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novelist, and in the revision out came the "lemonade," and it ran: "And there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece," etc. Mr. Kitton's introduction tells, in an attractive way, the tale of the writing, printing, and publishing of the book, and of Dickens' intense disappointment over the financial result, as he had reckoned on clearing a thousand pounds, instead of which his profits on 15,000 were only £726. The volume is perfectly got up, and bound in half parchment. As only five hundred copies have been printed for the English market, an early application for the book is indispensable if our readers wish to secure it. It is an excellent memorial of the genius and method of work of the great English novelist.

HISTORY OF KENNINGTON. By H. H. Montgomery, D.D., Bishop of Tasmania, formerly Vicar of Kennington. Simpkin, Marshall and Co. Cheap edition. Crown 8vo., pp. 190. Price Is. 6d. This is a chatty, pleasant little volume on all that pertains to Kennington. The story of Vauxhall Gardens is well told, and much that is amusing and quaint centres round the history of "The Horns." A large share of the book relates to cricket in general, and to Surrey cricket in particular; and this is only fitting, as the Bishop was in his day captain of the Harrow eleven. The Bishop is more at home in the cricket-field than in the wider domain of antiquarian research, for the opening chapter that treats of the older history of Kennington is meagre in quantity and unsatisfactory in quality. On page 132 is a ghastly, irreverent story of a collector of old plate giving a dinner to "a large party of gentlemen, and before each of them on the table there stood a chalice, which dated from before the Reformation, out of which to drink their wine. The host called that dinner Belshazzar's Feast." We are thankful to know that this story which the Bishop's friend palmed off on him is an impossibility, as there is no such collection of pre-Reformation chalices extant; but we have ourselves sat down to luncheon not far from Salisbury at a well-known antiquary's house, when the table and sideboard were ornamented with eight fifteenth and sixteenth century chalices placed there for decorative purposes. And our true story has a better ending. The host, on being remonstrated with, saw the objection, and promised that this habit should be given up, and has already presented some of the cups to needy churches.

A MONOGRAPH ON THE GAINSBOROUGH PARISH REGISTERS. By Rev. J. Gurnhill, B. A. Elliot Stock. Crown 8vo., pp. x., 120. Price 7s. 6d. This is no transcript of registers, but a careful and, at the same time, interesting account of the voluminous register books of the old undivided parish of Gainsborough. A good deal of well-known antiquarian lore pertaining to registers that has often been used before is ingeniously worked in, so that the account assumes the form of a small book. It is of no particular value to the general antiquary, but will doubtless give satisfaction to the local subscribers. There are a few curious blunders, but they are more than

counterbalanced by the record of remarkable register entries. Those who are specially interested in parish register lore would do well to purchase this book, though they must not accept all its conclusions.

By John

HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF MALTHUS. Orlebar Payne, M.A. Privately printed. 4to., pp. xii., 154.

These collections for the history of those bearing the name of Malthus assume the form of a summary of original records. The name is of great rarity, and hence possesses no little attraction for the genealogist. The name Malthus is in all probability a corruption of Malthouse, taking its origin from the man who superintended the malting, though in the preface Mr. Payne hazards other conjectures. The volume, which is well printed on excellent paper, contains extracts from a variety of Berkshire, Yorkshire, Middlesex, and Lincolnshire parish registers, from Alumni Oxonienses, admissions to the Inns of Court, and the City Company records, as well as from wills, deeds, and Chancery proceedings. A folding pedigree table at the end of the book starts from William Malthus, of Binfield, Co. Berks, who died in 1429, and was buried in the church of the Blackfriars, London; his descendants are traced down to the present day. Mr. Payne, in his preface, we don't quite know why, deals briefly with the question of the old altar stones of our parish churches, and their bad and deliberate desecration at the time of the Reformation. It may interest him to know that in no inconsiderable number of cases of recent restora. tion they have been rescued from the flooring, and put back on supports to their original use. Though this volume is, of necessity, of much more limited interest than his previous work on Old English Catholic Missions, some of our readers may be glad to know that Mr. Payne has still a few copies of this painstaking book to dispose of; it can be obtained of the author, Holly Village, Highgate, London, at a guinea.

