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NOTES AND QUERIES.

s. v. JAN. 20, 1900.

imposed task are intimate knowledge and warm affection. In his 'Ricrqft of Withens'-a work which disappoints only in recalling too strongly we have not read, he has given a picturesque and an animated account of the country between Bingley and Skipton and its denizens. His present work which begins with Haworth and the Brontes, and deals largely with Skipton and the Cliffords, constitutes delightful reading. Mr Sutcliffe has, indeed, great descriptive ability, and brings vividly before us the scenes and characters he exhibits, a task in which he is aided by Mr. George Hermg, whose illustrations add to the charm of the volume. We like Mr. Sutcliffe better, on the whole, when he deals with scenery than with incident, some of his pictures of heroic deeds striking us as a little too set. As a rule his diction is pleasing. We are but half satisfied with his use, more than once, ot "profligate" for prodigal. Whencesoever derived (it is not West Riding), the " theftuous foot of time is a vile phrase. We dp not like antiquarians, as a substantive, for antiquaries (see p. 251). A word such as " dependable * is unpardonable while we have trustworthy ; and we cannot easily overlook a Shakespearian misquotation such as appears p. -*>, " My horse, my horse ! My kingdom for a horse ! These are, however, but unimportant matters. Mr Sutcliffe has written a book with something of the bracing character of his native hills. Some things in his pages are quite new to us. and the story of the second White Doe of Rylstone is prettily told and very moving.
 * Lorna Doone 'and doubtless m other works which

University Magazines and their Makers. By H. C.

Marillier. (Privately printed.) MR. MARILLIER has enriched the privately printed opmcula of the Sette of Odd Volumes, many of which are already counted as rarities, with a little work of much interest. He has issued, m a strictly limited edition, a bibliography of university maga- zines. The number of these is much larger than we thought, and the list, though it does not pretend to compfeteness, is very long, To add to the value of the book he includes m it admirably executed facsimiles of frontispieces, covers, and other features of interest. Among these are the frontispiece to the Student, afterwards known as the Oxford ancl Cambridge Miscellany, Oxford, 1/50; Hogarth s frontispiece to Terra Films, Oxford gl/^1 ; the cover design to M omus, Cambridge, 1868 ; that to the Oxford Magazine, which is still m existence those, again, to the Isis (with a fine view of th_ High"), the Cambridge Review, the Cambridge A B C, and the Granta. Full information is sup plied as to the writers in the various periodicals existent or passed away. The work is admirably done and will warmly commend itself to the mem bers of both universities. It is tantalizing oui readers to recommend a work that can only be obtained by private interest or favour. We counsel

however, such of them as have influence with

members of the Sette to use it, even at the risk o

becoming nuisances.

MR HENRY FROWDE has sent us two charmin minute copies of Walton's Compleat Am/hr. A juarter of an ordinary sheet of note-paper suffices t cover both these tiny books laid side by side; yet by the aid of the well-known India paper, readabl print is secured, and the pretty bindings contai nearly 600 pages.

THE REV. J. BOWSTEAD WILSON, F.S. A., writes : In a recent number of ' N. & Q.'-my friend the lev. W. M. Kingsmill was mentioned as one of the our surviving contributors to the first issue of N. & Q.' The following notice will show you that e, too, has joined the majority: 'January 13, at ^ibberton Vicarage, the Rev. William Major Kings- lill, M.A., for thirty-five years Rector of Bredicot nd Vicar of Tibberton, within ten days of com- leting his seventy-fifth year.' "

A NEW and amended edition of Prof. A. Campbell

"raser's ' Life and Works of Bishop Berkeley,'

riginally issued in 1871, is now in preparation, and

will probably be ready for publication by the

Clarendon Press before the end of the present

ear. The * Works ' (including the posthumous

writings, first published in 1871) will be arranged

n chronological order, with additional material

ince discovered and with the dissertations and

annotations carefully revised and to a great extent

"ewritten. The * Life ' will be curtailed. Prof.

Jampbell Fraser will be glad to receive any fresh

riographical or bibliographical information, or

corrections of errors in his first edition, and

communications may be addressed to him at the

University Press, Oxford.

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EGERIA (" Instruction in the Rules of Poetry"). There is, so far as we know, no such work as you seek. Dr. Guest on * English Rhythm ' is erudite, but scarcely popular.

H. BROUGHTON. The Shelley Society, founded by Mr. Furnivall, is now, we believe, defunct.

A. F. C. Many thanks.

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