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moned before the king in council in connexion with this disturbance. It is scandalously Belated concerning the Lord Mayor that, on being repulsed, he went to a tavern over the way and got drunk before renewing his effort. Of the Monmouth rebellion we hear practically nothing. It is a significant fact that after the Bloody Assize "the benchers commissioned Sir Godfrey Kneller to paint a picture of Lord Jeffryes at a cost of 501. This was paid for, and set up in the hall in 1687, in which year Jeffreys saw, by invitation, in the hall the performance of a translation from Moliere entitled 'The Cheats of Scapin.' This was pre- sumably Otway's piece produced ten years pre- viously at Dorset Garden. Concerning the various plays presented in the Temple, and the theatrical entertainments there given, Mr. Inderwick has much that is of interest to say. The subject gener- ally of revels repays attention. These mummeries or performances gave rise to scenes of disorder. We find it noted on 31 January, 1668/9, " Wheras several fellows [sic] came into the hall in the time of revels with their hats, swords, and coats, it is ordered that no fellows shall at any time come into the halls but in their gowns and caps, according to the ancient orders ot the House. The earliest quotation for " bog-house "^latrine in the ' H.E.D.' is 1705. In the General Account Book, Oct., 1689, to Oct., 1690, we have a disbursement " To Browne, the watchman, for burying the old man that kept the bog-houses, !&>-. &d." The ill-omened name of Titus Oates crops up occasionally, and Mr. Lang- horne, a barrister of Middle (?) Temple, is found guilty and put to death on his information. Lang- horne protested to the last his innocence, and Mr. Inderwick does not doubt his asseveration. The benchers behaved kindly to his widow, allowing her to sell her husband's chambers, and giving her 25. out of the funds. In spite of all precautions, illegitimate children were born in the Temple. An entry obviously alluding to such is " Expenses of nursing Christmas, Benjamin and Thomas Temple at 3-s. each child a week." An interesting item in the Christmas accounts of 1681-2 is for "sweet- meats for Madam Gwinn [Thursday, 12 January, 1682], Hi." We might proceed extracting passage after passage of interest, but must stop. We can only congratulate Mr. Inderwick upon the close of his admirably executed labours. Whether the work might not with advantage be continued to the beginning (or even the close) of the Victorian era is a matter on which the benchers of the Honourable Society will in due time decide. A portrait of Queen Anne, after Kneller, forms the frontispiece. Portraits of William III. and Mary II. , and of Lord Nottingham, with other illustrations of great interest, are also given.

Triglot Dictionary of Scriptural Representative Words. By H. Browne, M.D. (Bagster & Sons.) ALL honest labour deserves respect, especially \vhen actuated by religious motives. We can well believe that Dr. Browne has expended a very considerable amount of trouble in compiling these word-lists of ' Scriptural Representative Words,' but he appears to have set to work rather blindly, without first ascertaining what had been achieved by other labourers in the same field. Indeed, ho betrays but slight acquaintance with the works of the best Biblical scholars and lexicographers. He is satis- fied with the concordances of Dr. R. Young, the Rev S. G. Green, and Wigram as his standard autho-

rities. His object is to set out in parallel columns one English word which will in every case repre- sent one Hebrew word and the one synonymous Greek word. We much doubt whether this could ever be done, and, if it could, whether Dr. Browne has quite the scholarship to do it. The one ( !) repre- sentative word in Biblical Greek for " adamant," he tells us, is aicavQa o&ta, with a cross-reference to "sharp thorns," which is not forthcoming, though we do find " thorns, sharp," with the same definition. Hardly less elucidatory are "after- noon," with sKTtivat (I stretch out) as its proper Greek synonym, and "aunt," paralleled with ayairovaa (loving one); all which is sufficiently puzzling. Then Delitzsch's Hebrew renderings of certain New Testament words like " Christian " are frequently given; these, however close and idiomatic they may be, can hardly be called Biblical. If Dr. Browne had his will he would evidently make wild work of our English Bible, if we may judge by these specimens of his own versions : " Upon a last of these days [He] did speak out to us in a Son whom He put Heir of all things, by whom also He caused to be the Ages " (Heb. i. 1, 2) ; " When there is a Covenant, it is a necessity of the Covenanter to bring death upon himself. For a Covenant is confirmed upon dead ones, since it cannot pnce-at-any-time be strong when the Cove- nanter is living " (Heb. ix. 16, 17) ; " He was trusted- upon in a world, was taken-up-by-hand in glory" (1 Tim. iii. 16). We confess we cannot see that Biblical study is likely to be advanced by these word-lists, and we do not even understand how the compiler intends they should be used. They do not constitute a glossary, nor a dictionary, nor yet a concordance, and the references are given in ex- ceptional cases only.

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