MEMORIALS OF STEPNEY PARISH. By G. W. Hill and W. H. Frere.

Of this quarto work we have received the two first parts, containing 128 pages of text and two illustra tions. The volume is to be completed in four parts. The editors hope to be able to reproduce and publish with Part III. Gascoigne's Survey of the Parish of Stepney, 1703, in its original size of about four feet square. This will add very much to the completeness of the book; but as it will also add very materially to the cost of its production, the addition must depend greatly on the number of new subscribers that may be forthcoming. Only 250 copies are being printed on small paper, and 75 on large paper. The subscription (payable to Mr. G. W. Hill, 352, Mile End Road, London, E.) is only 10s. 6d. large paper, or 6s. small paper. We can with confidence say that these memorials are being well done, and we urge our readers interested in Stepney to send in their names. Our notice of the volume is reserved until its completion.

MONUMENTAL BRASSES IN NORFOLK. Part II. By E. M. Beloe, jun., Kings Lynn. Price 2s. 6d.

The second part of this excellent series of photolithographs of brasses and matrices of brasses of the county of Norfolk, though not dealing with such fine examples, is quite up to the standard of the first section which we have already noticed. The plate of the once beautiful brass of Sir Hugh Hastings, 1347, at Elsing, is taken from an impression preserved in the British Museum, and shows how much of it has disappeared during the last hundred years. The two small fragments that appear in the margin of this plate are loose, and kept at the Vicarage. Hence they were missed, and do not appear in the plate of the Elsing brass as it now is, which appeared in the first part of this series. Mr. Beloe tells us that he has made several rubbings of these fragments, so that if any subscriber to his series wants them to complete his rubbing, he will be pleased to send them. Plate XII. gives the matrices of three brasses— Stradsett, 1322; Harpley, 1332; and Watlington, 1329-none of which have been reproduced before. The marginal lettering in each case is in separate Lombardic capitals; two of the inscriptions are in Norman-French, and the other in Latin. The matrix at Watlington is generally described as belonging to Sir Robert de Watlington, circa 1290; but Mr. Beloe, in a communication to us, says that the letters OUHA can be made out at the place the name occupies in the inscription. Now, the Stradsett matrix is to Dame Emma de Montalt, Montalt being spelt in the French inscription MONHAUT; moreover, it is known for certain that a Sir Robert de Montalt lived at this time, and died 1329. Hence Mr. Beloe is undoubtedly right in assigning this matrix, contrary to the us al statement, to the Montalt knight. The two parts already issued contain all the Norfolk brosses of the fourteenth century now existing, with the exception of the beautiful Flemish ones at Kings Lynn. Mr. Beloe hopes to bring out these in Part III., tog ther with some reproductions of the grand thirteenth and fourteenth century brasses formerly at Ingham, and now, alas labelled "effs. lost."

Why the editor of the Antiquary should have his opinion asked with regard to certain publications we cannot conceive. Enterprising publishers who cater to the taste for skin-deep beauty must find other columns to notice their wares. Messrs. Macfarlane must therefore excuse us saying more of their shilling number of Beauty's Queens than that it is evidently an excellent medium for cosmetic advertisements. The proprietor of Pearson's Weekly persists in pestering us with copies asking for a notice. His importunity has prevailed, and he shall have our opinion: It is a feeble and very vulgar imitation of Tit Bits, well calculated to pander to a low taste for gambling, and now introducing some of the worst features of a recently-suppressed matrimonial paper. The Weekly Keview is a poor attempt to follow up Mr. Stead's deserved success with the Review of Reviews; it might with advantage have an a in the place of the second e.

BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED.-Reviews are held over of Lake Dwellings, Manual of Brasses, Irving's Shakespeare, Gainford Register, Part iii., vol. i., Handbook of Folklore, King John's House, Ornaments of Cornish Crosses, etc., etc.

