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lenge comparison with landscape in oil and
water colour.-Some of the floral designs of
Messrs. Davidson are pretty. Their landscapes
and figures are hardly so successful.-A large
box of the productions of Messrs. Marcus Ward
& Co. contains some of the most elaborate designs
we have seen. Most of these are very good
indeed. In a few the printing is unsatisfactory,
though the designs are excellent. These cards
are sure to be popular.-Mr. Ackermann sends
us Prang's American cards, the great majority
of which are strikingly successful and fully equal
to their English rivals. There are, however,
two or three signal exceptions. Mr. Ackermann
also sends some pretty quiet cards, which, if we
mistake not, are of his own manufacture.—Mr.
Ollendorff sends a large number of cards which
are very various in size and design. They de-
serve high praise for taste and cleverness.
comic ones will amuse children greatly.-Messrs.
Falkner & Sons, of Manchester, send us
(6 Ye Old
English Christmas Cards," which are not par-
ticularly successful.-From Messrs. Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., the well-known American pub-
lishers, we have received an Emerson Calendar.

The

Verse, arranged by H. Kynaston (Macmillan),—A
Handbook of Translation from the Latin, Greek,
French, and German Languages: Part I., Latin
(Stanford),-The Merchant's Clerk, by J. Pearce
(Wilson),-The Winds, an Essay, by W. L.
Jordan (Bogue),-The Ocean, by W. L. Jordan
(Longmans),-and The Wave of Translation in
the Oceans of Water, Air, and Ether, by J. S.
Russell (Trübner).

LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
ENGLISH.

Theology.

Ball's (C. K.) Apostle of the Gentiles, his Life and Letters, 2/6
Carter's (W. S.) The Lord's Prayer, Nine Sermons, 2/6 cl.
Exeter's (Rt. Rev. F., Lord Bishop of) The Relations between
Religion and Science, cheaper edition, cr. 8vo. 6/ el.
Fowle's (Rev. E.) Simple Village Sermons for Church Seasons,
cr. 8vo. 2/6 cl.

Green's (M. F.) Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to Recent
Critical Hypotheses concerning the Pentateuch, 5/ cl.
Kruckenberg's (F. T.) Thought and a Prayer for Every Day

in the Year, 12mo. 2/ el.

Schlieng's (A.) The Life Manifested, 2/6 cl.
Spurgeon's (C. H.) Storm Signals, Sermons, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Fine Art.

Conway's (W. M.) The Artistic Development of Reynolds
and Gainsborough, illustrated, 5/ cl.
Everett's (G.) English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists
of the Nineteenth Century, 4to. 42/ cl.
Kingsley's (C.) The Water Babies, illus. by L. Sambourne, 12/6
Bach's (A. B.) Principles of Singing, cr. 8vo. 6/
History and Biography.
Ashton's (J.) Dawn of the Nineteenth Century in England,
2 vols. 8vo. 30/ el.

Music.

Bede's (C.) Fotheringhay and Mary, Queen of Scots, 5/ cl.
Cowen (J.), Life and Speeches of, by E. R. Jones, 8vo. 14/ cl.
Loftie's (W.) Windsor, a Description of the Castle, Town,

&c., folio, 21/cl.

Schürer's (E.) History of the Jewish People, Division 2,
Vols. 1 and 2, 8vo. 10/6 each, el.
Seddall's (Rev. H.) The Church of Ireland, an Historical
Sketch, cr. 8vo. 6/ cl.

Geography and Travel.

Conn's (W.) Japanese Life, Love, and Legend, from Japon
Pittoresque' of M. Dubard, er. 8vo. 7/6 cl.

Philology.

Fragmenta Herculanensia, Catalogue of the Oxford Copies
of Herculanean Rolls, edited by W. Scott, roy. 8vo, 21/cl.
Wilkins's (G.) Growth of the Homeric Poems, 8vo. 6/ cl.
Science.

Disease, cr. 8vo. 6/

Eagles's (T. H) Constructive Geometry of Plane Curves,
&c., cr. 8vo. 12/ el.

Morris's (H.) Surgical Diseases of the Kidney, 12mo. 9/ el.
Proctor's (R. A.) The Seasons pictured in Forty-eight Sun
Views of the Earth, 4to. 5/ bds.
General Literature.
Alcott's (L. M.) Lulu's Library, 12mo. 3/6 cl.
Biddle's (T. E.) Amateur Sailing in Open and Half-Decked
Boats, with illustrations. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Brown's (G. T.) Life on the Farm, Animal Life, cr. Svo. 2/6
Challis's (G.) Britain's Slaves, cr. 8vo. 2/6 cl.
Goschen's (Right Hon. G. J.) Addresses on Educational and
Economical Subjects, 8vo. 2/6 el.

