volume. and on securing some poems guarded by copyright which add considerably to the charm of the The frontispiece is derived from Giotto's picture of St. Francis and the birds at Assisi, and opposite the first little poem we find three familiar lines on birds from a master of ancient Greece. Two chief contributors are Mr. Robert Bridges with six pieces, and Father Tabb (whose death is a distinct loss to the world of poetry) with seven. Of Shakespeare and Tennyson we get four pieces, of Wordsworth seven, of Swinburne three. The single poems by Francis Thompson and Prof. Santayana are notable, though not entirely successful in technique; while Mr. Hardy's Darkling Thrush' shows his wonderful power of gloomy vision. There are two Indexes, one of first lines, and another of authors. Such aids ought to appear in every book of this sort, but, as they do not, we mention their appearance here. 1 WE receive four of the earliest copies of the Oxford issue of The Prince of Wales PrayerBooks, embodying the alterations necessitated by the recent accession to that title of Prince Edward. We hope that this form will last for many years. The books are, as usual, admirably produced in every respect, and once more show that careful regard both for taste and detail which we have learnt to expect from the Oxford University Press. landed, and, in the end, set at liberty." In 1797, when the Directory was preparing the political stroke of Fructidor, a corvette was secretly armed at Rochelle to transport condemned people to Senegal: it was the Vaillante, commanded by Lieutenant Jurien de Gravière. The day that the pretended conspiracy was discovered the vessel had been ready for a month, but at the last moment the destination was changed, and according to the counsels of Lescallier, Cayenne was chosen. The first convoy only included politicians, but the Décade and the Bayonnaise took to Guiana two hundred and sixtythree priests; another vessel was seized by the English, and as leaving the ports became dangerous, on account of English cruisers, the other déportés, to the number of one thousand one hundred and seventy-two, were relegated to the islands of Ré and Oléron." The phrase unheard-of barbarism " can scarcely be exact. It was impossible for the men of the eighteenth century to outdo some of their predecessors in ferocity. But that callousness, combined with lack of organization in providing for the needs of the unfortunates in their grip, destroyed many of their victims slowly and miserably is not to be doubted. MR. CHARLES THOMAS-STANFORD, Vice-Chairman of the Council of the Sussex Archæological Society, has in the press Sussex in the Great Civil War and the Interregnum, 1642-1660.' The THE attractive medley of historical, scientific, Chiswick Press, and will be fully illustrated. Any book will be published about August by the and literary information supplied by the Inter-profits from its issue will be given to the Barbican médiaire is as discursive as usual. Ancient and con modern life are dealt with impartially. Feigned marriage by capture, which has barely disappeared in Corsica, and up-to-date aviation are sidered equally worthy of a place in its hospitable pages. Several contributors supply notes on mills worked by the tide, others describe the signiorial chapels attached to churches, or the "trees of liberty " which survive from the days of the great revolution. 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