We have received from Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. The West Indies, by Mr. C. Washington Eves, a volume published under the auspices of the Colonial Institute, and containing a curious puff of the Institute in the preface and in a sort of final chapter. It is profusely illustrated with indifferent illustrations, and its style is here and there defective; but it is not a bad book on the whole, and it will be found useful by any who desire to visit the islands or Guiana. The latter portion of the book seems to have been carelessly executed; and at pp. 292-3 there is an historical account of Cuba from which it is impossible to gather whether it was always Spanish or whether it was conquered by the French or by the English, the statements being chopped up into little sentences which mean nothing, such as: "The island was reduced by the French privateers." "It was attacked by an English fleet." "By the Treaty of Paris an arrangement was made." "There was a generally hostile feeling against Napoleon." "It is as a Spanish possession, during the present century, that it may be regarded."

some worse

ACCORDING to the author of Good Form (White & Co.) articles on etiquette arouse very great interest. Who reads them is a mystery; but Mrs. Armstrong is convinced that they are read and valued, and has, therefore, thought it worth while to reprint, amend, and add to a number of papers which she contributed to a weekly publication. She found that inquiries were frequently made for such a work. Who can have inquired, and to whom can the inquiries have been made? There are dozens of books on etiquette; than others; some, though perhaps not many of the larger ones, worse than this latest answer to the pressing demand. 'Good Form' is written in that style dreariest of all styles-which aims at reproducing the sprightliness of tittle-tattle, but does not succeed. Like other books of the kind, its object is not so much to be a guide as to gratify the taste for knowledge about the ways of great people. A practical handbook of manners would naturally be designed for people who felt themselves deficient. What good does it do such to be told how to speak to royal princes when you are intimate with them? Mrs. Armstrong occupies a good deal of space with little lectures on such topics as yachting, hunting, and bazaars. These hardly come within the scope of "a book of every-day etiquette." Nor does the chapter called "At Homburg," in which the only hints on etiquette are that it is good form to be ill at the end of the season, and bad form to be overdressed and to stare at royalty. If there are people who want to learn good manners out of books, the older sort of manual is to be preferred -plain little books which told you not to eat peas with your knife and not to drink the water in your finger-glass.

Commerce and Banking. By B. Bannister Turner. (Sonnenschein & Co.) "The recent agitation for improved commercial education" has, the writer informs us in his preface, induced him to think the present time favourable for producing this work. He refers to his personal experience-gained, no doubt, in the daily routine of his engagements at the Bank of England, where the title-page informs us he holds a post-as having enabled him to select those subjects most likely to be of practical use. The contents of the volume are, however, hardly confined with strictness within the somewhat narrow limits thus indicated, for there are in it some observations on the duties of "retailers" and "factors," a description of the meaning of an "insurance," an explanation of a "bill of store" and such words as "consignment," while even "bi-metallism" does not pass without recognition. There are tables also included of such matters as the charges for postal orders, by which we are reminded that a person may remit 10s. 6d. through the post at the cost of 1d.,

unless he makes up the broken amount in stamps. All this sort of information is not without interest to some. We have one observation to make on the general principles which should govern the writers of works of this description. Though we would not in the least disparage the value of that most useful and cheap compendium Whitaker's Almanack, yet we think that the writer of a serious volume should have found some more distinctly authoritative source for the amount of the indebtedness of the country than a publication of that description (p. 35) when official statements are accessible to all. The rule should be to employ only official publications for official figures. There is a curious slip of the pen on p. 234, in which it is stated that Messrs. Glyn, Mills & Co. "have lately taken advantage of the Limited Liability Act, and are now Glyn, Mills & Co., Limited"; but the published descriptions of that bank we have seen describe them as a "joint-stock company with unlimited liability," being, we believe, the only joint-stock bank which has been established on this principle of recent years.

