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T. WILSON.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8th S. v. 369).

The devil was ill, the devil a monk would be;
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
See reply to A, T. R. MURRAY, under "Notices
Correspondents," 6th S. ix. 400 :—

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, &c.
CELER ET AUDAX.

comparable to O.E. "The ark was a preparing' occurred. The whole history is, indeed, so complex that, (A.V. and R. V., 1 Pet. iii. 20). To me the school- unless we have the misfortune to be violent political parboy construe "The house is being built " is odious. tisans, it is not easy to take any view at all. To say that Your kind readers will perhaps let me add that cutting, the knot. Mr. Alger's book, though it does not, a great part of the nation went mad is not untying, but though an old Whig, I opine that there has, in all perhaps, contain any new facts of first rate importance, ages, been a proportion of Englishmen-not now, is calculated by judicious grouping to instruct every careI hope, greater than formerly-neither beautiful, ful reader. The first chapter is especially valuable, as it nor soft, nor blunt, nor hard, nor bold, nor truth-exposes some of the myths which have already grown up. ful, nor good. It is a warning to students of the history of all times that they must be careful in sifting evidence. brings out, as no Englishman, so far as we are aware, has Mr. Alger ever done before, the slavery of the French intellect of a hundred years ago to classical ideas. How absolutely they misconceived the state of society in ancient Greece and republican Rome is now evident. "Liberty, equality, and fraternity" these dreamers thought they saw in the Greek republics, not caring to remember that every one of those states had its basis in slavery. This dreamy classicism first arose, we are well aware, at the time which we, for want of a more distinctive term, have agreed to call the Renaissance, but it did not become a dangerous political force until late in the last century. The account of the women who took part in the new order of things is especially good. Even the most violent entertained the idea that political power ought to be of the organizers of the terror do not seem to have ever they seem to have been as conservative on this matter as given to women. Destructive as they were of old ideas, the English Tory squires. The chapter headed "Children" is especially worthy of notice. Madness could not go further than some of the theories which had the countenance of men otherwise intelligent. Boys and girls on many occasions took part in political demonstrations. What effect on the intellect such precocious thinks that the children born during the Terror were of action must have had it is easy to picture. Mr. Alger a lower standard than those of former days. "They must have been," he says, "the conscripts of Napoleon's later campaigns, the physical inferiority of whom is notorious." mentioned, marking with a star those who were guilloThe author gives an index of the names tined or otherwise met with a violent death.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Fair Maid of Perth. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited
by Andrew Lang. (Nimmo.)
THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH' is the last of Scott's great
romances in which Mr. Lang can find no trace that the
hand or brain of the magician was losing a measure of
its cunning. Our own estimate is different. The work,
which we rank lower than Anne of Geierstein,' shows
traces of failure-failure from Scott's highest accom-
plishment, that is-in conduct and in interest. Catherine
Glover, in spite of her selection by a kiss of the smith as
her lover, is the most causelessly puritanical and the
least interesting of Scott's heroines. The good qualities
of Hal of the Wynd, with the exception of his bravery
and strength, are assigned him on the ipse dixit of the
author, and are not developed in the story. His High-
land rival, Conachar, establishes his position as the hero
of the tale before the smith comes into the action. In
the great fight of the clans, meanwhile, the smith's
intrusion is resented, and the sympathies are all on the
side of the defeated clan. It is, in fact, the smith who
defeats the clan, and not one clan another. For these
and other reasons, when reading over, every few years,
most of Scott's romances, we have left on one side The
Fair Maid of Perth.' On now once more rereading it
old prejudices revive. It is, however, it is needless to
say, an integral and indispensable portion of the great
'Waverley'series, and we are glad to welcome it in this
exquisite and ideal edition, the best, we fancy, that Scott
will see.
Mr. Macbeth, A.R.A., is the chief illustrator,
supplying the designs for Proudfute Unhorsed' (frontis-
piece to vol. i.), St. Valentine's Morn,' Meeting of
Citizens,' Rothsay and the King,' The Escape of
Conachar' (frontispiece to vol. ii.), Proudfute Dead,'
and Catherine and the Glee Maiden '-or seven out of
ten. Falkland Castle' is by Sir George Reid, The
Smith and the Highlander by Mr. Pettie, R.A., and
'The Glee-Maiden' by Mr. Herdman, R.S.A.

