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aims at will doubtless be obtained. The list of Fuller's works which the author gives at the end of the second volume is neither complete nor accurate, and the numerous clerical errors which occur in it deprive it of any value which it otherwise might have had. The absence of an index, too, considerably detracts from the usefulness of these volumes. Surely Mr. Morris Fuller cannot have forgotten what his ancestor said on this subject. "An index," says Fuller, at the end of his Pisgah Sight of Palestine, "is the bag and baggage of a book, of more use then honour, even such who seemingly slight it, secretly using it, if not for need for speed of what they desire to finde." We should not omit to state that an excellent copy of the engraving of Fuller by Loggan, which forms the frontispiece to the first folio edition of the Worthies, will be found in the first volume of Mr. Morris Fuller's book.

The Algonquin Legends of New England; or, Myths and Folklore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes. By Charles G. Leland. (Sampson Low & Co.)

To the rapidly accumulating stores of folk-lore Mr. Leland makes a singularly interesting contribution. As the result of inquiries made with no very sanguine expectation of success, he has come upon a "stupendous mythology, derived from a land of storms and fire more terrible and wonderful than Iceland; nay, so terrible, that Icelanders themselves were appalled by it." Very curiously, the mythology now first made accessible to American readers is so like the Edda that "there is hardly a song in the Norse collection which does not contain an incident found in the Indian poem-legends." It is impossible for us to do much more than introduce to lovers of folk-lore a volume of wholly exceptional interest and value. We may, however, draw attention to one or two special features. A very striking set of adventures are assigned to Glooskap, as the divinity is named. Especially worthy of study is the Passamaquoddy legend of the dreadful deeds of the Evil Pitcher, who was both man and woman, followed by the awful battle of the giants. In explanation of the wonderful tales concerning the Glooskap it must be said there is in Red Indian mythology no god, only more or less powerful magicians, depending upon magic pipes and belts and other fetiches. Of a different order are the "Merry Tales of Lox," who is the demon. We have marked scores of these stories for mention, but the very extent of the list is a reason for not commencing to deal with it. We will only draw attention, accordingly, to the Chenoo legends, which are terribly grim and powerful; to the stories of women who love lake serpents; and the curious Undine-like legend of the partridge. To make acquaintance with Team, the Moose, the great Culloo himself, most terrible of created beings, Malsum the Wolf, Kusk the Crane, Koskomines the Blue Jay, &c., we must leave to the readers. We do so the more confidently as it is impossible for any whom this class of literature attracts to dispense with Mr. Leland's valuable and deeply interesting volume.

A Short History of the Episcopal Church in the United States. By the Rev. W. Benbam, B.D., F.S.A. (Griffith & Farran.)

THIS little volume makes its appearance very opportunely. The celebration at Aberdeen, in the autumn of the present year, of the centenary of Bishop Seabury's consecration, and the further celebration by a service at St. Paul's Cathedral on November 14 (the actual day of the consecration a century before), have once more drawn public attention to the Episcopal Church in America. Mr. Benham tells very pleasantly the story of the early days of the Church's history on the other side of the

Atlantic; the desire for Episcopacy; the political diffi. culties which for a long time impeded the realization of that desire; the impossibility of obtaining, at the moment, the episcopal succession from the hands of the English bishops; the subsequent recourse to Scotland; and, at length, the consecration of Bishop Samuel Seabury at Aberdeen, in "an upper chamber," by Bishops Kilgour, Petrie, and Skinner. He briefly sketches the rapid progress of the Episcopal Church in America, now possess ing no less than sixty-five bishops, of whom Archbishop Trench (no mean judge) said, they seem to me about the ablest body of men I have ever met." Mr. Benkam has produced a readable little book, in which the salient points of the story are placed attractively before the reader.

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INDEX.

SIXTH SERIES.-VOL. X.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS,
FOLK-LORE, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPEARIANA, and SONGS AND BALLADS.]

