Example. On what days of the week did the 9th Feb., 16th May, and 23rd Oct. fall in 1445, and on what days will they fall in 1876 ?

Write out the seven first letters of the alphabet in order (the Sunday letter a capital); under the Sunday letter write "Sunday," and place the other days in their order under the other letters. 1445 is a common year with Sunday letter C.

a. ს. C. d. e. f. g.
Fr. Sat. Sun. M. Tu. W. Th.

By referring to the mnemonics you will see that the 1st Feby. is Monday, therefore the 9th is Tues.; the 1st of May is Sat., the 16th Sund.; the 1st Oct. is Frid., the 23rd Sat.

1876 will be leap year with Sunday letters B. A. Use B. for January and February, and A. for the rest of the year.

a. B.

d.

g.

Sat. Son. M. Tu. W. Th. £}

A. b. C. d. e. f. g. Sun. M. Tu. W. Th. F. Sat. The 1st Feb. will be Tues. Mon. The 1st Oct., Sun. Wed. The 16th May, Tues. Mon.

for Jan. and Feb.

for 10 last months.

The 1st May, The 9th Feb., The 23rd Oct.,

In leap year there are two letters; the one found, and the preceding one. For 1448 G. F.

Mr. Bond's rule is rather more compli

cated.

interesting subjects treated; we must confine ourselves to the most useful. The section headed "Commencement of the year "will be particularly acceptable to the student of history and law. From it we learn on what day the different nations began their year, and when they adopted the Gregorian style. As might have been expected, it was generally made a religious question; but Mr. Bond has not informed us that in the canton of Glarus, Catholics and Protestants are said to have agreed to reject the change, because they found that the sun would not shine on their town clock through the defile in the mountains on the same day as before.

Students of mediaeval history will often refer to the list of Saints' Days; lawyers will consult the Tables of the Law Terms; much light will be thrown on French Chronology from 1792 to 1805 by the Republican Calendar; the Biblical student will derive assistance from the Hebrew Calendars, and the tables given under the "Era of the Hegira" will enable us with facility to compare Christian and Mohammedan dates.

The student of English history will derive much profit from the Tables of the Regnal Years of the English Sovereigns. Our most laborious compilers are often at variance with each other in fixing the dates for the meetings of Parliament, and they not unfrequently place Parliaments in their wrong order. With Mr. Bond's tables before him, Dugdale could not have made his extraordinary mistake about the Parliaments held at the beginning of the reign of Henry IV.

We regret that Mr. Bond has not thought fit to give us some account of the method of numbering Acts of Parliament. It is true that the Table of the Regnal Years will give much assistance, but we cannot help thinking

that

many

of his readers will want to know

why he quotes a statute passed in July, 1830, as 1 Will. IV. c. 70, and a statute passed in December, 1830, as 1 Will. IV. c. 3. Mr. Bond gives us a translation of some entries in old books of the Exchequer, which he thinks were made at the time the events recorded happened. We will only mention two. On August 4, 49 Hen. III., we are told that "Simon de Montfort with his army, was put to flight at the battle of Evesham." gare," Mr. Bond might have translated it in If the verb used in the original is "profli

mediately follow that on the Year Letters. The rule given p. 259 for finding the year letter before 1 A.D., should have been placed at p. 31. The rule for finding the golden number, p. 253, should be found in p. 122. More appropriate places might also be found for the sections on the Christian Era, p. 316, the Canonical Hours, p. 312, and Perpetual Calendars, p. 185.

With an easy rule for finding the day of the week, we think the fourteen calendars, pp. 53-67, might have been omitted, and the table for finding the year letters need not have been given three times (pp. 36, 124, 240).

The author, though generally accurate, falls into some mistakes from which no chronological system could protect him. In the year 325 Constantine was not Emperor of the East, but sole Emperor; Gregory XIII. was not Pope at the time of the Council of Trent; and Isabella of France (second wife of Richard II.), who was born in 1389, could not possibly have been the daughter of Charles V., who died in 1880. Some errors may also be detected, from which his own valuable Tables ought to have guarded him. In his interesting account of the Law Terms, he enumerates cases in which the commencement of a reign breaks into a Term. In the cases of Edward II. and Henry VIII. he is wrong. Edward I. died July 7, 1307. Easter day was on March 26, so that Trinity Term ended on June 21. Henry VII. died on April 21, 1509. Easter day was on April 8, and Easter Term would begin on the 25th, after the King's death. Mr. Bond also tells us that Edward III. died on the day of the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. He had before informed us correctly that he died on Sunday, June 21, 1377. In 1377 the Feast of St. John fell on

Wednesday.

The book is for the most part well and correctly printed, but there are occasional mistakes which cannot perhaps always be put down to the printer. In page 222 the Greek quotations are inaccurately given, and Mr. Bond makes inconsistent efforts to transCoptic month papμovi (pp. 222, 208, 210). fer from Greek to English the name of the The additional days in the Armenian year are three times called Epagomanae (225-6), is

in the quaint language of a writer of the sixteenth century :—

"Ye must imagin 3 places and on the thombe most fitly, that is the root of the thombe ye first, and the middle joynt the second, and the toppe of the thombe the third, then in the first place which is the roote of the thombe, put this number 10, and in the middle joynt of the thombe 20, and at the toppe 30. This put in memorie, by the order of these places shalbe counted the Golden Number; as one in the first place or roote, and two in the second or middle joynt, and three in the third place, then so returning, set 4, on the roote or first place, 5 on the second, &c., till ye come to the Golden Number for the yeere, for the which you eeeke, and the number of that place must be joyned with the Golden Number of the yeere, and that, that it amounts to, shal be the Epact, so that it passe not 30, but if it passe 30, let goe 30, and the remain is your request."

We cannot undertake to mention all the

an entry under August 26, 20 Edw. III., it appears as if the writer thought that the King of Majorca was killed at the battle of Crecy.

The amount of valuable information con

veyed in the volume is very great, but it is not always easy to find. There is no index, and it would be difficult to make one for a book one half of which consists of figures. The order of the work is somewhat confused, and although it might not be easy to treat so many subjects in a thoroughly systematic way, yet some changes might certainly be made with advantage. The list of Saints' Days, the extracts from the books of the Exchequer, and the section from which we learn when the different states adopted the New Style, might be placed in the Appendix. The sections on the Golden Numbers, the Solar Regulars, the Epact, &c., should im

H. A. POTTINGER.

for

MR. HENRY TAYLOR, the town clerk of Flint, has issued A Few Notes upon the History of the County and Town of Flint (Chester: Griffith). Manuscript sources of information have not, it ordinary sources of printed information have been would seem, been used to any great extent, but the diligently examined, and a useful pamphlet has been the consequence. It is a pity, however, that the vast treasure of documents relating to Wales, once in Chester Castle, but now in the Public Record Office, has not been laid under contribution. Flint did not send members to the English Parliament until the reign of Henry VIII. Mr. Taylor gives what seems to be an accurate list of these worthies from 1547 to the present time. The families of Mostyn, Conway, Hanmer, Williams, and Glynne seem to have ruled the shire for upwards of three centuries.

momentary relief.

The author of One Easter Even is called Klotho, and that Klotho is the pseudonym of a female writer we have partly the word of a contemporary, partly our own opinion, but chiefly a villanous trick of language and a foolish hanging of the narrative that doth warrant us. We would, therefore, be very tender with the heroine's infantine prattle which afterwards grows into choice Braddonese; we would even search in the interest of philology for the germs of the great sensational dialect in such palaeozoic fragments as these: "Poor voman, vhy oo ky, I ove oo," and not ask more than that in these cases a glossary should be provided for the use of old maids and bachelors. The child is kidnapped by one Richard Stevens, who is drawn in the likeness of Arthur Orton in all other respects than that Orton had more flesh and therefore more frailty. Stevens had plenty of brains and no money, and as he aspired to become a Baronet of the British Kingdom, engaged himself as steward of the St. Clare estates in order that he might spy out the mortgages on the lands and see if it was worth his while to appear as a lost heir. In his character of steward his head was large, his hair blue-black, his mouth sensual, and his manner sinister. In his character of heir these peculiarities disappeared, and he was at once recognised as the chief of a noble race. So Sir Clarence St. Clare sailed away to savage lands, partly to convert the heathen, and partly to study the manners of the tattooed. In twelve years a scar was detected on Stevens's wrist, and the impostor fled, taking with him the cashbox of the St. Clares and leaving behind him his niece, whom Sir Clarence considerately married. Except these characters none is essential to the amazing whole. Many of them run lawless through a chapter and then disappear. Such a person is Mr. Elliston, commonly addressed as, "Ah! Edward Elliston," and asked, in the rhetorical manner, whether the Pharisees have ceased to parade this fair earth with pomp and vanity and show: whether prismatic colours no longer linger lovingly on water that is foul and polluted, and whether we, the public, no longer see fair glistening monuments to mark where lies the loathsome prey of the worm. Such, too, is the Rev. Paul Stonyway, who introduced Ritualism among the Abyssinians, and met his fate with considerable courage. But the examples

