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French writers of note. Berry's Kentish Genea-
logies' has a pedigree of the Cheney family from
the fourteenth century. Arms, Erm., on a bend sa.
3 martlets or; crest, a bull's scalp or, attired ar.
K. G. T.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Anacreon. With Thomas Stanley's translation. Edited by A. H. Bullen. Illustrated by J. R. Weguelin. MORANT'S 'HISTORY OF ESSEX' (8th S. ii. 143, IN transferring for a time his attention from the lyrists (Lawrence & Bullen.) 234, 293, 418, 536). - MR. E. A. FITCH had and dramatists of the Elizabethan age to the author of the already communicated to me privately the in-Anacreontea' Mr. Bullen is keeping closer to his old formation which MR. GOULD now lays before your ground than is at first sight apparent. Whoever may be readers. By all means let the credit, such as it the author of the facile and graceful lyrics attributed to may be, of the compilation generally known as Anacreon, the translator, at least, is known, and is a deniMuilman's History rest with the Rev. Henry and unerring instinct are indeed shown in selecting for zen of Mr. Bullen's special domain. Mr. Bullen's fine taste Bate; but considering the character of his early life, the sumptuous reprint he has produced the translation of during which he must have been engaged in this Thomas Stanley, the most poetical, as a whole, to which work, one may be pardoned for asking for some England, or, indeed, most European countries can point. further proof of his authorship than a letter of his Single poems have, of course, been rendered with more own. This, MR. FITCH tells me, was written to Herrick, and other poets of mark. One of the most or less freedom by Ronsard, Cowley, Greene, A. W., the Town Clerk of Maldon, Mr. Lawrence, and inspired of Cowley's poems is but an elaboration of was bought by him in the latter gentleman's copy H yn piλaiva nivel. Stanley's translation, which first of the History'; but when he wrote to me he saw the light in 1651, is not only the best, but the earliest. could not lay hands on it. The first volume of the in date, and belongs to that tuneful period with which 'History' appeared in 1770, when Bate was only Mr. Bullen has long been concerned. twenty-five years old, and about this time, accord-be supposed, that has yet seen the light-presents the The new edition of Anacreon'-the handsomest, it may Greek and English on opposite pages. In addition to the fifty-five pieces constituting the odes as given in the editio princeps of Henricus Stephanus, Mr. Bullen has supplied from the Palatine MS. a few poems which that he has been compelled to seek his versions elsewhere, editor excluded. As these were not translated by Stanley, drawing in one case from the 'Hesperides' of Robert Herrick, supplying sometimes his own renderings, and in one case, that of 'O spaméras ò xpvoóc, giving up the latter portion of the text as hopeless. At the close are printed the genuine fragments of Anacreon, according to the text of the fourth edition (1882) of Bergk's 'Poetæ Lyrici Græci. Of these no translations are given, none which are adequate being accessible.

ing to his biographer in the 'New Biog. Dict.,' he was becoming well known in London as a man of pleasure. The Morning Post was established in 1772, and Bate became one of its earliest editors. He gained the nickname of the "Fighting Parson," and never lost an opportunity of keeping himself well before the public." It is, à priori, very unlikely that such a man would be the anonymous author of a county history, but not at all impossible that he might subsequently claim an honour which was going begging. One would be glad to know the date of the letter adduced in evidence of his authorship. Wild and reprehensible as was his early life, Sir Henry Bate Dudley afterwards did good work which entitles him to the gratitude of his county. Arthur Young (Agriculture of Essex,' ii. 254, 384) places him at the head of modern embankers and road-makers, and his biographer afore mentioned gives substantial proofs of his public merits, pace Dr. Johnson, who altogether refused him merit," but allowed him "courage.'

One result of the discussion on the historians of Essex in these pages is that the editor of the Essex Review has arranged for a series of papers in that periodical upon the historians of the county, himself, I understand, dealing with Tindal and Salmon; Mr. C. F. D. Sperling, who kindly invites my co-operation, undertaking Morant certainly, and Muilman probably. The thorough investigation of all the material now accessible in the British Museum and the Colchester collections will be no slight task, but it will no doubt serve to clear up most of our present difficulties.

In reference to Bate's alleged authorship, it should be added that the first works attributed to him are comic operas and the like, dating from C. DEEDES.

1774 to 1794.

