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like to have an account of Grobianus, the Liber- tines, and the like. No mention is given of Euphuism, Marinism, and Gongorism, literary movements of great importance in England, Italy, and Spain. Little Bernard, le Petit Bernard^ Bernard Salomon, the sixteenth-century illustrator of the Bible and Ovid, is much worthier of notice than the Little Giant. Oxford deserves mention as the Home of Lost Causes. We could supply scores of similar instances of omission. Scholar- ship, alas ! is out of fashion, and the man in the street is, it appears, the person for whom to cater.

Familiar Studies of Men and Books. By Kobert

Louis Stevenson. (Chatto & Windus.) To the beautiful fine-paper edition of Stevenson iias been added a delightful reprint of one of that author's most characteristic works. Among the contents is the ' Essay on some Aspects of Robert Burns,' the agitation caused by which is not even yet forgotten.

Miscellanies of Edward FitzGerald. (Routledge &

Sons.) Six Dramas of Calderon. Translated by Edward

FitzGerald. (Same publishers.) IK a convenient and attractive shape we have here FitzGerald's translations from Calderon, and in a second volume 'Omar Khayyam,' 'Euphranor,' ' Polonius,' ' Salaman and Absal,' ' The Memoir and Death of Bernard Barton,' and ' The Death of {Jeorge Crabbe.' These are cheap and eminently desirable reprints, and should do much to popularize the study of FitzGerald in that large public he has hitherto failed to reach.

Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Edited by Charles

F. Forshaw, LL.D. May. (Stock.) OUR new namesake promises well. It is, as it should be, almost restricted to the service of the .great county whose name it bears. If conducted on its present lines it will soon become a valuable storehouse of facts regarding the largest and, as the natives regard it, the most important of our shires. The biographical article with which it opens is worthy of attention. It is very interesting as containing not only an account of Mr. Henry James Barker, who was born at Sheffield upwards of fifty years ago, but also a selection froni his poems, some of which, when once read, it is not easy to forget. The gang of coiners which, towards the end of the eighteenth century, had for some years an establishment near Halifax and was a terror to the neighbourhood, has recently attracted attention. A correspondent has supplied an inter- esting illustration of the effrontery of the people engaged in this illegal trade. It is a letter M'ritten in 1770 to Joshua StanclifFe, a Halifax watchmaker, who is threatened with death if David Hartley, the leader of the confraternity, who was then in cus- tody, should suffer for his misdeeds. The gang took terrible vengeance for Hartley's execution (see 9 th S. viii. 258, 299, 350). Mr. Arthur Clapham, of Brad- ford, contributes an interesting paper on the Marmion Chapel and Tower at Taufield, accom- panied by two excellent engravings, one of which represents the iron "herse" which canopies the tomb of one of the Marmions and his wife, a St. Quintin. This is one of the most interesting objects in the county. Herses must have been, before the sixteenth-century changes in religion, far from uncommon, but they have now nearly all

of them perished. There is one in the Beauchamp Chapel ; and a portion of another, which must have been, when perfect, of a similar character to that at Tanfield, is preserved in the South Kensington Museum.

No. xy. of the Burlington Magazine contains a description by Mr. Claude Phillips of ' An Unknown Watteau : a Fete Champetre,' a reproduction of which serves as frontispiece to the number. Mr. Phillips speaks in unquestionable terms of the work in question. Another picture of the same artist is 'LaVraie Gaiete,' from the collection of Sir Charles Tennant. The appreciation of the earlier work, now in the National Gallery, Dublin, is a fine piece of criticism. The account of Claydon House is finished, as are the fine miniatures from the Harleian MS. of ' The Chronicles of Jean Breton.' These should be carefully studied in the case of any revival of ' Richard II.' Part ii. of Mr. Roger E. Fry's ' Exhibition of French Primi- tives ' is profoundly interesting.

BARON DE TOCQUEVILLE'S 'L'Ancien Regime' is about to be issued by the Oxford University Press. The editor is Mr. G. W. Headlam, who has written a short introduction explaining De Tocqueville's position among scientific historians, together with a few notes of a more or less elementary kind.

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A. B. ("0 broad and smooth the Avon flows"). From a poem by Canon H. C. Beeching. which you will find quoted at the end of ' By Thames and Cotswold,' by W. H. Button (Constable, 1903).

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