DR. SCHMITZ, the well-known classical scholar, is recovering from the severe accident which he met with recently while holding an examination at Portsmouth for the University of London, and he was sufficiently well to return to town on Wednesday. Meanwhile, his friends are anxious at once to testify their regard for him, and to place him beyond the need of continuing to work at the age of eighty-two. At a meeting held at King's College on Saturday last, under the presidency of Dr. Wace, it was resolved to open a subscription to that end. Dr. Wace and Dr. William

Smith will act as treasurers, and to them subscriptions may be sent.

MR. W. A. CLOUSTON is writing an essay on magic horses, swords, mirrors, rings, &c., to form an introduction to John Lane's "Continuation" of Chaucer's 'Squires Tale,' which was issued to members of the Chaucer Society last year. Over seventy pages ges of the paper are already in type, comprising an English abstract of the old French romance of Cléomadès et Claremonde,' derived from

a Hispano-Moorish source, and many Asiatic

as well as European versions and analogues, among which are two gipsy variants, and

the probable original from the Sanskrit

*Pancha Tantra,' story of the weaver who personated Vishnú and rode in the air upon a wooden garuda. The essay will be issued to the Chaucer Society shortly. In

answer to inquiries which our paragraph of last week has brought us, we may say Mr. Clouston's address is 233, Cambridge Street, Glasgow, and that copies of the prospectus of the work we then mentioned may be obtained from him.

By the death of Miss Anna Maria Goldsmid on the 8th inst., at the age of eightythree, the Jewish community in England sustains a severe loss. As the eldest daughter

of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, she assisted him in his labours for the political emancipation of the Jews. She had, however, independent merit, for she was a chief actor in promoting in England the movement for what was called Jewish reform, which was at first treated as a schism. Many years ago she published a translation from the German of Jewish sermons. She was earnest in promoting every good measure among her people,

and in common with the chiefs of her community was equally zealous on behalf of any movement that promised to benefit her countrymen at large, and was well known as a co-operator to every philanthropist. She had long contended with great fortitude against the malady which at last brought her to the grave.

THE March number of the English Illustrated Magazine will contain illustrated articles on Leeds and on Kensington Palace. Mrs. Macquoid contributes a complete story in six parts, entitled 'Success.' The frontiswill bean engraving by Lacour after

the famous portrait of a tailor by Moroni in the National Gallery.

THE Manchester Guardian says that the principal learned society in Liverpool, the

and Philosophical Society, is expected shortly to be amalgamated with the Historic Society, which was originated about a quarter of a century ago.

THE Statesman's Year-Book for 1889, revised and brought up to date, will be pub

lished by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. in time for the opening of Parliament.

THOSE who take an interest in the history of Kant's philosophical development may like to know that the 'Lose Blätter aus Kant's Nachlass,' published by Dr. Reicke in the Altpreussische Monatsschrift for 1887 and 1888, have now been issued by him in a separate form.

UNDER the title of "The Victoria Library" a new series of monthly shilling volumes will shortly be commenced by Messrs. L. Reeve & Co. The first of the series will be a volume of British oratory, the second a volume of old English dramas.

PROF. MOMMSEN is going to Paris in order to make researches in the historical manuscripts of the National Library for the continuation of the 'Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.' The German papers say he will also come to London.

THE Barlow Lecturer on Dante (Rev. Dr. Moore) proposes to give a course of three lectures at University College, Gower Street, on the early biographers of Dante. On

Wednesday week Dr. Moore will lecture on the lives attributed to Boccaccio. The next afternoon his topic will be the lives by Villani, Lionardo Aretino, Manetti, and he will treat of the personal traits and Filelfo; and on Wednesday, March 6th, characteristics of Dante, as gathered from the early biographies, and illustrated by

passages in his own writings.

MISS MABEL ROBINSON's last novel, 'The Plan of Campaign,' which we spoke favourably of when it appeared little over a year ago, has been translated into Russian, and is said to be enjoying considerabie popularity in St. Petersburg.

Orientalische Seminar at Berlin with a THE city of Hamburg has endowed the "stipendium" of 1,500 marks, which is to be enjoyed by a young mercantile student nominated by the Hamburg Stadtrath. The city of Bremen is taking steps to procure a similar capital for a Bremen stipend, and it is expected that other great trading towns will follow their example. Up to the prehave not availed themselves of the new sent time the German mercantile classes institution to any great extent. Amongst the 115 students, 3 only are merchants; 64 are "Juristen," 18 are "Philosophen" or "Philologen," 3 are "Theologen," and 2 are naval officers. The teaching staff has been increased by the

"Mediziner," 3

addition of a professor of the Suaheli language, a native who also has a fluent command of French and English.

