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before it recognizes in letters a qualification for office. In ' The Ethics of Don Juan ' Mr. Maurice Oerothwohl deals specially with the creation of Tirso da Molina and of Moliere, which forms a sort of parallel to ' Faust.' He quotes from M. Albert iSamain some admirable lines descriptive of the gallant of the great or lesser Trianon :

Tout un monde galant, vif, brave, exquis et fou,

Avec sa fine epee en verrouil, et surtout

Ce mepris de la mort, comme une fleur, aux levres.

((Where are they to be found?) 'Paris and CEnone' is a species of dramatic idyl by Mr. Laurence Binyon. Bishop Welldon lias a deeply interesting paper in The Nineteenth Century on 'The Fate of Oliver Cromwell's Remains.' The conclusion at which the writer arrives is that these are now hopelessly lost; that the body was privately buried in Westminster Abbey, that it was removed to Tyburn and there decapitated and buried, that the trunk remained where it was placed beneath the site of Tyburn. There it has presumably mouldered away, and is now irrecoverable, as is the head, which, after being exposed in Westminster Hall more than twenty years, disappeared, and has not since been seen. These conclusions are unwel- come to the Bishop, and will be so he holds to many others. For ourselves, if the spirit still survive, we can dispense with the corpse. Mr. .John Fyvie is severe on ' The Ethological Society and the Revival of Phrenology.' His article sup- plies interesting information, not generally acces- sible, on the growth and development of the belief in phrenology. Mrs. Villiers Hemming gives a .good account of the old Festival of Fools. Miss Yonge, in ' Some Royal Love-Letters,' deals with the curious and not wholly edifying correspondence between Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, recently included in the publications of the De La More Press. Much to interest will be found in Mr. Coulton's ' Autobiography of a Wandering Friar.' The Queen of Roumania writes in The National Review on * The Vocation of Women.' As this, according to her Majesty, is "simply motherhood," it is scarcely to be expected that her views will be acceptable to the loudest advocates of women's rights. Coming from a serious source, some of the statements, such as " If only women did not require such costly toilettes they would never be under the necessity of working for their own living," impress us. Some sensible counsel is offered to women. 'Candid Impressions of England,' by a German Resident, hits some blots in our national conduct. We read the truth, but thank God! not the whole truth. Newspaper utterances, the insig- nificance and ignorance of which the initiate know, are treated as representatively national. Dr. George Brandes has an important article on Maxim Gorki. We fail to grasp the entire significance of ' The Spirit of the Piano.' ' A Glimpse of the Exiled Stuarts,' in the Cornhill, an article contributed by the Rev. W. H. Hutton, gives a very interesting account of the presence at a Roman ball of the Pretender, his two sons, and the Prince of Poland. The letter, extracts from which are furnished, is from Samuel Crisp, the "Daddy Crisp" whose name occurs so frequently and so pleasantly in the memoirs of Fanny D'Arblay. ' Gastronomic Diva- gations,' by Mr. Alexander Innes Shand, is chiefly devoted to the eulogy of Scottish provisions and cuisine. It might have been suggested by the great lyric beginning :

The mountain sheep were sweeter, But the valley sheep were fatter;

We therefore thought it meeter

To feed upon the latter.

' Wild Animals as Parents ' gives an excellent account of the efforts made by timid and defenceless creatures to protect their young, the heroism that will make a thrush attack a magpie or a rook, and a doe rabbit drive off a stoat. It also describes the OMtistorgf, the driving away of the infant by its parents. ' The Old Woman of Wessel ' is a grim story by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. Part II. of ' From a College Window ' shows how to get old- er^ forty, which the writer thinks so graciously. To The ^Gentleman's Mr. Holden MacMichael sends the sixth part of his 'Charing Cross and its Immediate Neighbourhood,' which shows nofalling- off in interest. 'An African Pompeii' describes Timegad, the Thamutada of Ptolemy. Dr. Japp supplies the ' Mottoes of Noble Houses.' The noble " Fuimus" of the Bruces is rapidly dismissed. The Horatian motto of Lord Listowel might, with advantage, include " et arceo." ' Johnson and Bos- well in Scotland ' is good, and ' The Ward of Vintry' antiquarian. In Longman's Mr. Lang records an interesting discovery of a miniature of Mary Stuart, which, he holds, does justice to her beauty and charm. We are convinced that he is right, and are sorry we cannot give the whole of his argument. On the back of the minia- ture are the words "Virtutis Amore," which he regards as an anagram of Marie Stouart. ' A Dis- tinguished Librarian ' givee an account of Arthur Strong, Librarian of the House of Lords. ' A Tenant Farmer's Diary of the Eighteenth Century ' is amusing. Among many stories in The Idler comes 'The Passing of Ancient Towns,' which is anti- quarian both in letterpress and illustrations.

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