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vicar then said, 'The penance laid upon you is that you to the assize court at Wells, when it shall next be held, and take your place where I shall set you beside the prisoner at the bar. Will you accept that penance? The man answered, 'Yes.' Turning to the congregation, the vicar said, 'I am going to ask you all a question. Seeing that this man has humbled himself in the house of God, and provided he fulfils his promise, will you forgive him? If so, answer "I will." The congregation replied, 'I will.' The vicar continued: 'One thing more. Will you all, so far as opportunity may permit, so help this man towards living a better life, and shield him from reproach in this matter? If so, answer "I will." The congregation replied, I will.' The vicar then, turning to the young man, pronounced these words: God be with thee, my son, and give thee the peace of true repentance to live a better life from this time henceforth. Amen.' The vicar afterwards ascended the pulpit and preached a sermon from the twenty-first verse of the eighteenth chapter of St. Matthew." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

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I have heard of a later case of public penance than 1850, but I do not recollect the details. The sinner's name began with a T, and it occurred in Chester. Doubtless correspondents from that city could give full particulars to MR. Walford.

PAUL Q. KARKEEK.

a mitre. Some thirty examples will be found in
The repre-
Bedford's Blazon of Episcopacy.'
sentatives of some of these continued to bear the
C. R. MANNING.
mitre in their arms, as in the case of the family of
Peploe, of Salop.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

entertainment from Mr. Waite's pages.

Founded on

The Real History of the Rosicrucians. their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Brethren. By Arthur Edward Waite. (Redway.) WE have read the Anacalypsus' of Godfrey Higgins, and the 'De Miraculis Mortuorum' of L. F. Garmann. Having performed these feats, it has been our wont to boast that no book could be so wild, stupid, or illarranged as to be unconquerable by us. How vain our pretensions were Mr. Waite has demonstrated. have found it as impossible to pierce the dense fog in which he has enveloped himself as it would be to read a book in a language the very characters of which were unknown to us. His Real History of the Rosicrucians' is not a history of anything in the heavens above or the earth beneath. It is a mere string of facts, fancies, and guesses, which have some relation to the mysticism which the brethren of the Rosy Cross have professed. The Percy Anecdotes' might as well be called a “history of men, manners, and morals," or the Anatomy of THE MITRE IN HERALDRY (7th S. iv. 486).—Melancholy treated as a serious contribution to mental There is a view of Ockwells House, Berkshire, science. The foregoing books are amusing and instructive. The man is indeed to be envied who can derive with coloured illustrations of four of the window lights, in the additional plates to Lysons's 'BerkTwo things in this book strike us as particularly senseshire. The arms there given are, in one plate, less. We have page after page concerning the mystical those of Henry VI. and his queen, with the meanings of the rose and the sign of the cross. Now, mottoes, "Dieu et mon droit" and "Humble et as to the first, it is the most attractive of flowers, and is loiall"; and, in the other plate, of Norreys (not very widely distributed. It need not surprise us, therefore, that the "flos florum" should have become the Marreys), the owners of the house, and Beaufort, flower of Venus, a type of the blessed virgin, a mute Duke of Somerset. But the arms of Norreys are symbol at burials, a Plantagenet and a Stuart badge, that to kings not those usually borne by that family, but Argent, the Popes should have sent the "rosa aurea a chevron between three ravens' heads erased as a symbol of joy and hope, or that garlands of roses sable. Crest, a raven, wings elevated, sable. should have been used as a type of joy at the Feast of Corpus Christi. What does astonish is that any one Supporters, two beavers. Motto, "Feythfully should imagine that the heavenly rose of Dante's divine This coat appears to have boen borne by vision has anything to do with the senseless dreams of John Norreys, Esq., the builder of Ockwells those misguided persons, medieval and modern, who House, in 1465, as heir of the family of Ravens- have manufactured a stupid, and in some instances recroft. The name "Norrys" occurs at the foot of volting, mysticism from the purest and holiest symbols which nature affords us. It is only fair to say that Mr. the light. He impales, Quarterly, 1 and 4, Bendy Waite is not the originator of the idea. It comes, he of ten, or and azure (Mountfort); 2 and 3, Or, two tells us, from Eliphas Levi, who made the profound disbars gules and a bend azure (Wake of Kent). covery that the Roman de la Rose' and the 'Divina There is no mitre to be seen here or in the other Commedia' are two opposite forms of the same work. The pages that are given to the cross are even more glass that Lysons has engraved. He mentions, silly. Mr. Waite has had many forerunners. p. *705, that among the other arms in these beauti-obvious that the cross is one of the simplest of signs, fal windows are the Abbey of Westminster, and these were anciently, Azure, on a chief indented or, a crozier on the dexter and a mitre on the sinister, both gules. This is, therefore, probably the coat intended in the report of the law case to which your correspondent refers. The mitre is a very rare charge in the arms of a private family (see Papworth's Ordinary,' p. 979), but it occurs in those of several bishoprics and religious houses, as Carlyle, Chester, Llandaff, and Norwich; and many bishops differenced their paternal arms with

serve.