MISS BRADDON's manners of writing are as various as Nick Bottom's manners of acting. But though she has lately tried to aggravate her voice so as to roar you "an 'twere any nightingale," yet her chief humour is still for a murderer and for Ercles vein. To prove it, she has written A Strange World. We may say at once that this novel is quite worthless. The lamentable comedy performed by the Athenian patches was a masterpiece to it, and even of that tragical mirth the critic said that in all the play there was not one word apt, one player fitted. We are launched into Mid-Bohemia. Justina Elgood, our heroine, is the reputed daughter of a strolling actor, who plays the heavy fathers of the drama. He ultimately loses his rights as a father, but is heavy to the end. The girl is forced to "encarnadine her cheek bones," to breakfast on "the dorsal bone of a haddock," to go to the races in a "patriarchal tub," and is at no time allowed "to taste of pleasure's maddening cup." But she is born to other than histrionic greatness. She knows that the spareness of her . legs suffices to exclude her from the higher walks of the modern stage, and she has already met "the fair incarnation of her poetic dream" in Squire Penwyn of Penwyn Manor. Unfortunately, this young man is found lying in the marble stillness of death," and the book is diverted to the questions who killed James Penwyn ? and, who saw him die? Not Mr. Elgood, for he was drunk. Not Justina, for she was asleep. Maurice Clissold alone, being Penwyn's companion, and being at the same time a wit, scholar and poet, seemed to possess both the opportunity and qualifications for committing the murder. But a greater than Clissold appears. Churchill Penwyn had written hard-headed statistical papers for the Edinburgh Review, he had studied thoroughly the condition of the workingclasses, was an excellent critic of art, waltzed like a Viennese, rode like a centaur, and spoke three Continental languages. He had read everything; he had read Emile Augier's play La Quarantaine, which even Emile Augier had never read, nor written. His love of hard-headed statistics had led him to acquire so complete a mastery of

Bradshaw's Railway Guide that he travelled one night from London to the north of England, shot his man through a hedge, and returned to town in time to receive the first telegram in the morning announcing the murder. He was, perhaps, a shade too accomplished for his business of assassina

whole batch of conceit-mongers who berattle the English stage. Fiction requires less discrimination and a less firm pencil. The design once conceived, its details must be fur. nished more by industry than by inspiration. But the author of Cap and Bells, like many of her sisterhood, is content to weave her tale and let her characters shift for themselves. Perhaps the least shadowy of them is a youth with a baritone voice, who recalls to the author the gentle musician Chibiabos. For though the magic of his voice did not cause the blue-bird's envy, nor the robin's joy, nor the sobs of the whip-poor-will, yet when he sang the drawing-rooms listened, all the talkers gathered round him, all the ladies came to hear him. And among them was a maiden whom he compared to the first movement of the Italian Symphony. But she was not always so. The adagio became andante, and the andante became allegro, and when she was at her fastest she jilted the baritone and other swains besides. So he waxed proud, donned his cap and bells, and found consolation in the arms of a German Gretchen.

There was once a caricature in the Charivari that represented Delacroix painting a battle-piece. The artist was in uniform, booted and spurred, and he dashed at the canvas on a spirited charger. Mr. Mackenna may have written A Child of Fortune in some such costume and attitude. The result is not quite the same, but his book is full of animal spirits, and will doubtless pass in the mess-room for a work of consummate art. The literature provided for Her Majesty's naval and military forces has seen many changes since Peter Simple went to sea and Charles O'Malley was gazetted to the 14th Light Dragoons. Captain Marryat's sou wester is worn by his daughter, and Charles Lever's epaulets have fallen on the shoulders of Mr. Mackenna. In place of the adven tures of Philosopher Chips and Gentleman Chucks, of Major Monsoon and Micky Free, we read of hard, suppressed breathing, dis tended eyeballs, teeth biting lips, quivering nostrils, eyes flaming with passion, and hair floating in a tossed mane of darkness. All the old traditions are gone except the oaths. And even in this respect we are dissatisfied. Formerly we knew from the moment when satisfaction-slugs in a sawpit, death before a midshipman, as a gentleman, demanded dishonour, damme-that we were bound for But the modern sensational novel need not a cruise among strongly flavoured words. be unreasonably staled with such very nary oaths as those in which Mr. Mackenna's personages express their feelings on the slightest provocation. The author, nevertheless, seems to have a clear eye

ordi

for

observing the meaner side of life, and may yet write a creditable novel.

