LUCY WALTERS (7th S. iv. 249).—In Jesse's 'Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts,' vol. iii. (Bell & Sons, 1882), will be found a very interesting account of this person, the first passion of a very ill-fated and unhappy monarch. I do not think this is the fullest account of the ancestress of the Dukes of Buccleuch. A perusal of Thurloe's 'State Papers,' De Grammont's Memoirs,' Anthony Wood, or the Memoirs of King James II.' may add considerably to the knowledge found in Jesse. Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury. HERBERT HARDY. A History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury, in the County of Berks. By Walter Money. (Parker.) TOWN histories are not multiplying so fast as we could wish them, and those that do appear are often of most flimsy texture. No one now thinks of writing a book on astronomy, iron smelting, or ship-building without scientific training; but many of us have yet to learn that history is a science at all. It seems so easy to find out and set down just what has occurred at this or that place, that numbers of incompetent people have tried to do it; the result being that our shelves are encumbered by books not a few that are of little more value than waste paper. Mr. Money is not one of the class of which we speak. Ere putting his pen to paper he has taken care to acquaint himself not only with the history of Newbury, but with the general progress of the land of which Newbury forms a part. The result is a most useful book, interesting not only to Berkshire folk, but to every one who cares for the local annals of which concern the great Civil War of the seventeenth cenhis country. Mr. Money is an authority on matters tury so far as they relate to his own county. His book on the two battles of Newbury and the siege of Donnington Castle has an established reputation. It was not to be expected, therefore, that he should give us much new matter relating to the Caroline time. The churchwardens' accounts, however, from which he furnishes many well-selected extracts, show that the slaughter was great, and that many-we hope all-the dead received the rites of Christian burial. These entries are very numerous. One runs, "Pd. for burying the ded soldiers an church-yarde and Wash, 31. Os, ld." As a shilling was the usual fee, it would seem that this entry represents the burial of at least sixty poor fellows, who died, Some for a dream of public good, In 1645 we have the entries of burial in the church of Some for church-tippet, gown and hood. two officers eminent in their day. One of them was Major Stewart (in the account book called Captain), who commanded the Kentish regiment for the Parliament, and was killed by Sir John Boys, the Royalist governor of sitting at supper by the side of his intended bride. It Donnington Castle, at Greenham manor-house, as he was seems highly probable that the soldiery on one side or the other carried off the lead from the church to cast into bullets, for in 1646 the parish paid "to the plummers for their worke and for new leade" the large sum of forty-two pounds. We have often seen in town and manor records orders intended to guard the dwellings of the people from fire. in putting flax or straw near their chimneys; but the Fines were constantly imposed on people who persisted Newbury authorities in the reign of Charles II. were even more strict than this. No one was permitted to enter any stable with a candle unprotected by a lantern, or with a lighted pipe in his mouth, under a penalty of wish that such a despotic regulation could be enforced five shillings. Those interested in fire-insurance must in these days. The cruel penal laws against Roman Catholics have some light thrown on them by the chamberlain's accounts for 1679-80, which contain the memorandum of a payment of one pound to "Mr. Mayor and Mr. Justice for conveying up a Jesuit to the Kinge and Councell." We wonder who their prisoner was. It is not impossible that some of our readers who have special knowledge may be able to identify him. After all, it is quite possible that the captive was no Jesuit at all, but some stranger who had fallen under suspicion. The popular excitement on religious matters was then so great that a Jesuit was seen in every unoffending traveller who was unwilling or unable to answer inquisitorial questions. Should any one in the present day wish to know how an address to royalty should not be written, we advise him to read the document which the Mayor and Corporation of Newbury sent to George II. on the suppression of what Jacobites used to call "the affair of the '45." It is too long to give at length, and any extract we could make would fail to show the folly, reaching to sublime, of the original. Mr. Money gives a list of public-houses, with their signs, as they existed in the beginning of the reign of George III. Some of them are curious. We have the "Mermaid," the "Hatchet," the "Sun and Tuns," the Bishop Blaize" (a memorial of the cloth trade), the Hind's Head," the "Half Moon and Magpie," the "Bush." We wonder whether this last was an old house. An ivy bush or a bunch of green twigs was the mark of a public-house in the Middle Ages all over Teutonic Europe. It cannot be said that the inhabitants of Newbury were badly off for public-house accommodation. There were upwards of forty of them, and the population at that time, according to a table given in another part of the volume, must have been much under four thousand. Aucassin et Nicolette. Edited in