Изображения страниц
PDF
EPUB
[blocks in formation]

OFFICE, 22, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE, E.C.

BY JOHN C. FRANCIS.

[blocks in formation]

PROF. MOMMSEN'S HISTORY of The LIFE of OLIVER CROMWELL.

ROME to the TIME of AUGUSTUS. Translated by Dr. DICKSON. The POPULAR EDITION, in 4 vols. crown 8vo. 46s. 6d.

Also an ABRIDGED EDITION, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, in 1 vol. demy 8vo. 7s. 6d.

The ROMAN PROVINCES: being

From the French of M. GUIZOT, by ANDREW SCOBLE.
Crown 8vo. with 4 Portraits, 6s.

The LETTERS of HORACE WAL-
POLE, Fourth Earl of Orford. Edited by PETER
CUNNINGHAM. In 9 vols. demy 8vo. with Portraits,
4l. 14s. 6d.

the History of Rome from Cæsar to Diocletian. By Pro-
fessor MOMMSEN. Translated by Rev. P. W. DICKSON. The HISTORY

2 vols. 8vo. 368.

The HISTORY of ANTIQUITY.

From the German of Professor MAX DUNCKER, by
EVELYN ABBOTT, M.A. LL.D.. of Balliol College,
Oxford. In 6 vols. demy 8vo. Each Volume can be
obtained separately, 21s.

The HISTORY of the RISE and
PROGRESS of the ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. By

Sir EDWARD CREASY, late Chief Justice of Ceylon.
A Popular Account of the Primary Principles and Forma-
tion and Development of the English Constitution, avoid-
ing all Party Politics. Fourteenth Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

DEAN HOOK: his Life and Letters.

of the GREAT

FRENCH REVOLUTION. From the French of M.
THIERS, by FREDERICK SHOBERL. With 41 fine
Engravings, and Portraits of the most celebrated Person-
ages referred to in the Work, engraved on Steel by
William Greatbach. 5 vols. demy 8vo. 36s.

[blocks in formation]

Edited by the Rev. W. R. W. STEPHENS, Vicar of The PRIVATE LIFE of MARIE

Woolbeding, Author of Life of St. John Chrysostom,' &c.
The POPULAR EDITION, in 1 vol. crown 8vo. with
Index and Portrait, 65.

MR. FRITH'S REMINISCENCES.
(Recently published in 2 vols. 8vo.) A New and Cheaper
Edition is now ready, in 1 vol. crown 8vo. 68.
RECOLLECTIONS of a LITERARY

LIFE. With Selections from her Favourite Poets and
Prose Writers. By MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. Crown
8vo. with Portrait, 6s.

The LIVES of the ARCHBISHOPS of CANTERBURY. By WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK,

A

ANTOINETTE. With Sketches and Anecdotes of the
Courts of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. By JEANNE
LOUISE HENRIETTE CAMPAN, First Lady-in-Waiting
to the Queen. An entirely New and Revised Edition.
Crown 8vo. with a Portrait, 6s.

MEMOIR of the late Rev.
JOHN RUSSELL ("Parson Russell"), of Tordown,
North Devon. By the AUTHOR of 'DARTMOOR
DAYS,' &c. In 1 vol. crown 8vo. with a Portrait, 6s.

The LIFE of VISCOUNT WOL-
SELEY. By CHARLES RATHBONE LOW, late Indian
Navy, F.R.G.S. 1 vol crown 8vo. with a Portrait, 6s.

late Dean of Chichester. St. Augustine to Juxon. 12 vols. The LIFE of the Rev. RICHARD

demy 8vo. 91. Each separately (with the exception of III. (reprinting). IV., VI., and VII.), 158. The New Series begins with Vol. VI. Vol. XII. is the Index.

HARRIS BARHAM (Author of the 'Ingoldsby Legends').
By his Son, the Rev. RICHARD H. DALTON BARHAM.
A New Edition. Crown 8vo. with Portrait, 6s.

The LIFE of MARY, QUEEN of The LIFE of THEODORE EDWARD

SCOTS. From the French of M. MIGNET, by ANDREW
SCOBLE. With Two Portraits, 6s.

HOOK. By Rev. RICHARD H. DALTON BARHAM.
A New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

London: RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, New Burlington-street,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.

7TH S. No. 210.

[blocks in formation]

READY AT MUDIE'S AND ALL LIBRARIES, 2 vols. demy 8vo. 32s.

THE EARLY DIARY OF FRANCES BURNEY, 1768-1778.

