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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. MARCH 9, 1901.
Maxwell is responsible for ' Victoria the Well
Beloved.' A beautiful picture by Gainsborough of
Mrs. Robinson (Perdita) is reproduced. Scr
opens with 'Along the East Coast of Africa,' by
Mr. Richard Harding Davis. This describes the
result of a steam trip from Durban up to Zanzibar,
ports at which bubonic plague existed being left
unvisited. Not too much a friend of England is
Mr. Davis counted. What he says about the
relative prosperity of countries under English,
German, and Portuguese rule is pleasant reading
for us. Portuguese rule is depicted in grim colours.
Zanzibar is described as a terrestrial paradise.
' Among the Immigrants' gives a good account by pen
and pencil of the Russian and Polish population that
flocks to America. Mr. Henry Norman contributes
a fifth paper on ' Russia of To-day.' Mrs. Gilbert's
stage reminiscences are agreeably continued. ' The
Transformation of the Map ' shows the changes in
maps which have been witnessed in the course of a
single lifetime. Mr. Brander Matthews has a thought-
ful paper on the ' English Language in America.'
The Cornhill opens with a very interesting his-
torical paper by Mr. C. H. Firth on ' The Sick and
Wounded in the Great Civil War,' a new subject,
on which a great scholar supplies some valuable
information. Under the title ' My Mother's Diary '
Mrs. Mary Westenholz gives what professes to be an
account of experiences during the Prussian invasion
ofSchleswig-Holstein. These are obviously fictitious,
but are deeply moving. The Rev. W. H. Fitchett
sends another brilliant picture of incidents con-
nected with the Indian Mutiny. A very encourag-
ing account is supplied by Mr. C. J. Cornish of
'The Results of Wild Bird Protection. 3 We had
no idea that so much gain had attended an Act as
yet inadequately administered. Mr. G. 8. Street
does full justice to Anthony Trollope, a delightful
novelist at present under a cloud. Trollope is
defended from the charge brought against him by
an eminent pundit that he is not creative. ' A
Londoner's Log-Book,' No. II., is a clever piece of
social satire. ' The Christian Scientist ' is also
bright and humorous. The Gentleman's has a good
and readable article on ' The Cat and the Moon,'
which we commend to our readers. Its author, the
Rev. George St. Clair, should not, however, mis-
quote Ben Jonson. Miss Georgiana Hill has an
excellent paper on Gondomar, the Spanish Am-
bassador to James I., to whose malign influence
England owes what may almost be regarded as her
crowning humiliation, the royal murder, at the
bidding of Spain, of Raleigh. The lighter contents
of Longman'* are delightful, especially 'Concerninr
Tod and Peter.' Miss Dempster contributes ' The
Days.' 'Bacteria and Salt'
First of the Hundred
is scientific and sufficiently startling. Mr. Lang
is amusing in 'At the Sign of the Ship,' and also,
as he sometimes is, a trifle severe, though in good-
natured fashion. His note on the coquilie
In Vienna's fatal walls God's finger touched him and he slipped is excellent.
MR. E. S. DODUSON has printed a short and satisfactory reply to the criticism on his Leicar- ragan studies of Dr. Schuchardt. There is much philological interest in this, but the matter is too personal to appear in our columns. It is included in a pamphlet with his ' The Verb in the Second Book in Guipuskoan Bask,' a subject on which Mr. Dodgson is a high authority.
WITH much regret we hear of the death of Mr.
Frederick S. Ellis, an old friend and a warm sup-
porter of ' N. & Q.,' whom we saw but a few weeks
ago in his customary health. A brother of Sir
Whittaker Ellis, he was closely connected with
Richmond. In early life he was with Thomas
Rodd, the bookseller, whom he succeeded. His
business, once conducted in King Street, W.C.,
close to the old Garrick Club, was removed to
Bond Street, where, under the name Ellis &
White, it is carried on by his nephew and late
partner. Many years ago he retired and settled
at Torquay until his death, which took place at
Sidmouth. A great friend of Dante Rossetti, whose
poems he published, and of William Morris, he was
well known and highly prized in literary and artistic
circles. In the publications of the Kelmscott Press
he took an active share, editing for it the Chaucer
perhaps its noblest production the Shelley, the
Keats, and many of its most prized works. Ellis
translated ' Reynard the Fox, 3 the ' Roman de la
Rose,' and ' The Golden Legend, 3 and was, up to
his death, engaged in preparing English versions of
mediaeval works. He also compiled an elaborate
' Shelley Concordance.' He was the possessor of
paintings by Rossetti and E. Burne-Jones, and at
his home, the Red House, Chilstqn, Torquay, he
had a few priceless books. In publishing Rossetti's
works he was influenced by friendship rather than
the hope of profit. Few men were indeed of a
gentler or more unselfish disposition, and his death
has left a void not easily filled.
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