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important paper is to be found in this issue of The Library, Professor Albert C. Clark's lecture to the Bibliographical Society on 'The Reappearance of the Texts of the Classics.' Professor Clark begins by stating the three dangers which the Latin classics had to face: the attitude of the Church towards Pagan literature; the inroads of the barbarians; and the growth of the Romance languages, which led to the corruption of Latin texts. How narrowly much of Latin literature escaped these dangers is shown by Professor Clark's long list of works (they include Apuleius, Catullus, much of Cicero, some of Livy, Petronius, much of Tacitus) which have come to us from a single manuscript. Due honour is paid to Cassiodorus, to Petrarch, to Niccolo Niccoli, to Poggio and others who laboured to discover and preserve Latin literature. The whole article is not only a notable contribution to scholarship but interesting and even exciting to read. In the same number Mr. Stephen Gaselee's paper on 'Samuel Pepys's Spanish Books,' Mr. E. R. McC. Dix's account of the initial letters and factotums used by John Franckton, printer in Dublin (1600-18), and Dr. W. W. Greg's notes on old books are of great interest and value.

Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Oct., 1917, to May, 1920. No. LXX. (Cam- bridge : Deighton Bell ; London : G. Bell and Sons, 15s. net.) THE paper of widest general interest is that in which Dr. F. J. Allen discusses the famous " Old Mill " at Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Dr. Allen decides that the structure would have been useless, when new, for the purpose of a windmill, as unable to stand the strain. He publishes, also, proof that Governor Benedict Arnold, who in his will (A.D. 1677) described the building as " my stone-built windmill," was not (as had been supposed) a Warwickshire but a Somerset man, and therefore unlikely to have known the Inigo Jones mill at Chesterton, Warwickshire, which has been regarded as the model for the New- port ruin. He does not go so far as to conclude that the building is indeed the remains of a round church built by the Norse colonists in the twelfth or thirteenth century, but he suggests that ex- cavations should be made for further architectural evidence. Canon Stopes and Dr. Cranage con- tribute an interesting paper on the Augustinian Friars and Friary in Cambridge ; and the Master of Corpus's article on the accounts of John Bot- wright, his fifteenth-century predecessor, is full of good things. The Journal of the Friends Historical Society. Vol. XVIII., Nos. 1 and 2, 1921. (The Friends Bookshop, 3s.) To the curious in the drama no less than to Friends we commend the quaint tale told in ' The Theatre and Barclay's " Apology," ' of how a performance of Dibdin's The Quaker, at Drury Lane, started the conversion of a Doctor of Medicine and his wife. There is a good paper on the Devonshire House reference library and its foundation, and an interesting account of life at the Friends school at Lisburn, Co. Antrim, a little more than a century ago. Survey of London. Vol. VII. : Chelsea (Part III.), The Old Church. By Walter H. Godfrey. (The London County Council. Spring Gar- dens, S.W.I.) WE are glad to take note of the appearance of this new instalment of a great and most useful undertaking. The Old Church at Chelsea is here fully described both as to structure and fittings. The monuments within the church and those in the churchyard are fully listed and their inscriptions and heraldry set out, together with historical and biographical notes. An Appendix gives the names and dates of rectors and incumbents, and an index of names is sup- plied. Of all the priests who have had charge of the church. Robert Henry Davies has the longest record of service there some fifty-three years (1855-1 908) and he is memorable, too, for having obtained for the parish the freeholds of the well- known Lawrence and More Chapels. The Plates, numbering 83, illustrate every feature of interest within the church, the more important by drawings and plans as well as by photographs. No one who has any experience of this kind of work will fail to realize how much labour has been expended upon this exhaustive description, or to congratulate the labourers on the successful execution of their task. It may be worth mention that Robert Chambers's MS. account of the church (1816), recently acquired by the Chelsea Library, has been here extensively used for the first time. Jlottceg to Correponbente. ALL communications intended for insertion in our columns should bear the name and address of the sender not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries ' " Adver- tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub- lishers" at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.G. 4; corrected proofs to The Editor, ' N. & Q.,' Printing House Square, London, B.C. 4. WHEN answering a query, or referring to an article which has already appeared, correspondents are requested to give within parentheses immediately after the exact heading the numbers of the series, volume, and page at which the con- tribution in question is to be found. WHEN sending a letter to be forwarded to another contributor correspondents are requested to put in the top left-hand corner of the envelope the number of the page of ' N. &Q.' to which the letter refers.