Rochester;" which paper is printed, with four plates, in the Archæologia, vol. xi. pp. 317-374. In 1799 Mr. Clarke published a pamphlet, entitled "Observations on the Intended Tunnel beneath the River Thames, shewing the many Defects in the present state of that Projection." 4to. (reviewed in Gent. Mag. vol. LXIX. p. 1056.) Mr. Clarke had written on the subject in the Magazine during the previous year, vol. LXVIII, p. 565: see also vol. LXX. p. 200. The project was that of Mr. Dodd, for a Tunnel under the Thames at Gravesend. A few years after, Mr. Clarke was removed, in the employ of the Ordnance, to Guernsey, and some "Observations on Crosses," dated from that island 7th June, 1806, are printed in Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vol. I.; "Observations on Round Churches," dated Guernsey, 7th June, 1807, occur in the same volume. And we also find "An Attempt to ascertain the Age of the Church of Barfreston, in Kent, with Remarks on the Antiquity of that Building," by Mr. Clarke, dated London, 1812, printed in vol. IV. of that work, pp. 4151. These passages are supplementary to Mr. Britton's history and description of the same subjects. The last essay by Mr. Clarke with which we are acquainted, is "The Rise and Progress of early English Architecture," prefixed to "Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini," a series of views of the Churches of London, published in large quarto, 1820. BILL OF MORTALITY, Jan. 25 to Feb. 22, 1842. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, Feb. 15. Barley. S. d. 28 9 20 3 S. d. S. d. S. d. 38 10 34 0 PRICE OF HOPS, Feb. 21. 34 5 Sussex Pockets, 51. 8s. to 67. Os.-Kent Pockets, 51. 10s. to 67. 10s. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, Feb. 21. Walls Ends, from 15s. 9d. to 21s. 6d, per ton. Other sorts from 14s. 6d to 18s. 9₫. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 50s. Od. 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D'ISRAELI'S AMENITIES OF LITERATURE.-Hardouin.-Christus Patiens of PAGE Hogarth's Caricature of Mary Tofts the Rabbit Breeder.... License of Henri IV. to Lord Cobham to take Caen Stone, 1591.... Characters of William III. and James II.-Victories of Hannibal-Protestant Persecutors.-Literary Character of Renouard.-Religious Opposition to Sci- entific Truths.-Father Boscowich.-Establishment of the Newtonian System. —Barbier d'Aucour.-Dufresny.—The Siamese Letters.-Reynard.—Gobel, 369 ON COLLARS OF THE ROYAL LIVERY, No. III.-The White Falcon.... ON TIMBER HOUSES, No. II.-Ancient House at Coventry (with a Plate) Intercourse of John Lightfoot, D.D. and Sir Henry Cæsar Suicide. Rumoured Assassinations.-Don Carlos of Spain Monk's Euripides, 393; Donaldson's Pindar, 396; Scott's Suppression of the Reformation in France, 397; Wilmot's Pictures of Christian Life, 401; Spence's Abbey Church of Romsey, ib.; Markland's Remarks on English Churches, 403; Barr's Anglican Church Architecture, 405; Strickland's Queens of England, 406; Miscellaneous Reviews LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE -New Publications, 413; Irish Collegiate School, 415; Episcopal College in Scotland, 416; Statistical, Geological, Astronomical, Meteorological and Entomological So- cieties, 416; Society of Arts, Law of Copyright, Literary Pensions... ARCHITECTURE.-Oxford Architectural Society, 418; Institute of British ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 420; Roman An- MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Iu reference to the inquiry in p. 234, B. observes:-It is said that John Huss asked his executioner, "Are you going to burn a goose? (Such is the meaning of Huss in the Bohemian language.) In one century you will have a swan you can neither roast nor boil." This was after wards interpreted to mean Luther, who had a swan for his arms. This seems to be the reason that a swan is generally placed by Luther's side in his whole length portraits. Mr. G. L. FENTON asks the origin and design of a book published (I believe at Frankfort) in the 16th century, entitled, "De fallacia et astutia Vulpeculæ Reinikes." The author's name is Hoffman Schopper, and the book is dedicated to Maximilian II. The work is written in verse, with a prose commentary, and is ornamented with many woodcuts. Primá facie, it is a lengthy moral fable. I do not understand the meaning of the word "Reinikes." Is there any reason to suppose that a political or religious satire is intended? CRIT. ANTIQ. observes, "Some charters are given in the 2nd vol. of Poulson's History of Holderness, p. 476 et seq. The cartulary there referred to was, some few years ago, in my possession, and a copy of it is now by me, as are several original deeds from the time of the Hebdens, to whose lands it principally relates, to and after the time of Robert Bowes of Aske, Esq. temp. Eliz. from which it is evident that the deeds recited relate, not to Eske in Holderness, as there stated, but to Aske near Richmond, and in the original no Holderness appears. Some other minor alterations are observable." H. H. (p. 234) will find the subject of the relationship of the Herveys of Ickworth, to the Herveys of Thurley, discussed in Gage Rokewode's History of Suffolk, Thingoe hundred, p. 286. The Bedfordshire family bore arms, resembling (if not the same as) those now borne by the Marquess of Bristol, as shewn by the shields on the gravestone of Elizabeth Hervey, Abbess of Elstow. F. G. points