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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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ticulars are drawn from the Report of the Historical MSS. Commission on the Bray MSS. ' Old-Fashioned Advertising ' and ' A Fifteenth - Century Guide- Book ' have interest. ' Figureheads of the Navy,' which appears in the English Illustrated, has a quaint interest. ' Men who would be Kings ' and ' The Book-plate Collector ' come within the ken of our readers, but the general contents consist of fiction. Of much interest to naturalists are ' Epping Forest,' by Mr. P. Anderson Graham, and Mr. Hudson's ' Living Garment of the Downs,' both of which appear in Longman's. In the former the gradual disappearance of wild flowers is bewailed. This is a subject on which we have often mourn- fully reflected. Chapman's is once more exclu- sively occupied with fiction, much of it sufficiently stimulating.

AMONG the articles printed in the Antiquary for April that on ' Old Sussex Farmhouses and their Furniture' may be specially mentioned, for the subject with which it deals is of a more wide- reaching importance than appears at first sight. The immense industrial revolution which England has witnessed in the present century has led to the decay of our old country life in various ways, direct and indirect. Many domestic activities which had their origin at a period when Saxon, Angle, and Jute were still settled on the mainland of Europe have quite recently become extinct or are now dying out. The ancient method of house-building is already forgotten, and the uses of old-fashioned domestic utensils will soon pass out of mind, unless pains are taken to preserve some record of the pur- poses for which they were made a condition of things much to be deplored, for German folk-lorists have shown how intimately connected the social evolution of Europe has been with the cult centring in hearth and house. The Genealogical Magazine for April supplies information as to the descent of several conspicuous and inconspicuous families. In addition to reviews, correspondence, and notes on passing events connected with heraldic matters, it contains the second part of an article on the vexed question of the right to bear arms a ques- tion which seems to have given rise to much squabbling since the time when Henry V. found it necessary to make and enforce regulations on the point.

THE later numbers of the Intermediate are, per- haps, even more interesting than usual. It appears from an answer given in one of them to a question with regard to mysterious deaths that Henrietta of England, daughter of Charles I., almost certainly died from ulceration of the stomach, not from poison, as was too readily suspected by her con- temporaries. Louis XIII., too, succumbed to natural disease, not to the criminal administration of drugs. It would appear that his death was attributable to peritonitis aggravated by perfora- tion, following on chronic intestinal tuberculosis, complicated by "terribles accidents intercurrents " so, at least, modern medical erudition decides after a patient study of all the details of the case now available. In the number for 20 March there is an account of the death of Col. de Camas at Inkermann, whose fall when fighting for the colours of his regiment was well worthy of being sung with the Homeric fervour which inspired Macaulay when he chanted the fall of Valerius. Long after the hero's gallant heart was dust "brave as Camas" was a comparison dear to all whom he had led with

splendid and unsurpassed courage, and in future ages Frenchmen will be fired by the sound of his name, as Englishmen are fired by the word Sidney.

Melusine for January-February contains, among other papers, a notice of the volume of Portuguese folk-songs with their melodies recently collected by P. F. Thomaz a book which will prove of great service to every one engaged in researches relating to the birth and upgrowth of popular music in Europe. Another article deals with the traditional tales of the non-Slavonic races of Russia, a collec- tion of these stories having been lately published at Moscow by Miss V. N. Kharousina, from various sources inaccessible to the general reader.

THE Giornale di Erudizione still furnishes its readers with an admirable medley of literary and historical notes. Dante's ignorance of Greek. Petrarch's lameness, and political and personal satires in Tuscany are all suojects receiving atten- tion, while the statement that Pius IX. was a Free- mason is affirmed with authority.

CASSELL'S Gazetteer, Part LVL, extends from Tundergarth to Walsham le Willows. The com- pletion of the publication is, accordingly, near at hand. Among the illustrations supplied are views of Twickenham, Tynemouth, Ulleswater, Upping- ham, Usk, Ventnor, Virginia Water, and Wake- field.

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HERBERT MOBISON. ' The Diary of a Lady of Quality ' is patently fictitious. Lady Pennoyer had no more real existence than the Rev. W. M. Cooper, to whom the authorship of the book is assigned.

LUCY Fox ("Tennyson"). See 6 th S. xi. 112. See also Brewer's 'Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.'

DUNHEVED ("Tweeny Maid"). See 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. vi. 367, 459; vii. 37, s.v. ' Tweenie.'

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