Turner, and have never seen a portrait of Shakespeare more to my mind for loftiness of expression. TINY TIM. Southeea. "A RUBBER" (6th S. ii. 513).—What the origin of this term may be I cannot say, but it has been in use for a considerable time. Hotten's Slang Dictionary has s.v., "A term at whist, &c., two games out of three.-Old, 1677." The word occurs in Quarles's Emblems (1635), i. 10, in which, speaking of bowls, Quarles says:— "It is the trade of man, and ev'ry sinner Has play'd his rubbers; every soul's a winner. The vulgar proverb 's crost, he hardly can Be a good bowler and an honest man." The reference in Hotten is apparently to Halliwell's Dictionary, "Rubbers at Bowls,' Poor Robin's Visions, 1677, p. 132." May we not assume that the term comes from the bowling-green? F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. Cardiff. "MEDICUS CURAT," &c. (6th S. iv. 388, 436, 457, 477).—In the rare books of Dr. Wm. Bulleyne (Sir Tho. Hylton's) I find the following: "A little Dialogue, betwene Sorenes, and Chyrurgi." "Should not therfore mankynde hymself, for his rewarde, bee diligently cured, amended, and renued, when either through falle, wounde, or stripe, he is decaied, an that with wisedome and diligence, for when a house is fallen doune the Carpentar maie builde it up againe. But when mankinde departeth, desolveth, and dieth, he cannot be revived again, by the policie or cunnyng of mankinde, because one mankinde can not make an other, but rather, through arte, when thei be decaied, helpe to amende them, through the worke of nature, and the ministracion of the phisicion: for Claudius Galen saieth, that Natura est operatrix, medicus vero ejus minister.' That is, nature is the worker, the phisicion is but her minister. Therefore the Chyrurgicall Phisicion is natures servaunt." "Nature, in the tyme of Sorenes, can no more be without the Chirurgion, than the Smithe can be without his hammer, or the Tailer without his sheres." The form "Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbos," seems to be a silly attempt to make a paradox of the sentence of Galen, who was born A.D. 131. Curo and sano both mean to heal or cure, but curo also means to care for, as is obvious from its association with cura. It may be difficult to ascertain the veritable pedant who transformed Galen's very beautiful expression, but the "original" of the 66 quotation is plain. The date in Bulleyn's Epistle dedicatorie is Marche, 1562 (? 1562/3). A. C. In the first volume of Galen's commentaries on Hippocrates may be found not exactly the phrase in this concise form, but the substance of it diffused through several parts of a chapter. I have not seen that work for very many years, but I recollect distinctly to have met with the phrase printed as a motto on the title-page of a modern work and ascribed to Hippocrates. This led me to make a careful search through the works of the father of medicine, where, however, I failed to discover any trace of the expression. I next examined the commentaries of Galen, with the result I have indicated above. The apophthegm I have no doubt is modern, but the original idea was borrowed from Galen, who should, therefore, have the credit of the veritable authorship. The same idea was afterwards embodied in a couplet, which appeared in a book printed in 1858, thus: "Est medici curare; auroque remunerat æger; Sanare e cælo, munere gratuito." Dublin. H. M. THE PRIVY COUNCIL CHARLES BULLER (6th S. iv. 408, 449).-Would MR. BEAVEN publish his MS. list of Privy Councillors, with the dates of their commissions (and deaths if possible), either in a separate form or in some magazine, for the benefit of all others to whom it would be useful? I, for one, would take a copy. CHARLES MASON. 3, Gloucester Crescent, Hyde Park. ROBERT PHAIRE, THE REGICIDE (5th S. xii. 47, 311; 6th S. i. 18, 84, 505; ii. 38, 77, 150; iv. 235, 371, 431).-Col. Robert Phaire was not of Rostellan Castle (as described by V.H.I.L.I.C.I.V.), but of Grange, about twenty miles west of Rostellan, which is situated on the east side of Cork Harbour, and belonged to the Marquis of Thomond. As to Robert Phaire's parentage, when I suggested (ante, p. 371) that he might be the son of the Rev. Emanuel Phaire, I had calculated their relative ages from the following data. Emanuel was ordained at Oxford in 1604. Assuming him to have been of the usual age (twenty-four), he would be only forty, when Robert was born, in 1620. been courteously allowed to inspect the register at Since my last communication (ante, p. 371) I have the Friends' Meeting House, Cork. The only those of his daughter Mary, her husband George names connected with Col. Phaire's family are Gamble, and their children-four daughters. A marginal note states that George went over to the Muggletonians. The daughters remained, and were married, among the Friends, and their marriages are thus recorded:-Sarah married Wm. Fennell, secondly Edward Fenn; Elizabeth married (1673) Thomas Wheddon, secondly Wm. Allen; Jane married Joshua Fuller, secondly (1693) Henry Wheddon; Charity married Wm. Byrne. W. W. C-K. "ANECDOTAGE" (6th 3. iv. 48, 173, 437).