romaine, mais l'auteur s'était inspiré des Grecs, comme on s'en inspirait presque toujours à Rome. La nouvelle mariée, assise sur le lit

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ROME JEWISH SARCOPHAGI AND GREEK PAINTING (11 S. vii. 429). - 2. In Hare's Walks in Rome,' thirteenth edition, p. 659, in the account of the Appartamento Borgia, the celebrated fresco known as the Nozze Aldobrandini' is mentioned. Found 1607 (Gournerie, Rome Chrétienne,' ii. 62) in the Baths of Titus, near the Arch of Gallienus on the Esquiline, it is considered to be the finest specimen of ancient pictorial art in Rome. It was purchased at first by the Aldobrandini family, whence its name. It represents an ancient Greek ceremony, possibly the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis. There is a fine copy by Nicholas Poussin in the Doria Palace.

"S'il fait allusion à un sujet mythologique, le réel y est à côté de l'idéal, et la mythologie y est appliquée à la représentation d'un mariage

nuptial et attendant son époux, a cette expression de pudeur virginale, d'embarras modeste, qui avait rendu célèbre un tableau dont le sujet était le mariage de Roxane et l'auteur Aëtion, peintre grec."-Ampère, Hist. Rom.,' iv. 127. Mr. H. Stuart Jones in his 'Companion to Roman History' (1912), p. 410, says of this painting :

It probably belongs to the Augustan period, and was taken from the upper part of a wall decorated in a variety of the architectural style: a certain note of severity in its composition, which is that of a bas-relief rather than of a painting, caused it to be ascribed to pre-Alexandrine art. On the other hand, the fact that the central group by a terra-cotta of the third century B.C., from -Aphrodite and the bride-is closely paralleled

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Asia Minor, has been held to show that the supposed original was of Hellenistic date. There is in reality no need to posit such an original. Graceful as the composition is, it is far from lucid in its details-witness the varieties of interpretation proposed by modern scholars; does it stand alone, for there are similar groups, as for example in the remains of the Golden House of Nero, which have the same superficial appearance of classical severity, but are even more evidently made up of well-worn types. They are the handiwork of a classicizing school, which retained its traditions beside those of the more 6 modern' decorators." A. R. BAYLEY.

de Vigne,' was published in The New Monthly Magazine. It was not; she in a Preface says it was published in a military magazine.' SOLTERO is wrong in this matter, for GranThe writer of the sketch is right, and EL ville de Vigne' appeared in The New Monthly Magazine during the years 1861-3, cxxi.cxxviii. It is worth adding that neither name nor pseudonym was employed. EL SOLTERO also says:

"The publishers have the pleasure of offering to the many admirers of the writings of Ouida,' the present volume of Contributions, which have appeared from time to time in the leading journals of Europe, and which have recently been collected and revised by the author, for publication in book-form.

"They have also in press, to be speedily published, another similar volume of tales, from the same pen, together with an unpublished romance entitled Under Two Flags.'

"Our editions of Ouida's Works are published by express arrangement with the author; and any other editions that may appear in the American market will be issued in violation of the courtesies usually extended to authors and publishers.

"Philadelphia, May, 1867."

The second volume of stories I have not seen, but there can be no reasonable doubt that it was the volume which EL SOLTERO says was called ' Beatrice Boville, and Other ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Stories.'

Boston, U.S.

W. B. GERISH.

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HUXLEY ON POSITIVISM (11 S. vii. 288).In an essay on Agnosticism,' published in The Nineteenth Century for February, 1889, Huxley refers to Positivism as the incongruous mixture of bad science with eviscerated papistry." The article is reprinted in his Collected Essays,' vol. v., where the quotation will be found on p. 255.

R. FREEMAN BULLEN.

THE STONES OF LONDON (11 S. vi. 429, 515; vii. 16, 77, 211). Onslow Ford Obelisk, Grove End Road, N.W.-Portland stone.

Prince Imperial, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.-Pedestal of polished red Aberdeen granite, base of Portland stone.

Trafalgar Square fountains.-Peterhead granite.

Isaac Watts Memorial, Abney Park Cemetery. Statue and pedestal of Portland

stone.

