coigne as barbarous because they wrote their own form of the language rather than that which was in use in the days of Augustus. There were, however, far weightier reasons than those of philology why Gascoigne's interesting memoranda should be made public. He lived at a time of great constitutional struggle, when the state was, it may be, torn by fiercer internal struggles than any that have since been known; when the early fervour of the church which had controlled our Norman kings had waxed cold and dwindled down into apathy, sloth, and sensual indulgence, and when the teachings of Wycliffe, Pecock, and the Lollards, who are by many held to have been the fathers of the English Reformation, were agitating the mind of the nation. Of history as it was conceived by our fathers Gascoigne gives us not much that is new, but of history in the wide sense in which readers of "N. & Q." most appreciate it is very full, for there is hardly a page which does not throw some fresh light on the manners of our ancestors, their sufferings, sorrows, and superstitions. We should extend our notice to far too great a length if we were to specify even a few of the more interesting entries, but we cannot refrain from directing attention to the many passages on the great traffic in indulgences, and the highly curious entry on the habit of profane swearing. It is needless, if not impertinent, to say that the book has been thoroughly well edited. There is something beyond this. The introduction, if severed from the text which it illustrates, would be in itself a valuable political treatise, which no one could have written who was not at the same time a profound medieval scholar and a politician whose life had been spent in intimacy with statesmen. Le Connétable de Luynes, Montauban et la Valteline, d'après les Archives d'Italie. Par Berthold Zeller. (Paris, Didier.) | Giovanni Pesaro, Venetian ambassadors. These valuable documents, preserved at Venice, where M. de Mas Latrie has been able to get them copied, are all the more curious because they represent a line of policy diametrically opposed to that of the Roman curia. The Vatican diplomatists urged unceasingly Louis XIII. to destroy the Protestant party in France, and to undo the work of his father, Henry IV. This would have had the result, as M. Zeller remarks, of paralyzing the action of the French Government in its dealing with foreign difficulties. On the other hand, the Senate of Venice was quite as pressing in its entreaties that Louis XIII. might be induced to postpone the Huguenot problem for a season, and concentrate all his energies on the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe. Both branches of the house of Austria were threatening the independence of Italy, and devising a combined action in Valteline. 3. Let us notice, in the third and last place, the letters and despatches of Giovanni Battista Gondi, Florentine resident at the court of the Louvre. These documents, belonging to the Florence archives, are particularly interesting as illustrating the history of the court of the queen dowager, Mary de' Medici. It was not very likely that Gondi would be favourably disposed towards De Luynes, whose influence had probably brought about the petty annoyances from which the previous resident, Bartolini, had to suffer. We have, therefore, in this third collection of papers wherewith to control and estimate the too flattering views entertained of the constable both by the Venetian and the Roman agents. At the same time all the petty court intrigues, the daily circumstances of Mary de' Medici's life, the cabals of the aristocracy and the pretensions of would-be politicians, form the chief elements of Gondi's diary, and suggest a parallel study of the memoirs of Richelieu, who, in his capacity as Bishop of Luçon, often appears in the Florentine's despatches. The war against the Huguenots in the south of France, together with the siege of Montauban, the disgrace of the Jesuits, the occupation of the Valteline by the Spanish troops and Bassompierre's mission to Madrid; all these events give special political importance to the year 1621, and bring into relief the character of De Luynes, who, without being a man of genius, followed a reasonable system of policy, and played his cards remarkably well amongst the numberless difficulties and the wicked intrigues by which he was surrounded. M. Zeller's volume, in conclusion, is an excellent contribution to the early history of the seventeenth century in France; it forms the sequel to the same author's Henri IV. et Marie de Medicis, and is to be followed, we believe, by a work on the court and government of