comprising the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Duke of Argyll, the Bishop of St. Albans, and several of the young members of the Marquis's family. THE forthcoming number of the Archaeological Journal will contain the following papers:-"The Architectural History of the Cluniac Priory of St. Pancras at Lewes," by Mr. W. H. St. John Hope; "Traces of Teutonic Settlements in Sussex, as illustrated by Land Tenure and Place-names," by Mr. F. E. Sawyer; "Some Pottery, Flint Weapons, and other Objects from British Honduras," by Sir Henry Lefroy; "Saxon Remains in Minster Church, Isle of Sheppey," by Mr. J. Park Harrison; the Address to the Antiquarian Section at the Lewes meeting, by Gen. Pitt-Rivers; and "The Friar-Preachers of Kings Lynn," by Rev. C. F. R. Palmer. THE Cambridge Antiquarian Society contemplates the publication of a catalogue of the portraits belonging to the university and the colleges, which should embody all the information available concerning each picture. It is proposed to begin with the pictures believed to have been painted before 1600 or 1650; and, with the object of submitting them first to critical examination, it is suggested that they should be collected and exhibited together during some portion of next term in the Fitzwilliam Museum. MESSRS. TOOTH are just issuing to the public what will be regarded as an exceptionally successful photogravure of a work which deserved the best of all possible reproductions-M. Eugène de Blaas's subtle picture "A Flirtation," which was among the most legitimate attractions of the Royal Academy. No one of the band of artists devoting themselves to the glowing and picturesque chronicle of the daily life of Venice has succeeded better than de Blaas in uniting the record of character and feeling with that of colour and line, and "A Flirtation is assuredly as yet an unsurpassed instance of his skill. In attitude, gesture, and facial expression it is, in reality, dramatic, while at the same time restrained and reticent. The successful reproduction in black and white of an artist whom many have valued chiefly as Joseph's coat was valued-for its rich and many colours--will prove how much talent there is in the modern genre painters of Venice over and above that which is due to the riches of their palette. FRENCH JOTTINGS. THE election of the forty jurors for the Salon has given rise to some bad feeling. MM. audry, Jules Breton, and de Neuville (none of whom were among the first thirty) have all three resigned, on the ground that the small number of votes they received implied want of confidence. M. Henner was elected at the head of the list; but the jurors have appointed M. Bouguereau to be president of their body, and MM. Cabanel, Bonnat, and Busson to be vicepresidents. It is noteworthy that M. Bastien Lepage only comes in in the place of one of those who have resigned. THE difficulty caused by the proposal of the Government to hold the national or triennial Salon at the same time of the year-May and June as the ordinary Salon has by no means yet been settled. The committee of artists threaten to have their exhibition next year abroad-possibly in London. OUR Paris correspondent writes:"The painter M. J.-F. Raffaelli has opened an exhibition of his most recent works at a shop in the Avenue de l'Opéra, which has been well received by the critics and thronged by the public. It consists, for the most part, of sketches taken in the environs of Paris, where houses begin to give way to open country. The figures introduced are treated in the same lively style as by Mr. C. Keen, of Punch. M. Raffaelli has written the Preface to his own Catalogue, consisting of a study of the aesthetics of humour. He is the founder of an 'école du Beau caractériste.' 999 A MASTERPIECE of Puget, the famous French sculptor of the seventeenth century, has been accidentally found by M. Le Breton, and sented by him to the Rouen Museum, of which he is the curator. It represents Hercules destroying the Hydra; and, though much mutilated, the greater number of the fragments have been recovered and put in their place. have been heard at the Crystal Palace and Herr Dvorák appeared last Saturday at the Crystal Palace concert, and conducted two more of his compositions. The first was a Notturno for strings (op. 45), a short but dainty movement: bass is placed a net-work of tender, plaintive over a pedal bass and afterwards a "ground" melodies. The music is simple and pleasing, yet most ingeniously constructed, and the piece will certainly become a favourite with the public. The Scherzo capriccioso (op. 66), written for a very large orchestra, is a brilliant piece of writing; the themes speak to us of merry Gipsies, but the hand of the artist has ennobled them by skilful harmonies, effective developments, and