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 40 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. JULY s. 1905. •suspect, not wholly grateful to feminine, is Mrs. John Lane's contribution on 'The hxtravagant Economy of Women.' Mr. Robert S. Rait discusses ' Scotland and John Knox,' a subject always inter- esting to Scotsmen, to which Mr. Lane's recent writings have added fresh importance. Mr. Francis •Gribble contributes a paper on Francis William Newman, which supplies curious illustrations of his subject's intellectual growth. An "honest mind working in the pietistie medium was," we are toldj " the note of Francis Newman throughout his life.' ••The Beginnings of Religion and Totemism among the Australian Aborigines,' of which the first portion appears, is extracted from the forthcoming third edition of Mr. J. G. Frazer's' Golden Bough.' Among these some possibilities of belief in a supreme being may perhaps be traced, but the accounts given by natives of their religious beliefs are often deliber- ately falsified for the benefit of the white man.—In ihis 'A Country Parson of the Eighteenth Century,' •contributed to The Nineteenth CeiUury, Dr. Jessopp supplies what may in part be reckoned as a critical analysis of the deeply iuterestine 'Memorials of a Royal Chaplain' of Mr. Albert Hartshorne, a book with which we hope ere long to concern ourselves. The work, which it is to be hoped is but a first instalment, is of a kind to appeal to that fine scholar and former contributor. Mr. St. Clair Haddeley, another whilom writer in our columns, sends an interesting and valuable paper on ' The Sacred Trees of Rome.' Mr. Baddeley s recent explorations of Rome have yielded much xood fruit, and this may count as part. There is no mention of the Golden Bough, but what is said .generally concerning sacred groves is well worthy of study, and some of it is new. Mrs. Corner- •Ohlmiitz has a paper.also of deep interest to students of primitive culture, on 'Heathen Rites and Super- stitions in Ceylon.' ' Count St. Paul in Paris ' casts .light on English and French relations in the pre- revolutioHary period in France.—' Glimpses into the Mind of a Child," by Katharine Tynan, which appears in The National Reciew, is wholly mi .generis. Most families can tell of the utterance of some clever or si>eculative infant. Never before have •childish investigations into truth or speculation been fully described. The result is both amusing and edi- fying. Sometimes the utterances are Blake-like, as, "J always think distances beautiful." The Hon. W. Pember Reeves writes on ' The Expansion of Utopia,' and takes the sanguine view that the "Western European and Colonial world, which •concerns itself with commonwealths," is bringing Depots in Utopia within ken. One of the utter- ances of a paper with which we do not entirely agree is that, " purely as a satire, Butler's •Erewhon' is more ingeniously and convincingly worked out than 'Gulliver.'" There are some •* Further Impressions of Eton,' and Dr. William Barry writes thoughtfully on 'Freemasons in France.' —In The CornhUl Miss Helen Zimmern writes of ' The Modern Italian Drama.' The^reatest share of this article is allotted to Gabriele d'Annun- .zio, of whose works in one aspect at least the writer speaks with pardonable reticence. E. A. Butti, whom we know not, is also dealt with, as is Arrigo Boi'to, the author of 'Nero.' This contribution is valuable, but might with advantage have been rfurther expanded. Mr. Pember, K.C., supplies interesting ' Personal Recollections of Lord Grim- thorpe,' and tells some readable stories. In early •youtli, when we occasionally encountered Lord Gritnthorpe, he gave proof of the eccentricity with which he is now credited. Canon Ellacombe has a very interesting paper on ' Roses.' Under the title of 'The Fall of the House of Goodere,' Mr. H. B, Irving tells afresh the grim story of the famous fratricide. Part iii. of ' From a College Window ' deals with college libraries.—Mr. A. R. Bay ley writes in The Gentletnan's on ' Chaucer and the Universities,' Mr. Ellis Peyton on ' The Wives of William the Silent,' and Mr. Charles Menmuir on ' English Trade under the First of the Stuarts.' Mr. H olden MacMichael Rends Part vii. of his interest- ing 'Charing Cross and its Immediate Neighbour- hood.' When he says, " Between Nos. !M and 90, St. Martin's Lane, is YVyndham's Theatre," does he not mean the New Theatre ?—' Lord Acton's Hun- dred Best Books ' is first printed in The Pall Mall. We hold lists of this kind in little estimation. That of Lord Acton, which is contributed by Mrs. Drew (Miss Gladstone), is simply inconceivable. ' Studio Land in Paris' reveals to the general public a world not generally known. ' Dwarfs, Giants, and the Average Man' is interesting. The best part of the contents is, however, fiction.—In Longman's Mr. Andrew Lang, in ' At the Sign of the Ship,' dissusses once more Indian jugglery, then, after an incursion into cricket, deals at some length with false antiqui- ties. Mr. W. Heneage Legge writes agreeably on ' The Birds and Beauties of an Old Orchard.' ' Midsummer in Ireland,' by Maud E. Sargeant, deals with remains of primitive superstition. 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