Mrs. Algernon Kingsford has already appeared as an advocate of woman's rights. She now gives us her conception of "a true strong-minded woman, not the less a woman because so unlike the feminine portraiture of our emasculated times, but such as the return of virile strength to the heart of our palsied world may again bring forth in the good days to come." She has had to seek the true strong-minded woman in the jungles of the sixth century. Her heroine's manners were naturally rude. She spat in her enemies' faces. She prayed that she might drink a rich draught of Christian blood. She committed adultery more freely than the prejudice of our emasculated times would allow. And, lastly, she drove a spear through her husband's body as he boozed over his wine. She was the notorious Rosamund, wife of Alboin the Lombard, and one of the most detestable characters in history. She was coarse, ambitious, and utterly unscrupulous-a woman of the stamp of Queen Brunhalt and Vittoria Corombona. If the palsied world could produce her now, Mrs. Kingsford would claim Parliamentary franchise for her. "The hard, selfish, grinding laws made by men, and particularly the laws relating to marriage, divorce, and the conjugal rights," would then be speedily amended. The seventh commandment would cease to hamper the truly strong-minded. The rest would be in force against husbands alone. Deceased wives' sisters would rejoice, and the golden age return.

"And

first to know and herald its coming would be the wild birds of the air, Nature's poets, types of the singers and missioners whose voices warn the world, whose spirits float on wings of freedom untamed and unafraid, the ichor of whose wondrous strength is the pure element of the open Heaven." Thus does Mrs. Kingsford read the history of the past and foretell the history of the future. Her attack upon Andrea del Castagno is not

more successful than her defence of Rosamund. Vasari's account of the murder of

Domenico Veniziano has long lain in the

lumber-room of old wives' stories. But the industry bestowed on the book deserved far better results. There is a graceful tale of a Greek painter's love, told among the chatter of wood birds on the reedy shores of the Asopus; and from time to time pretty thoughts arise until the adjectives spring up and choke them.

WALTER MACLEANE.

BOOKS RELATING TO THE ENGLISH COUNTIES.

A Supplement to the History of Woodstock Manor and its Environs, with a Notice of the Church and Parish of Wootton. By the Rev. Edward Marshall, M.A., F.S.A. (Oxford and London: James Parker & Co.) Full and copious in detail as is the original work to which the volume before us is a supplement, and of which a notice was given in the ACADEMY for January 10, 1874, the author has in the short space of one year collected sufficient additional materials to justify his issuing them in a separate form. Of these the portion of most interest consists of four letters from Saville, Earl of Halifax, to Burnet, relating to the death-bed repentance of the Earl of Rochester, which were communicated by Mr. Coxe from the original MS. in the Bodleian.

They testify to the interest which was felt by that abear comes from aberan and abide from contemporaries in the story of the conversion of abidan, will swallow such absurdities as that fleck the once, as it seemed, reprobate sceptic, although (fur) comes from flys, and kell (kiln) from Welsh it must be confessed in no more exalted or warmer cyl; to those who can detect the blunders, the terms than might have been expected from the etymologies which happen to be correct are courtly chief of the time-serving Trimmers. They familiar, and where there is any real difficulty they are followed by an interesting, and also hitherto of course find no assistance given. Anyone who, unpublished, letter from the Duchess of Marl- with Mr. Parish, can derive dole from dal (which borough, written to Burnet on the eve of her is our deal) instead of from gedal, is untrustbanishment from court, "a court in which an in-worthy, and should wait till he sees why this is gratfull chambermaid has the cheif influence," says so before trying his hand further; it may be fun the superseded rival of Abigail Masham. A plan to him, but to witness opportunities so misspent of the Park at Blenheim as it existed at the time of is anything but amusing to the philologist the grant to the Duke is given from a scarce con- anxious to have a correct record of our fast-distemporary pamphlet. The latter half of the volume is occupied by an account of the parish of Wootton (in which the township of old Woodstock is situated) from the reign of the Conqueror, which displays the same careful research and attention to every detail that can illustrate the subject, which characterise all Mr. Marshall's contributions to local topography. The county of Oxford, so long comparatively neglected, is at length becoming enriched with these monographs of particular districts, which may hereafter help to form the groundwork of a general history. Some nine or ten of these, of varying degrees of accuracy and completeness, but including the sumptuous quarto by the late Hon. and Rev. H. A. Napier, on Swyncombe and Ewelme, have in late years been published; and several more are, we believe, in contemplation. The rural deanery of Bicester, it is hoped, will not long want an historian, and, in another part of the county, the small parish of Black-Bourton has just been announced as preferring its claim to public notice. One useful but less aspiring mode in which parochial clergymen often do good service as local historians is by issuing parochial annuals, in which all that can from time to time be gathered up is preserved. Of these a good specimen appeared in Oxford in 1873 in the Chronicles of Carfax, edited by the present Rector of St. Martin's, but which have not since been continued; and in the neighbouring county of Berks the parish of Denchworth has for several years afforded a special example of the permanent interest which may attach to these unobtrusive records.

