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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tician. The memoirs of Claude Haton * take us 

 back to the stirring days of the sixteenth century, 

 and are, to use the learned editor's expression, — 



"une sorte de version populaire de I'histoire des luttes 

 intestines dont la France a et^ le theatre, un e'cho r^pet^ 

 par les niille voix de I'opinion sur lea acteurs du drame, 

 pendant les r^gnes de Henri II., de Charles IX., et de 

 Henri III." 



Haton'g memoirs, now for the first time pub- 

 lished, illustrate of course very completely the 

 history of French Protestantism ; but they con- 

 tain, in addition, details and sketches of private 

 life which are perhaps still more curious. M. 

 Bourquelot's introduction, appendix, and table of 

 contents are not the least valuable parts of the 

 work. The campaigns and eventful career of 

 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, have en- 

 gaged the attention of another historian f well 

 known for his previous researches on the annals 

 of Switzerland. The first volume of the Depeches 

 is the only part which is, as yet, published ; it 

 comprises 143 letters, and brings us to March 27, 



1476, twenty-five days after the battle of Granson. 

 The documents collected by M. de Gingins are 

 chiefly Italian letters addressed to the Duke of 

 Milan, Sforza, by his ambassadors at various 

 courts : the original MSS. belong to the govern- 

 ment archives of San-Fedele at Milan. We must 

 not forget M. Coquerel's curious and conclusive 

 disquisitions on the Galas family J, a disquisition 

 in which the celebrated case that drew forth, a 

 hundred years ago, Voltaire's sympathy, is once 

 more thoroughly sifted from an attentive study of 

 all the papers connected with the trial. The his- 

 tory of painting and decoration as applied to 

 MSS. forms an important branch of raediseval 

 art. M. Ferdinand Denis has treated it most 

 completely in an elegant volume copiously illus- 

 trated with woodcuts, reproducing specimens of 

 pre-Raphaelite workmanship. § MM. Didot Bro- 

 thers still maintain the reputation they have so 

 long enjoyed in the publishing world. "Whilst 

 carrying on their edition of the Greek classics ||, 

 forty-six volumes of which have appeared, they 

 are adding to our historical libraries both original 

 works ^ of standard merit, and excellent reprints 



*" Haton (C). Memoires de Claude Haton, contenant 

 le recit des dvenements accomplis de 15.53 k 1582, princi- 

 palement dans la Champagne et dans la Brie, publics par 

 Fdlix Bourquelot. Paris, imp. imperiale, 2 vol. in-4." 



t " Depeches des ambassadeurs Milanais sur les cam- 

 pagnes de Charles le Hardi, due de Bourgogne, de 1474 k 



1477. Vol. 1. Paris et Geneve, Cherbuliez." 



J " Coquerel fils. Jean Calas et sa famille, etc. In-12. 

 2 gravures et fac-simile. Paris, Joel Cherbuliez." 



§ " Histoire de I'Ornamentation des manuscrits, par 

 Ferdinand Denis. In-4. Paris, Curmer." 



li " Aristotelis opera omnia. Graece et latine, Volumen 

 quartum. Pars prima (Bibliothfeque des auteurs Grecs, 

 t, 46. Paris, Didot.)" 



S " Rene'e (Am^d^e). Les nikea de Mazarin. Etudes 



of memoirs on the seventeenth* and eighteenth 

 centuries.f For M. Le Blant's splendid recueil 

 of Christian inscriptions]:, and M. Caristie's de- 

 signs of the Roman monuments of Orange §, we 

 are also indebted to MM. Didot. By a recent 

 arrangement made with the French government, 

 M. Jannet has been authorised to publish in his 

 Bibliotheque Elzevirienne a series of forty volumes, 

 comprising nearly all the old romances' and me- 

 trical tales belonging to what is generally called 

 the Carlovingian cycle. Four of these are already 

 in the press ||, and the whole collection, printed 

 under the superintendance of a committee of 

 savants, will include, besides notes, a glossary 

 and indices, texts of various poems which are 

 not even mentioned in the Benedictine Histoire 

 litteraire. GusTAVE Masson. 



Harrow-on-the-Hill. 



WAtPOLIANA. 



Foote and the Duchess of Kingston (2"^ S. v. 

 22.) — I find the correspondence which Philo- 

 Walpole has sent you in a contemporary Maga- 

 zine (the Westminster, August, 1775), but with 

 a preamble and a sequel which appear necessary 

 for its full appreciation. 



" On the third of this month (August) the following 

 Letter was addressed to the Printer of one of the Daily 

 Papers : — 



" To the Printer. — The prophetic effusions of the col- 

 lectors or makers of paragraphs have for once proved 

 true, Mr. Printer ; the Trip to Calais has been rejected by 

 the Lord Chamberlain. To guess from whence these 

 gentlemen obtained their intelligence (as their advices 

 preceded by manj' days the delivery of the Piece to the 

 Chamberlain) would be a very difficult task: however, 

 you find what was only prophecy is now become history. 

 Till I have an opportunity of laying before the Public 

 those Scenes which produced his Lordship's interdiction, 

 you will print the following letter sent to Lord Hertford, 

 in the hopes of softening his censure. S. F.' " 



" ' My Lord, — I did intend troubling your Lordship 

 with an earlier address, but the day after I received your 

 prohibiting mandate, I had the honour of a visit from 



de mceurs et de caractferes au XVII® si^cle. 3« ^dit. Gr. 

 in-18. Paris, Firmin Didot frh-es." 



* " Dangeau (Marquis de). Journal public en entier 

 pour la premiere fois, par M. E. Soulie et L. Dussieux, 

 avec les additions inedites du due de Saint-Simon, pub- 

 lie'es par M. Feuillet de Conches. Tome xii. (1707-1709). 

 Paris, Didot." 



t " Memoires de M^e de Genlis. 1 vol. in-18 (Biblio- 

 th^ue des Memoires, t. xv.) Paris, Didot." 



X "Le Blant. Inscriptions chretiennes de la Gaule 

 (Ouvrage termine). Paris, Didot." 



§ " Monuments antiques k Orange, par Aug. Caristie, 

 architecte, membre de I'lnstitut. 1 vol. in folio, avec 

 55 pi. Paris, Didot." 



II "Doon of Mayence, edited by M. Schweighaeuser"; 

 " Gaufrey, edited by M. Chabaille " ; " Guy of Burgundy 

 and Otinel, edited by MM. Guessard and Michelant"; 

 " Aspremont, edited by M. Guessard." 



