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chain of intellectual achievements stretching over a wide expanse of time. Mr. Power has been able to collect some details of Harvey's life at the Uni- versity of Padua, where he worked after taking his degree from Caius College, Cambridge, and one of the illustrations is of the stemma (or memorial tablet) erected in the Cloisters and Great Hall of Padua of which the Italian university gracefully sent a copy to Gonville and Caius College on the occasion of the tercentenary of Harvey s admission to the college. Mr. Power has, with much tact of selection, given many of Harvey's discoveries not " inventions," as well-meaning but ignorant persons have declared, in all good faith, his discovery of the circulation to be in his own words. Born at Folkestone on 1 April, 1578, William Harvey was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Thence he proceeded to Padua, and became a pupil and a friend of the great anatomist Fabricms. There he took his M.D. degree (as afterwards also at Cam- bridge), and becoming a Fellow of the College of Physicians of London (which owed much to his energy and liberality), he was soon appointed physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Later he was appointed physician to Charles L, and was in charge of the two young princes, Charles and James, at Edgehill. Having settled down in Oxford he was elected Warden of Merton College, which he held for about a year. During the tumults and confusion of the Civil War he appears to have been quietly living in London, working at the sub- ject of generation. He tells us, in his book on the subject, of his friendship with Charles II., and of the knowledge he was able to acquire of the natural history and anatomy of the deer by accompanying Charles in his hunting. Harvey died at Roehamp- ton on 3 June, 1657, and was buried at Hempstead, in Essex. The Royal College of Physicians trans- lated his remains into a worthy marble sarcophagus in the same church on 18 October, 1883.

The Baptist Handbook for 1898. (Clarke & Co. ) WE have perused this ' Handbook ' with a consider- able amount of interest, for in addition to the usual information for the year, it contains an account, written by Dr. Angus, of Baptist authors from 1527 to 1800. Dr. Angus tells us that the earliest General Baptist churches of which any history is known were founded about 1611-14 by Thomas Helwisse, and that the earliest Particular Baptist church was founded by John Spilsbury at Wapping, in 1633, while John Smyth was the first to write books in defence of Baptist views in 1608-9. The earliest English Antibaptist books known are Bullinger's ' Holesome Antidote against the Pestilent Sect of the Anabaptists,' translated and published by John Vernon in 1548, and "three years later William Turner, Doctor of Physick, devysed 'A Triacle against the poyson lately stirred up agayn by the furious Secte of the Anabaptists.' London, 1551." The Baptists claim that one of their number, L. Busher, wrote the first book pleading for liberty of conscience. This was published in 1614. Among the authors we notice the name of Roger Williams, the founder of the first Baptist church in America. Statistics show the denomination to be on the increase. The number of chapels in the United Kingdom is now 3,842, as against 3,745 in 1888, and the number of members of churches has increased during the same period from 324,498 to 364,779.

THE January number of the Journal of the Ex- Libris Society reproduces many plates of beauty and interest, including a curious emblematical American plate which serves as frontispiece. The editor pro- mises a further supply of ' Trophy Plates.' M. Jean Grellet has some notes on ' Swiss Book-plates,' with many illustrations, and Miss Edith Carey continues her ' Guernsey Book-plates,' dealing with the Bon- amy family, now extinct in Guernsey.

THE article that the general public will be most inclined to appreciate in the December number of the Genealogical Magazine is the elaborate and praiseworthy account of Mr. Norman's interesting volume 'Tavern Signs.' There are also four of the illustrations given, one of which is a splendid boar's head, dated 1668, and formerly to be seen at " The Boar's Head," in Eastcheap. ' The Baronetage and the New Committee,' too, is well worth read- ing. The remainder of the number calls for no especial remark.

THE concluding number of the Antitiuary for 1897 is quite up to its usual standard. The series of articles upon 'Mortars' is concluded. The illus- trations in it are very good. They include that of the York mortar, which is the finest English speci- men known. ' Notes of the Month ' are, as usual, instructive, and we are pleased with a paper upon 'Arden of Faversham.' Altogether the year ends well here.

THE Hajleian Society has just issued to its members for 1897 'The Visitations of Cambridgeshire, 1575 and 1619,' under the editorship of J. W. Clay, Esq., F.S.A. A plate showing the arms granted to the Regius Professors by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, 13 Nov., 1590, is presented with the volume, and with a carefully compiled index it makes a valuable addition to the Society's publications.

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