We wonder what the expression of the countenance of the Bonchurch swan is when Mr. Percy Tunnicliffe Cowley passes by. Songs after Sunset. By Joseph S. Fletcher. (W. Poole.) We have a dim idea that we once saw something of Mr. Fletcher's before, and that we thought there was something in him. In this tiny volume there are but some fifty pages, with perhaps twelve lines on a page. There is something in it still; but it is not yet of more than an embryonic kind. Mr. Fletcher wants keeping, and it would be doing him no kindness to broach his unripe wine. The Western Shore. By J. J. Chillingworth. (Dublin: Gill.) Mr. Chillingworth, in a polite Preface, invites critics to tell him whether it is worth while for him to try again. We shall not take the responsibility of stifling him in his poetic cradle; but he has a good deal to learn. Despite an erudite correspondent of the ACADEMY, it is impossible to accept "world" as the equivalent of two syllables; and the word "despicion is dangerously inusitate. A more lengthened specimen of Mr. Chillingworth's style will show that it requires a little chastening. At present it lacks (to mention nothing else) the trivial, but perhaps indispensable, quality of constru ableness: We defy a jury of inspectors of schools to parse this, though the general meaning is, of course, clear. The Villa by the Sea, &c. By J. Hedderwick, LL.D. Dr. Hedderwick tells us that he has not produced a book of verse for twenty-two years. Without any desire to be flippant, we cannot help saying that another twenty-two might have elapsed before the appearance of this volume without the world su ering any serious loss. "The Villa by the Sea" itself is a poem of a semi-narrative character, which extends to a hundred pages, in this stanza: "Could I paint like an Apelles, Or evolve a poet's skill, I, the unknown Walter Mellis, Might a goodly canvas fill." Now it is very doubtful whether any poet who ever lived could keep up this particularly trying metre for a hundred pages on a single The World Redeemed. By W. T. Matson. (Portsmouth: Annett; London: Elliot Stock.) It is an invariable rule with us never to criticise sacred poetry unless it be either very good or very bad. Mr. Matson may take the benefit of this rule. He has rather endangered himself by adding some miscellaneous efforts to his World Redeemed; but they are not bad enough to deserve the wheel, though they escape that fate only by a hair's breadth. Gleanings from the Blue. (Hertford.) This little book contains selections from the school magazine of Christ's Hospital for the last ten years. Such things lie cutside of the ordinary region of criticism; but, speaking with a fair knowledge of the class, we can say honestly that the schoolfellows of Lamb and Coleridge have no reason to fear comparison of their magazine with others of its kind. THERE is, we are informed, no truth in reports which have recently been published, to the effect that Mr. Emerson contemplates an early visit to this country. WE understand that Messrs. Macmillan and in the coming year, an edition of Select Tales Co. have in the press, and will publish early from Grimm, newly translated by Miss Lucy Crane, and very fully illustrated by Mr. Walter Crane, who has been engaged upon the work for several years. SIR FREDERIC LEIGHTON has become one of the vice-presidents of the Browning Society. THE life of Sir Christopher Wren, just published by Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., seems an occasion to remind our readers that several letters between Bishop Wren (uncle of the architect) and the Primate Laud exist in Lambeth Palace Librarv. In the picture gallery hangs a small full-length portrait of in the Parentalia. It is supposed that Wren deDr. Wren, Dean of Windsor, similar to the print signed the fine roof of the Great Hall (Juxon's); and there are other indications of his skill in that building. A MS. account of the rebuilding of St. Paul's after the Great Fire of London is here preserved, which possesses much archi tectural interest. Ir is generally understood in Scotland that Dr. Lees, the author of Stronbuy, is not the only clergyman of note who has lately appeared as a writer of fiction. One Glasgow clergyman has already published a novel, and it is believed that another will, ere very long, follow in his footsteps. WE hear that among the forthcoming parts of the Anecdota Oxoniensia series will be an essay on The English Manuscripts of the Nicomachean Ethics, described in their Relation to Bekker's Manuscripts and to other Sources, by Mr. J. A. Stewart, of Christ Church; and a Hebrew Commentary of the eleventh century on Ezra and Nehemiah, by Rabbi Saadiah, edited, from three Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, by Mr. H. J. Mathews, of Exeter College. of a really adequate English Life of Handel WE are glad to hear that the long-felt want is about to be filled up by Mr. W. S. Rockstro, whose articles in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians have attracted attention in the musical world. The book will be published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. MR. BROWNING has consented to supply The Century (Scribner's Monthly) with a series of extremely interesting data regarding his development and literary career from childhood to the date of his marriage. These are embodied in an article which will appear in the December number, with two original portraits by Mr. R. Lehmann. WE hear that a rendering in French of the Book of Ecclesiastes, with an elaborate Introduction, may be expected from M. Ernest Renan towards the close of the present year. THE New Shakspere Society's books for this year are being completed, and will be issued in December. For the third part of Mr. Furnivall's edition of "Harrison's Description of England, 1577-87," Mr. W. Niven, the architect, has written a paper on the Houses of Queen Elizabeth's time, with a list of all the architects then known. MR. T. C. JACK, of Edinburgh, will shortly publish vol. i. of the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland-Statistical, Biographical, and Historical. The work, to extend over six volumes, is edited by Mr. F. Hindes Groome, and will comprise geology and mineralogy of Scotland, its agriintroductory articles, by specialists, on the culture, botany, and natural history, its civil and ecclesiastical history, its language and literature, &c. We may add that Mr. Groome, whose name is perhaps best known to our readers in another connexion, as the author of the article " Gipsies" in the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, has been residing for some years in Edinburgh, and that he worked, as sub-editor under Dr. J. M. Ross, upon that excellent popular encyclopaedia The Globe. PROF. A. J. CHURCH'S book for this winter will be published almost immediately by Messrs. Seeley and Co. It is entitled The Story of the Persian War. MESSRS. HURST AND BLACKETT will shortly issue a novel, in three volumes, entitled Time and Chance, by Mrs. Tom Kelly, and The Silver Link, by Mrs. Houstoun, author of Recommended to Mercy, &c., also in three volumes. A NEW work from the pen of Mr. William Andrews, F.R. H.S., hon. secretary of the Hull under the title of The Book of Oddities, uniLiterary Club, will appear at an early date form with his popular Punishments in the Olden Time. It will contain chapters on remarkable characters, singular customs, quaint rhymes, curious epitaphs, odd showers, whimsical wills, &c., &c. MR. F. PITMAN will soon have ready a Christmas annual in shorthand under the title of All in the Downs. It will contain contributions from Horace Weir, Cornelius Walford, William Andrews, W. Davenport Adams, T. B. Trowsdale, John Brent, F.S.A., Harry Blyth, and others, and will be profusely illustrated. Mr. William Goddard is the editor. We understand this is the first annual issued in short hand. THE first edition of Mr. A. G. Murdoch's contribution to poetical and biographical literature, entitled Living and Recent Scottish Poets, is exhausted, and a new and improved edition, illustrated with portraits, &c., is in the press. His story, written for the newspapers under the title of The Bells o' Mauchline, will be reproduced at an early date in a volume. Mr. Murdoch is now writing for the Dundee Weekly News a tale relating to Glasgow life. MESSRS. CHAPMAN AND HALL are now the publishers of the Burlington. To the next number Mr. Horace Weir will contribute a story dealing with a great colliery disaster in Derbyshire. A NEW penny weekly paper is announced to appear on December 15, to be called The Outlook, and Record of the Churches. It will give special attention to the operations of Presbyterian Churches, but will at the same time notice the movements, ecclesiastical, missionary, and philanthropic, in other Christian communities. intending subscribers should address them- THE second and concluding volume has just SIGNOR ENRICO NARDUCCI, librarian of the piling an alphabetical catalogue of all the Italian Government. "ab." WE understand that the Queen has been pleased to accept a copy of the facsimile reprint On the former prices of Shakspere's plays, showing that among the books collected by Sir Kenelm Digby, afterwards possessed by Lord Bristol, and sold in 1680, was a copy of the Second Folio of Shakspere's plays (1632), and that it fetched 148. THE meetings of the Browning Society will be open