ever beautiful and ingenious such compositions may be, have no resemblance to the realities of chess, and in no way strengthen the student for the practise of the game. Some of the positions even in this book are in fact problems, and not end games at all. The last position in the book, No. 201 of the advanced end games, is an easy problem-to mate in seven moves-and differs only from the fashionable problem of the day in being natural in its character, and not difficult of solution. The position at p. 234 is of the same calibre, and such positions are rather chess curiosities than end games; they are examples of the power of position, through which the weaker force can sometimes obtain an accidental victory. The real end game consists of a position where the method can be analytically demonstrated by which the slightly superior force can win. Positions 3, 5, and 6 of the queen against rook and pawn are perfect examples of studies of this description; and the practical player who will thoroughly master these, those in both the classes of kings and pawns, and queen against pawns, will find an addition to his strength not obtainable from ordinary practice, or any other form of book study. The book is got up by Mr. Wade with his usual excellence, and at a moderate price places at the disposal of the student a real treasury of learning in this most important, and hitherto most neglected, branch of chess. Certainly no chess club should be without it; and I can confidently recommend its purchase to every amateur who wishes to become a scientific player, and to be able to maintain to the end of a contest the advantage secured sometimes by hours of hard play, and often thrown away from sheer ignorance of detail. which correspond to vers. 108-10, xph Tŵv ȧyabŵv diavaioμévwv. Would anyone be able to guess that the metre was anapaestic? To the writer of two trochees followed by two dactyls and a this notice the first lines seemed to represent long syllable, whereas the intended scansion is “ Needs must | hẽ thăn wor | thị inhāp | pỹ men all," a rhythm which it is almost an impossibility to read into the English words. Take again the pathetic words given to the child Eumelos, 393 and 99ἰώ μοι τύχας· μαῖα δὴ κάτω βέβακεν· οὐκέτ ̓ ἔστιν, ὦ πάτερ, ὑφ ̓ ἁλίῳ. προλιπούσα δ ̓ ἐμὸν βίον ὠρφάνισεν τλάμων. "Oh, cru[el] is my lot! Mammy now below's lot "-e.g., 66 My life, orphan am I! Poor dear!" been better conveyed than by "Oh! cruel is my Surely the dochmiac i uo Túxas might have Alas! this my lot," or, "Alas! cruel hap." And, granting that from a child Mammy" is natural, and closely reproduces uaia, might it not have been introduced more skilfully-e.g., "Mammy dear below's"? Nor can the elision of g in abandonin, an artifice much repeated, be safely recommended to future aspirants in this painful and little remunerative field of poetry. Thus much by way of objection. Other passages are far more felicitous, and sometimes even pleasing. This is "H. B. L.'s" version of èyà al dià μovσas :— "I've well search'd thro' the Mousai, Phoibos, who pluck'd 'em al' which the iambic portions a favourable specimen is the following: "From boughs of flow'ring myrtles stripping bloom and leaves Having performed the pleasing task of bear-Of ing my testimony to the great merit of Mr. Horwitz' labours, I regret to be obliged to point out that the portion of the work that has not already appeared in the Chess Monthly is unfortunately marred by too many errors of the press. In a necessarily cursory examination, I have noticed errors of type in two of the positions, and the solutions are often incorrectly printed. The experienced player will at once detect them, but they are often the source of much trouble and annoyance to young players; and it is a great pity they have been allowed to disfigure an otherwise admirable book. JAMES INNES MINCHIN. CURRENT LITERATURE. Alcestis of Euripides, by H. B. L. (Bentley), is one of those tours de force which, however interesting as experiments, can never expect to win more than a partial recognition, even in Germany, where they have been executed most elaborately. In this translation into English of the Alcestis, the Greek metres have been reproduced line for line-not only the iambics, but the anapaestic and other lyrical rhythms; and, as is inevitable, the language assumes too often very strange contortions, and words or forms are admitted which are well adapted for the purposes of scansion, but have no proper place in a version which aims at a solemn or dignified effect. Take the lines ascribed by "H. B. L." to the "First Precentor "Needs must he than worthy unhappy Men all Grieve more who's been Paragon held-e'en from a youngster," To shrines and altars all in King Admetos' house She went, festooning, crowning, off'ring ardent pray'rs Without a tear, a sigh, or moan, nor did disease So close impending change her fair complexion's bloom. Then tow'rds her sleeping chamber bending eager steps, She there shed bitter tears, and thus in anguish spoke. And all Domestics wept within the house who were, Their Mistress dear bewailing; she her fair right hand Stretch'd out to each; and none there were, however low, To whom she did not speak nor gain an answer Twelve Sonnets and an Epilogue. By T. compliment can be paid them in the eyes of Snatches of "Troutliterary fishermen. dimpled pool, bright beck and sighing sedge," and "bay of otter-hounds;" blend with "the nightingale's sweet