Drama. Noel (E.) et Stoullig (E.): Les Annales du Théâtre, 3fr. 50. Boullier (A.): Victor Emmanuel et Mazzini, 3fr. 50. Geography and Travel, work. Its colourless, neutral character is due LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Theology. Adams's (F. A.) My Man and I, the Modern Nehemiah, a For Family Worship: Part 1, Scriptural Readings; Part 2, Arnold's (M.) Poems, 3 vols. er 8vo. 7/6 each, cl. Lytton's (Earl of) Glenaveril, or the Metamorphoses, Books Forbes's (A.) Souvenirs of some Continents, cr. 8vo. 6/ cl. General Literature, THE CARPATHIOTE DIALECT. A PASTORAL Village to the north of Carpathos The shepherds speak of their mules as Kara, or possessions, and do not understand the use of any such word as (ŵa or povλápia, common elsewhere in Greece; this use of the word must date from classical times. Their goats they call xília, or thousands-a word suggesting patriarchal life, and flocks which could not be counted for numbers; and in distinguishing their goats they have many curious words. Πολιομούρι is used for a goat with grey face and ears, retaining the classical use of the NOTES ON COLERIDGE. New Court, Lincoln's I ALL lovers of Coleridge are indebted to Ashe for his exhaustive researches and full accurate annotations in the recent addition the Aldine Poets (Bell & Sons). A little w ago the editor of the Liverpool Mercury len a very interesting, but imperfect file of the M ing Chronicle, beginning in August, 1794, ending in June, 1795. If Mr. Ashe had' this newspaper it would have helped him few interesting facts. On p. xxxix Mr. Ashe says: "Most of sonnets in our first division were written at Salutation Inn, and printed, about the same t in the Morning Post." I think Mr. Ashe be in error as to both statements. The son in his first division are mainly from the " Son on Eminent Characters." This series appe not in the Morning Post, but in the Mor Chronicle. The first of the sonnets, to Ersl was printed on Monday, December 1st, 1 and was signed "S. T. C., Jesus College, bridge." Coleridge was probably in Londo December, 1794, but it is very likely that of the sonnets were written before he Cambridge. The Erskine sonnet was ac panied by this letter: "Mr. Editor, If, the following Poems will not disgrace poetical department, I will transmit yo series of Sonnets (as it is the fashion call them) addressed, like these, to emi Contemporaries." The editor responded in following terms: "Our elegant Correspon continuance of his exquisitely beautiful will highly gratify every reader of taste by ductions. No. II. shall appear on an early c The second of the series was the sonnet word oltós, which in the vulgar is tapos. Lafayette, fifth on Kosciusko, sixth on Burke, the third on Priestley, fourth Ρουσσόμερτος expresses a goat with red cheeks; here we find the word povoσeos, unknown in modern Greek, but common amongst Byzantine authors, who appropriated the Latin word russeus for red. For an apron they use the New Testament word λévrov, instead of the common ποδιὰ or 'μπροστελὰ; and the narrow alleys of the village are called pipar-again a New Testament word, which is used in the Acts for the street which is called Straight, and recalls the celebrated oracle to one's mind, eσrai pèv seventh on Bowles, eighth on Siddons, nint William Godwin, tenth on Robert Sout 66 'of Baliol College, Oxford, author of the trospect' and other Poems," the eleventh last (as far as I can trace them) on Sheridan It would appear that in these pages Coler first "elegized an ass. The poem appeared December 30th, 1794, and was entitled Add to a Young Jack-Ass and its tether'd Mot In familiar verse.' The text differs in s the last line runs : Paterson's Guide-Book to the United Kingdom, with Maps Póun puun kai Añλos aon dos. A young man they particulars from that of the edition of 18 and Plans, cr. 8vo. 6/ cl. Rowbotham's (F. J.) A Trip to Prairie Land, cr. 8vo. 5/ cl. Philology. Eschylus, Eumenides, a Critical Edition with Metrical Eng- Baine's (T.) Greenhouse and Stove Plants, 8vo. 10/6 cl. Hall (H. S.) and Knight's (8. R.) Elementary Algebra, 12mo. Keith's (Dr. T.) Contributions to the Surgical Treatment of General Literature. Barr's (A. E.) Jan Vedder's Wife, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl. Evolution in History, Language, &c., cr. 8vo. 2/ cl. Hertel's (Dr.) Overpressure in High Schools in Denmark, Prospects, cr. 8vo. 5/ cl. Pike's (G. H.) Saving to the Uttermost, cr. 8vo. 2/6 cl. Verney's (Lady) Peasant Properties, and other Selected FOREIGN. Theology. Pearson (W. L): The Prophecy of Joel, 4m. The tumult of some scoundrel Monarch's breast. The sonnets have also many minor differe of text. To the Lafayette sonnet the ed appended this note : "The above beaut Sonnet was written antecedently to the joj account of the Patriot's escape from the Tyra Dungeon." Two of the series did not appea the collected poems of 1796-the Southey the Godwin. The former of these was reprin by Pickering in 1877; the latter is now re duced by Mr. Ashe. These are only a few amongst the many strange words in use still in this mountain village of Carpathos, which is cut off by difficult passes from communication with the other villages of In printing the Siddons sonnet Mr. Ashe s the island; but the most curious thing of all in (with others), "There is little doubt that connexion