to

- A Concise History of the Church, by A. E. Knight (Partridge), - Anecdotes on Bible Texts: St. Mark, by J. L. Nye (S. S. U.), -The Epistle the Philippians, with Notes by the Rev. H. C. G. Moule (Cambridge, University Press), - La Morale, l'Art, et la Religion d'après M. Guyau, by A. Fouillée (Paris, Alcan), Une Faute, by Le Commandant Stany (Paris, Lévy), -and Geografica, Etnologica, e Storica della Tripolitania, Cirenaica e Ferzan, by F. Borsari (Turin, Loescher). Among New Editions we have Massotherapeutics; or, Massage as a Mode of Treatment, by W. Murrell (Lewis), John Bodewin's Testimony, by Mary H. Foote (Boston, U.S., Ticknor), Trustees' Guide to Investments, with the Trustee Act, 1888, by A. L. Ellis (Reeves & Turner), - and Leon Roch, by B. P. Galdós, translated from the Spanish by Clara Bell, 2 vols. (Trübner).

LIST OF NEW BOOKS, ENGLISH, Theology.

Liddon's (H. P.) Christmastide in St. Paul's, Sermons, 5j el. Liggin's (Rev. J.) Great Value and Success of Foreign MisNewnham's (Rev. P. H.) The All-Father, Sermons preached

sions, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.

nenschein in his 'Best Books.'

The work pro

mises to be useful. The chief defect at present is that the choice of journals appears to be arbitrary. Some obscure periodicals are carefully indexed, while others that are in everybody's hands are ignored. Mr. Farmer promises to make his list complete in time. If he had been wise he would have proceeded from the known to the unknown.

PROF. MAHAFFY and Mr. Rogers have produced between them a lively volume of Sketches from a Tour through Holland and Germany (Macmillan & Co.). They are full of liking for everything Dutch, and they think a little too much of the Dutch architecture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its picturesqueness may be admitted, but it is hard to be quite so blind as the professor and his companion to the extreme clumsiness, and even vulgarity, of the details. Of things German the writers are severe critics; but it is difficult to be too severe on the buildings recently erected in Berlin, which are hopelessly bad, and one observation will strike those who have visited the Fatherland since 1870 as unfortunately true :

"We noted the most extraordinary eagerness in all the people to tell of all the mischief done by the Napoleonic wars in Germany. It seemed that even the common people were anxious to justify their victory over the French and the harsh terms of that victory, by exaggerating all the old causes of anger which were supposed to rankle in German hearts." On the whole, this volume is worth looking at, being a record of the impressions of two men unusually accomplished and observant.

We have received from Messrs. J. Walker & Co. a specimen of Mark Twain Scrap-Books, which seems excellently suited to fulfil the objects for which it exists.

We have on our table Manual of Musical Drill and Physical Exercises, by G. Cruden (Simpkin), -Hints about Home and Farm Favourites, by G. Stables (Warne), -Stromata, by J. W. Sheringham (Cassell), - Twice Rescued, by N. Cornwall (Shaw), - Afloat, by Guy de Maupassant (Routledge), -The Edlingham Burglary, by the Rev. J. J. M. Perry (Low), Fraternity, by C. Ogilvie (Lambert & Co.), Dunraven Ranch, by Capt. C. King (Warne), Paradoxes of a Philistine, by by Walsh (Lippincott), - The Wanderings of Oisin, by W. B. Yeats (Kegan Paul), - First Book of Easy Poetry, by the Rev. E. Fowle (Relfe Brothers), - Kaeso, a Tragedy of the First Century, by N. Hurd (Stock), - Our Inheritance, by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould (Skeffington), - The Narrative of the Holy Bible, by Emily M. Harris (Trübner), - On the Book of the Prophet Daniel

in a Village Church, cr. 8vo. 4/6 cl.

Paul of Tarsus, by the Author of 'Rabbi Jeshua,' cr. 8vo. 4/6 Fine Art and Archæology.

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Philips's (F. C.) As in a Looking-Glass, illustrated by G.
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Lighthall, cr. 8vo. 3/6 cl.
Wordsworth's Poetical Works, edited by W. Knight, Vols. 9,
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by H. Morley, cr. 8vo. 2/6 cl.

