persuading her to yield to his suit, threatens, if she continues obdurate, to bring down his own "mother's head with infamy to the grave." But not even this threat moves her, and she is only to be reached through her devotion to her father. There is a Home Secretary mixed up in two intrigues and a murder-story in the novel, and several villains and adventurers. The villains chiefly accomplish their wicked ends by paragraphs in the society papers, which read like fairly successful parodies in Punch. They are nearly all titled, or at least can write C.B. after their

names.

Hope is a young lady who marries a curate, and helps him through a difficult life in which much hopefulness was needed. He falls in love with her in a railway carriage; they meet unexpectedly, and for once the course of true love ran smooth. But, after marriage, they have to face the difficulties and responsibilities of a clergyman's position, with a small income, an increasing family, a straggling parish, and unsympathetic relations. Finally, these difficulties are further aggravated by the necessity of contributing to the support of these unsympathetic relations; but they come through all their trials successfully. The book is pleasantly written; but the children are made to speak exactly like the grown-up people, and the wicked lord is

conventional.

C. E. DAWKINS.

NEW EDITIONS. Homes of the London Poor. By Octavia Hill. (Macmillan.) This little reprint should be in the hands of everyone who desires to form a sound judgment upon one of the great social problems of the day, and to see how, in some measure, its solution is being worked out. It is worth notice that the first article in the series is dated 1866, and that nearly twenty years have expired since Miss Hill's attention was directed to a condition of things which the authors of the "Bitter Cry" sprung upon the world as a new discovery. The evil that has to be met will not yield before sensational writing and effusive sympathy. Calmness, patience, and invincible perseverance are needed; and where these are present there is good hope that by slow degrees a mitigation, if not an absolute cure, of the worst symptoms of the disease may be obtained. It is impossible to speak too highly of the value of Miss Hill's work, or to pass over any opportunity of wishing her success in it.

ARE we very ignorant not to have heard before of "Ik Marvel," and to suppose that there may be many others in like case? His real name is Donald G. Mitchell; and he is a New England humorist of that literary stamp which traces from Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne before ever the coarser

jocularity of the Far West was thought worthy of print. We find it recorded of him in the Encyclopaedia Americana that he "gives pleasant expression to a farmer's thoughts." If that were all, we should hardly have thought it necessary to notice the new edition of his books which Messrs. Sampson Low have introduced into this country. But, unless our own critical faculty is greatly astray, the discursive reader will thank us for calling his attention to a series of volumes that are as agreeable in their contents as in their outward setting. Of the five already published, Wet Days at Edgerod has charmed us most, perhaps because it is the easiest to take up and lay down again. No mere farmer's work this, but the genial talk of a scholar and a man of the world.

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The Bible Word-Book: a Glossary of Archaic the figures, the inference is altogether erroWords and Phrases in the Authorised Version neous, for it omits those peerages created by of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. the present Queen which have already become By William Aldis Wright. Second Edition, extinct. Revised and Enlarged. (Macmillan.) We have number at least twenty, familiar examples Speaking at random, these must with the first. It must be sufficient to say that Ossington. not been careful to compare this new edition being Macaulay, Clyde, Hatherley, and language which supplies a larger amount of the Cape of Good Hope, where we read (p. 674) we know no book on the usage of the English mentioning an odd blunder in the account of We must conclude with merely curious information in a form so attractive that it compels one to go on turning over the pages. "so-called Africanders, the offspring of black Of Mr. Aldis Wright's authority on the subject it women and Dutch fathers." is needless to speak. Special interest attaches to A History of Roman Classical Literature. By the work in view of the forthcoming publica-R. W. Browne, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and tion of the Revised Version of the Old Testa-Professor of Classical Literature in King's Colment, for Mr. Aldis Wright is secretary to that lege, London. (Bentley.) Without implying company of Revisers. any disrespect to the venerable author, but volume-it is right to state that this is a reprint the title-page-nor, indeed, elsewhere in the simply because no hint is given of the fact on of a book first published in 1853. Considering also what the title-page does affirm, we may add that Archdeacon Browne resigned the prebend: long ago as 1860; and that he ceased likewise stall of Newington in St. Paul's Cathedral as both appointments he happens to have already had no less than two successors. to be professor at King's College in 1863. In

the publishers in this country of the Life of
MESSRS. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & Co. are
James Fenimore Cooper by Prof. Lounsbury, of
Yale, which was reviewed in the ACADEMY of
September 22, 1883. We believe that it forms
Letters" edited by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner;
American Men of
but in appearance it is altogether dissimilar to
the three first volumes of that series which we
received from Messrs. Samson Low. It has,
however, a portrait, which those lacked; and
all of them alike possess an Index-in this
respect setting an example to their prototype,
Mr. John Morley's series.

a volume in the series of "

The Table-Talk of Doctor Martin Luther.
Fourth Centenary Edition. (Fisher Unwin.)
The format of this dainty little volume is
creditable to both printer and publisher. Only
it should have been stated distinctly on the
title-page that the contents form but a very
small sample of a large bulk.