A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, and Collection of Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex. By the Rev. W. D. Parish, Vicar of

Selmeston, Sussex. (Lewes : Farncombe & Co.) In welcoming this book we are encouraged by the tone of the author's preface to make it the text of a homily on some defects but too common in the

work of our local glossarists. The little information he gives us about what he calls pronunciation —that is, about the real words of the two distinct branches of Sussex speech, not the ambiguous and often unintelligible spellings he uses to represent them-hardly does more than show its interest; his self-imposed task of little consequence, and he evidently considers this most important part of accordingly has but a faint idea of the accuracy

and exhaustiveness required. He makes up for not doing that for which he, as an observer on the spot, has exceptional advantages, and which is out of the power of all who are not, by attempting that which can be done at any place and time by those in possession of the words and properly trained to the study, the discovery of etymologies. He says in his preface that Mr. Skeat's warnings against this practice have had a great effect on him (which makes us wonder what his book would otherwise have been), but hopes to receive "a few clear and distinct directions" for indulging with safety in this bosom-sin of amateur philological observers. He might as well, if ignorant of chemistry, ask for a few clear and simple directions for performing a complicated organic analysis. We will give but one, warranted to be necessary, if not sufficient, if the derivations are not to be either wrong or useless: it is, study philology, and especially phonology, scientifically. Those to whom it is news

appearing dialects. Then a good deal of trouble and space has been devoted to words that are useless in a professedly provincial glossary except to show their sounds, which Mr. Parish abstains from giving; such terms as abide (endure), agreeable (willing), all one (just the same), allow (acknowledge), batch (of bread), bine (of the hop), brake (fern), to take but two letters, are ordinary educated English, and are to be found, with the meanings here given, in such a well-known standard work as Webster's English Dictionary. Still, these imperfections do not prevent there being much of value in Mr. Parish's book, and the members of the English Dialect Society are to be congratulated on obtaining copies gratis. Besides the mere words there are many interesting scraps did he not give us the whole of the song and a of folklore, for which we are grateful. But why description of the game he mentions under huss (to caress), instead of tantalising us by saying that "the children play a game which is accompanied by a song beginning

Hussing and bussing will not do, But go to the gate, knock and ring,Please, Mrs. Brown, is Nellie within?'"? THE DIALECT SOCIETY issued to its members early in December last A Glossary of Words used in Swaledale. It is little more than a word list. Nothing to speak of is attempted in the way of derivations, and there are but few illustrative sentences given. Derivations in the present state of knowledge we can well dispense with, but a glossary should be rich in illustrations, without a plentiful supply of which it is impossible for a stranger to enter into the peculiarities of the tongue which it is intended to illustrate.

Swaledale was until a very few years ago almost cut off from the rest of the world. The large mining adventures of recent days have introduced a large "foreign" population from Newcastle, Durham, and Staffordshire, and the old folkSpeech is consequently giving place to a corrupt Jargon made up of Northern and Midland words mixed with a great amount of slang.

Captain Harland has added to his Glossary a poem called "Reeth Bartle Fair," in which many of the more noteworthy words are introduced. As a poem it is not much, but as a clever string of dialect-verses it is very interesting.

