source. For the resemblance in expression between the above lines and more than one passage in Milton, it is difficult to account, except on a theory of recollection.

The memoir of Heywood, in the first volume, is slight, but adequate to the purpose; and the accompanying notes are few, and, for the most part, well chosen.

NOVELS OF THE WEEK.

for disguise makes his identification impossible when his fortunes most require it. Cromwell and Charles the Second figure in the story, to as little purpose as any of the fictitious characters.

The contents of Lady Chatterton's last novel induced us to suspect that she wrote it with a purpose; in fact, with a view to making the fashionable world less worldly and more religious than it is. In the volumes before

William Mellish. By Frank Trollope. 3 vols, (Newby.)

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Won at Last. By Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. 3 vols. (Hurst & Blackett.) La Destinée de Paul Harding. Prins. (Bruxelles, Muquardt.) The Impending Sword. By Edmund Yates. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.) 'NAMELESS' is the story of a milliner who married a duke. From the extreme gusto and apparent skill with which the details of dressmaking are treated, it would seem to be the production of a sister of the craft. Eulalie, whose unadorned beauty makes her a paragon of interest in the professional eye, is besieged by admirers more or less eligible, and receives in her coronet the due reward of virtue when it is lodged in an attractive shape. She also has a little mystery attached to her, being really a lady by birth, whose mother, with a strange absence of curiosity, omitted to inquire for her on her first appearance in the world, and, consequently, failed to discover that her only child had been kidnapped by an unnatural aunt. For the beauty of the heroine, the noble character of the duke, and the forgiving temper which every one displays when the little mistake as to Eulalie's parentage has been discovered, the curious reader is referred to the book, which, if not very interesting, and a trifle vulgar, has the merit of being short and plain.

'William Mellish' professes to be a "story of the Protectorate," but would, perhaps, have been as well, or as ill, adapted for the celebration of any other period. In spite of occasional ill-sustained attempts to represent the manners and mode of speech of the day, the general impression produced is one of inextricable confusion, in which Roundheads and Cavaliers, odd Dutchmen, impossible rustics, and layfigures of all sorts, enact their parts without apparent connexion with one another or the plot. The nineteenth-century English is as bad as the jargon which is attributed to our ancestors of the seventeenth, and a profusion of bad puns and of misquoted and misspelt scraps of Latin renders the process of reading the book as fatiguing as it is unsatisfactory. What can be made of such sentences as the following, chosen at random?" All exciting liquors were forbidden with all due ceremony, and listened to with all due solemnity and reverence." "What a host of Puritans, Independents, and Presbyterians had brought into hotchpotch one Monk, though not a Papist, settled in the right line of inheritance a king of the Stuart race." The grammatical difficulties of the book are not compensated by any excellence in the plot, which relates the impossible adventures of a gentleman, whose utter inability to speak the truth involves him in the most perplexing scrapes, and whose talent

are kept within very reasonable bounds; yet the book is decidedly dull. The incidents are sensational without being exciting, and it is impossible to feel the slightest sympathy with any of the dramatis persona, who are lay figures, wanting in life. The stage, too, is crowded, and page after page is quite unnecessary to the development of the story, such as it is. Had these superfluous passages been omitted, the reader would have gained much, for there would have been little indeed left for him to wade through. The title is attractive; but we are quite unable to decide whether it is a lady, a gentleman, or an estate which is won at last. If it is the lady who is supposed to be won, the title is inapplicable, for she was most anxious from the beginning to interpose no difficulties to the winning. If it is the gentleman, he was most passively won, and only married the lady through a mere accident. But winning signifies action. If it is the estate, it was retained, not won. The story, such as it is, may be summarized as follows: Edith Freville, a plain girl, with a pleasing expression and graceful manners, carries off from her beautiful friend, Clarissa Fairleigh, a Capt. Morton, an officer in the army, but yet quite a pattern young man. Clarissa, a beauty and heiress, furious at Edith's triumph, though she has accepted Morton's friend, Lethbridge, writes to Morton a letter, in which she makes no secret of her love for him. Lethbridge sees the letter, and breaks with the lady. Morton marries Edith, and, with Lethbridge, sails for India. There they find themselves in the midst of a rebellion, and Edith, while trying to escape from the rebels, gives birth to a baby, and, a fortnight after its birth, is carried off by the natives. She recovers her liberty, but the infant disappears. Edith returns to England with her husband, and, many years after, discovers, in the person of a beautiful Italian governess, her longlost child. About the same time, her mother successfully resists an attempt made to deprive her of her ancestral estate. The girl being virtuous as well as lovely, is very properly married to a handsome young nobleman; and Lethbridge, finding that the lady with whom he had quarrelled has since become quite another person, makes it up with her, and is married also. This is merely an outline, and interwoven with it are incidents

