on. By Grant Allen. 3 vols. (Same blishers.)

ld Robur. By Martin Combe and Duncan ale. 3 vols. (Chapman & Hall.) Beauty of the World. By A. J. Duffield. 'ols. (Hurst & Blackett.)

combe Wells: a Tale of Country Life. By iza F. Werry. 2 vols. (Stock.) la. By Agnes C. Maitland. 2 vols. Remington & Co.)

, too, is Vanity. By Emma Brewer. Bell & Sons.) Life of a Prig. By One. (Kegan Paul, ench & Co.) -Cross. By Grace Denio Litchfield. utnam's Sons.)

JUSTIN MCCARTHY pursues in Caa' the fortunes of an old friend, whose aintance we made in one of his previous 38, and who figures throughout this new as Mrs. Pollen, the Lady Bountiful of arseham, a faded London suburb. In McCarthy's romance there is not much plot; the author works on his old lines, ing eccentric and epigrammatic men, e and epigrammatic women, and here here adding a touch of dramatic vigour to the action from dragging. Mrs. Pollen ite in his chosen style-acute, cynical, a bad sort of woman" according to own admission, with a trick of telling y one what he or she happens to be king of, and then explaining how the is done. Camiola is an American ss, somewhat of the same stamp; and ddition to them there are one or two of the author's second type of woman, simple, and silly, and made to be mized. One elopes, another attempts de; a male character actually commits ide. Life is held cheaply in Mr. arthy's novels, though he is too good artist to allow much killing to be done he stage. 'Camiola' is not so good a y as 'Dear Lady Disdain,' or even as id of Athens,' to which it is in part a el. But it is pleasing, nevertheless, the reader will like it.

Ir. Grant Allen is incapable of writing ill novel, but he has not yet shown that possesses the peculiar gift of the novelist. eading Babylon' one cannot help obing that the characters are typical rather a individual. The story is pleasing and n utopian, but it is never exciting. most interesting parts of the book are se in which the author talks round his ject and draws upon his experience and varied knowledge. Babylon,' in fact, a very unusual quality: the padding the best part of it. It is very common find novels made the vehicle for all ts of stray information, but it is very common to find oneself in the company of writer who can tell one so much without er being tedious. 'Babylon' is bright

and sparkling all through, but still it misses the essential point of a novel. Mr. Grant Allen does much better with short stories. The hero of Arnold Robur' is the young heir to a comfortable patrimony, a fairly steady and accomplished man, combining a philosophical disposition with a somewhat keen appetite for the good things of the world. His lot is cast amongst many villains and many philosophers. The types of either class are distinctly out of the common run of humanity, and, indeed, humanity would have a poor time of it if all our villains were so intense and all our philosophers so shrewd as those drawn by Martin Combe and Duncan Lisle. Their story is manifestly a duplex creation, and if it were not for certain particoloured characters, tinged by philosophy and villainy both in one, it would seem very plausible to suppose that the authors had turned each other on alternately to supply the philosophy and the villainy, the lofty and the intense. However this may be, and although the pulling of the strings is too conspicuous throughout, 'Arnold Robur' well, and who have aptitude for, if not exis a good story, told by men who can write perience in, the weaving of romance. The style is laboured in parts and the humour somewhat forced; but, on the other hand, there is some very bright humour and a good deal of excellent writing. It is unfortunate that the personages on which Martin Combe and Duncan Lisle appear to have lavished the most care, and which they evidently think their best, do not strike the reader as being most true to life. It is so, at any rate, with the men; but Paston and in less degree Robur himself are successful sketches of character. So also are many of the womenfolk.

Mr. Duffield, though the translator of 'Don Quixote,' seems hardly to have grasped the rudimentary principles which ought to govern all novels. He lets us know his views on religion, philanthropy, Shakspeare (with extracts pages long from the works of that author), and the Bible; he expresses his opinion of bishops; he gives descriptions, not wanting in vigour, of life among the artisans of the Black Country; but there with no plot, no character, no construction. There is no apparent reason why the story should begin or end where it does, nor why half the personages should be introduced. The style, in the earlier chapters at all events, seems to be modelled upon that of Charles Reade, exemplar vitiis imitabile. The only clear idea which the reader carries away from the book is that Mr. Duffield has in certain parts of it chosen a most grotesque method of gratifying a literary grudge; and many readers will not even detect this, and so will carry nothing away.

'Charcombe Wells' is a posthumous story by a lady who did not live to see it published; and, though this task has been performed

by a near relative out of affectionate regard for the authoress," it is only fair to say that the relative had better justification for giving it to the public than many authors who publish their own first attempts. There is not much originality in such incidents as the disappearance of a baronet for several years on his own estate, the self-banishment of an heir whose legitimacy is in doubt, the captivation of a betrothed young man by an artful young

widow, and the consolation of the deserted lady by a more eligible suitor; but the tale is told sensibly, soberly, and without the claptrap usually indulged in by mysterymongers. The rustic setting of the plot is really well done, by a ready hand in obedience to an observant eye and a reflective mind. The writer must have studied her rural characters from the life, and their portraits are faithfully and vigorously drawn. There is, at any rate, nothing to blush for in Charcombe Wells,' which will give pleasure to many.

