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The Stones and Story of Jesus Chapel. By Iris and
Gerda Morgan. Illustrated by Iris, Blenda and
Coral Morgan. (Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge,
Crown 4to, xiv-378 pp., 21s. net.)

THE gifted daughters of the late Dr. Morgan,
Master of Jesus, whose memory is revered by more
than one generation of Jesus men, have given us
not merely an architectural record, as the title
would suggest. but a living story of this unique
Cambridge college that is worthy of a high place
amongst University histories. The work so hand-
somely carried out was printed in 1914 but the War
delayed its publication till December 1919.

The style makes it more suitable for the general reader than for the archæologist. The diction is plain and straightforward, though for the most part the tone of the marginal notes is sometimes more such as we expect in books written for young folk. Not only do the authors' trace with admirable clearness the identity of the college buildings with those of the Benedictine nunnery of St. Radegund, which was founded in the 12th century and continued with varying fortunes until the foundation of the college by Bishop Alcock in 1496, but they bring out the essential continuity of the social life lived within these walls through nearly eight cen- | turies. That they are telling, as it were, the history of their own home, is evident from the vivid and human touches with which they describe the doings of the nuns, the gradual decay of their community, and the evolution of the college out of the small body of six fellows and a few school boys founded by the statesman Bishop of Ely. The troubles of the Society in the uncertain times of the Reformation and Cromwellian period make an eventful story. In the eighteenth century the college appears to have been distinguished rather by solid scholarship and piety than by brilliance, until the names of Coleridge, Malthus and E. D. Clarke appear on the record.

also other authentic efforts of Swift's genius. His full text is not for children, for the strange, morbid side of Swift shows up in his fairy-like fantasies. But how much of his satire remains pungent to-day, particularly for the political world, the Big-Endians and their ruthless opponents, and the great officers of Lilliput who win their places by skill in rope dancing! The Treasurer could cut a caper on the tight rope at least an inch higher than anybody else, and Gulliver had seen him do the summerset several times together upon a trencher fixed on the rope.

The irony of A Discourse on the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit' is still pretty shrewd, and, if we had a Swift living 10-day, he could find abundant material for a Critical Essay upon the Art of Canting.'

The Oxford University Press may always be trusted to give a good text; and the reproductions of the original titlepages and introductions are a pleasant reminder of the age which admitted, as Swift notes in the Tale of a Tub,' a "multiplicity of god-fathers." One of the titlepages of 'Gulliver' mentions" verses explanatory and commendatory." Could not some of Pope's Poems Suggested by Gulliver' have been added, the 'Ode to Quinbus Flestrin' for instance, or The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig'?

Pensées sur la sciènce, la guerre et sur des sujets très variés. Glanées par Dr. Maurice Lecat. (Bruxelles, Lamartin; Paris, A. Hermann et fils, 1919. Extract, fr. 1 50.)

WE have received an extract of this work, made up of sample pages and parts of the indexes of subjects and authors quoted. The author says in his preface that this book is a part (about 11,000 we suppose) of the 123,500 quotations he has collected in his leisure during twenty years. As he gives no details of the sources beyond the authors' names, anyone rash enough to wish to verify the quotations may sacrifice another twenty years in so doing. Science is the main subject. Dr. Lecat 'documente les savants proprements dits.' But his For the student of ecclesiastical architecture there range is truly catholic, and he may well claim imis much valuable material in the account of the de-partiality. Leonardo da Vinci is near Zamakhsvelopment of the Chapel, commencing with its origin chari, Cicero near Schelling, Voltaire near Tolstoi; as the parochial and conventual Church of St. the ex-Kaiser goes with Spinoza, Heraclitus with Radegund and tracing its reconstruction by Bishop Lichtenberger. But we do not understand the Alcock, its beautifications and spoliations in Tudor principle of translation. Menander is in Greek, and Puritan times, and its successive Classical and but Plato in French, Machiavelli is translated, but Gothic restorations in the last century. The story Lope de Vega left in Portuguese. The author of the domestic buildings, first as the house of the makes too many claims for his work, but a certain nuns and then as part of the college, is also full of interest, especially to some sorts of minds, uninterest, culminating in the discovery of the well-doubtedly attaches to it. Dr. Lecat is a matheknown chapter-house entrance so recently as 1893-4. matician, and must have chuckled when he noted One appendix gives biographical notes of the down M. Vipsanius Agrippa's "Mathematics is Masters, a second a list of the gravestones and not a fit study for those who fear God." memorial tablets in the Chapel, and the volume is enriched by a number of excellent illustrations.

Gulliver's Travels. The Tale of a Tub, and The Battle of the Books. By Jonathan Swift. (Humphrey Milford, 3s. 6d. net).

