lenge comparison with landscape in oil and The Verse, arranged by H. Kynaston (Macmillan),—A LIST OF NEW BOOKS. Theology. Ball's (C. K.) Apostle of the Gentiles, his Life and Letters, 2/6 Green's (M. F.) Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to Recent in the Year, 12mo. 2/ el. Schlieng's (A.) The Life Manifested, 2/6 cl. Conway's (W. M.) The Artistic Development of Reynolds Music. Bede's (C.) Fotheringhay and Mary, Queen of Scots, 5/ cl. &c., folio, 21/cl. Schürer's (E.) History of the Jewish People, Division 2, Geography and Travel. Conn's (W.) Japanese Life, Love, and Legend, from Japon Philology. Fragmenta Herculanensia, Catalogue of the Oxford Copies Disease, cr. 8vo. 6/ Eagles's (T. H) Constructive Geometry of Plane Curves, Morris's (H.) Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, 12mo. 9/ el. Green Pleasures and Grey Grief, by Author of 'Phyllis,' &c., We have on our table The Autobiography of a Whitehead Torpedo, by "Guns" (Engineering' Office),-The Fisheries Exhibition Literature, Vols. XIII. and XIV. (Clowes),-Digest of the Evidence given before the Select Committee on Harbours and Fisheries, by W. J. Doherty (Dublin, Gill),-The Ministry of Flowers, by the Rev. H. Friend (Sonnenschein),—The Greater Origins and Issues of Life and Death, by J. J. G. Wilkinson (Speirs),-Lectures and Addresses on Theosophy, by H. S. Olcott (Redway), -Philistinism, by R. H. Newton (Clarke),- What is a Lady? by the Author of 'Louis Leggatt' (Griffith & Farran),-Man's Birthday, by E. H. G. Clark (Putnam's),-The Jewish Law of Marriage and Divorce in Ancient and Modern Times, by Rev. M. Mielziner (Cincinnati, the Author),- The Lost Trail, by E. S. Ellis (Cassell),-In Quest of Gold, by A. St. Johnston (Cassell), Friends Creighton's (C.) Illustrations of Unconscious Memory in and Foes from Fairy Land, by Lord Brabourne (Longmans), Mrs. Lester's Girls and their Service (Nisbet),-Her Saddest Blessing, by J. Chappell (Partridge),-Claude Russell's Sister, by E. C. Kenyon (S.S.U.), -Us Three, by E. 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The Actor's Wife, a Novel, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl. Ohnet's (G.) The Ironmaster, illus., cheaper edition, 8vo. 5/ cl. Fine Art. Hampel (J.): Der Goldfund v. Nagy-Szent-Miklós, 6m. Philosophy. Meyer (T.): Institutiones Juris Naturalis seu Philosophiae 5m. Sepp (B.): Der Rücklass der Schottenkönigin Maria Stuart, Reinhardstoettner (C. v.): Spätere Bearbeitungen Plautin. Scherer (C.) De Olympionicarum Statuis, 1m. 60. Sittl (K.): Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur Part 2, A COMPLAINT. Twickenham, Nev. 1, 1 THE following paragraph, clipped from area issue of the Philadelphia Evening Belt inventions which have of late been se but one of a series of baseless and mal concerning me and my work:"Mr. David Christie Murray will comma serial, entitled Aunt Rachel, in the Octob of the English Illustrated Magazine, wh the first number of a new-we think of te volume of this popular periodical. If we w ing it we should not care to purchase anyt Murray's manuscript before he had cleares from the charge of conveying his 'Hard As from L'Affaire Lerouge.' I know neither of the works mentielle and never so much as saw their titles l them in this extract. D. CHRISTIE MURRAY PROF. SAYCE in his interesting little b Assyria, its Princes, Priests, and People,' say (p. 61) that "the worship of Nebo was con as far as Canaan, as we may gather from s names as the city of Nebo, in Judæa (Ez 29), and Mount Nebo, in Moab (Deut. mi 49)." It is not certain that the Nebo menti in Ezra (ii. 29 and x. 43) and Nehemiah (ri the word, which is not to be found in the parallel passage of Ezra ii. 29, seems to ha Judah, but it is possible. From Numbers crept in from the following verse) was situats 3, 38, it would result that a locality named b was situated in the land of Reuben, in the neigh bourhood of Heshbon. Isaiah (xv. 2) and Jere miah (xlviii. 1, 22) mention Nebo as a town of Moab. Possibly they all mean the same locality in Moab. Anyhow, Nebo must be connected with the deity of this name, who was worshipped both in the town of Nebo and on the mountain of this name. This mountain has beyond doubt a mythological importance, since the great leader of Israel is said to have died there and to have been buried there, and "no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.' Is it possible that the town of priests Nob (1 Samuel xxii. 11, 19), situated near Jer salem, in the land of Benjamin, was also a place of worship of Nebo, with Ahimelech as s priest? Elsewhere (1 Sam. xxvi. 6) we h Ahimelech designated as a Hittite, but of th I shall speak in another note. Nob () is als called