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a clever story, ' Shameful Behaviour ! ' in which a man returns to his divorced wife after getting engaged to another lady.

Ix The Nineteenth Century the best article i=i one by Sir Edward Sullivan entitled ' The Defamers of Shakespeare,' a consideration of the case of the Baconians and their followers, espe- cially Mr. G. Greenwood, M.P. It is well that there should be occasionally a reply, even to wild suggestions which no competent student of Elizabethan life and practice could entertain, and Sir Edward has in his short space done his work well. He suggests that the career of Plautus, who had little education, offers a remarkable parallel to that of Shakespeare. ' Edward Fitz- Gerald : a Personal Reminiscence,' by Mary E. FitzGerald-Kerrich, does not amount to much, though it recalls some of the effective details which a little girl would notice. The writer, however, is guilty of a lot of idle, fine writing, which adds nothing to her picture, and exag- gerates, as usual, the influence of the Omar translation. Mr. St. Clair Baddeley has a good subject in ' Caligula's Galleys in the Lake of Nemi,' a piece of history which he has revivified for us with skill. Two galleys lie deep in the waters of this celebrated lake, and various attempts have been made since the fifteenth cen- tury to get them up, with the result that much of their varied ornament has been secured. Mrs. J. R. Green contests in ' Tradition versus Enquiry in Irish History ' a hostile view of her recent book in The Quarterly ; and Mr. J. B. Rye has a warn- ing and protest concerning ' Oxford and the Working Classes,' which seems to be badly needed. Our own experience of Ruskin College is not favourable, but it seems to have impressed the adjacent undergraduate as well as the young don. Capt. G. S. C. Swintpn in ' A Garden Road' has an original plan for improving the country a road of exceptional width, which would not follow railway lines, as much trade now does, but be a permanent " wayleave " round which land would become valuable and towns might be formed. The line to be adoptd is one " along which there can always be movement," " an uncongestible track open and free to all." This idea is well worth study, and one of the most original we have seen in the magazines for some time.

The Burlington Magazine opens with a second article on ' The MacCulloch Collection,' in which it points out that in that collector's day the Academy had no serious rivals as a picture show, and good " outside " shows hardly existed. It further remarks that these shows may be com- pared to a serious journal, and the Academy to a well-managed and successful sixpenny maga- zine. Charles Conder, who is proclaimed a genius, is said to be represented in the Luxembourg, at Dublin, and at Sydney, but in no English public collection. It is added that in his life " he could rely upon a small circle of friends and patrons, and after death will not have to wait long for fame." Mr. Claude Phillips deals with ' Some Figures by Giorgione (?),' and Mr. Lionel Cust with ' The Triple Portrait of Charles I.' by Van Dyck, and the bust by Bernini. Both of these articles are of exceptional interest. M. Paul Lafond deals with ' Juan de Juni,' an attrac- tive Spanish sculptor little known in England. M. Salomon Reinach suggests that two ridiculous

forgeries represented as portraits of Joan of Arc have found their way into Mr. Lang's recent book on ' The Maid of France.' Among the Notes on Various Works of Art ' is ' A Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci discovered at Milan.' The account given will hardly satisfy experts, and we hope more on the subject will be forth- coming*

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES MARCH.

MR. P. M. BARNARD'S Tunbridge Wells Cata- logue 28 is devoted to Early Scotch History and Literature, mostly of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries. There are Acts of Parliament,. Chronicles, Proclamations, works on Church troubles in 1637-9, and collections of tracts. Lender Drummond of Hawthornden will be found his ' Poems,' edited by Maitland, levant extra by Zaehnsdorf, 27. 5s. Under John Knox is the first edition of his ' History of the Reforma- tion within the Realm of Scotland,' calf, 147. It is of great rarity on account of its having been suppressed while in the press at the command, of Whitgift on 18 Feb., 1586/7.

Mr. G. H. Brown's Catalogue 52 contains a fine set of Ainsworth's novels, 16 vols., half- calf, 5?. 10s. ; Wilson and Bonaparte's 'American Ornithology,' 3 vols., 4to, 3?. 15s.; Evans's 'Ancient Stone Implements,' royal 8vo, 11. 5s. : ' Bartolozzi,' by Tuer, 2 vols., 4to, 3?. 17s. Qd. : first edition of Baxter's ' Saints' Everlasting Rest,' 1650, 57. 10s. ; a complete set of Payne's edition of Boccaccio, 9 vols., half-morocco, 12?. 10s. ; Jones's ' History of the County of Brecknock,' 3 vols., 4to, 11. 15s. ; and Blavatsky's ' Isis Unveiled,' 2 vols., 21. 10s. A first edition of Burney's ' Wanderer,' 1814,. is 37. 10s. ; and Burton's ' Arabian Nights,' 17 vols., original cloth, 127. 10s. Under Cambridge is a fine copy of Willis's ' Architectural History of the L'ni- versity,' 4 vols., half-morocco, 57. 10s. A fine set of ' The Century Dictionary,' 12 vols., half- morocco, is 87. ; the large-type edition of Carlyle. 18 vols., half-calf, 77. 10s. ; Planche's ' Cyclo- paedia of Costume,' 2 vols., 67. ; the Gadshill Dickens, 34 vols., half-morocco, 107. 10s. ; Saints- bury's edition of Dryden, 18 vols.. 67. 10s. ? Hasted's ' Kent,' 4 vols., folio, 257. ; Jesse's ' Memorials of London," first edition, 4 vols., 57. 10s. ; and Wraxall's ' Memoirs,' 5 vols., full calf, 47.

Messrs. Deighton, Bell & Co.'s Cambridge Catalogue 20 contains a complete reproduction of the Vatican Codex of the Bible known as Codex B (only 100 copies printed), 357. Under Chaucer is the facsimile of the first collected edition, 1532, introduction by Skeat, 1905, folio, antique boards, 37. 3s. There are long lists under Theology and Church History, Classics, and Archaeology. Under Omar Khayyam is a fac- simile of the MS. in the Bodleian of the ' Rubai- yat,' with translation by E. Heron-Allen, 1898. large paper (only 20 copies so done), 27. 12s. 6rf. Other items include Walpole's ' Letters,' edited by Mrs. Paget Toynbee, 16 vols., 1903-5, 147. r ' The Art of Heraldry,' by Fox-Davies (only 700 printed), 1904, 67. ; ' Early English Drama- tists, edited by J. S. Farmer, 13 vols., 4to_ large paper (one of 60 copies), 217. 15s. ; Bewick's ' Birds,' Newcastle, 1832, 2 vols., 17. Is. ; Dyce's ' Shakespeare,' 9 vols., I/. 5s. ; and ' Cambridge