The prologue to 'Rhoda,' well written. and necessary for the mechanism of the plot, and the somewhat conventional opening chapters afford no intimation to the reader of the interest and charm of the subsequent portion of the story. As the scene shifts from Norfolk to Devonshire, we find ourselves in the midst of a set of very real personages, drawn with a light but sympathetic touch. It is a noticeable and agreeable feature of the book that Miss Maitland is singularly loyal to her own sex. "Find out,' as she puts it, "at what house accidental meetings most often take place, and you will know infallibly which is the pleasantest house in the neighbourhood; and that means simply where the most womanly woman is to be found." By far the most finished study is that of the old Scotchman Adam Gair, whose racy talk has no suggestion of artificiality. In describing his long quest of a missing grandchild and the circumstances of their ultimate meeting the writer has reached a high level of unstudied pathos. On the other hand, there is no deficiency of humour in Rhoda,' while in point of style the author is far in advance of the rambling method so frequent amongst female writers.

Mrs. Brewer's story is old-fashioned, and there must be many readers in these days who will welcome it as a decided relief from newer and more conventional models. It is, in fact, a spirited novel of the sort that our grandfathers delighted in, rapid in movement, with incidents on every page, full of perils and adventures, with plenty of distressed damsels and desperate villains, with pirates and gipsies and outlaws, and with enough of kindly human nature to qualify its strong melodramatic flavour. The author has framed her style on that of the romancers of half a century ago, and she has done well to cling to her early teachers rather than adopt the fashions of a younger generation. She would have produced far less satisfactory work by aping writers whom she does not admire.

newer

'The Life of a Prig' is better printed and got up" than it deserves. The author has not much to say, and on common paper and in a common form of presentation his remarks would fail of any sort of effect. But his pages are so comely, his margins so broad, and his text is so narrow, that his matter seems almost interesting, and the essential futility of his satire (for satirist he would be) is, for the time being, only half perceived. The prig of his vision is not an artist in appropriation. He is only an Oxford man who has taken honours and enjoys a vast inheritance of spiritual conceit, and the story of his life is no more than a rather aimless account of his several essays

WE have received from Mr. Murray the Eton Latin Grammar: Part I., Elementary, and a corresponding Latin Exercise Book, both compiled, at Dr. Warre's request, by Mr. A. C. Ainger and Mr. H. G. Wintle, assistant masters at Eton. These books, which are excellently printed, as befits their owner (for they are the property of Eton College), are intended to supersede the Public Schools Latin Primer.' The design is in one respect successful. The accidence is here given in a short and solid form, without

ני

any "transient and embarrassed phantoms of

stems, and without the long lists of anomalies

which break the heart of the small boy. The

most common exceptions are stated in an appendix. But the syntax is not so digestible. First of all, about forty-five very simple general rules are given, with explanations. Then follows a set of examples to these rules, consisting of lines and half lines, not translated. We next get a separate syntax of the conjunctions, then a list of verbs noteworthy in accidence or syntax,

with long notes which are half grammatical,

half lexicographical. Finally, almost a hundred pages are devoted to English prepositions, conjunctions, &c., and the modes of translating

them into Latin. It is obvious that this is not an arrangement which will find favour with many schoolmasters, for it presents all the niceties of Latin syntax in a crude mass, which must be learnt either as it stands or at haphazard through the exercises. In what class will Dr. Warre flog a boy for writing "impero eum venire," or for confusing the uses of ut and ne with timeo? The rules in question are here given along with the principal parts of impero and timeo, two quite regular verbs.

Pindar: the Olympian and Pythian Odes. With an Introductory Essay, Notes, and Indexes by Basil L. Gildersleeve. (Mac

schemes in this edition are due to Dr. J. H. Heinrich Schmidt, who will, it is to be hoped, eventually emerge triumphant from the mêlée of the metrists. It is, of course, tantalizing that, in due accordance with the plan of his commentary, Dr. Gildersleeve often differs from previous in terpreters without giving his reasons, but many of his original suggestions are obviously correct. For instance, the deictic use of the article, as in ó de xovoròs, Ol.,' i. 1, is pointed out, and the emphatic position of eσrt, Ol.,' i. 35, and sunthe Epizephyrian dry dialectic idioms, as Locrian use of Te in Ol.,' ix. 43. Our editor's well-known strength in Greek grammar, morphology, and the study of the dialects is made abundantly manifest by his notes. Though this edition does not enter into competition with Dr. Fennell's, yet it undoubtedly carries Pindaric lore beyond the point to which the latest English

and German commentators had brought it.

Some

The Oriel Readers: Standards IV. and V. (Marcus Ward & Co.)-Of the lessons in these readers it may be safely said that they are in a marked degree readable and instructive. are extracted from eminent authors, and all are well written. Brief exercises in spelling, dictation, and grammar are appended to each lesson. The omission of a table of contents in each volume is regrettable. Both are well printed, neatly bound, and abundantly illustrated.

