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Glossary of Words in use in Cornwall.-West Cornwall,
by Miss M. Courtney; East Cornwall, by Thomas
Q. Couch. (English Dialect Society)

Glossary of Words and Phrases in use in Antrim and
Down. By William Hugh Patterson, M.R.I.A. (Same
Society.)

An Early English Hymn to the Virgin. By F. J. Fur-
nivall, M.A., and A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. (Same Society.)
Old Country and Farming Words gleaned from Agri-
By James Britten, F. L.S. (Same

cultural Books.

The editor has done everything in his power to make it attractive to the eye, and the plan of the Tower, in the year of Gerard's escape from that stronghold, and the view of old Liège are quite works of art. For the genealogist, The Boke of Saint Albans. By Dame Juliana Berners. families, the notes swarm with information culled not or any one else interested in the history of the old Catholic Printed at St. Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in unfrequently from recondite sources, and the index is 1486. Reproduced in fac-simile with an Introduction just what an index ought to be, perfect as a help for by W. Blades. (Elliot Stock.) Ir is difficult to write of this book as it deserves. Re-reference, but not aiming at being at once a table of contents and an exhaustive analysis. garded even as a mere achievement of fac-simile printing, it is one which calls for the highest praise and admiration. The paper, ink, and cover are all so perfectly in keeping that it needs a very slight stretch of the imagi nation for the happy possessor of one of these volumes to fancy he has the original production before him. If the book were merely a reprint of the original its interest and value would be great; but we have here in addition a most valuable and complete introduction from the pen of the greatest authority of the day on our early printers and their books. In it Mr. Blades treats exhaustively of the authorship, typography and bibliography of the famous Boke of Saint Albans, the original of which is one of the rarest and most valuable of our early printed literature. Mr. Blades strongly, and to our mind convincingly, contests Mr. Scott's theory that the "schoolmaster-printer," whoever he may have been, was employed by Caxton, and was the printer of all those books without date or place which have usually been attributed to the Westminster press. The clear and exhaustive manner in which he deals with the question of the authorship of the book, and the identity of Dame Juliana Barnes, or Berners, herself, ought to be a caution to all not to accept too freely the statements of our dictionaries and ency clopædias, and equally valuable and interesting is his account of the productions of the St. Albans printingpress. To mention even briefly the numerous points of interest in the text would require far more space than can be afforded here, and we must, therefore, content ourselves with referring our readers to the book itself, with the confident assurance that they will in it find both profit and pleasure, while as a specimen of fac-simile reprinting it is absolutely perfect.

The Life of Father John Gerard of the Society of Jesus.
By John Morris, of the same Society. Third Edition,
Rewritten and Enlarged. (Burns & Oates)
THE Life of Father Gerard is one of the very few books
that have appeared during this century of which it can
be said that they have thrown any important light upon
the religious history of the Elizabethan age. Anglican
divines and their historians had been fumbling among
rubrics, and Prayer Books, and Convocation squabbles
all too long; shuffling the old cards and making them
none the cleaner. We had almost come to the conclusion
that there was nothing more to learn about the beliefs
and questionings of the sixteenth century. To our
amazement, just as people were getting weary of the
very words "Elizabethan history," Mr. Morris tossed
among them this wonderfully exciting volume. As a
mere record of adventure, intrigue, hair-breadth escapes,
heroic endurance, and sagacious diplomacy, Father
Gerard's Life will be found to be equal to anything that
has been written since the days of De Foe. As a faithful
picture of the daily life and habits of the English gentry,
not in attendance upon the court, at the close of the six-
teenth century, and as a revelation of the hitherto
unknown religious perplexities, doubts, longings, and
uneasy consciences of men and women in the upper
classes, seeking rest and finding none in the only refuge
which was offered them, the Church as by law established,
the book possesses a value quite unique. The present
edition is an immense improvement upon its predecessor.

Society.)

