If he had somewhat clipped the wings of his ambition, and limited the area of his prospective survey, he would have impressed a clearer picture on the mind of the reader. There is no question as to his ability either to tell a story or to make a fairly reasonable forecast of coming events; but a little more consideration might have saved him from using the doubts and perplexities of 1885 in order to colour the imagined situation of 1900. The rationalistic bishop, the "prophet" and his army of evangelists, the widespread acceptance of the theory of evolution, and sundry other details of the picture, would have been quite as appropriate in a story of to-day as in one dealing with the possible conditions of a future age. On the other hand, it must be admitted that he author of John Haile' has avoided nuch of the extravagance into which the nature of his subject might have lured him, and is thus superior to some of the novelists who have recently attempted to satirize things that are by revealing things that may be. Mr. Mackay is a very lively writer, and can tell a romantic story in a fresh and easy style. He was forestalled in his original ntention to call his new novel 'Sins of the Fathers,' and no doubt this title would have uptly fitted a tale which traces, without too nuch insistence, the effects of parental actions and peculiarities upon the characters of children. The most attractive and best-drawn personage in the book is Mr. Gilliat, a man of education and refinement with too much of the ascetic in his omposition, who thus loses his hold upon good wife, cast in lighter mould, yet peraps as genuine a woman as her husband a genuine man. The latter figures as a alf-appointed rural missionary, and happily e retains the charge of his only child, a weet piece of humanity, who eventually convinces him that happiness in this world s not incompatible with due preparation for he next. There are other characters in the ook far less pleasing, though not less true life, than these. Mr. Mackay manages is contrasts fairly well, and the tone of his tory is healthy enough. The Rev. Miles Latimer' may be decribed as a slight sketch of womanly renuniation culminating in a rather gratuitous atastrophe. There is just a faint flavour f humour in the portrait of the old rector, ho has a theory of his own about the foabite Stone, and naïvely remarks, "It ould seriously interrupt my monograph to je troubled with a change of curates just now. Otherwise the story suffers from the prevalence of neutral tints, and there is no special novelty in treatment or freshness of style to reconcile the reader to the extreme sketchiness of the plot. Mrs. Panton has chosen a sufficiently gruesome theme in 'Less than Kin,' but she has signally failed to invest it with interest. In fact we do not remember to have ever encountered a more unsympathetic set of characters. To indicate a single redeeming feature which may be said to mitigate the unutterable triviality and dreariness of the whole would sorely tax the ingenuity of the most tender-hearted critic. the style is painfully tortuous, from the And, to crown all, author's disinclination or inability to conclude her sentences. Less than Kin' may be recommended as a harmless, but lowering diet to readers suffering from an excess of animal spirits or cheerfulness. There is a certain sort of literary perception in Mr. Scholes's book, though his grammar is often faulty and his sentences are careless, except in dialogue, where they are apt to become stilted. His is a Dickensesque manner, but he has not the local knowledge nor humour of his master. The picture, after Teniers, of the tap-room of the village inn is but stagey, and Dickens would not have called an English landlord McSwigin. Indeed, none of Mr. Scholes's appellations has any foundation in fact or appropriateness. Wilson Burgess, the hero, is as commonplace as his name. He is a capitalist seeking to invest his money in a landed estate, whereon is a mansion supposed to be haunted. In the course of his inquiries he unearths a mystery, solved eventually by the identification of Marion, the adopted daughter of the inn, with the heiress of Robesdale. There is much confused business between a certain Dwerryhouse, who is the illegitimate usurper of the title-deeds of Robesdale, and one Lawyer Tagg, who has an impossible sort of clerk, through whose information the plot is unravelled. A seduction and a murder or two complete the interest, such as it is, of the incidents, and two maiden ladies, in whose boarding - house the hero resides, provide opposite studies of character. Except in the case of the rather insane poetess, of whom we have seen other examples, and of the practical sister who conceals her tendresse for the hero in maidenly fashion, there are no characters in the book-only ordinary lay figures of the stage. LAW BOOKS. The Laws concerning Public Health, including the Various Sanitary Acts passed in the Session 1883 and the Circulars issued by Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and the Local Government Board. Edited by W. Robert Smith, M.D. Assisted by Henry Smith, M. B. (Sampson Low & Co.)