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THE GTJAKDIAN, FBBBTJAUT 5, 1890. Canon Begin Christiana (Oaesell) aia Smith has printed a paper om Reunion among read before a "conference of lay and in the diocese of Salisbury." If all who SS SSK Smiths party were of Oanpn Smith's spirit, we should have got a long way on the road towards the great end he desires. The alphabetical arrangement by Dod'a Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage (Whittaker) gives it the palm among ZZvTrS its kind for facility of reference. ta the WorWs Press (H. Sell) -The portrait- nailery of the chiefs of the various newspapers has been largely fdded to thi 9 year, several South American editora oontn- butine their likenesses.

Its lista of the newspapers and periodicals published throughout the world are very oomprehen. Em To advertisers and to those oonneoted with the press this balkv book is an excellent guide; to the general reader also it conveys much of interest. Amid numerous articles on various matters we may notice Mr. Bossy 's introduction to the gallery of the House of Commons and a Oa endar of Historical Events. Tr annears from this publication that the number of papers pubSed in the United Kingdom is in round figures 2,20 Tondon having 470, and the country The total number of magazines of all sorts is nearly 1,600.

Another large directory of newspapers at home and abroad is the Advertiser's ABO (T. B. Browne). Side by side with the scale of advertising charges is in general the newspaper publisher's "own statement" concerning the objects, of his publication. This year the use of pictorial advertisements is specially commended to the attention of the advertiser.

A similar book on a smaller Bcale is the Advertisers' Guardian (Louis Collins). To its lists of newspapers it adds some advice with respect to advertising. It appears to us, however, that the narration of the author's disagreement with a former employer and with some rival advertisement agents in over a hundred pages is out of place in a book of reference. In its second year of publication the Educational Annual ((x. Philip) is improved, bat there is still room for further advance.

Its lists of intermediate school and colleges, arranged county by county, supply some useful information for parents Beeking for a school. Advocating the adoption of last year's proposed code for elementary schools the editor reprints it The various educational measures before Parliament are also desoribed. In anticipating the abolition of school fees, tho editor foretells that public management is the natural and inevitable result of maintenance by the public purse." We have received the Scottish Episcopal Church Directory (Edinburgh St. Giles's Printing Company London Masters) for the current year, which contains, in addition to a complete list of all the clergy working in the Scottish branch of the Church, full details of its diocesan and general organisations. From tho statistics given it appears that the number of churches, parochial chapels, and Mission stations is 304, an increase of two number of members, 94,750, an increase of communicants, 35,800, an increase of 306; number of working clergy, 267, an increase of five; parsonages, 141, an increase of six day scholars, 12,210, an increase of 373 Sunday scholars, 17,872, ah increase of 1,556 Hazell's Annual (Hazell), the popular encyclopaedia relating to topics that are likely to attract attention daring the year, increases its bulk and usefulness in every edition.

Among the subjects treated with special fulness in the fifth issue we notice strikes, county councils, national finance, Mr. Stanley's doings, the Parnell Commission, cricket, The great number of the various examinations held in this country is indicated by the fact that for almost every day in the year the School Calendar (Bell) shows one or more facts connected with some of them. For schoolmasters and those who wish to find out information about any of these examinations this is a most useful publication. One of the many tasteful birthday records is The Days of our Years (Groombridge), which gives three proverbs for each day in the year. The "quaint words of wisdom" are well suited for the purpose; but they are not always quoted in their best form.

Shakespeare's All that glisters is not gold" is not improved by becoming All is not gold that glitters." The quarterlies have but little light reading in thom this time. After protesting against the proposal to tax ground- rents and against the principle of betterment," the Quarterly Review adviseB the London County Council to issue a Commi sion to inquire and report upon the possibility and means for getting rid entirely of coal smoke. Great thoroughfares, direct and broad, should also, it urges, be laid out and planted, and plentiful small parks and gardens supplied. It is noteworthy that the Review presses on the Legislature, as a chief present duty, to do something to convert the London nomads into owners of houses. In anticipating that the Church in Wales will be summoned during the coming session to show cause for its continued existence, the Quarterly points out how, misrepresented by its enemies, misunderstood by its friends, it haB nothing to lose, but everything to gain by inquiry.

