Hermits (Vol. vi., p. 472.). Visiting the grounds at Hawkestone two-and-forty years ago, the hermitage was shown, with a stuffed figure dressed like the hermit of pictures seen by a dim light, and the visitors were told that it had been inhabited in the day-time by a poor man, to whom the eccentric, but truly benevolent, Sir Richard Hill, gave a maintenance on that easy condition, but that the popular voice against such slavery had induced the worthy baronet to withdraw the reality and substitute the figure. Miscellaneous. HENRY WALTER. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Our worthy publisher is, we believe, first in the field with a gift-book for the coming Christmas; and certain we are that among the many candidates for public favour at this blessed season of present making, none will exceed, in originality of design or beauty of execution, his Poetry of the Year, Passages from the Poets descriptive of the Seasons, with Twenty-two coloured Illustrations from Drawings by Eminent Artists. It has long been the fashion to marry music to immortal verse; alliances between the poet and the engraver have not been unfrequent; but this is, we think, the first attempt to apply, on any great scale, the art of printing in colours to the reproduction of the Painter's Illustrations of the Poet, in such a way as to give a full We have not idea of the beauty of such illustrations. space to particularise those we think most successful; all, indeed, are good. The work therefore possesses a double interest first, as a gem of poetical and pictorial beauty; secondly, as an evidence of the great progress which the art of printing in colours is making among us. 66 Mr. Murray has just issued the sixth edition of Dr. Hook's Church Dictionary. The fact of its being the sixth edition would seem to render any notice of it unnecessary; but it is as well to mention, that while it has been enlarged by more than a hundred new articles, and those on church architecture and ecclesiastical law have been carefully revised, it has also generally undergone such modifications as the circumstances of the times seemed to require. 'While, therefore," as it is stated in the Preface, "the articles bearing on the Catholicity, Orthodoxy, and Primitive Character of the Church of England are retained, the articles relating to the heresies and peculiarities of the Church of Rome have been expanded; and strong as they were in former editions in condemnation of the Papal system, they have been rendered more useful, under the present exigences of the Church, by a reference to the decisions of the so-called Council of Trent, so as to enable the reader to see what the peculiar tenets of that corrupt portion of the Christian world really are." The suggestions thrown out in our columns some time since as to the value of Photography to the Archæologist are about to receive practical illustration. Mr. Pumphrey announces for publication Photographic Illustrations of the Antiquities of York and its Environs, to appear in parts containing six photographs neatly mounted, for 7s. 6d. We have seen specimens of the photographs, which are such as ought soon to secure Mr. Pumphrey the two hundred subscribers to which proposes to limit the work. he This BOOKS RECEIVED. Magic and Witchcraft. new Part of Reading for Travellers is a reprint of a very excellent article upon this subject, which originally appeared in the Foreign Quarterly Review. Cyclopædia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theological and General Literature, &c. Part 1II. of this valuable work, extending from Birnie William to Bull (Bishop). Letters of "An Englishman" on Louis Napoleon, The Empire, and The Coup d'Etat; reprinted, with large additions, from THE TIMES. This Shilling Reprint of these spirited Epistles will, no doubt, prove a happy hit to Mr. Bohn to whom we are also indebted for republishing, in his Illustrated Library,· Life, Military and Civil, of the Duke of Wellington; digested from the Materials of W. H. Maxwell, and in part re-written by an Old Soldier. This, with its sixteen highly finished line engravings, is a compendious and popularly written biography of The Great Duke. Democritus in London, with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Goodfellow. Made up of quaint thoughts, clothed in quaint rhymes, set off with quaint and old-world notes — which -among are some minor poems of great merit. "The Wish" is a little gem. Letters on the Income Tax, &c., by Charles M. Willich. We do not meddle with politics: but there is in Dr. Willich's pamphlet much to interest — who? Why the Antiquary. We have here, in two letters from Dr. Willich, dated in 1797 and 1798, the origin Who shall see its end? of the income tax! 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Samples. 3s. 6d., sent to all parts on receipt of Post-office Order or Stamps. 8vo., price 21s. OME ACCOUNT of DOMES from the Conquest to the end of the 'I hirteenth Century, with numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains from Original Drawings. By T. HUDSON TURNER. "What Horace Walpole attempted, and what Sir Charles Lock Eastlake has done for oilpainting - elucidated its history and traced its progress in England by means of the records of expenses and mandates of the successive Sovereigns of the realm- Mr. Hudson Turner has now achieved for Domestic Architecture in this country during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries."- Architect. "The writer of the present volume ranks among the most intelligent of the craft, and a careful perusal of its contents will convince the reader of the enormous amount of labour bestowed on its minutest details, as well as the discriminating judgment presiding over the general arrangement."- Morning Chronicle. "The book of which the title is given above is one of the very few attempts that have been made in this country to treat this interesting subject in anything more than a superficial manner. "Mr. Turner exhibits much learning and research, and he has consequently laid before the reader much interesting information. It is a book that was wanted, and that affords us some relief from the mass of works on Ecclesiastical Architecture with which of late years we have been deluged. "The work is well illustrated throughout with wood-engravings of the more interesting remains, and will prove a valuable addition to the antiquary's library."