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was presented, and the officers and council were
elected for the current year. The total number of
members was 662-an increase of twenty-one since
the year before. The total income was £884 and
the expenditure £658, leaving a balance of £226,
as compared with a balance of £172 brought into
the account. The secretary, Mr. W. H. Rylands,
has copied the whole series of Hypocephali in the
British Museum, and one of them will be published
in each successive number of the Proceedings.
Communications have been received from Dr. A.
Weidemann on "Some Objects found in Egypt
with Greek Inscriptions; " from Mr. Theo. G.
Pinches on "The Surdu or Falcon of the Cunei-
form Inscriptions; from Mr. J. Chotzner on
"The Hexameter in Hebrew Poetry;" and fromb,
Mr. T. G. Pinches on Assyrian Grammar," II.,
the Permansive.

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EDINBURGH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY.-(Friday,

Jan. 11.)

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was right in deriving it from French herbere, Latin herbarium, a garden of herbs; its meaning passed into a garden of trees, trees trained on espaliers, a bower covered with leafage: Mr. Wedgwood holds that the Italian "arborata, an arbor or bowre of trees," was mixed up with erbere); (3) "achil," or "orchil," used for dying; (4) 'afraid" (from frith, peace; effroi, a breaking of the peace); (5) “appal (French appalir, mixed with English apale); (6) "impostume" (French apostume); (7) appose," pose, posal resulting in puzzle; (8) apple" (is its special sense or the general one of "fruit" the primary one?); (9)" apply," with its fifteen or more senses; (10) "appoint;" (11) “apparent” (a, conspicuous, unreal: the heir-apparent is the manifest or certain heir, who must inherit if he lives, while the heir-presumptive is only heir till the heir-apparent appears); (12) "apothecary" (at first a mere store-keeper); (13) "apology" (a, a defence, b, an offer of an excuse, c, an expression of regret with no defence at all); (14) "animal spirits" (in 1543 THOMAS MUIR, Esq., President, in the Chair. their seat was in the brain, and they worked by Prof. Chrystal delivered an address on "Surfaces sinews, they were the nerves, then nerve, courage, of the Second Order," in which he advocated merriment); (15) "city Arabs" (really Arabs, or strongly the study of the properties of these sur- wanderers); (16) "aquarium" (invented by Gosse faces from the surfaces themselves. The address in 1854); (17) ape" (who could explain the phrase was illustrated with a large number of beautiful 'to lead apes in hell" used of old maids?); models in wood, plaster, cardboard, and thread.— (18) "antler" (the lowest prong of a deer's horn, Prof. Tait communicated an analytical note, and first used by Walter Scott, in 1820, of the whole one or two geometrical problems were discussed. horn); (19) "apostrophe" (which was Latin apostrophus till the last century); (20) antipodes," which should be pronounced "antipods." Time was the thing most needed to complete the Dictionary. Part i. was but a twenty-fourth of the whole book, and its preparation had taken eighteen months. Now the work would go somewhat faster, but more sub-editors were urgently needed to get the material into shape for the editor's final touches.-Mr. Furnivall congratulated the society on the appearance of the first part of its Dictionary. The society alone had rendered the existence of the Dictionary possible. Oxford had for the last four years generously helped with money, but the idea of the Dictionary, its working, and its editors had all sprung from the society. He looked back twenty-four years to the little room in Somerset House where the Dictionary Committee was first appointed, and thought of the dead friends who were with him then-Herbert Coleridge, his fellow-editor (afterwards sole editor), Thomas Watts, Prof. Key, and others; Mr. Wedgwood was, he thought, the only survivor besides himself. He thanked Dr. Murray for bringing the society's work to a head in a way that he (Mr. Furnivall) had failed to accomplish; and he asked the oldest member present, Mr. Danby P. Fry, to second the vote of thanks which he proposed the society should return to its president for the admirable work he had done for the society's Dictionary: This Mr. Fry did, and, the vote having been carried with applause, Dr. Murray acknowledged it, confirming emphatically all that Mr. Furnivall had said about the Dictionary being the society's work. As he looked over the letters of its earlier editors, he could not help feeling that perchance before long his successor might be looking over his letters, he having ceased to live. But the society and the University of Oxford would, he trusted, complete the truly national work which the society had so long ago set on foot, and which deserved the help of every true Englishman.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.—(Thursday, Jan. 17.) A. W. FRANKS, Esq., in the Chair.-Canon Greenwell exhibited a bronze dagger, a stone axehammer, and other implements found in a barrow at Broadway, Worcestershire. The dagger was similar to one found previously at Arreton Down.Mr. G. Payne, of Sittingbourne, exhibited a skull and bones, with a slate bracer and a bronze dagger, found near Sittingbourne.-The Rev. Robert Myine, of Oxford, exhibited the photograph of a sheet of churchwardens' accounts of St. Peter-in-theEast, Oxford, for the year 1444. One item of expenditure was for torches coram monacho albo" at Oseney; but what this meant none of the members present was able to explain.-Mr. Ferguson, local secretary for Cumberland, sent a few particulars about the Roman camp at Lowborough Bridge, near Kirkby Mure, Westmoreland. But few relics have been found, and there was apparently nothing more than a camp there, not a station, so that the suggestion put forward that the discovery settles the position of Alove, in the tenth iter of the Antonine Itinerary, is pre

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ST. PAUL'S ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-(Thursday,
Jan. 17.)