Green Pleasures and Grey Grief, by Author of 'Phyllis,' &c.,
3 vols. cr. 8vo. 31/6 cl.

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. A. B. D. (Shaw),-Every Cloud has its Silver Lining, First and Second Series, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell and others (Hogg),-The Old Mill, by Meta (S.S.U.),-Adam Hepburn's Vow, by A. Swan (Cassell),-Archie Digby, by G. E. W. (Nelson),-A Soldier Born, by J. P. Groves (Griffith & Farran),- The Briny Deep, by Captain Tom (Griffith & Farran),-The Poetical Works of T. Chatterton, edited by J. Richmond (Scott),Wordsworth's Poems, Vol. I. (Cassell), 'Varsity Book Prose and Poetry (Toronto, 'Varsity Publishing Company),-Sent Back by the Angels, by F. Langbridge (Leeds, Fletcher),-Leonidas, by F. H. Barling (Wyman),-The Agricola of Tacitus (Kegan Paul),-Verus, a Roman Story, by B. G. Kinnear (Stock),-Catherine, and other Poems, by J. A. Gornall (Davies),-A Collection of Scripture Promises, by Dr. S. Clarke (Nelson),-Hymns and Verses, by Lady Petre (Burns & Oates),For Good Consideration, by E. Butler (Stock),Elles et Lui, by Gyp (Paris, Lévy),-Deutsche Waffen in Spanien, by C. Bleibtreu (Berlin, Eisenschmidt), and Dictionnaire Synoptique d'Etymologie Française, by H. Stappers (Brussels, Merzbach & Falk). Among New Editions we have The Life of St. Thomas Becket, by J. Morris (Burns & Oates),-The Life of Arminius Vambéry (Unwin),-The Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, 2 vols., edited by G. Allen (Longmans), -The Punjab and Sindh Missions of the Church Missionary Society, by the Rev. R. Clark (Seeley),-Rossetti's Lives of Famous Poets (Ward & Lock),-In the Watches of the Night, Poems, Vols. VI. to VIII. (Remington),-Marjorie Daw, and other Stories, by T. B. Aldrich (Edinburgh, Douglas), Rossmoyne, by the Author of 'Phyllis' (Smith & Elder),-Nicholls's How to see Bristol (Bristol, Arrowsmith), — Greek Iambic

Grindrod's (C.) Tales in Speech House, illus., cr. 8vo. 6/ cl.
Halcyon and Asphodel, and other Stories, by A. L. H. A., 3/6
Harcourt's (Mrs. J.) The Bachelor Vicar of Newforth, 2 vols.
cr. 8vo. 10/6 cl.

Harley's (Rev. T.) Moon Lore, 8vo. 7/6 cl.

Harwood's (J. B.) Sir Robert Shirley, Bart., 3 vols. 31/6 cl.
Hill's (A. 8.) The Conservative Political Handbook, cr. 8vo. 2/

Hingston's (J.) The Australian Abroad, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Hocking's (S. K.) Cricket, a Tale of Humble Life, cr. 8vo. 2/6
Jenkins's (E.) Jobson's Enemies, cr. 8vo. 6/ cl.
Jones's (C. A.) Little Jeanneton's Work, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Künhardt's (C. P.) Small Yachts, their Design and Con-
struction, folio, 35/ cl.

Leathes's (E.) The Actor's Wife, a Novel, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Murphy's (J.) The Forge of Clohogue, cr. 8vo. 2/ bds.
Murray's (E. C. G.) Imprisoned in a Spanish Convent, illus.,
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Ohnet's (G.) The Ironmaster, illus., cheaper edition, 8vo. 5/ cl.
Philips's (F. C.) As in a Looking-Glass, cr. 8vo. 6/ cl.
Stebbing's (G.) Among the Carbonari, 12mo. 3/6 cl.
Stockton's (F. R.) Rudder Grange, illustrated, cr. 8vo. 5/ cl.
Stoddard's (W. O.) Winter Fun, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Sturgis's (J.) John Maidment, 2 vols. er. 8vo. 14/ el.
Stokes's (Rev. L.) The Teacher's Gradual, 12mo. 2/6 cl.
Verne's (J.) The Archipelago on Fire, illustrated, 7/6 cl.
FOREIGN.