Nobeh (7; 1 Sam. xxi. 2, xx the Authorized Version has here also Nob; the Septuagint renders both by Nouẞa). Even we adhere to the Masoretic punctuation and th Greek transliteration, Nob and Nobeh may a dialectical pronunciation of Nebo, a pro ciation justified by the orthography of 20 the (which is not a local according to Masoretic punctuation). Nob, according the doubtful passage (2 Sam. xxi. 15), d Ishbi-Benob, which was of the sons of the giant" (so A.V. and R.V.; rather, Ar Yishbi at Nob, who was of the sons of the giant"), was the dwelling of the tribe of the Rephaim or giants, which shows clearly the mythological importance of that locality. Should 3 stand for 2, "son of Nob," my case would gain more strength. The imported worship of Nob or Nebo ses Inot to have taken much root amongst the Canaanitish tribes, since we do not find Nebe in Canaanitish compound proper names, as the case with El and Yahweh, and in Assyri with Nebo in names like Nebuchadnezzar, Nebe saraden, &c. But we find at least a trace of it i the Phoenician names Nebobarach (77; Levy, 'Phoen. Wörtb.,' a.v.), "Nob (Nebo) blesses," and Neboʻalatz (y, on an inscription of Abydos; see Dr. Baudissin's excellent article on Nebo in the new edition of Herzog's 'Realen cyclopaedie,' &c.). Nebo as a compound occurs also in later Palmyrene inscriptions: Nebozabad and Barnebo (116 A.D.), Nebobel (262 A.D.), and qawa (234 A.D.). Thus the cult of Nebo, a TWO RUSSIAN WRITERS. or his own countrymen alone, but any who It was on his way to Saratoff to organize there A few of his his own, Echoes, but it did not prove successful. BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE IN LAMB'S DAY. In the reprint of Charles Lamb's Essays of discernible. J. E. LATTON PICKERING, Librarian. J 18 -11 [i. e., Joseph Jekyll], admitted Inner Temple Thomas Coventry, admitted 1732, Bencher 1766, Treasurer 1779, died 1797. Samuel Salt. admitted 1745, Bencher 1782, Treasurer 1788, died 1792. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdes, Coronica delas Indias, 1547, 661. Relations of the Jesuits in Canada, a series of twenty-one volumes, printed in the years 1637 to 1664, 66. W. Smith, History of New York, large paper, 55l.; this book sold for 45l. in the Beckford sale. G. Thomas, Account of Pensilvania, 1698, 337. A Good Speed to Virginia, black letter, 1609, 37l. 10s. R. Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643, 291. 10s. W. Wood, New England's Prospect, 1635, 20l. 10s. A. de Zarate, Discoverie of Peru, black letter, 1581, 23. 10s. R. Arnold, Chronicle, black letter, wormed at the end, printed in Antwerp in 1502, 90l. F. Berlinghieri, Geographia, 1480, 31. Holy Bible, 1549, 55l. Bidpai's Fables, 1485, 43. Bonaventure, Mirrour of the Life of Christ, a manuscript on vellum, written about 1450, 291. Bible in Latin, five volumes, 12mo., with Count Hoym's arms in gold on the sides, 1565, 26l. 10s. V. Carloisi, Memoires de la Vie de François de Scepeaux, 1757, from the library of Madame de Pompadour, 341. 10s. Heures présentées à Madame la Dauphine, bound in silver, 321. P. Heyns, Le Miroir du Monde, in beautiful sixteenth century binding, 481. Justini Historiarum Libri XLIV., bound in red morocco with filigree tooling by Le Gascon, printed in 1640, 100l. V. J. Lastanosa de Figueruelas, Museo de las Medallas desconocidas Españolas, bound by Derome, 51l. Tratado de la Moneda Jaquesa, 1681, 45l. G. Rondelet, Histoire entière des Poissons, in old olive morocco, covered with gold tooling, 401. Z. Boyd, The last Battell of the Soule in Death, Edinburgh, 1620, 30l. Breviarium Romanum, manuscript on vellum of French execution, with illuminated borders, fourteenth century, 331. Thirty-one plates of Peter Pierson, admitted 1759, Bencher 1800, Trea- bull-fighting, by F. Goya, 201. 10s. M. de Cer surer 1807, died 1808. Hon. Daines Barrington, admitted 1744, Bencher John Reade, admitted 1752, Bencher 1792, Trea- John Wharry, admitted 1762, Bencher 1801, Trea- Richard Jackson, admitted 1740, Bencher 1770, James Mingay, admitted 1770, Bencher 1785, Treasurer 1791, died 1812. Francis Maseres, admitted 1750, Bencher 1774, SALE. MESSRS. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE were engaged the whole of last week in the sale of the collection of rare and valuable books formed by Mr. Ellis, of Bond Street. The prices realized were high, and augur well for the important sales the auctioneers promise for the ensuing season. The following books were among the more important: Esop's Fables in Spanish, printed in 1520 at Valencia, 30l. 10s. G. Allan, Tracts and Documents relating to Durham, 18. 