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down by a madman who had conceived the idea of conferring upon him equal honours with those of the lately martyred Thomas a Becket.

The next item consists of three documents relating to the life of the Pope St. Pius V., being the " Informatione " : Archiv. Vatic., varia politicorum, t. xi. fol. 30-6 ; the " Belatione dell' infermita, et morte," ut supra, t. xvi. fol. 818-27 ; and the " Vita di Pio Quinto," ut supra, t. xvii. fol. 351-62.

Catalogue of Documents and Letters of Historical and Local Interest relating to Brighton, Preston, and Hove. Lent by Alderman Charles Thomas- Stanford. (Combridges, Hove.) THIS booklet is worth our readers' attention. It describes sixty-one documents lent to the Brighton Public Library by Mr. Thomas-Stanford from his collection. These have been selected for their con- nection with the localities named in the title, and liave to do with farnilies well-known in the division of Sussex to which Brighton belongs Shirleys, Pelhams, Cheynells, and others. The earliest dated document is the Rental of the Manor of Preston of 3 Edward VI. (1551-2), and the latest a letter of Harrison Ainsworth, mentioning his (then) new book ' Ovingdean Grange,' dated 1860.

The first twenty - three items relate to the Manor of Preston, and illustrate the history of the underlords who held it under the Crown. There are an autograph letter of Sackville's (Thomas 1st Earl of Dorset); a copy of Selden's 'Mare Clausum,' with Laud's arms on the cover; an original MS. account of Star Chamber expenses signed, among others, by Bishop Juxon, and many papers connected with the Common wealth. Among later letters are one from Charles James Fox and one from Mary Shelley. But perhaps the most interesting document is a " certificate signed James Palmer, as to work done at the King's tapestry works at Mortlake, Surrey," dated 23 March, 1639. This was the factory established by Sir Francis Crane in James I.'s time the work of which still in great part survives for the admiration of posterity, though its production ceased with the Civil War. Palmer the signatory, was a friend of 'Charles I., one of the family to whom, on the dissolution of the monasteries large grants of lands and manors in Sussex were made.

A pleasing feature of this little brochure is the reproduction of a considerable number of signa- tures.

The Finance of the Hundred Years' War. 1337- 1360. By Schuyler B. Terry. (Constable & Co., 6-s.:net.) *

THIS volume is No. 35 of the series of monographs which are being issued under the auspices of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is a sound, closely- wrought study, offering illus- trative data, exactly documented, the mastery of which should give the student an insight into at least four great departments of the history of the middle-fourteenth century. He may consider h'rst the detail, of which this affords a convenient and compact example, of the mere financing of a war as such. Next, there is the purely economic aspect of affairs, the triumph of the English merchants over foreign rivals and intruders ; the brilliant evolu- tion of an English scheme of finance, after years of haphazard dealing with the sources of the country ; the vicissitudes of the establishment of the different

staples ; the emergence of a group of capitalists, bold and astute financiers ; and the process of the increase of national wealth despite the heavy burden of the war, and the yet sharper difficulties following upon the Black Death. Thirdly, we have here the material for reconstructing an important stage in the development of the relations between the Crown and the people ; and lastly, the oppor- tunity to observe the dwindling of the feudal sources of revenue.

Few generalizations are offered : a serried con- catenation of facts with their sources being the essential character of the book. Here and there a fact has a curiously modern appearance, as for instance, Edward's repeated failure in dealing according to his intention with the tin in Cornwall and Devon owing to the resistance of the miners, who, it would appear, on one occasion at least, went out on strike.

Perhaps the most interesting chapter is that which relates the preparations for the campaign of Crecy, and the measures taken for financing the siege of Calais. It describes not only the doings of English capitalists but the relations which grew up between these and the Commons, in which the English capitalists had come to hold the very position from which they had helped to oust the Hanse and Lom- bard merchants, and to use their power in a very similar way.

Like calendars and other reprints of records, this treatise requires some independent inner thread of enquiry on the part of the reader to supplement chronological sequence and the sequences of cause and effect, if it is to be read with all the profit possible. In the amassing and marshalling of facts, and in the thoroughness with which detail is set forth, it is excellent.

THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL is still pursuing its work of indicating houses which have been the residences of distinguished persons. On 26 May a leaden tablet was affixed to the house to the north-west of the junction of Carlisle Place and Francis Street, to commemorate the residence there of Cardinal Manning.

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MRS. SLATER, " In some brighter clime, Bid me ' Good morning.' " (Mrs. Barbauld). The poem begins " Life ! we've been long together," and is to be found in many anthologies.

CORRIGENDUM. A nte, p. 473, col. 1, 1. 27 from bottom, for Hie read H ic.