"GILBERTINE" AS AN ARCHITECTURAL TERM.-(clv. 279). -A Gilbertine building is a double monastery, or rather a contiguous monastery and nunnery, separated by a party wall and by a church, where the lower part was used by the prior and his twelve monks, while the upper portion was occupied by the sixty nuns and their abbess, who had the chief management of the establishment. These double monasteries, of which there were twenty-five at the dissolution, were founded about 1131 by St. Gilbert of Sempringham. A note on them will be found in 'The Dictionary of Architecture, issued by the Architectural Publication Society,' with references to Dugdale and other sources. The 'N.E.D.' defines Gilbertine as "Of or belonging to Gilbert of Sempringham in Lincolnshire, or to the religious order founded by him, which included both

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PROFESSOR Godfrey Davies, of Chicago
study of history by his bibliography.
torical output multiplies so fast that already
some of the entries might be enlarged by
new and important editions or original works,
but this by no means impairs the publisher's
claim that the bibliography will be of capital
use to the novice seeking guidance; the univer-
sity tutor seeking suggestion; the specialist
looking for sources of general information, and
the librarian prudently and with economy
building up his library. Professor Davies in
rendering thanks for assistance, has to men-
tion such distinguished names as are in them-
selves guarantee for soundness and complete-
ness. Thus, and especially, Sir Charles Firth has
put together the section of ballads, besides

University, has done great service to the
His-

contributing much in the way of advice, material and encouragement. The book is one which will certainly remain for many years the standard authority of the kind for this period, and the author desires that of them to the Hon. Secretary of the Royal Historical Society, under whose direction, conjointly with that of the American Historical Association, the book has been issued.

scholars who find errors in it will send note

The first section, under six sub-headings, deals with English Political and Constitutional History. The compiler provides each subsection with a paragraph or two of interesting information. To start with, we learn how many tracts within this period have as yet

received little attention from historians. Interest in the Restoration period and in Charles II. seems to be increasing, but as yet, Guizot's 'History of Richard Cromwell and the Restoration'in Scoble's translation (1856) and Ranke's History of England' are still indicated as the fullest and best accounts on these subjects that we have.

The next three sections deal respectively with Military, Naval and Religious History. In Naval History, as the compiler shows, there is again much to be done, it being comparatively a modern study, owing much to the in. spiration of Mahan. Who among middle-aged readers of history does not recall the exhilaration, the sudden new vision of history, which accompanied the first possessing one's mind of Mahan's view of the 'Influence of Sea-Power.' In Religious History, again, this period offers many opportunities for original research. The Anglican Church is said to show an undue preponderance of biography; the general history of Roman Catholicism is still unwritten, and biographies even are scarce, though published sources are ever increasing in abundance. Under 'Economic History' it is notable how long old work has retained its value; thus, Curningham's 'Growth of England Industry and Commerce in Modern Times,' published first in 1882, with an edition in 1919, is not yet superseded. In the introductory note to the next section, Social History,' it is considered that social historians tend unduly to concentrate on London, neglecting England in general. Sections are next devoted to Literature and Journalism; to the Fine Arts and Music; to Science and Medicine. Under 'Political Science' it is observed that the origin of theories rather than their effect on practical politics in Stuart England has been the object of historical research:

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which would virtually be applicable to so many enterprises in history. Under 'Local History' are recorded the labours of several correspondents past and present of 'N. and Q.' Thus Mr. A. L. Humphreys's 'Handbook of County Bibliography' (1917) is the best general biblio. graphy: and The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature' by Sir Francis Hyett and Mr. W. Bazeley is pointed to as a model county bibliography. The Bibliotheca

Cornubiensis of Mr. G. C. Boase and W. P. Courtney; R. Welford's 'Committee for compounding with delinquent Royalists in Durham and Northumberland'; Mr. Herbert E. Norris's 'Catalogue of Huntingdonshire Books'; and Mr. Rye's works on Norfolk are other examples. Under Voyages and Travels' series of articles contributed to our columns by Mr. Malcolm Letts in 1915 and (chiefly) 1916 is marked as valuable.

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Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Colonies each have a section, that of Scotland being specially rich in biography and family history. The opinion is expressed that through religious zeal combining in Scotland with family pride it has happened that "a larger proportion of the extant sources has been published than for the history of any other modern country."

No library which aims at constituting itself a basis of solid historical work will be satisfied to lack this bibliography. The one improvement we would suggest (it is but an external one) is to have small number of blank leaves bound up with each copy for the convenience of making additions.

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BOOKSELLER'S CATALOGUE.

