funerals here and throughout Scotland on Sun- ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. SWIFT'S VERSES ON HIS OWN DEATH (6th S. iii. 47, 109).—I have a copy of the Dublin reprint of this poem, and I suppose it is the first edition (London printed; Dublin, reprinted by George Faulkner, 1739). On the page after the title the following announcement is printed, in which I think the dean's hand can be recognized : - "The Publisher's Advertisement.-The following poem was printed and published in London, with great success. We are informed by the supposed author's friends, that many lines and notes are omitted in the English edition; therefore we hope, that such persons who have seen the original Manuscript, will help us to procure these Omissions, and correct any things that may be amiss, and the Favour shall be gratefully acknowledged." Following the poem are three pages containing "Advertisement. For the Honour of the Kingdom of Ireland," &c., and on the back page Faulkner's announcement of books lately published, including some by Swift. W. H. PATTERSON. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. iii. 449, 498; iv. 118).— "The woman of mind." Probably LEx is unaware that this song appeared, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Jean-François Millet, Peasant and Painter. Translated by Helena de Kay from the French of Alfred Sensier. (Macmillan & Co.) AMERICA has certainly not been backward in her recognition of the most original, if not the most remarkable, of modern French painters. There were Americans among the slender band of Millet's first patrons and friends at Barbizon; it was an American pupil who gave us, in the Atlantic Monthly, one of the most pleasing and sympathetic of the brief accounts of him which have yet appeared; and finally-to say nothing of Walt Whitman's recent eloquent outbreak respecting his pictures in the New York Critic-it is to the pen of a most accomplished American lady and artist that we are indebted for this fresh and animated translation of his biography by his devoted adherent, Alfred Sensier. These facts are the more worthy of note in that Millet's reputation in his own country was barely established with his death. As M. Sensier has related it, his story is the painful record of a protracted struggle with neglect and obstruction, an agony of which the crises were so sharp and so often repeated that one almost wonders how the silent sufferer was not driven upon some such desperate solution as that of Haydon. But the "strong heroic soul" of Millet was superior to the vulgar issue of suicide, though even that spectre seems twice to have steadfast, always constant to his self-imposed vocation of crossed his path. From all his trials he emerges sad but depicting, in its rugged pathos and uncouth dignity, that rustic life into which he had been born. To pictorially articulate the "cry of the soil"-to depict the peasant of La Bruyère and Montaigne in his daily combat with HESSIAN BOOTS (6th S. ii. 468; iii. 73, 117).—the iron clods from which he wrung his bitter bread, The fine portrait of Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Henry Raeburn, represents him wearing hessian boots, and was probably painted in the earlier part of the present century. Engravings of it are prefixed to some editions of the Waverley Novels and to Lockhart's Life of Scott. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "EXTA" (6th S. ii. 428; iii. 57, 114) were the larger intestines taken out of the victim and presented before the Deity. Exta porriciunto, says Macrobius, Sat. iii. 2. The Carmen of the Fratres Arvales has the feminine forms, Extas, Extam. DEFNIEL. until such time as Death touched the bent shoulder and struck down the useless hoe-this appears to have been Millet's chosen mission. "A la sueur de ton visaige Tu gagnerois ta pauvre vie, Après long travail et usaige Voicy la mort qui te convie." Anywhere upon these pages might be written that old quatrain which George Sand uses so effectively in the Mare au Diable, and we were not surprised to find that it did actually suggest the picture from La Fontaine of La Mort et le Bücheron. Were it possible within our brief limits, it would be interesting to make some reference to the thoroughly characteristic letters and personal utterances of Millet in this book. Excellently frank and direct (from his point of view) are the passages at p. 51 respecting Watteau and Boucher. The storm, too, at p. 37 is a wonderful piece of unworked description. Some of the most distinctive things, however, are the shorter sayings scattered here and there. He is speaking, for instance, at p. 87, of the grandeur and calm of the forest trees, and speculates as to the grave he cannot comprehend. "But," he adds, with a grim and lofty language they must speak-a language which recollection, perhaps, of the piebald chatter in Delaroche's studio, "I am sure they don't make puns." In the last chapters of the book, in which M. Paul Mantz takes up the pen which dropped from Sensier's hand, there seems to be almost a note of hesitation as to the eminence of Millet's future place in painting. Let those who doubt it look for a moment at the copy of the "Angelus" in this volume, or at Mr. Cole's fine cut of the "Sower," and even without the magic of colour and the mystery of demi-teinte, they will find it hard to withhold their admiration from those noble expressions of two of the most ancient needs of humanity-prayer and labour. Surely this Norman peasant, also, is among les forts, the great ones of the brush, concerning whom he spoke so often. That his own countrymen should have neglected, even for a time, to acknowledge the magnificent qualities of his work is a lasting disgrace to a nation of critics and connoisseurs, Phases of Musical England. By F. J. Crowest. (Remington & Co.) MR. CROWEST has already obtained considerable notice for his popular Book of Musical Anecdote. In the volume before us he deals with musical criticism, encores and encoring, church music, musical commercialisms, pianofortes on the three years' system, amateurs and professionals, singers and singing, women and music, our musical progress-all topics capable of eliciting considerable discussion and divergence of opinion. The author is to be commended for having the courage to expose many of the weak points which undoubtedly exist in the musical world of to-day, but he must be prepared to receive a considerable amount of adverse criticism from many who in reading his book may feel that the cap he has prepared exactly fits themselves. The volume will repay perusal and careful consideration. It might quite aptly have been called a book of "notes and queries on the present and future of musical society." Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal. Part XXV. 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