Periodicals of 1892, p. 147, has "Penny am going to London." But our pundits say

1899, p. 169, has "Penny in the Slot have, for instance, to outrun, to foresee, Machines." 'Index to the Periodicals of to misquote, to counteract, and many 1900,' p. 171, has "Penny and its Story," others. Why is it right to say "to outrun, "Penny Meals," "Penny Patriotism," "Penny but wrong to say "to quickly run"? Why Toys," "Penny for your Thoughts." 'Index may we say "to misquote," but not to the Periodicals of 1901, p. 182, has "Penny wrongly quote"? All this seems to me to

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and
Discoveries of the English Nation. By Richard
Hakluyt. Vols. IX., X., and XI. (Glasgow,
MacLehose & Sons.)

ALL but completed is the worthy task, boldly and
patriotically undertaken and brilliantly executed by
Messrs. MacLehose, of placing within reach of the
reading and studious public the record of English
adventure and empire-building in the most brilliant
period of our national history. The work is, indeed,
virtually in the hands of the student, what remains,
though indispensable and all-important, being to a
great extent in the nature of index and appendix.
With the appearance of each succeeding instalment
the sense of the importance of the task accom-
plished becomes augmentingly obvious. To say
that 'The Principal Navigations' is unknown
would be extravagant. It is an avowed classic,
standing side by side with the works which are our
chief national treasures, and leagues in front of
our chronicles. At the same time, it is unfamiliar
to the general public, for the reason, before all
others, that it has long been inaccessible. That
excuse for ignorance is now withdrawn, and Hak-
luyt must henceforward form part of every library
claiming consideration. Perusal has hitherto been
practically confined to those occupied with
historical studies. It should now extend to all
interested in the growth of empire and the
exploration of countries outside the range of
classical knowledge. Deeply interesting chapters
are opened out in the later volumes. In vol. ix.
we are occupied with voyages to Florida and New
Mexico, explorations of the Gulf of California, and
visits to the city of Mexico. Of poignant interest
is the account of the attempt, under René Goulaine
de Laudonnière and Jean Ribaut, at the direction
of Coligny and with the sanction of Charles IX., to
found a Huguenot colony in Florida. At first the
attempt met with a certain amount of success, and
the relations between the native chiefs and the
French invaders were of the most amicable nature.
The deplorable result was that the Spaniards, treat-
ing the Huguenots after their fashion, massacred
the whole of the prisoners. Apart from other
matters of interest, it is pleasant to read of the
protection afforded the fugitives by Hawkins, who

supplied Laudonnière with food and clothing, and
placed at his disposition a vessel on which to
escape. These incidents belong to 1564-6. French
authorities, in dealing with Laudonnière, make
little mention of Hakluyt. Laudonnière himself
published in 1586 'Histoire Notable de la Floride,
contenant les Trois Voyages faits en icelle par des
Capitaines et des Pilotes Français.' It is in a sense
satisfactory, though it has nothing to do with the
subject, to find that these murders by the Spaniards,
at which Charles IX. connived, were revenged by
Dominique de Gourgues, a celebrated mariner, who
in consequence had to fly France for his life and
accept employment from Elizabeth. A novel on
the subject of these conflicts, entitled 'Le Talion,"
appeared in Le Siècle in 1857. A portrait of Lau-
donnière by Crispin de Passe, from the Grenville
Library in the British Museum, is given at p. 48.
Much interesting information concerning Florida is
supplied, and we hear of the practice of scalping, of
the existence of bison, &c. Some of the statements
are somewhat hard to credit, as when we are told of
people considerably over two hundred years old.
A portrait of Raleigh, which serves as frontispiece,
is after an original attributed to Zucchero in the
Dublin Gallery. An admirable portrait of Hawkins,
a map of the world by Peter Plancius, 1594, maps
of Florida and of the coast of China, with views of
ships in the navy of Henry VIII., are in the same
volume. Fine portraits of Drake, Sir Robert
Dudley, and Sir Anthony Sherley, with other maps
and plans of surpassing interest, follow in vol. x
Among the contents of this volume are the exploits
of Drake and Hawkins, both of whose deaths are
described, as well as those of other Elizabethan
heroes. In the eleventh volume are descriptions of
explorations of the coast of Brazil, the Straits of
Magellan, the South Sea, "and round about the
circumference of the whole earth." Herein we
have a brief account of the two voyages of Mr.
William Haukins of Plimmouth, father to Sir
John Haukins, Knight, and his bringing over
the Brazilian king, who was presented to King
Henry VIII., but died on the return voyage.
Portraits of Thomas Cavendish and Sir Christopher
Hatton, with other designs of surpassing interest,
are given. We might easily go on for ever, since
there is no point at which to stop; but considera-
tions of space forbid further amplification. The
volumes are, of course, a treasure-house rich and
inexhaustible, and the manner in which the task of
republication is executed is such as to commend the
work to every lover of fine books. It is pleasant to
know that the reception of the reprint has surpassed
expectation, and has emboldened the publishers to
undertake the issue in a similar form of Hakluytus
Posthumus; or, Purchas His Pilgrimes,' a work
even rarer than that of which it is a continuation.
This, founded on materials left by Hakluyt, has
not previously been reprinted. All the maps (over
seventy in number) in the 1625 edition will be
reproduced, the fine title-page will be executed in
facsimile, and the work will be enriched by a com-
plete index upon a scale corresponding to modern
requirements. Of this a thousand copies only,
all of which will doubtless be subscribed for before
publication, will be issued. Two volumes will
appear in the autumn, and it is hoped that the
entire work will within a couple of years be in the
hands of the subscribers. The last copy of the
original, in anything like a good condition, though
defective in some respects, brought by auction 44/..

