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Rape of the Lock.' Of hair in beauty a Yorkshire saying is " Black for beauty, red for fun," ^ for which last word read "amorousness." Is not ' M. W Praed " intended for W[inthrop] M[ackworth] Praed? " A bustling woman" (p. 74) should be "a whistling woman." We never heard before that Witherington, who "in doleful dumps," when "his legs were cutten off, he fought upon his stumps," was identical in heroic exploit with " fair maiden Lilliard." Can the line from Savage (p. 99),

The pride of priests, so bloodless when in power, be correct ?

Homme roux et femme barbe Da trente pas loin le salue,

is surely wrong in one or two respects. In the first line should not " barbe " be barbue '! Spenser supplies (Sonnet XXX VII.), a much better quota- tion about golden hair than any advanced : What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses She doth attyre under a net of gold ? "Orelles" (p. 110) seems as if it should be oreilles.

Souvent femme varie, Bien fou qui s'y fie,

should be " bien fol est qui s'y fie." On p. 130, "Lincoln's Inn for a gentleman." A popular version for the lines by Sir John Davies quoted on p. 145 is
 * ' Lincoln's Inn for law," we have always heard

Marriage is such a rabble rout, They that are out want to get in, They that are in want to get out. We will present Mr. Thiselton-Dyer with a version of ' Women and Marriage,' the origin of which we know not :

When I was a young man I lived bravely,

Oh ! my heart was well content ! Till I got a wife for my sins for to plague me,

Oh ! she made me sore repent.

In a quotation on p. '234 from 'Romeo and Juliet' it should be " The mask of night," not " The mark of night."

We might continue long. If we have at any point been unjust to Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, we are sorry, being aware that there are variant readings in proverbs, &c. We have read his book through, as he will perceive, and mostly with pleasure.

Early Lives of Charlemagne and the Monk of St. Gall. Edited by Prof. A. J. Grant, (De La More Press.)

IT is a happy idea to enclose in the beautiful " King's Classics " the two early lives of Charle- magne that of Eginhard, the monarch's own associate, the Bezaleel to the David of Charlemagne, and the 'Flaccus' of Alcuin, which still remains authoritative ; and the anonymous fragment it is really not much more of the monk of St. Gall, most of which Prof. Grant describes as a " mass of legend, saga, invention, and reckless blundering." \Ve regret that it has been found necessary to omit a few chapters of the last work, though the excision involves no practical or appre- ciable loss to the reader. Meanwhile an indispens- able introduction and some excellent notes add to the value of the book. Eginhard's work, which is written in imitation of Suetonius, is a curious and valuable outcome of the classical renaissance

of the period, and is now for the first time made generally accessible. A reproduction of a bronze statuette of Charlemagne in the Muse"e Carnavalet,. Paris, serves as frontispiece.

Brooches of Many Nations. By Harriet A. Heaton

(Nottingham, Murray's Book Company.) SPECIALIZING advances in ever-narrowing circles, and no doubt the present slim quarto on brooches- will be followed in due time by a more minute treatise on the perone or brooch-pin. Mrs. Heaton in her fifty pages takes a cursory glance over a wide field, which ranges from Assyrian and Egyptian- down to Celtic, Scandinavian, and Anglo-Saxon. The author has had the collaboration of Mr. J. Potter Briscoe, but their joint care has not succeeded in eliminating a provoking number of misprints- and misspellings, such as "Brigsch" (p. 8), " cas- tellse" (p. 21), and "vivata" (p. 24). We do not know what to make of " the Mosaic Law of the Greek and Roman cults " (p. 7), or the statement that Thor was worshipped by the South Sea islanders (p. 15). The slightness of the letterpress i& partially atoned for by a liberal allowance of wood- cuts, but these are not the best vehicle for repro- ducing the exquisite workmanship of the original objects.

Upper Norwood Athenceum : The Record of the Winter Meetings and Summer Excursions, 1905. Edited by Theophilus Pitt, F.C.S. This twenty- ninth volume is as interesting as the previous ones. The places visited in the winter included Sir John Soane's Museum, when Mr. Frank E. Spiers read a paper; Allhallows, Barking, where the editor of the ' Record ' acted as conductor ; and the Whit- gift Hospital, about which we had much in our Ninth Series.

The first summer excursion was to Maidstone, Mr. Thatcher being the leader ; and the second to Greenwich, when Mr. Vincent took the party to- St. Alphege's, and afterwards to the Park to examine the many objects of Roman antiquity now placed in the park-keeper's house, including a fragment of pavement discovered by Mr. Webster in 1902.. Other rambles were to Stratford-on-Avon, St. Albans, Denham, Goring, Lullingstone, Cowley,. and St. Peter's, Iver. In this church there is a tablet to a learned bricklayer : " Venturus Mandey> died 1701, of St. Giles in-the-Fields, many years ' Bricklayer to the Hon. Soc. of Lincoln's Inn.' He was studious in mathematics, and wrote and pub- lished three books for the public good; one entitled ' Mellificium Monciones, or the Marrow of Measur- ing'; another of ' Mechanical Powers, or the Mystery of Nature and Art Unvayled ' ; the third a 'Uni- versal Mathematical Synopsis.' He also translated into English * Directorium Generale Uranometricum/" and ' Trigonometria Plana et Spherica, Linearis et Logarithmica : auctore Fr. Bonaventura Ca valeric- Mediolanense,' and some other tracts, which he designed to have printed if death had not prevented him." Mr. Theophilus Pitt deserves praise for hia careful editing of the ' Record,' and the beautiful illustrations make the little volume very attractive.

THK Burlington Maga-Jne for Connoisseurs opens, with a valuable paper by Mr. Claude Phillips on 1 Dramatic Portraiture.' This is excellently illus- trated, largely from Dutch subjects. The Letter," by Vermeer of Delf, furnishes a fine frontispiece. More plates, also admirable, illustrate ' English Miniature Painters: Hilliard.' 'Venetian Portrait*