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in the Grosse Bäder on the left bank of the Limmat or Linth. It is below the Kurhaus. The only local name at all resembling Imrapen is Im Hasel, west of the Kurhaus. Possibly a Frenchman like de Blainville mistook this name. Baden (not being very far-14 miles-from Zurich with which it was connected in 1847 by the first railway built in Switzerland) was a very fashionable resort for the Swiss. Besides Fricker's big book, see David Hess, 'Die Badenfahrt' (Zurich, 1817).

W. A. B. C. VOLTAIRE'S CANDIDE,' PART II. (12 S. vi. 296, 322).-Just after having finished the reply at the second reference, I find in Larousse's Grande Encyclopédie,' iii. 258-59 an account of two Imitations and Continuations of Voltaire's satiric chef d'œuvre which are ascribed to him and fully answer your correspondent's inquiry. As stated, the first Suite, ou Seconde Partie de 'Candide' est une curiosité bibliographique aujourd'hui à peu près introuvable." would be too long to quote the two accounts. I can only refer to Larousse. H. KREBS.

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FOLK-LORE THE DANGERS OF CROSSING (11 S. xii. 451; 12 S. i. 238).-In Pliny's "Natural History,' bk. viii., chap. lxxxiii. (vol. ii. p. 353, in Bohn's "Classical Library") we read :

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"When the Titanic King Râhu fell in the combat with the god Indra, every time the latter cut off the former's head or limbs, instantly they were restored to his body. Now, Sachi, the wife of Indra, gathered and halved the flowers of blue lotus, arrayed them into two rows, and passed betwixt them. Indra understood her meaning, severed Râhu's limbs anew, threw them into right and left, and walked between them, which made them unable to return to the Titanic body, so that Râhu was for ever no more (Jinten Aino Shô,' 1532, tom. iii.).

KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

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"OUIDA' IN PERIODICAL LITERATURE (12 S. v. 414).- Ouida, a Memoir,' by Elizabeth Lee, pp. 34-35, says :

"In January, 1861, Ouida's first long novel, Granville de Vigne : a Tale of the Day,' began to appear in The New Monthly Magazine. It was concluded in June, 1863, when Tinsley published in Bondage.' it in three volumes, changing the title to 'Held Strathmore was begun in The New Monthly Magazine in the following month and ran until February, 1865. Next month the first instalment of 'Idalia' appeared, and was concluded in the number for February, 1867......These three romances were all written for Harrison Ainsworth, the proprietor of the two periodicals mentioned."

For the other of the two periodicals mentioned at above reference, see p. 32 of Miss

Lee's 'Memoir.' "Dr. W. Francis Ainsworth, medical attendant, and to him the girl a cousin of Harrison Ainsworth, was their confided her attempts at stories. He introduced Ouida to Ainsworth, who was at that time editing Bentley's Miscellany. She sub

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mitted some of the stories to him; he at once recognised their merit, and eagerly accepted Dashwood's Drag; or, The Derby and them for his magazine. The first, entitled what came of it' appeared in the Miscellany for April and May, 1859, and she contributed stories to each succeeding number up to July, 1862: all of them were signed 'Ouida.' ....Ouida s stories formed one of the chief attractions of the Miscellany in those years. In 1867, fourteen of the stories were published in a volume entitled 'Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, and other Novelettes." " F. J. HYTCH.

Notes on Books.

Four Americans. By Henry Augustin Beers. (Yale University Press, 4s. 6d. net.) PROF. BEERS discourses, in this slender book, on Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson and Whitman. We confess to having a complaint against him. It is one we would lodge against several of the newer academic writers of America. We complain-and we half expect to surprise him thereby-of his obscurity. He writes easily, and, if we may so put it, speakingly; but the connection of ideas underlying the pleasantly flowing phrases repeatedly eludes the reader. Not only so, but there crop up occasional sentences of which we can only say that we do not know what they mean. example here is a passage from the first page of the essay entitled Fifty Years of Hawthorne': "I heard Colonel Higginson say, in a lecture at Concord, that if a few drops of redder blood could have been added to Hawthorne's style, he would have been the foremost imaginative writer of his century. The ghosts in the Æneid' [apparently a

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slip for the Odyssey'] were unable to speak A Manual of the Bengali Language. By T. J. aloud until they had drunk blood. Instinctively, Anderson. (Cambridge University Press, 78.6% then, one seeks to infuse more red corpuscles into th somewhat anaemic veins of these tales and net.)

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But does one? How can one, indeed, "seek to do anything of the kind? The last sentence as it stands, means nothing; and its futility is made the more conspicuous by the words "instinctively and then." If it be replied that the writer's general intention is easily to be conjectured, we agree: but we also submit that this is-we had almost said is par excellence-bad writing; that it produces weariness and a sense of obscurity in the reader, and, finally, that it does injustice to the good things the writer has to say.

