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deplores that ravage of tfie country which we also have to bewail. Mr. E. H R.J atham deals with 'The Library of Petrarch.' Twenty-five of Petrarch's MSS. are in Paris ; one each in Venice, Milan, Padua, Florence, and Troyes; and six in Rome at the Vatican. What has become of the rest is a problem to which no answer is at present forthcoming. Part II. appears of Mr. H. B. Irving's 'English Stage in the Eighteenth Century.' A very bright account of ' The Fellah's Yoke Mate' is supplied by Sir Walter Mieville. M. Jules Claretie <has an important paper on 'The ComSdie Francaise ' the director of which he is. ' Words Words, Words ! is a characteristic essay by that brilliant scholar Prof Tyrrell. Mrs. John Lane writes on 'The Minor Crimes'; and the second part 18 given of "Tolstoy's * The Divine and the Human.

A DEEPLY interesting article in The Nineteenth 'Century is that of Ameer Ali, C.I.E., on 'Spain under the Saracens.' Another essay on things Spanish is a rhapsody by Mr. Austin Harrison entitled 'The Joys of Spain.' 'Mr. Gladstone's Library at St. Deiniol's, Hawarden, is by his daughter Mrs. Drew. Miss Isabel Clarke writes on 'Some Women Poets of the Present Reign.' "Mr H Heathcote Statham discusses 'The Salons and the Royal Academy.' Mr. Norman Bentwich
 * in his 'Euripides in London' attributes justly to

the merits as a poet and a translator of Mr. Gilbert Murray the success that has attended the classic performances at the Court Theatre. Sir John "Macdonell sends a contribution on 'The Law- Making Mania.'

AN interesting article by Prof. Sonnenschein on 'Latin as an Intellectual Force' arrests attention in The National. It throws some curious light upon the probable indebtedness of Shakespeare to .Seneca in the famous "mercy" speech of 'The Merchant of Venice.' The Hon. Charles Lister Jhas an eloquent rejoinder to the attack on Eton by Mr Reginald Lucas which appeared in the May number. Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., writes autho- ritatively on 'Earthquakes.' Mr. Holt Schooling describes ' Our Position in Colonial Markets' ; and M Emile Vanderveld, the leader of the Social Democratic party in the Belgian Parliament, has some deeply interesting speculations concerning 4 The Future of Belgium.'

To The Cornhill Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sends, under the title 'An Incursion into Diplomacy, an account of his publication of the British case in the Boer War and the support he received in bringing it before the continental public. Mr. Frederick Boyle, the well-known traveller, has a very inter- esting study of 'Ancient Gardening.' 'The Birds of London, Past and Present,' is illustrated. It is rather saddening to read of the havoc wrought by the demon cat, who is responsible for many dis- appearances. 'Lady Hamilton and Horatia,' by E. S. P. Haynes, has some historical value in .addition to its interest.

AN instructive paper in The Gentleman's deals, under the title of ' The Father of Arabic History,' with the 'History 'of Tabary, a complete edition of which has been recently issued from the Leyden press. An English translation of this is demanded. 'Twenty Years' Captivity in Ceylon' is concerned with the 'Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon ' of Capt. Robert Knox, the first account of 'Ceylon in our language. ' Leather Drinking Vessels' is a valuable antiquarian contribution.

'Correspondence' has also a pleasant literary flavour ; and ' Obituary ' is a feature of augmenting importance.

Ix The Idler some views of Rouen from pencil drawings by the late L. J. Wood, R.I., are con- spicuous in a bright number.

MR. A. R. WALLER writes from the University Press, Cambridge : " The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press have in preparation an edition of the works of Giles and Phineas Fletcher as part of their 'Cambridge English Classics.' They would like to have included therein the version of the Lamentations of Jeremiah from the MS. formerly in the library of King's College, Cambridge, men- tioned in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' under the title of 'zEgidii Fletcheri versio Poetica Lamentationum Jeremise. Presented to the College 2 Feb., 1654/5, by S(amuel) Th(oms), Soc., and entered in one of the oldest catalogues at King's as ' Lamentationes Jeremiae per Metaphrasin. Au- thore yEgidio Fletcher.' Unfortunately, the MS. cannot be found in the library, and it probably disappeared a long time ago, as it is not mentioned in a catalogue made some fifty or sixty years since, nor in one made about twenty-five years ago, nor in the one made by the present Provost* If any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' can throw any light upon the matter, or oft'er any hint that might lead to the MS. being traced to its present home, the Syndics will be grateful. Communications may be addressed to F. S. Boas, Esq., Cranford, Bickley, Kent, the editor of the new edition referred to above, or to me.

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