charmWe will not call it a ing orchestration. great work, but it is one which will induce the pre-when in a loftier and more serious mood. The public to listen attentively to the composer Scherzo was received most enthusiastically. Afterwards Mr. J. W. Winch sang the two Gipsy songs mentioned above in connexion with the Philharmonic concert; at the Palace he Als die alte Mutter" was encored. Mdlle. Janotha was accompanied by the composer. The gave a very good performance of Schumann's Pianoforte Concerto, and afterwards played some Chopin solos. Mozart's "Prague "Symphony commenced the concert, and the "William Tell" Overture formed a brilliant and satisfactory close. DR. J. P. RICHTER's recent book on the National Gallery forms the subject of an appreciative notice by M. G. Frizzoni in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The same number contains an etching after Manet's "Le Buveur d'Eau," by H. Guérard. THE excavations in Tunis undertaken by M. Reinach for the French Government have teen life-size coloured marble statues of the yielded interesting results. At El-Kantara third century A.D. have been recovered; at Babelon a number of inscriptions, three statues of Roman magistrates, and a fine head of Augustus, "voilé en pontife;" and at Zian a forum surrounded by large porticoes. MUSIC. RECENT CONCERTS. THE Philharmonic Society gave its third concert on Thursday evening, March 20. We wish the directors would follow the excellent example set by Herr Richter, and have shorter programmes; or, at any rate, they might place the novelties and works of special interest first. The other evening everyone was, of course, anxious to hear Herr Dvorák conduct his compositions, but first came Beethoven's "Leonore" No. 3, an air from "Freyschütz," and Mendelssohn's Concerto in G minor. All three pieces were conducted by Mr. George Mount. Mdlle. Janotha gave a finished and brilliant performance of the Concerto. Dvorák's new Overture "Husitská" is one of his latest works: it was written for the opening last year of the Bohemian Theatre at Prague. The composer, mindful of the occasion, made use of a portion of an old Hussite hymn, and thus attracted his audience to an important epoch in the history of their country. The music is exceedingly interesting, and the orchestration ingenious; the themes do not strike us as being particularly original, but they are presented in an attractive manner and developed with skill and, at the same time, great clearness. The Hussite hymn, or rather a portion of it, occupies a prominent part in the introduction and middle section of the Overture. The concluding section is very brilliant. The work was received with much applause. Besides the Overture, Herr Dvorák conducted his Symphony in D (op. 60) and his charming Slavonic Rhapsody in G (op. 45, No. 2), both of which The Bach Choir gave their first concert this Hall. The principal feature of the programme season last Wednesday evening at St. James's wss Palestrina's famous Mass," Assumpta est Maria," for six-part chorus and solos. The vocalists were Miss M. Davies and Miss E. Lemmens, Mdme. Fassett and Miss Hilda Wilson, and Messrs. Frost, Kenningham, and Kempton. They all did full justice to the music, and the chorus singing was excellent. The Bach Society is doing a useful work in reviving the musical treasures of the sixteenth century. In 1585 Palestrina wrote a Mass which did not please Pope Sixtus V., and called from him the remark, "Pierluigi has forgotten. The composer the Missa Papae Marcelli.""" at once set to work, and produced the "Maria" Mass, which ranks, and most justly, as one of his masterpieces. For our own part, we much There is prefer it to the more celebrated one. more variety in it, and greater depth of feeling. To modern ears some of the harmonies sound strange, and at times even harsh; but there is a simplicity, a solemnity, a spirituality, about the music which make a powerful impression. Palestrina devoted all the resources of his art to the service of religion. The Mass, of course, in a concert-room loses much of its effect; we miss the necessary surroundings-the sacred edifice, the dim lights, the mystic ceremonies, and especially the breaks between the movements. The programme contained, besides, two interesting Motetts by Wesley and Eccard; Mr. C. V. 