Having relieved our mind of this complaint, we gladly go on to attest that we found in each of these essays much to interest us. In Roosevelt as a Man of Letters' there are one or two good stories and some sound criticisms. Our author "seeks for comparisons with other men of letters who were at once big sportsmen and big writers," and pitches on Charles Kingsley for the purpose. "Roosevelt was not a clergyman," as he truly observes-and, in several other respects contrasts between the two men have to be admitted before the comparison can be reached. On the whole we think that the suggestion more original than convincing.

Fifty years of Hawthorne' and ‘A Pilgrim in Concord transport us into a most pleasant atmosphere. Concord' with all it stands for, has the charm-so rare in America that there it gains a doubled value-of the land where it is always afternoon. Prof. Beers conveys this gracefully and well. At the end of the latter essay is a paragraph which we hope he may some day elaborate, on Emerson as a poet. In the present writer's view a good deal more than is commonly allowed by his critics should be claimed for Emerson in the character of a poet-and a good deal less in the character of a philosopher.

A Wordlet about Whitman' is by no means to be neglected. In a few paragraphs Prof. Beers sets forth enough sober truth about Whitman to guide an unsophisticated reader up to the right standpoint for judging him.

THIS is the first volume of the series of “Cam
bridge Guides to Modern Languages." It is
well-planned manual, which would enable anyo
who has practice in the learning of language
get a good initial grip of Bengali without the
assistance of a teacher. Dr. Anderson incites the
We are inclined to ask why the translations of the
student to diligence by an attractive Introduction.
'specimens" provided have not been printed side
by side with the text?

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MARIUS D'AFFIGNY (12 S. vi. 130). - DIEGO A Guide to the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. writes: Probably this is meant for Marius Part 1. The Keep; Part II. The Black gate D'Assigny, a short article on whom appears in Museum and Heron Pit. By Parker Brewis. the D.N.B. A man of that name was vicar of (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) | Penrith in 1667, or thereabouts." WE are glad to draw the attention of our readers to this guide, which is a very careful piece of work, illustrated with many well-chosen photographs, for Twelve Months, including Volume Indexes and Titleand also with numerous plans. A study of the Newcastle Keep makes an excellent beginning to an acquaintance with medieval military architec ture, and with Mr. Parker Brewis's assistance the

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[For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY CHRISTIAN NAMES, EDITORIAL, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARY, PLACE-NAMES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS and SURNAMES.]

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A. H. G., pseudonym for A. H. Grant, 296
Abbess, Cistercian, her insignia of office, 169
Abbot (Dr. E. A.), his Philochristus: Memoirs
of a Disciple of the Lord,' 14, 72

Actor, W. R. Grossmith, the juvenile, 131
'Adeste Fidel s,' supposed parody by Rabelais of,
23, 73, 119

Alabaster (W.), 1576-1640, poet and divine, 67, 112

Ales, medicinal, 186, 233

Alfieri (Vittorio), 1766, his tutor, 68

Ali and Mohammed in Hell, Dante on, 149

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Ann of Swansea, a sister of Mrs. Siddons, 45
Anne of Geierstein,' elucidation of passages in,
90, 136, 175

Anne, Queen, statue on Hotel Russell of, 6

Anonymous Works:

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'Apology for the Life of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone,' 312

New Bath Guide' (Anstey, 1766), 37

Norman People,' 1874, 190

'Rhymes from the Cobbler's Lapstone,'1886, 272

'Whole Duty of Man,' 1657, 38, 71

Anthem, "Lord for Thy tender mercy's sake," 23 Antiquarian Itinerary,' artist of the, 1815-18, 190

Antiquaries of London, admission of women to meetings of, 270

Antoninus, routes between London and York in 'Itinerary' of, 252, 277, 318

Apple-trees, wassailing and "balderbash," 111 Apprentices, note-taking in Church by, 227, 278 Armorial book-stamp, 230

Army and Navy, official scale of comparative rank in, 273

Army List, English, of 1740, 17, 42, 70, 184, 223, 242, 290, 329

Arnott (Margaret) William Nairne, 274
Assize, records of the Clerks of, 328
Astrologer, office of King's, 313
Astronomical table, 207

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Automobile, an early, 187

Austrian and German titles relinquished, 248, 340

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Balderbash, origin of the word, 111

