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too numerous to admit of the possibility of indi- vidual mention, and almost too important to be collectively dismissed. This attractive magazine is pushing steadily to the front of illustrated periodicals.

THE most interesting and valuable paper, not only of the Fortnightly Review, but of all the month's periodicals, is the 'Artemis and Hippo- lytus' of Mr. J. G. Frazer. This is extracted from the third edition of the author's ' Golden Bough,' which, treading closely on the heels of the second, is announced as being in the press. In the worship paid by Trozenian maidens to this young and Handsome favourite of Artemis we have, naturally, suggestion of the cult of Adonis by Tyrian damsels. "What is said about the deposition of the shorn locks of youths and maidens on their arrival at puberty links the worship with that at Nemi and with the crowned priest. It is curious to meet in an English periodical with a composition of that mystic Sar Peladan. Such, however, appears, though it is in a vein all unlike that the writer sometimes adopts. Ethel Goddard's paper on ' The Winged Destiny and Fiona Macleod ' has also literary interest. For the general public Mr. Bash- ford's conversation with Count von Billow on ' Great Britain and Germany,' which appears in the Nine- teenth Century, has absorbing interest. With this and its lesson we may not deal. The account by .Lady Priestley of ' What the French Doctors Saw ' during their late visit to London is edifying and satisfactory. Mr. Mallock answers his antagonists concerning 'Free Thought in the Church of Eng- land.' The Countess of Jersey displays much erudi- tion in dealing with 'Hymns Ancient and Modern,' and condemns, with most others, the "failures in rhyme and rhythm," and, in fact, the general bathos of the classical side of the new book. Baron Suye- matsu explains to English readers what is the real significance of the Hara-kiri. Miss Rose M. Brad- ley writes on ' The Decline of the Salon.' Other articles of much interest are those on the ' Reflow from Town to Country,' a feature of modern life not to be contemplated with unmixed approval, on ' The Coreless Apple,' 'Queen Christinas Pictures,' and ' Palmistry in China.' In thePo^ Mall Mr. Ruddi- man Johnston deals with ' The Jap at Home.' Mr. .Frederick Lees describes ' Madame Rejane on and off the Stage.' Mr. Austin Dobson has a valuable and delightful paper on ' How Dr. Johnson wrote his Dictionary. Mr. Hilaire Belloc concludes his 'On Foot through the Pyrenees,' and there is a symposium on ' Is London growing more Beautiful ? ' in which several well-known people participate. Mr. E. V. Lucas writes in the Cornhill on ' Charles Lamb's Commonplace Books.' We are surprised to find him speaking of Lamb's transcription in his own hand of passages that pleased him as horrid drudgery. We have found such work delightful. Many of the extracts given have profound interest. 'The Revival of the Road,' by A. G. Bradley, is pleasantly antiquarian. In his "His- torical Mysteries," No. XIL, Mr. Lang deals with ' The Mystery of the Kirks.' This is curious in its way and wholly unlike his other contributions. Mr. Aflalo writes on ' Fishes on their Defence.' ' Bishop Ridding as Head Master' is described by an Old Wykehamist. In ' Provincial Letters ' a holiday in Wensleydale is described. The author has scarcely come under the spell of the district. In the Gentle- man's, ' Eros on the Waters ' is the quaint title of

an article on Lady Hamilton and Nelson. Lieut.- Col. Hill James has a pleasant paper on ' Biarritz.' ' Two Studies in Unwritten Literature,' by a Crab Maid ! are criticisms of a supposed oration of Cicero for Joan of Arc and a tragedy by Shakespeare on Charles I. 'The Squire of Walton Hall' is, of course, our old friend Charles Waterton. In 'At the Sign of the Ship,' in Longman's, Mr. Andrew Lang writes on Dr. Campbell's arraignment of work- ing men and on the causes of the decline of church- going. Mr. W. E. Norris describes ' Some August Days in Japan,' and Mrs. Comyns Carr contributes 'A Musical Difference.'

BY the death in his fifty-ninth year of Mr. W. G.Boswell-Stone we lose a valuable contributor, chiefly on Shakespearian subjects. His name appears frequently in the General Index to the latest series. He had a share in the proceedings of the New Shakspere Society, and is responsible for an excellent edition of 'King Henry V.' His 'Shakespeare's Holinshed' is a valuable work, to which we make frequent reference. He has also edited some plays for the new variorum edition of Beaumont and Fletcher of Mr. A. H. Bullen. An invalid for life, owing to an accident in childhood, he found relief in literary studies, which he pursued with much diligence.

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P. ("Yankee Doodle "). The lines as we have heard them are :

Yankee Doodle went to town,

Riding on a pony ; Stuck a feather in his crown,

And called it makarony. This seems only useful as showing that the date must be soon after 1776.

H. KINGSFORD ("Tantarabobus"). See ' Tan- terabobus,' 3 rd S. vi. 5, 59, 331; and ' Tantibogus,' 8 th S. xii. 268, 332.

CORRIGENDUM. P. 457, col. 2, 1. 5, for "living" read livery.

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