.. rible practices which characterized the worship of the Sun amongst the Egyptians, Phœnicians, Assyrians, Indians, Greeks, Romans, and Mexicans." In connexion with Christmas Day and Sun-worship, Mr. Waring says: "Christmas Day does not mark the actual birthday of the Founder of the Church, for that day is absolutely unknown; but it was pronounced to be the 25th of December simply because it happened to be the principal festival of the worship of Mithras, as being the day on which the Sun entered its Winter Solstice, as Chrysostom expresses it. On this day (25th December), the birthday of Christ was lately fixed at Rome, in order that whilst the heathens were occupied in their profane ceremonies, the Christians might perform their holy rites undisturbed." How far Mr. Waring will succceed in bringing his readers to agree with his own conclusions, we cannot say; but no one will dispute that in this folio, with its five-and-fifty plates, and its indispensable Index, the public possess one of the ablest of Mr. Waring's works, and one of the most tasteful that Mr. John Day has issued from the Savoy Press. The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia during his Tour through Europe in 1873. By J. W. Redhouse. A Verbatim Translation. With Portrait. (Murray.) We can only add our testimony to that of many others, namely, that this genuine book is got up in a way worthy of its subject. One can hardly put down the elegant cover on its interesting pages without thinking, after all, how small a personage is Nasr ul Din; and how in significant his empire compared with the sovereign and dominion of early times, when the Persian Empire was the size of the half of Europe, touched the waters of the Mediterranean, the Ægean, the Black, the Caspian, the Indian, the Persian, the Red Seas, and contained within its territories six of the grandest rivers in the world, the Euphrates, the Tigris, the Indus, the Jaxartes, the Oxus, and the Nile, each above a thousand miles in length. We received the Shah with as much "circumstance" as if he had been Lord Paramount of that once gorgeous empire. Memoir of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby. By the late Charles Henry Cooper, F.S.A. Edited for the two Colleges of her Foundation. (Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co.; London, Bell & Sons.) THE Rev. John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor has very English lady of the olden time. Mr. Mayor has added something from himself. "In setting before the colleges memorials of our foundress by a stranger to her house," he gracefully says, "I claim the right as of a we' nigh thirty years' pensioner at her board, to lay some offering of my own at her tomb." This valuable addition is in the interesting Appendix. There are also a useful Glossary and a carefully compiled Index. The reader will hardly close the volume without having come to the conclusion that the learned, dignified, lowly-minded Margaret Beaufort was a thousand times greater as an English woman than her son was as an English king. Henry VII.'s murder of the boy Earl of Warwick was as foul a crime, at least, as Richard III.'s murder of the young princes, his nephews. efficiently edited Mr. Cooper's valuable memoir of a true Illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare, in a Discursive Series of Essays on a Variety of Subjects connected with the Personal and Literary History of the Great Dramatist. Part I. (Longmans & Co.) In about 130 folio pages, Mr. J. O. Halliwell has contributed much valuable information as to Burbage's "deserving man "and his times. This was to be expected from such a practised hand, and from such an unwearied power of research, as Mr. Halliwell's. The merits of the first part induce us to look with some impatience for the second. Meanwhile, we make note of one of the author's remarks, which is worthy of being borne in mind by the occasionally perplexed readers of Shakspeare. "It is not improbable that some of Shakespeare's works, perfect in their art, when represented by their adaptation to the public stage; and