10s. A collection of fugitive pieces printed in various towns in America between 1720 and 1810, 40l. C. Colden, History of the Five Indian Nations depending on the Province of New York, 1727, 521. Cortes, Narratione della Nuova Hispagna, 1524, 20l. 10s. F. Georges, America painted to the Life, 16581659, 42. R. Hamor, True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, 1615, 66. R. Harcourt, Relation of a Voyage to Guiana, 1613, 15/. 10s. B. de Las Casas, The Spanish Colonie in the Newe World, 1583, 201. T. Lechford, Plain Dealing, or Newes from New-England, 1642, 35. M. Lescarbot, Histoire de la Nouvelle France, 1609, 34.; another edition, 1618, 311. Leyes y Ordenanças nuevamente hechas Gouernacion las 40l. J. irlier books relate to questions connected with vantes, History of Don Quixote, 1612-20, 301. A collection of prints of D. N. Chodoviecky, in two volumes, 581. R. Clutterbuck, History of Hertford, 1815-27, 201. Columna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499, 75l. S. Della Bella, A collection of engravings, in twentyfour volumes, 31l. Dibdin's Bibliomania, 1811, 391. 10s. Dr. Doran, Annals of the English Stage, extra illustrated, 1865, 21. Sir W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, three volumes, 1655-73, 45l. Dupont, Les Controversses des Sexes Masculin et Femenin, black letter, 1534, 30l. 10s. A series of six early engravings executed in the manner known as "dotted plates," representing scenes from the New Testament, 921. J. Foxe, Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Dayes, 1563, imperfect, 401. J. Gould, Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73, 45l. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, by "Boz," with many extra illustrations, 51. J. Guillim, Display of Heraldry, on large paper, 1724, 35l. This sale, which is to end to-day, had realized up to last Saturday 7,130l. 16s. 6d. Literary Gossip. WE understand that Prof. Charles Eliot Norton has edited and placed in the hands of Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for publication a collection of hitherto unpublished letters written by Carlyle to his family and friends. The collection will comprise a series of letters to Mr. Browning, and the very important series of letters to Goethe referred to in these columns last week. A SELECTION of the late Lord O'Hagan's speeches, as revised by himself, will very shortly be published by Messrs. Longman & Co. The volume opens with a speech on the Legislative Union delivered at a meeting of the Repeal Association in 1843, and closes with Lord O'Hagan's speeches in the House of Lords in 1881-2 on the Irish Land Laws. The work is edited by Lord O'Hagan's nephew, Mr. George Teeling, and contains numerous biographical and historical notes. MR. HENRY JAMES is writing yet another novel for the Atlantic Monthly. Journal. It was announced as "containing MR. HALE WHITE writes:- "As I had the honour of living in the same PROF. HUXLEY will contribute to the Nineteenth Century a reply to Mr. Gladstone's house, 142, Strand, with George Eliot for about article in last month's number. THE Lives of Robert and Mary Moffat,' which appeared on October 1st, has now reached the third edition. An American edition, with an introduction by Dr. W. M. Taylor, a well-known clergyman in New York, was issued simultaneously with the first English edition by Messrs. Armstrong & Son of that city, and we learn that a German translation is in active preparation. STUDENTS wishing to consult the Malagasy Red Books may be interested to know that the acting consul for Madagascar has just presented copies of them to the library of the British Museum. The official correspondence is printed in both Malagasy and French. The second Red Book contains full details of the negotiations recently conducted by M. Maigrot, the Italian consul at Antananarivo. STEPNIAK's new book, which we mentioned last week, will be entitled "The Russian Storm Cloud,' and will contain chapters on the Russian army, Poland, terrorism in Russia, European Socialism, and dynamitards. Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein will publish it early next year. IT is interesting to notice that, through the publicity given in our columns to Charles Lamb's story of Beauty and the Beast,' a second copy has been discovered, and is to be sold by auction by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson on December 17th. It is now to be hoped this very interesting little volume may be reprinted in book form to prevent its being again lost. MR. R. G. MOULTON, one of the most experienced lecturers connected with the Cambridge University Extension movement, has in the press a pamphlet describing its working as a system of education, and the methods of local management adopted in various districts. He urges