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ing copper with silver was, we are told, discovered by Thomas Bolsover in 1742, but it was not till .some years later that Joseph Hancock took up the matter and made of it a successful business. Prof. Skeat contributes notes on the origin of the Yorkshire place-names Bradford and Flamborough.

MOST important of the articles in the Burlington '{No. XXII.) is that of the 'Likeness of Christ' in the Royal Collection. This is the work of two hands, Mr. Lionel Cust, M.V.O., and Prof. E. yon Dobschiitz. A second article on the Constantino lonides bequest is also to be commended. Mr. P. M. Turner writes on ' The House and Collection of Mr. Edgar Speyer.' There are many interesting reproductions of well-known paintings and supposed portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth.

IN the Fortnightly Mr. Arthur Symons has an admirable paper on Thomas Campbell, which treats rather grudgingly the author of, let us say, " Our bugles sang truce." What is said about Campbell's more ambitious works may not be disputed. Mr. writing ' In Red Marrakesh.' Prof. William Knight pays a handsome tribute to George Frederick Watts, and Mary F. Sandars says much that is true, though not specially deep, concerning Honqre" de Balzac. 'A Note on Mysticism,' by Mr. Oliver Elton, is thoughtful and suggestive. ' Social Sickness,' by Mr. E. F. Benson, involves a serious arraignment of much of our social system. * The Pessimistic Russian 'is a short, but pregnant article. Bishop Welldon points out, in the Nineteenth Century,
 * S. L. Bensusan has a very picturesque style in

admirably the reasons why there are now no good sermons. In dealing with Colley Gibber's ''Apology,' Mr. H. B. Irving shows the respects in which the lessons of Gibber's time present them- selves afresh to-day. He draws, indeed, many moral deductions, and is careful to vindicate the status
 * The Difficulty of preaching Sermons,' and states

of the actor, but gives us no specimens of those criticisms upon actresses which are Colley's special glory. Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson returns 'to that question of ' The American Woman ' on which he has already been outspoken. He is like enough to have a hornets' nest about his

ears, but his article is valuable. 'My Friend the Fellah' is by Sir Walter Mie"ville. The frontis- piece to the Pall Mall consists of a reproduction of a picture by Zurbaran ("the painter to the King, and the king of painters") of a 'Lady as St. Margaret,' otherwise St. Marina, a saint whose adventures are somewhat mythical. The picture might serve as companion to Mr. Hind's ' Days with Velasquez,' to illustrate which many well-known ^portraits of royal children are reproduced. ' Napo- leon's Journey to Elba,' by Constance, Countess de Ua Warr, is partly from unpublished documents, ^and has great interest. In his ' Literary Geography '

Mr. Sharp deals with the country of Carlyle, and in ^his ' Master Workers ' Mr. Harold Begbie with Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace. Mr. Ernest M. Jessop writes on Montagu House. ' A Forgotten Frontier,' 'by Mr. Edwin Arnold, describes trie Roman Wall in the North, which is not quite forgotten. An ^article on Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher has a striking picture. Miss Betham-Edwards supplies, in the Coriihill, the third of her * Household Budgets,' which deals with France. From this the cost of living would appear to be heavier in that country than in England. We are rather anxious to see a

Belgian budget, since life seems to be cheaper there than anywhere in Western Europe. Mr. Atlay's ' A Glimpse of Napoleon at Elba ' supports in the emperor's own avowals some of the worst charges brought against him. Mr. Lang con- tinues his "Historic Mysteries," and deals once more with ' The Chevalier d'Eon.' ' Provincial Letters' speaks in praise of Bury St. Edmunds as the final goal for one to whom the grasshopper has become a burden. Miss Emily A. Richings gives in the Gentleman's an interesting account of the capital of Japan. Mr. Foster Watson has an erudite article on Baptista Mantuan, a man concerning whom little is now known, but in whom a few scholars still delight. Mr. Herbert W. Tompkins has some- thing more to say on'Charles Lamb. In Longman's Mr. John Dewar expatiates on the iniquity of ' The Indian Crow.' Miss Jebb gives an interesting description of ' A Turk and an Armenian,' and Mr. Lang in ' At the Sign of the Ship ' deals first with Mr. Rider Haggard's dream concerning his dog, and then gets on to the subject of Australian aborigines, Apropos of the latest work of Messrs. Spencer and Gillen.

THE contributions to our columns of Mr. Thomas Bayne have led to an application to that writer from the redaction of the German Bausteine to fur- nish its columns with essays on the early writings of Burns and other Scottish poets.

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