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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xir. JULY is, 1903.

(asylum), seems a recollection, as regards construc- tion, of Pope's

If to her share some female errors fall. The frontispiece consists of a reproduction of the drawing by Robert Hancock of Lamb at the age of twenty-three. The original of this is now in the National Portrait Gallery. Another interesting portrait is that of Hester Savory, Lamb's Quaker sweetheart, using the term with becoming reserve in the case of a woman to whom he appears never to have spoken. Many title-pages of works by Lamb, Coleridge, or Lloyd are facsimiled. There are four designs for * Satan in Search of a Wife ' and the playbill of 'Mr. H.' at Drury Lane. Pic- tures reproduced are Leonardo da Vinci's ' Virgin of the Rocks ' and ' Modesty and Vanity,' Haydon's * Christ's Entry into Jerusalem,' and the very interesting picture sent by Lamb to Bernard Barton. In get-up, as in thoroughness, the work is ideal. The red cloth cover with the white paper label is exactly the kind of thing which the genuine bibliophile loves, preferring it to all but the most artistic binding. Not the least commendation of the " Aldine Poets" of Pickering was a cover of the same kind, with the substitution of black cloth for red. In this form appeared the collected Coleridge and many works which are now regarded as rarities.

The Authorship of Arden of Feversham. By Charles

Crawford.

FROM the ' Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare- Gesellschaft ' Mr. Crawford, our well-known con- tributor, has reproduced his valuable essay on the above subject. In opposition to the views of some authorities, Mr. Crawford proves that the author of this fine drama is Thomas Kyd. This parentage was advanced by Mr. Fleay, but received with little favour. By a series of minute investiga- tions and close comparisons Mr. Crawford estab- lishes that Mr. Fleay's view is entitled to respect. To himself his argument is conclusive, and we find ourselves unable to contest its validity. It is a matter for regret that the writer should have had to confide to a German periodical work for which English publishers should compete.

A Tale of Two Citiex ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Hard Times, Hunted Down, &c. By Charles Dickens. (Frowde and Chapman & Hall.) THREE more volumes, containing the works indi- cated above, have been added to the cheap and welcome " Fireside" edition of Dickens. The first- named has sixteen illustrations and the second forty by Phiz, the third seven by F. Walker and Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen. Rapid progress is being made by what promises to be the most popular edition of the master.

The Reliquary and Illustrated Archceologiat. Edited

by J. Romilly Allen. July. (Bemrose & Sons.) THE first page opens with a beautiful illustration of ' The Orton Scar Brooch,' belonging to the Society of Antiquaries. It was found, together with a twisted silver torque, in 1847, in a crevice of the limestone rock five feet below the surface, and is of the Viking period. A full description of it is given by the editor, who also has an interest- ing article on ' Some late Survivals of Primitive Ornament.' The chief objects described were made at home with the simplest possible tools by persons who had no art training whatever.

These include bone apple-scoops, carved wooden spoons, knitting sticks, and stay-busks. All the articles, with the exception of the apple -scoops, were made for the special purpose of being given away as presents from young men to their sweet- hearts. The stay-busks were elaborately decorated with initials, dates, and hearts. Mr. Allen cannot resist a foot-note as to this : "Imagine a masher of to-day laying a stay-busk such as one of those illus- trated in Fig. 3 at the ungainly feet of a new woman. She would probably use it as a golf club or a hockey stick." 'Some Interesting Essex Brasses' are the subject of an article by Mr. Miller Christy and Mr. W. W. Porteous. Other subjects treated are the ancient church of Bishopston, in Sussex, which has been the subject of much debate as to whether any part of it bears evidence to a Saxon origin; and Tumblers,' by Mr. Arthur Watson. Dr. Cox contributes a long review of ' The Arts in Early England,' by G. Baldwin Brown, written " in no carping spirit, for the writer of this notice fully recognizes in Prof. Baldwin Brown a great expert in Anglo-Saxon architecture, second only, probably, to Mr. Micklethwaite."

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S. S. ("I'm the loudest of voices in orchestra heard "). For a suggested solution see 7 th S. i. 517. No satisfactory explanation is known. It is by Bishop Wilberforce, and the whole is given 7 tb S. i. 449.

F. L. WRIGHT ("Omar Khayyam, ' Rubaiyat,' First Edition, J859"). A copy, richly bound, sold at Sotheby's a year ago for 581. In 'March, 1902, a copy brought 281. 5s.

VIGILANS (' United States and St. Margaret's'). MR. HARLAND - OXLEY'S article on the Raleigh monument will appear next week.

W. E. ADAMS (" Furry Dance at Helston ''). We are glad to know that this ancient custom still lingers, but we have had too much about it to open the subject out afresh.

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