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Weismann's (Dr. A.) Essays upon Heredity, &c., Authorized

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PROF. CHANDLER, whose loss the University of Oxford is now lamenting, was born in London on January 31st, 1828, and was, therefore, in his sixty-second year at the time of his death. He was privately educated, and in June, 1848, entered Pembroke College, where he was in succession Scholar, Fellow, and Tutor, and where he resided up to the last. For several years after his election to his fellowship (1855) he took private pupils, and rapidly acquired a name as a successful teacher, above all in connexion with his favourite subject of study, the writings of

Aristotle. But he soon became known as a

scholar and a student, and his deserved reputation for learning gained for him in 1867 the Waynflete Professorship of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, of which his predecessor

and friend Dean Mansel had been the first holder.

As professor, his lectures, though he was anything but a popular lecturer, and seemed, perhaps, inclined to linger unduly long in the by-paths of learning, never ceased to attract an audience, while no one who ever heard him failed to be struck not only by his wide erudition, but by his shrewd sense, his quaint humour, and, above all, his reverence for genuine study. His influence in Oxford, indeed, was due rather to the consistent manner in which he kept before the eyes of his associates an ideal of a life devoted to the pursuit of learning, and quietly, in an age of competition and examination, followed the vocation of a scholar, than to anything that he wrote or taught in a lecture-room. Recluse as he was by temperament, and incapacitated by weak health from mixing in general society, he was always a power in the University. The decisive effect with which quite recently he interfered to save the Bodleian Library from what was in his eyes little less than sacrilege, and his trenchant exposure of shortcomings and

mistakes in its management, are sufficient proofs alike of the weight attached to his authority and of his formidable skill and courage as a combatant when roused to defend what he held dear.

To the learned world, and even to the University at large, he was mainly known as a profound Aristotelian scholar whose delight was in his books, and as the author of an elaborate treatise on Greek accents; but, in fact, few men possessed equal freshness of interest in all departments of knowledge, or showed a readier sympathy with earnest students, whatever their line

of study.

A characteristic instance of this was the zeal with which he recently threw himself into the subject of the early history of land tenures, and not only collected, but studied cartularies, rolls, and maps, with the thoroughness of a specialist.

It would be impertinent here to write much of what he was to those who knew him more intimately. They have lost, in losing him, not only a scholar whose devotion to study set a stimulating example, and a guide whose stores of knowledge were always at their service, but a friend whose marked individuality, refreshing humour, and genuine tenderness of heart made his society one of the pleasures of their lives.

SOME PROPER NAMES IN THE 'CONFESSIO
AMANTIS.'

6, Worcester Gardens, Clapham Common. PROF. MORLEY, in the preface to his edition of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (briefly noticed in the Atheneum of May 4th), remarks that in

THE DOMESDAY COMMEMORATION.

May 18, 1889.

A GLANCE at my letter in your issue of the 4th inst. will show that Mr. P. E. Dove in his answer has carefully avoided alluding to my chief grievance the non-publication of the papers read or expressly prepared, and the substitution of others neither read nor prepared, for the Domesday Commemoration. With reference to my individual sanction as a member of the committee to certain printing expenses, as asserted by Mr. Dove, my formal assent was given to the payment for setting up in type of numerous papers, still unpublished, proofs of which were produced at a committee meeting, and which I was induced to believe were to be printed in the Commemoration volume. But my assent or dissent was not material, by reason of the existence of an executive committee. It is gratifying to learn that a statement may be expected shortly, which will explain conflicting accounts.

As to Mr. Hope's letter, I hold that a Fellow

in a line with his friend Menander, is called Epyloquorus"; and he takes credit for having substituted the true reading in his own text. Unfortunately the conjecture which Prof. Morley deems self-evident is certainly wrong, and the same may be said of some of his other "corrections" in the same context. In Pauli's edition (vol. ii. p. 82) the passage reads as follows:

Claudius, Esdras and Sulpices,
Termegis, Pandulf, and Frigidilles,
Menander, Ephiloquorus,
Solins, Pandas and Josephus,
The firste were of enditours

Of old cronique and eke auctours.