cadence" "While Maudlin, through the meadows within hail, Trips to the music of her milking pail," and pleasantly recalls the immortal pages of The Compleat Angler. Indeed, each sonnet deals with topics dear to all devotees of the Waltonian cult. Here we are introduced to Walton's books, "Quarles, Sibbes, quaint brotherhood; " here Lea-side and "Totnam Hill," haunts of another studious soul, Charles Lamb, whose fame is also very dear to Mr. Westwood; and, yet again, Walton and Cotton's Fishery House is celebrated. The author's heart, whether as angler, poet, or lover of books, beats in perfect sympathy with that of his Master. Future ages of anglers will join our own in thanking him for his pleasantly written, acute investiga the life and literary history of Walton. He tions into the minutest points connected with has never commemorated the angling patriarch more gracefully than in these sonnets. An introductory sonnet is fitly bestowed on Mr. Satchell, his indefatigable coadjutor in all that pertains to angling literature. The Epilogue, which in this season, when all anglers are be taking themselves to their craft, will at once go straight to their hearts, may fitly adorn our own pages. It is addressed to the First Edition of The Compleat Angler, published in 1653 in St. Dunstan's Church Yard, a little volume which is the Palladium of all bookloving fishermen lucky enough to possess it :What, not a little word for thee, O little tome, Brown-jerkined, friendly-faced-of all my books The one that wears the quaintest, kindliest Seems most completely, cosily at home, The story-how, in sixteen fifty three, And how he stared and shook his sides with One story, this, which fact or fiction weaves. And twenty ballads round thee on the wall." Mr. Westwood deserves a Horatian compliment as we bid him farewell for the present. If Walton's renown shall be perpetual, of his great admirer it may be said "Illum aget penna metuente solvi Indian Lyrics. By W. Trego Webb. (Thacker.) author is acquainted with the mechanism of This nicely got-up volume shows that the the Muses' mill, and has encountered its exi gencies with much resolution and energy. His subjects, however, are of a nature more calculated for the meridian of Bengal than for that of Greenwich, ranging from sonnets on Indian servants to rhymes of "the P. and O." These not very interesting topics are treated with sobriety, decorum, and for the most partcorrectness; though we have observed one or two such rhymes as “ marauder—order, ""collar wallah." A fair specimen of Mr. Webb's art is the sonnet to the Taj Mahal at Agra, of which we give the first quatrain :"Thou miracle of marble! who can paint Thy glorious dome and goodly towers that rise Against the clear blue of these cloudless skies In snow-white splendour, pure without a taint?" Another not ungraceful specimen will be found at p. 110, the subject being the calamity that overwhelmed, in September 1880, a number of the visitors at the gay and picturesque sani T Trips to the music of her m to and pleasantly recalls the ne Compleat Angler. Indeed 93 with topics dear to all devote cult. Here we are introdest books, "Quarles, Sibbes, quint here Lea-side and "Totham E another studious soul, Charles fame is also very dear to Mr. Wear yet again, Walton and Cotton F is celebrated. The author's bar angler, poet, or lover of books b sympathy with that of his Ysz ages of anglers will join our him for his pleasantly written vetions into the minutest points y the life and literary history has never commemorated the ang more gracefully than in these es introductory sonnet is fitly bet re Satchell, his indefatigable or pertains to angling literature. ce which in this season, when all taking themselves to their craft. straight to their hearts, may It is addressed re C own pages. Edition of The Compleat Auger Deutsche Liebe (German Love): Fragments from the Papers of an Alien. Collected by F. Max Müller. (Sonnenschein.) The title-page of this little book states that in Germany it has already passed through six editions. scarcely think that a like happy future awaits it in England, though we believe this is not quite its first appearance among us. is, the story (if such it may be termed) appeals The truth to a vein of sentiment which is rather thin in our countrymen and country women. Youthful imaginations which have been fed upon a liberal diet of Charlotte Yonge and Florence Montgomery will regard the recollections of youth as wanting in interest and truth, or, at any rate, un-English. play-room! With us it is to be feared that Communism in the Four in St. Dunstan's Caurti 1613me which is the & he is pleased to call the philosophy of whist probabilities, is curious, and, to some extent, interesting. Philosophy is Dr. Pole's name for elaborate arithmetical calculations; and, while it is doubtful if practical play can ever be influenced by such, there is interest in the fact that they burgh: David Douglas.) Mr. Burroughs, we Wake-Robin. By John Burroughs. (Edinsupport to a certain extent the principles and trust, is no longer in need of being introduced always amuse the lover of arithmetical problems, he won our good-will by his kindly appreciation, practice of modern play. Such calculations will to the English public. In his Winter Sunshine labour and attention upon them; and in these selves. This volume seems to have been written and it is clear that Dr. Pole has devoted much not only of