"A mulatto man, named Crispus Attucks, who was born in Framlingham, but lately belonged to New Providence, and was here in order to go for North Carolina, also killed instantly; two balls entering his breast, one of them in special goring the right lobe of the lungs, and a great part of the liver most horribly."

Subject to the better knowledge of your American correspondents, I think this is conclusive as to Attucks's negro blood, as if a native Indian his birthplace and subsequent movements would not be so accurately known or chronicled, and I understand also that the word mulatto would

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The newspaper, which is strongly antiBritish, gives a very vivid account of the whole business. A great portion of the issue is taken up with copies of the resolutions passed by the towns round Boston, pledging themselves not to use any British goods, and denouncing those who do; and among the names of the citizens prominent in asserting their rights are those of Hancock, Adams, and others who afterwards became

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Melbourne.

EDWARD STEVENS.

66 "MAR IN MARDYKE (10 S. xii. 310, 475). -"Mardyke " would seem to denote the dyke or drain " through the marsh," that which passes through the three Saltfleetbys in Lincolnshire on the north side of the main road. In St. Peter's parish it is comparatively small, though larger than the field-drains in "The Marsh"; but, receiving tributary drains all the way, it becomes, in St. Clement's parish, quite wide and deep, a remarkable-looking drain indeed, and might be taken for a river, were it not

deans of the collegiate churches of AuckIn this county (Durham) there land St. Andrew, Chester-le-Street, Darlington, and Lanchester, and each had its prebends. There are old buildings at each place (except Chester) still known as "the deanery 22; but on the site of the Deanery at Chester-le-Street a comparatively modern mansion has been erected, which is still called The Deanery.22

Yorkshire, had also its dean and prebends. The collegiate church of Middleham, R. B-R.

South Shields.

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Probably the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott would say in his Cathedralia.' J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. SELBY, YORKS: ITS PECULIAR" COURT AND PARISH REGISTERS (10 S. xii. 409, 475). -MR. S. S. M'DOWALL does not quite touch the point of my inquiry. I know that the original registers in a more or less imperfect state are at Selby; but I want information about what are known as the Bishops' Transcripts, which one would expect to find at the Diocesan Registry, York. On inquiry I am told that they are not there because Selby was a Peculiar Court. Where are these transcripts now, if they have been preserved ?

It appears to me that the parishes within the Peculiar Court should have sent the copy of their register to the bishop, as required by the ordinance of 1597.

The Heights, Rochdale.

HENRY FISHWICK.

Though I cannot give COL. FISHWICK any information as to the registers from 1636 to 1715, it may be worth while to point out, in case he does not know it, that extracts from the registers for many of the years 1728-63 are to be found in the British Museum. They are Add. Charters 45913–33. H. I. B.

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many of the houses figured in the chapter on the Palladian style do not recall any features of his work. Of course the truth is that no one could live in England in a really Palladian house-one would have to follow Lord Chesterfield's advice and live in a house opposite to enjoy a view of it. The reaction from the grand style to the " ugly but comfortable " is comprehensible, if deplorable. No work will ever displace in our affections Turner and Parker's Domestic Architecture in the Middle Ages,' but Mr. Gotch's little book will stand beside it on our shelves. It is just the sort of book to give to any one who is inclined to be interested about old buildings without knowing much of them. Without any parade of teaching, it will direct attention to obvious features of style and set the student on the right One feature we are specially pleased with is the Chronological List of Castles and Houses.' It does not pretend to include even all the more notable historic houses of England, but it is a beginning, and the buildings given here, being all dated, will serve to fix the dates of many others whose origin is unknown. A complete list of the historic houses of England is not an impossible undertaking, and we should like to see it done. Unfortunately, there are difficulties in the way. Travelling is often costly and uncomfortable in England. Here is a book describing 200 fine buildings, but one's heart sinks when one realizes that the attempt to see any of them out of the beaten tourist track means a day's labour, the discomfort of bad food, and, probably, overcharge for it. An association like the Touring Club de France is badly wanted in England for the education of English hotel-keepers. All the same we are grateful to Mr. Gotch for having mapped out new objects of interest in rural England, and refreshed our memories of old friends.

