"CROCKERY":"DUSTMAN" (8th S. iii. 146).So far from dustman having been introduced as a new substantive by Miss Burney in 1782, Mr. Oliphant would have found it if he had looked into Gay's 'Trivia,' 1715. In book ii. l. 37, we read :

The dustman's cart offends thy cloaths and eyes.

J. DIXON. OLD COIN OR TOKEN (8th S. iii. 209).-I think J. L. B. will find the coin he asks about in 'N. & Q.' is an old crest button, made by Messrs. Firmin & Sons, who for some years had a button and accoutrement shop in Conduit Street. I see they are now at 155, Strand, and I have no doubt would give him all information required.

friend that she would pay her a visit on Monday D. V., and on Tuesday whether or no !

Longford, Coventry.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Historic Towns.-York. By Rev. James Raine, M.A.,
D.C.L. (Longmans.)

narrative we gather that the inhabitants of Ufton Court
were quiet, peaceable folk, who desired nothing except
the permission to worship in quietness after the manner
of their forefathers. Although the old court has been
mutilated and degraded, the oratory in which the offices
of their religion were performed has not been swept
away. The old house also contains more than one of
those strange dens, called priests' hiding-holes, in which
the wandering ministers of the fallen faith were wont to
conceal themselves when hunted by pursuivant and con-
stable. We trust they may long survive, as memorials of
a state of barbarism which has happily passed away.
We gather from the records which Miss Sharp has dis-
among their neighbours had it not been for the over-
officious zeal of a certain informer named Roger Plump-
ton-can he have been a far-away scion of the old York-
shire race of that name ?-who, for the hope of reward,
no doubt, acted as a spy upon their actions. His
accusation against Francis Perkins has been handed
down to us. It bears date 1586, a disturbed and danger-
ous time, when the ruling powers suspected every one
of treasonable practises who did not conform to the
Church of England. The whole document gives a most
curious picture of the state of terror in which "popish
recusants" lived. With all his cunning, the spy could
not make out very much. Care was taken to hinder as
much as possible his seeing the habits of the household,
but the fellow was sharp-witted and had quick ears. On
more than one occasion he deposes to having seen
of the familye, one after another, slipping upp in a
secrett manner to a highe chaumber in the toppe of the
howse & theere continewe the space of an hower & a
halfe or moore &......harkening as neere as he might to
the place, hath often heard a little bell rounge, which he
imagineth to be a sacring bell, whereby he conjectureth
that they resorte to hear masse."

CANON RAINE, we need not tell our readers, is an accom-
plished antiquary. Not only has he a profound know-covered that the Perkinses might have lived in peace
ledge of the York archives, but his acquaintance with
European history is of a wide and genuine character.
There are very few of us who may be trusted to
generalize on historical subjects beyond the limits of our
own island, but Canon Raine is, by the universal con-
sent of the few who are in a position to be able to
criticize him, one of that select number. He is, there-
fore, especially qualified for writing a history of the
City of York which shall be at the same time popular
and scholar-like, for the interests attaching to York are
not confined to England only. As one of the early
homes of Christianity in the north, the old Northumbrian
capital is an object of great interest. She did not hide
her light under a bushel, but spread the flame south-
ward over what was then barbarous Germany. Egberht,
Wigberht, and Willibrord spread the Gospel in Fries-
land, the last of them founding the great line of Bishops
of Utrecht. Wilfrith was, it is believed, the first Christian
missionary who set foot among these wild scions of the
great Teutonic stock. His name must ever be indissolubly
connected with York, although his body rests, as is fitting,
in the minster he founded at Ripon.

Canon Raine does not trace the history of events further than the abdication of James II. We wish he had followed the stream of time down to the '45, and told us of the poor, unhappy creatures who were put to death at York for the part they took in the vain endeavour to bring about a second restoration of the house of Stuart.

The author draws attention to a medieval legend that the body of the Emperor Constantius was discovered in a sepulchral vault under the church of St. Helen without the walls, and that with it was found a lamp which had been burning ever since the emperor's burial. We now know that such tales cannot possibly be true, but many of them exist in the older literature of Europe. It would be well to have a collection of them, so that, if possible, we might ascertain what has been the origin of this picturesque piece of folk-lore. The History of Ufton Court, of the Parish of Ufton, in the County of Berks, and of the Perkins Family. By A. Mary Sharp. (Stock.)

