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Cambridge, both things being done before the royal standard had been set up at Nottingham, and the first siege of Crowland, with what is called "The Battle of the Parsons." Sterner interest attends the twelfth chapter, in which the contest between the Parliament and the army concerning the king is depicted, and the thirteenth, descriptive of "The Second Civil War." In this the East Anglians were no longer so closely allied, and the whole district from Stamford and Bury St. Edmunds to Colchester was aflame with rebellion. These aspects of the contest, in some respects the most tragic, are finely depicted. We know not whether to blame Mr. Kingston for the fact that he holds the scales between the contending factions with a not too steady hand. So strongly on the side of the stalwart and pugnacious, albeit heroic Puritanism of East Anglia, and so fervent an admirer, is he, that he almost loses the impartiality of the historian. Admiring, perhaps, as much as he the service rendered to England by the patriots of the associated counties, we find our sympathies turned by the manner-strongly, if unconsciously, one-sided-in which our author writes. The barbarous and inhuman murder of Lucas and Lisle after the siege of Colchester provokes nothing more than the statement that "much controversy has been carried on around the question" if the execution of Lucas and Lisle was justifiable, and whether its inhumanity can be condoned by any question of parole given by compounders, &c., and all that is added is that it is "a controversy into which it would be profitless to enter here." This may be true, It may, however, be contrasted with advantage with the strong language employed when the boot is on the other leg. Without in the least intending to chide Mr. Kingston, whose sympathies are justified as well as probably inherited, we should bave enjoyed more a work which we have enjoyed much had a greater appearance of impartiality been kept up. There are in his volume some capital sketches of character as well as much very curious and valuable information. Among the appendices are a good sketch of "Social and Public Life during the Civil War" and an account of "The Deprived Royalist Clergy in Cambridgeshire." The illustrations include a plan of the siege of Colchester, a facsimile title-page of The Souldier's Pocket Bible,' a picture of Cromwell arresting the sheriff at St. Albans (from a drawing by Mr. F. G. Kitton), views of Crowland Abbey and other spots, and a portrait of Cromwell's daughter, Bridget leetwood.

Acts of the Privy Council of England. New Series. Vol. XVI. A.D. 1588. Edited by John Roche Dasent, C.B. (Record Office.)

So occupied with preparations connected with the Spanish Armada was the Privy Council during 1588 that matters of private interest seem to have come rarely under its ken. Lady Conowey (Conway), however, to whose proceedings in connexion with the acquisition of wives and fortunes for her sons we have previously drawn attention, is still troublesome. In October she is spoken of as "latlie diseased "; and though the difficulties concerning Marie Bourne are not yet at an end, her ladyship will have no further opportunity for the display of recalcitrancy with regard to obedience to orders. Another romantic case, however, crops up in the abduction of the only daughter and heiress of the Earl of Clencar (Clancarty) by a certain Fynny McCarty. During his lordship's stay in London, "to followe cortaire suites to her Majestie," the aforesaid Fynny McCarty has "by sinister practize intysed and taken awuie [Florence McCarty] the only daughter and heire of the said Earle, beinge very younge and not of yeres to consent to any contract, which proceedinge, considering the calling of

the Earle and the quallycie of the other, to bereave him of bis only daughter, not only without his privytie but contrary to her Majestie's meaninge," it is prayed that the said young lady be restored and that Fynny receive his merited punishment. It is satisfactory to learn that the marauder was for his presumption imprisoned at Cork, and subsequently, since he was there allowed too much liberty, was transported to Dublin Castle, where his opportunities of annoying his kinsman were fewer. Mr. Dasent assumes that the marriage which took place was not disagreeable to the fair Florence. Here are materials for a thoroughly Irish romance. The main interest of the volume is, however, historical, confirming particulars we already possess as to the difficulty in provisioning the fleet intended to oppose the Spaniards, and in obtaining the ships, and the sufferings of the sailors and others after the danger had passed. Sir John Gilborne (Gilbert), Knight, shows in very unpatriotic colours, for, besides refusing obedience to the order of Sir Francis Drake that he shall detain in the realm certain vessels, some of them of great burden, which he had intended for service in the West Indies, for which he was gravely censured, he seems to have been among those who pilfered from the captured ships of the Spaniards stores, &c., required by the State. Many offenders of this class were there, and it seems to have been hopeless to attempt to repress the loot. It is difficult to over-estimate the historical importance of the matter contained in the present volume. Most of it has, however, been at the disposal of our later historians. Mr. Dasent's duties have been once more efficiently discharged, and he is to be warmly congratulated upon the rapidity with which the succeeding volumes are issued."

Suffolk Tales, and other Stories, &c. By the late Lady Camilla Gurdon. (Longmans & Co.) DURING her residence near Woodbridge, Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon, daughter of the fifth Earl of Portsmouth, and wife of Sir William Brampton Gurdon, K.C.M.G., took a keen interest in Suffolk folk-lore, on which she wrote a book, and in Suffolk customs and people generally. Her premature death three years ago was calamitous. Pious hands have given the world a collection of her "Memories and Fancies," which enable us to realize the extent of our loss. Though needlessly melancholy in tone, her prose-her verse contributions are but trifles-is well written, and shows habits of close observation, both of character and natural objects. An ardent lover of the country, Lady Camilla writes of it with a zeal begotten of knowledge. The lessons she preaches are all human and touching, and her book conveys the idea that she must have possessed a charming personality.