—This work is a collection of public health, and comprises among other all the more important laws bearing upon the statutes the Local Government Board Act, 1871; the Public Health Act, 1875; the Public Health (Water) Act, 1878; the Alkali, &c., Works Regulation Act, 1881; the Artizans' and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Acts, 1875 and 1879; the Artizans' Dwellings Act, 1882; the Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846, 1847, 1878, and 1882; the Infant Life Protection Act, sanitary system calls for immediate reform. I mean that which relates to the qualification of those who are entrusted with the performance of executive duties under the various local authorities, such as medical officers of health, surveyors, and inspectors of nuisances. These officers should all be required to give proof of their special acquaintance with the duties they seek to fulfil. It would be advisable for local authorities to insist that their medical officers should possess a qualification in sanitary medicine, or at least should have had special training in the work; but it is a matter of deep regret that often surveyors and inspectors knowledge of those principles of sanitary mediof nuisances are appointed with little or no cine and engineering that are so necessary to a faithful discharge of their duties. Dr. Smith's book is one of the most important works we have seen on the laws concerning the public health. A Digest of the Law of Husband and Wife as it affects Property, and the Married Women's With Notes and IllustraProperty Act, 1882. tions. By Ralph Thicknesse, B. A. (Maxwell & Son.)-The History of the Laws affecting the Property of Married Women in England. By Basil Edwin Lawrence, M. A., LL.M. (Reeves & Turner.)-Mr. Thicknesse's work consists of two main parts. The first part is a digest of the law of husband and wife as it relates to property, with illustrations and notes following each article, after the manner originated, we believe, by Mr. Vaughan Hawkins in his well-known work on the law of wills, and followed by several subsequent writers on other branches of law. In this part the alterations introduced into the law by the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, are noticed in their proper places. The second part comprises the Act just mentioned, the sections of which are followed by illustrations drawn from decided cases and by notes. An appendix comprises several other The enactments relating to laws affecting married women and various forms and precedents. work is suitable for the legal practitioner, to whom it will be of service. Mr. Thicknesse calls attention to some questions which arise upon the construction of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882, particularly to the very important question whether on the death of a wife intestate her husband shall succeed to personal property to which she may, under the Act, have been separately entitled. When the Bill was expressly conferring on a husband a share of the brought into Parliament it contained a clause wife's property under the circumstances above mentioned, but in committee that clause was, in the interest of the husband, struck out, on the supposition apparently that if it were omitted the husband would take the whole of such property. The consequence, however, is that it is uncertain whether, under the circumstances above mentioned, the husband would be entitled to any of such property at all. "That the Act," says Mr. Thicknesse, should have left such a question open is not creditable to our legislation. The object of those who struck out the clause as It to intestacy was to favour the husband. would indeed be an irony of fate if it should be held that the husband was altogether excluded by the Act."