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and adventures improbable enough to be suited for the serial in a weekly penny paper. have an old house with secret passages and entrances, which enable Edith to discover the rascality of the servants of her old grandfather, who is kept secluded from all his relations. Then we have a false marriage and the supposed death of the old man. His widow, a handsome but vulgar and wicked woman, on the strength of her riches, gets into London society, into which is also admitted her cousin,

Edith,

formerly lady's maid to Clarissa. curiously enough, meets at a friend's house these two women, and, at the instigation of the elder of the two, is robbed, carried off, and imprisoned in her grandfather's old house. While a captive, she discovers that her grandfather is not dead after all, but incarcerated in a neighbouring cell. She escapes and succeeds in getting him rescued. Lady Chatterton is evidently full of enthusiasm for our Ashantee heroes, for she makes a detachment of the 42nd take part in the rescue. The grandfather dies soon after, but before his death declares that he never was married to the lady who passed for his wife, and who has, in the meantime, escaped to America, leaving behind her a son, whose claim to the estates is subsequently taken up by an unprincipled lawyer. The author takes great pains to muddle the case so much that, according to her showing, the claimant is on the point of winning the estates, and gives us a sort of diluted imitation Tichborne trial. doubt her knowledge of the rules of evidence, but we have no doubt whatever of her ignorance of India or military matters. That part of the novel which deals with the imaginary rebellion, which, apparently, was extensive, and took place at least forty years ago, is feeble and absurd to a degree-too absurd, indeed, to merit dissection. whole book is a tissue of nonsense and unreality, especially that portion of it devoted to a description of London society; for of the different characters to whom we are introduced, those who are not vulgar are stupid, or, at best, heavy. As to the changes in the dispositions of people, the transformations in a pantomime are nothing to them. We are sorry to have to speak so unfavourably of 'Won at Last,' as we have been able to praise some of Lady Chatterton's former novels.

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We have not for several years read a more powerful story than 'Paul Harding.' It is very short and very sad, and, to make a singular comparison, reminds us of the "Travailleurs de la Mer' with all the "struggle against nature," which forms the background of that great work, omitted. The book is thoroughly Belgian in tone, but it attacks both the Belgian parties, and leaves a bad impression of the present condition of the country.

Mr. Yates's book is not a great novel like 'Paul Harding,' but it is, like all his works, a clever and readable production, "run up for sale," and not finished beyond the point at which finish ceases to "pay."

OUR LIBRARY TABLE. We have received an early copy of General Cunningham's Report on his archæological investigations in India. During the season 1873-74, it appears that he and his assistant, Mr. Beglar, between them explored the greater part of the Central Provinces. Some interesting Buddhist antiquities were discovered at Jabalpur, on the site of a Hindu temple of later date, and at Lalpet General Cunningham examined some colossal sculptures, the largest of which represents the goddess Durga, with ten heads, ten arms, and ten legs, and measures no less than 26 feet in length by 18 ft. in breadth, and 3 ft. in thickness at the base. Its weight he estimated at upwards of 80,

tons.

At Bharahut (the Bardaotis of Ptolemy, according to General Cunningham), about 120 miles to the south-west of Allahabad, there is to be seen the site of an old city, which sixty years ago was covered with dense jungle. In the midst

his royal favour and recognition. Frederick William IV. therefore felt, as he tells us, that he was doing honour to the immortal name of his great predecessor on the Prussian throne, by thus, on the 102nd Anniversary of Frederick's accession, creating a Friedens-Klasse as an extension of the distinguished order Pour le Mérite.

