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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x. SEPT. 12,

The Antiquary : September. (Elliot Stock, Gd.)

AMONG ' Notes of the Month ' we find record of a sale by Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley of .early Georgian fittings in Argyll Place. Carved panelling on the walls of No. 6 realized 54 guineas ; and at No. 7 a marble mantelpiece with carved frieze and caryatid jambs, 1681. Mr. J. Reid Moir, writing on ' Geology and Prehistory,' com- plains of the lack of precise and scientific know- ledge shown by a number of people who engage in the study of prehistory, and " by the enunciating of extreme and sometimes fantastic views, ' spoil the pitch ' for other and really serious investigators " ; and he contends that " no one who intends seriously to take up prehistory should do so until lie has "made himself in some measure familiar with the natural and artificial fractures of flint, and that unless he is so familiar he cannot be looked upon as a reliable judge of flint imple- ments." Mr. Legard contributes an illustrated article on Cordova and Granada.

There is a paper which Mr. John A. Knowles tread before the Society of Arts on ' The Tech- nique of Glass-Painting in Mediaeval and Renais- sance Times.' In this he quotes from Eraclius and the pseudo-Eraclius recipes for making lead glass (i.e., "Jewish glass"). Mr. Knowles con- tinues : " We know there were Jewish glass- workers in Constantinople between A.D. 531 and .1565, from the account related in the ' History of .the Jews ' of the miracle of Our Lady saving the life of a Jewish glassworker's child, whose inhuman father had thrown him into his glass furnace. Moreover, Benjamin of Tudela, whose travels bear date from 1160 to 1173, states that he found four hundred Jews resident in Tyre, who were glass- workers." Mr. Knowles mentions the curious fact " that as late as 1836, according to an anony- mous writer on glass-painting in The Philosophical Magazine, lead glass, used in the manufacture of factitious gems in Birmingham, was known as ' Jew's glass.' " Discussing bronze' Mace-Heads,' Mr. O. G. S. Crawford suggests that the question -should be taken up and investigated.

THE September Nineteenth Century has two

articles of a rather adventurously speculative character Mr. Harold F. Wyatt's ' God's Test by War,' reprinted from the number of April, 1911, with additions ; and Mr. Norman Pearson's

'* Sex after Death.' They are as interesting, and as convincing, as speculations so far in advance

of data ever can be. Mr. John Drinkwat?r writes with considerable acumen on ' Theodore Watts- Dunton and the Spirit of an Age,' though he has not quite justly balanced criticism with praise. Lady Blake's paper on ' The Sacred Bo Tree ' is charming, amusing, and instructive, the subject being taken from the point of view of Ceylon. Mr. William Poel, dealing with ' The Economic Position of English Actors,' makes once more plain the precariousness of the livelihood of the average player, but seems to think that the war, "by eliminating the second-rate members of the profession, may afford a chance of setting a badly muddled house in order. The Abbe Ernest Dimnet describes with vivacity, and also with penetration, the scenes he witnessed tra- velling through France during the days of mobili- sation, and in a second article gives us an ela-

'borate and deeply interesting analysis of the rising generation in France. Mr. Ernest Rhys

recalls the stormy past of Liege, and sketches vigorously with good illustrations from their songs and proverbs the character of the Wal- loons. 'The English and the Others ihn>u"h Polish Eyes,' by Dr. G. de Swietochowski, JH evidently the outcome of an acquaintance and study sufficiently prolonged to give his opinions a claim to be considered. Sir Harry Jolmsi.ni and Mr. J. Ellis Barker both contribute notable papers on the war in its international aspect, and there is a number of essays on its domestic aspect as regards our own empire. We may also mention a good constructive essay, dealing with the employ- ment of women, entitled ' A New Labour K\- change,' by Mrs. \V. L. Courtney.

OUR correspondent MR. W. B. GEBISH sends us notice that for purposes of reference he has prepared an Index Nominum to Vol. III. of the Hertfordshire Parish Registers, edited by Mr. T. M. Blagg and Mr. T. Gurney. This is at the service of any inquirer at Bishop's Stortford, and upon the receipt of a stamped, addressed envelope MR. GERISH will answer inquiries by post. The volume gives the Marriage Entries for the parishes of Rickmansworth, Bushey, Elstree, Gilston, and Little Berkhamstead. This is a kindly service rendered at the cost of no little labour, which we have no doubt will be greatly appreciated by working genealogists.

MESSRS. KARST,AKE & Co. will next year revert to the original plan of producing ' Book- Auction Records,' as adopted for the first two volumes. Each volume will be issued in one alphabet as well as in the usual quarterly parts, thus bringing all records of all editions of one work on to a single page, and thereby obviating the necessity for an index. Numerous cross-references will be incorporated in the alphabet, and a minimum of 15,000 records per annum will continue to be guaranteed. The annual volume will also include the illustrated articles on libraries and book- sellers, the reviews of booksellers' catalogues, and the editor's ' Colloquialisms.' The price will remain a guinea.

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CANTERBURY. Forwarded to MR. PIERI-OIXT.

CORRIGENDUM. In my note on the History of the Berkeley Family, printed ante, p. 167, the date in line 18 should read. 1799, not 1779. ROLAND AUSTIN.