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Archibald Kurd's similar account of what has been done by sea ; and Mr. Edgar Crammond's valuable paper on ' The Economic Aspects of the War.'

Topics more obviously within the scope of represented. Mr. Harold Temperley has a vigorous and carefully documented study of Chatham and the question of the Independence of America. Mr. Ezra Pound has here arranged the substance of some notes and lectures by the late Ernest Feuellosa on the Japanese No. Prof. Fenellosa shared Mr. Pound's opinion that the No are to be placed among the great classic productions of the world ; and the fact that all scholars are not prepared to concede this certainly makes a further examination of this peculiar art both necessary and highly interesting. It is not until a relatively large cumber of scholars, differing as widely as possible in outlook, attainment, and temperament, have made themselves not merely acquainted, but intimately familiar with the No, that the true place of these in the literature of the world can approximately be Assigned to them. Of all the papers, that on Flaubert, by Mr. Sturge Moore, is the one which, so to say, suffers most from the "change of light" made by the war. It is a capable and instructive example showing, too, no little originality of a method of criticism which, when we return to literature, will, we think, appear strained and a little trivial, though, when peace has again lasted for a generation, it is likely to revive. Miss Gertrude Jekyfl's article on ' Wild and Garden Roses ' as pleasant to come upon just now as it is to turn a sheltering corner on a day of tempest is written with a capable terseness, and gives an abundance of information.
 * N. & Q-' are, however, by no means scantily

Miss M. B. Whiting has onepf the few unfailingly fascinating subjects which history offers in "The Soul " of Queen Marguerite of Navarre. Her article does not, indeed, help much towards the solution of the question why Marguerite did not abandon the faith of her fathers largely, we ourselves believe, because there was not in fact any question to answer, until historians who did not understand her took in hand to write her life. It does, how- ever, offer some suggestive remarks, of at any rate introductory value, upon the other matter which puzzles Marguerite's admirers how, being the author of ' The Mirror of the Sinful Soul,' she was also the author of the ' Heptameron.'

Mr. C. H. Collins-Baker contributes a most inter- esting discussion of the achievements of Crowe and CavaTcaselle, and, with that, of art history and criticism in general ; and, to turn to a problem of another order, we may also mention Mr. E. Bo wen - Rowlands's paper on ' The Conditions of State Punishment.

OF the articles in the new Edinburgh Review, that which will perhaps come most thoroughly home to the readers of ' N. & Q.' is Mr. Edmund Gosse's ' War and Literature.' It deals with the effect produced by the war of 1870-71 on the French writers of the day ; predicts (we cannot but think with some measure of unnecessary gloom) the effects which the present war will have upon letters ; and expresses, with the author's wonted skill and charm, some part of what we are all of us feeling at the moment for Prance. Mr. Lytton Strachey's ' Voltaire and England ' traces the friendship between us and France back to the

arrival upon our shores of the discomfited philo- sopher. Of its importance as the beginning of a " long process of interaction between the French and English cultures " there cannot be much doubt ; but in saying that it was the seed of our present friendship, we think Mr. Lytton Strachey unduly ignores the effect of the chequered, but close political intercourse between the two countries which had been going on for so many centuries ; to say nothing of literary intercourse, which was by no means negligible. The essay itself is good reading. There is a weighty article on our ' National Records ' a thorny question, upon which the reports of the Royal Commission make it clear that it will be well to expend some calculation and energy as soon as we have reached quieter days. Mr. Walter de la Mare's ' Popular Poetry ' strikes us as one of the best things of his which have as yet appeared in this review. By the way, we note that, unlike the musical " expert," he speaks of the " wistful, haunting strains " of " It 's a long way to Tipperary " with evident sympathy.

Mr. Henry C. Shelley writes on ' The Red Cross,' a well-set-out account of the inception of that great institution, which popularly is some- times connected with Florence Nightingale, almost to the exclusion of its actual founder, the energetic and noble-minded Swiss philanthropist Henry Dunant. Mr. Bailey's ' Life in Croatia ' con- tains some of the most charming pages of the whole number. The editor gives an able, vigorous, and stirring account of the general progress of the war, and upon this all-absorbing topic there are papers by Sir H. H. Johnston and Mr. Sidney Low. Another aspect of the inter- national question is discussed by Mr. J. O. P. Bland in ' The Future of China.'

The REV. J. B. McGovERN writes on " St. Mary's atThame"(HS. ix. 348) :

"If MR. QUARTEKMAIK can consult, either at first or second hand, the following work by Dr. F. G. Lee, F.S.A., he will find a goodly list of those interred in the above church, including some bear- ing his own surname : ' The History, Description, and Antiquities of the Prebendal Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Thame,' 1883. The book, which I had occasion to consult during a few weeks' residence in Thame Vicarage last August, is somewhat rare, and the list is too lengthy for insertion in these columns, but I can easily procure one and forward it to your querist."

Jlotiws to C0mspontonts.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.

DR. H. BON-AR, S. D. C., and MESSRS. L. For- warded.

CORRIGENDA (s.v. Hooper Memorial, ajite, p. 304). Col. 2, 1. 22, for BlinkAam read BlinkAorH : col. 2, 1. 25, for Lazoley-Smith read La?i$rley- Smith. J. T. PAGE.

MR. J. E. NORCROSS. Many thanks for reply anticipated ante, p. 273.