Louth in the Time of Henry VIII. By Edward Peacock, Esq., F.S.A., of Bottesford Manor. If this is a fair sample of the papers which the Lincoln Diocesan Archaeological Society have the pleasure of hearing, the meetings must be very well worth attending. Mr. Peacock endeavours to lay before his hearers a picture of the town of Louth in the beginning of the sixteenth century, before the Reformation had laid the foundation of modern thought and modern habits; and as the most striking example of the difference between that time and the present, he gives an account of the ornaments of the church taken from its records. Of these the most remarkable was an image of St. George on horseback, which must have been of considerable size, for a scaffold was required to be erected round it for gilding it, and gylter" charged 31. for his stuff and labour -a sum equal in value to about 361. at the present day. After its destruction in 1538, the bridle was preserved, probably in consequence of

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its being used in some superstitious rite. The church also possessed an image of St. James, the patron saint, but this seems to have been of secondary importance. The wealth displayed by the list of church plate is astonishing-crucifixes weighing from eighty to a hundred ounces, chalices, censers, and candlesticks, with many suits of embroidered vestments and frontals. No wonder that the people expected that the parish churches would be plundered to satisfy the rapacity of the King and the Court, as the religious houses had already been. The visit of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Louth produced a serious riot, of which Mr. Peacock narrates the particulars with evident sympathy for the insurgents.

Reports of the Architectural Societies of the Diocese of Lincoln, County of York, Bedford, Leicester; &c., for the Year 1873. A number of the local architectural societies have for some years past agreed to publish a common volume yearly. There is much advantage in this. Each society could only issue by itself a small pamphlet; by uniting their forces, they produce a goodly volume. Though embodied for the sake of studying a subsection of the science of history, these societies have always had about them something of a theological character; one of them-that for the county of York-even goes so far as to restrict fellowship therein to members of "the Church." Such being the case, we naturally find that ecclesiology occupies a prominent place in the minds of the writers.

The most noteworthy article in the collection, though it partakes somewhat too much of the nature of a guide book, is Mr. James Fowler's paper on the churches in the neighbourhood of Louth.

There are also two papers on Louth Park Abbey, which may be of some interest to people who do not possess the Monasticon. They are illustrated by drawings of architectural details of remains recently discovered, which are really valuable.

The last article in the collection is on "Treasure Trove," by the Rev. Assheton Pownall. We sincerely wish that all members of Her Majesty's Government, and every other person who has political influence, would read the same. present law had been devised for the purpose of ensuring the destruction of works of art in the precious metals, it could not have been made much more effective.

If our

Salopian Shreds and Patches. Part I. This is a reprint of the "Notes and Queries" column in Eddowes' Shrewsbury Journal, from April to September last, and contains a quantity of odds and ends of information about that town and its vicinity. Several contributors are much exercised in their minds as to which clock it was that Falstaff heard or saw during the battle of Shrewsbury; and one writer thinks that Shakspere intended to commemorate a new clock set up in the Guildhall by the bailiff of Shropshire in 1592. However, the final decision seems to be that no clock in the town can be seen from the battle-field, and that Falstaff's measurement of time must have been by the sound of St. Mary's bells. The church on the battle-field possesses a very rare and perhaps unique treasure-a wooden image of Our Lady of Pity, bearing on her lap the dead body of her Son-probably executed in the fifteenth century. It is a wonder that the zealous Protestantism of the present day allows it to stand unmolested in its ancient niche. The stone crosses in the churchyards of St. Mary, St. Julian, and St. Chad have not fared so well, as they were all pulled down during the reign of Elizabeth. Old boys of Shrewsbury School will be interested in seeing a list of the benefactors to the school library, commencing in 1596. Most of the names are naturally those of Shropshire men, but among them we

find Sampson Price, one of James I.'s chaplains; Sir Clement Edmonds, Clerk of the Privy Council

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NOTES AND NEWS.

EDITOR.

Scriptures, with all proper names accented, as a guide to the correct pronunciation of such words in the Old and New Testaments. The work is edited by the Rev. Alexander Taylor, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and Chaplain to the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

In the forthcoming number of the Powys Land or Montgomeryshire Collections, a publication which has now reached its eighth annual volume, the Rev. Elias Owen, curate of Caersws, will resume his valuable glossary of the "English Words of Montgomeryshire." The papers which he has already communicated exhibit much research and linguistic acuteness; and the series when completed will deserve-and, indeed, is perhaps destined-to take its place among the glossaries of the English Dialect Societies. By the way, is there no hope of a new and enlarged edition of Sir George Cornewall Lewis's Glossary of Herefordshire Words, some of which have a curious affinity to the provincialisms of Montgomeryshire?

