Lamb (no mean judge) thought one of the finest bits of Chaucer criticism he had ever seen, this print will be found to gain strangely in power and fascination, and those who love Blake should lose no opportunity of securing a copy.

THE authorities of the Oxford and Cambridge Univer

sity Presses inform us that the publication of the revised version of the New Testament will take place about the middle of May.

WE regret to hear that the registers of Northaw Church were entirely destroyed by fire on the 19th ult. The St. Albans Hertfordshire Standard of the 5th inst. contains a number of extracts, which were taken last year by Mr. J. E. Cussans when collecting materials for his History of Hertfordshire. The extracts, unfortunately, only extend from 1564 to 1753; but, inasmuch as the originals no longer exist, they are of value, and should be preserved.

premier barons, but that decision has been given in their
favour by the House of Lords resolving that the writs of
49 Hen. III. could not create a peerage. But it is under
those writs that the Lords De Ros always claimed their
precedence, and they claim it still, in the same issue of
Burke" that puts forward Lord Mowbray's case. The
Segrave barony of 49 Hen. III. has, of course, been
dropped altogether from view in this contention. We
should rather like to know, with all respect to the
august House which is assumed to have pronounced. at
least by implication, in favour of Lord Mowbray, what
position Lord De Ros holds in the eyes of that House.
He is in the House, but in virtue of what summons?
The question is one which, under the circumstances,
might, perhaps, go on unsolved for generations. To
come, however, to some other points we wish to raise.
In the obituary notices of the late Lord Chief Justice
of England it seems to have been generally taken for
granted that the Langton baronetcv expired with Sir
Alexander. We do not know what Ulster's own opinion
may be, but on a review of the genealogy, as stated in
the Peerage for 1881, this assumed extinction seems to us
by no means clear. It is, in the first place, generally
unsafe to predicate extinction of a title created, as we
believe the Langton title was, like almost all the early
baronetcies of Scotland and Nova Scotia, with remainder
"hæredibus masculis quibuscunque." In the second
place, we see no proof of the non-existence of male
issue of George Alexander Cockburn, of Charlemont,
Jamaica, great-great-grandson of James, brother of Sir
Alexander, fourth baronet. And, failing such issue, it
is still possible that Sir Edward Cockburn of Ryslaw
might be heir. At any rate, the whole question appears
to be an open one. Turning to another title, which is
also in ore omnium, since the publication of the Hon.
Mrs. Hardcastle's Life of John, Lord Campbell, we
remark a Scottish caution in the statements regarding
the filiation of the eminent chancellor on the parent.e., those of heraldic heiresses.
tree of Argyll. Sir Bernard Burke's account of the
lineage commences at the Restoration, with the first
satisfactorily ascertained ancestor, George Campbell,
who appears in Fifeshire circa 1662. Only, if we
remember rightly, Lord Campbell himself writes the
name of his ancestor's estate Baltullo, not "Baltulla,"
and the parish should be given as Ceres, not "Cores,"
the dedication being, we believe, the rare one of St.
Cyriacus, the patron of the Cathedral of Ancona. We
might turn to many another title and find fresh matter
for discussion in the pages of the Peerage. But enough
has been said to indicate our estimate of the value of
Sir Bernard Burke's Peerage when judiciously used as
a record of the past and a storehouse of genealogical
tradition.

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MESERS. COLNAGHI, of Pall Mall, have lately made an interesting acquisition. They have purchased the original copper-plate of Blake's "Canterbury Pilgrims." As may be assumed from the small favour with which the engraving was received, it is but little worn; and the recent impressions which have been struck off on Japanese paper-one of which we have carefully examined-give an excellent idea of poor Blake's famous effort in the style "of Albert Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, and the old original engravers." Looking at it now, one can understand the preference of the public for Stothard's "dumb dollies," as his indignant rival called them. Yet the stamp of genius is all over this stiff, uncouth, and unconventional design. Right or wrong, the artist had formed distinct and definite impressions of Chaucer's personages. He had felt them vividly, and his grip of his conceptions is strong and unfaltering. Read by the light of his own written description, which

ZANONI. Your two questions ("Heraldic" and "Quarterings in Heraldry ") may most conveniently be taken together. In the supposed case put in the former. the peer's son-in-law has certainly not the right to carry his father-in-law's coat of arms, coronet, and supporters. We should not have thought he would have dreamed of it. As to quartering, your query is sufficiently answered by the reminder that the arms of heiresses only are quartered. It is obvions that arms so inherited are inherited in the female line, and equally so that the inheritance is that of a particular class of ancestral arms,

E. A. L.-The passage which you cite does not appear to us to agree with the view taken of diphthongs in some of the latest works on the English language, and seems inconsistent with the separate position of the letter in question as a vowel. Perhaps, however, the case, as to pronunciation, might be brought under the head of by examples, in Gostwick's English Grammar, His- ́ apparent diphthongs," suggested, but not illustrated torical and Analytical.

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J. B. MULLINS (Birmingham).—(1.) A question rather for the present publishers. But we may remark that the volume for Jan.-May, 1868, was stated to be "vol. 224 since the commencement.' (3.) A very brief summary, chiefly dealing with the historical aspect of the contents, will be found in the Library Edition of the Annals of England (Parker).

W. D. P. We have forwarded your communication to our correspondent.

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