J. ARDAGH.

Notes on Books.

Horace Walpole's World. By Alice D. Greenwood. (Bell & Sons.)

IT required some courage, we imagine, to underbut Miss Greenwood has amply justified the take another book on the much-bewritten Horace, boldness of her attempt. Having already saturated herself in the literature of the Georgian Hanoverian queens, she has found it easy to period in writing her excellent account of the reproduce Walpole in his true milieu. Sometimes, indeed, she might be thought to have yielded to the temptation of making unwarrantable excursions into the field of contemporary politics, as in her ninth chapter, on The Legend of C. J. Fox,' with which the lively flâneur, in his detachment, had little to do. But the secondary title of her book, A Sketch of Whig Society under She has been able to impart some novelty to her George III.,' saves her from such an imputation narrative by making good use of the correspond

ence of the time brought to light by the Historical MSS. Commission. As a biographer she evinces a more sympathetic insight into the character of her subject than most of her predecessors, and one, therefore, more likely to be just. Notwithhe was at heart a good-natured man, and always standing Walpole's love of gossip and badinage, ready to do a friend a service. He had, indeed, a genius for friendship, and was inclined rather to overvalue the good qualities of others; "all his geese were swans." He was particularly happy in the society of old ladies, and the extravagant admiration he felt for his three duchesses is well known. He was singularly free from jealousy and envy; independent and high-principled beyond most politicians of his time; and, like most great men, fond of children. He certainly was not the inept and empty-headed fribble that Macaulay tried to make out. We may smile at the antiquarian dilettantism which found expression in the lath-and-plaster of his Thames-side castle, which he stuffed with incongruous bric-àbrac; it was the toy with which he chose to amuse himself he was conscious of his own virtuosity; and it should not blind us to his sterling qualities. The writer notes in passing that the erection of this stucco pile was arrested for a time in 1762 by the carpenters going on strike for an increase of wages; which must be one of the earliest instances of a grève on record.

valetudinarian state of health, Walpole was Owing to his fastidious tastes and somewhat content to stand aloof as an amused spectator of the ever-interesting comedy of life. For the same reasons probably he was in a high degree susceptible of being bored, though Miss Greenwood will not admit this. But she herself gives an instance of his declining the proposed acquaintance of a Mr. Gough merely because he thought he would prove intolerably dull. The author is

certainly mistaken, too, in suggesting that the word bore is inapplicable because it "had not as yet enriched our vocabulary (p. 2). It first came into vogue in Walpole's own circle, and was used by his friend Lord Carlisle.

Many points of interest Miss Greenwood passes over with a mere allusion, such as Walpole's correspondence with Chatterton and his intimacy with the Miss Berrys; but, on the other hand, she preserves several traits and customs of the period which were worth recording, such as the newly arisen fashion of great folks going out of town at the end of the week (p. 69). It is amusing to find a certain county magnate writing from his magnificent castle to warn one of his guests that if she should require a cold bath, she must send on her bathing-tub in advance, as we have not the least convenience of that sort here (p. 79).

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The book is written in a lucid and dignified style, though we could wish that that unnecessary word meticulous" were left to the new journalists, who work it to death. The value of the work is enhanced by excellent illustrations from contemporary sources. The portrait of Horace in his seventy-sixth year from a pencil drawing by G. Dance strikes us as particularly vrai semblable and characteristic, and the same may be said of the reproduction of Eccardt's picture of Gray.

Sion College and Library. By E. H. Pearce. (Cambridge University Press.)

THIS is not the kind of book which will command a large circle of readers or which lends itself very easily to review, but it is an extremely accurate, exhaustive, and well-printed history of the College and Library of Sion, which will be welcomed by every member and every beneficiary of that institution.

Thomas White, D.D., the founder of Sion College (who must not be confused with Sir Thomas White, founder of St. John's College, Oxford), was a post-Reformation pluralist. Born c. 1550 at Bristol, he died in 1624, being

then Vicar of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Canon of Windsor, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Prebendary of Mora in St. Paul's Cathedral. Twice married, he had no children, and made noble use of the accumulations of his ecclesiastical preferments. In 1621 he founded the White Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, endowing it with 1007. per annum; and under his will there was founded the College and Almshouse of Sion, to which a charter of incorporation was granted in 1626. Curiously enough, the Library, which has since become the most important and conspicuous feature of the College, is not due to the founder, but is an afterthought

of John Simson, his kinsman and executor, who built it soon afterwards, and endowed it with 167. per annum.