Fine Art.

Hampel (J.): Der Goldfund v. Nagy-Szent-Miklós, 6m.

Philosophy.

Meyer (T.): Institutiones Juris Naturalis seu Philosophiae
Moralis, Part 1, 6m.
Stein (L.): Die Psychologie der Stoa, Vol. 1, 7m.
History.

5m.

Sepp (B.): Der Rücklass der Schottenkönigin Maria Stuart,
Philology.

Reinhardstoettner (C. v.): Spätere Bearbeitungen Plautin.
Lustspiele, 18m.

Scherer (C.) De Olympionicarum Statuis, 1m. 60.

Sittl (K.): Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur Part 2,
6m. 50.

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

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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
dary deity in Assyria, could be traced to
tine and Phoenicia, and later to Palmyra,
sa (in the Nebok of Abgar), and Hierapolis
ria or Mabug. Possibly this last name is
a dialectical pronunciation of Nabog. The
nabu, which means in Assyrian to com-
cate by speech, in Hebrew noob, was long
rought into connexion with the word nabi,
rophet or the orator. The latter meaning
s clearly from the passage in Exodus vii. 1:
I have made thee a god to Pharaoh and
i thy brother shall be thy orator (both
ons have "prophet"). Nebo being the
t of the gods, Nabi is the orator of Elohim
Yahweh. From which Canaanitish people
ord nabî came to Israel and at what period
ot be decided at present; it is clear from
nuel ix. 9 that the nabi was called formerly
och (or seer).
A. NEUBAUER.

TWO RUSSIAN WRITERS.

or his own countrymen alone, but any who
interested in the history of Russia, will learn
regret that Nikolai Kalachof has passed
from the scene of his labours. His
was devoted with inexhaustible zeal and
ring energy to the preservation, arrange-
t, publication, and elucidation of documents
ch form the materials of Russian history so
as that history is a written one. As early as
he evinced, in his work upon the ancient
slavl Code of Laws, the settled bent which
ng his whole subsequent life he followed
1 unswerving perseverance. Kalachof's early
fuction, which won for its author a high
e in the estimation of those conversant with
ubject, was the forerunner of a numerous
y of able and solid works from the same pen
ting to Russian history and Russian institu-
s. His learning met with its proper reward.
post of Director of the Archives of the Im-
Council, the Senate, and the Home Office
ded him the best opportunities of applying
enlarging his knowledge. He was indefatig-
in the arrangement of the records placed
er his administration, in the rescue of count-
others from destruction, and in the prepara-
of extensive series of them for publication.
le was no Dryasdust, but had the faculty of
resting others in the subject to which he
devoted. His great ambition was the
blishment of a Russian École des Chartes.
ha project involved difficulties from which
ers shrank, but these seemed only to stimulate
, and at length he founded the Archæological
titute of St. Petersburg. His activity was
,however, restricted to this achievement; he
on foot in various provinces committees for
preservation of the provincial and local
ords, and the value of his labours in this
ection can only be fully appreciated in a
ure generation.

It was on his way to Saratoff to organize there
ch a committee that he was seized with the
less which closed his labours and his life. He
3 able to reach his estate of Volkhonstchino,
the township of Serdobsk, and there he ex-
ed on the 6th of this month.
Russia has also lost a prolific and popular
iter, E. P. Karnovich, who died on the same
y as Kalachof. Born of a noble family
g settled in Little Russia, but reduced to
verty during his father's lifetime, he was well
ucated, and for a short time adopted the
holastic profession. Finding it distasteful, he
tered the Civil Service, which also in turn he
itted at a considerably later period in order
devote himself to literature.

A few of his

his own, Echoes, but it did not prove successful.
From among M. Karnovich's numerous works
we have barely space to mention 'The Order of
the Knights of Malta,'' Remarkable and Enig-
matical Personages of the Eighteenth Century,'
and a charming series of Tales from Early
Polish History.'

BENCHERS OF THE INNER TEMPLE IN LAMB'S DAY.
Inner Temple Library, Nov. 17, 1885.

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In the reprint of Charles Lamb's Essays of
Elia,' edited by Mr. Henry Morley, in the
"Universal Library," I perceive that a note is
prefixed to the essay on the Old Benchers
of the Inner Temple,' which says, "The old
benchers...... were, with one or two exceptions,
purely imaginary characters." May I be allowed
to say that this is not the fact? On the contrary,
every one of the individuals mentioned by Lamb
was a bencher of this inn, with the exception of
Twopeny, whose entry of admission as a student,
however, I find in our register. As the period
at which they lived and the date at which they
became benchers may interest some of your
numerous readers, and be acceptable as another
instalment to "Eliana," I append a list in the
order in which their names appear in the essay.
A portrait of "Mingay with the iron hand
in the Parliament Chamber here, the hook which
served him in lieu of the hand he had lost being

discernible.