-Mr. Lawrence's work is an essay which obtained the Yorke Prize of the Univer 1872; the Pollution of Rivers Act, 1876; and various Acts relating to vaccination and the sale of food and drugs. The work also contains a large number of model by-laws, together with circular letters, memoranda, &c., issued by the Local Government Board or the Privy Council, and bearing upon subjects dealt with by the above-mentioned statutes. "One great defect," remarks the editor (Dr. W. R. Smith), " in our sanitary laws is that often the exercise of most important powers is permissive and not compulsory, and in consequence these powers are not used; yet, on the other hand, it must always be borne in mind that the laws dealing with the individual, as such, can never hope to be thoroughly successful in action if their provisions The Law of Private Arrangements between extend much beyond the education and honest Debtors and Creditors. With Precedents of conviction of the public." There is much truth Assignments and Composition Deeds. By Regiin this remark, and the fact it expresses shows nald Winslow, M. A., LL.B. (Clowes & Sons.) the desirability of spreading as far as possible-Since the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, came into among the public sound knowledge on sanitary Smith we cordially concur: matters. In the following observations of Dr. "One part of our sity of Cambridge. Although dealing with the laws affecting the property of married women mainly from an historical point of view, it nevertheless gives a clear and succinct view of the present state of the law. The work is tersely and ably written. operation private arrangements between insolvent debtors and their creditors have, we believe, become much more common than they previously were. An arrangement of this character is usually rest of the work, which is by far the greater A Complete Treatise upon the New Law of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks. By Edward Morton Daniel. (Stevens & Haynes.)-The first three chapters of this work comprise a succinct digest of the case law affecting letters patent, registered designs, and trade marks, the greater part of which was not affected by the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883. The fourth chapter treats of the changes introduced by that Act. In the fifth chapter the Act itself is set out, the sections being accompanied with notes. The last chapter contains rules, forms, &c., relating to practice in patent business. There is also a 66 time table" and a good index. The work is merely intended as a manual of practice under the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883, and does not supersede or compete with the larger works treating of the law on these subjects. A Manual of International Law, for the Use of Navies, Colonies, and Consulates. By Jan Helenus Ferguson, Minister of the Netherlands in China. 2 vols. (Whittingham & Co.)-This work, though written in English, and on the whole well written, appears, from the occasional peculiarities of language which occur in it, to be the work of a foreigner. The writer's object has been to furnish not a profound or scientific treatise on international law, but "a manual for practical use and ready reference in the hands of those who have no occasion or time to consult elaborate text-books, while their particular situation, far away from the respective centres of legal consultations, instructions, or names. OUR LIBRARY TABLE. Men of the Reign, edited by T. Humphry Ward (Routledge & Sons), is a biographical dictionary of eminent persons of British and colonial birth who have died since the Queen's accession. It seems very well compiled, and when the appendix has been incorporated with the book and the ten names announced by the publishers to have been accidentally omitted during the printing have been added there will be singularly few missing The selection has been made with good judgment, as far as we have observed, and it must be by oversight that Finlay, the historian of Greece, and C. S. Calverley have been left out. A mistake in punctuation creates an inaccuracy in the list of Peter Cunningham's works, and the fabulous statement that Miss Neilson was born at Saragossa should not have been repeated. It has as much or as little foundation as the pedigree with which many another actress has furnished herself and her biographer. A SECOND edition of Prof. Minto's able work, Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley (Blackwood & Sons), contains some considerable alterations in the text, but only in the direction of emphasizing the author's views. He has added a commendatory sonnet of date 1591, and his reasons for believing it to be Shakspeare's, but most readers," he says, "will judge, as I did myself at first, from a general impression." The sonnet without the arguments is certainly not convincing. 