GENERAL VALLANCEY (3rd S. vi. 482.)-EIRIONNACH'S note of this renowned archaist brings back on my conscience a prank which I played him nearly threescore and ten years ago. I had been more amused than edified I fear by a discussion on the St. John's Eve fires, which are memorially set a-light throughout Ireland; wherein he had talked as familiarly of Baal and Belus, and Beal and Beltane, and Baltinglas in the county of Wicklow, and the hundred and fifty other Irish places, whose name begin with Bal

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As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs." Happening a day or two afterward to overtake the learned general, he resumed his antiquarian prolusions, and spoke of Zorcaster and the fireworshippers. "General," said I, "did it never occur to you that Zoroaster was an Irishman born? "God bless me no!" he exclaimed. "Because," I added, "Z being, as you know on Shakspeare's authority, an unnecessary' letter, his family name must have been O'Roaster."

Off I turned into a lucky cross street, and kept out of the etymologist's way for some days. A friend lectured me sharply on my impertinence, assuring me that, but for my juvenility, he would have had me into the fifteen acres.

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Heraldry, Historical and Popular. By Charles Boutell, M.A. With 975 Illustrations. Third Edition revised and enlarged. (Bentley.)

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That the favourable opinion of Mr. Boutell's endeavour to furnish Heraldic Students with a practical and useful guide, was one to which the work was fairly entitled was at once made manifest by the fact that a second edition of it was called for in less than two months. That second edition has been for some time out of print; and We have now to direct the attention of our readers to a third edition entirely revised, and greatly enlarged. Thus, the chapters entitled Marshalling " and "Cadency" now appear enlarged, and re-arranged, severally bearing the titles of "Marshalling and Inheritance," and "Cadency and Differencing." A chapter has been devoted exclusively to "Royal Cadency." The chapter on the "Royal Heraldry of England" has been in part rewritten, and that on 66 Foreign Heraldry" has been considerably extended. Lists of Plates and Illustrations and a very copious Index, give completeness to a work which is clearly destined to supplant the excellent Introduction, which the best heralds have hitherto regarded as the most complete we mean Porny's well known Elements-and to become for the future the recognised Text-Book for Students of this interesting branch of historical learning.

Hymns from the German; translated by Frances E. Cox.
Second Edition, revised and enlarged. (Rivingtons.)
It is hardly necessary to do more than announce the
second edition of a work, so long before the public, and

the first attempt to make the German Hymns familiar to English readers. The German and English are printed not afraid to challenge criticism on her power of exact on opposite pages, as though our practised authoress were translation. Yet some of them flow so smoothly, that they might easily pass for originals. We would instance especially "O let him whose sorrow," which has found its way into more than one English Hymnal.

The Moralist and Politician; or many Things in few Words. By Sir George Ramsay, Bart. (Walton & Maberly.)

A book which reminds us, in its style, of some parts of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, without affecting to emulate its power. Without being profound, it is thoughtful and sensible; and forms a little collection of aphorisms on morals and politics, with which a solitary reader might well while away an evening over a Christmas fire.

Familiar Words: an Index Verborum, or Quotation Handbook, with parallel Passages, of Phrases which have become imbedded in our English Tongue. By J. Hain. Friswell. (Sampson Low.)

This is not only the most extensive Dictionary of Quotations which we have yet met with, but it has, moreover, this additional merit, that in all cases an exact reference is given to every chapter, act, scene, book, and in the notes; and the nearly seven thousand quotations, number of the line. Parallel passages are moreover added

to be found in the volume, have been made readily available by an index so copious, that in some cases the same quotation has been indexed four or five times under its most remembered phrases. Need we add one word more in commendation of this useful little volume, which must have cost Mr. Friswell a vast amount of time and labour?

The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their Use in Conjuring, Fortune-telling, and Card-Sharping. Edited by the late Rev. E. S. Taylor, B.A., and others. (Hotten.)

