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of his arrangement. Capgrave and De Worde rearranged the Uves in alphabetical order, and thus they appear in this edition. For the purpose of indicating, as we propose briefly to do, the matters of interest to the student of folklore which these volumes contain, a chronological order would appear to be more convenient. Dr. Horstman has given a summary of the collections in that order, as far as regards England, andconcludes it with the very apposite comment : " The collection is as complete as possible, and the amount of materials brought together by one man is truly astonishing : but it is always the ' one man ' who does things."'

" Of early British saints, the collection contains Mello, first bishop of Rouen, died about 280," his pastoral staff having been given to him by an angel in the presence of Pope Stephen. " Alban, the protomartyr of Britain, and Amphibalus, both martyred at St. Albans, 304." The relation of the miracles at the translation of St. Alban has some curious details. De Worde's edition adds " Joseph ab Arimathia and Helena " — the first life consisting of extracts from the chronicles of John of Glastonbury, the second made up from different ingredients. The Anglo-Saxon Church is represented by Lethard, who accompanied Bertha of France on her marriage with Ethelbert of Kent, and who is styled the precursor and janitor of the coming Augustine : and by the first bishop of Canterbury, Augustine, who landed in the Isle of Thanet in 597, and was bishop of Canterbury until 605. This life is founded on Bede, and contains the correspondence throwing light on Anglo-Saxon manners familiar to us from his Ecclesiastical History. Laurentius, 605-19 — mention is made in this life of a visit from St. Terenanus, archbishop of Ireland, a man of such sanctity that it is said he revived three dead people, but he is not one of the Irish saints in the collection, which indeed in this respect is not complete; Mellitus (619-24)— a '" narratio " of the birth of Latro and Vulpecula is appended to this life ; Justus (624-7) — to this is appended a narratio of a temptation of demons; Honorius (^627-53) — the narratio to this is a story how in 1181 a man was punished who refused to return a pledge the church had deposited with him ; Deusdedit (653-64) — the narratio gives the punishment of two men for using language provocative to anger ; Theodorus (668-90) — the narratio is a story of a bishop "clarus religione sed turpis corpore." Tatwin, Nothelm, and Cuthbert, the succeeding bishops, are omitted.