pan," as the newspaper correspondent terms it. This frontispiece is, in all essentials, a reduced copy, with direction of the figures reversed, of a large copperplate print, 37 in. by 22 in. "colected [sic] from Sandford and other best Authorities," depicting the coronation procession of James II., and showing the groom of the vestry carrying a fumigating appliance more primitive in form than that shown in the volume of 1820. No date is upon this large print, which is lettered, "Printed and sold by Thomas Bowles in St. Paul's Churchyard, and Jno. Bowles & Son at ye Black Horse in Cornhil [sic]." Bowles of the Black Horse was an early employer of William Hogarth as an engraver, and the latter may have himself cut this coronation procession of 1685, as the print, from its appearance, was probably issued circa 1720.

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COWPER: PRONUNCIATION OF NAME (12 S. viii. 110).—In a deed of 1662, William Powle is described citizen and cowper W. BRADBROOK. (cooper). AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. viii. 132).-Seasonable Hints from an honest Man on the Present Crisis of a New Reign and a New Parliament,' 62 pp., London, 1761, was written by John Douglas (17211807). It is an exposition of the sentiments of Pulteney, Earl of Bath. to whom it has been ascribed. Douglas was Bishop of Salisbury, and wrote various political pamphlets under Bath's direction, and in 1763 took part with Johnson in the detection of the Cuck-Lane Ghost. There is a notice of him in D.N.B.'

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.(12 S. viii. 91.)

3. Sir Edwin Arnold, K.C.I.E., wrote a poem called 'Destiny,' which begins:

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'Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours,' However, I do not know in which volume of his poems it is to be found. It is not in Poems National and Non-Oriental' (1888).

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Notes on Books.

The Manor of Hawkesbury and its Owners. By the Rev. Henry Lyttelton Lyster Denny. (Gloucester, John Bellows).

Anthony Jenkinson, the merchant and traveller of Elizabeth's day, the first Englishman to make his way to Central Asia, makes an impressive appearance at the head of the line. He journeyed much in Russia, and treated face to face more than once with the Tsar. The Baronetcy dates from the Restoration; the wife of the first Baronet was the daughter of the heroic lady who defended Corfe Castle for Charles I. Sir Charles Jenkinson, the 7th Baronet, was, in 1796, created Earl of Liverpool -a politician and something of a verse-writer, whose son, the 2nd Earl was the Tory Prime Minister of a century ago. With the death of the third Earl and ninth Baronet without male issue elder brother of the Bishop of St. David's, whose the Baronetcy went to his first cousin Charles, son succeeded him.

Hawkesbury is a parish in Gloucestershire-the old Manor House of which was for centuries the residence of the Jenkinsons. However, a tragedy -it would seem in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century-caused them to abandon it. A daughter of the Baronet of the day fell in love with the son of a neighbouring Roman Catholic family. Her father forbade their marriage, but allowed the lover to come and say good-bye. The girl, leaning from the window to wave farewell, overbalanced herself, fell out and was killed. Years later Hawkesbury was lent to the young mother of the Prime Minister, for change of air after her child's birth; she died on her journey thither, and her body was brought to the house, which soon afterwards-being made gloomy by such sad associations-was pulled down.

The Church at Hawkesbury contains numerous memorials of the Jenkinson family, and is of considerable interest also as a fabric. The foun-dation dates from Saxon times, and every period thereafter is represented. It had been considerably defaced at and after the Reformation in the usual manner, but since 1882 its restoration has been taken in hand.

The book is lavishly illustrated with portraits. Charles Lamb: Miscellaneous Essays. Edited by. Hamilton Thompson. (Pitt Press, 6s. net.) AFTER eight years' interval another volume has been added to the Cambridge series of the writings of Charles Lamb. It should serve in the first place as a timely reminder of its predecessors. The Essays of Elia' as Mr. Thompson presented them in 1913 satisfied the sense of fitness proper to a self-respecting reader. The size and type were right, the evidence of editorial scholarship complete yet not obtrusive. There have been more elaborate editions and their popularity showed they were suited to the public taste But the true lover of Elia is intolerant of illus-tration or adornment, he is an epicure and resents untimely seasoning of fare that perfect in its natural state. The twin volumes of 1913 were designed for him, and from him their new companion is secure of welcome.

