would be the better heading. The ghosts of dead miners may haunt the mines, but the Kobolds are spirits of another sort. Milton's line in 'Comus' may be remembered : No goblin or swart faery of the mine. Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned. Hamlet afterwards says,— The spirit I have seen may be a devil. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Gospel of Saint Luke in Anglo-Saxon. Edited by J. W. Bright, Ph.D. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) It is always a gratifying spectacle, and one that proThe spirits of the mines are often thought to be phetic Bishop Berkeley would have contemplated with gnomes, which are elementary spirits. They warn pleasure, when our cousins in the New World are found miners of approaching death by mysterious knock-looking back with filial affection to the mother that ing. Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy,' bore them and to the rock out of which they were hewed. quotes the passage from Georgius Agricola con- English hails from the Johns Hopkins University, and The competent editor of this document of our oldest cerning the Cobali or Kobolds. The word Cobali two of his collaborators, whose help he acknowledges, are must be the same as goblin, which includes most Americans also. Dr. Bright follows the Corpus Christi spirits, but not ghosts. Burton distinguishes be- MS. at Cambridge, with certain variations indicated by tween ghosts and goblins. It is difficult to say from him. So long as his MS. makes a good grammatical italics. With regard to these variations we venture to differ whether Shakspeare uses the word to express a sense we hold it is an editor's business to follow it, and devil or a ghost in the line from 'Hamlet,'not to improve it by the arbitrary substitution of another word for one which he considers less suitable. For instance, in chap. i. v. 5 all the MSS. he cites give "of Abian tüne," of Abiah's town, a reading perhaps due, as has been suggested, to the translator mistaking the vice So it is likely enough that he may have thought of the Vulgate for vico. Not liking this rendering, the at first he was addressing a devil which had editor boldly displaces it in favour of gewrixle, turn or course, which he finds occurring afterwards in v. 8. assumed the appearance of the dead king. The proper course would surely have been to print tüne in the text, as Bosworth did, and suggest gewrixle in a Reform Club. foot-note. Moreover, in this arbitrary emendation of his text Dr. Bright is not consistent. In chap. vii. v. 29 MR. BLACK's notice of this curious old super-sundor-hälgan (Pharisees) by an error stands in the MS. stition is very interesting. As_additional sources of information on the subject, I may refer him to the Gentleman's Magazine for 1795, pp. 559, 739; and to the Quarterly Review for 1820, p. 365 et seq. A copy of Agricola's 'De Re Metallica' is in the Mining Library here, printed at Basel, in 1561. The woodcuts in it are very quaint. I would point out an error in a foot-note in MR. BLACK'S notice, where the date 1854 should read, I imagine, 1584. H. T. FOLKard. Public Library, Wigan. E. YARDLEY. as representing publicani of the Vulgate. Here, how- The Dawn of the English Reformation, its Friends and WE question whether Mr. Worsley's volume does not AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8th S. i. overpass the line which disqualifies books for notice in 515; ii. 99): L'homme qui se bat et qui conseille. When I pointed out a reference to this saying in 'Kenilworth' I did not remember that it is also quoted at more length in 'Waverley,' chap. xiv. Perhaps this will give EZTAKIT as much information as to its origin as he requires: "He [the Baron] used to have a perverse pleasure in boasting that the barony of Bradwardine was a male fief the first charter having been given at that early period when women were not deemed capable to hold a feudal grant, because, according to Les coustusmes de Normandie, c'est l'homme ki se bast et ki conseille.'” JONATHAN BOUCHIER, our pages. History is our province. With theology we may not intermeddle. The volume before us, though dealing with historical facts, does so almost entirely from the standing-ground of controversial theology. The writer is an ardent Protestant, and consequently an admirer of some persons and things which others at the opposite pole of thought are wont to treat with little favour. We are sorry when the events of the sixteenth century are approached in a controversial spirit. That, however, there is a call for literature of this kind we are aware. It is, therefore, well that it should be produced by scholarlike persons of the stamp of Mr. Worsley rather than by those whose sole idea of writing a history of the Reformation period is to copy Foxe and Burnet. The highest praise we can give 'The Dawn of true-that it does for this country what D'Aubigné's the English Reformation' is to say, what is certainly 'Histoire de la Reformation' accomplished for the Continent. The Works of Heinrich Heine, Translated by C. G. to the Augsburger Zeitung. As such they are but moderately interesting to Englishmen, whose feelings Heine never spares. His worst venom is, indeed, always chosen when he mentions things English, and he even ventures to impugn the English character for bravery. This he did, however, to please his French hosts rather than his German readers, and he always affects great indignation at English patronage of things