360 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.X.MAY 6, 1022.
Vatican MS. which contain the passage in question,
from which it appears that the writer of the MS.
accidentally omitted a number of words and
then, discovering his mistake, wrote them in at
the top of his page, carefully placing reference
marks to show where they were to be inserted.
The transcriber who made the copy for printing
took these lines to be the first lines of the column,
with the result that may be imagined. Dr.
Bradley definitively clears up all this tangle
and from his examination of the facsimile goes
on to point out other blunders covered by the
two pages, some of which are considerable and
the total of which should reinforce the caution
of scholars in basing anything on a text of this
editor's which has not been verified by the
original. A paragraph on the Greek words in the
MS. and their treatment by the editor is diverting
and also of some little importance for the estimate
of Greek scholarship in monasteries of the tenth
or eleventh centuries. A few interesting emenda-
tions of the printed text beyond the bounds
of the facsimile are also supplied.
English Prose. Vol. iv. Landor to Holmes.
Chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (Oxford
University Press.)
THIS is the* 22 2nd volume of that excellent series
the World's Classics. The authors to whom
Mr. Peacock has given most space are Landor,
Carlyle, Macaulay, and Borrow. A pleasant
opportunity for comparison is afforded by inserting
Alison's account of the taking of the Bastille as
well as Carlyle's. The solitary choice, out of
all the rich treasure of Hawthorne's prose, of
' The Great Stone Face ' a weak tale which,
we believe, the writer himself did not care for
is rather to be deplored. We also wondered
at finding no example from Keats 's letters. But
no maker of an anthology can hope completely
to satisfy any other lover of the authors he is
dealing with. Those who are adding this selection
to their books may place this volume beside the
others with satisfaction.
The Journal of the Society of Army Historical
Research. March, 1922.
THIS valuable quarterly, now in its third number,
gives every sign of increasing vigour. Lord
Dillon puts together what is known of an Irish
contingent which in 1544 arrived at Boulogne
as part of Henry VIII. 's forces. The appearance
of these kerne is illustrated by a drawing from
a contemporary painting once at Cowdray.
Professor Harding Firth sends a ballad on the
Battle of Culloden printed in 1747, together with
an illustration, from an old print in the British
Museum, of flogging in Barrell's Regiment the
4th Foot, which bore the brunt of the Highland
attack at Culloden. Notes on disbanded regi-
ments (the New Brunswick Fencibles is the
present instalment) are contributed by Mr. W.
Y. Baldry and Mr. A. S. White. Colonel Field
deals with a curious MS. poem entitled ' The
Remembrance ; or, The Progress of Lord Port-
more 's Regiment,' in which, among other interest-
ing matters, much detail of the uniform worn by
the Scots Brigade in the Dutch service, c. 1700,
is set out. Major Morris Bent gives us the con-
clusion of 'A " Royal American " ' a resume,
with abundant quotations, of the letters home
of a young officer serving in the West Indies,
which began in the first number of the Journal.
Lieut.-Colonel Macdonald continues his exceed-
ingly interesting and admirably illustrated dis-
cussion of medieval artillery, and Captain Oakes-
Jones begins an account of the evolution of the
gorget.
We are glad to learn that the membership
of the Society continues to increase and that
it extends to India and the colonies.
WE have received the March number of the
Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, pub-
lished by the University of Liverpool. It con-
tains a striking and carefully worked out article
by Dr. Mace going to show the marked influence
of Egypt on Hebrew literature. The importance
of Syria and Asia Minor in the development of
art in the Eastern Mediterranean is discussed
with considerable fullness by Mr. C. Leonard
Woolley in a paper that deserves attention.
Mr. E. Thurlow Leeds writes on the problem of
the art in particular of the megalithic archi-
tecture of prehistoric Spain. There is also a
brief, but delightful, note by Professor Halliday
entitled ' A Sidelight upon Tacitus,' which, on the
ground of Pliny's Letters, compares these two
friends as sportsmen. The number include?
two or three useful book notices.
STREET NOISES (see ante, pp. 300, 340). The
device that MB. J. C. OXENFORD inquires about
as a " boon to brain- workers " is probably that
I have known "for years as " antiphones "-
known and used with the utmost benefit to my
" mental welfare." The following are Dutch,
Belgian and Danish addresses where to get them :
1. Simonsen & Well, Instrumentmagers,
Hobmagergade, Hobenhain, Denmark.
2. Kern, Instrumentmaker, Nieuwendia, Am-
sterdam.
3. Klein- Glitschka, Instrumentmaker, Kortryk-
sche Straat, Ghent, Belgium.
The instrument, however, requires to be fitted
to the patient's ear. H. LOGEMAN.
Ghent.
jSottcetf to Corretfponbente.
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