THE present Lord of the Manor of Hawkesbury and Upton is Sir Anthony Banks Jenkinson, 13th Baronet, born in 1912, who at the age of three succeeded his grandfather, the 12th Baronet, in 1915. Admiration for the diction of the Essays does To him this family history is addressed, in memory not by an means imply a love of Elia; he makes of his father Capt. John Banks Jenkinson who his indefinable appeal to an instinct that may went out to France with the first Expeditionary exist in the un-lettered and be lacking in the force and fell at the Aisne in September, 1914. It master-stylist. None can be familiar with his is principally a pedigree, from which three or four work and remain unconscious of his personality characters stand out conspicuously, and in which, and unless we desire to be admitted to his con

His humour indeed is so ceaseless a play on of a northern climate, can compose and exhilarate personal experience that the individual and the the mind as successfully as a garden may on fine man-of-letters can never be detached and, as ones, takes on the aspect suitable for countries among his contemporaries there were somewhere, in general, enjoyment is to be found out of (Thomas Carlyle was one of them) who had no doors, and the interior becomes the place for liking for the individual, so in these present days work, sleep and the storing of one's possessions. we may pay homage to his English and take no The historical side of the matter must also be pleasure in his Essays. He said that it was emphasized. People occupied with the example Shakespeare's method to write "to make the of ancient heroes will make such furniture as reader happy." He was animated by a like those heroes might suitably use. You could not, benevolent intention, but he added to it the as our author wittily contends imagine Leonidas satisfaction of a natural craving. Isolated by the "stark naked, his sword between his legs and on tragic conditions of his life his demand for sym- his head his great casque with its flowing horse-bair pathy was expressed in the best of his essays-crest" looking anything but ridiculous seated for to those who love him the best are those that on the flowered brocade of a Louis XV. bergère. hold the most soliloquy. Dreams, ambitions, M. Félice writes charmingly and the translator, disappointments, and self-condemnation, memo- on the whole, does him justice. Though only ries of childhood and fear of death, all the professing to give a short summary of his subject, intimate revelation of himself that a man will and setting out such matters as belong to a textmake to the one nearest to him was made by book for beginners, M. Félice shows himself so Elia to his unknown lovers. It is the Essays copious, displays learning of so enthusiastic a that admit to intimacy, and to his intimates the complexion, and possesses so good a knack of Miscellaneous Essays of Charles Lamb are infusing life into his subject, that it is quite indispensable. possible to read and remember these pages simply as a literary essay.

There are some good notes on the choice of furniture for modern houses conformable to the Louis XVI. style of architecture and decoration now prevalent.

The first twelve in the present volume appeared before their writer borrowed the name of a com- A few of the illustrations chosen have hispanion and Elia became known in the literary torical interest; we may mention the humble world. The criticism (or eulogy) of Hogarth is cane-seated chair, lyre-backed, and with a fluted the most celebrated, and that on the fitness of fillet across the front below the seat, which was Shakespeare's tragedies for the stage is charac-Marie Antoinette's seat in her cell at the Conterized by the quality of boldness which makes cierzerie. Charles Lamb so delightful a companion in a library. His own joy in reading is never more evident, and appreciation of that joy (which may imply participation) is the first essential to understanding of him as he lived and thought and wrote. Face to face with such a tragedy as breaks the barriers of established custom a man will choose for sacrifice that which he values most. The event that blackened life for Lamb summoned him, as he thought, to relinquish whatever stood for happiness. Under that stress he wrote to Coleridge he would have no more books. The book-lover stands confessed in that decision. Considerable light on the detail of his wide reading and retentive memory is thrown by the Notes to this volume and to its predecessors. They are worthy of study.

French Furniture under Louis XVI. and the Empire. By Roger de Félice. Translated by F. M. Atkinson. (Heinemann, 4s. 6d. net.) THIS volume is the last of the series of Little Illustrated Books on Old French Furniture." We recommend it to our readers' notice with great pleasure. The one criticism we would make is that the illustrations in themselves admirably chosen-are hardly large enough and in several cases not clear enough to give an adequate notion of details. A few drawings or photographs of detail would have been both acceptable and

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It is amusing to reflect on philosophy as modifying the shapes of tables, chairs and chests. From Louis XV. furniture, through that of Louis XVI. to the Empire, we follow not merely a change of fashion but a change of ideal. Furniture must be adapted to the new classical severity. The right angle and the straight line, formerly avoided, are now more than tolerated. The house, instead of presenting the pleasant assem-in blage of delightful things which, on the bad days

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