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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1010.

CONTENTS.-No. 8.

NOTES : ' Macnillan's Magazine,' 141 Catharine Macau- lay 142 'The Parish Guttlers,' 144-Royal Billiard Tables " Spinney " Meredith's Last Poems, 145 - "Moral Pockethandkerchiefs " Hertfordshire Parish Registers Mock Coat of Arms "Plough Inn" at Long- hope -Birch Tree Folk-lore, 146.

QUERIES: Henry Kavanagh and the Indian Mutiny- Col Vincent Potter-Becket's Personal Habits English Mathematical Diaries, H7-'Trabalhosde Jesus' Edward Fitzgibbon-Lady Clavermg-' Life of .Mrs. E. Wisebourn '-The "Prince Fred "Satire-Dais in Medi- teval Halls, 148 Vanessa Isabella Wickhffe Four Winds, a Fairy Story Grinling Gibbons Beheading in Germany Irish Priests banished to Barbados " The Xemesis of words" 'Deil stick the Minister' Authors Wanted-Rev. John Jenkinson, 149-" Kicking up Bob s- a-dving" "No redeeming vice" C. W. S. D. Holmes S C T Demainbray Sir Francis Desanges Hartley Wintney Nunnery Arms on Silver Box Bruce's Follow-

REPLIES: 'Short Whist': C. B. Coles, 150 Mohammed and the Mountain Master Stephe* and his Hawk, 151 Holbein's ' Duchess of Milan 'Ward and Day Families- Clothes and their Influence-Metrical Prayer-Epicurus in Art 152" Altea Haus, ftdeles Haus "King's Place Edwin Drood' Continued, 153 China and Japan Topo- oraphical Deeds Roman Ladies : Purity of their Lan- guage "Old Sir Simon" Watson's ' History of Printing,' i4 Michael Livingston Authors Wanted Mrs. Mahon Cowes, Isle of Wight, 155 Rochechouart Michael Hiltprand " Earth goeth upon earth " Alvary : Alveredus, 156 R. Paltock Children with same Chris- tian Name, 157 News-Letters in the Public Record Office Grammatical Gender, 158.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Scottish Grey Friars' 'The Romance of Symbolism '' The Edinburgh Review' and ' The Quarterly. '

' MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE.'

To Alexander Macmillan we owe Macmillari's Magazine, the first to be published monthly at a shilling. Alexander was the younger brother of Daniel, the founder of the firm. A full account of the two brothers is given by Thomas Hughes in his memoir of Danie] Macmillan. In this is told how Daniel and Alexander were in the service of Messrs. Seeley together, and how they set up in business for themselves.

The Publishers' Circular of the 14th of January, 1893, the jubilee year of the Macmillan firm, records that the first book bearing the name of Macmillan on the title- page was Craig's * Philosophy of Training, published in 1843 by Daniel & A. Macmillan .17, Aldi'i-sgate Street, where they had Daniel notes, "a very neat shop for a very small rent." The same year NewbyV business at Cambridge was purchased, and the two brothers continued to work shoulder to shoulder until the death of Daniel on th 27th of June, 1857.

In the year following a branch house was pened in London, and in 1863, just twenty ears after its establishment, the firm returned to London, the business at Cam- dge being carried on under the name of Macmillan & Bowes.

After his brother's death Alexander took he full management of the business, which y his ability he largely developed, until the time came for his nephews Frederick, who received the honour of knighthood in No vein - last, and Maurice Crawford Macmillan and his own son George Augustus, who has worked hard in the promotion of Hellenic studies to enter the firm. To a man of such enterprise it was natural to look out for some new development, and the first number of Macmillan' s Magazine was aunched on the 1st of November, 1859, under the editorship of David Masson. The Athenaeum described it as "a review of political affairs, from the philosophical rather than the partisan point of sight."

In 1867 Masson was succeeded by Sir George Grove, who in May, 1883, gave place to Mr. John Morley. In November, 1885, Mr. Morley retired, and was followed by Mr. Mowbray Morris, who held the position until the publication of the magazine was discontinued in October, 1907. In Novem- ber, 1905, the price was reduced to sixpence. Among some of the most noted con- tributors to Macmillan's may be mentioned Tennyson, Lord Kelvin, Lord Curzon, Sir Bartle Frere, Sir Samuel Baker, Sir Richard Burton, Sir AJfred Lyall, Sir Robert Ball, Sir Charles Dilke, Maurice, Mark Pattison, Bishops Westcott, Creighton, and Alexander, Max Muller, Carlyle, Gladstone, Fawcett, Matthew Arnold, Prof. Mahaffy, Huxley, and Sir E. Ray Lankester. There were novels by the Kingsleys, George Eliot, William Black, Mrs. Oliphant, Blackmore, and others. To give all the names of notable contributors would be to include most of the men and women who made the sixties a period of great advance in literature, science, and art.

The magazine was conducted on bold lines, and contributions frequently appeared on public questions expressing views that would not be popular with all its readers. As early as the April of the year following that in which the magazine was started Maurice contributed an article ' On the Revision of the Book of Common Prayer.' It discussed the changes then proposed by Lord Ebury, and was in substance a review of a pamphlet by Mr. Isaac Taylor on ' The Liturgy and the Dissenters.' The author of the pamphlet