Gaskell. There are many sketches of disagreeable families and schools, and of schools and families not so disagreeable. On the whole we wish novelists would keep in mind that it is to "make us forget" that kind of life that "God gave the poot his song." Novelists are not poets, but they might remember and apply to their own work this maxim of Mr. Arnold's. The tale is written with care, and without faults of taste; the characters are natural, and "the sentiments are just," as Dr. Johnson says of one of Shakespeare's plays; but only personal regard for the heroine could make any reader plod through the narrative.

would have been nearly so lenient. It is to be
regretted that the Alsatians are set between the
fiery race of France and the stubborn peoples
of Germany, and once we have regretted it
we are disinclined to be harassed by a series
of novelettes on the dismal theme. Some
one in Homer observes that men soon have
their fill of bitter lamentations. We hope
that MM. Erckmann-Chatrian have now had
theirs, and that their next story may be
more cheerful and original than this painful
business of the woes of Brigadier Frederic.

Her Idol has the name of being a novel,
but perhaps we ought rather to call it a
parable. The usual runaway horse occurs,
there are two cricket matches, and an
elaborate account of the almost prehistoric
diversion of croquet. The plot admits of
being told briefly. Margaret Lisle lived at
Shanklin, and as a rule disliked curates, but
made an exception in favour of Hugh
Treherne, a muscular divine of ungoverned
passions. Captain Darrel also made love to
Margaret Lisle; Hugh died of typhoid
fever; Captain Darrel flirted with a Miss
Northey whose betrothed shot himself in
despair; a friend of Hugh's, failing to suc-
ceed him in Miss Lisle's affections, was
drowned in a shipwreck, and an elderly
clergyman persuaded the heroine that she
had made "an idol" of Hugh, and that she
had better take to good works.

Now here are all the materials of a novel

When we made John Dorrien's acquaintance, as he sat, a thin, nervous, eager child, by the fireside, our heart sank within us. That little nuisance Paul Dombey seemed to be before us again, in one of his avatars, which are more numerous than those of Indra, or of Vautrin. But John grew up to immense vigour, of mind and body, and justified the saying that genius means great natural powers accidentally directed. He was the son of a widow who made a scanty, the lover of art can hardly say an honest, livelihood by colouring photographs. He went to a French school at St. Ives, and all we hear of him there is that he began to blossom into a poet. But some supposed wealthy Dorriens offered him a place in their house, which dealt in fancy stationery, paid its debts by selling family diamonds, and collected them-love, jealousy, despair, taking to good revolver in hand. These unbusiness-like ways John Dorrien reduced to order, and was going to marry the niece of the head of the house, who is a Mr. Dombey on the verge of insolvency. But a friend, one Oliver Black, corrupts the young lady's mind by whispering soft nothings out of Hegel and Comte, and, aided by a wicked gambling Creole aunt, nearly ruins the tottering firm. Just as things are getting more and more uninteresting, the girl turns out to have been changed at nurse or somewhere. Mr. Dorrien dies, Oliver Black withdraws, the wicked aunt goes to Monaco -too good a fate for her-and John marries the charming changeling. The vicious but vague philosophy of Mr. Black is confronted and confuted by the Truth, in the mouth of an orthodox lady housekeeper, and the most timid mother may safely place John Dorrien in the hands of the most feebleminded daughter. The only danger is that its perusal might crush a nascent taste for reading in the young.

works, and the rest of it; but somehow the
reader feels that a novel has not resulted
from the combination. We hope the people
of the Isle of Wight, and especially the clergy
of Bonchurch, may enjoy being dragged
before the public that reads silly stories.
Out of the rather limited area of Bonchurch
the book can excite no interest.
A. LANG.

An Introduction to the Study of Early English
History. By John Pym Yeatman, of Lin-
coln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. (London:
Longmans & Co., 1874.)

