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in Mr. H. G. Hutchinson's edition of the ' Letters and Recollections of Sir Walter Scott ' a very pleasant paper upon a delightful subject. Mrs. Hughes was the grandmother of Thomas Hughes of ' Tom Brown ' fame ; beloved by Scott for the beauty of her singing and to begin with for her kindness to a ha If -starved cur. But there was much more " to " Mrs. Hughes than that more

even than the power to make Barham write the ' Ingoldsby Legends.' One of the most useful of the articles before us should be that of Mr. William, Miller on the mediaeval Serbian empire, a subject upon which it may be taken that the

general reader's ignorance is almost total, while some accurate idea of it on the part of people in Western Europe would seem to be an essential condition of settling the Balkans in any sort of fairly stable peace. Another paper with a scope both historical and practical is contributed by Prof. C. H. Firth' The Study of British Foreign Policy.' We should like particularly to endorse his protest against the secretiyeness of the Government with regard to historical sources for the history of British foreign policy during the nineteenth century. At the present moment historians have access without a permit only to Foreign Office papers written before 1837, and with a permit only to those written before 1860. Mr. Charles Singer has an illustrated article, fall of curious detail which should particularly interest readers of ' N. & Q.,' on ' The Early Treatment of Gunshot Wounds.' This curious detail, it need hardly be said, is much of it pretty grisly. Mr. Albert M. Hyamson pleads for a British protec- torate for Palestine when the Turks have been made to relinquish it : a plea which will stir the imagination of persons of many_ schools of thought. In another line hardly less stirring, and worth most careful consideration, is the article by Mr. C. Ernest Fayle entitled ' Industrial Reconstruction,' with which the number begins.

The Fortnightly Review for November is mainly political or sociai ; but it fias three or four papers on more general topics that should meet with attention. We should put side by side as equally good, though diverse Mr. Edmund Gosse's story of a visit paid last September to Reims, and Prof. Foster Watson's article on ' Richard Hakluyt and his Debt to Spain.' It was a happy idea to take that angle from which to survey Hakluyt's achievement, both in respect of Hakluyt himself and as illustrating aspects of Spanish arid English intercourse which popularly are often neglected to the considerable loss of the general reader. The Cathedral at Reims is not utterly destroyed: we have long known so much; but Mr. Gosse shows it to us less damaged though so badly damaged than we had imagined, even half the glass of the great rose-window being still in place. It is natural both that the courageous Cardinal who watches over it should wish the Cathedral restored, and that the innumer- able people who love it should tremble at the thought of restoration. There, too, Mr. Gosse saw \ et intact both Jeanne d'Arc, at her station by the West front, and " le Coq de Reims." Mr. J. A. R. Marriott is making a study of English history and Shakespeare, of which this number has the first instalment. Mrs. Aria delivers a flood of turgid l>ut rather amusing English, supposed to be about our clothes and food and gas and domestic duties, hut the manner attracts the reader's mind away

from the matter. Mr. Brudenell Carter writes about science and education, in our opinion wisely, on the whole, and has a pleasant and useful comparison between the discovery of young Achilles, when disgaised as a girl, by his interest in weapons, and the possibility of dis- covering the philosophers of the future by their response to the highest rather than to other forms of knowledge.

THE November Cornhill is a very good number. The first instalment of 'Fly-leaves; or, Tales of a Flying Patrol (1915),' is sure, we think, to attract the attention it deserves. To say that what it tells is wonderful, and also that it gives a fine picture of gallantry, proud good-humour, and resource, is but to mention what is matter of course. Besides the descriptions of fights, there is a deeply interesting account of a thunder- storm, and a curious story of meeting an eagle in the air who, amazed at the strange appari- tion of the aeroplane, " side-slipped " and fled tumbling away. E. Hallam Moorhouse writes an inspiriting account of Hakluyt in honour of the tercentenary this month. We liked much Mr. A. G. Bradley 's article on ' Squires and Trade in Olden Times ' though it might, perhaps, have cut out some repetitions in favour of more concrete examples. It is a subject which should interest alike the social historian and the genealogist. Mr. Claude E. Benson's story, ' The Brink of Acheron,' is a sort of Harrison Ainsworth performance quite good too. Mr. Gathorne - Hardy has occasion to make a few statements about the ' Balliol Memories ' which he contributed to the October number of the Cornhill, and takes the opportunity to tell a good story. Aboat the war we have Miss Beatrice Harraden's account of her experiences and discoveries as Honorary Librarian at the Endell Street Hospital. These are very in- structive, and seem to carry with them, to other hospitals, something of the admonition to go and do likewise. Mr. Boyd Cable's new sketch of ' The Old Contemptibles ' 'is called ' Fighting Strength ' very painful to read and very glorious. Then there is a slight but rather graceful paper by Lady Poore about an Australian in the Highlands, and a delightful picture of veld experiences with horses ' Lost Horses ' by Mr. R. T. Coryndon. ' The Tutor's Story,' which Lucas Malet has revised and completed from a MS. left by her father Charles Kingsley, is in this number brought to an end.

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