The book before us gives a long and complete history of the vicissitudes, misfortunes, and benefactions incident to the growth of the College, including the almshouses, the Library, the College estates, and other properties, together with much personal history of the presidents, librarians, and other officers who were responsible for the management of them.

The story is well and minutely told. We can not recapitulate it here, only calling attention

to Mrs. James's very large gift of books in 1711 (p. 266), and to the strange history and loss of the most valuable MS. possessed by the Library (pp. 293-4). Chains were abolished in 1720.

The important growth of the Library dates from the time when Parliamentary assistance began to be given to it, having been mooted in 1707, and taking shape in the Act of 1710. An Act of 1814 required the delivery of a copy of every book published to the Library of Sion College, and to the Librarians of four Scottish Universities,. and of the King's Inns, Dublin. An Act of 1836 abolished these rights, and substituted an annual' sum of money in compensation for them. The compensation to Sion College amounted only to £363 15s. 2d., which sum was to be paid yearly, and is paid to the present day. An Act of 1875 settled the division of the London Wall property between the Hospital and the College, at the same time separating the Hospital from the College, and setting up a new body of trustees to manage the Hospital, which was endowed with one quarter of the profits of the sale of the City property and a certain share of other properties. An Act of 1884 authorized the purchase of a new site for Sion College for 31,6257., their share of the sale, and the erection of their new and present home on the Thames Embankment. Sixty-two thousand books were removed from the old site, in addition to 30,000 pamphlets; and the number of books has now reached 100,000, and is yearly increasing. The story ends here. The book is accurately and beautifully printed, and enriched with two. appendixes and a complete Index. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. (Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co.)

AMONG the papers of varied interest published' in the last issue of this Society are an illustrated monograph on the Churches of Gothland,' by Prof. A. C. Seward; and an account of a fourteenth-century inventory of the books and other Possessions of Corpus Christi College, by Dr. that by Dr. W. M. Palmer, in which he gives James. The paper of most general interest is

a readable and, indeed. lively account of 'College Dons, Country Clergy, and University Coachmen.' In discussing the records of the Cambridgeshire Probate Court he prints a number of inventories of the goods which the members of the University possessed during the Elizabethan and Stuart period, in the way of furniture, books, and wines. Some curious items, as might be expected, come to light. In the shop of one Voyage John Denys about 1570 Frobisher's could be bought for 1d., and the Vision of Piers Plowman for 6d. One Thomas, University printer in 1583, put out a volume in folio called

Zanchi's Miscellanies,' which no one can find What, again, were the "iij ateany trace of. merves which Gylpyn, a Fellow of Trinity, had under his windows in 1550 (p. 186)?

THE new serial with which The Cornhill Magazine for July begins-entitled The Lost Tribes'-is the work of "George Birmingham." The situation with which it starts out, the arrival in an isolated village in West Ireland of the rich widow of an Irish American, though not precisely unheard of before, is rich in humorous possibilities, which in these first chapters are well outlined. Miss Edith Sellers's Shifting Scenes in Lapland,' anl

Mr. Ian Malcolm's Rothenburg and its Festival,' are graceful and lively bits of writing which make a series of successful pictures in the reader's imagination. Mr. Hesketh Prichard's Grey Seals of Haskeir,' besides its obvious interest as a contribution to natural history and an account of sport, embodies an appeal with which we would gladly associate ourselves. In November, "while the young are helpless, mothers nursing, and the big bulls often lying with their families," takes place, with circumstances of revolting brutality, the annual "clubbing of the seals." This is not justified by the value either of the skins or the oil obtained, and will lead ere long to the extermination of a fine creature which is both interesting and harmless. What is needed- the writer is not sanguine as to its being effected-is the establishment of a close time for the grey seal. Mr. E. V. Lucas's delightful paper on Old Crome's Hobbema' should send a number of people to the National Gallery to refresh their memories of both these painters as well as of Ruysdael. An important and suggestive article, which we trust will bear fruit in the work of oncoming historians, is Sir. J. K. Laughton's Historians and Naval History.'

