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in the ' D.N.B.' ' Have with you to Saffron Walden,' written by Nash in 1596, is the best- known part of the squabble, with ' The Trimming of Thos. Nashe,' 1597, Harvey's final reply.

Laurence Johnson was " almost certainly author of the curious comedy ' Misogonus,' 1577." Valentine Cary in 1609 became Master, and under him began the remarkable prosperity of the College. As Vice- Chancellor he preached (6 Dec., 1612) a sermon on the death of Prince Henry, when, " weeping himself, he made all the people weep again and again." Reference to his will is made in ' N. & Q.,' 3 S. vi. 174. Ezekiel Rogers, who matriculated 1592, emigrated to New England in 1638. He left his library to Harvard, which acquired also a part of his land. The ' Emblems ' of Francis Quarles (1608/9) were published in 1635, and have continued to be republished to the present time. John Light- foot will always rank among the greatest Hebraists of England. He assisted Walton in bringing out the Polyglot Bible of 1657. William Herries was the intimate friend of Crashaw, who commemorated his untimely death (15 Oct., 1631) in four striking poems,

A plant of noble stemme, forward and faire,

As ever whisper'd in the morning aire.

On the 12th of February, 1624/5, was admitted to Christ's College her greatest son John Milton. The story as to his being whipped Dr. Peile treats as fiction. His brother Christopher was admitted on 14 Feb., 1630/31. " A statement has lately been assigned to him that his brother John died a Roman Catholic " (' D.N.B.').

In more recent times we may mention William Cawthorne Unwin, the friend of Cowper ; Basil Montagu, admitted 10 April, 1786 ; and Peter Fraser, 1795. Crabb Robinson refers to Eraser's leaders in The Times : " the writer of the great leaders the flash articles which made a noise." Ralph Bernal (22 June, 1802) became President of the British Archaeological Society in 1853. His collection of glass, china, and miniatures sold after his death for 71,OOOZ. Finch-Hatton (1 July, 1808), afterwards Earl of Winchilsea, was a " rabid Protestant " ; he opposed the Catholic Relief Bill of 1829, and charged the Duke of Wellington, in a letter, with the intention of "introducing popery into every department of the state." The result was a duel (21 March), in which the Duke fired and missed, and " Lord Winchilsea fired in the air and apologized for his language."

William Harness (24 Dec., 1809) was the friend of Byron at Harrow ; both were lame through accident. Erasmus Darwin (9 Feb., 1822) was a friend of Carlyle's, and the brother of Charles (15 Oct., 1827). The Mastership of James Cartmell (21 'May, 1833) "was very important in the history of the College. He successfully opposed a proposal for the entire amalgamation of Christ's with Emmanuel a proposal which found warm support in both Colleges. He took a considerable share in University matters, especially in the management of the Press: he was for many years Chairman of the Press Syndicate." John Robert Seeley (11 Oct., 1852) was the author of ' Ecce Homo.' The next name is one well known as that of a constant con- tributor to our columns Walter William Skeat (4 May, 1854). An obituary notice of him appeared on p. 299 of the last volume of * N. & Q.'

We will close with a name intimately associated with the elder brother of ' N. & Q.' Norman MacColl (14 June, 1862), editor of The Atkenceum from 1871 to 1900. There is a mistake as to the date of his death : instead of "he died early in 1905," it should be " he died 16 Dec., 1904." He endowed by will a lectureship at Cambridge in Spanish and Portuguese which bears his name, and left to the University Library his Spanish books ('D.N.B.').

At the end of the second volume is a complete index of names. They number over teif thousand five hundred, whence our readers may judge of the great labour expended in compiling this (we are weary of the word, but must in this instance use it) monumental work. We wish one addition had been made to it, and that is a portrait of its, compiler. We must add a word of praise as to. the paper, letterpress, and binding, which are as. perfect as the Cambridge University Press can. make them.

THE April Quarterly Review pays graceful and discerning tribute to the work of Andrew Lang and that the more strikingly in that four men, each of weight in a department in which Lang laboured, combine their testimony. The late G. K. Fortes- cue's excellent article on ' The French Revolution iix Contemporary Literature ' is mostly taken up with a discussion of the Croker Tracts ; it starts out,, however, with imparting the notable fact that in> the last quinquennial Subject Index published by the British Museum (Jan., 1906-Dec., 1910) there are no fewer than 1,376 entries under the history of France, of which it appears that the greater parU treat of the Revolution. Two papers dealing with curious bypaths of literary history are Mr. ArundelL Esdaile's ' Autolycus' Pack : the Ballad Journal- ism of the Sixteenth Century,' and Prof. W. W. Comfort's ' Adenet le Roi : the End of a Literary- Era.' Mr. Thomas Ashby has a subject of inex- haustible interest in 'The Alban Hills.' In view of the many and inevitable changes impending over that famous stretch of country, such an able description of its beauties and resume of its history as he offers us may well do good service in keeping its claims to respectful treatment before the public of Europe. Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes has a neatly written, if somewhat slight, paper on Madame du Deffand and Horace Walpole, and another side of human affairs is represented by Mr. Bertram T. K. Smith's ' The Postage Stamp and its History.' There are also three or four good articles on burn- ing questions of the moment, and, for its subject- matter, we would call attention to one on 'The Past and Future of Rural England,' wherein the melancholy history of the English agricultural labourer is instructively discussed. This has been done often before, no doubt ; and, no doubt, must needs be done agarin and again in the future.

The Edinburgh Review for this month has several papers of outstanding interest, both literary and social. Mr. Edmund Gosse discourses pleasantly on ' The Writings of Lord Redesdale,' who, it will be remembered, as Mr. Algernon JMitford, was the first Englishman to give us any adequate inter- pretation of the charm and life of the Far East. Mr. Gosse duly compares him with Pierre Loti. Why does he say no word of Lafcadio Hearn ? The writer of ' Greek Genius and Greek Democracy ' is gifted with a trenchant pen which produces good reading none the worse, perhaps, in that respect