thoroughly new, and it will be a pleasant and profitable surprise to all who fancied they knew everything that could be told about Egypt, but who will find themselves here in untrodden scenes, and among a hitherto unknown people. A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante. Translated into English Tierce Rhyme. By Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S. (Partridge & Co.) MR. BOUCHIER, at p. 366 of our present volume, furnished the readers of N. & Q." with a list, to which JABEZ added at p. 417, of the translators of Dante's works. We are sure that both these gentlemen will be glad to have their attention drawn to the work whose title heads this notice. Mr. Tomlinson starts with an es ay on Dante and his translators. The History of Rome. By Wilhelm Ihne. English Edition. (Longmans.) WE are glad to be able to welcome at last the third volume of this extremely valuable work-a work that must necessarily secure a prominent place on the bookshelves of every English scholar. We trust it may not be long before Mr. Ihne is enabled to increase that debt of obligation which all now owe him. TOWNSEND'S Manual of Dates (Warne), edited by Mr. F. Martin, is now at its fifth edition. In testing it we have found but one record admitting of correction: "Dr. Winsenius declares that the custom (of kissing) was unknown in England till 449, when the Princess Rowena, daughter of Hengist, King of Friesland, pressed her lips to the cup, and saluted Vortigern with a little kiss." It is not to be believed that Britain was so backward in science and practice as is here inferred. The custom, however, is not even now universal. When Captain Speke in Africa was about to kiss at parting a dusky daughter of a chief whose guest he had been, the young lady shrieked for fear and fled. She thought he was a cannibal, and was tasting as a preliminary to eating her! The Poetical Works, the Essays, and the Life of E. J. Armstrong (Longmans), fill three volumes. The young Irishman, who died full of promise and with much accomplished at twenty-three, has found a loving and able editor in his brother. The volumes are well worth reading. Mrs. Barbauld and her Contemporaries, by Jerom Murch (Longmans), is a gossiping and readable sketch. Prometheus, the Fire Giver (Chatto & Windus), is a fairly "attempted restoration of the lost first part of the Promethean trilogy of Eschylus." The work is put forth with all the care that distinguishes the firm from which it is issued, and with not more care than the scholarship and ability of the author may justly claim. WE have only space left to acknowledge the receipt of Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, by Ch. Worthy; Notes of Quaint Words and Sayings in the Dialect of South Worcestershire, by A. Porson, M.A. (Parker); Specimens of the Dialect of Westmoreland, part i. (Kendal, Atkinson); four additional numbers issued by the English Text Society (Trübner & Co.), referring to the dialects of Holdernesse, West Somerset, of the South-Western Counties, and a bibliographical list of works, published or in MS., illustrative of the various dialects of English. We have also part ii. (Longmans) of A History of the Castles, Manors, and Mansions of Western Sussex (an important work), by D. G. C. Elwes and the Rev. C. J. Robinson. The Tragedy of Macbeth, according to the First Folio, by Allan P. Paton, has some remarks on Shakspeare's use of capital letters as a means of emphasizing words. DEATH OF THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F.S.A.-Though I do not know that he ever contributed to your columns, do not let this accomplished scholar and antiquary, whose death on the 23rd inst. I have just heard of with deep regret, pass away from us without a fitting tribute in "N. & Q." to his varied learning and the readiness with which he placed his vast stores of information at the service of his friends. While an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, the Foreign Quarterly, and to Fraser; and I remember in the last a very characteristic portrait of him, quite as a young man, by Maclise. He took an active part in the establishment of the Camden, Percy, and Shakspeare Societies, and edited many of the more important works published by them. Mr. Wright was as industrious as he was learned, and of the nearly forty different publications by him named in the Catalogue of the London Library, many are in Latin, some in Anglo-Saxon, some in Norman French; and it was owing to his writings in connexion with early French literature that in 1842 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Peace to his memory! AN OLD F.S. A. THE LATE HALL OF THE SCOTTISH CORPORATION, CRANE COURT.