1540 James V. subscribed a writ in favour of oure louit Johnne Faw, lord and erle of Litill Egipt'; and the Faws or Faas would seem to have been the first Gipsy settlers here, some longish time before 1669, if the Falls of Dunbar were really a branch of the Faas of Kirk-Yetholm. Jean Gordon, again, the prototype of Scott's 'Meg Merrilies,' appears to have been a native of the place; and she was quite an old woman when, at Carlisle, soon after the year 1746, she was ducked to death in the Eden. There must have been Gipsies in Yetholm earlier than 1695 or 1715-the dates of their first settlement, according to different authorities. Old Will Faa, the first Gipsy King that we hear of, died at Coldingham in 1783 or 1784; and 'his corpse was escorted to Yetholm by more than three hundred asses.' He was succeeded by his eldest son, William; he, in 1847, by his sister's son, Charles Blythe; and he, in 1861, by his daughter, Esther Faa Blythe, who, dying at Kelso in July, 1883, was buried at Yetholm in presence of a large multitude. A canny old body, but with little of the Romani in face or language, she described Kirk-Yetholm as mingle-mangle that ane micht think it was either built on a dark nicht or sawn on a windy ane-the inhabitants maistly Irish, and nane o' her seed, breed, and generation.' And she was right, for to-day in the 'Gipsy town' there are no true Gipsies."

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With regard to Meg Merrilies, however, so accomplished a gipsologist as Mr. Groome must know that Meg Merrilies as a gipsy is entirely a fancy portrait, in which are depicted some of the finest traits not of the Romany chi, but of the Scottish Highland The true gipsy woman, notwithstanding all traditions of Romany guile, can be quite as noble as Meg Merrilies, but in a different way. The truth is that Scott's idea of the gipsy was entirely conventional, and if Meg is like a gipsy at all she is like a Welsh rather than a Scottish gipsy, as no one knows better than Mr. Groome himself.

The sectional maps, by Mr. John Bartholomew, delineating the Firth of Tay, the estuary of the Forth, the estuary of the Clyde, the firths of Cromarty, Beauly, and Moray, and the mineral districts of Lanarkshire, Linlithgowshire, &c., are remark

ably good, as is the orographical map of Scotland appended to the third volume. A good index to the entire work is much to be desired; but, on the whole, Mr. Groome has produced a work of exceptional literary merit and of exceptional accuracy and research.

The Genealogist. New Series.

teresting volume we must express the widely felt opinion that genealogists are greatly indebted to Dr. Marshall for having founded this magazine, and for having ably edited it throughout the earlier series. In the present issue he contributes some valuable Notes on the Heralds' Visitations,' and some Funeral Certificates of the Seventeenth Century.' Dr. Marshall's merits as a genealogist are widely recognized in America as well as in this country, and we hope that he will frequently contribute to the pages he has ceased to edit.

Two of the most important features in this work are first instalments of a new Calendarium Genealogicum; or, Calendar of Heirs,' extracted by Mr. John A. C. Vincent from the extant inquisitions of the reign of Edward II., and of 'A New Peerage,' by Lancaster Herald, whose identity is very faintly masked under the initials "G. E. C." The new calendar of heirs is a continuation of the 'Calendarium Genealogicum for the Reigns of Henry III. and Edward I.,' which was published in 1865 by Mr. Charles Roberts, the then secretary of the Public Record Office; but Mr. Vincent has improved upon the earlier calendar by inserting in his text, within brackets, after all dates reckoned by Church festivals and regnal years, the exact day and month and common year of modern chronology. The publication of this long-wished-for calendar would alone suffice to add lasting lustre to the new series of the Genealogist, and we hope that its author-who for fame as an antiquary and for skill in deciphering ancient manuscripts is second to none-may long be spared to carry on this most useful and important work.

Two other articles from Mr. Vincent's pen will be found in this volume. One is entitled 'Queen Elizabeth at Helmingham,' and the other, 'Wanley's Harleian Journal.' The latter is full of interest, but does not lend itself to quotation. In the former the author upsets a circumstantial and oftrepeated story which represents the virgin queen as having visited Helmingham in Suffolk in the autumn of 1561. The story, as told by Miss Strickland in her 'Lives of the Queens of England,' runs as follows:

"Her Majesty next came to Helmingham Hall, the fair abode of Sir Lionel Tollemache, then sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, whom she honoured by standing godmother to his heir, and left the ebony lute, inlaid with ivory and gems, on which she was accustomed to play, as a present for the mother of the babe. This relic, which has the royal initials E. R.,' is carefully preserved by the family, and proudly exhibited among the treasures of Helmingham

Hall.

