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THE July Edinburgh Review is certainly not to
be ranked with the less successful of the 44
numbers to which it forms the next accession
Dr. Horace Micheli's study of the working of the
Referendum in Switzerland should command
careful attention. It has an obvious bearing on
present political controversy ; but, more than
that, it opens up consideration of a possible line
of development which may carry the modern
State on past the present plan of representative
government. It may also rightly cause us to
reflect on the effects produced by giving a sound
education to the people as a whole ; it seems
clear that our own popular education being less
sound than that of Switzerland forms one reason
for anticipating that the Referendum would not
.at the present moment work so well with us as
it does with the Swiss. Mr. Horace Bleackley
A name familiar to all readers of ' N. & Q.'
contributes a lively and well-considered article
on Casanova, which, one is tempted to think,
might suffice in the way of information about
"that worthy for all except professed students of
the eighteenth century. The appearance of
Mr. J. A. R. Marriott's able discussion of English
diplomacy from 1853 to 1871 may prove to be well-
timed beyond the expectations of its author.
Mr. P. Amaury Talbot s paper on ' West African
Religions ' carries the weight belonging to first-
Land observation extended, sympathetic, and
of scientific quality. It should not be missed by
those interested in this study. Miss March
Phillipps in ' The Pirates of Algiers ' has one of
the most fascinating subjects in the history of
the Mediterranean, and she does it justice. The
pirates' reign is apt to seem matter of the remote
past, but not only is the tablet at Sidi-Feneh,
commemcrating the French conquest of Algiers,
dated 1830, but the writer tells us that her own
grandfather used to relate the story of how he,
as a young officer, helped the young wife of the
English Consul at Tunis to escape from the
pirates, by whom, if captured, she would have
-been sold into slavery. Signer Luigi Villari
whites of the Roman Campagna in a way that vi ill
make the more romantic of its lovers sigh. Modern
improvements are creeping over its immemorial
loveliness, which will hardly be annihilated, but
-will certainly be changed. Mr. F. A. Wright's
article on * Greek Music ' is delightful reading,
-and instructive too. But it is surely quaint to
put Sophocles and Mendelssohn side by side ; in
fact, both musicians and classical scholars will
find several points to quarrel over in the com-
parison Mr. Wright institutes between five
-selected Greek poets and five modern musicians.
Mr. J. E. G. de Montmorency is wholesomely ad-
vmonitory in his paper on ' English Universities
and National Life ' : he makes good suggestions
too, but there are many obstacles to the carrying
out of these which he does not tackle. Mr.
Walter de la Mare contributes several pages of
bright, sometimes far-fetched, comment on
eight items of current literature. Of a French
writer on the " English soul " he says : "As
Drake shepherded the Armada, she shepherds
'th English soul." Such brilliancy as this is
just as cryptic as dark icss.
THE new number of The Quarterly Review sets out with Dr. C. H. Turner's ' Study of Christian Origins in France and England a weighty piece of work concerned, naturally, to a great
extent, with the work of Duchesne. Mr. Rolles-
ton's paper on ' Modern Forces in German Litera-
ture ' contains an indictment of English men
of letters and English publishers for carelessness
in not providing thoroughgoing introductions to
the study of the poets and novelists of this
country and generation. We are ourselves of
opinion that much may be said for letting this
alone ; however that may be, it is not a matter
let alone in Germany, and from German judg-
ments and interpretations, as well as from the
original works themselves, Mr. Rolleston draws
a highly interesting, though not entirely hopeful
picture of the interplay of forces in German
literature at the present moment. Mr. H.
Stuart Jones's article on ' The Mysteries of
Mithras ' is one of the most interesting of this
number in particular, in the pages dealing with
the part played by Stoic philosophy as a guide
for thought no less than for conduct. Prof.
George Forbes gives us a delightful biography of
the late Sir David Gill. Mr. H. Dodwell treats
the rather well-worn subject of the East India
Company from the point of view made possible
by the publication of new material, offering the
present account as a continuation of the summary
of the history of the Company before the Battle
of Plassey given in the number of this Review
for October last. Mr. Robert Steele's paper on
' Roger Bacon ' ought to find many interested
readers, especially in view of the fact that not
many tolerably adequate accounts of him have
till quite recently been available. Not least
worthy of consideration among these articles {is
' The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Science,'
a study of the modern position of this department
of philosophy by Mr. H. S. Shelton. ^
GRIFFIN RECORDS. Mr. H. Griffin (care of
Stokes & Cox, 75, Chancery Lane) writes that he
has 100 MS. volumes relating to Griffin and Griffith
families in which are also references to 500 other
names in England and Wales. He would be glad
to exchange notes with other genealogists.
to <K0msp0ntonts.
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DR. KRUEGER. Probably an incorrect version of "crimine ab uno Disce omnes" (Virg., '^En.,'ii.65).
H. N. E. ("'Twas whispered in heaven"). For this riddle see 6 S. ix. 260 ; 7 S. ii. 253. 390 ; iii. 33, 73, 158 ; 9 S. vi. 85, 177.
DR. MAGRATH ("Troy weight for bread "). The latest reference for this in ' N. & Q.' is at 9 S. vii. 90 an article by COL. NICHOLSON. It has also been discussed at 8 S. x. 255, 278, 305, 338, 383, and at 4 S. ix. 447, 514.