that in some instances the latter copies only have been preserved." The Burns Calendar: a Manual of Burnsiana, relating Events in the Poet's History, Names associated with his Life and Writings, a concise Bibliography, and a Record of Burns Relics. (Kilmarnock, M'Kie.) Some Account of the Glenriddel MSS. of Burns's Poems, with several Poems never before Published. Edited by Henry A. Bright. Printed for Private Circulation. (Liverpool, Gilbert & Walmsley.) a select audience, might have been THESE two volumes are indispensable to all libraries containing the works and biography of Burns, whose owners wish to possess in a convenient form every sort of supplementary knowledge that could be collected having reference to the poet, the man, and his productions. Mr. M'Kie's work is of real general value, and Mr. Bright's of particular interest. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. By J. W. Draper, M.D. (H. S. King & Co.) DR. DRAPER's book is the thirteenth volume of the wellestablished International Scientific Series. The author is Professor in the University of New York. He has written a work that was universally desired, and wanting this history we should lack all clear knowledge of the conflict that began at Alexandria and is raging now. Dr. Draper, referring to the early propagation of the new religion of Christianity by missionaries, remarks, that "none of the ancient classical philosophers had ever taken advantage of such a means." The History of Advertising, from the Earliest Times. Illustrated by Anecdotes, curious Specimens, and Biographical Notes. By Henry Sampson. With Illustrations and Fac-similes. (Chatto & Windus.) MR. SAMPSON's book is one of the most amusing that we have met with for a long period. It is a wonderful chronicling of social history in every possible form. The Works of Alfred Tennyson. Idylls of the King. (H. S. King & Co.) THIS is the seventh volume of the elegant, portable, and cheap series of the works of the Poet-Laureate, which will be comprised in ten volumes. A more "handy" edition, or one more likely to be permanently popular, is not to be expected. We have received The Philosophy of Hamlet, by T. Tyler, M.A. (Williams & Norgate.) The able writer, interpreting the sentiments of Hamlet, suggests that, "we may with probability conclude that we have in the conduct of Hamlet a dramatic representation of the will of man as governed by a higher Will, a Will to which all actions and events are subordinate, and which, in as mysterious and incomprehensible manner, is ever tending to the accomplishment of inscrutable purposes."-Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, in the County of Dublin, by the Rev. B. H. Blacker. (Dublin, Herbert.) A very amusing and useful little record of two very pleasant suburbs of Dublin.-Present Position of the High Church Party: a Few Words from a Layman. (Rivingtons.) Earl Nelson's advice is to "demand with a united voice from Convocation, the maintenance of the Book of Common Prayer in its integrity, and the preservation of all the old Catholic heritage of our Church." - The Position of the Celebrant at the Holy Communion, as Ruled by the Purchas Ju BELLS OF BOTTEVILLE TOWER, ment, considered a Letter to the Lord Bishop of Winchester, by Morton Shaw, M.A. (Rivingtons.) A fairly written letter, in which the meanings of "North side" and "North end" are discussed with temperate consideration of the "Judgment" and its issues. MR. H. T. WAKE, Cockermouth, writes:-" In a small shrubbery adjoining a house at Mosser, near Cockermouth, has recently been found a massive finger-ring of fine gold. When discovered, it was lying on the surface, but is supposed to have been removed along with some mould from a garden at the back of the house a short time previously. It is plain inside, without any hallmark, but the exterior is polygonal in shape, having the following inscription engraved in large capitals on thir teen facets, viz.: + | 10 |SV|IS|IG|N|E | DE | AM | IS | T | EA. The poesy seems to be "JOSUI SIGNE DE AMIS TE," and to mean "Joshua's token of love to thee," the