Edited by WM. J. ROLFE, CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS. The Division of the Plays into Scenes. In the early quartos and folios, the plays are some times given without any division into acts or scenes, sometimes they are divided only into acts, and sometimes into acts and scenes. Where the division and subdivision are made, there are often palpable inaccuracies or inconsistencies in the numbering of acts or scenes, or both. the first end with Mrs. Quickly's exit at line 67, That there is much in the English landscape and in the English life which Mr. James enjoys is plain, but if that be an error or a fault it is one that hundreds of Americans share with him. Out of the eight novels of this writer four must In our forthcoming edition of the Merry Wives, be counted out as having no pertinence to this we leave this scene undivided, because we are important dispute. Let us examine the rest for not willing to disturb the "Globe" divisions of a moment. In The American no contrast of the play, but we explain the matter fully in the English and American types is presented, but In the modern editions the division into acts Notes. No edition hitherto published, so far as the central figure of Newman could only have has been comparatively uniform, but the sub-we are aware (the new "Harvard" edition been drawn by a countryman who had studied division into scenes has varied a good deal. not excepted), makes any reference to it. Mr. with a thorough appreciation his admirable and Since the publication of the "Globe" edition, Daniel's discussion of it may be found in his patruly national characteristics. In The Europeans, however, the majority of critics and commenta- per on the "time-analysis" of the plays, printed A Bundle of Letters, and The Pension Beaurepas tors have been disposed to adopt the numbering in the Transactions of the New Shakspere Society one and the same attempt is made, to exhibit of acts, scenes, and lines given therein; and this for 1877-79. the wholesome simplicity, the fresh, instinctive, has tended to check further tinkering in this dinative virtue, of the American types in con- rection. It is obviously desirable that we should trast with the sophistication, conventionality, have some standard of the kind, even though it and lower moral ideas and standards of the may not be a perfect one. It saves endless conEuropean. And that these qualities are repre- fusion in references to passages in the plays. If sented as co-existing with other less desirable an editor does not like some of the details of the and admirable characteristics with the narrow-division, it is nevertheless better to retain them mindedness of a Puritan family and the vulgarity of nouveaux riches tourists, — merely proves the fidelity of Mr. James's observation, and gives to his creations the stamp of genuine reality. The failure of the Wentworth family to comprehend the Baroness Eugenia is a testimony to their single-minded purity of thought; and the inef fectual endeavor of Miss Aurora Church to conduct herself like one American-born though European-bred brings into relief the sincerity and straightforwardness as well as the plebian breeding of Miss Sophie Ruck. The fact that this purity and sincerity of nature are attributed to persons whom we recognize as "common," low-placed in the social scale, is what makes Mr. James's compliment to his countrymen the more significant: these virtues, he implies, are everyday virtues among us Americans; we take them as matters-of-course, unaware how precious they are and how far from being the current coin of social life in other countries. Amanda, in A Bundle of Letters, and Henrietta Stackpole, are exemplifications of this same thing. With the exception of this last-named, none of the characters in Mr. James's last novel are in any special sense typical Americans. Osmond might be of any nationality; there is a something in Isabel which points to her American origin; yet the author does not mean to lay any stress upon it; it is rather as an individual than as a type of national character she is brought before us. This fine novel has met with a curiously cold reception, even from those English whom the author has so basely flattered. Mr. James doubtless is resigned to knowing his books to be "caviare to the general," and may console himself for the condemnation of many reviewers with the conviction that his fit audience still exist and admire his work as much as ever, though it does not voice itself in print. Yet for their own sakes it is a pity that Americans should show themselves so blind to the service of exquisite justice this author has done them. One recalls here the homely old proverb about the dog with a bad name. Some one, in a fit of most incomprehensible indignation, threw a bad name at Mr. James about a year ago, and the unintelligent, as their way is, have picked it up and used it. Newburgh, N. Y. M. L. H. in his text, and