this remarkable publication, but we must needs express
our high sense of the thoroughness with which Mr.
Metcalfe has done his work, and of the importance of
this new accession to our stock of authorities for the
political and religious history of a period by no means
rich in original sources.

Occasional Papers on Shakespeare: being the Second
Part of "The Man and the Book." By C. M. Ingleby,
LL.D. (Birmingham, Josiah Allen; London, Trübner
& Co.)
Ir is seldom that a collection of occasional papers has
value or importance greater than attaches to Dr.
Ingleby's Shakespeare: the Man and the Book, of which
the second and concluding instalment has appeared. A
warm stickler for purity of text, and a keen opponent of
those fanciful emendations which possess, apparently,
an irresistible fascination for a certain class of mind,
and to which the ripest Shakspearian scholars some-
times succumb, Dr. Ingleby has written one or two
papers which are models of clearness, common sense,
and insight. In "The Tongue of Shakespeare," which
opens the volume, Dr. Ingleby's method is seen at
its best. Some of the discoveries of meaning chronicled
in it are not only satisfactory in themselves, but are
proofs of extensive erudition. In the "Literary
Career of a Shakespeare Forger "Ireland alone is
dealt with, "respect for the living," as is ruefully
observed, preventing any attempt to grapple with the
"more recent and more skilful forgeries, which have
been a source of corruption alike to the life and the
works of Shakespeare during the present century."
Paper the third, consisting of "Metrical Tests applied
to Shakespeare," is a valuable and, as Dr. Ingleby
says, splendid contribution to the volume by Mr. F. G.
Fleay. This is the portion likely to cause most con-
troversy, the author himself disclaiming his acceptance
of all Mr. Fleay's conclusions. That no Shakspearian
library will be without the completed book is, of course,
to be assumed. It is pleasant to learn from the preface
that further work of the same class is to be expected
from the same source.

Hypermnestra: a Græco-Egyptian Myth. By George
Gladstone Turner. (Longmans & Co.)

MR. TURNER has chosen his subject well. Though clas
sical, the story of Hypermnestra is not hackneyed, and in
itself is a pure and pathetic tale of woman's love. He
has also fully redeemed the pledge given in the motto
on the title-page, and has avoided those peculiar faults
which stain the pages of the classical revivalists of the
nineteenth century. Some of Mr. Turner's descriptions
of Argos and Egypt are pretty; there is pathos both in
the reverie of Danaus after he has decreed the murder
of his sons-in-law, and in the final meeting of Hyperm-
nestra and Lynceus; and in her appeal to his mercy for
her father there is some dramatic power, though this
last is marred by a doggerel chorus. On the other hand,
throughout the poem we are tempted to exclaim, with
Dangle, "Surely I have heard that line before," though
it is rather the faults than the beauties of other poets
which Mr. Turner imitates. We have Mr. Swinburne's
affectations without his force and exquisite power of
rhythm, and Mr. Morris's jarring rhymes without his
glowing descriptions; while the Lamia and Hyperion of
Keats haunt us in outward shadow, with the glory of
life and soul gone from them.

THE February part of the Magazine of Art shows unmistakable signs of new blood in the management. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson's essay on the little Pilgrim's Progress illustrated years ago by Miss Bagster is a contribution which can only be the outcome of fine editorial insight. The Nuremberg article is interesting and well illustrated; so also is the paper on Alnwick Castle. Besides these there is a notable Japanese Art," by W. E. H., as well as a timely and appreciative sketch of poor Hugh Robinson by Mr. F. Cundall. Excellent cuts of the "Boy with the Kite and the "Piping Boy" accompany this latter paper.

"Note on

THE February number of the St. James's Magazine contains much that is attractive; not the least interesting paper is that on the late Mr. Street, the architect. We have received vol. xvii. (1881) of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports (Smith, Elder & Co.).

A Handbook in Outline of the Political History of Eng-
land to 1881. Chronologically arranged by A. H. D.
Acland and Cyril Ransome. (Rivingtons.)
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We have not, however, been able to find any list of the
original authorities for each period, the addition of which
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IT is with regret we announce the death. on Sunday last, at the age of fifty-seven, of the Rev. James Stormonth, the author of the Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language.

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