the original, is in alternate prose and verse, is excellent, In Praise of Music: an Anthology. Prepared by Charles of human monsters to Marie Bashkirtseff, from the tricolour in the time of Henry IV. and the punishment of court pages to the iron plaques which were formerly fashionable as chimney-backs both in France and Eng land. Some of these chimney-backs, adorned with coats of arms, are, it appears, now to be found in their original position, but with the back placed towards the hearth and the ornamental front turned to the wall; a fact to be explained in the following manner. During the Reign of Terror the simple possession of any royal or feudal emblem whatever brought suspicion on its owner, yet many persons having plaques armoriées contented themselves with simply turning them back to front to escape detection. At a later time it dropped out of remem. brance that they had been thus reversed; so now many of them still remain, out of forgetfulness or pure ignor ance, with their faces to the wall as they were placed when men lived under the sombre shadow of the guillotine. Mélusine, being exclusively devoted to folk-lore, has FROM the many excellent anthologies that have of late seen the light this volume differs, since most of its flowers are of prose instead of verse. It consists of a series-large, of course-of extracts in praise of the most seductive of the arts, from the Bible down to modern poets and writers, such as Swinburne, Tolstoi, and Sully Prudhomme. 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[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, A. on "Barley men," 451 Lancashire customs, 398 A B C Railway Guide, suggestion for, 405, 475 A. (E. S.) on "Arsé-versé," 172 "Maisie hierlekin," 271 A. (J.) on peppercorn rent, 415 A. 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O.) on beds in the hall, 346 Eyre surname, 383 Hummer Nick: Humbug, 25 Parish council in 1608, 201 Addy (S. O.) on Warta = work-day, 324 Albyterio, writer on agriculture, 408 Aldred (T.) on steel pens, 291 Algar or Alger family, 309 Alger (J. G.) on Louis Philippe, 18 Rousseau (J. J.) and 'Hudibras,' 26 Allhallows Holy Trinity, 328, 436 Alphabet-man, Post Office official, 207, 271, 318, 451 Altar piece, A.D. 1723, 225 Amelia (Princess), her marriage, 389 American on Kerry topography, 509 Amphillis, origin of the name, 446 Anderson (P. J.) on Scotch university graduates, 276 Angels, as supporters, 384; legend of their fall, 483 Angus (G.) on Aceldama, 194 Angels as supporters, 384 Bishops, their wigs, 174 Brotherhoods, English religious, 37 Church of Scotland, 191 Church or chapel, 135 Communion table, 33 Conception, Immaculate, 424 Easter riding in Tyrol, 458 Fasting and abstinence, 205 Holy water, its use in Anglican Church, 158 James I., his coronation, 225 Letters of a Country Vicar,' 425 Lilies of the valley at Canterbury, 311 Getting up early," 131 Lincoln (Abraham), 37 Wilkins (Mary E.), 48 Aquitaine (Dukes of), their descendants, 369, 433 Arabic star names, 89, 174 Ardra, co. Cork, its locality, 317 Arithmetic, Roman, 509 Armiger on Ritchie family of Craigtown, 29 Armour, its use in the eighteenth century, 446 Army lists of the Civil War, 233 Arnold (Matthew) and Thomson, 203 Arrows, poisoned, in European warfare, 227, 414 Arthurian and Graal legends, editions of, 427 Astarte on the peacock as an emblem, 349 Astrological signatures, 11, 111 Athill (C. H.) on Sir Franc Van Halen, 131 Atterbury family, 56 Attwell (H.) on "Hell paved with good intentions," Notes and Queries, July 24, 1897. Ha'porth of tar," 515 "History of Pickwick,' 414 Honeysuckle and clover, 195 Hood (Thomas), his "I remember," 206 Hurling, Cornish, 211 Joan of Arc, 153 Leave off: Aback, 36 "Let sleeping dogs lie," 417 'Mally Lee,' 236 Manus Christi, 353 Pigeons, trained, 172 "Plain as a pike-staff," 33 Pronunciation, provincial, 273 Stevenson (R. L.) and Burns, 502 Tongue-battery, 332 'Tourist in Wales,' 448 'Travels of True Godliness,' 108 Whittier (John Greenleaf), 92 B. (E. 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