to the public during this session. They are held at University College on the last Friday of the month, at 8 p.m. There will be no meeting in December. The paper on Friday, November 25, will be by Mr. G. Barnett Smith, on "The Genius and Works of Robert Browning." THE Dante Society of Cambridge, U.S., is now ready to begin printing the hitherto unpublished Commentary on the Divina Commedia by Benvenuto da Imola, of which we have already made mention. A special copy has been made from the MS. in the Laurentian Library at Florence. It is expected to make three octavo volumes of about 500 pages each; and the price to subscribers will be five dollars (£1) per volume. In England, Messrs. Trübner and Co. are authorised to receive subscriptions. THE biography of the late Mr. George Ripley, LL.D., the founder of "Brook Farm (associated with the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne and others), is being written by the Rev. O. B. Frothingham. been published by Messrs. Griffith and Farran. FRENCH JOTTINGS. THE following is the final list of candidates M. HAURÉAU has communicated a paper to M. ALPHONSE DAUDET's new novel, Numa Roumestan, is having an extraordinary success just now, partly because it is supposed to contain a portrait of M. Gambetta. But complaints are being made about the great differences in M. KONYI, the chief of the stenographic price charged for it in various countries. The bureau of the Hungarian Parliament, is collect-original is published in France for three francs ing and editing the speeches of Francis Deák, and a-half (which may be profitably compared with explanatory notes and documents. The with the nominal price of our own threefirst volume has just appeared. It contains volume novels); an Italian translation is 176 speeches, of which 153 were delivered before announced for one franc; while for the German the Diets of 1832-36 and of 1839-40, and the translation eight marks, or ten francs, is asked, rest before the County Assembly of Zala. These with a portrait of the author thrown in. speeches have been hitherto inaccessible to the Hungarian public, buried in parliamentary and municipal proceedings, and in great part preserved only in MS. Hungarians speak in terms of praise of the way in which M. Konyi has done his work of selecting and annotating. As a practical result of the recent American Congress at Madrid, it is proposed to publish, under the title of "Biblioteca de los Ameri canistas," a series of works connected with the M. TAMIZEY DE LARROQUE, who is known as the author of a series of books entitled 'Les Correspondants de Peiresc," has just issued a collection of the French letters hitherto unpublished of Joseph Scaliger. He also promises an edition, with notes, of the Epistres Joseph Juste de la Scala mises en lumière par françoises des personnages illustres et doctes à Jacques de Reves (Harderwyck, 1624). M. E. CHARVERIAT has published, at Lyons, M. A. TUETEY, of the national archives at DR. GEORG EBERS, the well-known author of Uarda, Homo Sum, and An Egyptian Princess, has written a new novel, entitled Die Frau Bürgermeisterin, which will appear at the end favourite materials from Egyptian history, the story being based upon a romantic episode in the history of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. An English translation of the book has already been begun by Miss Julie Sutter, the translator of Björnson's tale, Synnöove Solbakken, which will be published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. THE great dictionary begun by the brothers Grimm is advancing but slowly. M. Heyne and R. Hildebrand, the two regular editors, are engaged respectively upon the letters M and G; while Prof. Lexer, of Wurzburg, to whom has been assigned the letter N, has just brought out a fasciculus of 192 pages, carried as far as Nachtigalstimme." THE first volume has just appeared (Berlin: Weidmann) of the seventh edition in German of Mommsen's History of Rome. HERR FRIEDRICH BODENSTEDT, who has won a considerable reputation as the author of MirzaSchaffy, has sent to the press a new volume of poems, entitled Aus Morgen- und Abenland, which will appear before Christmas. It contains poems treating of Western as well as Eastern subjects, some being suggested also by the New World, which the author visited some time ago. UNDER the title of Handbuch der theologisches Wissenschaften in encyclopädisch-historischer Dar stellung, a new theological encyclopaedia, of an apologetic character, is announced by Herr C. H. Beck, of Nordlingen. It consists of three volumes, of which the first will be published in February of next year. The editor is Prof. Zöckler, of Griefswald; and among the contributors are Profs. Luthardt, Harnack, Cremer, von Zezschwitz, Volck, Grau, Kübel, and Stack. HERR KOHLER, sub-librarian of the University Library at Munich, has edited a reprint (Freiburg-i-B.: Mohr) of the Teutsche Grammatica of Valentin Ickelsamer, which is the earliest German grammar known to exist. This which bears no date, but is generally assigned reprint is from the copy in the Munich Library, to the year 1531. PROF. PAUL HAUPT has just published (Leipzig: Hinrichs) Der keilinschriftliche Sunt fluthbericht, eine Episode des babylonischen Nim rod-epos. This is a popular pamphlet, which the writer proposes to follow up with a text of the flood-tablets, a translation, and notes. ADOLF PERNWERTH, the editor of the Carmina Gurana, is preparing for publication a collection of Latin amatory and drinking songs, ranging in date from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, under the title Ubi sunt qui ante nos Stuber). in mundo fuere (Würzburg: WE learn from the Revue critique that M. Auguste Jundt has published (Strassburg: Schmidt) an interesting work upon the dramas performed in the high school at Strasbourg during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of which Gervinus wrote "das Beste was die Gelehrten mit ihren Schülern in Schauspiele geleistet, ist in Strassburg geschehen." M. Jundt gives the titles of twenty.seven "Schuldramen "" acted between 1538 and 1621, of which eighteen treat of religious and nine of secular subjects. ON December 1 an important collection of drawings, rare books, and other objects of artistic and literary interest will be sold by auction at the Art Institute of Lepke in Berlin. In the catalogue we notice specially many French etchings of the eighteenth century, a series of engravings illustrating the history of Prussia, and a number of English portraits. Among the artists represented are A. Longhi, Desnoyères, Poilly, Cornel Floris, Aldegrever, Bartolozzi, Claude Lorraine, M. Anton Raimondi, Chodoviecki, Edelink, R. Morghen, and Greuze. The books, which are mostly handsomely illustrated and bound in morocco, include Florian's Nouvelles Nouvelles; P. Corneille's Théâtre avec les Commentaires de Voltaire, with thirty-five engravings (1797); Vernon's Campagnes de Louis XV.; and Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente. There are also several block-books of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a Biblia Germanica (Nuremberg, 1483), and the tales of Boccaccio translated by Steinhovel and illustrated (1543). ORIGINAL VERSE. [THE following sonnet, which recently appeared in the New York Tribune, seems to us to be worth reprinting in England, not only on account of its literary merit, but because we believe that it represents accurately a sentiment very general at the present time in the United States. That the death of Gen. Garfield and the sympathy shown by the Queen have drawn the two nations together more closely than any event since the separation is an unquestioned fact, and one over which we may well rejoice, however we deplore the price.] VICTORIA. "O Queen!-Nay more than queen-O woman The brightest jewels in thy diadem them The woman ranks the queen, and doth command Seems nearer now, since o'er the ocean's swell too! Grant length of days, a happy, peaceful reign, OBITUARY. WILLIAM RATHBONE GREG. men. a youngest son of Mr. Samuel Greg of Man- gentleman earning the bread of exile as W. P. COURTNEY. GIOVANNI RUFFINI. ON the 3rd inst., at Taggia, near San Remo, one. An Italian writing in English, treating of Italian themes for an English public, and with the avowed purpose of enlisting English sympathy in the cause of Italian freedom, he shared the fate of all who write for a purpose, THE ranks of those who took part in the social and his quickly earned fame passed away with and political struggles of the past generation the transition period that had given it birth. are being rapidly thinned. It was but a week His first book, Lorenzo Benoni, mainly founded ago that another volume of Miscellaneous Essays on events of his own youth, owed much of its from the pen of Mr. W. R. Greg was published popularity to the moment of its appearance, by Messrs. Trubner; and, before a busy world for, published in 1853, it caught at its height has found time to study their contents, it the tide of English enthusiasm for the Italian is called upon to mourn over the loss of cause. A graphic picture of Italian life, their author. Mr. Greg was the fifth and penned in idiomatic English by a high-minded Ruffini's literary activity waned before he caused his death. was attacked by the lingering disease that A Nook in the Jura and ? LINDA VILLARI. WE regret to record the death of the Rev. Buchanan, after