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A GREAT part of this work has already encountered the "slander and abuse of "anonymous scribblers as an introduction to the author's recently published History of the Common Law. Far from being crushed by this treatment, Mr. Yeatman triumphantly informs his critics that in attacking him they were attacking the great Dr. William Whitaker, a writer It is not always very easy to be in symwhom Gibbon himself called " ingenious,"pathy with MM. Erckmann-Chatrian's vir- and, we may add, whom everybody but Mr. tuous Alsatians. We know them too well Yeatman calls "John." Mr. Yeatman has, by this time-their honesty, their industry, in fact, since the publication of his former their peaceful character, their perfect appre-work, made a discovery. He said in his work, made a discovery. He said in his ciation of kirsch, sausage, blonde girls, and haste-and in the plainest terms-that all domestic comfort. It is a sad irony that has English histories were lies, including works placed a nation so admirably fitted to enjoy of which he boasts that he has not read a a quiet life, in the cockpit of Europe. They line. He now admits one bright excepare born into a vale, as Mrs. Gamp says, and tion to this rule in Whitaker's History of they are greatly to be pitied. But one Manchester, the reason, of course, being that fails to see what particular good can come of he has found there theories of early British a tale like Brigadier Frederic, with its history only less paradoxical than his own. pathetic story of families broken up, and of By the light of this "grand work," the true Prussian barbarities to women, such as we measure of which has been long ago taken, hope were rare, though they are only too he has recast and elaborated his arguments probable. No foreigner can pretend to be- in a volume which is indeed, though hardly lieve that a French invasion of Germany in the sense he means it, beyond criticism.

Its theories are so fantastic and its language so reckless, that to make use of formal arguments in dealing with it would be sheer waste of labour: a few samples of matter and style will be more amusing and equally effective.

Broadly stated, Mr. Yeatman's object is to prove the Celtic origin of the English people, a pet theory of a certain school, but never before so reduced ad absurdum. He rejects the Teutonic element altogether, with infinite scorn for the "bastard English" who credit its existence. To use his own

"The truth is that 'Saxon' was a term of reproach, and not the name of any nationality; and though it was applied by contemporaries to some of the natives of this country, it mainly was intended to designate them as assassins, people who carried short swords for piratical purposes."

The Angles, on the contrary, were a nationality, but of Celts; for Dr. Whitaker's derivation-An-gael, the Gaul-is "absolutely faultless," and one "which no scholar can doubt."

They were, how. ever, Celts and something more. They were "the people who called themselves Llogrians; "and these “ English" Llogrians again are plainly to be identified with the Ligurians of North Italy, "the evidence of the name of Liguria" being "simply irre sistible, permeating through the whole of England," chiefly, it seems, in the form of "endless Leighs." It results from this, that "English is the tongue of ancient Liguria," a fact of which Mr. Yeatman is as certain as he is that "it was the language of the natives and of their conquerors, the Romans, in the first five centuries after Christ," or, to go further back still, that "centuries before the Romans gained a footing in this country, the inhabitants were a polished and intellectual people, with a sys tem of jurisprudence [he means our present common law] superior even to the law of Rome.

All this, however, is plain sober sense compared with Mr. Yeatman's treatment of the so-called Anglo-Saxon language, literature, and history. Not content with classing Saxon with modern German in par ticular as 'gibberish," and with the Teutonic and Indian languages generally as no more worthy of study than the lingo of the Christy Minstrels," he declares that it depends upon "wretched forgeries" for its very existence; that the Saxons, being in no sense a nation, but "a fortuitous concourse of atoms from various tribes," had "no tradi tions, no history, no language of their own, and no laws or liberty;" and that, in short, "the whole body of Saxon literature appears to the writer to be one huge lie,' a forgery from beginning to end! Further than this, he has even laid his hand upon one, at least, of the forgers; for we are gravely asked to believe that the concoction of those "shocking impositions," the Saxon Chronicle, and As ser's Life of Alfred, as well as of other works in the same "lingo," was the amusement of the leisure hours of a mischievous "young Irishman," none other than Marianus Scotus, the chronicler. Having thus "safely" concluded that everything written in Saxoncodes, charters, poems, Gospels, and all-is apocryphal, Mr. Yeatman is not likely to find

Such are a few of the theories advanced with arrogant dogmatism in this astonishing volume; and they are not a whit more preposterous than the rest. Here, however, we must stop. We have neither space nor inclination to discuss the condition of England in the days of Tubal and Mesheck, or the management of the Record Office in our own, or any other of the various questions, more or less relevant to his subject, on which Mr. Yeatman exercises his talent for paradox and invective. We can afford, too, to pass over with a smile his rabid attack upon the "sickening baleful sprout" of Protestantism, and his assertion (interesting when read by the light of recent discussions) that the head of his own Church is still "the great arbiter of right and wrong," as when in the person of Alexander III. he blessed the expedition of William the Norman against a free and unoffending nation. To conclude, as Mr. Yeatman is fond of plain speaking, we feel no scruple in expressing our candid opinion that his work is a farrago of unmitigated nonsense. For the sake of those who seek his professional services, we fervently hope that he is, as he says, better versed in law than in history. GEO. F. WARNER.

