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as seventeenth century. The photographs, though small, are tolerably clear, and each doge is accompanied by a miniature coat of arms. Ross O'CONNELL.

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SKELLUM (6th S. vii. 413; viii. 357, 375).—The following quotation may prove of interest, as the word is put into the mouth of a Dutchman:"Vandal. Ic sal seg you, vader, ic came here to your huis, and spreak tol de dochterkin.

"Frisco. Master Mendall, you are welcome out of the basket. I smell a rat: it was not for nothing that you lost me.

"Vandal. O skellum! you run away from me." Englishmen for My Money; or, a Woman will Have Her Will, 1616 (vol. x. p. 547, Dodsley's O. E. Plays, ed. Hazlitt).

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Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. By Henry Foley, S.J. Vol. VII., Part II. Collectanea completed with Appendices, Catalogues_of Assumed and of Real Names, Annual Letters, Biographies and Miscellanea. (Burns & Oates.) WITH the publication of vol. vii. Mr. Foley brings to a close his arduous undertaking. When it is told that the last volume of his colossal work contains considerably over eighteen hundred pages, some idea of the nature of a task which has been accomplished in eight years of indefatigable labour may be formed. In the annals of study no record can be found of labour more severe, sustained, and, it may be added, more remunerative. A mass of information carefully guarded, and to many students inaccessible, has been brought within reach of the scholar. To the ecclesiastical historian Mr. Foley's work most directly appeals. It is likely to prove invaluable, however, to all concerned in genealogical pursuits and the byways generally of history. Two authorities, which have come but recently within Mr. Foley's reach, have enabled him to complete the second appendix to the "Collectanea." First of these is a MS. entitled "Catalogus Primorum Patrum et Fratrum Soc. Jes. ex Anglia, collectis ex variis Libris et Catalogis MS. in Archiv. Rom.," &c. This authentic and valuable document contains brief accounts of nearly one hundred and twenty English members of the Society of Jesus from 1556 to 1590, many of them hitherto unknown, Among these is found a remarkable person, John Castell, born at Bodmin about 1546. He had been M.P. in 1571, was a student in the Middle Temple, an excellent English poet, and well versed in Greek, Latin, and philosophy. He was a voluntary exile for his religion, for which he had likewise suffered torture upon the rack and chains. He died in Portugal in 1580, six years after entering the Society.

A second and only less valuable source of information consists of a copy of the register of the English College of the Society of Jesus, St. Alban's, Valladolid. From this are derived the names of many early English Jesuits which do not figure in the English Province catalogues. The biographical notices of members of the English Province are carried down to a very recent period. The annual letters, ranging from the year 1601 to 1615, give a store of information on curious details and

statistics gathered from original MSS. in the archives of the Society of Jesus in Rome, and from facts and data communicated by the missionary priests of the Society then working in England. These, again, are supplemented to a much more recent date by the annals of the English Jesuit colleges in Belgium. St. Omer, Liège, and Ghent, and of the Novitiate at Watten, than which no information could be more particular, more domestic, or more trustworthy. Such varied subjects are treated of as the numbers of the students, their scholastic exercises, their recreations and representations of religious drama, and the relationships in which the alumni stood to their masters and prefects. Even the daily life of the novices is naturally unfolded in the historical notices of Watten.

One very marked feature of the addenda is a memoir, from the pen of Father Stevenson, of William Elphinston, a novice of the Society and member of the well-known Scotch family, which, besides its own title of nobility, claimed relationship with the Bishop Elphinston still held in honour by the University of Aberdeen as the founder of King's College.

Interesting information is given relative to the Vatican College of Penitentiaries, consisting in 1570 of one cardinal and eleven priests, appointed to hear confessions in the various foreign languages. It was enlarged, and a body of twelve Jesuit fathers, under a rector, was assigned by Pius V. to the Vatican Basilica for hearing confessions in all the known European languages, with

some others.

A unique addition to this volume is the alphabetical catalogue of real names and aliases, never, we believe, attempted before. It furnishes the student of that period of history a new means of identifying names and persons, and of clearing up many confused points, and is given in distinct lists of true and adopted names in convenient juxtaposition, with references to the lives of each member. Evidence to rebut the charge that the Society has been always anxious to involve its history in mystery is thus supplied.

A chronological catalogue of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus from the earliest times forms a final and valuable appendix by itself. Mr. Foley's alphabetical index of seventy pages is a model of dry, persevering labour. Would that all books of reference were equally well provided!

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. By Robert Paltock, of Clement's Inn. With a Preface by A. H. Bullen. 2 vols. (Reeves & Turner.)