-In using the word anecdotage in Lothair, I fancy that Lord Beaconsfield presumed on the knowledge of his readers that he and his father had of the Royal Society, vol. cl.; Theory of Compound Library, Claremont, Hastings. both previously told the public that the phrase belonged to Samuel Rogers. In the pleasing memoir of his father which Lord Beaconsfield introduced at the beginning of his edition of Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature and other works (just reprinted by Warne & Co.), he gives an account of his first anonymous volume, which was published c. 1790, and after mentioning the various "MANCHET LOAF" (6th S. iii. 430; iv. 15, 396, writers of literary anecdotes, as "the Wartons, 418).- Halliwell defines manchet as the best kind Mr. Pettit Andrews, Mr. Pye, Captain Grose, of wheat bread. Johnson, in his Dictionary (2 vols., and his friend Mr. Seward," he winds up with: 1775, published by Ewing) defines manchet (michet "But these volumes were rather entertaining than Fr., skinner) a small loaf of fine bread; and gives the substantial, and their interest in many instances two following quotations, omitting, as usual, any necessarily fleeting; all which made Mr. Rogers reference as to where these quotation are taken observe, that the world was far gone in its anec-from:-"Take a small toast of manchet dipped in dotage" (memoir, pp. xix and xx). oil of sweet almonds' (Bacon). I love to entertain following: "The wine beside that halowed is, in worship of bis Again, the elder D'Israeli writes, in the preface my friends with a frugal collation; a cup of wine, to the Curiosities of Literature (p. xlii) :— a dish of fruit, and a manchet' (More's Dial)." Oa "Among my earliest literary friends, two distin-leaf 45 of Googe's Popish Kingdome, 1570, is the guished themselves by their anecdotical literature: James Pettit Andrews by his Anecdotes, Ancient and Modern and William Seward by his Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons. These volumes were favourably received, and to such a degree, that a wit of that day, and who is still a wit as well as a poet, considered that we were far gone in our 'anecdotage." " GIBBES RIGAUD. 18, Long Wall, Oxford. BEES LEAVING THEIR OWNERS IF NOT TOLD OF A DEATH (6th S. iv. 357, 374, 416).-Concerning bees and a death in the family, of which HEPATICUS asks for instances, the following, from Mortimer Collins's Thoughts in My Garden, vol. i. p. 6, may be interesting : "There was a terrible mortality among my bees this year. On mentioning it to a Berkshire labourer skilled in the management of those creatures, he instantly asked me if there had been a death in my family. I called the other day on an old lady in my neighbourhood who supplies me with poultry, and noticed that an old-fashioned clock in her kitchen did not go. She assured me that it had refused to go since some near relation died. She further informed me that, when the said death occurred, one of her brothers had gone out and awoke his bees and told them of it, and the said bees had prospered ever since. But another bee-keeping brother had neglected to do this and his bees all died! Well, my next informant on this topic was the landlady of the village inna singularly intelligent person, and cultivator of rare flowers. She assured me that bees would infallibly die after the death of any one who cared about them, unless they were told of the event, and a piece of crape wrapped round each hive. She also declared that on the death of a relation of hers a clock which had been stopped for thirty years revived and struck the whole twelve hours. Such is the belief of not unintelligent folk in the Royal County, within sight of Windsor Castle, in a parish where the three R's are sedulously taught. What is the origin of such superstitions? That about the bees appears immemorial." Rosebank, Isleworth. F. C. THE LITERATURE OF COLOURS (6th S. i. 277; iv. 15, 156, 295, 396).