MAJOR HEALES in the Chair.-A lecture was de-
livered by the Rev. W. F. Creeny, Vicar of
St. Michael-at-Thorne, Norwich, on "Foreign
Brasses," illustrated with a large number of rub-
bings. Among others were shown the earliest
known brass (a Bishop of Verden, 1231), the
remarkably fine examples from Mecklenburg
Schwerin and Lübeck, three Bishops of Paderborn,
and various fine specimens from Brussels, Ghent,
Bruges, &c., concluding with a series commemorat-
ing the Grand Ducal Family of Saxony, one of
which is said to have been designed by Albrecht
Dürer.

A short discussion followed the lecture.

PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-(Annual Dictionary
Evening, Friday, Jan. 18.)

DR. J. A. H. MURRAY, President, in the Chair.
Three copies of part i. of the society's new English
Dictionary, edited by Dr. Murray, were laid on
the table. The society began collecting materials
for its Dictionary in 1858, and the work has been
carried on ever since. More sub-editors are wanted
to help in arranging the collections of material
and to work out the logical history of the mean-
ings of the words to be treated, which is the
hardest part of the dictionary-work.-Dr. Murray
read part of his Introduction to the Dictionary,
and then discussed the following twenty words:-
(1) "Archipelago" (from Italian, first found in
1268, probably a popular corruption of adzopelago,
"the holy sea"); (2) "arbour" (Mr. Wedgwood

SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.—(Friday,
Jan. 18.)

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PROF. SIDGWICK in the Chair.-Mr. F. W. H.
Myers began by reading the Report of the Literary
Committee. The work of collecting evidence was
described, and special attention was directed to
the sort of evidence which it is necessary to pro-
cure in connexion with "phantasms of the living."
It is not enough to collect cases where a vivid
dream of a person's death, or an "hallucination'
suggesting his presence, has coincided with his
actual death at a distance; we must also ascertain
the frequency of similar dreams and hallucinations
which coincide with nothing at all. Till this is
done, chance will always seem a possible explana-
tion of the coincidences. Mr. Myers concluded
by saying that, just as it is not the fault of some
enquirers if the facts which the universe presents
to them teach the limitations of man's life and

aspirations, so it is not the fault of other enquirers
if further facts-hitherto ignored by science, but
fully susceptible of scientific examination-open
up wider and more hopeful conceptions.-Mr.
Edmond Gurney followed with a paper on "The
Stages of Hypnotism," in which he defined two
well-marked stages-the "alert" and the "deep"
-and distinguished them from one another by
special reference to the phenomena of alternating
memory which they present.-Prof. Barrett then
read a short paper on certain sensory affections
noticed when the head is held between the poles of
a magnet.-Lastly, Mr. Podmore read a paper
prepared by Mr. E. R. Pease on the divining-rod,
which, on the whole, was unfavourable to the
dowser's claims. At the same time, it was pointed
out that the evidence for the detection of water by
his method stands on a different footing from that
for the detection of other substances, and is not
incapable of a rational physiological explanation.
-At the close of this paper the Hon. Percy
Wyndham gave a very interesting account of the
success of a dowser in a park in Lincolnshire, and
the subsequent saving of great expense to the
owner.-At a conversazione held at a later hour
the extent to which "muscle-reading" and tactile
sensibility can be carried was exemplified by some
pin-finding and number-writing, the operator, the
Rev. E. H. Sugden, showing himself fully as
expert and successful as the public performers who
palm off similar exhibitions as thought-reading."

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ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.-(Monday, Jan. 21.) SIR E. CLIVE BAYLEY in the Chair.-H. Tufnell, Esq., was elected a resident member, and Messrs. R. Gordon, C. de Harlez, J. van der Gheyn, and Mirza Mehdy Khan non-resident members.-Mr. R. N. Cust laid before the meeting a short but complete statement of the present position of the question of the "Origin of the Indian Alphabet," referring in this to two theories-the first, put forth by the late Prof. Dowson and Gen. Cunningham, that this alphabet had an independent origin in India itself; the second, by Prof. Weber, Burnell, and most other scholars, that it came from Western Asia. Such an importation, he showed, was pos sible as the Phoenician alphabet was in full use 890 B.C., while there was also constant commercial intercourse between the West and the East; and probable-in that no allusion is made in any part of Aryan or Dravidian literature to the invention of alphabetic writing, while we have, also, no inscription earlier than 250 B.C. The remarkable resemblance between these two alphabetic systems demands the admission of a common origin, espe cially as no one supposes the Western alphabets, as well as our numerals, came from the East. The Asoka inscriptions (with the certain date of about 250 B.C.) have two alphabetic forms-the Northern, unquestionably of Aramaean origin; the Southern, from which all the existing alphabets of India gested three possible sources for this latter: (1) direct are derived, an importation by sea. Dr. Burnell sugfrom Phoenicia; (2) by way of the Persian Gulf, from some Aramaean alphabet existing in Mesopotamia; (3) (with Prof. Weber) from Southern Arabia. He (Dr. Burnell) inclined to the second, and Mr. Cust to the third, of these views.-At the close of the paper, Bishop Caldwell, Sir Clive Bayley, and other members discussed the question at some length.

