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us, at its weight in gold. The same note seems t< be in error in stating that no copy of the origina edition is in the British Museum. The facsimile i beautifully executed, and is enclosed in a parchmen binding with leather thongs, also facsimiled froir the original volume. The engraved title is enclosec in a well-executed border with geometrical designs birds, and fruit. To the designs Gedde prefixes a well-written and excellent preface "to the willing

S-actisers of glazeing and anneiling in Glasse.' e supplies also directions how to make and order the square. A second title-page, also ornamental appears at sig. C 3, and is in part reproduced al R 1. Other well-executed designs of a furnace for " anneiling in Glasse " and the like are given. " Many of the designs, which are over one hundred in number, are beautiful." The reprint is equally spirited, handsome, and intelligent. What may be the value in present days of the work as a trade compilation we cannot say. It is, however, a book to delight the antiquary and the man of taste, and is worthy of the reputation of the spirited firm to which it is due.

The Old Chelsea Bun-Shop. By the Author of ' Mary

Powell.' (Nimmo.) ONE by one Mr. Nimmo is reprinting, in a handsome form, and with pretty and helpful illustrations by Messrs. John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton, all the antiquarian writings of the author of ' Mary Powell.' They constitute pleasant and healthy, if not very stimulating fare, and are precisely the class of works by which youth may be edified and suck in what may almost be called surreptitious information. Those who remember the old Chelsea Bun-House, which lasted until 1839, and was at its best in the middle of the last century, are now a small niinority. Readers of last-century literature are familiar with allusions to it in Swift and elsewhere. The story now told is, we fancy, wholly fictitious. Apart from its interest, however, it preserves admirably the colour of the times in which the action is supposed to be laid, and gives a good picture of life in the seventeenth century. In addition to the Bun- House it introduces Don Saltero of the Coffee- House, for which see 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. vi. 328, 472; 8 th 8. iii. 128, 235. The work is worthy in all respects of the companionship in which it finds itself, and constitutes a delightful gift-book.

The Union of Italy, 1815-1895. By W. J. Stillman, L.H.D. (Concordia). (Cambridge, University Press. )

To Dr. Prothero's " Cambridge Historical Series," now on the point of numbering a dozen volumes, has been added a work descriptive of Italian imity. The author of this, Mr. Stillman, is known as a devoted friend to the cause, and in the various positions, official or other, he occupied had the opportunity of seeing many of the events he depicts. If, after dwelling near forty years in Italy and forming intimacies with her statesmen, soldiers, and patriots, he holds pessimistic views concerning the future of the country, it is because he is of opinion that its liberties were too easily won, or, in the very words quoted by him, that "Too quickly and too easily was Italy made." The story of the making of Italy grows increasingly interesting as it progresses, and the latest chapters are the most stimulating. Through an almost interminable series of defeats Italy went on to the attainment of her desires, and by the aid of her allies

she was able in the long run to realize her dreams. Mr. Stillman tells carefully and sym- pathetically the story with which he deals. It is to some extent destructive of consecutive interest that the narrative has to be made piecemeal, and that we have to go from the history of Piedmont to that of Tuscany, and again to that of Naples and Sicily or the States of the Church. Amid many records of want of capacity we come on the exploits of Garibaldi. The narrative is instructive and satisfactory rather than stimulating. England's part in it is in the main honourable, though it is, of course, disturbing to us that the chief efforts' of Italy were directed against Austria, our constant and faithful ally. All-important to Italy was the aid furnished by France, though it had to be dearly purchased, and, as far as the result is concerned, was grudgingly accorded. The volume is well worthy of attention, but cannot claim to rank with the most readable of the series.

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