66 Short Flights, by A. E. I. (Simpkin), consists Hodges, Figgis & Co.) contains an interesting ments of Greek papyrus which he picked up at Proclus. IN the Journal of Philology (Macmillan & Co.), No. 27, there is an interesting memoir of the late H. A. J. Munro by the Master of Trinity. MR. OPPENHEIM, of Berlin, has published a seventh and posthumous volume of Karl Hille brand's Zeiten, Völker, und Menschen. It is edited by his widow, but it appears that some five months before his death he had drawn up the plan for the volume, and to this plan, with some unimportant exceptions, Frau Hillebrand has carefully adhered. The essays, nine in number, here collected have already appeared in various periodicals and in various languages, many having been translated back into German. It would have been fairer to both the writer and translator if all the articles so translated had and the fountain head of Perfect Good-the Soul been indicated. It is also a pity that in each imparts to the human being, through its Moral- case the name and date of the periodical Mental Organism, the nature of the Good. The in which the essays originally were pubGood is not what is agreeable or disagreeable to lished are not given. The articles, judged the senses, nor any concept of speculation based as a whole, are hardly up to Hillebrand's on the principle of utility, though it is inti-high-water mark. Those on England especially mately connected with general welfare. It is the perfect harmony of Justice and Benevolence, which constitutes the Moral Law of Nature, the parent of all virtues." Discussions, whatever may be their worth, on subjects of this nature are out of place in a work like that under notice, and will not, we fear, be of any use to the persons for whom it is intended. The are marked by a certain superficiality of observa- late last century, and that which deals with "Jung Deutsche und Klein Deutsche." Here he is upon his own ground, and when he is on that we all know how learned, suggestive, and attractive he can be. 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History and Biography. made public or counted up, but which probably greatly exceed what has been left by Protestants. And if they do not now exceed it, before many years pass away they will do so, for it is admitted that the system of the Roman Catholic Church promotes legacies for religious and charitable objects as of special benefit hereafter to the donor. So, then, in the matter of bequests by private people, either there is no longer any inequality, or it will soon be redressed by natural causes. But this is not all. The Roman Catholic Church, in the absence of support from the State, has devised an engine of education which is in itself a grand endowment - the teaching orders. At the present moment a large part of the education of Ireland is carried on by Jesuits, Christian Brothers, Pères du St. Esprit, and other orders, where able and devoted teachers are to be found in plenty, celibates, and working at the mere cost of being supplied with the necessaries of life. These orders seem to be in no lack of funds. They now obtain from result fees in the Intermediate Examinations a large sum annually, so that the cry for State endowment must be regarded rather as a sentimental than a practical complaint. It will, of course, be urged that all this organization is the private work of the Church, and therefore not to be taken into account in appor Beaucourt (G. du Fresne de): Histoire de Charles VII., Vol. 3, tioning State funds. Theoretically this is quite of the 8,000l. a year now spent on the Royal schools will be handed over to benefit denominational Roman Catholic grammar schools. Even if it were all handed over, there is enough remaining, with proper management, to supply the Irish Church people, who include the great majority of the gentry of Ireland, with excellent schools for their boys and girls. But of this anon. The question before us now is this: supposing that a considerable sum-say, 5,000l. or 6,000l. a year-is to be applied by the State to promoting Catholic higher school education in Ireland, how should it be given, and with what conditions and restraints? Hitherto all private moneys, such as bequests, left for this purpose, have been administered by the bishops and orders privately, and without any statement or criticism of their accounts. In contrast to the private Protestant endowments, which are all under well-known boards and curators, and which have been the subject of several public inquiries, the Roman Catholic endowments are hidden in darkness. It is possibly the expectation of the Catholic bishops that the State money will be handed over to them to deal with similarly. But Parliament is not likely to sanction such a proceeding. There is, indeed, a special clause in the Act, providing for annual inspection not only of the working of the schools, but of their accounts, by Government, if they henceforth participate in endowments granted them by the Commissioners. This in itself will be a wholesome