A, as a war cry, 59, 135, 314

A. on Lalor family, 108

A. (C. F.) on commonplace book, 115

A. (E. G.) on Sir Cloudesley Shovel, 250, 433

A. (E. J. S.) on St. Matthew's, Friday Street, 477

A. (F. S.) Scot. on the Glamis mystery, 326
Heraldic note, 326

A. (G.) on French household troops, 338
Weare (William), 226

A. (H. S.) on "Bibliomanie en 1883," 182

A. (J. G.) on Garibaldi Shakspeare, 43

A. (J. H. L.) on Gordon and Bolton families, 327

A. (M.) on Stapley family, 329

A. (M.) Oxon. on William Bradbridge, 135

Davis (John), clockmaker, 525

Epitaph at Bedford, 286

Judicial costume, 15

Spon (Jacob), his "Travels," 388

Abrahams (I.) on Lothair or Lorraine, 166

Proverb, Talmudic, 266

Academic heraldry, 469

Academy of Literature proposed under James I., 267

Acemannesceaster, old name for Bath, 244

Adam, his first wife, 40

Addy (S. O.) on colour in surnames, 289
Polydactylism, 308

Agnus Dei used as a crest, 49

Aid, two-sbilling, 305

Ailhous surname, 47

Airy (O.) on Samuel Pepys, 89

Albany (Duke of), his death, 52

Albert, Prince Consort, his surname, 157, 523

Alcohol, its invention, 89, 159, 193
Aldermaston Church, armorial glass in, 232
Aldersley family, 189, 255

Alektor on bas-reliefs at Norwood, 309

Cook (Capt.), his first voyage, 449
Petron (Stefano Egidio), 495

Allan (R.) on Robert Burns, 49

Allibone's" Dictionary," entry in, 435

Allot (Robert), his "England's Parnassus," 349, 454
Almanacs in the British Museum Library, 89, 176
Alpha on Lord Beaconsfield, 353

Bookworm, 386

Busby (R.), portraits of, 428
Coolie superstitions, 466
Crossing-sweeper, gentleman, 77

Dying speeches, 257

Knighthood, degradation from, 139
"Literary Note Book," 228
Matriarch, 514

Poets, their statues, 416

Ransoms, 248

Ring posies, 12

Shakspeariana, 258

Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), 151

Smith (Alexander), 116

Trees, historical, 500

America, register of plantations in, 516

Americus on the seals of the regicides, 128

Amyot (Thomas), his death, 469

Anderson (P. J.) on a Birmingham magazine, 496
Literary fame, 13

"Mended or ended," 296

Prester John, his arms, 14

Wales (Princess of), 314

André (Major John), biographical errors about, 25
Andrews (W.) on a quaint epitaph, 44

Angeli, subject of picture by, 308

Anglesey (Marquis of), epitaph on his leg, 307, 371,

455

Anglo-Saxon totemism, 73, 110

Anne (Queen), grants by, 309

Annendale (Alfred), pseudonym, 326, 452
Anodyne necklace, 377

Anon. on foreign brasses, 26.

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Polylogy, 119

Rape of the Kiss, 267

Toyes of an Idle Head, 187, 256

Tres Oratiunculæ, 470

Whole Duty of Man, 395

Anpiel on birds' eggs, 154

Anslye (Bryan), his tomb in Lee churchyard, 29
Antiquary on Carey family, 393

Appelbee (R.) on the "Englishman's Welcome," 108

Apperson (G. L.) on Caterwaul, 521

Hugger-mugger, 51
Lodam, a game, 524
Pegging away," 438
Stickleback, 138

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Appleby on 'Codach," 219

Arbutus, its pronunciation, 245

Aristophanes and communism, 65

Aristotle, and atheism, 68, 294; editions of his
"Poetics," 228, 335

Armiger on Tayleur family, 209

Armour, funeral, in churches, 314, 504

Arms, of childless French kings, 46, 137; Scottish, at

Seville, 165; of the Duchy of Lancaster, 208;
differencing, 349, 523

Arms wanted, 408, 476, 523

Arnold (F. H.) on houses with secret chambers, 158
Shakspeariana, 258

Thames bibliography, 392

Arnott (S.) on "Catalogue of Five Hundred Authors,"
389

Arrow, Ordnance mark. See Broad-arrow.