Glimpses of the French Revolution: Myths, Ideals, and
Realities. By John G. Alger. (Sampson Low & Co.)
THIS is not the first book which Mr. Alger has written
regarding the France of a hundred years ago. His 'Eng-
lishmen of the French Revolution' is deservedly popular.
The present, which may be regarded as a companion
volume, extends over a far wider field.
French Revolution is still so near that there are very
The great
few of us who can take a dispassionate view of what

PAINTERS, both French and English, are having rather a bad time of it at the hands of their critics in the Fortnightly. Mr. D. S. MacColl deals with the Royal Academy, and mildly and benignly patronizes many painters of some name and note. the kindness of this attitude, since it is plain that the We are the more struck with writer does not think much of them or their works. In discussing the Two Salons,' Mrs. Pennell is far less good-natured. To Mr. Whistler she is indulgent enough. We hear, however, of the "glaring excesses of M. Rochegrosse" and the "boisterous vulgarity of M. Roybet." When she praises it is in such terms as the "vulgar cleverness of M. Carolus Duran"; and when her censure is strong she talks concerning the blasphemous melodrama of M. Béraud, Mr. W. Roberts is very severe upon The Worship of Pottery,' and Dr. Villiers Stanford expresses his views concerning Musical Criticism in England,' in which he displays a moderation not common in the criticized. Prof. Robertson Smith' is the Frazer. The Prince of Monaco sees grave objections to subject of some appreciative comment from Mr. J. G. Century Mr. Reginald Brett sends another contribution "The Proposed Channel Bridge.'-To the Nineteenth upon the subject of the Queen and her advisers. This time he deals with Lord Palmerston, at the outset anything rather than a persona grata at Court. Mr. Walter Pater and is eloquent in praise of the famous church of La supplies No. II. of his Some Great Churches of France,' Madeleine, in Vézelay, where St. Bernard preached the

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second crusade. The church is finely situated, and is one of the most interesting of the historical monuments of Burgundy. A Recent Run to the East' is vivaciously descriptive, and may be read with much pleasure. It is by Lord Brassey. Sir Herbert Maxwell sends a very edifying and philosophical paper on a very sentimental subject, namely, 'Love.' 'Art at the Salon' is described by Mr. Charles Whibley, who also sings the praises of Mr. Whistler-happy Mr. Whistler !-and is in almost every respect in accord with Mrs. Pennell. Of the reviews of books, which now form a feature of the magazine, that by the editor, on 'A Study in Colour,' alone commends itself warmly to us.-The principal article in the New Review is headed The Tree of Knowledge.' Upon the subject thus named no fewer than fourteen writers, of different nationality, sex, and religion, express their opinions. With one of them, Mrs. Lynn Linton, we are in complete accord. Her views are shared, apparently, to some extent by Mrs. Gosse, Mr. Zangwill, and the Rev. H. Adler. Further into an unedifying discussion we are indisposed to go. Mrs. Forbes deals, from the point of view of chiromancy, with Some Noteworthy Hands,' those, namely, of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), General Lord Wolseley, Sir Evelyn Wood, and Sir Frederic Leighton. More knowledge or faith than we possess is necessary to turn this to profitable account. Olga Novikoff sends some fairly interesting Reminiscences of Kinglake.' 'Secrets from the Court of Spain' abounds with the kind of revelation now especially in demand. The Development of Mountain Exploration' suggests new fields for English energy. An article by the secretary of the Anti-Gambling League is likely to be generally approved by our readers. The remaining articles are principally political. Across Asia on a Bicycle,' Part II., which appears in the Century, is occupied principally with an account of Mount Ararat, where, if anywhere, bicycles would be of dubious advantage. The record of mountain adventure is stimulating, and the pictures presented have abundant interest. Maurice Boutet de Monvel is the subject of an appreciative article, which supplies a portrait and many reproductions of the artist's strangely original designs. Tissot's Illustrations of the Gospels' may be studied with advantage. Mr. Stillman gives an account of his failure in a mission which he somewhat illadvisedly undertook for Kossuth. Two portraits of Kossuth accompany it. Bookbindings of the Present' reproduce some excellent designs, English and American. -Scribner's gives a long and amply illustrated account of the ill-etarred Maximilian and his rule in Mexico.