with the dialect of this place is the original draft was written by Lamb." The fa existence of a gamma under circumstances which are these. On Monday, December 29th, 17 are at once suggestive of the old digamma in real the sonnet appeared in the Morning Chron life. This is especially remarkable in a dialect signed "S. T. C." In 1796 Coleridge collec which drops the ordinary gamma on every poshis poetry, and included a few poems (three sible occasion, for eù is used for ey, Tpwa for four) by Lamb. In that edition the Sidd ἔτρωγον, &c. Before the word υιός, a son,' sonnet was signed "C. L.” In Lamb's port they place a hard gamma, which I have not of the joint volume of 1797 it was also ascri only heard, but seen written in marriage settle- to him. But in 1803 another edition of C A' mother calls to her son Γυιέ μου. ments. ridge's poems was published. Lamb saw Then this gamma is inserted after the diph-edition through the press, yet the Siddons son thong ev; for example, they say πιστεύγομεν and doveyouev instead of Tevojev and δουλεύομεν. Whenever it occurs this intrusive gamma is hard and perfectly distinct from the modern use of the g, reminding one more of the change which has converted the Latin vastare into the Italian guastare and the French gâter. J. THEODORE BENT. was retained. In 1818 Lamb collected his o works, and did not include the sonnet in qu tion. Thus once Coleridge claimed it for own and once Lamb assigned it to Colerid Twice Coleridge gave it to Lamb. The surm is that Lamb wrote the original draft, and t Coleridge touched and retouched it and made so much his own that Lamb could no long claim it. My own inference is that this par cular sonnet was, in fact, written in the "I cember weeks at the Salutation" to which M Abe ascribes the entire series; that Lamb nated the idea, but that the words were Caridge's from first to last. At 101 Mr. Ashe quotes Coleridge's angry test against the publication of the Stanhope There was inserted," writes Coleridge, -withet my consent, a sonnet to Lord Stanhope, dret contradiction equally to my then as to In the case of y present principles," &c." Annet on Stanhope, as in the case of the Annet on Godwin, the poet's opinions must are undergone an extraordinary change in the course of a year, for the Stanhope sonnet had als appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Yet, ectrary to Coleridge's statement, Cottle says Coleridge himself who sent the De containing the sonnet to Lord Stanhope, that it was he, and not the printer, who served the rebuke of silence. We must, of se, accept the word of the poet. np. li Mr. Ashe tells us that in 1797 Colely sent to Bowles the sonnet on himself and set on Sheridan; that Bowles sent the er to the subject of it, who suggested that a play should be written: hence Osorio.' But rly Sheridan must have been long familiar address which appeared in a popular a very prominent journal two to three ys before. And had it not also been printed the volume of 1796? The date of the Bowles spondence must be wrong. 'Osorio' was red by Sheridan in 1797. I should say Sheridan had nothing to do with the origin e play, but that he read it at the suggestion Bes Coleridge met Bowles in August of They had probably corresponded since Speaking at p. xliii of Cottle's payments to Sey, Mr. Ashe repeats the statement of the Erst bookseller, that for the copyright of a vine of verse, of which but a small part was get written, Cottle advanced 30l. to Coleridge. As a matter of fact, a good deal must have been ten and some twenty pieces printed before erige settled in Bristol. The poet's intess to Cottle is beyond question, but est Coleridge himself say that on the gth of a promise of 30l., only half of * ever reached him," he was dubbed The worthy Cottle was sometimes fond a little cheap generosity. Eating Coleridge's contributions to the 66 , Mr. Ashe (p. clxxiii) touches on that Blanco White's 'Night and Death' ared arst in that annual, and that White ted Coleridge with making it public. It y probable that the editor of the Bijou, * permission to select what he pleased Coleridge's unpublished MSS., found the ated sonnet copied out in Coleridge's writing, and discovered his mistake as to Ae only early enough to make his acknowent to White in the preface. It is neither Byth White was consulted nor that Cole A liberties with his friend's property. It is not of much consequence, but nt of more importance arises out of ing a sonnet-book four years ago I (I think at Rossetti's suggestion) of disenchanting line" in the sonnet ad Death.' It was the line:— Ty and leaf and insect stood revealed. and "insect" were synonyms, and indicate some poverty of vision. Mr. Daries (well known as the author of 3 of a Wayfarer') tells me that in an ty of the sonnet the line ran :— frer and leaf, &c. no agreement," he says, p. 152, "arose after 1797." On p. lxi, however, he admits that the estrangement did actually take place "about this time." The facts are of more consequence than the inconsistency. The three sonnets appeared in the Lloyd Monthly Magazine for November, 1797. was then living with Coleridge, and was doubt contributing materially to the income of the household. He took occasion to leave Stowey. Early in 1798 Coleridge began to conOn June 7th template a tour on the Continent. Lloyd wrote to Cottle, "I