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charm of the Ardennes, which steals rather than bursts
upon the traveller. The scenery is more beautiful than
striking, and the prevailing characteristic of domestic
life among its people is repose and contentment. The
country abounds with legend and historical association.
In the minds of the primitive people the district is still
the peculiar haunt of fairies; the tracks are still to be
seen of the famous horse upon which the four sons of
Aymon traversed its valleys; the devil still assumes his
quaintest disguises for the perplexity of mankind. The
heights bristle with castles which vividly recall the days
of Godfrey de Bouillon and of feudal tyranny. Of many
of these fastnesses Mrs. Macquoid has given admirable
sketches, which will refresh the memories of those who
are obliged to deplore the want of artistic skill. The
book is full of bright and lively pictures, both with pen
and pencil, of scenery, of architectural beauties, and of
domestic life, and rich in stores of legendary lore. At
the same time it gives much valuable information to the
traveller, and leaves enough unsaid to enable those who
know the country to hope that the "forest of Arden
may still afford a shelter to the "melancholy Jacques."
Recueil de Fac-similes à l'Usage de l'Ecole des Chartes.
Ier Fascicule. (Paris, Picard.)

examples to be found in its pages), yet many of the
chapters will be found interesting to all thoughtful
readers. The magnitude of the author's self-appointed
task may well be imagined, and if he has failed in part
of it small wonder will be felt by educated musicians.
On the whole, however, Mr. Gurney may be said to
have succeeded in his endeavours. To us the chapters
entitled "Polyphony and Harmony," "The Two Ways
of hearing Music," and "Music as Impressive and
Music as Expressive" are among the best in the book.
Cuthberht of Lindisfarne, his Life and Times. By A. C-
Fryer. (Partridge & Co.)

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be interesting, and Mr. Fryer has here presented us,
religious history of England as St. Cuthbert must needs
within a small compass, with a clear and readable account
of the saint's life. The reader must not expect a pro-
foundly learned work in the manner of Mr. Freeman and
"spelling might favour the expectation. In a book of this
Prof. Stubbs, though the affectation of the Anglo-Saxon
character it seems almost pedantic to speak of "Boeda,"
"Wilfrith," "St. Cuthberht's church at Eadwinsburgh,"
however, may be a question of taste. Though the book
and other A.-S. equivalents of English names. This,
is written in a light and popular style, it bears evident
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THE Committee of the Paris Ecole des Chartes has begun the publication of a splendid collection of historical land.) documents, reproduced by lithography, illustrating the annals of the Middle Ages, and which is to form Poems for the Period. By Heone. (Irvine, Chas. Murchseveral livraisons, printed in large folio with exIt corresponds exactly to the IT is a little difficult to give an account of the verses in planatory notices. Palæographical Society issues, with the exception this volume. The reference in the preface to the author that the MSS. from which the texts are borrowed might has a certain vagueness which is not without its mystery, be more fully described, and the peculiarities both of innocent as that may be; and when we learn that the spelling and of writing discussed in greater detail. The Burns Club of Irvine stand sponsors to the poems, and plates are twenty-four in number, and contain thirty- that they have moreover been edited by a Presbyterian seven specimens, the earliest being a grant made by minister of that place, it would seem that we should Hugh Capet of the estate of Maisons to the abbey of regard this as no common offering. Yet after giving it St. Maur des Fossés; it is dated Paris, June 20, 988, a fair perusal we are much in the case of Mr. Pepys over and the original belongs to the French Record Office. Hudibras. We fail to see where the humour lies. DoubtThe most recent extract, dated Auzebosc (in the depart-less there are here and there happy and poetical lines, ment of Seine Inférieure, canton of Yvetot), June 30, and a certain faculty for satirical burlesque. But the 1500, is the enumeration of certain estates situated in pieces are generally too purposeless or occasional for the parish of Valliquerville. This enumeration is made permanence, and the writer's ear does not always serve by Guillaume Lesueur to Guillaume de Bricqueville, him faithfully in the matter of rhyme and measure. It Lord of Auzebosc and of Touffreville-la-Corbeline. The is quite possible, however, that some familiarity with the pieces which compose the first instalment of the fac- localities celebrated in the book would add to our appresimiles are taken from several private as well as public ciation of its merits; this, unhappily, we do not possess. collections; they include deeds of sales and of gifts, decrees, sentences, treaties of alliance, a Papal bull, a specimen of Troubadour poetry, and a quotation from the Roman The languages illustrated are Latin, d'Alexandre. Langue d'Oil, Langue d'Oc, and the German dialects of Alsace, Lorraine, and Montbéliard. The pupils of the Ecole des Chartes will thus be able to procure at a moderate cost the texts which form the subject of the lectures they attend, and students in general can appreciate the progress made in the reproduction of ancient MSS. since the days of Mabillon, Ducange, Montfaucon, and Muratori.

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