SOME TRACTS ON EDUCATION.

University Development in Scotland. (Reprinted from The Perthshire Constitutional, November 2, 1874.) This pamphlet has been published with the blameable irregularity of the omission of the printer's name and address; an omission which is imperfectly remedied by the statement that its contents are reprinted from a newspaper. Its author, however, deserves praise both for the thoroughness and originality of his opinions, and for the object which he has in view. The immediate aim of his writing is to make an appeal to that large portion of the educated public who are under obligations, direct or indirect, to the University of Edinburgh, for subscriptions toward the fuller development of that national institution. It appears that the university has already obtained from various sources the large amount of 70,000l., and that a sum of only 30,000. is now required to enable it to commence a long contemplated block of buildings, which are absolutely necessary for its primary wants. To give point to his appeal, and to illustrate the backward condition of higher education generally in Scotland, he takes the opportunity of sketching in outline the requirements of an ideal university according to the German model, and indicating the chief deficiencies which must be supplied before the metropolis beyond the Tweed has a university worthy of he name, and of her own position. He would,

of course, desire a material increase in the
teaching staff, both in the professoriate and in the
subordinate departments; and in his recommenda-
tions in favour of this object there is much that is
both novel and important. He would have firstly
a chair of Paedagogy, of which the name no less
than the thing appears strange in this country;
a chair of Celtic Language and Literature, in refer-
ence to which he remarks that Professor Blackie
is at present engaged in an attempt to raise
10,0001. as an endowment for this very purpose,
to remove a reproach of long standing against the
universities of the North; a chair of Comparative
Psychology, and another of Natural Religion. It
must be admitted that he fortifies some of his
proposals with arguments of a somewhat crotchety
and polemical character; but in his general prin-
ciples he is always sound. For example, he
advocates the

"appointment of abundant class teachers and tutors
to do all the rough work of drilling the younger
students, so that the time of the Professor may be
devoted to the cultivation of originality both in him-
self and his students; the latter should be relieved of
all drudgery of whatever kind, free to extend his own
fame, add to the éclat of his university, and widen the
bounds of knowledge by means of original research."
He would introduce also from Germany the
system of the privat-docent, and recommends that
"graduates should be encouraged to apply them-
selves to the prosecution of original work in
literature, science, or the arts, by the provision of
liberally-endowed fellowships, which might enable
them inter alia to pursue their studies in other
countries." He concludes with some severe stric-
tures upon the method by which professors are at
present selected for the Scotch chairs, and upon
the universal jobbery which appears to exist in
that part of the United Kingdom; and on this
subject he displays such intimate knowledge of all
the circumstances, and so much irritation of
feeling, as to suggest irresistibly that the author
of this pamphlet has been himself at one time an
unsuccessful candidate.

variety of resource and on sleepless industry, even more than on a theoretical knowledge of what are called the laws of mind. On the whole these lectures are worthy of the author's high repute and standing as a schoolmaster, and are among the soundest and most valuable of recent contributions to educational controversy.

THE Hon. Dudley Campbell has reprinted from the Contemporary Review his thoughtful paper on Mixed Education of Boys and Girls in England and America (Rivingtons). It is a brief résumé system of instruction, not only in schools for boys of the main arguments in favour of the conjoint and girls, but in colleges and places of advanced instruction. These arguments are enforced by some very striking facts derived from the author's own observation at Antioch, Oberlin, and other high schools in the United States, in which the experiment of mixed education has been successfully tried. We do not regard this evidence as conclusive, since the social conditions of America differ much from our own, and since even in that country the plan is far from universal, and has not yet received the sanction of the best authorities. But Mr. Campbell's arguments are urged with candour and ability, and well deserve careful perusal.