Edited by Walford D. Selby. Vol. I. (Bell & Sons.) THE first volume of the new series of the Genealogist is an excellent specimen of what a genealogical magazine should be, and is sure to be highly appreciated by all who take an interest in genealogical and antiquarian subjects. Its publishers are to be congratulated on having secured as their editor a gentleman so thoroughly acquainted with the national records, and it would be difficult to find any one better qualified for the post. Mr. Selby is well known to those who pursue original research at the Record Office for his profound knowledge of the priceless treasures of which he is one of the custodians, as well as for his obliging readiness to assist them in unravelling the knotty" pretty little story." points that so frequently occur in the interpretation of ancient documents.

Before noticing the contents of this in

Alas for this romance! Mr. Vincent conclusively proves that Queen Elizabeth was not at Helmingham in Suffolk, but at Henningham in Essex, at the time mentioned; that the then owner of Helmingham was not a knight or sheriff, and had no son born in that year; and that his heir was then aged sixteen years at least! After reading this article Sir Bernard Burke wrote in graceful terms to its author, pledging himself to exclude in future from his 'Peerage' this

A New Peerage,' the first part of which has a separate pagination, is a most minute is appended to the new Genealogist and

and elaborate synopsis of the entire heredi tary peerage of the three kingdoms, whether extant, dormant, or extinct. We have little space to quote from this admirable work but it has evidently been compiled with ex ceeding care and with the minutest attention to accuracy-so much so that we have de tected no errors beyond a misprint in thi first instalment. At pp. 5 to 7 the autho gives, in a note, a very clear statement of the rival claims of the Dukes of Abercor and Hamilton to the French dukedom of Châtellerault; and under the title "Altham" will be found details concerning the curious case of James Annesley, who was sold as a slave to an American planter by his uncle in order to bar his claim to the title and his paternal estates. He proved his legitimacy and recovered his estates by an action of ejectment which he brought against his uncle in 1743, but he never assumed the title of Lord Altham, nor that of Earl of Anglesey, which (supposing he was legitimate) he inherited a few years later :

"It is stated, however (per contra), in the petition of George, 2nd Earl of Mountmorris, 7th Lord Altham, &c. [Ireland], for the earldom of Anglesey (30 Jan., 1819), that by a subsequent chancery suit this 'unfortunate young nobleman,' James Annesley, was found to be a

bastard son of a maidservant named Landy.”

There are other curious points in the pedigree of this family. James Annesley's uncle, whom he alleged, as above stated, to have usurped his rights, was recognized as Viscount Valentia in the peerage of Ireland, and as Earl of Anglesey in the peerage of England:

"He died 14 Feb., 1761, without lawful issue, according to the decision of the English House earldom of Anglesey and his other English of Parliament (22 April, 1771), whereby the honours became (under the English decision) extinct, but the Irish dignities devolved on his son, who, according to the decision of the Irish House of Parliament, 1765 (confirmed 1772), was born in wedlock.”

A Francis Annesley, second Viscount Glerawly and first Earl Annesley, married in 1766 and was left a widower in 1792:

"He subsequently had the marriage ceremony performed at Mountpanther, co. Down, with a woman who was already married, viz., Sophia Connor, wife of one of his gate keepers. By her (besides a son born before) he had two sons born after such ceremony, both of whom, as well as their mother, assumed the rank to which a legitimate marriage would have entitled them."

Many other articles in this interesting volume deserve notice, but we can only mention a few of them. Mr. James J. Cartwright, the accomplished editor of the delightful Wentworth Papers,' which were reviewed in our pages in 1883, contributes 'A Peerage Directory, 1727,' which gives the addresses of most of the peers who then the Record Office, furnishes a List of the were living in London. Mr. S. R. Bird, of Scutage and Marshal's Rolls amongst the Public Records,' and sets out at length The Scutage Roll of the Sixth Year of King Henry III.' This article is prefaced by an interesting explanation of how scutages were assessed and levied, and we hope that Mr. Bird will publish more of these valuable rolls. Mr. James Greenstreet edits in French and The Boroughbridge Roll of Arms,' which English, from the Norman-French original,

res the blazon of the arms of the peers ad knights who were present at that hele, which was fought on the 16th The Boroughbridge of March, 1322. Roll was printed by Sir Francis Palgrave in his great work on Parliamentary Writs,' but without a translation; and Mr. Greenstreet is rendering an important service to heraldry by reprinting it. Only one term of Norman blazon has defied Mr. Greenstreet's ingenuity and research to render into English. The word is queyntée, and Littré gives no clue to its meaning. It ocers in the blazon of the arms of Sir Thomas Berkeley, "Gules, queyntée de la mermonde," and again in the blazon of the arms of Sir John Cromwell, Queynty d'Argent, frettée de ses armes d'Ermyne." We should like to notice several other articles in this highly interesting volume, Lotably The Ravishment of Sir John Flot's Son,' by Mr. George J. Morris, and Oliver Cromwell's Descent from the Steward Family, by Mr. Walter Rye; but space rds. We have found extremely few errors in this volume, but we would call the author's attention to a misprint in The Boroughbridge Roll of Arms,' which very possibly is due to a lapsus calami of the writer of the record. "Sire Johan de EmFizham" undoubtedly stands for "Sire Jetan de Erpingham." We are tempted,

