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 360 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.vin.APRiL3o.i02i. " believe " is apart from " thinking to be true " is a nice question. We are bound also to say that we think intellectual honesty is made too little of in this rule. The advice on reading, both general and professional, is sound. He recommends ten authors for the medical student's bedside library. As " close friends " the chosen may win ap- proval, though Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes are paid a high compliment in being included; but vie think that, at the end of a hard day's work, lighter literature would prove more acceptable than Marcus Axirelius and Epictetus, and recommendations as to lighter literature would have been useful and interesting from such an authority. , In the way of comment on things in general or on curious matters there are several telling passages, as the note on the French recognition of great men, the brief account of the American peripatetic teachers, or the remark on Austin Flint's notes of cases that they covered 16,922 folio pages all wiitten with his own hand. And happy phrases are occasionally h*it off as when, urging his favourite counsel to " take no thought for the morrow," he speaks of an " anticipatory attitude of mind " as disturbing and leading to disaster. Not the least valuable part of the compilation is that which is concerned with science in itself, its function, in human history, and the discipline it involves for those who pursue it, and we are glad that Mr. Camac has included a certain amount of strictly scientific matter. Cambridge Plain Texts. (Cambridge University Press, Is. each.) FIVE numbers of this new series lie before us. In a rose-pink paper wrapper, beautifully printed, each one offers us the text of a good piece of literature which most people have some more, some less rneglected. For all five we give due thanks, but most for the Fuller and the Donne. From Fuller the selection is ii. 1-15 of ' The Holy State.' This includes those excellent pieces ' The Life of Mr. Perkins,' ' The True Church Antiquary,' ' The Good Landlord,' and ' The Good Master of a Colledge.' From Donne we have Sermons xv. and Ixvi. both on the subject of death. It is no wonder if, when writing of Donne, one's pen runs away yet we think the introduction, signed by that well-known initial " Q," and full of the charm every reader associates with that same, a thought excessive. Johnson furnishes us with papers from The Idler, and the remaining numbers are Goldsmith's ' Good- natured Man ' arid Carlyle's ' The Present Time.' We shall look with great interest for future numbers of the series. The Print Collector's Quarterly (Dent : 1 per annum) for April, 1921, is the first English issue of a little magazine which has proved itself useful and acceptable in America and has now been transferred to this side of the Atlantic. We have here a competent article on Forain's etch- ings by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, who maintains that Forain is one of the great etchers of the world ; and one on Tiepolo by Mr. A. M. Hind a careful piece of work which, with its biblio- graphy and list of the artist's etchings, would make a sound beginning of a study of Tiepolo from this point of view. Alexander Cozens's work presents an unusually interesting topic of which Mr. A. P. Oppe gives a good discussion. In the way of modern English etching we have Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman's paper on Mr. E. S. Lumsden highly appreciative, and furnished with a list of works. All the articles are lavishly illustrated and the illustrations have suffered much less than is usually the case in the process of reduction. We learn that this magazine has subscribers in 23 different countries : it is certainly worth any print-collector's looking into. FAMILY OF COLLETT. The writer, who is completing a History of the Collet and Collett families, will be glad to hear from any of the name who desire to have their pedigrees inserted. A large amount of information mostly from wills has been collected. 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