—Philosphical Transactions | name, The Priestes doe give the people that bring money for the same. And after with the selfsame wine are little manchets made, Agaynst the boystrous winter stormes, and sundrie "His name," in the above passage, alludes to St. John Scarborough. The word manchet was formerly used to denote the quality of the bread. In Holinshed's Chronicles (1574), vol. i. p. 168, we find the following interesting account of the manchet or mainchet: "Of bread made of wheat we haue sundrie sorts dailie brought to the table, whereof the first and most excellent is the mainchet, which we commonlie call white bread, in Latine Primarius panis, whereof Budeus also speaketh in his first booke De Asse, and our good workemen deliuer commonlie such proportion, that of the flower of one bushell with another they make fortie cast of manchet, of which euerie lofe weigheth eight ounces into the ouen and six ounces out as I have beene informed." Holinshed then goes on to speak of "the cheat or wheaton bread," "raueled " bread, and "browne " bread. In reference to MR. SAWYER'S note (ante, p. 396), I would say that I have been unable to find the word manchet in the "Six Carpenters' Case," though I have carefully searched the report of that Case, both in the editions of 1611 and of 1826 of Coke's Reports. It is also not to be found in the report in Smith's Leading Cases, vol. i. pp. 133–10. G. F. R. B. RICE: RISE (6th S. iii. 428; iv. 52, 396, 418). -In Charles Knight's London the note on the old London street cry of "Cherries in the rise," gives "Rise- branch, twig; either on the natural branch, or on sticks as we still see them." B. C. BOOK-PLATES WITH GREEK MOTTOES (6th S. iv. 266, 414). The book-plate of Will. Worthington, D.D., date circa 1700, has the Greek motto 'Αιὲν ἀριστεύειν. C. W. HOLgate. CARICATURES BY R. BOYNE (6th S. iv. 248, 416).-W. H. P. has read the names (R. Boyne and C. Knight) correctly. I possess framed copies of the prints, in which they are very legible. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road, A STEREOTYPE OFFICE (6th S. iv. 269, 415).— MR. PATTERSON might also consult with advantage Histoire et Procédés en Polytypage et Stéréotypage, Paris, An. x., 1802, by Armand Gaston Camus, from which Mr. Hodgson made considerable extracts; P. Lambinet's Origine de l'Imprimerie, &c., et de l'Histoire de la Stéréotypie, Paris, 1810, 2 vols. 8vo.; and a paper in the Philosophical Magazine and Journal, London, 17981817, by the editor, Alexander Tilloch, at one time a partner in the firm of Messrs. Foulis, stereotype printers at Glasgow. WILLIAM PLATT. Callis Court, St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet. THE FRANCISCANS IN SCOTLAND (6th S. iv. 388, 432,457). It is generally stated that the Franciscans were first introduced into Scotland by Alexander II., and that he founded eight houses of the order; and as to the earliest, Edinburgh, Berwick, and Ayr have each claimed to be the first. Spotiswood gives the year 1230 as the date for each of these just named. Although few of the original documents connected with these preaching friars are in existence to throw light on the question, yet a mandate by Alexander II. for payment of 201. yearly to the Friars Preachers in Ayr is dated 1242, and there is a Bull of Pope Clement IV. in their favour, dated 1266. I would advise correspondents, if they can, to get a sight of Charters of the Preaching Friars of Ayr, published by the Ayrshire and Wigtonshire Archaeological Association this year. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. Swansea. Consult Mackenzie Walcott's Scoti-Monasticon, p. 342. He says that the Franciscans came to Scotland in 1231. H. A. W. "MARE" (THE SEA) AND WORDS FOR DEATH (6th S. iv. 268, 453).-I should like to have it explained why Bopp's derivation of mare from the Sanskrit vari, water, should be condemned as "not tenable" (Lectures on the Science of Language, vol. ii. p. 354). It seems so much more probable that the matter-of-fact Romans should speak of the Mediterranean as being the actual water it was, and is, than that they should seek in the depths of their inner consciousness for a name of mystic meaning, that one has great sympathy with Bopp when one finds him crushed between parentheses by Max Müller. The Romans must have been ancient mariners in more senses than one if they I found the Mediterranean so becalmed that it seemed "the dead or stagnant water, as opposed to the running streams" they had been accustomed to inland. Seeing that Prof. Skeat, sub Mere," has committed himself to the death theory, I am afraid he, too, would be dead against Bopp. Is there no good philologist who can find a word to say for vari? ST. SWITHIN. AN OLD PRAYER BOOK (6th S. iv. 349, 394).