we suspect the modesty of the latter has prevented this. Among the twenty-eight women in the volume there is one who stands alone, and whose name will ever be a household word-Florence Nightingale, born in 1820, and named after the city of her birth. She was as modest as she was good, and when, after the Crimean War, a ship of war was offered her for her passage home, she returned privately in a French vessel, crossed to England unnoticed, and slipped quietly into her home, Lea Hurst, while the whole nation was waiting to demonstrate its affection for her. At her death on the 13th of August, 1910, the offer of burial in Westminster Abbey was, in accordance with her wishes, refused by her relatives. Mr. Stephen Paget in the memoir well says: "Miss Nightingale raised the art of nursing in this country from a menial employment to an honoured vocation." Another woman was our English nightingale in song, Clara Novello (1818-1908), born in Oxford Street to add a grace To the most musical Novello race, as Lamb recorded in his lines addressed to her which appeared in The Athenæum on July 26th, 1834. Her voice was a pure, clear soprano, and her rendering of "I know that my Redeemer liveth" will never be forgotten by those who had the privilege of hearing it. Chorley in The Athenæum of the 17th of June, 1851, in reference to her singing at the opening of the Crystal Palace, said that her voice could be "heard to remote corners of the building." The enthusiasm she inspired was marvellous; her name seemed to imply a benediction when it was mentioned. Handel's music was particularly adapted to her style, and she was one of the most prominent of the solo singers at the concerts of the Sacred Harmonic Society at Exeter Hall. We remember that on one occasion the Queen and Prince Albert were present, when Clara Novello's singing of the National Anthem was greeted with such applause that Costa turned to Her Majesty to see if she consented to an encore, which she did by a wave of her fan. Among the other women are Mrs. Orr, the biographer of Browning; Mrs. Parr the novelist : Mrs. Riddell, who, by making commerce the theme of many of her novels, introduced a new element into English fiction: Adeline Sergeant, author of over ninety novels; and Elizabeth Sewell, author of Amy Herbert.' Miss Sewell's father died heavily in debt, owing to the failure of two banks, and Elizabeth and the other children undertook to pay off the creditors, which they succeeded in doing by means of literary work and their school at Bonchurch. In 1849 the sisters, with Capt. and Lady Jane Swinburne and their son Algernon, then a boy of twelve, visited Wordsworth at Rydal Mount. Those connected with the newspaper and publishing world include Sir George Newnes; Kegan Paul, author and publisher; Wemyss Reid, editor of The Leeds Mercury, and afterwards manager of Cassell's Robinson, manager of The Daily News; and Russell, The Times war correspondent. Newnes's fortune dated from his starting Tit-Bits, a journal devoted to anecdotes, first published October 2nd, 1881, when within two hours 4,000 copies were sold in the streets. In 1890, at the suggestion of Stead, he brought out The Review of Reviews, and in 1891 started The Strand Magazine. In 1891 his publishing firm was incorporated as a limited company. On January 31st, 1893, Newnes started The Westminster Gazette as an organ of the Liberal party. Among many patriotic acts, he in 1898 fitted out the South Polar Expedition under the guidance of Borchgrevink. Musical composers and musicians include Oakeley, who among his hymn tunes will be remembered by those associated with the words "Saviour, blessed Saviour," and "Sun of my soul"; Parry, the composer of two oratorios, Eminanuel' and 'Saul of Tarsus,' and, among many other compositions, 400 hymn tunes; and Salaman, composer and conductor, and in 1849 founder of the first Amateur Choral Society. The most famous of Salaman's numerous songs is his beautiful setting of Shelley's "I arise from dreams of thee." years. Ebenezer