"PACKET - BOAT" (9th S. xi. 427).—On 24 October, 1599, John Frauncis, "Post" of Chester, wrote to Sir Robert Cecil : "I cannot hear of any passage of late out of Ireland, saving the post bark which brought over two packets, which I hope you have before this received. The post bark arrived yesterday at Holie Head."-Cecil Papers,' Hist. MSS. Čommission, ix. 377. On 1 November he wrote: "I have certain word from Beaumaris that the treasure as yet and the shipping lie there; and the treasure have twice put to sea and come in again. Now the same is put aboard the Popingey ready for the first wind. The last packet you writ I doubt not but are safely delivered in Ireland, and answer thereof I hope now with these."—Ibid., 385. From these extracts one may perhaps infer that post-bark preceded packet-boat, and that the latter word was not yet in general use in O. O. H. 1599. from between London and Gravesend in Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Portraitures of Julius Caesar: a Monograph. By Frank Jesup Scott. (Longmans & Co.) In its way the handsome volume of Mr. Scott is unique. Collections of portraits are not unfamiliar. They are most common in the case of literary men, such as Shakespeare or Rabelais. In the case of the heroes of antiquity they are, so far as our knowledge extends, unknown. Very few indeed can have suspected that sufficient likenesses of Julius Cæsar were in existence to fill a volume such as the present. From the various museums of Europe and from other sources Mr. Scott has obtained material for thirty-seven handsome plates. These are not all busts or plates of Julius himself, and not all of them are authoritative. Some of them, like the head by Ingres, which serves as a cul de lampe, and that by the author, with which the volume closes, are ideal. Recent investigations have resulted in weeding out from the best-managed museums many works once boldly put forth as stand in dire need of similar processes of sifting. Many busts, indeed, are classified by our author as nondescript. Not a few of the likenesses are enlarged from coins or gems. Mr. Scott is the possessor of no fewer than eighteen plaster casts of notable busts of Cæsar. A view of these arranged on a shelf in his library constitutes one of the most interesting of the illustrations. Italy naturally supplies the majority of the illustrations, and of these, naturally also, the best come from Rome. Prof. Bernouilli, of Basle, has reckoned up, in his sixty statues, busts, and real or supposed antiques, "Römische Ikonographie' (3 vols., Stuttgart, 1882), presenting, it is believed, the great Roman emperor. Among these, however, it is difficult to find one of guaranteed authenticity, or one for which Julius can safely be assumed to have sat. Meanimpossible to believe all of them intended for the time, so great are the differences that it is next to same man. So various are, indeed, the presentments upon coins, that our author, unlike most authorities, is unwilling to accept them as supplying the "fundamental data" for a knowledge of the features. Some of these effigies are symbolical of the offices Cæsar bore, and others, hard as this is to believe, are caricatures. Many of them are, however, clumsy attempts at portraits, and from these Italian antiquaries have drawn conclusions as to which busts are to be accepted as genuine. All is, jecture. Coins, too, as Mr. Scott points out, have accordingly, to some extent presumption or connot been kept for a couple of thousand years in the cabinets of the curious, but have been buried in the ground and turned up by the plough. The first century before Christ was not a period of great artistic excellence. "The whole revolutionary period preceding, during, and after his time was not an era of good art work." Sensible of the difficulties that attended his quest, Mr. Scott has May not the packet-boat, to which the present perfected mail-packet service owes its origin, be said to date from the reign of Richard II.? To enable the town of Gravesend to recover the loss inflicted upon it through the burning and plundering of the French and Spaniards, the Abbot of St. Mary-le-authoritative and unquestioned, and other museums Grace of Tower Hill, having the manor of Gravesend in his possession, obtained from King Richard II. a grant to the men of Gravesend and Milton of the exclusive privilege of conveying passengers thence to London, on the conditions that they should provide boats on purpose, and carry all persons, either at twopence per head with their bundles (ie., their paquets, for a paquet is described in Bailey's Dictionary,' 1740, as a bundle or parcel), or the whole boat's fare should be four shillings. These boats were the Gravesend barges, clumsy, comfortless vessels, which were not superseded by the lighter and faster tilt-boats until the close of the sixteenth century. I should not say superseded," however, as the old barges continued for many years to share in the traffic. Queen Elizabeth alludes to the Gravesend barge in her usual ungentle manner as never without a knave, a priest, or a thief" (see 'Reliquiæ Wottonianæ,' p. 343). It must have been between the time of the introduction of the tilt-boat and of that of the steam-packet, 1815-16, the first steam vessel to appear on the Thames, that the paquet-boat was most in vogue. It was a small vessel that sailed from the different seaports in England, and carried passengers, mails, &c., to and from our foreign possessions. It also kept up a regular intercourse with foreign powers that were at peace with Great Britain. The last tilt-boat was withdrawn visited all the museums which repay attention, and supplies his impressions concerning the value of the reputed statues and busts of Julius Cæsar. The marble statue, heroic size, located in the court of the Conservatoire on the Capitoline Hill is held to have, on the whole, a weight of authority such as no other statue possesses. For the reproduction of this we must refer the reader to the book, wherein also he must look for the respective value of other monuments. In estimating the worth of Mr. Scott's decisions it must be borne in mind that he is a thick-and-thin admirer of Julius Cæsar, and would have his actions illustrated in a play quite other than that of Shakespeare. Upon this matter we will not enter, and we content ourselves with recommending the study of a work which, without putting in any pretensions to infallibility, should be in an equal degree the delight of the art-lover and the antiquary. Holy Bible: Revised Version. With Revised Marginal References. (Oxford, Frowde; Cambridge, Clay & Sons.) THE University Presses offer now, at a remarkably low price, their edition of the Revised Version of the Holy Bible, the advantages of which, as regards text and appearance, have received constant recognition. In its flexible morocco binding, and with its edges gilt upon red, it forms in all respects an ideal edition. Not the least of its claims upon attention is the indexed atlas. Don Juan, XVIIth and XVIIIth Cantos. (Arliss Andrews.) IN issuing in a cheap form what are called the seventeenth and eighteenth cantos of Don Juan' no claim is, we observe, made for them as being Byron's. This is as well, since Byron's they assuredly are not. Fancy Byron speaking of le (sic) crème of society, making navy rime with suavely and gravely, and machinery with chicanery and feign to be! Many spurious continuations of Don Juan' were issued (see Mr. Coleridge's edition of Byron's poetry). This is obviously one of such. St. Peter in Rome. By Rev. A. S. Barnes. (Sonnenschein & Co.) THIS is the second edition of a book to which we gave a generally favourable reception on its first appearance (9th S. v. 178). It is an ingenious argument, founded on topographical considerations, that the body of the great apostle is actually lying beneath the dome of the splendid fane which bears his name. Prof. Lanciani now contributes a prefatory letter, in which he lends the weight of his authority to Mr. Barnes's theory, chiefly on the ground of a discovery made by Prof. Marucci in 1901. This was the excavation of an ancient baptistry in the catacombs of St. Priscilla, hard by some springs which are believed to be the very nymphæ Sancti Petri" in which the apostle used to baptize. The present Pope, curious to say, so far from encouraging these subterranean investigations, has flatly refused his consent to their continuance. 66 Although the volume before us is announced as a second edition, it does not appear to have been submitted to any revision. We notice that the misprints which we formerly pointed out (e.g., "guide" for gird, p. 101) still remain uncorrected; and the writer still thinks the comparison of St. Paul to a wolf made in an old inscription "a strange use (p. 32), whereas, as we indicated, it is one of the most familiar patristic commonplaces, founded on Jacob's blessing upon Benjamin in Genesis xlix. 27. The Burlington Magazine. Vol. II. No. 4. (Savile Publishing Company.) THIS best of art periodicals opens with an earnest appeal for the public acquisition of Clifford's Inn and the protection of ancient buildings. This we strongly support. Though now in private hands, Clifford's Inn can, we are told, be repurchased at a small advance and preserved for the nation. The magazine renders a high service in protesting against English neglect as regards public monuments. We are hopeless of effecting any good, but back up the editor's plea. Eminently interesting in the body of the work are the reproductions from what is called 'The Finest Hunting Manuscript' extant, and the illustrations preserve their preeminence in England. Space fails us to do justice to these, but the judges who preserve the consecutive numbers will have reason to congratulate themselves upon their wisdom. MESSRS. PARKER & Co. wish to draw attention to the fact that the book reviewed ante, p. 458, and entitled The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church: their Canons and Dogmatic Decrees,' edited by Henry R. Percival, D.D., was withdrawn from publication immediately after the review and presentation copies had been sent out in May, 1900. 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