— Referring to the service appointed to be used on September 2, in commemoration of the Great Fire of London, I have now before me a tract entitled :— "An Account | of the | Burning | The City of London: of King and Council in the Year, 1666. To which is As it was Publish'd by the Special Authority added, The Opinion of Dr. Kennet the pre-sent Bishop of Peterborough, as Publish'd by his Lordship's Order, and That of | Mr. Eachard, relating thereunto. Also | The whole Service appointed for the Day, which | for many Years has been left out of the Book of Common-Prayer. From all which, it plainly appears, that the Papists | had no Hand in that dreadful Conflagration. Very Useful for all those who keep the Annual Solemn Fast on that Occasion. | London: Printed and Sold by J. Stone on | Ludgate Hill, 1721. (Price-SixPence.)" The pamphlet, consisting of thirty-two pages, ends thus : "To conclude, as Slander is a most dreadful Sin, 'tis hoped the foregoing may be of some Use to those who on the Anniversary Fast are ready to present themselves before God with a Lie in their Hearts, if not their and tho' we account the Papists our bitter Enemies, 'tis Mouths. It is a just Saying, Give the Devil his Due; highly wicked to bely and slander them; as has been too much the Practice of those who value themselves for being Protestants. After all, 'tis evident our Church in her Service appointed for the Day, does as it were vindiService being but in very few Common Prayer-Books, cate the Papists, from being concern'd in it, which we here take the Liberty of inserting the whole thereof for the Use of the Devout." Here follows the service. F. D. "the Bovyatos, LXX., ESTHER 111. 1 (Cth S. iii. 186, 237, 378; iv. 179).-MR. MARSHALL points out that, in changing Bougaios for Agagite, Seventy were in reality substituting a Greek term of reproach for the Hebrew Agagite."" A still more remarkable instance of this is the substitution of a Greek proverb for a Hebrew one. At 1 Kings xx. 11, the Hebrew, Vulgate, and A. V. read, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off." The Vulgate is beautifully terse, "Ne glorietur accinctus æque ut discinctus." But the LXX. is totally different : "Let not the humpbacked boast as he that is upright." My кavɣáσow ὅ κυρτὸς ὡς ὁ ορθός. E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. 66 as 66 "DROWE" (6th S. iv. 328, 478).-This word appears more commonly drage or drag. Dragge, menglyd corne, drage or mestlyon" (Promp. Parv.). The editor, Mr. Way, refers to the accounts of the bailiff of the royal manor of Marlborough in the time of Edward I., in which dragg is found in connexion with wheat and "berecorn." It is explained as a mixture of vetches and oats, beans and pease." Cowell, in his Law Dict., interprets it as "a courser sort of bread-corn." He quotes from the Consuetud. | Domus de Farendon, but it seems there to denote "Item reddidit coma kind of blended corn. putum de duobus quarteriis avena de toto exitu grangiæ trituratis per summom (sic) et de xvii quarteriis et tribus bussellis Dragii supra mixtis ......et triturabit bussellos ordei vel dragii avenæ." He adds that in Staffordshire they use a sort of malt made of oats mixed with barley, which they call dreg-malt. The word is of French origin. Dragée aux chevaux, provender of divers sorts of pulse mingled together; also the course grain called Bolymong, French-wheat, Block-wheat, or Buckwheat" (Cotgrave). This explanation does not seem to be quite correct. Bolymong was certainly the name of a kind of mixed corn, "Bollemong, farrago, triticum miscellaneum cum secali" (Coles, Eng.-Lat. Dict.). Drage or drag was primarily a "menglyd corne," generally of oats and barley; but as it was commonly used for cattle, chiefly for horses, it may have denoted subsequently "a courser sort of bread-corn." 66 If Charles Cotton, Esq, may be trusted, Montaigne was the first to suggest that nakedness might glory in taking this view of its case: "I know not," he wrote in his essay, On the Custom of Wearing Clothes, "who would ask a beggar whom he should see in his shirt in the depth of winter, as brisk and frolick, as he who goes muffled up to the ears in furs, how he is able to endure to go so? Why, Sir, he might answer, you go with your face bare, and I am all face." ST. SWITHIN. CHARLES II.'S HIDING-PLACES (6th S. iv. 207). -Little Compton Manor House, co. Warwick, is still perfect, though divided into cottages. Charles II. was hid away in an oven there. H. P. M. LUKE XXIII. 15 (6th S. iv. 465).-John Wesley's rendering of this passage is, in substance, the same as that of the Revised Edition. It is, " Nor yet Herod; for I sent you unto him; and lo, he hath done nothing worthy of death"; which he thus glosses, "According to the judgment of Herod." I will take occasion to remark that it is singular that in almost all of the most important alterations in the Revised Edition Wesley has anticipated them, and that single-handed, more than a hundred years ago. I shall be glad on a future occasion to point out some of the most prominent of them. EDMUND TEW, M.A. The text should have been Luke xxiii. 