Such of our readers as remember the zeal and perseverance with which the late Rev. E. S. Taylor pursued in these columns his investigations into the History of Playing Cards, will feel assured that the work in which he should give to the world the result of those researches would be one of considerable interest. Such is the work before us. Long delayed by the illness and subsequent death of that lamented gentleman, and now completed by other hands, it forms a volume in which will be found concentrated the labours of English and Foreign Antiquaries; and if not a substitute for, certainly a necessary companion to the works of Singer and Chatto upon the same subject. Many of the illustrations of the present volume are extremely curious. We shall be glad to see the curious "Chapters on Card Conjuring, Fortune-telling, and Card-Sharping," enlarged into a separate little volume. The subjects would be much better kept distinct. One does not expect to find "Boxiana" appended to Bell On the Hand.

Furioso, or Passages from the Life of Ludwig van Beethoven. From the German. (Deighton & Bell.)

This is a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of the great musician, furnishing details of his boyhood, which was very superficially treated by Spindler. The book is rich too in pictures of the olden time, gives us pleasant glimpses of bygone manners, and furnishes an interesting account of Beethoven's introduction to the

Emperor Joseph II. and Haydn. It is a book which must interest all who admire the genius of Ludwig van Beethoven.

SERIALS AND PERIODICALS.-We have to bid welcome to a new magazine, The Englishman's, published by Messrs. Rivingtons, whose name is a guarantee that, though the bulk of the magazine will be devoted to matters purely secular, the assertion of the truth, as it is held by the Church of England, will never be lost sight of. The Autographic Mirror, of which we have already spoken with high commendation, goes on with undiminished spirit-the twenty-third Part, which is just issued, being as varied and interesting as any of its predecessors. The Orator furnishes us, at very small price, with the most celebrated speeches in the English tongue; and deserves the attention of all admirers of English oratory. The Graves and Epitaphs of our Fallen Heroes in the Crimea and Scutari, by Capt. the Hon. J. Colborne and F. Brine, is a work of more melancholy and touching interest, with its lithographic views and literal copies of inscriptions. The Astronomical Register refers with pride to the increased success with which it enters on the third year of its useful existence.

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The volume of "Marston's Works" was published in 1633; Shakspeare died in 1616.

F. M. S. The "Delicate Investigation" was into the conduct of the Princess of Wales. See our 1st S. v. 201, 351.

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CONTENTS.-No 159.

NOTES:-Montfaucon and Enguerrand de Marigny, 29Purcell Papers, No. III., 30-A Lincolnshire Dialogue, 31Translations of Homer, 32-Longevity of Clergymen Baptism for the Dead -Spenser and the Daisy-Dr. Johnson and Macaulay-The Victoria Cross, 32. QUERIES:-Baronetess- The Bell Inn and Broadhurst -Caricature: Syr Mitchil Bruce-Chalmers of Cults: Nova Scotian Baronetcy-Coinage Dwight Family Fraser Epitaphs — The Inventor of Gunpowder-Harrison Family-Leigh Hunt's Description of a Classical Washerwoman-Jack-Stones - Modern Latin Pronunciation Leland's "Itinerary," and St. Sarik- "Limehouse "Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat "-Milton and Charles II.-Early MSS. on English Law and Government-General Paoli's Residence in London-St. Donat's CastleSociety of Industry-Whitbread Family in Sussex, 33. QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:- Reredos - Relick Sunday, &c. "The Church of England and Ireland"-Title of Ma

carded. It was evidently put into circulation for the sake of drawing an ingenious and moral parallel between the supposed cruelty of the unfortunate Marigny and his melancholy fate: it was set forth as an act of retributive justice, a dignus vindice nodus, just as Cardinal la Balue's iron cages, and the more expeditious instrument of Doctor Guillotin. Pierre Rémy is another person to whom the édification of Montfaucon has been ascribed, though with as little probability. In point of fact, the real originator of the celebrated gibbet is not known, and the name of Pierre de Brosse, or la Brosse, adduced by some, must be considered, in the present state of historical investigation, as simply hypothetical.