THREE numbers have appeared in Madrid of a new bi-monthly periodical, entitled El Ateneo, giving full and detailed reports of meetings of the scientific, literary, and

the 25th of March next. At a meeting of the Senate on the 12th of last month the faculties of arts, law, and engineering of the University were constituted.

MESSRS. SONNENSCHEIN & Co. have in the press a volume of essays and addresses by Mr. Bernard Bosanquet, formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford. The subjects discussed are chiefly of a social, religious, or philosophical character. In his new book 'Darwinism and Politics, which the same firm are to issue, Mr. David G. Ritchie, Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, discusses the manner in which the evolution theory affects politics, and in particular its application to the posi tion of women and the questions of labour and population.

ABOUT thirty names have been secured as the nucleus of a society started at Cambridge, U.S., for the investigation of American dialects of English. It is proposed to in vestigate the peculiarities of speech observable in different parts of the United States.

week are Meteorological Council, Report for 1887-88 (18.); Shipping Casualties, Abstracts of Returns for 1886-87, with Charts (88.); and Consular Reports Austria-Hungary, Trade of Fiume for 1887 (1d.); Netherlands, Finances for 1888-89 (1d.); Spain, Trade of Malaga

THE chief Parliamentary Papers of the

for 1887 (1d.); 'Russia, Grain Trade of Ports

of Sea of Azov (1d.).

SCIENCE

THE LITERATURE OF ENGINEERING.

An Elementary Manual of Steam and the Steam Engine. By A. Jamieson, M. Inst.C.E. (Griffin & Co.)- This manual is intended as an vanced 'Text-book on Steam and Steam Engines, easy introduction to the larger and more ad. of which we gave a favourable notice on its first appearance. It covers, Mr. Jamieson tells us, the elementary stage of the Science and Art Department's examination in steam, and the the City and Guilds greater part of "the first Steam Engine Section of

of London Institute's Techno

logical Examination in Mechanical Engineering." three of which are occupied with mensuration It contains twenty-eight short lectures, the first With the educational codes in force, arithmetic, Mr. Jamieson says, is not mastered nearly so thoroughly as it used to be, at least in Scotland. In consequence of this deficiency a portion of an engineering book is devoted to arithmetical teaching. There are fourteen lectures on heat and steam and their action in engines; and the remainder of the volume deals with the details of the steam engine. A set of questions is printed at the end of each lecture; the plates are clear and good, and there is a tolerable index.

journal.

THE first Arts examinations of the new University of Allahabad will take place on

Occurrence of Paleolithic Flint Implements in the Neighbourhood of Ightham, Kent, their Distribution and Probable Age,' by Dr. J. Prestwich.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. - Feb. 7. - Dr. J. Evans, President, in the chair.-Chancellor Ferguson communicated an account of the discovery of twenty-two ancient grave covers in demolishing a platform erected in the churchyard of Bromfield, Cumberland. Some of these slabs have emblems of various kinds, such as a sword, shears, &c.-Rev. C. R. Manning exhibited a rubbing of a curious little brass of an archbishop fixed on the outer face of the tower of Edenham Church, Lincolnshire, at a considerable height from the ground. Canon Church read a paper on Roger of Salisbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells.

BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. - Feb. 6. -Mr. W. de Gray Birch in the chair. It was announced that the Congress would be held in the autumn of the present year in Lincolnshire. It was proposed to make visits to Grantham, Barton-onHumber, Newark, Lincoln Cathedral, and to many other places of interest in the county.-Dr. A. Douglas exhibited two original drawings of part of the choir of Dunfermline Abbey. pulled down at the beginning of the present century. The drawings appear to be the only evidences extant.-Mr. Loftus Brock exhibited and described various plans of the portion of the ancient Roman Wall of Antoninus, near Falkirk, in danger of demolition for railway works. The banks and ditch are in almost

attempted since 1846. Dealing with all the material at his command, he found it necessary to propose certain alterations in the classification, and to dispense with a good many genera and subgenera which he considered had been needlessly founded. Above all he had set himself the task of revising the descriptions of the genera, giving positive instead of comparative characters, a course which he believed would prove of great utility to students. The paper was criticized by Mr. Sladen, Prof. Stewart, and Mr. Breeze, all of whom testitied to the necessity which had arisen for some authoritative revision of the subject such as had been undertaken by Prof. Duncan, whose researches would undoubtedly lighten considerably the labours of future inquirers.

