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not see entirely "eye to eye " with him. Dr. Georg Wegener, while pointing out the many dangers and problems of our present situation in India, is benevolent towards our sovereignty there on the whole, and appreciative of our efforts at good goYernment even where, as in the matter of the tremendous increase of population, their success directly produces new difficulties. Three valuable papers on different aspects of the rearing of chil- dren are Miss Mason's ' Poor-Law Children and the Efficient Inspection of the " Divine " System ' (no one has a better right than she to be heard on the subject of " boarding-out," and we trust these pages will meet with serious attention) ; Miss (?) Anna Martin's vigorous and well-documented appeal in ' The Mother and Social Reform ' ; and jBishop Frodsham's discussion of the manner in which the "religious difficulty" in primary education has been solved in Australia. Mr. A. S. Underwood calls attention to a serious lacuna in our national defence of health by a timely paper on * The Danger from Untrained Dentists ' ; and Sir Harry Johnston invites us, in stirring paragraphs which may here and there provoke a smile, to fill up what we may call a lacuna in the national consciousness oy erecting in all our towns more liberally than we do statues to commemorate " British worthies." Adeline, Duchess of Bedford, contributes a paper on ' Republican Tyranny in Portugal,' which gives almost incredible particulars of actual and present dealings with political prisoners.

Of the papers on subjects of another order, the most curious and valuable is Col. Massy's vivid description of his pilgrimage -attended with great danger, and requiring the utmost exertion of ready wit and self-possession to the shrine of Imati Reza at Mashad. Mrs. Ernest Rhys has a good paper about the influence which the history of Essex may have had on Shakespeare's handling of us a study of Gobineau, which has chiefly in view to show an indebtedness to Gobineau on the part of Nietzsche.
 * Hamlet ' ; and Dr. Georges Chatterton-Hill gives

HISTORY OF EUROPEAN KNIGHTLY ORDERS. A History of Knighthood, embracing the Religious and Military Orders which have been instituted in Europe, with descriptions of their emblems, regalias, ribbons, mottoes, &c., is being compiled by Mr. Frederic J. Willson, 915, Colonial Buildings, Boston, Mass., with a view to publication. I write in the hope that those interested in this field will communicate with him as regards data.

Dublin. WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

MR. THOMAS FLINT has kindly sent us the following paragraph :

" The Parisian magazine Mercure de France recently published an article of more than four closely printed pages, criticizing the French

rtj The reviewer wrote : ' Mon attention fut attir^e

translation of Carlyle's ' French Revolution.' The reviewer wrote : ' Mon attention fut attir^e sur cette version pa.r un paragraphe de Notes and Queries du 20 avril, 1912.' Referring to the characterization of the translation as ' sabotage,' at that reference, lie added : ' Tl n'avait quc trpp raison. . . .Combien il est regrettable quo " L'His- toire de la Revolution " ait e"te massacred d'auspi in.ligne fa con ! ' "

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.

MESSRS. SOTHERAN & Co.'s Catalogue 40 is unusually interesting, being a list, amply illustrated, of the original drawings, as well as engravings, caricatures, and illustrated books, by Rowlandson. which they are now offering for sale. Among the most important of the original drawings are the 'Amsterdam, Hotel de Ville,' a lively scene, showing the quay, with craft alongside, and groups on the bank, 551. ; the vigorous, if rather broadly humorous ' Easter Monday at Greenwich,' 45Z. ; and the charming ' King's Head, Roehampton,' SQL Of the engravings and caricatures perhaps the bsst is ' A French Family,' where father and mother and children, presumably all by profession dancers, are seen practising their steps to the tune of the old grandfather's fiddle a caricature in which Rowlandson's wit has not parted company with his sense of grace 13/. \3s. The illustrated books include several valuable items. Thus for 70Z. is offered a collection of various "facetious works," mostly in first editions (the 'Tours of Dr. Syntax ' and ' The Vicar of Wakefield,' however, not being among these), with coloured plates by Rowlandson to all except ' Tom Raw, the Griffin,' where the illustrations, in his style, are by D'Oyley. The Caricature Magazine ; or, Hudibrastic Mirror, containing in 5 vols. 386 humorous coloured plates, has work by Cruikshank, Woodward, and others as well as Rowlandson, and is offered for 200Z. A supplement gives particulars of colour-plate books by other artists, and the following may serve as examples : Hairdressing, a collection of nearly 150 engravings, caricatures, and original drawings, forming a satirical survey of the extremes and follies of fashion in dressing the hair during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, 65Z. ; the ' National Sports of Great Britain,' first issue of the first edition, illustrated with 50 coloured aquatints, 1821, 110Z. ; the 'Fashions of London and Paris during the Years 1798 to 1806,' containing a fine series of coloured engravings, many of which would seem to be from Adam Buck, and some of them portraits, e.g., Mme. Recamier, after Cosway, and Lady Hamilton, 051. ; Owen and Westall's 1 Picturesque Tour of the River Thames,' 1828, one volume extended to six by the addition of over 550 extra illustrations, work by Boydell, Tombleson, Cooke, Senior, and others, and bound by Riviere, 125Z. ; and Tuer's ' Bartolozzi,' originally in two volumes, and similarly extended to six by the addition of 300 engravings, chiefly by Bartolozzi or pupils of his, 1881, 225Z.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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