anecdote is here told concerning the good doctor which The Book of Husbandry. By Master Fitzherbert. Edited A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words. By Mrs. incorporated in the general glossary which Messrs. Britten and Holland are so ably editing for the same society. WE are conservative enough to regret the Duke's disappearance from Hyde Park Corner, and may therefore be expected to have had some dismal forebodings as to the long-announced change in the Cornhill Magazine. But the first number has wholly reassured us. It is not our old friend, of course, but it has qualities which may make it our new one. Mr. Anstey's "Giant's Robe begins excellently, and there is a capital story of a layfigure. The illustrations in the text are a great improvement on the old full-page designs. Mr. Payn may fairly claim to have made his miscellany " readable from cover to cover," and we have no doubt the fact will be recognized by a large and enthusiastic audience. THE Faculty of Advocates have just printed a full and Of all of these we can speak highly. The Book of Husbandry will naturally appeal to a far wider class than interesting Report of the Committee of the Faculty either of the purely local works. Fitzherbert, whoever appointed to consider the Representative Peers (Scothe was-and we entertain no doubt that Master Fitz-land) Election Procedure Bill, 1882, introduced by the herbert, who wrote The Book of Husbandry, and Sir Lord Chancellor. This Report, which, we understand, Anthony Fitzherbert, the judge and law writer, are one has gained the Committee the rare compliment of a special and the same-understood the agriculture of his day in vote of thanks from the Faculty, follows the strictly a thoroughly practical manner. It pursues the inquiry raised by The cultivation of the historical method. the matter under consideration through the few early soil is so widely different a process now from what it was cases of disputes as to the right of peerage before the three centuries ago, that his book possesses only an historical interest, but this is of a high order. There is, Curia Regis and the Magnum Concilium, down to the institution of the Court of Session in 1532, and follows perhaps, no book in existence which throws more light on the out-door life of our ancestors than Fitzher the Union, and after the Union in the Lovat and Oxenthe dealings of that Court with peerage cases down to bert's Husbandry does to those who can read it aright, and it must be borne in mind that it illustrates not only ford titles. Whatever views may be held by contending the condition of agriculture in the Tudor period, but parties as to the conclusions arrived at by the Committee in their Report, the fact of its unanimous adoption by for ages before; for the art of farming (it was not in the Faculty is a fact full of significance and of grave those days in any degree scientific) had developed so slowly that the modes of cultivation, we may be sure, import, as showing that the general body of counsel at the differed little between the days of the first and the eighth Scottish Bar wish for a measure which should declare Henry. The editing is all that could be desired, and exercised by that Court in Scottish peerage cases before or restore to the Court of Session the jurisdiction there is a very good glossarial index. The notes are the Union. curious, as showing the variations which later editors have thought it becoming to introduce into the text. Some of these changes have been made for theological reasons, many others, we apprehend, merely for the sake of indulging in fine writing. Mrs. Chamberlain's Glossary of West Worcestershire Words will be found very interesting to inhabitants of the shire, and is most useful to all students of dialect. It is carefully executed, and we like it all the better for containing some common words used in out-of-the-way senses, which are, perhaps, not in the strictest sense dialectic. Avoirdupois," it seems, is here used as a verb, meaning to think over. The example given stands thus: "Father an' me we've avverdepoyed it over, an' us thinks as our 'Liza 'ad best go to service." It is probable that this is not a very old form, but has been introduced instead of "weigh" by persons who thought long words sounded better than short ones. "Meritorious" has a strange meaning among Worcestershire folk. It signifies there "having a show of reason or excuse.' Kidderminster person who used parsimony even in his sins said, "I never tells a lie as a'n't no sart o' use; when I tells a lie I tells a meritorious 'un." Mrs. Chamberlain's book not a glossary only. It contains a short treatise on the folk-lore of the county, and some Worcestershire variants of well-known proverbs. One of them is new to us, though it may well be known to many of our readers : "The winter's thunder is a rich man's death and a poor man's wonder." The meaning seems obscure. A Mr. Friend's Glossary of Devonshire Plant-Names is well compiled, but we confess that we think it would have been better that the material should have been Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. G. 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