Louis XIII. THE process of revision is still going on vigorously in history, and many characters which had long since been condemned or, at any rate, regarded as questionable have now stepped into a kind of posthumous reputation. This cannot much be wondered at. Mary, Queen of Scots, for instance, has too persistently been judged from the point of view of John Knox and George Buchanan, and recent discoveries have proved that the wholesale sentence of condemnation pronounced against her is no longer tenable; exactly the same system applied to Julius Cæsar enables us to reverse or modify the verdict of annalists on the Republican side; and the volume we are now briefly noticing is an appeal of a similar kind made by M. Zeller on behalf of the constable De Luynes. The late M. Victor Cousin had already, in the Journal des Savants, published a series of interesting papers, the object of which was to rehabili-Note-Book of an Amateur Geologist. By John Edward tate the memory of an able minister and an accomplished politician; unfortunately he did not live long enough to terminate his work; and M. Zeller, taking up the thread of the narrative where the illustrious Academician dropped it, applies himself to the task of placing before us a sketch of the last year of De Luynes's career. As the title of the volume shows, the documents consulted are exclusively of Italian origin. The following is a list of them: 1. The correspondence of Octavio Corsini, who succeeded Cardinal Bentivoglio as Papal nuncio in France; it forms three thick folio volumes, extending over the years 1621-23, and is preserved at Rome in the Corsini Library. Bentivoglio's letters have often been published; it seems a pity that an experienced editor should not do the same duty for the Cardinal's successor in the nunciature at the -court of the Louvre. 2. The correspondence and state papers of Anselmo Contarini, Girolamo Priuli, and Lee, F.G.S., F.S.A. (Longmans & Co.) MR. LEE has long been known as a hard-working geologist, and his private collection of fossils has made itself a reputation far beyond the limits of his native land. He has now presented us with many leaves from his note-books, reproduced by lithography. Merely as works of art we cannot speak highly of these plates. They were, however, intended for instruction, not for pleasure; and of their great usefulness there can be no doubt whatsoever. Germany, Italy, France, and some parts of the North of Europe seem to be as well known to Mr. Lee as these islands are, and wherever he has gone his pencil has been in his hand, and he has noted such things as seemed to him important. None but a most accomplished geologist could have done this. Many of us have facility in sketching, but there are but few who would have known exactly what things were worth recording. We have examined Mr. Lee's plates care fully, and it is but just to say that wherever we can test them they seem to be most accurate. There is, moreover, hardly a trivial thing in the whole lot. Those which seem the least inviting are often notes which will be found of the greatest value to future students. We would especially direct attention to the illustrations given of contorted strata, moraines, and ice-moved boulders. Mr. Lee is a student of archæology as well as of the more ancient history which we call geology. He holds out some hope that he may give us, some day or other, a companion to this book in the form of a volume of archæological sketches. We are sure every antiquary, and some who have no pretensions to that designation, will look forward to the appearance of the hoped-for volume most anxiously. German, Flemish, and Dutch Painting. By H. J. Wilmot Buxton, M.A., and Edward J. Poynter, R.A. (Sampson Low & Co.) Giotto. By Harry Quilter, M.A.- Velazquez. By Edwin Stowe, B.A.-Wilkie. By J. W. Mollett, B.A. (Same publishers.) THE first volume of the "Illustrated Text-Books" (Painting), edited by Mr. Poynter, was of so attractive and promising a character that the second may well fall a little below it without failing greatly in execution or usefulness. Mr. Buxton's résumé of the artists of Germany and the Netherlands is sufficiently careful, but it is necessarily exceedingly brief, as may be gathered from the fact that the whole school of the "Little Masters" occupies scarcely two pages of type. This may be regarded as a scale for the rest. Despite this inevitable element of rapidity, however-perhaps even because of it-students will find the volume a useful manual of reference to the schools of which it treats. The illustrations are more numerous than admirable. We wish that it were possible to speak of them