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Less than a single decade ago the mud and march forth in armies after the retreatas they emerge from their holes in the black Congo basin was still an almost complete ing tide, rushing at the garbage strewn upon blank on our maps, at least beyond the lower the ooze, and devouring everything devourable reaches as far as Yellala Falls, visited early with unflagging appetite. Then, as the step of in the century by Capt. Tucker. But since a human being approaches, they scuttle back to the memorable expedition of Stanley from their many burrows of divers size and depth, Nyangwé to its mouth, a large portion of the and appear and disappear so rapidly that they western region watered by the great artery It is great fun to intercept an unfortunate landseem like some formal illusion of the zoetrope.' has been thrown open to European enterprise. crab on the way back to his burrow. He knows The international colonisation scheme pro- perfectly well which is his, and would immemoted by the King of the Belgians, and ener-diately make for it; but if you urge and getically conducted by Stanley himself, exasperate him, and poke him up with your promises in a few years to change the whole stick (not carrying your humour so far as to aspect of the country. The Congo is already hurt the poor crustacean), he will in despair navigated by steam-launches, good roads have try to enter the retreat of one of his fellows, who been constructed along its banks, trading will so smartly and spitefully repel him that stations have been founded at several points you may out of pity stand aside and let him on the central plateau beyond the influence of Sometimes a large crab will make for too small race off to his own hole and pop down in a trice. the malarious coastlands, friendly treaties a burrow and get stuck at the opening, in which have been concluded with the native chiefs, case, brought to bay, he uses his unequal-sized and, for the first time, the better features of claws like a boxer, shielding himself with one Western culture have been introduced in an and nipping with the other” (p. 339). unaggressive form to the African aborigines. The trip of which the present volume forms an instructive and entertaining record was undertaken in the autumn of the year 1882, for the purpose of visiting the pioneers engaged in this useful work and studying the natural history and ethnology of a region which has entered on a state of transition from the lowest savagery to the first phases of a higher culture. Mr. Johnston, a young man of remarkable scientific attainments, and a devoted student especially of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, has executed his selfimposed task in a highly satisfactory manner. Although no new regions have been explored, those visited by him, lying mainly along the course of the Congo as far as Bólóbó, some four hundred miles from its mouth, have been carefully surveyed and described directly from In fact, nearly the whole book is reproduced from notes jotted down on the spot, while the numerous illustrations are photographs from the drawings of the author, who displays rare skill in his sketches of plants, animals, and human types. nature. The plan of the work is excellent, and might with advantage be more generally adopted by writers of books of travel in new or little-known regions. It consists practically of two parts, the first being devoted to a graphic account of the journey itself, with its more salient and characteristic incidents, the second embodying an able summary of the author's general conclusions regarding the climate, natural history, and ethnology of the In his account of the friendship developed "a multitude of lovely forms, water-birds and generally of the West Coast south of the Of the inhabitants of the Lower Congo, and equator, the traveller speaks on the whole favourably. The great bulk of the natives in this region belong, at least in speech, to the Bantu family, which occupies nearly all the southern half of the continent, and which, with a few isolated exceptions, seems to hold a distinctly higher position socially and intellectually than the Negro people of Sudan and Upper Guinea. The physical type varies Mr. Johnston's numerous life-like studies of enormously, as is abundantly evident from heads, some of which are scarcely superior to the Ashanti of Guinea, while others, such as the Bi-yansi of the inland plateau, might almost be taken for members of the Hamitic family as represented by the Gallas and dent that the Bantus should not be spoken of, Somalis of the East Coast. Hence it is evidivision of mankind. Like "Aryan" in the as is constantly done, as a distinct ethnical Northern hemisphere, this term "Bantu" in the South is scientifically a linguistic rather than an ethnical expression; but it is, nevertheless, so far racial that it implies everywhere a greater or less infusion of Hamitic blood by which the Negro substratum has and morally raised perceptibly above the been physically modified in diverse degrees, normal Negro standard. These views are not formally expressed by Mr. Johnston, but they may be inferred from the materials supplied in his valuable chapter on the peoples of the Congo basin. Of