It is enacted by the king that the new nonmilitary class of the order shall be given only to men of acknowledged and singular merit in the domain of science and of art; and it is explained that the theological faculty must, as a matter of course, remain excluded from the order. The number of Knights of the Friedens-Klasse is limited to thirty born Germans; but it is decreed that, in order to elevate the reputation of the order, foreigners of very distinguished merit may be elected; the number of such foreign members in no case to exceed the number of German knights. It is added, that the order can only be conferred on the anniversaries of the accession, of the birth, or of the death of Frederick the Great.

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The order at present (1874) consists of twentynine German and twenty-seven foreign members. On looking through the list of members of the Friedens-Klasse, I find the following names of Germans who are well known in England :Ranke, Dove, Ehrenberg, Liebig, Raumer (historian of the Hohenstaufen), Lessing (painter), Bunsen (of Heidelberg), Kaulbach, Drake (the sculptor, who has just designed the "Victory" for the new Sieges-Saüle). I find also one Frenchman, Guizot; and I find Manzoni and Rossini among Italians. The English foreign members are Faraday, Sir J. Herschel, Sir D. Brewster, Owen, Rawlinson, Airy, Sabine, Lyell. It will be noticed that all these English names are men of science. No English author or painter, no Tennyson or MilB lais, no George Eliot or Leighton, no Thackeray or Froude, possesses or possessed the order. This is somewhat surprising, when it is considered that we are likely to be supreme in Germany rather in virtue of imagination than of scientific excellence; but this exclusion of English literature is now happily broken through by the election of the historian of Frederick the Great, the critic of Goethe, of Jean Paul, of Novalis, of Heine. It

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is no secret that the order was virtually conferred upon Carlyle by Prince Bismarck; and it is probable that the history of Frederick attracted the attention of the statesman to the author of 'Sartor Resartus.' I trust that the honour thus conferred by the great prince may have given pleasure to our Carlyle, and England may certainly feel proud at the recognition by the greatest German man of action of our greatest English thinker.

H. SCHÜTZ WILSON.

ETRUSCAN RESEARCHES.

Trieste, May, 1874.

In the Athenæum of May 2, Mr. Isaac Taylor complains of being charged with "stupendous carelessness"; and straightway justifies even a stronger term. And first of the word HAINS.

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We are actually told that it "involves reading the legend from left to right, instead of from right to left, according to the Etruscan practice." Taylor has evidently not read his own book. Let him turn to the illustration (p. 104), where he will find on one side of Hermes "SMAVT" (Turms written from right to left), and on the other side "HINTHIAL," written from left to right. Of course, the A is Greek; in fact, the whole orthography is corrupted Greek-a liberal use of which is found upon Etruscan remains. I object to Elina (Helen) being taken as a modulus for Elins (Hellenes); this may have been the case, but the Etruscans had no Walker's Dictionary; they wrote phonetically, not traditionally, and their ideas of a fixed standard must have been somewhat vague.

In the same letter Mr. Taylor shows that he has been too careless even to learn the Arabic alphabet. A few days' work would have saved us from such a melancholy display as "nessl," for nasl (J), a debased Gallicism, which, to the Arabic reader, tells its own tale. What should we think of an

Englishman who insisted on writing race "racce"? Mr. Wright will doubtless show Mr. Taylor that he has taken (p. 127) a pure Arabic word, Jinn, and confounded it with the Chinese Shîn. He adds nothing about the tone, and his "Jîn" would simply mean a man.

The linguistic failures are, perhaps, the most venial of this unfortunate book. What would Mr. Dennis say to the assertion that the Etruscans had neither temples nor palaces? Their vestiges are not left, simply because all above ground, except a few walls, &c., has been destroyed, whereas the underground tombs were plundered and left. Who will accept Stonehenge as a site for the "primæval method of interment"? What are we to understand by this dictum (p. 69): "No Aryan or Semitic people is found separated by any great interval from other nations of kindred race"? The Arabs colonized, in pre-historic times, Samarkand and south-eastern Africa, to mention no other isolated sites. Are the Jews Semites, and what race has more widely dispersed itself? I might prolong this list for many a page. I will spare you the notice of similar futilities.

