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of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings. The descriptions are satisfactory, and are accompanied by forty-four illustrations depict- ing the exterior and interior of the church, together with its more noteworthy monuments. The volume also contains a short account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst, one of the oldest ecclesiastical build- ings that are still in use in England.

Cyrano de JBergerac. By Edmond Rostand. Trans- lated by Gladys Thomas and Mary F. Guillemard. (Heinemann.)

MB. HEINEMANN has done well to publish in a cheap form this spirited and agreeable rendering of M. Rostand's great dramatic poem, which, though the version is different, may well have been of use to those visiting Wyndham's Theatre. It is as good a rendering as we are likely to see, and the diffi- cultiesand these are numerous are brilliantly surmounted.

Bruges : an Historical Sketch. By Wilfrid C. Robin- son. (Bruges, Louis de Plancke.) MATERIALS for a history of Bruges exist. Few cities possess, we are told, richer archives. Mr. Robinson, who is a resident in Bruges and a member of the antiquarian societies to which the preserva- tion of its archives is due, seeks to bring before English readers a sketch of its life and history. He has, however, little of the power of con- densation and appreciation of historical docu- ments essential to the historian, he writes from a strongly Roman Catholic standpoint, and he leaves almost unmentioned matters we are used to think of highest importance, to insist on others with which we are less concerned. He is guilty, moreover, of such strange inelegancies of style as the following : "One day a humble workman saw the nuns were about to pay a man for bringing firewood. He out with his purse and paid the carrier." The italics, of course, are ours. To a small circle the book may, perhaps, appeal, but it is scarcely to be commended to the general public.

The Old Ballad of the Boy and the Mantle. 1900. THIS dainty volume, containing a hand-printed ballad from ' Percy's Reliques,' appears with no more title-page than we give. From the colophon we learn that the print, the ornaments, and the binding are executed by H. D. and H. G. Webb at Caradoc, Bedford Park. The names of Messrs. Webb have accordingly to be added to the list of producers of works de luxe. The get-up of the book is worthy of comparison with that of the most distinguished presses, and, since it is issued in a narrowly limited edition, it will not have long to wait before being regarded as a rarity and a treasure.

An Evening with Punch. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.) THIS is an amusing selection from the long set of the ' First Fifty Years of Punch ' which is being offered just now. Some of the best writing and art of the paper is reproduced, and an account is interspersed of the wits, old and new, who have made Punch what it is. The interest of the comic letterpress is increased by the fact that the name of its author is appended in each case. We admire once more the graceful art of Du Maurier and the exquisite humour of Keene, and hope our contem- porary will continue to flourish for hundreds of years beyond MCM. to kill unhealthy fads, give honour where it is due, and raise a laugh without malice.

DR. BRUSHFIELD, F.S.A., has reprinted from the Transactions of the British Archaeological Associa- tion an admirable paper, read in July last at the Buxton Conference, on Derby shire Funeral Garlands. It is a work of high antiquarian interest and im- portance, is amply illustrated, and raises many points appealing strongly and directly to readers of ' N. & Q.'

IN respect of Col. Charles Thomas John Moore, whose death we last week briefly chronicled, MR. EDWARD PEACOCK writes: "Col. Moore was a widely cultivated man, and took a special interest in the history and antiquities of his native county and the pedigrees of its old families. He was an active, public-spirited man, who discharged effi- ciently much of the local business which falls to the lot of those among the country gentry who devote themselves to it. Col. Moore was born at Moulton, of which place his father, the Rev. Charles Moore, was vicar, on 17 May, 1827, thus dying on the seventy-third anniversary of his birth. In early life he inherited a handsome property, and filled the office of High Sheriff in 1856. He had long been a justice of the peace for the three divisions of the county ' parts, as they are called in legal docu- ments and the local speech Lindsey, Kesteven, and Holland. He was successively captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel of the Royal South Lincolnshire Militia, and on Her Majesty's Jubilee his services were recognized by a Companionship of the Bath. Col. Moore was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries on 30 May, 1867."

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