Baluchistan, Pathans of, their origin, 334
Bank note slang, 51, 159

Barber (Frank), Dr. Johnson's black servant,
296, 319

Barclay (Rev. George), d. 1724, his biography,
189

Baronetcy conferred on French subject, 149

Baschurch (Thomas), Winchester scholar, 1489,
his biography, 165

Baskett (Mark) Bible of 1762, London edition,
110, 173

Bath (Mr. J. L.), clock-maker, 251, 298, 320
Batmanson, or Batmison (0.), of West Auckland,
co. Durham, c. 1600, 39
Bats and hair-cutting, 280

Battell Bridge field, Wakefield, its identification
and history, 65, 135, 192, 236, 298

Bayle (Pierre), error re Cromwell family in his
Dictionary,' 147

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Baytun (Sir Edward), of Spye Park, Chippenham,
228, 276

Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of), his
birthplace, 50; places in his 'Sybil,' 88
Beadon (Agnes) = John Beadon, c. 1760, 189
Beadon and Martyn families, 150
"Bears
249, 281
Beaufitz (John), copy of his will, 1429, 121
Bedlamer-lunatic, use of the word, 1640, 34
Bell (Capt. Henry), a friend of Martin Luther, 15
Bell (Sir Robert), of Beaupré, his coat of arms, 39
Bellenden (J.), his translation of H. Boece's
History of Scotland,' 38

and "bulls," Stock Exchange terms,

Bellingues: Brown: Hopcroft, 11
Bells, Hampshire Church and their founders, 137:
in St. Mary Magdalene, Thornford, Dorset, 103
"Bellum," Rabelais on, 186, 235, 302
"Beloved "-ness, exact official gradations of, 269
Belt-buckle plate and motto, 131, 176, 237
Benefices, valuation of ecclesiastical, 1292-3, 15
Bergues, Alphonse de Lamartine, Deputé of, 128
Berkeley (Bishop) on a wall of brass round
Ireland," 228, 297
Bernardi (Major J.), b. 1657, d. in Newgate, 1736,
296, 320, 341

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Betton and Evans, glass workers of Shrewsbury,
1832, 188, 231, 281, 314

"Pannag" in Ezekiel XXVII., 17, 24
Bible, nursery tales and the, 271, 300, 322
Bible Mark Baskett, London edition, 1762, 110,
173

Bibliography:—

B.M. Catalogue 4255 aaaa 41, authorship
of, 17

Baskett Bible, 110, 173

Bellenden's translation of H. Boece's' History
of Scotland,' 38

Clerical Directory, earliest, 64, 157, 194, 237,
259

English books relating to Scandinavia, Ice-
land, Finland, 39

Foreign reprints and translations, 210
Hawkhurst gang, 67, 153, 191

Inscriptions in City Churches, 294, 323, 338
International law, 228, 299

Kipling (Rudyard), Boer War stories, 38,
178, 258

Latin as an International Language, 321
Legal, 130

Lepers in England, 150, 195, 218, 259
Lists filed by Society of Genealogists, 54
London eighteenth century coffee-houses, 22,
59, 84, 105, 125, 143, 162, 213, 258
Mediæval immurement, 48

St. Michael, Crooked Lane, 83, 238
Seventeenth-century MS. describing tokens,

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Blackwell Hall Factor-agent for woollen manu-
facturers, 153

Blaise (Le Capitaine), 190

Blake (John) = Agnes Beadon, c. 1760, 189
Blakiston (John), 1603-49, the regicide, 19, 114
Blayney (Rev. Benjamin), d. 1801, his biography,
159

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Bloody," origin of the national adjective, 87, 293
Bloomfield (Robert), his Song for a Highland
drover returning from England,' 167
Bloomsbury, origin of the place-name, 62
Blue Books and White Papers, Parliamentary, 340
Boar, wild, in heraldry, 189, 238

Bocase tree in Northants, origin of the word,
15, 73

Boece (Hector), Bellenden's translation of his
"History of Scotland,' 38
Bombers in Charles II's. navy, 271

Book of Common Prayer, faulty edition of 1828, 87
Book-plates, pharmaceutical, 131, 192
Book stamp, armorial, 230

Books recently published:-

Addleshaw's (P.) Last Verses, 200
Anderson's (T. J.), Manual of the Bengali
Language, 344

Bailey (John): A Day-Book of Landor, 26
Bayfield's (M. A.), A Study of Shakespeare's
Versification, 199

Beers's (H. A.) Four Americans, 343
Beza's (M.) Papers on the Roumanian People
and Literature, 140

Blair's (R.) Catalogue of the Inscribed and
Sculptured Stones of the Roman Period
belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 284

Brown's (S. J.) S.J. Ireland in Fiction, 26
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. V.,
Nos. 3 and 4, 53