Mr. Taylor's volume has for chief enemy himself; and he only injures it by justifying instead of by retracting his host of errors. The rude Spanish proverb says, "Tell a falsehood and find a fact." Mr. Taylor errs from utter carelessness, and retrieves the error by asserting that he is right. Yet I hold the Mongoloid theory to be the book's one (ethnological) virtue linked with a thousand (anthropological and linguistic) crimes; and I believe that it justifies calm study on the spot.

Perhaps some of your readers will inform me whether the Etruscan camel is, or is not, invariably two-humped; in fact, the Bactrian, as opposed to the Indian and Arabian animal?

RICHARD F. BURTON, F.R.G.S.

32, St. George's Square, S. W., May, 1874. THE Rev. Isaac Taylor having got himself into a free fight, wants to lug me in with him. He is kind enough to offer to save me the inevitable trouble and disappointment of investigating whether Etruscan shows any Georgian similarities. I should be about as ready to take Mr. Taylor as a guide for Georgian as for Turkish, but I have made my own trial years ago, and with something more than one or two superficial resemblances, or the no results he obtained.

At the same time, I cannot make it my busiEtrurian. It is one beset with difficulties, for if ness to follow this subject up: I am not an I am correct in my basis, it is quite possible that Vasco-Kolarian, or Ugrian, or Accad affinities may also be found. The starting-point taken by me was the Southern Caucasus, where the position of the Georgian languages (Karthueli, Swan, Lazic, Mingrelian) naturally suggests an ancient extension further into the peninsula of Asia

Minor.

On examining the pre-Hellenic names of rivers and towns, I found not only a conformity with those of Europe to the westward, and India to the eastward, but that they did not belong to the socalled Iberian system of William Von Humboldt, and did in some cases conform to Georgian. Maander, &c. (=Mdinare, river), the Lake Samakhonitis in Palestine (=3 streams), and the Hesudrus of India (=100 streams, and to the Aryan form Zadudrus), were to my mind suggestive of some old type of Georgian. The duplicate names of King Saul's sons are to the same effect [see my papers in the Athenæum and Palestine Exploration Journal].

The Accad or Sumerian grammar exhibits affinities with the Georgian languages, but they are not uniform, and some are distant.

The remains of the Asia Minor languages, except Lycian (in which I find Lesghian elements), support the idea of connexion. In Phrygian, words for goat, wolf, sheep, hedgehog, water, garden, king, gold, reed, fat; in Cappadocian, for hole; in Lydian, for earth, God, king, queen, axe, spear, dogherd; in Carian, for horse, sheep, red,

In Etruscan resemblances may be traced in words for son, boy, goat, eagle, hawk, helmet, black, brown, me, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. There are Etruscan inscriptions that conform to Phrygian.

Seeing that Prof. Max Müller has so strongly heralded the Aryan solution of Etruscan by Prof. Corssen, I am afraid with my limited knowledge to form a decided opinion. The whole of the facts, however, suggest the desirability of bringing the Georgian languages into use as elements of comparison for Etruscan.

The dice numerals show Accad conformities as well as Georgian.

It may be noted that in the range of languages there are some affinities to Kurali, a language of the Caucasus.

The whole of the languages appear to me justly to belong to the Hamitic scheme in Genesis, and with regard to Accad and Etruscan, not only should the preceding languages of the Agaw, Vasco-Kolarian, and Ugrian (including East Nepaul), be employed, but all those more nearly related on this scheme to the Accad, and in which should be included the Georgian languages, the remains of those of Asia Minor, of the Etruscan, and, further, the languages of the monument and city building races in Indo-China, in Peru, in Central America, and in Mexico. The resemblance of the Aymara and of the Maya to Accad is very great, and as remarkable as that to Ugrian and to Vasco-Kolarian, pointed out by Messrs. Oppert, Sayce, and Lenormant. In fact, archaology comes to the support of philology.

With regard to the Georgian, I must make this confession of humility to Mr. Taylor, that I do not yet know what its exact place is.

