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Sir Walter Rawleigh dated the first of August 1603." The contents of this letter are so utterly inconsistent with Sir Walter's tone in relation to his alleged complicity with the plots of 1603, that one is forced to conclude either that it is a forgery, or more likely that it is a genuine appeal from one of the real conspirators. I hope to be allowed to print it on some future occasion.

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UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF SIR WALTER

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Mr. Edwards ('Life and Letters of Ralegh,' vol. ii. p. liii, sqq.) laments that the collection of letters, in spite of his persevering efforts to recover missing portions of Sir Walter's correspondence, was still far from complete, and anticipates that other letters, which he was unable to recover, would come to light as the result of future research. I cannot find, however, that anything written by Sir Walter of material interest has been printed since this date (1868).

The two letters, now, it is believed, for the first time offered to the public, are copied from a MS. volume of historical and legal letters and treatises of the early seventeenth century. It is of folio size, contains 220 leaves, and bears at each end the signature "Ric. Tichbo'n." Included in this collection are seven of Ralegh's published letters, numbered in Edwards's collection cxviii. (to the Lords Commissioners), cxxi. (to the King), cxxix. (ditto), cxliii. (to Sir Robert Carr), cxxiii. (to his wife), cxlvi. (to Queen Anne), cliv. (to Sir Ralph Winwood, though here superscribed "To my Lord Tre'r"). Following these is a copy of "Sir Walter Rawleighs Conffession," i.e., his speech upon the scaffold (Edwards, i. 699), and, earlier in the series, "A letter [to the king] supposed to be written by

The poor prisoner seems to have made formal applications with respect to Guiana in 1607, before Carr had acquired the Sherborne estate, and in 1611. Delay only diminished the chances of success, and when he was allowed to sail in 1617, through the dominant influence of Gondomar in the English Court, failure was a foregone conclusion.

In transcribing these letters I have faithfully followed my copy. On the question whether they are to be viewed as accurate verbatim transcriptions of the originals I wish to say a few words hereafter :

A L're wrytten by Sir Walter Rawleigh to his Matie Anno 1607 [1611] Conscerninge Guyana:

I hope that you most excellent Matie will pardon this presumption of myne, I have besought the Queene, that out of hir wonted Charritye towardes mee, shee woulde for whereas I have been tould, that it pleased yor Matle bee pleased to offerr unto yor matle theis ffewe Lynes, to reade over a L're of myne, wrytten to my Lord Treasuror: ffor a voyage to Guyana, I most humblye beseech yor Matie to beleive that I never had other respect to my selfe in that proiecte then to make it apparante, that I have ever been, and ever will remayne yor Maties ffaithffull servante, That ever I sought my Lib'tye thereby, for the Love of Lib'tye or that I had any Tricke therein, as it pleaseth some men to Tearme it, The lyveinge god doth wyttnes the contrarye, ffor to him that hath not been Bredd a slavishe Marryner: The imPrysonmte of a longe Navigac'on is ffarr more greivous then the Tower of London, into wch, as I was never cast, ffor any knaverye, or villanye, soe will I never seeke to bee delivered thereby:

Butt: maye it please yor most excellent matie it is true, that I did Lament the reffusall made; Because yor Matie hath thereby reffused a most easye waye of being Inriched, Both in dispight of yor Malitious enemyes Abroade; and of yor gruntinge [sic] Subts att home.

And whereas it hath been infforced against mee that it had been a greate Leuitye* of State, to have Trusted a Man in my estate, it had been indeed well said, yf I had desired the Truste of any greate so'me of Monye, of any whereby yor Matie might have Receyved preiudyce. Butt greate Armye, or any greate fleete, or of any thinge els,

* Query whether Lenity or Levity?

where noethinge had been putt in hazard wth mee, Butt
myne owne shame and inftamye, where I was to bee
trusted in noethinge, Butt to make my selfe a Ridiculous
Lyer, and a Beggar, and to leave that marcke uppon my
Children, and posteritye, I should have thought it (under
pardon) when I lyved in the world, a greate Leuitye* of
State, to have Reffused such an Adventure, seeinge what
soever proffitt had been made, the same had been yor❘
Maties, And there was noethinge els where of yor Matle
had been in daunger, Butt of the yll Bestow einge of
yor Mercye; ffor, alas, whatt a'me I, in respect of that
wth hath been offerred, To make wch good, whie was I not
rayther infforced, then forbidden, yf it had been butt a
promyse of myne, whie was it not tryed, seeinge the pro-
mise was soe greate, and I soe little, or whie should soe
noteable a servyce for yor Matte bee Ballanced with the
Lib'tye of one man, whose ffortune, when it was att
greatest never over-shadowed any thinge butt it selfe.
Butt: seeinge it is in the Providence of god, (that
yor Matie reffuseinge it) so'me other Kinge, or Kingdom'e
shalbee inriched thereby, ffor it cannot lye hidden longe,
yett I most humblye Beseech yor Matie to doe mee that
grace, as to Beleive, that I, whoe have spent my sorrow-
ffull tymes of ymprisonmte in the studdye of yor Matles
servyce, and saffetye, of wch I hope one daye to make
good prooffe would in the rest never have proved ffalse,
nor never have been ffounde ungrateffull to such a Kinge,
as tooke mee out of the handes of death, when noe man
els that had power in the worlde, had compassion of
Yor Maties humble vassall,
WALTER RAWLEIGH.
C. DEEDES.