love Coleridge, and can forget all that has happened." But he did not return to Stowey. In September Coleridge went to Germany. Some time before his departure Lamb addressed to him a biting letter of masked good-will on general topics, but full of subtle and penetrating irony bearing clearly on the part which Coleridge was thought to have played in casting ridicule on the ewe lambs of his friends. Among Lamb's mock theses are these : "Whether pure intelligences can love?" "Whether the higher order of Seraphim illuminati ever sneer?" The sonnets in the magazine had been signed "Nehemiah Higginbotham.' Is it possible that when Coleridge was charged with their authorship he seemed to equivocate? Here are two other "Whether God loves a lying angel better than a true man?" "Whether the archangel Uriel could affirm an untruth, and if he could, whether he would?" The whole period comprised is much less than a year. I am rather at a loss for Mr. Ashe's reasons for doubting Cottle's explanation of the estrangement and for assigning it to a later date. theses: The portrait prefixed to this Aldine edition is from the familiar drawing by Robert Hancock. Flabby face, lumpy lip, sensual mouth (otherwise called eloquent), and nose that gives small hint of the breath of life and still less of the breath of inspiration-this portrait can never have resembled the man. As to that, however, one sometimes thinks that perhaps nine days out of ten Coleridge did not resemble himself. The Hancock drawing is really a portrait of the Unitarian blue coat and white waistcoat. On p. xxxiv Mr. Ashe tells us that Coleridge enlisted under the name of "Silas Comberbach,' and explains that the ch is to be pronounced like tch. This (as I think Mr. Traill observes by anticipation) takes all the point off Coleridge's jest that so bad was his horsemanship that his horse must have sympathized with the name he adopted-Cumberback. 66 " in 'Work without Vol. ii. p. 256. A dubious emendation is that of stags for "slugs Hope." "Slugs" appeared in the Bijou and in the edition of 1834; stags" in the edition of 1828. Mr. Ashe has no doubt that stags is the proper reading, but surely no reader could come to this conclusion without failing entirely to realize the atmosphere of the poem. The bees are stirring, the birds are on the wing, nature is awakening from the torpor of winter, even the slow slugs are creeping out, and amidst all this silent activity the poet is the sole unbusy thing. Substitute the idea of the swift stag and you ruin irretrievably the atmosphere of this perfect poem. For any little freshness of fact that this letter presents I am indebted mainly to the old file probable that the newspaper may contain of the Morning Chronicle. I think it not imand the poem to the ass are the only contribuother work of Coleridge's, though the sonnets tions of his that are initialed. I intend to look carefully through its columns. Coleridge's mental activity was great in 1794-5, and it is at least conceivable that some of the many unsigned epigrams were his which appeared side by side with the sonnets. It is even possible that ting what he rightly calls the "bur- certain of the letters to statesmen were by him, Bonnets," Mr. Ashe says he doubts Word that they were the cause of the for he was then an ardent politician. That Setent between Coleridge on the one part Coleridge had already acquired a reputation as a poet when Cottle undertook to pay him thirty and Lloyd on the other. The dis-pounds for his first volume is, perhaps, suffi be what the poet wrote. It is curious vous a change has not suggested itself ty editor. ciently evident from the fact that sonnets were addressed to him in the pages of the Morning Chronicle while he was still dating from Cambridge. This fact may justify my long memorandum. Does not the Erskine sonnet fix the date of Coleridge's first appearance in print? He was The 'Fall then early in his twenty-third year. of Robespierre' was written at Bristol in 1794. Coleridge took it back to Cambridge and printed it there the same year. The dedication bears date September 22nd. The poem is quoted in one of the "Addresses to the People," and that is dated February, 1795. It is possible that the 'Robespierre' appeared before the sonnets; but that it was the latter that gave the poet his first taste of reputation is quite obvious to me on turning over the pages of the newspaper. I have just met with a copy of the Biographia Literaria which seems beyond question to have been Coleridge's own. It is annotated largely. If my fragmentary and disjointed notes are not uninteresting to Coleridgeans, and deadly stale, flat, and unprofitable to our honoured friend the general reader, I shall be glad to give an account of what I find in these volumes. T. HALL CAINE. SALE. THE sale of the first portion of the library of the late Rev. John Fuller Russell, F.S.A., at the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, will remain memorable not only for the rarities contained therein, but also for the extraordinarily high prices they sold for. Last week we quoted some of the principal articles sold during the first four days, and now cite those disposed of on the fifth-Shakspeare's Plays, third folio edition, 881., and fourth, 187. 10s.; Midsummer Night's Dreame, printed in 1600 by Roberts, 56.; King Lear, 1608, 14.; Merry Wives of Windsor, 1619, 217. 