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Sportsman' reviews several recent books sport. Fiction in The Fortnightly is generally worth reading, and 'An Unofficial Divorce,' by Mr. Stephen Reynolds, is an effective story of a fisherman and his brother who married the wrong girls, and changed their wives to their mutual satisfaction.

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IN The Nineteenth Century Sir Bampfylde Fuller writes, doubtless, good sense Indian Responsibilities of Liberal Politicians,' The but his style is too full and wordy to please the public of to-day. The title of A General Strike' is hardly justified by Mr. B. C. Molloy's article. What he considers is a strike of coalminers so general as to paralyze virtually all offered, which does not seem so easy as this industry. Co-partnership is the panacea interesting paper suggests. M. André Beaunier Française Contemporaine,' which is, like that of writes delightful French in La Littérature other countries, in a state of anarchy, and suffering from too much writing by everybody. Former good readers are now bad writers. Symbolism is no longer a power in poetry. The theatre attracts literary talent, and the results are geneleast respectable rally deplorable, for writers seek to flatter the desires of the multitude.

Novelists have not the public they had in the days of Zola and Daudet. It is suggested that Anatole France is not so original as he was thought to be. His many imitators do not count. M. Maurice Barrès and M. Jules Lemaître are selected as worthy of special notice, and brilliantly characterized. In 'The Making of a Poet Mr. Stephen Gwynn brings forward for praise the work of Mr. W. H. Davies and Mr. James Stephens, and his summary is both fair and attractive. Incidentally, he makes some general statements which seem to us of doubtful validity. Some Reminiscences of Mr. Gladstone,' by Sir Algernon West, are pleasant, though, like other papers on the subject, they remind us that Gladstone either had no Boswell, or did not often say notable things. A Self-Supporting Penal Labour Colony,' by Edith Sellers, is an account of Witzwil in Switzerland. The Director, whose name is not given, must be a remarkable organizer, with a sympathetic Government at his back. Nothing better than such a combination can be wished for solution at home of the Miss Rose problem of the unemployable. Bradley has an article which is both lively and instructive on Boswell and a Corsican Patriot.' The title In the Shadow of the Tower' gives no idea of the pathetic human interest of Mr. Gabriel Costa's account of a morning at the London Appeal Board under the Aliens' Act. In the little office in Great Tower Street many an alien, driven by persecution and want from his native land, gains the chance of a fresh start in England, or learns, alas! that "the hoped-for life of freedom in a free country is not destined Miss Viola Tree is new to us as a to be found." She succeeds in extracting matter of writer. The Censorship interest from the Blue-book on of Stage Plays,' though it seems to us tolerably 'the high intellectual absurd to talk about In standard of both questions and answers." 'The Ito Legend' Mr. F. T. Piggott adds from personal recollections to the chorus of praise which surrounds the memory of the far-seeing patriot.

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Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 179 contains books from the library of the late Frederick Hendriks, most of them with prints, autograph letters, and notes. Byron, complete edition in with volume, extra-illustrated Finden's engravings and a series of female portraits, green morocco extra, a fine copy, 1850, 158. Under Dickens is Ward's Memoir,' illustrated with 50 portraits of Dickens and his contemporaries, and six autograph letters from Albert Smith, Forster, and others, calf extra, 1882, 31. 3s. Under Heraldry is Sylvanus Morgan's Treatise of Honor and Honorable Men,' the Author's unpublished manuscript, 170 pages, with drawings of coats of arms (inserted is the title-page of The Sphere of Gentry,' containing the Author's portrait), 1642, 77. 108. Under Roxburghe Club is a volume containing Dibdin's Song to be sung at Roxburger's Hall,' Diary of Roger Payne,' &c., with a collection of 200 illustrations, royal 8vo, half-russia, 21. 128. Among miscellaneous books are works under Ballads and Bibliography. Under Calderon is MacCarthy's translation of three dramas of Calderon, 1870, 11. 18. There is a rare and curious book under Drinking: A Warning-Piece to all Drunkards and Health-drinkers,' full of accounts of the untimely end of persons alleged to have been killed by drink, 1682, 21, 28. A fine large copy of Fletcher's Rule a Wife and Have a Wife,' first edition, small 4to, half-morocco, Oxford, Leonard Lichfield, 1640, is 8l. 108.; the first edition of The Egoist,' 3 vols., original cloth, library ticket removed from covers, 1879, 21. 108.; and a rare copy of Boccaccio's 'De Præclaris Mulieribus,' 1475, crimson morocco, 221.