The following may be noted among the pamphlets, papers and magazines that have gathered on our table since our last issue: The Building World for November; a good number. This paper continues to be a wonderful fourpennyworth; it is not only useful to the architect, but especially so to the antiquary and ecclesiologist. Ancient Arms and Armour, a useful sixpenny pamphlet, by Mr. Stephen W. Williams, published by Whiting and Co. Salopian Shreds aud Patches, Part vi., vol. ix., reprinted with additions from Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal. The Custody of Local Records (Spottiswoode and Co.), a valuable paper read by Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore at the annual meeting of the Incorporated Law Society, October, 1890. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, 47th quarterly part, edited by Rev. Beaver H. Blacker. There are a considerable number of brief and good articles and extracts pertaining to the county. The editor is a trifle too ingenious in linking on interesting matter as pertaining to the county; about the longest article in this issue is a verbatim copy from the Antiquary (duly acknowledged) of Mr. Hardy's "Tracing a Church Robbery by Magic,' which related to a Lincolnshire church, but Mr. Blacker makes copy of the whole, "as one of the parties in the case was a Gloucestershire man "! The Erskine Halaro Genealogy, by Rev. H. Erskine, is a good genealogical work of fifty pages, 5s., published by George Bell and Son. The American Antiquarian for September has, as usual, some excellent illustrated articles, but we think the printing has fallen off. The current numbers of Bye-gones, relating to Wales and the border counties, the Western Antiquary, and the East Anglian, etc., etc., have been received.

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Among numerous book-catalogues that arrive by almost every post, foreign ones reach us from time to time. The twenty-first catalogue, Der Lipport' sohen Buchhandling Antiquariat in Halle, Gr. Staintrasse 67, is chiefly of English literature, and abounds in Shakespeariana. The most charming little catalogue that we have seen for many a day is No. 66 of the antiquarian section of the catalogues of Allrico Haepli, of Milan, Catalogo d' Una Raccolta di Opere Stampate Dai Gioliti de' Ferrari in Venezia: it is a "en of topography for such a purpose; there is no English. bookseller who turns out half so attractive a list of books.

Correspondence.

BOOKS IN CHAINS.

(Vol. xxii., p. 212.)

THE following extract may add another to the list of places where Books in Chains" have been, or are

now:

"A black-letter copy of Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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Manuscripts cannot be returned unless stamps are enclosed.

It would be well if those proposing to submit MSS. would first write to the Editor stating the subject and manner of treatment.

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Whilst the Editor will be glad to give any assistance he can to archæologists on archæological subjects, he desires to remind certain correspondents that letters containing queries can only be inserted in the "ANTIQUARY if of general interest, or on some new subject; nor can he undertake to reply privately, or through the "ANTIQUARY," to questions of the ordinary nature that sometimes reach him. No attention is paid to anonymous communications or would-be contributions.

M. C. G.-Much obliged for the extract from Dr. Rock, relative to "Low Side-Windows," but only original communications on that question can now be printed. All interested in the subject should refer to Rock's "Church of our Fathers."

Two of the illustrations of " Books in Chains," reviewed in November, originally appeared in the great work of Mr. J. Willis Clark, F.S.A., on the Cambridge Colleges.

Communications for the Editor should be addressed 'Antiquary, Barton-le-Street, Malton."

INDEX.

Abandonment of Proposed Railway through
Leicester Castle, 237, 238.

Abbey, St. Albans, Disfigurement of, 187.
Abbeys hidden by Ivy, 187.

Ainsworth (William Francis, Ph. D., F.S.A.,
F.R.G.S.) on the Mountains of the
Moon, 70, 71.

Albury, Appointment to Benefice of, 72.
Alcinous, Garden of, 106.
Alkmaar, Notes on, 59.

All Cannings, Notes on the Church of,
128.

All Hallows, Barking, Reviewed, 182.
Alnwick, Custom at, 66.

Alum Well, Walsall, 205.

Ambassadors at the Royal English Court
. (James I.), List of, 22.

American Historical Association, Issue of
the Papers of the, 224.
Amsterdam Gate, The, 58.