It is

and it is but natural that many peoples should have hit
on it as a type or symbol of something. To suppose
that the Christian use of this sign has come from hea-
thenism or the secret societies shows a want of imagina-
tive appreciation of the central fact of the Gospel history
as well as of ecclesiastical history and art.
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Culture, and Genius. By Samuel Smiles. (Murray.)
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"The Man and the Gentleman"; "Great Men: Great Workers"; "Great Young Men"; "Great Old Men"; "Lineage of Talent and Genius"; "The Literary Ailment: over Brain-work: Health and Hobbies"; "Town and Country Life"; "Single and Married: Helps-meet "; "Evening of Life: Last Thoughts of Great Men." It is one of those rare books which you may open at any page and immediately commence to read. Turn where you will you are sure to find some anecdote which will arrest your attention. Owing to its clear and attractive style, Life and Labour' should be popular alike with old and young. All may profit from the judicious counsel which will be found in its pages. We regret that Dr. Smiles but rarely gives any references to the authorities from which he quotes. It undoubtedly detracts from the usefulness of his book, but we must console ourselves with the fact that an index has been vouchsafed to us.

IT may perhaps be accepted as of happy augury that the magazines of the new year deal more largely than has been their wont with literary and artistic matters, and are less occupied with military, social, and political problems. In the Fortnightly it is true that the author of Greater Britain' gives the third of his series of startling revelations concerning The British Army,' and sounds a note of alarm to which our statesmen will do well not to shut their ears. Prof. Tyrrell's paper on 'The Old School of Classics and the New' ridicules very amusingly the affectations of spelling classical names which mar much modern work, both in prose and verse. Mr. Swinburne is once more rhapsodical concerning babies, and Mr. Saintsbury continues his papers on 'The Present State of the Novel.'-Mr. Matthew Arnold, in the Nineteenth Century, deals with Prof. Dowden's recent 'Life of Shelley' with a freedom that is likely to bring him a smart castigation at the hands of the Shelley worshippers. Prof. Palgrave on 'The Doctrine of Art' takes what must be regarded as a pessimistic view. Mr. Swinburne's clever skit, Dethroning Tennyson,' has already attracted much notice. It contains a little delicately veiled banter as well as some keen and direct satire. Sir Henry Thompson is again eloquent in favour of cremation, and Sir W. W. Hunter, under the title of 'A River of Ruined Capitals,' deals with what it seems we are now to call, pace Prof. Tyrrell, the Hugli.-Two excellent literary articles in Macmillan are Dr. Birkbeck Hill upon Dr. Johnson's Style' and Miss Cart

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Temple Bar, which brims over with amusing gossip and mirthful anecdote.-The English Illustrated has, under the title of Et Cætera,' some delightful literary gossip by Mr. H. D. Traill. The letterpress and illustrations to Antwerp' are equally good, and 'Coaching Days and Coaching Ways' is brilliantly continued by Mr. Tristram and his illustrators.-The account of "Gretna Green" and President Keller are noteworthy in a good number of the Cornhill. 'Notes by a Naturalist' should be named "Notes by a Bird Slaughterer," since the massacre of birds seems the chief claim of the writer to consideration. 'Our Small Ignorances' is certainly not misnamed, since the first page gives two misquotations.-All the Year Round deals with Thackeray's Brighton' and 'A London Suburb.'-The Century has a capital portrait of Mr. Ruskin. Mr. E. V. Smalley has an excellent description (illustrated) of the Upper Missouri. As regards both letterpress and engravings, it maintains its high character.

PART IV. of the reissue by Messrs. Cassell & Co. of Old and New London' is principally occupied with the Temple, of which, in early and late days, many excellent illustrations are given.Our Own Country,' Part XXXVI., has the conclusion of the Isle of Wight and the beginning of Dundee. Between the two is sandwiched Dorking, of which a full-page plate is given, with views of Box Hill, Leith Hill, Deepdene, and other interesting spots. The Laureate's house is also depicted.-Part XLVIII. of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary concludes Vol. IV., to which the title-page is given. Under the heads "Mass," "Marriage," and "Medicine" admirably full and trustworthy information may be found.-Part XXIV. of Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare gives' Richard II.' The illustrations to this play are strikingly dramatic. -Part XX. of The Life and Times of Queen Victoria depicts the visit of the Shah, the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, the proclamation of the Queen as Empress, and other events of 1873-6.-Little Folks has been increased in size, and forms an attractive periodical.Woman's World improves as it proceeds, and has a pleasing sketch of Mrs. Craik, the author of 'John Halifax,' and a good account of Kirby Hall.-Part I. of a reissue of the admirable Dictionary of Cookery has a capital sheet of maxims, which should be hung up in every kitchen.-Part IV. of The World of Wit and Humour also appears.

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