ZOOLOGICAL.-Fib. 5.-Dr. St. George Mivart, V.P., in the chair. -The Secretary read a report on the additions made to the menagerie during January. -Mr. Sclater exhibited a living specimen of the thick-billed lark (Rhamphocoris clotbeyi) from Southern Algeria, and called attention to its structural peculiarities. He also pointed out the characters of some new species of birds of the family Dendrocolaptide, which were proposed to be called Upucerthia bridgesi, Phacellodomus rufipennis, Thripophaga fusciceps, Philydor cervicalis, and Picolaptes parvirostris. - Papers and communications were read: by Mr. G. A. Boulenger, on the species of batrachians of the genus Rhacophorus hitherto confounded under the name of R. maculatus,-from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, on some new species and a new genus of Ara

that the threatened removal may be averted.-Miss Shortreed exhibited a fine terra-cotta lamp dug up at Rome, having Christian emblems.-Mr. Wood produced a fine collection of English gold coins of Charles II. and later kings.-Mr. Langdon described some Roman tiles found below an ancient canoe, the discovery of which at Botley, Hants, was reported at a recent meeting.--Mr. J. T. Irvine contributed a drawing of another Saxon slab, with scroll-work patterns, found at Peterborough Cathedral. He also described a curious decorative pattern in colours found on the wall of an old house recently demolished in Cumbergate.-A paper was read by Major Joseph on the church and parish of St. Antholin, Watling Street. The paper was illustrated by many old views of the church and its fine steeple, by Sir C. Wren (demolished in 1873), together with the parish books, and the original subscription list for the erection of the building.

ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. -Feb. 7.- Earl Percy, President, in the chair.-Mr. T. Turner read a paper On Unusual Doorways in Old Buildings,

describing the peculiar arrangements in the churches of Orton Longueville, Hunts; Langford, Oxon; and St. Catherine's Chapel, Guildford. Allusion was made to the evil practice of removing the ancient plaster from the wall of churches, with the mediæval paintings upon it, and pointing the rubble stonework.-Mr. Lovell read a paper On Banbury Cross, giving a graphic account of the destruction of this famous memorial by the Puritans in the early days of Elizabeth on the occasion of the performance of a religious play. Mr. W. G. Michell exhibited an illustration from a rubbing of the great Braunche brass at King's Lynn, and communicated some notes upon this important work of the Flemish school. -It was announced that the Duke of Norfolk had accepted the presidency of the meeting of the Institute this year at Norwich.

LINNEAN-Feb. 7.-Mr. C. B. Clarke, V.P., in the chair. Prof. J. R. Green and Mr. J. W. White were admitted Fellows, and the following were elected: the Earl of Ducie, Messrs. H. Hutton and M. Lawrie. -The Rev. E. S. Marshall exhibited several interesting varieties of British plants collected by him in Scotland, and made remarks thereon. -Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited a new British seaweed from Bognor, Rhododermis elegans, var. polystromatica, a variety new to science. A paper was read by Mr. A. D. Michael on three new species of parasitic Acari discovered by him in Derbyshire during the autumn of 1888. These were a Myocoptes, proposed to be called M. tenar, parasitic on the field vole, Arvicola agrestis; a Symbiotes, proposed to be called S. tripilis, parasitic upon the hedgehog; and Goniomerus masculinus (gen. et sp. nov.), a minute parasite found on the ear of the field vole. Specimens of all three were exhibited under the microscope, and a discussion followed, in which Profs. Mivart, Stewart, and Howes took part.-Prof. Martin Duncan gave the substance of an important paper which he had prepared, entitled 'A Revision of the Families and Genera of the Echinoidea, Recent and Fossil.' Reviewing the labours of his predecessors, Prof. Duncan traced the growth of the literature of his subject, and showed that, although many lists and papers had been published from time to time,

natalensis and Stegodyphus gregarius) were based on specimens living in the insect house in the Society's gardens, - from Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, on new or rare holothurians of the genera Plexaura and Plexaurella, and by Mr. Beddard,

on

the coloured epidermic cells of Eolosoma

tenebrarum. Dr. Günther exhibited some fishes which had been dredged up by Mr. J. Murray off the west coast of Scotland, and were not previously known to occur in British waters, viz., Cottus lilljeborgii (Collett), Triglops murrayi, sp. n., Gadus esmarckii (Nills.), Onus reinhardti (Collett), Fierasfer acus (Brünn.), Scopelus scoticus, sp. n., and Stomias ferox (Rnhrdt.). Dr. Günther also described a specimen of Lichia radigo (Risso), a species of which only a few specimens were previously known from the Mediterranean and Madeira. This specimen was obtained by Capt. MacDonald on September 17th, 1888, off Waternish Point, Isle of Skye. He also exhibited a hybrid between the roach (Leuciscus rutilus) and the bleak (Alburnus alburnus) from the river Nun. Northamptonshire.Mr. Boulenger exhibited and made remarks on a series of living specimens of tortoises of the genus Homopus from the Cape Colony, lately received by the Society from the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk.

