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frizzed at the side. This style was due to Mile. d< Fontanges, after whom it was named. Her hai coming down when she was riding with Louis XIV. she tied it up with her garter. Fascinated wit! the effect, the king bade her wear it that way, anc so brought the style into fashion. Not long hat the juvenile Sarah been at Court before she showec unconquerable temper, and worsted her mother in a fierce battle. She was but fifteen when sh conquered John Churchill, and, in spite of the opposition of his father, the engagement was speedily announced, and in 1678, when she was eighteen and he ten years older, they were privately married. \Vhen, in 1688, Lady Churchill and her then dear friend Princess (afterwards Queen) Anne fled from Court to the Earl of Northampton's, they were waited upon by Colley Cibber, who was strangely fascinated by Lady Churchill. Very bright are the pictures of Queen Mary, whose gaiety during the coronation period brought on her the implied censure of Evelyn and the open con demnation of Burnet. Among many interesting documents preserved in appendixes is a very favourable character of the Duchess by Mr. Mayn- waring, unfortunately unfinished, from the Coxe papers. What is specially commended in her is modesty, a virtue that might well stand out con- spicuously in a Stuart Court. The famous song written after Malplaquet on a report of the death of Marlborough,

Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre, is also quoted. In a very readable and entertaining volume the illustrations are an attractive feature. These include portraits of Charles II., James II., Queen Mary II., King William III., George, Prince of Denmark, Princess Anne, George I., George II. , and, of course, the heroine, after Kneller. A few misprints call for revision. " Cussons's " ' History of Hertfordshire ' should be Cussans's. As a whole the book is commendably correct.

Great Masters. Part XI. (Heinemann.) OF 'The Syndics' ('De Staalmeesters ') of Rem- brandt, which constitutes the first illustration in the latest part of ' Great Masters,' Sir Martin Conway declares that it is in its line the finest picture in the world. This criticism will find general acceptance. Sir Martin speaks of its type as representing the dignity of a bye (sic) gone age. What is a bye gone age? The reproduction is magnificent. Hopp- ner's ' The Sisters ' presents two of the nineteen children of Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, of Thirkleby, and the plate is every whit as fine as the engraving by \\ ard, which sold recently for 500 guineas. Van Dyck's 'Philip, Fourth Baron Wharton,' is from the Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg. It was painted in 1632, and is in Van Dyck's best style. Last comes Botticelli's marvellous 'Mother and Child, with Angels,' from the Raczynski collection, Berlin.

Handbook for Yorkshire. (Stanford.) THE fourth edition of ' Murray's Handbook for Yorkshire' has been revised and remodelled, and is now issued with 28 maps and plans. It is in regard to maps and plans of towns, c., that im- provement is principally to be noted. In large industrial centres such as Leeds, Sheffield, Brad- ford, Huddersfield, Halifax, &c. great changes have been made, but the Yorkshire of the tourist, the dales of the Ure and the Swale, Clapham, Ingleton, Settle, and the border lands of Durham

and Westmorland, retain their old features and charm. In connexion with Grewelthorpe, p. 320, it might be mentioned that a delightful cream cheese is, or used to be, made there. Farnley Hall, p. 412, is, of course, the seat of the Fawkeses. A second Farnley Hall, not named here, is mentioned in ' Cassell's Gazetteer.' This used to exist about three miles west of Leeds. Has it disappeared ? The 'Handbook' retains its not very seriously contested supremacy.

Examination of an Old Manuscript. By T. Le

Marchant Douse. (Taylor & Francis.) THE old manuscript to which Mr. Douse has devoted a slim quarto is the first leaf of an anonymous work which has sometimes been called, though with little reason, ' The Conference of Pleasure.' It is; preserved in the library of the Duke of North- umberland at Alnwick. The editor gives a fac- simile of this page, partly burnt at the edges, which shows it to be closely scribbled over with a con- fusion of words, names, and fragmentary tags of lines. With a good deal of ingenuity he comes to- the conclusion, from a patient examination of the names mentioned, which include those of Shake- speare, Bacon, Sidney, Nash, and Essex, that the scribbler was none other than John Davies, of Hereford, who is known to have been on friendly terms with all these personages. Voila tout !

Place-names of Scotland. By James B. Johnston,

B.D. (Edinburgh, Douglas.) Manx Names. By A. W. Moore, M.A. (Stock.) THESE two excellent manuals on the origin of names- in different families of the Celtic stock have simul taneously attained to a second edition, as they deserved to do. Mr. Johnston has been able to- improve his book by the addition of some new matter contributed by Dr. McBain, Sir Herbert Maxwell, and other Gaelic scholars, but the num- ber of alternative derivations by which a name can" still be accounted for "another way" shows how difficult and indeterminate the science of local etymology is, and perhaps in many cases must ever be, w_here early authorities are not forthcoming. This improved edition of Mr. Johnston's work still leaves something to be desired in the matter of editing. In his introduction, e.g. (p. xyi), he calls- our attention to three words of special interest, which Dr. Murray would do well to take account of, and for these he refers us to the name list in the body of the book. We turn to the place indi- cated for the first of these three interesting words,, which is Ben, and find there is no such entry ; so- our souls in patience till the third edition shall nform us what we ought to know about Ben. The author succumbs to the temptation of identifying: lager, the tidal wave, with the Old Eng. egor (p. 116), n which he has the Oxford lexicographer against lim and Prof. Skeat to boot.
 * hat Dr. Murray and ourselves will have to possess-

Mr. Moore's account of Manx names has already- won a place for itself in the library of books on words and places so happily inaugurated by the "ate Canon Taylor and Dr. Joyce. Some valuable suggestions from Prof. Zimmer have been incor- porated in this new edition, and a commendatory >reface has been contributed by Prof. Rhys, in which he propounds a new explanation of the muzzling name of the local parliament, " the House >f Keys." He proposes to see in "Keys" merely n Anglicized rendering of the Manx Kiare-as