HANOVERIAN GARRISONS IN GREAT BRITAIN (cliii. 209).—Mar Castle, and Corgarff Castle, were taken over by the Government after the rebellion in 1745, and garrisoned with the view of keeping the Highlanders in order. Both castles were altered in order to suit them for the purpose, and were enclosed by a wall in the form of a star, loop-holed for musketry. Corgarff had a garrison of two officers and fifty men up to 1831, not to put down rebellion, but to assist the civil authorities in the suppression of illicit whisky distilling. See The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland,' by MacGibbon and Ross (Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1887). T. F. D.

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IR HENRY BROWNE (cliii. 244).-May SIR he not be Lt.-Gen. Thomas Henry Browne, K.C.H., of Bronwylfa, nr. St. Asaph B. 1757; Col. 80th Foot, distinguished at siege of Copenhagen, capture of Martinique, in Peninsular War, etc., etc; Knight-Commander of Guelphic Order. He m. Elizabeth Brandling, and d. in 1855. He was the eldest brother of Felicia Hemans. Their grandfather was an Irishman from Cork. The D. N. B.' has a biography of him, I think. F. P. LEYBURN-YARKER.

"ALL LL SIR GARNET" (cliii. 28, 69, 141, 196, 231). Whilst enjoying a short holiday in Seaton, South Devon, I saw MR. BELBEN's note at the last reference.

Directly after reading it, I happened to be talking to an old fisherman, who, curiously enough, in referring to something he had just done, exclaimed 'It's all Sir Garnet."

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Although knowing full well what this term conveyed, I asked him what it meant, and he immediately replied 'All right,' sir," thus proving that not only is this phrase still in use, but that it is not alone" peculiar to London." E. E. NEWTON. The expression "All Sir Garnet," with its variant All Sir Garnio," was perhaps popular in the Australian colonies about twentyfive years ago. Possibly it may have been re-introduced to England through the medium of the Australian soldiery during or after the Great War. SAMUEL A. ANDERSON.

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INSECTS IN BOOKS (clii. 442; cliii. 179, 214). A useful note is The preservation of books from insects in India, Indian Mus. Notes. iii. No. 3, pp. 115-116 (1894). J. ARDAGH.

The Library.

A Cretan Statuette in the Fitzwilliam Museum. A Study in Minoan Costume. By A. J. B. Wace. (Cambridge University Press, 10s. 6d.).

THIS sumptuous book is a model of what archaeological publication may be, when no expense is spared. It gives the first definitive description of the lovely and unique marble Minoan goddess which is now in the circumstances of its discovery are necessarily Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. Since the but vaguely known, its date can only be determined by technical considerations. Mr. Wace, whose great knowledge of pre-Hellenic antiques is here reinforced by his special interest in textiles, is thus happily led into a ine dress and its materials. He proves quite most interesting discussion of Minoan feminclearly from the details of the costume that the statuette belongs to late Minoan I, though it is probably earlier than the gold and ivory goddess, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which belongs to the same epoch. It is of course later than the well-known faience snake ladies of Cnossos, which belong to Middle Minoan III.

exception of this statuette from his rule that no Mr. Wace notes that Professor Nilsson's Minoan or Mycenaean goddess is intentionally represented as clasping her breasts, is due to a misunderstanding. The rule therefore becomes absolute. Its importance lies in the fact that a prevalent hypothesis connecting these goddesses with a mother goddess of oriental type is thereby shown to rest upon a mistaken premise.

The Ten Princes. Translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder. (University of Chicago Press, 10s. net).

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THE aut in character, something like a author this a sort of prose mingling of the Arabian Nights' with picawho flourished not later than the second half of resque motifs and method, was one Dandin, the seventh century of our era, and of whom nothing is known save that he also wrote 'The Mirror of Poetry, a treatise on literary composition. The Ten Princes' itself is not wholly his, the first five and the last of its view of this fact it might have been a good fourteen chapters being by other hands. In plan to give some little account of the history of the text. Mr. Ryder confines himself to an estimate of the literary quality of the work. His translation strikes us, on the whole, as happy. author and his contemporaries attained and The principal beauties which the enjoyed in it cannot, indeed, be rendered in any way in English; but something of the atmosphere can be and has been infused into the translation, and a choiceness in the use of words has been made to suggest, though it cannot absolutely represent, the choiceness of style for which_the_original is celebrated. Mr. Ryder rates The Ten Princes' very high.

Through the medium of his prose the cultivated reader of to-day will certainly find pleasure in what was offered for the amusement, and for no more than the amusement, of the cultivated reader of those days. In spite, however, of charm and brilliancy the book does not take sufficient hold to be amusing to perfection, and it is interesting to make out why. We think the world of readers certainly in the West-has grown much more exacting than it was of old in the matter of entertainment, and, in particular, requires much more variety and also clearer delineation, in character than it was satisfied with in the East centuries ago. These beautiful damsels and wily heroes have a degree and kind of life not much higher than those of fairy tales, and we may see this difference of standard by the very comparision to which Mr. Ryder invites us with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. In a sense, as these remarks indicate, his limitations lend some additional significance to Dandin.

Satirical and Controversial Medals of the Reformation: The Biceps or Double-Headed Series. By Francis Pierrepont Barnard. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, £1 18. net). TH HESE medals, with one or two exceptions bear on each face two heads. It would appear that the series was started by the Holy See, with design to illustrate the four great

authorities on which the administration of Christendom depends; accordingly on one face we have the Pope and, reversed, the Emperor; on the other face a Cardinal and, reversed, a Bishop. This, in the hands of the satirists of the Reformation, became a medal with Pope and Devil on one side and Cardinal and Fool on the other. Dr. Barnard describes 184 examples, and, in addition, a late eighteenth century seal bearing the Pope-Devil design. The half-dozen plates give illustration of fortythree medals. The first five on the list are variants of one which purports, by its legend, to have been struck in the fifth century, and has been assigned to the reign of Innocent VIII. but is ascertained to be the work of G. Paladius in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. On some of the Papal medals occur the names of St. Gregory, St. Augustine, St. Jerome and St. Ambrose chief Fathers of the Western Church, and on one, after the two latter names appear the letters K. L., which have not So far been satisfactorily explained. Kirchen Lehrer and the Low Latin Kyrii Liturgus have been suggested. In general the treatment of the reversible head in these designs is clever, and a few pieces have real merit. The headgear, particularly the fool's cap, presents some points of interest, as do the legends, of which one or two furnish minute discourses. One medal of 1540 has on the obverse St. George and the Dragon: and there are examples showing the Whore of Babylon. There is note, and cut,

these Protestant of a Catholic retort upon medals of which no actual specimen has been found-in which Calvin's head is combined with Dr. Barnard's Introduction. the the Devil. description of the medals, the lavish footnotes, and the excellent plates, are all beyond praise. This little corner of learning has not been more than cursorily and partially visited before. Both the numismatist and the historical student will thus glean something fresh from these pages.

Fifty Poems. By A. D. Godley. Edited by C. L. Graves and C. R. L. Fletcher. (Oxford University Press. 58. net).

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