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A THEBAN TOMB OF THE ELEVENTH house. On one side are painted all kinds of DYNASTY. mirrors, necklaces, sandals, garments, bracelets, &c. This was his wardrobe. On the opposite wall are depicted vases of jasper, granite, and choice pottery, supposed to contain the seven sacred essences, the perfumes and ointments necessary for his use in the spirit-world. This was his still-room and dressing-room. On the inner side, over the entrance, may be seen all kinds of weapons-bows and arrows, javelins, maces, and the like. This was his armoury: and false doors painted on each side of the real doorway gave him a twofold access to that apartment. Finally, at the upper end of the chamber, occupying the wall which faces the entrance, we behold his dining-room and larder. The actual foods and drinks are not, however, depicted, but catalogued; and the catalogue, which is very full and tempting, comprises wines of various vintages, different kinds of beer and other drinks, game, poultry, butchers' meat, vegetables, milk, fruit, and many sorts of cakes. As for the texts-I translate here from Prof. Maspero—

WANT of space compelled me the other day to defer a detailed description of the tomb of Horhotpon to a more convenient opportunity. I now return to that part of Prof. Maspero's forthcoming Catalogue, premising that the monument in question belongs to a very obscure epoch of Egyptian history, and that its discovery supplies us with an important and unexpected link between the Memphite art of the VIth Dynasty and the Theban art of the XIth Dynasty. This sepulchre was discovered by Prof. Maspero in February 1883, about half way up the slope of the great mountain-spur north of the Dayr-el-Baharee amphitheatre, and close over against the mouth of that sterile defile which leads to the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. From the mouth of this sepulchre, which is hidden by an aged laurel bush, a narrow rough-hewn tunnel descends for a distance of some ninety feet, and terminates in a two-chambered excavation, the second of which was the vault proper. The rock here being extremely friable (Prof. Maspero likens it to a flakey pie-crust), the ancient architect, in order to obtain a fit surface for wall-decoration, had found himself obliged to line three sides of this little sepulchral chamber with dressed blocks of fine limestone. When these were ad

justed and decorated, more blocks were brought in; and the sarcophagus of Horhotpou, instead of being scooped from a huge monolith, was put together in several pieces dove-tailed and cemented. This kind of joined sarcophagus ("une des particularités du Moyen Empire") was not only cheaper as a purchase, but it allowed for more economy in the construction of the tomb itself, the passages needing to be left large enough for the admission of the mummycase. The tomb of Horhotpou had long been violated when Prof. Maspero discovered it, now nearly a year ago. Two of the lining blocks of the walls had been shattered; both ends of the sarcophagus were broken; the mummy and mummy-case were gone; and all the smaller treasures once buried with the dead man were broken or stolen. Prof. Maspero found in the debris only one arm of a wooden statuette of admirable workmanship, and some oars and fittings of a little sacred bark, also in wood. The tomb itself, lined with paintings and texts, and the sarcophagus, which is similarly decorated, were, however, more rare and valuable than either mummics or funerary furniture. Prof. Maspero, as I before stated, has transported both to Boolak. The lining blocks, removed one by one and carefully ambered, have been re-erected in a corner of the new Salle Funéraire, and the sarcophagus simirably mended and restored by MM. Vassali and Emil Brugsch) once more stands in its ancient place.

Horhotpon was a denizen of Thebes under some king of the XIth Dynasty; and he was n of the Lady Sonit-she. Of his parentage the inscriptions say no more than this; of his k, descent, and private history, nothing. The walls of the chamber, instead of being first sculptured in bas-relief and then painted, are painted only. Also, instead of being covered with designs of figures, animals, agricultural nes, and the like, interspersed here and there with a line or two of explanatory text, we here see a profusion of lengthy inscriptions sparsely relieved by representations of votive offerings. At one end of each wall is a painted panel representing a door, decorated as were the Goors of that period. These mock doors are not intended to be ornamental. They are, in a ligious and magical sense, real doors, just as the tomb itself, according to Egyptian notions, was a real house-the everlasting mansion of the dead. The walls of the sepulchral chamber of Horhotpou were the rooms of this mystical

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tional instances of this. One is the admirable mezzotint-like engraving by Mr. Alfred Dawson after Sir Joshua Reynolds'" Mrs Pelham feeding Chickens," now at the Grosvenor. based on a photo-etching, which greatly reduces the manual labour of drawing, and affords a rough ground (an aquatint ground) for the operator. This ground, if it scarcely gives scope for quite such rich effects as that formed by the "rocker," is very much more durable. The other is a "photo-etching" of a drawing by Mr. Joseph Pennell-a very brilliant piece of work.

