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 100 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. JAN. 29, 1921. t>ut for a few decades subsequent to 1792, are described as " Perpetual Curates." From. Nicholas Chauntler (1600-1601) onwards most of the names have some notice attached to them. In 1676, the year of Archbishop Sheldon's religious census, a single Non-conformist was mentioned in the return for Udimore. Early in the nineteenth century Methodism gained a footing there, and flourished to the extent of erecting a chapel, though not maintaining a resi- dent minister. The chapter on ' Parish Records ' gives us several good things in the way of detail as well as some interesting particulars regarding management under the old Poor Law, and the upkeep of the parish workhouse. Under ' Mis- cellanea ' is collected a number of interesting odd notes ; and under the heading ' Ancient Homes .and Families ' we are given a good account of the principal houses of parish forming one of the best of these chapters. Those who possess Mr. Hodson's ' History of ."Salehurst ' will find his ' Udimore ' no less useful . and entertaining than the former work. The Adventures of Ulysses. By Charles Lamb. Edited by Ernest A. Gardner. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. net.) THIS is a delightful edition of a delightful little work. The short Introduction says what is necesary to make new-comers to the Odyssey at home in it : inevitably negligible by most readers. But every one may be glad to have the sketch map and traditional itinerary of Ulysses : as also the illustrations and, again, the excellent notes, which, though calculated in the first in- stance, for children, are so pleasantly written and contain so many details which might not have been recalled by the reader, that even for an old lover of the Odyssey and of Lamb they contribute some additional enjoyment. Perhaps a word or two as to Greek vases in general would not have been amiss. A Saunter through Kent with Pen and Pencil. By Charles Igglesden. (The Kentish Press, Ashford, Kent. 3s. 6d.) IN this volume the fourteenth of the series Mr. Igglesden conveys his readers through five parishes to wit, Westwell, Hothfield, Bearsted, Thurnham and Kingsnorth. His method which admits a good deal of description of landscape and thereby the pleasant creation of a varied picture in the mind's eye displays itself here to much advantage. In fact the verbal descriptions are far better, as illustrations, than the drawings which lack the qualities necessary for successful reproduction. At Westwell is Ripley Court in the garden whereof Mr. Igglesden maintains that Jack Cade was killed. Here, too, is a well-known beacon, which gives occasion for the insertion of an interesting ' Carde, of the Beacons, in Kent,' about which we should have liked further in- formation. The churches of all the parishes have been carefully studied and neatly described. Yet more valuable are perhaps the accounts of houses, quotations from old records, gossip concerning legends, family histories, and miscellaneous notes of which good abundance has been collected. THE January Quarterly deals chiefly with political and social questions. The three papers which depart from that field are, however, good enough to send a man of letters or of art to the review for their sake alone. First of these is Ir. Cloriston's rendering of Leopardi's ' Ginestra.' So far as any rendering of it can be satisfactory bhis may be esteemed so. We quote a short passage as example : There [i.e. at Pompeii], in the dread, uncertain hour of night, Through empty theatres, disfigured shrines, And houses rent in twain, Where the bat hides her brood, Like a funereal torch Through silent palaces that flickering goes Wanders the ominous lava's mournful gleam And, reddening in the darkness from afar Tints dimly all around. Dr. Hagberg Wright, in showing that Russian literature has for its meaning and intention the proclamation of the country's wrongs and sufferings, and the cry for freedom and justice, does not, indeed, present us with a new conception of that literature, but he fills out, justifies and illustrates the conception in a manner which will make his paper welcome to all students of Russia. Mr. Laurence Binyon, taking occasion by the Walpole Society's Publications, contributes a detailed and most interesting and instructive criticism of English art showing how much stronger and more estimable is our tradition in painting than we are apt to suppose it to be, in spite, of the ill-fortune which in great measure broke it up at a time when the traditions in art on the continent were at their highest point of glory. 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