too, to ask if the author of the article on Sir Francis Knollys has obtained any fresh evidence proving that the Usher of the Chamber to King Henry VIII. "was descended from the Robert [Knollys] who, in the reign of Edward III., was promoted from the ranks and knighted on account of his bravery in the war with France.' We thought that this alleged descent had long ago been conclusively disproved.

In conclusion we would say that we cannot praise the first volume of the new series of the Genealogist too highly, and that it is a book which ought to be on the shelves of every good library as well as on those of all genealogists and antiquaries.

NOVELS OF THE WEEK.

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Bohemians, Hungarians, and English who are gathered together at the Hercules Baths, and whose frequent expeditions in search of the terrible Gaura Dracului constitute the somewhat slender thread of the continuous narrative. The national characteristics of these various personages are most skilfully drawn, and the manner in which they assist the development of the plot, and heighten the artistic effect of the situations, is worthy of high praise. This is especially the case with the Hungarian Baron Tolnay and the Roumanian Princess Tryphosa. It is long since anything better in the way of characterization has been attempted than the analysis of the slow and solid mental workings of the Roumanian. The German heroine is also a fine conception; and indeed the whole story is an excellent study which is likely to live.

Gamblers' daughters have often played leading parts in the pages of romance. The situation is very simple; every one knows how it is created and how it developes itself, from the moment when the pigeon comes in to be plucked to the moment when he vows eternal devotion to the hawk's pretty lure. There are few more hackneyed plots in the whole range of fiction, and Mr. Curtois has not added much that is new, in matter or mode of treatment, to the worn-out theme. No doubt some passages have an interest of their own, and are well enough written to increase the reader's regret at having to put up with so poor a plot. There is an abrupt separation between husband and wife, on the morrow of their honeymoon, which is not without subtlety and cleverness; but this occupies only a few pages of the two volumes, and it is remarkable chiefly for the contrast which it affords to the rest of the story. The characters are not pleasant, and their unpleasant actions are not described with sufficient vigour to reward the effort of reading about them.

Prusias,' by Ernst Eckstein, an author who has rapidly acquired fame in Germany, is one of those mock-archæological romances that are finding great favour at present among our Teutonic neighbours. Like its predecessors, Prusias' is laboured in style. and action, the effort after historical accuracy is very evident, and there is a want

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of spontaneity about the course of the story

of that peculiarly German sentiment which that makes it heavy reading. It is also full when put into the mouth of an ancient strikes the reader as particularly out of place that of the rebellion of the gladiators, and Roman. The time of action of the story is the real hero of the book is Spartacus.

The Waters of Hercules. By E. D. Gerard. vols. (Blackwood & Sons.) Leap Year. By M. A. Curtois. Remington & Co.) 2 vols. Presis. Von Ernst Eckstein. 3 vols. Leipzig, Reissner; London, Nutt.) Barbara Ittenhausen. Von E. Biller. (Same publishers.) Astor by the author or authors of Reata' will always be sure of a welcome, and it ay be said at once that those who have 'Barbara Ittenhausen' is the supposed ad The Waters of Hercules' in its chronicle of a family living in Augsburg in giza form are to be envied for the plea- the sixteenth century at the time of the sure which lies before them. A fresher, Reformation. The whole book has an artifioriginal, more legitimately engrossing cially archaic character, both in language akundance of contemporary fiction. rarely met with amidst the super- and treatment, and the author has visibly action takes place for the most part in a The expended care upon it. Whether the result Carpathian valley, close to the Roumanian individual taste of readers. The work conbe regarded as a success depends upon the lers of Hungary. Hither "the waters tains nothing new, either as regards facts or

of Hercules" have attracted

men and

Women in search of health from the time

Trajan to our own days.

The vast,

point of view.

RECENT VERSE.

most trackless forests, with their sunny An Irish Garland. By Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.

ales and deep caves that never saw the

of day, form a very effective back- Songs to any heys. By the Rev. Charles D. Bell, D.D. (Nisbet & Co.)

pond to the motley group of Germans,

The Peril of the Republic, and other Poems. By George Macdonald Major. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)

Poems. By Mary Hunt McCaleb. publishers.)

