MS. had quite been lost sight of-until its rediscovery, during the present year, by Mr. Barfield-as its noble owner was unaware that it was in his possession. A list of vestments contained in it is exceedingly curious. It would be well if the Government inspectors of MSS. would in all instances funish full analyses-after in all instances funish full analyses after the model of those of the Battle cartularies printed in the Reports on the Public Records (viii. app. ii. 139-146)-of all such invaluable registers found in private hands. We may mention incidentally that a passage in the notice of the Hamilton Sale in our columns led to the identification of the longlost second volume of the 'Furness Cowcher,' of which the first volume is among the Duchy of Lancaster Records in the Public Record Office. This fine MS. is now the property of the German Government, though it is to be hoped some steps may be taken to bring the two odd volumes together. The first volume is being edited for the Chetham Society. WE believe that among the Hibbert Lectures to be given in the next two or three years are a course by Prof. Sayce on the Babylonian religion, and one by Dr. E. Hatch on early Christianity. DR. DAVID H. MONCKTON, of Maidstone, has nearly finished a privately printed his tory of the Monckton family. A voluminous appendix of proofs contains the results of Dr. Monckton's researches at the Public Record Office, the Bodleian, and the British Museum. Lord Galway has also kindly thrown the contents of his muniment room open to inspection. The work will contain three large chart pedigrees-excellently printed by Messrs. Mitchell & Hughes dealing with the principal branches of this ancient Yorkshire family. The Kentis branch is the one to which Dr. Monckto has more particularly directed his attention IN connexion with a paragraph on th Pipe Roll Society in a recent issue, we a glad to announce that the Trustees of th British Museum-contrary, we believe, their usual practice with regard to socie publications-have at once come forward support the scheme. This hint from th leading public library will, doubtless, n be thrown away on other libraries through out the kingdom. The number of publ institutions, in England, Scotland, Ireland Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and America subscribing to the Society has now reached forty-one. THE Rev. W. G. Dimock Fletcher pro poses to issue in four quarterly parts volume of Leicestershire Pedigrees an Royal Descents,' containing many unpu lished pedigrees, and much new matter co lected at the Public Record Office an Somerset House. The pedigrees will b given in narrative form. Messrs. Clark & Hodgson, of Leicester, will publish th work at a subscription price of half a guines THE Cartulary of Ramsey Abbey, nov being edited for the Rolls Series by M W. H. Hart and the Rev. Ponsonby A Lyons, will extend to three volumes. The second volume is nearly ready for publication, and the materials of the third are in an advanced state. A NEW two-volume novel from the pen of Miss Jean Middlemass, entitled A Girl in a Thousand,' will shortly be published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. UNDER the title of What I Believe,' somewhat unusual volume, written by Count Leo Tolstoi, will be published in a few days The work (which has already been publishe bidden in Russia) is an exposition of the in Germany and France, but has been for Christian life in relation to its social aspect and duties, apart from theological teachin and human systems of ecclesiastical gover ment. The volume is to be published b Mr. Elliot Stock. THE prizes given by Mrs. Crawshay f essays on Byron, Shelley, and Keats ha fallen as follows: for essay on 'Chil Harold,' first prize, Miss Ella D'Arcy; seco prize, Miss M. H. White, - for essay Shelley's Prometheus,' first prize, Mi Greenfield; second prize divided betwe Miss Melly and Miss Tayler,-for essay Keats's Endymion,' first prize, Miss Llewellyn; second prize, Miss Portal. T advice of a professional examiner has each case been acted on, and only in t case of one of the smallest prizes has recipient been in any degree known to th donor. |