10s.; Poems, 1640, wanting portrait, 15. 5s. Shepardes Kalendar, printed in 1510 by Julian Notary, 211. Sifridi Determinacio Duarum Quaestionum, printed circa 1460 by Gutenberg, 361. Smith's Map of Virginia, 16., and his New England, 15l. 10s. 1610 Spelling Booke, 15l. Sterline's Recreation with the Muses, on large paper, 391. Testamentum Novum Gr. et Lat. cum Notis D. 11. 10s. An old Erasmi, with autographs of Archbishop Cranmer and Lord Lumley, 241. Thomas de Aquino de Articulis Fidei, printed by Gutenberg, 21. 10s. Tyndale's Obedyence of a Chrysten Man, with a curious memorandum respecting its having been delivered in 1543 by Bishop Gardiner to a prisoner, "dd to me to kepe,' Tree and XII. Frutes of the Holy Goost, 217. Vitas Patrum, printed in 1495 by Wynkyn de Worde, 481. Voragine's Golden Legende, printed by Caxton, imperfect, 1521. Whytforde's Pype of Perfection, 391. Whitney's Emblemes, 271. Wycliffe's Wycket, 17. 10s. Willes's Helpe in the Plague, 11. 15s. Wit's Recreations, 14. 15s. Woodhouse's Flea, bought in Inglis's sale by Heber for 7l. 15s., and resold in his for 5. 12s. 6d., was now run up to 981. The enWotton, Speculum Christiani, 431. tire sale, comprising only 1,333 lots, produced 8,6821. 12s. THE WHISTLER AT THE PLOUGH. THE death is announced of Mr. Alexander Somerville, who, under the pseudonym of "One who has Whistled at the Plough," was at one period well known as a contributor to the press. He was originally a farmer's boy, and occupied in the humble duties belonging to this calling. In early life he enlisted in the Scots Greys, and whilst a soldier his Radical proclivities led him in some small matter to offend against the rules of the army. This act of insubordination, as it was termed, caused him to receive a flogging, which created much sensation and excited a great deal of sympathy for him. Subsequently he left his regiment and devoted his attention to politics and literature. At one period he was connected with the Anti-Corn Law League, in reference to which he published a volume, which is now forgotten, vehemently attacking Mr. Cobden. During the latter part of his career in this country Mr. Somerville was for a short period London correspondent for a Manchester He has died in indigent circuinnewspaper. stances, in Canada, at the age of seventy-four. 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST,' Redgate, Exmouth, July 4, 1885. AN entry in the Diary of Henry Crabb Robinson, under date May 15th, 1811, revealed some years ago the hitherto unsuspected existence of a forgotten tale in verse written by Charles Lamb, supplementary to, and altogether distinct from, the two tiny volumes of 'Poetry for Children' (the joint work of himself and his sister), published in 1809. The entry runs as follows: "A very pleasant call on Charles and Mary Lamb. Read his [Charles Lamb's] version of the story of Prince Dorus, the long-nosed king.' ("This," adds Henry Crabb Robinson in a foot-note, "is not in his collected Works,' and, as well as two volumes of Poems for Children,' is likely to be lost.") Crabb Robinson's prediction was amply verified: the little books were lost, or lost sight of, for more than half a century; and it was not until 1877 that they were recovered and reprinted. All this is now matter of literary history; but the recapitulation of the facts, however briefly, is necessary in order to render intelligible the announcement and description of a new discovery I have lately had the good fortune to make, and to which these previous discoveries paved the way. 'Poetry for Children' and 'Prince Dorus'— like the earlier and better known booklets from the same pens, the 'Tales from Shakespeare,' the Adventures of Ulysses,' and Mrs. Leicester's School-were issued from Godwin's Juvenile Library--a commercial adventure, more or less successful apparently, started by Godwin, under the name and management of his second wife, to eke out his own slender and precarious gains as an author. To this fortunate circumstance we are indebted, doubtless, not only for the publication, but even for the production, of the five successive works already named, written wholly or partly by Charles Lamb, now well known to all his admirers, and also, as I am about to show, of a sixth, the very existence of which had hitherto been unsuspected. Small books for children are peculiarly subject to the havoc caused by the destructive propensities of our little folks, and such books are of all the likeliest, especially after the lapse of three quarters of a century, to disappear altogether. | Wordsworth failing, Godwin appears to have at once fallen back on his old assistant Charles Lamb, who by his own confession had "almost worked himself out of child's work" and was "aground for a plan," though "anxious to do something for money." In eventually undertaking the task which Wordsworth had summarily refused, Lamb, therefore, did nothing more than write up to the illustrations and carry out Godwin's idea of a rifacimento of an old fairy tale in verse suited for the capacity of "youth of both sexes from ten years of age and upwards." The illustrations, which are eight in number, are by the same hand or hands that furnished the plates to Tales from Shakespeare' and 'Prince Dorus.' The full title page of my treasure-trove runs thus, as appears from a list of "New Books for Children" at the end, though the actual title-page is unfortunately missing in this hitherto unique copy: Beauty and the Beast, or a Rough Outside with a Gentle Heart, ornamented with eight superior engravings, and Beauty's Song, set to Music by Mr. Whitaker. 