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lo\er of old customs ma> be inferred from his note of that day : " The company remarkably cheerful. Played at cards. The company departed about midnight. No attendance to Bride and Bride- groom upon their going to bed, as is customary upon the occasion in this country."

Cordwainer Ward in the City of London : Us History and Topography. By A. Charles Knight. (Allen & Unwin, 4s. 6d. net.) THAT Mr. Knight -has an interesting subject for his useful little book is apparent from his summary of the chief features of Cordwainer Ward : "It contains a specimen of the earliest Norman architecture in the country in the crypt of Bow Church. The first home of one of the most important of the City Companies was within its arr-a-, as was a royal residence in mediaeval days, whilst among those illustrious men who were born within its limits was the founder of St. Paul's School. The Ward had, moreover, the distinction of containing one of the earliest Grammar Schools in London, and also of providing for centuries a habitation for the principal Ecclesiastical Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the most famous of all the City churches." In addition, it is worth noting that the ward is one of the few which take their name from the principal crafts- men who lived and worked in them.

This custom of the men of a craft working together in one locality is well illustrated in the older form of the name of the ward, for the earliest mention that Mr. Knight can trace is in the Corporation Letter-Book A (ascribed to 1285 or 1286), where it appears as " The Ward of Cord- wanerstrate " ; and Stow also refers to it & " Cordwainer Street Ward." Other craft-names connected with this ward are Goldsmiths' How and Budge Row, the latter taking its name from a celebrated fur of olden days.

Mr. Knight devotes a chapter to the churches of the ward, and recalls the fact that Bow Church possessed the right of sanctuary. As early as 1138 it had a Grammar School connected with it, there being at that time only two others in London those attached to St. Paul's Cathedral and St. Martin-le-Grand. Mr. Knight provides also a sort of topographical dictionary of the streets and courts of the ward, past as well as present, with notices of the principal points of interest con- nected with them. The book is furnished with maps, plans, and other. illustrations, and a' list of aldermen of the ward from 1227; and an index is not forgotten. Many readers should be grateful to Mr. Knight for his pleasant and handy volume.

The Gate of Remembrance : the Story of the Psycho- logical Experiment tchich resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury, By Frederick Bligh Bond. (Oxford, Blackwell, 6a. net.)

THIS book, dealing with the discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by psychological experi- ment, is interesting both from the archaeological and the psychical standpoint.

On the archaeological side it ia to bo noted that the Edgar Chapel was known to have been standing in Elizabeth's reign. Willis and Free- man, as the author mentions, were disposed to locate it at the east end of the church. The Loretto Chapel which, it is suggested, may

hereafter be discovered is also mentioned in Leland's ' Itinerary.' A keen ecclesiastical architect with a free hand would naturally, we should have thought as east-end chapels ' exist fit St. Albars, St. Bartholomew's, Smithf.elc Southwark, Westminster, and elsewhere be le to deep investigation.

Such points should be remembered in considei ing the psychical aspect of the matter. Th. " communications " were in " automatic " writing by " J. A." All we can deduce from the letter- press about this gentleman is that his full name was John Alleyne and that he was a friend who shared Mr. Bond's tastes. We should have liked to know a great deal more about him. The Latin which appears in the earlier " communications : is such as any one might use who had familiarized himself with Domesday, Inquisitiones Post Mortem, Dugdale, and the like. Some surpris- ingly modern architectural terms are used, such as " four-centred."

These remarks are made, not with any intention of calling in question Mr. Bond's bona fides, but rnther to intimate our opinion that the discovery was' not by any means indisputably due to super- natural agency in a word, that it was quite possibly due to what was subjectively known to Mr. Bond and his friend.

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester Vol. IV. Nos. 3 and 4. (Manchester, University Press ; London, Longmans & Co., 2s.) THE Bulletin of the celebrated Manchester librarj generally contains some first-rate reading, anc this issue is well up to the mark. But the shortesl contribution in it will perhaps claim the greatesl amount of attention from readers of ' N. & Q., viz., Mr. William Poel's ' Chronological Tabl< shewing what is Proved and what is not Provec about Shakespeare's Life and Work.' It if arranged in two sheets, the first covering th< Eh'zabethan period, 1664-1603 ; the second th< Jacobean period, 1603-16. Headers will find s treat of a different kind in Dr. Powicke's 'A Puritan Idyll ; or, the Eev. Richard Baxter 1 ! Love Story,' a truly human document telling th< story of a perfect married life. Another pape: that will appeal strongly to readers of ' N. & Q. is that by Dr. W. H. R. Rivers on ' Dreams ant Primitive Culture.'

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COL. FYNMORE, A. L., and M. H. SCOTT. Forwarded.

H: S. BRANDRETH ("In the name of th< Prophet figs ! "). The words occur at the enc of a paragraph in ' Johnson's Ghost," No. X. o the ' Rejected Addresses,' by James and Horac Smith.

ANEURIN WILLIAMS, Carnarvon (Rev. Thoma Smart Hughes). He was born at Nuneaton li 1786, and died Aug. 11, 1847. An account o him is to be found in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.'

D. L. L. ("Drake," "Duck," "Gander, : "Goose." derived from Hebrew or Syriac). Th< 'New English Dictionary,' which represents th< best etymological scholarship of the time, lend no countenance to the Anglo-Israelite fancy fo deriving these terms from Hebrew or Syriac.