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In this Catalogue No. 128, MR. THOMAS THORP offers the collector several very good old books. One of them is John Nichols's 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester which was published 1795-1811. This is de scribed as a fine set, the four volumes-royal folio, large paper-in eight, bound in halfrussia gilt, and is offered for £75. We found also very attractive first edition in the original twenty parts, with all the wrappers and with Millais' illustrations, of 'Orley Farm' (1862: £31 10s.): a complete set eighteen volumes of the Restrospective Review (1820-54: £10 10s.); and the black letter edition of Latimer's 'Frutefull Sermons' printed in 1578 by John Daye (£10 10s.). still more interesting black letter book is the so-called Shakespeare edition (1577) of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande' (£21). D'Urfey's 'Wit and Mirth;

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or, Pills to Purge Melancholy' in six volumes, with the two additional volumes of 'Tory Pills to Purge Whig Melancholy' and 'A Pill to Purge State Melancholy' (1715-19) are priced at £15. For 5s. each may be had thirty several histories of British regiments, the earliest dated 1838, the latest 1853-to which is added a record of the King's Liverpool Regiment of Foot dated 1883 and priced 6s. Several good seventeenth century works will be noticed, among which we take as examples John Baptista Porta's 'Natural Magick' a folio in old calf with James Hamilton's autograph (1669: £5 5s.); Henry Peacham's 'The Compleat Gentleman,' small quarto (1627: £2 15s.); A True Relation of the late Unjust, Cruel and Barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East Indies' bound up with two other papers relating to affairs between the English and the Dutch in India (1624: £2 10s.) and a copy of Gervase Markham's 'Master Piece Revived: Containing all knowledge belonging to the Smith, Farrier, or HorseLeach, etc.' (1683: £2 10s.).

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CORRIGENDA.

At ante p. 255, col. 1, s.v. "Alygger," 1. 1 for 1470" read 1483; and ibid. 1. 32 for "Mr. T. D. Thorp" read Mr. J. D. Thorp.

Between the last line of ante p. 293 and the first line of p. 294 read: "Gildas of Rhuys. The statement made by "-a line, we regret to say, having fallen out of place.

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At ante p. 301, col. 6, 1. 17 from foot for 1547 read 1574.

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3 IN the Fortnightly Review Mr. Lewis Einstein, who is the U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, gives us a sketch of the character and career of Mr. Hoover. Mr. Hoover's 1 initiative, courage and power of organization revealed themselves at a very early age, and there is a pleasant story of his activities in California in his College days. Coming to College with very insufficient funds, he earned money by running a system of collecting and distributing students' laundry, by getting San Francisco newspapers delivered, and by acting as impresario for lecturers and musicians. He and another boy once arranged a concert with Paderewski, and this time failed: the two had to confess to the musician's secretary that they were committed to an amount beyond their resources. Whereupon the generPaderewski released them, and an arrangement which left each with a small profit. This is the only failure Mr. Einstein has found to mention in Mr. Hoover's aston ishing record of enterprise, which crowned by the renunciation of all his im

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recognising no inferior" and: "He himself has defined wisdom as knowing what to do next"-a definition which it is interesting to set beside Cardinal Mercier's opinion of him as one of the few living men whose imagination was able to "vision the whole."

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In Chees fores an interesting

identification. There is in the Louvre an enamel portrait by Charles Boit (1662-1727), the artist who, upon the death of Queen Anne, pressed by debt and poverty, fled to France where he remained the rest of his life. The sitter for this particular portrait, hitherto unknown, was a man in his forties; of exalted, probably ducal, rank, as is shewn by his ermine-lined crimson mantle; and, moreover, a Knight of the Holy Ghost. All this narrows the field for conjecture, and it is narrowed yet further by the fact that the man is

wearing a certain suit of composite armour, belonging to the Tower-one of those which it was usual to lend out when some great personage was by way of having his portrait painted. The care and accuracy with which details of the armour are handled go to show, Mr. Beard thinks, that Boit was working with it before his eyes, a supposition which would date the portrait some time before 1714, while the artist was still in England. Was there then any Frenchman in England who would answer to the conditions thus laid down? He is to be found in Louis d'Aumont de Rochebaron, Duc d'Aumont, who created a Knight of the Holy Ghost in 1712 and in 1713 was sent to England as Ambassador-Extraordinary. Moreover, the Duc d'Aumont, upon his return to France, extended patronage and protection to Boit, who there achieved popularity and great success. It seems pretty certain, then, that we have in him the original of this portrait.

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mense business in order to take charge of the American Commission of Relief in the Great War. After the war, the account which the auditors closed was of over 900 million dollars. and they added a voluntary statement that not one penny of these funds had ever been drawn by Hoover himself travelling expenses. This is good, but yet what might have been expected: markable is the fact that the overhead costs of all that vast undertaking were found to have amounted to less than one-half per cent. Mr. Einstein gives us some insight into Mr. Hoover's philosophy of life. "He is American" it is said, in knowing no superior and

who may like to see the German rendering, will recognize the well-known epigram of Sir William Jones from the Persian:

Als Du geboren wurdest, liebes Kind,
Da weintest Du allein und alles war entzückt
Leb so, dass wenn Du stirbst, einst alle
traurig sind

Nur Dich, Zufriedenheit und holdes Lächeln schmückt.