The Statesman's Year-Book for 1884. Edited
by J. Scott Keltie. (Macmillan.) An annual
in its twenty-first year of publication would not
require notice here if it were not that the name
of a new editor appears for the first time on the
title-page. It is not necessary to dwell upon
the addition of some hundred more pages, or
the inclusion of half-a-dozen new countries.
Nor will we confine ourselves to thanking Mr.
Keltie for the careful revision to which a great
part of the work has evidently been subjected.
It is more important to point out to him (though
we dare say he knows it well enough) that much
yet remains to be done. Here, for example,
are a few statements from the section on "Great
Britain" that stand in need of correction. The
Lord Chancellor is styled Baron Selborne (p.
209); Lord Carlingford was not appointed Lord
Privy Seal on April 28, 1880 (p. 210); on p.
219 it is more than implied that the entire area
of England and Wales is under School Boards;
on p. 231 the description given of the new
sinking fund is quite misleading; the decimal
point has got wrongly placed in the table show-
ing the per-centage of decennial increase in the
population of Scotland for 1881 (p. 256); the
and Ceylon is inadequately described as "repre-
form of government in the two colonies of Natal
sentative" (p. 286). The errors of the following
passage require to be pointed out in detail:-
"In the forty-six years from the accession of Queen
Victoria till the end of 1883, there were issued 166
patents of peerage, so that, with the addition of
the spiritual lords, two archbishops and twenty-
four bishops, all of whom were appointed during
the period, 192 members of the House of Lords, or
more than one-third of the whole number, owe
their seats to nominations under Her Majesty" (p.

203).

Now, our first objection to this is that it is
taker verbatim et numeratim from the edition of
last year, with the exception that "the end of
1883" has been substituted for "the end of June
1882;" whereas between the two periods speci-
fied at least three new peers were created-Bram-
well, Alcester, and Wolseley. But, granting

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Companionage. Illustrated with 1,400 Armorial Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Bearings. Edited by Robert H. Mair. (Dean & Son.) What is to be said of a work of reference now in its hundred and seventy-first year? Nothing, except that the editor has not been lulled by success into resting upon his accomplishment. In the issue for 1884 he has added logical information the maternal parentage of to this unrivalled storehouse of modern geneastatistics showing the number of hereditary each collateral branch, and some interesting dignities that have been conferred or have become extinct since 1870. Only, in these days of second time to reconsider his statement on p. xvi. exact etymology, we must implore him for the that "Sire” is derived from the Greek!

WE have received from Messrs. Longmans two cheap editions of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which, whatever critics may say, is probably the most popular book of poetry of our time. One of these, a thin paper quarto, with all Mr. George Scharf's illustrations, is published for as little as sixpence. But why is Mr. Scharf's name nowhere recorded? The other, though issued at double the price, has no illustrations and is less clearly printed. On the other hand, it contai..s some sixteen pages of brief notes, which we venture to assign on internal evidence to Sir George Cox. "Ivry and "The Armada," which are always bound up with the Lays, have no notes, though they do not need them less.

MR. DAVID DOUGLAS, of Edinburgh, has completed Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' Breakthe author takes occasion to pay a high complifast Table Series" with The Poet at the Breakfast Table, in two shilling volumes. In the Preface ment to Mr. Herbert Spencer. The same pubAuthors," Prue and I, by Mr. George William lisher has also issued, in his series of "American Curtis, which originally appeared in 1857, and has never before been reprinted in England. We must content ourselves with remarking that both the pattern and the colour of the paper cover are less attractive than with the rest of the series.

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MESSRS. SAMPSON Low are the English publishers of the new edition of Spiers' FrenchEnglish and English-French Dictionaries, tirely remodelled, revised, and largely increased by Mr. H. Witcomb, who is Dr. Spiers' successor as English professor at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. This edition is the twenty-ninth; and though even now Spiers

as a poet by a book entitle of which an old Literary ar terms of the warmest praise Whitehead had a melancholy Australia with starvation. Here Dickens, an associate of Dong was personally known to the fir Ests and men of letters living l 1830 to 1850.

To the April number of the B national magazine of Wales, H:7: sends some interesting letters write to the late Charles Redwood attorney, to whom Carlyle paid forty years ago.