our birds, but also of our noble everything that is original in his present book some eighteen years ago, before he had ever is to be found. Perhaps the most interesting heard his first nightingale. It will be consoling to bad players to learn it as a delightful companion to those who may calculation of this kind is on the value of skill. only with American birds, we can recommend Though it deals that this, when calculated on a tolerably ex-be starting at the present season for a few days tended range of statistics, is made to come out in the country. They must be charmed with its at one-fifth of a point per rubber, an advantage literary form, and they may learn from it the which a persistent holder of good cards can art of observation. But why does Mr. Burroughs well afford to give to a less lucky antagonist. strive so studiously to make his titles meaningless? series, which now numbers some thirty-six volTHE latest addition to the "Golden Treasury' by the Rev. W. Benham (Macmillan). Cowper umes, is a Selection from Cowper's Letters, edited has not been fortunate in all who have joined But Mr. Benham, as those who are acquainted their names with his in the last few years. with the "Globe" Cowper know well, not only has the poet's life and works at his fingers' ends, but also is aware of what an editor should do and should not do. He has here contented himself with prefixing a brief Introduction, which does little more than introduce us to the letters in chronological order, and collating Cowper's correspondents, and with arranging loving fishermen lucky enough to school-life does not check its development. We fancy that it will be a surprise to many to find what a strain of gaiety-and even of fun this. The Beaconsfield Birthday Book. (Longmans.) MR. DOUGLAS has also sent us an edition of critics may be entrapped into noticing as a new Thoreau's Walden, which we fear some luckless book, for it bears no indication that it is not haps they will be warned by the battered condisuch, either on title-page or in Preface. Pertion of the plates, which look as if they might have served for the original edition of 1854. No contrast could be more striking with the work of Messrs. Constable, who have printed the great majority of the Edinburgh series of "American Authors." Wake-Robin, noticed above, we infer manufacture. from various indications to be of American SEVERAL additions have been made to the list of those upon whom honorary degrees will be conferred at the tercentenary of Edinburgh NOTES AND NEWS. University next week. Among the new names are Mr. J. A. Froude, Lord O'Hagan, and Col. H. Yule. And how he stared and shook tion to ardent passion that German silver does characters and those that he used most sparingly Oriental Institute, towards which we believe glee. One story, this, which fact or frie Meanwhile, adorn my shelf, bel Old book! with lavender betwee And twenty ballads round te 8 Mr. Westwood deserves a Horstit as we bid him farewell for the Walton's renown shall be perp admirer it may be said h to the genuine metal. Are we to find the interpretation of the term in the following words, which, coming as they do from the author's heart, give to the book a value which we gratefully recognise? " "My native land has become strange to me, and the land of the stranger has become my home. But her love has remained to me, and, as a tear falls into the sea, so has my love to her fallen into the living sea of humanity, penetrating and embracing millions-millions of those strangers whom I have loved so well from my childhood." The Philosophy of Whist Play. By William Pole. (De La Rue.) This little treatise is divided into two parts, of which the first, which is absolutely devoid of any pretensions to originality, repeats the principles of whist play laid down by Clay and Cavendish, and claims for that system of play the title of Philosophical," as compared with the empirical practice of the game which it has superseded. There is nothing in this part which has not been said before with equal clearness; and the practical suggestions, while sound enough, are utterly unredeemed by that genuine humour which raised the little Treatise on Whist by Pembridge to the region of high art. Dr. Pole repeats with solemn dignity the precepts of his predecessors in a way that is not likely to make them more impressive in the case of the careless and ignorant; Pembridge, by a flash of wit, succeeds in stamping on the recollection of his reader a principle, which ought to have some result, even in the practice of a fool. The second part of Dr. Pole's little book, which "Illum aget penna metentes Fama superstes Indian Lyrics. By W. Trego Tell This nicely got-up volume s author is acquainted with the the Muses' mill, and has eno gencies with much resolution and subjects, however, are of a nat lated for the meridian of Beag of Greenwich, ranging from se servants to rhymes of "the P not very interesting topics sobriety, decorum, and-fort correctness; though we have two such rhymes as “marauder -wallah." A fair specimen of is the sonnet to the Taj Ma which we give the first quatre"Thou miracle of marble! who Thy glorious dome and g Against the clear blue of the In snow-white splendour, pe Another not ungraceful sp at p. 110, the subject bein overwhelmed, in September the visitors at the gay an? "good things" which have duly amused us in their proper place. But these same "good calendar, exercise a