HYDE CLARKE.

THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE SIR WILLIAM TITE.

THE first six days of this fine sale of books and manuscripts, at the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, were completed on Saturday. Many very rare and early printed books were included in this first part. We extract the following from the Catalogue, with the prices realized: Apocalypsis Sancti Joannis, a fine block-book of bericus Vespucius Laurentio Petri di Medicis the fifteenth century, 2851.-Mundus Novus, Alsalutem plurimam dicit, a rare edition of the Latin version of Vespucius's celebrated letter, 421. 10s.-Arfeville Nicolay, Navigation du Roy d'Escosse Jaques V.autour de son Royaume, 431. 10s. --An extensive collection of original Autograph Letters, by distinguished persons in all classes of life, in thirteen vols., 3251. Myles Coverdale's Bible, being the first edition of the Bible printed in English, and so excessively rare that no complete copy is known, 150l.-Cranmer's version of the Bible, printed by R. Grafton, July, 1540, 637.— Tyndale's Bible, very imperfect, 40%.-The Golden Legende, conteynynge the Lyves and Historyes taken out of the Byble, and Legendes of the Saintes, printed by Julian Notary, 1503: this interesting work is the earliest printed specimen of an English translation of the Bible, or rather portions of it, as it embraces merely the Historical Books and Gospels; it is a curious fact that here the editor and translator, William Caxton, has used the word "breches" in the rendering of Genesis iii. 7, showing that the Genevan version is not the original of this quaint expression, 961.→ Blake (W.), Songs of Innocence and Experience, 611.-Boke of Goode Maners (by Jaques Le Grant), printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 421.-A series of Autograph Letters, chiefly from illustrious Frenchmen, addressed to Madame Mère, with an unpublished poem by Frederick the Great, 891.-King Edward the Sixth's Prayer Book, 361.-Brant (S.), Shyp of Folys of the Worlde, translated by A. Barclay,printed by Pynson, 1509,487.10s.-Caxton(W.),

Chronicles of Englond, printed by Machlinia, circa 1480, imperfect, only one perfect copy being known, viz., that at Althorp, 901.-Caxton, Higden's Polychronicon, first edition, 1482, 150l.-Caxton, Here begyneth the Booke of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye, 190.-Caxton, Here begynneth the Booke callyd the Myrrour of the Worlde, formerly in the possession of Mr. Hurt, at whose sale it sold for 971., 4551.-Caxton, Lydgate's (J.) Lyf of our Lady, imperfect, 541.-Chester (Robert), Loves Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, 687.-Coleridge, Poetical Effusions, in the poet's autograph, 371. 10s. -A collection of George Cruikshank's Etchings, 641.-Daniel (G.), Merrie England in the Olden Time, profusely illustrated with prints and drawings: this copy, one of the gems of Mr. Daniel's collection, at whose sale it sold for 110., was now purchased by Mr. Sabin for 1121.-Diues and Pauper, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1496: this copy, sold for 271. 6s. in Sir Mark Syke's sale, and in 1854 for 36%, now fetched 961.-Evangelia IV., Latine, manuscript on vellum of the tenth century, 891.-Froissart's Chronicles, by Myddylton and Pynson, 1525, 75l.-Heures à Lusage de Rome (1488-1508), printed on vellum, 617. 10s.Another Book of Hours, beautifully printed on vellum, in Gothic letter, at Paris, 1503, 821.Hora Beatæ Mariæ Virginis aliaque officia, manuscript on vellum, of the fifteenth century, 561. 10s.Another manuscript on vellum, Hours of the Virgin, of fine Flemish art, 851.-Horæ in Laudem Beatissimæ Virginis, the second edition of the Aldine Horæ, 52l. 10s.-Horse in Laudem Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ, ornamented with wood en

gravings by G. Tory de Bourges, printed at Paris,

1531, 621. 10s.

"THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.'