THE Bishop of Peterborough ha pared for publication a volume th preached on special occasions, whic published next month by Messrs. I

IT will be some three or four the forthcoming Life of James H trick Shepherd," by his daughter Y can appear. It will be revised by Scotch critic and poet.

DR. FAIRBAIRN's recent lectures men at Bradford will shortly be a cheap form by Messrs. Hodder i under the title of Religion in EsLife of To-day.

TILE third and concluding riz Protestant Commentary on the will be published immediately Williams & Norgate. It wil Introduction to the Ephesians a and Philemon, by Prof. Holtzman

andy, to the Pastoral Epitia

by Prof. Pfleiderer, of Berlin; to t and Jude, by Prof. Hilgen

Peter books by Drs. Spath. Kraes. other the editors, Prof. P. W.

MESSRS. CASSELL & Co. have

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The Scutage and Marshal's Rolls," by Mr. S. WITH reference to Mr. Bradley's letter on
R. Bird; The Ormonde Attainders-1461 and "Friar Tuck" in the ACADEMY of last week,
1715," by Mr. Hubert Hall; Queen Elizabeth Mr. John Beddoe writes from Clifton:-
at Helmingham," by Mr. J. A. C. Vincent;
"The name Toki was not uncommon among the
"A Sacrament Certificate; "Harvard Uni-Anglo-Saxons-e.g., Tokig of Wallingford and
versity, U.S., and the Harvards of Southwark," Tochi a farmholder on the land of Robert de
by Dr. Rendle; and Wanley's Harleian Stafford. It still survives as a surname in the
Journal." The "New Peerage," by G. E. C., form of Tookey or Tuckey."
is also continued,

THE chief literary feature in the April number of the Scottish Review will be an article on Mr. Swinburne by "Annie Armit," and there will also appear two historical articles and a paper on Scotland in the eighteenth century.

PROF. ST. GEORGE MIVART contributes an article on "A Devonshire Relic" to the forthcoming number of Merry England.

THE April number of To-Day contains an article by Mr. Michael Davitt on "The Irish Social Problem."

A LARGE stone tablet has been placed over
the door of Shandy Hall, now converted into a
set of cottages, with this inscription :-

"Here dwelt Lawrence Sterne, for many years
Incumbent of Coxwold. Here he wrote Tristram
Shandy and the Sentimental Journey.
London in 1768, aged fifty-five years.

Died in

LAST Saturday, March 22, the anniversary of
the birth of Henry Kirke White, was com-
was

memorated by a dinner of the newly founded
Nottingham Literary Club.
that a collection of Kirke White literature is
being formed in the Free Library; but no
other memorial of him exists in the town.
Next year, we believe, will be the centenary of
his birth. Perhaps Mr. W. Davenport, Adams

or Mr. J. Potter Briscoe will hint.

Ar the meeting of the Clifton Shakspere Society on March 22, 8 note. On "The Botany of The Winter's Tale," by Mr. Lee H. Grindon, was read. Miss Constance O'Brien

ORIGINAL VERSE.

IN MEMORIAM JOHN SERVICE, D.D.
SINCEREST Soul that ever spoke for God,
O truest heart that ever felt for man,
O brightest mind that ever traced the plan
Of the mild Christ, who mildly like him trod
The paths of pain, whose mouth was as a rod
To smite the foolish and to raise the wan,
To stir the laggard and to bruise the clan
Of hatreds and hypocrisies-the sod
Can bind thee not albeit the grass is green

And daisies dance to all the winds of heaven;
Somewhere and somehow unto thee 'tis given
Clearly to see the light thine eyes had seen,
And gladlier yet to hear from deep to height
The waves of low love-laughter infinite.
ROBERT KEMP.

OBITUARY.

WE have to record the death of Dr. Allen
Thomson, best known as Professor of Anatomy

at Glasgow from 1848 to 1877, though he had
previously occupied chairs at Aberdeen and at
Edinburgh. His father was a Scotch professor,
and his maternal grandfather likewise.
department of his subject to which he devoted
lished works are neither bulky logy. His pub;

The

nor numerous; but his reputation stood deservedly high, and in 1877 he was president of the British Association meeting at Plymouth. He died in London on March 22, at the age of seventy-five.

IN the current Boletin of the Real Academia de la Historia, Padre F. Fita prints from a text furnished by the Prior, Don Francisco Pólit, collated with a MS. in the Royal Library at Munich, an inedited Latin poem in praise of the Convent of Roncesvalles, written between August 31, 1199, and December 1215; probably by Rodrigo, Archbishop of Toledo. The poem is in stanzas of four lines, all rhyming, a verse which shortly became very popular both in Spanish and in Latin. A quotation will show that intolerance was not always the rule in Spain.

