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with an explanation to the effect that " two of the late Presidents Crof ton in his * Early Annals of the Gypsies in England,' and Mac Ritchie in his ' Scottish Gypsies under the Stuarts ' have set a laudable example by searching the published volumes of State Papers for references to Gypsies. But Crofton's first paper was written before many volumes had appeared, and since Mac Ritchie wrote many more Scottish volumes have been issued." Consequently, there are a number of records which have not as yet been brought to the notice of the Society. Mr. Wellstood was unable to work through the volumes, so Mr. Winstedt has collected all the remaining references, both in the English and Scottish series.

Mr. Bernard Gilliat - Smith contributes * A Ninth Bulgarian Gypsy Folk-Tale.' There are Balkan notes by Andreas, and an Italian Gypsy comedy by Dr. Ranking.

Among other notes is one by Mr. David Mac Ritchie on ' The Cross as a Gypsy Symbol.' He learns from Mr. Watts-Dunton that "the cross, or trisula, is regarded by Gypsies as the most powerful of all symbols. A Romani girl will tell you that the dark-blue punctured rosettes at the corners of her mouth, ornamental as she considers them to be, have something to do with

luck as well as ornament Tattooed on the breast

of the South Papuan woman we find the same cross (or Sanscrit trisula), which the Romanis believe to be the most powerful of all symbols so powerful that the rainbow will fade from the sky ' at the very sight of it.' "

We are again requested to state that the head- quarters of the Society are at 2lA, Alfred Street, Liverpool.

Sermons preached in Sackville College Chapel. By the late Rev. J. M. Neale, D.D. New Edition Unabridged. Vol. I. (H. R. Allenson, 2-9. 6d. net.) SACKVILLE COLLEGES a large, low, grey pile of buildings on the brow of rising ground at the entrance to the town of East Grinsted. An iron plate fixed to the oak door is inscribed 1616, and above the gate is a sundial with the inscription "Horas non numero nisi serenas." This institu- tion was founded in 1608 by Robert, second Earl of Dorset, for the shelter and maintenance of thirty poor and aged householders. Interminable lawsuits, consequent on sale of property, reduced the funds. Neale became Warden in May, 1846, and at once set to work at restoration of all kinds, and on Sundays he would invite the old people to dine with him and his family in the hall, and thus, as he told them in his first sermon, "we shall the more feel like, as we are indeed, one family." The volume is dedicated to his widow.

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. December.

(Mitchell Hughes & Clarke.)

MB. BRUCE BANNEBMAN, the editor, has provided, as usual, an interesting number. It opens with ' Pedigrees of the Visitation of Gloucestershire,' which is illustrated with 27 engravings of coats of arms. This is followed by a continuation of the account of the birth and youthful career of Henry, Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., and his progress to Bosworth Field, communicated by Mr. George Grazebrook. A friend who was searching on his behalf for traces of Henry's march wrote on 28 July, 1899, that a very old lady named Miss Watkin told him " her ancestors lived at

Cenyll Mawr, pronounced ' Kenetfi Mawr,' which means a great gathering, and that Henry VII. on his way to England, after he had passed by Aberystwith, called at their house, and was. received with great enthusiasm. This place is marked as Cynnyl Mawr on the Ordnance map. It lies about six miles from Aberystwith and ten miles from Machynlleth, and its great value to us is that it shows how Richmond's army took a cross-road to Eglwysfach and on to Machynlleth. The house is now a modern farm, but adjoining it is the site of the old mansion, a level spot fortified with a high embankment, and with fine old trees about it, so that it would be in 1485 a place of some importance."

There are pedigrees of the family of Floyer- (eleventh to the sixteenth century) ; of Bucke~ ridge of Lichfield ; and of Frost of Bishopsgate^ There is also an article on the Ray family of Rhode Island ; and our correspondent the Rev. H. L. L. Denny writes on the Manor of the Rectory : Bishop's Stortford, Herts, and its owners.

Messrs. Longman's Classified Catalogue for 1914 should serve as a model for others. The Analytical Index of Subjects is excellent, as is also the General Index. It is interesting to note the number of pages the different subjects take : Standard and General, 84 ; Theology, 49 ; Roman Catholic, 11 ^ Medical and Surgical, 7 ; Science, 51 ; Educa- tion, 88.

The following definitions are good : New im* pression, when a book is reprinted without change to distinguish it from an edition. New edition, an, impression in which the matter has undergone some , change, or for which the type has been reset. Reiaw&i republication at a different price or in a., different form.

The English Historical Review for January has an important and instructive article by Sir William Anson on ' The Cabinet in the Seventeenth > and Eighteenth Centuries ' ; a criticism worth. careful attention, by Mr. G. Gr. Coulton, of recent work on the interpretation of Visitation Docu- ments ; and an interesting study of the Avowries. of Cheshire by Mr. R. Stewart-Brown. The other two main papers are Dr. Holland Rose's ' Frederick the Great and England, 1756-63,' and Miss M. T. Stead's ' Manegold of Lautenbach.'

The ' Notes and Documents ' include a tran- script of St. Boniface's Poem to Nithardus, by the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge ; a discussion by Mr. A. E. Bland of a document relating to the establishment of home staples (1319) ; and an interesting suggestion by Miss M. Deanesly to. connect the ' Incendium Amoris ' of Richard Rolle, with MSS. of St. Bonaventura through the Council of Constance. The reviews include a number of noteworthy articles.

THE January Quarterly has several good literary and historical papers. Prof. Case's study of ' The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher' sets the authors well and clearly in relation to the milieu in which they worked. Dean Inge's 'St. Paul' deals with the external aspects of the Apostle's activity and development of thought in the light of recent dis- coveries and of the new conceptions arising from the study of comparative religion, and within the scope determined is excellent. Mr. Garnet Smith's 'The Contemporary German Drama' is well-in* formed and well-timed. Our knowledge of German