The following is Prof. Morley's version of the second, third, and fourth lines :

Trismegist, Pyth'g'ras, and Frige Dares,
Menander and Epicurus,
Solinus, Pandas, Josephus.

Now, as the list is ostensibly an enumeration of ancient chroniclers, it is evident that several of the names, according to Prof. Morley's interpretation, are very inappropriately introduced. It is true that Gower is not always correctly informed with regard to the nature of the celebrity enjoyed by some of the persons whose names he cites. For example, in the immediate context of this very passage he mentions "Herodot" (if the received reading be correct) as having been learned in "metre, rime, and cadence." But in the lines above quoted there seems to be no reason for accusing him of any blunder. The Menander" referred to is probably not the comic poet, but one of the historians of the same name possibly the one mentioned by Josephus-and the line, beyond all doubt, should read,

Menander and Philochorus.

Where Gower could have met with the names of these two historians I do not know; they are both mentioned by Suidas.

Of course Gower would not (even metri gratia) have pronounced Pythagoras as "pith-grass," and I think he knew better than to class the sage amongst the writers of "croniques." The traditional reading "Pandulf" (or "Panulf") seems open to question, though there was a Pandulf who is said to have written lives of some of the Popes. It is very unlikely that "Termegis" (or "Telmegis") means "TrismeMorley's conjecture of gistus," but I have no suggestion to offer. Prof. Phrygius) for " "Frige Dares" (i. e, Dares

Frigidilles" is ingenious, and not

without plausibility, but I should not venture to accept it unless supported by MS. evidence. It is to be hoped that in future volumes of the "Carisbrooke Library" Prof. Morley will abstain from conjectural emendations, however "obvious" he may consider them to be. HENRY BRADLEY.

from his society's apartments, should such a course seem prudent or convenient to him, and that by such action he no more pledges his society to his views than members of Parliament or of a club are, as a body, compromised by the publicly expressed opinion of solitary members. I regret that injudicious haste should occasion public discussion respecting the privileges of a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, but Mr. Hope's letter cannot be passed in entire silence. I may, therefore, mention I have requested the Council to consider this question, which affects more or less every Fellow of the Society, and indirectly all societies.

It is singular that Mr. Hope should himself demonstrate how needless his disclaimer was by signing it "Assistant Secretary," thereby, to cite his own words, "giving to it the appearance of an official document issued by the Society." My letter, lacking such official mark or designation, could not possibly be interpreted as other than what in every word it professed to be: an individual expression of dissatisfaction from a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, who was unfortunately also a member of the Domesday Commemoration Committee.

HERBERT J. REID.

A RARE HISTORICAL WORK.

I TAKE leave to send you this short account of a volume in my possession, which came from the library of my grandfather, an Oxfordshire clergyman, who died in 1841. He had most probably inherited it from his grandfather, who was living in 1772. The title-page of the book stands thus:

“ ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ' ΔΕΥΤΕPA: The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty, King Charles II. With His Reasons for turning Roman Catholick; published by K. James. Found in the Strong Box. Printed in the Year MDCXCIV.”

"The Contents" occupy pages iii to xvj. Then comes the text of the book-comprised in seventy-seven chapters-from p. 1 to p. 308, where the word "Finis" appears. This, however, is succeeded by two additional papers:

1. "Here follow the Copies of two Papers written by the late King Charles II. Published in 1686 by King James's Authority who attested that he found them in his Brother's Strong Box, written in His own Hand."

2. "A Brief Account of Particulars occurring at the happy Death of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles II. in regard to Religion; faithfully related by his then Assistant Mr Jo. Huddleston."

These, paged continuously, run on to p. 320, on which only two errata occur.