ENTOMOLOGICAL. - Feb. 6. - Lord Walsingham, President, in the chair. The President announced that he had nominated Capt. H. J. Elwes, Mr. F. Du Cane-Godman, and Dr. Sharp Vice-Presidents for the session 1889-90.-The Rev. F. D. Morrice, Mr. A. Robinson, and Mr. H. Burns were elected Fellows.-Lord Walsingham exhibited a larva of Lophostethus dumolini sent to him by Mr. G. Carter from Bathurst, West Coast of Africa.Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited melanic specimens of Boarmia repandata from Huddersfield, and, for comparison, two specimens from the Hebrides.Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that melanism appeared to be more prevalent in Yorkshire and the North Midlands than in the more northern latitudes of the United Kingdom.-Capt. Elwes read a paper 'On the Genus Erebia and its Geographical Distribution.' The author, after referring to the number of species and named varieties, many of which appeared to be inconstant as local forms, criticized the nomenclature of the genus, and suggested that a better system of classification might be arrived at by anatomical investigation. It was stated that little was known of the early stages and life-history of species of this genus, the geographical distribution of which was Alpine rather than Arctic. The author remarked that it was curious that there was no species peculiar to the Caucasus, and that no species occurred in the Himalayas, where the genus is replaced by Callerebia; that none was found in the Himalo-Chinese subregion, and none in the Eastern United States of America, He also called attention to the similarity of the species in Colorado and North-West America to the European species. Lord Walsingham, Dr. Sharp, and Messrs. Waterhouse, Janson, M'Lachlan, and Jenner-Weir took part in the discussion which ensued. -Mr. W. Warren read a paper On the Pyralidina collected in 1874 and 1875 by Mr. J. W. H. Traill in the Basin of the Amazons,' -Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper entitled 'Descriptions of New or Little-Known

Museum.'-Dr. J. S. Baly communicated a entitled Notes on Aulocophora and Allied Ge

CHEMICAL.-Jan. 17.-Mr. Crookes, Presiden the chair. The following papers were reade Cubical Form of Bismuthous Oxide, by Me M. M. Pattison Muir and A. Hutchinson, Iodide and the Interaction of lodides with Salts,' by Mr. D. J. Carnegie, Periodates, by C. W. Kimmins,-'Compounds of Arsenious O with Sulphuric Anhydride,' by Mr. R. H. A Compound of Boric Acid with Sulphurie An dride, by Mr. R. F. D'Arcy, Notes on Experime on Butter Fat,' by Messrs. A. Wynter Bata G. H. Robertson, Gawalowski's Method for Volumetric Estimation of Sulphuric Acid, b B. North,-'Note on the 1:3 Homo-and the meric Hetero-aß-dichloronaphthalenes melting nearly the same Temperature,' by Messrs. H Armstrong and W. P. Wynne, The Constit of 3-Naphthol-a-Sulphonic Acid,' by Mr. H. E. strong, and The Sulphonation of Naphthalene Sulphonic Acid,' by Mr. H. E. Armstrong.

PHILOLOGICAL. - Feb. 1. Dr. R. Morris. P dent, in the chair.-Mr. T. G. Pinches read a po On the Names "Jah" and "Javeh." He thong these names were represented in parts of proper names in some Assyrian and Babyl inscriptions, as Yahalu or Aahalu, Yaa Aau-da'u and Jahabi; also at the end of w like Abi-Aa (Abi-jah, My father is Jab). A Nergal-Aa, Samas-Aa, &c. Most of the names of the Assyrian or Babylonian panther we non-Semitic; their polytheism was probably the foreign influence, and they perhaps made al the new gods manifestations of Jah. In the late Jew name-forms Natanu-yara, Gamar-yamaM thaniah, Gemariah), the Hebrew Yawch was rep sented; but this was rare among the Ase though they used and knew the meaning of shorter Ya.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.-F Prince Albert Victor of Wales was elected by mation an Honorary Member.-It was als nounced that the Council had recently transfe twelve gentlemen to the class of Members, and admitted thirty-two as Students. The monthly resulted in the election of nine Members, thirty-sev Associate Members, and two Associates.

Feb. 12.-Sir G. B. Bruce, President, in the ch A paper was read On some Canal, River, and ot Works in France, Belgium, and Germany, y L. F. Vernon-Harcourt.

SHORTHAND.-Feb. 6.--Mr. J. G. Petric. Pr dent, in the chair.-New members elected: Fe Mr. S. H. Sutton; Associate, Mr. C. A. Amongst the donations of books was the scar third edition (1839) of the 'Pronouncing Ne graphy of the Rev. P. Bailey, first published 1819 in America, and on which is based the re claim of his daughter, Mrs. Whitney (who prescal the book), that he anticipated Mr. Isaac Pitmanit. phonographic shorthand. The first phonograp however, was John Willis, 1602.-Miss M. P. EL read a paper On Recent Transcribing Machin devoted chiefly to a comparative description oft mechanism and advantages of the bar lock macla and the Remington machines, Nos. 2 and 3-1 discussion that followed turned chiefly on th average speed of longhand writing for continue work, and the evidence proved that from twenty twenty-five words per minute was considered go speed-an equivalent of a Times column ora com and a quarter in two hours.

