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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. JULY 13, 1907.

W. H. Fitchett begins a study ' Among the Mutiny Cities of India' with memories of Delhi. He has already written on the Mutiny, and has a gift for vivid presentation of historic scenes and events. Mr. E. V. Lucas in ' My Cousin the Bookbinder ' imagines Lamb's cousin talking concerning Lamb with a sort of solid half -appreciation, praising Mary Lamb most of all, and introducing various events familiar to us in Elia's view of them. The cousin finds Gray's ' Elegy ' beautifully clear and simple, which rather surprises us, for some of it is obscure, if not difficult. But perhaps he did not go deep into its meaning, and said it over like a creed, like the " professionizing moral men " of 'lonica.'

Canon Barnett has an excellent and open-minded article on ' The Recreation of the People,' founded on his long experience of East London. He says that on the football fields or the race-courses the crowd of spectators is often 100,000 to 200,000 persons. As regards attendance at football matches this is a gross exaggeration. The Final Tie of the Association Cup, the most frequented event of all, .has only exceeded 100,000 on the occasion when a .Southern team was playing, and naturally attracted their supporters to the Crystal Palace. The present reviewer Icnows such crowds well, and thiiiKs that the Canon hardly gives them sufficient credit for expert knowledge of, and keen interest in, the game.

In 'A Grammarian's Wedding' F. S. has a some- what heavy parody of Browning, in which one of a class of pupils speaks of the marriage of their master to a girl-pupil. Common Latin phrases are explained in foot-notes, a sign of the degeneracy of the times. We should have thought that the clients of The Cornhill could translate " Omnia vincit " .and "yicit Amor" without help. Major Mac- Munn in 'Outlaws of Yesterday has a very in- teresting article about the new feeling of the Boers .towards their old English foes. He finds merit in the fighters on both sides an attitude which is aiow commoner than it was, and ought to have been possible earlier in this country. Mr. H. G. Hutcninson in ' The Footprint on the Sand ' deals with sport and Devon men, which means that he is at his best. Sir Clements R. Markham has a pleasing paper on ' The Personality of Edward VI.,' and finds in his youthful journal remarkable powers which might well haye blossomed into great king- ship. ' The Christchurchman's Lament ' is a really clever parody of Matthew Arnold's Oxford poem, in which R. A. K. dwells on the disturbing in- fluence of the Pageant. The indefatigable Mr. A. C. Benson begins a new causerie entitled 'At Large,' in which ne explains how he bought a re- mote house in the fens near Ely. Mr. Benson's introspective literature is beginning to pall upon us, we get so much of it. He feels that "we are

put into the world to BE rather than to do."

But " being" in this case seems to mean a fever for perpetual writing about the same sort of mind and character.

The Home Counties Magazine for July contains, as usual, much of interest to the Londoner who likes to go a short way outside the bricks and mortar. Mr. S. M. Kirkman in 'Notes on Car- shalton, Surrey,' deals with a spot still largely unspoilt. It is noted that Ruskin had a pretty spring known as Lady Margaret's Pool properly cleaned at his own expense, the banks being laid out, and 300/. invested to provide for the main-

tenance of the whole. There is an account of the church of All Saints. ' Notes on Church Plate in the Diocese of London,' by Mr. Edwin Fresh- field, jun., and 'Bulstrode,' by Mr. W. H. Wadharn Powell, are interesting continuations of articles. ' Round Rochester with Dickens.' by Mr. E. Basil Lupton, deals with a familiar subject in rather a jejune style. We are much better pleased with well-illustrated articles on ' The Globe Play- House' and ' Early Churches in South Essex.' The editor's Chronicle of Paul's Cross ' has reached the period 1520-31, and introduces the great figures of Luther and Erasmus.

THE Calendar of Wills proved in the Vice- Chancellor's Court at Cambridge (1501-1765), with a list of the Vice-Chancellors for that period, will shortly be issued by Mr. H. Roberts, of 2, Free School Lane, Cambridge. These wills are of much interest, as they contain those of such men as Lowndes and Wren, also of many of the famous printers and bookbinders during that period. There will be two editions, and eighteen large- paper copies with notes.

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J. T. F. ("Sow an action, reap a habit"). Attri- buted by Mr. D. Christie Murray to Charles Reade. See 9 S. xii. 377.

J. E. H. ("All quiet along the Potomac"). The poem was printed in full at 10 S. iv. 296, but the author's name was not given.

G. M. H. P., Foochow ("Counsel of perfection"). Several contributions on this phrase will be found at 8 S. via. 328.

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