Ancient Chapel of St. Martha's Hill, near

Guildford, Surrey, by Geo. C. William-
son, F.R.S.L., F.R.Hist. Soc., 71-75.
Ancient Christian Basilica, Remains of,
260.

Ancient Deed on Parchment, Seal ap-
pended, 251.

Ancient Painting in Castor Church, 249.
Anderida, Sacred Spot of the Wood of,

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Archæological Societies, Proceedings and
Publications of, 32-36.

Archæologists, Literary Gossip for, 36, 83,
131, 180, 223, 274.

Archæology, Meeting of Society of Biblical,

33, 273.

Archaic Bronze Statuettes, Discovery of
Three, 190.

Archbishop Langton, Story of, 73.
of Canterbury, Accusations
against, 149.

Archbishop's Museum at Utrecht, 59.
Architectural Remains at Silchester, 170.
Armorial Bearings of Dumfries-shire, 45.
Armour, Abandonment of, 10.

Various Prices of, 148.
Armourers and Braziers' Company, Ex-
hibition held by, 1.
Armourer's Bill, Edward III., 149, 150.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 185.
Athenæum, Excursion of Upper Norwood,

35.

Attendants of Confessor, 159.

Ave Maria, in Commendation of Queen
Mary, 199, 200.

Babylon, Hanging Gardens of, 107.
Baldwyn-Childe (Mrs.) on the Building
of Manor House, Kyre Park, 24-26,
50-53.

Barber (Rev. Samuel) on the Crypt of
Hythe, 62-64.

Barber-Surgeons of London, by Sidney
Young, 96-101.

Barham (Rev. C. N.) on Whitstable
Pudding-Pans, 216-218.

Barnwell: Seven Wells, Superstitions of,

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32.

Society, Meeting of,

Association, Meeting of, 179.
"British Pastellists," Exhibition of, 234.
British School, Operations of, in Megalo-
polis, 46.

Bronze Age, Objects from, discovered in
Christiania, 46.

91.

Vessels, Interesting Discovery of,

Bucks Archæological and Architectural
Society, Excursion of, 129.

Bucks Archæological and Architectural
Society, Journal of, 130.

Building of the Manor-House of Kyre
Park, by Mrs. Baldwyn-Childe, 24-26,
50-53.

Burghead, Excavations at, 185, 186.
Burial Chamber, Discovery of, 192.
Burial-ground of Ancient Britons, 194.
"Burning of the Clavie," 186.

Burton Church, Sussex, Notes on, 126.
Burton (John, M.D.) on the Yorkshire
Wolds, 109.

Burton-on-Trent: St. Modwen's Well,

205.

Byland Abbey, 83.

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147.

Checkley: Well in the Wall, Peculiarities
of, 204.

Chetton, Holy Well at, 69.

Child's Ercall, Mermaid, Legend of, 105.
Christiania, Objects from the Bronze Age
discovered in, 46.

Christiania Valley, Earliest Inhabitants of,
46.

Christmas Carol of Charles Dickens in
Facsimile, Reviewed, 297.
Chronograms, 151-159.
Church, Curiosities of the, 15 18.

of Dordrecht, Carvings at, 56.
Goods, Inventories of, 28, 29,
76-79, 120-123, 167-169, 214-216, 256-260
of Kiffing, Condition of, 5.
Paintings at Guildford, 33.
Churches of Newcastle and Gateshead,
Old, 247.

Church Wall Paintings in Cornwall, 138.
Churchwardens' Accounts, Reviewed, 224.
Cinerary Urn and Incense-Cup, Stanton
Moor, Derbyshire, by John Ward, 112-

114.

Cireperdu Casting, Specimen of, 1.
"Clackmannan Stone," 32.

Clay Forms for casting Bronzes, Discovery
in Sweden of, 143..

Clayton (John, F.S.A.), Notes on, 94.

Cleopatra's Needle, Action of Weather
on, 2.

Clerical Incomes in 1643, by Rev. Canon
Scott-Robertson, 75, 76.

Clifton Antiquarian Club, Excursion of,
80, 221.