quarrel with them (as we have As an example of a glaringly incorrect division We will add one example of the needless, or worse than needless, changes in division made by some of the recent editors. The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a play which is carefully divided into acts and scenes in the folio of 1623, in which it was first printed; and this division has been generally accepted by the editors and critics. But Mr. Dyce took the liberty of throwing the 2d, 3d, and 4th scenes of act iv. into one; and we see that Mr. Hudson follows him in the new "Harvard" edition, with the following comment: "As there is confessedly no change of place, but only of persons, there is plainly no cause for marking a new scene. . . . They [other editors, except Dyce] mark as three distinct scenes what is in fact only a continuation of one and the same scene, with two changes of persons." It is passing strange that one good editor should make so bad a mistake, and that another good editor should so blindly (to take the most charitable view of it) follow him. It is very true that there is no change of place as often for several successive scenes - but there are obvious changes of time, which are plainly cause for marking new scenes. This will be evident to any reader who can see a church by daylight,” as Beatrice says. The first of the three scenes (iv. 2) is a serenade of Silvia at night, presumably before midnight. In the latter part of it Silvia appears at her window and Proteus bids her "good even." She tells him to go home and to bed, but promises to give him her picture if he will send for it "in the morning." The Host, who is concealed near by with Julia, has fallen asleep, and when Julia wakes him, says, "Trust me, I think 'tis almost day." "Not so," is her reply, showing that he has made the common mistake of persons who At the beginning of this scene we find Falstaff The next scene (iv. 3) is the next morning, when Sir Eglamour calls on Silvia at the hour she has appointed. He speaks of the time as "early," but it must be some hours at least after the serenade of the preceding scene. The interview is for the purpose of arranging plans for the coming evening, and we cannot imagine why it should take place at an unusually early hour for a morning call on a lady. In the next scene (iv. 4) Launce appears with his dog, which he has carried as a present to Silvia, but which she has refused. He has taken the cur "into the dining-chamber," where "he steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg." This would seem to have been at dinnerThis dodging about of the time between even-time, but we have other indications that the hour ing and morning could be remedied, as Mr. Dan-is considerably later than Sir Eglamour's "early" iel shows, by cutting the scene into two, letting call. Launce has but just finished his speech Whipple in N. A. Rev., 58. 267. See also Harper's M., (6) Henry Kingsley's Hillyars and Burtons is reviewed NEWS AND NOTES. when Proteus enters with Julia in boy's clothes. In the serenade scene Proteus knows nothing of Julia's arrival in Milan; and enough at least of - Mr. Longfellow is out again, though under the following day must have elapsed to allow for cautionary terms; but has given up seeing misher seeking him out and entering his service. 429. Fuller's Works and Chesterfield's cellaneous company, as he has always been so paThe only objection that can be made to placing Letters. Can you inform me where I can obtient in doing, and will hereafter lead a more quiet this scene after dinner, or after noon (for in tain Fuller's Worthies and Church History and secluded life. The rumors of a painful Shakespeare dinner is assumed to be at noon, fair edition, not too dear? also Lord Chester- affection of the face, to which some of the according to the English fashion of the day) is papers keep returning, are wholly without founthat Silvia has told Proteus to send for the pictdation. Mr. Whittier has rounded his seventyure "in the morning"; but he would not be Lord Chesterfield's Letters are published by Lippincott fourth birthday in good order, and though not likely to be up very early after the serenading of at $1.25; and by Harpers, with a memoir, at $2.50. Of seen in Boston as frequently this winter as forthe preceding night, and an interval of some Fuller's Worthies and Ch. Hist. we find no editions in merly, and handling himself with care as befits length must be allowed for Launce's call with print. The latest Ch. Hist. we find is one of London, his years, is clear of head and sound of body, as the dog and for the interview and negotiations 1845, 6 vols., £3 35.; of Worthies, London, 1840, 3 vols., all his friends will be glad to know. Mr. Emerson between Proteus and Julia. At any rate, it is absurd to suppose, as Mr. Dyce and Mr. Hudson have done, that Proteus sends for the picture "in the morning" in the very same scene in which she at night