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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber. Written
by Himself. A New Edition, with Notes and Supple-
ment by Robert W. Lowe. 2 vols. (Nimmo.)
AN annotated edition of Colley Cibber's immortal 'Apo-
logy' has long been demanded. After the appearance of
the second edition, the task of supplying Cibber's omissions
was undertaken by Anthony Aston, whose Brief Supple-
ment-one of the scarcest and most curious of theatri-
cal tracts-is for the first time reprinted as an appendix
to the present volume. For a more systematic attempt
at annotation the world had to wait until the publication,
in 1822, of the "Apology, with Criticisms and Explana-
tory Notices," the authorship of which is not without
dispute-claimed by Edmund Bellchambers. No further
effort at supplying Cibber's deficiences has been made
until the appearance of Mr. Lowe's valuable and autho-
ritative edition, which, so far as regards the requirements
of the present generation, may well be regarded as final.
A young, an arduous, and an enthusiastic worker in the
field he occupies, Mr. Lowe, to whom are owing a Bib
liographical Account of English Theatrical Literature,'
and a new and an annotated edition of Doran's Their
Majesties' Servants,' has not contented himself with the
sources of information which are generally accessible.
From the MSS. in the British Museum, the records of
the Lord Chamberlain's office, and the Cibber Collections
in the Forster Library at South Kensington he has drawn
much new and valuable information, now for the first
time set before the public. By aid of his researches he
has corrected many errors of his predecessors, and, what
is even more important, supplied the dates, in which
Cibber is reprehensibly careless and inaccurate. By re-
printing, also, for the first time, the work of Anthony
Aston to which previous reference has been made, and
the patent granted by Charles II. to Sir William D'Aven-
ant, and supplying the first complete reprint of Wright's
'Historia Histrionica,' he has given his work signal value,
and rendered it indispensable to all students of the stage.
It is not easy to over-estimate the value of the supple-
mentary chapter which Mr. Lowe appends. With the
mention of Mr. Lowe's additions the claims of the re-
print are far from exhausted. The illustrations consti-
tute an attraction which will commend the work to all
collectors and book-lovers. These include twenty-six
portraits and eighteen chapter headings, all specially
engraved for the present edition. The portraits are
copper-plate mezzotints, engraved from the best and
most authentic originals. Among them are Betterton,
Anthony Leigh as the Friar in Dryden's 'Spanish Friar,'
Mrs. Barry, Vanbrugh, and Pope, by Sir Godfrey Knel-
ler, Grisoni's famous picture of Cibber as Lord Fopping-

ton, in the possession of the Garrick Club, and others by
Vanloo, Van Bleeck, H. Gravelot, and other eminent
artists. The chapter headings, meanwhile, representing
scenes from plays, illustrating the costumes, manner,
and appearance of the actors of Cibber's period, are
taken from contemporary authorities, and are mar-
vellously executed by M. Adolphe Lalauze. Five
hundred and ten copies in all of this work, all num-
bered, have been issued, and the type has been dis-
tributed. Type, paper, and binding are worthy of the
association in which they are placed, and the entire
work, like others from the same source, is a joy to the
bibliophile.

Diocesan Histories.-Hereford. By Rev. H. W. Phillott.
(Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)
THE history of the diocese of Hereford is not so in-
teresting as that of many of the other ecclesiastical
divisions of our land. Its chronicles are mainly the
annals of a quiet neighbourhood. By far the most
notable person connected with the see of Hereford is
Thomas de Cantilupe, who was one of the last English-
men ever canonized. His life was one of constant
struggle after he ascended the episcopal throne. Mr.
Phillott tells his story in a lively and picturesque manner.
He says that as late as 1610 some of the saint's bones
were carried in procession during an outbreak of the
Plague. Such an event occurring in then puritan Eng-
land is very strange. Unhappily, the plan on which
this series is written precludes references to authorities.
In this case we wish the rule could have been dispensed
with. No doubt some of our readers can supply the
deficiency. Swynderby, the Lollard, was conspicuous
as a Hereford heretic. He is commonly believed to
have been burnt in 1401, and if we are not mistaken a
woodcut of the horrible tragedy, executed about sixty
years ago, is in existence. Mr. Phillott thinks that this
is a mistake. "It seems unlikely that the capture and
execution of so conspicuous a heretic should not be
recorded in official documents, and a more probable
supposition is that he escaped into some foreign country

and died there."

THE Edinburgh Review for October devotes its opening article to the consideration of the life and work of William, Lord Grenville, who came "of a politica family," and could hardly have failed to enter upon a political career. That career, which commenced at twenty-three with his return for the borough of Buckingham, and, after a long and honourable devotion to the public service, in and out of office, restored him to the quiet enjoyment of the rhododendrons of Dropmore, was in many respects noticeable, and in some, perhaps unique. Lord Grenville was greater at Dropmore than in Downing Street, though he had played no inconsiderable part among the statesmen of his day. Something of the characteristic beauties of Dropmore seems to belong to the story of Dorothy Osborne, of Chicksands, as told in her quaint and interesting correspondence with her future husband, Sir William Temple. Mistress Dorothy had a keen sense of humour, and seems to have been mightily amused at some of the varied list of suitors who offered themselves for her hand, when her heart was already given. It says much for Henry Cromwell, the Protector's son, that he should be distinguished as the one who alone interested Dorothy Osborne. The story of the House of Percy, as told by Mr. de Fonblanque, forms a fitting tribute to English family history; but when we reflect that nearly the whole of the historic Percies, of ballad fame, down to Josceline, last Earl of Northumberland of the mediaval line, who looks down upon us from the walls of Petworth, were not Percies at all, we must admit

