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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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between a tutor and pupils. Mr. Charles Whibley, writing in Macmillan's on Burns, maintains the view advocated by Messrs. Henley and Henderson, that it is only in the vernacular that the poet is at his best, and that he handles English with the uncertainty of a scholar expressing himself in Ovidian Latin or Thucydidean Greek. Mr. Hadden describes some friends of Browning, among whom we find, not without surprise, mention of Cole- ridge and Lamb. 'An Episode in the History of the Come"die Francaise^ describes the heroic suppression during the Terror by Labussiere, an actor, of some of the pieces accusatives against criminals such as Fleury, Vanhove, Mole", and hun- dreds of others. * In the Land of the White Poppy is pleasant reading. Of 'The French Invasion of Ireland' the first part is supplied. Mr. W. J. Lawrence describes in the Gentleman's A bhake- spearian Pantomime.' Mr. James Sykes supplies the origin of ' Some Famous Political Phrases after which we are frequently asked. The Veddahs of Ceylon are described. f Some Fatal Books,' by the Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, does not pretend to com- pleteness. We note with surprise the absence of any mention of Dolet. Very attractive are, as usual, the contents of the English Illustrated, in which we commend to antiquaries and folk-lorists the account of 'Booty from Benin' and that of article are very interesting and quaint. ' Vatican and Quirinal' is also a fair and admirably illus- trated paper. Mr. Austin Dobson describes in Longman's, under the title of ' The Author of Mon- sieur Tonson,' John Taylor, known as the Chevalier Taylor. Mr. A. M. Bell tells ' The Tale of the Flint,' or in other words describes the discovery and the significance of flint arrow-heads. Mr. Lang, in 4 At the Sign of the Ship ' makes light of Mr. But- ler's ' Authoress of the Odyssey.' ' The Story of the "Donna"' is retold. Not one, but two articles on subjects other than fiction appear in. Chapman's. One is ' Notes of a Playgoer,' occupied with Mr. Forbes Robertson's Hamlet, the second a transla- tion of Madame C. Joubert's excellent ' Recollec- tions of Heine.'
 * Regimental Pets.' The illustrations to the former

IN Part LII. of CasselFs Gazetteer, Steeping to Stutton, the most important article is that on Stirling, of the castle of which a view is given. Stockport and Stockton-on-Tees are also described, as are the various Stokes, Stonehenge, and Stony Stratford, Stow in the Wold, and Stratford-oii- Avon.

WE have received the Christmas number of the Scots Pictorial, with an account of the ceremony known as ' The Burning of the Clavie,' and some lively pictures of ' The Roaring Game,' otherwise curling.

WE congratulate the Upper Norwood Athenaeum on attaining its majority. Started twenty - one years ago, it has done useful work among its mem- bers, and we have read the Record just published with much interest. During the summer months the members devote Saturday afternoons to the visit- ing of places of historical interest. Papers are read, and much valuable information obtained. The Records are illustrated, and are edited by Mr. J. Stanley and Mr. W. F. Harradence. The present number contains a history of the society, written by Mr. Charles Quilter. The President is the Rev. Lord Victor A. Seymour, the Vice-Presidents being

Mr. Daniel Stock and Mr. T. G. Doughty. We should like to see an extension of such societies to other districts.

WE have learnt from the North Devon Herald, with much regret, of the death of the Rev. John Ingle Dredge, Vicar of Buckland Brewer, one of our oldest contributors. His name appears in the first volume of the First Series, and is pleasantly conspicuous until the close of the Sixth, after which its appearance is less frequent. Born in Edin- burgh 10 June, 1818, Mr. Dredge was brought up as a printer, became a Wesleyan minister, joined the Church of England, and was ordained by the Bishop of Chester deacon in 1868, priest in 1869. After hold- ing curacies between 1868 and 1873 at Warrington, Liverpool, Seaforth, and St. Helens, he was pre- sented in 1874 by Mr. Gladstone, then Premier, whose political opponent he was, to the living of which he died possessed. He was the chief autho- rity on Devonshire and Cheshire bibliography and genealogy, and had an almost unrivalled acquaint- ance with Puritan theology. His works include ' Five Sheaves of Devon Bibliography,' ' The Book- sellers and Printers of the Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth Centuries,' ' The Marwood List of Briefs, 1714-1744,' 'An Account of Frithelstock Priory,' many biographies, contributions to the Devonshire Association, &c. We recommend our readers to turn to what is said under the heading ' Nonjurors of the Eighteenth Century,' 8 th S. xi. 52, by Mr. T. Cann Hughes, M.A., who speaks of him as "a grand old man," and probably the oldest living contributor of ' N. & Q.'

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