Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. The History of England from Addington's Adminis. tration to the Close of William IV.'s Reign. By the Hon. George C. Brodrick, D.C.L. Completed and revised by J. K. Fotheringham, M.A. (Longmans & Co.) AFTER the first volume of The Political History of England,' which saw the light during the present year, and dealt with pre-Norman times, a wide leap is made to vol. xi., covering the period between 1801 and 1837, thus ending at the accession of Victoria. The task of composition was in this case entrusted to the late Warden of Merton, by whom it was in great part accomplished. At the time of his lamented death in 1903 three chapters were unwritten, and one, the last, was incomplete. The whole required also to be recast in order to meet the plan of the series. In this emergency recourse was had to Mr. Fotheringham, whose assistance in the portion dealing with foreign affairs had from the outset been invited. Under his charge the necessary alterations and additions have been reverently and competently made, the expression of Dr. Brodrick's views, and, where possible, his words, having been scrupulously retained. The early chapters of the work are necessarily a history of Europe rather than of England. Napoleon, by his personality no less than by his actions, dominated the whole period until, if not after, his confinement at St. Helena. One of the first and most important actions of the Addington Ministry (a bequest from that of Pitt) was the dispatch of a naval expedition to Copenhagen, 12 March, 1801, and the consequent fighting of the battle of the Baltic, for the sake of breaking up the Northern Confederacy, already dissolved, though the fact was not generally known, by the assassination of the Tzar Paul, its life and soul. This murder, by depriving Napoleon of a trusted ally, prepared him to accept the treaty of Amiens, the rupture of which was followed on 16 May, 1803, by the announcement to both Houses of Parliament of a declaration of war. Ireland was a disturbing element, and the movement for Catholic emancipation was passing into new hands, when it was no longer led by Catholic lords and bishops, but was a peasant movement, headed by the unscrupulous demagogue O'Connell." In the summer of 1803 a rebellion, instigated by French agents and headed by Robert Emmet, broke out in Ireland, and after leading to the brutal murder of the Chief Justice, Lord Kilwarden, fizzled out in presence of the a handful of troops." The battle of opposition of " Austerlitz was followed by the death of Pitt, and later in the same year by that of Fox. A long chapter is devoted to the Peninsular War, from its origin to the battle of Toulouse, while one less long depicts The Downfall of Napoleon.' Chap. vii. deals with Vienna and Waterloo, and includes the surrender of Napoleon and his imprisonment at St. Helena. A troublous time succeeded, marked by the Spa Fields Riot, the Manchester Massacres, the prosecution of William Hone, the death of George III. and of the Princess Charlotte, the murder of Kotzebue, the Cato Street Conspiracy, and the suicide of Castlereagh. Catholic Emancipation and the Reform movement were the great domestic questions, followed sed longo intervallo by religious movements and Poor Law reforms. An important chapter, the penultimate, is occupied with British India; and a concluding one-to portions of which it is possible to take exceptionwith literature and social progress. It is, of course, difficult to follow our authors over so wide a field. A good account is given of the conditions of maritime warfare in the war of 1812 between England and America. Among noteworthy features in an admirable volume are the estimates of character. That formed of Castlereagh is high: "When he met with his tragical end, the brutal shouts of exultation raised by a portion of the crowd at his funeral were the expression of sheer ignorance, and not of intelligent public opinion. He was a Tory, in days when most patriots were Tories, and he was a Tory of the best type; and we of a later generation can see that few statesmen of George III.'s reign have left a purer reputation or rendered greater services to their country." In striking contrast with these utterances are those against Daniel O'Connell, a sample of which we have already given. Something is said in favour of George IV., who, it is stated, possessed many royal