TUES. Royal Institution, estur Before and After Darwin, Pref 6

Romanes.

Statistical, 73. The Coal Question, Mr. R. Price-u.a Sovil Engineers, 8. Coal Society of Arts, 8. Slavery in relation to Trade in ir p Africa, Commander V. L. Cameron. Zoological, 8 Skull of the Chelonian Genus Lytucma Apparently New Species of Hyracodontitherium Lydekker; Fishes from the Kilimanjaro Datret er; Points in the Structure of Polybercles Remarks on its Systematic Position. Mr. F. E. Bed WED. Meteorological, 7 Report on the Heim Wind Four Marriott; An Atmospheric Sketch, Mr. F.A The Drought in New South Wales in 1883-4, and Kalal Corella, 1879-88, Archdeacon Wynne. Geological, 8. Cotteswold, Midford, and Yeovil Sands D Division between Lander Raisin; Action of Pure Water and Water atara Roodular Felstones Lias and Lite Persia Carbonic-Acid Gas on the Minerals of the Mica Fa

A. Johnstone.

Society of Arts, 8 The Forth Bridge, Mr. B. Baker British Archæologicalhe Forth Bridge, Notes on the Liar of Cheshire, Mr. E. P. Loftus Brock. Literature, 8. The Great Writers in England Furing THURS. Royal Institution, Eighteenth Centur Serpents, Dr. S. Martin Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Dr GG.Z

Royal, 44.

Cecial.8-Election of Fellows.

Antiquaries. State Sword of the City of Hereford, Mayor an: Corporation of Hereford; Danes Campor Hunsbury, near Northampton, Rev. R. S. Baker.

Un ted service Institution, 3-Our Naval Position and Policy,' Ret Hon leard Brassey.

Civ. Begiceers, Furnaces, Mr. T. A Guyatt (Students' Meeting)

Rotal Institution, 9.- In the Heart of the Atlas, Mr. H. Crichton-Browne.

Rival Institution, 3- Experimental Optics, Lord Rayleigh. Foreca. 3-Note on the Measurement of Electrical Resistance,' DJ. W. Waghern; Notes on Polarized Light, Part III: 1. On a New Polarimeter, and (2) on the Formation of a Cross in certa'n Crystal Structures, Prof. S. P. Thompson; 'Electrical Messurement, Profs. Ayrton and J. Perry.

Botanie, 3-Elcction of Fellows.

Science Gossip.

'HE Council of King's College have established

Chair of Neurology, to which, as may be posed, Prof. Ferrier has been elected. We erstand that it is proposed to establish a rological laboratory as soon as the Royal roscopical Society vacate their present apartits in the College.

HK death is announced on the 6th inst. of mas Allison Readwin, F.G.S. He was one ne chief authors of the revival of gold mining Wales, to which he devoted many years of our and research and the funds of himself his friends. At an early time a large mass old was discovered; but this, and much more,

lost in the attempt to find permanent work

FINE ARTS

ROYAL HOUSE of STUART. EXHIBITION of PORTRAITS, MINIATURES, and PERSONAL RELICS connected with the ROYAL HOUSE of STUART. Under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen. OPEN DAILY from 10 A M. to 7 PM.-Admission, 1s; Season Tickets, 5s. New Gallery, Regent Street.

'THE VALE OF TEARS.'-DORE'S LAST GREAT PICTURE, completed a few days before he died, NOW ON VIEW at the Doré Gallery, 35, New Bond Street, with 'Christ leaving the Prætorium,' 'Christ's Entry into Jerusalem,' The Dream of Pilate's Wife,' and his other great Pictures. From 10 to 6 Daily. Admission, 18.

SERIALS.

THE Portfolio, 1888 (Seeley & Co.), contains a larger number of etchings thanusual. Ithas often puzzled us to understand how the publishers contrive to give so many examples of a high class, all in good taste and of well-chosen subjects, for the money. This year we are particularly struck by Mile. Poynot's tasteful and spirited plate after the fine 'Créole' of M. Henner, a thoroughly accomplished work; by Mr. F. Short's 'Bridgnorth,' after Girtin's drawing, which is founded on Rembrandt's magnificent 'Mill,' now at Bowood; by M. Brunet Debaines's brilliantly lighted and firmly drawn interior view of the Temple Church'; by Mr. Rhead's good and sympathetic, if rather black version of Sorgh's 'Card - Players,' now in the National Gallery; by Mr. C. O. Murray's