The volume, quite clean and perfect with good margins, is small 8vo. in size, bound in calf, the back having been mended and somewhat patched. On the first fly-leaf occurs the

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autograph of "Litchfield, June 29, 1694, pr 0.3.0." The frontispiece, impressed from a copperplate engraving, represents King Charles II. in royal robes, kneeling on a cushion, before an altar-table covered with a fringed carpet, charged alternately with fleur-de-lys and Maltese crosses. The crown and sceptre are placed upon this table. Up in the right-hand corner is a full-length figure of Barbara, Lady Castlemaine, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, seated on clouds, whom the king is represented as worshipping. On the title-page stands the autograph signature of "Anne Rochester," underneath which is another faint and defaced autograph, in a different handwriting, with the date "1709."

The autograph,

"Anne Rochester," referred to is that of a lady, Anne, daughter of Sir John St. John, who first married Sir Francis Harry Lee, second baronet, and afterwards Henry Wilmot, subsequently Earl of Rochester, and who was thus the mother of the well-known witty earl, John Wilmot, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Malet, of Enmore, co. Somerset, Esq., and died at the High Lodge in Woodstock Park.

By her will, which was proved in 1696, Lady Rochester bequeathed 100l. to her great-granddaughter and goddaughter Anne Lee, daughter of Mr. Francis Harry Lee. His nephew, Mr. Francis Lee, resided in Yorkshire, and there remains a book-plate, with undifferenced arms, within the cover, as also a stamp of the same arms in gold on the back of the book, indicating its ownership. On the last fly-leaf the following is written : "Edward Henry Lee, Earle of Litchfield, married Charlotte Fitzroy dau of His Sacred Majestie King Charles ye Second and Barbara Dutchess of Cleveland." Internal evidence shows that it is a literary fraud, in some parts carefully enough done, by one who was both a party politician and not unacquainted with current theological disputes; but evidently written with the intention of damaging King James II. I have searched in vain for any other copy. Lord Macaulay in his 'History' made no direct allusion to it. It serves to throw considerable light upon the intrigues consequent on the intentions and actions of William of Orange. There are many facts recorded throughout it which are wanting in ordinary historical narratives of the period, and which even now afford some explanation of the events of the Revolution era. Probably the book was sternly and sharply suppressed by authority.

The following extract gives a key to the purport of the writer and a point to the volume in general :

"Did not my grandfather, K. James, though he maul'd Bellarmine, give the Pope the Title of Most Holy Father, and declare his Readiness to meet the Church of Rome half way? Did not my Father, whom the very Hereticks acknowledg a Martyr, in like manner give the Pope those titles which they call Names of Blasphemy? If he had thought the Catholick Religion damnable, or believed that the Church of Rome teaches the Doctrine of Devils,

would He ever have taken a Catholick Princess into his Bosom? or granted such Concessions in favor of her Religion, and suffered it to spread so much in his Dominions? Would he have imployed the Irish in his Armies after they had cut the

COVERDALE'S BIBLE IN 16MO.

Birkby Hill, Huddersfield, May 20, 1889. LAST week I had the good fortune to discover bibliographers, viz, Coverdale's version in a portion of a Bible totally unknown to all

16mo. The exact date of its issue is not yet decided, but as it is not divided into verses, it was most likely prior to the year 1560.

English black letter, the running titles in italic, It was printed in England as the text is in and the marginal references in roman type. The leaves have no paper-mark, the wire-lines go across the page, the margins are very narrow for the period, and absolutely uncut. I sent a leaf of it to the British Museum for examination, and the report Mr. G. Bullen (to whom I to-day says, am under many obligations) has forwarded to me Coverdale's," and "The British Museum does not "The fragment is undoubtedly appear to possess a copy of the Bible, or of any part of the Bible, from which the leaf enclosed was taken." The 16mo. edition of Coverdale's version was originally issued in five volumes. This is proved by the twelfth chapter of ProPsalm must have been on sig. A 1. verbs being over sig. D1, therefore the first

WATER-MARKS, &c.

Wynfrid, Clevedon.

THOMAS KERSLAKE.

PROF. WRIGHT.