5s. 6d. coloured, or 3s. 6d. plain," 1811. The copy I have had the good fortune to discover is not coloured. The size of the volume is 5% in. by 4 in., and the letterpress consists of thirty-two numbered pages, containing a total of some 480 lines. Should this communication prove interesting and excite the curiosity of your readers, I propose, with your permission, in a future issue of your journal to furnish them with a few extracts from the poem and with some remarks that seem to suggest themselves as to the internal evidence of authorship where the external evidence is not sufficiently conclusive. I am confirmed in my own previously formed opinion, as stated above, by that of so well-known an expert in such matters as Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd, the editor of the new edition of 'Poetry for Children' and 'Prince Dorus' and of the Centenary Edition of Lamb's works. JOHN PEARSON. THE GENEALOGY OF JOHN HARVARD. I HAVE this day received a reprint of a paper contributed to the New England Register by Mr. H. F. Waters' On John Harvard and his Ancestry.' As a preliminary remark allow me to acknowledge the value of Mr. Waters's researches and the pleasure I have had in reading them. But in the printed preface I find myself Waters's knowledge in an improper manner. accused of having obtained and used Mr. deny that there is any foundation for the charge and hope it will be recalled. I With these general passages in my article, Genealogist, 1884, pp. 108-9: It may be that doubt for Harvard Accordingly the poem of 'Beauty and the the son of a butcher," &c. (John's father was a Beast'-a veritable and authentic production of Charles Lamb, as I do not doubt I shall be butcher); "His name is entered as Harvye, no able satisfactorily to establish - had hitherto (John was christened shared the fate which till very lately included Harvye); "I note in wardens' papers, vestry 'Poetry for Children' and' Prince Dorus,' except registers, and other papers of St. Saviour's, that the oblivion to which it was consigned was many Harvards, Harverds, and Harvyes, for still more complete, as not only the little book years implying the same persons," all this itself, but all record or memory of it, had disprinted at least fifteen months before I had appeared. even heard of Mr. Waters; surely I was not The idea of versifying and illustrating the well-likely to remain long on the quest even had no known old fairy tale of 'Beauty and the Beast' —of publishing a poetical and pictorial rendering of it seems to have occurred to Godwin at the · time of the publication of Prince Dorus.' By Lamb's own advice probably (certainly with Lamb's cognizance, as we gather from a letter of Coleridge's), Godwin desired Wordsworth to undertake the versifying part of the business. This Wordsworth, however (in a letter to Godwin dated "Grasmere, Mar. 9, 1811," and published in The Memoirs of William Godwin,' vol. i. p. 218), declined, partly as not being sufficiently struck or smitten with the subject, or hopeful of its successful treatment, and partly from a rooted aversion to undertake task-work or to write otherwise than from the actual impulse of inspiration. Mr. Waters existed. But I append the testithis passage (Rgister, p. 266; reprint, p. 4): mony of a gentleman no doubt referred to in obtained from a person to whom Mr. Waters had "Mr. Rendle's knowledge seems to have been mentioned it as a discovery of his own," &c. From the publisher and editor of the 'Guide to St. Saviour's,' new edition, and a past warden of the parish: As I am apparently referred to in the charge made by Mr. Waters against Mr. Rendle, I take the opportunity of saving there is no ground for such charge; and I had assured Mr. Waters's friend that it was so. Mr. Rendle was fully aware of the points in question and had conversed with me about them before I had heard of Mr. Waters. Further, Mr. Rendle's researches have enabled him to point out the actual site of the residence of Robert Harvard and his family (exactly opposite the Boar's Head in High Street, Fastolfe's), and the disappearanc the family after the fatal plague year of 1625. "Instead of taking from others, I know Rendle to be always willing to help with the v and interesting knowledge he possesses of locality. In the present case he had authe me to say that his gatherings re Harvard mig freely seen; which offer was, I believe, ne acted on nor acknowledged. W. In conclusion, and considering the natu the charge and whence it comes, I hope will be able to give me early space for answer. I wish the close friendship and respect of relatives across the water, and to be perm to help in the quest after knowledge of townsman and their founder. WILLIAM RENDLE, F.R.C.S., Author of Old Southwark and its Pe Literary Gossip. MR. MURRAY will publish before lo new volume by Sir Henry Maine, u the title of Popular Government.' It sists of four essays, sists of four essays, "The Progres Popular Government," "The Natur Democracy," "The Age of