on seeing any one finely dressed. North]" Peter's-in-the-East at Oxford. The titular Ni! an exclamation expressing amazement feast for Church of the Holy Trinity would be Trinity Sunday, as it is of Canterbury Cathedral. The dedication St. Saviour is that of the Lateran Basilica, the Cathedral of Rome, the "Mother and Mistress of all Churches in the World," 9 Nov. Many feasts in the kalendar have their origin in the translation of relics or the dedication of a church. Thus St. James, 25 July, is the translation of his remains to Compostella. Michaelmas Day is the anniversary of the dedication of the church of St. Michael in the Via Salaria. So of Holyrood Day, 14 Sept., SS. Peter and Paul, 29 June, and others. GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B. ORDERS OF FRIARS (9th S. i. 168).-IS MR. ARNOTT correct in saying that the Observant Friars had only two houses in England? In addition to the two he mentions, it is a wellknown fact that there was a house of Observant Friars at Greenwich, adjoining the old palace, the memory of which survived in the road called Friars' Road, closed in 1834 for Greenwich Hospital improvements. The brothers were very active against the divorce of Katherine of Aragon. AYEAHR. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by Sidney Lee. - Vol. LIV. Stanhope - Storia. (Smith, Elder & Co.) ONCE more, as in one or two previous volumes of share of the work falls to the editor. Not quite so the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' the lion's monumental as the life of Shakspeare, which we are glad to hear is to be reprinted in a separate volume, is Mr. Lee's life of Sterne, which forms the principal feature in the present book. Next to that, however, it comes in both interest and import ance. Access has been obtained to materials previously unpublished, some of them in our national collection, others in the possession of the Whitefoord family, of Sir George Wombwell, of Newburgh Priory, Yorks, of Mr. Alfred Morrison, and of Lord Basing. From these and other sources Mr. Lee has compiled the most exact and authoritative life of Sterne that has yet seen the light. He has, works his fine critical and judicial gifts, with the moreover, brought to bear upon the man and his result, it may be fearlessly said, that the estimate that is formed will be that by which posterity will be content to abide. The commonly accepted notion that in Mrs. Shandy Sterne depicted his own wife Mr. Lee disputes, and he holds that "in an irresponsible fashion" he was not indifferent to her The name of the Boni Homines, with other happiness, though "he never viewed his marital obligations seriously, and his immoral and selfquestions relating to their house at Ash-indulgent temperament rendered sustained felicity ridge and its branch or colony at Edenton, impossible." It is obviously difficult for us to receives notice in the 'Oxford Diocesan His-reproduce the judgments of Mr. Lee. That Sterne tory,' S.P.C.K., pp. 269-72. Boni Homines, in France Bons Hommes. The order founded by St. Stephen Grandmont in the eleventh century; a branch of the Franciscans at Vincennes; a Portuguese Order of Canons; religious observing the rule of St. Austin-all were called Boni Homines. See 'The Catholic Dictionary,' by Addis and Arnold. GEORGE ANGUS. was a "scamp Sterne, it is otherwise with John Hall Stevenson (Eugenius), whose life necessarily supplements the other. With Smollett and the writers in the Critical Review, his latest biographer treats him with caustic contempt. Another life of much interest is that of George Steevens, whose "fantastic acrimony" Mr. Lee admits, while holding that more damaging allegations are not supported by evidence, and denying what was stated against him by Tom Davies, the biographer of Garrick. Interesting and valuable literary biographies are those of Stanley, the translator of Anacreon; Stanyhurst, translator of Virgil; Howard Staunton, chess-player and Shakspearian editor; and Still, the author of 'Gammer Gurton's Needle.' With the exception of a life of Dugald Stewart, who, it is conceded, "represents rather the decline than the development of a system of philosophy," Mr. Leslie Stephen confines himself almost entirely to the biographies of men of his own name and family, a sufficiently distinguished group. Many lives of much value and interest by Mr. Thomas Seccombe lead off with a description of the wild and romantic career of Lady Hester Stanhope. Active interest attends the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, recently removed from among us. It is written in an appreciative strain by Mr. Sidney Colvin, whose knowledge of the writer was intimate. The life of Steele is written with much judgment and with admirable taste by Mr. Austin Dobson, one of the men most qualified of all to deal competently with it. John Sterling is necessarily safe in the hands of Dr. Garnett, whose most important contribution it is. The life of Henry Stebbing is one of the best of Mr. W. P. Courtney's contributions. One of the most valuable historical articles is that by Miss Kate Norgate on King Stephen. Mr. C. H. Firth supplies many noteworthy lives, writing on, among others, Philip Stanhope, first and second Earls of Chesterfield-the Earl of Chesterfield is in the hands of Mr. Lee-and Sir Philip Stapleton, the Presbyterian soldier. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley is presented by Mr. R. E. Prothero, various historical Stanleys being distributed among different writers. Of the numerous Stewarts very many are in the hands of Mr. T. F. Henderson. Mr. Henry Bradley supplies an excellent account of George Stephens, the archæologist. Space naturally fails us to dwell upon the many biographies of interest furnished by Prof. Laughton, Col. Vetch, Dr. Norman Moore, and other specialists. The names of the Rev. W. Hunt, Mr. Thompson Cooper, Mr. Thomas Bayne, Mr. F. M. O'Donoghue, Miss Lee, and other well-known contributors are still pleasantly prominent. It is needless to say that the customary and exemplary punctuality was displayed in the appearance of the volume. The Royal Gallery at Hampton Court Illustrated. By Ernest Law, B.A. (Bell & Sons.) A SERVICEABLE and delightful appendix to his History of Hampton Court Palace' is supplied by Mr. Law in his catalogue raisonné of the pictures