satisfactory, as the authorities for the statements This is a gruesome and ghastly subject, and perhaps the less said about it the better. But German engravings of executions leave us in no doubt as to the nature of the atrocious punishment of the "wheel." The criminal was stripped and bound, supine, usually upon a wheel, fixed horizontally on a scaffold, with legs and arms extended; and the executioner fulfilled his cursed office by grasping what appears to have been an ordinary cart-wheel (about forty inches across) at each end of its horizontal diameter, and then bringing down the lower part of the rim with all his might on each of the naked limbs in turn of the unhappy victim, thus crushing them (much as the malefactor's limbs were crushed after crucifixion); and he seems to have completed the awful operation by such blows on the breast as more or less speedily terminated life. Favoured criminals were sometimes strangled before being "broken." The wheel was in its third and last capacity used as a gibbet, on which the severed limbs and head of the victim were exposed, in terrorem, at the cross-ways; and no one who has glanced at Retzsch's Outlines to Bürger's Ballads' is likely to forget the telling effect caused by the introduction of this spectacle in the fifth illustration to 'Lenore' and the fourth to the Pfarrer's Tochter von Taubenhayn.' J. ELIOT HODGKIN. Richmond, Surrey. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. FORTY years have elapsed since the Alumni Westmonasterienses' of Mr. Charles Bagot Phillimore was given to the world. During that period other loyal sons of Westminster-notably Mr. Frederic H. Forshall, the author of Westminster School Past and Present,' 1884have contributed towards preserving and rendering accessible its records. A further important contribution to the same end is now made by Mr. Russell Barker, well known on the 'Dictionary of National Biography' and in N. & Q.,' and Mr. Stenning, both of them, it is need less to say, Westminster scholars. The work now completed and given to the world consists of the names and June, 1764, and August, 1883. No explanation of these records of boys admitted to Westminster School between limitations is proffered. The compilers, however, are still seeking particulars concerning the Westmonastrians admitted previously to June, 1764, and it seems that the period now dealt with is that covered by the These are four in number, and extend over the period books of entries at present in possession of the head master. mentioned, with the exception of the date from Sept. 27, 1788, to the end of 1805, the admissions for which time are not forthcoming. Head masters have been, it appears, in the habit of looking upon these books as MSS., as well as the book of Dr. Nicolls, containing, their private property, and it is hoped that the wanting among others, the admission of Gibbon, may yet be discovered. We think, however, of the fate of Warburton's plays, and are not too sanguine. The task of Messrs. Russell Barker and Stenning has been carried out with exemplary judgment and zeal. How ample is the information sometimes supplied will be seen by a reference to the name Somerset. In some cases that we note an inquiry in N. & Q.' would have speedily obtained information not now forthcoming, and ably lost. Occasionally matters of interest, political or in one or two instances, it is to be feared, irrecoverliterary, spring up, as when we read of Robert Southey that he was expelled from the school in 1792 for an article contributed to the Flagellant. The work is well executed and welcome. The Church of All Saints, East Budleigh. Part II. By T. N. Brushfield, M.D. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art. THE histories of our towns and villages are one by one satisfaction, more often, we are sorry to say, in a way being treated of-sometimes in a manner which gives which shows that the authors possess enthusiasm without insight; now and then we come across books of this sort that are mere trade speculations. At present be not promptly taken to show the reading public what this sort of imposture is rare. If, however, means a good village history should be like, we dread very much that as the desire for local knowledge goes on growing this kind of pestilent literature will rapidly increase. There is no better method of stopping the influx of bad books than to furnish examples of really good ones. This Dr. Brushfield has done in a most exemplary manner. To all Devonshire men his history of the Church of All Saints, East Budleigh, ought to be a work of surpassing interest; but not to them alone, for to those who live far away from Devonshire and who have no Devonian blood in their veins it will serve as a model of how a town history should be written. We cannot wish for a better fate for Dr. Brushfield's little work than that a copy should be deposited in every local library throughout the land, so that intending authors might have a specimen before them showing how a work of this kind should be done. Devonshire is noted for its wood carvings. Much as her churches have suffered from the zeal of reformers and Puritans, it is probable that even more havoc has been made in the latter days by " beautifying" churchwardens and ignorant committees of "restoration." What damage has taken place at East Budleigh we cannot estimate, but the full fury of the tempest has not raged there. The old benches, with their curious sculptured ends, have been saved. Of these Dr. Brushfieldgives a very careful description. They are well worthy of all the attention which he has bestowed upon them. "There cannot be much doubt that they are the work of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited, The light it a few sentences to anticipate Rabelais. The Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan. (Bagster & Hazell's Annual for 1893 contains, as usual, a stupendous mass of information of the most varied kind. Among annuals it has established a position as one of the most valuable. WE have received a copy of the Baptist Handbook for of information calculated to be of service to the Baptist 1893 (Veale, Chifferiel & Co), containing a large amount Union. THE next volume of the "Book-Lover's Library" will be entitled Literary Blunders: a Chapter in the History of Human Error,' by Mr. H. B. Wheatley, F.S.A., the editor of the series. 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Let each note, query, sonnets" It is a beauteous evening" and others of unor reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the equalled beauty, 'Rob Roy's Grave' and many other signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to poems which it is a delight to read once more in this appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested handsome and convenient edition. Vol. iii, is, how-to head the second communication "Duplicate." ever, a little too thick and cumbrous. The notes are excellent. Why, we are inclined to wonder, is the second line only of the sonnet" With how sad steps, O moon," put in inverted commas? Surely both the first lines are taken from Sidney! The Vision of Mac Conglinne. Edited by Kuno Meyer. With an Introduction by Wilhelm Wollner. (Nutt.) 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