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portrait pf Bishop Griffith formerly at Gway- nynog is now in the possession of Major H. Peacock of Stanford Hall, Loughborough. W. M. MYDDELTON. Woodhall Spa.

He was appointed a Charter (or original) Scholar of Pembroke College, Oxon, on the foundation of this house in 1624.

A. R. BAYLEY.

HENRY CARD (US. iv. 528). Although I have not searched Egham Parish Registers, Churchwardens' Books, Manor Court Rolls, and other muniments specially for Card, I certainly do not remember ever seeing the name in any of them. As the county is wrongly given Egham is, of course, in Surrey may not the town be incorrectly given also ? If G. F. R. B. obtains any information about Card privately, I shall esteem it a favour if he will share it with me. FREDERIC TURNER.

Esmond, Egham.

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THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY send us Cambridge under Queen Anne, which is published in London by Messrs. Bell & Sons, and in Cam- bridge by Messrs. Deighton & Bell and Messrs. Bowes & Bowes. The book, which consists of the Memoir of Ambrose Bonwicke and the Diaries of Francis Burman and Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, is edited with notes by J. E. B. Mayor, and has a preface by Dr. M. R. James. The last-named explains that the notes are not quite so complete as the late Professor of Latin meant to make them, but a host of students will be glad to get this " mine of information about the scholars of Cambridge nay, of Europe of two hundred years ago." Mayor belonged to the type of scholar, more common, perhaps, in the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth than now, who worked ceaselessly and untiringly round his subject, and annotated it with a full- ness which is novel to this hurried age. He published the Life of Bonwicke by itself in 1870, and he intended to write more notes on Uffenbach, who was a keen explorer of libraries and MSS., and generally found them in a neglected condition. Burman and Uffenbach saw much in England besides the two premier Universities, and their details of London are of great interest. We regret with Dr. James the loss of probable comment on Whiston, one of the most interesting heretics of his day, but we have abundance of curious matter from the most diverse sources about such men as Bentley and Meric Casaubon.

On the bibliographical side the notes are par- ticularly precise and copious, though they deal largely with obsolete books, authors like Puffen- dorf, who have ceased to supply any University with standard reading.

Bonwicke reminds us of a recent note in our own columns when he writes to his father, " Vix possum non effutire quidditates, entitates,

formalitates, et id genus barbariem." A later- letter with a mention of the phrase " in Parviso- (ut loquuntur) " leads to a learned note on "Parvis," "a church-porch," derived from ".Para- disus." Bonwicke was a pious and exemplary person who pursued his studies " in spight o'f Sturbridge fair," on which the Professor supplies eleven pages of curious details. Bonwicke's habit of asking himself at the close of each day how he had spent it, what good or evil he had done, dates back, we learn, to Pythagoras, and was practised by the gentle George Dyer, Lamb's friend.

Bunnan's visit to Cambridge in 1702 leads to a record of a few pages only, but he did not miss on the way thither " a regal palace called Audley house," of which many a modern undergraduate knows nothing. The Professor in the notes gives an abstract of the remainder of Burman's journal. He saw a cock-fight in London " dementia quadam Anglorum commendandum," climbed the Monument twice, and was well treated by Bentley and Sir Isaac Newton. He was certainly a more agreeable person than Uffenbach, who is full of sneers and complaints about the English. They cannot, according to him, even ride a horse properly. Still, we can pardon much in so keen a searcher after books and MSS. As a boy, we- learn, he spent his playtime and half the night in study, and he learnt how to bind books and' play the violin. He intended to settle for life in some Oxford college, but the diet, climate, and disturbed state of affairs made him give up- the idea, and his books finally rested in Frankfort. He catalogued them with his own hand, " filling 50 thick folios with the titles." He did not, however, confine himself to book-hunting ; he- heard Pepusch conduct music, visited Flamsteed the astronomer, saw several comedies, and at the Tower made the following note :

" The wild beasts ; only four lions with a pet dog, one tiger, two wolves, two Indian cats, two eagles, one 40 years old."

We hope that the details we have cited will be sufficient to show the wide interest of this volume. An index giving not only the page, but also the line in which a matter is mentioned, worthily completes Mayor's labours.

The Quarterly Review for this month has several articles of literary interest. ' New Light on George Sand ' deals with a career which is re- garded as typically romantic by the French, but seems somewhat sordid to the average English- man, apart from the amount of " copy " made out of it. Prof. J. P. Whitney writes with judgment on ' The Elizabethan Reformation,' but is not so clear as he might be. We prefer Dr. A. W. Ward's account of the ' Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum,' which puts the reader in the way to appreciate the origin of the 'Letters ' and their milieu as well as their contents. Mr. Sydney Waterlow writes well on ' The Philosophy of Bergson.' The article entitled ' The Duke of Devonshire and the Liberal Unionists ' makes good UPC of the recent ' Lives ' of the former and of Goschen. We learn that the Duke was a large buyer of books and a keen reader of poetry, details which add to the taciturn, negative side of his character. Stories of his untidy dress abound, and we learn here that W 7. H. Smith complained of him once at Aix as appearing in the guise of " a seedy shady sailor."