WE are glad to see that the Magazine of Art now gives the names of the engravers who execute the best cuts. In the current number some of the illustrations are of first-rate quality, especially those after the pictures of the Constantine Ionides Collection. The Régamey engraved by Strelles, the Degas by La Cour, and that by Werdmüller after Dalou's charming "Liseuse" are especially fine. The eloquent paper by the editor on "Two Busts of Victor Hugo" is of unusual interest. One is the Victor Hugo of forty years since, by David d'Angers; the other the Hugo of to-day, by Rodin. Both are well engraved by Klinkicht.

IN the last two months two more of M. Lucien Gautier's admirable etchings of city in importance to these is perhaps the etching scenes have appeared in L'Art. The plate next by M. Ch. de Billy after Rubens' "Tournoi près des Fossés d'un Château" in the Louvre. Two important series of papers have been brought to conclusion and issued as volumes in the " Bibliothèque international de l'Art." One of these is Mrs. Mark Pattison's Claude, the other The Della Robbias, by Messrs. Cavanotice before long. Among other recent papers lucci and Molinier, both of which we hope to Maurice Faucon; "Le Palais de Venise, à may be mentioned "Fra Angelico at Rome," by Rome," by Eugène Muntz; "C. A. Sellier," by Roger Marx; and "Ulysse Butin," by A. Hustin.

they consist chiefly of prayers from the Book of the Dead and chapters from that Funerary Ritual of which the Pyramids of Unas, Teti, the two Pepis, and Sokaremsaf have furnished us with the most ancient edition, and of which certain papyri of the Roman period contain the most recent version. rather, it is a second tomb inside the first. In The sarcophagus is a résumé of the whole tomb; or, accordance with frequent usage under the Middle Empire, it had no lid, the mummy being protected only by its bandages and its wooden coffin. Of this last was found only a splinter covered with hieratic writing, as fine as the writing of the XXth Dynasty, while of the mummy no vestige remained. The inside of the sarcophagus is decorated with painted doorways and votive objects, precisely as with which it is externally covered being in a much the walls of the chamber are decorated, the texts again, we have extracts from The Book of the Dead finer writing than the texts upon the walls Here, and the Funerary Ritual, including The Chapter of Conducting the Boat' (in which the dead man crosses to the Eastward Heaven), The Chapter of Remembering Magical Charms," "The Chapter of not Eating Offal,' and, by way of corollary, the THE portrait by Velasquez of Pope Innochapter which treats of eating bread-offerings "cent X., by M. Burney, after the picture in the (PP. 256-7). Doria Palace at Rome, which is given in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, is a remarkable contrast to that by M. Lalauze in Mr. Curtis' Catalogue of the works of Velasquez and Murillo lately reviewed in the ACADEMY. The latter professes only to be after the copy by Ternante at Versailles, but either the copy or the etching by Lalauze (and we may safely give the latter the benefit of the doubt) is a very inferior one. The difference between the two etchings is that

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All this is extremely curious, not only because the tomb of Horhotpou is unique in its entirety and almost unique as to its period, but also because it forms a distinct connecting link between the mastabah-tombs of the Memphite pyramid period and the tunnelled tombs of the Theban Renaissance period. This link is more certain and decisive than at first sight is apparent. Mariette, noting the unlikeness between the Memphite and Theban tombs, was of opinion that there had been "a complete rupture of all artistic traditions" between the VIth and XIth Dynasties. "This theory," says Prof. Maspero,

"which is generally adopted by historians of art, is not borne out by facts. I myself, in 1882 and 1883, opened various brick mastabahs in the plain of Sakkarah, near the Mastabat el Pharaoon, whereof the sepulchral chambers were decorated in precisely the same fashion as the sepulchral chamber of Horhotpou, only with a lesser profusion of texts. Among these texts occurred the royal ovals of Noferkeri Pepi II., so showing the tombs to belong to the latter end of the VIth Dynasty. Scanty, therefore, as the evidence is at present, it suffices nevertheless to prove that this so-called Theban art of the Middle Empire had its prototype in the Memphite art of the Ancient Empire" (Guide du Visiteur au Musée de Boulaq, p. 254).

AMELIA B. EDWARDS.

THE ART MAGAZINES.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

THE ALLEGED TEUTONIC KINSHIP OF THE
THRACIANS.

Oxford: Jan. 18, 1884. Emphasis, combined with brevity, is not always complimentary; and I regret that my epithets "fanciful" and "exploded," as applied to Mr. Karl Blind's theories regarding the Teutonic kinship of the Thracians, should have given him offence. In a review in which this question formed an altogether subsidiary subject I was not at liberty to go into it more fully; and, if I gave somewhat vigorous expression to my dissent, it was because Mr. Blind seemed to me to have quietly ignored the most recent results arrived at by specialists in this branch of ethnography.