J. E. LATTON PICKERING, Librarian.

J
1795, Bencher 1805, Treasurer 1816, died 1837.

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
1777. Treasurer 1785, died 1800.
Thomas Barton, admitted 1731, Bencher 1775,
Treasurer 1783, died 1791.

John Reade, admitted 1752, Bencher 1792, Trea-
surer 1800, died 1804.

John Wharry, admitted 1762, Bencher 1801, Trea-
surer 1810, died 1812.

Richard Jackson, admitted 1740, Bencher 1770,
Treasurer 1780, died 1787.

James Mingay, admitted 1770, Bencher 1785,

Treasurer 1791, died 1812.

Francis Maseres, admitted 1750, Bencher 1774,
Treasurer 1782, died 1824.

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
e internal development of Russia, and are
pon statistical. They were doubtless based Mellen, Historicion de his Indias, 1543, 40,
pon his official experience. To the Golos, since other tracts in the same volume, 201. A volume
uppressed, M. Karnovich was a frequent con-
of tracts to the
About,as also to the best Russian magazines. printed relative to test wars in New England,
About fre years ago he started a periodical of of the view hesevelands, printed about 1651, 311.

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
the freshest advices, both foreign and
domestic."

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.

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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.

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

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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

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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.
The outline of the walls has been traced and the
building found to have a small nave and chancel of
very early work. A dedication stone of the altar to
the Holy Trinity has been found, and Mr. Birch
pointed out the resemblance to the inscription in
the Ashmolean Museum recording the dedication of
a church at Deerhurst by Earl Odda in 1056, a copy
of which was produced.-Mr. Loftus Brock reported
the discovery of a stone with Saxon interlaced
work at Moulton Church, Northants, of which Sir
Henry Dryden sent a squeeze. It has been found
beneath one of the piers of the south aisle during
the restoration of the church by Mr. Law, who will
have the stone carefully preserved. - Mr. C. H.
Compton exhibited some curious terra-cotta lamps
and other objects found at Heliopolis, and after-
wards read a paper on the church of St. Michael
Coslany, Norwich, a building possessing one of the
best examples of flint inlaid work to be found in
the county. There are several interesting brasses,
the figures being clad in peculiar costume of the six-
teenth century, rubbings of which were exhibited.
A paper was then read by Mr. de Gray Birch On
the Art of the Roman Pavements at Bignor.' The
author referred to the similarity of the designs
common to all Roman pavements, and traced some
remarkable coincidences, giving details of the designs.
The arrangement of the villa, which is of the largest
size, has certain points of resemblance to other
villas, and as evidence of the great diversity of
design in such buildings, the villas found in Glouces-
tershire, for example, were referred to. Out of six-
teen examples there is a great difference of arrange-
ment to be noted. The present decaying condition
of the pavements was pointed out, and the hope
expressed that something would be done for their
preservation. A discussion ensued as to the best
way of effecting this so as to keep them in their
present positions, in which Messrs. Wright, Brock,
and others took part.

NUMISMATIC.-Nov. 19.-Mr. J. Evans, President,
in the chair.-The Baron F. von Hügel, Mr. J. S.
Blackett, and Mr. A. T. Martin were elected Members.
-Mr. A. J. Evans exhibited two archaic silver coins
of Caulonia of the usual type-a naked divinity, pro-
bably Apollo Katharsios, holding a lustral branch,
and a small running figure with winged sandals
(B. V. Head, Coins of the Ancients,' pl. viii. 15)-
and one of Metapontum with a standing Apollo on
the reverse (Head, l.c. pl. xv. 6). Mr. Webster
exhibited a small copper coin of Valerian II., the
twin brother of Gallienus, rev. PAX AVGG.-Mr.
Montagu exhibited and made some remarks upon
three pennies of Henry VII.'s first coinage, struck at
London, Canterbury, and York.-Mr. A. E. Copp
exhibited a line-engraved portrait of Sir E. Coke as
Attorney-General, into which was let a silver medalet
bearing his arms on one side and his crest on the
other, dated 1602.-Mr. Krumbholz exhibited a for-
gery of the time, a shilling of Queen Elizabeth.-
Mr. Evans read a paper on a portion of the great
hoard of Anglo-Saxon pennies found in the City of
London in 1872, and gave a list of 580 specimens,
among which were many new varieties, including
one of Harthacnut not hitherto described. The
writer then proceeded to make some remarks
upon the more interesting mints represented in
the hoard, and specified the following: 1. Langport
in Somerset, an important place about the time of
the Conquest and a royal burgh. The county of
Somerset possessed, Mr. Evans said, in the reigns
of Cnut and Edward the Confessor at least six,
and perhaps as many as nine, mints. 2. Ayles-
bury, which ceased to strike before the reign of the
Conqueror. 3. Bardney in Lincolnshire, an active
mint about the same period. 4. Newport, which
Mr. Evans was inclined to identify with Newport in
Cornwall. 5. Bedwin in Wiltshire, only known
as a Saxon mint since the discovery of the Chancton
find. - Dr. A. Smith made some remarks on the
earliest coins struck in Ireland, which he attributed
to the time of the Hiberno-Danish King of Dublin,
Sihtric III, who was contemporary with Aethelred
II., sole monarch of Saxon England.