-MR. CHR. COOKE refers to a recent engraving of this edifice in The Builder and to Weld's History of the Royal Society for a view of the interior of the hall, with an engraving of Sir Isaac Newton's head. He suggests that photographs or copies should be taken of all valuable pictures for reference." Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. M. D. H.-Lives of the Poets Laureate, by W. S. 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Published by JOHN FRANCIS, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. Queries, with No. 212, Jan. 19, 1878. ) INDEX. FIFTH SERIES.-VOL. VIII. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, Abhba on anonymous works, 69, 109, 129, 149, 209, American postage stamps, portraits on, 266 229, 269, 309, 370, 449 "Antiquities of Bristol," 167 April, 12th of, 269 August, 1st of, 88 English (John), D.D., 67, 359, 395 Fiennes (Rev. Pharamus), 447. "Fortune Teller," 154 Adams (E.) on Jared Leigh, 148 Scott family: Abp. Rotherham, 79, 392 A. (F. S.) on E. Whalley, the regicide, 29 Agglestone, near Poole Harbour, Dorset, 501 Albanie (Count d'), 28, 58, 92, 113, 158, 214, 274, Albert (Prince), his portrait by Winterhalter, 89 "Alea Evangelii,” its use and origin, 128, 279 Americanisms, 186 Amicus on Tennyson's country, 166 Anglaise on Berengaria: Edith Plantagenet, 223 Anglo-Scotus on Comyns of Badenoch and Tyndale, 32 De Brus family, 123 Esquire, the title, 114 Pedigrees and pedigree makers, 5 Scott (Sir W.) and use of the cope, 126, 250 Annett (Peter), his tracts, 98, 350; metrical portrait, Anon. on baronial coins, 207 Fiennes (Celia), neys," 409 "Account of her several Jour- Hooping cough, 465 Nalson MSS., 108 Names wanted, 248 Passion Week: Holy Week, 129 Anonymous Works :- Age, The, a poem, in eight books, 90 Alexandrians, an Egyptian tale, 90 Alexis Hinkof; or, the Russian Mariner, 90 Alidia and Cloridan, 469 Almacks, a novel, 469 Bowdler (John), Memoir of, 129, 319 Caleb Stukeley, 449, 478 Cathcart (Robert), Memoir of, 229 Cheltenham Mail Bag, 29 Choose your own Path, 410, 439 Church-Goer, 149, 199 Connoissance des Pavillons, 410 Crosthwaite Church, History of, 269 Cursory Observations on Churches of Bristol, 109 Dorias, The, a drama, 247 Dover and its Neighbourhood, 370 Earle (Gilbert), Account of, 269, 319, 338 English and Scottish Sketches, 370 Fowler (Robert), Memoir of, 129 From the Diary of C. G., 229 Gemse Fawn, English translation, 90 Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, 410, Greece, History of, 269, 319 Handful of Prose and Verse, 329 Health without Physic, 309 Hereford, History and Antiquities of, 149 Historical Enquiry into the Unchangeable Char- acter of a War in Spain, 449 Inquiry into the Constitution, &c., of Churches of Christ, 209, 239 Ireland in Past Times, 90 Anonymous Works:- John Gilpin, Latin versions of, 19 Johnson, Doctor, his Religious Life and his Journal d'un Voyage de Cinq Semaines, 129 Karl the Martyr, 249, 280, 458, 479 Letter to Lord Stanley, 229 Letters of Rusticus, 269, 319 Long-lost Chapter of Acts of the Apostles, 490 Melancholy, as it proceeds from Habit, &c., 288 Mirrour of Majestie, 410 Modern Athens, 149, 179, 199 Mount Leinster; or, the Prospect, 229 New Apostles; or, Irvingism, 269 New South Wales, Public Surveys of, 149 Notes on Church of St. John, Slymbridge, 109, 139 Notes on Scripture, 269 Nuns and Nunnerics, 269 Old Roads and New Roads, 229 Parliamentary and Political Miscellanies, 269 Passing Clouds, 410, 439 Patriotic and Military Instructions, 149 Penscellwood Papers, 370, 399, 418 Peregrinations of the Mind, 149 Persecutor, and other Poems, 370 Poems addressed to M. A. J. R., 129 Poetical Essay on the Te Deum, &c., 410 Popular Opinions, 370, 399 Primitive Church in its Episcopacy, 418 Reminiscences of Cheltenham College, 69, 99 Revenge Defeated and Self-punished, 329 Scriptural Confutation, &c, 209 Shakespeare, Religious and Moral Sentences from, 309 Solace of an Invalid, 90 Specimens of the Earlier English Poets, 309 Sure Methods of improving Health, 309 Symbola Heroica, 410 Things in General, 14 Thinks I to Myself, 469 Thoughts on Scriptural Expectations, 209 Touchstone for Gold and Silver Wares, 349, 399 Tutor and Student, 309 Victim, The, in Five Letters to Adolphus, 69 Whole Duty of Man, 389, 515 Wild Beast Show, a poem, 430 William Wyrcestre Redivivus, 109, 139 Zadok, the Israelite, 229 Anpiel on "Letters of Rusticus," 319 Anthems, national English and Prussian, 168, 209 |