Catalogue of Printed Music published prior
to 1801, now in the Library of Christ
Church, Oxford, ed. by A. Hiff, 79
Chapman's (R. W.) Portrait of a Scholar and
other Essays, 263

Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter I.-
IV., XIV.-XXII; Wordsworth, Prefaces
and Essays, on Poetry, 1800-1815. Ed. by G.
Sampson, with an Introductory Essay by
Sir A. Quiller-Couch, 139

Courier (Paul Louis): a Selection from the
Works: edited by E. Weekley, 179
Deanesley's (M.) The Lollard Bible, 262
Devonshire House Reference Library, 179
Doren's (C. van) Tales of Washington Irving
selected and edited with an introduction
by, 79

Durham University Journal, March, 140
English Madrigal Verse, 1588-1632.

E. H. Fellowes, 323

Ed. by

Farnell's (L. R.) The Value and Methods of
Mythologic Study (from the Proceedings
of the British Academy, vol. IX.), 27
Fay's (C. R.) Life and Labour in the Nine-
teenth Century, 303

Gepp's (E.) Contribution to an Essex Dialect
Dictionary, 239

Gosse's (E.) Malherbe and the Classical Reac-
tion in the seventeenth century, 283
Guide to the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Part I. The Keep: Part II. The Blackgate,
344

H.'s (H.), Mollie Rhymes, 344

Irving (Washington) Tales by, selected and
edited with an Introduction by Carl van
Doren, 79

Landor, a Day-Book of, chosen by John
Bailey, 26

Lecat's (Dr. M.) Pensées sur la science, la
guerre et sur des sujets très variés, 53
Lewis's (C. T. C.) The Baxter Book, 1919, 240
Library, The, Fourth Series, vol. i. No. 1.,324
Mason's (A. J.) what Became of the Bones of
St. Thomas? A Contribution to his Fif-
teenth Jubilee, 119
Month's Occupations, The, From an English
Calendar of the eleventh century. British
Museum, Set 41. (Humphrey Milford), 263
Morgan's (I. and G.) Stones and Story of
Jesus Chapel, 53

Oxford English Dictionary (Vol. X. Ti-Z) Visor
-Vywer. By W. A. Craigie, 159
Oxford University Press General Catalogue,
1920, 239

Books recently published:-

Poole's (Reginald L.) The British Academy:
Seals and Documents, 80

Ramsay's (A. B.) Inter Alia, 120, 202
Rylands Library Bulletin, 53
Sampson (G.) editor. Coleridge, Biographia
Literaria. Chapters I.-IV., XIV.-XXII.
Wordsworth. Prefaces and Essays
Poetry, 1800-1815. Introd. by Sir A.
Quiller-Couch, 139

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Smith's (L. P.) S. P.E.: Tract No. III.: a
few Practical Suggestions, 304
Sparke's (A.) The Bowyer Bible, 160
Swann's (H. J.) French Terminologies in the
Making. Studies in Conscious Contributions
to the Vocabulary, 99

Swift's (J.) Gulliver's Travels, The Tale of
a Tub, and The Battle of the Books, 53
Sykes's (H. Dugdale) 'Sidelights on Shake-
speare,' 79

Tanner's (J. R.) Samuel Pepys and the Royal
Navy, 219

Tonkinson's (T. S.) Elkstone: its manors,
church and registers, 100

Valancel's (A.) Old Crosses and Lychgates, 283
Wyld's (H. C.) History of Modern Colloquial
English, 219

Booksellers' catalogues, 27, 54
Bookseller's label, seventeenth century,205,280,323
Borrow (George) and the " ragging of Lieut.
Parry, 43

Boullongne (Louis de, the younger), 1654-1733,
pictures by, 41

Boultbee (Rev. John), 1703-58, his biography, 209
Bowen (Lord), his reference to Daniel in the lion's
den, 41, 73

Boyer family, 49

Boyle (Capt. Robert), his 'Voyages and Adven-
tures,' 45

Bradshaw (Robert Smith), Westminster scholar,
1782, 130

Bradshaw (William Smith), Westminster scholar,
1772, 130, 177

Bramble surname, 10, 72

Bransby (Rev. J. H.), 1783-1847, Unitarian
minister, 37, 78, 240
Bread: statute" bread and
1780, 252

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Brontosauri existence, humourous poem on, 32
Bronze of Shakespeare, 169

Brown Bellingues: Hopcroft, 11
Brown (John), King's Serjeant at Arms, 1354-84,
251

Brown (Nicholas) b. 1716=Joan-b. 1714, 168
Browne (John) b. 1642, Regius Chirugus Ordinarius,
208

Browning (R.), his The Flower's Name,' 188
Brydges (Sir Samuel Egerton), his essay on Byron,
295

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