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Translated by George Colville, 1556. Edited by Ernest Belfort Bax. (Nutt.)

WE have here, rescued from obscurity and neglect, one more of those early translations the reproduction of which has constituted a boon that philologists and students of English prose are but too glad to recognize. The present translation of this much translated work, which was, indeed, the delight and, let us hope, the consolation of medieval thinkers, is included in Mr. Nutt's delightful "Tudor Library," the earlier renderinge, apart from the Anglo-Saxon version of King Alfred, consisting of that of Chaucer, which Chaucerians are bound to study, and find a sufficiently difficult task, and that of John Walton, Canon of Osney, executed in 1410, which we have not seen. Colville's or Coldewl's translation, first printed in 1556 by John Cawood, was

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more than once reprinted in Tudor times. It is wholly
in prose, the verse portions being conjoined with the
general text. We are not sure that this is not the most

agreeable rendering in which to peruse a work eminently
We have per-
calculated to appeal to Englishmen.
sonally found Chaucer's translation unreadable, though
The French
we ought, perhaps, to blush to say so.
translation of Charles d'Orléans we have not attempted,
and modern versions have proved but moderately stimu-
lating. Colville's rendering has just the right amount
of archaic flavour, and offers not the slightest difficulty
A few contractions,
to the student of Tudor literature.
such as "yt" for that, and the indication by a circum-
flex of an omitted letter, are all, indeed, that need puzzle
terse, vigorous, and
a novice, and Colville's English
characteristic, and, as Mr. Bax saye, wholly free from
euphuisms. An introduction by Mr. Bax is a sound piece
of criticism. It tells, moreover, all that needs be told
concerning the sufferings of Boethius-which are, for
the most part, indicated in his book-and his untimely
and unmerited fate. With its antique type, broad mar-
gins, spotless cover, and exquisite paper, the volume
is an unmixed delight to the lover of fine books. A
large circulation is scarcely to be anticipated for it, but
there are not a few to whom its possession will be a joy.
The Life of J. M. W. Turner. By Walter Thorabury.
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and we are glad to welcome his excellent work in a
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Chronologies and Calendars. By James C. Macdonald,
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THE death of Mr. E. Walford will remove from the pages of N. & Q. one familiar name and one or two scarcely less familiar pseudonyms, the best known of which was MUS URBANUS. Born at Hatfield Peverell, 3 Feb., 1823, he was educated at the Charterhouse and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated 28 Nov., 1840; won an open scholarship; passed B.A. 1845 and M.A. 1847; carried off the Chancellor's prize for Latin veree, and was proxime accessit for the Ireland University Scholarship in the year Prof. Conington won

In a new and revised edition, and with ten reproductions in colour of Turner's pictures, Messrs. Chatto & Windus have reissued Thornbury's bright and read-it. He took deacon's orders in 1846; was ordained priest able, if rather desultory, life of Turner. The work is a stand by what processes in art so marvellous effects can miracle of cheapness, and we find it difficult to underbe produced at the price. A large class-almost the largest class-of readers may hope, accordingly, to form an acquaintance with Turner's strange character and adorable art. The illustrations include Calais Harhour, Edinburgh from St. Anthony's Chapel,' The Hôtel de Ville, Paris, Skiddaw from Derwentwater,' and many other works of highest interest and beauty. On p. 154 Gravelot, the designer and engraver, is mis printed "Gavelot," a mistake that should be corrected in another edition. In its present form the work is destined to a large circulation.

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London Signs and Inscriptions. By Philip Norman,
F.S.A. (Stock.)

THE second volume of the reissue of the "Camden
Library "consists of Mr. Norman's work, also called
'Sculptured Signs of Old London,' in praise of which-
on its first appearance four years ago, with an introduc-
tion by Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, now reprinted-we
spoke 8th S. iv. 60. What we then said, that the volume
constitutes the only attempt of which we are aware to
deal comprehensively with sculptured signs, remains true.
These things are rapidly disappearing. During the
period that has elapsed since the volume first saw the
light some have gone, giving way to the necessity for
London extension, and before very long all probably will
have vanished. It is pleasant to think that a home for
some of them has been found at the Guildhall Museum.
This does not in the least detract from the value of Mr.
Norman's book, in which they are shown in the positions
they occupied. Mr. Norman's talents as artist and
writer qualified bim fully for the task he has efficiently
discharged, and though few of the designs now given are
his own, all are produced under his superintendence.
Many devices of utmost interest were naturally swept
away by the Fire of London, and the number of those
remaining is smaller than we could have wished. Mr.
Norman has made, however, a considerable collection,

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by the Bishop of Oxford, 1847; went over to the Church 1860; and was readmitted to the Church of Rome, 1871. of Rome, 1853; returned to the Church of England, He was for some time assistant master of Tonbridge School. His name is best known in literature by its association with that of Walter Thornbury in the production of 'Old and New London.' He is also responsible for 'Greater London,' County Families of the United in Pleasant Places,' The Pilgrim at Home,' Tourist's Kingdom,' 'Chapters from Family Chests," Pleasant Days Guide to Berkshire,' an annual Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, &c, and other works. Mr. Walford, who died on the 20th inst., at Ventnor, where he had recently dwelt, maintained to the last his interest in 'N. & Q.,' and contributes to the present volume.

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