WE welcome this addition to the 'Oxford Edition of Standard Authors, a series of books which is both sound and decidedly cheap. 'Gulliver' of late has gone up considerably in secondhand bookshops; indeed, the latest edition we saw the other day has advanced some 250 per cent in price during the War. The reader who wants the book could hardly

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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. v. nos. 3 and 4. Manchester University Press, 28. IN this very interesting and well-illustrated number Dr. Rendel Harris writes on Metrical Fragments in III. Maccabees' and Dr. F. A. Bruton on The Story of Peterloo.' Dr. Mingana contributes Synopsis of Christian Doctrine in the Fourth Century according to Theodore of Mopsuestia '-a translation of a Syriac text giving the "father of rationalism's opinions. Mr. Robert Fawtier writes on the Jews in the "Use of York.' Prof. Tout is admirable on

their prevalence, their motives and the leniency accorded them. In particular he gives an account of the false "6 Ingulf's History of Crowland'" in the fourteenth century and, by way of comparison, of the eighteenth-century "Richard of Cirencester's 'De Situ Britanniæ,' forged by Bertram. There are plenty of such "documents " being made to-day.

Poems,' privately printed. Collectors of theatrical items will find a number of Nineteenth-Century Playbills, and are advised that on request they will be sent, and a list of Acting Editions of NineteenthCentury Plays. There are also a number of Art Works in English, French, and German relating to Decoration.

MESSRS. T. and M. KENNARD, of Leamington Dr. W. H. R. Rivers's paper on Mind and Medicine outlines very briefly the history of the Spa, send us their Miscellaneous and interesting subject from primitive religions to psycho- Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books, New analysis. His views are weighed carefully, but Series 2. It includes a copy of Billingsley's Euclid, the dubious gregarious instinct " creeps in, with the "groundplat," and a fine portrait of John and we doubt his advice to statesmen. The Day, the printer. 1570, altogether a desirable copy, influence of primitive institutions on present-bound in old English stamped leather, all in day ideas and institutions have been investigated excellent preservation, for 201.; Arnold's Imparin somewhat the way Dr. Rivers wants, by the tial History of North and South America,' with economist Mr. Thorstein Veblen. Dragons and the free and candid Anecdotes of Washington, Rain Gods,' by Dr. G. Elliot Smith is a fascinating Franklin, and others; and a pathetic account of study. He tries to trace their history and Major André, 1782, for 31. 38. They also offer a discover where they sprang from. Thus, he set of Sir Walter Scott's Works, in 88 vols., in thinks, dragon myths for the most part come fine fresh state for this early edition, 1829, for the from India. We confess his methods do not moderate sum of 10. 108. Nash's beautifully impress us. He insists that his theories are coloured Windsor Castle' is priced 71. 78. Altoalmost diametrically opposed to the psychologists gether there are nearly 900 items, including a small Freud, Jung, Abraham, and the others of the section of Theology and Foreign Works, prices same school. We must say that as far as logic ranging from 28. 6d. upwards. goes, these have the advantage, as often Dr. Smith risks falling into the fallacy post hoc, ergo When more propter hoc. evidence is forthcoming, as is expected, to prove that in everybody's mind there lurks the images of dragons and wizards and other monsters, the filiation theory of myths must largely collapse.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES' (Cambridge) Catalogue No. 400, 4to, 20 pp., comprising works in General Literature, contains many scarce works, publications of Private Presses, Illustrated Works, &c. Amongst the items are the rare first edition of Fielding's Joseph Andrews in contemporary binding; Prof. Skeat's copy of Chaucer's Woorkes,' 1561 one of the six copies printed on vellum of F. W. Cornish's pretty edition of Horace'; Gabriele Rossetti's edition of Dante, with inscription; C. S. C.'s Verses and Translations, with the author's corrections and autograph letter; the Second Edition of Milton's 'Paradise Regained,' 1680; Autograph of Queen Victoria, &c.

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MR. LESLIE CHAUNDY of 104 High Street, Oxford, has just issued catalogue No. 39 being the privately purchased library of the late Dr. C. H. O. Daniel, the Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and famous for the choice issues of his Private Press. His taste for the Printer's Art is reflected in the many fine examples in the Library; Incunabula a wonderful collection of no less than 96 productions of the Aldine Press, and many fine editions of Greek and Latin classics, some in choice bind ings. Among the many early editions of English Authors may be noted, First Editions of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1649, Montaigne's Essayes,' 1603, Spenser's Prosopopoia,' 1591. The books are catalogued with great care for detail and interspersed with bibliographical and descriptive notes, and some illustrations of some of the choicest items.