15; and ENTICK'S "NEW SPELLING DICTIONARY (6th S. iv. 269).-My copy of this old dictionary is dated 1794. Editor, Wm. Crakelt, M.A., Rector of Nursted and Ifield, Kent. Publisher, C. Dilly, in the Poultry. Printer, T. Gillet, Bartholomew Close. Contents: Preface and Advertisements; A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Tongue; A Table of Words that are alike, or nearly alike, &c.; The New Spelling Dictionary, &c.; The most usual Names of Men and Women; A succinct Account of Gods and Goddesses; A List of all the Cities; Boroughs, &c., with Fairs. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. iv. | 449, 479).— "Rustica gens est optima," &c., The line occurs in "N. & Q.," 4th S. ii. 203, as,— "Anglica gens est optima flens et pessima gaudens," with a reference to Chamberlayne's Anglia Notitia for 1669; at which place in "N. & Q." there is also a note that it is taken to be "a mere proverb at N. & Q.,' 3rd S. vi. 59." (6th S. iv. 469.) ED. MARSHall. J. R. T. will find the beautiful poem he wants to see, "The Man at the gate," &c. under the head of The Man at the Gate," in Ezekiel and other Poems, by B. M. (Nelson). HERMENTRUde. "I'll tie a green ribbon round his hat," &c. This ballad will be found in Aytoun's Ballads of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 117, under the title of "Lady Mary Ann." A. A. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice. In this small volume Mr. Freeman gives us a charmBy Edward A. Freeman. (Macmillan.) ing sequel to his previous delightful book, entitled Historical and Architectural Sketches, chiefly Italian. Both are partly made up of articles which have already appeared in various periodicals and magazines; but the Venetian volume contains besides no less than seven entirely new papers on the towns round the Hadriatic Sea, which are the result of the wanderings of the author in those parts in the course of last summer and autumn. The link which connects all the essays in this new work of Mr. Freeman's is the Venetian occupation of, or influence over, the various cities and districts spoken of. We have had described to us in several earlier books the advance of the Lion of St. Mark to the north, into the heart of the shattered pinnacles of the Dolomites; now we are invited to follow the southward progress of the same royal beast. The principal divisions of the book are as follows: the Lombard Austria (including Udine, Aquileia, and Trieste), Trieste to Spalato, Spalato and its neighbours, Spalato to Cattaro (including Ragusa), and Venice in the footsteps of the Normans (taking in Trani, Otranto, Corfu, and Durazzo). Readers of Mr. Freeman's Historical Geography will recollect that he there treated Venice as a part of the Eastern Empire, and as having for the most part no connexion with the Western Empire. In his new book he has worked out this point of view with a great wealth of detail and illustration, and the result is a collection of most interesting and brilliant papers, which, by means of the combination of historical and architectural learning, one of the most marked traits of the genius of the author, unroll before us with the utmost vividness the history of the rise and fall of Venetian power in the Hadriatic. It is hard to say which among so many good things are to be specially recommended. At the risk of offending some of Mr. Freeman's numerous readers, we are inclined to pick out the papers on Udine, Aquileia, Spalato, Salona, Ragusa, Cattaro, Otranto, and Trani as the most interesting: We are glad to see that Mr. Freeman writes Poitou, and not "Poictou," the latter form showing a deplorable ignorance of an elementary fact in French philology The illustrations accompanying the book are meant to bring out certain architectural features in the buildings delineated, otherwise they are scarcely worthy of the text which they are meant to illustrate. We are half promised in the preface a companion volume, containing papers on Greece by the same author; such an offer is to be gladly accepted, but may we put in a plea for a collection of those papers of Mr. Freeman on English, French, and German towns which are among his most brilliant productions, and which are now hopelessly buried in the back volumes of more than one periodical? The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. With an Essay on his Poetry by Andrew Lang. (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) BETWEEN hostile detraction and over-zealous apology Poe's memory has fared but ill. If now