It grates on English ears to hear that the English companies among the Italian Condottieri, while having a reputation for courage and trustworthiness, were notorious for their cruelty, and for being the most adroit and merciless of depredators. Besides a laudatory review of Archdeacon Farrar's Lives of the Fathers," there are articles on Haddon Hall and its owners, on proposed reforms of the laws of extradition, on Sir William Hamilton, the inventor of quaternions, The merits and demerits of the wiss referendum are discussed from a sympathetic point of view in the Edinburgh. Whenever a revision of the Constitution is passed by the two Houses it is invariably submitted to the voters for their rejection or approval, and with regard to any other proposed law the referendum is brought into operation whenever 30,000 voters demand it. The system is recommended by the fact that in Switzerland alone representative government has hitherto escaped both from the evils of party mechanism and from the equal evils That transformation of Parliamentary government into government by Parliament, which threatens in England no less than in France to undermine the stability and destroy the authority of the national executive." The remedies proposed by the Review for bettering the position of the unskilled labourer are increased combination and the spread of technical education. With an article about the English in Egypt we dealt last week.

remarkable testimony to Mr. Bryoe'a power of making a subject interesting. We have reoeived from Messrs. Caasell the first numbers of some books which they in monthly Farrar's Life of Christ, printed in specially large type and illustrated; Science for All, an illustrated popular exposition of scientific matters; and Cassell's French Dictionary, that of MM. De Lolme, Wallaoe, and Bridgeman, revised and enlarged by Professor E.

Roubaud. Warwick's Spare Minutes, 1637 (Glasgow: David Bryce and Son), is a new edition of an old book, with the orthography modernised and got up in cheap and pretty form. The editor expects that it will attain to the popularity bestowed on the works of Quarles, Herbert, and Donne." It is permitted to an editor to be sanguine. Five of Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer," The Last of the Mohicans," The Pathfinder," The Pioneers," and The been abridged for young people, under the title of Leather Stocking Tales (Routledge). The compressing process is fairly well done, and the stories lose little by being somewhat shortened.

In the Management of Children (P. and A. Churchill) some practical suggestions are offerod by a mother for the bringing up of ohildren so as to be sound in mind and body. The book has now reached a second edition. NEW EDITIONS.

Canon Body's lectures on The Life of Temptation have been reissued by Messrs. Rivingtons in a oheap and convenient form. Originally delivered at All Saints', Margaret-street, in 1869, they have borne the test of time. They appeal especially to all who know and like the same author's Life of Justification." From Messrs. Maemillan we have a second edition of Mr Bryce's American Commonwealth, in two volumes and a more convenient size.

Really it is much more than a second edition, for it is also the fourteenth thousand. That so many copies Bhould have been sold of a work of this size and gravity is a NOTES. The Rev. L. Francis Burrows, writing from the vicarage, Godalming, reminds us that the popular Life of the Late Captain Hedley Vicars was written by the well-known authoress, Miss Marsh.

It appears that the captain's'mother, who died recently, did not, as stated by us in an obituary, write a memoir of her son. The collection of writings of the Early Fathers, gathered by the late Dean Alford, has been presented by his daughter to the Church House. Some obscurer passages of history relating to Bishop Fisher's attitude towards the Papal supremacy will be (the Athengsum states) a subject of study by Mr. Gladstone during his stay at Oxford. Folklore, a quarterly review of myth, tradition, institutions, and customs, is to be issued by an editorial committee of the Folklore Society, consisting of the Hon.

J. Abcrcromby, Mr. G. L. Gomme, Mr.

A. Nntt, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs; tho last mentioned being general editor. Somewhere in Tennyson Land" tho Rev. Charles Yeld, of Nottingham, has (says the Daily Neivs) discovered a little romance of tho Poet Laureate's early days.

The youthful poet, it is said, was in lovo with a young lady of tho name of Bradshaw, and expressed his feelings towards her in the following lines Because she bore the iron name Of him who doomed his king to die, I deemed her one of harsher frame And looks that awe the passer-by, But found a maideu tender, shy, With fair blue eyes, and passing sweet, And longed to kiss her hands aud lie A thousand summers at her feet." The story runs One day while young Mr. Tennyson was out driving with Miss Bradshaw, her mother, and three other ladies, some one asked the time. On this Tennyson took out his watch. Whereupon Miss Bradshaw leaned over a little, and her worshipper exclaimed, Don 't Why am I not to asked the young lady, to which Tennyson No, it would stop to look at Mr. old's story and verses are said to be derived from a member of the Bradshaw family, now resident in Notts, at no great distance from that western border of Lincolnshire in which Lord Tennyson spent his early years.