MR. D. W. EDWARDS'S Catalogue No. 19 contains a number of Editions de Luxe, among them a copy of Thomas Taylor's translation of Apuleius's

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CONTENTS.- No. 102. NOTES:-Danteiana, 55-Cornish and Devonian Priests executed, 56-Historic Walthamstow, 57-Shakespeariana, 58-London Coffee-houses, Taverns, and Inns, 59-Bloomsbury-Oxford English Dictionary-Church of St. Kather. ine Coleman-Whittlesey. Cambs-War and Paper-Supply -Father of the Chapel, 62-D.D. Cantab, 63.

Of the fair image of her sister white,
But soon her brush its colour true forsakes.
The last quoted observes on this passage :-
"The phrase 'hoar frost, the sister of snow,'
will remind the reader of 'dust. the sister of
mud,' in Esch., Agam.' 495. The comparison is
among the longest and most vivid of any in the poem,
and is a typical example of the union of the power
that observes the phenomena of external nature
with insight into human feelings as affected by
them."

And Mr. Tozer finds it "for Dante, unusually long and elaborate in its details," refers to "similar effects of contrast

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QUERIES:-Louis Napoleon in Lancashire-St. Stephen and Herod-St. Malo, 63-Earliest Clerical DirectoryMichael Drum-'The Chess-board of Life-The Sixth Foot-Silver Punch Ladle-Metham-R-s Coningsby, 64 The Times': Burlesque Copy-Geary or Geery Family -Robert Jenner-Pinner of Wakefield - Unannotated Marriages at Westminster, 65-Udny-Edmund DozellRev. John Stones-Robert Trotman-Jacobite Memorial Ring-John Griffiths-Pollard Family, 66-W. Cecil (Lord Burghley)-Pew er Snuffers-Hawkhurst Gang-William Alabaster-John Pearce-Poems for Children-Slates and Slate Pencils-Cross-bearer of the University of Cambridge -Thorington, 67-Miller's Gardener's Dictionary-Mary' Inf.' xxvi. 25 and 64, concluding by hinting Jones-Alfieri's Tutor-Richard Dudley-Curious Sur: that "this mode of poetic treatment is one names-Letter from the King (George IV.)-Authors of for which he may have been indebted to Quotations Wanted, 68. REPLIES: We Four Fools," 68-An English Army List Virgil," and supplying three instances from of 1740, 70-"The Whole Duty of Man," 71-William the Æneid x. 803 (ac velut, effusâ si Harper J J. Kleinschmidt-Monkshood - Bramble Philochristus': Ecce Homo-Capt. J. W. Carleton, quando grandine nimbi, &c.); xii. 473 (et 72-Walvein Family-Lord Bowen-Author of Anthem penitus alta atria lustrat hirundo, &c.); Wanted- Bocase" Tree-Emerson's English Traits,' 73 -Congeivoi-Lawrence Wodecocke, 74-Newton. R.A.— and xii. 587 (Inclusas ut cùm latebroso in St. Cassian-Epater le bourgeois "-Edmund Uvedale pumice pastor vestigavit apes, &c.). It is Rev. Aaron Baker, 75-Dreux Family-Donkeys' Years, 76 well that the hint of Dante's imitation or John Witty-John Sykes-Urchfont, 77-Danvers Family Rev. J. H. Bransbury-S. Hopkins-Sir E. Paget plagiarism is conveyed conjecturally, for, "Gram"-Dumb Animals' Friend, 78-Lepers' Windows it seems to me, as with Shakespeare so -Authors of Quotations Wanted, 79. with Dante, commentators evince an almost NOTES ON BOOKS: Sidelights on Shakespeare''Catalogue of Printed Music Tales by Washington feverish anxiety in their quest of, not merely thought-likenesses, but absolutely unacknowledged adaptations and adoptions. We know the poet's triple admission to Virgil's shade from the lines :

Irving''The British Academy.' OBITUARY:-Arthur Henry Bullen. Notices to Correspondents.

When as the rime upon the earth puts on
Her dazzling sister's image, but not long

Vagliami il lungo studio......

Tu se' lo mio maestro e il mio autore,
Da cui io tolsi......

Lo bello stile che mi ha fatto onore.
Inf.,' I. 83, seq.

But I regard Dean Plumptre's suggestion
that "in the vision of Hades in Bk. VI. of
the Aneid' he found, it need hardly be
said, the archetype of the Commedia,'
as a reflection upon his originality and
inventiveness. A post hoc ergo propter hoc
is not always nor necessarily a valid argu-
ment. Nor was it pressed as such for fully
five centuries after Dante's death, and,
strangely enough, by a compatriot of his.
In the January number of The Antiquary,
1912, I concluded a second article headed
'Some Precursors of Dante' thus :-
:-

"The above are but few, though perhaps the chief, instances out of many culled from the rich