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and Fellow, one Organist ( Sir John Stainer, also Hon. Fellow and Professor), four Demies, and seven Commoners. Some of the later Latin inscriptions are from the graceful pen ot Dr. Warren, President of Magdalen since 188o, and Professor of Poetry since 1911. Certainly since the time of Anthony Wood, the antiquary, six brasses have been lost ; and of the. fifteen other persons known to have been buried in the Chapel some may have had memorials. One who pro- bably ha'd no memorial was Samuel Parker, President, and Bishop of Oxford, who died in 1687-8.

^.mong the more interesting brasses may be mentioned that of William Tybard \,1480), first President, the scattered fragments of which were put together again in 1911 ; the remains of the brass of John Hygden (1532), President, who was appointed in 1525 first Dean of Cardinal College {now Christ Church) by the founder, Wolsey, himself a Magdalen man ; and the fine brass of Arthur Cole (1558), President, and also a Canon of Windsor. The last-named wears the Garter mantle , the Garter cross thereon being enamelled red. This brass was found to be a palimpsest. The reverse of the head shows the royal arms ; 'the reverse of the trunk a priest, lacking head and feet, in mass vestments (c. 1450) ; while the piece at the bottom appears to have been cut from the brass of a kneeling figure with a tasselled girdle. The reverse of the inscription plate is made up of two inscriptions, viz., to Robert Cobbe, citizen and tailor of London, his wife Margery (1516), and probably their son Sir Thomas Cobbe ; and to Margery Chamberleyn (1431), who was buried In the Chapel of St. Mary in the London church -of the Greyfriars.

Among the more interesting of the monuments, other than brasses, may perhaps be mentioned the fifteenth-century alabaster table-tomb of Richard Patten, father of the founder, Bishop Waynflete of Winchester, which, after having received much damage at the demolition of the old church at Wainfleet All Saints, co. Lincoln, was eventually re-erected in the Founder's Oratory near the altar of Magdalen Chapel in 1833. A pathetic interest attaches to the monu- ment of two youthful members of the College made by Nicholas Stone. John the eldest and Thomas the third son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton of Frankly, aged respectively 17 and 13, were drowned in the Cherwell, near the top of Addison's Walk, on 9 May, 1635, in the vain endeavour of the elder boy to rescue his little brother, who had fallen into the water.

Motca on South African Place-Names. By Charles

Pettman. (South Africa, Kimberley.) THE author of ' Africanderisms ' here brings together most of the items of interest directly connected with place-names in South Africa. It must be acknowledged that the field is not rich either in philological or in historical interest ; still, what it comprises may just as well be made generally available, and Mr. Pettman's little treatise gives " all that any one not specially occupied with theetymologyof the native languages can want. Here and there it would have been worth while to make historical explanations some- what fuller; and the geography of the country might have been taken into some account, and .some clearer idea of the distribution of the names

conveyed. There are about two hundred Hush- men and Hottentot names in the map not counting those in Xamaqualand ; and of French

mes, derived from the Huguenots who came into South Africa after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, there remain about twenty-seven.

On the whole save for Natal and the of Good Hope, so hackneyed that they have their charm the Dutch names, among those ( .f European origin, seem to include the greatest number of successful inventions. A curious circumstance, which may not be known to all our readers, is the belief of some of the earlier settlers that Egypt lay but a short journey to the north of them. Mr. Pettman tells us that there has been at least one trek from the Transvaal in search of Canaan, and that the Nylstroom, which runs northwards, was given its name in the belief that it was the head-waters of the Nile.

The Hottentot and other native names have usually a delightful musical quality, and generally touches of graceful poetry to recommend them. We noticed here Umdedelele, the mountain ' that must be left alone " the name for the Cathkin | of the Drakensberg, and the Outeniqua Moxm- tains Outeniqua meaning, it is said, '" the me loaded with honey."

The main text of the book presents the ns in a more or less readable medley, but there is _ Index so far as we have tested it perfect- whic] makes it easy to find any definite item desired.

The Remaking of China. By Adolf S. Walej (Constable & Co., 2s. Qd. net.)

THIS book should prove useful to the gener reader who has not mastered the outline of the" late extraordinary transformation of China. There is no padding, no attempt at detailed or distinct portraiture, and but a very small amount of picturesque incident. Neither will be found here any descriptions of the country or the people, still less any reflections or philosophical generalizations. What is offered is a careful skeleton account of political and military events, set out in as few words as possible, and simplified by many omissions. Its merits are clearness, just proportion, and upon attentive reading that vividness which is often achieved by writers who are absorbed in their subject-matter to the exclusion of any particular care for style. The | facts related are too recent, and, on the whol too well known, to need comment.

Jiottas to Comspotttonts.

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MK. C. BAKER. No, not Talleyrand ; Voltaire- referring, no doubt, to the execution of Admiral Byng: "II est bon de tuer de temps en temr.s un amiral, pour encourager les autres" ('Candide,' chap, xxiii.).

CORRIGENDUM. Ante, p. 107, col. 2, 1. 4 from the bottom, for " supper room " read upper room.