Progress," "The Constitution of the United States MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. will pu immediately Essays and Miscella Writings of Vere Henry, Lord Hoba two volumes, two volumes, edited with a biograp sketch by Lady Hobart. The letters minutes on Indian questions have arranged by Mr. Carmichael, late me of the Council of Madras, and secret: the Council under Lord Hobart's adı tration. MR. ARCHIBALD FORBES'S volum 'Souvenirs,' already referred to in columns, will be published immediate Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Among th papers will be "Skobeleff," Macg the American War Correspondent,' Society Aspects in America," and "A Waif." 66 66 THE same publishers announce for s issue a life of Vice-Admiral Robert Fa of Steeton, compiled from original 1 and other documents by Mr. Cle: is from 1666 to 1725. After examin Markham. The period covered by th of the documents now in possession Fairfax family, Mr. Markham came t conclusion that there was much in admiral's life which would be of ge interest, and much that was curiou worth preserving from a literary po view. MR. PERCY GREG is preparing a 'H of the United States from the Found of Virginia to the Reconstruction United States.' It will fill two vol and be published by Mr. Murray. THE Earl of Crawford has printe List to the Early Editions of the Gree private distribution fifty copies of a C Latin Writers of Ancient and Me Times' in his library, and including editions which he is still in search few of the rarer vocabularies and gra of the same languages are added. collations are supplied, and notes g variety of bibliographical information names of former possessors, the hist the volume, style of binding, &c. LORD HOUGHTON has just issued a vately printed edition of the treatise en Cranmers Recantacyons,' from the MS. F Latin, 6056) preserved in the Biblioe Nationale at Paris. Mr. Gairdner, the Record Office, supplies a brief preface to this tract, which is interesting as containing the earliest authority for the story of Cramer carrying his second wife about in a chest p. 8). MR. JOHN A. C. VINCENT has placed in the hands of the printers the first portion of the work on the Subsidy Rolls of Lancashire which he is editing for the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. The preparat of the materials has involved conderable research among other Exchequer dments (e.g., the Memoranda, Pipe, and Foreign Rolls) connected with the Subsidy Is, and this chronological analysis of the Lancashire assessments is so planned, we Leve, that it will serve as a general gde to this particular class of the public ients. Notwithstanding the wide party which these records of early i have obtained amongst genealogists, ttle is known as to the method of their compilation, and to what extent they farish true lists of the taxpayers in the various localities. MR. HARRISON WEIR has completed his ok for this year, 'Animal Stories, Old and New. Every page is illustrated, the postures, which are both plain and coloured, in many cases telling the story as well as the letterpress. The work will be published early in the autumn by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. MURRAY Ma. Maar announces in his "Students' Maruals a Student's History of Modern Europe, from the Fall of Constantinople to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878,' by Mr. R. Lodge, Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose Cleze. TTER the title of 'The Light of Asia the Light of the World,' an American Mr. S. H. Kellogg, is about to pubhigh Messrs. Macmillan & Co., a rative study of Buddhism and Chris Ray with the avowed object of correctwhat he deems the erroneous impression the relations between the two religions It has been created by some recent Fications. MALICE FIELD, a daughter of Mr. Field, is writing a story, the scenes which are laid in Sicily. CAL PARKER GILLMORE, who has already de more than one contribution to South Aliterature, has written a work on baland, Zululand, and the adjacent ties. YTILLOTSON, of Bolton, have bought Fargus the MSS. of three unpubrt stories found amongst the papers late "Hugh Conway." The longest st ambitious is entitled The Story Septor. Some time prior to his Mr. Fargus had agreed to write a for Messrs. Tillotson, to run for six in newspapers published simulyat home and abroad; but this gment was broken by his sudden M. JOHN PYM YEATMAN, F.R.H.S., has reparation a genealogical and manorial of the county of Derby, which is to shed in parts, the first part to be ready during the summer. It will contain A NEW morning paper for the Tyneside THE prizes awarded by the College of Preceptors on the occasion of its last examination of pupils will be distributed on Wednesday week by Sir George Young, Bart. The number of boys and girls examined at Midsummer was 5,200, being 400 in excess of the number at any preceding Midsummer examination. MR. GEORGE OMOND, the author of 'The Lives of the Lord Advocates,' is now engaged in arranging for publication the papers of the family of Dundas of Arniston. As the Dundases played a very important part in English as well as Scottish history for many years, the details of the correspondence which has been preserved possess a special historical as well as social interest. MR. