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 300 NOTES AND QUERIES. tu* s. iv. OCT. 7, described, and there is an interesting picture of Sydney Cove in 1788. Other illustrations include Sydney Heads and Harbour, followed by many views of buildings and streets in what is now in the full sense a capital. Mr. William Archer writes ou 'The American Language.' What he has to say is just, and should be satisfactory to his American readers, in spite of just a uotipfou of patronage in the tone. ' Some Literary Landmarks in Paris' shows spots associated with comparatively modern writers—Alusset, Chateaubriand, Sainte-Beuve, and Victor Hugo—with the exterior of the Cafe Procope. Few landmarks connected with the great names of previous generations seem, unfortunately, to be left. Very strikingare the presentations of the slaughter of 'African Big Game in the Sixteenth Century.' ' Suppressed Plates' is continued, this later instal- ment reproducing a marvellous design of Mr. Frederick Sandys intended for Once a Week, and inexplicably rejected by the editor.—'The Water- Front of New York,' by Jesse Lynch Williams, which appears in Scritmer's, is accompanied by striking illustrations by many different artists. Some of them—as the view of ' university Heights,' 'Old New Amsterdam,' 'New New York,' 'view of Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge,' &c.—are wonderfully picturesque. A remarkable contribu- tion is ' An Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew, with an Introduction by her Son.' Mrs. Drew was born in Lambeth in 1820. Her revelations cast a strong light upon the stage in America, to which country she was taken at an early age. It is profusely illustrated with portraits of actors, English and American. From an article on ' Telephotography,' and the specimens of its results, it would appear that great advance in photograph- ing distant mountain scenery is likely to result from its use. A further instalment of Stevenson letters constitutes an attractive feature. — In the CornhM Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole, in 'An Ambassador to the Sultan,' deals incidentally with the journals and correspondence of Sir Thomas Roe descriptive of his embassies to the Great Mogul, 1615 -1619, recently reprinted by the Hakluyt Society, and directly with the subsequent mission to the Sultan Osmau 11. It presents Roe in a very favour- able light, and is even worth study as a contribu- tion to our knowledge of English history. Mrs. Archibald Little's ' Our Pet Herons' is melancholy reading, showing what terrible ravages the insen- sibility of woman and the greed of traders are in- flicting upon bird life in remote parts of the earth. Mr. Micnael MacDonagh has a gossiping article on reporting. Prof. Morris attests a remarkable discovery, that of 'Capt. Cook's First Log in the Royal Navy,' and supplies an attractive insight into its contents. Part IV. of Lady Broome's 'Colonial Memories' is not less entertaining and instructive than previous portions. Mr. Barry O'Brien writes brightly concerning Curran.—The contents of Temple Bar are ma in I y light, but are plea- santly varied. Old College Customs at Oxford,' by H. W. Matthews, includes, among others, the Lord Mallard revels at All Souls', the crowning at Merton of the Rex Fabarum, and the Boar's Head Feast still observed at Queen's. The version of the carol connected with the last named differs from that with which we were familiar. ' My Father as I Remember Him' is an account of Dan O'Connell. It is very readable. 'Reminiscences of Old Hastings' will commend itself to antiquaries.— Apropos of the star shower to be expected in November, Mr. J. Ellard Gore, F.R.A.S., deals in the Gentleman's with ' Star Showers' in general. Mr. Heckethorn's ' Lost Rivers of London' is con- cerned with the disappearance of the Fleet, the Tyburn, the Westbourne, Wallbrook, and other streams, the existence of which is known to the antiquary, though most of them slip unperceivedly down to the Thames through the main sewers. The writer complains of the lack of water as de- tracting from the picturesqueness of the capital. We are scarcely, when we compare London with other cities, disposed to echo this. Surely London is as well on' as, say, Paris, Berlin, or Brussels, though we own its inferiority to Lyons, Stockholm, and Constantinople. Mr. J. 8. McTear gives an account of ' Gleek," a card game of great antiquity. Other articles are on ' The Celtic Race,' ' The Poetry of the Maoris,' 'English Military Lawyers," 'Gipsies,' and ' Herrick. — The EnyUsh Illustrated appears in a new and pretty cover. ' A Spa in Shakespeare's Country' is the title bestowed on a description of Leamington, one of the prettiest of inland watering- places. Richard Cosway is described under the heading ' The Macaroni Painter.' An interesting series of his fashionable portraits is reproduced with the aid of photographs. Miss Helen C. Gordon depicts some of the terrible scenes to be viewed at the present time in the " Pettah." An amusing paper is that descriptive of ' Penny Toys.'—Mr. Rider Haggard continues, in Longman*,' A Farmer's Year,' which now reaches its fourteenth instal- ment. Mr. Haggard is a sportsman. We wonder how one can remain such who gives such terrible pictures as are supplied of the man who. following his instincts, shoots, turning " happy life, perfect shape, and smooth fur into a screaming, kicking, gory heap, for that is what man—gentle, oeneficent man—is apt to do." Mr. Lang is as good as he always is in 'At the Sign of the Ship." to We must call special attention to the following notices:— ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications corre- spondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspond- ents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication " Duplicate." T. J. C. ("Lych Gate").—See 4th S. i. 390, 423, 445, 497, 618; 5th S. xii. 268, 294, 397, 417; 6"> S. i. 125; 7th S. xii. 148. F. P. ("A Chestnut").—We can say definitely that the remark was 3'hompson's, not Jowett'8. NOTICE. 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