Prout (1835-1909) was self-taught. Music was to him a passion from his earliest From 1861 to 1885 he was Professorof the Pianoforte at the Crystal Palace, and from 1861 to 1873 organist at Dr. Allon's Chapel,, From 1879 to 1889 he was musical critic of The Islington, always noted for beautiful music. Athenæum. Prout and his coadjutors, notably Dannreuther, quickly widened the outlook of the musical public, and led the way for the introduction of Wagner's operas. Among undeveloped resources treated by Prout was the combination of pianoforte and harmonium, and he composed a Duet-Sonata in A major which was successful. His cantatas included Hereward,' 'Alfred,' and Freedom.' His series of textbooks are standard works: Harmony, its Theory and Practice,' has reached its twenty-fourth edition. He was a most painstaking and delightful teacher, and would lighten the task by the aid of comical verse; as, for instance, in the "48" (edition in such verses over the subjects of the fugues, to inopen score by Dr. Charles Vincent), where he put dicate their exact length, also in some cases the phrasing. Here is one example: Needles and Pins, Needles and Pins, All through life Prout was a hard worker, and until his death, which was very sudden, was teaching at the Royal Academy of Music. The only recreation he allowed himself was a summer vacation in Norway, where the peasantry always accorded him a hearty welcome. He told us that the exhilarating air invariably had a wonderful effect upon his brain-power. His large and valuable library was acquired by Trinity College, Dublin, where he had been appointed Professor in 1891. Space forbids us to enlarge upon important names which have been amply illustrated elsewhere. We must, however, make passing mention of the articles on Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, by Prof. Tout; Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Archdeacon Spooner; and Cardinal Vaughan, by Snead-Cox. Forbes Gray writes on John Watson (“lan Maclaren "), whose 'Doctor of the Old School' should be as immortal as The Christmas Carol' by Dickens. These are only a few among many. Sir Sidney Lee has received numerous congratulations upon the successful completion of the Second Supplement of this wonderful Dictionary, but we can assure him that there are none more hearty than ours, and we include in our gratitude the successors of George Smith, the patriotic originator of this truly national monument. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-DECEMBER. MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES of Cambridge, in their Catalogue 362, offer nearly 1,800 works on Mathematics, of which we may mention the following as likely to be of interest to the general reader: J. E. Montucla's Histoire des Mathématiques depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours,' last edition, augmented and completed after the death of the author, 1799-1802, 5l. 158. 6d. ; Archimedes Opera,' Basileæ, J. Hervagius, 1544, 27. 28.; Jacob Koebel, Eynn Newe geordent Rechenbüchlein....,' Oppenheim, 1514, 21. 10s.; three copies of the third edition of Newton's Principia,' 1726, of which the best is a folio, in contemporary red morocco, one of 12 copies so printed and bound, 51. 158. 6d., as well as a large number of other Newton items; Simon Grynæus's folio edition of Ptolemy printed in 1538 and dedicated to Henry VIII., 21. 2s.; Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity,' 1751, 11. 58.; De la Brevetière's La Découverte des Longitudes,' c. 1760, 21. 28.; and a Latin Euclid," folio, Venetiis, in ædibus Joannis Tacuini, 1517, 17. 