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Mr. Bullen's editorial labour displays his characteristic taste and ability. His introduction is admirably scholarly and happy, supplying all that is known concerning these strange poems, the source of which is so dubious. In his notes Mr. Bullen reprints the translations of the first three odes by A. W., Robert Greene's rendering of the third, Cowley's paraphrastic rendering of the fourth, and numerous versions, English and French, with which him familiar. Among the works of extreme rarity from Mr. Bullen's singularly wide range of reading has made which poems are given are Barton Holyday's Technogamia and Thomas Bateson's 'Second Book of Madrigals.' Ronsard, Mathurin Regnier, Leconte de Lisle, and is sure of a warm welcome from scholars. Still more Goethe serve also the purposes of illustration. The book favourable is likely to be its reception from bibliophilee. By these it will be regarded as one of the choicest and most attractive volumes of the season. The text is large, clear, and handsome, and the paper, printing, &c., are worthy of all praise. A special recommendation will be found in the designs of Mr. Weguelin, which are exGreek art, and are free from the effeminacy which mars quisite. They have all the delicacy and inspiration of much French work similar in aim, and is painfully evident in the well-known compositions of Girodet. They may, indeed, challenge comparison with the plates printed in 1775, 1779, and 1780. Mr. Weguelin's frontisof Eisen, first seen in the Paris edition of 1775, reimpiece is perfect in delicacy, refinement, and beauty, and the nine illustrations which follow are all exquisite.

The Antiquary. By Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With
Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang.
2 vols. (Nimmo.)
EACH succeeding month brings duly forward another of
the "Waverley Novels" in Mr. Nimmo's beautiful
"Border Edition." The latest issue is "The Antiquary,'
which, though a little behind its predecessors at first in
the race of popularity, soon overtook the foremost, and
is now held one of Scott's more characteristic and
original works. We have still nothing but praise for the
edition. Though presenting the doorway only, and a
of R.
section of wall, The Antiquary's Sanctum
Mr.
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McWhirter's 'On the Shore, Sunset,' and Mr. Sam
Bough's The Storm' are capital sea pictures. No less
good are other etchings, including especially that of
Edie Ochiltree in Prison,' which serves as frontispiece
to the second volume. Mr. Lang's introduction and
notes meanwhile have the customary and never-failing
.charm. None of the novels, Mr. Lang holds, is so inti-
mate as The Antiquary' in connexion with Scott's per-
sonal history, and it has accordingly "been held in the
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The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles 11. Related and collected by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. Edited by Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. (Gibbings.) AMONG the innumerable occupations to which an energetic and indefatigable nature thrusts Mr. Wheatley is, fortunately for scholarship, the task of amending, altering, and continuing the antiquarian labours of Peter Cunningham. To this zeal we owe London, Past' and Present,' a work to which we have already drawn attention, founded upon and altogether surpassing and eclipsing the Hand Book to London' of the earlier writer. This is now followed by a new and improved edition of The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles II.' Among recent biographies this work has been the most sought after. During many years it has been out of print, and the few copies that have turned upat public auctions have brought prices suggestive rather of early Shelleys or Brownings than of works of antiquarian research. For this the popularity of the subject is in part responsible. For reasons not wholly difficult to guess, Nell Gwyn was as popular with the crowd of London as Agnès Sorel a couple of centuries earlier had been unpopular with that of Paris. Nell was, as she said, using to qualify the appellation the last word it might be supposed she would apply to herself, "English," and in being so obtained an easy victory over the foreign light o' loves with whom the Court of the Restoration was crowded. Charles himself, though it is difficult to find many redeeming qualities, inspired a sneaking regard among some of those who most severely condemned his actions. The Court, with one exception, that of the Regent of Orleans, the most corrupt of modern or comparatively modern times, inspires a certain amount of curiosity, which the pictures of artists such as Lely, and writers and observers such as Pepys and Hamilton have contributed to aug

ment. For some cause or other Cunningham's 'Life of
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The six hundred copies, which are all that have been
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scarcity continues. That the new edition is a great
improvement upon the old needs not to be said. The
illustrations are reproduced, and the type and paper are
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and trustworthy life of Cunningham, whose work is
declared to be "excellent in itself," and "not likely to
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more importance is the introduction, embodying all that
the latest researches have disclosed with regard to Nell.
It adds, indeed, a special value to the volume, supplying
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is brightly and humorously written, and is a model of
conscientious and competent work. A portion of its
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particulars as to theatres and companies to which Cun-
ningham had no access. Those interested in the Court
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