That the Thracians had so much relationship to the Germanic peoples as is implied by both belonging to the European branch of the Aryan PHOTOGRAPHY seems to be becoming more and stock is, of course, universally admitted. But more a help rather than a hindrance to art. Mr. Blind goes much farther than this, and Two of the plates in the Portfolio afford addi-practically claims that Thracians and Germans

are one and the same race. It is the old story. national "wheel dance." A connexion between The Getae are Goths and the Goths are Getae; the Getae and the Lithuanians is admitted the Getae are Thracians, and therefore the by Grimm ; and Dr. Latham, who had Goths are Thracians--a view which, however arrived at the same conclusion on other excusable in the days when Grimm wrote his grounds, has based upon it his ingenious theory History of the German Language, is to-day, in as to the non-Germanic origin of the Gothic presence of the new epigraphic materials such name in which the tables are turned with a as those collected on Thracian soil by Dumont vengeance on the Teutonizing school. Shafarik and Heuzey, and of the special studies of has conclusively shown from the evidence of Roesler, Tomaschek, and others, little more place-names that Slavonic elements co-existed than an anachronism. That Jornandes, and at an early period with Getic and Dacian in the others before him, should have confused the region between the Carpathians and the Danube, Gothic immigrants into Trajan's Dacia and and the most recent researches of Jirechek and Lower Moesia with the earlier Getic inhabitants Drinov have only confirmed his conclusions. of those regions is not surprising, considering Mr. Blind bases another argument for the the usual tendency of historians in those ages identity of Thracians and Teutons on the to fit on classical names to barbarian tribes "Bacchic habits " of the former, their "red whose very existence had been unknown to the hair," and "their profound philosophical specuancients. Thus, to limit our parallels to the lation," and rebukes me for hinting that in the Thracian stock, the Moesians lived again in prehistoric days of Troy the European members Byzantine terminology as equivalent to Bulgars, of the Thracian race were more barbarous than Dardanians were transformed into Serbs and their Asiatic brothers. The Thracians were, no Bosniacs, the Daci, as we know, were re- doubt, confirmed topers; but a speculation discovered in the Dane-Law, and the Teucri which resulted in spiking human victims hardly avenged themselves on Greece in the shape of deserves to be called philosophical. They had the Ottoman Turks! Jornandes is, besides, self-music, it is true; but their national instrument contradictory in the matter, for he gives us a was Apollo's aversion. As to their civilisation, separate, and quite credible, account of the Mr. Blind is quite welcome to take that of the descent of the Gothic hordes from their Baltic European branch of the Dardanians at a very homes to the Euxine, in the course of which much later date than that of Priam. They they had to fight their way through a Wendish lived, like Troglodytes, in underground dens, or Slavonic country. On the showing, there- which they kept warm in winter by heaping fore, of Jornandes himself, the Slavs were dung outside; and they washed themselves-or, nearer borderers of the Thracians than the rather, were washed-twice in a lifetime. original Goths of Scandia. Ptolemy, indeed, knew of the Scandian Gutae at a date considerably anterior to their first appearance on the Pontic shores.

Mr. Karl Blind bids us compare the personal and place names of the Thracians with those of the Germanic tribes. The comparison is hardly favourable to his theory. A large number of personal names from the purest Thracian districts have now been collected, mainly from epigraphic sources, and these give us a fairly definite idea of Thracian nomenclature. But they show very different elements from those that go to form our Theodorics and Ethelwulfs. The characteristic terminations in -por, -tralis, -centus, -ula, and their variants; the components of Diza-, Muca-, Bithi-, Abru-, and others-where are they among Teutonic nameforms? Where are the place-names in -essos, -assos, -issos, in -para, -dava, -storon, -bria, and others equally characteristic? And is it not rather

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"" freak of etymology to compare Phrygians and Briges with the Franks and with freake, a North-country word signifying a "bold wight"? "When on ground," observes Mr. Blind, anciently inhabited by Thrakian tribes we find an Asburg and a Teutoburg, we experience some difficulty in resisting an obvious conclusion." Certainly. And when on ground anciently inhabited by British tribes we find names like Birmingham and Middlesboro', we experience a

race.

ARTHUR J. EVANS.

NOTES ON ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY. FOUR courses of lectures are announced at Cambridge this term in connexion with archaeology—(1) “Apollo in Greek Mythology and Art," by Prof. Colvin; (2) "Greek Religious Antiquities," by Prof. Gardner; (3) “History of Greek Art," by Mr. Waldstein; (4) "The Palatine Hill and the Velia," by Mr. Tilley. Mr. Waldstein's lectures will be delivered in the new Museum of Archaeology. Mr. Roberts is also lecturing on Inscriptions."

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THE author of The Story of Chinese Gordon has written an article on Caffieri's Busts at the Comédie française," which will appear in the February number of the Magazine of Art, illustrated with engravings of the busts of Corneille, Rotrou, and Piron.

SIR EDMUND BECKETT, having completed the destruction of the west front of St. Albans Abbey, is now attacking the body of the church; and, as its natural guardians allow him to do what he likes there, and he himself is beyond the reach of reason on the subject, we must be prepared for further mischief. But we sorry to hear that the munificence of Mr. H.