tells him to go home to bed and wait till the next day before sending for it. If we put the two events into one scene, there is only an interval of about a hundred and ten lines of dialogue between them! field's works? Philadelphia. J. B. S. £1 55. Some dealers like Estes & Lauriat of Boston or Bouton of New York might pick up a good copy at an 430. Rhetoric. Will you not kindly direct me to a better rhetoric, than—for instance - -I had in college-a work well up in the technicalities, etc., of prosody, and the finer discriminations of rhetorical art? Crete, Neb. E. B. There is no better book for our correspondent than 431. For the Study of Milton's Comus. I occasionally brightens Washington Street with his luminous countenance, on his way from Concord for a day in town, and gives in outward aspect no sign of his failing powers. His new portrait in the series of "Atlantic Authors" is a fine success, though it shows him as he looked when in his prime not now. Dr. Holmes you may run into almost any fine day on Beacon Street or its connections, smart and vigorous as ever. Together with a dozen or more Harvard classmates of 1829, one of whom was Dr. James Freeman Clarke, he dined at the Parker House the other evening, and made one of his good speeches. Mr. Howells, who flits about from place to place, in search of titbits, we presume for future ménus, may be studied with the aid of the text and is again in Cambridge for the time being. Everynotes in the first volume of the Clarendon Press Edition of body wants to see "Owen Innsley," the new poet, Milton's poems. These notes are as good as any, if not the best. The volume is sold separately and costs $1.00. who is not a man but a woman, a Miss Jennison, There is a life of Milton, by Professor Masson, in the daughter of a Boston lawyer, and niece of Mrs. “Riverside" edition of his poems, and the text has notes Thaxter's husband; but she has modestly slipped (not very good) by Mitford. The life occurs in Vol. I, and the poem in Vol. II, pp. 75-122. out and gone abroad. Mr. Robert Grant, the " Comus is referred to, and the circumstances of its composition are detailed, in author of A Frivolous Girl, has stepped into Masson's Milton, Vol. I, pp. 572-586. An account of civil service as private-secretary to Boston's Literature, edited by Professor Morley, volume compris-torical scholar and writer of high attainments. "Comus" is to be found in Cassell's Library of English new Mayor, Dr. S. A. Green, himself an hising "English Plays," pp. 309–313. Johnson mentions Mr. D. A. Goddard, the editor of the Adver We are not aware that Dyce's fusion of the three scenes into one has been criticized until now, though the Cambridge editors seem to have intended to make some comment upon it. In their collation of the texts, they have the follow-studying Milton's Comus. ing at the beginning of iv. 3: "Dyce makes no new scene here. See note (viii)"; but there is no "note (viii)," and no reference to this point in the seven notes that are given at the end of the play. Doane College, Crete, Neb. A. B. S. Dr. Fox's "Student's Shakespeare." We learn that the first edition of "The Student's Shakespeare," compiled by Rev. Henry J. Fox, D. D., and sold by subscription, is entirely exhausted; and that a new and revised edition will soon be issued. The book is the largest and most comprehensive of the collections of Shakespearian quotations, being a royal octavo of some says: "The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe," the 650 pages. The first edition was marred by mis-source from which it was drawn being Homer's Odyssey, prints here and there, but the new one is to be thoroughly corrected. There is an edition of Marlowe's complete works, with sketch of author and notes by Dyce [1 vol., 8vo. Routledge. $4 50]. Ditto of Jonson's, with memoir by Gifford. [Appleton, $3.50; Routledge, $6.00.] Jonson's 'Every Man in his Humor" is published by French in paper at 15c. Beaumont and Fletcher can be had complete in 2 vols., with introduction by Darley, portrait, and illus (6) Henry Kingsley's Novels. The novels of Henry Kingsley have about them a mystic quality which I do not think has been duly recognized. At any rate, if it have, I have not met trations. [Routledge, $10.00.] There is a Popular Selecwith any such appreciation. Where, pray, can I tion, by Leigh Hunt [Bohn, $1.25]. "Elder Brother," see the best and most exhaustive notice of the "Maid of the Mill," and "Rule a Wife and Have a writings of Henry Kingsley, a far more interest-Wife" are published separately by French at 15c. each. ing personage to my mind than the better known Charles Kingsley? ALLA GIORNATA. London, England. (a) G. P. R. James was the sole author of nearly 200 volumes, and to enumerate all that has been written about him and his books would take more space than we can allow. In brief, his novels are reviewed in Am. Month. Rev., 3. 268; South. Lit. Mess., 6. 300, 9. 