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us Don Quixote. Connected also with Spain are
the two papers on the Armada by Capt. Mahan and
Mr. W. F. Tilton. Among the illustrations are
Gilbert Stuart's portrait of the Marchioness
D'Yrugoand a fanciful reproduction of the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon. The frontispiece to Scribner's
consists of a reproduction of the Gibbs-Channing
portrait of Washington. Following this comes,
plentifully illustrated, Miss Margaret Sherwood's
account of ' Undergraduate Life at Vassar.' Very
interesting are these pictures of an existence con-
cerning which masculine humanity can only know
what it is told. ' Seaside Pleasure Grounds for Great
Cities ' gives a series of agreeable pictures of existence
at Revere Beach. ' The Story of the Revolution '
is continued, and lias many dramatic and striking
engravings. 'The Workers' is also continued.
Among the illustrations are some war maps. The
Pall Mall opens with a charming etching, by Mr.
Fred V. Burridge, of 'Canaletto San Trevaso,'
which is followed by some pretty designs to
' The Death of Childhood.' In the series of ' Capitals
of Greater Britain' Ottawa is depicted by aid of
some striking pictures from photographs. General
Sir Hugh G-ough continues his ' Old Memories,' and
Sir Walter Besant his 'South London.' 'A Pro-
vince in Pawn ' deals with Thessaly, and gives some
capital pictures of the rock monasteries. In ' From
a 'Cornish Window ' Mr. Quiller Couch asks us why
we read poetry. In his 'Fights for the Flag' the
Rev. W. H. Fitchett describes, with his customary
vivacity, in the Cornhill, ' Lord Howe and the First
of June.' The second and concluding portion of
the correspondence between Charles Lamb and
Robert Lloyd follows. ' A Relic of William Oldys '
gives a very entertaining account of that eminent
antiquary. In ' Sixty Phases of Fashion ' Mrs.
Simpson protests, we fear in vain, against female
restlessness in the matter of dress. 'Humours of
the Theatre' deals much with the Irish stage.
Temple Bar has a good and timely paper on
' Bicycle History,' a readable account of Mar-
shal Keith, and a fairly interesting description of
' A Canterbury Pilgrimage.' Mr. Mackaif writes
intelligently, in Macmillan's, on ' Theocritus.' Mr.
Andrew Lang supplies a species of appendix to his
Highland sketches in ' Pickle the Spy.' A terrible
account is given of 'Discipline in the Old Navy,'
from the minutes of courts-martial which are pre-
served in the Record Office. ' William Morris ' and
' The French Academy ' are also the subjects of
papers. 'The Birds of Wordsworth' is an emi-
nently readable portion of the contents of the
Gentleman's, in which Mr. Compton Reade writes
on 'The Appointments of Manor Houses in the
Seventeenth Century.' Mr. Hogan, M. P. , supplies
a history of ' The Clean Shirt Ministry,' and Mr.
Graham gives us ' The Annals of Eastbourne.' Miss
Edith Gray Wheelwright writes intelligently upon
' The Poetic Faculty and Modern Poets.
PART LVII. of Cassell's Gazetteer extends from Walsham to Wilton. Many views of high interest are given, the most important being, perhaps, Waterford and Wells. Pictures of Warwick and War k worth Castles and of Welbeck Abbey, of Wast Water, Weardale, and many spots pic- turesque or historic are included. This useful and important work now nears the close.
A BOOK of interest for Yorkshiremen, entitled 'A Great Historic Peerage: the Earldom of
Wiltes,' by Mr. John Henry Metcalfe, will be pub-
lished by Mr. Elliot Stock. It will contain the
more romantic episodes in the records of a great
historic family of Yorkshire the Lords Scrope of
Bolton, in Wensleydale, the Lords Scrope of
Masham and Upsall, and the Scropes of Danby
with comments upon the decision of a Committee
of Privileges of the House of Lords in 1869 against
the claim to the Earldom of Wiltes made by Mr.
Simon Thomas Scrope, of Danby. For more than
six hundred years the Scropes have been in the
forefront of Yorkshire noblesse, titled and untitled.
A protest against the decision was signed by the
Duke of Norfolk, the Earls of Gainsborough, Aber-
gavenny, Denbigh, Warwick, Granard, Zetland,
and Feversham, and by the Lords Wenlock, Went-
worth, Colville of Culross, Arundell of Wardour,
and Houghton. As Lord Houghton pointed out, it
unsettled the titles of several peers whose patents
were in the same terms as that of the Earl of
Wiltes, and for this reason the forthcoming work
should have a special personal interest for the peers
referred to, and notably among them the Earl of
Devon. The illustrations will be a large armorial
book-plate, dated 1698, a shield of twenty-eight
quartering^, being the complete achievement of
arms of Simon Scrope, of Danby (de jure sixteenth
Earl of Wiltes), which will be printed from the
original copper-plate ; a portrait of the Earl of
Wiltes as King of Man, crowned, and with the
collar of the Order of the Garter round his neck,
from an old painting at Danby Hall ; and the seal
of Sir William de Scrope, Lord of Man and the
Isles, with the well-known arms of Man.
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