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writes, " This day, as I was sitting in my study with a vollume of Mr. Baxter's before me, I felt a violent concussion of the house, as if it would have tumbled instantly about my head. The motion was

heavy and universal I find the shock was felt

throughout the cities of London and Westminster, and many proofs I have since learnt of its violence and terror." On the 8th of March he was awakened by " a shock of an earthquake " " severer than that a month since." "How awful," he writes, "are these Monitions of the Divine Anger." Mr. J. Rutherford supplies a history of Congregation- alism in Birmingham from 1642, when its earliest traces began to appear, the first permanent con- gregation being organized in 1687. The meeting- house was much injured by the Jacobite riots in 1715, and totally destroyed in the Priestley riots of 1791. This is now represented by the Old Meeting- House Church in Bristol Street, built in 1885. The history of Carr's Lane Church is also given. " Carr's Lane" is said to be a corruption of "God's Cart Lane," derived from the shed in which before the Reformation a car was kept that was used in Corpus Christi processions. This church is noted for the two eminent men who have been its ministers John Angell James, author of ' The Anxious Enquirer ' and some fifty other books ; and Robert William Dale, well remembered for his work on ' The Atonement.' This gained for him the honorary degree of D.D. from Yale College, which, like his predecessor, he declined to use, while he accepted a diploma of LL.D. from Glasgow in 1883, although on the title-page of the memoir by his son he is plain Robert William Dale. In Birmingham " his leadership was universally recognized, not only in religious effort, but in education, politics, and social enterprises."

THE Reliquary for January, edited by J. Romilly Allen (Bemrose & Sons), contains an article ' About Almanacs,' by W. Heneage Legge. Illustrations of (Staffordshire clog almanacs are given. "A favourite almanac in the times of the Stuarts and the Georges was Rider's. Among other precepts it gives

In gardening never this rule forget, To sowe dry and set wet."

'Poor Robin,' 1710, receives a full description. Among other maxims we find " In January, though the nights be long and candles be chargeable, yet long lying in Bed is an evil quality, because they must rise by times who would cozen the Devil." 3Ir. Legge concludes his article in the words of ' ' Poor Robin " : "I bid my courteous Reader heartily farewell ; and to my Currish Critical Reader, farewell and be hanged, that 's twice God b' w' y." The origin of the ' Pen-annular Brooch ' is treated of iiby Edward Lovett. The editor in a note says, " The testimony of archaeology shows conclusively that the ' safety pin ' is the earliest type of brooch. At all events, it was in use in the Mycenaean period say 1500 to 2000 B.C. The pen-annular brooch only makes its appearance about 700 to 800 A.D." Mr. Rjchard Quick gives 'A Chat about Spoons,' and .refers to " some spoons made in Russia of a peculiar kind of cloisonne enamel, the effect of which is very <beautiful." In this article the objects selected for illustration are all in the Horniman Museum. .Some crosses at Hornby and Melling in Lons- dale are described by Mr. W. G. Collingwood, who made a tour with Mr. W. 0. Roper, and he says he "has made few more delightful excursions both for

scenery and remains." This district is compara- tively little known, for it is out of the range of the county archaeological societies. Charlotte Mason writes on the church of St. Levan, Cornwall, famed for its marvellous carvings and old bench- ends. In the ' Notes on Archaeology ' Mr. Romilly Allen contributes one on ' Anglo-Saxon Pins found at Lincoln.' There is also a view of old Kew Bridge, which was opened in 1789, being pulled down in 1899 to make way for the King Ed- ward VII. bridge.

WITH much regret we hear of the death, at Darley Abbey, Derby, of the Rev. Canon Ainger, a valued friend and correspondent. Born in London, 9 February, 1837, the son of Alfred Ainger, archi- tect, Alfred Ainger, M.A., LL.D., Canon Resi- dentiary of Bristol, Master of the Temple, and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, was educated at King's College, London, and Trinity Hall, Cam- bridge, of which he was honorary fellow ; was, 1860-4, curate of Alrewas, Lichfield ; 1864-6, assist- ant master Sheffield Collegiate School ; and Reader at the Temple Church from 1866 to 1893. He gave to the press ' Sermons preached in the Temple Church.' and was editor of the works of Lamb, of whom he wrote a memoir. His rather fragile form and white hair made him a conspicuous figure in London society, in which he was greatly and justly prized. Canon Ainger's gentleness, urbanity, and courtesy were pleasantly conspicuous features in a delight- ful personality.

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