503; in Am. Quart. Rev., 22. 252; in Dub. Univ. Mag., 19. 341; by F. D. Huntington in Christ. Ex., 42. 101; and by E. P. tiser, died untimely this week of pneumonia. Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, editor of the Pilot, has been making a New Year's visit to Philadelphia. A Daniel Webster has just died in Philadelphia at the age of 105 years; but the centenary only of the birth of the greater Webster falls on the 18th inst., and as we write efforts are making, or perfecting, or failing - - we know not which - for a due celebration of the event. One mark of it however will be the publication of a highly eulogistic poem by Rev. Wm. C. Wilkinson, D. D. Mr. Bryce's lectures at the Lowell Institute have been completed; and a course on China, by E. B. Drew, Commissioner of Chinese Emperial Customs, has been begun. Mrs. Woolson is continuing her series in history and literature. Prof. Charles Eliot Norton is giving a course on Greek Art at Hawthorne Hall before the Woman's Education Association. Mr. T. S. Perry has begun a course on English literature at Cambridge. Shakespearian readings by Mr. Locke Richardson, a young Englishman, and a course of ten German readings by Arnold Zuellig, are helping to swell the sum of local attractions. -Scribner & Welford are about to bring out a new series of illustrated biographies of great artists. Although very similar to the previous series in form, it will differ in having fewer plates, and will be less expensive. The first volume, by J. W. Mollett B. A., deals with Meisson 433. John Treat Irving, author of The Attorney (see 421), was a brother of Washington Irving, 1778-1838. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of New York. In politics, a Democrat, a poetical satirist, and author of two works of fiction, The Attorney and Harry Harson; also somewhat of a contributor to one orier, giving an entertaining account of his daily two periodicals. Randolph, Mass. -Harper's Monthly will commence in May a new novel by William Black, entitled The Bells of Shandon, the scene being laid in Ireland. Mrs. Lillie's Prudence is begun in the February number. The Weekly has commenced a comedy by “Ouida,” called "Cloth of Gold and Cloth of Frieze." treated in a second volume by Ellen E. Minor. tianity in Developing Modern Civilization, by the also, as No. 3 of the Mississippi series, The Five other biographies are in preparation. To Rt. Rev. John Williams, Bishop of Connecticut. Expedition of Don Diego Dionisio De Peñalosa, "Meyer's Commentary on the New Testament" A third and cheaper edition of Crawford's Portu- Governor of New Mexico, from Santa Fe to the are to be added volumes on The Pastoral Epis-gal Old and New is nearly ready; also a new and River Mischipi and Grand Quivira in 1662; 250 tles, and Peter and Jude; both by Dr. Huther. cheaper edition of The Universe; or the Infinitely copies at $2 each. Martensen's Christian Ethics, Vol. I, and Hagen- Great and the infinitely Little. In the "Transbach's History of Doctrines, Vol. III, which have atlantic Series" comes a novel from a new writer been delayed on account of the loss of a valua- entitled The Dingy House at Kensington. The ble chart, will appear immediately in the "New seventeenth edition of Haydn's Dictionary of Series of the Foreign Theological Library." Dates, revised and extended to the fall of 1881, Among their new announcements are The Story will be ready this month. Edmundo de Amicis' of the Persian War from Herodotus, by Rev. A. Morocco and its People is of special interest in J. Church; George Selwyn and his Contempora- the present state of affairs in North Africa. ries, by John Heneage Jesse; and The French Other announcements by this house are Garfield's Court and Society in the Reign of Louis XVI, and Place in History, by H. C. Pedder; and A HisDuring the First Empire, by Catherine Char- tory of the Naval War of 1812 by Theodore lotte, Lady Jackson, author of Old Paris, and Rossevelt. The Old Regime. Lady Jackson has availed herself of everything that would aid in the construction of a lifelike and truthful picture of the events which held the attention of all Europe. The work is in two handsome volumes. One has for the frontispiece a portrait of Necker, while the other brings us face to face with Charlotte Corday. The latter portrait is a reproduction from a rare print. and called forth so much notice that Mr. Patton - -Fords, Howard & Hulbert are about to give Sunday School teachers a valuable help in their "comparative edition" of the Gospel of Mark, edited by Dr. Roswell G. Hitchcock, and containing the King James version, the English version, and the American revised version. In addition to these the little pamphlet will have a full list of the Sunday School lessons for the entire year, and a large number of references. -Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have had a Merry Yorktown, by Jacob Harris Patton A.M., apChristmas and a Happy