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
(Saxicola deserti) obtained near Spurn Head, Lin-
colnshire, in October,-by Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, on
a specimen of a species of Balanoglossus obtained
by Mr. Spencer at Herm, Channel Islands, being the
first recorded instance of the occurrence of this
hemichordate in any part of the British seas,-by
Mr. F. E. Beddard, the first of a proposed series of
notes on the visceral anatomy of birds, the present
paper treating of the so-called omentum of birds and
its homologies, and pointing out that this struc-
ture, present in many birds, but apparently absent,
or only present in rudiment, in a few others, was
represented by a structure having similar relations
in the crocodile, but in no other reptile,-by Mr. O.
Thomas, on Heterocephalus phillipsi, a burrowing
rodent from Somali-land, belonging to a genus of
which the only other known species was based upon
a single specimen obtained by Rüppell's collector in
Schoa, Mr. Thomas considering the affinities of this
rodent to be with Georychus and Bathyergus,-by
Mr. Sclater, on a description of an apparently new
species of tanager of the genus Calliste, based on a
specimen formerly in the Gould Collection, now in
the British Museum; Mr. Sclater proposed to dedi-
cate this bird to its former owner as Calliste gouldi,
-and by Mr. Boulenger, on a new frog from Perak,
Malacca, which he proposed to name Megalophrys
longipes.

METEOROLOGICAL.-Nov. 18.-Mr. R. H. Scott,
President, in the chair.-Messrs. T. K. H. Clunn,
R. S. Davies, H. C. Fox, W. E. Jackson, J. Richard-
son, A. C. Rotch, and C. Todd were elected Fellows.
-The following papers were read: 'The Helm Wind
of August 19th, 1885,' by Mr. W. Marriott. This
wind is peculiar to the Cross Fell range, Cumber-
land, and is quite local, but very destructive. The
author visited the district in August last, and was
fortunate enough to witness a slight helm. He gives
a detailed account of what he experienced, and also
his observations on the temperature of the air at the
summit and base of Cross Fell, the direction and
force of the wind, the movement of the clouds, &c.
-The Typhoon Origin of the Weather over the
British Isles during the Second Half of October,
1882,' by Mr. H. Harries. The author shows, by
means of daily charts, that a typhoon, which ori-
ginated near the Philippine Islands on September
27th, passed over Japan and the Aleutian archipelago,
entering the United States on October 10th. Cross-
ing the Rocky Mountain range, it proceeded through
the Northern States and Canada to Labrador and
Davis Strait. In the Atlantic it was joined on the
18th by another disturbance which had come up
from the Atlantic tropics, the junction of the two
being followed by a cessation of progressive move-
ment from the 19th to the 25th. During this period
the severe gale which passed along our southern
counties on the morning of the 24th was formed,
its sudden arrival upsetting the Meteorological Office
forecasts of the previous night. Following in the
wake of this storm the parent cyclone reached the
French coast on the 27th, its advent being marked,
as in Japan and America, by violent gales and ex-
tensive floods over the whole of Western and Central
Europe and Algeria. The village of Grindelwald
was destroyed, and in the Austrian Tyrol the damage
caused by floods reached at least two millions ster-
ling. Passing through France and the Netherlands,
the disturbance showed signs of exhaustion, and on
November 1st, in the Baltic, it quietly dispersed,
after accomplishing a journey of over 16,000 miles
in thirty-six days. This is the first storm which has
been followed day by day from the Pacific to Europe.