と

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The Works of William Shakespeare. "Stratford all from the 1623 folio. In paper, text, typography,
Town" Edition Vol. I. (Stratford-on-Avon, &c., the volume leaves nothing to be desired. A
Shakespeare Head Press.)

SENTIMENTAL reasons must count among the motives to the production of the superb edition of Shakespeare of which the first volume is now before us. Nothing is more natural than that the birthplace of Shakespeare should give to the world an adequate and sumptuous edition of her greatest son. As the home of Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon claims a species of supremacy among cities, and ranks as a shrine with Delphos. It is useless for London even, the scene of Shakespeare's triumphs, to contest the supremacy with the Warwickshire home, seeing that if it be urged that Shakespeare is England's poet, and not Stratford's, it may with equal justice be maintained that he is not England's poet, but the world's. "He was not of an age, but for all time," Jonson's immortal utterance, may be supplemented with, He was not of a place, but for the world. Stratford has, however, elected to have an edition of its own, and in supplyingsuch has met alike the requirements of the book-lover and the scholar. So far as regards the latter there is matter for hearty congratulations. Which of us has not wished for a text undisturbed by note and undefiled by conjecture? There are tens of thousands of readers who require explanations of Tudor phrase and a history of the growth of Shakespeare's text. For such men have laboured diligently and well, and between the publication of the great Variorum text of all the commentators, with its monstrous growth of erudition and absurdity, and the new Variorum of Dr. Horace Howard Furness, now in progress, innumerable editions, appealing to every class of readers, have seen the light. Ample room remains for an edition such as is now given us, and the moderate number of subscribers to which appeal is madeone thousand in all-might, we should suppose, easily be quintupled. Adhering for a moment to the sentimental aspects, we may say that the work is printed in the house of Julius Shaw, one of the poet's most intimate friends and one of the witnesses to his will. The house in question is situated two doors to the north of New Place, and, so far as the main structure is concerned, has undergone little change since the poet's days. For the text Mr. A. H. Bullen, the best and sanest of editors, to whom are owing the best editions we possess of the early dramas, is responsible. Its aim, as announced, is to stand midway between Dyce and Clark and Wright, the editors of the Cambridge text, less austere than the latter, but more rigorous than the former. So far as we have gone in comparing the present text with that of the Cambridge Shakespeare, a labour in which naturally we cannot proceed far, the advantage, so far as regards

adherence to the First Folio, is with the new work. Such differences as we have found, however, though fairly numerous, are rarely important.

The first volume, which contains four plays, 'The Tempest,' 'Two Gentlemen of Verona, "The Merry Wives of Windsor,' and 'Measure for Measure,' has for frontispiece a fine reproduction of the Droeshout portrait. Its preliminary matter consists of 'The Epistle Dedicatory,' by John Heminge and Henry Condell, to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, the address 'To the Great Varietie of Readers, Ben Jonson's address 'To the Reader,' 'The Names of the Principal Actors in all these Plays,' the 'Commendatory Verses,' and the 'Additional Commendatory Verses,

more beautiful and luxurious, and, so far as we are able to judge, more accurate, commendable, and desirable edition of Shakespeare does not exist.