Coffin-Lids at St. Martha's, 72.

Coins, Gallic, Transalpine and Cisalpine,
and Greek, 190.

Colchester, Old Borough Seal of, 93.
Cole (Rev. E. Maule, M.A., F.G.S.) on
the Entrenchments on the Yorkshire
Wolds, 109-112, 163-167, 194-198.
Colemere Well, Legend of, 102.
Collection of Books at Ripon Abbey,
Destruction of, 245.

Collections relating to Montgomeryshire,
Twenty-fourth Volume of 220.
Colouring on Carved Marble, 173.
Compass-Sundial, Description of, 236.
Concealed Chamber at a Palace, Copen.
hagen, Discovery and Contents of, 240.
Conference of Archæological Societies,

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Croxton Pennyquart Well, 163.

Crudely Well, Bilston, Staffordshire,
Legend of, 161.

Crypt of Hythe, The, by Rev. Samuel
Barber, 62-64.

Cumberland and Westmorland Anti-
quarian and Archæological Society,
Eleventh Volume of Transactions of, 82.
Cumberland and Westmorland Anti-
quarian and Archæological Society,
Meetings of, 81, 220.

Curiosities at Mostyn Hall, 175.
of the Church, 15-18.
Curious Paper MS., Account of, 252.

Dacre, Bears at, 81.

Dale and its Abbey, Reviewed, 230.
Days of James IV., Reviewed, 134.
Deanery of Bicester, Reviewed, 228.
Death of Mr. W. Jackson, F.S.A., 235.
Decorations at Pompeii, 49.

De Derlington (F. John), Notes on, 115.
De Dufeld, F. Robert, Particulars of,
159, 160.

De Herley, F. Nicholas, Particulars con-
cerning, 160.

De Lenham, F. John, Notes on, 119.
Delft, Old Palace at, 57.
Delgovitia, Lost Site of, 109.
Denmark, Finding of Viking Ship, 6.
Law respecting Archæological
Remains in, 47.

De Querndon, F. Roger, Particulars con-
cerning, 160, 161.

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Canvas Coat of Sir Hugh Willoughby,
9-12.

Discoveries at Bodo, Norway, 192.

in Scania, 143.

in Norway, 143.

in Peru, 145.

near Rovigno Istria, 238.

Discovery at Espo, 143.

of Human Bones, 235-

of the Register and Chartulary
of the Mercers' Company, York, 266-

270.

Dispute between the Goldsmiths and Pew-
terers, by R. C. Hope, F.S.A., F.R.S.L.,
75.

Ditchfield (P. H., M.A., F.R.H.S.) on
A Frisian Chronicler's Account of the
Abbey of Ripon, 243-245.

Diversities of Dialect among the Dutch,
61.

Domesday Map of Somersetshire, Re-
viewed, 132.

Domesday Book, 71.
Dordrecht, Notes on, 56.

"Double" Entrenchments, 166.

Drawings discovered at Jufveln, North
Sweden, 192.

Drawings of Ancient Northern Architec-
ture, Publication of, 47.

Drumming Well, Oundle, Legend of, 30.
Dufeld, F. Robert de, Particulars of, 159,
160.

Duke Henry, Will of, 147.
Duke of Clarence, Birth of, 149.
Dumfries-shire, Armorial Bearings of, 45.
Dunstall, Staffordshire: Wulfruna's Well,
Legend of, 161.

Dutch, Diversities of Dialect among the,

61.

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Edleston (R. H.) on Monumental Brasses,
12-15, 53-55.
Edward III., Particulars concerning, 149.
Effigies, Identification of Two, 235.
Effigy discovered at Gedney Church, 42.
of a Lady, Discovery of, 235.
Elbolton Cave, Visit to, 80.
Elder Well, Blymhill, Legend of, 205.
Eleusis and Mycenae, Excavations at, 8.
Elizabethan Chalice of Hutton Magna, 4.
Ellerton: The King's Well, Particulars of,
206.

Ellesmere Pool, Legends of, 103,
Endon, Well-dressing, 163.

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