MR. A. H. BULLEN is one of our youngest editors; he is also one of the best. In addition to the industry and accuracy which are indispensable to an editor, he has keen poetical appreciation and insight, and a flair which always leads him right. The works he has given to the world are already dear to scholars. To these he has now added a reprint of The Adventures of Peter Wilkins. Without being an absolute rarity, since between the appearance of the first edition in 1750 and that of a mutilated version in 1844 half a dozen different editions saw the light, Peter Wilkins is far from common, and the appearance of a copy in a catalogue always provokes competition. Of the minor works to which the success of Robinson Crusoe gave rise, Peter Wilkins is the best. It is a favourite with all readers of taste, and has been, as Mr. Bullen states in his short preface, translated into French and German. Coleridge speaks of it, according to report, as "a work of uncommon beauty." Charles Lamb describes it as among the classics of his boyish days, and Leigh Hunt waxes eloquent in its praise. Such evidence in its favour is, of course, acceptable, but the book speaks for itself. It is now brought within

the reach of all readers in an edition that is a model
of taste and beauty. The book is not a facsimile, for
paper and type such as are now employed were not com-
mon in 1750. It reproduces faithfully, however, the
title-pages, the text, and the quaint and delightful illus-
trations. What is more to the point, it is unmutilated.
With commendable courage, Mr. Bullen declines to cut
out the marriage scenes between Wilkins and the fair
Youwarkee. A man who would cut out these would
excise the scenes of a like nature from Paradise Lost.
One is scarcely purer than the other. Editor and pub
lisher have conferred a boon on letters in reprinting in
such a form this delightful book, the first volume of
which is among the most fanciful and attractive in the
language.

The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith. With
Preface and Notes by Austin Dobson. (Kegan Paul
& Co.)
NEVER, surely, was a classic more fitted than the Vicar
of Wakefield to appear in the "Parchment Series" of
Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co., and never was an editor more
in sympathy with his work than Mr. Austin Dobson,
A book the hold of which on mankind has not relaxed,
and will not soon relax, appears now in the most fitting
shape it has yet received. Mr. Dobson's preface and
notes, meanwhile, form a charmingly discursive and read-

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learning to be teachers, are sometimes amusing, from the naïveté of the entries. We cannot say that we are believers in the keeping of diaries, least of all in the obligation to keep them. But we like the touch of nature in such an entry as the following:-" A flower was brought to-day to illustrate the poem the pupils are learning, Jack in the Pulpit.' All examined it, or said they did; the boys were most curious." We need scarcely say that the italics are ours. The great question of "Fiction in Public Libraries" was again to the fore, as was also the still greater question of the "A. L. A. Catalog" of the future, which we hope to live to see on our table. The decision of the place of meeting for 1884 seems to hover between Toronto, St. Louis, and New Haven, a tolerably wide area for choice, as to which we will not infringe upon the privileges of the executive committee by any suggestions of our own.

WE have received rol. xix, of the St. Bartholomew's

Hospital Reports, being the volume for the year 1883. In addition to several valuable papers and interesting notes of cases from hospital practice, it contains a short memoir of James Shuter, late assistant-surgeon to the hospital.

THE new number of the Church Quarterly contains a readable and suggestive essay, by the Rev. A. Smythe Palmer, on the miracle at Beth-horon, a philological argument for a new interpretation of the sun standing still, Joshua x.

"LEGENDS OF THE SYNAGOGUE," in All the Year Round, supplies some curious information of interest to many "Two Minor Characters: Peter and the Apothecary," which appears in the Cornhill Magazine, is a striking piece of Shakspearian criticism. MR. R. L. STEVENSON contributes to the English Illustrated Magazine some whimsical fancies on The Character of Dogs," which are no less whimsically illustrated by Mr. R. Caldecott.

IN the Third Series of Rambles by the Ribble (Preston, Dobson; London, Simpkin & Marshall) Mr. William Dobson tells us of Hoghton Tower and its royal visitor, James I.; of Hothersall and its "boggart"; and of Sam-readers of " N. & Q."lesbury, where the original site of the church was traditionally altered by "goblin builders," who objected, and removed the stones during the night, while the village was subsequently famous for witches, who "did take her senses and money " from a girl, temp. Jac. I.! Among other points of interest to our readers, we may mention that Mr. Dobson gives a good deal of information about various branches of the ancient Lancashire family of Winckley of Winckley, concerning whom we gave a "Notice to Correspondents," 5th S. xii. 420, embracing details of the family, temp. Edw. I. to 1664-5. There is

matter for the botanist and the student of folk-lore, as well as for the antiquary and genealogist, in Mr. Dobcon's new and pleasant Rambles by the Ribble.

THE Library Journal, Vol. VIII., Nos. 9 and 10 (New York, F. Leypoldt), contains a full and interesting report of the Buffalo Conference of the American Library Association. It is difficult to select out of so large a mass of valuable matter, but we may note that Mr. Cutter presents us with a new "Arrangement of the Parts of the United States in an Historical and Geographical System of Classification." Mr. Cutter's arrangement is a modification

of that suggested by Mr. Gannett, "Geografer" of the
United States Census Office, and whereas Mr. Gannett
divided the United States into three groups by means of
three perpendicular lines or bands, Mr. Cutter sub-
divides into six groups, and assigns numbers and letters
to the several States and Territories and their principal
towns, the letter being that of their initial. Thus
Mr. Cutter would represent New York State by No. 67,
Buffalo by 67B 8, where 67-State of New York, B-initial |
letter of Buffalo, 8 a distinguishing mark from other
towns in the same state having the same initial, such
as Brooklyn, which appears as 67 B 7. The report on
"Libraries and Schools," by Mr. Samuel S. Green,
of Worcester, Mass., contains many interesting details
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cause of education. The extracts from diaries kept by
'apprentices" of the Normal School, who are pupils

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