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lents in the other. Here and there slight tra of Gallicism are observable.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS,

St. Austin's Lodge; or, Mr. Berkeley and Nieces. By Agnes Giberne. (Nisbet & Michael's Treasures; or, Choice Silver. By Em Marshall. (Same publishers.) Letters by the late Frances Ridley H Edited by her Sister, M. V. G. H publishers.)

Fairy Prince Follow-my-Lead; or, the Bracelet. By Emily E. Leader. (Long & Co.)

Katie, an Edinburgh Lassie. By Robin Hardy. (Edinburgh, Oliphant, Andersa Ferrier.)

Every Boy's Annual. Edited by E. Rare (Routledge & Sons.)

ST. AUSTIN'S LODGE' reminds us someri Miss Yonge's stories. The heroine, Una Ba is a young lady with the best of intentions with overflowing spirits and a masterful She falls into endless scrapes, most of w might easily have been avoided. The Bev family, eight in number, are the good ange the book. Una's sister Violet is somet character in fiction the baneful barone. a good angel. And there is also that well-k the whole, the story is readable enough.

Michael's treasures are a little girl belt of gold pieces washed up by the Michael is a noble, sturdy little boy, a doubt he will be as great a favourite a Marshall's children generally are.

Bell's Reading Books. Selections from the Arabian Nights. Rewritten from the Original English Version of Dr. J. Scott for Use in Schools Sir Roger de Coverley, and by G. C. Baskett. other Essays from the Spectator. Selected and arranged for Use in Schools by W. N. Dew. Miss Frances Ridley Havergal's 'Lette (Bell & Sons.) A selection like the present edited by her sister, will be eagerly welo from the tales of the Arabian Nights most by her many admirers. The book is best commonly read by children, with objection-scribed by the following extract from the p able passages expunged, and explanatory notes face: "Such as we are in word by letters whe supplied where needful, is a desirable addition to we are absent, such will we be also in deed whe volume, containing Addison's 'Roger de Coverley' who saw St. Paul could verify his touchstone a popular series of reading books. The other we are present' (2 Cor. x. 11). So only thos Spectator, besides being representative of the and nearly forty miscellaneous essays from the deeds not words. And so with the beloved siste whose letters are now unveiled; only those wh literature of that period, has merits both of saw her could rightly estimate how truly h thought and style which render it useful as a deeds of loving, faithful labour for her Mas means of education. At the same time it can letters do not fully reveal all the wonderful were as golden seals to her words. Even th mission of her home-life, or how the hand takes the crown, may first be pierced with a

hardly be expected that very young readers will be able to relish the delicate humour of Sir Roger de Coverley, and still less are they likely to enjoy, even if they can understand, the other essays here presented to them.

Chambers's Advanced Reader. (Chambers.) The lessons in this book, though not remarkable for literary excellence, have the merits of readableness and utility. Some of them, on current topics, have been written specially for the work. Those on General Gordon give a clear and succinct account of the hero's life and character. Others, as well as these, have a practical aim and tendency. Explanatory notes, exercises, and lists of words, roots, prefixes, and affixes add to

the usefulness of the book.

Colloquial French for School or Private Use.

a thorn. It should be borne in mind that t letters were written chiefly to near and relatives and friends."

'Fairy Prince Follow-my-Lead' is one of most ridiculous and uninteresting fairy tale have ever seen. Why do people with no imag tion write fairy tales?

It is a great relief to turn to Robina Ha 'Katie, an Edinburgh Lassie,' a tale told genuine humour and pathos. The two old i wives are splendid.

Mr. Routledge has wisely omitted the ca plates which used to be introduced into popular magazine. There is still room for

professedly intended for the use of beginners in Pindar-who, by the way, constitute a large majority of those who study that poet at all— the introductory essays on the poet, his metre, and his syntax are exhaustive enough for the most copious edition. Some of the criticisms on Pindar's style and thought will be found too difficult for "beginners," but Dr. Gildersleeve evinces considerable originality and insight as a literary critic. He follows Mezger in rejecting the etiological speculations of

Dissen and others as to Pindar's allusions and

choice of theme, being satisfied with assuming

the artistic motive of contrast or of symmetry. While giving Mezger full credit for his discovery of "recurrent words" he disposes of his adaptation of Westphal's theory of the Terpandrian vópos, and of Westphal's views likewise, by a few trenchant arguments, based on a thoroughly common-sense view of the facts. The metrical

some

scarcely necessary to say that practice in speaking and hearing French, after facility in reading and writing it has been acquired, is the only effectual method of learning to converse in that language. The best of conversation books are a poor sub

Mr. Routledge is too much inclined to sup that boys care about nothing but battles

savages.