and again he has fallen into the hands of a brother craftsman, he has oftener been "annexed" by some indiscreet enthusiast, who, failing in critical apprehension, has fastened all the more tenaciously upon the miserable record of his life. Mr. Andrew Lang, who now edits his poems for the pretty" Parchment Library," belongs, it is needless to say, to the former class; but he is a critic as well as a poet, and a poet with a keen sense of form. His introductory essay is a petit chef d'œuvre, as just as it is generous. Declining to enter into questionable biographical details, it confines itself to Poe's poetical aspect, the music of his verse, his lyrical limitations, his melancholy, his role as amant de la Mort. Especially excellent -so it seems to us-are the pages which deal with Poe's definition of the province of poetry, with the secrets and tricks of his melody, and the haunting suggestive ness of his epithets. And while Mr. Lang rates To Helen and the Haunted Palace at the value which those masterpieces deserve, he has no illusions as to the emptiness of Ulalume or the artifice of The Bells, although he does not neglect to point out that even these are not over easy to imitate. Altogether there could be no sounder guide to the metrical work of Poe than this delightful introduction. If it had no other merit, the charm of its manner alone would recommend it. We have no wish to see Mr. Lang "write beautifully about a Broomstick," as Stella said of Swift, but we feel sure that he could do so if he liked. It is no new thing to say that his style is, in its way, unique. For wit, for variety, for richness of recollection, for those fine turns which delight the literary gourmet, it would be hard to find its equal. Nothing is more remarkable, too, than Mr. Lang's fertility of simile and illustration. With most writers we are constantly reminded, in this respect, of Pope's lines about things "neither rich nor rare "; with this one, on the contrary, his citations seem to flow without effort in the stream of his words; they are a part of his habit of thought, and rise naturally to his lips. If we were called upon to produce a sample of English prose which should most nearly compare, for grace and ease, with the lighter masterpieces of modern French critical writing, we should seek it in the style in which this introduction is written. But even then there would remain a something native and personal, which is the cachet of Mr. Lang. A Register of the Presidents, Fellows, Demies, Instructors in Grammar and in Music, Chaplains, Clerks, Choristers, and other Members of S. Mary Magdalen College, in the University of Oxford, from the Foundation of the College to the Year 1857. By J. R. Bloxam, D.D., formerly Fellow and Demy. Vol. VII. (Parker.) WITH this volume Dr. Bloxam ends, for the present, the arduous task which he has imposed on himself of gathering together into a handy form every known detail respecting the foundation members of the college of which he has deserved so well. The time employed in merely printing the results of his researches has been more than twenty-five years, and the result is a minute history, such as is possessed by no other college in either university, of the individuals who have been foundation members of the college. The labour and trouble spent in the work must have been enormous, and we heartily congratulate the venerable author on bringing his great work to a close, though we learn from the preface that his MS. materials are far from being exhausted. There is but one matter in which we might have wished a change. Dr. Bloxam's original plan limited him to giving the lives of those presidents and fellows only who had previously been demies. Now no doubt these (until all restrictions to certain dioceses and counties were swept away by the first University Commission) were by far the most numerous, as appears from an interesting table (vol. vii. p. xiii, note); but this scheme excludes not merely the intruded presidents and fellows, but also those fellows who were elected by open competition among persons born in particular districts, for which there were no demyships. Hence the work is distinctly incomplete, and we are glad to hear that Dr. Bloxam thinks of filling up this gap in a supplementary volume, which he alone is qualified to prepare. An index to the whole work is much to be desired. The present volume begins with the election as demy, in 1771, of Martin Joseph Routh, who became president in 1791, and died in 1854, six months before he attained his hundredth year, but whose personality has already become, to a large extent, enshrouded in the mists of legend and story. It ends in 1858, just after the new |