2"- 1 S. IX. AriuL 28. '60.] 



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Judges' Black Cap, etc. (2 nd S.ix. 253.)— In 

 corroboration of your correspondent's conjectures, 

 I would mention the general custom of English 

 magistrates sitting with their hats on in Courts of 

 Quarter Sessions, &c. ; though it presents indeed 

 a curious contradiction of the Scripture rule : "A 

 man ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as 

 he is the image and glory of God," 1 Cor. xi. 7. 



Though the passage is in many respects an ob- 

 scure one, yet it certainly appears from it that the 

 covering of the head was a token of subjection ; 

 whereas the mitre of the Jewish high priest, and 

 the bonnets or turbans of the inferior priests and 

 Levites, seem to have been worn in token of their 

 sacerdotal dignity, " for glory and for beauty." 



The whole subject strikes me as an interesting 

 one, and well worthy of illustration as a literary 

 " Amenity." 



In the Dutch Church it is still the custom for 

 the congregation, though not, I think, for the mi- 

 nister, to wear their hats during the sermon at 

 least. C. W. Bingham. 



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Essays by the late George Brimley, M.A. Second Edi- 

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This little volume is a collection of articles contributed 

 by the writer to The Spectator and other periodicals. 

 The fact of its having reached a second edition puts a 

 sufficient stamp upon the value of its contents. It con- 

 tains critiques . upon the poetry of Wordsworth and 

 Tennyson, the fictions of Thackeray, Bulwer, Dickens, 

 and Kingsley, the Noctes of Professor Wilson, and the 

 positive philosophy of Comte. These are written with a 

 delicacy of discrimination, a carefulness of language, and 

 an unobtrusive tone of religion, which cannot fail to 

 render them favourite reading with the more thoughtful. 

 But we confess ourselves to have derived most pleasure 

 from an original and suggestive article on " The Angel 

 in the House," in which the writer points out how large 

 a material for the highest poetry is to be found in the 

 incidents of ordinary married life, and not unjustly com- 

 plains that poet after poet should have neglected it for 

 the threadbare raptures of the lover. 



First Traces of Life on the Earth ; or, the Fossils of the 

 Bottom Rocks. By S. J. Mackie, F.G.S., &c. (Groom- 

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J his little volume is from the pen of a gentleman who 

 is thoroughly acquainted with his subject, and has a 

 happy facility for conveying its facts and principles in a 

 simple form to the uninitiated. He has here adopted the 

 plan of confining his remarks to a very small portion of 

 the vast area of geological science — the fossils of the 

 earlier rocks — and extracted from it some very agreeable 

 first lessons on geology. 



If we confess that the mere List of the articles in the 

 Quarterly just issued somewhat disappointed us, we must 

 confess that we have been greatly pleased with the articles 

 themselves, and find the Number an extremely good one. 

 Dismissing the only political one, The Budget and the 

 in Hill, which all should read, whether admirers or 

 not of Lord John's mischievous bantling and Mr. Glad- 

 stone's daring Budget, we conic to two of great social 

 importance. That on Labourers' Homes is one of groat 



value, and is obviously written by a master of the sub- 

 ject; while Miss Nightingale's Notes on Nursing furnish 

 materials for a paper calculated to direct increased atten- 

 tion to that admirable pamphlet, and to the reforms in 

 our treatment of the sick which are so imperatively de- 

 manded. Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Re- 

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 enigmatical Queen of Beauty and Fashion. Our sporting 

 friends will delight in the article " Tom Smith" and Fox 

 Hunting, as the lawyers will in that on The Bar of Phila- 

 delphia. There is much curious historical information and 

 strange family history in the paper on the Vicissitudes of 

 Families, and such an abundance of capital stories in the 

 anticipatory review of the Autobiographical Recollections 

 of Leslie, as to make us most anxious to see Tom Taylor's 

 amusing volume. 



Mr. Leigh Sotheby, who announces a work which will 

 doubtless be of considerable literary interest, Ramblings 

 in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Milton, is desirous 

 of an inspection of an Autograph Letter, or authentic 

 Autograph MS., of either Edward or John Phillips, the 

 nephews of Milton ; and also of any letter or document 

 bearing the autograph of Elwood the Quaker, and friend 

 of the poet. We shall be glad if this Note should prove 

 the means of obtaining for Mr. Sotheby the objects of his 

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