Laud his Favorite, who brought such Innovations into the Church of England, and declared his good liking to a Cardinal's Cap, if the Church of Rome were but a little reformed? So that I am safe enough as to what Concerns my Soul, having not only the sentiments of the Bishop of Rome positively for me, but also those of the alterius orbis episcopus not at all against me.

Then surely I may

venture my Salvation on the same bottom with my Mother, and embarque in Church which uncontro

vertibly appears not to have been altogether dis

relishing my Father." - Рр. 1, 2.

As the book is exceedingly rare, if not unique, the length of this note concerning it may perhaps be reasonably excused.

DE QUARRENDON.

He began with print

N° 3213, MAY 25, '89

cially he had a real love for cataloguing, and catalogued the Syriac and Ethiopic manuscripts in the British Museum. His great merits were recognized abroad as well as at home. He had been a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France since 1878; he was a member of various academies in Russia, Germany, and America, and he received honorary degrees from several universities. He had long been ill, ane his decease on Wednesday morning will no take his friends by surprise.

Literary Gossip.

LORD TENNYSON, who set sail from Yarmouth on Tuesday, had hoped to touch the but, in view of the hot weather, the doctors Spanish coast at various points of interest; Channel. advise him to confine his cruising to the

dictate to a shorthand writer the recollecMR. MONTAGU WILLIAMS has begun to tions of his life.

ing mainly with political and journalistie A NOVEL by Lady Colin Campbell, deallife in London, will shortly be issued.

A DOCUMENT, which may be broadly described as a refusal of adhesion to the circulation, and will make its appearance Woman's Rights movement, is in course of in a monthly review. The names of Mrs. Humphry Ward and of Miss Beatrice Potter will figure prominently in the list of signatures attached.

increasing circle of his admirers, and therewritings has been long asked for by the A BIBLIOGRAPHY of Mr. George Meredith's fore we are glad to announce the appearance of one by Mr. J. Lane. It will be attached to a volume of essays on 'George Meredith, Novelist and Poet,' by Mr. Le Gallienne.

AT the Forty-eighth Annual General Meeting of the members of the London Library, announced to be held in the nesday, with Mr. Gladstone in the chair, a reading-room of that institution next Wedreport of much interest will be presented. draws near the ranks of its members are Although as the jubilee year of the society found thinned by death and withdrawal, the vacant places have been so well filled up that there are at present 2,016 members on the register, the greatest number yet attained. The committee show a financial

gain of 9531. in the year, being the difference
subscriptions lost. The expenditure has
been 3961. more than in the previous year,
between 1,3351. new subscriptions, 3827.
but the amount spent on books, 1,0931., is
less than that of the previous year by 145l.
brought up the year's addition of volumes
The bequest of Mrs. Mackay has, however,

to the shelves to the unusual number of
year is set down at 115,607 volumes.
7,485. The circulation of books during the

THE names of Mr. Bond, the late Principal Librarian of the British Museum, of Mr. Chancellor Christie, and of Sir Mountthe general meeting of the London Library stuart E. Grant-Duff will be presented to Mr. Frederic Harrison, Mr. Peacock, and for election to the Council in the places of the Dean of Westminster, who retire.

MR. FRASER RAE's work on noteworthy places in Austria is about to appear in a second and enlarged edition, and with the title of 'Austrian Health Resorts through

out the Year.' The new chapters which will be added to this edition recently appeared in a series of articles in the Times the entitled 'New Winter Resorts,' and the work in its altered form will supply information about pleasant places within the empire of Austria, to which invalids or *pleasure-seekers may go in spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

A WORK entitled 'Reminiscences of a Regicide' will shortly be published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, consisting of the memoirs of a member of the Convention and Administrator of Police during the Revolution, edited from the original MSS. by Mrs. M. C. M. Simpson. These papers were confided in 1847 to the Dowager Lady Hatherton, who has entrusted Mrs. Simpson with the task of preparing them for publication.

THE University of Oxford will be represented by Prof. Max Müller at the International Congress of Orientalists at Stock

holm.