(Same

Ballads and Dreams. By Tom Ferguson. (Kegan IN America Mrs. Piatt has justly made for Paul, Trench & Co.)

herself a distinct position among contemporary great earnestness and keen sympathy with sufwomen poets. Her verse is characterized by fering man and woman, while her compositions for children are almost as sweet and subtle as childhood itself. It is, therefore, to be all the more regretted that she should have introduced her poems to English readers by a volume so slight as the present. Many of the poems are too trivial to deserve collecting in a volume, while a few have some charm of mysterious illusion, but hardly more. It is to be hoped that at some future date Mrs. Piatt will publish in England a representative collection of poems taken from her strongest works. Such a volume

would be sure to meet with attention.

It is to be hoped Dr. Bell's sermons are not so commonplace as his verses. It would be cruel to quote from a writer who undoubtedly means well.

The name of the poem with which Mr. Major's volume begins is suggestive of matters more practical than those with which poets as a rule busy themselves; but all the author accomplishes by way of thought is an apprehension lest republican principles should lead to greed of gold, which does not seem a logical deduction. expression he achieves such metrical eccentricities as the following:

The pinnacle of civilization and power.
The evolution of long centuries,
To thee was th' inspiration of an hour
What they attained by painful, crude degrees.

contains some unintentional humour. However, the best example of this is to be found in the three following lines, taken from a poem entitled A Lenten Vision':—

Without the aid of sensual eyes I see,

Without the ear I hear, without the nose I catch the floating fragrance round that glows. This is evidently a first venture. A second can hardly be thought advisable.

Puerility of thought and commonplace expression seem to be the characteristics of Mrs. Lines feebler than the folMcCaleb's verses.

lowing may at some time have been written, but

we are inclined to doubt it :—

Oh! never again, my darling,
Never for you and me,

Will ring the chime of the sweet spring-time,

Of life as it used to be.

We all must change, my darling.

Must pass through shadow and shine,
Must drain our cup as it sparkles up,

The lees with the rich, red wine.

The river of life, my darling,

Flows evenly from its source,

But gathers strength, with its rushing length,
To meet the Ocean's force.

That great" wide sea," my darling,
That spreads from sky to sky,

The boundless blue of the false and the true,
The fetterless By-and-by.

into thinking him a poet, for he has caught some Mr. Ferguson may deceive unwary people of the tricks of men who are poets, and he flaunts himself bravely in their cast-off mantles. He lays on his colour with a lavish hand, and often succeeds in being gaudy when he would be gorgeous. To many readers, however, the terms would be synonymous. The following extract is a fair sample of what Mr. Ferguson can effect in his light vein :

THE WOOING OF KING COPHETUA.
Down by the river-bank green and shady
Through the valley ride Court and King,
Serf and sycophant, lord and lady
Quaffing the breath of the scented Spring

Cov birds lurk in the tangled bushes,
Daisies peep from the verdant mould,
Delicate may-blooms hide their blushes

Under the leaves that the sun turns gold.
And gaily the glittering pageant passes,

Flashing with scarlet and purple dyes,
Over the wealth of the bending grasses,
Under the blue of the cloudless skies.
Merry the banter and light the laughter
That ring from the lips of the courtier throng,
Sudden and silvery following after

The blackbirds' call and the finches' song.
Only the King, with sad eyes drooping,
Wanly, wearily rides apart,
Over the mane of his palfrey stooping,
Musing thus in his inmost heart-
"Love, my love, shall I find you ever?
Bride, my bride, whom I seek in vain
Through lands that sunder and years that sever,
Through nights of vigil and days of pain?

I shall know you, dear, by your waving tresses,
And gentle voice that is sweet and low,
And eyes that shine with the light that blesses-
O love, my love, have I far to go?
Wind, have you met with my soul's ideal?

The glad sweet South you have wandered o'er-
Shall I clasp her, cling to her, find her real?"
But the soft wind rustles the leaves-no more.

This is not bad jingle, and there may be those
who like it.
If so, they will find plenty more in

Mr. Ferguson's pages.

OUR LIBRARY TABLE.

IT is rarely that the admirer of Thackeray appreciates Dickens, and the lover of Dickens does not usually care much for Thackeray; but the zeal of collectors is not bounded by such preferences, and therefore the Hints to Collectors of Thackeray's Works and the Hints to Collectors of Dickens's Works, which Mr. C. P. Johnson has published, will be welcome to the same section of the public. We should say Mr. Johnson himself is a Thackerayan, yet his second book is the more elaborate, as he has not confined himself to the original editions of Dickens's works, but has adventured into the wide field of Dickensiana, and added a list of portraits of Dickens. The descriptions in both volumes are most painstaking and exact, and testify to the enthusiasm and carefulness of Mr. Johnson, who has collated most thoroughly every volume he mentions. As the prices of first editions run high and forgeries are in consequence numerous, these detailed notices will be eminently useful to the collector, who otherwise may find himself completely deceived; but with Mr. Johnson for his guide he

can hardly go wrong. Some sensible remarks and timely bits of advice are to be found in the preface to each volume. Mr. Redway deserves a word of praise for the dainty way in which the books have been brought out.

