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 20 o NOTES AND QUEMES. [11 & vil Jax. 4. ma. a seat to a lady j, as discussed in a Finnish debating Society. Mr. Stanley J. Wevman's brief tribute to James Beresford Atlay is charming, sympa- thetic, and conspicuously well-considered.' The sombre glamour of the East is represented bv Sir E. C. Cox's ' Devilrv of Ghoolam Rasool and another side of Indian life and affairs bv Major G. F. MacMunn's ' Maharajpore and Funniar. The story of the origin of the Ada Lewis Home, the home for women on the prin- ciples of a Rowton House, which was made possible by Mrs. Lewis's legacy of 50,000*. for Kean; and ' Riders of the Plains,' bv Miss Agnes Deans Cameron, is a description "of the hardy, courageous life of the Mounted Police of North-West Canada. Mr. E. F. Benson begins the classical works remaining to ns in a fresh and fruitful manner. From this point of view what is left to ns of Varro is of a value almost unique. We trust the time will come when to set a boy to read the'Georgies ' without his having first read the ' Rerum Rusticarum ' will seem an absurdity. Yet to plough through this mass of Varronian Latin would be but an absurdity of another kind— would be prolonging the old mistake of language first and subject-matter second. It is here that the use of a version will come in ; and we congratulate Mr. Storr-Best on having pro very satisfactory way, so much as is necessary of the functions of pure scholarship. More than that, the writer has dealt originally and success fully with more than one " crux, and, in par ti -ular, we think he has proved his point with : a serial, ' Thorlev Weir ' ; and Mrs Henry de la regard to the place of the dialogue in the second Pasture's ' Michael Ferrvs ' is continued book and to the occasion, viz., the Palilia, being celebrated in Epirus. For " Palibus " in the ! The Xhteteenth Century is also stronger than archetype Mr. Storr-Best makes the brilliant < usual on the literary side. Prof. Tyrrell's ' St le suggestion of Pali bis; and he has also, we think, in English Literature ' brings us to no definite rightly explained the meaning of the "Seian" conclusion, but the instances quoted, and the house. He gives an ingenious reconstruction of amusing criticism of Stevenson's extravagances, the aviary at Casinum. and the mere method of the considerations, at This is a book which should find lodgment on many shelves. For, in noticing the excellence of the editor's work, we must not forget that the original in and for itself has much to offer, not only in the way of curious or antiquarian infor- mation, but also homely, practical counsel, and in illustration of methods still in use. The literary articles of the January Fortnightly Hevieio are of unusual interest. Prof. Geroth- wohl has a brilliant study of Alfred de Vigny in relation to ' Genius and Woman,' which is both more keen-sighted in its discrimination, and more choice and lively in style, than such other studies from his pen as we have seen. Mr. Maurice Hewlett's ' The Windows' is at least good reading, though the contribution he makes to the reader's imaginative wealth proves in the end slight. Andre Lafon, as we know, has been awarded the first Grand Prix de Litterature by the Academie Francaise for his ' Elevo Gilles,' and Lady Theodora Davidson gives a welcome and sympathetic account of hirn and his book. Mr. F. G. Allalo in ' Winter Travel ' surveys the habitable regions of the world from the point of view of escape from England. Sir Hubert von Herkomer's ' Hints on Sketching from Nature ' should be useful, not only as furnishing technical " tips," but also as elucidating some of the broader principles often forgotten by the student in his pursuit of the fashion of the moment. Another paper which deserves attention is Mr. P. P. Howe's on ' St. John llankin and his Comedy of Recognition.' The War and kindred subjects naturally fill many pages, and we may mention Mr. Henry Itacrlein's article on ' The Musters of the Southern Slav.' The Cnrnhill Magazine for this month has a tabic of contents more than usually various. Judge Parry gives us some more scenes with John llonorius—3ecn presiding over the keeping of Christmas. Miss Edith Sellers, not without her rather pleasant occasional acridity, gives us • A Question of Good Manners ' (the giving up least make for better insight into the problem. Mr. M. H. Spielmann's studv of ' The Portraitui- of George Frederic Watts' is a thoroughly interesting piece of work. Mrs. Frederic Harrison has ' Some Thoughts about the Novel ' which are rather disjointed, and seem to us to prove but little. Among the most arresting of the articles we should reckon Mr. G. R. S. Mead's ' Mystical Experiments on the Frontiers of Earlv Christendom ' and Mr. M. A. R. Tuker's ' The Gospel according to Prisca.' The latter goes through the evidence which might be held to justify the attribution of the Epistle to the Hebrews to Prisca's household: the former deals with those names of mystery and romance— Hermes Trismegisto3 and Iamblichu s, and with the so-called ' Hymn of Jesus ' from the latest discovered fragments of, the ' Acts of John ' We may notice briefly Mr. Walter Sichel's ' Dis- raeli : the Second Phase,' and Mr. T. Jamieson's paper on ' The Small Holdings Problem.' Notices to Comspontonts. On all communications must be written the namt and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We bej; leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. . ^nZ0Kl^b °°mi?unications should be addressed to Ihe Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"—Adver- tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub- lishers—at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. * H. H. C. -Forwarded. A. B. ("On that hard Pagan world disgust").— Matthew Arnold, ' Obermann Onoe More,' st. 24. Corrigendum.— In our last number, p 517, col. 2, the translation of the sonnet by Felix Arvere should have been signed C. C. B., not " B. C. C."