The following letter from Robert Browning is published in the Art 29, De Vere-gardens, July 6th, '89. My beloved had the honour yesterday of dining with the Shah, whereupon the following dialogue Vous etos On s'est permis de mo lo dire Et voua avez fait dos livrea? Trop do Vuulcz-vous in'en dormer xm, afin quo jo puisso mo rcssouvenir do Avec I have been accordingly this morning to town, where the thing is procurable, and as I chose a volume of which I judged the binding might take the imperial eye, I said to myself, 'Hore do I present my poetry to a personage for whom I do not care three straws; why should I not venture to do as much for a young lady I love dearly, who for tho author's sake will not impossibly care rather for tho inside than the outside of the So I was bold enough to take one and offer it for your kind acceptance, begging you to remember in days to come that the author, whether a good poet or no, was always, my Alma, your affectionate friend, "ROBERT BUOWNING." Some very notable letters and MSS. have been sold at one of Messrs. Sotheby's sales. One thing that surprises one about some of them is how they came to be in an auction-room at all.

For instance, there is a letter from the Duke of Cambridge to Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, written from Sandringham on 13th December, 1871, the critical day of the Prince of Wales's illness, and entirely on the subject of his condition on that day. This letter realised 11. Even a discouraging reply from a great man to an intending publisher may be converted into a marketable commodity. For 41. was paid for a characteristic letter from Carlyle to his publisher, If the author were to rewrite his manuscript, compress it greatly (steaming out at least one-third which may be termed aqueous), and.

call it English Puritanism, or some such name, it might really be a book capable of interesting various people." To secretaries of public dinners the prospect is opened up of an opportunity of turning an honest penny from some of their correspondence when they see that seven guineas is paid for a letter of Lord Tennyson's excusing himself from attending the Balaclava dinner of 1875. Some of the bickerings of Shelley's domestic circle may be inferred from his letter to Godwin, The hopes I had conceived of receiving from you the treatment aud consideration which I esteem to be justly due to me were destroyed by your letter dated the 5th (F. Sabin). There is a great run on the letters of literary people, like Shelley, Lamb, or Thackeray. In one of the letters to Coleridge Lamb says in the course of a criticism of Cwlebs in Search of a Wife: I borrowed this Calebs of a very careful, neat lady, and returned it with this stuff written in the beginning If ever I marry a wife I'll marry a landlord's daughter, For then I may sit in the bar, And drink cold 191.

was paid for a letter of Lamb's in which, referring to his sorrows and afflictions, he I am recovering, God be praised for it, a healthiness of mind, something like calmness but I want more religion." There is some food for the biographers in an old letter of Disraeli's, referring to his peouniary difficulties. The letter is not dated, but the watermark of the paper is 1835. Two collections of Bibles were sold by Messrs. Sotheby at their recent sales. Among these Bibles, whioh were'the property of the late Mr.

Francis Fry and Mr. T. Merriman "Fifth edition of the German Bible, black letter, folio, -Augspurg, 1473, 25i. first Protestant version of the Biblia Oermanica, black letter, with autograph signature and notes of Caspar Schwenokfeld, oak boards, covered in stamped pigskin, folio, Wormbs, P. Schofer, 1529, 321.

Biblia Oermanica, black letter, woodcuts, in oak boards and stamped pigskin, folio, 1534, New Testament in French, small octavo, 1667, first edition of the Port Royal version, 91. 15s. first Swedish Bible for Protestants, translated from Luther's German version, six parts in one, black letter, folio, first Danish Bible, five volumes in one, black letter, folio, 1550, first edition of the Malagasy Bible, octavo, An-Tanauarivo, Madagascar, 1835, suppressed, cost Mr. Fry twenty oxen, besides expenses, Biblia Deudsch Durch M. Luther, black letter, woodcuts, in oak boards, covered in stamped leather, with portraits of Luther as centra ornaments, folio, 1534, first edition of the entire Holy Scriptures translated by Martin Luther, 361.

Tindale's New Testament, black letter, the Mole edition, quarto, supposed to have been printed at Antwerp, in Corinthians the words, This cup is the new testament of My are totally omitted, 431. Newe Testament, translated by Tyndall, 1549, with curious error in 2 Cor. 'Let hym that is soohe thinke on his instead of 'on this 81. the Great or Cromwell's Bible, first issue, printed by B. Grafton and E.

Whitchurch, 1539, The medals and funds to be given at the anniversary meeting of the Geological Society on the 21st inst. have been awarded by the council as follows Wollaston Medal, Professor W. C. Williamson Murchison Medal, Professor E. Hull Lyell Medal, Professor T.

