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history of the Abbey without giving their figures, if not altogether the most conspicuous, yet some central position therein.

We might quote many interesting matters from the register, but prefer to advise our readers to gather them first hand from the book itself. We do not wonder that the accumulation of these details has peopled the mediaeval Abbey for the writer with vigorous life. In a lesser degree those who have perused this book will assuredly feel the same.

WE were glad to see in the new Nineteenth Century so able a hand as Mr. Oscar Browning's taking up the challenge thrown down by Mr. John Palmer in the number for July, 19 16, in an article entitled ' The Present Disrepute of Shakespeare ' ; having read what he has to say, we were constrained to agree with the writer in wishing he had had access to evidence wherewith to establish his opinion. Mr. Harold F. Wyatt here concludes his argument " If a man die shall he live again ? " his pages containing more than one noble and eloquent passage which, short of avowing absolute materialism, it will not be found easy to refute. Sir Frederick Wedmore has a timely discourse upon the intrinsic value of those French paintings of Sir Hugh Lane's collection which have caused such heartburnings between London and Dublin. Miss M. H. Mason writes very sensibly on ' " The Tyranny of Fashion " in War-time,' and we should like to think that her remonstrances will be read and heeded. Even more to the point is Miss Edith Sellers's ' On the Manufacturing of Grievances ' a warning as to the effects that may be expected from the pressure of want, occasioned by inconsiderate and inequitable dealing, upon people who, so long as deprivation was seen to be only their fair share of the common suffering, have undergone it without a murmur. ' Austria's Doom,' by Lady Paget, throws a kindlier light upon that country than most writers of articles in reviews allow themselves.

The Fortnightly Review for March begins well with two poerus by M. Henri de R^gnier : ' Le Serment,' and a sonnet, 'Ceuxqui restent.' Mr. Edmund Gosse's portrait of the late Lord Cromer as a man of letters is a pleasant piece of work, enlivened with several delightful anecdotes and epigrammatic touches. It is of real value as making clear a side of a remarkable man which had re- mained somewhat overshadowed by his public achievements. Dr. J. Beattie Crozier, in a rapid, humorous, trenchant style, gives some much-needed warning on the subject of Spiritualism. Dr. Courtney contributes the first instalment of a new literary parallel between a classical and a modern author a form of study which, by the way, Mr. Gosse tells us was a favourite with Lord Cromer. This one is a comparison, or contrast, between Mr. Thomas Hardy and JSschylus, not as to their merits and methods as poets, but as to their view of the great problems of Fate and of Evil, and the solutions they severally arrive at. We found it full of interest. Mr. Cloudesley Brereton discusses 'Janus and Vesta,' Mr. Binchara Bradford's recent work on the present crisis and its significance for ethics, education, and philosophy generally. Mr. H. Granville Birker concludes ' Souls on Fifth,' and we were rather disappointed with the conclusion.

The Cornhitt Magazine for March has one of those rather heartrending sketches of brave young figures fallen in the War which are some, thing new in literature. For most of those we have seen were written as from within the circle of the mourners, and are illustrated by intimate letters, the permission to use which testifies to a larger generosity among us. Here the subjects of the sketch are Lord Elcho and his brother Ivo Charteris, and the writer Katharine Tynan. Mr. Horatio F. Brown's picture of Venice in war-time contains several striking things : the description of silent Venice by moonlight, for instance ; or that of the Doge's Palace, with its famous angles muffled in strange cases of brick ; or, better still, the effect of the screens of coarse brownish sailcloth, which have replaced the glass in the windows of San Marco, in revealing the full richness of the mosaics. Mr. A. G. Bradley contributes a good and memorable historical study, ' How Carleton saved Canada ' ; Shelland Bradley, in ' Concerning Buffaloes,' relates, in a vivid entertaining fashion, more than one excellent story about these animals in the East. We liked much Mrs. M. E. Clarke's paper on ' The French Peasant ' ; and also Mrs. N. F. Usborne's account of the making of " en- velopes " in an airship factory. On the War as it is carried on we have ' Jack at War,' by a Fleet Surgeon ; and an article by Mr. Boyd Cable, ' The Old Contemptibles : a Raid.' The two short stories are above the average : ' A Route Report,' by Sir J. G. Scott ; and ' Tom Boilman,' by Mr. Douglas G. Browne.

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SOME UNCANONIZED SAINTS (12 S. iii. 141). MR. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT writes : " For the cultus of James II. see Mr. Allan Fea's ' James II. and his Wives,' pp. 288 sqq"

FRANCIS PLACE (12 S. iii. 109). MR. J. ARDAGH refers the querist to Fraser's Mag., vo\. xiii.. p. 427 ; MoAmittaris Mag., vol. Ixxviii.. t> 32 ; ' The London Life of Yesterday' (Compton Rickett), pp. 343-86.