2 did some illustrating themes by Beethoven Man-eater is applied to sharks in 1837, horses in Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. tory of mansion has abundant interest. Familiarly, at least, manteau-maker is applied to women as well as men. We recall a popular ballad An How Mary [?], the bold manty-maker, To luke at a navvy thowt sin. instance of feminine application is given in the dictionary. Mare's nest is anticipated by "horseUnder marigold we should, for sentimental reasons, like to see Wither's nest. ance. Grateful and obsequious marigold. The first use of marionette is in Browne's 'Britannia's Pastorals.' Mark and market, with their compounds, occupy much space and are of import"You are not for all markets," says Rosalind. Sterne's greetings in the market-place A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. might be quoted. Marmaduc and marmady are By Dr. James A. H. Murray.-Mandragora curious misprints for maravedi. Interesting conMatter. (Vol. VI.) By Henry Bradley, Ph.D.jecture is furnished as to the origin of marmoset. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) · Whether marque is connected with mark is left The god that sits at marriage-feast. If he be married, A DOUBLE section of the great dictionary, issued I have marshalled my clan. Under maslin the influence of the long discussion in 'N. & Q.' is sensible. Masque (with which compare mask) and masquerade both repay attention; and mass, the Eucharistic service, demands close study. Shakespeare's master - mistress might be included with master-miss. The form of the English word mastiff is said to be difficult to account for. Coleridge's Toothless mastiff bitch" recurs to the memory. Matinée, the first citation of which is from Thackeray, is defined "a morning' (i.e., afternoon) theatrical or musical performance.' A Fourteenth-Century English Biblical Version. MANY considerations combine to make this volume those pre-Wycliffite translations of the Scriptures into the vernacular which, as Dr. Gasquet maintains in his book The Old English Bible,' were more frequent than was at one time admitted. Members of religious orders, it seems, who were unfamiliar with Latin and French, were allowed to use English versions, although they were forbidden to the "lewid" or common people, as Wycliffe bitterly complained. The object of these early translators was, as one of them puts it, "tyll women to mak it couth that leris no Latyn in thar youth.' The present volume gives a version, from a MS. of about 1400, of a considerable number of selected portions of the New Testament, which were put into English for the behoof of some house of religious women, as may be inferred from the reader being frequently addressed as "suster." Now after five centuries it very fittingly and appropriately finds an editor in a learned lady who has devoted herself to the study of Middle English Biblical versions, Doctorin Paues, a Fellow of Newnham. We can congratulate her on the learning, judgment, and praiseworthy accuracy with which she has done her work. In a careful analytical introduction to the text she discusses the questions suggested by it, its language, and its grammatical peculiarities. The first part of the version, she concludes, is written in a SouthWestern dialect, while the latter part has characteristics of the North or North-Eastern Midlands. The Vulgate text used by the translator seems to have preserved many curious readings analogous to those of Codex Beze, and in many instances to have been corrupt or carelessly written. Thus uia is confused with uita, muri with uiri, commonebo with commouebo, iudicate with indicate. Partly to this cause, and partly, no doubt, to the imperfect knowledge of the translator, may be attributed certain droll blunders or misunderstandings which are of frequent occurrence. The tongues of fire" (Acts ii. 3) become here "langages apperd vnto hem"; and in Acts xii. 20". persuaso Blasto " becomes "Persuasoblasto the Kenges Chaumbirleyn." Proper names, indeed, were a constant source of difficulty and downfall to this good clerk. Sosipater Pyrrhi" (Acts xx. 4) is expanded into "Sosy the fadire of Pirry"; in" venimus contra Chium" (Acts xx. 15) he finds an unknown land Contrachye":"Phylippos colonia" (Acts xvi. 12) he modernizes into "Philippis tho cyte of Coleyne.' But the crowning "howler" of all is probably the rendering of "navis Alexandrina, cui erat insigne Castor" (Acts xxviii. 11), which he turns into "a schyppe of Alysawnder tho whiche hade fairnes of Castels"; but here an older French version had led the way by giving the vessel "un molt noble chastel" Unce more: we cannot but wonder what the sisters of the community made of this, "whoso angreth thee a thousande paas, go with hym other two thousande" (Matt. v. 41), if they did not guess that the italicized word stood for angariaverit, itself a mere borrowing of the original Greek ayyapeúelv, to compel or enforce conveyance. It has escaped the net of Dr. Murray. In "Thabita surge" (Acts ix. 40) the Latin is retained, as if giving the very words of St. Peter! 66 66 66 As a monument of early English this version has a distinct value for the student of language and of literature. Already we find here Adam and Eve making themselves "breches of leues" (p. 3); "Sara buxom to Abraham" (1 Pet. iii. 6); "Noe, a bedel of ryghtfulnesse" (2 Pet. ii. 5). Interesting words are quyletes, collections, used for gatherings or assemblies (Heb. x. 25); vmgyuen (or bounden), with this cheyne" (Acts xxviii. 