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hear of him again in 1796.”

Under date June 26, 1796 (vol. vi. p. 194) the letter quoted by your correspondent is reprinted, but is much larger and a note is given that the letter, executed in facsimile printing, has been long in circulation. The address is given as Mr. James Clarke, Schoolmaster, Forfar.

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ARCHIBALD SPARKE. ETTERS FROM LORD COMBERMERE PORTRAIT AND IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT (cliii. 208).—The por1 trait of Lord Combermere painted by Mrs. Pearson is in the National Portrait Gallery, being presented by his widow, Viscountess Combermere, in 1872. The artist, Mrs. Charles Pearson (née Mary Martha Dutton) was born in 1799, and early in life married Charles Pearson, a city solicitor, who afterwards became a Member of Parliament. She died in London, 15 April, 1871. The portrait of Viscount Combermere was painted in 1823; between 1821 and 1842 Mrs. Pearson exhibited many other portraits at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and at Suffolk Street.

The D.P.G. M. of the Province of Cheshire referred to in the letter of 1836 would be W. Bro. John Finchett Maddock.

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London, being a Comprehensive Survey of the History, Tradition, and Historical Associations of Buildings and Monuments, arranged under streets in Alphabetical Order. By George H. Cunningham. (J. M. Dent and Sons. £1 1s. net).

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GREAT deal of work must have gone to the compilation of this book, notwithstanding that original research in the strict as the author sense of the word has not, main line of interest-though by no modestly avows, been expended upon it. The the exclusive one is personal. Street by street were are told who lived in what house where anything interesting of the kind is to be noticed. Not only so, but fictitious characters with which streets are associated are set in their places, and the budding Dickensian in particular will here find short cuts in every direction to the London of Dickens. We have, though, some little quarrel with Mr. Cunningham in regard to his choice of the fiction to be represented. Some of it is trivial, sure to be forgotten in a few years, and fills space better deserved by work which will last while English lasts. There is no mention of any character of Jane Austen's, yet Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and Jane and Elizabeth Bennet spent time to some purpose in London; nor is any street thus illustrated by its figuring in a novel of Trollope's. Again, the houses marked by the County Councii might well have been systematically recorded. It would, perhaps, not be reasonable to expect every church in London to find place here, but we think the curious little Church of Ascension in the Bayswater Road with Shields's paintings in it deserves a few lines. On the Roman Catholic Cathedral nothing is said except that the bell tower is 283 feet high, which only serves to introduce the suicide But the committed there three years ago. In Cathedral has many points of interest. some cases, too, Mr. Cunningham adopts what he finds with too little criticism. He says, without giving authority or explanation that the first church at Westminster was built by Freemasons between 605 and 616; and states with equal certainty that Charles I stepped out

London ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

MILLIKIN: ENTWISLE (10 S. iii. 6; clii. 390, s.v. Dr. Edmund Halley ').Mr. R. J. Beevor, M. A., sends me an abstract of will of Margaret Entwisle, as follows:

Margaret Entwisle, of Ludgate Hill, spinster. To Mrs. Millikin my diamond ring; to my great nephew James Parry Millikin my gold watch. I desire to be buried as privately as possible with my father and mother, etc., in the parish of St. Edmund the King in Lombard Street if die in London; if not, then where I die as its quite a matter of indifference to me." Residue to nephew Halley Benson Millikin, sole executor. Dated Apr. 29, 1789; proved Mar. 2, 1793, by Halley Benson Millikin.

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on to the scaffold from the centre window of the Banqueting Hall facing Whitehall, the windows fronting Whitehall being at that time all blank, all of which are at any rate disputable.

We do not wish to dwell only on slips and omissions as if these had chiefly struck us; the criticisms above åre offered as hints for a possible reprinting. So far as we have tested them the notes on streets and house occupation are good as well as abundant-and particularly good in giving detail about minor celebrities and minor events in the life of greater persons. Indeed, one returns again and again to appreciation

of the great industry and determination that must have been required to get so many minute facts together, and then, added to that, appreciation for the love of London, the quick feeling for her greatness, variety and unique character, which in greater or less degree are evident on every page. The book is beautifully printed and pleasant to handle, and while it will hardly do for one's only book on London, it will give its owner much information and entertainment, and probably find itself as often as any in his hands. Trevisa's Dialogus. Edited with an introduction by Aaron Jenkins Perry. (Humphrey Milford for the Early English Text Society. £1 5s. net).