WE have seldom met with a volume which more fully carries out the promise of its title-page. Miss Sharp has given her readers a history of Ufton Court in the very best sense of a word which is very often misused. We have no scissors-and-paste work here, but a chronicle of a noble old dwelling and of the worthy race that inhabited it carried on with conscientious care from generation to generation.

The Perkinses of Ufton were a Roman Catholic race, who clung to the old ways of thinking when all around was changing. Their fidelity to the elder faith brought much trouble upon them during the times of the cruel penal laws. In their case the punishments seem to have been without the slightest justification. Some of the Roman Catholic gentry were, there can be no doubt, disloyal to their Protestant rulers, but from Miss Sharp's

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The author has discovered a highly curious account of a riot which has hitherto been hidden among the Star Chamber papers of the reign of Henry VIII. We are grateful to her for printing it. It tends to show that the manners of the gentry in the earlier Tudor time were as rough and violent as those of the London rough of the present time. We must not conclude without noticing the excellent illustrations with which Miss Sharp's interesting volume is enriched.

The Essays of Montaigne. Done into English by John
Florio. The Second Book. (David Nutt.)
WITH the second volume of the new edition of Florio's
Montaigne, published in something approaching to fac-
simile by Mr. Nutt and reintroduced to the public by Mr.
George Saintsbury, the cancel leaves are issued to replace
the erroneous title-page to which, in our review of the first
volume, we called attention. A special feature in Florio's
translation is the curious rendering of the Latin ex-
tracts those from Lucretius Florio sometimes chastely
leaves alone. These translations are very like in style
to the speeches assigned the players in Hamlet.' The
edition is both attractive and convenient. Something
may be said in favour of the folios so dear to Charles
Lamb and Cotter Morison, but one at the present time
suffering from an accident due to the fall of a folio will
be content to have them in this smaller if still substantial
state. We have compared the reprint with the original
folio, and find it satisfactory in all respects. It is, indeed,

a scholar's book.

Verzeichniss der Bibliotheken mit gegen 50,000 und mehr Bänden. II. Von P. E. Richter. (Leipzig, Verlag von G. Hedeler.)

THIS is the second and concluding part of a valuable index to the nature and extent of the collections in

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the principal public and some of the more remarkable private libraries of the Old and New Worlds, which we owe to the zeal and care of the Librarian of the Royal Library, Dresden. The part now before us contains the Romance, Slavonic, and Scandinavian countries of Europe, and also includes Africa, Asia, Australia, and the greater part of the American continent, taking in several notable private collections in the United States.

There are some lacuna which we hope the erudite Royal Librarian at Dresden may see his way to filling before the next edition of his work is called for. A few "Chalon" for Châlons, "Forli " As he misprints occur-e.g, for Forli-which can easily be corrected," evidently, and we think rightly, takes the minimum of 50,000 volumes somewhat broadly, and not as one to be slavishly adhered to, he might, we cannot but feel, have increased the value of his book by giving us the statistics of such special libraries as those of the Society of Comparative Legislation, Paris, the Geographical Society of Lisbon, the Royal Lombard Institute, Milan, the Chapter Library, Verona, where the celebrated Gaius is preserved, and other such rather out-of-the-way collections, information as to which is not easily to be met with. What has already been gathered together by Herr Richter gives us the desire that he may long continue his most useful labours.

Men of Kent and Kentishmen. By John Hutchinson, (Canterbury, Cross & Jackman.)

MR. HUTCHINSON has compiled a handbook of all those personages who, being natives of that famous county, have at any time distinguished themselves in any way. His tale, full told, extends to only 227 items. We should have thought he might have secured more. He makes no pretence to original research, but takes his information from the usual biographical collections, devoting half a page or so to each of his worthies. That Mr. Hutchinson does his best to swell out his catalogue appears patent from his including Sophia, the infant daughter of James I., who, though she only lived three days, distinguished herself by getting born at Greenwich.

John Wyclif. By Lewis Sergeant. (Putnam's Sons.) WHEN a writer essays once more such a well-worn subject as John Wyclif and his times we naturally turn to his preface with some curiosity, to see what justification he can plead for his work of apparent supererogation.

We find, then, that this is a response to the imperious demand (we had nearly said fad) of the day that every

trustworthy in its class remains unassailed. The present The position of this work as the most convenient and is the twenty-third annual issue, and all conceivable pains have been taken to secure accuracy.

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