novelty. But there remains a point which is of far greater importance. The Catholic gentry are, indeed, few in number; but in the moneyed classes the proportion of this faith is continually increasing. What they really want-indeed, what English Roman Catholics want-is a high-class public school, where their sons can be properly taught the humanities of modern life and also attend the services of their Church. It is a wonder this want has not been long ago supplied in England by having one Roman Catholic house at each great public school, or at some of them, where boys could attend their chapels and still work with the rest in secular learning. But in Ireland it ought certainly to be met by raising one or at most two Roman Catholic schools to the highest level in the way of handsome appointments, spacious grounds, and the other attractive features which mark the schools for English gentlemen. This is precisely what a considerable endowment and proper yearly inspection might accomplish, and so far Irish parents would be saved from sending their boys to English colleges, such as Oscott, Ushaw, and Edgbaston. Nothing would tend more strongly to promote a wholesome national feeling than such an Irish public school. It may be asked in the next place whether it permitted. But this would prove even for them a very poor policy. We must look to the secular colleges worked by the orders for some good nucleus around which the new establishment should grow. There are in particular Jesuit colleges which recent reports have spoken of in the highest terms, and where the additional advantages proposed might easily produce a public school better than anything which the Roman Catholics can now find in England. But it should not be managed on what I will venture to call Irish principles-that is, in the way which is described in the late Blue-book as usual in Irish schools. There must be plenty of competent masters, of course, and, what is more important, plenty of servants, and strict attention to manners and dress; in short, such a training that the boys it sends out should not be stamped as vulgar or provincial, but should attain those cosmopolitan qualities which mark the gentleman of any country. The policy, therefore, I am disposed to advocate would seek to construct one or two great Roman Catholic boarding schools for the higher classes, and not scatter any new endowments among a number of obscure local colleges. It is, no doubt, the tendency of the present day, and perhaps especially of the Catholic episcopate, to think that the poor are neglected and the rich over - indulged. I am not afraid to say positively that in Ireland the poorer Roman Catholics are infinitely better supplied with education than the richer classes; and it is surely a very shortsighted policy not to provide for the increase of Roman Catholic gentry in Ireland, or to ignore their claims to have their sons brought up not only as Irishmen, but as gentlemen. If the emigration of our best boys to English schools is to be stopped, the plan above sketched out seems to give the required conditions. I shall return in a future number to the questions of rearranging the Protestant schools and their endowments. X. Y. Z. AN ANGLO-TEUTONICO-ISRAELITE DOCUMENT. 88, Shirland Gardens, W., Oct. 12, 1885. THE following document, now being extensively circulated in Whitechapel, may possibly interest your readers. It seems that a number of Jewish voters have been objected to on the score of nationality, and this broadsheet has been issued in consequence. It is in JudæoGerman with a mixture of English, and is printed in Hebrew characters as follows: Translation. BOROUGH OF WHITECHAPEL, ELECTORS! DO NOT LOSE YOUR VOTE THROUGH THE TE OF THE TORIES! Every one what [sic] is not born in England the Englishmau (?) Kaufmann lodges an objec against his vote, or every one what is really hor England and the foreigner Kaufmann objects to vote also, ought, when they will not admit them voters, to inform the Electors' Right Committee, 102, Whitechapel The mixture of Jewish German and Eng has led to difficulties in transliteration, the malous English j being represented by nof than three letters, d, sh, z. But the philo interest attaching to the document is far weighed by that of its contents. Placards in ish German are common on the Continent meet one at every corner at the Leipzig Ma and are not unknown in England. Beti probably unique for an appeal to be issu Judæo-German mixed with English, and in Hebrew type, which calls upon Whiteh electors to resist an attempt to rob the their rights as Englishmen. JOSEPH JA THE FAYOUM PAPYRI IN THE BODLEIAN LE Bodleian Library, Oxford, October, 1 I HAVE already stated that the first