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comprise in an appendix a ballad, ' The Jolly Juggler,' from a manuscript at Balliol College, which does not appear in the monumental collection of Prof. Child. In the latter are, however, ' The Jolly Beggar' and 'The Gaberlunzie Man,' at- tributed to James V., which have points of resem- blance. A map to illustrate the Border ballads extends from Edinburgh in the North to Durham and Brancepeth in the South. A proximate volume will consist of ballads dealing with Robin Hood.

A POEM by Mr. Thomas Hardy, entitled ' New Year's Eve,' opens out The, Fortnightly for 1907. .Not very satisfactory is it as an explanation of Divine purpose in shaping the years. The second 'part of Leo Tolstoy's 'On Shakespeare and the Drama' is as narrow and illogical as the first. We recognize in the later instalment, however, the note of personal vanity always to be expected in such utterances. The whole constitutes a painful lesson on human littleness. In ' The Tyranny of Clothes ' Mrs. John Lane is very humorous, but conveys in laughing some home truths. Mr. Francis Gribble gives a thoughtful paper upon Benjamin Constant and his relations with Madame de Stael. 'A Celtic Renaissance of the Past ' deals with Auguste Brizeux, the national poet of Brittany. Mr. P. G. Aflalo rhapsodizes about 'The Sportsman.' Mr. John F. Macdonald's article on 'French Life and the French Stage ' forms a further dissertation upon M. Alfred Capus.

IN The Nineteenth Century M. Alfred Naquet, an Ancien Senateur and Ancien Depute", writes thoughtfully and well on ' Entente, English or German.' 'The Curse of Machinery,' by Mr. Reginald Newton Weekes, is a jeremiad something in the style of Ruskin. M. Basil de Selincourt writes on ' Giotto in Modern Life.' ' A Temperance Town ' deals with the absolutely unreal character of prohibition in an American town wherein the sale of liquor is prohibited by the State law. The whole atmosphere of public feeling is, we are told,

harged with intense irritation, and an overwhelm- ing majority of the citizens are utterly opposed to 1 the severity of the existing liquor laws. In ' Bees

nd Blue Flowers ' the idea is confuted that flowers have become blue because blue is the favourite colour of bees. An important article is on ' Divorce in the United States.' An admirably scholarly

Eaper is that by Mr. Herbert Paul on 'The nnuence of Catullus.'

IN a very earnest number of The National Review appear a few articles of a non-political character. Prominent among these is ' Missing Chapters from "The Garden that I Love,"' by the author of the work so named. This gives some consoling obser- vations upon the fact that there .are few periods of the year in which the garden is totally denuded of flowers. In Miss K. Batlmrst's 'Some More Children's Essays ' we find a maiden of nine par- donably misquoting Burns. We fancy there has been in this a little assistance. The article is, how- ever, edifying. ' Notes on Hare-Hunting,' by Lady Gifford, shows little aversion from that species of so-called sport. Sir Rowland Blennerhassett has a ^valuable article on ' The Hohenlohe Memoirs.'

IN The. Cornhill appears ' Lord Beacon sfield's Portrait Gallery,' containing information a pro- table source of some of which is 'N. & Q.' Mr. Andrew Lang has a valuable paper on ' Border History vtraux Border Ballads.' An edifying article

is by Prof. H. H. Turner on 'Greenwich Time,' and an erudite one is that of Dr. Andrew Wilson 'About Opsonins.' An archaeological flavour attaches to Mr. Arthur C. Benson's 'An Old Parson's Day-book.'

' THE LANDSCAPE OF HARPIGNIES,' by Mr. C. J. Holmes, is a sound and thoughtful piece of criti- cism in The Burlington, and is accompanied by many illustrations, one of which, 'The Storm,' forms a striking frontispiece. Three other plates are given, and have points of resemblance to the English School. ' Notes on Palma Vecchio,' oy Mr. Claude Phillips, are brilliantly illustrated. A re- markable landscape by Hokusai, one of ' Thir y-Six Views of Fuji,' affords a fine instance of printing in colour. An editorial article on ' The Architecture of our Public Buildings ' has also some capable illustrations.

MESSRS. BELL announce an abridgment of ' Webster's International Dictionary,' to be issued under the title of ' Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.' This book is the largest and latest abridgment of the ' International,' and contains, in addition to a full vocabulory, several literary appendixes, in- cluding a 'Glossary of Scottish Words and Phrases'; a 'Dictionary of Classical Mythology'; vocabu- laries of rimes, proper names, &c., and quotations from foreign languages ; and ' Tables of Abbrevia- tions and Arbitrary Signs used in Writing and Printing.'

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