REVIEW—GILBERT WHITE. 335 
the girth of the tree mentioned in his paper on the ‘Flora of 
Ulleswater District’ (Trans. Cumb. Assoc., 1882) at Oldchurch. It 
is, he tells me, 21 feet 3 inches in girth at 5 feet from the ground, 
but the tree has a split in the trunk which is, of course, included in 
the measurement, so that 20 feet is perhaps too little. As the name 
shows, it is planted close to the site of a church; one destroyed by 
Homer to Dr. Conan Boe Be aumont and Fletcher's ‘ Maid’s 
‘Tragedy’ is awe but not ‘The mesh ‘Shipheriess' by John 
Fletcher, acted 16 
Yon same dell 
O’er topped with mourning Cypress and sad Yew. 
Or Churchill's 
The Yew, which in the pee: ee sculptured stone 
Marks out the resting-place known. 
The verses ascribed to Sir Tho fhicenie are really by: William 
Browne, and, if memory fails not, they are from his ‘Britannia’s 
Pastorals’ : ; and is not the quotation on p. 99 from Sir Thos. Stanley 
“ae wrong? In the index, Haworth Castle (and on p. 82) 
uld be Maworth, and Hartbourne Tarrant, Hurstbourne. Finally, 
hes the poor plate of the Yewdale tree is replaced by a good one 
it may be said that the book is very well illustrated.—S. L. Petty. 
Paes Lanne eis 
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8vo, » cloth, pp. i.-xiv., 1 5-274 ; four illustrations and folding sheet containing 
a ‘Summary of Editions’ sopeiee 3/6]. 
Mr. Martin has divided his little book into nine chapters, whereof 
the second js occupied Mien an account of the ‘ Natural History and 
Antiquities of Selborne’; .the next three chapters enumerate the 
‘Many editions which bie appeared since the original of 1789, and 
the te chapters have regard to the author, his native village, 
_ and birt place. Three of the illustrations are reproduced from the 
quarto edition of 1813, known as Mitford’s or Markwick’s edition. 
| Compiler appears to be unaware that the publishers of this 
edition j issued in the same year another in two ocfavo volumes, with 
_ *New title-page and some other. differences. It may be as well to 
ee oT Such other additions and corrections as are disclosed by our 
