piquante is to a dish set before one. With all his quaintness and sense of humour he is never wanting in reverence. It would often puzzle a stranger to discover in these volumes to what branch of the Church Christian Mr. Baring-Gould belonged. In the Shah's Diary of his travels in Christendom, wheneverthe name of Jesus or Mary occurs, the writer adds reverently, "On whom be peace!" So Mr. Baring-Gould speaks with unfailing reverence of the smallest hero or heroine of the smallest of his stories. Occasionally there is a certain simplicity, which, raising a smile in the reader, induces him to suspect a smile on the face of the writer; but this, of course, is a matter of fancy, purely. One great merit of these volumes (some of which have already passed into a second edition) is, that they are full without being overflowing. Mr. Gould often tells the incidents of a life at much greater length than Butler, and yet seems the quicker in the telling of it. In the volume for the present month of September there are upwards of two hundred Lives, forty or so more than in Butler's hagiography for the same month. Again, taking the Saint for this present 4th of September, the Virgin St. Rosa of Viterbo, we find that Butler dismisses her in little more than a dozen lines, and that Mr. Gould gives to his work nearly as many pages. He makes no dreary comments nor weary expositions, but he throws the light of history on to his narrative, and we learn something of the times as well as of "the little Saint" who lived in them. As Rosa was born when Pope of Rome and Emperor of Germany were at fierce antagonism for supremacy, and Gregory XI. made no higher account of Frederick II. and the Guelfs for their being "Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman," Mr. Gould avails himself of the opportunity to show how the antagonism arose and was carried on. In a few brief paragraphs he relates how the people were stirred up by the preaching of friars in the highways to believe that an Emperor who wanted to be first instead of second in the system of one Church, one State, one Pontiff, one Emperor, was a monster, to be unceremoniously stamped out. Among the audience of such champions of the Church was this little maid, Rosa of Viterbo, whose "translation" is honoured on this 4th of September. About the year 1245 a sermon in the market-place set the little maid of six years old on fire. She became a politicoreligious declaimer, after the manner of the friars, in her native town; and she filled the office with such pertinacity and loud iteration, that the Imperial Ghibelline faction turned her and her parents out of the city. In subsequent wanderings and misery, Rosa dreamed a dream that enabled her to declare that something was at hand which would bring much joy to the Guelfs and the orthodox generally. As the Emperor died soon after, Rosa was recognized as a prophet, but not universally. One woman mocked her pretensions, but Rosa offered to justify them by fasting for three weeks, and defying the Ghibelline woman to do likewise. She proved her pretensions by the ordeal of fire. "She jumped into the midst of the flames, and ran about in them, and came forth unharmed." Nevertheless the Poor Clares of Viterbo refused to give her an asylum in their convent! "I know well enough your reason," said Rosa, "you do not care to have me in your house; you despise me. However, I will tell you this: although you reject me living, you will be eager enough to get me dead!" Rosa died about fifteen years of age. The Poor Clares did not manifest the foretold eagerness, and it was not till she appeared in a vision to Pope Alexander IV. that, in obedience to that Pontiff's order, those sisters took into their church the body that had been previously buried at Podio. About two centuries later she was canonized at the request of the people of Viterbo, where her body (still, it is said, free from corruption) is being looked upon to-day with the homage of awe and affection. The story of Rosa, told without comment, is one of many hundreds narrated with great effect in these most readable volumes. Perhaps the spirit in which this work is written may be best illustrated by comparing it with that of a bygone author, and also that of a living man who was once a member of the same Church as Mr. Baring-Gould. Treating of the Assumption of the Virgin, Alban Butler narrates the legend connected therewith; but it is not easy to make out whether he believes the legend or not. Cardinal Manning, on the other hand, has delivered his own view of the question, of which we make a passing note, as we find it reported in the newspapers. Preaching on this subject, on the festival of the Assumption, "Cardinal Manning described the death of the Virgin, and the disappearance of her body from the grave on the third day-the growth of flowers, the melody as of angelic