that means should be taken to organize the movement more completely, to solicit endowments which might be applied to the further extension of the work, and especially to secure the permanent engagement of competent lecturers. Without a regular staff, the extension movement loses its teachers just when they become most valuable. During the last ten years 60,000 persons have attended full courses of lectures, at a total cost of 50,000l.; but the system suffers from the isolation of its component parts, and is thus liable to fluctuations which weaken its efficiency. two years, between 1851 and 1854, I may perhaps be allowed to correct an impression which Mr. Cross's book may possibly produce on its readers. To put it very briefly, I think he has made her too respectable.' She was really one of the most sceptical, unusual creatures I ever knew, and it was this side of her character which to me was the most attractive. She told me that it was worth while to undertake all the labour of learning French if it resulted in nothing more than reading one book-Rousseau's Confessions.' That saying was perfectly symbolical of her, and reveals more completely what she was, at any rate in 1851-54, than page after page of attempt her now, with her hair over her shoulders, on my part at critical analysis. I can see the easy chair half sideways to the fire, her feet over the arms, and a proof in her hands, in that dark room at the back of No. 142, and I confess I hardly recognize her in the pages of Mr. Cross's-on many accounts-most interesting volumes. I do hope that in some future edition, or in some future work, the salt and spice will be restored to the records of George Eliot's entirely unconventional life. As the matter now stands she has not had full justice done to her, and she has been removed from the class-the great and noble church, if I may so call it of the Insurgents, to one genteel, but certainly not so interesting." more MR. JOHN FISKE has a new book in the press on The Idea of God as affected by Modern Knowledge.' Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will be the publishers. THE fears which were entertained the policy of local self-government in In would be hostile to the progress of edeation have hitherto fortunately proved grad less. In the Central Provinces, for inst the transfer of educational administra to the local boards, so far from injuring institutions concerned, has had the ps effect to a marked degree. Reviewing Report on Public Instruction in the vinces for 1884-5, the Government of have noticed the really good work da the local boards. The popularity of th new system is shown in the most effe manner by the increasing liberality of the public subscriptions to the cause of eduction. 'MAULEVERER'S MILLIONS,' a sensational story, the plot of which is laid in Yorkshire, by Mr. T. Wemyss Reid, author of the successful novel 'Gladys Fane,' will be published in a few days. Mr. Hall Caine, the author of 'The Shadow of a Crime,' begins to-day in several provincial papers a story called A Son of Hagar,' dealing with modern times. The first scenes of the story are laid in Cumberland. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. have nearly ready for publication a school edition of The Acts of the Apostles,' by Mr. T. E. Page, of Charterhouse School. The text is that of Drs. Westcott and Hort, and the notes, being intended to meet the practical needs of young students in schools and elsewhere, are confined purely to explanation of the text. THE death is announced of the veteran correspondent at Paris of the Daily News, Mr. G. M. Crawford. com DR. R. REICKE, the librarian of the University Library at Königsberg, and F. Sintenis, of Dorpat, have for some time been engaged upon the preparation of a plete edition of Immanuel Kant's correspondence. The editors request all persons who possess any letters from Kant to send them to Dr. Reicke direct or to Herr Leopold Voss, the publisher, of Hamburg. "Even the slightest notices will be welcome," says the editor, "such, for instance, as original letters by any contemporaries of Kant in which the philosopher is mentioned." They may prove useful in clearing up chronological and other difficulties. volume of the correspondence of Arnold Ruge has appeared. SCIENCE ASTRONOMICAL LITERATURE. The Story of the Heavens. By Robert Sell Ball, LL.D., Royal Astronomer of Ireland (Cassell & Co.)