The Dialect of Leicestershire. By the Rev. A. B. Evans,
D.D., and Sebastian Evans, LL.D. (Same Society.)
IF on looking at the varied titles of the five publications
just issued by the Dialect Society some profane reader of
these columns should parody Moss's oft-quoted speech,
and charge the Council of the Society and their con-
federates, the editors of the works in question, with
having "been at a feast of dialects and stolen the scraps,"
let the incriminated gentlemen find compensation in that
recognition of their good services which they will as-
suredly receive at the hands of all earnest students

"Of the tongue which Shakspeare spake."
The Society was not established a day too soon; for
within the memory of men now living the last traces of
the Cockney dialect of London have disappeared. Croy-
don is no longer called " Craydon," nor Birmingham
"Brummagem." Nor do we now hear, as we have heard
within the last fifty years, a most accomplished scholar,
whose name will be long preserved by his valuable con-
tributions to English literature, speak of his nephew as
"nevy," or, if he mentioned him by his Christian name,
as "Ed'ard" for Edward. Will the Council forgive our
throwing out a hint which may lead to their receipt of
increased funds for their good work? They very wisely
sell separate copies of their publications to non-members.
Let the different local glossaries be advertised in the
leading journals of the special localities to which the
glossaries refer. For instance, the West Cornwall
glossary, by Miss Courtney, and the East Cornwall, by
Mr. Couch, would doubtless find many purchasers among
those who may not care for any other than their own
native tongue; while the Leicestershire people would
in like manner be glad of the opportunity of securing
copies of the admirable and extensive Dialect of Leices
tershire, by the Messrs. Evans. Mr. Britten's most
useful collection of Old Country and Farming Words
gleaned from Agricultural Books, which is completed by
the publication of Part II., will be welcome to a large
class of readers.

Euvres de Walter Scott. Traduites par H. Louisy.-
Quentin Durward, Ivanhoe. (Paris, Didot.)
WE are always delighted to find an excuse for talking
about Sir Walter Scott. In the midst of all the rubbish
with which we are deluged, a visit to Templestowe,
Kennaquhair, or Tillietudlem is perfectly refreshing,
and we come back more and more convinced that the
most insignificant of the heroes painted by the author
of Waverley is worth all the lay figures of our contem-
porary novelists put together. Our French neighbours

particularly must have come to that conclusion, for Messrs. Didot, the eminent publishers, have undertaken to issue a new translation of Sir Walter Scott's novels copiously illustrated with woodcuts by the best artists. It was M. Defauconpret, if we remember right, who, fifty years ago, first introduced the Waverley novels to his compatriots; we had next M. Amédée Pichot, M. Albert Montémont, M. Vivien, and a host of others. M. Louisy can compare very favourably with them all, so far as we have been able to judge; his translation is accurate yet idiomatic, faithful without being servile, and carries us well along. The plan of the publishers does not, we believe, include Sir Walter Scott's whole works, which we regret, nor does it embrace the introductions, prefaces, and appendices. None of the notes to Ivanhoe, for example, are admitted; but in Quentin Durward M. Louisy has seen the absolute necessity of adding a few éclaircissements, which the reader will find at the end of the volume. The illustrations are remarkably good, especially those of Quentin Durward, and some of them make very pretty little pictures. The paper and type are perfect. Rob Roy is in progress, and Kenilworth is announced to come next.

The Mayfair Library-Clerical Anecdotes. By Jacob Larwood.-The Agony Column of the Times, 1800-1870. Edited by Alice Gray. (Chatto & Windus.) THESE two books will probably command a ready sale at railway bookstalls. They are not ill suited to the wants of travellers, and, if this be the purpose of their compilation, they fulfil the object of their existence. They are interesting enough to relieve the weariness of a journey, and yet are not of so exciting or absorbing a character as to repel the advance of somnolence. The collection of Clerical Anecdotes possesses more merit than the Agony Column. The latter may be allowed the credit of originality; but the former, among much that is pointless, contains some really amusing stories.

Amaranth and Asphodel: Songs from the Greek Anthology. By Alfred J. Butler, M.A. (C. Kegan Paul & Co.)

