subject. We are not, however, aware that anything important has escaped us, and we are bound to say that this is by far the best popular account with which we are acquainted. It is posted up with all the new knowledge on the subject. The book is, as a guide-book should be, very discursive. There is quite an essay on hour-glass stands in churches, together with some very curious illustrations of old tobacco pipes. Handbook to the Cathedral of St. Paul. By G. Phillips Bevan, F.G.S., F.S.S., and John Stainer, M.A., Mus. Doc. (Sonnenschein & Co.) An excellent little handbook. In the brief compass of some ninety-eight pages the compilers have given a brief sketch of the history of old St. Paul's, a careful account of the existing cathedral and its monuments, an admirable notice (in which Dr. Stainer's hand can easily be traced) of the organ and of the bells, with a few well selected observations upon the musicians who have been associated with the cathedral. A ground plan and four illustrations adorn the volume. We would specially commend the cut of the west elevation of St. Paul's, from Malton's Picturesque Tour through London, which is placed upon the title-page. Calendar of State Papers and MSS. relating to English Affairs. Venetian Series. Vol. VI., Part II., 1556-1557. Edited by Rawdon Brown for the Master of the Rolls. (Longmans & Co.) THIS second part of the sixth volume is published without introduction or index, and covers the twelve months extending from October, 1556, to October, 1557. The Venetian despatches of this period are mainly occupied by details of the Spanish invasion of France and of the Papal States; and with our present knowledge of the panic which overwhelmed Paris when the news arrived of the storming of St. Quentin by the Spaniards, we are able to appreciate the disappointment of the Emperor Charles V. that his son had not marched straight on to Paris. Prescott's narrative of the Duke of Alva's campaign in the Roman Campagna, and of his master's unwillingness to continue the war against the Holy See after the retreat of the Duke de Guise, was mainly derived from the despatches of Navagero, the Venetian ambassador at Rome, which are all abstracted in this volume; and the historian did his work so thoroughly that the contemporary reports from the ambassadors in France and Spain add little to our knowledge. The most interesting document in this volume is the report which Michiele, the Venetian ambassador in London, drew up for the information of the Doge on May 13, 1557, after three years' residence in England. Summaries of similar reports, drawn up in 1551 and 1554, were printed in vol. v. of this series of Calendars, and A Relation of England, compiled in 1497, was published with a translation by the Camden Society in 1847. 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