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 40 . vi. JULY M. 1900. NOTES AND QUERIES. justly suspected persons as well as the detection of many criminals. Most of the other contents are in some way political or polemical.—A series of three articles entitled 'The Slave Trade in America' begins in Scribner'*, the first being called 'The Gathering of the Slaves." A terrible record of cruelty and bloodshed is given in letterpress and illustrations. It is but natural to find that, unlike other pursuits on which ameliorating influences told, the handling of slaves, from the beginning of the trade to its end, is a story of steadily deepen- ing infamy and horror. An essay on "Trees' has some happy illustrations by the author. 'The Relief of Ladysmith' is deeply interesting, and at points harrowing. Some pleasing recollections of eminent men are given in ' Harvard College Fifty-eight Years Ago.' Another article is ' The Boer as a Soldier. — The Pail Mall opens with a reproduction of Mr. Whistler's tine por- trait of Thomas Carlyle, executed bv permission of the Corporation of Glasgow. The picture is too well Known to require praise. It is one of Mr. Whistler's best. 'Naworth Castle' is described and illustrated from photographs by the Rev. A. H. Malan. The pictures include the recently excavated Roman camp. Mr. Horace VVyiidham gives, under the title of ' Dramatists and their Methods,' the results of interviews with Mr. Pinero, Mr. H. A. Jones, and Mr. Sydney Grundy. The article is, necessarily, readable and interesting. It supplies portraits of the three dramatists, with facsimiles of their respective MSS. The unpleasant story of Elizabeth Chud- leigh, Duchess of Kingston, is told by Mrs. Parr, ana illustrated from Dr. Parr's collection of old prints. The Poet Laureate writes on 'Anglo- American Literary Copyright,' and Kathleen Schle- singer on ' The Military Traditions of the City of London.' Mr. Henley, in 'Ex-Libris,' praises warmly the late R. A. M. Stevenson. Mr. Street, in ' From a London Attic,' complains, with cause enough, of the London builder.—' With a Boer Ambulance in Natal,' the first instalment of which is presented in the Cornhill, gives a striking account of the early incidents in the Natal campaign. Another good article on a similar subject is ' The Boer at Home,' by Miss Anna Howarth. Mr. Andrew Lang gives a full account of ' Mrs. Rad- cliffe's Novels,' which he has just been re-reading. ' Ermine and Motley," by Mr. Max Beerbohm, is an article on judicial and regal joking. Antiyenene supplies a striking account of the way in which the most venomous snakes are handled in India. Mr. Bernard Capes is at the trouble to supply writers with a series of ' Plots." ' Moorish Memories' is a very pleasant article. ' The South African Policy of Sir Bartle Frere' is an important paper, the subject of which is outside our limits.—In Tern/ile liar, under the heading ' Poets at Variance,' Mr. Herbert M. Sanders describes the quarrels of Nash, Gabriel Harvey, Ben Jonson, and other Tudor worthies, of Dryden and Bucking- ham, down to Byron and Southey. A spirited account of 'Counsellor O'Connell" supplies many stories concerning the influence, often dangerous, O'Connell exercised over juries and witnesses. 'Heine's "Frau Mathilde"' gives a striking account of that extravagant lady. ' A Tatter- demalion Philosopher' depicts Solomon Maimon, the Polish opponent of Kant. — To the Gentle- man's Mr. Arthur L. Salmon sends a collec- tion of ' Folk-Rhymes on Places," large collections of which are already in existence. Mr. H. Schiitz Wilson describes a short trip to the western coast of Norway. Mr. Austen M. Stevens writes on 'The Sedan Chair," Mrs. Elwes on 'Marguerite d'Angouleme, the Marguerite des Marguerites," and Mr. Lynch on 'Greece and Ireland. —To Long- man'* Prof. Stanley Lane-Poole sends an admirable account of 'Egypt in the Middle Ages." Mr. William Pigott complains of the general neglect of ' Rose Culture." In 'At the Sign of the Ship' Mr. Lang talks of Robin Hood and his associates, and puts forward a new theory. He complains, with much reason, of the demands made upon literary men to subscribe to testimonials, and proposes an Anti-Memorio-Testimonial Society. — The English niuxtrated gives a description and portraits of ' Distinguished Colonial Soldiers," and an account of Princeton, with illustrations from photographs. Many curious pictures are afforded of 'The Cult of Brahma. 'Nothing New under the Sun' may be commended to our readers. A THIRD edition of Mr. de V. Payen-Payne's 'French Idioms and Proverbs' is shortly to be published by Mr. David Nutt. The first edition of this work appeared in 1893, and the second in 1897; and it is now accepted in all colleges and schools where French is seriously studied as the best guide to a very difficult subject. 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 rules. 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. When answer- ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second com- munication " Duplicate." RICHARD HKMMINO ("Choice Notes on History from 'N. & 6.'").—'Choice Notes on Folk-lore" were also published near the same time. ("Plain living and high thinking are no more").—Words- worth, "O friend, I know not which way I must look." This is given in Bartlett, but we fail to trace the poem. J. BOUCHIER (" Horse and Hattock ").—You will find examples of meaning in the ' 11.1'.. I >." CORRIGENDUM.—P. 15, col. 2,1. 9, for " Abarcass" read A Carcanx. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"—Advertise- ments and Business Letters to "The Publisher"— at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception.