tremendous knowledge of the classics of all languages, which enables them to quote in the most apposite but least probable manner on all occasions. Her grand passages ("as though, during the hours when darkness lay upon the earth, the dread daughter of chaos, as she traversed the expanse of the firmament in her ebony chariot, had dropped heaven's diamonds on the land") are equally gratuitous and grotesque. She is sometimes vulgar and very often silly, as in a ridiculous passage in which the component parts of a tea service are spoken of in Dickens' worst manner, and in her account of an impossibly aesthetic Lady Lilias. But these faults are not always present. Mrs. Geoffrey is not all grand language, or all clumsy and second-hand satire, or all nonsense about teapots "lifting up their haughty noses." The characters sometimes forget to ask us, "What does Felltham say?" or "What does Richter call it ?" Then we have a lively story with a very pleasant central portrait of a wild Irish girl of the best type. The tragic personage of the book, Paul Rodney, is not quite a success, but even he gives the opportunity for some fair pathos; and the comic man is sometimes amusing. Miss Hardy has not previously written so good a book as Love, Honour, and Obey, and it is only a pity that it is not better. It bas, however, some grave faults of incident, construction, and character. A woman might first defy and then leave her husband in the way in which Zeb Wolfe is represented as leaving hers; a husband might poison his wife out of pure love because he felt that a possible revelation of her unconscious bigamy would be very painful to her; and, in the high-wrought incidents of the last few chapters, there is nothing absolutely impossible or even improbable. But fictitious possibility and probability are not absolute, but relative. What the reader wants to be made to feel is not that the things could be done, but that the doers would be likely to do them. In other words, Miss Hardy has not quite mastered the great secret of character. Some of her personages, especially Zeb, are fairly well imagined, but hardly any of them is well carried out. The principal figure, especially, Silas Warwick Wolfe, is insufficient and sketchy. Many of the minor figures, too, are stiff and unlifelike. Still, the book has a good deal of interest, and even a certain power. Mr. Richard Dowling has collected in three volumes one story of some length and a considerable number of very short tales. "The Husband's Secret" displays its author's power of managing sea-coast scenery and depicting unusual and rather terrible events in a properly grewsome and exciting manner. The smuggler's cave, with its "bell" of rock hanging from the roof, and the secrets which that bell hides, is very well described. The crime on which the story turns is somewhat obscurely indicated; and the conduct of a considerable number of the personages is not managed with that regard to probability which is desirable. But the story is a fair specimen of Mr. Dowling's peculiar vein. Some of the shorter tales are good, notably "The Respectable Seafaring Man," an "arabesque," as Poe might have called it, upon their lives to French residents in Algiers. The author naturally paid some attention to "were I innocent of a crime, with a good deal of A Parson's Story is a rather odd book, Darcy and Friends is a representation of CURRENT LITERATURE. came back The New Playground; or, Wanderings in as Fair Athens, by E. M. Edmonds, may be described sant subject. a pleasant book on a pleaIts deficiencies, indeed, are numerous, and appear on the surface. There are bad mistakes of names, such as the 66 Byma' " of the Pnyx, and "Tachiarchus " for Taxiarchus, the name of St. Michael; and it is hard on the chief statesman and chief historian of Greece that they should be called Koumondenros and Paparriogo-poulos; to which we must add occasional wrong expressions, like women held in a subjective state," and misspellings both in the English and the Greek which are not always due to the printer. If the authoress had given a direct intimation of her sex, instead of leaving it to be inferred from her narrative, these errors would be more readily overlooked by the reader; but, after all, they do not much interfere with the real merit of her book. This consists in the careful account she has given of the life of the modern Greek people, which is the result of an obser vant and appreciative study. Of the numerous foreigners who visit Athens, there will not be found many who take up their abode, as she did, in a middle-class family, and carefully notice and put on record their ideas and habits with the object, not of satirising them or amus ing the reader, but of faithfully and truthfully representing them. In the same way, when thrown among other classes, higher or lower, in the neighbouring towns and villages, she whether in the streets and shops of Athens or depicts the life she saw with much vividness and graphic detail. In describing the career of her host, she sketches the history, so common in Athens, of a penniless youth who comes from the provinces to the university and maintains himself by working as a domestic servant during his period of residence-a practice which combines with other causes to make the University of Athens one of the largest in Europe. In the present instance, the young student saved enough to enable him to remain three years at Leipzig, after which he returned to Athens as professor; and a pleasant account is given of his relation in that character to his The book, however, contains a great deal of pupils, who frequent his house and deposit matter likely to interest readers who entertain their savings with him. The more progressive no intention whatever of spending a winter at side of religion in Greece is touched on in conAlgiers. Mr. Knox has personally visited the nexion with a sermon by the most famous principal points of interest in the three provinces preacher in Athens, Dionysius Latas; and, of Algeria, and is careful to tell us that nothing similarly, one after another of the various of what he has written anent the suitability of phases of the life of the people is illustrated Algiers as a residence for invalids is to be applied not without some kindly touches of humour. to ordinary tourists, who, in return for a submis- Descriptions of buildings, and of scenes in the sion to a very small amount of discomfort, will neighbourhood, are pleasantly introduced, but have glorious scenes opened before them.' His are made subservient to the main object of the remarks on French administration and the pros- book. The writer regrets the absence of active pects of the colony are shrewd and to the point. games in Greece, and especially of cricket. This sentiment had been already expressed by "As long as they are left in peace, the hold of a greater authority, Lord Strangford, who the French on the country is firm enough; but I would not answer for results in case of conflict with lamented that, with the departure of the any European Power. The natives, thoroughly English from Corfu, that game, which was the crushed and beaten, will not stir by themselves; delight of the Greek street boys there, would but, if they found serious European backers, I die out, and leave no trace behind but "the should be sorry to deliver policies of insurance | barbaric shouts of Ρλαῖ, ̓́Αουτ, and Λέγκ μπεφών er for the puzzlement of future generations advertisements in the second column of the of German philologists.' Memoir of Lieutenant John Irving, R. N. Edited by Benjamin Bell, F.B.C.S.E. (Edinburgh: Douglas.) Lieut. John Irving was an officer on board H.M.S. Terror in Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic regions; and what are believed to have been his remains were discovered by Lieut. Schwatka during his recent adventurous journey, of which we gave some account last year. These remains were sent to this country and buried at Edinburgh. Whether this is a sufficient reason for publishing A memorial sketch, with letters, is a question which family friends and the public at large will probably look at in very different lights. In our opinion, however, when such books are printed, it should be for a purely private circulation, as they cannot be considered to The crowning possess any general interest. absurdity of this little volume consists in the reproduction, at the fend, of the service testimonials which Lieut. Irving received more than fre-and-thirty years ago, and which are such as any well-conducted young officer should possess. The book contains a copy of the well-known record discovered by Sir Leopold MClintock, which was given as an illustration to his narrative of his search expedition in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society for 1861. Pugilistica. Vol. II. By Henry Downes Miles, (Weldon and Co.) The second of Mr. Miles' portly and well-filled volumes brings the history of the Ring down to 1835, leaving for the third only the decline and fall of the institution. Much of the time included in this volume was a palmy time enough for it, but the seeds of decay are but too apparent. Those seeds (it is as well to say it once more, because the Ring is now almost a thing of the past) were contained not so much in the brutality which has been charged against it-for this brutality was rather less than that of long-distance pedestrianism, with which no one interferes. It was in the fatal facility offered by the sport to "crosses" and swindling of all Kinds that the root of its destruction lurked. Not a few instances of this are here recorded. Not a few lives, too, are recorded also of men who never fought otherwise than honestly and fairly, and who were wise enough and outspoken enough to warn their comrades of the shortsightedness, as well as the disgrace, of doing otherwise. Such a life was that of Tom Spring. Besides Spring, other heroes are commemorated, such as Hickman (the slashing and arrogant gasman), Oliver the Unfortunate, Jem Ward (who still lives, or very lately lived), Jusa Hudson, Ned Baldwin, Alec Reid, and many more, especially Dick Curtis, the "Pet," best of all light-weights. A Dictionary of English Phrases. By K. C. Kong. (Sampson Low.) This is a curious book, the author of which, to judge by his trait, must be one of the pleasantest-looking athen Chinees that the Flowery Land ever Fduced. Mr. Kwong was sent to America on educational commission, and his phrase-book tended primarily for the use of his comparts. But it is remarkably accurate, and serves the praise which, we are told, both American and English scholars have passed on It is a proof of the thoroughness of Mr. Kong's study of English that, though the bak was evidently written in America, and the Phrases explained are often strongly Americaned, the explanations are, to the best of our servation, always in good classical English. The Agony Column-1800-1870. Edited by Alice Clay. (Chatto and Windus.) Miss Alice ay has provided a very acceptable book for e reading by reprinting selections from the Times. She has thus not merely supplied the industrious with a kind of exercise book in the art of deciphering cryptography, but also the lazy with much curious provender more easily discussed. Pith. By Newton Crosland. (Trübner.) Pith ought to be called Froth, if the titles of books are in any way to correspond to their contents. The author is a spiritualist, and argues in the usual fashion of spiritualist logic book which are not spiritualist are rather more for his favourite folly. Those parts of the foolish than those which are, or perhaps appear to be so because they are less amusing. When Mr. Crosland promises Dr. Carpenter to give him "stern usage" and "hurl him to the ground," and proceeds to execute his promise by plaintively complaining that Dr. Carpenter, "with his usual want of consideration, makes no allowance for the anxiety of the medium," one can at least laugh. Mr. Crosland attempting to be severe on Sir Isaac Newton is only stupid. However, he becomes amusing once more when he tells us his candid opinion of England, which seems to agree with that of the Irish World. Edgar Allan Poe. By E. C. Stedman. (Trübner.) This republication of Mr. Stedman's essay on Poe is, like another publication of the same publishers, very closely imitated in form from a certain book lately put forth in England, and is a pretty little volume. The essay fully deserved enshrinement in this dainty niche. Many reviewers have written and most students have read about Poe, and we do not know that the last word has yet been said. Nor are we prepared to say that Mr. Stedman seems to us invariably happy in the details of his crticism. But his essay on the whole is a very sober, thorough, and adequate piece of literary censure. It is all the more creditable to its author that the literary school to which he himself belongs has always depreciated Poe, and has apparently been only the more set against him from the fact that English critics praised him. No single book yet written is so satisfactory as this little sketch. Industrial Curiosities. By A. H. Japp, LL.D. (Marshall, Japp and Co.) The idea of this book seems to be taken from Beckmann's wellknown History of Inventions, though, of course, in such a matter there is no imitation likely or possible. In the vast field upon which he has entered, Dr. Japp could only glean a tuft of herbage here and there. Leather, Wool, Beds, Indiarubber, Perfumes, Photographs, the PostOffice-this half-dozen out of his score of headings will give as good a notion as anything else of the contents of his volume. Such a book, if well written, cannot fail to be interesting, and Dr. Japp has done his part very well. Unlike a good many books of the kind, it is well illustrated. Altogether, though the appearance of it is modest enough, it would make an excellent prize or present-book, especially for boys with a turn for miscellaneous information. Anyone, however, whose notion of a book is not limited to novels ought to be able to read it with pleasure, and can hardly do so without profit. The Treasury of Modern Anecdote. Edited by W. Davenport Adams. (Simpkin, Marshall and Co.) A book of this sort cannot be reviewed, but only recommended to anybody in want of such a thing. Mr. Davenport Adams has wisely cut himself down to a very short Preface, and has left his anecdotes to speak for themselves. He claims for them-and we think justly-that they are really modern instances collected from tolerably recent books. The book should certainly be added to Mr. Sala's journalist's library, and ought to fill up ten minutes that madame is always late for dinner" pleasantly enough. "the ORIGINAL VERSE. SONNET. DID Love deceive thee, dearest, when he brought One so unworthy as this friend of thine To thy heart's temple-yea, its inmost shrineAnd, through the veil of purple twin'd and wrought, Bade her come in, fearing and doubting not, And see the lamp's white flame that burns alway, And bade her care and trim it night and day? Oh, dreadful honour that she had not sought! Oh. torment of the doubt and the surmise!My hand lacks skill and cunning, and my eyes How can I keep the sacred flame alight? Are dim because they have not wept aright, And my feet fail as his who walks by night; But Love has led me hither, and Love is wise. E. H. HICKEY. NOTES AND NEWS. Ir is stated that Dean Stanley has left among his literary remains a diary which may possibly admit of publication. LAST year, Dr. A. Burnell, the first Oriental scholar in Southern India, was compelled by ill-health to leave that country. On his way home, he spent several months in Italy, and his residence there did him so much good that he intends to return to San Remo in October. But, though it is hardly possible that he will ever be able to go back to India, he has by no means abandoned his interest in Indian matters. In addition to an exhaustive bibliography of books relating to the Portuguese in India, he is now engaged in printing a document of the greatest importance connected with the same subject, which he copied in the Marciana at Venice last May. This is the Italian (and only existing) copy of a letter from King Manuel in 1505 to Ferdinand, which gives an account of what the Portuguese did in India during the first five years after the landing of Vasco da Gama at Calicut. WE are glad to hear that the honour of knighthood has been offered to Mr. James Allanson Picton, author of the Memorials of Liverpool, and founder and director of the Liverpool Free Library and Museum. WE understand that the first part of the second volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies is just about to appear. The most important paper in it is an account by Dr. Schliemann of his excavation of the Treasury at Orchomenus an account illustrated by plans, and by engravings of the very beautiful pattern of the roof of the thalamos in the Treasury. Other papers contained in the part are by Mr. Newton, on a statuette of Athene; by Mr. Murray, on a bust of Perseus; by Prof. Jebb, on Homeric and Hellenic Ilium; by Canon Greenwell, on votive arms and armour; by Prof. Gardner, on boat-races among the Greeks; &c. There are also continuations of two important papers begun in the first volume-Mr. Verrall's on Ionic elements in Attic tragedy, and Mr. Roberts' on inscriptions from Dodona. Five plates accompany the part. THE Early-English Text Society will give autotypes of the MSS. of the Catholicon-Lord Monson's, A.D. 1483, the basis of the text, and Addit. 15,562 in the British Museum, incomplete, but about 1450 A.D.-in their copies of this valuable early Dictionary, edited by Mr. Herrtage. MESSRS. RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON have in the press the following additions to their series of "Favourite Novels":-The Mystery in Palace Gardens, by Mrs. J. H. Riddell; No Surrender, by E. Werner; No Relations, by Hector Malot. FROM Mr. Furnivall's Bibliography of Robert Browning, which is nearly ready for the press for the Browning Society, it appears that the poet has written 163 poems of from 21,116 lines to 4 lines in length, besides his prose essay on Shelley: the Poet Objective and Subjective, &c., in 1852. It is pretty well known that Mr. Browning, in 1871, departed from his general rule, of not publishing any of his pieces in periodicals, connexion we may mention that the next two FROM the Report of the Royal Minister of numbers of the American Library Journal will Education it appears that the number of be devoted to a bibliography of the pre-Colum- doctors' degrees conferred by the Prussian unibian discovery of America, by Mr. P. B. Watson.versities during the year ending Michaelmas It appears that the Reports for 1880 of all the nine were honorary degrees. The number of 1880 was no less than 566, of which twenty. for the sake of getting £100 for the fund for public libraries in America, without a single students in the summer term 1880 was 10,371, feeding Paris after the siege. But only close exception, show a falling-off in the issue of and of hearers 1,839; total, 12,210, thus disby the theory that business was so brisk during books. The Nation explains this strange fact the past year that people had no time to read; his rule in 1844 and 1845, when, in order to students of him know of his earlier breakings of help poor Hood in the distressing illness which 3,365; Breslau, 1,255; Halle, 1,129, Bonn, tributed among eleven universities :-Berlin, 1,099; Göttingen, 985; Königsberg, 768; ended in his death, Mr. Browning let him have, and, in addition, they were diverted from litera- Griefswald, 591; Marburg, 587; Kiel, 301; 66 for Hood's Magazine of July 1844, GardenFancies (1) The Flower's Name,' (2) Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis;" for the August number of the same year, "The Boy and the Angel in its first state; for the number of March 1845, "The Tomb at St. Praxed's ;" and for April 1845 (Hood died on May 3), the first part of "The Flight of the Duchess." A yet earlier instance of Mr. Browning's help to a friend was his contribution of " Porphyria" and "Johannes Agricola" to the Monthly Reporter for January 1836, of W. J. Fox, who, in 1833, had so warmly welcomed the appearance of Mr. Browning's first published poem, "Pauline". ... "The work before us . . . has truth and life in it, gave us the thrill, and laid hold of us with the power, the sensation of which has never yet failed us as a test of genius. Whoever the anonymous author may be, he is a poet.... We felt certain of Tennyson. we are not less certain of the author of Pauline.... The whole composition is of the spirit, spiritual. The scenery is in the chambers of thought; the agencies are powers and passions; the events are transitions from one state of spiritual existence to another. And yet the composition is not dreamy ; there is onfit a deep stamp of reality." ON August 25, Messrs. Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co. will issue the first monthly part of a new serial, entitled The Peoples of the World, edited by Dr. Robert Brown, and profusely illustrated. This work is a new edition of the well-known Races of Mankind; but so entirely re-cast and enlarged that it cannot justly continue to bear the old title. The same publishers have in preparation, also as a monthly serial, Gleanings from Popular Authors in Prose and Verse, embracing a choice selection of characteristic passages of English literature, with original illustrations by the best artists. THE Mednyansky prize at the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, annually offered for the best essay on "The System and Principles of Education best adapted to secure the Fulfilment of Religious Duty in our Conduct to our Parents and Neighbours," has been awarded to Mr. Clement K. Shorter, of the Exchequer and Audit Office, Somerset House. It is an interesting fact that for three successive years this prize has been taken by disciples of Mr. Herbert Spencer. MESSES. G. H. JENNINGS AND W. S. JOHNSTONE, authors of A Book of Parliamentary Anecdote, which was noticed in the ACADEMY of April 2, have ready a new work called Half Hours with Greek and Latin Authors, from various English translations, with biographical notices. It will be published by Mr. Horace Cox. Ar the meeting of the Index Society on Monday last, complaint was made that there was more work waiting to be printed than money with which to print it. The Americans, somehow, do not seem to be deterred by this difficulty. We have just received, as No. 10 of the "Harvard Bibliographical Contributions," Halliwelliana: a Bibliography of the Publications of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, by Mr. Justin Winsor. The total number of publications by a single writer here catalogued amount to no less than 328, spread over the last fortythree years. They are mainly, but by no means exclusively, concerned with Shakspere. In this ture by the political excitement of the Presidential election. It is inconceivable that the American public are ceasing to be the great book-readers they have been. the students were thus inscribed according to Minster, 271; Braunsberg, 20. The names of faculties:-Philosophy, 4,882; law, 2,287; medicine, 1,845; theology, 1,115 Lutheran and 242 Catholic. The total number of teachers was 948, being 466 ordinary, 9 honorary, and 215 extraordinary professors, 259 privat docenten, 13 lecturers, and 35 masters in stenography, music, drawing, &c. PREPARATIONS have already been commenced for the production at Baireuth next year of Wagner's new opera, Parsival. Rettung and Schwab, of Frankfort, have received orders for the costumes; and Brandt, of Darmstadt, is coninstructing the elaborate apparatus required for AMONG the new pensions charged upon the Civil List for the year ending June 20, 1881, are the following:-Mrs. Pauline Mary Hawker, £80, in recognition of the position of her late husband, the Rev. Mr. Hawker, as a poet; Mrs. Sophia Lucy Jane Clifford, £80, in recognition of the eminent mathematical attainments of her late husband, Prof. Clifford; Mdme. Fanny Keats de Llanos, £80, in consideration of the eminence of her brother, John Keats, as a poet; Mary Lady Duffus Hardy, £55, in addition to the pension of £100 a-year granted in 1879, recognition of the historical, literary, and public services of her late husband, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy; Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace, £200, in recognition of his eminence as a naturalist; Dr. Leonard Schmitz, £50, in recognition of his services to classical education and literature. THE highest of German orders, that pour le mérite vacant by the death of Thomas Carlyle, has been bestowed by the Emperor upon Prof. services rendered by him to the study of W. D. Whitney, of Yale, in recognition of the philology. WE learn from the Scotsman that the late Mr. W. F. Watson has bequeathed his valuable collection of prints, paintings, MSS., and books, under certain conditions, to the National Gallery of Scotland. MESSRS. JANSEN, MCCLURG AND Co., of Chicago, are about to publish a book, by E. B. Washburne, entitled Governor Edward Coles and the Slavery Struggle of 1823-4, which will form an important contribution to the history of free soil in the Northern States of the Union. Two IN the course of a re-arrangement of the Municipal Library at Mayence which is now being effected, some MSS. and books of extraordinary rarity have come to light. printed books from the press of Gutenberg have been discovered, of which the existence in the library had never before been suspected. These are a copy of the Tractatus rationis et conscientiae (1459), of which another copy exists in Paris; and a print of the Bull of Pius II. addressed to the Chapter of Mayence, and dated 1461. This latter, so far as can be ascertained, is absolutely unique. Ir is probable that even few Frenchmen are aware of the deep interest which the authors of the Revolution took in the question of popular the scenery. AMONG the MSS. added to the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1880 is a collection of letters of Alfred de Musset, enclosed in a sealed chest, which is not to be opened before the year 1910. WE learn from Polybiblion that the Propaganda Press bas just printed a collection of Latin hymns composed by Pope Leo XIII. in honour of two bishops and martyrs. opened on August 9, 1871, after the destrucTHE present Strassburg Library, which was tion of its predecessor by fire, now possesses half-a-million volumes. WE learn from Le Livre that a St.-Quentin publisher, M. Adrien Langlet, has long been engaged on a Dictionnaire- Manuel des Libraires et Amateurs de Livres (1445-1881), which he is now revising, and which will ultimately require at least twenty-five volumes. All the bibliographical works which have hitherto appeared have been laid under contribution. The author will furnish biographical notes, and a list of the principal MSS. in the Parisian and provincial libraries. M. ALBERT SAVINE has started at Aix a journal for the publication of rare or inedited documents relating to Provençal history and literature. It will bear the title of Grande Bibliothèque provençale, and the first volume will contain "Le Sabre," an unpublished account of the troubles caused by the establishment of the "Parlement Sémestre" in 1648. M. L. MOREL, Professor of English at the Lycée Charlemagne, Paris, is preparing an edition of Shakspere and Fletcher's Henry VIII. on the lines of Mr. Spedding and the New Shakspere Society. On the two French placenames in Henry VIII., act I., sc. i., 1. 7, in which the Folio rightly follows Holinshed, M. Morel sends us the following note :"BUCKINGHAM]... those two Lights of Men, Met in the vale of Andren. NOR[FOLKE] "Andres is the modern name of a village totally education. As a matter of fact, several ex- distinct from the town of Ardres, and really gives its name to the vale spoken of. sperian form of the word, it is borne out by number less authorities : As to the Shak "Altare villae quae vulgo Andernes dicitur 1084 (Chron. Andr.)-Andrensis pagus (ibid.)Ecclesia sanctae Rotrudis Andrennensis, 1159 (Car mor.)-Andria, Anderna (Lamb. Ard. p. 63, et ali passim)-Ecclesia Sancti Medardi Andrensis (ibid p. 73)-Andrenes, 1313 (Compte des baillis de Calais)-Andrene (dans l'ancienne traduction francaise de Lambert d'Ardres, XVe Siècle)-Andarne, 1556 (plan Anglais). "The form Arde,' for 'Ardres,' is also fully justified: Ex Calisio Guinas venio, Guinis Arderam. Ardeam vocant indigenae... mihi placet magis Arderae vocabulum. (extract from Un Voyage Calais, Guines, Ardres et Boulogne en 1520: Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 18 année. tome iii, 4 série, 1857). 44 ་ From the time of Henry VIII. the two forms were used indifferently. The form 'Arde' occurs frequently in the Calendar of State Papers. Fitzwilliam, writing to Wolsey (September 10, 1521), says:-M. de Beurain... besieged Arde, and it a saulte;' Marguerite de Savoie to Wolsey gave (September 23, 1521): The Chancellor of France puts off the subject of the said neutrality on the ground of the demolition of Ardre;' Wolsey to Henry VIII.: Arde;' Pace to Wolsey 'Arde' (October 27, 1521)-Letters and Papers. Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII" I Morel hopes to found a French Shakspere Society in connexion with the New Shakspere Society. We should hear most gladly of the success of his project. M. JULES VALLÈS has published, under the title of Le Bachelier, the second part of his quasi-autobiographical novel, Jules Vingtras. The work will be completed by a third volume, which is to be called L'Insurgé. : THE following are among the most recent additions to folk-lore on the Continent:-Senhor Z. Consiglieri-Pedroso has ready the fourth part of his Contribuções para uma Mythologia popular portuguesa dealing with the myth of the were-wolf in Portugal. Signor Giuseppe Pitré has published the twelfth volume of his Bibliotheca delle Tradizioni popolari siciliane, which treats specially of holiday festivals. Signori Luigi Gentile and Adolfo Bartoli have presented to Signor Biagi, as their wedding present, a pamphlet (Florence: Sansoni) containing five rispetti of the fifteenth century, and a popular story in the dialect of Gragnola. WITH reference to a note about novels as feitos in newspapers, which appeared in the ACADEMY of July 9, Messrs. Tillotson and Son, of Bolton, write to us that they have followed this method of publication for the past eight years, during which time they have supplied to Various papers no less than eight novels by Miss Braddon, three by Mr. Wilkie Collins, do., &c. We have received a letter from Warsaw, from & correspondent whose name we read as Mdme. Casimira Wotowska. She is in possession of OBITUARY. CANON RIDGWAY. As a master of an important school in the North MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS. THE June number of Le Livre is a fair THE July number of the same publication He "Archivo Histórico Nacional" of Madrid. THE new Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft opens with two admirable essays in the higher criticism by Dr. B. Stade, the editor, whose careful and minute analysis carries the criticism of the Books of Zechariah and Micah several steps forward. Dr. Stade's results are a strong confirmation of the theory that the prophetic books of the Old Testament, like the historical and the poetical, have grown by successive additions, for which the Epigoni of prophecy, and the early editors of the texts, are responsible. Dr. Stade has proved that recent critics are wrong in supposing that Zech. ix.-xiv. is a pre-exile work; but that the orthodox are equally in error in ascribing it to the prophet Zechariah, who, undoubtedly, wrote chaps. i-viii. J. Hollenberg examines some readings of LXX. in the Books of Joshua and Judges; Baethgen gives an account of an unknown MS. of Jerome's Psalterium juxta Hebraeos; B. Stade gives a short note on Leah and Rachel; E. Meyer criticises the accounts of the conquest of Palestine by the Israelites; A. Harkavy gives news of the MSS. lately added to the St. Petersburg Library; and G. Hoffmann sends a note on the history of the Syrian Bible. DR. GRAETZ'S Monatsschrift continues those minute investigations which will be so invaluable to the future historian of Judaism. Dr. Rosenthal, for instance, discusses the word 'issah," dough," which, strange to say, is also applied to families and individuals, and arrives at the conclusion that, besides the well-known division of the Jews into three religious parties, there was another dual one into Israelites of pure and those of mixed descent, the latter including also proselytes. treats of the musical instruments in the Temple, and throws some fresh light on the superscripthe author of an unfavourable criticism on Dr. Stade's weighty articles in his new Zeitschrift (noticed above) on the origin of the book of Zechariah, interspersed with interesting proposals for the correction of the Hebrew text. Dr. Graetz himself two original documents, one written by Goethe, advocate pleading. These papers of M. Lacroix tions of the Psalms; he is also (one may presume) the other by Rostopchine, the Governor of Moscow at the time of Napoleon's invasion in 13. They were both written in 1823 in the album of a young lady who had been honoured with the personal notice of the two writers. Our arrespondent states that she desires to dispose of these documents to a collector in England. She is willing to sell them at a fair price; and will be glad of any offer addressed to her the care of the British consul at Warsaw. MR. FURNIVALL asks us to state that his dress for the next seven weeks will be Castell Farm, Beddgelert, N. Wales." MR. G. A. SIMCOX wishes to make the followng corrections in his obituary notice of Dean anley which appeared in the ACADEMY of last week. On p. 70, col. 1, line 8, after "paraant" read "in his next work, Sermons and Lays on the Apostolic Age ;" and on line 13 of the same column, for "but" read "not." may very probably stimulate him to fulfil his man but Rabelais could have written the book. Besides this, there is a pleasant illustrated THE Theologisch Tijdschrift for July opens with a paper by A. Bruining, which shows us Church theology finds with the extreme Dutch how little favour the most "scientific" Broad theologians. Even so thorough a work as Pfleiderer's Religionsphilosophie is pronounced a failure, not on account of inaccurate facts, but THE present number, July 15, of the Revista because of the vestige of positive religion apContemporanea is of unusual interest to the parent in the author's view of religion. Straathistorian. Not only does the "Guia de Siman- man supports his conjecture that "they of cas classify the documents there preserved Caesar's household," in Phil. iv. 22, were conon the sources of revenue in the eighteenth cen- nected with the consul Flavius Clemens, the tury (among which we may notice the 66 revenue patruelis" of Domitian, and that this Emperor from snow in Madrid, Seville, and other was assassinated by the Christians after the A. H. Blom discusses the places"), but Don José Foradada, emulating murder of Clemens. the recent Government publications of Cartas background of the Epistle of James, Rovers the de Indias and Indice del Monasterie de martyrdom of Polycarp, and Herderschée the Dr. Prins Sahagun, has a descriptive notice of the more significance of Luke xiii. 1-5. valuable parchments and cartularies in the reviews Nippold on the separation of Church and State; Dr. Kuenen and Dr. Oort, recent Biblical literature (including works by Mr. Robertson Smith and Mr. Cheyne). THE Theologische Studien aus Würtemberg contains a series of critical papers by Dr. B. Kittel, in which the first volume of Wellhausen's Geschichte Israels is minutely examined. PLAUTUS IN AUSTRALIA. THE following Prologue was written by Prof. "Nota diu terras mundi coluisse vetusti, Et lautas urbes quas vetus orbis habet, Flumina; non montes, et juga celsa, vocant. Saecla ferinarum, marsupiale genus- 'Quis, Corydon, casus rectus amoris?' Amor;' Quae duo sunt voces, dic?' Amare et Amarier;' 'Euge!' 