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the works of the best and most recent foreign writers on the period-Von Arneth, Schäfer, Von Ranke, &c. With the help of these he has produced a most readable account on the life of his hero, and brought out clearly the real importance of the war, scarcely realized in full at the time, as giving to Protestant Prussia the influence and power in Germany which had for many decades been exercised by Catholic Austria. Nor, while properly making it subsidiary to his main subject, does Mr. Longman neglect the struggle between England and France for various colonial possessions. He gives a short and excellent account of the rise of the Hohenzollerns and of the gradual growth of the Prussian monarchy, and has also escaped the common error of confounding Austria

and the Empire. The book contains two clear maps and four plans of battles and sieges, and may be confidently recommended to any one who wishes to have in a compact and popular form the latest results of historical research on the age of Frederick the Great.

The Genealogist. Vol. IV. (Bell & Sons.) THE volume for 1880, now before us, affords good evidence that, under the able guidance of our friend and correspondent. Dr. G. W. Marshall, the pursuit of genealogical studies continues to attract zealous and honest workers, who are, what they ever should be, seekers after truth. We would notice, as likely to interest many of our own readers, an article on the Cannings of Foxcote, by Rev. T. P. Wadley, who has since contributed additional information on the subject to our columns, a carefully annotated pedigree of Rooke, communicated by Mr. Henry Wagner, M.A., who brings together in his notes some very interesting extracts from wills, one, in particular, bequeathing a mathematical instrument " composed by one Gallileo Gallilei, a famous mathematician in Italy." The Visitation of Lincolnshire. printed in the Genealogist, is remarkably full in the number of generations which it embraces; but does any one seriously believe in the fifteen or sixteen generations of paternal descent not unfrequently given there? And, more especially, can any one believe in "Thomas Quadring, of Quadring, in Holland, co. Linc." as the father of "Toland, Lord of Quadring, 1077" Credat Judæus is all we can say to such a pedigree. Still, the publication of Visitations is a much-needed work, were it only to draw attention to the many wild statements which in bygone days have passed muster with Kings of Arms.

WE have received the following books:-From Messrs. Longmans, the thirddition of Mr. Cates's capital Dictionary of General Biography, many of the notices in which have been rewritten. Also Prof. Max Müller's Selected Essays on Language, Mythology, and Religion. -From Mr. Murray, the second edition of Lady Eastlake's Mrs. Grote: a Sketch. Also Mr. Hayward's Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers, with other Essays. Reprinted from the Quarterly, with additions and corrections, it will be no small satisfaction to many to know that they are now able to possess themselves of the two handsome volumes that contain these essays.-From Messrs. Macmillan, a new and cheaper edition of White's Selborne, edited by Frank Buckland: the preface, dated December 17, 1880, must be one of the very last things written by the naturalist whose loss we all so deplore; Essays of Joseph Addison, chosen and edited by J. R. Green (Golden Treasury Series); and The Year's Art, 1881. From Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, Fuller's Good Thoughts in Bud Times, and other Papers.-From Messrs. Cassell, the twelfth edition, revised and corrected, of Dr Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; and from the office of All the Year Round, Dickens's Dictionary of Days, of which it may be said that it is at once most

useful for purposes of reference and originally conceived. - The St. Albans Diocesan Church Calendar, 1881 (Durrant, Chelmsford), has also reached us.

THE first volume of The History of the Parish of Bitton, Gloucestershire, by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, M.A., F.S. A., Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon, formerly Vicar of Bitton, is now ready for delivery. Only 125 copies are printed, and from the author alone can the volume be obtained.

MR. W. H. ST. JOHN HOPE, B.A., has in preparation A History of the Seals and Armorial Bearings of the University and Colleges of Cambridge.

THE February number of the Law Magazine and Review will contain an article on the vacant Chiefships, by a distinguished Q.C., in reply to Sir James Stephen's paper in the Nineteenth Century.

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ST. FELIX.-We are not aware of the existence of the Fraternity of Genealogists." Can it be another form of the Genealogical and Historical Society? But last year's Whitaker did not contain the latter. We observe that a society called the British Genealogical Institute was amalgamated in 1876 with the Royal Historical Society, as stated in the Report of Council, Trans., vol. vii.

J. C. M.-Original death warrants of Charles I., like heads of Cromwell, are not uncommon (see "N. & Q.," passim), the latter having the advantage of being producible as evidence of their existence (except, perhaps, the head of Cromwell when a boy, which a lady professed to have seen in some foreign museum); but we believe no one has yet seen any other original death warrant than that which Mr. Thoms and Mr. Palgrave (see last Satur day's Athenæum) have made the subject of investigation.

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