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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. MARCH 9, 1901.

Maxwell is responsible for ' Victoria the Well Beloved.' A beautiful picture by Gainsborough of Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) is reproduced. Scr opens with 'Along the East Coast of Africa,' by Mr. Richard Harding Davis. This describes the result of a steam trip from Durban up to Zanzibar, ports at which bubonic plague existed being left unvisited. Not too much a friend of England is Mr. Davis counted. What he says about the relative prosperity of countries under English, German, and Portuguese rule is pleasant reading for us. Portuguese rule is depicted in grim colours. Zanzibar is described as a terrestrial paradise. ' Among the Immigrants' gives a good account by pen and pencil of the Russian and Polish population that flocks to America. Mr. Henry Norman contributes a fifth paper on ' Russia of To-day.' Mrs. Gilbert's stage reminiscences are agreeably continued. ' The Transformation of the Map ' shows the changes in maps which have been witnessed in the course of a single lifetime. Mr. Brander Matthews has a thought- ful paper on the ' English Language in America.' The Cornhill opens with a very interesting his- torical paper by Mr. C. H. Firth on ' The Sick and Wounded in the Great Civil War,' a new subject, on which a great scholar supplies some valuable information. Under the title ' My Mother's Diary ' Mrs. Mary Westenholz gives what professes to be an account of experiences during the Prussian invasion ofSchleswig-Holstein. These are obviously fictitious, but are deeply moving. The Rev. W. H. Fitchett sends another brilliant picture of incidents con- nected with the Indian Mutiny. A very encourag- ing account is supplied by Mr. C. J. Cornish of 'The Results of Wild Bird Protection. 3 We had no idea that so much gain had attended an Act as yet inadequately administered. Mr. G. 8. Street does full justice to Anthony Trollope, a delightful novelist at present under a cloud. Trollope is defended from the charge brought against him by an eminent pundit that he is not creative. ' A Londoner's Log-Book,' No. II., is a clever piece of social satire. ' The Christian Scientist ' is also bright and humorous. The Gentleman's has a good and readable article on ' The Cat and the Moon,' which we commend to our readers. Its author, the Rev. George St. Clair, should not, however, mis- quote Ben Jonson. Miss Georgiana Hill has an excellent paper on Gondomar, the Spanish Am- bassador to James I., to whose malign influence England owes what may almost be regarded as her crowning humiliation, the royal murder, at the bidding of Spain, of Raleigh. The lighter contents of Longman'* are delightful, especially 'Concerninr

Tod and Peter.' Miss Dempster contributes ' The Days.' 'Bacteria and Salt'

First of the Hundred

is scientific and sufficiently startling. Mr. Lang is amusing in 'At the Sign of the Ship,' and also, as he sometimes is, a trifle severe, though in good- natured fashion. His note on the coquilie

In Vienna's fatal walls God's finger touched him and he slipped is excellent.

MR. E. S. DODUSON has printed a short and satisfactory reply to the criticism on his Leicar- ragan studies of Dr. Schuchardt. There is much philological interest in this, but the matter is too personal to appear in our columns. It is included in a pamphlet with his ' The Verb in the Second Book in Guipuskoan Bask,' a subject on which Mr. Dodgson is a high authority.

WITH much regret we hear of the death of Mr. Frederick S. Ellis, an old friend and a warm sup- porter of ' N. & Q.,' whom we saw but a few weeks ago in his customary health. A brother of Sir Whittaker Ellis, he was closely connected with Richmond. In early life he was with Thomas Rodd, the bookseller, whom he succeeded. His business, once conducted in King Street, W.C., close to the old Garrick Club, was removed to Bond Street, where, under the name Ellis & White, it is carried on by his nephew and late partner. Many years ago he retired and settled at Torquay until his death, which took place at Sidmouth. A great friend of Dante Rossetti, whose poems he published, and of William Morris, he was well known and highly prized in literary and artistic circles. In the publications of the Kelmscott Press he took an active share, editing for it the Chaucer perhaps its noblest production the Shelley, the Keats, and many of its most prized works. Ellis translated ' Reynard the Fox, 3 the ' Roman de la Rose,' and ' The Golden Legend, 3 and was, up to his death, engaged in preparing English versions of mediaeval works. He also compiled an elaborate ' Shelley Concordance.' He was the possessor of paintings by Rossetti and E. Burne-Jones, and at his home, the Red House, Chilstqn, Torquay, he had a few priceless books. In publishing Rossetti's works he was influenced by friendship rather than the hope of profit. Few men were indeed of a gentler or more unselfish disposition, and his death has left a void not easily filled.

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IVAN MORRIS ("Sibyl or Sybil"). Sibyl is right. The other, though frequently employed" since the appearance of the novel so called, is incorrect.

ERRATA. P. 142, col. 1, 1. 27 t for 'Dictionary of Greek Antiquities' read Greek and fioman Anti- quities; p. 155, col. 1, 1. 23, for "of little 33 read oh Little.

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