20); and gaseyn, the puddle (volutabrum) in which the sow wallows (2 Pet. ii. 22), a word akin, no doubt, to Fr. gaschis, gâchis, and "wash. We note the modernsounding phrase "in proces of tyme" (p. 4), and dissentery (Acts xxviii. 8), anticipating the Revised Version, where the A.V. has "bloody flux.' The thorn letter, always a pitfall for the printer, has led him into at least one error not corrected in the errata, pought" (2 Tim. iii. 8, p. 119) standing for 'bought. 66 The Works of William Shakespeare. In 10 vols. Vol. III. (Stratford, the Shakespeare Head Press.) THE third volume of the noble edition of Shakespeare issued from the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, contains four comedies: "The Merchant of Venice,' 'As You Like It,' 'The Taming of the Shrew,' and 'All's Well that Ends Well.' Its frontispiece consists of a beautiful design of The Stratford Bust.' The text retains its old simplicity and excellence, and the beauty of form is naturally maintained. Nothing remains. to be added to the eulogy of a work which might well become the most popular, as it is one of the handsomest, of library editions of Shakespeare. Glancing through the plays, to the reperusal of which the beautiful text allures, we are struck by the fact that The Taming of the Shrew' might well come immediately before instead of directly after As You Like It." In the famous epilogue to the latter play, spoken by Rosalind, the opening sentence is: "It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue." This seems to hint that The Taming of the Shrew,' in the induction or prologue to which a lord is the principal character, was fresh in men's memory. This may be a mare's nest, but we do not recall having seen it previously noted. Mr. Bullen is, of course, justified in printing the works in the order already existing. Shakespeare's Sonnets. (Stratford-on-Avon, the Shakespeare Head Press.) To the same press that gives us the afore-noticed edition of the plays of Shakespeare is owing this. daintiest conceivable edition of the Sonnets of the great dramatist. Not quite a facsimile is the volume, though the disposition and appearance of the pages favour that assumption. Some revision has, indeed, been made of the text, which in the main follows Thomas Thorpe's 1609 quarto. More than one alteration consists in the substitution of "thy" for "their" when the latter word is, Mr. Bullen holds, a misprint. Line 8 of Sonnet xxxv.,. which in the original appears Excusing their sins more than their sins are, thus appears Excusing their sins more than thy sins are, following a reading invented by Capell and accepted by Malone, and differing from that of Mr. George Wyndham. A more important alteration is made in Sonnet cxlvi., 1. 2, where there is evidently a compositor's blunder, and where some change is indispensable. In other cases warrantable departure from the first quarto is to be traced. The orthography is as a rule modernized, appearing for "center," "rebel" for "rebbell," and 66 centre so forth. "Rime" is, however, rightly retained in Somptuaires,' three hundred plates in gold and place of "rhyme." In Sonnet xx., 1. 7, "A man in colours, 77. 158.; first edition of The Seraphim,' hew, all Hews in his controlling," is so given, Tyr-1838, 25s.; first edition of Hours of Idleness, 1807, whitt's surmise, thence derived, that the Mr. W. H. 3. 18s.; and first editions of Swinburne. Under of the dedication may be a Mr. William Hughes Ceramics we find Chaffers, Delange, Palissy, &c. being mentioned without comment; a like treat. Pearson's edition of the Dramatists is priced 31. 188.; ment being accorded Canon Beeching's rather wild and Hone's Political Tracts,' uncut as issued, and unacceptable suggestion that "a man in " is a 1820, 21s. Under Viollet-le-Duc is a handsome set misprint for " a maiden." We do not agree with in 19 vols., 237. 10s. Mr. Bullen is assigning to "years" the value of a dissyllable in cxxxviii. 12; but his conclusions generally win our unhesitating acceptauce. With many of his predecessors Mr. Bullen is at issue. He does not accept Mr. Wyndham's contention that the 1609 quarto was seen through the press by Shakespeare himself, and he regards as strange perversity" the supposition of Mr. Sidney Lee and others that "my lovely boy" in Sonnet cxxvi. is Cupid. With the view of Mr. Lee that the most impassioned utterances in the Sonnets are to be taken as mere servile adulation he loses patience; but he yields handsome tribute to Mr. Lee's services to literature. Thomas Tyler's assumption that the dark lady" is Mary Fitton, a peccant maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, is not disposed of by the discovery that the monument of the fair and frail lady shows her as light. Mr. Beeching's new edition of the Sonnets is praised. The present volume, which is on hand-made paper and issued in a limited edition, will prove a delight to the scholar and the bibliophile. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JULY. THE dog days are affecting the bookselling trade, and we have the receipt only of a few lists to record. Messrs. Bailey Bros., of Newington Butts, have a catalogue (No. 82) of 3,178 books, relating to Topography, Antiquities, Family History, and Genealogy. These are mainly of purchases during the last few months. 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