Notes as to the Principle and Working of Jordan's
Photographic Sunshine Recorder,' by Mr. J. B.
Jordan and Mr. F. Gaster.

PHILOLOGICAL.-Nov. 20.-Mr. H. Sweet, V.P., in
the chair.-Mr. Bain was elected a Member.-Dr.
Stenhouse read a paper, Notes on Biblical Aramaic
with Special Reference to Hebrew.' After dealing
with the influence of Aramaic on Hebrew, he spoke
of the various names for Aramean and Aramaic, and
classified the dialect of the Aramaic chapters in
Daniel and Ezra as West Aramaic, Syrian being East
Aramaic. The name "Chaldee" usually given to
this dialect was a misnomer, due to Jerome or his
Jewish teachers, who misinterpreted the "Chal-

dæans" of Daniel. Instances were then given of
changes of consonants as compared with Hebrew,
the influence of Hebrew on Biblical Aramaic, of the
and of foreign words and peculiar forms in Aramaic.
-Mr. Standish O'Grady read a paper on the Irish
tale called 'Cath

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MIS. were not printed in italics in the text, and
showed what disastrous mistakes had been made in
interpreting the MS. contractions, and what mis-

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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.

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London Institution, 4.- Life and Works of Hogarth, Mr. JE.
Hodgson.
Aristotelian, 8.- Plato's "Phædo," Mr. D. G. Richie
Society of Arts, 8.- The Microscope,' Lecture II. Mr. J. Marall,
jun. (Cantor Lecture).

Geographical, 8-Journey overland from Cape Town acro
the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa, Mr. W. M. Kerr
Biblical Archæology, 8-Are there Totem-Clans in the Old
Testament?' Mr. J. Jacobs.

Civil Engineers, 8-Discussion High Speed Maters' and
Dynamo-Electric Machines and their Engines; Rabiot for
Members.

Zoological, 8.-Origin of the Urinary Fadder, Mr. J. B.
Sutton; Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. Part IV.,
Heterocera (concluded), Lieut.-Col. Swinhoe, Contribution
to the Comparative Osteology of the Trochide, Caprimalvide
and Cypselidæ.' Dr. R. W. Shufeldt; Preliminary Notice
the Isopoda collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenge
Part II., Munnopsidae, Mr. F. E. Beddard.
Shorthand, 8-Phonographic versus Orthographic Shorthin

Mr. T. A. Reed.

Society of Arts, 8- Technical Art Teaching.' Mr. F. E. Hul
Geological, 8.- Deep Borings in Kent, a Contribution to t
Deep-seated Geology of the London Basin. Mr. W. Whink
Old Sea-Beaches at Teignmouth, Devon.' Mr. G. W. Or
Note on some Recent Openings in the Linssic and
Rocks of Fawler in Oxfordshire, and on the Arrangeme
those Rocks near Charlbury, Mr. F. A. Bather.
Historical, 8.-The Flight of Louis XVI to Varennes, a
cism on Carlyle,' Mr. O. Browning.

THURS. Archæological Institute, 4.- Excavations in Asia Minit,

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R. P. Pullan.

London Institution, 7.-'The Musical Dramas of War
Mr. C. Armbruster.

Linnean, 8-On Castillon elastica and some Allied Plants
J. D. Hooker; Effects of Solar Spectrum on Transpirati
Plants,' Rev. G. Henslow; Parasites collected by the
Darwin. Prof. Cobbold; Variations of the Cirri in Ca
Mr. P. H. Carpenter.
British Archæological Association. 8.-'Remarks on
mental Stone with Greek Hexameter Lines at Brough
Prebendary Scarth; Restond of the Recent Co
Brighton, Mr. T. Morgan

Chemical, 8-Ballot for Fellows; 'The Sugars of the
and in Malted Grain, and Presence of Raffinase
Mr. C. O'Sullivan; Evidences of Constitution, afte
Absorption Spectra, Capt. Abney.

Antiquaries, 8-Roman Villa at Yatton. Rev. H
Roman Inscribed Stone from Castlenock, Northumber
Mr. R. S. Ferguson.

Philological, 8. On the Words from "Ho" to "Hair"
Society's "New English Dictionary," Mr. B. L. Brandr
Civil Engineers, 8. The Forth Bridge: 1. The Founda
Mr. M. Fitzmaurice; II., 'The Building, Launchi
Sinking of the Queensferry Pneumatic Caissons," Mr
Moir (Students' Meeting).

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