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tout Marlowe and Spenser and many another will find it hard to throw off the responsibility. Perhaps the least familiar alias we find is that of WredjDOt. Most of importance that has to be said about Marlo\ve, Mary Fitton, and others in whom the student is necessarily interested is reserved for the third volume. In this, moreover, a defence of the mystery of the Sonnets, based in part upon the opinions of Addington Symonds, is under- taken. In this matter we are no more disposed to follow our author than in his ungracious reference to Dr. Sidney Lee and Dr. Horace Howard Furness. Mr. Begley's work appears to us a mixture of exemplary erudition and wild surmise. Supposing the conjectures in which he indulges to be main- tainable, we should have to regard Bacon as the " oddest" of mankind, to add one more to the many adjectives assigned him by Pope. Personally we have been amused by the groping after our author in which we have indulged, we admire his devotion, and feel lenient towards his mistakes, which are neither very numerous nor serious. The most important, so far as the English reader is concerned, v is the mention (ii. 11*2) of Sir James Harington instead of Sir John. A bundle of errors is, however, found at i. ol, where we hear of the * Contes d'Entrapel' (of Du Fail), instead of * Les Contes <i'Eutrapel,' and are led on to " Entrapelus " and similar forms. We cannot find the light which Mr. Begley claims to cast, and stumble on as best we may in darkness and bewilderment.

Rembrandt: a Memorial. (Heinemann.) WE have here the first of ten parts constituting a memorial of Rembrandt for the approaching ter- centenary. A prefatory note by M. Emile Michel pays a worthy tribute to the great artist. Among the designs finely reproduced are the * Portrait of the Artist,' froni the National Gallery ; ' The Syndics of the Cloth Hall,' from the Amsterdam Rijks Museum; 'Christ as a Gardener appearing to Mary Magdalen,' from Buckingham Palace : and a beautiful portrait of a lady from the Liechten- stein Gallery, Vienna. When completed, the work is likely to form a fine tribute to a great artist.

The English Historical Review. January, 1906.

(Longmans & Co.)

MR. JAMES F. BALDWIN contributes a paper on the King's Council, which contains new knowledge conveyed in a lucid manner. The truly historical spirit in which he has worked is indicated by the numerous and accurate references he supplies. Mr. Wilbur C. Abbott contributes the first part of a paper on what goes by the name of the Long Parlia- ment of Charles IL It is carefully worked put, and will be of considerable service to the historians of the future. Miss A. M. Allen, a,mong the ' Notes and Documents,' has an interesting paper on the conferring of knighthood on little children. The practice never can have been common, but it seems there are more instances to be found than have hitherto been known.

Mr. Friedrich W. D. Brie deals with the careers of W T at Tyler and Jack Straw, and renders it not improbable that they are duplicate names for the same person.

The Magazine of Fine Arts. (Newnes.) A FINE number of The Magazine of Fine Arts has capitally illustrated articles on Maurice Quentin de la Tour ; on 4 The Landscape of G. F. Watts,'

by Mr. Frederick Wedmore ; and on ' The Draw- ings of John Downman, A.R.A.,' by Sir J. D. Linton. Twelve supplemental plates lead off with a superb reproduction in colours of Gozzoli's ' Rape of Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta/ Paris bears in his arms to the ship the smiling and- unreluctant dame. Both design anl colouring are remarkable. Another reproduction in colours is of Downman's portrait of Miss Abbott. The whole- is a marvel of cheapness and beauty.

Ix The Fortnightly Mrs. John Lane has a paper on 'Afternoon Calls,' which is no less exact as a sketch of social manners in consequence of being written in a spirit of ripe humour. The lesson of this is that the secret of success in afternoon calls is found in making them at a time when the person visited is sure to be not at home. 'A Saint in Fiction,' by Mrs. Crawford, is an appraisal of '11 Santo,' a novel by Antonio Fogazzaro, which con- stitutes the concluding volume of a trilogy, of which 'II piccolo Mondo Antico' is the first. Mr. Roger Pocock gives a ' Forecast of the Legion of Frontiersmen, 5 ' indicative of a movement to be inaugurated which may well prove to be of im- portance. Mr. Henry James's American contri- but ion is on Philadelphia. ' A French Archbishop r is described by Constance Elizabeth Maud as the Pere du Peuple, but which archbishop is indicated is kept carefully in the dark. Mr. Henry Norman writes sensibly upon 'The Public, the Motorist, and the Royal Commission.'

To The Nineteenth Century Lord Monson con- tributes ' My Grandfather's Reminiscences of Eton/ These deal with a period nearly a century ago, and illustrate, as his lordship affirms, amid many changes of social custom and vocabulary, several persistent survivals. Some amusing stories deal with Keate. "A Novocastrian Journalist," absent for some time from the pages, puts in a fresh appear- ance, but only as a reviewer of ' Some Recent Books.' Mr. Henniker Heaton advocates 'An End to Political Patronage/ It is interesting to see our acknowledged insularity treated from a colonial point of view, but we experience something of a shock on being told that " the amiable dullness of the English country girl is probably due to her utter [szVJ lack of education." Enlargement of the House of Commons seems likely to come soon within the domain of practical politics. Mr. A. Maryon- Watson M'rites sensibly on ' The New Fire Protec- tion for London/

OUR "INSOLVENT" STAC;E' is the formidable title to an arraignment of tilings theatrical which appears in The National Review. While conceding much that the writer say?, we do not hold that lie- quite makes out his case. He attaches too much importance to the lightest form of entertainments, and he includes among our assets actors of whom- we have scarcely ever heard, and we profess to possess more than average familiarity with our stage. Dr. Cunningham gives some impressions (favourable in the main) of South Africa. Lord William Cecil has, under the title of 'The Un- employable,' a word to say in favour of the tramp.

THE frontispiece to the April number of the excellent Burlington Magazine for Connoisseur* consists of a reproduction of G. F. Watts's design 'The Sisters,' the portraits of which are those of Kate and Ellen Terry. The original of this striking picture is in the collection of Mr. Somers Somerset Following this comes 'A Hemicycle of Lawgivers,