OUR LIBRARY TABLE. The History of the First West Indian Pr By Major A. B. Ellis. (Chapman & Ha It is to be feared that a general opinion per that the military value of West Indian reg The idea is, however, unfounded. will become manifest to those who read the b

stitute for this course. The present work consists of scenes from plays, sketches from journals, and two or three imaginary conversations such as occur in every-day life. It differs from ordi- is small. nary conversation books in the higher character

of its materials, which are drawn from the best before us.

writers and the best French of the present day. Whether it will be as serviceable as they are for tourists who depend on books alone is a matter of doubt. The English, which is on the page opposite that of the corresponding French, is generally excellent, the idioms and proverbial sayings of the one language being not slavishly translated, but rendered by their proper equiver

In a very able introductory char Major Ellis relates how highly esteemed the generals under whom they haves have been West Indian troops, and urges for colonial purposes they are of great Not only can they stand hot and it climates, but they are, compared to t regiments, cheap. On what Major Burs is is calculations we do not know. Then is

t that the total expense of a line is greater that of a West Indian battalion; but to say for an addition of 27,000l. six new negro tions could be maintained is manifestly rect. The bravery of the West Indian r in action has been proved not only st savages, but against good French troops. y not be generally known that a negro name of Samuel Hodge, a pioneer of the 'est Indian Regiment, gained the Victoria for conspicuous gallantry at the storming ockade on the river Gambia in 1866. The ness, discipline, and intrepidity of a small ment of the 1st West Indian Regiment at Walk, when in 1872 they were suddenly ed by Indians, would have reflected credit e best troops in the world. The good ies of the West Indian troops were conus also in the last Ashanti war. The of West Indian regiments are docile and ittle trouble; but those who are called in negroes, in contradistinction to the men in the West Indies, it is impossible with any nt of careful training to make even fair shots. are also dull and stupid, and appear to be sable of thinking for themselves. Perhaps, ver, if they were caught young something t be made of them. Major Ellis has given ir, well-arranged narrative, and his book is red attractive by a well-executed coloured spiece showing the present uniform of the ent, and its value is increased by numerous

→ British Citizen; his Rights and Privileges: rt History. By J. E. Thorold Rogers, M. P. ty for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)new volume of the " People's Library" markably clever. Mr. Thorold Rogers not attempt to supersede such expositions esent-day politics as are given in the lish Citizen" series and other works, but es himself almost entirely to an historical ▼, in which at a first glance he may be ht to have given too much space to antiin details. It is not so, however. No more lue attention is paid to the originals, before fter the Norman Conquest, from which the its and privileges" of the British citizen g; and the antiquities are explained so antly and lucidly, with so much humour and

ach truth, that the volume should be attracreading to a boy, and at the same time ictive to an adult who is well acquainted his Hallam, his Stubbs, his Froude, and his ulay. Though he is fond of epigram and indulges in satire, Mr. Rogers has con1 to keep tolerably clear of political bias,

to point out the significance of often un

ed facts in terms that can offend no partisan. starts with a brief account of the original itions of village life and parish organization ir island, so far as they can be ascertained; from the basis of agricultural occupations primitive townships he traces the superture built up by the so-called Anglocolonists and their Norman conquerors. indicates very plainly the processes by which men became serfs and serfs became free again, services to civilization that feudalism secured ite of itself, and the stages by which kingship developed and lost the power it had usefully ired so soon as that power could no longer sefully employed. He describes the work he clergy in fostering civil freedom, the ution of municipal institutions, the elaboraof parliamentary control, and all the other nt features in the growth of citizenship ng the dark ages and afterwards. There is od deal of optimism in his vigorous sketch. hese times," he says, "are called the dark -There is no doubt that many of the gs with which we are familiar were unknown ■. But that of which people have had no erience cannot be a loss to them. In all ntials of spirit and character, the England ve or six centuries ago was the England of ay." That is the view that Mr. Rogers

forcibly expresses with as much detail as can be crowded, without any awkwardness from the crowding, into his concise little manual. Another point that he brings into prominence, and illustrates by frequent reference to the contemporary and less satisfactory history of the struggles for liberty in France, Germany, and other European countries, is that the all but steady growth of English citizenship has been largely due to the fact that, in England preeminently, divergent interests have been schooled into aiming at and attaining common benefits."

B. A. (Religious Tract Society), have a very Jottings from the Pacific, by W. Wyatt Gill, different value from the notes of a passing traveller, and the complete disappearance of the social conditions prevalent when Mr. Gill first knew the Pacific gives additional value to his reminiscences. The several sections of this little volume deal respectively with religious, with zoological and botanical, and with miscellaneous matters, and on all these heads our author, as an experienced missionary, a competent naturalist, and a close observer, is worth listening to. Under the title of "Bible Truths Illustrated" he gives several examples of the teaching of the native pastors, which are curious from the bold and original and often poetical way in which they use metaphors drawn entirely from their own surroundings. Many of the most active supporters- whether as teachers or otherwise of the new order seem to have been

the most prominent fighters and most desperate cannibals in the old days. This is only in accordance with what is natural; but then the conclu

by the converts, and not sufficiently combated sion probably deduced from the new teachings by their European teachers, was that there was nothing else in life on which it was worth while to expend energy; and this would largely explain the subsequent reaction and

decline.