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IS edition is made from the MSS. Harl. 1900; St. John's College, Cambridge, H. 1; Add 24194; Stowe 65 and Chetham's Library. The introduction gives us a notable example of the best American scholarship. It discusses the first early MSS. and printed editions, characterizing and relating to one another the five Middle-English MSS. on which the text is based. There exist also a copy of the Methodius tract in a Northern dialect, and a rather mysterious MS. at Burleigh House, precious as containing a second copy of the Methodius tract in Southern English, which no one seems to have been able to lay hands on since 1845. The Latin MSS. of the three dialogues from which Trevisa translated still exist in fairly considerable numbers, and Professor Perry sets out the principal ones. The Dialogus inter Militem et Clericum was printed in English in the sixteenth century (the version is printed parallel with the text derived from the MSS.) and comparison of that edition with the present text and with the original, which Professor Perry's work enables us to follow in detail, points to its having been made from a MS. of the Dialogus closer to Trevisa's translation than are the five MSS. now extant. The printed edition omits a long note of Trevisa's on the majesty of Christ; an omission which it seems reasonable to impute to editorial revision. Trevisa's life remains in its obscurity. Our author has chiefly to show, as to his birth, that no statement on the subject carries any weight, but that Trevisas were found at Crokadon, where he has been said to have been born, for generations after his day. Trevisa's name as a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, crops up in Close Rolls and Patent Rolls of Richard II as implicated in a disturbance at the College, and expelled with others from Oxford. He spent the greater part of his life at Berkeley, where he is said to have been first domestic chaplain at the Castle, then Vicar of the Parish. He was olso Canon of "Westbury Collegiate Church" and what this was has been exhaustively investigated by Professor Perry, who makes it clear that it was Westbury-on-Trym, and to clinch the argument yet further adds a goodly array of references from the Patent

Rolls. The date of Trevisa's death, variously put at 1399, 1400, 1409, 1410, and 1412, has been settled by the unprinted Bishops' Register at Worcester Cathedral which, under date 1402, records the appointment of a successor.

The third of the three works included in this volume (Dialogus inter Militem et Clericum; Fitz Ralph's Defensio Curatorum, and Methodius's Beginning and End of the World') Professor Perry sees ground to withdraw from Trevisa. One of the best sections in the introduction is the discussion of the question whether or no Trevisa translated the Bible. The weight of authoritative opinion will be seen to veer in Trevisa's favour. Unless some unexpected and considerable_discovery is made we should think Professor Perry's introduction will prove the last word on Trevisa. Hartley through the Ages. By the Rev. Gerard W. Bancks. (Published by the author at Hartley Rectory, Longfield, Kent). THE author, who is the Rector of Hartley,

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closes his book with the prediction that, at lage, already considerably enlarged, no distant future, this once small Kentish vilAll the more useful then will be found this attain to municipal status and become a town. work, which traces its old boundaries, describes its old appearance and condition at different dates, and preserves record of its chief personages. In his discussion of the name Hartley Mr. Bancks hesitates between the Wendish deity Heorotha. We should conHeorot-leah and a derivation from the name of inue to favour the earlier suggestion. Among names associated with the place are Evelyn and Daniel Defoe, who is said to have lived for a time in a house near the Black Lion inn, and there to have written Robinson Crusoe.' But the predominant name for two centuries and more. Before their from 1550 onwards, is Sedley. day the most noted lord of the manor Warwine de Montchensie, at the end of the much material to his hand twelfth century. The author has not So as many parishes supply, for the church registers only go back to the beginning of the eighteenth century; but he supplements from old wills preserved in the Courts of Rochester and Canterbury.

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probably in the eleventh century contains some The church, standing on foundations laid Norman work, but was much reconstructed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. has no tower, but an attractive bell-cote, probably of fourteenth century erection. The chancel arch is unusually narrow, and low also. A remarkable feature is the ancient door, with its broad and boldly ornamental iron straps, Scandinavian in character. The church has further a low side window, and a font partly of Norman and partly of fourteenth century work. All these particu lars are set before us upon the background of pre-history. The book is pleasantly readable. Printed and Published by the Bucks Free Press, Ltd., at their Offices, High Street, Wycombe, in the County of Bucks.

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