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interior of this gentleman's house the hall hung with sporting implements and the skins of animals ; the pulpit of the adjoining chapel used for storing chinas of beef, gammons of bacon, and pasties of venison ; the parlour full of hounds, spaniels, terriers, and cats, of which three or four attended him at dinner, "a little white round stick lying by his trencher that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to part with to them " is extraordinarily vivi-i. Another realistic portrait is that of James I. by Sir Anthony Weldon, from ' The Court and Character of King James.' Here will be found the familiar allusion to the king as " th^ wisest fool in Christendom," quoted as the saying of " a very wise man.' Although Sir Walter Scott (' Fortunes of Nigel, chap, v.) attributes the epigram to Sully, Mr. Nichol Smith informs us that he has searched Sally's ' Memoires ' for it in vain.

The editor has made an excellent choice of material, and the notes neither too con- cise nor over - elaborate give just the kind of information that the average reader seems likely to require.

Chats on Ttoifal Copenhagen Porcelain. By Arthur Hayden. (Fisher Unwin, 10s. 6d. net.) MR. HAYDEN is an acknowledged authority on Copenhagen porcelain, having published a sumptuous monograph on the subject in 1911. He has now provided a more popular account of this attractive ware, beginning with the romance connected with the discovery by Bottger of the composition of true porcelain, and thf 1 establish- ment of the Danish factory by King Frederik V. Copenhagen porcelain owed its rise to fame to the artistic genius and indomitable perseverance of Frantz Heinrich. Miiller, several of whose beautiful productions are included in the numerous illus- trations. After Muller's retirement in 1801 the prestige of the Royal Factory declined, to revive, however, in the later part of the nineteenth century. Mr. Hayden supplies facsimiles of marks and biographical notes on the artists em- ployed, and closer, his volume with a description of the ideal conditions under which the work is carried on to-day.

The Genealogist. New Series. Vol. XXXIV.

(Bell & Sons, 12s. net.) ONE of tte ir.opt important contribution? to tMs volume is the revised ' Calendar of Lambeth Wills ' prepared by Mr. J. Challenor Smith. This gentleman transcribed in August, 1874, the official index to the wills and administrations at Lambeth, but subsequent study of the documents them- selves has enabled him to correct various in- accuracies, and he therefore prints his revised version, the three instalments supplied extending from Abergavenny to Lyster. The results o" similarly laborious work appear in Mr. E. A Fry's ' Index to Marriages from The Gentleman 1 1 Magazine,' covering those between January, 1731 and June, 1738, and containing many piquanl personal details. Canon Nevill and Mr. Reginalc Boucher continue their transcript of ' Marriage Licences of Salisbury ' from January, 1670, tc October, 1672. Among the genealogical articles that of Mr. G. W. Watson on ' Fitz Piers and Dt Say ' deserves special mention as throwing new light from charters on some celebrated feuda amilies.

The Oxford Almanack for the. Year of our Lord Hod MDCCCCXIX. is published by Mr. Milford, and s a comely sheet preferable to many a garish

modern picture. At the side of the main record of ates and events we find a neat list of the Uni ver- ity officers, and another of Heads of the Colleges.

At the top is an attractive view of the Cornmarket bout 1840, reproduced from a drawing by William "urner. This artist had some fame in his day, and

was known, we believe, as " the Oxford Turner," o distinguish him from the master who at that ime had not been introduced to the public by luskin.

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. E. RUSSELL. BY the death of Mr. George William Erskine

Russell, which occurred on St. Patrick's Day, the amiliar initials G. W. E. R. will cease to appear n the pages of * N. & Q.' He was politically a

great admirer of Gladstone, and, like him, a levoted member of the Church of England. He iad known many distinguished people, possessed

a large fund of anecdotes, was a good talker and peaker, and wrote easily and well. For a number f years he contributed gossipy articles to The

Manchester Guardian, many of these being re- )rinted in book-form. He also published several eligious biographies, the latest being that of Lady ictoria Buxton.

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W. BARN ABB (Epictetus). Received too late to be acknowledged last month.

C. G. (Army Slang). Largely anticipated by correspondents nearer home. See 12 S. iv. 333.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS (Waldseemuller). ' The Ency. Brit.,' llth ed., states in the article ' Map that Martin Waldseemuller was born at Radolf zell in Baden in 1470, and died in 1521.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. The lines, What rage for fame attends both great and small ! Better be damned than mentioned not at all, are by Peter Pindar, ' To the Royal Academicians.'

ANEURIN WILLIAMS, Carnarvon. 1. The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' devotes a column to John Thomas, the sculptor. He was born at Chalford, Gloucester- shire, in 1813. 2. The Dictionary also supplies an interesting account of Thomas Evans, the editor and publisher of ' Old Ballads, Historical and Narrative,' 1784.

ST. SWITHIN ("Dich," * Timon of Athens,' I. n. 70)._The ' N. E. D.' says, s.v. : " A corrupt or erroneous word, having apparently the sense do it." As another instance of the word the Dictionary quotes from R. Johnson's * Kingdom and Commonwealth,' 1630 : " So mich God dich you with your sustenanceless sauce," and compares this with Udall's translation of Erasmus s ' Apoph., c< Biddyng much good do it him."