very different effect. The things,' when extracted and arranged in a illustrations, consisting of a frontispiece which has little if anything to do with the story, and a wood-cut for each month, are cleverly drawn and fairly engraved. It is right to add that the typography does great credit to Messrs. Turnbull & Spears, of Edinburgh. Schools and Colleges. By Capt. F. S. Dumaresq began with Don't and You Should, it is a pleasure It is a IT is announced that Dr. Leitner has purchased the buildings and grounds of the former Royal Dramatic College near Woking, for the purpose of converting them into a sort of that Dr. Leitner has already obtained promises of considerable pecuniary support. prominent feature of the scheme that Indian students shall be lodged and boarded gratuitously, in such a manner as to respect their prejudices of religion or caste. proposed institute will be closely_associated with the Punjab, in which province Dr. Leitner At first, the happens to have been himself stationed. WE hear that an edition of Prof. Sayce's text, is in contemplation-for issue in America Herodotos, containing the essays without the certainly, and probably also in this country. and Study" of Rossetti, reviewed in the MR. WILLIAM SHARP, author of the "Record ACADEMY of January 6, 1883, and of a volume of verse which attracted attention on its publication some two years ago, is about to issue, with Mr. Elliot Stock, another volume of poems to be entitled Earth's Voices, containing a second series of "6 Transcripts from Nature." It is dedicated to Mr. W. H. Pater. MR. RICHARD JEFFERIES' new book is entitled The Life of the Fields. sophical Classics for English Readers" will be Vico, by Prof. Robert Flint, of Edinburgh. THE next volume in the series of "Philo Oxford, has just completed a skeleton outline of MR. P. E. MATHESON, fellow of New College, Roman history, mainly based on Fischer's to school-teachers and undergraduates, Messrs. Römische Zeittafeln, which should prove useful Rivingtons are the publishers. The book will be ready within the next fortnight. THE forthcoming part of Cassell's Greater London, to be published on April 25, will contain an historical and descriptive account of Claremont, the residence of the late Duke of Albany, illustrated with original engravings. IN a letter to the Fifeshire Journal, Principal Caird says that, although he has not yet seen the MSS. of his friend the late Dr. Service, he thinks it highly probable that a selection from them will ere long be given to the world. MR. J. F. P. MASSE, author of a Grammar of Colloquial French, will publish with Mr. Henry Frowde, at the end of the present month, a work entitled French Spare Moments in Junior and Senior Classes. It will comprise (1) a collection of 300 short passages for unseen translation from French authors, progressively arranged; (2), 1,000 idiomatic expressions, with their equivalents in French; (3), orthographic changes, in accordance with the latest edition of the Dictionary of the French Academy. MESSRS. A. BROWN & SONS, of Hull, will publish at an early date Fifty Years' Recollections of Hull; or, Half-a-Century of Public Life and Ministry, by the Rev. James Sibree. It will include a picture of Hull fifty years ago, notable events, public men, the cholera, the whale fisheries, and a chapter on Salem Church, where the author filled the pulpit fifty years. MESSRS. WILSON & M'CORMICK, of Glasgow, have in the press a new work showing the humorous, as well as the pathetic, traits of Scottish life and character. The book will be illustrated. The same publishers will issue immediately a cheaper edition of Inchbracken, by Mr. Robert Cleland, whose story, 'The Piper of Cairndhu," appeared in a recent number of Cornhill. 66 MESSRS. J. ANDREW & Co., of Ashton-underLyne, are about to issue a monthly serial entitled Local Historical Notes. It will embrace the history, topography, biography, archaeology, &c., of the district. Attention will be paid to local poetry, and the publication will be illustrated. Mr. J. Andrew will be the editor. In the next issue of the Yorkshire Illustrated Monthly Mr. William Andrews will commence a series of articles on the 66 Poets and Poetry of Yorkshire." After publication in the magazine the sketches will be reproduced in a volume under the title of The Modern Yorkshire Minstrel. THE Society of Antiquaries of Scotland have resolved upon a petition to Mr. Gladstone praying for the restoration of the old hall of Edinburgh Castle, once the meeting-place of the Scottish Parliament, now used as a military hospital. number of copies sold now exceeding 65,000. mittee has been appointed to prepare a cheap "DIE HOCHZEIT DES MÖNCHS," the story THE death is announced at Lübeck, at the age of sixty-eight, of Emmanuel Geibel, who is held to rank second to Heine among the lyric poets of Germany. His Gedichte, first published in 1840, has passed through nearly one hundred editions; and his Juniuslieder has been scarcely less popular. His dramatic poems gained only a succès d'estime. IT is stated that Mr. O'Donovan Rossa has written a novel, called Edward O'Donnell, which will be published immediately by Messrs. Green, of New York. WHAT is called the "American memorial" to Longfellow seems not to have realised the hopes of its promoters. Up to February of this year, nearly two years after the poet's death, a little over 11,000 dollars (£2,200) had been received. The entire scheme of laying out a park in front of Longfellow's house, and erecting a statue to him there, is estimated to require more than fourfold this amount. A PRE-ELIZABETHAN CLUB has been founded at New York for the study of manners, entertainments, literature, and religion in England It is composed of before the Renaissance. ladies and gentlemen who meet weekly at the house of some one of the members for the reading of a paper or the discussion of a given subject. Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, Wiclif, the miracle plays and mysteries, have already afforded subjects. THE latest addition to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, is an archaeological society, the formation of which is due, in some measure, to the recent visit of Dr. Charles Waldstein. Three courses of lectures were to be given who conducted the excavations at Assos; by during the present term-by Mr. J. T. Clarke, Mr. W. J. Stillman; and by Dr. A. Emerson, on the German exploration of the site of Olympia. AN English translation, together with the Greek text and notes, of the διδαχὴ τῶν ἀποστόλων, recently discovered and published by Bishop Bryennios, has already appeared in New York at the low price of fifty cents (2s.). WE have received parts i. and ii. of an illustrated edition of Historia del Ampurdán, a study of the civilisation of the extreme North-eastern district of Catalonia, by Don José Pella y Forgas, joint-author of Las Cortes Catalanas, Los Fueros Testament Criticism and Interpretation at HarDR. EZRA ABBOT, Bussey Professor of New de Cataluña, &c. One or two full-page photo-vard, died on March 21. He was a member of graphs are given with each part; and the the American Committee of Revision, and in wood-cuts of ornaments on vases, scenes, &c., are admirably done, somewhat in the American style. The whole get-up does credit to the Barcelona press. The work will be completed in seven parts, monthly or bi-monthly, the whole to cost 23 frs. A CORRESPONDENT writes to us to complain of the difficulty he has experienced in making use of the key to the pronunciation of the New English Dictionary. He suggests that, instead of being given on one page only, a condensed key might be printed at the foot of each page, or perhaps across the foot of every two pages. AMERICAN JOTTINGS. As there has been some talk lately of a new AT a meeting of the clergy of the Rural Deanery of Bury, Lancashire, held on April 3, a paper was read by the Rev. W. J. Lowenberg on the historical and genealogical importance of the remaining parish registers, and on the dangers to which they are often exposed by the present mode of their custody. During the discussion that ensued one of the clergy present stated that, shortly after his appointment (in 1881) to the living he now holds, he learnt that the registers of the parish had been sold as rubbish for a few shillings, and that the pur-fresh édition de luxe of an English classic. The chaser threatened to burn them unless he latest announcement is of Mrs. Browning's received £3, which was ultimately paid for their recovery. A resolution was carried unanimously in favour of the principle of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. W. C. Borlase, which provides for the safe custody of these important documents at the Public Record Office. FROM the Report of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language for 1883, we learn that the publications of the society continue to meet with a steady demand, the total EACH week we hear from America of some poems, in five volumes, uniform with the Keats just published by Messrs. Dodd, Mead, & Co. 66 THE May number of Harper's will contain an article on Dr. Schliemann: his Life and Work," by Prof. Mahaffy, who is at the present time Dr. Schliemann's guest at Tiryns. MR. C. G. LELAND is preparing for publication a book on the folk-lore of the Penobscot Indians of Maine, among whom he has been living for some time past. pure textual criticism he has left no rival in his own country. Unfortunately, he wrote but little, and is said to have left nothing in form for publication. The one book by which he will be known hereafter is his work on The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel (1880), in which he supports the ascription to St. John. THE New York Nation of March 27, while recording a number of slips in the new issu of The Statesman's Year Book, adds: "It is a satisfaction to note that the absurd blunders and misstatements as to this country which formerly disfigured the book no longer ap pear.' ORIGINAL VERSE. A WAKING DREAM.* WALKING, I met upon this winter road, A lolling imp that weary pack bestrode, Who glared and grinned behind close visor-bars: Waifs of wrecked hope, and plied them like a goad. "Mine was the care to rouse you when you slept! Mr. E. Lee Hamilton's sonnet in the ACADEMY, March 15, has so curious a coincidence with one which I once wrote that I send it as in some sense an answer to the questions with which his closes. JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS. 1 A TRANSLATION. APRIL SWEETNESS. (From the French of Sully Prudhomme.) I DREAD Sweet April, dread the waking That comes to me with each new Spring; O you, whose hearts like mine are aching, Tis for you only that I sing. In chill December's foggy air, When short and gray the pallid light, The burden seems less hard to bear, The heart less weak, though not more light. To nothing joyous then 'tis