"Porta patet omnibus, infirmis et sanis, Non solum catholicis, verum et paganis, Judeis, hereticis, ociosis, vanis;

Et, ut dicam breviter, bonis et profanis." The closing lines contain a somewhat early use of "rimus" in the sense of rhyme.

"Nisi rimi series foret fini data

Auditori tedium daret protelata." The ministrations of women (sorores) as well as of men in the hospitals are mentioned. The deed of foundation (1134-42), which is also given in the Boletin, contains this curious provision:-" Clerici autem sive layci confratres, quando fecerint orationem, dicant: domine, miserere confratribus meis vivis atque dematerna lingua.” functis; clerici vero literatorie, si sciverint; layci

"ORION" HORNE IN AUSTRALIA. WHAT old Melbourne resident does not re

member the second-hand bookseller's shop on the brow of Bourke Street Hill, near to the

for publication a work entitled Arthur B. Prowse each read "A Comparison of tian of Don José Manterola, the author of El-a motley crew, but united in the bonds of Co-operators: What they Have It The Winter's Tale with Pandosto."

they Are Doing, by Mr. Art Acland and Mr. Benjamin Jones MESSRS. BICKERS & SON, having their Library Edition of Ser volumes, are now publishing a of De Foe's complete works, int As their desire is to make the complete as possible, they wil hear from anyone possessing unpee or other matter attributed to, or by, De Foe. The edition will be copies for the English market.

MESSRS. CROSBY LOCKWOOD & C as just ready a new Portuguese English-Portuguese Dictionary Elwes, uniform with his French Italian Dictionaries in "Weales

THE first edition of Mr. Hole the Indian Mutiny being nearly second is in preparation.

A NEW edition of Dr. Ma sectia volume of Sea Pictures will be r containing an additional Fisheries Exhibition.

So far as we have observed, none of the comments in the daily press upon the case of “Nicols v. Pitman," decided last week by Mr. Justice Kay, seems to have appreciated the precise point of the judgment. It was an action to restrain the publication in shorthand of a lecture delivered at the Working Men's College. The lecturer had not given notice to the justices, and consequently he was unable to avail himself of 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 65. But it happened that he had carefully committed his lecture to writing beforehand, and that his MS. lay before him on the desk at the time of its delivery. He therefore possessed, at common law as opposed to statute, a right of property in his unpublished literary production; and the ratio decidendi of Mr. Justice Kay's judgment was that this common-law right was not forfeited by the oral delivery of the lecture. If the lecture had not been previously committed to writing, and if the MS. had not been before the lecturer at the time of its delivery, it is at least possible that the judgment might have been the other way. In such a case the lecturer could rely only upon an implied contract with his hearers that they had come merely for their own instruction, and not to communicate to others what they heard. The importance of the case to public lecturers is obvious, though we cannot but think that it leaves almost as much unsettled as it purports

A NEW edition of Sherring testant Missions in India, care brought down to date by the formerly of Calcutta, will be Religious Tract Society in Mar CAPT. C. W. WHITE, wh Military Position: a Note run through several editions with another, entitled The A an Appeal to the Patriotic.

THE second number of the Genealogist, which will be onth, will contain, anong

to settle.

In an article in Longman's for April entitled "A Pilgrimage to Selborne," which is as slight in substance and as rich in egotistic details as the general run of magazine articles, Mr. T. K. Kebbel perpetrates the following penta

meter:

"Ipsa domus puerum quem vidit, ipsa senem."

WE regret to hear of the death at San Sebas-
Cancionero Vasco, and the editor from its com-

bookdom. It was

Houses of Parliament, where some fifteen to twenty years ago, and down to a later period, the colonial Quaritch-one Henry Tolman Dwight-held literary sway. Thither on hot summer afternoons would flock many men of local note-lawyers, doctors, divines, journalists no light privilege to be admitted into the sacred circle, for "Dwight's' possessed, in the eyes of those of the younger generation who cared not for the politics or commerce of a prosperous province, much of the charm of a London literary coterie. Among THE death is announced of M. Magnin, one of the three testamentary executors of Auguste stuffed recesses of this shop was a little, oddthose who frequented the low-roofed, bookComte, and the president of the Société positiv-looking old gentleman with "cork-screw

mencement of the Euskal-Erria. He was only
thirty-four years of age, and his loss will be
deeply felt by all lovers of Basque literature,
for which he did so much.

iste.

curls, who came on periodical visits to the WE are compelled to hold over until next metropolis from the dark forests of the Blue week our notice of M. Mignet.

MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS.

IT is not to be supposed that the editor of the
China Review can possibly keep up a constant
and full supply of articles of real and abiding
value. If one such is found in each number
readers should be well satisfied, and those who
take up the current issue prepared to accept it in
this spirit will not be disappointed. Mr.
Parker's article on the Wên-chow dialect is an
dialects of China. It is the first serious attempt
important contribution to the literature of the
to describe the speech of the people of Wên-
chow, the peculiarities of which throw a con-
siderable light on the history of other more
divergent dialects. Mr. Henry's record of
"The Eight Lions' of Canten" is well told,
and the continuations of Mr. Piton's "China
ham's "Chips from Chinese History" maintain
during the Tsin Dynasty "and of Mr. Oxen-

their accustomed level of interest. Besides
these contributions there is a paper on Hakka
folk-lore and another on Hakka_songs. This
last is followed by Notices of New Books, among
which is an appreciative review of the new
edition of the late Dr. Williams's Middle
Kingdom; and the usual papers of "Notes
and Queries,"

I said we" perhaps presumptuously, for my youthful obscurity placed me quite on the outer rim of this exclusive literary "set," who, perhaps because like other great men they however, tolerated my frequent presence, preferred a boyish listener to none. I allude to this obscure bit of past colonial history be

cause the death of this same R. H. Horne at Margate has brought back so vividly the mingled feelings of pride and pleasure with which I took the old man's hand some two or had the honour since to meet poets whom I three years before he left for England. I have

self-assertion are to be caught in England. But no account of this new literary development is complete without a recognition of the labours of Orion" Horne, who dwelt and wrote in Victoria from 1852 to 1869. During these years Horne, who seemed to us to have brought in person to the new land the literary glory and traditions of the Mother country (for was he not the personal friend of Charles Dickens and the Brownings, and had not Poe proclaimed his farthing Epic to be on a par with Milton's), was the acknowledged arbiter of authorship throughout Australia. At his sole fiat the Sydney poet Henry Kendall's "Death in the Bush' and the "Glen of Arrawatta" were awarded the coveted prize as "the best poems produced in the colonies.'

It would be absurd to class "Orion" Horne among Australian writers; but, as an English poet who was a colonial resident for some years, it must be claimed for him that he guided the literary aspirations of those who are the pioneers of a fresh development of English literature at the Antipodes.

In an excellent article on "King Lear's Madness," contributed to the late Marcus Clarke's magazine-the Colonial Monthly-Horne suggestively remarked :

"On this great subject of madness as treated by Shakspere there is much more to say with regard to several tragedies; but I must leave it to others, who have a longer vista before their steps, and a personal hold upon the denizens of these growing lands, to which I am about to bid farewell."

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'Bearing in mind your high and well-deserved repute for learning-that you have been the specially chosen educator of several members of our present Royal Family (which, indeed, I do not mention on account of the royalty, but because the honour was conferred upon you by the wish of the late Prince Consort, one of the most elaborately educated and accomplished men of this age), and that your pen has contributed so many articles of literature and art to the great standard works of profound research in ancient Greek and Roman reference of to-day, I should never have ventured to present this book to you, perhaps to have attempted its composition, but for the recollection of the opinion you gave-when some fourteen years ago I submitted to you the rough draft of the design-that it was conceived in the true spirit of the ancient Greek tragic drama, and especially of Aeschylus.''

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We may smile at the childish vanity that could treasure up for so many years what was perhaps only a careless complimentary phrase ; but the following passage is really interesting, and as a story of a "lost manuscript" worthy FORGUES, E. Mémoires et Relations politiques du to rank beside that of Carlyle's French Revolution burnt by Mrs. Taylor's servant. "In this savage solitude," continues Horne, "Orion" Horne was not the only English littérateur who thirty years ago voyaged to those hurricanes (a region, nevertheless, which may "this Blue Mountain of dark forests, rains, and Southern lands. The discovery of that magic some day suddenly become a widely populous metal, gold, caused a “rush" of brilliant but field of gold miners), without books-without briefless young barristers, and university men any society-impressed at times with a sense with literary tastes, who, when the " dig- of the precariousness of human life, amidst gings" fever had somewhat abated, settled horse-accidents, the fall of massive trees, or down to their legitimate callings, and have the evil chances of dark nights in localities done so much-especially for Victoria-socially abounding in water-holes, and deep mining-shafts TIETZE, E. Geologische Uebersicht v. Montenegro, and intellectually. Among these came a few in unexpected places, always left quite unproadventurous wights who thought to grow sud-tected-this Lyrical Drama was composed in the denly rich by exchanging the journalist's pen written for the most part during the night. When intervals of labour of a very different kind, and for the miner's pick. One light and airy spirit completed and copied with very great care, the FOERSTER, R. Dissertatio de translatione latina Physi named Frank Fowler appeared to be so en- manuscript was entrusted to a faithful but not inchanted with the Australia of a quarter of century fallible hand (at least as to bridle-hand since laid ago that he advised literary men to settle there cold in the grave), and it was lost in mist or bog, or forthwith, saying that they were sure to be got astray somewhere; so that I had to reproduce made Cabinet Ministers, and to receive pensions the entire MS. from my first rough draft notes, of a thousand a year, before they had time to old maps and fragments against time,' and recognise the fact that geographically they were upside down. Mr. Fowler, whose brochure was entitled Southern Lights, airily stated that one of its chapters was written " during a hurricane at sea," whereupon the Melbourne Punch-a vigorous offspring of its sturdy old Fleet Street parent-remarked :

