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Majesty or "John Company" in the East, but was finally extended to the entire world irom which club members are recruited; new rights were extended to smokers; strangers were no longer confined to back and disgraceful quarters ; and ladies even were at certain afternoon hours admitted to some unimportant privileges. The Oriental, m fact, drew up in line with the clubs with which it is natural to associate it, and is even now looking forward to the fate with which these are menaced. A comparison between the opening directorate and that of 1902 is natural, though it can scarcely be regarded as fair or conclusive. The first committee, headed by the Duke of Wellington, included a dozen generals and admirals, with other people of social or political eminence, though literature, the Bench and Bar, and the Church are unrepresented. In the 1902 committee we note among many names, respectable and respected, a solitary K.C.M.G. Thackeray does not seem to have been directly associated with the club, though he doubtless, like many of us, had enjoyed its hospitality. Imaginary characters in his works are, however, connected therewith. Joseph Sedley did not dine at the Oriental when the last century was in its teens the club not being then established but, on his return in 1827, proceeded at once to be elected. A genuine Col. Newcome belonged to the club, but had nothing in common with Thackeray's immortal hero, whose representative might, however, well have been found among its members. Such records of human eccentricity and perversity as Mr. Baillie has extracted from the minutes of meetings can be paralleled in most similar documents. A good account of the pictures is given. Among those reproduced in photogravure are Major-General Sir John Malcolm, Lord Metcalfe, the Marquess of Hastings, Lord Clive, and Warren Hastings. Illus- trations of the district from prints, photographs, &c., are also supplied.

The Clergy Directory and Parish Guide, 1902.

(Phillips.)

THE thirty-second issue of the ' Clergy Directory,' the best and cheapest of guides, appeared like its predecessor early in Advent, the editor holding it expedient to regard the year from the ecclesiastical standpoint. It contains, like previous volumes, an alphabetical list of the clergy of the Church of England, showing qualification, order, and appoint- ment, with dates ; a list of the parishes and parochial districts, giving diocese, population, in- cumbent, annual income, and patron ; a patrons' list, showing the distribution of the patronage of Church livings, whether held by public bodies or in private hands ; the diocesan and cathedral estab- lish merits, with the members of the two Convoca- tions ; and a list of societies charitable, educa- tional, and missionary connected with the national Church, with address and name of secretary. The past year has been ecclesiastically uneventful, and the volume meets all requirements.

Whitaker's Almanack for 1902.

WE have received the new year's issue of ' Whi- taker's Almanack,' probably the most generally prized and used of works of reference. Within its 776 pages we find a mass of information such as no work of its class supplies, including, with the exception of the army, navy, and merchant-seamen serving abroad, the full results of this year's census, together with all the matter for which we are accus-

tomed to turn to its pages. Complete change is, of course, found in the Royal Household and other matters. So far as we can trace the work is pre- cisely up to date, the very latest changes in the county-court judges being noted.

Miss ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES, a valued contributor to our columns, has reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art the first part of Neighbours of North Wyke. This, which contains several well-executed designs of buildings, monu- ments, &c., is a sound and thorough piece of archaeological work, the interest of which extends far beyond residents in the district of South Taw- ton, with which principally it deals, and reaches antiquaries generally. The lecture was delivered in Exeter on 31 July last.

FROM the same Transactions Dr. Brushfield, F.S.A., one of the keenest and most assiduous of antiquaries, has reprinted The Financial Diary of a Citizen of Exeter, 1631-1643, a paper read in Exeter on the same occasion. The diary, much of which is in cipher, records private expenses, loans, pur- chases, and is decidedly curious. Much out-of- the-way knowledge will repay the student of these records.

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W. F. BARRETT ("Hope told a flattering tale"). At 3 rd S. xii. 209 the Editor stated that Hope told a flattering tale,

That Joy would soon return,

was taken from a song written by Peter Pindar (i.e., John Wolcot), and introduced into the opera ' Artaxerxes ' by Madame Mara at the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Bartlett's ' Familiar Quota- tions,' 1891, says that this song appeared anony- mously in the ' Universal Songster,' i. 320 ; and that Hope tells a flattering tale,

Delusive, vain, and hollow,

written by Miss Wrother, appeared in vol. ii. p. 86 of the same collection.

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