four ments published by Mr. Lindsay in the Athe of September 5th are parts of a Greek versi the apocryphal letter of Abgar, king of E to Jesus and of the apocryphal reply of I had conjectured this of Fr. 4, and on ser for a printed Greek text found it to be so Rev. W. D. Macray, to whom I showed printed passage, caught sight of Fr. 1 lines below; and on turning over the leaf Fr. 3 and Fr. 2. Among the many existing texts of these le there are three of chief importance. Per the earliest of them is the Syriac text conta in the Teaching of Addai,' a work ascribed Lipsius to the latter part of the third or e part of the fourth century. Then there is Greek text contained in the 'Ecclesiastical tory' (i. 13) of Eusebius, who ended that in 324 or 325, and who says that the letter taken from the archives of Edessa "by" us" (iv), "and translated in this wise i words from the Syrians' speech." Thirdly is the Greek text contained in the Thaddaios,' a work which Lipsius places the middle of the fourth century. The four Bodleian fragments are ascr Mr. Lindsay to the fourth or fifth centu he sees no reason why they may not hav written even early in the fourth. Th closely related to the Syriac and Eusebian and where those disagree support sometim sometimes the other. בארא פון ווייטשעפעל. ן ן ע ה ל ע ר פארליערט ניט אייער וואוט דורך דיא טריקס פון דיא טאריעס. יער וועדער, וואָס איז ניט געבוירען אין ענגלאנד | should be entirely constructed afresh, or attached און דער ענגליש מאנן קויפמאנן (?) מאכט אן :secutively, dividing them into words | אבדשזעקשיאן אנטעגען זיין וואוט, אדער יעדערער וואס איז יא גיבוירען אין ענגלאנד און דער פארינער ound brackets a modified Euse מן ס | קויפמאנן אבדשזעקטעט אנטקעגען זיין וואוט אויך | a sum would not build and endow a new school which will supply the general sense of | זאללען זיי. ווען מען וועט זיי ניט וועלן צולאזען אלס | at all adequately for the purpose in view. If wanting. And I will ask leave to appe | וואוטערס. דאס אנצייגען ביי דער (διὰ τοῦτο קאמיטי פיר דיא רעכט פון דיא עלעקטארס 102 ווייטשעפעל ראוד. to an existing institution. The question of economy urges the adoption of the latter alternative. A yearly addition of 3,000l. to the funds of a school would do a great deal, whereas such I propose now to print the fragments breathings, accents, and stops; putting doubtful letters in square brackets; and then, one of the existing schools should be selected, it would appear at first sight that the heads of the Catholic Church ought to be allowed to select it for themselves. But if this be done the whole plan is likely to end in failure. The Catholic episcopal bench, with the brilliant exception of Archbishop Walsh, are not very competent in matters of secular or, indeed, of practical education. Probably none of them has ever seen an English public school. On the contrary, what they are familiar with are their own diocesan colleges, which are managed with the strictest economy, educating the lower classes mainly for Maynooth, and with a poverty and rudeness which preclude the idea of gentlemen being educated there. It is among these colleges that the bishops would probably divide their new spoils if they were The following is the best transcription and translation I can give :— Transcription. BORO VON WEETSHEPEL. WEHLER! VARLIERT NIT AIER WOT DURCH DIE TRICHS Jedweder wus is nit geboiren ein England un der transcription certain necessary notes. 1. 2. (γράψας ἐδεήθην σου σκυλῆναι) προ 3. (καὶ τὸ πάθος ὃ ἔχω θεραπεῦσαι, ὅτι ἤκουσταί μοι 4. (καὶ Ἰουδαῖοι καταγογγύζουσιν διώκουσίν σε 5. (καὶ βούλονται κακῶσαί σε πόλη ἐστιν σμικροτάτη 6. (καὶ σεμνὴ, ἥτις ἐξαρκεῖ ἀμφοτέροι ζ. (Τὰ ἀντιγραφέντα ὑπὸ Ἰησοῦ διὰ 8. (ταχυδρόμου τοπάρχη Αβγάρῳ.) 9. (Μακάριος εἰ ὅτι ἐπίστευσας (ἑωρακώς με. 10. (γέγραπτ)[αι] γὰρ περὶ ἐμοῦ ὅτι οἱ ἑ με οὐ μὴ πιστεύσε subject of this letter, and they can be seen by any visitor. May I add that I shall be much obliged if any one can tell me of a satisfactory means of reviving faded ink on papyrus? EDWARD B. NICHOLSON. ON THE LOCALITY OF THE "MONS BADONICUS." The White House, Greenwich, Oct. 11, 1885. MR. SHARON TURNER, in his valuable History of the Anglo-Saxons,' edition 1820, vol. i. pp. 263 and 269, has alluded to King Arthur's greatest and last battle, or siege, in his last conflict with the Saxon invaders, at the "Badonicus Mons," and, after citing several different opinions on the position of the Badon Hill (advocating the claims of a hill in Berkshire, of Bath, of Bannestown or Bathstone), gives his own opinion (not very decidedly) in favour of Bath. I trust that I am not acting presumptuously in suggesting a new locality, which, I think, possesses claims superior to any of these which I have mentioned. It is important to