A following being the initial of the young woman to whom it was presented. I take it to be a betrothal ring of the eleventh or twelfth century, and from the admixture of the Roman and Gothic E in the inscription, which peculiarly appears also in the great seal of William the Conqueror, in the word "EVNDE," as well also from its being in French, it is probably as old as the Norman period. I bought it of the farmer's wife who found it." OLIVIA SERRES. - MR. WM. CHAPPELL writes: - "As an example of the manner in which the soi-disant Princess of Cumberland turned her impudent pretensions to profitable account, the following may be worth printing. I have extracted it from my daughter's book of autographs : ""No. 15, Lambeth Road. ""I, Olive, Princess of Cumberland, covenant to pay Mr. Francis Hollings, Solicitor, No. 16, Lambeth Road, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling out of His late Majesty George III.'s legacey of 15,000l. to myself, as proved at Doctors' Commons, in consideration of Mrs. Elizabeth Hollings kindly teaching my daughter, Lavinia Serres, singing and the piano. Witness my signature, this 28th of August, 1822. OLIVE." Notices to Correspondents. DANIEL BROMLEY. - We are unable to answer your queries. P. T. ("Scotangtendath," p. 468.) - We have a letter for you. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher "-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. To all communications should be affixed the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. AND OTHER POEMS. By FREDERICK GEORGE LEE. "Another narrative poem has been produced by the warm imagination and practised pen of Dr. F. G. Lee. He speeds rapidly from century to century, tracing the sad history of a Cornish family, on whom an act of desecration is visited by a long series of calamities, terminating in extinction. Dr. Lee's tastes and sympathies are well known; and they have seldom, if ever, been expressed more forcibly and gracefully than now. He loves mediævalism and hates commerce, more especially finance. The old is to him the good, and both the men and the practices of these latter days bear, in his judgment, the stamp of degeneracy. His faith, while it looks forward hope to the future, looks back also wistfully to the blessing of bells, and all the varied pomp of ancient worship. The language in which he stigmatizes the removal of a city church, to make way for a bank, is too strong to be quoted abruptly; it would offend even sympathetic readers unless they had been previously caught by the full tide of the writer's passion. In The Bells of Botteville Tower, Dr. Lee has undoubtedly made an earnest, fervid, and really poetical expression, both of himself and his subject." Guardian. "The thoughts are plain, manly, and vigorous; the language clear and terse, with an occasional introduction of an archaic expression, very suitable to the subject-matter, and arguing an acquaintance with Early English literature, conspicuously absent from the works of our modern poetasters. You recognize at once that under the poetic form, amid all the display of fancy and carefully-elaborated diction, a great purpose is concealed, and you rise from the perusal with a stronger realization of the Invisible, a deepening of the religious feeling, and an awful sense of that sleepless Providence for which nothing is too minute, and which vindicates itself in the actions and lives of men."-Union Review. "Dr. Lee is no milk-and-water poet. He evidently thinks for himself, means what he says, and says what he means, in no mincing language. Few men possess the same power, either from the pulpit or with the pen, of stirring up hearers or readers, as he possesses. And yet no man has a keener sense of the soft and tender side of nature, or a more reverent affection for all things sacred." - Morning Post. "He has evidently a musical ear, as well as a rich imagination. There is a depth of thought in his verses not unworthy of the author of the Christian Year.'"