Blackheath, May 25, 1874. I FIND I am expected to answer Mr. Furnivall's letter in your issue of the 23rd inst. I hardly know why. Mr. Furnivall's own statements, when stript of their "rich verbal colouring," show distinctly (1) that Mr. Grant-White added nothing whatever to the theory originally proposed by Mr. Collier; (2) that Mr. Grant-White omitted a main part of Mr. Collier's view, namely, that the play was not produced till 1600-1. In fact, I am not aware that Mr. Collier has received any support, however small, on this important point, till the reading of my paper. Add to this, that Mr. Dyce expressly states that Mr. Collier's theory is based on slight and insufficient grounds, or words to that effect (I quote from memory; the book is not accessible to me here); and every statement made by me on these points is fully justified.

I shall not notice Mr. Furnivall's statements as to the relative amounts of research displayed in his work and mine. His comparing Mr. Collier's work to Goldsmith's History, and that "very able American editor's" to Froude's or Macaulay's, will be sufficient to show his accuracy in this subject; but when he accuses me of making an untrue statement, in saying that he produced his exact lines of demarcation as original, I must say that the notice in the Athenæum certainly, taken per se, would fairly lead to that conclusion; that no other report of what took place at the meeting has been furnished to me, though I have several times applied for one; and that in the only reports of discussions that have reached me, the variety of versions sent me at different times from the Society, is so remarkable, that I even yet feel doubtful as to what really did take place.

The error on my part in supposing Mr. Furnivall to have meant to claim originality, arises partly from his hasty way of writing, partly from the notice in the Athenæum having to be so short, that after the statement in full of Mr. Furnivall's views, there was no space for the mention of Mr. Collier's or Mr. Grant-White's.

In conclusion, I have only to say that I have a vast amount of work before me to do in this and other scientific matters, much more than I shall probably have life to do it in; that Mr. Furnivall is welcome henceforth to say whatever he pleases, but that I will not be led into answering anything

further of his, as I have been in this instance publicly, and in ninety-eight others privately, during the last five months.

I extremely regret the bitterness of tone imported into a matter of so little importance by Mr. Furnivall, in answer to a letter which I intended to be inoffensive to him, and nothing more than just | to Mr. Collier. If there be anything unpleasant in the manner or matter of my previous letter that can be in any way objected to, I withdraw it unaskt. I wish for no controversy, nor for notoriety, nor for anything but quiet, so that I may work as far as in me lies. I entreat of Mr. Furnivall to "direct" the New Shakspere Society in that tranquil spirit in which alone the works of our great author can be duly studied; in so doing he will be earnestly supported by the Committee and the general body of Shakspeare students, and far higher ends will be attained than an ephemeral victory in a petty squabble over a few expressions hastily written and as hastily misinterpreted. F. G. FLEAY.

**We cannot insert any more letters on this subject.

ROHLFS' 'MOROCCO.'

Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, May 25, 1874. As your reviewer, "for the sake of the distinguished traveller whose name appears on the titlepage," calls for "an explanation of the circumstances under which the work now introduced to the world has not only been 'composed' but also translated and edited," you cannot do less than afford us the

opportunity of making this explanation in as few

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First, your reviewer objects to the publishers advertising it as a new work by the celebrated traveller Gerhard Rohlfs," his grievance being the word new. In reply to this we have simply to say that, notwithstanding his objection, it is a fact. The German edition, of which our book is a considerably condensed but otherwise almost literal translation, bears the date Bremen, 1873, and immediately on its publication, in the spring of last year, Dr. Rohlfs applied to us, through his equally distinguished countryman and kinsman, Dr. Schweinfurth, to publish an English translation of it, which we agreed to do. It is a matter of perfect indifference to us, and probably to most English readers, that some outline of his story had appeared some years ago, in German, in Petermann's Mittheilungen; indeed, we confess that at the time we were as ignorant of this fact as your reviewer evidently is of the fact that the book, from which our translation was made, was posed," and first appeared, under Dr. Rohlfs' own hand, in Bremen, last year. Our translation was published at the earliest possible moment that our publishing arrangements permitted, and, therefore, with all deference to your reviewer, we most distinctly assert that our work can very properly be called new."