bear in mind that the station in question was not a mere hill encampment, but a fortress capable of resisting a siege. The struggle occurred in the lifetime of Gildas, the British historian, who expressly uses the words obsessionis Badonici montis." By the side of the carriage road from Blandford Forum to Wimborne Minster (both in Dorsetshire), about five miles from Blandford, is a very fine double-ringed circular fortress, known through the country and described on the maps by the name of "the Badbury Rings." "Mons BaThe Latin name used by Gildas, donicus," is a literal translation of the Saxon "Bad-bury," and the double ramparts of Badbury were certainly competent to resist a vigorous siege. n 13 Eusebius has ovσa, not кovσтaí In 1. 4 I add a v to Schwegler's Karαyoví, according to the apparent custom ese fragments; in the same line some MSS. usebius omit σου ; and he has not got καὶ) ηυσίν σε, which seems to be found only in Teaching of Addai.' In 1. 5 the printed of Eusebius gives puкpoтáτη μоí éσтi, but Gresham MS. has σμικροτάτη μ. ἐ. In l. 7 fint Avavia with an aspirate, against the ions of Eusebius, for the reason given by tcott and Hort. Of 1. 8 a bit of papyrus is containing the lower parts of six or seven ecutive letters, but not one of these can be tified with certainty: Mr. Lindsay gives in re brackets [Tavraov]; it does not seem imble paleographically, but the literary imability of the last letter being v is very y, and, as it may just as well be an , I ld prefer [ταῦτα ὁ Ἰησοῦς) as part of a nce something like TaÚTη de Tŷ ETLOTоA payer Taûra o 'Inσoûs. In 1. 9 Eusebius has Senioreras, but σTevσas. In 1. 10 after Eusebius has Tous épaкÓτas μ μỶ TIσTE-name, (some MSS. μοι, but most) ἐν ἐμοὶ, καὶ ἵνα ἡ ἑωρακότες αὐτοὶ πιστεύσωσι καὶ ξήσωνται, the Teaching of Addai' agrees with our us. In 1 14 most MSS. of Eusebius add ter the first Anp@orat. At the beginning 5 Eusebius adds ovтws. In 1. 16-through cident for which I am probably directly, n any case indirectly, to blame-an unsafe papyrus containing the second, third, and h letters of ἀναληφθώ has become dead, and, for the present at least, is lost; it cordingly necessary to say that I had prealy verified the accuracy of Mr. Lindsay's 1cript of those three letters. In 1. 17 Mr. say gives pantov, but at the time when an to examine the fragments there was no than uan, and I am inclined to think he added the two extra letters by a slip of In the same line Eusebius has iáonraí rádos. In 1. 18 Eusebius omits kai , but four other Greek texts have it. few letters left of 1. 19 have nothing correding to them in Eusebius, with whom the **of Jesus ends at rapágynra; but three Greek texts have kai othσe Tóλet arkai Tij módel σov yevýσeTai) To ikavov To undeva tuν exopov KaTiOXUσaι auTĥs, papyrus may have had something like τῇ πόλει σου ποιήσει ἵνα μηδεὶς τῶν ἐχθρῶν ισχύσῃ αὐτῆς. our he entire subject is treated fully in Lipsius's edessenische Abgar-Sage kritisch untert, 1880, and Matthes's Die edessenische arsage auf ihre Fortbildung untersucht,' At a distance of about two miles from Blandford, on the same road, is a smaller fortress called "Buzbury." I have not personally visited this fort, but it appears to be generally similar to Badbury. In the opposite direction from Blandford, but in the same general line with Badbury, Buzbury, and Blandford, are "Hod Hill" and "Hamilton Hill," about four and six miles respectively from Blandford. Upon these hills are immense intrenchments; not, so far as I could observe, in the nature of a fortress, but rather, as I imagine, for field resistance to armies approaching from the south-west. It is evident that the whole country was in military excitement, and that a great position ten or twelve miles long had been taken up by the Britons for resisting an army which was approaching from the south-west-say from a landing in Weymouth Bay. The consideration of these points fixes in my mind the conviction that a fortified line was thus established, of which Badbury was the south-eastern termination; that Badbury was the point most strongly pressed in siege; and that Badbury was the real Mons Badonicus of Gildas. G. B. AIRY. THE NEW PUBLISHING SEASON. MESSRS. RIVINGTON have arranged for the publication of the following works: A volume of poems by Canon Bright, of Oxford, entitled Iona, and other Verses,'-'A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans,' by Dr. D. P. Chase, Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 6 ་ o one who knows what my predecessor and collaborators did in cataloguing our great The Life and Times of John Leslie, Bishop of collections, and what is now being done in the Isles, and of Raphoe and Clogher,' by the way by