MR. JOSEPH PAYNE continues his useful efforts to enforce upon schoolmasters and mistresses the importance of closer attention to the history and philosophy of their professional work. His latest pamphlet, Fröbel and the Kindergarten System (II. S. King & Co.), appears to us to have higher practical value than any of his recent writings on educational subjects. An interesting account of Fröbel's life and doings is followed by a careful analysis of the principles on which his methods were founded, and by a description of the Kindergarten method itself. By watching children at play; by noticing how their activities, their eager observation, their powers of invention and construction were called forth spontaneously, Fröbel came to believe that access to the hearts of children was to be gained by endeavouring to organise their play, to transform it into work, and so to foundation of a true education, both of the senses lay, in harmony with Nature's own teaching, the and the intellect. Hence the pretty devices which under the name of the Kindergarten have been so

largely employed in the infant schools of our own country, and especially in Switzerland and the United States. Mr. Payne describes these devices in detail, and in a clear and attractive manner, and argues with much force in favour of a more general recognition of the truth of Fröbel's principles in the early education of children.

DR. JAMES DONALDSON, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, has republished his Lectures on the History of Education in Prussia and England, and on Kindred Topics. (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black.) So much is often vaguely asserted as to the superiority of the Prussian system of education, and so little are its details understood, that this concise and accurate account of its general purpose, and the historical summary of its development and progress down to the Falk administration and the Regulativen of 1872, possess special value at this moment. Dr. Donaldson has also studied with evident care and fairness the long series of documents, official and otherwise, County Education: a Contribution of Experiin which is embodied the history of our English ments, Estimates, and Suggestions, by the Rev. J. school-system. His fourth lecture, on the Rela- Brereton (Bickers and Son), is mainly occupied by tion of the Universities to the Working-classes, details of Mr. Brereton's very successful efforts in though suggestive, is disappointing. He argues the foundation, first of a cheap boarding school admirably as to the relation of literary culture to for farmers' sons at West Buckland, in Devonthe practical work of life, both in its lower and shire, and afterwards of a proprietary school on a higher aspects. But he fails altogether to show larger scale in Norfolk, which we observe was by what methods a university, while fulfilling its publicly opened amid many tokens of local symfirst work, of cultivating the higher forms of pathy and much promise of usefulness some days learning and research within its own walls, can ago. Many of the plans, estimates, and practical make its influence actually and directly felt on the suggestions as to school building and school econooperative class. In the lecture on the Science mics generally are of considerable value, and may of Education the author is on surer ground, and be consulted with advantage by managers and draws from a wide and very varied experience. teachers of middle schools. The general views of In an earnest plea for the establishment of pro- Mr. Brereton on the mode in which the problem fessorships of didactics, or the science of educa- of secondary education for the lower middle class tion, at the Universities, he seeks to show how can best be solved appear to us to be of far less much a knowledge of the philosophy of mind value. He thinks that great county associations of would economize the powers of teachers, and shareholders, each maintaining one or two large facilitate and ennoble their work. The lecture schools, are preferable to existing bodies of local has the merit-rare among enthusiastic writers on trustees; and herein his view is certainly not conthis subject-of honestly admitting that a tend-firmed by experience. He prefers the boardingency to regard psychological analysis as the basis school to the day-school, even when the latter is of educational success may often prove a grave mistake; and that, after all, teaching, though a science, is very largely an empirical art, depending on quick insight, on sympathy with learners, on

accessible to the children of the farmer or the tradesman. And he not only objects to the efforts

which are now being made to modernise and improve the country grammar schools, but proposes

a plan for sweeping all their endowments into a common stock, in order that in each county the great boarding-school or college of his own contrivance may be erected in their stead. His disposition to disparage other forms of educational effort, and his inability to make allowance for the very varied wants, tastes, and local traditions, which are satisfied by the ancient schools of the country, appear to us the most serious defects of a book otherwise full of useful suggestion, and distinguished alike by honourable enthusiasm, and by just views as to the kind of culture which the children of the English farmer most require.

EDITOR.

NOTES AND NEWS. MR. SWINBURNE is progressing rapidly with his book on the progress of Shakspere's style, and the first instalment will appear in the May number of the Fortnightly Review. He will shortly bring out a volume of his Early Poems, which will consist of the Queen Mother, Rosamund,

those of Poems and Ballads which date from college years, and one or two pieces hitherto unprinted.

WE are glad to learn that Messrs. Chatto and Windus are about to issue a complete edition of the works of Cyril Turner or Tourneur, never before collected. It will be edited by Mr. J. Churton Collins, and will contain, besides The Atheist's Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy, some minor pieces in prose and verse. It has always been understood that Warburton's cook destroyed Tourneur's comedy of Laugh and Lie Down, but Mr. Collins has had the tantalising good luck to discover the work with this delightful title, and to find, at the same time, that it is not a comedy at all, but a prose pamphlet. He has also discovered another tract on a scheme for planting tobacco in England. Tourneur's gnomic poem, The Transformed Metamorphosis, which exists in a unique copy, will also be reproduced, but this proves to be extremely obscure and unlovely. Tourneur's fame still rests wholly on his magnificent tragedies.

