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and replied, " What is to be feared is a general war." " ! who be thot?" was the reply. " Be 'e a relation o' Lard Dudley?" The word "general" had struck on the Worcestershire man's ear, and Mr. Kingsford says he was thought to be referring " to some fierce and formidable general of the noble family of Ward." Mr. Kingsford has not appended a glossary. This we regard as a mistake. Many persons \vill read his pages, we trust, who have no ready means of access to those books of reference in which the Worcestershire dialect is illustrated.

An Old Stuart Genealogy. By Marcus B. Huish,

LL.B. (Privately printed.)

To the opuscula of the Odd Volumes Mr. Huish has issued in an edition strictly limited in number, like the previous works in the same series, the book named aoove. It is a work of more than private interest, which will commend itself to the herald and the genealogist, and is illustrated by portraits and coats of arms. The original, which is written on a roll of parchment fourteen feet long, came into the possession of the author's family when his great- grandfather, Mark Huish, married Margaret Stuart. The genealogy, which is from the Heralds' College, is printed in black-letter, and accompanied by notes and illustrations by Mr. Huish. Among other points with which it deals is Shakspeare's 'Mac- beth.' It differs in some respects from Boece, whom in parts it follows, and deserves more attention than we are able to bestow upon it.

A Guide to the Guildhall of the City of London. By John James Baddeley. (Simpkin & Marshall. ) THIS serviceable and trustworthy guide to the Guildhall, giving an account of its historic associa- tions and the municipal work therein carried on, is printed by order of the Corporation of London under the direction of the City Lands Committee, by whose chairman for the present year it has been arranged. It supplies in small space a large amount of useful information.

Brentford. By Fred Turner. (Stock.) MB. TURNER has reprinted from the Brentonian a series of papers of much interest, historical and antiquarian, upon Brentford. Among its contents are papers on 'The Battles of Brentford,' 'Brentford Bridge,' ' The Establishment of St. Lawrence's Church,' a disquisition on the origin of the name Brentford, and a chapter on ' Brentford in Litera- ture.'

A Legend of Man/rose and The Black Dwarf. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited by A. Lang. (Nimmo.) THE seventh volume of Mr. Nimmo's reprint of the large -type "Border Edition" of the Waver ley Novels gives ' A Legend of Montrose ' and ' The Black Dwarf,' with the author's and editor's pre- faces and notes, and with the half-dozen etchings of the original edition. It still continues the most agreeable shape in which to read these immortal works, a task we conscientiously continue with the appearance of each successive volume of the reissue.

The London Year-Book, issued by the Grosvenor Press, has reached the second year of issue. In addition to the useful information it conveys, it has miscellaneous articles and illustrations, including designs by the late Aubrey Beardsley.

To A Barrister's Collection of Stories which hare been sworn on Oath to be True has been added a

third volume, no less entertaining than its prede- cessors. The publisher is Mr. Horace Cox.

WE have received from the Dublin Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Depository, 37, Dawson Street) the first number of a series of lectures on Irish Church history. It is by the Rev. John Healy, LL.D., and is entitled St. Patrick. There is, of course, nothing new in it, but the subject is treated of gravely and in a picturesque manner. We are glad to find that Dr. Healy is in no sort a partisan. He is very far from holding the crude notion which keeps cropping up from time to time that Patrick had never any real existence, but should be classed with mythological persons, such as the gods of Greece and some of the shadowy saints whose names appeared in certain of the local church calendars in the Middle Ages. On the other hand, we need hardly say that he rejects the wild legendary lore which gathered around the life of the Irish apostle. There are interesting remarks on cursing-stones, holy_ wells, Easter fires, and other things more or less intimately connected with folk- lore.

WE hear with much regret of the death of the Rev. William Graham Foster Pigott, M.A., rector of Abington Pigotts, Royston. The deceased gentleman, who was in his sixtieth year, had been of late a pretty frequent contributor on genealogical and general subjects. A communication from him appeared in our last number (p. 28).

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CECIL CLARKE ("Fusillade"). The 'Historical English Dictionary ' gives fusillade ; but in the pre- sent century there are instances of the word being spelt fusilade.

W. SHANLY ("Col. Wall"). Your query appeared 9 th S. i. 508.

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