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or " obscure.'' 1 In the form of padenshaice Padi ihah is encountered so early as 1612. The origin ordinarily assigned Paduasoy, of silk of Padua seems scarcely to be accepted. Pcean, a song o praise, is used in 1544 as the title of a book, 'The Prayse of all Women, called Mulierum Pean. Paj/cw paramour is rare, though it is used b; Shakespeare. In sense 2 the words of the song pu by Scott into the mouth of one of the characters in 'The Abbot 'might be noted : " The pope, that pagan full of strife." That page=boy is derived from Greek iraioiov is doubted. Thackeray's use, "Ho pretty page with the dimpled chin," deserves cita tion as an instance of special use. Milton's fine phrase

Mask and antique pageantry

is an early and significant use of the last word. Pagoda appears as pagotha in 1634. Paigle for the cowslip, and pail, a vessel, are of uncertain origin. / > a/c*'l < e=peacock as is supposed, is encountered only in Shakespeare. Palace, paladin, palatine, all repay close study. Paladin first appears in Daniel's ' Delia,' 1592. Palanquin is found in 1588. Ben Jonson has palindrome, and also palinode Very interesting is the development of pall, and not less so that of palm in its various senses. Pan should be closely studied in all its senses. Pang, a brief spasm of pain, is uncertain in origin. The song cited for pannuscorium, and called popular, is a little earlier than c. 1860, and is, we fancy, by Planche. Panorama dates from 1796. Pantagmel, Pantaloon, and pantomime have all much interest. The name pantiles seems to be erroneously applied to the parade at Tunbridge Wells. The earliest quotation for .papa=father, once a "genteel" word, is from Otway. Paraphernalia has, as scholars know, a curious origin and history. Pap with a hatchet and Panjandrum both supply enter- tainment.

The Prelude. By William Wordsworth. Edited

by Basil Worsfold. (De La More Press.) Eikon Basilike: or, the King's Bool: Edited by

Edward Almack. (Same publishers. ) Shakespeare's Sonnets. Edited by C. C. S topes.

(Same publishers.)

To the pretty, artistic, and cheap editions of the De La More Press have been added three works of great but varying interest. Wordsworth's 'Prelude' forms, of course, an indispensable portion of his poems. It contains many fine passages, but is, on the whole, more valuable from the autobio- graphical than the poetic standpoint. The present edition is accompanied by an admirable portrait, a map of the Wordsworth country, an introduc- tion, and a few serviceable notes.

Mr. Almack, to whom is due a 'Bibliography of the King's Book,' for an appreciation of which and of the compiler himself see 8 th S. x. 147, has edited an edition of the ' Eikon Basilike,' the work in question. Unlike previous modern reprints, this is taken from the first edition, an advance copy of which, saved from destruction by a corrector of the press a most interesting item in many respects has been used. Mr. Almack still holds strongly to the royal authorship of the volume, and is in entire opposition to the claims of Bishop Gauden. The new edition is beautiful and convenient. It is enriched by a handsome and rather sentimentalized portrait of Charles I., and has some interesting appendices. Its appearance will doubtless com-

mend the work to some to whom it is not yet known.

Mrs. Stopes's edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets is the most convenient with which we are acquainted. So handy is it that we have set it apart for that pocket companionship for which, before almost all others, the book is to be commended. An indis- pensable preliminary to solving the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets is, as Mr. Butler has told us, to commit them to heart. Special value attaches to the edition from Mrs. Stopes's introduc- tion. That we agree with all her conclusions we may not say. What she writes, however, is worthy of study. So firm a believer in the Southampton theory is she that the portrait of the Earl, repro- duced from that at Welheck Abbey, forms a frontis- piece to the volume. This edition of the Sonnets appears to form part of what is called ' The King's Shakespeare.' The three works we have conjoin to form a notable addition to " The King's Library."

Old Falmoitth. By Susan E. Gay. (Headlejr

Brothers.)

MISTRESS GAY (if we may use the old term, ambiguously convenient to a reviewer) has made extensive collectanea of all that illustrates the history and fortunes of the interesting old town from which she writes, and we can hardly find fault if Falmouthian events and personages loom dispro- portionately large in the eyes of its enthusiastic historian. At times the minute conscientiousness with which local details are given reminds us of those old chronicles of which a satirist remarked

If but a brickbat from a chimney falls

All these, and thousand such like toyes as these,

They close in chronicles like butterflies.

The author's industrious researches might have been prosecuted more widely with advantage. She has fhuch to tell us about the Killigrews of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but no reference is made to Pepys's allusions to various members of the family, not even to the Tom Killigrew who was the favourite poet and boon- companion of Charles II. And what warrant is there for the assertion that the name Killigrew means "a grove of eagles"? which on the face of it seems unlikely. It is surely a rash con- clusion to draw from the mere appearance of the name " Jerubbaal Gideon" in a baptismal register, Latinity of an epitaph (p. 46) needs some revision to make it intelligible. And what a quaint correc- tion is this at the end of the book, that for ' (Charles II. and) his father " (p. 20) should be read ' his royal father " ! There is a good supply of llustrations pleasingly produced, some of very local celebrities.
 * hat some Jews must have joined the Church ! The

Lent and Holy Week. By Herbert Thurston, S. J.

(Longmans & Co.)

Vlr.. THURSTON'S book comes within our ken as >eing one that treats of the ritual observances of he Roman Church on their historical and anti- uarian side rather than their devotional. Such ubjects as the Carnival, the Tenebrse Herse, Vlaundy customs, the Harrowing of Hell, and other ire-Reformation beliefs and practices, afford him mple material on which to enlarge, and though here is little that can be called new or original, he author writes lucidly and pleasantly, and with ,n agreeable absence of controversial acidity. As,