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us Don Quixote. Connected also with Spain are the two papers on the Armada by Capt. Mahan and Mr. W. F. Tilton. Among the illustrations are Gilbert Stuart's portrait of the Marchioness D'Yrugoand a fanciful reproduction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The frontispiece to Scribner's consists of a reproduction of the Gibbs-Channing portrait of Washington. Following this comes, plentifully illustrated, Miss Margaret Sherwood's account of ' Undergraduate Life at Vassar.' Very interesting are these pictures of an existence con- cerning which masculine humanity can only know what it is told. ' Seaside Pleasure Grounds for Great Cities ' gives a series of agreeable pictures of existence at Revere Beach. ' The Story of the Revolution ' is continued, and lias many dramatic and striking engravings. 'The Workers' is also continued. Among the illustrations are some war maps. The Pall Mall opens with a charming etching, by Mr. Fred V. Burridge, of 'Canaletto San Trevaso,' which is followed by some pretty designs to ' The Death of Childhood.' In the series of ' Capitals of Greater Britain' Ottawa is depicted by aid of some striking pictures from photographs. General Sir Hugh G-ough continues his ' Old Memories,' and Sir Walter Besant his 'South London.' 'A Pro- vince in Pawn ' deals with Thessaly, and gives some capital pictures of the rock monasteries. In ' From a 'Cornish Window ' Mr. Quiller Couch asks us why we read poetry. In his 'Fights for the Flag' the Rev. W. H. Fitchett describes, with his customary vivacity, in the Cornhill, ' Lord Howe and the First of June.' The second and concluding portion of the correspondence between Charles Lamb and Robert Lloyd follows. ' A Relic of William Oldys ' gives a very entertaining account of that eminent antiquary. In ' Sixty Phases of Fashion ' Mrs. Simpson protests, we fear in vain, against female restlessness in the matter of dress. 'Humours of the Theatre' deals much with the Irish stage. Temple Bar has a good and timely paper on ' Bicycle History,' a readable account of Mar- shal Keith, and a fairly interesting description of ' A Canterbury Pilgrimage.' Mr. Mackaif writes intelligently, in Macmillan's, on ' Theocritus.' Mr. Andrew Lang supplies a species of appendix to his

Highland sketches in ' Pickle the Spy.' A terrible account is given of 'Discipline in the Old Navy,' from the minutes of courts-martial which are pre- served in the Record Office. ' William Morris ' and ' The French Academy ' are also the subjects of papers. 'The Birds of Wordsworth' is an emi- nently readable portion of the contents of the Gentleman's, in which Mr. Compton Reade writes on 'The Appointments of Manor Houses in the Seventeenth Century.' Mr. Hogan, M. P., supplies a history of ' The Clean Shirt Ministry,' and Mr. Graham gives us ' The Annals of Eastbourne.' Miss Edith Gray Wheelwright writes intelligently upon ' The Poetic Faculty and Modern Poets.

PART LVII. of Cassell's Gazetteer extends from Walsham to Wilton. Many views of high interest are given, the most important being, perhaps, Waterford and Wells. Pictures of Warwick and War k worth Castles and of Welbeck Abbey, of Wast Water, Weardale, and many spots pic- turesque or historic are included. This useful and important work now nears the close.

A BOOK of interest for Yorkshiremen, entitled 'A Great Historic Peerage: the Earldom of

Wiltes,' by Mr. John Henry Metcalfe, will be pub- lished by Mr. Elliot Stock. It will contain the more romantic episodes in the records of a great historic family of Yorkshire the Lords Scrope of Bolton, in Wensleydale, the Lords Scrope of Masham and Upsall, and the Scropes of Danby with comments upon the decision of a Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords in 1869 against the claim to the Earldom of Wiltes made by Mr. Simon Thomas Scrope, of Danby. For more than six hundred years the Scropes have been in the forefront of Yorkshire noblesse, titled and untitled. A protest against the decision was signed by the Duke of Norfolk, the Earls of Gainsborough, Aber- gavenny, Denbigh, Warwick, Granard, Zetland, and Feversham, and by the Lords Wenlock, Went- worth, Colville of Culross, Arundell of Wardour, and Houghton. As Lord Houghton pointed out, it unsettled the titles of several peers whose patents were in the same terms as that of the Earl of Wiltes, and for this reason the forthcoming work should have a special personal interest for the peers referred to, and notably among them the Earl of Devon. The illustrations will be a large armorial book-plate, dated 1698, a shield of twenty-eight quartering^, being the complete achievement of arms of Simon Scrope, of Danby (de jure sixteenth Earl of Wiltes), which will be printed from the original copper-plate ; a portrait of the Earl of Wiltes as King of Man, crowned, and with the collar of the Order of the Garter round his neck, from an old painting at Danby Hall ; and the seal of Sir William de Scrope, Lord of Man and the Isles, with the well-known arms of Man.

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