gifts: "He was a man of no ordinary ability, with a fine presence, courtly manners, various accomplishments, and clear-sighted intelligence on every subject within the sphere of his duties. But all these kingly quali ties were marred by a heartlessness which rendered him incapable of true love or friendship, and a duplicity which made it impossible for him to retain the respect of his ministers." This is an enlightened and illuminatory work. Excellent features in it are maps of Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, and India. The first shows the parliamentary representation after the Reform Bill. Four volumes of the work have now appeared. The Old Testament in Greek.-Part I. Genesis. Edited by A. E. Brooke, B.D., and N. McLean, M.A. (Cambridge, University Press.) THE first instalment of the long-expected edition of the Septuagint, which was projected at Cambridge nearly a quarter of a century ago, now lies before us. When we examine it we can understand why its appearance has been so long delayed. It consists of the text of Genesis with an extraordinarily copious apparatus of readings, for which all the extant uncials have been consulted, the Vatican MS. being taken as a basis. The distinctive feature of the present work is a collation of a large number of cursive MSS.-more than thirtynot hitherto properly utilized, together with read ings suggested by the Armenian and Ethiopic while a fifth is Sir Edward Creasy's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo, a work in its day of great celebrity, and still capable of administering much edification and delight. added to the greatly enlarged "Muses Library," Two volumes of Matthew Arnold's poetry are One of these contains the Drama and Prize Poems, comprising 'Merope' and 'Empedocles on Etna.' The second includes the poems The Forsaken Merman, The Scholar Gipsy, &c., but not Thyrsis, edited by Mr. Laurie Magnus, who supplies excelwhich we suppose is still copyright. These are lent introductions. After perusing afresh The Forsaken Merman' we cannot agree with the criticism that Arnold had a river, not a sea mind"potamic," not "thalassic." VERDI'S Il Trovatore and Rigoletto, both by Francis Burgess, constitute Nos. x. and xi. of the Nights at the Opera,' issued from the De La More Press. Documents illustrating Elizabethan Poetry. Edited The People's Prayers. By E. G. C. F. Atchley. In this Alcuin Club Tract' the author traces the French Abbreviations, Commercial, Financial, and THIS is another useful compilation by Mr. Latham, Famous Sayings and their Authors. By Edward Latham. Second Edition. (Sonnenschein & Co.) IN accordance with the suggestions of critics, a subject index has been added to the second edition of this useful and attractive volume of Sonnenschein's "Dictionaries of Quotations." This, which occupies nearly one hundred pages, forms a very helpful and valuable feature. To "The Universal Library" of Messrs. Routledge & Sons have been made some important additions. Two of these consist of the Lavengro and The Zincali of George Borrow, which, with "The Romany Rye' and 'The Bible in Spain,' constitute the most readable and fascinating works of the series. A third is vol. ii. of Landor's Imaginary Dialogues, and contains the 'Dialogues of Sovereigns and Statesmen'; a fourth is Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas and other papers; tionary' is a double section, and takes vol. vii., THE forthcoming portion of the Oxford Dic4,716 words and 13,759 illustrative quotations. piper." This section contains Science and philosophy are conspicuous. Dr. Murray notes that the group of photo-words is and includes no fewer than 240, all except three with difficulty compressed into fifteen columns, consequent upon the introduction of photography being of the nineteenth century, and all except six in 1839. Among articles of special interest are those on picnic, Pilgrim Fathers, pimpernel, and pin-pricks. Fotices to Correspondents. 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Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher "-at the Office, Brean's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. communications which, for any reason, we do not We beg leave to state that we decline to return print; and to this rule we can make no exception. INDEX. TENTH SERIES.-VOL. V. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EDITORIAL, A. (J.) on will-power in historical portraits, 9 Abbey of St. Evroult, Pays d'Ouche, its history, 390 Abbreviations: "bbl." for barrel, 27, 74, 112; Addleshaw (P.) on butcher: Hoe, 388 Eschylus and Milton compared, 489 Ainsty, derivation of the place-name, 32 Alfonso (King) and Queen Victoria of Spain, their All Hallows, Barking, and Archbishop Kempe, 13, 112 Allen (Ant.), of Bream's Buildings, 1751, 66, 133 Abelard (Peter), his vision of hell, earliest version, 169 Almanacs: Poor Robin's,' c. 1744, 12, 155; of 1544, Abrahams (A.) on Adelphi names, 186 Babington Conspiracy, 354 "Black Bull" in Holborn, 367 Bridewell, its history, 29 Candlewick or Candlewright Street, 169 Cheyne Walk: China Walk, 245, 375 Fleet Street changes, 227 Hobby Grooms, 127 King: Joachin Cardoza, 213 Lettsom (Dr.), 514 Lombard Street, No. 1, 406 Metropolitan Railway, 6 Nelson panoramas, 94 Nollekens (J.), his library, 86 Repartee of Royalty, 12 Travelling in England, 1600-1700, 414 "Two Sneezing Cats," $28 Wooden water-pipes in London, 15 Ackerley (F. G.) on Christian of Milntown, 209 Grindleton, 10 Kynan, 169 127 Anonymous Works:- Aryan Sun-Myths, 429 Battered Tar, The, 408 Century of Persian Ghazels, 108, 456, 494 De Tribus Impostoribus, 240 John Bull and his Wonderful Lamp, 230 John Bull's Bible, 389, 473 King's Seal, 149 Leicester's Ghost, 388, 436 Antequations, use of the word, 24 Antigua, military burial-ground at, 61, 104 Antwerp, monument erected by Mary, Queen of Scots, B. (G. F. R.) on Charles Arnott, 149 in, 449 Arkle (John)=Grissell Neilson, 1705, 509 Assheton (R. O.) on Toby's dog, 32 Astarte on Blandina, 409 Funeral garlands, 427 Astrology in Italy, 148 Astronomy in fiction, 229, 294 Ataman and Hetman, distinction between the titles, 109, 157 Atkinson (S. B.) on post-mortem examination, 29 Aubrey's Surrey,' annotated by Peter Le Neve, 308 August, "gula Augusti," first day of, 408, 499 Axon (W. E. A.) on Cobden's earliest political La Fontaine's milkmaid, 487 Maiden Road, Stratford, E., 326 May morning at Magdalen: its music, 368 Awse (R.), 149 Barry (T.), 8 Bayntun (W. H.), 269 Colman (Edmund Craven), 269 B. (G. Ŏ.) on Lawrence arms, 288 B. (R.) on "James" University, 92 Louis Philippe's landing in England, 391 66 Rattling good thing," 250 Thermometer scale, 174 Up: its barbarous misuse, 245 B. (R. W.) on Fleetwood of Crawley, 403 Fleetwood pedigree, unknown, 23 B. (W.) on astronomy in fiction, 294 Death-birds in Scotland and Ireland, 111 Goethe: "Bells, bugs, and Christianity," 416 Welsh poem, 75 B. (W. C.) on Bream's Buildings, 66 Browne (Sir T.), bis daughter's descendants, 232 Easter eggs, 285 English literature, early, 216 Ivy Lane, Strand, 254 Louis Philippe's landing in England, 391 May Day: maypole, 325 Penteus or Punteus, 212 Provincial booksellers, 141, 183, 242, 351 Scallions, 54 Baker (C. T.) on George Baker, Oxford prizeman, 215 Balasore, handkerchief, its name, 449 Beaumont and Fletcher, folk-lore medicine in, 129, 195 Bedfordshire, archdeacon's marks in church in, 209, Balfour (Right Hon. A. J.), his descent from Robert II. Bees, gold, on Napoleon's coronation robe, 9, 76, 115 Ball-games played on festivals, 376 Balliol family, their descendants, 130 Bang (W.) on pip, 156 Bankes family of Corfe Castle, 289, 372, 395 Barker (Robert), priest, 1626, 229, 299 Baronet on dignities hereditary created, not made, 186 Barry (Thomas), Westminster scholar, 1758, 8 Baskish verses on marriage of King and Queen of Spain, Bath, list of Kings of, 28, 75, 132, 215 Bayham Abbey, its date, 31 Bayswater, derivation of the place-name, 146 Bayley (A. R.) on Bankes of Corfe Castle, 395 Cricket: pictures and engravings, 96 Crucifixion, earliest representation, 289 Duke of Guelderland: Duke of Lorraine, 313 Fitz Urse (Reginald), 112 Hawtrey, 417 Hopton (Ralph, Lord), 456 Beldornie Press, its history, 269 Bell foundry at Wigan, 168, 216, 257, 377 Beltin' eshin'-caning, 466, 518 Benham (W.) on "Ocean 'mid its uproar wild," 77 Greek and Roman tablets, 350, 473, 512 Bermondsey, eighteenth-century gin distillery, 349 Guydickens (Melchior), 93 Inscriptions at Lucerne, 466 Place, 371 Portmanteau words and phrases, 235, 512 Prior (F.): Annabella Beaumont, 78 Quotations wanted, 76 Rebus in churches, 250 Steemson and Cliffe families: Thorne Quay, 169 Berne, Canton, Lake of St. Lampierre in, 489 Magdalen College School and ‘D.N.B.,' 22, 122, | Best (Capt.), his duel with Lord Camelford, 162, 218, 284, 362 |