'Quaenam pars melior vocis?' 'Amanda;''Bene est.' SOME RECENT FRENCH COLLECTIONS OF POPULAR TRADITIONS. M. EMMANUEL COSQUIN has reprinted from the Romania upwards of sixty popular tales collected by him at Montiers-sur-Saulx (Mouse). These Contes Populaires Lorrains recueillis dans un Village du Barrois form, in themselves, an interesting and valuable collection. Works upon the popular lore of the French country districts Brittany excepted-are few in number; and the specimens of that lore here given are often characteristic, if they are not novel. The tale, for instance, is in whole or in part widely spread wherein a young prince has been defeated at play by a malevolent being, who charges the young man to find out his house, and afterwards imposes on him certain tasks. The daughter father. of the giant, demon, &c., who often appears in One or two of these tales are fragmentary, Le Follet is the common tale of a naked The value of this collection lies, however, less The Veillées Bretonnes of M. F.-M. Luzel narratives is that of the soldier, Pipi Ar Morvan, who, returning late from the card-table, hears the sound of an invisible bell passing him, and presently sees two figures, one on foot, the other riding furiously on a black horse-a good and a bad spirit-on the road he had just quitted. Among the longer stories may be named Le Pêcheur qui vendit son Ame au Diable, in which occurs a curious illustration of the magical virtue of hazel, and its associations with fire. So, in another Celtic legend known to us, the hazel switch in the farmer's hand took fire of itself as he was passing a haunted bush on the deserve a longer notice than our space can roadside by night. M. Luzel's Breton studies afford them here. Traditions, Superstitions et Légendes de la Haute Bretagne; Contes populaires de la Haute Bretagne; Essai de Questionnaire pour servir à recueillir les Traditions, les Coutumes et les Légendes populaires. Littérature orale de la Haute Bretagne. (Paris: Maisonneuve.) The writers who compile books on a subject which, in not the most fastidious English, they designate "folk-lore," drawing their material from printed volumes, supplemented occasionally by newspaper cuttings, might turn with profit to the several works of M. Paul Sébillot, which have been written on quite an opposite plan. They comprise popular tales, superstitions, ghost stories, and other old-world lore of the same farrago. All have the peculiar merit and charm of things derived direct from simple, often unlettered, men and women; and the source of each item is carefully indicated. It is a thing to be looked for that the traditions of Brittany should have certain affinities to those of Ireland. The Bretons themselves seem not unaware of the close relationship of these, the two most interesting members of the Celtic family. "The maidens of Erin and the maidens of Arvor," said Brizieux, are but severed fruits of the one branch of gold." The Lavandières de la Nuit and the Bean Sidhe, beetling clothes at a ford at night with the mournful cry, "Obh! Obh!" are probably but differentiations of one superstition. We hear of a spell to transform an animal by stroking it with vervain and repeating thrice, "Saint Ronan of Ireland." There is a sort of hobgoblin or púca, Mourioche, which under different forms terrifies the nocturnal wayfarer at Matignon; and of a man greatly alarmed it is said, "Il eu a peur comme s'il avait vu Mourioche. One cannot but be reminded of an Irish proverb used under similar circumstances, “He saw Morogh," or "He saw Morogh, or the bush was next him;" though the Morogh in question is said to have been an historical personage, Morogh O'Bryen, sixth Baron of Inchiquin, of evil renown for his devastations. What is told of a phantom sheep, the MoutonErrant, recals a like apparition encountered on Irish roads, The Mope, a black sheep, shambling along in the dark beside the ditch, with head down, and making no attempt to interfere with the traveller. A dragoon was one of a party one evening in a house in Ród-buidhe. The whisky ran short, and when a boy was aske to take the jug and go into Ballymore to ge some, he refused. Everyone, he said, knew what was to be met on that road after dark The soldier took the jug from him, mounte his horse, and set off himself. On the way h met a sheep, which prepared to attack hin when he ran his sword through it. The shee disappeared, and the man found a rabbit ski transfixed on his weapon. We could have wished that the love of popul traditions avowed in graceful French by A Xavier Marmier in his Preface (Contes pop laires de différents Pays, recueillis et tradu par Xavier Marmier, de l'Académie français had prompted him to give his readers son few notes on his narratives, or even son |