these tribes he always speaks in a kindly way, and appears to have Europeans than he had anticipated. Here is invariably found them better disposed towards a delightful picture of their attitude towards Christianity, which devoted missionaries are endeavouring to introduce at Pallaballa and some of the other stations established on the Lower Congo: "The people of Pallaballa may be said to patronise Christianity-a religion which, in my opinion, they are in their present mental condition totally unfitted to understand. When Kongo-Mpaka's house, some twenty or thirty the missionary holds a Sunday service in King idlers look in, in a genial way, to see what is going on, much as we might be present at any of their ceremonies. They behave very well, and imitate, with that exact mimicry which only the negro possesses, all our gestures and actions, so that a hasty observer would conclude they They were really touched by the service. kneel down with an abandon of devotion, ventral enthusiasm. clasp their hands, and say 'Amen' with a deep The missionary, on the occasion that I accompanied him, gave a short sermon in Fiote, well expressed considering the little time he had been studying the language. The King constantly took up the end of some phrase, and repeated it with patronising interest after the missionary, just to show how he was attending, throwing, meanwhile, a furtive glance at his wives, who were not pursuing their avocations outside with sufficient diligence. A short prayer concluded the service, and when the King rose from his knees he promptly demanded the loan of a hand In 2 vols. thenceforth they shall have no voice in the condition. Some explanation may be found alone. This little island is but the centre, the Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott of Abbots- nucleus, of a mighty empire; and, therefore, ford. By Robert Ornsby. when the noble-minded and pious Bishop of Calcutta shall have established the cathedral (Murray.) which he is now founding, when he shall for it have denied himself the conveniences of life, and at his death shall have left his church joint heir with his own blood, then some modern idolatries of the East, will cite the precedent of reformer will arise, will point to the gross this unhappy measure, and will seize upon the foundation of this pious man, then gone to his rest, and will scatter it in miserable handfuls over the vast plain of India. THE position which Mr. Hope-Scott held for many years at the Parliamentary Bar has perhaps never been surpassed, and it is unquestionably as a successful advocate and as "James Hope" that he will be remembered outside the circle which enjoyed his personal friendship. But those who knew him best were well aware that he was much more than a learned lawyer and a popular pleader, and Mr. Gladstone goes so far as to say that he was at the head of all his contemporaries in the brightness and beauty of his gifts. The incidents of his life were few, and, in their bearing on the world around him, comparatively unimportant. He was a long time making up his mind what profession he should follow, wavering between law and divinity with an irresolution easy (in his case) to understand. But at the early age of twenty-eight he had made his mark; and the speech which he delivered before the Bar of the House of Lords in defence of cathedral establishments raised him at once to a lofty position. Brougham, who heard him throughout, declared emphatically, "That young man's fortune is made;" and even Lyndhurst (who, we are told, never allowed anything not even an archangel-to interfere with his meals) forgot, in listening, the arrival of his dinner-hour. One passage from this celebrated speech must be given, not merely as a specimen of his oratory, but also as showing the bias of his mind. He spoke well on that occasion because he spoke from the heart. After characterising the proposed alienation of funds from their original object as a breach of national faith, he went on to urge the disastrous results of such action in these terms: "It is not only for the past you will be acting. In adopting this Bill you will act also for the future. You will tell the people of this country that, in respect of any property with which it may please God to entrust them-any property they may acquire by inheritance, by gift, or by industry-that property they may waste in folly, in vanity, and in sin, so long as they do not break any of the laws of the realin. You will tell them that in respect of this same property they are welcome, in England, to settle it for a certain number of years upon their descendants, in order that they may make a like use of it, and that in the northern parts of this kingdom they may tie it up for the same purposes as long as trees stand and waters