THE Public Record Office contains a long and interesting manuscript giving an account by an eye-witness of the invasion of Ireland by William, Prince of Orange, in 1691, and particularly of the battle of the Boyne. It is not signed, but is superinscribed "Schomberg," and is supposed to have been written by either Count Mainard Schomberg or Count Charles Schomberg (afterwards Duke of Leinster), who were both present with their father at the battle of the Boyne. This manuscript has been transcribed and annotated for the Reliquary, and its first instalment will be published in the July issue of that quarterly.

MRS. EDERSHEIM has presented to Exeter College, Oxford, the library of her deceased husband. It contains a valuable and useful collection of Hebrew and modern theological books. Dr. Edersheim's three Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint, which he wrote out at Mentone, will be read during this term by Prof. Margoliouth.

DR. MOORE will give his final series of Barlow free lectures at University College, Gower Street, on Wednesdays June 5th, 12th, and 19th, and Thursdays, June 6th and 13th, on questions arising out of Inferno,' cantos i.-iii. On Thursday, June 20th, he will give his concluding lecture on Dante's Classification of Sins in the "Inferno" and "Purgatorio.""

،

PROF. MAHAFFY writes:

"Here is an interesting discovery-or a rediscovery-of a precious Irish relic in Southern Italy. Searching Taranto lately for traces of the books and other remains of St. Catal. dus, who founded the church there, I was

shown an ancient simple gold cross (set in

a large gaudy one), which was taken from the breast of the saint when his body was raised and turned into relics in the eleventh century. Johannes Juvenis tells of this discovery, and says the saint's name was on the cross in the letters cr. This I found inaccurate. The characters were quite plain, CAALDUS RA: and on the downward limb of the cross a com

bination of letters with a line drawn over them

reading apparently CHAV, but all so brought together that I was at first taken in by the reading CHRISTI adopted by the clergy in the church. Having drawn the thing carefully, I found, by consulting the 'Lives of the Saints,' that Cataldus before he went abroad had been made Archbishop of Rachau in Ireland, and was known as Rachaensis. Here, then, was the

solution! But the odd thing is that Colgan and other authorities, being unable to find any such diocese in Ireland, have been emending

the text of Johannes, and reading or some such word. The letters on the cross confirm the old author, and leave us a record

of an ecclesiastical foundation apparently not otherwise known. The saint cannot date later than the seventh century. Tradition at Taranto says the fourth. Further research disclosed to me that Ussher ('Works,' vol. vi. p. 306) had learnt the truth about the cross from the epic poem of Bonaventura Moronus called 'Cataldias,' or rather from the notes on this poem in the edition of Bartholomæus Moronus (Rome, 1614). The poet says the cross was jewelled, which is false. The commentator describes the cross as plain gold; he does not notice the line of abbreviation over the last syllable, but adds that the present larger cross, in which it is now set, was made for it in the year 1600 by Joannes de Castro, a famous Spanish archbishop of Taranto." A POET and Germanist well known in the

Fatherland, Joh. M. Firmenich, who had

been fortunate enough to inherit a large fortune, has died at Bonn at the age of eighty-one. He wrote a number of plays and poems, some of the latter even in English and modern Greek; but he will chiefly be remembered in German literary history by his work Germaniens Völkerstimmen, which consists of a collection of poems, legends, &c., illustrating the various dialects of Germany.

MESSRS. T. & T. CLARK have arranged with Prof. C. E. Luthardt, of Leipzig, for an English translation of his 'History of Ethics.

THE portrait of Mr. Alderman Abel Heywood, of Manchester, the well-known publisher, which has been some time in progress, is completed, and is placed in the Manchester Town Hall.

THE vernacular press in Bengal appears to be steadily declining, apparently owing to the spread of English education among the reading classes. There are now only two vernacular daily papers regularly published in Calcutta, whereas a year or two ago there were five or six.

