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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. FEB. 19, '98.

Halstede in Essex, and there to use their trade of making of baies " (baize). The manufacture of bay (whence, in the plural, baize) was introduced into England by French and Netherlandish immigrants in the sixteenth century. A picture of the Bay Hall, Colchester, is among the illustrations to the work. We are sorry to qiiit Dr. Cunningham's admirable volume. In so doing we commend it with more than customary warmth to the consideration of our readers.

The Lives of the Saints. By the Rev. S. Baring- '. Gould, M.A. Vols. IX. and X. (Nimmo.) OF the enlarged and illustrated reissue of Mr. Baring-Gould's ' Lives of the Saints ' two further volumes, for August and September, have now appeared. We have on the appearance of succes- sive volumes dealt with the claim of this, the best and probably the definitive edition of a book which, so far as the immense majority of the English public is concerned, serves every purpose. For the few the ' Acta Sanctorum ' of the Bollandists may be indispensable ; for all others this learned and emi- nently judicious compilation will handsomely suffice. In the ninth volume the longest and, historically, the most important article is that on St. Louis, for which in addition to the precious documents left us by Geoffroi de Beaulieu, the confessor of the king', Guillaume de Nangis, and other contemporary writers more recent documents, such as the ' Life ' by Le Nain de Tillemont, have been consulted. The illustrations to this are numerous, comprising the coronation of St. Louis at Rheims, St. Louis opening the gates of the Paris prisons, St. Louis under discipline, feeding a leper from a window in the Abbey of St. Denis, and burying the decom- posed bodies of crusaders (from a mural painting at St. Sulpice), the enamelled shrine of St. Louis, and the tomb of Louis, his eldest son. In the case of St. Bernard of Clairyaux, a likeness after Cahier is given, together with the vision of St. Bernard after Filippino Lippi. In the case of St. Roch it is disappointing for those with no previous informa- tion to find how little is known, and to learn that over such records of his travels as exist the sponge has to be drawn, since the particulars are neces- sarily fictitious. Even more deficient in trust- worthy details of interest is the life of St. Ouen, after whom is named the lovely church in Rouen. The Assumption of the Virgin on 15 August is illustrated by a frontispiece after Andrea Or- cagna's bas-relief tabernacle in the church of S. Michele in Florence. There are also the ' Last Moments of the Virgin,' after Quentin Matsys, her bed of death, after Albert Diirer, and other similar scenes, after a picture by Mantegna in Madrid, one by Botticelli in Florence, and from the Vienna Missal.

The September volume reproduces an exquisite sixteenth-century altar-piece ; has a view of Notre Dame, Paris, as it appeared in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; a Nativity from the Vienna Missal ; a second from a fresco by Domenico del Ghirlandajo; a marriage from the same source; a St. Jerome explaining the Scriptures from a Bible written for Charles the Bald ; a last Communion of St. Jerome, after a picture by Domenichino in the Vatican ; a curious picture by Schraudolf of holy angels ; and many other designs of no less interest and beauty, together with very numerous plates by Cahier. the attractions of the edition are fully and worthily maintained.

WITH the February part of the Journal of the Ex-Libris Society are issued the title and pre- liminary matter to the seventh volume. Complete sets of this excellent publication are now scarce and precious. The present number contains No. 15 of ' Modern Book-plate Designers,' which the editor, Mr. W. H. K. Wright, devotes to J. Winfred Spenceley, of Boston, U.S.A., many of whose designs are reproduced. Some of these are novel and effective. An account is begun of the book- plates of the society known as the Set of Odd Volumes.

WE hear with deep regret of the death, on the 9th inst., at Southfields, Longford, near Coventry, of the Rev. C. F. S. Warren, M.A., aged fifty-three. The deceased gentleman, a zealous friend and con- tributor, was in constant communication up to the close. He was a son of the late Rev. Charles Warren, who for very many years held the Trinity College living of Over, Cambridge. Mr. Warren graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1867, and became curate of his father's parish. Afterwards he was for a time chaplain to the Bishop of Truro and assistant librarian of Bishop Phillpotts's Diocesan Library at Truro. Latterly he has lived in retirement near Coventry, and occasionally assisted the local clergy. He began to contribute to ' N. & Q.' in 1863, in his undergraduate days, and communications from him appear in the present number.

' FULHAM, OLD AND NEW,' by Mr. Charles James Feret, will be shortly published at the Leadenhall Press, in a very handsome form and with over 650 illustrations, at the subscription price of three guineas. Our readers cannot fail to have noticed how assiduous and indefatigable in the collection of information Mr. Feret, whose volume is appro- priately dedicated to the Bishop of London, has been. Eight years have been devoted to the col- lection of materials and the writing of the volume.

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L. C. PRICE ("Pitt Club"). See 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. v. 137, 357 ; vi. 89 ; 8 th S. viii. 108, 193.

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