With a Selection from her Correspondence and from the Journals of her Sisters, Susan and Charlotte Burney.

Edited by ANNIE RAINE ELLIS.

This is believed to be the only published, perhaps the only existing, record of the life of an English girl, written by herself, in a century before that which is now in its wane. Such a portrayal of a young Englishwoman, and her times, would be interesting even if the girl had not been (as was this one) a born author, who lived among men and women more or less distinguished, herself became famous, and was admired by the admired, as well as praised by the common voice.

BY FRANCES BURNEY (MADAME D'ARBLAY).

EVELINA; or, the History of a Young CECILIA; or, the Memoirs of an

Lady's Entrance into the World. With an Introduction and Notes by ANNIE RAINE ELLIS. 3s. 6d.

[Bohn's Novelists' Library.

Heiress. With an Introduction and Notes by ANNIE
RAINE ELLIS. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each.
[Bohn's Novelists' Library.

THIRD EDITION.

ARTHUR YOUNG'S TRAVELS in FRANCE DURING the YEARS 1787, 1788, and 1789. With an Introduction, Biographical Sketch, and Notes by M. BETHAM-EDWARDS. With Portrait. 38. 6d. [Bohn's Standard Library. "In its present form it makes as good a book of travels as it would be easy to name."-Spectator.

The WORKS of FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. Whiston's Translation, thoroughly

Revised by the Rev. A. R. SHILLETO, M. A. With Topographical and Geographical Notes by Colonel Sir C. W. WILSON, K.C.B. Volumes I., II., and III., containing the Life of Josephus and Antiquities of the Jews, 3s. 6d. each. [Bohn's Standard Library. "Now that Josephus has been so accurately Englished by Mr. Shilleto, there is no reason why ordinary students should not make acquaintance with the most interesting period in the history of a most interesting people."-St. James's Gazette.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: a Literary Biography. By Karl Elze, Ph.D.

LL.D. Translated by L. DORA SCHMITZ. Small post 8vo. 5s. "Thoroughly sound and pleasantly readable."-Spectator.

"We confidently recommend it to Shakspearean students."-Athenæum.
"A valuable storehouse of information for Shakespeare students."-Guardian.

CHISWICK SERIES.-A NEW VOLUME.

FAUST: a Dramatic Poem by Goethe. Translated into English Prose, with

Notes, by the late ABRAHAM HAYWARD. Eleventh Edition. Fcap. 8vo. cloth, 2s. 6d.
A NEW EDITION OF HORWITZ AND KLING.'-Demy 8vo. 78. 6d.

CHESS STUDIES and END GAMES. In Two Parts.

Part I. Chess Studies.

Part II. MISCELLANEOUS END GAMES. By B. HORWITZ and J. KLING. Second Edition, Revised by the Rev. W. WAYTE, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. "One of the most valuable and interesting books which a chess-player can have upon his shelves."-Saturday Review.

London: GEORGE BELL & SONS, York-street, Covent-garden.

[blocks in formation]

BARONETAGE, AND KNIGHTAGE OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND FOR 1890.

Including all the Titled Classes. FIFTIETH YEAR.

This differs from all other Peerages in-1. Its low price. 2. Its enlarged Contents. 3. Its facility of reference. "For facility of reference it is not surpassed by any of the larger and more pretentious works which deal with the same subject. All changes that have occurred by death, succession, or promotion are duly noted, and the corrections made bring us nearly to the end of the year."-Times.

"For purposes of rapid reference it has no superior."-Athenæum.

London: WHITTAKER & CO. Paternoster-square.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1890.

CONTENT 8.-N° 210.

confuted."* To contradict a writer who professes to relate history from personal observation, and to prove the contradiction to the hilt, requires more study and labour than copyists are wont to bestow upon their subject.

NOTES:-Capt. J. Smith, 1-R. Burton, 2-Topographical
Notes, 3-Education-Apostolicals-" Grand Old Man"-
A Thorough Abridgment-" Rank and file," 5-An Old Jest
-Channel Tunnel-Verminous-Bailhatchet, 6-New Year's
At the suggestion of a friend, I have lately
Day, 7.
examined into that portion of the captain's
QUERIES:-The Cockpit-Cock-penny-Cockatiels-Cockney adventures which, according to Purchas, who first
-Title of Book Wanted - Diversions of Purley'-Cathedral, printed them in his 'Pilgrims,' were taken from
7-Byron's Works-Heraldic-Mirabeau-Brockett MSS.- a book entitled "The Warres of Transiluania,
Blacklegg-General C. Martin-Castell - Zuingli-Equi- Wallachi, and Moldauia, written by Francisco
noctial Storm-Macaulay's Style-Oseney Abbey-Funeral
Shutters, 8-Mrs. Honey-Allusion by Macaulay-Rules Ferneza, a learned Italian, Secretarie to Sigis-
-J. M. Johnson -Cool-"The Marleypins"-Authors mundus Bathor, the Prince [of Transylvania]."