a

unique

The Poore's Lamentation for the Death of Queen
Elizabeth. (Printed for private circulation.)
To our valued friend Mr. Alexander Smith, of
Glasgow, with whose knowledge and zeal as a
bibliophile our readers are familiar, we owe this
handsome and interesting reprint of
poetic tract preserved in the Malone Collection
in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Anonymous in
authorship, this work was issued in 1603 for
Thomas Pauier in "Cornehill" "at the signe of
the Cat and the Parrets." It was known to John
Payne Collier, who has left an account of it from
which Mr. Alexander Smith quotes. An elaborate
eulogy of Queen Elizabeth, whom in alliterative
fashion it calls

Our good and Godly gracious royall Queene,
it no less fulsomely eulogizes her successor, for
whom it invokes a life thrice exceeding that of
Nestor. Not very considerable is it as poetry, but
it is scarcely below the average of the didactic or
elegiac work of the epoch. It has, however, some
historic value, giving a rimed account of the suffer-
ing of the princess in the reign of Bloody Mary
during her transference from one place of confine-
ment to another. The verse is naïve at times, and
we find lines such as the following:-

Elizabeth, Elizabeth, I say,

From little England now is torne away.

A genuine service to letters is rendered by those who preserve such waifs and strays of our early literature, and we own our obligation to Mr. Smith for allowing us to count the reprint, of which twenty-five copies only are issued, among our possessions.

Photograms of the Year 1904. (Dawbarn & Ward.) THE advance in photographic art which Photomaintained, and much of the work exhibited in the grams has at once assisted and chronicled is happily present volume is fully entitled to rank as art. The frontispiece, entitled 'L'Effort,' exhibits wonderful effects of light, and it is followed by some splendid landscape effects of French origin. From all parts of the world they come, until it must puzzle the most competent to award the prize of merit. The composition is not in every case quite successful, but the collection may be studied with delight as. well as advantage.

The Clergy Directory and Parish Guide, 1905.

(Phillips.)

THE thirty-fifth annual issue of this admirable directory is before us, and once more fulfils every condition of excellence. It is thoroughly up to date, supplies all information to be expected in a work of its class, and is, as experience shows, the handiest and most convenient of similar compilations.

The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. THE frontispiece to The Burlington consists of 'The Good Shepherd,' a wall painting of the third century, in the Catacomb of Prætextatus. This is wonderfully reproduced in colours. Mr. A. H. Smith deals with 'The Sculptures in Lansdowne

House,' seven of which are well reproduced. 'Opus Kymri in Literature.'-Though reduced now to six

and flutter round the Eleanor Cross of Charing" for Mrs. C. Towle writes in Longman's concerning

Mr. E. V. Lucas writes on 'G.. D. [George of Lamb.' Few more eccentric, bind-hearted, and self-oblivious creatures than Dyer can have existed. Mr. Frank T. Bullen's Land of Romance' is situate in the West Indies. -In The Gentleman's Mr. J. Holden MacMichael begins an account of 'Charing Cross and its Immediate Neighbourhood,' for which he is disposed to claim consideration as the hub of the terrestrial universe. Mr. Frank Lawrence tells afresh a curious and quite forgotten story in 'The Case of M. Perreau.' 'Mr. Cuthbert Hadden discourses on 'The Robin.' Our own observations lead us to doubt the entire accuracy of some of his comments. Miss Georgiana Hill has a paper on 'A Great Lady of the Seventeenth Century, and Edith Gray Wheelwright one on 'The Influence of the

pence The Pall Mall Magazine shows no falling off in the character of its illustrations or its letterpress. The photogravure of Reynolds's 'Country Girl' which forms the frontispiece is of quite remarkable beauty. A characteristic poem by Thomas Hardy opens the number. Next comes an interesting and valuable paper by Mr. John Burns on 'London Old and New, which is admirably illustrated. Immediately following contributions are by Mr. H. G. Wells, Mr. H. C. Bailey, and Mr. Herbert Vivian. It is, indeed, difficult to imagine a more ideal selection. from the popular standpoint, of contents. that interesting personality Aubrey de Vere, and Canon Vaughan has a capital paper on 'The Flora of Hants.' In 'At the Sign of the Ship' Mr. Lang owns to having discovered who was the Eliza Logan after whom he inquired in 'N. & Q.' She was, it appears, by birth a Miss Manson, and of course married a Logan. These particulars are obtained from Mr. Jonathan Nield, author of 'A Guide to the Best Historical Novels' (Elkin Mathews), a work of which we had not previously heard. Mr. Lang also describes a curious American version of The Ballad of Lord Bateman,' beginning, very strangely, "In India lived a noble lord."

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