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to be found in the collected speeches of Sheridan, and those who refer to them give no date. The fact that they are of ' Sheri- daniana ' origin is not in their favour. The pith of the remark exists in a note among his loose sketches for a comedy of affectation. In 8 th S. x. 199 I quoted this note and sug- gested that it might have been borrowed from a similar idea in ' Gil Bias.' Sheridan appears to be like Swift in his posthumous production of " funny tales."

GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool.

Bartlett gives as his authority ' Sheridani- ana ' (London, 1826). At the same time it is shown that it is not wholly original : '"On peut dire que son esprit brille aux depens de sa memoire,' Le Sage, ' Gil Bias,' 1. iii. ch. xi." (1891, p. 443). There are collections of Sheri- dan's speeches, e.g., Bohn, 1842.

ED. MARSHALL.

BOOK-BORROWING (9 th S. ii. 66). More than twenty years ago, to my knowledge, the pre- sent librarian introduced into the University Library at Durham the plan here suggested of placing in the space previously occupied by the borrowed book a wooden tablet bear- ing the name of the book, the press-mark, the name of the borrower, and the date. I think it was about 1874, but as the said librarian is a well-known and highly esteemed contributor to 'N. & Q.,' perhaps he may inform us. W. C. B.

ANDR (9 th S. ii. 47). In the churchyard at Bathampton, near Bath, are buried Mary Hannah Andre, ob. 3 March, 1845 : Ann Marguerite Andre, d. 8 August, 1830 ; Louisa Catherine, d. 25 Dec., 1835 ; Marie Louise Andre, their mother, d. 13 Feb., 1813. There is also a M.I. to their brother, Sir William Louis Andre', Bart., who died unmarried at Deans Leaze, near Southampton, 11 Nov., 1802. HORACE MONTAGU.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A Bibliography of British Municipal History, in-

chidiny Gild* and Parliamentary Representation.

By Charles Gross, Ph.D. (Longmans & Co.) THIS work forms vol. v. of the " Harvard Historical Studies" issued by the authorities of the great American University from the income provided by the bequest of a most praiseworthy citizen, the late Mr. Henry Warren Torry. We have already noticed several of the former issues of the studies, and have in each instance felt bound to describe them as scholarly productions. We cannot in any way contrast Prof. Gross's compilation with the works

of his predecessors. It is so different in character from them that comparison is impossible. We may venture to say, however, that it will be far more useful for the serious students of this country. It is an undoubted fact and we trust \ve need not say that we deplore it that, since the great struggle \vith the slave power came to an end, the English- men who take intelligent interest in materials for American history are very few ; but the number of those who are attracted oy our municipal history are many, and we are glad to think there are signs that they are on the increase. The time has gone by when men could say that all corporations were so much alike that when you were acquainted with the history of one you knew them all. This, like the parallel nonsense that all boroughs were the direct and immediate creation of kings, has passed away, and we are perhaps now drifting into the opposite error of thinking that they are all of democratic origin. Those who possess themselves of Prof. Gross's elaborate bibliography will now have such means of study as they never had before. It is an admirably compiled book, and arranged in a very lucid manner. There are two sections only one dealing with general authorities and the other with those which give information as to the municipal life of particular towns. This latter extends from Aberdeen to Youghal. We have carefully examined those parts of the work which we are able to test, and have found them very full and accurate ; perhaps, indeed, rather too full, for here and there we en- counter an entry directing attention to some obscure book which is pretty certain to disappoint the stu- dent who examines it. This is, however, an error, if error it be, in the direction of safety. We appre- hend compression has been thought necessary, otherwise we might not unreasonably complain that the notes added to some of the entries could have been made fuller and more numerous. We would also have gladly had a longer introduction from the pen of one so well fitted to instruct us. We quite agree with the author in his severe criti- cisms on the way many of our town histories have been put together; but it must be remembered as to the writers of the older ones that they had in many cases no opportunity given them of examining the local archives.

The Ayricola of Tacitus. Edited by Henry

Furneaux, M.A. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) HAVING given us already excellent editions of the ' Annals and 'Germania' well known to scholars, Mr. Furneaux here presents us with another treatise of his favourite author, admirably edited, with a critical introduction and full apparatus of notes. The 'Agricola' affords ample scope for the varied erudition of the editor, as, in addition to questions of text and interpretation, it incidentally raises many considerations of a topographical and anthro- pological character which do not come within the range of the mere classical scholar. In both fields of inquiry Mr. Furneaux seems equally at home. The fifth section of the introduction, in which Tacitus's account of Britain and its conquest is discussed in the light of comparative research, will be of special interest to the student. Here, as elsewhere, while exercising an independent judg- ment, the editor shows an intimate acquaintance with the works of our own anthropologists, Dawkins, Elton, and Evans, no less than with the great German commentators, Wex, Andresen, and Draeger. " The map at the end of the volume,"