given To make all sadness seem twice sad; Nothing above reveals a heaven, Nothing on earth that earth is glad. But soon as blue peeps forth again, The frozen heart expands once more, In depths of woe, in grieving sore. I dread sweet April, dread the waking I. O. L. MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS. THE current number of Blackwood's Magazine has an article on "The State of Art in France which is interesting and suggestive. It shows a large knowledge of the subject; but the critical power of the writer has been somewhat warped by his desire to point a political moral. He finds in the disintegration of French political life an explanation of its tendency towards repulsive realism, and disregards other causes which more obviously affect the artist. The continuous tradition of good workmanship in the French studios has created in France a technical skill which has exhausted problems that still engage the attention of English artists. Simple subjects and simple combinations no longer interest the French painter. He is engaged in daring experiments to extend the field of artistic expression, and we must have a little patience with attempts which often result in crude failures. The connexion between republicanism in politics and realism in art is not immediately apparent. contribution to knowledge, but it is a mere fragment of a history of the social life of our people, and as a fragment loses much of the interest which it would have were it in its proper place. Mr. Cornelius Walford continues his researches concerning fairs. This time he tells us of Fairlop Fair. The origin of many of the fairs is lost in antiquity, others were founded, or, as it would perhaps be safer to say, first legally recognised, by our Plantagenet sovereigns. Fairlop Fair is of quite modern origin. It was instituted in the last century by an amiable old gentleman of the name of Day. Among the reviews is an appreciative notice of the New English Dictionary. Macmillan's shows a return to questions of literary interest. Mr. Frederic Harrison writes an article on "Historic London" which deserves general consideration, though we almost despair of saving Old London from "the gulf of modern improvement and the monkey-like tricks of the restorer." Mr. Grant Allen pursues his pleasant studies in the genealogy of plants in a paper on "British Buttercups.' The Warden of Merton, if he does not succeed in being very interesting, yet shows a laudable sense of his position by investigating the " History of an Oxford College under James I. and Charles I." IN the Deutsche Rundschau Dr. Brennecke gives an appreciative account of the vast literary activity of Emile Littré. Dr. Jolly, in a description of a journey to India, shows that the scholars of Germany are grateful to the English Government for its care of Sanskrit MSS., and for the facilities which it affords to research. An article on "Die Treue als Rechtspflicht," by Dr. Ehrenberg, investigates a question which is alien from the English mind. After a serious enquiry Dr. Ehrenberg concludes that the change of historical circumstances leaves loyalty no longer a legal, but only a moral, obligation on citizens. LETTERS OF JEANNE OF NAVARRE IN THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE. 100 Gower Street. THE following letters, copied from the originals in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, formed part of a mass of materials for a Life of Jeanne of Navarre collected by the late Mrs. Young before Miss Freer's work on the subject ap(author of The Life and Times of Aonio Paleario) peared. Shortly before her death Mrs. Young Green, who had helped her in researches sent these papers to my mother, Mrs. Everett in the Bibliothèque nationale. In looking through the MSS. lately, many of the letters struck me as being interesting. Some of them have already appeared in print, but the following, so far as I have been able to ascertain, have never been published, and I forward them to you, thinking they may be of interest to your readers. GERTRUDE S. EVERETT GREEN. I. The following undated letter from Jeanne to her uncle, Francis I. (with whom, from childhood, she was on the most familiar terms), appears to have been written from Plessis. The castle of Plessis-les-Tours was the residence assigned her by Francis in 1532; and here she lived from the age of four to twelve years, under the care of Mdme. de Silly, Baillive de Caen, and Nicholas de Bourbon, her preceptor. She quitted Plessis in 1540 for Châtellerault, where the ceremony of her marriage with the Duke of Cleves was celebrated, after which she retired with her parents to Béarn and only revisited Plessis for a short time at Easter 1545, to make her final protest against this compulsory marriage. If the "peace" alluded to was (as seems probable) the ten years' truce between Francis I. and Charles V., signed June 15, 1538, the letter must have been written when Jeanne was ten years of age. The fact that the original is written on ruled lines seems to point to its being a childish production. cerfs gettent leurs bois; mais, monseigneur, je ne vous sauroie mander quants cors ont les cerfs, mais à la première lettre que je vous escriray, je vous en menderay. Suppliant celluy qui a faict l'euvre vous donner très bonne et longue vie. "Votre très humble et très obeissante fille, et mignonne, et femme, et niesce, "JEHANNE De Navarre. "A Roy mon souverein seigneur et mary.” II. It