-A work of 551 pages en pla astronomy by Prof. Ball cannot but tatt very large amount of valuable information together in a most interesting and integ form. Nor do we think that the expectation of the reader in this respect, however high may have been raised, can possibly appointed. Space only admits of our giving here a very brief sketch of the contents of thi book, which has indeed, as the author puts it a wondrous story to narrate, "of boundless interest and of exquisite beauty." After a short introduction and a chapter on "the astronomical observatory," in which a popular idea is given of the nature of the instrumental means by which astronomers have succeeded in procuring for us so much information respecting the glit tering bodies of the universe (and some which do not glitter), the author proceeds to devote chapters to the sun and to each of the princi bodies which circulate round him, the last of the being, of course, Neptune, of the history of t discovery of which Prof. Ball gives a most teresting account, narrating how the labour Prof. Adams (these would as much have sue for finding the planet as those of Le Vera which actually first led to its detection first publicly announced in a letter of Sir Je Herschel to the Athenæum of the 3rd of Oct 1846. Amongst these chapters one is devo to "the planet of romance," i.e., the hypothet planet moving within the orbit of Merc which Prof. Ball considers to have been prote really seen by Prof. Watson during the eclipse of the sun in 1878. After the par come chapters on comets and meteors accounts of the former are confined to which are specially remarkable either for their appearances. Those of the latter are nature of their motions or the peculiaritie brought up to date as regards the most inte ing meteoric streams and recent discoveri cosmic dust and the accretions brought the earth's surface. The solar system ha been thus surveyed in considerable de the reader is asked to follow the auth points in the knowledge which has been a comprehensive review of the most sa of the motions and distances of thos the far more remote heavenly bodies ( under the general designation of fixed in which anything certain can be learnt in respect. Nor is a chapter wanting on the clusters and nebulae, which closes with the s ficant remark: "We have reached a point w man's intellect begins to fail to yield him more light, and where his imagination has The first cumbed in the endeavour to realize what he gained." In speaking of the fixed stars a guide is given to the most conspicuous o 66 lations; and a chapter on the spectrodescribes how by its means much has earnt respecting the constitution of the id stars, and something respecting the s of the latter. After describing the nena of precession, mutation, and observawo highly interesting chapters on "the omical significance of heat," and on "the close a volume of astronomy of which we nly further add that care on the part of he author and printer has rendered it tably free from typographical errors (we nly noticed one-Auriga in the index being Aurija), and that the beauty and excellence illustrations render them a most pleasing l as useful addition to the book. Its comon of scientific accuracy with lucid arrangeand attractive style leads us to anticipate that brilliant success which it undoubtedly 3. Elementary Star Atlas, with Descriptive rpress. By Rev. T. H. E. C. Espin, B.A., A.S. With a Preface by J. A. Westwood er. (Sonnenschein & Co.)- These maps of a convenient and handy size, and their gement is good. Being intended for actual n commencing the study of observational nomy, their principal peculiarity is that the of different magnitudes are distinguished being represented by different kinds of is, all easily discernible in the dim light in h the book is likely to be used. Opinions probably differ as to whether this is the convenient way of denoting them, a point h each person using the atlas must decide imself or herself. Not only the most conJous stars, but also the most remarkable clusters and nebulæ are indicated, and the se of the Milky Way is clearly marked. regard to the explanatory letterpress acanying each map, the name of the author > has been president of, as well as special rver to, the Liverpool Astronomical Society) ufficient guarantee that as much appropriate mation as possible has been compressed the limited space at his disposal. Of the different sets of boundaries of the constellas which have come into use, the one adopted ith a few slight alterations, that recommended he British Association and followed by Mr. tor in his star atlases, which are so much in this country. As a specimen of the Lor's treatment of the constellations, we will e his remarks about Andromeda, specially resting at the present time. "This," he "is marked to the eye by the line of second third magnitude stars, a, 8, B, y. y Annede, next to B Cygni, one of the most ly pairs in the heavens - magnitudes and 55: 55 breaks up into the well-known -object. The two stars are about half a nd of arc apart. 