"But the sailors never knew how Frank Was blowing a hurricane too." And here we have the origin of that favourite colonial phrase and practice which Anthony Trollope referred to in his parting advice to Victorians-"not to blow.” I mention Mr. Frank Fowler because his lucubrations caused "Orion" Horne, who could speak with authority, to reply, which he did in a sober and reliable book entitled Australian Facts and Prospects.

But Horne's mind was cast in an antique mould; and, whether he resided at the Blue Mountains or in Regent's Park, his thoughts were with the Elizabethan or still more frequently with the old Greek dramatists. He lived in the colony, but was no "colonial; and, with the exception of the book just named, and a cantata called "The South Sea Sisters,' his Australian publications differ in no wise from those he brought out in such profusion in England.

The eccentric Henry Tolman Dwight was of course his Melbourne publisher, and the little coterie were, perhaps, almost his only local

under other circumstances more adverse than those

attending its first composition."

MUELLER, L. Luciliana. Ueber einige Beiträge r

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There is no time even to glance at the
Lyrical Drama," which, to use his own words,
"he layed in the shadow of the statue of
Aeschylus-the shadow of his feet." Probably,
like all he so laboriously wrote, it will soon be MR.
utterly forgotten-a pathetic fate, if for a
moment we think of his high aims and his lofty
egotism.

Only I would maintain that his influence will
not die, and his spirit will be kept alive, not by
his own archaic poetry, "born out of its due
time," but by the impetus he gave to Australian
literature during those seventeen years of his
colonial life. Let us not forget that a national
literature, like a people's creed, is mainly tradi-
tional, and that "Orion " Horne did no slight
service in teaching "Young Australia," separated
by a world's width of water from the mother-
land, to revere her classic writers, and to con-
tinue in their traditions, rather than strive to
create an alien literature.

A. PATCHETT MARTIN.

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CHARLES READE'S STORY IN "HARPER'S.”

London: March 22, 1881. May I venture to call attention to a story entitled "The Picture," by Mr. Charles Reade, now appearing in Harper's Monthly, which bears a most extraordinary resemblance to Mdme. Charles Reybaud's Mademoiselle de Malepeirs, a one-volume novel published by Hachette at Paris in 1856? While the names of the characters are changed, the plot, so far as Mr. Reade's story has been yet published, is identical.

Mdme. Reybaud's novel, dated at the time of the French Revolution, is of a striking and quite original character. A young man, visiting at his uncle's house, is struck with a portrait of the beautiful heroine (Mdlle. de Malepeire, and learns her history from a friend of his uncle's, an old Marquis who was formerly betrothed to her. Filled with Republican ideas, she had married a peasant, and, after much consequent unhappiness, had killed him in disgust, and disappeared. A gaunt old woman, who had served the young man's uncle for some years, falling ill and dying, her confessor reveals the fact that she was Mdile. de Malepeire, and

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the announcement of her death and identity end
the story.

On comparing the two stories, the English
version, so far as yet published, though shorter
and slightly modified, is practically the same as
the French one. The scene in both is laid in
Provence, the descriptions of rooms and furni-
ture often coincide, the characters, events,
interviews, and dialogues follow the same lines.
I subjoin a few examples.

Page 5.

THE ACADEMY.

indeed, I have been credibly informed that
"the public" knows little of Horne's dramas.
I can only express my sincere sympathy with
the bellua multorum capitum in its deprivation,
as well as my (not too confident) hope that
something may yet occur to deliver it from the
parlous state which such ignorant indifference
would seem to argue. But the poetry is good |
poetry "for a' that."
RODEN NOEL.

