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doubtfully glorious significance of the illustrious- Talbot ; " the graceful meaning of Tancred ; Strang(e)ways, "the strong stubble ; Sunder- land, " dweller at the Private or Reserved Land, may be mentioned as examples of the more Interesting and curious names.

ONE of the best paintings of that somewhat unequal genius, Sir Godfrey Kneller, forms, in photogravure reproduction, an impressive frontis- piece for the December number of The BurUngton. ft is a recent acquisition of the National Portrait Oallery, and shows the head of Henry Sidney,
 * Earl of Romney, a portrait taken when the aristo-

cratic beauty of the young courtier and rake had acquired the grim strength of one of the prime movers in the Revolution of 1688. The result -could not fail of distinction in the hands of a comprehending painter. Mr. C. J. Holmes supplies notes on it. The article upon St. John s Chapel in the Church of S. Roque, Lisbon, is continued by Mr. Martin S. Briggs, and is chiefly concerned with the altar furniture of that sanctuary. In these illustrations the essential weakness of the rococo style is much more apparent than in the previously published photographs of the altar and chapel itself. The delicacy as well as the profusion of this mass of prodigally rich work is wonderful. The photographs of some of the articles (e.g., the reliquaries) are rather small for due comprehen- sion of the quantity of interesting detail with which they are charged. Sir Claude Phillips has an article on Paris Bordone, with two illustrations, which display the decline in spirituality of that painter as with advancing years he travelled away from his youthful following of Giorgione. The examples seem well chosen to illustrate that theme. Mr. A. F. Kendrick continues his account of ' Tapestries at Eastnor ' ; and Prof. Baldwin Brown discusses the genuineness and authority of Vitruvius.

BOOKS ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (POST-REFORMATION).

MESSRS. SOTHERAN & Co. have sent us the second part of their Catalogue of Books on Theology (No. 759), and we have found it very good reading. It includes a number of curious old works ; serviceable collections under the headings of Newman, Pusey, Lightfoot, Neale, and other well-known theological writers and several note- worthy historical items. Any one who is making up a working library in theology and must needs look well at every shilling will find this catalogue worth perusing. Those of our readers who were interested in our recent correspondence on Antonio Vieira may be glad to hear of two copies of his ' Sermones,' the one dated 1692, 4 vols., sm. 4to, with a triple Index (12s.) the other, 3 vols. 4to in 1, dated 1727. Messrs. Sotheran have also two sets of Strype the Clarendon Press edition in 27 vols., of 1820-8 one bound by Riviere, offered for 51. ; the other, less sumptuous and more worn, offered for half that price. The Littlemore ' Lives of the English Saints,' complete in fourteen parts, in the original figured wrappers of Pugin's design, enclosed in three silk-lined cases (1844-5), is certainly not dear at 51. Under ' The Book of Common Prayer ' are five or six things of more than average interest, besides a

number of lesser ones. We select for mention a first edition, in black-letter, of the so-called ' Laud's Prayer Book ' the first Scottish Prayer Book having King James's metrical version of the Psalms (11.). Two other first editions not to be passed by are that of ' The Christian Year ' in 2 octavo vols., 1827 (21. 5s.), and that of Law's ' Serious Call,' 1729 (2L 10s.). There is besides a set of six volumes (all first editions new-bound by Riviere) of Mrs. Jameson's works on Sacred Art, to be had for 14Z.

The handful of books we noted in Messrs. Maggs's last catalogue (No. 341) as falling within the category of this notice present, side by side , a rather suggestive group. There is a fine large- paper copy of the first edition of the ' Novum Organum,' in the original calf, offered at 151. ; with a small-paper copy of the same bound by Riviere, offered at 321. 10s. Then there is a first edition of Herbert's * Temple ' that is if it be taken that the issue bearing the date 1633 is the first in a binding by Riviere (63Z.). For five guineas is offered another first edition that of Bunyan's ' Questions about the Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath,' pub- lished in 1685. Besides these English works we have then Montaigne's ' Essayes,' in Florio's translation also a first edition 1603 (65Z.) ; and the ' Revelationes ' of St. Brigit of Sweden, a book printed at Rome in 1557 (11. 15s.).

WE are glad to learn that a correspondent in our issue for 20 November was under a mis- apprehension concerning Capt. the Hon. M. Parker in mentioning a description of his grave, and that the gallant officer is still engaged on active service for his country.

Our correspondent, who is in Cyprus, referred to The Near East of 24 September as his authority. We hasten to express our great regret that an erroneous allusion to Capt. Parker as having been killed in France should have appeared in our columns.

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REV. F. PENNY. Forwarded.

MR. J. ARDAOH writes : " On * Cromwell's Alleged League with the Devil' (11 S. xii. 281, 324), consult 1 S. iii. 282. >5

CORRIGENDUM. Ante, p. 433, col. 2, 1. 1, for " v. 485 " read " iii. 485."