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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. JUNE 10, me.

We come across some curious names : Godhelp, <Greentree, Holdycars, Kowthbodom, Littleheire, Oryed. Pentecoste, Proudlove, Rowghtbottell, Sly, Toe, Ylburd.

The contents of the work bear witness to the great care Mr. Marsh has bestowed on its compila- tion. The volume is uniform with its predecessors, and beautifully printed on hand-made paper by the Oxford University Press, the number of copies being limited to 250.

The Fortnightly Review for June begins with a poem by Mr. Thomas Hardy to Shakespeare. It has a certain curiosa felicitas of diction ; out we cannot find it in ourselves to like the comparison of the Swan of Avon to a " bright-pinioned " bird. Mr. Mallock continues his academic study of ' De- mocracy and Industrial Efficiency,' and " Politicus " his analysis of the teachings of the Nappleonic War. Mr. Edmund Gosse makes a clever, delightful picture out of the shadowy figure of Catharine Trotter, girl-playwright, blue-stocking, and admirer of Locke at the end of the seventeenth century. Mr. Arthur A. Baumann contributes an essay on Disraeli in his " meridian " commenting on Mr. Buckle's fourth volume of Disraeli's ' Lire.' W T e liked Dr. Marie Stopes's Japanese fairy-tale or parable of the carver ; we can hardly say quite as much of Mrs. John Lane's 'Pot-pourri,' which somewhat disappointed our expectations. Of the papers on the affairs of the day we may mention Mr. Charles Dawbarn's ' Some French Fighters,' portraits of the foremost French generals, and

The Sinn Fein Rising,' which, over the signature " Judex," pleads for mercy towards the misguided insurgents.

MOST of The Nineteenth Century is devoted to a consideration of the problems of the day, and that in a group of very noteworthy papers by men who can make a good claim to be heard. The first -article in our own line is Prof. Joseph Delcourt's

tremely interesting, and instructive too, for, though there is much in French literature to impress upon (as the strong native difference between the English .and the French turn of mind, it does not per- haps sufficiently come home to most of us, and the French find in Shakespeare makes the dif- ference strike one over again as itself some- thing new and strange. Mr. Charles Dawbarn, in the article which follows Prof. Delcourt's, illustrates it from another side that of the several attitudes of Englishmen and Frenchmen AS to the practical conduct of affairs. Both papers are shrewa, suggestive, and entertaining ; the latter, since it deals with some misconceptions current between allies in war, of serious import also. Mr. A. C. Benson, Master now of Magdalene College, Cambridge, has a paper on ' Education After the War,' in which, we think, despite much goodwill towards reform, and many wise counsels, he continues, implicitly, the mistaken English tradition, which undervalues the real importance of knowledge as knowledge. Mr. Douglas Ainslie is an enthusiastic and attractive, if not very lucid, expositor of the teachings of Benedetto Croce; and Prof J. H. Longford gives us the text with comments thereon of the Imperial Rescript of 1882, which forms the code of the Japanese soldier.
 * Shakespeare and the French Mind. This is ex-
 * any lengthy reflection upon the strangeness which

The Cornhilt is rarely, and perhaps never, negli- gible, but we cannot say that this June number will be remembered by us as a number to be treasured. The thing we like best in it is Mr. Max Beerbohm's ' Enoch Soames,' which is entirely absurd, several pages too long, and considerably better at the beginning than at the end; but is, at the same time, so wittily written and so clever in detail, that it does just as well with its faults as without them. Dr. Dearmer describes Ypres as it is now ; Lieut. E. H. Young tells of what happened when the Germans forced the passage of the Danube at Semendria in October, 1914 ; Bennet Copplestone's ' Letter from Big Peter,' entitled

a naval encounter ; and Mr. .Jeffery E. Jeffery, in
 * With the Grand Fleet,' contains a good story of

fine material. 'The Breadside in Holland,' by Mr. I. I. Brants, shows us the "true complexion of Dutch neutrality. There are besides two poems : one, in Italian, ' Italia Nuova, 1915,' by Mr. Horatio Brown, with an English version by Lord Dundas, and the other a character sketch by Mr. Guy Kendall, entitled * Mopsus.'
 * The New Ubique,' has also put together some

The Burlington Magazine for June has for frontispiece a reproduction of a hitherto unknown picture by Rembrandt a 'St. Peter,' recently purchased by Mr. Herbert Cook, and now in Sir F. Cook's gallery at Doughty House, Richmond. The work is signed, and dated 1633. Mr. F. M. Kelly sends the first instalment of an article on Shakespearian dress, and deals in this number with doublet and hose a subject which he has treated learnedly in the present volume of ' N. & Q.' (ante, p. 162). Mr. Roger Fry writes on Rpssetti's water-colours of 1857, and describes, with illustrations, some of those recently acquired by the Tate Gallery. Mr. Herbert Cescinsky in

discusses critically some of the accepted beliefs regarding the celebrated craftsman and his work. This article is followed by an account of the mono- graph of Herr Andreas Lindblom of Stockholm on a group of altarpieces executed for Swedish churches by Herman Rode. The exteriors of the wings of the triptych in the church of Salem, Sodermanland, are reproduced as a full-page illus- tration in colour.
 * Thomas Chippendale : the Evidence of his Work,'

The AthencKum now appearing monthly, arrange- ments have been made whereby advertisements of posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to publish weekly, may appear in the intervening weeks in ' N. & Q.'

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MR. A. LEWIS. Forwarded to CHELTONIAN. Hie ET UBIQUE. No reply received.

MR. C. E. GOODWIN. Yes, the legend is that of St. Christopher : it may be found in many works of reference, e.g., * Encyclopaedia Britannica,' and in ' The Golden Legend.

OXFORD GRADUATE (" Praise from Sir Hugh"). Is not this a reminiscence of "Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed " (Thomas Morton, 'A Cure for the Heartache,' V. ii.)? See Bartlett's ' Familiar Quotations,' p. 457.