DR. DRAKE, after seven years of continuous labour, has just brought to completion his exhaustive History of the Hundred of Blackheath, co. Kent. The work is a handsome folio of some 400 pages, with a full index. It contains many remarkable illustrations-including a delightful general view of Greenwich, after an early drawing from the pencil of the talented author, together with several most elaborate chart pedigrees. In the genealogical treatment of his subject Dr. Drake is particularly strong, and, indeed, has struck out a distinctive line in connecting the results of his genealogical and topographical researches. Judging from a perusal of the introduction and additional notes, unless we are greatly mistaken, Dr. Drake's work will rank hereafter as one of the best of our local histories. The present edition is limited to 750 copies, a number which should hardly suffice to meet the demand. Messrs. Mitchell & Hughes are the publishers.

THE approach of the holiday season is shown by the issue of guide-books for tourists. Mr. Paterson, of Edinburgh, has issued a volume which claims to be a Guide-Book to the United Kingdom. Of course, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland can hardly be treated very exhaustively within six hundred not very big pages. Still, it is astonishing how much information the editor has contrived to give, and to the traveller who is able to use his eyes and does

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not require detailed descriptions the book will prove most useful. It is liberally supplied with maps and plans. -Mr. Bevir, whose guide to Orvieto we noticed last year, has published a useful Guide to Siena and San Gimignano (Stanford). It will be found worth consulting by every visitor to Siena. A plan of the town is given, and a map of the environs should have been added.

THE Katalog der Bibliothek des Börsenvereins der Deutschen Buchhändler represents one of the results of the festival celebrating the quatercentenary of the discovery of the art of printing, held at Leipzig in 1840. The formation of a special library for the use of the trade is greatly due to the well-known W. A. Barth, but the prosperity of the library dates from the appointment of Dr. A. Kirchhoff as librarian in 1861. The first separate catalogue was issued in 1869, and contained 1,709 entries. Such has been the growth of the library that the present catalogue contains 7,564 titles. It is an elaborate catalogue raisonné provided with an excellent

index. The whole reflects the greatest credit on the booksellers of Germany. Of course, there are obvious omissions. The booksellers of the Fatherland do not appear to appreciate properly Mr. Quaritch's huge catalogues. M. Cordier's Bibliography of Beaumarchais seems to be absent. So is Mr. Christie's Life of Étienne But Dolet,' and other lacunae might be named. as a whole this collection is one the trade may be proud of.

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INCIDENT No. 2 IN THE HISTORY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

I HAVE

more

Precentory, Lincoln, July 13, 1885. been expecting that some qualified person would supply an additional fact of the curious incident in the history of Trinity College, Cambridge, communicated by Sir G. B. Airy. In default of this, may I be permitted to do so?

When I went up to Cambridge as a freshman the circumstances of the "Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates" were still fresh in men's memories and were the subject of common conversation. The handsomely bound Bible presented to one who still happily survives as a much respected representative of the colonial episcopate had been seen and admired by many, while a privileged few had also been permitted to see and handle a plainly bound copy of the sacred volume which had been presented to a lay fellow of Trinity, with whom I had the privilege of reading as a private pupil, afterwards a police magistrate in London, who had occupied the lowest place on the register, the "wooden spoon "of the chapel class list.

The receiver of this Bible, I know, was far from taking umbrage at the silent rebuke, and used to show the volume with amused interest. As Sir George Airy has truly said, no ill feeling was manifested on either side.

EDMUND VENABLES.

THE LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.

Winchester, July 11, 1885. I HAVE just read in the Athenæum for July 11th a notice of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the new volume of the "Eminent Women Series," edited by Mr. Ingram. Though

my name is on the title-page, the book is not as I wrote it, and as it appeared in the American edition published by Messrs. Roberts Brothers, of Boston. For this reason I think I should be allowed space for a few lines of explanation in answer to your critic. Otherwise I should not feel warranted in objecting publicly

this criticism.

The book was published in America early in the winter. It was then prepared for publicata in England. This preparation consisted in much cutting down and many changes by the English editor, in which work I was not once Esulted Indeed, I knew nothing of it until I was told it was too late for me even to see the proof-sheets. Such revision and editing are Fery apt, I think, to make a book lose whatever te life it may originally have possessed, and any analysis it contained seem cursory."

ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNell.

THE ARCHIVES OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF MONACO.

