ever, more than this. Records and Record Searching. A Guide to the Genealogist and the Topographer. By Walter Rye. (Stock.) MR. RYE has been long known as a hard worker in the field of local history. He is something, how His exposure of the forged Squire Papers' was a boon to the historian, and his Amy Robsart: a Brief for the Prosecution,' renders it almost certain that the good and innocent woman was foully done to death. He has now conferred an additional boon on students-a favour not limited to one county or one class of inquiries. All our readers who have given time to working among records are aware that it is more than half the battle to know where to search. Time and money are constantly wasted by persons looking for what they want among the wrong class of documents. The truth is often missed simply because there is no clue through the maze. Mr. Rye has felt this, no doubt, keenly, and has prepared a handbook which, if carefully studied, will furnish an excellent guide not to the beginner only, but to all, however experienced, whose tastes lead them to examine minute historical and genealogical facts. However assiduously we may have worked, none of us has an exhaustive knowledge of the various classes of evidence, in print and in manuscript, which bear on historical subjects. Mr. Rye has, however, got together a mass of data which go very far towards furnishing a sufficient guide to the whole. Of course some parts of his work are more thorough than others. He is far more at home with things secular than with ecclesiastical concerns; but in every department there is much to be learned. The list of printed parish registers which he gives, whether complete or not, will be found very useful. We wish he had given a catalogue of manor customals and extracts from manorial court rolls which have appeared in print. Of the latter we remember two, Scotter and Bottesford, in the Archaologia, and one, Hibbaldstowe, in the Journal of the Royal Archæological Institute. A complete list, too, of the extracts from churchwardens' accounts and of the books on the bells of the various counties would be of great service. We trust when a new edition of Mr. Rye's book is called for, as we prophesy that it soon will be, that he will give us these and various other additions. A very valuable part of the book consists of what its author calls an "Antiquarian Directory." It is a list of the various local archæological societies, and of such periodicals as are in whole or in part of an antiquarian nature. We observe errors and omissions, but such things are inseparable from a first attempt. Philosophical Classics for English Readers.-Spinoza' into them ideas which can never have been in the Though difficulties might be raised on almost every page, we are inclined to think that Dr. Caird has presented a view of the great Dutch thinker as nearly correct as is now possible. Perhaps, however, he has not allowed sufficient for the influence that medieval Hebrew philosophy and the writings of Giordano Bruno had upon Spinoza in the earlier stages of his career. Bruno's writings were to the men of his day exceedingly powerful intellectual stimulants. We think we can trace in Spinoza's methods that Bruno had greater influence over him than Dr. Caird allows. Of course, without wishing in any way to depreciate the great Italian, it must be admitted by all who have studied their works that Spinoza stands on a much higher level than Bruno. Cæsar in Kent: an Account of the Landing of Julius Cæsar and his Battles with the Ancient Britons. By Rev. Francis T. Vine. Second Edition. (Stock.) THE career of Julius Cæsar is of undying interest; every incident in his life that has come down to us has been discussed by historians. None of the classical writers except Cicero and Virgil attracted so much attention at the revival of letters as did the Commentaries' of the founder of the Roman Empire. They can never lose their interest for Englishmen, for in those pages is the first clear and distinct account of our own land. Cæsar, it is true, saw but little, and some things which he has recorded are probably mistakes due to incorrect information. Yet we fondly dwell on the earliest picture of the island which was to become England. Mr. Vine is an enthusiastic student of this incident in our history. He seems to have read almost everything that has been written concerning it. Dr. Maitland says somewhere, when commenting on the works of Strype, the ecclesiastical historian-we are quoting from memory that he was a diligent student of manuscripts, but then to him one manuscript was as good as another. We fear something very like this is the case with Mr. Vine. The Welsh traditions are quoted as if they could throw light on the career of the Roman conqueror. This is unfortunate, for they are, as regards Cæsar, no more to be trusted as true history than Ivanhoe 'is for the times of Richard I. Mr. Vine has given two useful maps, for which we thank him. He has also disfigured his titlepage with a copy of a battle-piece between Romans and Britons of the year 1676. It is, of course, purely imaginary. The Roman standards are represented as flags with the double-headed eagle on them. Is it possible that Mr. Vine thinks this piece of medieval_heraldry was known to the contemporaries of the great Julius? ( THE Fortnightly opens with a long and spirited poem, by Mr. Swinburne, entitled 'The Armada. Mr. Grant Allen supplies a contribution on the vexed question of 'Genius and Talent.' Mr. J. E. C. Bodley sends an account of A Visit to President Brand.' General Viscount Wolseley, writing on Courage,' furnishes many interesting particulars concerning men still alive, and ventures, with a protest, to indicate the bravest of the brave. Mr. Procter's Capital and Culture in America,' arrests attention. In the Nineteenth Century Dr. Jessopp asks, Who owns the Churches?' His article is in part a defence of the work of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Prof. Goldwin Smith concludes his 'American Statesmen,' Dr. Burney Yeo weighs three separate cures for Growing too Fat,' and Mdile. Blaze de Bury depicts The Real Madame de Pompadour.' Two papers of much value are Workers' Songs' and 'The Geographical Distribution of British Intellect. The experiment indicated in the last is interesting, but not wholly conclusive. Fragments of Book-Lore attracts in Murray's, in which Mr. Wakefield continues his Foundation Stones of English Music.' An account is also given of A Visit to the Paris Conservatoire.'-Lord Coleridge writes in Macmillan's on John Campbell Shairp, Mr. Walter Pater's Gaston de Latour' is continued, Sir Francis Doyle's Poetry' is the subject of a review, and Prof. Colvin writes on 'Some Letters of Keats. Mr. Foxall writes in Longman's on 'The Shortcomings of English Elementary Schools.' The most impressive and popular article is, however, that of Dr. B. W. Richardson on The Storage of Life as a Sanitary Study.'-The English Illustrated has a reproduction of Gainsborough's picture The Parish Clerk.' A Rugby Ramble' is very pleasingly illustrated. Mr. Traill is philosophically amusing in Et Cetera.'-Mr. G. L. Apperson supplies to the Gentleman's 'Some Curiosities of English Dictionaries.' The Rev. H. S. Fagan writes on 'The Irish Exhibition,' and Mr. Garnet Smith on 'Gustave Flaubert.'-' Who wrote Dickens's Novels?' is the title of a skit in the Cornhill on the "great cryptogram.' The Peak of Teneriffe' and 'The Home of Turkish Tobacco' are readable.-The Second Armada,' in Temple Bar, describes an imaginary battle between an English fleet of the coming century and a supposed enemy. 'Prof. Bonamy Price' is depicted by Mr. J. R. Mozley. Among the Bulgarians' has present interest. PART LVII. of Mr. Hamilton's Parodies contains travesties of 'The Mummy' of Horace Smith and works of Thackeray, Lytton, Mrs. Browning, &c. THE publications of Messrs. Cassell lead off with The Encyclopædic Dictionary, Part LV., "Parbuckle " to "Perclose." An instance of the class of information supplied better than that given under "Parish" cannot be desired. 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