matters of controversy, we think we cannot too highly recommend Mr. Lecky's accounts of the commercial and religious legislation for Ireland, containing as they do a statement of past relations between this country and the sister island, which we are afraid are too much overlooked by, if indeed they are not for the most part absent from the knowledge of, Englishmen of ordinary information. Again, few are there who will not derive new and precise instruction from his description of the rise and progress of Methodism. This part of Mr. Lecky's book is enriched with personal accounts of Wesley and of Whitefield, and is enlivened with a store of anecdotes culled from various authorities.

Before concluding it would not be fair to omit notice of the portrayal of some of the political personages who figure in the work. Alberoni, Walpole, and the elder Pitt are all drawn in more or less detail. The humble origin of the first of these three men gives rise to the remark that "few men, without any advantage either of birth or fortune, have ever risen to great political eminence without drinking deeply of the cup of moral humiliation." We confess that to us this sentence is of ambiguous meaning, and we should like to see it illustrated by examples; but in reading Mr. Lecky's pages regarding Alberoni we could not help being reminded of a later man more remarkable still. Walpole and Pitt have their well-known characters again set out, the latter with considerable fulness. In the short space at our disposal it is impossible to do more than to indicate one or two points in this last of Mr. Lecky's works; but to conclude with a general remark, we will venture to state our belief that to read through these two large handsome volumes from beginning to end will be for any one to gain much instruction and to enjoy no less entertainment.

THE Nineteenth Century for July contains an article on Peter the Great's will, by Mr. William J. Thoms, whose recent letter on the same subject in the Morning Post will be in the recollection of many of our readers. The points now chiefly insisted upon are that Napoleon was not the author of the will of Peter the Great, and that the charge made by Berkholz that he was so was inspired by Russian influence, and its wide circulation had the same origin; and what is still more important, that there is evidence of the existence of the will long before Napoleon's time, in the statement made by the Prussian Minister Podowils to Frederick the Great that the Russian Envoy Kaiserlink had admitted to him that he had seen, in the handwriting of Peter himself, his suggestions for the future regulation of his successors, and that in conversation the king himself had spoken of the "will of Peter of glorious memory."

The Library Journal. November to May. (Trübner.) THE importance and usefulness of this journal, not only to librarians but to lay readers, become more manifest with the issue of each number. The acting editors are to be congratulated on the energy they display. Some notes entitled "Sparks in the Gloom," in the April number, are exceedingly amusing, and illustrate the incredible amount of ignorance that librarians have at times to endure. "Book-auction Catalogues and their Perils" is also amusing. Among the interesting matter in the May number is a note from Mr. Garnett to the effect that after a three weeks' trial it was found that readers of fiction at the British Museum did not exceed 2 per cent. The March number contains a most useful list of abbreviations of words and Christian names proposed or suggested to be used for all catalogues in future.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications should be written the name and

address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

CORRESPONDENTS are requested to bear in mind that it is against rule to seal or otherwise fasten communications transmitted by the halfpenny post. Not unfrequently double postage has to be paid on their receipt, because they have been "closed against inspection."

FOLK-LORE.-We would strongly urge on those correspondents who are good enough to send us communications on Folk-Lore that, before doing so, they should consult Brand's Popular Antiquities, Chambers's Book of Days, Hone's Every-Day Book, but especially Thisel ton Dyer's British Popular Customs, this last being the most recent work on customs connected with the Calendar.

W. M. M.-The golden rose is blessed by the Pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent in the Sixtine Chapel, and it is sent annually to a sovereign, to a celebrated church, have been substituted for the gold and silver keys, and or to some eminent personage. This present is said to for the pieces cut with a file from the chains which merly sent. Lenfant states that it is not easy to dis are said to have bound the hands of St. Peter, forcover who was the first author of the gift, some saying that it was instituted in the fifth, others in the ninth century. See "N. & Q.," 2nd S. i. 252, 337.

A. B.-Charles Elmé Francatelli is described in Vincent's Dictionary of Biography as scientific cook successively to Crockford's, the Royal Household, and the Reform Club. He was born in 1805, and died Aug. 10, 1876.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.-A reference to the bibliographical curiosity has already been made in the last vol. of "N. & Q.," ante, p. 340. We do not see that anything further can be said on the subject.

C. W.-The history of shorthand noticed in 5th S. ix. 520 is printed in German at Dresden, and is published under the title of Geschichte und Literatur der Geschwindschreibkunst, Svo., 1878.

C. E. G. asks in what magazines (and in what numbers of the same) have been published any criticisms of Jean Ingelow's works, prose or poetical.

ante, p. 15, and a catalogue, from which you may glean W. (ante, p. 468.)-A specimen of the plan advised some hints, have been left for your perusal at your club.

TREGEAGLE.-No. The Jack Mitford inquired after was, we presume, the disreputable hanger-on of the press of that name.

M. D. We have forwarded your packet to our correspondent.

M.-The letter was forwarded to your club, and thence to the direction now given.

GEORGE LLOYD.-See Cæsar's Commentaries, passim. MIRIAM T.-No charge.

ERRATUM.-5th S. ix. 507, col. 2, 1. 27 from top, for "Gelria," read Gelriæ.

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Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C.

We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception.

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FEGERTON HINE, Dealer in High-Class Paint-

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MR. L. HERRMAN'S Fine-Art Gallery, 60, Great

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92. Great Russell Street.

This Exhibition is Open to the Public Free, and contains an Exten-

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Modern Schools of Art, containing many Fine Examples of the Early

Kalian and German Masters, adapted for CHURCH DECORATION

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early German and Italian Period. Pictures and Drawings framed

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MORTLOCK'S CHINA.-Great Sale.-The

ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE has now commenced. Un-
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No. 303, for JULY, will be Published on WEDNESDAY NEXT.

Contents.

I. MARQUESS WELLESLEY'S INDIAN ADMINISTRA-

TION.

II. The REMAINS of EDMUND J. ARMSTRONG.

III. LECKY'S ENGLAND in the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

IV. ORIGIN and WANDERINGS of the GIPSIES.

V. PRIMITIVE PROPERTY and MODERN SOCIALISM.

VI. M. DOUDAN'S LETTERS.

VII. RUSSIA and ROUMANIA.

VIII. The GOLD MINES of MIDIAN.

IX. FINLAY'S HISTORY of the SERVITUDE of GREECE.

X. The CONSTITUTION and the CROWN.

London: LONGMANS & CO. Edinburgh: A. & C. BLACK.

No. 291, will be Published on WEDNESDAY, JULY 17.

Contents.

I. DR. ROUTH, PRESIDENT of MAGDALEN COLLEGE.

II. The ENGLISHWOMAN at SCHOOL.

III. The DUKE of WELLINGTON and the ARISTOCRACY.

IV. LAMBETH PALACE.

V. MADAME DU DEFFAND.

VI. The BLOCK in the HOUSE of COMMONS.

VII. CATHERINE of RUSSIA.

VIII. The CROWN and the ARMY.

IX. The PEOPLE of TURKEY.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

E. LAZENBY & SON'S PICKLES, SAUCES,

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of the celebrated receipts, and manufacturers of the Pickles. Sauces,

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beg to remind the public that every article prepared by them is

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HARVEY'S SAUCE.-CAUTION.-The

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observe that each bottle prepared by E. LAZENBY & SON bears the

label, used so many years, sigued "Elizabeth Lazenby."