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disguises. On the other hand, "an armed head " bids Macbeth beware the Thane of Fife. Cherubs are often heads with wings and no more. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT.

SIR R. FANSHAWE (10 th S. Hi. 451). Though not the desired copy of Sir R. Fanshawe's version of Guarini's ' Pastor Fido,' yet several others, dedicated to Charles, Prince of Wales (with the motto "Ich Dien" beneath the crown j and three feathers), by Richard Fanshawe (London, 1647 and 1648), will be found in the j Taylorian Library. Perhaps one of these j editions of 1648, which lacks its title-leaf, j may be of special interest to MR. E FAXSHA^VE, since it has the following MS. entry upon its j front fly-leaf : "This version was executed by Sir R. Fanshawe, who was sent as Ambas- sador to Spain by King Charles I. He also translated the ' Lusiad ' of Camoens. He died at Madrid in 1666, aged fifty-eight years."

H. KREBS.

Oxford.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Wild Marqui*. By Ernest A. Vizetelly.

(Chat to & Windus.)

THE title of Mr. Vizetelly's new book suggests fiction : the work itself is, however, historical, and constitutes a companion volume to the accounts of Cjmorre the Cursed and Gilles de Rais, the life of the Chevalier d'Eon, and other productions of the same author. Nothing in history, and little in fiction, is stranger than the record of Armand Guerry de Maubreuil, Marquis d'Orvault, a Breton nobleman, a captain of VVestphalian horse in the service of France, and a temporary refugee in Eng- land, who undertook the assassination of Napoleon, carried off the priceless jewels of the Queen of Wiirtemberg, publicly assaulted Talleyrand, whom he frightened out of his wits, and caracoled along the boulevards with the cross of the Legion of Honour tied to his horse's tail. Everything about this eccentric hero was strange. Once his name was in every mouth. He then sank into such insig- nificance and oblivion that he was supposed to be dead a score years before in obscurity he really expired. Abundant materials concerning him exist. These Mr. Vizetelly has used so skilfully that we have a book, casting a light on the least- known period of Napoleon's career, which has all the charm of romance. Whether great statesmen and sovereigns really connived at the proposed murder of Napoleon the reader must judge from the perusal of the work.

The Old Service-Books of the English Church. By C. Wordsworth, M.A., and H. Littlehales. (Methuen & Co.)

A GRKAT national institution like the Church of England, the fibres of which are intimately inter- woven into the tissue of the history and constitu- tion of the country, has naturally an antiquarian side, apart from its spiritual aspect, and its service- books, as partaking of a literary and artistic

character, find a legitimate place in the series of "Antiquary's Books" which are being edited by Dr. \J. C. Cox. The present attractive -looking volunie, produced by the collaboration of two specialists in liturgiology, essays to give a clear description of all the most important service-books which were in use from the earliest times down to the appearance of the Book of Common Prayer, Indeed, there is hardly anything in the latter which? cannot be traced to its source in the " antiphoners,. missales, grayles, processionalles, manuelles, le- gendes, pies, portasses, jornalles and ordinalles after the use of Sarum, Lincolne and Yorke," which according to Edward VI. 's Injunction (14 February, 1549) were to be "defaced and abolyshed" to make room for it. A large number of selected pages from these old books are here produced in facsimile with admirable clearness, and we have nothing but praise for the tasteful illuminations in colour which represent the conduct of mediaeval services.

The authors wisely condescend to the average- reader in giving a number of the quaint scribblings* which are to be found in these well-thumbedl manuals, and notes charged with human interest concerning personal and family matters. Even the- comic element, as contained in grotesques and cari- catures, is not excluded. As bordering on the- latter we have a charge to the sponsors at baptism, given in a fifteenth-century manual, that the child 1 be kept " seven yer fro water," and not be allowed* to lie by his mother, for fear of being overlain, until! he can say " ligge outter," i.e., lie further off. Ai section on 'Cramp Rings' and 'Touching for the King's Evil' keeps up the antiquarian character of the book.

Index to Obituary and Biographical Notices in.

Jackson's Oxford Journal. By Edward A. B.

Mordaunt, Vol. I. (1753, 1754, 1755). (Mordaunt.)) THIS will, when complete, be a most valuable book, of reference, as it will contain death-references for a century to all those commemorated in The Oxford,' Journal, which began its career on 5 May, 1753. The part before us includes the first three years of' its existence only, and appears to be very carefully compiled. Oxford being a university as well as a city, the earlier readers of the Journal would, there cannot be doubt, have wider interests than those of towns of equally large size whose inhabitants belonged for the most part to the trading classes ;: as a consequence, we find many of the notices relate- to persons whose homes were far away. Some foreigners, indeed, were included, as, for example, M. Descombat, who was broken on the wheel at Paris 1 February, 1755. The crime for which he- suffered is not mentioned.

Hangings had a great attraction for our ancestors of the eighteenth century, and as a consequence- many, though by no means all, of the sufferers at Tyburn are chronicled here. Among them is Dr. Charles Archibald Cameron, who suffered for high treason on 7 June, 1753. He was, it is believed, a near relation of Cameron of Lochiel, and with him had been engaged in what the Jacobites were wont to call the "affair" of the '45. He was captured,, escaped from prison, and made his way to the Continent, butcame back to this country on private- business only, as it is said, and was again taken, and suffered the extreme penalty of the law. His death aroused great sympathy, happening so long after all dread of danger was over. Another shocking^ entry should not be left unnoticed. On 4 February,.