Procurator General for the Portuguese Estates in the Roman Curia. His end, in 1669, was startling. He was murdered by his own servant, a Portuguese and that in London. The body, concealed in a box, was thrown into the Thames, but was recovered, and then the murderer arrested, tried and executed. But it seems neither has record of this trial been found, nor can any one find a clue to explanation of Manrique's being in London at all. The editor of the 'Travels' reminds us that Charles II. was by way of having dealings with Louis XIV., but, conjecture for conjecture where all is dark, it seems more natural to look towards Catherine of Braganza and her entourage for light. It is sad that the first page of this volume has had to be devoted to lamenting the death of Colonel Luard; and that he did not live to enjoy his readers' appreciation of this long and rather arduous labour. We have to be grateful to him for rendering Manrique into pleasant easy English, of the satisfactory sort that draws no attention away from the subject matter: a merit which any practised translator of this kind of book will recognize as hard to come by. We have also to be grateful to him and to Father Hosten who is here associated with him, for a series of excellent notes which include, besides the matter at the foot of the pages, several important appendixes. The frontispiece is a portrait of Asaf Khan, Shah Jahan's Minister, who (but this comes in the second volume) became Manrique's fast friend. A Small Boy in the Sixties. By George Sturt. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d. net). N "Bettesworth " and in 'The In his book about her and he we something intrinsically rare. In fact, cannot remember another example in which a mind of equally uncommon quality-the mind of a poet and a scholar, with touches about it of genius and the aloofness of genius-born amid the simple rather cramping, conditions of a mid-nineteenth century small tradesman's life in a little country town (Shakespeare's conditions) has not risen up out of these conditions but stayed in them and irradiated them. It is true that fortune gave him one of the most delightful of her gifts, one which is being gradually withdrawn from the world-a genuine handicraft; and, further, that with all his strong humanity he was privileged in escaping sentimentality, in his day a minor curse on most literary aspirants from his sort of milieu. a in anecdote, in descriptions of the countryside or of street scenes, and in narration of incident it is well within the good main tradition of the essay. The English is mostly of Mr. Sturt's best: firm, substantial, individual; choice, but not over-choice, in diction; little and pleasantly tly rugged in rhythm. His humour needs no praise; nor does the original and effective courage with which he has jotted down trivial things just as they find themselves in his remembrance-old furniture and walls and doors and yards and shelves, and food and daily shopping-with no attempt at adjusting their importance in the child's impression of them to what his public might esteem or despise. Nor should the book be overlooked as a record. It presents life from an angle at which multitudes actually behold it; but largely inarticulate multitudes stationed where, unless something unusual has attracted notice to an individual, not a great deal of material for writing has been sought. It is yet another merit of George Sturt's that, just as in his dealing with the English labouring class, he eschews "quaintness" and picturesqueness and the virtual condescension the pursuit of these involves, and writes sincerely. This is, however, not to say that there is any lack of picturesqueness in the final outcome. The University of Chicago Manuscript of the Genealogia Deorum Gentilium of Boccaccio. By Ernest H. Wilkins. (University of Chicago Press: Cambridge University Press. 15s. net). THE Chicago MS. of this work of Boccaccio's, was first owned, as the arms it contains go to show, by Coluccio Salutati, whose handwriting also is to be seen in marginal notations. This itself points to its having been written not later than 1405, since Coluccio died in the early summer of 1406, while considerations relative to the Index incorporated in it tend to fixing the date of the MS between 1377 and 1395. Of twenty-four copies known, five only are of the fourteenth century, so that the Chicago MS takes a high place among them, It is throughout the work of one scribe-in a fine hand, accurate and with excellent ink. The chapters tracing the scribe's methods make the most interesting portion of this careful study. A conclusion reached by minute examination is that the Chicago MS. may well set itself up as rival of the MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale, generally considered to be the best. From the death of Coluccio until 1911 the history of the MS. at--though time and owners have left their marks upon it remains blank. In 1911 it was bought by Mr. Wilfrid M. Voynich, of