is extremely difficult to assign a date to the following letter from Jeanne to her son, because the advice given is such as would hardly have been addressed to a child; and yet historical facts seem to indicate that Henry was separated from his mother only during his childhood. In 1566, when Jeanne succeeded in withdrawing him from the French Court and taking him back to her own dominions, Henry was only thirteen years old; and so fearful was she of his again being drawn into the vortex of Court life that until 1572, when she went to Paris to negotiate his marriage with Margaret de Valois, she never seems to have allowed him to be separated from her. In 1562 Henry, who was then at St-Germain, was taken ill with smallCatherine de Medici, though refusing Jeanne's urgent entreaty that he might be committed to her care, allowed him, at her further request, to be transferred to the care of Rénée Duchess of Ferrara. It is possible that the letter was written during Henry's recovery from this illness and before he resumed his place at the French Court. pox. Du Puy MS. 211, fol. 35, holograph. "Mon Fils, Au "Estant en payne de votre maladie, je vous ay depeché ce porteur en poste, pour vous prier incontinent m'en redepecher ung aultre. chere que cellà me donne bonne esperance de reste, madame me faict tant d'honneur et bonne votre contentement. Je vous prie reguarder a hardiment, et mesmes aus lieus a ou vous seres troys choses; d'acommoder votre grasse de parller appellé a part, car notes que vous imprimeres à votre arrivée l'opinion que l'on aura de vous sy après. Acoustumes vos cheveus à se relever, mays non pas auprès de Neracq, qu'il y ait des pans. "Je vous recommende la dernière comme celle que j'ay la plus en ma fantasie; c'est que vous vous proposes tous les arachemens que l'on vous pourra donner pour vous debaucher, soit en votre vie, soit en votre religion, et vous establir oultre cellà une constance invinsible, car je say que c'est leur but. Ils ne le cellent pas. savoir de vos nouvelles. "Le Roy depechera bien tôst devers vous, pour votre grandeur en ceste court. Quant à moy, je L'on ne peul croire pense que vous êstes de la grandeur de Monsieur le duc, qui est d'un doit moins que la mesure qu'a aportée sainct Martin. J'escris le reste a Monsieur de Beauvoir, qui vous le dira, qui sera cause que je fineray, priant Dieu, mon fils, qu'il vous donne sa sainct grasse. Votre seur a une bien facheuse toux, et guarde encore le lit. Elle boit du lait d'ainesse, et appelle le petit asnon son frère de lait. Voila ceque je vous puis mander, De Nyarc, ce xxv. De par "Votre bonne mère et melleure amie, "JEHANNE. "A mon fils." III. 66 In explanation of the following letter, it may be mentioned that early in 1562 Montluc was sent to Guienne by Catherine de Medici to suppress an outbreak between the Catholics and Protestants. He remained for some years on the borders of Jeanne's territories, a continual thorn in her side, everywhere treating the Protestants with the utmost harshness and spreading ill reports about herself. So offensive, indeed, were some of the expressions which he had used against her that Catherine insisted on Montluc's writing an apology to Jeanne, withdrawing what he had said. But whether this was due to Montmorency's influence does not appear. Bethune MS. 8671, fol. 13, original. "Mon Cousin, "Il y a bien fort long temps que je me feusse rendre à la court, sans les nouveaulx empèshements qui me surviennent tousiours, quant je suys sur le poinct de partir, au moyen de Montluc, qui ne cesse de se forger touts les allarmes que peulz du costé de mes terres, affin d'avoir occasion de se jetter dedans mes maisons, comme a Neracq le Montdemarsan, Leslore, Castelgetoul, et aultre de mes places. Aynsi qu'il s'en est des couverten quelques lyeux que je scay bien de que je ne seray pas si tost eslongnée de ce pays qu'il n'y face ung beau mesnaige; ce que, mon cousin, usant de vos accoustumez bons offices envers moy, je vous prye faire bien entendre à la royne, de m'ayder, pour me delivrer de touttes ces peynes; ou que l'on envoye quelque aultre en sa place, qui soyt ung petit plus saige, et ayt moings de passion; ou pour le moings quelque chose qu'il escripve de deça, comme il est bon coustumies pour rendre mes terres en jallousye que n'en soyt rien creu jusques ad ce qu'il en soyt infformé de plus asseurré part que la sienne, qui sera tousiours pour de plus en plus m'accroistre les obligations d'amitié que jevous ay. Priant Dieu, mon cousin, apres m'estre de bien bon cueur recommandé a votre bonne grace, qu'il vous doint ce que bien desirez. 66 'Escript à Pau, le xme jour de Feubrier, ce 1563. "Votre bonne cousine et parfaite amie, "JEHANNE. "A mon cousin, Monsieur le duc de Montmorency, pair et connestable de France." IV. Grammont, à ma requeste, de venir commender pagnoit la tendre jeunesse de ces petits Princes et "Votre bonne cousine et parfaite amie, "JEHANNE. V. The following letter to Queen Elizabeth speaks for itself. Jeanne, with her two children, joined the Prince of Condé and his family at Rochelle, on September 28, 1568, and appears to have lost no time in explaining to Elizabeth her motives for so doing. "Madame, Brienne MS. 214, fol. 25, copy. "Voilà, Madame, les trois occasions qui m'ont faict faire ce que j'ai faict et prendre les armes. Ce n'est point contre le ciel, Madame, comme disent ces bons Catholiques, que le point en est dressé, et moins contre