a lingering and painful ill- MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS. WE have before us the first number of the Cape Quarterly Review (Cape Town: J. C. Juta), which has incorporated our old acquaintance, the Cape Monthly. The articles which naturally interest us most are those which smack of the soil. The "Chronicles of Cape Commanders" are continued, the period here covered being from 1679 to 1691. An article upon Thomas Pringle, suggested by the recent publication of his collected poems by Messrs. Longmans, contains several new and interesting details about his life. Mr. Geo. M. Theal contributes some Kaffir proverbs and figurative expressions, with explanatory notes, from which we gather that Europeans (? the English) are known as "the people who protect with one hand and kill with the other." But in the opinion of many, the most important article will be the " Journal of the Trek-Boers," compiled by a trader partly from their own reports and partly from his personal observation. This is, we believe, the first authentic account that has appeared of that expedition of Dutch farmers who left the Transvaal in search of "pastures new " in 1874, and who, after extreme suffering and much loss of life and property, are now settled at Huilla under Portuguese protection. In September 1880, the party consisted of fifty-seven families, numbering 270 souls, with fifty servants who had accompanied them from the Transvaal, and sixty-one waggons drawn by 840 oxen; they had also 120 horses, 2,160 head of cattle, and 3,000 sheep and goats. The article is accompanied by a rough sketch-map and some interesting original documents. THE Revue historique for November has an article by M. Sorel on "The Neutrality of North Germany in 1795," which is a careful study of the diplomatic history of that eventful year. The paper by M. Renan on "The First Martyrs of Gaul" is a chapter from his forthcoming book, Marc-Aurèle," which forms the sixth volume of Les Origines du Christianisme. This account of the martyrs of Lyons in 177 is written with M. Renan's accustomed picturesqueness and learning. THE Archivio Storico italiano publishes a diary of Felice Braneacci, who was a Florentine ambassador at Cairo in 1422, sent to obtain commercial privileges for Florence from the Sultan of Egypt; the diary contains much curious information, especially as regards the presents given to the Sultan and the expenses of the embassy. Signor Cesare Guasti returns to the question of the authenticity of the chronicle of Dino Compagni in an examination of M. Hartwig's article on that question in the last number of the Revue historique. It is impossible not to feel that the historical writers of Italy deserve more attention about this matter than French and German critics are prepared to give them. Signor Pasolini has presented to the subscribers to the Archivio a collection of documents regarding the ancient relations between Venice and Ravenna, which form a supplement to his articles on this subject which appeared in 1870-74. is indeed a remarkable testimony to the capacity of literature to adapt itself to the progress of civilisation; but we doubt whether any nation, except the German, would confide their sentiments to that particular means of transport. Herr Brunn contributes an article of some value to art criticism on "The Sons in the Laocoon Group," in which he carries out the analogy between dramatic and plastic representation, and argues that the unwounded son plays the part of chorus in the group. Herr von Pettenkofer makes a contribution to sanitary science on "Soil in its Relation to Health,' and Herr Karl Hillebrand writes a pleasant article after his wont on "Antonio Panizzi." A philosophic article by Dr. Erdmann, on "The Idea of Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft," enforces the view that Kant's Kritik was nothing else than the carrying out of Hume's problem in its furthest possible extent. A little article on << Culturpiede" gives an interesting summary of the Catholic point of view upon the question of Church and State in Germany at present. CHAUCERS" PARLIAMENT OF FOWLS." THE obligations of Chaucer in his Parliament of Fowls to Cicero, Ovid, and Boccaccio have been sufficiently noticed. But scarcely so his obligations to Alanus de Insulis, though he mentions him by name, and, instead of describing "the noble goddess Nature" himself, refers the reader to Alanus' description of her: "And right as Aleyn in the Pleynt of Kynde In swich aray men myghte hire there yfynde." Yet it is well worth noticing that it is from the work here named-the De Conquestu vel Planctu Naturae (a work modelled in some respects on that favourite mediaeval