Windy Day, after G. Chambers, a spirited rendering of a thoroughly vigorous seascape, such as Ruysdael would have enjoyed; and by Mr. C. O. Murray's highly characteristic transcript from D. Roberts's well-known and unusually delicate and sincere drawing of 'St. Pierre, Caen.' The only very unsatisfactory etching is that by Mr. W. W. Nooth after Rembrandt's 'Portrait of an Old Lady' in the National Gallery, of which Rajon made a noble and learned etching for L'Art. Among the process prints the most welcome for its subject and intrinsic qualities is an admirable version of Rossetti's 'Ecce Ancilla Domini!' now in the This is covetable in every

3. Mr. Readwin persevered, and maintained existence in Wales of gold formations. Of strong confirmation of this has been obed, and Mr. Readwin was in hopes that too, should profit. With this end in view had gone to the gold country, and there died. During a generation Mr. Readwin te on his favourite subject, and collected ch information. His geological papers did always command conviction, and, in common 1 some other gold-finders, he had put ford doctrines which savoured of alchemy. His er class of evidence for the existence of 1 was derived from history and tradition, but | National Gallery.

want of a critical faculty impaired the value his labours. Nevertheless, his strong faith ned him to persevere in the search of what he ne believed to be truth, until other believers re appeared and continued the work.

We regret to hear of the death of Mr. R. S. ay, who had, although less than twenty-five ars of age, made himself well known to zoolots by the care, intelligence, and ingenuity ich he displayed du during the four years he assistant to Prof. Flower in the Natural story Museum. Many of Mr. Wray's prerations were really beautiful objects, and those 10 knew him were much struck by the brightss of his intellect. His early death is a loss

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biology.

THE death occurred in Paris, on the 5th inst., the eminent Norwegian statistician Prof. Ole cob Broch. Born in 1818, Broch was appointed

id in

of Christiania in

1858,

ofessor in the University 1862 entered political life and the Storting as one of the members for the capital. He ecame a cabinet minister, but after a few years signed politics and returned to science. He ecame one of the most prominent authorities on atistics in Europe, and since 1883 has been resident of the International Permanent Metri

respect. Very good is the copy of Mr. H. Bates's admirable quasi Greek head of 'Rhodope,' one of the finest of modern bronzes, which illustrates an appreciatory notice written by Mr. W. Armstrong. Of the articles, the most ambitious is the series in which Mr. C. Monkhouse may be said to be, not without taste and care, "personally conducting" readers through the history of the 'Early English Water - Colour Painters.' Very interesting and lively are Mr. A. H. Palmer's notes on Mr. Hook, his life and works. The editor, Mr. P. G. Hamerton, supplies several valuable short notices, while Mr. R. T. Blomfield writes with spirit and knowledge on 'Some Architects of the English Renaissance,' and Mr. Watkiss Lloyd is at home in 'Sculpture Galleries.'

fifth volumes (Librairie de L'Art), the issues for L'Art, of which the forty-fourth and forty1888, are before us, has completed its fourteenth be congratulated. The parts are, it is true, no year, a fact on which the publishers deserve to longer issued weekly, but fortnightly, and the

etchings are by no means always so excellent as they used to be, although not one of them is less than technically good. In other respects our contemporary is as well conducted as ever; its

atry omission in Paris. His published works, staff of writers is at least equal to that it started

lany

of which have appeared also in Germany

nd France, have been very numerous. PROP. ROBERT WALLACE, Uni

with. Several sets of articles that have appeared in L'Art have been republished separately, and are highly valued. It is to be hoped that the

ersity, has consented to, of Edinburgh Une are highly may some day gather all its etchings,

thoroughly representative of the great development of etching in the way of illustrations for books. The best etchings in the two volumes before us are M. Lurat's 'Leçon Clinique,' after M. Brouillet's striking picture, which we described while it was in the Salon of 1887; Μ. Α. Masson's Ribera-like 'Leçon de Lecture,' by M. Ribot, a capital piece of drawing and powerful in its effect; the delicate, luminous, soft, and harmonious 'Le Château de Ca Cartes, by M. Rodriguez, after Chardin's charming picture in the Louvre; M. Mordant's solid and brilliant 'Portrait de Baron J. de Rothschild'; M. A. Masson's clever 'Le Tailleur,' after M. Bordes's painting; M. C. Courtry's 'La Vallée de la Touques'; M. Bonvin's 'Fileuse Bretonne,' his own picture; M. Jasinski's 'Portrait de Louis XV. (a young lady in a peignoir); and the sunny La Faneuse, by Mlle. Teysonnières, after M.

