· Stevenson through the Cevennes. Mr. Frederick and occasionally revise views on difficult English Lees has obtained from well-known Frenchmen passages put forward by German ingenuity. While opinions concerning our degenerate stage. are Englishmen who could, "an they would," tell matter, as in others, we see occasionally things There we envy and admire Teutonic erudition in this him more on a subject on which much might be suggested which every-day practice of our own said. The question, What is a Lady?' is answered tongue pronounces impossible or mistaken. English by saying she is a gentlewoman. This is doubtless slang is a snare for the outsider-e.g., Baumann, accurate, but not altogether illuminating.-Part vi. in his Londinismen,' a capital book, mistakes of Historical Mysteries,' by Mr. Lang, in the wholly the meaning of "That's not cricket." The Cornhill, deals with 'The Murder of Escovedo.' In Times has been boasting of its pure English; but this case the mystery has nothing to do with the how many foreigners know what the "wallflower" manner in which the crime was committed or the identity of the murderer, but is wholly con- function means? Further, our best writers, like we once saw flourishing in its account of a social cerned with the motive of the deed. Sir Herbert Sophocles, often have the vernacular latent in Maxwell supplies, from the latest sources, a deeply their dignified periods, or a piece of homeliness interesting account of Sir John Moore, and the half peering through their grandeur in a way which Dean of Westminster describes Westminster would defy the deep student of many philological Abbey in the Early Part of the Seventeenth Cen- dissertations. And words are often brought totury.' Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell describes gether with a happy perversity because they do not from an American standpoint some of the mysteries bear the value of their usual combination. These of 'London Chambers,' and Mr. C. J. Cornish gives are the graces and subtleties of language bound up interesting particulars concerning Partridge Rear- with its use as a living instrument. There is the ing in France.'-In At the Sign of the Ship,' in further difference in humour and sentiment between Longman's, Mr. Lang utters an incidental phrase two peoples which may be so slight as occasionally the value of which we should like to see acknow- to defy verbal analysis. But we expect the best ledged. It is to the effect that "all lectures are a results from this spirited enterprise, for which that nuisance to a studious person," and the utterance splendid storehouse the New English Dictionary' should be written in letters of gold. attended lectures innumerable, and never received section which flatters us most sincerely. A pillory We have supplies unlimited material, especially as there is a the slightest gain from any. Mr. Lang writes justly for journalese would be an interesting addition to and amusingly on Herbert Spencer. A Journey the periodical, though the offenders would profrom Edinburgh to Paris in 1802' is striking and bably regard it as nothing but an advertisement of interesting. There is some excellent fiction.-Dr. their ability to be "up to date." Japp sends to the Gentleman's a pleasant 'Vision of Trees.' Mr. A. M. Stevens, in Tobacco and Drama,' speaks of allusions to smoking in plays, such as 'The Fawn,' 'Blurt Master Constable,' A Fair Quarrel,' &c. advanced. 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