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similar difficulty. But the "obvious conclu-H. Gibbs is likely to become another source of sion" seems in either case to be the same-that harm. The great reredos, besides being one of the later names belong to an altogether different the largest, is one of the richest and most delicate, pieces of old English church furniture With regard to the Slavonic, Lithuanian, or which remains; and, if it be touched at all, it other affinities of the Thracians, I should be calls for the greatest knowledge and skill in its very sorry to claim that amount of consan-handling. According to the daily papers, its "restoration" is to be undertaken by the guinity that Mr. Blind insists on for his Goths. In the glosses of Thracian plant-names pre- ordinary staff of the church without the superserved in the list of Dioscorides-the best vision of any architect. authority for the language that we possess there are, however, some remarkable points of resemblance with Lithuanian and Slavonic forms, as, for example, the Thracian name for Chelidonium, Krustane, which Grimm aptly compares with the Lithuanian Kregdzyne, from Kregzde = "a swallow." In the same way, the first element of Kolabrismos, both Thracian and Karian for "a dance,' presents a striking analogy to the Slavonic Kolo, the

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THE "beauties" of England, as old topographers called them, have been so seriously diminished and destroyed that what remain ought to be cherished and protected so far as may be. And so the proposal to destroy yet another-to invade and ruin the immediate neighbourhood of Aysgarth Force, in Wensleydale-must be strenuously resisted. We understand that the scheme that failed some two years ago is being revived. The design is to

run a railway viaduct over the river just above
or close by Aysgarth bridge, which bridge is
placed in a very lovely spot at no great distance
from the Force itself. Certainly this arrange-
ment will inflict an irreparable wound on the
scenery of that part. And, as everybody knows,
it is scenery of no ordinary charm and value;
it is one of nature's choice places. There seems
no reason at all adequate why this new railway
should not, when it leaves Bishopdale, turn
rather north-east and join the line already
existing at Redmire or thereabouts instead of
turning north-west and intruding on the loveli-
ness of Aysgarth. We insist-and we believe
the better spirits of this age are beginning to
be of the same mind-that these beauties of
nature are beyond price, and that their price-
lessness should be duly considered; that it is
not by any means a slight thing to mutilate
and deform one of them (as railway com-
panies seem to think), but a sin and a shame.
Necessity, we are told, has no laws. But it
does not in the least appear that the course
proposed for this railway is necessary. What
appears is the utmost indifference to that which
ought most carefully to be remembered, and
which we hope the protest of all lovers of nature
will insist shall be remembered.

M. EMILE WAUTERS, the famous Belgian painter, has gone on a visit of six months to Morocco. It is also announced that he will not return to Brussels, but has resolved to settle at either Paris or London.

WE are glad to hear that the lamented death of François Lenormant will not cause the discontinuance of the Gazette archéologique, which he founded in conjunction with Baron de Witte. His place as editor will be taken by M. de Lasteyrie, who recently succeeded Jules Quicherat as Professor of Archaeology in the Ecole des Chartes.

WE have received from Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. The Year's Art for 1884. It is a book that, by reason partly of its art directory, and partly by the variety of the art information it conveys, has become practically indispensable to the painter, connoisseur, and amateur. As in the case of that hardly less popular production for the theatrical profession, The Era Almanack, fresh features of interest are introduced each year, even if some of the old ones disappear. This year the chief novelty consists in the introduction of very tiny illustrations. Some of these are the minute records of certain of the the season; others indicate for us briefly at principal pictures in the various exhibitions of least the composition, if not the colour, expression, and effect, of canvases that have been despatched to our colonies. There is, for example. a sheet devoted to fifteen of what are presumably the most important works of art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This shows us at a glance what the Australians are buying. They have become possessed of Sir Frederick Leighton's" Wedded," of Mr. Gow's "Jacobite Proclamation," of Mr. Basil Bradley's pathetic canvas "The Orphans," and of Mr. H. R. Robertson's "Ave Maria," one of the most picturesque of the recent visions of water and sky. In sculpture they boast the possession of Mr. Bruce Joy's "The First Flight"-a gir with extended hand, hardly arresting the departure of the bird on its earliest journey They have likewise Christian Rauch's "Fame." The winged lady seated at the top of a pedestal with one leg dangling towards the ground would appear to be rather a dispenser of fam than Fame herself. But our object was less to criticise the treasured possessions of New Sout Wales than to indicate the newer attractions in The Year's Art. Some of the new prints ar well reproduced. There is likewise a repro duction of that "Venus and Adonis

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Venetian school, and of the Velasquez portrait of Philip IV., which were lately acquired for our National Gallery. Mr. Marcus B. Huish and Mr. D. C. Thomson have together compiled the little volume before us.

THE second volume has just appeared (Paris: Quantin) of M. C. Ravaisson-Mollien's facsimile reproductions of the MSS. of Leonardo da Vinci in the library of the Institut. The first volume dealt with the MS. known as A; this deals with B and D, and contains 188 facsimiles produced by the photoglyptic process. The value of these MSS., not only for the history of art, but more especially for the personal history of Leonardo and for his scientific inventions, is

well known.

WE are asked to state that the receiving day for the spring exhibition of the Nineteenth Century Art Society is Monday, January 28.

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THE STAGE.