New Year over the fol-peared first in the Magazine of American History, lowing facts: that Mr. James's Portrait of a Lady is in its 4th edition; that Mr. Scudder's Children's Book and Boston Town have been in great demand from the outset; that two editions of Dr. Holmes's poems complete have disappeared like a Boston snow-fall before a South wind; that Bayard Taylor's illustrated Home Ballads proved a most popular book, which fact means a nice royalty to Mrs. Taylor; that Grant White England Without and Within has reached its 4th thousand, and is still rapidly selling over the water; that the Longfellow Birthday Book is in its 17th thousand, and the Emerson and Whittier are both in the 9th; and that Mr. Fawcett's A Gentleman of Leisure is also in its 9th thousand. New successes in preparation are Mr. Scudder's Noah Webster, Mr. Charles Amory's Life of Copley, and a volume of Studies in the South by the author of Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life. Mr. Howells has been up before the Police Court; but as a spectator only, as his contribution to the January Atlantic shows. 9966 Caroline Fox, whose Memories of Old Friends is announced for early issue by J. B. Lippincott & Co., was a member of a distinguished Quaker family living in Penjerrick, Cornwall. Her father, Robert Were Fox, was a scientific man of note, the inventor of the "Deflector Dipping Needle," which has since been used in all Arctic explorations, and of other instruments; and was the personal friend of some of the most distinguished men and women of his day. Caroline began to take notes of the conversation of these personages when she was sixteen years of age, in 1835, and continued them until 1871 - two years before her death. -In Macmillan's "Golden Treasury Series" Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, edited by W. A. Greenhill, M.D., is just issued. Children's Poetry is the title of a collection of pretty poems by Miss Muloch, well calculated to please. Nor. denskiöld's Voyage of the Vega is published by this firm. -J. W. Bouton has just imported a rarely beautiful art book, Mural Decorative Painting, by W. and G. Audsley. It contains thirty-six plates in colors and gold representing models for the polychromatic decoration of surfaces, in the style of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. -A. C. Armstrong & Son issue at once an American edition of At Home in Fiji, by Miss Gordon Cumming, a book which in England has been widely read and enjoyed. The author is a Scotch lady and has already written a number of delightful books of travel. — A. C. Armstrong & Son have been delayed in the publication of Dr. Henry B. Smith's Apologetics on account of the addition of new and interesting matter. The work is ready now, however, and will appear at once. -In the American "Men of Letters" series Prof. Lounsbury's biography of Cooper is expected to be exceedingly interesting, presenting many new facts hitherto unpublished in the noted novelist's life. surviving editor of this magazine, published forty years ago, copies of which are exceedingly rare. Mr. Parke Godwin is engaged on a new edi tion of Bryant. D. Appleton & Co. have in press the first two volumes. The other four are to appear at intervals through the coming year. - Dodd Mead & Co. will publish immediately Prof. Hoppin's Homiletics: also a new edition of Mrs. Lydia Maria Child's Memoir of Isaac T. Hopper, which has been out of print for a long time, and which cannot fail to be of interest, combining as it does the life of the good old - Among the noteworthy features of William Friend with the stirring operations of the "UnShepard's forthcoming Pen Pictures of Modern | derground Railroad." Later will appear a book - Rev. George W. Cooke is preparing a monAuthors, the second volume of "The Literary on The Cultivation of the Rose, by H. B. Ellwan-ograph on the old Dial. Emerson is the only Life" series, will be Henry Larkin's "Recollec-ger, whose long experience in the nursery busitions of Carlyle," David McCrae's "A Day at ness makes him fully competent to give all inforLongfellow's House,” Justin McCarthy's "Visitmation necessary to the cultivation of the plant. to J. R. Lowell," John Esten Cooke's "An Hour - Charles Scribner's Sons will issue at once, with Thackeray,” George William Curtis' Remi- as the fifth volume in their “Campaigns of the niscences of Hawthorne,' Moncure D. Conway's Civil War," Antietam and Fredericksburg, by "Visit to Tennyson," with other sketches, anec- Francis Winthrop Palfrey. Two volumes of Dr. dotes, and reminiscences by personal friends or Holland's Everyday Topics come next in the new acquaintances of George Eliot, Ruskin, Emerson, edition of his works. The material of the second Bryant, Walt Whitman, O. W. Holmes, Matthew volume was collected and arranged from ScribArnold, Swinburne, William Black, "Ouida,' ner's Monthly by Dr. Holland himself shortly Dickens, Bulwer and