on the names of Westminster streets, on the coronation of George IV. and the reception on that occasion of the Queen, and on the mistakes made by Lord Albemarle in his diary. A biography is given of Mr. Thoms, who was born in College Street, Westminster, baptized in St. Margaret's Church, christened under a wrong name, and the error corrected fifty-four years later by a sworn affidavit by an aunt who had stood godmother. Mr. Thoms began life in the secretary's office at Chelsea Hospital, and held the secretaryship of the Camden Society from 1838 to 1873. In a parochial biography it is necessary to name the fact that Mr. Thoms was elected a vestryman of St. John in 1852, when he was living in Great College Street, in what had previously been his father's house; but to us it is more pleasant that Mr. J. E. Smith records in the highest terms of sympathy the foundation of N. & Q.,' and the language used with regard to it by its parent in the later years of his life. possession, and believed to have been presented to him by the lady herself. These works are now in the possession of Edmund Waller, Esq., the present representative of the poet, by whose permission they are reproduced, adding singular interest and value to the work in which they appear. That of Waller presents a bright open face, with a broad brow, long straight nose, piercing black eyes, and a faint moustache. Sacharissa's face is both beautiful and intelligent. An edition such as this of Waller is certain of a welcome. Waller's place among the seventeenth century poets is high. His three or four best poems, which are also the most familiar, are exquisite. That he has been, in a sense, overrated, being selected as representative of men greater than himself, and finding in the last century a place among poets whose works are collected denied to Donne, Suckling, Lovelace, Wither, Marvell, Herrick, and Carew, is attributable to the fact that his verse is singularly modern and free from archaism. Mr. Drury points out a curious fact in connexion with Waller, namely, that he seems to have been, with the exception of Rogers- WE hear with regret of the death, in his forty-ninth a man not, as a poet, to be named in the same breath-year, of Gustave Adolphe Schrumpf, a master at Univerthe most richly endowed with the world's goods of the sity College School, which took place on December 18. sons of the Muses, Mr. Drury's introductory matter and A competent linguist, he had done good work in philohis notes are alike excellent, and the edition is ideal. logy, as may be seen in his 'Aryan Reader,' and in papers on Armenian dialects contributed to the PhiloSecret Service under Pitt. By W. J. FitzPatrick, F.S.A. logical Society and to the recent Oriental Congress. (Longmans & Co.) Mr. Schrumpf was formerly an assistant in a school at Whitby, and at one time a frequent contributor to N. & Q. THE second edition of Mr. FitzPatrick's 'Secret Service under Pitt' has trodden closely on the heels of the first. It is a work of supreme interest, and, in a sense, one of the saddest volumes ever written. There is no need to sympathize with Irish schemes for independence in order to feel how abject treachery was to be found among men of scholarship, position, and influence. Mr. Wills, in his King Charles I.,' has some lines concerning Judas which are practically unprinted and inaccessible. For his conception of the arch-traitor Mr. Wills, it is evident, need not have gone outside his own country of Ireland. The manner, meanwhile, in which Mr. FitzPatrick has tracked out those responsible for the betrayal of the Irish leaders is a marvel of ingenuity, patience, and research. Absolutely admirable are the chapters in which Lord Downshire's mysterious visitor is traced, Mr. FitzPatrick's conclusions being irresistible. Perhaps the most remarkable chapter is that on Father Arthur O'Leary. Concerning General Napper Tandy, Leonard McNally, and others, and, indeed, concerning Lord Edward Fitzgerald, much of highest interest is told. Mr. FitzPatrick, it must be remembered, has had access to Government papers hitherto most jealously guarded, and has made splendid use of his opportunities. While possessing all the fascination of a novel, or, indeed, a drama, his book is an all-important contribution to history, indispensable to all who seek to obtain a knowledge of the sinister history of Ireland at the close of the last century and the beginning of the present. Among those on whom light is incidentally thrown is Shelley, to whose life in Dublin reference is occasionally made. The book is calculated to enchant those whose delight is found in the bypaths of history. St. John the Evangelist, Westminster: Parochial Memorials. By J. E. Smith, Vestry Clerk of St. Margaret and St. John. 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