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" Murder " is a long article. Under " murdered " we add that Keats alone, so far as we know, has ventured to use the -word for "shortly to be murdered" in 'Isabella,' xxvii.:

So the two brothers and their murder'd man

Rode past fair Florence.

It would not be easy to guess the derivation of " muscle," which is due to " the form of some muscles having a resemblance to that of a mouse." "Must" (vb.) is a fine article. Under "mutiny" we find Shakespeare's ' Lucrece ' quoted :

So with herself is'she in mutiny ; but we fail to find] from Hood's ' Bridge of Sighs ' what should surely have been quoted : Make no deep scrutiny Into her mutiny.

The much-abused "mutual friend" gets some en- couragement, "on account of the ambiguity of 'common friend.'" We note that Thackeray at his best, in one of the ' Roundabout Papers,' ' A Joke from the late Thomas Hood,' near the end, has "views of my character, which you are freely imparting to our mutual friends " ( ' Oxford Thackeray,' vol. xvii. p. 470). "Mystes," like other words of mystery and mythology, has not been adequately supplied with quotations, which any classical scholar of experience might, we think, have added. After a quotation of 1778 we find merely one from The Expositor of 1904. L. Dyer, 'The Gods in Greece,' 1891, p. 209, has: "All the

mystse and every creature and thing underwent

purgation by washing in the sea." Under "mystifi- cation " and " mystified," reference might have been made to the essay on " Mystifications " by Dr. John Brown, ' Horse Subsecivse,' Series III., which describes the personations of an old Scotch gentle- woman by Miss Stirling Graham, pleasant frauds, clever enough to take in Jeffrey amongst others. The senses of " myth" given seem hardly to cover the following quotation, which ought to appeal specially to Oxford : " The ' Jowler myths ' served their purpose, and are exploded," says Mr. Tuck- well in the second edition of his ' Reminiscences of Oxford,' p. 212. Under "Mythological" the quotations do not carry us beyond Gladstone's ' Homer,' 1858. Here is one of 1890, which may be called representative, from 'The Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens.' by Miss Jane Harrison and Mrs. Verrall. The introduction remarks, p. xxiv : " The real mythological person- age of one local cult becomes the dummy name of the other."

A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of George Jacob Holyoake. With a Brief Sketch of his Life by Chas. Win. F. Goss, prefaced by Mrs. Holy- oake-Marsh. (Crowther & Goodman.) THIS Holyoake Bibliography has been a work of love to Mr. Goss ; it has taken him two years to complete it, and it was intended for his own private use, but Mrs. Marsh felt that such a record of her father's literary labours would be better than any memorial that could be erected to his memory, and one which would be valued by his friends. Mr. Goss therefore allowed it to be published, and Mr. Marsh generously contributed to its cost. Sad to relate, he died a few days before its publication, and the volume is dedicated to his memory.

Mr. Goss in the compilation of his volume had to read over four hundred books, pamphlets, and periodicals, and as a result he has been able to

append notes on the subject of each work. Two of the pamphlets in the list, published in 1843, were composed while Holyoake was imprisoned in Gloucester Gaol for blasphemy, and written in semi-darkness, sometimes in total darkness, on a board, with cotton lines to guide the pen. The little old-fashioned inkcase he used he gave to bis daughter forty years after.

Holyoake, as our readers know, was an occasional contributor to our columns on his own special sub- jects ; and how varied were the periodicals in which he wrote is shown on the page of this book in> which the name of 'N. & Q.' appears, among them being The Methodist Times, Christian Common- wealth, Reynolds^ Neivspaper, and The Sun. The last, at the invitation of Mr. Horatio Bottomley, he, at the age of eighty-four, edited for one week (December 16th to 21st, 1901).

In looking through this Bibliography one cannot but remark that it was by peaceful means that Holyoake sought to secure the objects he had in view. Nothing can be more unjust than the accusa- tion that has been made somewhat recently against him that he knew of and sanctioned the attempt on the life of Napoleon III. by Orsini. Hplyoake- has distinctly denied this, and above all things his- entire life has shown how perfectly honest and truthful he was, as we can testify after a friendship* of fifty years. As there has been some discussion in ' N. & Q.' as to the pseudonyms used by Holy- oake, the following are given: "Disque," "Ion," "Landor Praed," "A London Zulu," "One who- has seen them before," "Quasimodo," "A Student in Co-operation," and "A Voice from the Crowd."

IN The Nineteenth Century politics occupy the chief position, and there is no article of purely literary interest. Bishop Welldon repeats a good deal of old matter, even Paley, in pointing out that ' The Bible and the Church ' have not decided what inspiration is, or, rather, how far it is considered to go in supporting as infallible the actual words of the Biblical narrative. Sir Henry Blake writes on ' The Rule of the Empress-Dowager' in China, and 1 Miss Alice Mayor on 'The Amateur Artist' of former days and of to-day. ' Charlotte-Jeanne : a Forgotten Episode of the French Revolution' describes the process of the party in power against a girl, ending in her death. She wrote an appa- rently innocent letter, but there were blank sheets with it, which revealed, on being treated for "sympathetic ink," treasonable matter. When Charlotte's room was examined, nothing was found' but some eighty pages of translation of the ' Letters of Junius' and a washing bill. The former, her sister pleaded, was revolutionary in character. There are two articles on the Representation of Women. Mr.' D. C. Lathbury writes on ' An, Educational Surrender,' but his work is now some- what futile, as the latest of the Government's Education Bills has just been dropped. Miss; Gertrude Kingston's account of ' How We [actors and actresses] came to be Censored by the State ' is a mixture of good sense and rhetoric. It contains a great deal of ancient history which ought, we think, to be familiar to anybody who takes the stage seriously.

IN The Fortnightly the indefatigable "Calchas"" writes on 'France as the Key-stone of Europe.' Mr. J. D. Rees, C.I.E., M.P., discusses 'India in Parliament in 1908.' Miss Alice Law has rather a dull article on ' The Tercentenary of Milton ' ; and