in the Queen's collection at that palace. To the merits of Mr. Law's History' we have frequently drawn the attention of our readers. Without being exactly intended as a companion to that excellent work, the present volume is to some extent a sup. plement, adding greatly to its value and, we doubt not, to its popularity. In saying this we are neither denying nor qualifying its direct claims upon admiration as a separate work, dealing historically with the origin of the gallery, classifying the contents, and depicting the greatest treasures of a collection which, reduced as it is, constitutes still a precious possession. For the manner in which the collection was established, and for the part in its formation taken by successive monarchs, as well as for the dispersal of the pictures by Puritan ignorance and prejudice, we must refer our readers to Mr. Law's introduction. To the interposition of Cromwell it is due in part that what was then, perhaps, the finest collection in the world did not entirely disappear. Among those which owed their preservation to Cromwell was the 'Triumph of Julius Cæsar' of Mantegna, concerning which a correspondence is at present being conducted in these columns. Besides hiring a man at half-a-crown a day to break the painted glass in the church windows, the Roundheads sold pictures which, under these conditions even, realized no smaller a sum than 38,000., the pictures at Hampton Court, 382 in number, being sold for 4,675. 16s. We may dismiss, however, this terrible episode in art history, which cleared the galleries of veritable masterpieces and opened them to receive the graceless beauties of succeeding Stuart kings. Mr. Law's historical introduction gives all the information accessible as to the steps subsequently taken to repair Roundhead devastation. The writer then proceeds seriatim through the various rooms, enumerating the contents, describing the pictures, giving, where it is possible, the name of the artist, and furnishing such particulars-biographical, literary, and historical-as are at command. By means of photogravure and other processes one hundred of the most noted pictures are reproduced, assigning thus a permanent and, as time will probably prove, an augmenting value to the book. Very few of the fine Italian pictures at Hampton Court have previously been reproduced. A selection has been, moreover, made from the historical portraits of all styles, ages, and schools gathered together at Hampton Court in such plenty as to excel in interest those in any collection, public or private, with the single exception, of course, of the National Portrait Gallery." Great pains have been spent upon the task of assigning the pictures to their respective artists, with the result that a hundred and fifty erroneous attributions in previous lists have, it is believed, been corrected, and that twenty-five historical portraits which were wrongly named have had their true names supplied. The misnomers in some cases extend to the time of Charles I. In these and other alterations and additions the author has had the assistance of the late Sir George Scharf, of M. Niel, Mr. Lionel Cust, and other specialists. Mr. Cust would, had such a course been feasible, have arranged the pictures under the heads of schools of painting. In the case of works, however, scattered about in different rooms, and only to be generally seen under inconvenient, if indispensable restrictions, such a course seems inexpedient. The arrangement according to the consecutive numbers on the labels is such as will best suit public convenience. Among the illustrations to the volume are many of great beauty and extreme interest. The frontispiece consists of a charming photogravure of Correggio's 'St. Catherine Reading, which is followed by one no less beautiful of Cariani's Venus Recumbent.' Vandyck's Charles the First' (the ascription of which is queried), the fourth and fifth pictures from Mantegna's Triumph,' religious pictures of the Palmas, Vecchio and Giovane, and Dosso Dossi, portraits by Tintoretto, held the foremost place. A separate volume has Parmigiano, Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer, Holbein, Titian, and Gainsborough, represent the character of the collection. The historical notices display a wide range of erudition. Indexes supply a variety of cross-references likely to be of great service to the reader and the student. The claims of Mr. Law upon the gratitude of that portion of the public which is interested in art are great. Their extent will be realized when it is taken into account that what in many cases is done by public officials at public expense, is in this case due to individual effort and charge. Should the present venture meet with the support it is entitled to claim, other portions of the royal collections will be dealt with in similar fashion, and issued in companion volumes. Old Mortality. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited by ONE more volume-the fifth-has been added to the as when Morton returns from abroad do we feel ourselves stirred as in other works, and the formalities observed by Morton, Claverhouse, and others in their speech annoy and repel. Still, the book is immortal, and in this pleasant shape cannot be other than welcome. A Bibliography of Skating. By Fred W. Foster. (Warhurst.) MR. FOSTER'S bibliography, of which this is practically the fourth edition, is well executed and ample, and appeals warmly to a small class of readers. It reproduces an excellent fifteenth-century woodcut of skating, with "a spill," is published by subscription, and may be commended to all to whom the subject is of interest. The Classics for the Million. By Henry Grey. (Long.) THIS epitome in English of the Greek and Latin Pansies from French Gardens, Gathered by Henry In this pretty and dainty little volume Prof. Att been dedicated by the same author, it appears, to tion. MR. CHARLES T. GATTY, F.S.A., will shortly issue The Spirit of the Holy Court,' from 'The Holy Court' of Nicolas Caussin, S.J., translated by Sir Thomas Hawkins. The publishers are Simpkin, Marshall & Co. MR. A. T. QUILLER COUCH, author of The Blue Pavilions,' 'The Delectable Duchy,' &c., who is more widely known as "Q," has undertaken to edit a new illustrated sixpenny monthly. 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