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Boadicea to Elizabeth Fry, we pass along as impressive a line of worthies as any provincial city can show, illustrated as it is by the figures of Mo'ther Julian, of Sir Thomas Browne, and of Nelson, which belong to the whole English-speaking world and a strange trio they appear, thus con- sidered side by side.

We think Mr. Hannah might perhaps have brought out more clearly than he does the cha- racter of the East Anglian people, though the chapter on the life of the citizens, and the account of the Strangers' Hall included in it, is one of the most interesting in the book. A word of praise, too, for choice of matter and general drawing of outline, must be awarded to that on ' The House of Paston.' In general the earlier part less cumbered, no doubt, with masses of matter to be perforce rejected is more attractive than the

The illustrations are many of them unsatisfac- tory above all, the drawing of the Cathedral which forms the frontispiece; and a little more liberality might have well been shown in the matter of plans. By way of Appendixes there are a iiseful Chronological Table and a series of architectural notes on churches. The cross- references in these, and also throughout the text, have been very carefully inserted, and there is a full Index: matters which give the book the quality of a useful guide, in addition to being a readable, popular history.

The Registers of the Parish Church of Bolton.

(Bolton, Tillotson <fc Son, 15s. net.) MB. ARCHIBALD SPARKR, the editor of these Registers, has already done useful work as the editor of the Bury and other Parish Registers, besides being the author of ' Bibliographia Boltoniensis, 1550-1912.' As the Librarian of Bolton he has been favoured with opportunities for research, and he refutes the statement^ made by Baines in his ' History of Lancaster ' that ""Bolton is an ancient manor, but a modern parish," and shows that there is little doubt that a church existed in 1305, the evidence being taken from a " Rental " for that year in which Bolton is called a parish.

An illustration of the old Church of St. Peter faces the title-page. It was demolished in 1866, and on its site the present building was conse- crated on St. Peter's Day, 1871, the cost of the building (45.000Z.) being borne by Peter Ormrod of Halliwell Hall. Among the stained-glass windows is one to the donor of the church, and one that was formerly the east window in the old church. Theie is a pe.al of eight bells, the earliest bearing the date 166. A Saxon cross found under the tower of the old church has been set up inside the present building, and is probably 900 years old. Some flags and banners of the old Volunteer battalions are suspended m the nave ; and in the tower are a museum of interest- ing things belonging to olden times, and a lew chained books.

The dates of the Registers published in this volume, with the assent of Canon Chapman Vicar of Bolton, are : Baptisms, 1573-4, 1590- 1660 ; W.Mldinu's 1573, 1587-1660 ; Buriajs 1, 1587-1660. One of the Register books w.-.s missing for about 180 years, and was dis- covered early last century under a stone slab near the north-east corner of the chancel, when

workmen were constructing an underground flue, tt was probably hidden during the Civil Wars by ficar Gregg, who dying in 1644, had not made cnown its hiding-place. There is a list of churchwardens, 1631-49. The Index of Names xtends over 112 pages. Some of the names are urious : Shippowbothom, Such, Sweetlove, Walk- den, Wallwork, Widows, Woollfendens, and others.

The production of the volume at its moderate price is due to the generosity of Sir Lees Knowles and the enterprise of the publishers.

Oxford Garlands. (Milford, Id. net.) MR. R. M. LEONARD entitles the new volume ' Echoes from the Classics,' and in his selection he has had in view the reader who is interested pri- marily in English poetry and has " small Latin and less Greek." " Those who have not studied the subject will be surprised to find how many estab- lished favourites, such as Jonson's ' Drink to_ me only,' and some golden fruit from Herrick's ' Hesperides,' are classical echoes. The debt which later literature owes to that of Greece and Rome is overwhelming. As Burton observed, ' Our poets steal from Homer," and it has been a common practice to work in the same quarry."

The examples given are chiefly " genuine echoes," literary paraphrases and translations. When the source is known, reference to the original is supplied in the notes at the end. As many as seventy-one authors have been laid under contribution.

THE panel of the Passion which has been recently discovered by Mr. Grosvenor Thomas in London, and of which a full-page reproduction (in colours) is a distinctive feature of the December number of The Burlington Magazine, is of great interest in that there appears some reason for regarding it as of English authorship. It bears a general resemblance to the five-panelled altarpiece preserved in Norwich Cathedral ; but to the refinement of feature in this and most other English paintings of the period it opposes a coarseness in type of face and size of hand extending even to the figure of Christ Himself that might suggest a Netherlandish origin. The question seems obscure.

Messrs. Wace and Dawkins continue their article upon Greek embroideries with some interesting remarks on the towns and houses of the ^Egean Archipelago. Examples of the de- fensive arrangement of some of the towns of the Cyclades, with their close-packed houses backing outwards, are quoted, and some interesting photo- graphs of interiors reproduced. A further series of early Italian pictures from the University Museum of GQttingen is discussed by Mr. O. Siren, one of the most beautiful examples being .in Annunciation by Parri Spinelli. An Interesting early English oil landscape, hitherto unidentified, but now attributed to Sir Richard Digby Neave (1793-1868), is reproduced, together with ;i mezzotint by David Lucas which s.-.-ms to have furnished the key to the authorship of the picture. As a landscape it has decided points of interest. The ' Record of Various Works of Art in Belgium is continued by Mr. Aymor Vnllnncc with a note upon the late Gothic jube in th<> church at Dix- mude, now destroyed by the guns of the Germans. In this connexion, however, it is good to hear of the salvage of many pictures (including The