ST. JOSEPH.

London: March 24, 1884.
There are a few curious dates in connexion

225

both names probably started from Tours ages
apart, and they have both accidentally become
neighbours at last. Martinhoe is one of a small
group of -hoes on the extreme sea-verge of North
Devon. The church has one of above twenty
surviving dedications to St. Martin that are scat-
tered over Devon and Cornwall. This dedication
came also, no doubt, from Tours, via Armorica,
into ancient Damnonia. Would Dr. Taylor tell
us what is the nationality of the -hoe which has
here attached itself to a primaeval Christian-
Celtic name?
THOMAS KErslake.

Des vases du Japon, Chinese vases, five feet toujours garnis de fleurs, high, and always filled surmontaient les en- with flowers, guarded coignures, et les boiseries the four corners of the peintes en gris encad- room; vast landscapes SYLVANECTE. La Cour impérialeraient quatre grandes were painted on the THEURIET, A. La Tante Aure. Pa toiles qui représentaient walls, and framed in Reformation English churches dedicated in his out that the statement to which I objected was

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des paysages historiques. panels of mellow oak.

Page 49.

"What have we here?"

and he drew out the little

THE DANES IN LINCOLNSHIRE.
London: March 24, 1884.

In reply to Mr. Taylor's letter, I must point that -um is "the Danish form of -ham." Mr. Taylor will probably agree with me that this is incorrect. I have not denied that the corrupof -ham into -um (so frequent in Germany and of many place-names in this country. Ulrome,

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"Que représente ce morceau de bois?" "Un pondit le Baron, "il a son fusil à la main." "Vous vous trompez, mon père, c'est un berger qui garde les troupeaux, appuyé sur son bâton."

Page 85.

Je m'approchai le I came forward with a
cœur palpitant; Mdlle. beating heart. She
de Malepeire mit sans put her hand in mine
hésiter sa main dans la without
moment's
mienne, et nous traver- hesitation,
sâmes ainsi l'église.

a

and

we marched down the aisle.

so far as the pronunciation is concerned, is a good instance in point. I believe, however, that the other Holderness names quoted by Mr. Taylor-Rysom and Newsom-can be proved to be locatives plural; and it appears from documentary evidence that the general tendency in England has been to corrupt an original -um

into -ham or -holm.

with St. Joseph's position in Western hagiology which tend to confirm a remark in the ACADEMY last week that there do not seem to be any prehonour. The earliest trace I have found of his festival in the West is an application made to Chancellor Gerson by the Chapter of Chartres to know how they ought to keep that festival, is a sportsman," said the implies that there was no office for the day having Marquis, "leaning_on his gun." You any authority, although he says that some day are blind, said Irène, or other in St. Joseph's honour is observed in "it is a shepherd lean- various foreign countries, notably in Germany; ing on his staff." and he suggests their availing themselves of a day in the Advent ember-season, when the Gospel and Breviary lessons of the day refer to St. Joseph, as the most convenient plan, because not requiring them to set aside or clash with the ferial office. The day was not inserted in the local Roman Kalendar till Sixtus IV. placed it there in 1474; and, even so, it had to wait till I might quote many more passages which 1621 before it was raised to festival rank by are equally parallel, but fear to trespass on Gregory XV. A constitution of the next Pope, your space. To say the least, as no acknow- Urban VIII., did something more for its observledgment is attached to the publication of ance; but the learned Jesuit Guyet, in his MORTELAY et VENDEYES, Mong Mr. Reade's story in Harper's, some explanation Heorologia, first issued at Paris in 1657, states, that it was scarcely observed then anywhere, PAUL, H. Ueb. Hautanpassung der die seems to be called for. [A correspondent of the New York Nation save where that constitution was received as (March 13) calls attention to the parallelism part of the Canon Law. The commemoration between Mr. Charles Reade's story and one that does not occur at all, unless I mistake, in the appeared, under the title of "The Portrait in old English uses, and the earliest appearance of of 1530; but it is retained in the Kalendar of ognomonicorum quae feruatur described as "from the French." A corre- the Elizabethan Preces Privatae of 1564. I may TORKINGTON'S AND GUYLFORDE'S PILGRIMAGES. Universitäts-Buchhandle. 1M spondent of the Boston Literary World had add that the feast is absent from the Kalendar previously (March 8) compared with it a story, of an Officium Diurnum of the Monks of St. Janes's Magazine for August 1867, which appears 1541, in my possession, while it appears as a Breviary of 1600, also in my library.

PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND PHEN

CAUER, F. De fabulis graecis al my Uncle's Dining-room," in the Month and it here that I know of is in a Sarum Enchiridion |

With regard to Barnsdale, Mr. Taylor agrees
with me that the name, linguistically con-
sidered, is of Anglian, not Danish, formation-
a fact which Mr. Streatfeild omitted to point
out. The personal name Beorn, from which
Barnsdale seems to be derived, was a genuine
English name, but, when occurring in Lincoln-
shire, it is most likely to be an adaptation of
the Danish Björn. The name Bjarni would, I
think, probably have been anglicised as Beorna,
in which case the modern form of the place-

name derived from it would have been Barn-
dale.
HENRY BRADLEY.

MUELLER, L. Luciliana. Ueber called "What the Papers Revealed," in the St. Justina (Benedictines of Monte Cassino), Venice, on reiterating the same statements; but, when

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CORRESPONDENCE

London: Ke
MR. CHARLES READE'S STORY D

same year under the title Where Shall He Find
Her? Miss Marshall, however, seems to deserve
the credit of having traced this multiform story
to its original source.-ED. ACADEMY.]

R. H. HORNE.

London: March 24, 1884.

RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE,

HYBRID PLACE-NAMES.

Bristol: March 24, 1881.

London: March 24, 1884. I have neither leisure nor inclination to go my facts are disallowed and my evidence misand only this once, again. Mr. Loftie has admitted resemblances between the book he edits and that of Guylforde's chaplain; he has, however, fallen into some astonishing and ludicrous blunders. With the two books before I beg leave to demur at the Rev. Isaac Tay-him he tells the readers of the ACADEMY, lor's reference (ACADEMY, March 22) of Combe Martin to a Celtic formation. 66 The Combe' of course is Celtic, as in the other instances, says are Teutonic formations; but as to the formation of " Combe-Martin,' I should have called it Norman. "Martin" is a sub-Norman family name, annexed to a Damnonian Cum (Cambrian Cum), being a Combe said to be granted by the Conqueror to a Martin de several generations. I will not risk an objection to the Teutonic formation of Ilfordcombe Ilfracombe, but Yarcombe is a combe by the river Yart (from which most likely the contiguous "Chard" also got its name, although Cerdic would perhaps be snatched by some etymologists). River-names are more likely to be Celtic, and both of these two other -combes are probably Celtic with Teutonic veneers and re-formations.

entitled "The Picture," by Mr. tone of your obituary notice of Mr. R. H. Ilfracombe and Yarcombe, which Dr. Taylor at Jaffa, and "the personal adventures through

acters are changed, the likely to be remembered by future generations Tours, and having belonged to Martins for be workynge dayly at the same Archynale in a

May I say that I was a little surprised at the
Horne especially at your apparent implication
that he would be remembered only by his
association with Mrs. Browning? With all my
love and reverence for Mrs. Browning, I hardly
think that probable. I have always felt that
R. H. Horne is one of the few modern poets
- at all events by the students of our litera-
ture as having written really good and
memorable poetry. I have never myself,
inded, been able thoroughly to sympathise
with the almost unqualified eulogium which
if I remember rightly) Edgar Poe once passed
upon "Orion," although there is assuredly
very much to admire in it. But in an age
singularly unfruitful in English dramatic
petry of a high order, Horne's "Cosmo de
Medici" and the "Death of Marlowe" stand
out as not unworthy of
Colombe's Birthday,"
a place beside
The Blot on the
Scutcheon," and "Pippa Passes." You men-
tion the poet's want of "popularity." And,

May I venture to call att now appearing in Harper's M a most extraordinary res Charles Reybaud's Made one-volume novel publistei '72 Paris in 1856 While the na Reade's story has been yet pall tical. Mdme. Reybaud's novel, dates" the French Revolution, is da quite original character. A ing at his uncle's house, is str of the beautiful heroine (M and learns her history fro uncle's, an old Marquis betrothed to her. Filled with she had married a peasant sequent unhappiness, had and disappeared. A gaunt had served the young man years, falling ill and dying, the fact that she was Mille

place that is in lengthe .M.lxxx fote, moo
than an. C. men and women that do no thynge
but dayly make ropes and cables."
Loftie explain how this is different from the same
words and numerals in his own edition? Will
he do so, too, for the accounts of the marriage
of the sea and the festival and the procession
on corporis Xpi day," and other things "the
processe and cerimonyes whereof were to longe
to wryte," all of which appear on pp. 8 and 9
of Sir H. Ellis's edition of Guylforde, and are
quoted, down to the misspelling of a Latin word

-Domini for Dominii-in Mr. Loftie's own

edition of Torkington? The account of Corfona supplies an amusing example of ancient