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 REVIEWS. 1 1 1 different class of vehicles on the road : private carriages, commencing as rare novelties, middle of the sixteenth century; long waggons, after 1564; coaches in towns, from 1580 onwards; hackney coaches, from the beginning of the seventeenth century ; stage coaches, from its middle. There are certainly, however, pi<5lures of covered car- riages or horse-litters in mediasval manuscripts, and did not Lancelot once journey in a cart ? A. W. P. Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia. Corrected and 'Edited by G. C. Moore Smith^ Prof, of Eng. Lang, and Lit. in the Univ. of Sheffield. Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. 1913. This book is a selection of the most important of Gabriel Harvey's marginal notes, and they do in truth, as Prof. Moore Smith claims, ' throw a flood of light on the books he read, and on the thoughts he cherished in secret/ On the whole they reveal Harvey as more wide- minded and less of a pedant than he is usually represented, and we can only regret that his was not a more attractive or admirable character, for these unconsciously intimate self-revelations make us realise how much we would give for similar jottings from the pens of some of his great con- temporaries. From a literary point of view, the notes on Spenser's and Sidney's verse in Harvey's copy of Gascoyne's ' Notes of Instruction ' are of interest, especially Harvey's commendation of the final Alexandrine as c a grace ' in the stanza of the ' Faerie Queene.'