Old French and Rendered in Modern English by F. W. Bourdillon, M.A. (Kegan Paul & Co.) UNTIL the appearance of Mr. Pater's Studies of the Renaissance knowledge of the delightful love story of 'Aucassin and Nicolette' was practically confined to the students of fabliaux. The story, one of the most attractive in its class, appears in the famous collection of fabliaux of Le Grand, whence it was translated by Way in his well-known selection from that work. In the Recueil Général' of MM. Anatole de Montaiglon and Gaston Raynaud it is not included. A sense of fitness, indeed, suggests that it should be divorced from stories the very names of which cannot, even in French, be published in full. It appears, however, in Nouvelles Françoises du XIII Siècle,' the first of two volumes of contes con. tributed by MM. Moland and d'Héricourt to that" Bibliothèque Elzevirienne" (why does Mr. Bourdillon write "Elzévirienne"?) the discontinuance of which is a grievous loss to all students of early French. Other editions have been issued in Paris, that followed in the main by Mr. Bourdillon being the second edition of Suchier, Paderborn, 1881. In a beautiful and convenient little volume, fit to be slipped into the pocket, but too dainty, perhaps, in type and execution for such usage, we have now the original text, with its curious musical notation, faithfully reproduced, an English rendering, a pleasant and valuable introduction, a few notes, a glossary, and that recent and most useful addition to works of the class, a bibliography. For these things we return Mr. Bourdillon our sincere thanks. His volume is fascinating reading, and the information it supplies is pleasantly conveyed and worthy of study. So far as regards the prose portion of his translation, it is all that can be desired. Mr. William Morris might, perhaps, supply an ideal rendering of the poetry. Since he, however, is occupied with studies of another kind, and elects to be a Tyrtæus rather than "the idle singer of an empty day," we must accept Mr. Bourdillon's verses, which, without being ideal, are at least very pleasant reading, and are fairly successful in catching the archnesses of the original. Mr. Bourdillon has done well to translate Aucassin et Nicolette' in its entirety, as we cannot afford to lose the passages, worthy of Rabelais, describing the kingdom of Torelore and the system of the Couvade. It is, indeed, to be regretted that Rabelais was ignorant of the proceedings known by the latter name, since they would have furnished suggestions for an excellent chapter. The word does not appear in Littré, nor even in the Dictionnaire Comique' of Leroux. Under a different name the practice may be traced in 'Hudibras,' in Strabo, in Diodorus Siculus, &c. With no attempt at explanation, however, we shall refer the reader to the note on the subject, pp. 178-9, in Mr. Bourdillon's most acceptable little volume. The Best Books: a Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best available Books. By William Swan Sonnenschein, (Sonnenschein & Co.) AN arduous and useful labour has been successfully accomplished. No fewer than twenty-five thousand volumes are here catalogued, classified, and indexed in a fashion that simplifies to the utmost the task of seeking sources of information upon any given subject. While modestly disclaiming for his volume any claim to supply a complete bibliography of modern English literature, Mr. Sonnenschein at least furnishes a work the like of which has not in this country been attempted. His system of classification and arrangement is excellent. Let us take it that the student wishes to ascertain the best book upon the struggles between Charles I. and his Commons. He turns to the "Division of History " F; a subdivision is "History of Europe" IV. Under "FIV." he finds chap. xvi., "History of England, 1603-1655." Here are first" 'supplied the sources,' Calendars of State Papers," &c., and then follow at length all the various works dealing with the epoch, the publisher and date of issue being in each case supplied. This is a mere outline of the main scheme. How conscientiously it is carried out, and what a mass of concurrent information is provided, can only be ascertained by a reference to the volume. This occupies over seven hundred quarto pages, and is a marvel of patient industry and, so far as we have tested it, of exactness. Practically the lists, which exclude in the main elementary school-books, are confined to English works. In two sections, however, foreign books are also given. The dates of the first and last edition of the books named are printed. A glance at Mr. Sonnenschein's preface will show that his work is simple and self-explanatory. Long study is necessary to find to how many purposes it may be put. It is difficult on the score of utility to overpraise it. Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, 1649-1734. THE introductory portion of this volume is likely to of the Old and New Testament which have been sown A SECOND revised and enlarged edition of 'Epitaphs,' collected by Old Mortality, Jun., has been issued by Rankin & Co., of Drury Court. A reference to its pages might save some applications to our columns. MESSRS. RIVINGTONS have issued an edition of 'The Merchant of Venice,' edited by H. C. Beeting, uniform with the Julius Caesar' of the same editor. It is a convenient little edition, and the well-selected notes and the glossary will be specially useful to the student. 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