7, a fine pair, white and e. 56, a curious yellow pair, with variation pected in one or both of the stars. A glorious d lies north. 36, between y and (, is a close r about a second apart. North of ρ lies the iable R, variable from 5 6 to 12 8 in 402 days. ceding v is a misty patch to the naked eye. s is the wonderful Andromeda nebula. all telescopes will only show a bright oval e, fading away on all sides and brightening the centre. Large telescopes bring out two markable rifts, but get no further. Strangely ugh, Huggins finds the spectrum continuous, cut off at the red end. It may therefore be lar, but if so its resolution has hitherto defied power of the telescope. There are several er nebulæ near." HE volume of Greenwich Observations for year 1883 has been published, on the same tem as that for the preceding year. No rekable phenomenon occurred during the year, as there was not any special work on hand, appendix has been required. Both the mets of the year (the small one discovered by Brooks at Phelps, N.Y., on February 23rd, and the returned periodical comet of 1812, which was also first seen in 1883 by Mr. Brooks on the 2nd of September) were observed with the Greenwich equatorials. Micrometer measures were obtained with the great equatorial of five of the satellites of Saturn and of the third satellite (Titania) of Uranus. Mr. Maunder, who observed the latter, remarks that "it was a more difficult object than is Enceladus (the second of the two interior satellites of Saturn which were discovered by Sir W. Herschel in 1789) "at elongation, perhaps even more difficult than the satellites of Mars." The spectroscopical observations include a large number of determinations of motions of stars in the line of sight. Photographs of the sun were taken, as in 1882, at Dehra Dûn, in India, under the superintendence of Mr. J. B. N. Hennessey, F.R.S., of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, and forwarded by the Solar Physics Committee to fill up gaps when the sun could not be observed at Greenwich, by which means it has been possible to determine the positions and areas of solar spots and faculæ on no fewer than 340 days in 1883. The magnetical and meteorological observations, like the astronomical, have been carried on generally on the same system and by the same methods as in previous years. SOCIETIES. ROYAL-Nov. 19.-The President in the chair.Notice was given of the ensuing anniversary meeting (November 30th), and auditors of the treasurer's accounts were elected.-The following papers were read: On the Total Solar Eclipse of September 9th (in a letter to Prof. Stokes), by Dr. Hector,-' Report on a Series of Specimens of the Deposits of the Nile Delta, obtained by the Boring Operations,' by Prof. J. W. Judd,-On Evaporation and Dissociation,' Part I., by Profs. Ramsay and Young,—'On the Phenomena accompanying Stimulation of the Gland Cells in the Tentacles of Drosera dichotoma (preliminary communication), by Mr. W. Gardiner, and On Variations in the Amount and Distribution of Fat in the Liver Cells of the Frog,' by Mr. J. N. Langley. GEOLOGICAL.-Nov. 18.-Prof. T. G. Bonney. President, in the chair.-Messrs. H. M. Ami and R. M. Deeley were elected Fellows.-The following communications were read: 'Results of Recent Re searches in some Bone-Caves in North Wales (Fynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn),' by Dr. H. Hicks, with notes on the animal remains by Mr. W. Davies, -'On the Occurrence of the Crocodilian Genus Tomistoma in the Miocene of the Maltese Islands,' and Description of the Cranium of a New Species of Erinaceus from the Upper Miocene of Eningen,' by Mr. R. Lydekker. ASIATIC.-Nov. 23.-Col. Yule, President, after paying a tribute to the memory of the late able secretary, Mr. Vaux, was succeeded in the chair by Sir H. Rawlinson.-Messrs. Wigram, Edwards, Geisler, and Miss A. Smith were elected Resident, and Prof. J. Avery, Drs. J. N. de Fonseca and D. A. D'Monte, and Mr.Govind Parsád Dube, Non-Resident Members. -A paper by the Rev. H. Friend was read' On the Buddhistic Element in Oriental Life.' Referring to the wide-spread influence of the religion of Buddha in Central and Eastern Asia, the writer proceeded to illustrate his subject by instances of superstition which had come, more or less, under his own imremarked especially on the prejudice in favour of mediate notice. Amongst other cases in point, he the number 108 and numbers multiplying into it; on the veneration paid to certain animals, notably the monkey; and on the supposed visits of the As to the Hades of the Chinese and other Oriental spirits of deceased children to their living relatives. of Buddhist teaching, he believed that to the common races, as pictured to themselves under the influence people the future was a perfect puzzle, and that they were quite at a loss to make out the various divisions which were reported to mark off the underworld. They would pay enormous sums to the priests to get them quickly pushed through purgatory into the Western Heaven. In conclusion it was affirmed that a study of the life of the people gives a truer idea of what Buddhism is than any we can gather from the mere study of Eastern literature.