Under the sweeping measures of Baron Haussman all the remains of old Paris are quickly dis

The Wishes," 36.

REPLIES:-"The Reformed Monastery." 37-James I. and
Marston, 38-Pretended Son of Louis XVI., 39- Tourna-
ments, 16.-Quentin Matsys - General Hugh Mercer —
The Mickleton Hooter-Hollands: Cheers-The Young
Pretender-Old Inns of Southwark-Mum-Johnsoniana:
Solution of Continuity-English Tunes "annexed" by the
Yankees Nolo Episcopari Composition at Haber-
dasher's Hall-Mummy-Byron's "Don Juan" - Angus
M'Diarmid Scarlett Family-English Soldiers at the
Battle of Leipzig-Disclaiming - Sarsen Stones-A Poem
having only one Vowel-John Ralston-"Take my Cap"
-Portrait of Oliver, &c., 40.
Notes on Books, &c.

Notes.

MONTFAUCON AND ENGUERRAND DE

romans.

MARIGNY.

In his preface to the romance of Berthe aux grands pieds, M. Paulin Paris says: "Je ne crains pas de le dire, pour bien connaitre l'histoire du moyen âge il faut l'avoir étudiée dans les Without, perhaps, endorsing absolutely this opinion, we have no hesitation to say that many a passage in the old metrical romances of the middle ages can be adduced as illustrating important historical facts, clearing up difficulties of either chronology or archæology, and even refuting errors which have been handed down from time immemorial by writers more anxious for ad captandum paragraphs than for truth. An instance of this suggested itself to me a short time ago as I was perusing the well known work of Adenès, composed in 1270 or 1274. Speaking of a certain Tybert, who had been condemned to capital punishment, the author goes on to say :— "Quant la vielle fu arse, Tybert font ateler, Tout parmi la grant rue le firent trainer,

à Montfaucon le firent sus au vent encrouer." Now, the general opinion has long been current that Enguerrand de Marigny ordered the construction of the hanging establishment at Montfaucon ; but, if we admit 1260 as the date of his birth, we see at once that the popular story must be dis

Place Maubert, the Collegium Bajocassense, and the numerous glories of the Quartier Latin have departed, whilst the few reminiscences of days gone by that are left standing (such as the Hôtel de Cluny, and the tower of Saint Jacques la Boucherie), scraped, furbished up, and decorated after the newest fashion, seem to us wretchedly bereft of their character and their beauty.

Such being the case, we should cordially welcome every attempt to preserve for future ages a memorial of Paris as it used to be. We are glad as we walk through London not to see grim-looking skeletons dangling in the breeze from the actual gallows at Tyburn; we rejoice that our more humanised civilisation is inconsistent with the exhibition of traitors' heads from every "coign of vantage; " but at the same time we like to know where the utmost sentence of the law was wont to be inflicted, and as we read in memoirs, diaries, and correspondences, scenes full of tragic interest, we feel a most legitimate desire to identify the locality, the exact spot of those scenes.

Such is the interest belonging to M. Firmin Maillard's little volume, Le Gibet de Monfaucon, to which I naturally turned in quest of the particulars I wanted about Enguerrand de Marigny-his career, and his deplorable end; and, as I am thus brought to mention it incidentally here, let me be allowed to recommend it for the valuable information it contains on the subject of capital punishment during the middle ages. With its help we either justice or (too frequently, alas!) despotism can mark on a map of Paris all the spots where and revenge brought wretches to the brink of eternity: the Abbot of Saint-Germain des Prés had his pillory at the Place Sainte Marguerite; the Bishop of Paris kept his immediately in front of the cathedral, and it was there that Pope Clement V.'s bull was read, condemning to death all

* Le Gibet de Montfaucon, étude sur le vieux Paris, par Firmin Maillard, 12°. Paris: Aubry.