The book contains many curious illustrations of the habits, appearance, and uses of the more characteristic animals and plants of the region. The reason assigned by the people ing by nights instead of by days is" that one day for the habit, universal in Polynesia, of reckon(Ra sun) is like another, whereas each night gives a different phase of the moon with a distinct

name. The phase of the moon also indicates the ferent names for these phases of the moon. sort of fish obtainable." And there are thirty difOn the much-mooted question of a fish diet Mr. Gill writes: "I am interested in the discussion going

on at home about fish as food for the brain.

For years past there have been annually resident in the training institution at Rarotonga from fifty to seventy natives of various islands of the South Pacific. The most quick-witted students come from low coral islands, and have grown to manhood on a diet of fish and cocoa-nuts. In muscular strength, however, and in the power of endurance, they are decidedly inferior to the inhabitants of volcanic islands, who used a mixed diet." It will thus be seen that Mr. Wyatt Gill's jottings cover a pretty wide range.

Philosophy in the Kitchen. By an Old Bohemian. (Ward & Downey.) -Dedicated to the Savage Club, the present volume sets forth the conclusions with regard to meat and drink of one who has had many opportunities, and has used them wisely and well. His philosophy is not, it may be, for valetudinarians, nor are his recipes (as a rule) for the enlightenment of plain cooks. But for all that he is a prophet to whom the dyspeptic may listen on occasion with pleasure, and of whom the haughtiest plain cook may learn certain virtues of practice. His remarks on the distillation of coffee are such as should be read in every kitchen. On the preparation of pâté de foie gras he dilates with a certain complacency, but also with a fulness of detail which goes a long way towards removing the dainty from the respectable diner's scheme of victuals.

MESSRS. REMINGTON send us Mr. Henry George the Orthodox, by Robert Scott Moffat, which is a somewhat scrappy volume of criticisms on Progress and Poverty.' The author easily succeeds in showing that Mr. George does not understand the doctrine of Malthus to which he attempted to reply, but Mr. Moffat's own strictures upon Ricardo do not appear to be of a higher order than Mr. George's upon Malthus.

UNDER the title of Filazana ny Fomba Fandaharam - Panjakana, a treatise on the English constitution has been printed in the Malagasy We language, and published in Madagascar. larly issued by the Malagasy Government as its may add that Ny Gazety Malagasy is now reguofficial organ.

The laws of the island have also been translated into French and English for the information of foreign residents. M. Saillens's brochure on the French relations with Madagascar is being republished in both languages in the Madagascar Times, the editor of which, Mr. A. Tacchi, was the European secretary to the Malagasy envoys who visited England two years ago.

WE have on our table Records of the Third Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, compiled by E. T. Evans (Simpkin),-Brazil and Java, by C. F. Van Delden Laerne (Allen & Co),-Helps to Higher Arithmetic, by the Rev. G. F. Allfree and T. F. Scudamore (Hamilton),-Gardiner's Explanatory Geography, Part V. (Heywood),Phonetic Shorthand, by A. Janes (The Author),(Relfe Brothers),-Birds I have Kept, by W. T. Odds and Ends of Useful Knowledge, by a Lady Greene (Gill),-The Structure of the Wool Fibre, by F. H. Bowman (Manchester, Palmer & Howe), -Pottery Painting, by F. Miller (Wyman & Sons), The Art of Boot and Shoe Making, by J. B. Leno (Lockwood), The Builder's and Contractor's Price Book, by G. W. Usill (Scientific Publishing Company), - The Elements of Moral Science, by U Porter (Low) -Heart or Brain? (The Author),-Health Lectures for the People, Fifth Series (Edinburgh, Macniven & Wallace),-The British Pharmacopoeia for 1885 son),Tales of the Pandaus (Harrison),—Spring (Spottiswoode),-A Road Guide to the Southern Scottish Counties, by J. Lennox (Dumfries, AnderMornings in the East, by P. A. W. (Kent),—

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Christian Names and What they Mean (Marcus Ward),—Friendship's Diary (Hodder & Stoughton),-Saturday Night, by S. T. Cross (Griffith & Farran), Life in the Ranks of the British - Our Mediterranean Holiday by L. Nathan (The Army, by J. B. Patterson (Maxwell), Author), A Ruined Sanctuary, by L. Bigg (Wyman & Sons), - Betrayed, by Dora Russell (White), The Strange Story of Eugenia, by Miss H. Coode (Griffith & Farran),-As It Was Written, by S. Luska (Cassell),-The Dear Neighbours, by Max O'Rell (Field & Tuer),-Karma, 2 vols., by A. P. Sinnett (Chapman & Hall),-Hunted Down, by M. Hillary (Ward & Downey), -A Heroine of the Commonplace, by M. Dal Vero George Müller (London Literary Society), and Andrew Reed, by Mrs. Pitman (Cassell),George and Robert Stephenson, by C. L. Matéaux (Cassell),-Richard Cobden, by R. Gowing (Cassell), Salome, by Mrs. E. Marshall (Nelson),by M. E. Clements Nelson), -The Children's Tour, by M. A. Paull (Nelson)-Romps at the Seaside, by H. Furniss (Routledge), — Romps in Town, by H. Furniss (Routledge),-Pictures, Prose, and Rhymes for Children of all Climes (S.S.U.),-Young England Volume, 1885 (S.S.U.), -Our Darlings, edited by Dr. Barnardo (Shaw),The Young Standard-Bearer (Wells Gardner),The Child's Own Magazine (S.S. U.),-Young Days (Heywood),--Sunday (Wells Gardner),The Friendly Visitor (Seeley), The Family Friend (Partridge),--Cassell's Family Magazine (Cassell), -The Gray Masque, by Mary B. Dodge (Boston, U.S., Lothrop), -Selected Poems from Michelangelo Buonarroti, edited by E. D. Cheney (Boston, U.S., Lee & Shepard),-The Prophets