CHANCE has enabled me to make a discovery onsiderable interest, and that is that the ipality of Monaco possesses some very rekable archives, which, thanks to the disnating liberality of the reigning sovereign, are Low being properly classified, and contain e documents of the highest value. Up to in the last few years, the State papers and ther documents were scattered about not only Cerent rooms of the palace at Monaco, but ther residences of Prince Charles in Paris and Luth of France; but in 1880 the prince determined to have them collected at Monaco, at them being a quantity of papers dating from the thirteenth century, and relating to the tip of Rethel in the north of France. Another very curious series of papers is the Correspondence of the Matignon family, the famous Marshal Jacques de Matignon having been the ancestor on the male side of the Prince Monaco, as Jacques Léonor de Matignon took the came of Grimaldi when he married the last ss of that family in 1715. This collection, hich extends from the reign of François I. to that of Louis XIV., contains twenty-five sand letters relating to the administration f the provinces of Guienne and Normandy, of h the Matignons were for a long period ernors. The collection is not, however, com, for in 1633 the Comte de Béthune carried Com the Chateau de Thorigny in Normandy, principal residence of the Matignons, three Ies of letters, which he afterwards sold to XIV., and which are now in the National ry, where they form part of what is known the fonds Béthune." The correspondence, iated as it has been, is still very interesting, ing as it does hundreds of letters from I and II., Henri III. and IV., Catherine Meliris, Louis XIII., Richelieu, Mazarin, Orléans, the Grand Condé, Anne of ra, Louvois, Colbert, Montaigne, and St. de diferent abbeys and communities which besides nearly a thousand seals of feudal relations with the Counts seal of the Sieur de Joinville , among them the unquestionably

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and other French claimants, they were put out of court by the King of Prussia, who won the suit, whence the French saying, "Travailler pour le Roi de Prusse." All this, and much more of great historical interest, is contained in the Matignon archives, which came into the possession of the princes of Monaco when, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Anthony I., having only daughters by his marriage with Princess Mary of Lorraine, married the eldest of them to Jacques Léonor de GoyonMatignon, who brought to the Grimaldis the titles of Comte de Thorigny, Baron de St. Lô, Baron de la Luthumière, and Duc d'Estouteville. About a century later, the hereditary prince of Monaco, afterwards Honoré IV., married the heiress of the last Duc de Mazarin and the direct descendant of the famous cardinal, who, it will be remembered, in uniting his niece Hortense Mancini to the son of the Duc de la Meilleraye, got the countship of Rethel converted into the duchy of Mazarin, with succession in the female line. Armand Charles de la Porte, Duc de Mazarin et de la Meilleraye, had inherited from his mother, a daughter of Marshal d'Effiat, the marquisate of Chelly, the countship of Longjumeau, and the barony of Massy; and at the death of Mazarin he was invested with the duchy of Mayenne, which had been conferred upon the cardinal, with succession in the female line, in 1656. The husband of Hortense Mancini also inherited a number of lordships in Alsace, which had been conferred upon the cardinal after the Treaty of Westphalia, and all these titles were transmitted through the daughter of the last Duc de Mazarin (who died in 1738) to her daughter by her marriage with the Duc de Duras, and by the latter in turn to her daughter by her marriage with the sixth and last Duc d'Aumont. It is curious that the Duc de Mazarin, the Duc de Duras, and the Duc d'Aumont should each have had only one child, and that a daughter. However that may be, Louise Félicité Victoire d'Aumont brought all the titles of her house to the Grimaldis, and with them the archives, which had suffered but little during the Revolution. They contain a great many documents of retrospective interest, among others a full inventory of Cardinal Mazarin's property taken immediately after his death.

The third section is called "Les Archives Secrètes du Palais de Monaco,"-not that there is anything secret about them, and they might more correctly be denominated the "secretarial archives. These relate exclusively to the history of Monaco and to the personal affairs of the Grimaldis before their alliances with the Matignons and the Mazarins, and they are contained in seventy-two drawers. M. Saige, who was for many years librarian of the national archives in Paris, and who is a man of great erudition, took in hand the classification of these documents for the reigning prince, and he found that the Monaco papers, which had never left the palace and had not been much affected by the revolutionary movements in the principality, were all upside down. He has, however, gradually evolved order out of chaos, and among the interesting documents which he has brought to light are seventy-four letters, many of them autograph, written by the Emperor Charles V. to the Prince of Monaco, notable among these

For the

ost of these letters were written to the

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Augustino de Grimaldi, domino Monaci, amico et confidente nostro." This precludes any idea of vassalage, and there is a mass of other written evidence which shows, irrespective of the treaty of 1815, that the Prince of Monaco is as much master by right in his small dominion as the Czar in "all the Russias." C. B. PITMAN.

RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY OF THE
BRITISH MUSEUM.

SOME interesting books have been secured for the nation at recent book sales. The most important work acquired at the Osterley Park sale is a fine copy on vellum of La Bible des Poetes Methamorphose,' printed at Paris by A. Vérard in 1493. The last leaf is, unfortunately, wanting, and two leaves are supplied in MS. by the hand of a fifteenth century scribe. There are fourteen large bordered miniatures, two hundred and five smaller illustrations, and more than six hundred initial letters. The volume appears to have been illuminated for Henry VII., whose arms are emblazoned at the foot of each of the large miniatures. Many of the illustrations are remarkable for grace and brilliance, though, of course, the execution is inferior to what we find in the best work of the previous century, when the art of illumination had been carried to the highest pitch of excellence. The first of the fourteen miniatures was afterwards used in the Miroir Historial' of Vincentius Bellovacensis, but the character of the illustration was somewhat altered; Saturn devouring a child was transformed into St. Christopher bearing the infant Jesus, and Saturn's scythe-the upper part having been painted out-became the saint's staff. At the same sale the Museum authorities purchased a curious tract entitled 'A true Relation of the Trauels of M. Bush a Gentleman: who with his owne hands without any mans helpe made a Pynace in which hee past by Ayre, Land and Water From Lamborne, a place in Barkshire, to the Custome house Key in London,' 1607. The writer was a man of some mechanical genius. With the help of "twoo stronge cables almost of threescore and sixe yards in length, and an hundreth weight a peece, straned by wyndlasses and other strange and unheard of deuises, very stiffely from the battlements of the Church Tower of Lamborne in the Countie of Berke," he managed to ascend the tower and descend it, to the amazement of the spectators, who thought it as possible to "drowne an Eagle with water as for Bush to accomplish his attempt.

Among the books purchased at the Fuller Russell sale is a whimsical and powerful satire by "Lemeke Auale," entitled A Commemoration or Dirige of Bastarde Edmonde Boner, alias Sauage, usurped Bisshope of London,' 1569. We suppose

"Lemeke Auale is an assumed name, and should not be surprised to find that William Baldwin (who wrote that extraordinary book 'Beware the Cat') was concerned in the authorship. Some rare tracts by George Joy, well known from his relations with Tyndale,' were acquired at the same sale; one is directed against Sir Thomas More, and another against Bishop Gardiner. We may also mention Sir Thomas More's 'Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulacion,' 1553; Tyndale's 'Obediece of a Christen Man,' printed in 1528 "At Marlborow in the lade of Hesse"; Robert Southwell's 'Humble Supplication to her Maiestie,' 1595, an eloquent and pathetic protest on behalf of persecuted Catholics, John Bradford's 'Godly Meditations vppon the Ten Commaundementes,' 1567; and a very curious tract entitled 'A True and Impartial Relation of the Information against Three Witches,' who were executed at Exeter in 1682.

One of the chief treasures of the Crossley sale was a complete copy of Defoe's Review in nine volumes. The so-called ninth volume is the first volume of a new series, which started at the be

106th number, was brought to an end on June

these words: "And so, Gentlemen, fare you well. Exit Review." Of this new series Mr. Crossley's copy, which is slightly imperfect, is supposed to be unique. The nine volumes, we are happy to say, have been secured for the British Museum. Every line of the Review was written by Defoe-a feat of literary activity that has seldom been equalled. At the same sale was purchased a collection of Southey's contributions to the Annual Review. He took them out himself, pasted them, and bound them together. They make a solid volume, and range over a large variety of subjects. Among the articles are reviews of Ritson's 'Ancient English Romances,' Ellis's Specimens of Early English Poetry,' Thomas Warton's 'Poems,' Gifford's Massinger,' and 'Memoirs of Col. Hutchinson.'

THE ANCIENT PALM-LEAVES OF HORIUZI.
Oxford, July 8, 1885.

I AM not quite certain whether Prof. Beal's remarks on the age of the ancient palm-leaves discovered in Japan were written before he had seen my article in the Athenæum of June 13th. He seems still to think that Kakuken is the only authority on the history of these palm-leaves, while it was the object of my article to show that Kakuken was quite a modern writer-that he wrote, in fact, from 1818 to 1829, but that four earlier chroniclers have now been found in the monastery of Horiuzi, which in their own peculiar style attest the existence of the palmleaves as far back as 1235 A.D. However, the question of real interest to scholars is not whether these leaves belong to the thirteenth century, which no one has ever maintained, but whether they belong to the beginning of the eighth or to the beginning of the seventh, the age of Prince Umayado, or to an even earlier age. That question can be settled by palæographic evidence only, and if Prof. Beal will read Prof. Bühler's remarks on the subject once more, he will see that this eminent paleographer, though admitting that it was the historical evidence which gave the first impulse to his doubts as to the age of the Horiuci alphabet, rests his arguments in support of their earlier age entirely on palæo

graphic evidence.