-After making a few comments on Mr. Friend's paper, Mr. C. Bendall produced some specimens of coins, described as Græco-Indian bearing the figure of the Buddha," the inscriptions on which he analyzed.Dr. Duka exhibited and stated some particulars regarding a rhinoceros horn cup and African ivory anklet which had come into his possession. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.-Nov. 19.-The President in the chair.-A letter was read from the Rev. D. J. Stewart reporting the threatened destruction of the houses on the west side of Weston's Yard at Eton College, in order to provide a site for some proposed additions to the school. Mr. Stewart stated that the whole range thus threatened is especially interesting from its historical associations, for it was here that Sir Henry Savile, Provost of Eton in 1596, set up the presses which printed his celebrated edition of the works of St. John Chrysostom. -After some discussion the matter was referred to the Council to take such action as may be necessary. -The Rev. J. McFarlan communicated particulars of a proposal to erect a building over the runic cross at Ruthwell for its better preservation.-In the discussion that followed it was suggested that, instead of spending 2501. upon a temporary building over the cross, it would be a much better plan in every way to remove the stone to the shelter of the parish church, especially as the present site is not absolutely the original one.-The Rev. G. C. Fenwicke exhibited a medieval chalice, circa 1485, from Blaston St. Giles, also a pair of silver snuffers and tray, of the date 1691-2, and four deeds relating to the manor of Blaston. Mr. A. J. Evans exhibited a bronze rapier and a spear-head of particularly broad form, lately dredged up at Sandford Lock, also a bronze spear-head from the Wrekin.-The President exhibited and read a paper on a number of fine bronze objects, part of a hoard found at Felixstowe, Suffolk. -Mr. É. S. F. Moore exhibited and communicated an account of a number of Roman and other objects found while searching for coprolites at Felixstowe. -Dr. Freshfield reported the discovery of a number of silver ornaments near the cathedral church of Kief, an account of which he hoped eventually to bring before the Society. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.-Nov. 25.—Sir P. de Colquhoun, President, in the chair.—Mr. W. Rendle read a paper On the History of the Borough Hospitals,' being the second and concluding part. The former paper spoke of the foundation of St. Thomas's Hospital, circa 1100, within the precincts of the Priory of St. Mary Overy in Southwark; the fire in 1207; the rebuilding in 1228, and the historical sermon put forth on the occasion by the Bishop of Winchester. Both the hospitals were built upon the remains of Roman dwellings. In 1507 there was a complete rebuilding. At the gate of the church a market for Southwark people was held, and justice administered through the King's Court of the Marshalsea at the same place. In 1537 came the forfeiture of this religious house, the list of its possessions showing glass-painters and printers of great note living and carrying on business within the hospital precincts. Further were briefly adverted to the fine architectural buildings and noble inhabitants of inns and palaces of Southwark; and the social history and conditions of the people were discussed as set forth with interesting and quaint minuteness in the records of the hospital still preserved. Sketches were given of some of the more noted governors of the hospital, from Osborn, the founder of the Leeds family, to Thomas Guy, who founded Guy's Hospital, a "hospital of incurables," otherwise a convalescent hospital, to give time for the effectual cure of patients yet too weak for actual work, which other hospitals could not retain. The paper treated of the early state of medical profession and practice, of religious persecution and frequent ejectments and changes of the preachers and hospitallers, the early state and practice of lithotomy, its performance within fifty seconds by Cheselden, and his enormous success in the operation. Among other interesting points discussed were the early difficulties as to dissection and the rifling of the buryinggrounds far and near; the keen competition for the bodies of criminals; private teachers, among them Cheselden, succeeding in diverting the "company's bodies" from the Barber-Surgeons' hall to their own teaching rooms. Mr. Rendle further referred to John Keats living in Dean Street, and Thomas Wakley, founder of the Lancet, both of whom were students at Guy's in 1815; and to Maurice's chaplaincy at Guy's Hospital from 1836 to 1840. Mr. Reudle also mentioned the demonstration made by Dr. Southwood Smith over the body of his friend Jeremy Bentham, according to his will, for the mitigation of the prejudice against anatomy.