of the Old Testament, by M. D. H. (Nisbet),— Memoir of David King, LL.D., by his Wife (Glasgow, MacLehose),-First Successors of the Holy Apostles in the Christian Church, by G. M. Home (Smith),—The Jewish Life of Christ, edited by G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler (Progressive Publishing Company),-Spiritual Light and Life, by H. Varley (Whittingham),Bible Pictures for Little People (S.S. U.),-Les Innovations du Docteur Sélectin, by G. Godde (Paris, Plon),-and Reallexicon der Deutschen Altertümer, Parts I. to VI., by Dr. E. Götzinger (Trübner).

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case in this county, it would seem that the be daries of the parish and the manor were identical. To work out the exact limits of t latter, were that now possible, would re some one who has local knowledge wh do not possess. Many of the court rol account rolls of this manor are among the f papers of E. W. Cracroft, Esq., of Hack Hall. These I have had the pleasure of en ing. They abound with facts useful to a of names of persons and places. Some f orders for the government are singularly inter ing. I wish to direct special attention to th promulgated in 1603. I must premise the that time Charles Cooke was the lord of manor. I give these regulations in full, the contractions expanded :—

Pena et Ordines.

Item we do lay in payne that Thomas shall make his bursell sufficient betwixt t Barker & himself betwixt this and the feast f Andrewe next ensuinge in peane of x'.

Item we doe lay in paine that all the wayes, markett wayes, & bredges, which ha vsuallie maide & done, to be restored & resufficiently betwene this & the feast of all S in payne of euerie defaulte xija.

Item we do lay in paine that all the lordes te shall make sufficiente his Burselles betwixt te bour & neighbour betwixte this & Christmas in payne of euery default xijd.

Item we doe lay in payne that Mr Lathwhite kepe a sufficient Bursell aboute his parsons payne of euerie defaulte x'.

Item we doe lay in payne that Mr Cooke apoynte vs a place to sett our Common for with sufficient wood for to make yt, betwixt t martynmas next in payne of vi.

Item we doe lay in payne that euerie man make vpe sufficiently all the Scarfes betwist: milne & Restone Inges betwene this & Christ next in payne of euerie defaulte iij' iiij.

Item we do lay in payne that euerie man s kepe his swine Ringed from the feast of Sain Andrewe next vntill Shrowftyde, in payne of eder defaulte iiijd.

Item we do lay in payne that euerie man shal skower vpe his diches & Grippes in the corne feildes betwene this & martymas next in payne of ener defalte ijd.

Item we doe lay in payne that euerie housholder shall make a sufficiente Swinecote betwene this Christemas next in payne of euerie defaulte v vi

Item we doe lay in payne that M Cooke sh make his Bursell sufficient betwene William Ke daile & himselfe in payne of iiija.

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REMEMBRANCE.

O NIGHT of Death, O Night that bringest all,
Night full of dreams and large with promises,
O Night, that holdest on thy shadowy knees
Sleep for all fevers, hope for every thrall:
Bring thou to her for whom I wake and call,
Bring her, when I am dead, the memories
Of all our perished love, our vanished ease.
So shall I live again beneath the pall.
Then let my face, pale as a waning moon,

Rise on thy dark and be again as dear;
Let my dead voice find its forgotten tune
And strike again as sweetly on her ear
As when, upon my lips, ore far-off June,
Thy name, O Death, she could not brook to hear.
A. MARY F. ROBINSON.

LINCOLNSHIRE MANOR CUSTOMS.

sells were, I think, the fences-not thorn he
but rough walls of stone or banks of earth.
is, perhaps, also not unsafe to assume (tho
have not met with the word before) that
is a form of scarp, that is, an escarpmen
sharply cut and steep embankment. I sp
hend that a stream ran between "the m
& Restone Inges," that the sides were in
habit of slipping in, and that these "slips"
what is meant by scarfes.