Mr. John Hitchman's Birmingham Christmas Catalogue contains the Autograph Edition of Ruskin, 8 vols., full morocco extra, 91. 98. ; Lucas's edition of Charles Lamb, 8 vols., halflevant, 41. 12s. 6d.; J. M. Barrie's Novels, Author's Edition, 10 vols., 21. 58.; Catlin's North American Indians,' 2 vols., 21. 108. ; Scharf and Cust's Mary, Queen of Scots,' 11. 58. ; Wyon's Great Seals of England,' folio, 21. 88. ; Thackeray's Novels, 7 vols., first editions (except Vanity Fair,' which is the second issue of the first), half-levant, 5l. 58. ; and the first edition, in the original wrapper, of Swinburne's Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic,' 1870, 158.

Mr. Hitchman has also a short list (No. 500) of a few interesting books at reduced prices, including Burton's Arabian Nights,' the Centenary Edition of Carlyle, Bradshaw Society Publications, St. John Hope's Order of the Garter,' &c.

Mr. Sutton's Manchester Catalogue 173 contains Ainsworth's Windsor Castle,'' Old St. Paul's,' and The Miser's Daughter,' the 3 vols. as new, 1844-8, 15l. 15s. ; black-letter cditions of Foxe's works; the Library Edition of Froude's 'History,' 12 vols., cloth, uncut, 1856-70, 41. 48. ; a set of Lever's novels, original illustrations, 16 vols., half-calf, 81. 88. ; Staunton's edition of Shakespeare with Gilbert's illustrations, 3 vols., 1858, il. 18.; and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography,' 3 vols., 1850, 128. Under Cruikshankiana is a collection of 81 plates, folio, original boards, McLean, 11. 108. There are nearly 300 items devoted to Irish Topography and Literature.

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Mr. T. Thorp's Catalogue 41 contains a collection of Mrs. Inchbald's Manuscript Diaries, 107. 108. Under Hogarth is a set of original drawings inserted in a copy of Tristram Shandy,' Vols. I.-III., bound in one thick small 8vo volume, rough half-calf (date cut from title), about 1765. These seven drawings are executed, Mr. Thorp states, "in Hogarth's best style,' price 1057. Among the Addenda will be found under Hogarth an atlas folio, half-calf, containing 79 plates, fine early impressions, 1738-90, 87. 108. Under America are some early maps. There are many juvenile books, ranging from 1760; and there is a list of book-plates recently purchased. Works under London include an extra-illustrated copy of Brayley, the 4 vols. extended to 10, 1816, 77. 108.; and a Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn,' 1521-1889, with Register of Marriages 1695-1754,' by Joseph Foster, privately printed, 1889, 12s. 6d. Among speeches are those of Sir Robert Peel, with explanatory index, 4 vols., 1853, 21. 108. Under Wordsworth is Moxon's edition, 6 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1841, 17. 168. Mr. Thorp issues from Guildford Catalogue 20, which contains works on Zoology, Botany, Astronomy, and Physics.

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THE REV. JOHN PICKFORD.-We are sorry to notice the death on December 30th of the Rev. John Pickford, Rector of Newbourne, Suffolk, at the age of 80. He was one of the steadiest correspondents to our columns, and kept up to the last a vivid interest in history, antiquities of all sorts, his Oxford friends, and the classics. He wrote a 'Life of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore.' At 10 S. xii. 376 he pointed out that his first communication to us appeared as long ago as 19 July, 1856, in the Second Series.