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Tcmembrance. Although what is termed a secu- larist, he respected all differences of opinion on religious questions, and in recent years frequently attended places of worship. We, who knew him well, remember with pleasure his gracious per- sonality, and felt how true was Gladstone's re- mark about him : " Holyoake is a better Christian than he knows." He did much to forward the o-operative movement. A few pages later in the volume we find a biography of another remarkable man, Joseph Leycester Lyne, " Father Ignatius " (1837-1908), who advocated the revival of monasticism in the Church of England, and on his starting a guild for men and boys, with himself as superior, was presented by Pusey with his monastic habit. In 1863 he acquired premises near Norwich, but these he had to abandon. In 1871 he published a work entitled ' Leonard Morris ; or, The Benedictine Xovice,' which The Athenceum, in reviewing it on the 14th of October, refused to treat as a novel, but regarded "as a defence of what Mr. Lyne is now attempting. .. .He wants, as before, thousands of pounds from the workers in the world, to enable him and his companions to keep their alleged vow of poverty, in a great Bene- dictine establishment." The review is very severe, and condemns the uncharitable spirit Lyne exhibited towards those who differed from him. In 1869 he established his monastery at Llanthony, but his effort to revive monasticism in England bore little fruit. We who have fre- quently heard him preach were impressed with his sincerity ; some of his sermons were most eloquent, perhaps the most eloquent of all being that on the occasion of the death of Father Pur- chas at Brighton.

Among journalists we note John Latey, who succeeded his father as editor of The Illustrated London News, one of the kindliest of men, and a founder of the London Press Club ; and Maxwell Tylden Masters, editor of The Gardeners' Chro- nicle. There is yet another biography for which we specially thank Sir Sidney Lee that of the poet Gerald Massey, many of whose poems first appeared in The Athenceum. Like Tennyson, he made many changes in his poems after their first appearance.

If space allowed, we could say much more about the men whose names appear in this most interest- ing volume. We offer our hearty thanks to Sir Sidney Lee for the many biographies he has himself contributed, as well as for the industry he has displayed in the selection of names for inclusion. Not the least of his services are those he has rendered in giving a permanent record of some who would otherwise probably have passed into oblivion.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. OCTOBER.

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS and a holograph will of Edward FitzGerald are among the most valuable of the items in Messrs. Sotheran's Catalogue 729, which we have recently received. For the best of the letters written to Crabbe's son in 1849 on the subject of his biography of his father 151. 15s. is asked, and for the will, dated 1858, 63Z. A copy of the original edition of the ' Workes of Beniamin Jonson,' 2 vols., folio the edition giving the names of actors of some of the plays,

with Shakespeare among them is to be had for 351. (1616-41). Of foreign items the most valu- able are, perhaps, the two La Rochefoucauld MSS. : one of the ' M^moires ? containing tha whole of them, and mentioned in the Introduc- tion to M. Petitot's edition contemporary, 521. 10s. ; the other, one of the seven known contemporary MSS. of the ' Memoires sur les Brigues a la Mort de Louis XIII., les Guerres de Paris et de Guyenne, et la Guerre des Princes,' as written by La Rochefoucauld's secretary and corrected by himself, having also corrections in another hand and 22 portraits, c. 1060, 631. A letter from Tennyson to Mr. Weld about his lost poem ' Arm ' " If The Times won't put it in, send it to The Morning Chronicle, The Athenanim anywhere " is offered for 52/. 10s. The poem has reference to the Volunteer Movement. John of Capua, towards the end of the thirteenth century, translated into Latin a Hebrew version of the Buddhist ' Fables de Pilpay ' ; this, in turn, in the sixteenth century was translated into Spanish, and we notice that a copy of the second or Saragossa edition of the Spanis'h is here to be had : a good copy, bearing the book-plates of Lord Shelborne and Lady Pomfret, 1531, 347. The first and second books on arithmetic, offered for 351. and 31L 10s. respectively, form an attrac- tive item. The first, the ' Libro de Abacho,' by Piero Borgo, or Borgi, is a 4to printed in Gothic letter, with woodcut initials, and the note of the date runs : " Nela inclita cita de venetia a corni. 2. augusto 1484 fu imposto fine ala presente opera." The second, ' Pictagoras [sic] Arith- metrice introductor, ' " Impresso nella excelsa cipta di Fireze per | Lorenzo de Morgiani et Giouanni Thedesco da Maganza n | nito <a di primo di | Genaio 1491," is also in Gothic letter, and contains a large woodcut of Pythagoras teaching. There are also a first edition of ' Bells and Pomegranates,' eight numbers in the original black cloth cover, for 25Z. (Moxon, 1841-8) ; a copy of Stow's ' Chaucer,' containing " diuers ad | dicions, whiche were neuer in printe before : with the siege and | destruccion of the worthy citee of Thebes, compiled | by Jhon Lidgate, Monke of Berie," a black-letter folio, 1561, 281. 10s. ; and Ackermann's ' History of the University of Oxford,' with the descriptive text by William Combe, on large paper, and the plates coloured by hand, 1814, 40L

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