A MEETING of the Syndicate of the young University of Allahabad was held on the 20th ult. to consider the reports of the examiners of the first entrance, intermediate, and B.A. examinations of the University. For the entrance examination there were 1,417 candidates, of whom 54.7 per cent. passed; for the intermediate examination there were 328 candidates, of whom 46.7 per cent. passed; and for the B.A. examination there were 78 candidates, of whom 63.8 per cent. passed.

ON Wednesday, June 19th, and three following days, Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge will sell by auction the second portion of the celebrated library of the Earl of Crawford. The catalogue includes many extraordinary rarities, amongst which are the first edition of Balbi, Catholicon,' printed on vellum by Gutenberg in 1460, purchased in the Solar sale for 13,072 fr.; a fine series of the editiones principes of the classics, including first edition of Esop's Fables' in Greek (the last copy of which sold for 43l. in the Syston Park sale), Ammianus Marcellinus of 1474, Macrobius, Martial, Pausanias, Plautus (very interesting for the dialogue in Punic, claimed by Vallancey as true Irish), Rhetores

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Græci, Valerius Maximus (printed on vellum), and various others printed by Aldus; an important collection of works relating to America, including Barcia, 'Historiadores Angelis, 'Rio de la Plata '; a complete set of Primitivos'; Champlain, Canada'; Pedrode the excessively rare Eliot Tracts; Herrera, 'Indias Occidentales'; 'Itinerarium Portugalensium,' of which a copy sold in Mr. Beckford's sale for 781.; Nodal's 'Magellan Straits'; Gilbert's 'Cataia'; Smith's Virginia,' with all the portraits and plates, &c.; Cranmer's and other rare catechisms; York and Sarum Service Books, and numerous other liturgies, including First and Second Books of Edward VI.; French Liturgie for Chanel Islands, unique; Queen Elizabeth's Booke of Prayers, and many scarce occasional services; first edition of Petrarca, printed on vellum; 'Clementis V. Constitutiones,' 1467, printed on vellum; 'Plinii

Historia Naturalis,' 1472, printed on vellum; Prynne's 'Records, three volumes; rare chronicles, cancioneros, and romances of chivalry; scarce Bibles; 'Budæi Commentarii Linguæ Græce,' in the gorgeous binding of Le Faucheux, from the library of Diane de Poictiers; Conti, India Recognita,' and several books relating to the East Indies; and other works of much rarity.

Ar the sale of the late Mr. Surtees's effects at Seaton Carew, West Hartlepool, Surtees's 'History of Durham' fetched 331.

A SCHOLAR of high reputation has passed away in the person of Canon Evans, of Durham. He was Porson Prizeman in 1838, but was "gulfed," we believe, and had to content himself with an ordinary degree. Afterwards he was an assistant master at Rugby, where his learning astonished his more ambitious pupils, and his extreme simplicity delighted the idler boys, who frequently nailed up the gate he had to pass on his way to his class-room in order to witness his struggles to get through, and listen to his self-congratulations on his victory over what he termed "my timber antagonist" when he reached his destination, unsuspicious of the trick played him. In 1862 he became Professor of Greek at Durham. He did little to make his scholarship known to the world. His translation of the Laureate's 'Enone' into Latin hexameters was his chief performance.

ANOTHER scholar has departed at a much younger age-the Rev. W. H. Simcox, who carried all before him as an undergraduate at Oxford, and was for some time a Fellow of Queen's. He helped to edit school editions of the speeches of Æschines and Demosthenes on the Crown, and also the histories of Tacitus, but his chief perform

ance was a series of lectures On the

Beginnings of Christianity.'

THE chief Parliamentary Papers of the week are Navy, Dockyard Expense Accounts, 1887-8, Part II. (10d.); Sweating System, Third Report of Lords' Committee, with Evidence (7s. 6d.); Experiments on Living Animals, Report (3d.); East India, Financial Statement for 1889-90, &c. (18. 3d.); Reports on working of the Indian Factory Act (18. 5d.); and Consular Reports, 1889Russia, Trade of the District of Riga (ld.); Austria-Hungary, Government Inspection of Factories in Hungary (1d.); AustriaHungary, Trade of Hungary (2d.); United