The interest of the document does not, hi
ever, consist in the fact that it contains
uncommon words, but that we have evidence
the manor jury had, or believed themselve
have, the power of fining their lord if he
not find a place for the fold and timber
constructing it. The fold was an enclosure
the common used for the purpose of
fining the cattle when the herd wished
examine them, and at other times
the public interest required that they
be gathered together. Such folds must
existed in all manors where there was a com
pasture. I have myself seen traces of th
in two or three places. The fine, it w
observed, is an exceptionally heavy one
The order seems to point to
pounds.
fact that there had been some quarrel a
the fold between the lord and his tes
If this were
so the rolls are silent on t

matter. It is the only instance I have met of a manor court fining, or threatening to its lord, and at present I can only explain it the assumption that at Little Carlton the vil As is so frequently the community out of which both parish and man

Bottesford Manor, Brigg. LITTLE CARLTON is a parish about three miles south-east of Louth.

grown had retained some customary rights ch had been lost in other places. The proof feudalizing had somehow been arrested ore it had become so complete as elsewhere. he lord were fined-and we do not know that was not-if he refused to pay, who, one aders, levied the distress, and what became of five pounds when in the hands of the manor rt officials? Several other questions will at e occur to your readers who are interested in old village life, which I need not ask at sent. One difficulty I had better clear away. may be objected that the Mr. Cooke of the ena et Ordines' may not have been the same son as Charles Cooke the lord of the manor. this were a legal question, not an historical e, I have no doubt whatever that the identity the two could be proved in a manner which uld satisfy a law court. The court rolls prove nost to demonstration that no one named oke was at this time a tenant of the manor. is also nearly impossible that it can have been y one's duty but the lord's to appoint a place or the fold. According to the usually received pinion the soil of the common was his, subject the rights of the manorial tenants; and it is possible, if Little Carlton were a manor at all s we have the fullest proof it was), that any one it Charles Cooke could exercise this right of pointment.

It may not be uninteresting to some of your aders to know that the manor court of Little arlton looked sharply after matters. In the 12th Henry VIII. William Spencer the miller ok too much toll-"le mouter excessive "-to e damage of the tenants, and suffered in conquence. The very next year the same dishonest rson was presented because he possessed a rtain measure called "a pek skep non legitima ia parva est.' In the 24th year of the same ng a penalty of xld was imposed on those who ould cut "le quyckfall" at unseasonable nes. This was a very necessary regulation. the thorns were lopped in late spring or mmer, the tenants knew that they would nost certainly die. It may not be useless to ention that at Little Carlton, as elsewhere, e find sensible regulations for the prevention fires. In 1647 it was ordered "that no fire fetcht to any place but in a pitcher or other ose vessell, in paine of euery one offending is." EDWARD PEACOCK,

ORIENTAL MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

IMPORTANT additions have lately been made the Oriental collection. Col. S. B. Miles, ritish Resident at Muscat, has presented to the rustees twenty-five MSS., mostly collected by imself in Southern Arabia. They include the Shams al-'Olum,' an extensive and little known rabic lexicon by Nashwán al-Himyari, in six rge volumes, two of which are duplicates; a ill commentary on the Kasidat al-Himya yyeh' of the same author; Kitáb al-Tiján,' history of the Himyarite kings, by Ibn Hisham, ith the traditions of 'Abíd Ibn Sharyah on the me subject; a history of the city of San'a y Ahmed Rázi; the last volume of the Soluk' chronicle of al-Makrízi, comprising A.H. 81514; a commentary on the Targhíb' of alTundiri, dated A. H. 820; a commentary on the Hawi' of Najm al-Din Kazwini, dated A.H. 38; Dau al-Nahár,' a treatise of Zaidi law; e Diwans of Abu Firás, Ibn Nubátah, al-Kíráti, on Makánis, &c.

'Senglákh' is the title of a Chaghatai-Persian ctionary compiled by Mirza Mehdi, the wellnown secretary and historian of Nadir Shah, nd completed A.H. 1172. It is by far the richest xicon of Eastern Turkish extant; it has a grammatical introduction of considerable extent, and copiously illustrated with quotations from the orks of Mir Ali Shir and from the memoirs of Faber. But it was hitherto only known through e medium of abridgments in which those quoations are omitted. Mr. Sidney Churchill, of

Teheran, may be congratulated upon his success in hunting up and securing for the Museum a complete copy of this valuable work.

Of many other rare MSS. for which the Museum is indebted to the unflagging and enlightened zeal of the same scholar, a few only can be mentioned here, as "'Ikd ul-'Ola,' a contemporary account by Afzal-uddin of the conquest of Kerman by Malik Dinar, a Ghuz chieftain, A.H. 583; the history of Taberistan, by Mir Zehir-uddin; a history of Khurasan under Shah Isma'il and Shah Tahmasp, written A. H. 957 by Mir Mahmud, a son of Khondemir, the author of Habib-ussiyer'; 'Destur i Shahriaran,' the official record of the first six years of Shah Sultan-Husein, the last of the Safavis; Hada'ik us-Sihr,' written by Rashid Vatvát about A. H. 550, probably the earliest treatise extant on Persian poetry and poetical figures; 'Chehar Makaleh,' a collection of anecdotes relating to vezirs, poets, astrologers, and physicians, compiled by Nizami 'Aruzi for a Ghuri prince of Bamian about A. H. 550; 'Al-Mo'jem fi Ma'ayir al-'Ajem,' a treatise on prosody and poetical composition, written, circa A. H. 630, by Shems i Kais, of Bukhara, and dedicated to the Atabek Abu Bekr Ben Sa'd, the patron of Sa'di; 'Jami' al-Olum,' an encyclopædia of Muslim sciences, written for Tukush Kharezmshah about A. H. 580 by Fakhr-uddin Razi; two copies of the 'Merzban Nameh,' a Persian imitation of the fables of Bidpai, fully described by M. Schefer in his 'Chrestomathie Persane'; sixteenth century copy of the 'Gershasp Nameh' of Asadi; the Diwans (mostly modern and abridged copies) of early poets, as Onsuri, Minuchehri, Ferrukhi, Nasir Khusrau, Katran, Azraki, Lami'i, Rashid Vatvát, &c.; and Mahbub ul-Kulub,' a treatise on ethics in Chaghatai, by Mir Ali Shir.

