gerald and Thackeray. Of minor points Mr. Traill is apparently incurious. He does not seem to have even heard of the weighty but inconclusive discussion of Mr. Cox as to whether it was at Heath or Hipperholme that Sterne wrote his name on the ceiling (vide "N. & Q.," 6th S. i. 408); nor have we happened upon any allusion to the story which makes Uncle Toby's original the Capt. Hinde of Preston Castle, of whom an account is given in Macmillan's Magazine for July, 1873.

the form of translations from the Danish or of original poems such as the well-known Brokken Statesman. She knew, as few now know, the old words, the old traditions, of her ancient land; and though she was always ready (in spite of much physical infirmity) to impart this knowledge, and did so, for instance, in the papers above mentioned and in her dialect contributions for the E.D.S., yet we fear that the best of herself is gone with her into silence. She had, too, through her family connexion which one would hope is not wholly lost. Miss Powley with the Unwins, a store of Cowper memories and letters, I came of that old "statesman" stock, the glory of Cumresembled in this and in other respects, she was ardent her Yorkshire neighbour, Adam Sedgwick, whom she and jealous, even in small matters, for her county and its ways. The Professor, helped by the personal friendship of her Majesty, was able to correct by a special Act of Parliament (32 & 33 Vict., c. 30) an etymological error committed at Dent; and Miss Powley, unaided, drew down, not indeed an angel, for it was only the Midland Railway Company, and persuaded them not to spoil the and Cumberland at large, may be proud of her, and is name of her native Langwathby. That pleasant village, proud of her.

Art and the Formation of Taste. Six Lectures by Lucy Crane. With Illustrations drawn by Thomas and Walter Crane. (Macmillan & Co.) THESE lectures were written for delivery to small, semi-berland, which Wordsworth has made so famous. Like private audiences, and the lamented writer (lately dead) had apparently not prepared them fully for publication in volume form. Miss Crane's brothers, however, have wisely judged what she had written upon art worthy of such publication, and have enriched the volume resulting from their editorial labours with several specimens of the peculiarly ingenious artistic power which characterizes both Thomas and Walter Crane. The lectures them selves are full of knowledge, and embody what might be called a common-sense plea for high art. Of the various chapters, perhaps that on colour contains the most valuable hints. But the whole book is worthy of study, and can hardly fail to stimulate and please any reader who cares to analyze the faith that is in him in the

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Mémoires du Duc de Saint-Simon: Table Alphabétique. Rédigée par M. Paul Guérin. (Paris, Hachette & Co.) THOSE amongst our readers (and we hope that their name is legion) who are acquainted with Saint-Simon's memoirs are aware that the great writer had drawn up for his own private use a table of the principal contents of his voluminous autobiography. This table, which would be full of interest even if it had no other merit than its authorship, has been printed in the duodecimo edition revised by MM. Chéruel and Adolphe Regnier, and published by Messrs. Hachette & Co., of Paris. A glance at it, however, shows how utterly in sufficient it is as a répertoire, and it could not possibly preclude the compiling of a detailed index. This tedious, but pre-eminently useful task has been admirably performed by one of the keepers of the French State Paper Office, M. Paul Guérin; and some slight conception of the magnitude of the work may be formed when we say that it represents nearly one hundred thousand cards, and three hundred doublecolumned pages of very close print. A comparison of M. Guérin's index with those of the editions of 1829, 1840, and 1856 will be the best way of proving the superiority of the one we are now noticing. The majority of the articles suggest no special remark; but the reader will observe that those referring to the principal personages, such as Louis XIV., Cardinal Alberoni, the Duc d'Orléans, and Saint-Simon himself, are subdivided, for the sake of convenience, into several sections under distinct headings.

MISS MARY POWLEY, OF LANGWATHBY.-Among the learned ladies who have helped to make " N. & Q." what it is, no name will be found more worthy of respect than that of "M. P., Cumberland," who died, as we learn with much regret, on the 23rd ultimo, aged seventy. Those who knew Miss Powley at home (as schoolboys say) are aware that her valuable papers in "N. & Q" and in the Cumberland and Westmoreland Archæological Society's Transactions did not express the whole of her intellectual worth and power. She was a Scandinavian scholar; she was, as her Echoes of Old Cumberland shows, a writer of skilful and genuine verse, whether in

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