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White’s poem, “ The Invitation,’’ was sent, and the Mulso family ottered a 
number of criticisms upon it. In one of the early letters we have the picture 
of Gilbert White as a sportsman. Mulso says : — 
'* You have now an Opportunity of paying my Devoirs to Tom Mander. I presume \ ou are 
popping and snapping so that a Farmer can't walk his own Fields in Security for \ ou. I om can 
walk farthest, but You shoot best ; i ftncied I have drawn your char.acters, iho' I may add, Tom 
drinks cyder longest, but You take ye larger Glasses at first. I thank you for your account of 
yourself at Chalgrave ; there is no man understands a Retreat, 1 see Itetter than yourself.” 
Gilbert While, it appears, must continually have urged Mulso to ride on horse- 
back instead of in a carriage, as being better for his health, and we are treated 
at every turn to accounts of Mulso’s behaviour in this respect, not to mention 
his troubles with his horses. Gilbert White lent him one, but it was promptly 
returned with very stringent criticisms ; and speaking about a visit to Gilbert 
White when proctor at Oxford, Mulso wonders whether it would be as agreeable 
to the former as to the visitors, saying ; — 
“ ,.\nd I must own it would have an odd Sound when the Provost sends to know what Noise 
that is in his College at One in the Morning To Have hint answer’d ‘Sr. It is \'c Proctor wth 
two Girls and Ye .Mad Parson of Sunbury ' so, see Ye to it." 
Mr. White has reproduced a facsimile passage from another letter in which 
Mulso says that Gilbert White’s work will immortalise his place of abode as well 
as himself ; but we have quoted enough, and will leave to our readers the pleasure 
of finding out other references for themselves, when the book comes into their 
hands, as it assuredly ought to do. 
The Story of A/y Heart. Uy Richard Jefferies. 4J inches x 6i inches. 207 
pages. Frontispiece. Longmans, Green and Co. Pocket Edition. Price 2s. 
net. 
In republishing “The Story of My Heart,’’ by Richard Jefi'eries, Mr. C. J. 
Longman has collected together such few scraps of Jefferies’ writing as remain, 
which seem to throw light on its genesis and on its meaning. The following 
lines are from an analysis which Jefferies himself drew up : — 
“ This book is a confession. The author describes the successive stages of 
emotion and thought through which he passed, till he arrived at the conclusions 
which are set forth in the latter part of the volume. He claims to have erased 
from his mind the traditions and learning of past ages, and to stand face to 
face with Nature and the unknown. The general aim of the work is to free 
thought from every trammel, with the view of its entering upon another and 
larger series of ideas than those which have occupied the brain of man so many 
centuries. He believes that there is a whole world of ideas outside and beyond 
those which now exercise us.’’ 
Costume : Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical. By Mrs. Aria. 6 inches x 
pinches. 259 pages. Illustrated. Macmillan and Co. Priceios.6d.net. 
Mrs. Alia has afforded us a most pleasing and readable account of classic, 
medieval, and more modern dress, and the drawings by Mr. Percy Anderson 
give an additional charm to the work. The bright colours of the dresses chosen 
for the plates particularly lend themselves to reproduction by the three-colour 
process. The result is that the coloured figures are most effective and much 
more pleasing to the eye than is usually the case with pictures thus produced. 
We might mention particularly the Armenian peasants and the girl in the dress 
of the eighteenth century. There are also a very large number of other illustra- 
tions which, like the letterpress, are printed in sepia-tinted ink. Oriental dress 
comes in for attention. Chapters are added on fancy dress, which will be useful 
to those who have sometimes at a moment’s notice to choose a costume, and 
dancing dresses and theatrical dress are not forgotten. Both author and illus- 
trator are agreed in regarding dress as one of the fine and essential arts. The 
work is dedicated to the memory of Sir Henry Irving, who said : “ You can take 
it, that the right thing on the stage is at once the most effective and the most 
becoming ” ; and commenting upon this, Mrs. Aria says ; “ A w'ise doctrine 
which may be applied with irrefutable truth to the art of costume on and off the 
boards — a doctrine which may obtain as guidance through the land of dress in 
all the centuries, under all circumstances, past and to come.” 