- Literary Gazette. "It is as a text-book on the social comforts and condition of the Squires and Gentry of England during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, that the leading value of Mr. Turner's present publication will be found to consist. "Turner's handsomely-printed volume is profusely illustrated with careful woodcuts of all important existing remains, made from drawings by Mr. Blore and Mr. Twopeny." Athenæum. JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London. A 8vo., price 12s. MANUAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, from the First to the Twelfth Century inclusive. By the Rev. E. S. FOULKES, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford. The main plan of the work has been borrowed from Spanheim, a learned, though certainly not unbiassed, writer of the seventeenth century: the matter compiled from Spondanus and Spanheim, Mosheim and Fleury, Gieseler and Dollinger, and others, who have been used too often to be specified, unless when reference to them appeared desirable for the benefit of the reader. Yet I believe I have never once trusted to them on a point involving controversy, without examining their authorities. The one object that I have had before me has been to condense facts, without either garbling or omitting any that should be noticed in a work like the present, and to give a fair and impartial view of the whole state of the case.Preface. "An epitomist of Church History has a task of no ordinary greatness. . . . He must combine the rich faculties of condensation and analysis, of judgment in the selection of materials, and calmness in the expression of opinions, with that most excellent gift of faith, so especially precious to Church historians, which implies a love for the Catholic cause, a reverence for its saintly champions, an abhorrence of the misdeeds which have defiled it, and a confidence that its truth is great, and will prevail.' "And among other qualifications which may justly be attributed to the author of the work before us, this last and highest is particularly observable. He writes in a spirit of manly faith, and is not afraid of facing the horrors and uncertainties,' which, to use his own words, are to be found in Church history. From the Scottish Ecclesiastical Journal, May, 1852. JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford, and 377. Strand, London. Foolscap 8vo., 10s. 6d. THE CALENDAR OF THE illustrated THENGLICAN CHURCH: with Brief Accounts of the Saints who have Churches dedicated in their Names, or whose Images are most frequently met with in England; also the Early Christian and Mediæval Symbols, and an Index of Emblems. "It is perhaps hardly necessary to observe, that this work is of an Archæological, and not a Theological character. The Editor has not considered it his business to examine into the truth or falsehood of the legends of which he narrates the substance; he gives them merely as legends, and, in general, so much of them only as is necessary to explain why particular emblems were used with a particular Saint, or why Churches in a given locality are named after this or that Saint.". '-Preface. "The latter part of the book, on the early Christian and medieval symbols, and on ecclesiastical emblems, is of great historical and architectural value. A copious Index of emblems is added, as well as a general Index to the volume with its numerous illustrations. The work is an important contribution to English Archæology, especially in the department of ecclesiastical iconography."-Literary Gazette. JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London. Just published, fcap. 8vo., price 5s. in cloth. YMPATHIES of the CONTI NENT, or PROPOSALS for a NEW REFORMATION. By JOHN BAPTIST VON HIRSCHER, D.D., Dean of the Metropolitan Church of Freiburg, Breisgau, and Professor of Theology in the Roman Catholic University of that City. Translated and edited with Notes and Introduction by the Rev. ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE, M. A., Rector of St. John's Church, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. "The following work will be found a noble apology for the position assumed by the Church of England in the sixteenth century, and for the practical reforms she then introduced into her theology and worship. If the author is right, then the changes he so eloquently urges upon the present attention of his brethren ought to have been made three hundred years ago; and the obstinate refusal of the Council of Trent to make such reforms in conformity with Scripture and Antiquity, throws the whole burthen of the sin of schism upon Rome, and not upon our Reformers. The value of such admissions must, of course, depend in a great measure upon the learning, the character, the position, and the influence of the author from whom they proceed. The writer believes, that questions as to these particulars can be most satisfactorily answered."- Introduction by Arthur Cleveland Coxe. JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London. A 3 vols. 8vo. price 21. 88. GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. The Fifth Edition enlarged, exemplified by 1700 Woodcuts. "In the Preparation of this the Fifth Edition of the Glossary of Architecture, no pains have been spared to render it worthy of the continued patronage which the work has received from its first publication. "The Text has been considerably augmented, as well by the additions of many new Articles, as by the enlargement of the old ones, and the number of Illustrations has been increased from eleven hundred to seventeen hundred. "Several additional Foreign examples are given, for the purpose of comparison with English work, of the same periods. "In the present Edition, considerably more attention has been given to the subject of Mediæval Carpent: y, the number of Illustrations of Open Timber Roofs' has been much increased, and most of the Carpenter's terms in use at the period have been introduced with authorities."Preface to the Fifth Edition. JOHN HENRY PARKER, Oxford; and 377. Strand, London. "The revelations made by such writers as Mr. Meyrick in Spain and Mr. Gladstone in Italy, have at least vindicated for the Church of England a providential and morally defined position, mission, and purpose in the Catholic Church."- Morning Chronicle. "Two valuable works. . . to the truthfulness of which we are glad to add our own testimony one, and the most important, is Mr. Meyrick's Practical Working of the Church of Spain.' 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Robin Hood was well known in Scotland. His former great celebrity in that country is 602 vouched for by the unimpeachable authority of an act of parliament, passed in the reign of Queen Mary, prohibiting "the pleys and personages of Robin Hood, Little John," &c. There is no ground for supposing that these "pleys and personages' were borrowed from the English; on the contrary, it must be admitted that in those days, and long before, the Scotch were not in any mood to borrow customs from the English, whom they viewed and named, with reason, as their "aulde enemies." The legitimate inference, then, is, that the name and fame of Robin were originally common to both countries. 602 605 605 607 607 608 609 - 611 Replies to Minor Queries: - Death-place of Spinoza Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger-Watch Oaks" Betwixt the Stirrup and the Ground"- St. Luke-Inscription at Dewsbury Miles CoverdaleDeodorising Peat-" My Mind to me a Kingdom is ". 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That we found, somewhat to our surprise, on glancing through a novel of Eugene Sue's some time ago, that he there introduces a Robin de Bois as a well-known mythical character, whose name is employed by French mothers to frighten their children. The original names, in English and 618 French, are thus the same in meaning, and the French custom is in perfect accordance with Robin's position, as the ideal representative of lawless men, whatever his merits might have been in other respects. The difference in name, and its popular use, clearly tend to show that the tra 618 618 |