mee:

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Right Honorable the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G., author Quicquid agunt homines." By the of "Lothair," etc., etc. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street. 1880.-8vo. pp. ii, 477. B.M. 12619 i. 14.

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Endymion. By the author of "Lothair." Quicquid agunt homines." London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1881. All rights reserved.-8vo. pp. iv, 474. 12618 dd. 11.

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Endymion. Von Earl of Beaconsfield. (Benjamin D'Israeli.) Aus dem Englischen von Professor Dr. C. Böttger. Autorisirte deutsche Ausgabe. "Quicquid agunt homines."......Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. 1881. -8vo. B.M. 12604 ccc. 9.

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Vol. i., pp. vi, 487, and portrait, contains 'Vivian Grey'; vol. ii., pp. vi, 451, ‘The Young Duke' and 'Count Alarcos'; vol. iii., pp. viii, 461, Contarini Fleming' and 'The Rise of Iskander vol. iv., pp. viii, 463, 'Alroy,' 'Ixion in Heaven,' 'The Infernal Marriage,' and 'Popanilla'; vol. v., pp. viii, 464, Henrietta Temple'; vol. vi., pp. viii, 482, 'Venetia'; vol. vii., pp. vi, 477, 'Coningsby '; vol. viii., pp. viii, 489, Sybil'; vol. ix., pp. viii, 487, Tancred' (the Preface to the Fifth Edition has the pagination vii-ix, but it should apparently be v-vii); vol. x., pp. xx, 485, 'Lothair'; vol. xi., pp. ii, 474, 30, and portrait, 'Endymion.' The novel ends on p. 474; a memoir, entitled 'The Earl of Beaconsfield,' separately paged, concludes the volume.

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Wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Collected from his writings and speeches. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1881. All rights reserved.-8vo. pp. xiv, 382. B.M. 2344 a.

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Selected speeches of the late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield. Arranged and edited with introduction and explanatory notes by T. E. Kebbel, M.A. With a Portrait. In two volumes...... London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1882. All rights reserved.-8vo. B.M. 12301 d. 37.

Vol. i. has pp. xx, 634; vol. ii., pp. viii, 647. The first speech reprinted was delivered at High Wycombe, June 9, 1832; the latest, on the evacuation of Candahar, March 4, 1881. Besides political speeches, there are included the address at the Manchester Athenæum, Oct. 3, 1844, on the value of literature; the speech at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund on May 8, 1872; that on the seventh anniversary of the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, May 2, 1849; and the tribute in the House of Commons to the memory of the Prince Consort, Feb. 6, 1862. The date of the Manchester Athenæum speech is wrongly given as Oct. 23; and the line

Fields that cool Ilyssus laves

is misprinted

Fields that cool Ulyssus loves.

tion of his great example." Tenth edition. London: Longmars, Green, and Co. 1882.-8vo. pp. xiv, 422, See 1852.

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This is also a translation into Hebrew. See 1847. 1884.

Lord Beaconsfield on the Constitution. "What is he?" and "A Vindication of the English Constitution." By" Disraeli the Younger," [the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G.] edited with an anecdotal preface by Francis Hitchman, author of "The Public Life of the Earl of Beaconsfield," &c. London: Field & Tuer, Y Leadenhalle Presse, E.C. Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co. 1884. Öbl. 8vo. pp. lx, 210. B.M. 8139 a. 8.

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(To be continued.)

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF OLDENBURG.
(Continued from p. 443.)

We now return to John, Duke of Holstein, the third and youngest son of Christian III. This prince, as we have said, by his first wife had eight sons. Only three of them left issue, viz., Alexander (whose descendants we have considered), Frederick,

Wellington. Sonnets of Three Centuries,' edited by and Philip. The male issue of Frederick (the sixth
T. Hall Caine, 1882, p. 115. B.M. 11601 ff. 6.
For the history of this sonnet see 1848.
On the Portrait of the Lady Mahon, 1839.-'Sonnets
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son) expired with his grandson Ernest Leopold, in 1722, and Philip's male issue became extinct in 1779, upon the death of his great-great-grandson, Duke Frederick Henry William, in 1779. The eighth and youngest son of Duke John by his first wife, Alfred, died s.p. in 1613. By his second wife, Agnes Hedwig, Electress of Saxony, daughter of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, and widow of

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