London, as one of a large collection of MSS., chiefly Italian, the immediate origin of which the purchaser was bound not to disclose. From him it was bought in 1915 by Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus who in the following year presented it to the University of Chicago. Mr. Wilkins, besides a beautiful facsimile in colour of one of the genealogical trees of the MS., gives thirteen well chosen plates. The trees This book has three or four claims to tention-claims which it makes good. It shows the growth-deeply interesting because so little in touch with the external aids which conventional education sets most store by-of a mind of real delicacy and power; it is something of a document in the psychology of memory, and also in that of imaginative affection; it contains some striking sketches of bygone customs and annual occurrences (the pages on Hops and Hopping are the most notable of these); and in sketches of characters, have a special interest as being among the The Kirkham Monument in Paignton Church, REPRINTED from the Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archæological Society for last year, Mr. Rushforth's study, undoubtedly, has already won a circle of appreciative readers, which we are glad to think of as extended by separate publication. The essay describes at length the detail of this extraordinarily rich and beautiful double tomb; discusses the choice of certain saints, and relates certain features both to the prevail ing contemporary cults (notably that of St. Anne) and to the religious tendencies and the art of the continent. Two interesting figures here are those which Mr. Rushforth reads as St. Sidwell and St. Sitha (Zita). The monument is a conspicuously fine example of the attempt to set forth the whole faith of the Church by imagery, and the scheme followed is carefully expounded. The founder of the tomb and those whom it commemorates are alike unknown, though legend gives it to the Kirkhams. The date fixed by the armour should be from 1470 to 1490. Mr. Rushforth shows reason to believe that the monument was erected, during his life-time, by Nicholas Kirkham, destined as memorial to himself and his wife, and also to his father and mother-a suggestion which finds some support in the fact that the mother's name, Elizabeth, would explain the choice of the Visitation for one of the four large panels, not otherwise easy to account for. Then, as inspirer and designer, Mr. Rushforth thinks we perhaps may see behind this lovely achievement the figure of Dean Robert Kirkham, of the St. Stephen's Chapel at Westminster. The booklet, which is well printed, is amply provided both with excellent footnotes and with illustrations. Maidenhead and its Surroundings. By H. E. Bannard. (The Homeland Association, 1s. net). THIS is vol. xcvii. of the series of Homeland THandbooks the hours of to the town. Maidenhead, it hardly needs saying, with its picturesque situation on the Thames, with its pleasant and pleasantly associated surroundings, its ancient history, with no small background of antiquity to it, and its goodly muster of worthies offers plenty of material for an interesting and substantial guide. We have looked through this with pleasure, and find it such as one would expect from work gathered by the Homeland Association. It gives a wonderful amount of information in less than one hundred small pages, and gives it readably. The illustrations, too, must have their praise. There is a reproduction of the Ordnance Survey map (lin. to the mile) of Maidenhead and the neighbourhood, and a plan of the town. We hope that the chapter on the Thicket will obtain the attention of the inhabitants of Maidenhead in general, and the local authorities in particular, for it would seem that this little stretch of old forest land needs some protection from the thoughtlessness of the public. Its pretty name is not as ancient as one might take it to be is not used, at any rate, by Leland. From Latin to Italian. By Charles Hall Grandgent. (Harvard University Press: London, Humphrey Milford. 11s. 6d. net). PROF. Grandgent tells us that this study is the result of thirty years' collecting, classifying and speculation. It is a notable result, embodying a great fund of material in compact fashion, and, though mainly formed to be of use to the linguistic student, offering to any reader who will search about in it lights on the development of Italian in particular and vernacular languages in general. Naturally Tuscan, as the main constituent of modern Italian, is the dialect principally worked over. The first and main part of the book has to do with phonology; but the most interesting pages will be found in the second part, where the effect of phonetic changes is traced in the morphology of the new language. The whole is specially valuable, we think, wherever the question of Vulgar Latin comes to be discussed and its derivatives examined. This is a subject to which Professor Grandgent has aready contributed elucidation. As he reminds us, Italian became much what it is now almost at its inception: what we are studying is virtually the tongue of Dante. But behind Dante, there was obscurely evolving a language heavy, so to put it, with the adventure and stress and mingling of racial qualities characteristic of the earlier Middle Ages, and these changing syllables carry something of history upon them. We are glad to see that Sir Herbert George Fordham's handbook on cartography (Maps, their History, Characteristics and UsesCambridge University Press. 