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sceptical about the announcement of Edward's

death. There is also, of course, the story, written by the Genoese priest to Edward HI. purporting to be what he had been told in con-

< fession, and declaring that the body buried at Gloucester was that of a porter, slain by Edward

. as he escaped in the cloties of a servant.

The English people, however, accepted the official account, and, as is well known, a cult of the murdered king arose, which brought pilgrims in troops and gifts in the most lavish abundance

'to the tomb a cult which lasted long enough to transform the abbey church of Gloucester and inaugurate the " perpendicular " style.

Dr. Tout has a most interesting note on a French poem contained at Longleat, and said to be the composition of Edward II. Prof. Studer of Oxford has transcribed it and proposes to publish it before long.

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

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(^Manchester University Press, 2s. net.) DR. HERFORD contributes to this number a brilliant criticism of D'Annunzio. The power, the work accomplished, and the limitations of the great Italian have not, we believe, ever been set forth better in English though we are in- clined to think the key pitched slightly too high Dr. Powicke's paper on Baxter should not be missed by those of our readers who study the seventeenth century; it is a careful account of the history internal and external of the ' Saint's Everlasting Rest.' In ' The Woodpecker in Himian Form ' Dr. Bendel Harris gives reasons, numerous and exceedingly interesting, for con- sidering that, for some of our ancestors, the woodpecker w r as personified as Wayland Smith. Mr. Crum has a paper on the new Coptic Manu- scripts recently acquired in Egypt for the Rylands Library by Dr. Rendel Harris.

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