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Secondly, as regards editing and translating, it never once occurred to us that the genuineness of the book could be questioned, and, therefore, it was not deemed necessary to say more about it than was said, clearly enough one would have thought, by Mr. Reade, in his Introduction; but it is perhaps due to that gentleman to explain that when the book was first sent to us he undertook to write an Introduction, to edit the work, and to make the translation; accordingly, he read it through, made certain excisions, wrote the Introduction, and commenced the translation, when other duties called him from the country during last summer, and eventually he left for the Gold Coast without completing his task. The translation had, therefore, to be completed by another hand; and, as Mr. Reade lost the opportunity of reading some of the proof-sheets, we did not hold him editorially responsible for the whole, as he other wise would have been; and hence we thought proper to omit the words "edited by" on the title-page, although we do not think Mr. Reade would have seen any impropriety in our inserting them. If our book is not new, in the sense of its appearing so many months after the German

original, Mr. Reade will, we are sure, take some blame for the delay upon himself; in any othe sense, we think no one but your reviewer could have raised the question.

Thirdly, your reviewer says that in our work there is "no allusion made to Dr. Petermann's Journal, 1863." He cannot have read the volume very carefully, or he would not have made the assertion. Dr. Rohlfs does allude to it, though certainly not in the sense of the present narrative, being simply a "paraphrastical" reproduction a that article. It is quite true that the book cortains, amongst other things, the narrative of the Journey, 1861-1862; nor has there been the slightest thought of concealing that fact; indeed, the volume commences with these words, "On the 7th of April, 1861, I left Oran," &c. It is one thing to publish a condensed narrative, occupying a few pages of a German journal, addressed exclusively to learned geographers and savants, and which, we venture to believe, beyond this select circle, not one Englishman (or, probably, German) in a thousand has ever seen or heard of, the publication in which can scarcely be called "a communication to the world"; it is quite another thing to write s book, which embraces not merely the bald narra tive of a single journey, but also what we venture to think a readable and interesting account of the climate, soil, people, religion, diseases, politics, &c., of a country with which it is fair to assume many readers, both in this country and in Germany, would be glad to become acquainted.

Fourthly, it is, we hope, excusable that English publishers should have been ignorant of the exist

ence of an isolated article in Petermann's Mitthe

lungen, which appeared two years or more ago; but it seems to us less excusable that your reviewer should have been so little acquainted with current German literature as to be ignorant of the fact that so distinguished a traveller should have published this work only last year; because it appears that if he had known this fact, the readers of the Athenæum would not have been deprived of the advantage of having their attention directed "to many portions of its contents," which even he owns to be" both valuable and interesting," but to which he did not draw their attention, through what we think we have shown to be a somewhat unreasonable "questioning in his own mind as to the genuineness of the work"!

Fifthly, as regards the spelling and interpretation of certain Arabic words, we will not, for the reasons given, hold Mr. Reade responsible. Our translator has no knowledge of that language, and it is lamentable to add that we ourselves are perfectly ignorant of it; we therefore fall back upon Dr. Rohlfs, who, it appears, is not so well up in Arabic as, according to your reviewer, he ought to be. We find, on comparison of the German and English text, that our printer has, unfortunately, inserted two commas where there ought to be none, otherwise the terms used are identical.

Sixthly, a very small matter. We plead ignorance, and probably our translator will, of the terms used in the German Pharmacopoeia; but we really did know that China and Peruvian Bark are identical, the former term being used, we fancy, exclusively in this country in homoeopathic phar macy. That our translator knew it will be seen by his using both words indiscriminately; and on page 313 he puts it thus-China (Peruvian Bark).

Seventhly, the Route Map was laid down for our printer by Dr. Rohlfs himself. The discrepancy in the spelling of names of places in the map and the text is, we own, a very unfortunate blunder, which was discovered too late to remedy in the THE PUBLISHERS. present edition.

** Messrs. Low & Co.'s remarks are a virtual admission of the correctness of what we stated in our review of Dr. Rohlfs' work. It is not "a new work," "recently composed" by that traveller, and "edited by Mr. Winwood Reade," but a " considerably condensed translation" of a German work, published at Bremen in the beginning of last year, to which Mr. Reade has done little more than contribute an "Introduction." The personal matter of the work is Dr. Rohlfs' journey in 1861 and