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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vn. JAN. 12, 1901.

upon Rodin, the great sculptor. Miss Elizabeth Robins describes 'A Visit to Cape Nome, a sur- prisingly bold excursion for a lady. Mr. John * oster Eraser's account of ' The New House of Commons is uEstrated by caricatures.. Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill vindicates the British officer. Mr. Wil- liam Archer takes an optimistic survey of the drama, and Mr. Max Beerbohm expounds what is 'The Spirit of Caricature.'-A paper m Scribner'a on Auguste Rodin, the sculptor, reproduces all but exactly the illustrations given in that already noticed) in the Pall Mall, This is comprehensible enough, the most familiar work being naturally the most easily accessible. Mr. Horton gives a very readable account of 'Modern Athens, to which Mr. Linson supplies some appetizing illus- trations. Mr. Henry James has a characteristically delightful essay on 'Winchester, Rye, and Denis Duval'" with a capital view of Mermaid Street, Rye. ' Russia of To-day ' continues very interest- ing. The views of Tifiis and the Georgian Road are very striking. Four more papers have to appear, when the whole will doubtless be issued in book form. 'A Comparison of the Armies in China is instructive and important. The entire number is of very varied interest. The Cornhill makes a spurt with the new century. Its most interesting paper is Mr. George M. Smith's ' Account of the Birth and Parentage' of the magazine, which are due to him. Besides being a most readable paper, it is a genuine contribution to our knowledge of literary history. ' With the Huntress,' a charac- teristic poem by George Meredith, stands first among the contents. 'More Light on St. Helena,' which is edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, will be read with extreme interest by the admirers, now innumerable, of Napoleon Bonaparte. Mrs. Rich- mond Ritchie supplies No. 2 of the ' Blackstick Papers.' Mr. Andrew Lang sends a brilliant paper, ' Examinations in Fiction.' Dr. A. Conan Doyle, in 'The Military Lessons of the War,' answers his critics. Sir Henry M. Stanley shows how on one occasion he acted as missionary. The Rev. W. H. Fitchett begins an account, at once dramatic and picturesque, of the great Indian Mutiny. Urbanus Sylvan, whose inversion of a name we the more regret now that we know how great a man he is, sends from Stamford the first of a series of ' Pro- vincial Letters.' A truly appetizing bill of fare is, it is seen, provided for the new year. Other novel- ties are promised in what remains the most at- tractive and entertaining of magazines. In the Oentliman' u Mr. E. Perronet Thompson describes the very mysterious ' Addingley Murders.' ' An Old High Town and an Old Palace,' by Mr. Percy Fitzgerald, deal respectively with Boulogne and Kew. Mr. Albert M. Hyamson has a paper on ' False Messiahs,' who have been sufficiently numerous. ' Summering in Canadian Backwoods,' in Longmmi'ij, is a pleasant piece of descriptive writing. Of more immediate interest is 'Nature in London,' by Mr. Dewar, some of the statements in which we can confirm from personal observation. 'Quotation,' by Mr. H. W. Fowler, is good, but scarcely an adequate treatment of a great subject. In 'At the Sign of the Ship' Mr. Lang, who is always entertaining and not seldom controversial, attacks once more the cult of book-plates. Ir CcMe/r Magazine appears the first instalment of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's story ' Kim.' The cover has a striking portrait of Mr. Kipling. The con- tents generally are amusing and the illustrations

numerous. CasselFs New Penny Magazine is a marvel of cheapness.

MB. R. W. BINXS, F.S.A., of Worcester, who died recently at an advanced age, was an authority on Worcester porcelain, which he did much to mprove. He was an occasional contributor to N. & Q.'

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RICHARD LAWSOX. 1. Blackfriars was so named after a brotherhood of black, preaching, or Domi- nican friars, founded by Hubert de Burgh in 1221, and removed in 1276 from their house in Hoi- born, near Lincoln's Inn, to the church, precinct, and sanctuary between Ludgate Hill and the Thames, and extending westward from Castle Baynard (St. Andrew's Hill) to the Fleet river. 2. The first bridge at Blackfriars, erected from the designs of Robert Mylne, of Edin- burgh, was opened Sunday, 19 Nov., 1769. It was first called Pitt Bridge! There was, we be- lieve, no wooden bridge there except the temporary structure existing between 186U and 1869, when the present bridge was being built. 3. Blackfriars Theatre, founded by James Burbage in 1596-7, stood in the precinct of the Blackfriars. On 5 Aug., 1655, after a troublous existence, it was pulled down. Part of the ground on which it stood is still called Playhouse Yard. The above informa- tion is from Wheatley and Cunningham's ' London Old and New,' where further particulars may be found.

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