THE theatrical events of the last two or three weeks have been very numerous and very unimportant. Our greater playhouses-except those devoted, at this season of the year, to pantomime-have preserved in their play-bills the pieces which were performed before Christmas. At the Lyceum only, to-night, is any change to be made. 'Pygmalion and Galatea,' " which we reviewed at length some while ago, will still be performed, but it will be played in conjunction with a new brief piece of serious interest, likewise by Mr. Gilbert. It is true that a new theatre has opened the Prince's in Coventry Street, under the management of Mr. Edgar Bruce, who had to vacate the condemned bandbox known as the Prince of Wales's-but the chief attraction at the Prince's thus far seems, to judge from the utterances of our contemporaries, to be its iron curtain, which would appear to be a contribution of somewhat negative value to the pleasure of the playgoer. Mr. Bruce has, however, assembled a good company: there is Miss Lingard, who knows her art, and sometimes, perhaps, shows only too well that she knows it; there is Miss Sophie Eyre, who is handsome and spirited and promising; there is Mr. Beerbohm-Tree, an actor of marked character; and there is Mr. Bruce him

self, whom one always sees with pleasure, and who is really seen excellently in "In Honour Bound." But the pieces are stale. Mr. Gilbert's play has aged too rapidly-unlike, in this respect, his play at the Lyceum-and "In Honour Bound" is confessedly old, though it is certainly good. But we are hardly invited to

criticise at length a performance which, no doubt, will shortly be changed, so that that with which one is familiar may give place to that which is novel.

AT the little playhouse in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, a new manageress, Miss Nellie Harris, has brought out, with what is almost an unexpected measure of success, a piece first played about nine years ago. This is " The New Magdalen," by Mr. Wilkie Collins. It is not quite a pleasant piece, but it is vigorous and plain-spoken; and to-day, just as nine years ago, the two principal parts are acted by Miss Ada Cavendish and Mr. Archer, who do complete justice to them. Mr. Archer was always successful in the part he has assumed that of the persuasive clergyman; and Miss Cavendish, as the Magdalen, made a distinct hit originally. But, however good she was in the past, she is now admitted to be better-her method has matured; she has gained in force and earnestness, and her recent appearances in London have not been so frequent that the public has had any opportunity of tiring of her. To us Miss Cavendish has sometimes seemed unequal to portray the

more agreeable passions of the theatre, but for
those that are aroused in the scenes depicted in
"The New Magdalen" she undoubtedly finds
perfect expression. Hence her success is as
merited as it is peculiar.

and at Islington, and in still more remote suburbs; but we live in an age of centralisation, and, practically, pantomime is centralised at Drury Lane.

MUSIC.

MR. EDWARDS' "VICTORIAN" AT ·
COVENT GARDEN.

MR. PINERO is a clever man who, for lack of the most ordinary precautions of prudence, is wont to fail in his essays. The acting of "Lords and Commons" at the Haymarket has WE recently noticed the production of "The allowed that piece a run of fifty nights already, Piper of Hamelin" at Covent Garden, the first nor is that curious play even yet on its very of the two novelties promised by the Royal last legs. But at the Globe Theatre, in spite English Opera Company. Though the plot of of some excellent acting, Mr. Pinero's new that Opera is not particularly interesting, and comedy of "Low Water" has enjoyed but the music certainly not of a high order, the eight performances including one specially piece seems to have been favourably received given for the profession, who may be presumed by the public. It has been performed four or to have been anxious to see, while yet it was five times; the actors have got more used to possible, a piece practically condemned on its their parts, and various improvements in the first night. "Low Water has been withway of "cuts" and curtain arrangements have drawn; Mr. Pinero hopes it may be seen been effected since the first night. again, and clearly intends to attribute a part Last Saturday evening came the second of its failure to the method of its interpretation, novelty, "Victorian," an Opera in four acts by but the date of its re-appearance is, to say the Mr. Julian Edwards. About three years ago least, uncertain. All Mr. Pinero's pieces have an Overture of his was performed at one of Mr. merits-some stage merits and some literary F. Cowen's orchestral concerts at St. James's merits-and it is not the least of the merits Hall; and, from what we remember of it, there of Mr. Pinero that he determines to be unconwas nothing of special promise in it, nothing ventional. But, alas! he is often more than to lead one to regard Mr. Edwards as unconventional-or he is so unconventional coming man." As the moth to the candle, so that he appears to be unnatural. And learned are young composers attracted to the stage. as he is in stage devices-amply supplied as we must consider him with that first qualification Mr. Edwards found a librettist in Mr. J. F. for a dramatist, the habitude de la scène-he yet adapted" and, we might add, spoilt, to a cerReynolds-Anderson, who "freely altered and permits his piece and his characters to resort to tain extent, Longfellow's "Spanish Student; tricks of conduct and character which would be and this has been set to music. Before beginavoided by the inexpert and the inexperienced. ning, the composer would have done well, like Imagine, for instance, as a trick of conduct of the man in the parable, to sit down and think the piece, the gas going out at a serious moment, "whether he have sufficient to finish it;" and, when some necessary business of the play after due reflection, he might have come to the remained to be transacted, and this, forsooth, conclusion that he had, perhaps, a sufficient only to illustrate the fact that one of the most flow of melody, but not adequate dramatic important of the dramatis personae was in that condition which has been described as "the power; to say nothing of knowledge of harignoble melancholy of pecuniary embarrass-mony, composition, and orchestration. ment.'