168. MESSRS. J. & J. LEIGHTON have sent us their Catalogue of MSS. In it 335 works are described, and 150 reproductions from these are given. This is a volume over which one might well spend many an hour of delight, and the treasures it contains are both so numerous and so rich in interest that it is difficult to make a selection from them. The great majority of MSS. are of Christian origin-books of devotion or ecclesiastical history; but there are also many classical examples, from among which we may mention two of Virgil's Eneid,' both of the fifteenth century, the one, costing 551., in italic letters, on 183 leaves of vellum, 7 in. by 4 in., having a first page with painted and illuminated border and an illuminated initial to each book; the other on 180 vellum leaves, 10 in. by 7 in., in roman letters by an Italian hand, with a fine border to the first page, 351. The most valuable and interesting items are to be found in the list of the "Hora," and of these by far the most important is that "secundum Consuetudinem Ecclesiæ Sarisburiensis," written at the turn of the sixteenth century, according to tradition, for the prince who was later Henry VIII. only does this contain 43 large miniatures and other rich decorative work in the way of borders and capitals, but there is at the end a figure, adorned with a nimbus, of Henry VI. and a hymn in his honour. Among the figures of saints immediately preceding this are included two or three which seldom appear in such MSS.; and another interesting feature of the work is that portions of it are in English. The price of this MS. is 1,100. To the twelfth century belongs a Greek MS. of the Gospel according to St. Matthew and St. John, 1101.; and other examples of twelfth-century work are a St. Augustine, * De Not a Civitate Dei,' 30l.; a St. Chrysostom, Homiliæ in Evangelium secundum Matthæum,' 327.; Geoffrey of Monmouth and William of Malmesbury in one MS., 361.; and a copy of St. Jerome's Tractatus super Matthæi Evangelium,' containing most interesting inscriptions, which seems the oldest MS. of this collection, having been written about the year 1100, 801. There are about a dozen Psalters, of which the richest is an Anglo-French work of the fifteenth century in gothic letter, with fine diptych miniatures and several features of unusual importance, 1351.; and there is a beautiful Italian Gradual,' also of the fifteenth century, 751. Nor must we omit to mention a MS. of Št. Cyril's, · Thesaurus adversus hereticos....à Georgio Trapezuntio traductus,' Italian writing in roman letters of the fifteenth century, for which 951. is asked. It was MESSRS. MAGGS'S Catalogue 298 is as interesting as any to look through, and we single out the few items for which we can find space from a number which have virtually an equal claim to notice. They have a copy of Browne's Britannia's Pastorals-the two books in one volume, for which 7501. is the price asked, it having belonged to Milton, and containing some 160 notes in Milton's hand. The book, as may be imagined, has a considerable history. published in London 1613, 1616. There are four Dürer items, viz., the woodcuts to the Apocalypse, 1511, 687.; those to the Life of the Virgin, 1504-10, 751. ; the "Great" Passion, 1510-63, and the Passion of Jesus Christ, 1507-13, 1351. Of the MSS. the most important is that of the five poems of Nizami, dated 1569 and 1570, with brilliant miniatures and other decorative work, for which 3501. is asked. The best Milton, of which the price is 225l., is a copy of the rare early issue of the first edition of Paradise Lost,' with date 1667; and there are three important Shakespeares-a quarto 'Chronicle History of Henry the Fift,' 1608, 2401.; a Second Folio, 1632, 2251.; and a Fourth Folio, 1685, 1281. A copy, uncut, of the first edition of Shelley's Queen Mab' is offered for 1607. It is a perfect example-that is, it has the imprint at the end, "Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London,” and also the titlepage and the dedication "to Harriet," which Shelley tore away from most of the copies he sent out in order to avoid prosecution. A copy of Forster's Life of Dickens,' the three volumes extended to six by the insertion of portraits, views, and autograph letters, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, and having in the centre of the front inside cover of each volume a miniature of Dickens, is offered for 5251. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. communications which, for any reason, we do not WE beg leave to state that we decline to return print, and to this rule we can make no exception. J. W.-Forwarded. ELEVENTH SERIES-VOL. VI. SUBJECT INDEX [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUblished, Corsican's Downfall, c. 1816, 130 Eccentric Biography, c. 1800, 369, 431 Letter H to his Little Brother Vowels, 468 Loss and Gain, 429, 497 Malvern as I Found It, 1858, 68 Manmourmurian, 309 Military Sketch-Book, 1827, 411 Babbylubie "water-worn stone, 135 Barnard family, 197, 335 Barnard family of Pirton, Oxford, 32 Bartley (Sir Robert), K.C.B., d. 1843, 89, 156, Basset, description of the game, 310, 377 Bath, "Essex Bath," Strand Lane, 1588, 348, 432 Beale (Benjamin) of Kent, and bathing machines, Beale (Sir J.) of Kent, his baronetcy, 1660, 108 Belfast, Solemn League and Covenant in, 417 Bell at Buntingford, Herts, ringing discontinued, Belshazzar's Feast, poems on, 411, 495 Pope's Iliad,' 509 Stevens's Dramatic History,' 501 Storm of 1703, 13 Bill Stumps," inscribed stone, 1724, 64 Black Boy "house of Gillingham, 1447, 507 Blakesley (J. W.), his Memoirs of Russia,' 1724- Blount (Sir Josceline), M.P. 1597-8, 28 Blue Peter," British signal flag, 237 Bodleian Library, smallest MS. in, 345 Bohun (Mary de), her burial-place, 211, 313, 378, Boit (Charles), enameller, his letters, c. 1712, 121 Aristotle, by Dr. Taylor, 219 History of Europe: being the Rhind Besant's (Mrs.) Theosophy, 219 Boase's (F.) Modern English Biography, Bond's (F.) The Cathedrals of England and Bowie's (H. P.) On the Laws of Japanese Bradley's (H.) A New English Dictionary: Brown's (M. W.) Northamptonshire, Cam- Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912, 379 Cambridge County Geographies: North Lan- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, The Poems of, with Craigie's (W. A.) A New English Dictionary: Cromwell, Oliver, by H. Johnstone, 219 Dobson's (A.) At Prior Park, 439 Duignan's (W. H.) Warwickshire Place- Books recently published:- Durham Marriage Bonds, 1664-76, 240 Gasquet's (Dr. F. A.) England under the Gray's (A. K.) Dictionary of Synonyms, 19 Harrison's (H.) Etymological Dictionary of Johnson's (W.) Byways in British Archæology, 60 Johnstone's (H.) Oliver Cromwell, 219 Julius Cæsar, by H. Hardinge, 19 Kelvin's, Lord, Life and Work, by A. Kent Records: The Parish Registers and Lang's (A.) History of English Literature Leighton's (G.) Huxley, 19 Leighton's (Prof.) Embryology, 239 Cambridge Lincoln The Royal Charters of the City of Marr's (J. E.) North Lancashire, Cambridge Miles's (C. A.) Christmas in Ritual and Nevinson's (H. W.) Growth of Freedom, 19 Nicholson's (Col. E.) Men and Measures, 59 O'Neill's (Mrs. E.) England in the Middle Penny's (Rev. F.) The Church in Madras, Books recently published:- Phillips's (Dr. P.) Radiation, 19 Putnam's (G. H.) George Palmer Putnam: Rhind Lectures for 1891, revised to date, 220 Roget's Thesaurus, 499 Russell's (Dr. A.) Lord Kelvin's Life and Sarson's (M.) and M. A. Phillips's The His- Scots Peerage, edited by Sir J. B. Paul, Shakespeare: Richard the Second, edited by Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Un- Shaylor's (J.) The Fascination of Books, 359 Books," No. XVI., 239 "Suffolk Green Skeat's (W. W.) The Science of Etymology, Skemp's (Prof.) Francis Bacon, 19 Southey (Robert), Letters of, a Selection, Spence's (L.) The Civilization of Ancient Statham's (H. H.) A Short Critical History Taylor's (Dr.) Aristotle, 219 Thornton's (R. H.) An American Glossary, 38 Treherne's (P.) Louis XVII., and Other Walker's (S.) Aviation, 240 Ward's (J. S. M.) Brasses, 340 Whetham's (W. C. D.) The Foundations of Booksellers' Catalogues, 40, 79, 120, 159, 240, Borodino, incidents of the battle of, 1812, 185 249 Brand family of Polstead, Suffolk, 28 109 Braughing, Herts, ancient observance at, 367 Brewers' Company, dates of Masters, 289 Bride carried over the threshold, 191, 232, 314 British memorials of the Peninsular Campaign, 217 |