with enthusiasm, but the art critic of to-day meets the same cuts so frequently that he is often splenetically tempted to doubt whether it would not have been better for mankind if the process of electrotyping had never been discovered. Of the other volumes, from the "Great Artists" series, it is not necessary to speak at any length. The varying merits of Mr. Quilter's Giotto were amply discussed upon its first appearance. The Velazquez of Mr. Stowe (notwithstanding some superficial resemblance in its opening pages to the novels of Mr. G. P. R. James) and the Wilkie of Mr. Mollett are favourable specimens of their kind. The latter, though of necessity depending largely upon quotation from Cunningham and other sources, is specially interesting. The Registers of the Parish of St. Columb Major, Cornwall, from the Year 1539 to 1780. Edited by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A. (Hamilton, Adams & Co.) WE have before called attention to this work during its serial issue, and have now nothing but praise to award to the volume in its completed form. The parish is an important one, and many of the register entries are of great interest, while Mr. Jewers has increased their value by his pertinent annotations. He may have the satisfaction of knowing that he has rescued one of these priceless records from the chance of future destruction, and made a most valuable contribution to the historical and biographical literature of Cornwall. It is an interesting feature of the volume that Mr. Jewers has enlivened its pages by the introduction of a number of coats of arms of the more distinguished families named in its pages, among which is that of the late Lord Mayor, Sir Francis Truscott, to whom the work is appropriately dedicated. MR. JOHN E. BAILEY has reprinted from the March number of the Palatine Note-Book, which we have already commended to our readers, a useful Chronological List of the Chetham Society's Publications, 1843-81, embracing 114 volumes. There is appended an interesting list of" suggested works," which we can only hope may soon begin to be carried out. MR. J. H. NODAL has afforded valuable help to all students who are in any degree specialists by reprinting his paper on Special Collections of Books in Lancashire and Cheshire, read at the Manchester meeting of the Library Association. The collections described include the remarkably rich and varied stores of Mr. James Crossley, Mr. J. E. Bailey, Chancellor Christie, Mr. Salisbury of Glan Aber, and other well-known collectors. A NEW and useful feature in May's excellent British and Irish Press Guide for 1881 is a series of maps of the United Kingdom, showing in red ink all towns issuing newspapers, with the number of journals published in each place. MR. ELLIOT STOCK announces a new work on Waltham Abbey, copiously illustrated. Notices to Correspondents. W. GILL (Elvetham).-Henry, fourth Earl of Stirling, son of Henry, third earl, married as his second wife Priscilla, widow of Sir Robert Reynolds. You will find a résumé of the Alexander pedigree in the Genealogist, vol. ii. pp. 196-200, in a review of the Memorials of the Earls of Stirling, by Rev. Chas. Rogers. The fourth earl's eldest son, Henry, fifth earl, died s.p. 1739, the other sons having, it is stated, all died unmarried. There were, however, four uncles of the fourth earl, whose male lines have not, so far as we know, been proved to be extinct. We should therefore say that the earldom of 1633 and the peerages of 1630 are dormant. The titles have been claimed more than once, both by alleged heirs male and by alleged heirs of line. But the latter had no claim under the terms of the patents, and we have not as yet seen any satisfactorily deduced male descent from the line of the first earl. J. W. STANDERWICK.-(1) Elizabeth, second wife of Sir Henry Wentworth, was the second daughter of John, Marquis of Montagu, by Isabel Ingoldsthorpe. heiress of line of the Lords Bradeston. (2) The existing Lord Wentworth of Nettlestead seems to be heir of line (i.e., heir general) of Anne, the eldest daughter. (3) The barony of Nevill of Montagu fell under attainder with the marquisate of Montagu. (4) The barony of Bradeston was not affected by that attainder, but appears to be in abeyance among the representatives of the daughters and coheirs of John, Marquis of Montagu. J. H.-In Herbert Coleridge's Dict. of Old English Words, 1862, you will find a list which unquestionably implies the distinct sound of the letter as in the instances you cite. BAR-POINT ("The Frederick Code ").-The code of Frederick the Great of Prussia. R. S. 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