(the latter inherited through generations as well as accumulated during many years), the Sovern Papers in the hands of Mr. Sotheran, and many other treasures of less importance, have been placed at his disposal. Equally valuable for critical and for historical purposes have these contributions proved, and while a discovery like that of Woodhouse's annotated copy of Endymion has supplied abundance of verbal corrections, the letters now first printed, including those to Keats's sister, throw, as Mr. Forman says, "a flood of new light on the character of the poet." It is clearly as much outside the province of "N. & Q." to attempt an analysis of the four volumes now published as to supply an elaborate essay on the poetry of Keats. The niche of Keats in the Temple of Fame is now filled, his place is granted him among the immortals, and a reverential genuflexion is all the homage, beyond that of study of his works, which is needed. periodicals the aim of which is purely critical controversy concerning readings may be attempted. Our duty is fulfilled in announcing the appearance of an edition of Keats which, for the present generation at least, is authoritative and definitive. In The poetry occupies two volumes, the first giving the poems published in 1817 and Endymion, with, in the shape of a supplement, the famous reviews in the "Quarterly, savage and Tartarly," and other matter, including reviews in the Edinburgh, and, by Leigh Hunt, in the Examiner; the second, Lamia, Isabella, &c., Hyperion, and posthumous and fugitive poems. Vol. iii. contains a few notes of much interest on Shakspeare, from a copy of the 1808 reprint of the 1623 folio; on the acting of Edmund Kean, from the Champion, on Milton's Paradise Lost, and other miscellanea, occupying in all thirty-three pages; and the first instalment of the Miscellaneous Letters, many of which, including the delightful letters to his sister Fanny, are now first published. Vol. iv. comprises the remainder of the Miscel laneous Letters, the correspondence with Fanny Brawne, with two appendices, the one special to the volume and the other general. The full life product of Keats is thus supplied, and the materials on which to judge the great founder of modern English poetry are before the public. Concerning the zeal, the fidelity, and the intelligence with which the matter at his disposal has been used by Mr. Forman no doubt can be entertained. The book deserves the welcome it is sure to receive. Its typographical excellence is not the least of its recommendations. The Marriage Ring. By Bishop Jeremy Taylor. A Reprint from the Fourth Edition. Edited, with Preface, Appendix, and Notes, by F. B. M. Coutts. (Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co.) THIS is probably the best edition of one of Jeremy Taylor's most eloquent works that has ever appeared. The text is beautifully printed, and all the Greek quotations, which are omitted in some reprints, are carefully given. Far away as we may have wandered in our ideas since Taylor's time, there are few who will not be the better for reading once more his grave and stately exposition of what was the ideal of marriage in the seventeenth century. Northamptonshire Noles and Queries. Edited by Rev. W. D. Sweeting, M.A. Part I. (Northampton, Taylor & Son.) THIS quarterly record of the antiquities, folk-lore, family history, and traditions of Northamptonshire, under the able direction of our correspondent Mr. Sweeting, is the latest born of the many descendants of "N. & Q." The first number, now before us, opens the year with a varied assortment of record, legend, genealogy, epigraphy, and the many other notanda et inquirenda to which the maxim of Capt. Cuttle aptly applies. A periodical to which Cuthbert Bede sends an interesting article on Fotheringhay, in which Mr. J. H. Cooke, F.S.A., writes on the Bennets of Beachampton, and Mr. Justin Simpson on conventual pensioners, and which also contains a curious account, partly from MS. sources, of the remarkably named " Bedlam Society" at Burghley, may well be said to have something of interest for students of history and antiquities far beyond the limits of Northamptonshire. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson. Collected and Arranged by Henry F. Brownson. Vols. III., IV., and V. (Detroit, Nourse.) THESE writings of an American theologian have been sent us, but are unsuited for review in our columns. WE have received a facsimile reprint of the Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne (Stock), edited by W. A. Greenhill, M.D. It is one of the most perfect reproductions we have ever seen. Apart from the mere curious interest that the first edition of a popular book always possesses, this volume is valuable as reproducing of course with many printers' errors-what was no doubt the original text of the book. Sir Thomas Browne wrote the Religio Medici somewhere about the year 1635. It would appear that he had no intention of publishing it to the world. A manuscript copy, however, fell into the hands of a bookseller, who issued an edition in the year 1642. In the following year Browne published what may be termed the authorized version, and this has formed the text which has been over and over again reprinted. It is useful to have the early form of the book at hand, as it shows in some few points change of view, and in many change of expression. by Edwarda Gibbon, M.A., F.R.S.L., &c., Auckland, History of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, brochure, showing how the decadence of England is attri A.D. 2884 (Field & Tuer), is an ingenious and a whimsical butable to a variety of causes, the most important of which is outside human provision, consisting of the deflection of the Gulf Stream. It forms an amusing addition to the kind of literature which originated with the publication of The Battle of Dorking. The authorship is assigned to Mr. C. J. Stone, to whom is owing the remarkable work The Cradle-Land of Arts and Creeds. A NEW edition of the late Dean Stanley's Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church has been published in a convenient shape by Mr. Murray. This scholarly and valuable work has now passed to the rank of a classic. So far as regards the contents, including the plans, the present form may be accepted as final. THE eighth volume of Mr. Gardiner's History of England, issued by Messrs. Longmans, brings the work within sight of the termination. The chapters on Wentworth in Ireland and on the Religious Opposition are in Mr. Gardiner's best style, and are models of historical narration, THE second part of The Encyclopædic Dictionary of Messrs. Cassell & Co. shows the work to be worthy of the pains bestowed upon it. A reference to such words the task is executed. as agrise, ague, aisle, akimbo, &c., shows how thoroughly MESSRS. CASSELL have also published Part 1 of a reissue of their Technical Educator and Part 1 of their History of the Horse. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank, by William Makepeace Thackeray, has been reprinted from the Westminster Review, with all the original woodcuts, and with an interesting introduction by Mr. W. E, Church, the Secretary of the Urban Club. The publisher is Mr. Geo. Redway. which is at Gosford House, the seat of the Earl of Wemyss; a finished sketch for the second picture belonged to the Earl of Charlemont, and is now the property of L. de Rothschild, Esq. Fire has destroyed, Mr. Johnes's, at Hafod, in 1807) and, a few years since, besides the above, Hogarth's Southwark Fair" (at "Strolling Actresses" (at Littleton). He J. E. T.-Paduasway in the extract you supply is clearly paduasoy, a species of silk, soie, of Padua. was dressed that day in as high a style as the clerical function will allow, in a paduasoy gown and velvet cap." "Clad in a coat of paduasoy, A flaxen wig, and waistcoat gay." In the Nineteenth Century, a fable of Mr. H. D. Traill, called "The Brutes on their Master," is equally novel in idea and happy in treatment. The Dean of Westminster also supplies a thoughtful essay, entitled "My Schooldays from 1880 to 1840."-"The Chronicles of English Counties" in All the Year Round deal happily with Staffordshire.-"Shakespeare in the Middle Temple," contributed to the English Illustrated Magazine by the Rev. Alfred Ainger, gives an interesting account of Manningham's Diary, printed by the Camden Society-Sheridan, Life of Swift. from the Harleian MS.-In the Contemporary, the Rev. J. Llewelyn Davies writes on F. D. Maurice and Mr. Walter Besant on "The Amusements of the People."Macmillan supplies a long and able essay on "The New Edition of Keats," reviewed in our columns.-"Some Literary Recollections" are contained in the Cornhill.— "A Ballade of an English Home" arrests attention in Longman's.-The series of "Our Old Country Towns" commences in the Antiquarian Magazine with an account of Chard, in Somerset, accompanied by an illustration of the town about the year 1750. IN Mr. Thomas North, F.S.A., formerly of Leicester, who died suddenly on Ash Wednesday at Llanfairfechan, North Wales, where he had for some time past been residing, "N. & Q." loses an old and valued contributor, who had made a special study of campanology, and was well known as the author of The Chronicle of St. Martin's Church, Leicester. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. Ir our correspondents will realize the fact that for every communication, of whatever nature, that is inserted in "N. & Q.," two communications of equal interest and value are of necessity omitted, they will extend a little indulgence. With the best liquors, as with the worst, a quart and a half cannot be forced into a pint measure. The most gratifying evidences of utility and appreciation bring with them augmenting burdens. Swift, Robin and Harry. ESTE ("Foscari ").-The_play of Foscari, by Miss Mitford, which you saw in 1846, was first produced at Covent Garden twenty years previously-viz., Nov. 4, 1826-with Young and Charles Kemble as the two Foscari. As our querist only asked for a play called The Two Foscari, published in 1821, we referred to Byron's tragedy as the only work answering the conditions. HERMAN MERIVALE.— "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." The parallel between Waller and Fuller to which you refer has been the subject of much correspondence in "N. & Q." See 1st S. iii. 105, 154; 4th S. x. 333, 363, 459. Your conjecture that Waller was the plagiarist seems borne out by dates. W. H. P. ("To Double Lock").-This is a perfectly familiar operation. A great many locks receive a double turn of the key, with the effect sometimes of so fixing the bolt that it cannot without a key be opened from the other side, even when a handle communicating with the lock is furnished. lages, and is still used for the custody of stray cattle. W. H. P.-The pound exists in innumerable vilYou may see pounds close to London. A. H. HIBBERT.-" Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion " comes from Plutarch's Life of Cesar. The exact words, as given in North's translation, are "The accuser asked Cæsar, why then he had put away his wife: Because I will not, sayd he, that my wife be so much as suspected" (p. 716, ed. 1612). Words to the same effect may be found in Suetonius, Life of Caesar, 74. F. B. MONEY COUTTS ("The might of one fair face sublimes my love").-This sonnet from Michael Angelo is translated by Hartley Coleridge, and appears in his Poetical Works, vol. ii. p. 57, ed. Moxon, 1851. H. W. S. ("Paradisi in Sole," &c.).-This subject is disposed of, and your reply, for which you are thanked, is anticipated, ante, p. 114. SPES ("Dates of Birth and Death of Celebrated Women").-We are unable to find space for the long list of feminine celebrities concerning whom SPES inquires. Much of the information required will be found in Ballard's Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain who have been celebrated for their Writings or Learning, 1752; in Horace Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors; and in the biographical portion of the English Encyclopædia. Of Claude de France a full account must be sought in such sources as the Annales d'Acquitaine of J. Bouchet, Brantôme's Dames Illustres, &c. A fair account appears in the Nouvelle Biographie Générale. In every instance-There is no decisive answer to this question, and it conbut two the years of birth and death are supplied in The Dictionary of Biographical Reference of Mr. Laurence B. Phillips (Sampson Low & Co., 1871). 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