R. Jones; the balance of tho Wollaston Fund to Mr. W. E. A.

Ussher, of the Geological Survey of England that of the Murchison Fund to Mr. E. Wethered that of the Lyell Fund to Mr. C. Davies Sherborn and a portion of the Barlow- Jameson Fund to Mr.

W. J. Harrison. Among tho inscriptions edited in the fifth volume of the Ephemeris Epigraphica is one from Africa, previously known imperfectly. It reads, HOMINIB BONE BOLV MTATIS, hominibus bonae voluntatis.

The Biblical origin is made doubly certain by the addition of the (nsually) Christian symbol of the palm- branch. Another inscription, from Cedia, seems to run ino EST DOMUS, IIIO EST MEMORIA AFOSTOLI BEATI EMERITI GLORIOSI CONSULTI. These are, of course, only specimens, but they may interest our readers. CONCERTS OF THE WEEK. The first of the Royal College Concerts given this term, on last Thursday evening, was one of the most enjoyable wo have ovor attended.

For one thing, the solo-singing showed a marked improvement. Miss Hack, an Australian scholar, sang the ballad, There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream," from Stanford's Veiled Prophet, with a great deal of refinement and feeling; Mr. John Sandbrook, who comes from Wales, sang Handel's On love's wings with the gallantry traditionally associated with the Principality; while Miss Charlotte Russell, a younger sister of Miss Anna Russell, upheld the honour of Ireland in two duets of Mendelssohn with Miss Tathatn, the representative of England in this eminently imperial collection of singers, and, let us add, the possessor of a very fine and well-trained contralto. The instrumental playing was also very good. Misa Annie Grimson is one of the best pianists that the college has yet produced, and that is saying a good deal.

She gave the two pieces played by her in tho competition last December for the Hopkinson gold Prelude and Fugue in minor and Liszt's Twelfth Hungarian the style not of a pupil, but a full-fledged artist. Schumann's Fantaisio-Stiicke (Op. 88) for piano, violin, and violoncello were pleasantly given by Miss Sington and tho two Misses Eliesou, the elder of whom afterwards played two pieces by Spohr with facile technique and excellent intonation. The concert concluded with Grieg's Sonata in minor (Op. 45) for violin and piano, excellently played by Miss Donkersley and Miss Ethel Sharpe.

Grieg's delightful lyric vein emerges throughout this work at times in the happiest way, but the general impression produced by this, as by other more ambitious works from his pen, is that he is incapable of achieving first-rate results in an ouvrage de longue haleine. Mendelssohn's splendid posthumous Quintet in flat (Op. 87) was finely given at the Saturday Popular Concert by Lady Hallo and Messrs. Ries, Straus, Gibson, and Piatti. Every movoment was enthusiastically applauded, the impressive close to tho adagio in particular producing a great effect upon the audience.

Mr. Franz Rummel played Beethoven's Waldstein sonata in unaffected and workmanlike stylo, but failed to awaken any enthusiasm in his audience. He has many negative excellences, freedom from eccentricities and extravagances, but cannot be called a striking player. Miss Liza Lehmann sang, with much more liberty in the matter of tempo than the song demands, Dr. Stanford's clever setting of a beautiful old Irish air wedded to modern words which are quite out of place in a woman's mouth, and bracketed with it a florid old English song, Gossip Joan." This she sang with the utmost finish and neatness.

But there is something incongruous in hearing Miss Lehmann of all people declaiming Buch sentiments as these My pocket is cut off That was full of sugar candy; I cannot stop that cough Without a gill of brandy. Gossip Joan. Let's to the alehouse go, And wash down all our sorrow, You there my grief shall know; We'll meet again to-morrow, Gossip Joan." The concert ended with Beethoven's Serenade Trio in major (Op. 8), played by Lady Halle, Mr. Straus, and Signor Piatti.

Monday night's Popular Concert was noticeable for tho fine performance of Mendelssohn's Quartet in flat (Op. 12), which was led with great spirit by Lady Halle and played throughout with perfect ensemble. Miss Christine Nielson, thevocaliBt, has a powerful but defectively trained mezzo soprano, her production being very much alia Tedesca. Her songs were Brahms's Wie bist du, meine Konigin," and Rubinstein's Sehnsucht." Mr. Franz Rummel played solos by Schubert, Chopin, and Mendelssohn, in a thoroughly legitimate but rather dry fashion, and took part in the performance of Schumann's Trio in minor (Op.

63), with whioh the concert concluded. Lady Halle gave as her solo Vitali's Chaconne in minor, a work which is unfortunately dwarfed by the inevitable comparisons it suggests with Bach's masterpiece. C. L. G..