strains, and the fragrance, not of earth, testifying to the mystery and glory of her assumption. The Cardinal said that these things were written in the heart of the Church, the true Scripture. The word written by the Holy Ghost was only a part of the Word, but the heart of the Church was written within and without by the same Spirit; and the Church had thus been taught to believe that Mary the Mother of God was assumed to the glory of God, not in soul alone, as the saints also were, but in body also; so that she was now on the right hand of her Son, as He was on the right hand of His Father. He then proceeded to adduce various reasons for the belief in the doctrine of the Assumption-reasons which, he said, were so convincing, that he could not understand how any man, with the faith of a Christian, could hesitate to believe with entire faith the glory of blessed Mary." Mr. Baring-Gould simply says, "The natural instinct of the human heart proclaims the Assumption"; but he adds, "It is unnecessary to give the legend of the death of the Virgin Mary, her burial by the Apostles, and their discovery, on opening the tomb, that it was filled with lilies and roses, but that the body of Mary was gone, as it is a mere legend." BURTON BARONETCY.-Mrs. Richard Burton, wife of the celebrated traveller, Capt. Burton, who is now Consul at Trieste, writes as follows:-" You were so good as to publish on June 26 a note from me which wound up with the following letter, which I had just received: "Madam,-There is an old baronetcy in the Burton family to which you belong, dating from the reign of Edward III. (sic), I rather believe now in abeyance, which it was thought Admiral Ryder Burton would have taken up, and which after his death can then be taken up by your branch of the family. All particulars you will find by searching the Heralds' Office; but I am positive my information is correct. From one who read your letter in "N. & Q."" "I immediately applied to the College of Heralds, who after due search had the kindness and courtesy to forward me the following information :-'There was a baronetcy in a family of Burton. The first was Sir Thomas Burton, Knight, of Stokestone, Leicestershire, created, July 22, 1622, a baronet by King James I. Sir Charles was the last baronet. He appears to have been in great distress, a prisoner for debt in 1710. We have details of his career up to 1712. He is supposed to have died without issue, when the title became extinct-at least nobody has claimed it since. If your husband can prove his descent from a younger son of any of the baronets he would have a right to the title.' I now have the few years to fill up between 1712 and the birth of my husband's grandfather, which must have been about 1750. I ask anybody who can, whether members of the family or not, to help me to do this, and to prove that the Rev. Edward Burton, Rector of Tuam, in Galway, my husband's grandfather (who came from Shap, in Westmorland, with his brother, Bishop Burton, of Tuam), was descended from any of the sons of any of the baronets above named. ISABEL BURTON." use of agricultural implements. We trust that his REV. C. F. S. WARREN says the lines may be seen in Notices to Correspondents. WITH regard to various communications constantly made to "N. & Q.," it is desirable that our correspondents, when obtaining information from ordinary books of reference, should give the title of the work. As a rule, we consider that querists have exhausted all such sources. GIBRALTAR has misunderstood Gibbon's words in the advertisement to the first octavo edition of The Decline and Fall (1783). After naming various authors of the lives of august emperors, "from Hadrian to the sons of Carus," he adds that he has, for the most part, quoted them without distinction, under the general and wellknown title of the "Augustan History." The six authors named by Gibbon wrote Latin histories of various emperors, of which only fragments remain, and those authors are well known by the title of "Historiæ Augustæ Scriptores." E. R. As correspondents alone are responsible for what they write, the utmost limit is allowed them in "N. & Q.," particularly when the contribution is signed by a well-known and honoured name; but E. R.'s opinions on "-ster" are outside all limit, and, even as a joke, are unsuitable. MR. JAMES HOGG, à propos to "A Book on Dyeing' (5th S. iv. 169), refers the querist to A Manual of Dyeing and Dyeing Receipts. London, Charles Griffin & Co., 1875. C. A. W. will probably find the information he requires by means of books published by Mr. Churchill, the medical publisher. W. W. Y.-The allusion is to the three feathers, the [Replies to be addressed to Mrs. Richard Burton, 14, crest of the Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall. Montagu Place, Montagu Square.] MR. R. W. 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