quotation, "Every honest miller has golden thumbs Chaucer," is quite wrong. Chaucer never said it. The allusion is to his Prologue, 1. 563, the wording of which is very different; see the note on the line in Morris's edition. On the other hand, Hazlitt gives the form "An honest miller has a golden thumb," and refers to 4 Hundred Mery Tales, No. 10. No one has ever given any older reference. If we are to have old proverbs, let them be such as Hazlitt has not already given; and let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be had. A quotation with out a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.. WALTER W. SKEAT. Miscellaneous. Edited Parts I. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. by Robert Edmund Graves. New Edition. to IV. (Bell & Sons.) THE reproach under which England has long suffered of having no general biographical dictionary worthy of the name loses a portion of its sting when account is taken of the excellence of special or class biographies. Among these a foremost place is claimed by Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, of which a new and much improved edition is now being issued by Messrs. George Bell & Sons. The first edition of Bryan was published in two volumes, 4to.. in 1816, at a high price. Its value was recognized, and it succeeded in displacing all previous compilations, such as the dictionary of Pilkington, and establishing itself as an authority. Thirty-three years elapsed, however, before a new edition, edited and enlarged by Mr. George Stanley, was given to the world by Mr. H. G. Bohn. In 1873 a third edition, so far as we can ascertain an exact reprint of the previous, was issued by Messrs. George Bell & Sons, to whom we are indebted for the four parts of a new edition which are now before us. Full testimony to the utility of the work is furnished in the diminishing intervals between the appearances of the successive editions. So far as regards fulness of information, disposition of materials, the value of the critical estimate, and the general treatment the reissue is practically a new and a greatly superior book. Some such change as has been made was, of course, requisite. In the thirty-five years which have elapsed since the publication of Bohn's enlarged edition a change all but complete has come over public taste with regard to fine arts. Painters the mention of whose names would have excited surprise in a cultivated assemblage are now popular with a public that may almost be called general, and a generation of new painters has sprung into existence and celebrity. In the first six letters of the alphabet, with which the new issue deals, abundant illustration of improvement is afforded. A meagre notice of little more than a third of a column is in the earlier edition afforded Botticelli; in the second, under the head of Filipepi, apart from the biographical notice, which is extended to thrice the length, a column and a fraction are devoted to a list of his works in the pablic and private galleries of Europe. Against three painters or engravers of the name of Boulanger in the earlier edition are to be opposed six in the second. In the case of Pieter de Hooch, called in the earlier edition Peter de Hooge, the biography is shortened by the omission of the critical portion which ranked him below Mieris and Gerard Dow. In the place of this whimsical estimate is supplied a full list of his few works, a third date of assumed birth is carried back-on we know not of which, it is pleasant to think, are in London. The what authority-from 1643, at which it has always stood, to 1632. The most complete change of front is, perhaps, made in the life of William Blake. Not only are the sentences in which his works are spoken of-much as the things that "sometimes astonish by their sublimity, and writings of Shakspeare are described by Voltaire-as at others excite pity or contempt by their extravagance or absurdity," replaced by a judicious estimate, but an account of the life as full as is to be hoped replaces the scanty particulars which had no pretence to rank as a biography. To lapse of time, and consequent loss by death, may be attributed the first appearance of biographies of Cruikshank, Clint, the Chalons, David Cox, E. W. Cooke, Etty, Egg, Hippolyte Chevalier (known as Gavarni), Delaroche, Delacroix, Doré, and many others. The general improvement that is effected as regards both painters and engravers may be ascertained by turning to such articles as those on François Boucher, Charles Clément Bervic, Ferdinand Bol, Jacques Callot, and a score others. The more important biographies have all been rewritten, and the book is, for the first time, brought up to the requirements of the age. Less than a quarter has as yet appeared. Should the succeeding numbers keep up to the level of those now issued, the success of the new edition seems assured. Very far from slight is the labour involved in a task of this kind, and Mr. Graves is to be congratulated on the manner in which it has been executed. English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century as shown in the Universal Etymological Dictionary" of Nathaniel Bailey. Edited by William E. A. Äxon. (English Dialect Society.) A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases. Compiled and Edited by the Rev. Sir William H. Cope, Bart. (Same Society.) BAILEY'S Dictionary was once a fashionable book. Johnson used it it as the basis of his collections. It was the most handy and complete word list he could procure. The far more learned work of him whom it was fashionable in days gone by to call "the great lexicographer did not at once destroy the popularity of Bailey; and even to the present time Bailey's Dictionary has value for specialists, as giving a very good eighteenth century vocabulary, and because it contains a multitude of dialect words not to be found elsewhere. Mr. Axon has done us no little service by extracting the dialect matter and giving us it severed from the mass of current English words in which it is imbedded. The work has been done very carefully. If there be an error it is certainly not on the side of exclusion. We could pick out scores of words which, to our thinking, are in no sense dialectic. On one page we meet with chrysom and cion. The first ought to be in every English dictionary, and the other is only the ignorant spelling of some seventeenth or eighteenth century gardener. It is explained by Bailey as a botanical term, meaning "a young shoot, sprig, sucker," and, as Mr. Axon points out, is merely a mistake for scion. We can easily excuse a few unnecessary insertions of this kind for the sake of the large store of good dialect words which are now for the first time given us in a handy form. Many of these have a curious history, such as Bailey can never have guessed at. Some have now, in all probability, perished, and are only known because they have had the good fortune to be catalogued by him. Others, which have lived on the lips of the common people, have been raised from their low estate, and are now admitted into the highest society. When Bailey wrote shunt was only a vulgar word, meaning to shove, which any judicious instructor of youth would have rebuked his pupils for using. Fashionable people would not have understood it, or, if they had, would have veiled their knowledge under the densest cloud of assumed ignorance. Time passed on; George Stephenson invented the locomotive, and he, or some of his subordinates, took up the homely word and made it good English. A long and instructive essay might be written on this word alone, and there are many others the study of which would be equally instructive. Mr. Axon has a genuine liking for good Nathaniel Bailey, in which we cordially share. He has been at no little trouble to work out for his readers a sketch of his life and position in the world, and has given what seems to be a complete list of his works. It is not probable that the dictionary will be ever reprinted, but we believe that Mr. Axon's collection of excerpts will become a standard work among those who are interested in the folk-speech. Sir William Cope's Glossary is a useful addition to the series. The collection seems to be full, and the meanings of the terms are, so far as we are able to judge, well explained. We should have been glad of more examples from the lips of those who at present speak the Hampshire form of English. We have one fault, and one only, to find, and that is with the title. It is called A Glossary of Hampshire Words and Phrases The meaning is to us clear enough, but it will mislead persons who have not studied dialect. They will go away with the notion that Sir William Cope thinks all the words that he has gathered are peculiar to Hampshire. Of course, as no one knows better than the author, this is not the case. Why, then, did he not call his book "A Glossary of Words and Phrases used in Hampshire"? There would then have been no ambiguity. To assert that waps is a Hampshire word seems to imply that it is peculiar to that county. 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