THE riches of the Greek anthology seem to be practically inexhaustible. How many English chaplets, one wonders, have been woven with those dead, yet never fading, flowers since the old-fashioned ingathering of Bland and Merivale! Not so long ago-in 1869-we had the too-muchneglected Idylls and Epigrams of Mr. Richard Garnett, and a few years later the excellent handbook of the late Lord Neaves, himself

Δεδαηκότος μὲν εἰπεῖν Χαριέντως δε μανῆναι.

And now again comes Mr. Butler with his cluster of songlets, hymning the old themes of Love and Nature, of Death and After-Death, and winning us yet once more to listen spell-bound to that ancient lyre of Hellas. The best compliment we could pay him would be to quote some of these carefully-wrought stanzas; but the pages of" N. & Q." are as narrow as the gravestone of Erotion. We can but refer the cultivated reader to this finished little volume, and advise him, if he be stirred to imitation, by no means to neglect the author's prefatory precepts.

THE narrowness of space to which we have above referred obliges us to dismiss more summarily than they deserve a little group of books which has too long lain upon our table. The first is The Cardinal Archbishop of Col. Colomb (C. Kegan Paul & Co.), a brisk and stirring Spanish legend told in the "light horseman stanza" of Scott. Next comes Nuya Poetica; or, a Wheen Rhymes, by the Rev. J. Johnstone (Paisley, Gardner), the initial poem in which-An Old Man's Story-will

repay perusal, though the humorous and Burns-like dialogue of the two pawky Scotch elders trying to overreach each other in a furtive Sabbath day's bargain will probably be more popular. Lastly there is Foreshadowings, by Charles Room (Elliot Stock), the theme of which is the fulfilment of prophecy. It is written in a sufficiently impressive Spenserian stanza, and exhibits much varied and discursive reading,

MESSES. LONGMANS & Co. send us the new edition of

Mr. Trevelyan's Early History of Charles James Fox, already reviewed in these columns, and The Collected Press Series), edited by J. H. Jellett, B.D., and S. Works of James Mac Cullagh, LL.D. (Dublin University We have also received Zöllner's Transcendental Physics, translated by C. C. Massey Haughton, M.D. (Harrison); Jackson's Accented Four-figure Logarithms (Allen); Part XIII. of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Macmillan & Co.); and Part XVI. Vol. III. of Mr. Helsby's edition of Ormerod's History of Cheshire.

THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.-The Annual General Meeting of the Camden Society was held on Monday last. As might be expected of a society which was the first of the popular publishing societies, having been established some forty years ago, it was not very numerously attended; but the members present were as earnest as ever to maintain the Camden Society in its useful influence, and in the hope that the large, expensive, and most important volume just issued, The Puritan Visitation of the University of Oxford, edited by Prof. Montagu Burrows, may be the means of drawing renewed attention to the society, especially among Oxford men, and so justify the Council for having undertaken so large and costly a work, which nothing but the great light which it throws upon the history of the University could justify them in doing. It is the first book issued for the year's subscription (17.) of 1881.

Notices to Correspondents.

OSWALD HALDANE.-We are not aware of the present residence of the family of the late Dr. Filkin, of Richmond.

S. B. SUTCLIFFE.-With reference to the Kyrle Society Nottingham Place, London, W. you should write to the hon. sec., Miss Mary Lyall, 14,

T. B. (Helensburgh).-Probably as you suggest. Can you add anything to what has already been said? The last reply appeared ante, p. 335.

J. C., F.R.S.-A proof shall be sent.

H. D. (Turnham Green).-You must first see a proof of the inscription.

G. A. M. ("A Roman Inscription").-See ante, p. 355. R. INGLIS.-Yes; it will appear.

N. P. (Woodleigh).—We only know of Handel's setting. ERRATA.-P. 332, col. 1, "Tempest Arms," read "a bend between six martlets," not "a hand"; and in the review of Barnabe Googe's Popish Kingdome, ante, p. 359, for "superstitions of the seventeenth century,' read "superstitions of the sixteenth century."

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