-A discussion followed, in which the President, Col. Ibbetson, Mr. Carmichael, and Mr. Gilbert Higston took part. BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.-Nov. 18. Mr. C. Brent in the chair.-Mr. Harris described a Saxon font now in South Hayling Church. It was found in 1827 in a neighbouring well, but was probably originally in a church now submerged. It is covered with interlaced ornaments and strapwork. -Some interesting communications from the Rev. G. Butterworth were brought before the meeting by Mr. de Gray Birch relative to the discovery of an ancient Saxon chapel at Deerhurst, at a short dis tance from the well-known Saxon parish church. NUMISMATIC.-Nov. 19.-Mr. J. Evans, President, ZOOLOGICAL.- Nov. 17.- Prof. W. H. Flower, President, in the chair.-The Secretary read a report on the additions made to the menagerie during October, and called attention to a collection of North American reptiles presented by Mr. F. J. Thompson. The Secretary exhibited two curious millipedes, believed to be Spirostreptus annulipes, which had been sent home from the Cape by Mr. Fisk for the House.-Letters and Major S. W. Yerbury, respecting the exact locality of a chameleon (Chameleon calcarifex, presented to the Society by him in June and obtained near Aden,--by Mr. Sclater, on two newts (Molge vittata) transmitted to the Society by Dr. E. B. Dickson from Brussa, Asia Minor,-by Dresser, on on the Scilly Isles; and a young female desert-chat METEOROLOGICAL.-Nov. 18.-Mr. R. H. Scott, Notes as to the Principle and Working of Jordan's PHILOLOGICAL.-Nov. 20.-Mr. H. Sweet, V.P., in dæans" of Daniel. Instances were then given of that ball, as caite Fintraga, the Battle of Ventry a female specimen of the kildeer plover Egialitis vocifera), killed in January last by Mr. Jenkinson SOCIETY OF ARTS.-Nov. 18.-Sir F. Abel in chair.-One hundred and fourteen candidates w proposed for election as Members.-This beg inaugural meeting of the session, Sir E. as Chairman of Council, delivered the op address, taking for his text the Mining Section the late International Inventions Exhibition the conclusion of the address Sir F. Abel pre the gold medals awarded by the Society i nexion with the Inventions Exhibition, and the medals awarded to readers of papers during the session. Nov. 23.-Dr. R. J. Mann in the chair.-The of a course of Cantor Lectures On the Microso was delivered by Mr. J. Mayall, jun. HISTORICAL.-Nov. 19.-Mr. Hyde Clarke, V in the chair.-Rev. Prof. M. Creighton, Revs Dyer Green and C. G. Hunt, Messrs. E.L. W. Bu ley, W. B. Duffield, F. S. Flood, G. E. Green, London, M. C. Ord, G. W. Redway, J. K. Stephen and H. J. Stone were elected Fellows-Mr. P. S Flood read a paper On the Story of Prince Henry of Monmouth and Chief Justice Gascoign, in wh he tried to show not only the improbability, but the absolute impossibility of the truth of the fam legend.-A discussion followed, in which Sir Bramwell, Mr. J. Heywood, Alderman Hurst, s the Chairman took part.-In future the Society's meetings will commence at 8.30 P.M., instead of SP.M. as heretofore. MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. MON. Royal, 4.-Anniversary. = London Institution, 4.- Life and Works of Hogarth, Mr. JE. Geographical, 8-Journey overland from Cape Town acro Civil Engineers, 8-Discussion High Speed Maters' and Zoological, 8.-Origin of the Urinary Fadder, Mr. J. B. Mr. T. A. Reed. Society of Arts, 8- Technical Art Teaching.' Mr. F. E. Hul THURS. Archæological Institute, 4.- Excavations in Asia Minit, 1 1 FRI. 1 R. P. Pullan. London Institution, 7.-'The Musical Dramas of War Linnean, 8-On Castillon elastica and some Allied Plants Chemical, 8-Ballot for Fellows; 'The Sugars of the Antiquaries, 8-Roman Villa at Yatton. Rev. H Philological, 8. On the Words from "Ho" to "Hair" the former eminent for his electric resear translations had resulted. He had read the print and the latter for his services to embryolog was very large.-Dr. Furnivall then read two scraps signified her approval of these nominat |