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL's first public appearance before his countrymen after returning to the United States was at the Harvard Commencement. He was then greeted with a poem in his honour from the pen of the genial and veteran Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The following are a few of the lines, published with the poet's sanction: By what deep magic, what alluring arts, England herself will be the first to claim WITH the publication of No. 1043 our New York contemporary the Nation completes the twentieth year of its existence. Many changes have occurred since the Nation first appeared as an independent political and literary journal, not the least important being the improvement effected by its precept and example in political and literary criticism across the Atlantic. We trust that many years of life and usefulness are still in store for our esteemed contemporary. IN its fourth annual report, just issued, the Dante Society of America-which means Prof. C. E. Norton, of Harvard-has printed some additional notes by Mr. Longfellow, intended for a new edition of his translation of the Divina Commedia.' celebrate its centenary this year. commenced in its columns. PROF. HERMANN PALM, late Prorektor of the Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau, has just died in that city. He is best known by his exhaustive researches in the literary history of Silesia, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as in his work on Martin Opitz and Andreas Gryphius. He was also a foremost expert in the political history of Silesia. THE Parliamentary History of the Last Half Century,' by John Raven, is the title of a work announced for immediate publication by Mr. Elliot Stock. A SUBSCRIPTION list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a freewill offering to the American poet Walt THE Governors of Dulwich College seem Whitman. The poet is in his sixty-seventh to have done a bold and wise thing in year, and has since his enforced retirement appointing Mr. Gilkes to the head-mastersome years ago from official work in Wash- ship of the school. Mr. Gilkes has not been ington, owing to an attack of paralysis, main- much before the world, but those who know his works in poetry and prose, and by occa- bury have been the most deeply impressed tained himself precariously by the sale of most of his twelve years' work at Shrewssional contributions to magazines. Mr. by him. It is to be noted that he is a layHerbert H. Gilchrist, 12, Well Row, Hamp-man and does not intend to take Orders. stead, acts as honorary and corresponding secretary to this scheme; Mr. Rossetti, 5, Endsleigh Gardens, Euston Square, as treasurer. THE next number of the "Anecdota MR. FISHER UNWIN is about to publish SCIENCE The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences. By The present work, as originally designed, was to have been entitled The First Principles of the Mathematical Sciences explained to the Non-Mathematical,' but the author shortly before his death (in 1879) expressed the wish that the name should be changed to that now adopted. It was to have consisted of six chapters, on number, space, quantity, position, motion, and mass; and of these Clifford dictated the whole of the chapters on number and space, the first portion of the chapter on quantity, and nearly the entire chapter on motion. The first two chapters were afterwards seen by him in proof, but not finally revised. The editing of the work after his death was first undertaken by the late Prof. Rowe, of University College, London; but the burden of the labour appears to have fallen upon the present editor, who does not tell us his name, but as he signs himself K. P., and dates from University College, he may safely be identified with Mr. Karl Pearson. The editorial duties have been performed with much judgment and skill. The reader is not shocked by any abrupt transitions from one style to another, and no pains have been spared in referring to every available published lecture or unpublished manuscript of Clifford's to obtain material for filling up the blanks in accordance with his own views. The number of chapters has been reduced from six to five, the subject of mass being disposed of in the two concluding pages of the fifth chapter. The book consists of a number of the most interesting points in mathematics, philosophically discussed in very simple language, often with much novelty of treatment. Its use will be found in giving the mathematician an increased interest in his own work rather than in opening up the mysteries of that work to the outside world, though the explanations are so fundamental that the non-mathematician, if only he have good natural faculty in that line, may peruse it with advantage. Among the most prominent topics in the book are the discussion of logarithms and exponentials by means of the properties of the logarithmic spiral; the fundamental ideas of the calculus of quaternions; and non-Euclidean space. 66 much attention to the bot fly, Hypoderma boris, bring together a great quantity of information The Animal Food Resources of Different Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Nations, with mention of some of the Special Common Farm Pests during the Year 1884, with Dainties of Various People derived from the Methods of Prevention and Remedy. By Eleanor Animal Kingdom. By P. L. Simmonds. (Spon.) A. Ormerod. (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.)