It is understood that the preface to the volume of Mr. Brewer's Calendar of State Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII., which is now in the press, will contain an exhaustive review of the evidence on the Divorce of Catherine of Aragon, based to a great extent upon documents which have been hitherto unknown.

THE third volume of the Paston Letters, edited by Mr. James Gairdner, and completing the work, is expected next month.

tions of select passages. The Indian Government
has ordered several hundred copies of the work,
which will be published at the end of next month.
MESSRS. A. J. JOHNSON AND SONS, of New
York, are about to publish an Illustrated Uni-
versal Cyclopaedia, to be completed in three im-
perial octavo volumes. It is not to be a mere
dictionary of reference, but will also contain
essays by distinguished writers on their own
special branches of knowledge. The editors in
chief are Drs. F. A. P. Barnard and Arnold
Guyot, and among the associate editors are
the names of Professors Dwight and Asa Gray,
and the late Horace Greeley. The list of con-
tributors includes many of the best-known names
both in Europe and America, and promises well
for the success of the undertaking.

FOR the annual address of the President of the

Philological Society (the Rev. Dr. Richard Morris),
Professor Wagner, of Hamburg, will write the
report on Latin, Mr. Davids that on Pali, Mr. Cust
that on the Dravidian and modern Indian lan-
guages, and Mr. Morfill that on Russian.

DURING the visit of Professor W. D. Whitney,
of Yale, to England this spring, the Philological
Society, of which the Professor is an honorary
member, will hold an extra meeting for the pur-
pose of hearing a paper from him.

MR. SPEDDING's paper on the First Quarto and Folio of Shakspere's Richard III., in which he contests and refutes the view of the Cambridge and other editors that the folio was largely altered from the quarto by an inferior hand, will be read at the next meeting of the Society, on Friday, April 9, after Professor Leo's paper. As Mr. Spedding's argument necessarily involves the consideration of many passages and words in the differing texts of the play, his paper will be printed beforehand, and copies will be distributed to members at the meeting. This paper will also be the first in the Transactions of the Society for 1875.

MR. W. C. HAZLITT will issue in April, or early in May, a new Shakspere's Library, in five volumes, foolscap octavo, price 30s. It will contain, not only all the Novels, Tales, Poems and Plays contained in Collier's Shakspere Library, and Nichols's Six Old Plays on which Shakspere founded his King Lear, &c., &c., but also several new Plays, Novels, and Stories, and all the Lives in North's Plutarch which Shakspere used, with selected passages from Holinshed to illustrate Macbeth, Cymbeline, and Henry VIII.

M. PAULIN PARIS is correcting the last proofs of the fourth volume of his account of the Arthur Romances, Les Romans de la Table Ronde mis en nouveau Langage. The new volume will be the second of the Romance of Lancelot.

Dom Martine and Dom Durand, 1708; Dom Calmet, 1748. Goethe's account precedes the Revolution; and that by our famous agriculturist, Arthur Young, relates the sack of the Hôtel-de-Ville, &c., which he saw. Many later authorities are given, and M. Stoeber has added plentiful and excellent notes.

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THE Senatus Academicus of the University of Strassburg has made known the subject of Lamoy" prize, of 3,000 francs, the next to be awarded in March 1879, and which is set forth as follows:-"What influence has

been exercised on human and technical education in the lower and middle classes by modern forms of industrial development; and what light does the result of such enquiries throw on the question of the conflict between the requirements of technical art and its productions on the one hand, and the other hand?" Competition is open to all on those of human and politico-social interests on persons, without respect to age or nationality; and the essays, which must be sent in before January 1, 1878, may be composed in German, French, or Latin.

A GRAMMAR of the Greek language, written in Hindi, is a curious indication of the progress of European civilization in India. It is called Yavan bhashaka Vyakarana, a grammar of the Yavan language, Yavan being the name by which the Greeks-the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minorbecame known at a very early time all over the East. This grammar, being published in India, shows that there is among natives, who do not know English, a demand for learning ancient Greek. As far as we know, there is no grammar of Sanskrit for the use of modern Greeks.

