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Kingston is eloquent upon ' The Public as Seen from the Stage,' and has much justice on her side. .She attributes to the English public fanatical Puritanism. Crass ignorance would be a juster charge. Bishop Welldon writes on ' The Art -of Classical Quotation,' the decay in which may -also perhaps be attributed to ignorance. Very in- teresting and suggestive is the ' Musical Hours ' of .the Queen of Roumania. Baron Suyematsu intro- duces us to the Mikado as a poet. In the midst of .many important articles on military, naval, and similar subjects appears, in The National Review, a capital paper by Canon Ellacombe on ' House Mottoes.' The subject has been freely treated in tion to our columns. Many new mottoes strike us, among them being the two following : " Sapiens qui assiduus," on the ceiling of a bank parlour, and in a library, " Tolle, aperi, recita, ne Ijedas, claude, repone." On a weighing machine outside the rail- way station at Brigue, on the Rhone, the Canon copied the following: "Qui souvent se pese bien >ee connait, et qui bien se connait bien se porte." This is at least curious. Miss Gwen- dolen Talbot writes wisely and amusingly on fiercely controversial. A reply to M. Combes, by Viscount Llandaff, does not seem calculated to foster the good relations which have lately sprung into existence between London and Paris. Lieut. - <Col. de la Poer Beresfprd, late British military attache at Petersburg, gives a good account, accom- panied by a map, of the Battle of Mukden. In The Gornhill Mr. Stephen Gwynn writes, in the cus- tomary modern style of Celts, of 'Mr. G. B. Shaw and the British Public.' Mr. Shaw can, however, no longer be counted among the unacted, though he has doubtless some points to regulate with the "Censure. Mr. Gwynn is, of course, duly severe upon the monstrous action of prohibiting ' Monna Vanna.' letters and interesting particulars concerning Fanny Burney. What Mr. Frith says about grangerizing as not quite adequate. Mr. Joseph Shay lor writes on ' Reprints and their Readers.' On this subject also something more is to be said. In ' Greeks and Trojans' we read with some disappointment the article of the Hon. John Collier. 'The Second Mate ' seems to us, \yho are, however, quite un- skilled, to have admirable colour. 'Old -Time Travel Fifty Years Ago,' in The Gentleman's, de- scribes a tour in France, Belgium, Germany, &c., ififty years ago. As we personally made a similar ,tour ten years earlier than that period, we feel ^scarcely disposed to regard it as "old time." Dr. 'Whitefoord describes 'An English Village: the Old and the New.' Mr. MacMichael continues his capital description of ' Charing Cross and its Imnie- xliate Neighbourhood.' ' Notes by a Vicar's Wife ' contains some North-Country folk-lore. Miss Lilian Moubrey sends ' The Song of the Sea.' In the Pall Mall an account of ' Modern At hens,' by Mr. "William Sharp, is accompanied by capital photo- graphs, some of them printed in tint. The frontis- piece consists of 'A Boy with a Hawk,' by Nicholas Maas. ' Westminster : The House of Commons,' is well illustrated. Very interesting is, moreover, part iv. of Mr. Conrad's ' The Mirror of the Sea.' In 'At the Sign of the Ship' in Longmans Mr. Andrew Lang settles the dispute between him and Mr. James Douglas by owning that the passage supposed to be taken from the latter's life of Mr.
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Watts-Dunton was, in fact, extracted from Black- wood. An interesting dispute between Mr. Lang and Sir Arthur Mitchell is continued. Mr. Lang also answers the " American Physician " who thinks that a man is no use in literature after a certain age. Mr. Heneage Legge gives some specimens of ancient wills, and Mr. Reginald Turner asks ' Are the English People too Genteel ? '

MESSRS. HOUGHTON, MIFFON & Co., of Boston and New York, promise a second edition of ' The Magic of the Horseshoe,' with other folk-lore notes, by Robert Means Lawrence, M.D., a work which cannot fail greatly to interest our readers.

IT is proposed to issue an, index to Bacon's 'Annals of Ipswich,' compiled by Nath. Bacon. Town Clerk and Recorder of Ipswich, grandson of Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas, and also related to Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans. The work consists of abstracts from the records and docu- ments of the town, and throws much light upon the manners and customs of the time. It was privately issued in 1884 without any index ; one is now in course of compilation, and will shortly be issued by subscription, only one hundred copies being printed.

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L. STANIFORTII (" Though the mills of God grind slowly "). The couplet is a translation by Long- fellow from the ' Sinngedichte ' of Friedrich von Logau (1604-55). The note in Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations' (p. 793, ed. 1891) supplies illustrations of the sentiment from Greek writers. Several extracts from the German poet will be found in any edition of Longfellow under the title ' Poetic Aphorisms.'

T. W. B. ("In the straw"). The phrase is well known, and is in Annandale's four- volume *Im-

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