flow.' You will tell them, I say, that all this is open to them; but that if they dare to be unselfish; if they dare to lift their eyes from the ground on which they stand; above all, if they presume to offer anything to the majesty of Almighty God, that No doubt there is a good deal of rhetoric in this appeal, and this was not the characteristic of the speaker's usual style of advocacy. Emotion of any kind is out of place in a committee room and in the nice conduct of a railway Bill. But there is evidence enough to show that, if Mr. Hope-Scott had been fired by ambition and had been called to take part in the great council of the nation, he would have exercised by his oratory no inconsiderable influence over his hearers. His mien, his manner, his command of language, and his acuteness of judgment seem to have fitted him especially for high office in the State; but, says one who knew him well, "his indifference to the prizes of life was as marked as his qualifications for carrying them off." Hence, in the biography before us, we are not invited to follow the progress of a great public career, but rather the workings of a very noble mind amid the perplexities of life. He was at Oxford at the time when the great Catholic movement took place. His own feelings were deeply and permanently affected by it. Alike by taste and circumstances imbued with ecclesiastical lore, and numbering among his most intimate friends and constant correspondents Newman and Manning and Pusey, it is not surprising that he should have been attracted by much that he saw, or thought he saw, in the Church of Rome. What does surprise one is that, when "the great luminary, Dr. Newman, drew after him the third part of the stars of heaven,'" he was not among them, and that it was not until the year 1851 the final step was taken. He told his old friend and tutor, Edward Coleridge, that he was "constrained by the example of that glorious man J. H. N.," to whom he was almost spellbound; and his own letters abundantly prove that, while confident enough in his own judgment in other matters, he felt-as others similarly circumstanced have felt the want of guidance and authority in matters of faith. Writing to Mr. Gladstone in 1845, he says, "It is my nature to require some broad view for my guidance, and, since Anglicanism has lost this aspect to me, I am restless and ill at ease." The marvel is that he should have remained for six years in this painful detail. The biography of a man whose beauty of character was so rare and whose gifts of mind were so great cannot fail to be of interest; but that interest is, in this instance, much enhanced by the letters from distinguished contemporaries with which the editor has been permitted to enrich these memoirs. CHARLES J. ROBINSON. ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURI. English Literature, 1509-1625. By Ellen Crofts. (Rivingtons.) Prologue and Epilogue in English Literature from Shakspere to Dryden. By G. C. B. (Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.) THE ideal history of English literature in the sixteenth century, for which some of us are looking to ten Brink, and others to Prof. Morley, is long in appearing. Single chapters have been ably treated; but most of those who have set foot in the territory have either contented themselves with a light and rapid excursion across it, or have lost themselves in the jungle of minute facts, or else have lingered in some pleasant wayside inn, where the heat and dust are excluded, and the old poetic wine tastes well. Miss Crofts has done none of these three things; her book is an honest, able, and fairly comprehensive study of the period; and, though it certainly cannot fill the gap, it will make the gap somewhat less felt. We proceed to offer some suggestions. while The account of Euphuism might, we think, be improved. Following Prof. Morley and Charles Kingsley, the author takes the more sympathetic view of this much maligned movement, which refuses to identify it with one of the crudest of literary fashions. The term has dropped in some degree its meanness as well as its precision, and become a new expression for what is somewhat vaguely spoken of as "Elizabethan chivalry;" John Lyly, "raffineur de l'anglois," puts on new honours as a fellow-labourer of Sidney and Spenser. Without demurring to this view, we should like to have his relation to them more precisely stated. The "Elizabethan chivalry" which glows in Spenser's hymns and in the less visionary enthusiasm of Shakspere's Biron, the worship of women as the inspirers of the highest life, is far from being the teaching of Euphues. Apart from some obviously insincere hyperbole, there is nothing even in the second book which recalls it. It was not in the school of Petrarch or of chivalric romances or of the Phaedrus that Lyly had chiefly learned, but in that of the Guevaran Marcus Aurelius, of Plutarch and Roger Ascham-men who can hardly be said to have drawn such "Promethean fire" as they possessed from "women's eyes." The C n of e C a a S ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXT s English Literature, 1509-165 THE ideal history of English hsixteenth century, for whith se 1 looking to ten Brink, and Morley, is long in appearing. have been ably treated; b who have set foot in the term contented themselves with a excursion across it, or have lost S n S the jungle of minute facts, or and dust are excluded, and the APRIL 5, 1884.