German, Among the contents one finds his excuse when the sack of the Tuileries in 1848 proved him to have been in receipt of a pension from Louis Philippe, whom he always praised. It is impossible for Heine to write anything which does not contain flashes of brilliancy. In the present case one is most impressed with the accuracy of view and the insight-almost prophetic-he displayed in dealing with things French. Mr. Leland's introduction and notes remain very readable and often very pungent. He is at no great pains to spare Heine, on whose transgressions in regard to taste he is, indeed, very severe. Mr. Leland also talks with obvious pride of having taken part in erecting and defending barricades in the Paris streets in 1848. We will not ask him, in the words of Molière, "que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère." He had, perhaps, some reasons for taking part in a quarrel with which he was unconcerned. To tell about the matter is, however, we venture to think, more than indiscreet. The London and Middlesex Note-Book. A Garner of Local History and Antiquities. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore. (Stock.) THIS handsome volume contains some important papers, especially those on the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London of the time of James I. The facts recorded must have taken years in accumulating. We trust that some day or other the compiler of these notices, or some one else treading in his footsteps, will give us an annotated catalogue of the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs from their beginning down to the present time. Foreigners not infrequently make grotesque blunders regarding the office and rank of the Lord Mayor, but, on the other hand, we sometimes find our own countrymen showing equal ignorance, though they commonly err in the opposite direction. The schoolboy's diary of the London sights which he enjoyed in 1843 is amusing. Among other objects of interest which he visited was the gallery containing Miss Mary Linwood's copies of paintings in needlework, an exhibition which has long been discontinued. The short paper on the hundreds of Middlesex is useful. The writer points out that these ancient "divisions of the country seem in danger of becoming totally extinct." We fear this is the case. Ordinary works of reference seldom notice them. Before it is too late we wish some antiquary would compile a list of the hundreds, wapentakes, and rapes for the entire kingdom. They are in many cases even older land divisions than the counties of which they form parts, and the names in some instances carry us back to the earliest recorded Teutonic settlement, if, indeed, they do not in some cases go back even further. Gloucestershire antiquaries will be glad to find here the inscriptions to the memory of the Berkeleys, of Berkeley Castle, who are buried in Cranford Church. VOLS. IV. and V. of the "Aldine" Wordsworth, edited by Prof. Dowden, have been issued by Messrs. G. Bell & Son. Vol. iv. contains, among other things, "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection," including The Character of the Happy Warrior,' Fidelity,' and other pieces, to which every Wordsworth lover is glad to turn. It has also The White Doe of Rylstone' and the Ecclesiastical Sonnets.' In the fifth volume appear the miscellaneous poems, Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces,' the modernizations of Chaucer, &c., and, best of all, the 'Ode on the Intimations of Immortality,' one of the noblest poems of the century. Two more volumes complete the edition. bray Morris appears (Macmillan & Co.) the "Globe" WITH a capable and interesting in troduction by Mowedition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. To the owners of few books these trustworthy and attractive "Globe" editions appeal. Thousands read Shakspeare in the "Globe" edition, and thousands more will turn to the "Globe" Boswell. Among its many recommendations is a fine index. We have received Broad Norfolk (Norwich, Norfolk News Co.). It is a reprint of an interesting correspondence which has appeared in the Eastern Daily Press. As the work appeared originally in the form of letters, it has not been possible to arrange the material in alphabetical order; but the difficulty has been obviated by an excellent index. Mr. CozensHardy, the editor, says that it is "perhaps the most remarkable accumulation of provincialisms ever collected in any county in the kingdom." Without wishing to disparage Broad Norfolk, we cannot help our mind recurring to Miss Baker's Northamptonshire Glossary,' Miss Jackson's 'Shropshire Word-Book,' Mr. Atkinson's 'Cleveland Dialect,' and several of the English Dialect Society's issues which we need not name, every one of which contains far more information than the little book before us. Notwithstanding this overestimate, we willingly admit that the various writers have enabled the editor to garner a mass of curious information which will be of great service to the compilers of the Dialect Dictionary' which has been promised for some years. Some of the words registered here are new to us. Corder, for example, the meaning of which does not seem clear. Rockstaff, in the sense of a tale, "an old woman's rockstaff," we never before heard of. It is, of course, a survival from the days of the spinning wheel. Wind-jammer is, it seems, Puritan hatred for the "kist of whistles"? an organist. 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