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says of " Farrendine, a sort of stuff," and he adds 

 this quotation : — 



« If I were your wife, I must board half a year with 

 a friend in the country, tumble 'about the other half in 

 most villainous hackneys, lye two pair of stairs high, and 

 wear black farrendine the whole year about." — Sedley, 

 Tlie 3fulberrt/ Garden, 1CC8. 



R. F. Sketchlet. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 

 " Ancient Danish Ballads translated from the Originals, by 

 R. C. Alexander Prior, M.D. 3 Vols. 8vo. (Williams & 

 Norgate.) 



Not more welcome was Autolycus, when he presented 

 himself before the shepherd's cottage in Sicily with his 

 " songs for man or woman of all sizes," than these three 

 volumes will be to all lovers of Folk-lore and Old Ballad 

 Literature. Such admirers of national poetry as have 

 made the songs of Scandinavia a part of their study will 

 scarcely need to be reminded that the National Ballads of 

 Denmark, or rather a large collection of them, were given 

 to the press as early as 1591 by Pastor Vedel; honoured 

 for it be his name, and that of Sophia, Queen of Frederick 

 II., at whose desire he printed them ! For it is said that 

 the publication originated in the wish of the queen, Avho, 

 having, on the occasion of a visit paid by her to Tycho 

 Brahe, been detained in the house of the great astronomer 

 by stress of weather, had been amused and delighted with 

 Vedel's recital of the national songs of her country. 

 Vedel's collection was, as we have said, first published in 

 1591. In 1695, rather more than a century after Vedel's 

 book appeared, P. Syv gave to the world a new edition, in 

 which he inserted a hundred additional ballads. Again, 

 after the lapse of little more than another century, namely, 

 in 18 14, appeared another edition enlarged from MS. sources 

 by Abrahamson Nyerup and Rahbek ; while, as we learn 

 from Mr. Prior's Introduction, the younger Gruntvig is 

 now publishing an enlarged collection, and in his Intro- 

 duction to the various ballads displays, says our author, a 

 depth of research such as has never before been devoted 

 to any edition of popular poems. From this latter chiefly 

 has Mr. Prior selected the 173 ballads here translated, by 

 far the larger portion of which are presented to the English 

 reader for the first time. The first division is that of the 

 Hero Ballads. Tlien come the Legendary Ballads. These 

 are followed by the Historical Ballads ; and the last and 

 most extensive division is that of the Ballads of Romance. 

 Dr. Prior has obviously brought no small love to his task, 

 and no small knowledge of the ballad literature of Europe 

 to its illustration ; and the result is a collection of old 

 songs which will serve at once to delight all who love a 

 ballad in print, and to throw much new and valuable 

 light upon the Ballad Literature of these islands. 



TTie Fall of 3Ian, or Paradise Lost, of Ccedmon. Trans- 

 lated in Verse from the Anglo-Saxon, with a New 3Ietrical 

 Arrangement of the Lines of Part of the Original Text, 

 and an Introduction on the Versif cation of Ca;dmon. By 

 William II. F. Bosanquet, Esq. (Longman.) 



This is a little volume calculated to interest two very 

 distinct classes of readers. Those who are ignorant of the 

 briginal poem will be pleased at the opportunity of study- 

 ing in Mr. Eosanquet's translation the great work of the 

 Anglo-Saxon Milton; and will, from its perusal, readily 

 believe the assertion of the venerable Bede, that"C£ed- 

 mon was a very devout man, and that by his poems 

 many were inflamed with a love of heavenly things." 

 While Anglo-Saxon scholars will be equally interested 



with Mr. Bosanquet's ingenious endeavours to restore to 

 the original the character of " most harmonious verse " 

 bestowed upon it by the man of all others the best quali- 

 fied to pass a judgment upon it — we mean Bede— him- 

 self a poet and well acquainted with the harmonious 

 verse of Greece and Rome. 



A Handbook for Travellers in South Wales and its 

 Borders, including the River Wye. With a Travelling 

 Map. (Murra}'.) 



This is a fresh addition to the excellent Series of Hand- 

 books which has won for Mr. Murray not merely an 

 European, but a world-wide reputation : and the present 

 Handbook offers this security for its rivalr.v with its pre- 

 decessors in accuracy and usefulness, that the editor has 

 lived the greater portion of his life in the district he has 

 undertaken to delineate. 



Lives of the Italian Poets. By Henry Stebbing, D.D., 

 F.E.S. A New Edition. (Bentley.) 



This third edition, which comes forward at a moment 

 when all eyes are directed towards Italy, exhibits con- 

 siderable alterations, and the volume will, we have no 

 doubt, justify Dr. Stebbing's hope that it will prove ac- 

 ceptable to the tourist as Avell as to the student and 

 general reader. 



3Iedals of the British Army, and How they were Won. 

 By Thomas Carter. Author of Curiosities of War and 

 Military Studies. First Section — The Crimean Campaign. 

 Parts I. and II. (Groombridge & Sons.) 



While our Orders of Knighthood have their Histo- 

 rians, it is but justice that Orders of Merit should receive 

 the like attention. Mr. Carter has hit upon an idea 

 which deserves to be popular, and is carrying it out in a 

 way to ensure that popularity. The first part is illus- 

 trated by our own Crimean 3Iedal, the second by the 

 French War 3Iedul. 



A Supplement to a List, with Descriptions, Illustrations, 

 and Prices of whatever relates to Aquaria, containing Prac- 

 tical Directions for their 3Ianagement, and a Description of 

 a Series of Tanks in which Cheapness of Cost and Effici- 

 ency of Action are combined to an extent hitherto unat- 

 tained. (By W. Alford Lloyd.) 



Although this may be considered in the light of a trade 

 list, it is really something far more important, for it con- 

 tains the latest experiences of one to whom we are in- 

 debted in a very high degree for the successful treatment 

 of Aquaria. It is a sixpenny worth indispensable to all 

 interested in the management of these beautiful additions 

 to our home studv of Nature. We see from it that Mr. 

 Lloyd has been intrusted by the Imperial Society for the 

 Acclimitation of Animals at Paris with the construction 

 of some Aquaria of very large size in the new Zoological 

 Gardens in the Bois de Boulogne. 



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