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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. in. JUNE 24, 1905.

f!754, Josiah Kiddon was hanged at Tyburn, and we are informed that he was innocent of the offence for which he suffered. What the crime was thought to have been is not stated, and we are ourselves unable to supply the deficiency. This obituary does not include human beings only. The Godolphir Arabian is a sufficiently noteworthy animal to fine -a place therein. He died on 24 December, 1754.

Jirthur Young's Travels in France, 1787-1789.

Edited by Miss Betham-Edwards. (Bell & Sons v Shakespeare's Heroines. By Anna Jameson. (Same

publishers.)

"We welcome the addition to " The York Library ' of Arthur Young's important work, which has long been virtually a text -book. With Miss "Betham - Edwards's useful and illustrative com- inent we have for years owned it in " Bonn's 'Standard Library." On the thin paper, in the con- venient form, and with the admirable type of "The "York Library," there is a constant temptation to read it afresh. In compiling these facts concerning France in immediately pre-Revolutionary days, under grave difficulties of travel, much discomfort, and some danger, Young produced a masterpiece, presumably without knowing it. He received every -attention and all conceivable help from every- body he approached. To judge from occasional passages in his writings, and from his popularity, he must have been a dear fellow as well as the shrewdest of observers. At any rate, his book is a treat of which one never tires.

To the same series has been added Mrs. Jameson's "Characteristics of Women,' a work the first edition of which was dedicated to Fanny Kemble. This also has long been included in " Bonn's Standard 'Library," and besides being the best work in its line may be read with unending pleasure and profit. 'This pleasing series is of augmenting interest and value. The owner of the set has at nominal cost a treasury of delight.

'The Gull's Horn-Book. By Thomas Dekker. Edited

by R. B. McKerrow. (lie La More Press.) T)EKKER'S ' Gull's Horn-Book ' has been frequently reprinted, but never in a shape so attractive as that it assumes in " The King's Classics," to which it constitutes a delightful addition. It may 'be doubted whether any books whatever convey an idea better than Dekker's of the conditions of ordinary London life in Shakespeare's times, and of 'his prose works 'The Gull's Horn-Book' is the sprightliest and the best. Mr. McKerrow's preface does not greatly impress us. His notes, however taken largely from Nott, Hindley, Furnivall, and 'Grosart are serviceable. A glossary, and an ^appendix from Dedekin's ' Grobianus,' translated Tby R. F. (1605), are agreeable features, and a design of Paul's Walk, from an engraving by Hollar, is welcome and appropriate. This is one of the most attractive volumes of an excellent series.

/Printers' Pie. (Published at the Offices of ' The

Sphere' and ' The Tatler.')

THE new number of the Festival Souvenir of the Trinters' Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation is every whit as attractive as its pre- -decessors. The frontispiece is a lovely specimen of colour printing. Other illustrations, both plain and in colour, are admirably spirited. The letter- press is in keeping. The annual issue is, in fact, to be regarded as an established success.

Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raceloe. By George Eliot. With an Introduction by Richard Garnett. (De La More Press.)

THIS is apparently the first volume of " The King's Novels," a Aeries issued from the same press as " The King's Classics," and similar to it in shape and many other respects. It is as delightful in form as in the nature of its contents, and will, we hope, be the precursor of many works equally attractive and welcome. A reproduction of a water-colour portrait of Mary Anne Evans forms a fitting frontispiece. For ourselves, though we hold, of course, the labourer worthy of his hire, we are always glad when the conditions of copy- right permit of such cheap and desirable reprints.

The Water Babies. By Charles Kingsley. (Rout- ledge & Sons.)

WE have here a wonderfully cheap copy of Kings- ley's fascinating volume in a very legible print and with eight attractive designs by Mary Sandheim. The story cannot be read in a pleasanter shape, nor can we fancy a more agreeable gift-book for youth.

A Descriptive Index to Shakespeare's Characters is an acceptable addition to the miniature editions of Messrs. Routledge.

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CLIFTON ROBBINS ("Cricket"). The 'N.E.D.' states that the etymology of the word is uncertain, jut gives the reasons for and against various suggestions. See the article. The other queries shall appear next week.

CORRIGENDA. Shelley's letter, ante, p. 463, col. 2, 1. 9 and 10 from foot, is dated from Lymouth, Jarnstaple.

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