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a threatened rising in the Marches under the Earl of Hereford, they quieted considerably, and were no longer " like wolves eager for their prey, but were very lambs/' The word translated "wolves" is leonex. Among those with whom the justiciars had difficulties were the Phelipers or Fripperers, the Cappers, Vintners, Fishmongers, Butchers, &c. The civic authorities, so far as they dared, sup- ported Edward against the barons. They lent him lour hundred men to avenge the insult passed upon the queen by Lady Badlesmere at Leeds Castle, Kent, and promised to give up all the " contrariants" they discovered in the City. Against the Scots they offered him five hundred men or 2,000 marks, the king naturally choosing the latter. Edward then deposed the mayor in favour of one of his own selection, carrying him with him virtually as a prisoner. For five years the king held the mayoralty " more or less " in his own hands until, in 1326. the citizens cast in their lot with Queen Isabella and her son. On the accession of Edward III. a charter restoring and confirming the privileges held before 1321 was granted, and the citizens were conceded "infangthef " and " outfangthef," or the right of hanging a thief if caught within or without the jurisdiction. These privileges were not allowed to rust, and the order " Let him be hanged " is fre- quent in the later portion of the volume. Among those thus condemned (20 Nov., 1329) was Alice Littleglenne, charged with the "mainour of two women's robes, three mazer cups (ciphi de mazero), and other goods and chattels." On the king's marriage to Philippa of Hainault the mayor and citizens welcomed her in state, and sent to the king and queen great store of provisions and wax ! Full particulars are supplied of the action brought by Richard Chaucer against certain defendants for the forcible marriage of John Chaucer, the father of the poet, then under fourteen years of age, to Johanna, daughter of Walter de VVesthalle. inter- esting items are to be found concerning the dis- position of the property in the "Outer Temple" after the suppression of the order of the Templars. These few matters are indicative of the subjects of interest to be found in the volume, which yields in no respect to its predecessors. The indexes remain famous for excellence.

A Bibliography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. By John Louis Haney, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, pri- vately printed.)

AT the instigation, if we read aright, of Prof. Albert Henry Smyth, to whom the completed work is dedicated, Dr. Haney began his Coleridge bibliography. The first steps to such a work were made, as Dr. Haney admits, in the pages of 'X. & Q.' in 1895 (see 8 th S. vii. 361, 401, 443, 482, 502). After the death of Richard Herne Shepherd, by whom it was started, it was finished by what is called herein "a worthy effort" of our friend Col. Prideaux. The present work is more ambitious. It supplies, and arranges in chrono- logical order, all editions, English, continental, and American, of Coleridge, and catalogues, so far as is possible, the literature dealing with Coleridge's life and work. A special and very valuable chapter is devoted to the marginalia, while others deal with Coleridge's contributions to various works and periodicals, with his letters, biography, portraits, &c, Dr. Haney s task has been admirably accomplished. His work, which has for frontispiece a beautifully executed portrait of Coleridge, is issued in a limited

edition, thirty copies being on large paper. It may be obtained from the author at the Central High School, Philadelphia. In the case of marginalia, mention is made, when possible, of the person in whose possession the annotated volume now is.

The Mirrour of Vertue in Worldly Greatnes ; or, the Life of Sir Thomas More, Knight. By William Roper. (Moring.)

To the series, at once cheap and beautiful, of the "King's Classics," issued from the De La More Press, has been added, appropriately, Roper's ' Life of More.' The biography of More by his son-in- law, the husband of that fair woman who, in Tenny- son's words,

Clasped in her last trance Her murdered father's head,

is, in the full sense, a classic. Until the present generation happy, at least, in this respect the privilege of having an edition so exquisite of a work of so much interest and importance has been denied the reader. The " King's Classics " will make an enchanting little library in themselves. The present work will not be the least prized of an admirable collection.

MESSRS. METHUEN & Co. have issued in a handy and almost diminutive form an edition of Borrow's Romany Rye, with a frontispiece presenting Bush- bury Church and an introduction and notes by Mr. John Sampson. Borrow often leads us into a world of enchantment, and the present continua- tion of ' Lavengro ' is a book to slip into the pocket when starting for an autumn ramble.

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