Wanted, 9.

-Hurrah-Heraldic-Pigeon's Blood, 13-Compound Words

Ancient and Modern.' Notices to Correspondents.

Nates.

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH OF VIRGINIA.

In performing my task I have, I believe, conREPLIES:- The Couvade, 9-Teaching of the Twelve scientiously followed the example set by Prof. Apostles'—Sir J. Hawkwood-Tennyson-J. G. Holman, 10 Arber, the able and painstaking editor of the last -Flemish Brass-J. Hill-Brennus-"If I had a donkey," edition of Capt. Smith's 'Works.'t Like him, I 11-" Præfervidum ingenium Scotorum"-Park-Runes, 12 have approached the text perfectly free from all -Pigs Seeing the Wind - Human Leather-"Humanity bias, scanned every assertion of fact most keenly; Martin," 14-Folk-lore-To stay at home is best"-Arms but, I regret to state, the result arrived at vastly -Black Cap-Column on Calais Pier, 15-Robert Burns-differs from his, and is anything but satisfactory. 'Spotted Laddie'-Signs Sculptured in Stone-Corrigendum Prof. Arber seems to attach great importance -Skeleton-Provincial Publishing, 16-Horatia Nelson- to the statement that the narrative which we are Zoroaster-'Arabiniana'-Old Scottish Ballad, 17-Foot- about to consider was extracted and translated by prints in Snow-Seething Lane-Wellington-Heraldic, 18. Purchas from a manuscript, written in a foreign NOTES ON BOOKS:- Dictionary of National Biography,' Vol. XXI.-Moorsom's Historical Companion to Hymns tongue, and is therefore not Smith's own account of his own doings, but chiefly the narrative of a foreigner with no possible motive for his laudation. I must join issue with the professor. First of all, we have only the captain's word for the assertion that the Hungarian, &c., travels were extracted and translated by "Master Purchas." The latter simply says that he gives an account of them as they are "written" in the Italian book referred to, and Prof. Arber's argument could only hold good if Capt. Smith had had no hand in the publication of them. But as no one else but he was in a position to supply Purchas with an account of his doings while in captivity amongst the Tartars, the 'True Travels' were evidently published by some arrangement with Smith, and he may have in various ways assisted at the preparation of the "copy" for the printers. Perhaps Smith made the translation himself, but his modesty-the latest of virtues discovered in him by recent authors-prevented him from taking credit for the performance. Whatever the shortcomings of Fuller may otherwise be, in the present instance he seems to have hit the nail on the head. Capt. Smith's "perils, preservations, dangers, deliverances......seem to most men beyond belief, to some beyond truth. and the pictures-both in his own book, and it soundeth have two witnesses to attest them-the prose [the text] much to the diminution of his deeds, that he alone is the herauld to publish and proclaim them." The italics are mine. I shall now proceed to lay

"Prima lex historiæ, ne quid falsi dicat." Modern research has stripped the protégé of Princess Pocahontas of many of his self-conferred laurels and dispelled much of the romance which formerly clung to his name. The truth of a great portion of his wonderful adventures and heroic deeds has lately been questioned, nay, some American writers have even gone so far as to denounce him as a blustering braggadocio and brand his autobiography as a collection of mere traveller's tales and "the gasconades of a beggar." Mr. Henry, the vice-president of the Virginia Historical Society, referring to this subject in his address in 1882, tells us that, 66 so persistent have these assaults been [lately on our author] that it seems to be the fashion now with those writers who are content to act the part of copyists to sneer at the veracity of Smith."* Our experience of the species of historians alluded to by Mr. Henry does not agree with his, as, to use the words of Fuller, "strange performances [such as related by Capt. Smith]......are cheaper credited than

*Proceedings of the Virginia Hist. Soc. at the Annual Meeting, February 24, 1882, with the Address of W. W. Henry......with particular reference to the late attacks upon Capt. John Smith. Richmond, 1882, p. 12.

[merged small][ocr errors]

Yet we

† Vol. xvi. of the English Scholar's Library,' edited by Prof. Edward Arber, Birmingham, 1884.

« ПредыдущаяПродолжить »