nostre roy; nous ne sommes par la grace de Dieu crimineux de lèse majesté, divine ny humaine. Nous sommes fidèlles à nostre Dieu et à nostre roy, ce que je vous supplie très humblement croire, et nous vouloir toujours assister de vostre faveur, laquelle ce grand Dieu vous veille recongnoistre, vous augmentant ses sainctes graces, avec conservasion de vos estats; et qu'il vous plaise, Madame, recevoir icy les très humbles recommanda. cions de la mère et des enffans qui desireroient infiniement avoir le moyen de vous faire service. Et par ce, Madame, que le Sieur du Chastellier, Lyeutenant-general en l'armée sur mer, s'en allant là, aura tousiours affaire de vostre faveur, l'ayant prié de presentér mes lettres, je prendray la hardiesse de le vous recommander. "De la Rochelle, ce xv jour d'Octobre 1568. De par "Vostre très humble et obeisante sœur, "JANE. 'A la Royne d'Angleterre.” SELECTED FOREIGN BOOKS. GENERAL LITERATURE. This letter (a portion of which appears, translated, in Miss Freer's Life of Jeanne d'Albret) would seem to have been written not long after the other, and contains more complaints of Montluc's conduct. Jeanne's request with regard to M. de Grammont was granted, and he was despatched to Pau, where he was appointed liés en cette cause accampagnent vostre sainct desir. HOHNHORST, Baronin H. v. Reisebilder aus d. Libanon. Lieutenant-General over Béarn and Navarre. Bethune MS. 8671, fol. 25, holograph. "Mon Cousin, "Oultre l'amitié que je m'estoys tousiours assuré que vous me porties, la Chasse-tierre m'en a aporté telle confirmasion que je ne veus faillir vous en remersier bien fort, et assurer que je la tiens cy chère que je la conserveray avecq tous les bons offices qui seront jamays en ma puissanse. Mon cousin, ayant entendu qu'il plaist à sa majesté que je lui aille baiser les mains, j'ay resolu avecq extreme desir d'y aller, et envoyé se porteur pour entendre quel chemain elle prand, pour asurer le mien, et le lieu où elle aura agreable que je l'aille trouver. Au demeurant, mon cousin, ayant tel soing que je dois de mon pays de Bearn, pour laisser mes subjets en mon absense entre les mains de quelq'un qui les gouverne, et entretienne en paix, et en mon obeissanse, je suplie tres humblement sa majesté commander a Monsieur de Gramont de me venir trouver, ansy que je seray bien aise d'y en metre ung qu'elle ait agreable, pour eviter les calomnies à quoy j'ay esté sujette, et au plus quand tort du monde. Je me suis aviscé d'une aultre chose; ansy, sy vous le trouviez bon, il me semble bien estre du grand servise du roy et peult estre plus que l'on ne cuide; c'est que j'ai des pays en ceste Guienne que je tiens soubs l'obeissance de mon roy, comme Foix, Albret, Armaignac, Bigorre, et aultres, auquels, par la malise d'aulcuns, nonobstant tout ordre que j'y eusse seu metre, les troubles ont esté grands, et les derniers estaints, et les plus aises a ralumer; toustefois maintenant, par mon industrie et soing, pasifiés et bien remis. Or, mon cousin, la chose que plus je desire en ce monde c'est que, comme je veus, par très humble obeissanse et fidelle servitude, monstrer le chemain aux aultres subiets de sa majesté, qu'ansy je veus que mes pays soyent ceus auquels ses cedicts seront les plus observés et honorés, ce que je crains merveilleuse. ment, moy eloignée, ne se fera comme je le demande; l'occasion vous la pouvez juger, car ce brouilleu ennemi de toute paix ne cessera jamais qu'il n'y ait barbuillé quelque chose, et pour dire 'c'est au pays de la roine de Navarre, comme, sans l'ordre que j'y ay donnée, il l'eust desjà faist. Mays mon absense c'est ma crainte. Je me suis avisée que la royne permetant à Monsieur de "Outre le desir que j'ay en toute ma vie de me "La première la cause de la religion, qui estoit "Le seconde chose, Madame, que la première tire après soy, est le service de nostre Roy, voyant que la ruyne de l'esglise est la siene, et de ce royaume, duquel nous sommes si estroictement obligés de conserver l'estat et grandeur, et d'autant que mons fils et moy avons cest honneur d'en êstre des plus proches. Voilà, Madame, ce qui nous a fait haster de vous venir opposer à ceulx qui, abusans de la grande bonté de nostre roy, le font luy mesme estre auteur de sa perte, le rendant, encores qu'il soit le plus veritable Prince du monde, falseur de ses promesses, par les inventions qu'ils ont trouvées de faire rompre l'edit de pacification. Lequel, comme demurant en son entier, entretenoit la paix entre le roy et ses subjects fidèlles, est rompu comme la mesme fidelité desdicts subiects, comme à une guerre trop pitoyable, et tant forcée qu'il n'y a nul de nous qui n'y ayt tiré par violance. "La tierce chose, Madame, nous est particulière a mon fils et à moy, qui a esté que,-voyant les ennemis de Dieu et antiens de nostre maison, avec une effrontée et tant pernicieuse malice, avoir delibré, joignant la hayne qu'ils portent à la cause generalle avec celle dont ils ont tant monstré déffects comme nous ruyner entièrement nostre race-voyant arriver Monsieur le prince de Condé, mon frère, qui, pour esviter l'entreprinse qu'on avoit faicte contre luy, fut contrainct plustost que reprendre les armes, venir chercher lieu de seurété; je vous dis, Madame, avec telle pitye qui accom COPPÉE, F. Severo Torelli. Paris: Lemerre. 10 fr. 3 fr. 50 c. Chérie. Paris: Charpentier. Braunschweig: Meyer. 5 M. Xylograph zu Köln. 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