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brilliantly brought out the sense of community, " the communal as opposed to the individual point of view, or rather the communal as the further realization of the individual's place as a member of a great organism." A convinced admirer, Mr. Smith writes well on Maitland, but his attempted refutation of some criticism of that most able and delightful writer cannot, we think, be upheld. " Non omnia possumus omnes " : Maitland in some of his best writing was not clear to the ordinary man. Mr. H. G. Hutchinson is both amusing and fair in his summary of the more obvious characteristics of many ' People who go to Plays.' Mr. A. C. Benson writes pleasantly on ' Jane Austen at Lyme Regis,' but the article tells us nothing that we did not know indeed, repeats much stale matter. ' The Choice,' by Margaret Sherwood, is a good story, while ' Ten Days of a Frontier Show ' is a vivid impression by a subaltern of a brush with the Afghans a year ago. The writer's name is not given, but his article is good enough to be a credit to a professional pen.

The Burlington Magazine opens with an editorial, ' Thoughts on the American Tariff,' which points out that art-patrons of that nation give extravagant prices for famous work, but " will not spend a penny upon pictures, however good, by men who are not famous." When Whistler was a struggling artist, it was the English and French who helped him. It is further stated that " England at the present moment is producing more artists of conspicuous and original talent in painting, drawing, and engraving than any other country," and may therefore expect some established reputations later, which will appeal to American collectors. Mr. Claude Phillips writes on the recently dis- covered panel by Rembrandt, ' David with the Head of Goliath,' sold on 18 February for 9| guineas ! The inscription on the panel, as to which there was some doubt, has now been made out to give the year 1627, an early year for a Rembrandt of such accomplishment. As we expected, ' The Newly Discovered " Leon- ardo " ' is little more than a journalistic sensa- tion. Various interesting illustrations show its place as a late imitation, and Mr. Herbert Cook brings forward seven more or less similar examples. Prof. Holmes has a study of ' Two Modern Pictures,' both the subject of illustrations a beautiful ' Solitude,' landscape with river, by the veteran Harpignies and the arresting ' Woman Smiling ' by Mr. A. E. John, an artist whose deliberate choice of the ugly makes one doubt the mastery assigned to him. Mr. Roger Fry has a notice of the collection of ' Early English Portraiture at the Burlington Fine Arts Club,' which contains, as usual, some masterpieces. A notice of the New Salon in Paris says that the sculpture is much superior to the painting, which is this year mediocre.

The English Illustrated Magazine has an article on Hogarth by Mr. J. Harris Stone, four clever little stories from the French, and a short article on ' R. L. Stevenson and his Friends ' by J. S. Purcell. It gives a pleasant view of R.L.S. in connexion with Mr. Will H. Low's recent book. Mr. W. G. Walters has an entertaining illustrated article on ' Street Performances.' Mr. F. C. Philips in a ' Question of Colour ' shows his power as a veteran in fiction.

REV. W. F. H. KING. We are sorry to hear of the death of the Rev. William Francis Henry King, who was a frequent contributor to our columns, especially on classical subjects, and generally under the pseudonym of " Philip North." His ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' a third edition of which appeared in 1904, is a work of real value which we have used often with profit and delight. Mr. King died at the end of March, but even thus late we ought not to omit a record of his regretted death.

ADMIRERS of Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale) will be interested to learn that a tablet is about to be erected to her memory in Tremeirchion Church, where she was laid to rest in 1821. For nearly a century no sort of memorial tablet has commemorated her burial- place. This tardy recognition of her merits is due to Mr. O. B. Fellowes, grandson of Sir James Fellowes, who was her intimate friend and executor.

Whilst staying in the neighbourhood of St. Asaph, Mr. Fellowes paid a visit to Tremeirchion for the purpose of inspecting Mrs. Piozzi's tomb or tablet in the church described by Johnson as "a mean fabric " ; and found that nothing of any kind marked the final resting-place either of Mrs. Piozzi or of Gabrielli Piozzi, who also lies there.

Mr. Fellowes appears to have thought that the omission to mark the burial-place of Gabrielli Piozzi constituted no sufficient reason for leaving that of his wife unrecorded, with the result that he initiated and carried through the project for the erection of the tablet in question. This memorial is erected in the year in which will be celebrated the bi-centenary of Johnson, an intimate at the house of Mrs. Piozzi for many years. The unveiling will probably take place at the end of this month, when Mr. A. M. Broadley will read a paper on Mrs. Piozzi. W.

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EMILY HICKEY (" God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb "). Herbert's anticipation of Sterne is noticed in Bartlett's ' Familiar Quota- tions.'

CORRIGENDUM. P. 344, col. 2, 1. 4 from bottom, for " right " read left.