Dr. Neubauer, Mr. Madan, the Rev. R J. Leslie, Vicar of Holbeach St. John, W. D. Macray, and Prof. Ethé, will reLincolnshire,-two new volumes by the Dean of ach us for having postponed the sorting and Norwich, Thoughts upon the Liturgical Gospels pherment of our papyrus scraps. We ought for the Saints' Days' and 'Holy Week in Nornot the less grateful, but rather the more wich Cathedral,''The Doctrine of the Church to Mr. Lindsay for his work on them, and I of England on the Holy Communion,' by Canon shortly to have all the Greek fragments Meyrick, with a preface by the Bishop of Winmed between sheets of glass, so as to show writing on each side of them. chester, Life of St. Francis of Assisi,' by This has Mrs. H. L. Sidney Lear,- De Vitâ Pastorali,' dy been done with those which form the by the Bishop of Lichfield, Modern Doubt a and Unbelief: its Extent, Causes, and Tendencies,' by the Rev. E. Bickersteth Ottley,—a new and revised edition of the late Sir William Palmer's Treatise on the Church of Christ,'a new edition of the Works of Bishop Kaye, of Lincoln,' in eight volumes,-four new volumes of the series of "Stories of Countries," for children, dealing with Spain, Denmark, Holland, and Iceland,- A Sketch of Liberalism during the last Fifty Years,' by Mr. W. T. Arnold,A History of English Literature,' by Prof. J. Nichol, of Glasgow, in three volumes,— A History of the French Revolution,' in three volumes, by Mr. H. Morse Stephens,and 'Builders' Work and the Building Trades,' with illustrations, by Col. H. C. Seddon, RE. The following are educational: 'Plane Trigonometry, for the Use of Students preparing for Examinations,' by the Rev. A. Dawson Clarke, A First Course of Physical Laboratory Practice,' by Mr. A. M. Worthington, late of Clifton College, A Text-Book of Electricity,' with illustrations, by Mr. L. Cumming, of Rugby; also a work on 'Heat,' by the same author,'A Course of Elementary Experimental Chemistry,' by Mr. W. A. Shenstone, of Clifton College, Animal Biology,' by Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, of University College, Bristol,-the second volume of the History of England,' by Mr. F. York Powell and Prof. J. M. Mackay,— a new volume of the series entitled "Highways of History," edited by Mrs. M. Creighton, viz., 'The Social History of England,'-' A First History of Rome,' by Mr. W. S. Robinson, of Wellington College,- A History of Greece for the Use of Middle Forms,' by Mr. C. W. C. Oman, of All Souls' College, Oxford, fourth volume of the Rev. Dr. J. Franck Bright's History of England,' bringing the history down to about the year 1874,-‘A History of England for Middle Forms of Schools,' by Prof. Cyril Ransome, of Leeds,'A History of Hellas, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander,' by Dr. Evelyn Abbott, History of the Romans to the Establishment of Imperialism,' by Mr. J. S. Reid,— a complete edition of Bacon's Essays,' by Messrs. F. Storr and C. H. Gibson, of Merchant Taylors' School ("English School Classics "), -an edition of Scott's 'Marmion,' by Mr. F. S. Arnold, of the Grammar School, Bedford (" English School Classics"),-an edition of Shakspeare's 'Julius Caesar,' by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, of Yattendon, Newbury,- Lectures on Greek Prose,' by Mr. Arthur Sidgwick; also, by the same author, 'Easy Selections from Plato,'-'Greek Passages for Unseen Translation,' by the Rev. F. D. Morice, of Rugby, an edition of the Pro Cluentio,' by the Rev. W. Yorke Fausset, of Fettes College, Edinburgh, -a 'German Grammar,' by Mr. G. P. R. Glünicke, of the Grammar School, Bedford, illustrated by stories by Mr. J. S. Phillpotts, German Poetry for Schools,' by Messrs. C. W. Parry and G. Gidley Robinson, of Charterhouse, German Passages for Practice in Unseen Translation,' by Mr. A. R. Lechner, of the Modern School, Bedford, -two German books by Mr. H. S. BeresfordWebb, viz., 'A Practical German Grammar ' and 'A Manual of German Composition,' 'German Exercise Book,' by Mr. W. G. Guillemard, of Harrow,- Easy German Stories,' by Mr. B. Townson, of Nottingham High School, -an edition of Schiller's Wallenstein,' by Mr. R. A. Ploetz, of Eton,-an edition of Schiller's 'Wilhelm Tell,' by Mr. J. L. Bevir, of Wellington College, an edition of Freytag's Aus dem -a Staate Friedrich des Grossen,' by Dr. Herman Hager, of Owens College, Manchester,-'Elementary French Exercises, by Mr. A. A. Somerville, of Eton, French Prose Composition for Advanced Classes,' by Mr. H. C. Steel, of -a French Grammar for Wellington College,Schools,' by Mr. R. T. Carter, of Clifton College, -'French Grammar Papers,' by Mr. J. W. J. Vecqueray, of Rugby,-an Elementary French Grammar and Exercise Book,' by Mr. V. J. T. |