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the idea was for a time entertained by that Society, 

 though subsequently abandoned. Two or three 

 years afterwards, I discovered at Paris the work 

 I have mentioned. Sttlites. 



Spruner's Historisch-geographischer Hand- Atlas, 

 of which a new edition is now publishing in 

 numbers (Gotha, J. Perthes), is a very valuable 

 work. I am not acquainted with Heck's Atlas ; 

 but Spruner's is probably fuller, as the whole 

 work IS said to fill 118 sheets, of which seventy- 

 three (forming a division by themselves) are de- 

 voted to Europe since the fall of the Western 

 Empire. In this portion alone, upwards of 130 

 smaller maps and plans are inserted in the spaces 

 unoccupied by the principal subjects. The Atlas 

 is accompanied by an elaborate descriptive text. 

 A smaller and less expensive work is advertised 

 in a Catalogue just published by Williams & 

 Norgate : Kutscheit's Historico-geographical Atlas, 

 50 maps, 3rd edit., price 18s. There is also an 

 English historical Atlas by Quin, J, C. R. 



Military Records (Vol. ix., p, 546.). — G. L. S. 

 speaks of the military records of the 4th Regi- 

 ment. Where are such records to be seen ? 



Y. S. M. 



Storhating (Vol. x., p. 385.). — Since writing this 

 Query, I have found that the small boats, early 

 used by the Dutch in their herring fishery, were 

 called Starbaarts : hence, doubtless, the Suffolk 

 expression. F. C. B. 



Diss. 



Spanish Reformation (Vol. x., p. 446.). — A 

 work of Don Adolfo de Castro, translated by 

 Thomas Parker, is recommended. A fresh trans- 

 lation of Don A. de Castro's works would be de- 

 sirable. Mr. Parker's erudition may be judged of 

 from the following : 



" Quoi qu'il en soit, il sera singulier, sire, que taudis 

 que leurs majest^s tres-chr^tienne, trfes-catholique, . . . 

 destruirent les grenadiers du St. Siege," &c. 



Translation. 

 " Be that as it may, it will be singular, sire, if, whilst 

 their very christian &c. majesties are destroying the 

 grenadiers of St. Seige," &c. 

 Mr. Parker has created a new saint. H. G. 



Osberri's Life of Odo (Vol. xi., p. 45.). — Dr. 

 McCaul has properly shown up a blunder of 

 Alban Butler. But it has long been known that 

 Osbern's Life of Odo was extant. See Soames's 

 Anglo-Saxon Church, pp. 180., &c. H. G. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, BTC. 



Mr. Mayor, in the very interesting Address to the 

 Beader, prefixed to his recently-published Cambridge hi 



tlie Seventeenth Century, Part I., Nicholas Ferrar, Two '. 

 Lives by his Brother John and by John Jebb, now first 

 edited, with Illustrations, by J. E. B. Mayor, M.A., Fellow 

 and Assistant Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge, tells 

 us that it was among Baker's MSS. that he " met with 

 Ferrar's life ; and at once saw in it an artless tale of a 

 period too much neglected, and of a man whom to know 

 is to venerate." Nicholas Ferrar, whose early piety pro- 

 cured him as a child the name of Saint Nicholas — who, 

 as a man, was honoured and esteemed by Laud and by 

 Williams — who was the friend of Herbert and of Cra- 

 shaw — found a faithful biographer in his brother John 

 Ferrar, and another in Dr. John Jebb — both whose bio- 

 graphies are most carefully edited in the little volume 

 before us ; and few will rise from their perusal without 

 being the better, on the one hand, for the pictures they 

 furnish of the earnest piety of Nicholas Ferrar himself, 

 and of the family affection which warmed the hearts of 

 all who dwelt in his Christian household at Little Gid- 

 ding; and without being wiser, on the other hand, not 

 only for the facts stated in these biographies, but for the 

 care and learning with which Mr. Mayor has illustrated 

 them. This gentleman, who derives from a public found- 

 ation leisure for research and means of access to rare 

 and manuscript sources, views in those opportunities a 

 strict obligation to share them, so far as may be, with less 

 privileged students. And to this honourable principle of 

 action we are indebted for this first of a series of works 

 which must do credit alike to the scholarship and high 

 feeling of their editor. 



In English Past and Present, Five Lectures, by the Uev. 

 R. C. Trench, we have' another small but most useful con- 

 tribution towards a better knowledge of our native tongue. 

 When we specify what are the subjects of these five lec- 

 tures, viz. The English a Composite Language ; Gains of 

 the English Language ; Diminutions of the English Lan- 

 guage; Changes in the Meaning of English Words; The 

 Changed Spelling of English Words ; those of our readers 

 who have had the advantage of reading Mr. Trench's 

 former publication On the Study of Words will be pre- 

 pared to hear that these lectures exhibit the same com- 

 bination of philological ingenuity and shrewd common 

 sense for which that work and its companion. The Lessons 

 in Proverbs, were equally distinguished. We are, perhaps, 

 somewhat biassed in Mr. Trench's favour by the praise 

 which he has bestowed on the only word which we ever 

 ventured to coin. Folk-lore, and which, now that it has 

 the stamp of Mr. Trench's authority, will doubtless con- 

 tinue to maintain its place in our language. 



Books Received. — Remains of Pagan Saxondom, 

 principally from, Tutnidi in England, by J. Y. Akerman, 

 Sec. S. A., 'Parts XIII. and X'lV., containing coloured 

 figures, drawn from the originals, of glass drinking-vessels 

 found at Bungay, Hoth, and at Coombe in Kent ; bucket 

 from the cemetery at Linton Heath ; and bronze keys and 

 buckles also found in Kent. 



The Memoirs of Philip de Comines, Lord of Argenton, 

 ^c, edited, with Life and Notes, by A. R. Scoble, Esq., in 

 two volumes. Vol. I. is the first of a series of French 

 Memoirs, uniform with his Standard Library just com- 

 menced by Mr. Bohn. 



The Orations of Demosthenes, on the Crown, and on the 

 Embassy, translated, with Notes, by C. R. Kennedy, is the 

 new volume of the same publisher's Classical Library. 



Tlie Riches of Poverty, a Tale, by Mrs. Eccles, is an ex- 

 cellent story, but of which the first part is, in our judg- 

 ment, far the best. 



The Strike is the story for the present month, in 

 Parker's Neiv Series of Tales for the Young Men and 

 Women of England. 