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B. (G. F. R.) on Admiral Mathews, 191
Pantograph or pentagraph, 155
Phaeton Carriage, 477
Polo, its introduction, 501
Pounds, parochial, 133
Representatives, paid, 503
"Rob Foy," quotation in, 393
Roche (Regina Maria), 119
Royal oak, a game, 195
Ruskin (John), 503
Scowles, its meaning, 418
Shovel (Sr Cloudesley), 151
Skeffington (Hon. H. K.), 78
Smith (Admiral Sir W. S.), 174
Smith (Alexander), 116

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Sphynx, The," 475

Spon (Jacob), 503

Ward (William), 193
Wiff, lace, 156

Wilson (Dr. John), 456

Wright (Benjamin), 473

B. (H.), cartoon by, 109, 197, 377
B. (H. A.) on Fea family, 35

B. (H. J.) on grants by Queen Anne, 309
B. (H. L. J.) on Bird family, 189
B. (H. P.) on drowned fiddlers, 372
B. (J.) on Viscount Montague, 33

B. (J. McC.) on coyote or cayote, 428
Montacute (Lord), 374

B. (J. R.) on "filius naturalis." 234
Lichfield (Bishops of), 216

B. (M. M.) on Sir John Bolles, 227
B. (M. W.) on an Italian proverb, 495
B. (R.) on a Holderness game, 378
Porter family, 209

B. (T.) on Rev. Josiah Shute, 250

B. (W. C.) on books burnt in London, 525
Christmas, 490, 491, 482

Churches called after Christian names, 372

Inquisition, 470

Signalling, marine, 413

Turnspit dogs, 271

B. (W. C. M.) on "Petits-Maîtres," 316

B. (W. G.) on cannibalism, 409

B. (W. J.) on Trajan's Column, 516

Babington (Catherine), her family, 57, 111, 177
Babmaes Mews, Piccadilly, 469, 525

Bacon (Francis), Baron Verulam, his stepmother, 58;
his title, 389, 502; at Highgate, 515

Bacon (Roger), his study, 229, 332
Baildon (W. P.) on Candy: Berg, 429

Bailes, its meaning, 467

Bailey (J. E.) on Sir Robert Booth, 130, 275
Singleton (Hugh), 178

Wallis (Dr. John) and Crossley, 346

Baillie (E. J.) on works on gardening, 467

Baillie (J.) on Janissary, 473

Balaam, a surname, 209

Baldwin (Sir Timothy), his biography, 267

Ball (H. H.) on Langdon family, 269

Ball (J.) on Sydenham family, 517

Balloon, its derivation, 16

Balmerino (Lord), his execution, 381, 422, 477

Banister (Richard), his "Diseases of the Eyes," 297
Bankrupt, first use of the word, 440

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Behn (Aphra), her birth and parentage, 244

Bird (T.) on Bird family, 506

Bell (C. L.) on the arms of Pembroke College, 148, 416 Birds' eggs, works on, 69, 154, 218, 318

Reference wanted, 408

Bellew family, 409

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Betterton (Thomas), his portrait by Pope, 209
Bewick (Thomas), bibliography, 305, 431
Bewickian on Bewick bibliography, 305
Bible, three texts in, 269; in shorthand, 516
Biblical misprint, 268, 436
Bibliographical blunder, 326
Bibliography:-

Allot (R.), "England's Parnassus," 349, 454
Bewick (1homas), 305, 431

Books, published on London Bridge, 163, 317;
burnt in London, 327. 396, 525; rare, in the
Syston Park Library, 406

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Birmingham magazine, the "Monthly Intelligencer,"
496

Bishop (E. M.) on Admiral Mathews, 191

Bishops, their mitres, 48, 137, 218; with beards, 67;
title of colonial, 409, 520

Black (W. G.) on magic: folk-medicine, 366
blacker-Morgan (G.) on Morgan families, 323
Welsh inscription, 308

Servants, memorials to, 46

Blakiston family, 436

Blakiston (H. E. D.) on Blakiston family, 436

Blanc Sanglier on arms of the Duchy of Lancaster, 208
Blanchard (E. L.) on willow pattern, 359

Bland (Miles), D.D., his biography, 199

Blandford (G. F.) on Rebellions of 1715 and 1745, 423
Blaydes (F. A.) on Cardinal of St. Paul's, 517
Chantries, 451

St. Mary the Virgin, 377

Fleane, place name, its etymology, 249, 413
Blenkinsopp (E. L.) on Christian names, 58, 416
Peasant costumes in England, 56
Rastaquoère, its meaning, 9

St. Winefred, 375

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