-Tablet. "The story of the poem is told with much dramatic force; the interest is well maintained, and the historical allusions are introduced with an almost epigrammatic conciseness. lyrics, which here and there occur, are eminently graceful." Scottish Guardian. The "Will add considerably to the reputation of the author, high as it already stands, as a writer of sacred poetry." Weekly Register. "Marked with a rare felicity of diction and melody of rhythm; and we would call especial attention to what we may style the landscape portion' of the story." - John Bull. "Has a musical ear, and possessing considerable fluency of diction, knows how to use it with advantage. To these merits he adds a deep religious sentiment, and a firm grasp of dogmatic truth, which entitle him to take a high place among the Christian and Catholic poets of the day."-Church Herald. "May be unacceptable to some critics; but will be regarded by his increasing audience of admirers as a poem of very high merit, with all his known power and vigour, interspersed with descriptions of Nature and natural objects of intense, yet simple beauty."-Observer. Oxford and London: JAMES PARKER & CO. Supplement to the Notes and , with No. 55, Jan. 16, 1875 INDEX. FIFTH SERIES.–VOL. II. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, A A. (A.) on "Bonnie Dundee," 5 Fraser of Bray, his examination, 344 A. (A. S.) on Sandwich Islands, 175 Stuart and Sutherland, 174 Abhha on Towers's "Illustrations of Prophecy," 448 Abuliement, its meaning, 328, 374 Acacia and freemasonry, 157 Accentuation, insular, 66; American, 154 Aches, its pronunciation, 68, 139, 458, 526 Acre Roll of Arms. See Dering. A. D. on "Domingo Gonsales," 110 Killiecrankie tradition, 145 Adam, his first wife, 132, 217 Alesia, Christian name, 227, 395, 456 Alexander, or Zinzan family, 26, 53, 216, 358 Allnutt (W. H.) on the word antient, 378 Clarke (Rev. Stephen), 116 "Life of Ayder Ali Khan," 396 Pope's Tickell's Homer, 476 Allyiegs: Oylegeags, 7 Alms dishes, brass, 309 Alpine fox-dogs, 89 Alpress family arms, 35 Altar rails covered, 309, 522 American eulogy on women, 147, 433,480 Adam, why it means North, South, East, and West, 76 American reprints, 335 A. (D. D.) on witchcraft in Scotland, 83 Addis (J.) on "God bless the mark," 215 "Osteman," its meaning, 153 Parallel passages, 303 Party, in the sense of a person, 520 Tennyson (A.), "The Poet," 288 A. (E. H.) on Lord Collingwood, 377 "God and the King," 9 Nile, course of the river, 266 Ros (William de), of Yolton, 288 A. (E. R.) on geographical query, 397 A. (F. S.) on Liddell v. Westerton, 157 "Don Leon," a poem, 129 "Private History of the Court of England," 277 Aid of anno 34 Edward I., 81 Albizzia sericocephala described, 110 American States, origin of their names, 82, 272, 525; their popular names, 174, 272 Aminda, a Christian name, 237 Anagram, 260 Anecdote, old clerical, 204, 259 "Anecdote Lives," an aphorism in, 365, 452 "Angler's Assistant," engraved broadsheet, 288 Anglo-Scotus on Arthur's Oven on the Carron, 510 Fitzalans and Stewarts, 482 St. Michael's Church, 227 Scottish history, 343 Stubbs's "Constitutional History," 304 Totnes (Johel de), 334 Anne, a man's name, 478 Anne (Queen) and the Duchess of Marlborough, 27, 308, 434 Anon, on unauthorized arms, 272 Anonymous Works:- Abbess of Shaftesbury, 109 Butterfly's Ball, 327, 352, 372, 418, 458 Aristo, physician at the Court of Akbar, 308, 453 Christianity as Old as Creation, 149, 175, 195, 376 Aristophanes, "The English," 325, 404, 484 Church Revived, 108 Aristotle on dancing and poetry, 328, 491 Comes Facundus in Via, 384 Arithmetic: Casting out nines, 36 Considerations on the Marriage of the Duke of Armiger, a nom de plume, 458 Cumberland, 307,434 Court Convert, 345, 495 Court of England, Private History of, 208, 277, Armour in churches, 388, 494 Cry of Nature, 367, 496 d Heraldry. Richard II., 342, 442; of English Sees, 462, 519. gance, 68, 155 Deinology; or, the Union of Reason and Ele- Army, the Parliamentary, flogging in, 86 Divine Poems, 446 Domingo Gonsales, 110, 209, 394 Don Leon, a poem, 129 Down with the Mug, 287, 333, 358 Economy; or, a Peep at our Neighbours, 124 English Transactions