6s.) has reached its second edition. The text, the author tells us, has received a considerable number of corrections. There are few works for teachers which so well combine close-packed substance with readableness. Printed and Published by The Bucks Free CONTENTS. No. 6. MEMORABILIA :-91. NOTES: Unpublished letters of Warren Hastings, 93-An Early Performance of Romeo et Juliette,' 95-A XVII Century MS. list of Tokens, 96-London names in Country registers, 99-Sackville's Buckingham and Milton's Satan, 100. QUERIES:-English in the Lisbon earthquakeHundreds of Cashio-The Durbervilles' claim to arms-Family Bible records: value as legal evidence - Bretton Hall Ballad, 101 Iohann Maurer, Prague-Campion and Patrick families Pine-apple rum Durham Church plate Major-General Robert Armiger-George Stevenson, the fighting coachman-Allport: East India Company Marine Service-Memorials of County Boundaries and Centres, 102-Marriage of John Rogers, N. Devon, c. 1590--M. Villamil and Mme Loewenstern (Mme Giovanelli)--Mowatt-Dunne Family-Author wanted, 103. 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He invented the name "Ancient Order of Froth blowers." To become a member of the order one paid 5s., for which one received sleevelinks which only cost Mr. Temple 2s. 8d. to buy, the balance, after deducting the expense of the membership book, going to a fund for charities. He made officers of those members who obtained the greatest number of new members. The highest dignity was that of "Cloudburst," held by the member who obtained 2,000 new members. The order grew to be a tremendous thing, with a membership of 630,000, and £70,000 had been accumulated for charitable purposes. They now sold pennants for motor cars, neckties, tankards, dress waistcoat buttons, cig arette cases, playing cards, cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. His Lordship enquired if there were women members, rs, to which Mr. Ricardo replied that an offshoot was formed called the "Ancient Order of Fairy Belles," and that these for their 5s. get a brooch or a scarf-pin. or Land-land ploughed up one way; Liftfirst break or ploughing in a field; Loan, Lone, Loaning-opening between cornfields left for driving cattle to pasture; Stake and Rise-a kind of fence; Hain-to hedge; Siver, Svar-covered drain; Flag-turf cast by spade; Baillie Days-days given as service dues; Spidarrode-day's spade work, extent of ground so dug; Harriage and Carriage-expression meaning full labour dues; Burlaw, Byrlaw, Barley court of neighbours; Fotch pleuch-a plough used in common; Mean, Meen-held in common; Runrig -alternate ridges of land held by different proprietors; Strife Rigs-patches of land held in common; Acker-dale land divided into small portions. E were much interested in the protest cerning the pictures suggested by the Committee of the Board of Education, which has just published a Report on the selection of pictures for schools, as suitable for the classrooms of young children. We rather hope her letter may initiate a discussion. Meanwhile, those of our readers who have not seen Miss Bulley's letter to The Times, or considered it, may like to have the list put before them. It certainly, from the point of view of small children's likings, and also of what is desirable for them, contains some curious items. It is as follows:-The Boyhood of Raleigh, Millais; Friday, Dendy Sadler; Maiwand: Saving the Guns, Caton Woodville; Faithful unto Death, Poynter; Last of the Garrison, Briton Rivière; Off Valparaiso, Somerscales; 'Twixt Wind and Tide, Napier Hemy; Pandora, Waterhouse; The Sleepy River Somme, East; The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur; The Lighthouse, Stanhope Forbes; Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon, Orchardson; The Laughing Cavalier, Hals; Dante and Beatrice, Holiday; The Cloud, Finnie; Richard III., Abbey; Sunset at Land's End, Olsson; Dark Angers, Cameron; Love's Baubles, Byam Shaw. (UR readers doubtless noticed in The Times of Feb. 6 the announcement that the Victoria and Albert Museum has now, with the aid of the National Art Collections Fund, acquired the chair from Morton-in-the-Marsh Hospital, which a strong tradition connects with Charles I-and even with the trial in Westminster Hall (see ante p. 55). It was at any rate at one time in Bishop Juxon's possession, and its history from Juxon's death onwards is known. It is an English chair, of a type of which the Museum has not till |