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elaborately disguised work of apologetic : but ary one who chooses to seek and enjoy the writer's company in the same sort of spirit as that which animates the eager, but not seriously responsible give-and-take of undergraduate dis- cussion will bo rewarded by no little enjoyment.

Fleelwood Family Records. Part II. Collected

and edited by R. W. Buss.

THIS interesting number contains the pedigree of Fleetwood of the Vache, Chalfont St. Giles, showing descent in the female line from Edward I. ; a number of good notes on Fleetwood of Wood Street, Cheapside, with pedigrees showing the connexion with Shelley, Churchill, Babington, Gisborne, and others ; extracts from two Fleet- wood Bibles in the possession respectively of Mr. Percy Varley and Mr. J. Paul de Castro ; and extracts from divers parish records and registers. An illustration is given of the first page of fly-leaf at the back of Joseph Fleetwood's Bible the one now owned by Mr. Varley.

THE October Nineteenth Century is a very good number. From the special point of view of 'X. ^ Q.' Prof. Foster Watson's paper on 'The Humanists of Lou vain * may well claim to be the most important. Not the least interesting of the names connected with that beloved city is Martens, of whom the writer says : " He was probably the first publisher constantly to pay honoraria to authors as well as remuneration for press correct- ing, and he ran himself and his family into straitened finance in doing it." It is curious to think that at Louvain was published one of the most eloquent of the protests made against war the 'Bellum' of Erasmus. Prof. Morgan contri- butes a rather slight account of Treitschke. Prince Kropotkin's ' Inherited Variation in Plants' puts together a number of striking illustrations from experiments which certainly as they stand strengthen the case for inheritance more fully than would recently have been thought possible. Miss Rose Bradley was at Compiegne this last May, and puts together an account of it both as she , saw it and as the habitation of historical per- sonages which by no means lacks charm. But why does she treat Joan of Arc with such scanty j appreciation, in face, too, of the renewed enthu- siasm for her now displayed throughout France ? Mr. J. A. R. Marriott's survey of the train of, events and succession of ideals which led up to the , present war, in an article entitled 'The Logic of ' History,' is admirable. One can hear heavy, un- faltering, unutterably deadly the rhythmic tramp of the feet of legions in Mr. William Watson's [But the " sseva indignabio" of which it is the utterance is. perhaps, hardly to be expressed effec- I the images of anguish and destruction which belong i to the theme are more impressive when suggested I than when thus elaborated.
 * lengthy ' Funeral March for Kaiser Wilhelm II.'
 * tivelyat such length in mere words; and, again,

THE October CornhUl reflects the preoccupations of the world in general. What does not savour of i war reckons, we suppose, as insipid; and since it i is too early yet for stories of the present conflict to 'figure largely outside the daily papers, we are taken back to the Franco-Prussian War, to Napoleon, to .Thackeray tells once again, with abundance of
 * the Hoer War, and to India. Col. Sir Edward

personal quotation, of ' Hodson, of Hodson's Horse ' ; and Sir Henry Lucy's ' Our Last Great War : Personal Notes,' is full of gallant stories. Mr. Arnold Forster's 'Guest Night' is a tale of the reception of the news that war had been declared on board an English battleship which was at the moment entertaining German naval officers a tale cleverly told. Mr. B. R. Wise in 'Rugby in the Seventies' and Mr. A. E. Gathorne - Hardy in 'My Father' give us plea- sant and instructive reminiscences sketched out more skilfully than is always the case. Mr. Stephen Paget, continuing the ' New Parents' Assistant,' discourses of grandparents, and, a usual, says many good and witty things, but commits himself also to one of the most elaborately infelicitous similes or "parables" we have ever come across. Mr. John Darrah's delightful ' A Day with Napoleon ' is perhaps despite some failure to catch any outward trick betraying Napoleon's personal force the most brilliant thing in the number.

Obituary.

HENRY FISHWICK, 1835-1914.

WE greatly regret to learn of the death cf Lieut. - Col. Fishwiok, and are much indebted to our corre- spondent MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE for the subjoined notice of him :

"One of the oldest and most consistent contri- butors to ' N. & Q.,' from 1861 to the present time, passed away on 23 September in the person or Henry Fishwick of Rochdale. He was born in 1835, and lived all his life in his native town, taking a very active part in local administration for over fifty years. He was a member of the Town Council for forty-three years, and Mayor for two years (1903-5). He was elected a member of the first School Board formed in 1870, and had been Chairman, of the Education Committee for seventeen years, and Chairman of the Piiblio Library Committee- He had also been President of the Association of Education Committees of England and Wales, and had occupied many other positions of influence. He was a county and borough magistrate ; a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and Hon. Secretary for Lancashire ; Vice-Chairman of the Chetham Society, Manchester ; one of the founders and President of the Lancashire Parish Register and Record Societies ; and Chairman of the Arts- Club. Manchester. He was the first Volunteer enrolled in Rochdale in 1859. and for some years commanded a battalion. Amongst his principal works are ' History of the Parochial Chapelry of Goosnargh,' 1871 ; 'The Lancashire Library,' 1875; Histories of the parishes of Kirkham, 1874 ; Gar- stang, 1878 ; Poulton-le-Fylde. 1885 ; Bispham, 1887 ; Rochdale, 1889; St. Michael's-on-Wyre, 1898; Pres- ton, 1900; and Lytham, 1907; 'Lancashire and Cheshire Church Surveys, 1649-1655' (Record Society). 1879; 'Bibliography of Rochdale,' 1880; 4 List of Lancashire Wills (Record Society). 1884; Registers of the Parish Churches of Rochdale, 1888, and Croston, 19<>0; 'History of Lancashire' ("Popular County Histories"), 1894; 'Works of John Collier (Tim Bobbin), edited with a Life of the Author,' 1894 ; and, with the Rev. P. H. Ditch- field, 'Memorials of Old Lancashire,' 1909."