IN a little volume entitled Fra Diplomatiens Hausen, a well-known and staunchly-patriotic Verden (From the World of Diplomacy), Herr J. Danish politician, gives extracts from his daybook which throw a good deal of new light on the difficult passages of intrigue at Paris and at Berlin that preceded the second Danish War. Regret is felt in Copenhagen that the author, who has been a good deal behind the scenes, refrains from confiding to the world his experiences later than 1866. Doubtless these also will follow in good time.

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WE are indebted to the Manchester City News for the following report of the annual meeting of instant in the audit room of the Chetham Hospithe Chetham Society, which was held on the 3rd tal; Mr. James Crossley, President, in the Chair:The Chairman read the thirty-second report of the Council, which stated that the first and second of the publications for the year 1874-5, and the 93rd and AN interesting relic of the younger Scaliger is 94th in the Chetham series, consist of Parts I. and II. of preserved in the Biblical collection in Lincoln the third and concluding volume of The Admission College, Oxford. It is a Norwegian Bible, pubDR. KARL GOEDEKE's notions about Shakspere's Register of the Manchester School, with some notices of the more distinguished scholars, by the Rev. Jerelished at Holum in 1584, folio. At the bottom of sonnets were translated by Mr. F. J. Faraday in miah Finch Smith, M.A. This volume carries on the the engraved title-page is written, probably in the the Manchester City News of March 5. The Göt-register from the death of Mr. Lawson in 1807 to the hand of the giver, "Viro illustri incomperabili tingen doctor holds that the Sonnets were pro- resignation of the high mastership by Dr. Jeremiah Josepho Scaligero Jul. Cæs. Fil. Geuerhardus miscuously thrown together; that some were Smith in 1837. An appendix of Addenda contains Elmenhorst D. D." Elmenhorst, though much addressed to Queen Elizabeth; that most were new notices of scholars and additions to those inferior to his friend in power or depth of know-written to his wife, son, and daughter; specially previously given. The third work for the year ledge, was a laborious scholar-"Vir diligentissi1874-5, forming No. 95 in the Chetham series, mus et diffusissime lectionis." He formed one of is Christopher Towneley's Abstracts of Lancathe noble band of students who gathered round shire Inquisitions, edited by Mr. William Langton, Scaliger at the then newly founded University of Part I. With regard to the works in progress, Mr. Leyden. Crossley said the first in order after Mr. Langton's second volume was the Chetham Miscellanies, the greater part of which would be edited by Canon Raine. He congratulated the Rev. Thomas Corser, who had taken in hand the Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, on the progress he was making. With regard to Worthington's Diary and Correspondence, which he concluding part would soon be ready for the printer, had himself edited, he was happy to say that the The other volumes, which were advancing towards completion, were Contributions to the History of the Parish of Prestbury, county Chester, by Dr. Renaud; The Lancashire' Visitation of 1532, edited by Mr. W. Langton; History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford, in Manchester Parish, together with notices of the more ancient local families,

MR. SAMUEL ROBINSON has sent forth another of the elegant little volumes containing the result of his Oriental studies. His latest work is "A Century of Ghazels, or a Hundred Odes, selected and translated from the Diwan of Hafiz, a Persian lyrical poet who flourished in the fourteenth century."

Nos. 36, 29, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 110, while 108 is
to his boy Hamnet, and 109 to his family; the
eighth line of No. 108-

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Even as when first I hallowed thy fair name,"
Dr. Goedeke thinks must refer to Shakspere having
"at the baptismal font sanctified (hallowed) the
beautiful heathen name of Hamnet."

THE Revue Critique notices an interesting book Alsace, tirées d'auteurs français, allemands, suisses on Alsace and Strassburg, Curiosités de Voyages en et anglais, depuis le XVI jusqu'au XIXe siècle, et annotées par Auguste Stoeber. Starting with the PROFESSOR MONIER WILLIAMS has been engaged Journal of Montaigne in 1580, and passing over for some time on a new work called Indian the picture of Strassburg in 1600, from the Wisdom, or Examples of the Religious, Philoso- Memoirs of Henry Duke of Rohan, we come to phical and Ethical Doctrines of the Hindus. It Bishop Burnet's sketch of Alsace in 1686 side by will give an historical account of the chief depart-side with that by the Roman Catholic Bishop Flements of Sanskrit literature, with English transla- chier. Later occur those of Dom Ruissart, 1696;