out an error in the Obituary, p. 341. It was Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Miltown, the 3d wife of the first Earl, who died lately in Dublin in the hundredth year of her age, "Maria" Countess of M. died 25 July, 1772. The said Elizabeth, Countess Dowager of Miltown, died on or about the 21st of January last, at her house in Upper Merrion Street, Dublin. She was the 4th daughter of the Very Rev. William French, Dean of Armagh, youngest son of John French, of French Park, co. Roscommon, esq. was married in 1768, had issue two sons, who both married and had issue; and two daughters, Cecilia, wife of David Latouche, esq. and Frances Arabella, wife of Marcus Beresford, esq. nephew to the first Marquess of Waterford. Lady Miltown was left a widow Oct. 2, 1783, fiftyeight years ago. Her husband was born in 1711. CYDWELI says, as the mention of the Turkish Spy in a note on the Turkish Letters (Feb. p. 151.) might lead some of your readers to suppose them the same work, it may be right to mention that they are not. The Lettres Turques (which were originally published as Lettres de Nedim Coggia, 1732) were written by St. Foix. It is, however, by his Essais sur Paris, that he is chiefly known. M. D. will be glad of any information respecting a family of the name of Waite, which, early in 1600, lived in the north, not far from the Derwent. Mr. JOHN BELL, of Gateshead, will thankfully receive impressions in sealing. wax of the old tradesmen's tokens issued between 1645 and 1672, for any place in Northumberland, Durham, or Yorkshire. We have forwarded the obliging communication of SYLVANUS SILVESTER to the Messrs. Waller. ERRATA in Review of Knight's London, Gent. Mag. Feb., for "the Earl of Worcester, then Lord Chamberlain," read "Master of the Horse;" For sacellæ read sacella. In Londiniana, No. VI., Gent. diensis, read Groma Castri Londinensis. Mag. for March, for Gnoma Castri LonIbid, p. 271, for "the Ermine Street, which crossed the Thames," read "the Ermine Street, a branch of which crossed the Thames." P. 97. The late Earl of Harewood lost his Countess on the 15th Feb. 1840. His eldest son, Edward Viscount Lascelles, died on the 17th Dec. 1839; and his second son, Henry, is his successor in the peerage. P. 115, under Leicestershire, for Kensington read Knossington, and for Althorpe read Abthorpe. P. 230, Lieut.-Gen. John Murray was not Sir John. P. 340, col. 2, before "At Court-hillhouse, Potterne," insert WILTSHIRE. THE MAGAZINE. GENTLEMAN'S Amenities of Literature, containing Sketches and Characters of English Literature. By I. D'Israeli, 3 vols. 1841. The "The THE title of this book appears to have been adopted by the author's account, from the Italian phrase, "La Litterature Amena," signifying what we call " polite learning," and the French "Belles Lettres.' proposed object of the work is to "follow the steps of the human mind, through the wide track of time; to trace, from their beginnings, the rise, progress, and the decline of public opinions; and to illustrate, as the objects presented themselves, the great incidents in our national annals." literary history becomes not merely a philological history of critical erudition, but ascends into a philosophy of books, when their subjects, their tendency, and their immediate or gradual influence over the people, discover their ancient condition." While Mr. D'Israeli was executing this somewhat arduous undertaking, we are truly sorry to find that he was arrested suddenly and totally by the loss of sight, Non illud culpa Senectæ, Sed labor intendens, animique in membra vigentis Thus the papers in the present collection are but a fragmentary portion of the projected history. The plan of the book is simple and chronological, commencing with the early history of the Britons, and the Druidical institutions, and tracing the path or progress of the literature of the country, to the time of the Commonwealth. This is effected in a series of critical disquisitions on the writings of authors, on the state of society, on the progress of language, on the prevalence of particular theories, on the origin of arts, and on whatever subject could throw a light on the progress of knowledge, and the formation of opinions. These various disquisitions are, as might be expected, of different degrees of value; some appear as if the freshness of their colour was somewhat faded by time; and a few we believe have previously appeared before the public eye. We like the historical treatises best: and think less of the poetical; but in many parts the materials, as we might expect from a scholar of Mr. D'Israeli's long experience and practice, are well digested, the sources of knowledge duly explored, and the results of inquiry placed in the most various and striking points of view. Subjects of themselves of a dry and uninteresting character, are pleasingly enlivened and illustrated; and truth is never sacrificed to a love of novelty. Yet the philosopher, we think, is often lost in the critic and commentator; generalization contracts into the discussion of separate points; and the developement of great and leading principles is somewhat obscured by the minuteness and multiplicity of the individual parts of which it is formed. To trace a Meridian through this map of human knowledge, crowded as it is with characters and commentaries, with precision and fidelity, would be an undertaking at once arduous and delightful; and |