writing, derived the somewhat fantastic title given to Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae)-Chaucer his poem, as well as some ideas. Alanus describes at great length the form and him. On her robe, he says-a robe of tissue costume of Nature as she appears approaching 80 "subtilized" and fine "ut ejus aerisque eandem crederes esse naturam"-" prout oculis pictura imaginabatur, animalium celebratur concilium"-i.e., "There is held a Parliament of Animals." Here, clearly, is the suggestion of the name of Chaucer's poem, and of something more. "Concilium,' says Maigne d'Arnis' Ducange, is used for "Parliamentum apud Anglicos Scriptores." Parliament of Fowls or the Parliament of Birds. Of course the term Parliament may be used here in its old general sense of a conferencea "colloquium," expressed in mediaeval Latin by Parliamentum as well as by concilium and consilium. But likely enough Chaucer may have had in his mind as he went on with his story the then comparatively new idea of Parlia ment as a representative assembly. This thought may have suggested to him the appointment of delegates to offer their opinion and advice on the delicate question to whom the formel's hand is to be given; and so we have four M.P.'s or spokes-birds to represent respectively the fowl of ravin or birds of prey, the water-fowl, the worm-fowl, and the seed-fowl. Though Alan speaks of a "Concilium Animalium," what he goes on to describe is a Concilium Avium, a Bird Parliament. It is interesting to compare his list with Chaucer's. On the whole, there is more difference than likeness; but Chaucer has probably taken one or two hints from the earlier writer. At all events, Chaucer may be illustrated from him. Chaucer speaks of "the Coward Kite." Alan's words are curious, and need comment: "Illic milvus, venatoris induens personam, venatione furtiva larvam gerebat ancipitris." And compare the following pairs of quotations: "There was the tiraunt with his federys dunne And greye, I mene the goshauk that doth pyne To bryddis for his outrageous rauyne." "Illic ancipiter, civitatis praefectus aeriae, violenta tyrannide a subditis redditus exposcebat." "The jelous swan agens hire deth that syngith." "Illic olor, sui funeris praeco, citherizationis organo vitae prophetabat apocopam." "The oule ek that of deth the bode bringeth." "Illic bubo, propheta miseriae, psalmodisa funereae lamentationis praecinebat." "The crane, the geaunt, with his trompis soun." "Grus... giganteae quantitatis evadebat ex cessum. "The thef the choughe." "Illic monedula, latrocinio laudabili reculas thesaurizans, innatae avaritiae argumenta monstrabat.” "The jangling pye." "Illic pica, dubio picturata colore, curam logices perennabat insomnem." "The kok that orloge is of thorpis lyte." "Illic gallus, tanquam vulgaris astrologus, sue vocis horologio horarum loquebatur discrimina." "The wedded turtil with hire herte trewe." "Illic turtur, suo viduata consorte, amorem epi logare dedignans, in altero bigamiae refutabat "The pokok with his aungelis federys bryghte." "Illic in pavone tantum pulcritudinis complait Natura thesaurum ut eam postea crederes mendi This poem is variously styled The Parliament of Fowls, The Parliament of Birds, The Assem-solatia." bly of Fowls, and The Assembly of Birds. In the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women it is styled the "Parliament of Foules; in the Preces de Chauceres, at the end of the Parson's Tale, it is spoken of as "the book of Seint Valentines day & of the Parliment of briddes." Lydgate writes: "Of fowles also he wrote the Parlyment, casse." The raven wys." "Illic corvus, zelotypiae abhorrens dedecus, suos foetus non sua esse pignora fatebatur, usque dum comperto nigri argumento coloris, hoc quasi secum disputans comprobat." [This is an excellent illus tration of Chaucer's epithet, though the proof that contents the observant and reflecting bird would scarcely satisfy a judicial mind, unless ravens are communistic in respect of their mates.] Therein remembrynge of ryall Egles three Howe in their choyse they felt adversite; To fore Nature profered the batayle Eche for his partye, if he wolde avayle." Spenser, in a stanza we will venture to quote, for everybody will like to be reminded of it, "Illic cornix ventura prognosticans, nugatorio speaks of the "Foules Parley":"So hard it is for any living wight : All her array & vestiments to tell That old Dan Geffrey (in whose gentle spright The pure well head of Poesie did dwell) In his Foules parley durst not with it mell, THE Deutsche Rundschau for November has two interesting stories, one remarkable for its subject, the other for its method. The first, "Das Brigittchen von Trogen," by Herr