Prof. Beal finds fault with Prof. Nanjio's translation of Ziogon's note. Though I had been assured by competent authorities that Prof. Nanjio's knowledge of Buddhist Chinese was unrivalled, I felt obliged to consult my learned friend Prof. Legge, whose authority Prof. Beal would, I believe, be the last to question, and he informs me that Prof. Nanjio's transla

tion is correct.

F. MAX MÜLLER.

MISS MASON, a sister of Canon Mason, of Truro, is going to publish a work on 'The Education of Pauper Children: the Systems, Regulations, and Law Explained.' It contains chapters explaining the Local Government Board; the guardians; Poor Law officials; regulations as to religion; the workhouse; district and separate schools; cottage homes; training ships and the sea service, both navy and merchant; boarding out, both within and beyond the union; emigration; voluntary certified schools; industrial schools; children in service; and concludes with a summary and comparative review.

THE Monthly List of Parliamentary Papers for June, 1885, includes 49 House of Lords Papers, 33 House of Commons Reports and Papers, 20 House of Commons Bills, and 28 Papers by Command. Among the first will be found a Bill to facilitate the Transfer of Real Property in England, and a Bill to declare and explain the 68th Section of the Waterworks Clauses Act of Among the House of Commons Papers we note the Report from the Select Committee on the Lower Thames Valley Main Sewerage Bill; the Accounts of the London Water Companies to September 30th and December 31st, 1884; and the

Reports of the Local Inspectors relative to Lighthouses. The House of Commons Bills include one for the purification of rivers, and one referring to the Thames. The Papers by Command comprise Vol. V. of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes; the Revised Instructions to Inspectors in the Revised Instructions to Inspectors in the Education Department, applicable to the Code of 1885; and the Reports for 1883 and 1884 on our Colonial Possessions.

THE Glasgow Ballad Club, a society formed in 1876 for the study of ballads and ballad literature, is about to issue its first publication through Messrs. Blackwood & Sons. The volume consists of ballads, lyrics, and translations contributed by members of the

club.

lishmen.

some notes

"ROUTLEDGE'S POCKET LIBRARY" is th title of a new series of works of fictio and poetry, to be issued in monthly shillin volumes. The first volume of the libra will be Bret Harte's 'Poems,' which will h ready early in August.

MESSRS. BLACKWOOD & SONS are about t publish An Ill-regulated Mind,' a nov in one volume by Katherine Wylde, auth of A Dreamer. The same firm has al in the press Thereby,' a novel in tw volumes by Fayr Madoc, author of T Story of Millicent.'

publish the two following novels in thr volumes: The Verge of Night,' by M Percy Greg, author of Ivy: Cousin an Bride,' &c.; and What's his Offence?' b the author of The Two Miss Flemings,' & Messrs. F. V. White & Co. will issue imm diately Florence Marryat's new novel T Heir Presumptive,' to be followed 1 Hearts or Diamonds,' by Miss Iza Duff Hardy, and 'In a Grass Country,' by M Lovett Cameron. Comedies from a Count Side' is the title of a new work of fiction the author of 'Julian Trevor,' which w be published by Messrs. Ward & Down Miss Mathers's new novel, 'Murder Manslaughter,' will be published by Mess Routledge & Sons.

MESSRS. HURST & BLACKETT will short

THE 'Record of Ruth' is the title of Novels. It is to be published by Mr. Ell new book by the author of the Chevel Stock.

THE Turkish Government having co pelled M. Pourtoukalian, the principal the chief school at Van, to leave Armer that gentleman has gone to Marseil where on August 1st he intends to pub a newspaper in the interest of his coun

men.

The journal will be called Arme and it will be printed in the Armenian guage. M. Pourtoukalian states that object is not revolutionary, but that he attack all obstacles to progress in Arme and endeavour to unite the Armenian one people.

PROF. VAMBÉRY's forthcoming work, w is to be published by Messrs. Cassell & is to be entitled The Coming Struggle India.'

THE death is announced, at an adva

age, of Dr. W. Veitch, the author of G

Verbs, Irregular and Defective,' a "for which," says Prof. Goodwin, " classical scholar will bless the author." Veitch was born in the south of Seo and educated at Jedburgh School and I burgh University. He became a licen of the Church of Scotland, but study far more congenial to him than preac and he devoted his whole life to Greek shy, modest man, he seldom emerged adequate recognition, although late in his study, and his labours never rec he was made a LL.D. by his unive His magnum opus was published in