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This is an incident in "Low Water,' and exception has, fairly enough, we think, been taken to it; but sometimes the conduct of the characters is even more irritating and unreasonable, in Mr. Pinero's dramas, than the author's own conduct of the piece. Of this, "Lords and Commons," with its representation of the quite unearthly rudeness of well-bred people, its caricature or libel upon their tone of thought, affords the most abundant examples. Mr. Pinero has distinct gifts. He has wonespecially in "The Money Spinner "-deserved successes; but, to continue or prolong them, we cannot but think he would do well to be contented with such originality as does not include eccentricity.

THE pantomimes may be dismissed with a word, though one of them-"Cinderella" at Drury Lane-will run for a couple of months from the present date. It is a great and gorgeous show, having less in common with oldfashioned pantomime than some of us would desire. Yet we are not ourselves quite sure that every sigh which is uttered after oldfashioned pantomime is quite genuine. The present generation would not, we take it, await with profound interest the steady development of the aged nursery story any more than it would yearn for a return of that yet earlier régime of pantomime in which clown, harlequin, pantaloon, and columbine were all-in which what is technically called an opening" did not exist. Anyhow, it is doubtful whether the piece at Her Majesty's-which is fashioned a little more after the purist theories than that in Drury Lane-is really as successful as Mr. Harris's in drawing the world. Mr. Harris is a king of spectacle; he marshals armies of supers become for the moment picturesque. There is pantomime, we may add, at the Surrey

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It would serve no useful purpose to review the work in detail: the libretto is weak, and the music still weaker. The solo numbers and duets have pleasing moments; but they are written in a jerky style, and are, for the most part, commonplace, vulgar, or inexpressibly dull. His recitatives are miserable failures, and his concerted pieces feeble in construction and altogether ineffective. There is a certain amount of colour and form in his "Gipsy" music-in the second act we have Gipsies singing and last act a Gipsy camp in the forest-but we dancing in a square at Madrid, and in the hear only the wild untutored strains of the vagabond race, and recall with a sigh the cul

tivated and seductive Gipsy music of more than one great composer. It is unpleasant to speak thus unfavourably of Mr. Edwards' first operatic venture; but in the interest of art we feel forced to be frank. The composer is quite young; and if, as we believe, this Opera prove a failure, he may yet hope for future success, and even fame. Auber's first Opera was a miserable fiasco, so was Verdi's first attempt, and Wagner's first essays brought him but little encouragement.

We must now add a few words about the Miss Gulia Gayperformance of "Victorian." ford took the role of the Gipsy maiden; she made the most of the part; her voice appears to have lost some of its freshness, but it is fair to her to say that she was suffering from a Mr. Packard as the lover, Vicsevere cold. torian, was fairly successful. Mr. J. Sauvage as the Gipsy Bartolomé well earned the liberal applause bestowed upon him; he has a voice well trained and of pleasing quality, and his We would utterance is clear and distinct. also mention Miss Lucy Franklein's clever impersonation of Hypolito. The performance, generally speaking, was far from good; the Opera was conducted by Mr. Edwards, who was

naturally over-anxious. At the close the actors SIXPENNY MAGAZINE for 1884. SATCHELL
and composer were called before the curtain.
J. S. SHEDLOCK.

MUSIC NOTES.

MR. CHARLES HALLE was pianist at the last Saturday Popular Concert. He gave a very fine performance of Beethoven's E flat Sonata (op. 7); the largo was played with much feeling, and the following allegro with marked grace and delicacy. The principal concerted

work of the afternoon was Mozart's charming Quintett in A for clarionet and strings. Miss Santley was the vocalist.

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The February Part (ready on Friday, January 25th) ON Monday evening, January 21, Mdlle. contains:Marie Krebs appeared for the first time this NO CHOICE: a Story of the Unforeseen. By T. S. MILThe continuation or the Serial Story season. She played the "Waldstein" Sonata with her accustomed brilliancy and dexterity. Her reading of the work is, however, open to exception in one or two points. She was received with all the honours due to an old favourite, and for an encore played Schumann's "Traumeswirren." Mr. J. Maas was the vocalist. He first sang Deeper and deeper still" from 66 Jephtha." The programmebook reminded us that Handel died on April 13, 1759, a Good Friday, the anniversary of the first performance of "The Messiah." true, the coincidence would be a striking one; but it now seems pretty certain that Handel died, not on the 13th, as stated by Burney, but on Saturday the 14th. The programme included Mozart's Quintett for strings in E flat and Spohr's showy Pianoforte Trio in E minor. We must not omit to mention Mdme. Néruda's great success with her solos, particularly the second, Paganini's "Moto Perpetuo.'

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THE coming (seventy-second) season of the Philharmonic Society promises to be one of considerable interest. Herr Antonin Dvorák will make his appearance at the fifth concert and conduct two of his works, and Dr. F. von Hiller will appear at the last both as composer and conductor. A new Symphony by Mr. F. H. Cowen is announced, and the directors hope to produce Brahms' new Symphony in F. The following gentlemen have consented to act as honorary conductors:-Messrs. J. F. Barnett, F. H. Cowen, G. Mount, and C. V. Stanford. The dates of the concerts will be February 21, March 6 and 20, April 23, and May 7 and 28.

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