Disraeli. The Putnams before his death. Outlines of Primitive Belief, will have the book out early in February. by E. F. Keary, and the fifth and last volume of -G. P. Putnam's Sons have published a the Metternich Memoirs, will be issued at the fourth volume of the "Hibbert Lectures," for same time. 1881 by Prof. Rhoys Davids, on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Buddhism. In a similar series on the evidences of Chris tianity, the initial volume is to be The World's Witness to Jesus Christ; or the Power of Chris We have received the first number of The Electrician, a new journal of electrical science, to be published monthly by Williams & Co., 115 Nassau St., New York, at 50 cents a year. A very excellent and appreciative sketch of the late John B. Wardlaw, Jr., appears in the Methodist Quarterly Review for January. It increases our sense of loss by his death. The abstracted professor in Mrs. Burnett's new story Through One Administration is said to be a pen portrait of Professor Simon Newcomb of the Naval Observatory. - Robert Clark & Co. of Cincinnati publish this month, in 2 vols., at $6, The St. Clair Papers, being the life and public services of Arthur St. Clair of the Revolution, an important contribu- "Ouida's" Belgravia comedy, of which mention of original materials to American history; tion was made in a late number, will be repub lished here in Harper's Weekly. The title has and the late Andrew Laing of another library in Canon Luckock's Studies in the History of the Prayer Book are soon to be issued by T. Whittaker. Sir J. H. Ramsey is writing for the Clarendon Press A History of England During the -Jessie Benton Fremont is writing a play for Early and Middle Ages. He has been engaged John McCullough. Great Britain. -The Athenæum brings a chapter of interesting particulars of the sale of the first part of the Sunderland Library, among which we note the following items: a first edition of the Sixtine Bible, Rome, 1590, 78%; a Cranmer's "Great Bible," London, 1541, 115/.; a " Vinegar Bible on vellum, Oxford, 1517, 255; Boccaccio's La Ruine des Nobles Hommes et Femmes, Bruges, 1476, 920l.; ditto, Il Decamerone, folio, Venice, 1471, first edition printed with a date, a copy wanting 5 leaves, 585.; a 2d edition of the same, 1472, 400/.; an Aldine Decameron, Venice, 1522, 111.; Boethius's Le Grant Boece de Consolacion, Paris, 1494, 1367; a first edition of Liber Sextus Decretalium, on vellum, 1465, 170/.; Bouchet's L'Amoreux, on vellum, with 20 miniatures, 1503, 640/; an Antwerp Breviary, with a broadside Plenary Indulgence to English Catholics" pasted within the cover, 1525, 2317; an original edition of De Bry's voyages, nearly complete, 720/.; a first edition of Cæsar's Works, Rome, 1469, 1957; 8 books of Castañeda in 3 vols., 1552-61, 1857.; and Caxton's Cronycle of Englande, wanting one leaf and having a duplicate of another, 2267. Altogether the prices at this sale kept up remarkably well, and show that few investments are more solid than choice copies of rare books. The proceeds of this sale were nearly $100,000. The sale will be continued in April. 66 Susan Edmonston Ferrier was an English novelist, b. 1782, d. 1854. She wrote Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny. The characters in the first include Miss Jacky, Miss Grizzy, and Miss Nicky, three maiden aunts; in the second figures Uncle Adam, a rich East Indian; while in the third we have a Highland chief, Glenroy, and his daughter Edith. Miss Ferrier was very | happy in delineating the national characteristics of Scotland, and had a keen sense of wit and humor. She was a frequent guest of Scott at Abbotsford, who pays a tribute to her talent in The Legend of Montrose. A new edition of her works has been begun by Bentley, printed from the original edition as annotated by the author, with a short memoir prefixed to Marriage. - Mr. J. J. Cartwright is preparing a selection from the private correspondence of Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby, a soldier of distinction under William III and Marlborough, and a diplomatist under Queen Anne. His letters, with those of his mother, wife, and children, made up a vivid picture of the life of a noble household of the time. The entire correspondence is in the MSS. Department of the British Museum. on the work for a dozen years or more, and has just entered on the fifteenth century the last to which it will extend. - Mr. G. L. Seymour's drawings for Canon - Plon of Paris has just published a volume of Farrar's Life of St Paul are sufficiently advanced the late St. René Taillandier's contributions to the toward completion to allow of the immediate | Revue des Deux Mondes upon the modern poetcommencement of the serial illustrated edition ical movement in Provence. Their collective of the work by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. title is Etudes littéraires. 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