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Elizabeth " Mowmfurthe " of Kilnhurst), the

other of 1599 (goods of Anthony Marryat of ' Over Haughe). Anne Fenton, whose will is dated 1552, has nine daughters, of whom the fourth and the eighth were called Anne, and have to be formally distinguished as Anne the elder and Anne the younger. We may also mention the

-deed of Partition, made in 1579, between Anne Bray and Thomas Barber, as one of the richest of these documents in respect of local detail.

To the main body of the work is added a

-valuable set of abstracts of documents relating to Barnes Hall, transmitted to Mr. Hall by Sir Alfred Gatty, and following these we have Mr. Hall's interesting paper on ' Ye Backer Way.' This compilation had been laid aside at the beginning of the war ; it is now published in aid of the Sheffield Hospitals in the hope that by

-the sale of 100 copies a sum of 251. may be raised for that purpose. For this reason we recommend

r it to the particular attention of our readers but by no means for this reason only. It is a piece of work upon which the compiler is much to be congratulated. There are five facsimiles of early deeds, and one of an eighteenth-century plan of York Street, Sheffield. The transcript in extenso of William de Lovetot's charter makes uictu, victualiorum.

The Burlington Magazine for November gives us the conclusion of three good studies that on Giuliano, Pietro, and Giovanni da Rimini by M. Osvald Siren ; that on Spanish embroideries by Mr. George Saville ; and the ' Theory of ..Esthetic,' by Mr. Douglas Ainslie. The last is rather stimulating than convincing ; but when one disagrees as is fairly often the case the exact definition of and reason for the disagreement form profitable meditation. M. Siren makes to

Giovanni Baronzi da Rimini one or two new and

'important attributions. About the Spanish mind as expressed in art-^-even if it be in what is

commonly called a minor art- there is a fascina- tion not only great but distinctive, and Mr. Saville's discussion conveys that successfully. Mr. Paul Buschmann offers a suggestion concern- ing two drawings in the Christ Church Library at Oxford, for which an author has long been wanting : he would provide them with Cornelius Bos in that capacity ; and would render the same

service to two grotesque masks in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by attributing them to

'Cornelius Floris. Mr. Bernard Rackham writes upon ' Wirksworth Porcelain,' and Mr. Herbert Cescinsky upon ' English Marqueterie.' The first article in the paper is by Sir Martin Conway a very interesting analysis of Gerard David's ' Descent from the Cross,' which was exhibited in

-the "Old Masters" in 1912. Once in the Dingwall collection, and now in the possession of

. another private collector, it is an important picture

of which hitherto only a somewhat unsatisfactory photograph had been published. The frontispiece to this number of the magazine furnishes a much more worthy one, of which all lovers of David will be glad to take note.

THE November Nineteenth Century has three or four rather dull papers, and as many of somewhat unusual interest. Railways are a prominent feature in the number, and the articles connected with this topic are among the (best Mr. M oreton Frewen's "* The Economics of James J. Hill,' and Mr. H. M. Hyndman's 'The Railway Problem Solved' to

which we may add as kindred Captain G. S. C. Swinton's 'Castles in the Air at Charing Cross.' The first and the last especially of the three contain a good deal of matter worth noting by readers of ' N. & Q.' Mrs. Stirling brings to a conclusion the Diary of Charles Hotham 'Fight- ing in Flanders in 1793-1794 ' of which the first instalment appeared in the May number of this review. Brigadier-General F. G. Stone has worked out a parallel between the situation and conduct of Frederick William III. of Prussia and those of King Constantine. The correspondences are numerous and striking, and also more substantial so to put it than such comparisons often are. Captain Philippe Millet's ' Twelve Months with the British Army ' is sure to be read with gratitude and pleasure. He is a French " Officer of Liaison," and there is no position from which criticism or appreciation of our army can be more welcome, interesting and valuable. He speaks generously and shrewdly, now and then showing up a differ- ence between British and French which strikes one as, fresh for instance, in his remarks about the treatment accorded an unpopular character. Mr. S. P. B. Mais has put together some rather rambling dicta about the poets of to-day. He could not fail, being a clever writer and saying so many things, to say several of these well and truly ; but he tends sadly to exaggeration in praise, and thereby becomes unconvincing. He singles out as a "gem" the stanza of a song from Mr. Gordon Bottomley's 'King Lear's Wife ':

If you have a mind to kiss me, You shall kiss me in the dark :

Yet rehearse, or you might miss me

Make my mouth your noontide mark : Dare we confess that the last line makes us laugh ?

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MR. J. HARRIS STONE. The epitaph "Fare- well, vain world," was set out in various forms at 9S. ii. 306, 536; iii. 191.

CORRIGENDUM, p. 340. In consequence of an accident to the type of the last line on this page, 'AKKur/j.bs appeared instead of 'AKKiff/j.bs. The corrigendum should have been : " Ante, p. 315, col. 1, 1. 23, for AKKurfj.&s read 'A.Kicur/j.t>s."