that, in the point of unbroken male descent, their old enemy, the Douglas, had the advantage of them. The episode of the Dublin trunkmaker is passed over in silence by the Edinburgh reviewer. In the story of the Turrettini family we are carried into quite another sphere, that of theology, and pass from Lucca to Geneva, with those who being persecuted in one city fled unto another in the stormy days of the Reformation. The Turrettini, among whom was numbered a friend of John Milton, were a distinguished race in their day, and were, so far as was possible to theologians in such a time of bitter strife, lovers of peace, whose memory deserves to be kept green. Modern Geneva differs from the Geneva of Calvin and Turrettini in that it suffers most from that which the Edinburgh reviewer considers Matthew Arnold's chief fault as a teacher-the having no certain assurance of anything to teach.

THE Quarterly Review for October devotes its first attention to Robert Elsmere,' a rather typical young Oxford man of the present day, who gets ordained somewhat in a fit of enthusiasm, and eventually comes to the conclusion that he does not think much pumpkins of Christianity. This type was not common in our own Oxford days, but we believe the picture drawn by Mrs. Humphry Ward may be taken as fairly representative of types she sees around her. Whether the book in which she has embodied her presentment of Agnosticism really required the solemn treatment which has sent it through so many editions is a point on which opinions may differ.

It is with a certain sense of relief that we turn to so different a subject as the consideration of nonsense as a fine art, where, after pressing Aristophanes and Shakspeare into his service, the Quarterly reviewer settles down into an interesting discussion on the verse of the late Edward Lear, written with a strongly sympathetic pen, as of one to whom the writing calls up memories of the terraced garden of Mr. Lear's villa at San Remo, and of its owner singing to his own music the melancholy tale of the courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-bo. True though it be that "far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live," the echo of the quaintly expressed determination of their friends, if they live, to go to sea in a sieve and seek the hills of the Chankly Bore, is known to many a reader in many a land, to children of varying ages, and carries with it the memory of a kind old man, who ended his days by the tideless Midland sea. In the late Matthew Arnold's extensive contributions to our literature the Quarterly finds much to criticize, chiefly from a theological point of view. It is interesting to compare the views of the writers in the current number of the two great quarterlies. We ourselves like to recall Matthew Arnold as we remember him best, telling the touching story of the lives and life-work of Maurice and Eugénie de Guérin, with the sympathy of one who was poet as well as critic,

AN admirable number of the Universal Review is that for December. The most interesting article, in the revelation it affords, is that of M. Louis de Fourcaud on Willette et le Chat Noir.' A talent of the most

original order is shown in the marvellous sketches which are reproduced. Mr. Traill's The Doom of the Muses' is very brilliant, and General Gordon and Mr. Britten's The Forbidden Fruit and the Garden of Eden very striking. Mr. Thomas Hardy sends a short story that reminds us curiously of the opening of 'Adam Bede.' Mr. Swinburne, Mr. Burnand, and Mr. Quilter are also among the contributors.

THE Rev. Francis Haslewood, Rector of St. Matthew's, Ipswich, and author of 'Memorials of Smarden,' &c., has in the press a new volume, 'Benenden, Kent, its

Monuments and Vicars,' including a reprint of a rare pamphlet describing the destruction of the church by lightning in 1672, and entitled 'This Winter's Wonders,' The book will contain copies of all the monumental inscriptions, completely indexed, with some extracts from the registers, and pedigrees.

and Stories,' from the Persian, Oordoo, and Tamil, is now MR. W. A. CLOUSTON'S 'Group of Eastern Romances at press, and making such good progress that the author expects to issue it to subscribers in February next. The prospectus may still be obtained on application to the editor, 233, Cambridge Street, Glasgow.

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tainable as a song at any music dealer's. It
INCUBUS ("If doughty deeds my lady please ").-Ob-
included in
'The Universal Songster,' Routledge, 3 vols., and is there
assigned to the Marquis of Montrose, 1640. Mr. Pal-
grave, in 'The Golden Treasury,' ascribes it to Graham
of Gartmore, and classes it among poems of 1700 to 1800.
Information concerning Graham of Gartmore and his
claims to the authorship would be welcome.

IGNORAMUS, Clifton ('Modern Times; or, the Adventures of Gabriel Outcast').-By John Trusler, LL.D. See Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual'; also Watt, 'Bibliotheca Britannica,' and Halkett and Laing's 'Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature.'

HENRY J. DUDGEON ("The baker's wife went into the garden to get a cabbage leaf," &c.).—We have always heard this attributed to Foote.

and war."
J. B. S. seeks the source of the line "All's fair in love

HERMENTRUDE ("Topographical Notes").-Thanks; shall appear in new volume.

MR. E. WALFORD begs to thank an unknown friend for the words and music of the 'Steam Arm ' and the Cork Leg.'

M. I. J. ("Macbeth,' 1673").-By Sir Wm. D'Avenant, and is worth two or three shillings.

H. P. MALET ("Is Light a Force in Itself?").—This is surely suited to Science Gossip rather than N. & Q.'

PHILIP E. MASEY ("Shakspeare Emendations ").—If you will consult Schmidt's 'Shakespeare Lexicon you will find many of your conjectures have been anticipated.

E. H. BLAKENEY ("Reliable ").—The subject is exhausted in Annandale's ' Ogilvie's Dictionary.'

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