J. Dupré. The most important articles are M. Venturi's 'Les Arts de la Cour de Ferrare,' a good subject deserving more detailed treatment from such competent hands; M. H. de Chennevières's' Miniaturistes et Orfèvres de Cour'; and a capital paper by M. E. Müntz on the 'Sainte Anne' of L. da Vinci, which discusses all the known facts in the history of that remarkable work, the wreck of which is in the Salon Carré of the Louvre, while the best record of it is the cartoon in the Royal Academy; but he gives us

nothing new, and has not told us, what every

would like to know, where the Academy's

cartoon, one of the most important productions of Leonardo, came from. M. P. Leroi's paper on Herr Franz Lenbach as a portrait-painter is little more than a notice of the heliogravures from some of the masterpieces of the famous Bavarian painter. M. E. Michel's 'Rubens au Musée de l'Hermitage' is a good summary of opinions and expert criticism, with several cuts. 'Les Femmes de l'Académie de Peinture,' by M. F. Bé, dealing with É. Chéron and Madame Vigée-Lebrun and less-known "lady artists," if not exhaustive, is one of the most careful and spirited papers in the volume. 'Les Breughel' is a light sketch of a fine subject that has Michel. scarcely been opened up in two articles by M.

We have received the first volume of the Archæological Review (Nutt), a promising periodical. The main fault is that it attempts to deal with too great a variety of subjects. This is the natural result of the ambition of a new enterprise. Mr. Stock in the Antiquary, Vol. XVII., adheres more closely to the ordinary routine of antiquarian journals, and his magazine is hardly so modern in its ways of looking at things.

THE STUART EXHIBITION, NEW GALLERY.
(Third and Concluding Notice.)

RETURNING to the series of portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, we shall endeavour to discriwhich are not. It is a pity that the exigencies minate those which are likenesses from those of hanging did not allow those that are unquestionably authentic to be shown in such a sequence that they could, so to say, assert them

selves, and justify one another. The last scene

in the dark hall of Fotheringhay is represented with a grim sort of pathos in the picture that, it can hardly be questioned, was painted for the queen's faithful attendant Elizabeth Curle, or

at least with her cognizance and assistance and

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fasciculus of 1888. They would form a body of etchings unparalleled in their way, and

deen, into whose possession it passed from the The Queen's and Lord Darnley's picturesations, 38 and 40, are but copies with third replica, which has been inquired for haften appeared. The fact that No. 3 was thus of the

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copied is strong testimony to its value and esteem in which it was held by those who had known Mary personally. It is nevertheless, of course, little else than a posthumous compilation from an original which we need not hesitate to discover in the life size portrait-extremely interesting, but laboured, stiff, hard, and timidby one P. Oudry, a Frenchman of the school (if such it can be called) of Clouet II., who, wandering in the Midlands of England, achieved immortality (he is otherwise unknown) by painting the Scottish queen at Buxton, Bolton, Chesterfield, Chatsworth, or Sheffield. As Mary at that period had liberty to go hunting, if not hawking, to say nothing of writing, receiving visitors, and working tapestries, it is more than probable that she, who in happier days was fond of sitting for her portrait, had ample opportunities of doing so even then. An excellent picture of her, No. 34, technically among the best of its class, lent by the Duke of Devonshire, has been, not unfairly, attributed to F. Zucchero. If his, it must have been painted, as the Catalogue of this exhibition states, in 1574, when Zucchero was in England, and while Mary was at Sheffield. This, at any rate, if rightly named, is only one of several portraits for which she may have sat to beguile dreary hours.

The earliest portrait of the queen is a draw ing in chalks in Case A, No. 216, from Castle Howard, inscribed "Marie royne descosse au le age de neuf ans et six mois Lan 1552 au mois de Juillet," that is, when she was a child in France. It is doubtless a sketch by Janet, and the meagre form and the large gaunt eyes are features not uncommon in female children destined to become beautiful. The awkwardly placed shoulders and arms are evidently true to the life. If it is Mary at all, of which we are by no means sure, No. 42, a charming picture lent by Mr. Magniac, comes next in order of time. It is a beautiful miniature of a girl of fourteen in its original French frame of tortoiseshell inlaid with ivory, to the waist, and turned in three-quarters view to our left. The girl wears a close-fitting, jewelled cap, and a white bertha reticulated with jewels; a highcollar encloses the throat and rises from a tawnycoloured gown richly embroidered. The features are plumper than in No. 216. The ornaments are pearls, jewels Mary was almost as fond of as Henrietta Maria herself. For the next example we must return to Case A, where, numbered 307, a photograph represents a famous drawing ascribed to Janet, now preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, depicting the bride of sixteen years of age, i. e., of 1558, the time of her marriage to the Dauphin Francis, who a year later became king. It was

probably drawn by one of the Clouet school,

able artist than the author of the com

panion drawing, represented by No. 306*,

who was evidently Clouet himself. No. 306*

is without doubt the original study in black chalk for the oil picture from Hampton Court,

