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House ' seven of which are well reproduced. Opus AnXanum, the Syon Cope,' is treated by May Morris and is also illustrated. Following tins -comes a third article on 'The Carvallo Collection,' wS again is followed by Part II. of Mr. Hodg- iin's ' Transfer Printing on Pottery.' Six volumes of this excellent periodical have now appeared.

MR P LA.NDOX sends to The Fortnightly a warm .encomium upon London. When the home-sick traveller rejoces in the sight of the white cliffs of AlbTo ?it is not England, but " the deep humming tong"" of Westminster and the pigeons that dip and utter round the Eleanor Cross of Charing" tor which he reallv pines. Mr. Francis Gribble deals with 'Sainte-Beuve,' on the failures of whose life was "equally famous as a litterateur wd notorious Is a libertine." For critical acumen Sainte-Beuve Raised but in other respects he is severely udwd 'Eton under Hornby' is pleasantly anec- Ztal Mr Edward Dicey contributes some ^ Recol- lections of 'Arthur Sullivan,' descriptive of him as n rather than a musician. Mr. Ernest Rhys 'Mr 'Swinburne's Collected .Poems,'
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md displays much taste and imperfect informa- tion -Si I The Nineteenth Century Prince Kropotkm 'neaks with no uncertain voice on 'The Constitu- tional Agitation in Russia.' Mr. Edward H. Cooper wrTtes on 'Children's Christmas Amusements.' What he says is not, like his recent utterance, directed against a single entertainment, and he sup- J -|f some curious facts, or at least makes some furious Statements. In treating. of The Position of the Australian Aborigines in the Scale of Wnrnan Intelligence,' the Hon. J. Mildred Creed S with a subject on which he is entitled to sneak and combats the view that places the abori- K at the bottom. Mr. Newton-Robinson has an in- teresting paper on 'The Revival of the SmaU-Sword.' 'A? the Rose in June' has a pleasant flavour of riMticitv Mr. Frederick Wedmore writes appro- ckt vely on ' Fantin and Boudin.' " Undoubtedly the best book of the season is " so-and-so, says at close of the number a cocksure gentleman who iurnXs a monthly contribution to the review. Tndee Parry supplies in The Cornhill an agree- able aWmt y of 'A Welsh Rector of the Last Centurv ' In No. 10 of "Blackstick Papers 'Mrs Richmond Ritchie gossips pleasantly about Jacob Omnium,' a name now fading from public memory, but once conspicuous. ' The Tercentenary of " Don Quixote"' by Mr. Austin Dobson, is a short and .characteristic poem, just published at Madrid as r contribution to the movement -it celebrates Mr E V Lucas writes on ' G. D. [Georg< l)verl Friend of Lamb.' Few more eccentric irinrl hearted and self - oblivious creatures than Dyer" can have existed. Mr. .Frank T. Bullen's Land of Romance' is situate m the West Indies In The Gentleman's Mr. J. Holden MacMichae begins an account of ' Charing Cross and its Imme rliate Neighbourhood,' for which he is disposed tc -claim consideration as the hub of the terrestria universe. Mr. Frank Lawrence tells afresh t -curious and quite forgotten story mi he Case o M Perreau.' Mr. Cuthbert Hadden discourses 01 ' The Robin.' Our own observations lead us t <ioubt the entire accuracy of some of his com ments. Miss Georgiana Hill has a paper on ^ Great Lady of the Seventeenth Century, and Edit <Jray Wheelwright one on 'The Influence of th

k.ymri in Literature.' Though reduced now to six- ence The Poll Mall Magazine shows no falling oif 11 the character of its illustrations or its letterpress, 'he photogravure of Reynolds's 'Country Girl' vhich forms the frontispiece is of quite remarkable ieauty. A characteristic poem by Thomas Hardy pens the number. Next comes an interesting ,nd valuable paper by Mr. John Burns on ' London Jld and New,' which is admirably illustrated. Im- nediately following contributions are by Mr. H. G. A r ells, Mr. H. C. Bailey, and Mr. Herbert Vivian, t is, indeed, difficult to imagine a more ideal election, from the popular standpoint, of contents. Mrs. C. Towle writes in Longman's concerning hat interesting personality Aubrey de Vere, and Janon Vaughan has a capital paper on ' The Flora f Hants.' in ' At the Sign of the Ship ' Mr. Lang vvns to having discovered who was the Eliza Logau ifter whom he inquired in ' N. & Q.' She was, it .ppears, by birth a Miss Manson, and of course narried a Logan. These particulars are obtained "rom Mr. Jonathan Nield, author of ' A Guide to .he Best Historical Novels ' (Elkin Mathews), a work of which we had not previously heard. Mr, ~.iang also describes a curious American version of The Ballad of Lord Bateman,' beginning, very strangely, "In India lived a noble lord."

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F. P. MARCHANT (" But for the grace of God, there goes "). Dean Farrar, in the fourth sermon in 'Eternal Hope,' attributes this saying to John Bradford. See 9 th S. vii. 269, 351.

H. W. UKDEBDOWN ("Boxing Day: Christmas Box ") See the editorial note at 9 th S. iv. 477 and MR. HOLDEN MACMIOHAEL'S article 9 th S. v. 10.

W. CURZOX YEO ("Lass of Richmond Hill"). The locality of this song was discussed at con- siderable length in the First, Second, and Third Series, and at still greater length in the last four volumes of the Fifth Series. It is Richmond in Surrey.

J. Gooos ("Mad as a hatter"). The earliest instance of this phrase in the 'N.E.D.' is from Thackeray's ' Pendennis,' chap. x. See also 9"' S. vi. 448; vii. 251, 396. We do not know who used the pseudonym "^Esop" in the middle of last century.

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