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Church livings, the diocesan and cathedral estab- lishments, and a list of societies, charitable, educa- tional, and missionary. No work of its class is more serviceably arranged.

HERBERT FRY'S Royal Guide to the London Charities (Chatto & Windus), one of the handiest of annuals, has reached its thirty-seventh issue. It is edited by Mr. John Lane, and discharges admirably the function for which it is intended.

THE Photo-Miniature (Dawbarn & Ward) is a monthly periodical intended as a medium for information. Few numbers appear from which something new may not be learnt. No. 19, on photographing children, is of special excellence.

Celtia is the title of a new periodical, the first monthly number of which has appeared. It aims at bringing into close contact the Celtic inhabitants ot Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, the Highlands, and the Isle of Man, and advocates the use of the Celtic dialects. The first part is published of a dictionary of the two surviving Brythonic and the three Gaelic dialects. It may be obtained from the Celtic Association, 97, Stephen's Green, Dublin.

THE paper of most note in the current number of Folk-Lore is Prof, payee's account of the popular beliefs of Cairo, which, though chiefly of Moham- medan growth, yet show the impress of Pharaonic Egypt. Among the comic tales recorded in the article is one telling how a dentist drew an aching tooth by tying it to the sufferer's ^ foot and then giving him a blow from behind. " The fellow drew away his head, and the tooth fell to the ground, He cried : ' sons of Cairo, learned and under- standing ones ! the tooth is extracted from (my) back ! '" It is perhaps worth remembering that a similar tooth-drawing story is current in Lincoln- shire. F. J., a village matron whose conduct gave rise to much gossip in the earlier half of the nine- teenth century, once inveigled her husband into letting her tie a clock-weight to a troublesome tooth. This accomplished, she dashed the weight on the ground. " (Jot flies tooth i' a crack. My wo'd, didn't he saay a thing or two as soon as he could speak ! Awiver, toothaache was gone, sewer enif."

TUB folk-lore brought together in Melusine is of permanent value to all anthropologists and ethno- logists ; and the varied information stored up in the pages of the Intermediaire cannot fail to be of service to every one who occupies himself with historic and prehistoric research.

THE Kafendar of the Royal Institute of British Architects is a businesslike compilation, which ought to be very useful as a book of reference ; and the Library Journal should prove interesting to all people concerned in the training of the general mass of the population through the development of free libraries.

WITH much regret we have to chronicle the death, after a long illness, of Mr. Richard Copley Christie, a frequent and valued contributor to our columns. Born in 1830 at Lenton, Notts, the second son of Lorenzo Christie, of Edale, Derbyshire, and Ann, daughter of Isaac Bayley, of Lenton Sands, he matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, April, 1849, proceeding B.A. 1853 and M.A. 1855, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, 6 June, 1857. He took a first class in law and history, and

became in 1895 Hon. LL.D. Victoria. He was Drofessor of history at Owens College, Manchester, [854-66, and of political economy 1855-66, and in L898 he endowed the institution with 50,OOOZ. As Jhancellor of the Diocese of Manchester from 1872 to 1893, he was one of the few laymen called upon to preach. President of the Chetham Society since 1884, of the Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1883-95, and of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, he was also a governor of Owens College and of the Royal Holloway College. A man of deep* erudition and varied accomplishments, he is re- sponsible for ' Old Church and School Libraries of Lancashire,' 1885; 'Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington,' vol. ii. part ii., 1886; 'Bibliography of Dr. J. W orthmgton ' 1888 ; ' Annales Cestrienses,' 1887 ; ' Letters of Sir Thomas Copley,' 1897. His great work was, however, the 'Etienne Dolet, the Martyr of the Renaissance,' 1880, reprinted 1899, and translated in 1886 into French. At his residence, Ribsden, Wmdlesham, Surrey, where he died on the 9th inst., he had a fine library, including many works printed by Dolet, of which books he was a zealous collector. Mr. Christie married, in 1861, Mary Helen, daughter of Samuel Fletcher, Broomfield, Manchester. He was from 1887 to 1897 chairman of Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co., Limited.

WE have, to our regret, to chronicle the death, under very painful circumstances, of the Rev. William Roddam Tate, of Walpole Vicarage, Hales worth, Suffolk. He seems to have been a victim to the lamentable depreciation in ecclesias- tical property, and was a frequent contributor to our columns. He was educated at King's, London, ordained priest in 1873, and appointed to the vicarage he held in 1882.

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