-No. 622.1 wise and humane "Scholemaster," more par- and height, and his best service was in sitting The treatment of the drama is relatively sphere of education, but from Plutarch's in prologue and epilogue. The period from We cannot leave the book without hinting that the lecturer's licence of indiscriminate quotation from standard works has been far too largely used. Shades of well-known figures flit continually before us as we wander on from the Italian Renaissance to the Oxford Humanists, and thence to the literature of the drama and Shakspere's Mind and Art. And they are usually invoked by that somewhat puerile formula" As Mr. says," in which patronage is finely mingled with discipleship. In a second edition, the author should supply references to all these passages, and largely curtail their number. Such reference is especially needed at p. 217, where a famous passage of Guizot is copied word for word from Prof. Ward's translation of it (Eng. Dr. sure that the omis these three things; her bock porary Day-John Marston-is summarily Lit., i. 495n.). The account of Euphuism English books on English literature, when they do not taste of the lecture-room, sense exactly does the "blood and bombast" zine; and "G. C. B.'s" little monograph usually a decided flavour maga The Scourge of Christendom. Annals of British Ir may be safely assumed that few of the be improved. Following Pr style of Marston differ from that of, say, Kyd | speaks as plainly of the latter source as Miss large number of English visitors who winter Charles Kingsley, the author is that the one should be classed in the "de- Croft's comprehensive sketch does of the in Algiers have any true conception of the sympathetic view of this cline," as the other is in the "immaturity," former. In the orthodox college lecture the extent of the political relations of Great Smovement, which refuses to of the drama? Or was he necessarily of the subject is an outline which the detailed facts Britain with that city. term has dropped in some deviously attained perfection? Upon Beaumont article it is the thread from which they hang. events, such as the invasion of Charles V., 1 as well as its precision, and b and Fletcher Miss Crofts follows the convenient One excellence of "G. C. B.'s" book lies in servitude of Cervantes, Exmouth's bombard one of the crudest of literary s "decline" because someone else had pre are applied to fill up; in the effective magazine tradition that they were indistinguishably the festoons and tassels of interesting facts them more precisely stated failures." The passionate outbreak of Archas the play, their form, length, and price, the| expression for what is s spoken of as "Elizabethan c John Lyly, "raffineur de l'age new honours as a fellow-libe and Spenser. Without dem view, we should like to here chivalry" which glows in and in the less visionary ent tspere's Biron, the worship inspirers of the highest life. the teaching of Epha 12" obviously insincere hyperb even in the second book wh fwas not in the school d chivalric romances or Lyly had chiefly learned Guevaran Marcus AurelisRoger Ascham-men who 7 to have drawn such "Pr they possessed from “w Their knowledge probably seldom extends beyond a few historic ment, and the French conquest. Yet the records of the past as given in Col. Playfair's volume abound in interest of the most varied nature, and contain much historical matter that deserves study, though it is frequently most unpleasant to the patriotic Englishman. The book contains an almost unbroken recital of folly and fatuity on the part of the English Government, the most shameful indignities suffered by their agents, and the unspeakable horrors of a form of slavery to which the much abused Southern States of America can offer no parallel. The revelations of diplomatic incompetency are almost incredible, and can be read by no Englishman without a sense of humiliation. Compared with these annals of corrupt treaties and scandalous compacts, Mr. Broadley's recent exposé of our diplomacy in Tunis is quite agreeable reading. What makes our supineness and long-suffering the more surprising is the fact, patent to |