Mr. Shaler's paper on 'The Dog' gives striking portraits of dogs of various breeds. Mr. Forbes's picture of 'The Lighthouse' is engraved, and is accompanied by a portrait of the painter. Væ vulneratis in the next campaign is the teaching of the article by Mr. Archibald Forbes upon The Future of the Wounded in War. This article ends with a pious hope that the sufferings inevitable under present conditions will lead to the cessation of war; to which we humbly say "Amen." 'American Game Fishes' is spirited, both as regards letterpress and illustrations.-Prof. Nichol supplies to Macmillan's an account of Kossuth. An interesting series of papers onThe Beginnings of the British Army' opens with the Infantry. A Vision of India' takes a cheerful view as to the future. Trout-Fishing in New Zealand' may be commended, as may 'The Wicked Cardinal.'-in Temple Bar appears an excellent paper on A French Ambassador at the Court of Catherine II.' It has very high value and interest. Another suggestive and thoughtful paper is on The Decay of Discipline.'Mr. Lewis Morris is, in the English Illustrated, depicted

among his surroundings at Penbryn. Saracenic Metal Work' is finely described by Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole. Mr. Phil Robinson supplies No. VII. of his amusing The Zoo Revisited.' London Servants and Flower Girls' are depicted, and there are reproductions of Sir John Millais's Ophelia,' Gainsborough's Portrait of a Lady,' and Mr. Hayllar's Miss Lily's Carriage stops the Way.-The Gentleman's describes St. Albans under the title A Pilgrimage to a Famous Abbey,' and gives also Some Curiosities of Westminster.'-Longman's gives a happily recovered descriptive paper of Richard Jefferies and a deeply interesting account of Celestial Photography.'-A very amusing and well-written essay in the Cornhill is descriptive of a voyage across the Atlantic in rough weather, and is significantly headed Via Doloross Atlantica.'-Mr. Aylmer Gowing supplies, in Belgravia, a very laudatory notice of Sir Richard [and Lady] Burton.'-Household Words and All the Year Round have the usual variety of well-selected contents.

CASSELL'S Gazetteer, Part VII., contains from Bush Hill to Carn Maug, including, consequently, Cambridge, Canterbury, and Carlisle, all spots of highest interest. It has many illustrations and the customary map.-The Storehouse of General Information, Part XLI., extends from "Porbeagh" to "Rainbow."

THE June number of the Journal of the Ex-Libris Society opens with an account of 'The Hungerford Book-plate,' of which a fine reproduction is given. The index to Lord De Tabley's Guide to Book-plates' is continued. A new feature is introduced, in the publicaidentification. It is to be hoped that the secretary and tion, for the first time, of a page of book-plates for editor will see the fine collection of plates now on view at the Society of Antiquaries.

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From the Saturday Review of October 6, 1883.-"Mr. Kerry may be congratulated on having produced a parochial history worthy to be placed by the side of Mr. Thomas North's admirable volume on St. Martin's Leicester. Higher praise could not be given."

From the Reliquary, October, 1883, p. 116.-"It is the most complete history of any church that has yet been prepared, and may be taken as a model for others to follow. We strongly recommend the book not only to Berkshire people, who one and all ought to support it, but to antiquaries and ecclesiologists all the world over."

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The REGISTERS of the PARISH of ST. MARY, READING, 1538-1812, transcribed by G. PAYNE CRAWFURD, 2 vols. imp. 8vo. half-vellum, 27s. 6d. (issued to subscribers at 42s.). Reading, 1891. Only 100 copies were privately printed. I secured the few copies left on the hands of the editor.

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