The Nineteenth Century for July starts with a paper by Lord Cromer on The Capitulations in Egypt,' designed to turn attention towards devising some plan which shall take the place of the present Egyptian system of legislation by diplomacy." Dr. Georges Chatterton-Hill hails with an exultation which is, perhaps, a little premature, seeing how new as yet are the phenomena he describes, the 'Re-awakening of France.' Still, one cannot but read his pages with hope and pleasure. Mrs. Bennett brings to a conclusion the account of her truly terrible experiences as a captive after the Massacre of Cawnpore. Mrs. W. K. Clifford in ' A Remembrance of George Eliot' has little that is definite to relate, and there is something perilously near akin to the ridiculous in the solemnity of the scenes she describes, yet she has succeeded as well as any one who has written of George Elot in conveying a sense of the curious thrilled atmosphere that surrounded her. Miss Emily Hickey's study of Mrs. Browning, if somewhat drawn out, makes good reading-as it were an echo from older methods of criticism. One of the most charming and instructive papers is Mrs. March-Phillipps's Old Italian Villas and their Lesson,' devoted chiefly to the construction of the garden. The true Italian garden, with its comparative indifference to flowers and its tendency towards architecture, is more nearly allied to the Japanese idea of a garden than to our own. Canon Lyttelton in Eugenics, Ethics, and Religion sets forth the compatibility of eugenics and Christianity. Lady Blake gives us a rapid, slight, but rather engaging sketch of Irish life in Tir-na-bes.' Other good papers-less in the line of N. & Q.'-deal with agriculture, military efficiency, and problems of nationality.

IN the July Fortnightly Review "the play's the thing We have the third instalment of the Editor's discussion of Realistic Drama,' in which not only is the criticism, alike of the temper of the time and of modern dramatic methods, acutely driven home, but also a scattering of well-pointed epigrams is offered for the

delectation of the discerning. Mr. S. R. Littlewood's Intellect and the Actor again is a suggestive essay by way of discrimination. Mr. P. P. Howe writes on The Dramatic Craftsmanship of Mr. Bernard Shaw' with verve and incisiveness, and makes sundry good hits. The Centenary of Richard Wagner, by Mr. Clement Antrobus Harris, is a good outline study, within narrow limits, of Wagner's work and position. Mr. de Vere Stacpoole, after some pages of allusive introduction, gives us translations from Villon, clever enough for the most part as to the riming and versification. But we could not deny that, like "les neiges d'antan." Villon himself has proved elusive and regrettable as ever. Still, it is one of the best papers of the number. Mr. Horace Samuel revives judiciously the claims of Stendhal to the gratitude of lovers of literature. No doubt one of the articles that will be read with special interest is Dr. Elkind's estimate of the Kaiser. The political papers deal with imperial questions and the Near East.

READERS of N. & Q.' will learn with satisfaction that on Tuesday, 24 June, Lord Beauchamp carried his amendment to the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendment Bill to substitute a fine of 100l., or imprisonment not exceeding three months, for a fine of 20l. as the maximum penalty to which the owner of an ancient monument, reported of national importance, shall be liable if he commence any operation of demolition, removal, alteration, or addition, without giving a month's notice to the Com missioners of Works-201. being considered an inadequate deterrent.

In the discussion as to the desirability for a separate board for Scotland, Lord Beauchamp mentioned the interesting fact that more people in Scotland had taken advantage of the old Act, and that more monuments in Scotland were under the care of the Office of Works than was the case in England and Wales.

Notices to Correspondents.

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forwarded to other contributors should put on the top the page of N. & Q' to which their letters refer, left-hand corner of their envelopes the number of so that the contributor may be readily identified.

To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answering queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate."

CORRIGENDUM.-For FRANCIS N. RELTON (11 S. vii. 513) read FRANCIS H. RELTON. We apologize to our correspondent for the slip.