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[10 th S. I. MAY 7, 1904.

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ueuues of Stothard ' ; 'Masters of Woo Engraving,' by W. J. Lin ton ; and 'En

graving : its Origin, Processes, and History y Vicomte Henri Delaborde, translated b; E. A. M. Stevenson, with an additional chap ter on English engraving by William Walker illustrated (this is a volume of the " Fine-Ar Library," edited by John C. L. Sparkes). See also 'Line Engraving,' in Country Life 30 September, 1899; 'Arundel Prints,' in the Queen, 10 October, 1903; 'Bartolozz and his Engravings,' in the Queen, 14 Decem ber, 1901 ; ' Wood Engraving, Historical anc Practical,' by Chatto and Jackson ; 'Practical 1 Manual of Wood Engraving,' by W. N Brown, with brief historical introduction (good on technique) ; A. F. Didot's ' Essai sur la Gravure sur Bois' (advanced criticism, historical and critical, and contains list ol artists and bibliography); and 'Le Peintre Graveur,' by J. D. Passavant, 6 vols. (ad- vanced criticism).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

BATROME (10 th S. i. 88, 173, 252, 338). I was aware that we owed our knowledge of 'Barthram's Dirge' to Surtees; but Scott expressly states that " it was taken down by Mr. Surtees from the recitation of Anne Douglas, an old woman who weeded in his garden." Is Surtees held to have enacted the role of Macpherson and Chatterton ?

HELGA.

ADMIRAL DONALD CAMPBELL (10 th S. i. 309). MR. ALAISTER MACGILLEAN will find a detailed account of this officer in ' Life of Admiral Lord Nelson,' by J. S. Clarke and J. McArthur, 2 vols. 1809 (British Museum Library, 1858 e). He is not to be confused with the Rear-Admiral Donald Campbell (1752-1819), also connected with Islay, who died on his flagship, H.M.S. Salisbury, during his command on the Leeward Islands Station, and who is buried in the garrison chapel at Portsmouth. LIONEL A. V. SCHANK.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Elizabethan Critical Essays. Edited, with an Intro- duction, by C. Gregory Smith. 2 vols. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)

IT will perhaps be disappointing to Mr. Smith when we say that the primary appeal of his edition of ' Elizabethan Critical Essays ' is to our sense of convenience. It is very pleasant to have within two thick, but well-printed, legible, and handsome volumes works the search after which in other forms would be long, and in some cases, perhaps, unremunerative. With most of the works now reprinted the student of Tudor literature is bound

to be familiar. The writings of Ascham, Lodge, Webbe, Puttenham, and others are part of his literary equipment. With those of Nash and Gabriel 1 Harvey unless he owns the Huth Library reprints of Grosart, not common as a private possession,, and not readily accessible except in important libraries he has less chance of being familiar. Prof. Arber has, however, brought within general ken- many works until recently of the greatest rarity, and a fascinating branch of study may now be pursued with moderate comfort. To have within handy reach a series of works such as Mr. Smith gives us is a matter for devout thanksgiving. For the first time, moreover, the majority of them are issued with notes and illustrative comment, and the whole is supplied with a full index, which trebles its value. Our sense of obligation does not stop even here. Mr. Smith's introduction is ample and illuminatory. For a century past the value of Elizabethan criticism has won recognition. Hasle- wood's reprint of 'Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy ' was one of the most commendable products of a time rich in such boons -jo the student, and it is pleasant to find this work )f a respectable antiquary greeted as it deserves by lis successor. Comparative criticism has made 'emarkable progress, and the collective value of strangely out of keeping with the poetic and dra- natic products of the age is, perhaps, for the irst time evident. Fresh interest is given to the 3ontroversial aspect of the writings and few of hem but took their rise in controversy from the act that they originated in that attack by the Puritans upon English poetry and plays which nanfests itself in so many different ways in the England of Elizabeth and her successors. Attacks uch as Gosson's ' School of Abuse,' Northbrooke's Treatise,' and the like, are not included in the volumes, though passages from them are printed in he notes to Lodge and other of those who ssayed to answer them. Puritan teaching is, how- ver, fully illustrated in the works of Ascham nd others. In addition to his well-known arraign- ment of the ' Morte Arthur ' Ascham has long irades against the Italian translations which vere then in fashion: "Ten ^ermons at Paules >osse do not so moch good for mouyng men and rewe doctrine as one of those bookes do harme ith inticing men to ill liuing." As regards the ndebtedness to Italian and French sources, to the atter especially, we are not sure that the last vord has been said. We fancy we can trace obliga- ions in Puttenham to others besides Du Bellay nd Ronsard, but have not time to prosecute investigation. Mr. Smith, however, showa amiliarity with many French works little known nd not easily accessible, and it is not likely that ess thoroughness should be displayed in this than n other parts of his work. The term Elizabethan, s used in the strictest sense, to the exclusion F some early works, such as Richard Sherry's Treatise of the Figures of GrammerandRhetorique/ nd Fulwood's ' Enimie of Idlenesse,' the banish- lent of which few will regret. By ending, more- ver, with Elizabeth's death year, the critical work t Ben Jonson and Bacon is omitted. The milieu of lese is held to be Jacobean, and it is said that leir works, with others that are named, will supply aterials for another volume. All the writings in le body of the work are in prose. Hence Daniel's
 * he works reprinted works which seem at times
 * lightful poem 'Musophilus,' in its line altogether