Meyer, is a story put into the mouth of Poggio, who narrates his experience of a nunnery which he visited in search of MSS. during the sitting of the Council of Constance. The other story, by Fräulein von Ebner-Eschenbach, "Die Poesie des Unbewussten," has for its subject the discovery of a husband's merits by a newly married wife; it is told in the form of postcards passing between the husband and wife and their relatives. A novel in postcards In the MSS. it is commonly called either the But it transferd to Alane who he thought Had in his Plaint of kinde describ'd it well; Which who will read set forth so as it ought, Go seek he out that Alane where he may be sought." "The crow with voice of care." concitabatur garritu." A careful comparison of these two catalogues raisonnés the lists are by no means identical any more than the descriptions-certainly casts light on Chaucer's genius. One can scarcely doubt that his taste appreciated duely the affected and far-fetched style of the older writer. And certainly one may see how he was not content to behold Nature merely through the spectacles of books, but loved to gaze on her face to face. Dear as his old books Nov. 19, 1881.-No. 498.] were to him-"totorn" with faithful use (see Préface par Ch. Gounod. Bentley. 21s. GONCOURT, E. et J. de. L'Art du XVIIIe Siècle. 1re Série. Texte revu Trans. B. 8. English Sonnets by Poets of the Past. Bell. 4s. 6d. 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Hrsg. v. W. Foerster. 8 M. THE ACADEMY. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Geryonopsiden- u. detail, with this result:-"Scarcely a conclusion Marpon et Flammarion. 10 fr. Echinides irréguliers. Livr. 47. Paris: G. Masson. 6 fr. 10 M. Wien: Hölder. 16 M. 175 fr. insulare, Sardegna e Sicilia. Torino: Loescher. 15 fr. An Elementary Treatise on Copenhagen: Hagerup. 118. THE FORTHCOMING LIFE OF CARD. NE WMAN. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW (oftener, perhaps, than he is aware) that he does As to Ilios, the estimate expressed in the p. 533). Mr. Sayce would have been wise to As to Greek philology, Mr. D. B. Monro has 3 St. George's Square, N.W.: Oct. 27, 1881. A friend has just told me of an earlier-I suppose the earliest-English authority for the Pied Piper. It is Richard Verstegan, in his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605). On pp. 85-87 he tells how the Emperor Charles the Great had " great & trooblesome warres with the Saxons," and transported a great number of them into Transylvania, where they kept their Saxon language, and were "vnto this day called by the name of Sassons." "And now... beeing by reason of speaking of these Saxons of Transiluania, put in mynd of a most true & maruelous strange accedent that hapned in Saxonia not many ages past, I cannot omit, for the strangenes thereof, briefly heer by the way to set it down. town of Hamel in the countrey of Brunswyc an od kynd of compagnion, who for the fantastical cote which hee wore, beeing wrought with sundry colours, was called the pyed pyper; for a pyper hee was, besydes his other qualities. This The pyed fellow forsooth offred the townsmen Pyper. for a certain somme of mony to rid the town with that vermin tyme the burgers The accord in fyne beeing of all the rattes that were in it (for at that greatly annoyed). made; the pyed pyper with a shril pype went pyping through the streets, and forthwith the rattes came all running out of the howses in great numbers after him; all which hee led vnto the riuer of Weaser, and therein drowned them. donne, and no one more rat perceaued to bee left in the town; he afterward came to demaund his reward according to his bargain, but beeing told that the bargain was not made with him in good earnest, to wit, with an opinion that euer hee could accorded vato, when they imagyned it could neuer be able to do such a feat: they cared not what they bee deserued, and soo neuer to be demaunded: but neuerthelesse seeing hee had donne such an vnlykely thing in deed, they were content to giue him a good reward; & so offred him far lesse then hee look for: but hee therewith discontented, said he would haue his ful recompence [p. 86] according to hi bargain; but they vtterly denying to giue hee threatened them with reuenge; they bad him d his wurst, wherevpon he betakes him again to hi pype, & going through the streets as before, wa followed of a number of boyes out at one of th gates of the citie; and coming to a litle hil, the one hundreth transporting beeing a number opened in the side thereof a wyde hole, into t Wounderfull which himself and all the childre away of 130 thirty, did enter; and beeing entre the hil closed vp again, and became children, This him |