MESSES. TRÜBNER AND CO. are to publish shortly Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History, by James Picciotto, a reprint in the main from the Jewish Chronicle, with revisions and additions.

MISS EMILY FAITHFULL will commence after Easter a series of Drawing Room Readings from the poets at her house in Norfolk Square.

Ir is probable that a new book illustrating the career of Lord Byron in Italy, and his relations with the Countess Guiccioli, may be published at no very distant date. It takes the form of a narrative, written by a lady, of a visit which she paid not long ago to Ravenna, and to the Guiccioli Palace there, and of her interviews with the secretary of the Guiccioli family, who produced to MR. W. M. ROSSETTI delivered his lecture on her several very curious and often amusing documents bearing upon the loves of Byron and the Shelley on March 15, at the Masonic Hall, Birfair Italian Countess. These papers include, formingham, to a large audience of members of the instance, a letter from the Countess to her husband, Birmingham and Midland Institute. The lecture, wherein she confesses her culpability in loving which was a more than usually long one, dealt as Byron; a long string of minute regulations-of well with the poems as with the life of Shelley, that sort which is specially exasperating to the and included some details derived from unfemale mind-drawn up by the Count for the published letters, or other original sources of inmoral and social guidance of his wife, after a formation. quasi-reconciliation between them had ensued; memorials presented by the Count to the Roman authorities, deprecating or appealing from the decrees of separation and of alimony which the Pope had granted against him; letters from a certain Fanny, the F of Moore's Life of the poet, who was actively concerned as an intermediary between Byron and the Countess; a letter addressed to Guiccioli announcing the death of the great poet in Greece, &c., &c. There is also a curious anecdote throwing light upon a recent and somewhat painful controversy, a good deal about Shelley, about Byron's daughter Allegra and her mother, and about the light which the new information throws upon passages in Moore's Life. The work presents a general view of the case hostile to Count Guiccioli, and comparatively favourable to his wife and to Byron. It cannot fail to prove interesting to a large circle of readers. We may add that one of the last requests of the Countess Guiccioli was that all documents relating to her connexion with Byron should be published.

AN unpublished work by Count de Montalembert, entitled Les Papes Moines, is to appear in October next.

MRS. E. LYNN LINTON is writing a new novel, which is to be called The Atonement of Leam Dundas.

MR. FREDERICK WEDMORE's new story, A Last Love at Pornic, will appear in the April' number of Temple Bar.

Rome has invited Professor Max Müller to a
THE Philosophical Faculty of the University of
banquet. It is to take place as soon as Professor
Max Müller returns from Naples.

THE annual meeting of the Woolhope Club is fixed for the 12th of next month at the Free Library, Hereford.

MESSRS. EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, printers to the Queen, are about to publish the accented Bible, an edition of the authorised version of the

THE completion of the third volume of Mr. James Burgess's Indian Antiquary cannot be allowed to pass without a few remarks. Mr. Burgess may be congratulated on having secured the sympathies of so zealous a contributor as Dr. John Muir; for not only has that scholar communicated, through this channel, some of the latest fruits of his continued study of Hindu writings, but he has been ever ready to place before Indian students the views of prominent European Indianists on subjects of special interest and im portance, such as Professor Kern's paper on the era of Buddha, and Professor Lassen's remarks in the new edition of his Indische Alterthumskunde on Professor Weber's views respecting the Râmâyana.

SIR W. STIRLING MAXWELL is about to utilise a large and varied experience of continental countries and celebrities by the publication of a volume of Impressions of Foreign Countries. The work should be interesting, for it is said to contain a number of unpublished communications from foreign politicians.

SOME more documents relating to the first French Revolution are about to see the light. They are the Orders of the Day of General Santerre, the demagogic brewer. These papers are in the posses sion of M. Edmond Dutemple, who will edit and annotate them. The order of the day relating to the execution of Louis XVI., which was read by Santerre to the 13,000 troops under his command, has been made public, and runs as follows: "The sentence passed on Louis Capet was executed at twenty minutes past ten. The imposing silence and the obedience to all orders should reassure

all citizens. Moreover, when the people see that not execute the law can reach all men, they should feel it justice themselves. This example should, there fore, in every respect, assure our liberty and the Republic. Let us be united. Let the law alone be our idol and us slaves only before it." M. Du temple maintains that Santerre did not order the