plain falling band, she putting on her second finger the wedding ring." This description is as accurate as possible, but it does not mention the chestnut eyes, nor the hair of the identical colour of that large tress which with the No. 313 the visitor may see in the neighbouring Case B, and which may be accepted as genuine. Singularly enough, this peculiar colour attests not only the genuineness of the relic, but proves that it was cut off about the time No. 212 was painted, i. e., c. 1558. The hair has become, as we should expect it would, a little darker in No. 24, from Castle Fraser; darker still in No. 27, or 'Le Deuil Blanc,' the portrait of Mary's first widowhood, and in No. 34, which bears Zucchero's name; and yet darker in No. 36, Oudry's wholelength portrait. Oddly enough, it returns to something like its youthful colour in No. 39, the "memorial picture" of Elizabeth Curle; but this, no doubt, is the result of a wig. When the queen's cap rolled off as her head fell, her hair was seen to be "as graye as if shee had been threescore and ten yeares olde, powled very shorte." She was then only forty-four. Never theless her hair in No. 37, the supposed Mytens, from Hampton Court, is quite dark, for the artist adopted the type of an older original, which was probably the Marquis of Hartington's Mary, Queen of Scots (36), by Oudry. It is really curious to notice in this connexion how the copies, Nos. 38 and 40, of Elizabeth Curle's picture, differ a little in the colour of the hair, and indicate a touch of Spanish red upon the cheeks. Vanderdoort's Catalogue of King Charles's pictures makes it probable that No. 212, the Queen's Janet, had a companion, a similar miniature"by Jennet, a French limner," and "Done upon the right light" of "the Dauphin King of France, in a black cap and a white feather, in a black habit lined with white fur, adorned with gold, which said Dauphin was the first husband to Queen Mary of Scotland." No. 37, the life-size portrait adapted from Oudry's No. 36, is doubt less that mentioned in the King's Catalogue: "No. 18. Item. The picture of Queen Mary of Scotland, being King James the VIth's Mother at length, in a wooden gilded frame. 7f. 4 4f. 6. Done by Dan Mytens," who, of course, never saw his model. It was "by his Majesty's special appointment placed" in the Bear Gallery at Whitehall.

If the statue on Mary's tomb at Westminster, which was sculptured in 1606 by Corneliusand William Cure, Master Masons to King James (of the face of which we have here a cast in No. 376), had been still coloured, it would doubtless have con

firmed most of these details. It shows how im

portant is the bold form of the queen's nose,

with its square and solid base and the deli

skin, which affect the forehead, hardly touch at all. These features occur in precisely the same condition in the fine medallion by Jacom Primavera, of which there is a cast in National Portrait Gallery. All these com siderations tend to confirm the verisimilitude of the series of portraits we have named and enable us to reject a great number of pictures bearing Mary's name. It is mon desirable that the veracity of the tomb statue should be established, as we think it is. A the use of colour on that effigy, to which have referred, it is noteworthy that for paint ing and gilding the monument James Maunty painter, received, May 24th, 1616, 265l.: a sum so large that we conclude the statue as well as the architecture were tinted and gilded, exactly, no doubt-see the so-called "cenotaph portrait of James VI. at the Tomb of his Father (46) as the monument of Darnley was decorated, and a large proportion of the memorials of the seventeenth century in Westminster Abbey.

The puffy features of No. 37 (on which, y the way, we do not believe Mytens ever laida brush), and the babyish inanity of No. 41, the copy belonging to the Duke of Grafton, com pare ill with the sincerity of No. 36, which however technically poor and timid, is tho roughly truthful. Of this example there i another version-a half-length figure, dated 1578, by Oudry, who seems to have repeated his original many times-in the National Por trait Gallery. Lord Darnley's No. 35 before us is one of these versions, or a later copy on a canvas which has been enlarged. In all these portraits, as well as Lord Braye's portrait (214) which belonged to Mary de' Medici, is found the curious jewel containing the group of Susannah and an Elder in coloured enamels and enclosed by a cross, on each arm of which is a Gothic "S." This letter stood, probably, for "Sanctus" or "Souveraigne" (it is, by the way, the ancient Lancastrian initial of symbol), and the ornament had an esoteric religious meaning no one has yet expounded, It may be remarked that among the mal tude of jewels belonging to Mary, a large pro portion of which are in this exhibition, this often-painted and thoroughly characteristic one is not to be found.

That Mary had a slight cast in one or both of her eyes seems to be indicated in No. 36. The same fact is suggested by the brilliant pio ture of her as Queen of France, painted by an unknown Frenchman of far greater resources than P. Oudry, which is in the National Portrait Gallery, and has been made the subject of some capital remarks by Mr. Fraser Tytler as well as by Mr. G. Scharf. Suggestions of the (27), which shows the reverse view of the face'; the Castle Fraser portrait (24); and in

picture much rubbed and faded, but otherwise genuine. The draughtsman was unable to delineate with complete accuracy the curves

of the eye furthest from us, where the lid is wrong. This is a frequent defect of Clouet's

a string of pearls about her neck, in a little