in the East Indies, 329 Fielding's Proverbs, 209, 414 Fifty Years' Recollections of an Old Bookseller, "Fresh Waters from a Fresh Spring," 82 Glory of their Times, 33, 115, 257 Golden Meane, 447 Haroun Alompra, a drama, 110 Heraclitus Ridens, 268 History of Scotland, 68, 114 John Jasper's Secret, 407, 475, 526 Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, 408 Man in the Moon, 210, 394 Millennium, dramatic poem, 49 Modern Account of Scotland, 268, 433 Philanthropist, a poem, 408 Procès (Le) des Trois Rois, 95, 357 Rarities, 513 Reginald Trevor, a tale, 19, 137 Rights of the Christian Church, 195, 376, 415 School Dialogues for Boys, 367 Second Maid's Tragedy, 465 Sibilla Odaleta, 58 Skating Literature, 107, 156, 318, 379 Talleyrand de Perigord (C. M.), Memoirs of, 329 The Widow of the Wood, 88, 136 Universe, The, 428 Walk in Shetland, 69 Whale's Jubilee, 418, 518 Wisdom 's better than Money, 134 Antient, a military term, 132, 378 Ants laying up corn, 494 Words passing from one language to another, 417 "Auld Wife-hake," 154 A. (W. E. A.) on Ballads by W. T., 249 Placido, Cuban poet, 149 Axon (W. E. A.) on "Butterfly's Ball," 373 Locke (John) and the Quakers, 266 "Procès (Le) des Trois Rois," 95 to the Notes , with No. 55, Jan. 16, 1875 B. (A. E.) on mnemonic calendars, 353 B. (A. H.) on Cyril Tourneur, 465 "Yange Monday," 28 Bailey family of Lancashire, 407 Bailey (J. E.) on Bailey family of Lancashire, 407 Bailey's Dictionaries, 514 Bugby family, 427 331 Dedications, profuse, Fox-hunting, 314 Fuller (Dr. Thomas), 106 Fuller (Mr.), his "Complaint," 128 "Glory of their Times," 115, 257 Reeve's "Publike Devotions," 108 Bailey (Nathan), his Dictionaries, 156, 258, 514 Baily (Johnson) on an old clerical anecdote, 259 "Antient," a military term, 133 Symbol in stained glass, 436 Tregosse (Thomas), works, 493 Bairn's piece, a Scottish custom, 512 Ballantyne press, first work, 102 Balsac (Honoré de) and Shelley, 106 Barker (G. F. R.) on death and burial-place of King Stephen, 368 Barnes surname and family, 176 Baronetcies, unsettled, 15, 297, 410 Barre (Marie de), grand-daughter of Edward III., 188, 253, 358 Barry (James), fund subscribed for, 488 Barrymore (Lord), an injustice done by, 468 Bar Sinister, 18, 198, 337 Barton (Dr.), his pun, 67, 135 Baths in the Middle Ages, 362 Battle-ground, berries growing on, 169 Baynes (John), "Archæological Epistle," 251, 270 B. (B.) on Bailey's "Dictionary," 156 B. (C. E.) on Proverbs, 385 B. (C. O.) on wide use of the word "field," 377 Hall: Wych, 311 "Shot," as a termination, 149, 355 B. (C. T.) on "When York to Heaven," &c., 198 B. (C. W.) on George IVth's sons, 352 B. (E. A.) on covered altar-rails, 522 Beale, Baillie, &c., surnames, 186, 351 Beale (J.) on Beale, Baillie, &c., surnames, 186 Elizabeth and Isabel, 215 "Bears, The Three," a nursery tale, 74 Beastie-milk, in Scotland, 54 Beaton (Mary), the Queen of Scots' attendant, 422 Swift (R.), Sheriff of London, 438 Becker (H.) on Aristotle on dancing and music, 328 Epitaph in Claverley church, 326 Bedeil family, 8, 334, 418 Beer and wine, and beer and cider, 186, 235 Bell inscriptions, 45, 360, 380 Bell (S.) on George Colman, 131 Bellars (Henry John), fac-similist, 28, 314 Bells, of Haddenham, 147, 194, 314; coins on, 147; royal heads on, 318 Benet (Ambroise) of Bulstrode, 347 Sheridan and "The School for Scandal," 34 349 Berghe, or Bergue (C. V.), artist, 209 Berneval (G. de) on Biblical evidence, 458 Book-prefaces, 55 Bunyan's imitators, 397 Carpathian Mountains, 76 Lambard's Ancient Laws, 135 Quoits, works on, 76 Scotch baronetcy, 495 "Situate" for situated, 54 "Topographia Hibernica," 54 Water-marks, 357 Wingfield (Edward Maria), 237 "Wisdom's better than Money," 134 Betty (Master), the "Young Roscius," death of, 180 B. (G.) on Beckford on Southey, 364 B. (G. A.) on "Make a bridge of gold," &c., 218 Parallel passages, 464 B. (G. F.) on the two thieves at Calvary, 167 B. (H.) on Jonathan Edwards, of America, 29 Epigrams from the Greek, 445 B. (H. A.) on Lampedusa in 1690, 193 "Providence on the side," &c., 307 Roland (Madame), Memoirs, 411 |