-This-In some 450 pages Mr. Simmonds manages to is the eighth report on economic entomology made by Miss Ormerod, a lady who has won for herself the position of first authority on the subject in this country. The injuries caused by many insects to our crops are the common experience of all growers, from the large agriculturist to the small amateur gardener, and have in bad seasons hastened the bankruptcy of the one and proved the despair of the other. The facts as to these depredations have been long recorded, and perhaps most fully in the classical work of Kirby and Spence; however, the suffering agriculturist is not comforted by being taught the scientific name of his insect pest, but asks for information as to the best method of withstanding or destroying the same. In America the importance of the subject has been recognized by the appointment of "State Entomologists," and in this country Miss Ormerod has for years pursued the study of the subject con amore; and these annual reports give not only illustrations of the principal insect depredators, with their scientific determinations and a sketch of their life history, but also contain a digest of the correspondence on the subject which the author has carried on with farmers and growers from all parts of the country. With regard to insect foes the agriculture of the country does not appear to have suffered unusually during Miss Ormerod has in this report paid 1884. GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES. A NEW edition of O'Shea's Guide to Spain and Portugal' is now nearly completed and will be published immediately. The work of revision has been undertaken by Mr. John Lomas, the author of 'Sketches in Spain from Nature, Art, and Life.' The Council of the Royal Geographical Society have issued rules for the spelling of names of places, which are identical with those adopted for the Admiralty charts. The orthography of names in countries using Roman letters will be affected; all others, only excepting a familiar names, are to be spelt phonetically pronounced on the spot. The vowels are to sounded as in Italian, the consonants a English, ch being at all times soft and g h whilst kh and gh express gutturals. The rule to give letters to express the sound of the Fr u, eu, or è, or of the German ü, ö, or ä, n any attempt made to distinguish between sound of ng in finger and singer, on the gr that these sounds are rarely employed in same locality. To this we demur. There be objections to the introduction of the critical signs of Lepsius's standard alph but the desired distinction might be att either by the introduction of an apostr as in fin'ger and sing'er, or by wi fingger and singer. The doubling of the sonants in order to shorten the sound o preceding vowel is objectionable. The u the ordinary accents is altogether prefei Upon the whole, however, the recommenda of the Council are most acceptable, and we maps and geographical works, but also i they will be acted upon not only in the ca case of pronouncing dictionaries. The Scottish Geographical Magazine quite up to the standard of its first number. A recent original articles we mention Mi Moir's account of the Zambezi and "et lake route" into Central Africa, now quite able for tourists bound to Tanganyika account of a trip up the Kalabar river, I Rev. Hugh Goldie (with a map); a pap Herat, by Prof. Vámbéry; Notes of Place-names of Kinross-shire,' by W. Liddall; and jottings on Australian trad by the Rev. R. Hamilton. The review notes are copious, varied, and to the point The Deutsche Geographische Blätter of B publishes papers on the Argentine provi Buenos Ayres, by Prof. A. Seelstrang, the Lagoa de Patos in the province c Grande de Sul, by Dr. H. von Ihering, based upon observation on the spot, an last more especially interesting to physica graphers and geologists, as the author's includes a new theory on the origin c pampas, which he conceives to have deposited in fresh-water lakes. There is wise a map of the Batanga river, re explored by Dr. Zöllner for a distan eighteen miles. Dr. C. Gottsche, a geologist, has ju turned from a protracted stay in Eastern in the course of which he carried on an ext exploration of Korea, travelling 1,700 mile visiting 84 out of the 350 districts into that kingdom is divided. The fact of } been employed by the Korean governme search for minerals enabled him to col vast amount of information. M. Zlatkovsky, the geologist, has bee ploring the districts of Krasnoyarsk and 1 of the government of Yeniseisk. He Silurian and Devonian rocks, traces o Jurassic formation, but none of the mediate formations down to the alluvium, yielded remains of the mammoth, the rhing and of deer, as well as human bones and implements. on The Revue de Géographie publishes an Herat and the Disputed Territorie M. J. B. Paquier, and a paper by the M. L. Drapeyron, who labours hard to that geography is a science, and not me body of information useful for all kin people. ASTRONOMICAL NOTES. IN Nos. 2665-6 of the Astronomische richten Prof. J. G. Galle gives a very usef complete list of recent determinations of tary orbits. It is, in fact, twofold, the firs logue containing orbits of comets before which have been more definitively deter |