a

From other sources the Museum has lately acquired two volumes of one of the earliest extant commentaries on the Coran, that of Abul-laith Samarkandi, dated A.H. 692 and 764; the rare Yusuf and Zulaikha' of Firdousi; choice illuminated copies of the Khamseh i Nizami,'' Khusrau Shirin,' 'Hamlah i Haidari,' &c., from the collection of the late Oriental scholar Nath. Bland; a curious copy of the 'Shahnameh' in which the text is swelled to the unprecedented number of 100,000 double verses, or twice its original extent, owing to the insertion of later namehs, such as 'Gershasp,' 'Sam,' Feramurz,' 'Berzu,' 'Banugeshasp,' and 'Bahman Nameh,' as episodes of the poem; and a MS. written on thin wooden plates in the yet undeciphered character of the Chinese Shans.

DR. EDERSHEIM ON PROPHECY AND HISTORY.

8, Bradmore Road, Oxford, Nov. 14, 1885. WITH reference to the review in the Athenaeum of November 14th of my book on 'Prophecy and History in Relation to the Messiah,' allow me to state the following facts :

hold the views of Wellhausen those sequences which to my mind seem logically to follow from them. I expressly and repeatedly say the contrary (pp. 219, 199).

on my

4. It is not the case that I rest my "claim" to have presented the Old Testament and the Messianic hope "from a new aspect supposed views of the authorship of the books in the canon-first, because I have not expressed any such views; secondly, because I expressly state other grounds for what "claim" of the kind I make.

5. "The claim" which I am represented as making is a misrepresentation, owing to the omission from the quotation of what I had written of the words now italicized: "Yet the main questions concerning the Old Testament and its Messianic hope have been faced, and, in some respects, viewed under [not "from"] a aspect" (Preface, p. x).

new

ALFRED EDERSHEIM.

**It is not our intention to enter into a controversy with Dr. Edersheim. The following extract speaks for itself :

"We know sufficient of the discussions in those early Jewish assemblies which fixed the Old Testament canon to assure us that a book would not have been inserted which was known to be false in its title, still less one that was fraudulent in its object." -Pp. 221-2.

The argument on p. 219 to which Dr. Edersheim refers conveys to our mind the very reverse meaning of what Dr. Edersheim here maintains, especially when compared with pp. xi, xii, 230.

THE BYRON QUARTO.

We have received many communications on the subject of the suppressed Byron quarto; but none of them tends to establish the existence

It.

of the third copy allowed by Moore to be possibly extant in his day. An eminent Byron collector, Mr. Sam Timmins, recalls the sight of a copy "in a glass case at the Albert Hall some years ago, when the models for the proposed statue since erected in Hyde Park were on view." On referring to the 'Byron Memorial Loan Collection Catalogue' we find that the copy exhibited on the occasion in question (in 1875) was lent by W. F. Webb, Esq. was, therefore, the imperfect Newstead copy for which we have already accounted, and was, as before stated, the one given to Pigot. Mr. Richard Edgcumbe, who should know something about the matter, writes to our learned contemporary Notes and Queries, "The Southwell copy, of which my amiable friend the translator of Elze's 'Life of Byron' speaks in the appendix, is not, so far as I can remember, a quarto "; but Mr. Edgcumbe considers it to be "of an earlier print......than the one now in possession of Mr. Webb." Nevertheless, it is a very decided quarto, and, together with the piece of paper which the Rev. Mr. Becher wrapped round it and endorsed, is now the property of Mr. H. W. Ball. We have already inspected it, and hope very shortly to give our readers a full account of it. The "earlier print" examined by Mr. Edgcumbe may have been a copy of the privately printed Poems on Various Occasions,' which immediately followed the destruction of the quarto a small octavo volume repeating much of the quarto's contents; but the line quoted in Notes and Queries for purposes of identification,

whistle,

Through the cracks in thy walls do the hollow winds does not occur in either print. Of the octavo a hundred copies were printed, and are said to have been duly distributed among the youthful poet's friends before he sent to press his first real publication, the 'Hours of Idleness,' containing much of the same material again. It is not likely that a large number of the hundred has perished, for the gifts of lords were treasurable in those days. In the loan collection of 1875 there were no fewer than four copies, and every now and