however, well fitted for his task, for he possesses military as well as topographical knowledge. We do not think that many of our readers realize that it was the object of the allies-all of them, we believe, except England-to establish "in France a weak republic which eventually might be dismembered like Poland." This dream occurred once more, a short time after the fall of the Second Empire; but then it was indulged in only by utterly irresponsible persons who knew little or nothing outside the politics of their own country, while on the former occasion really great statesmen were carried away by the delusion.

games.

The Gentle Craft,' by Major Broadfoot, is an admirable article, which will be attractive to many persons who take little delight in other sports or We have met with men devoted to angling who had probably never seen a pack of hounds in their lives, and had assuredly never played a single game at cricket. Angling has been a sport from early times. Who was the first man to catch and eat a fish we shall never know; perhaps he was some cave-dweller. Whoever he was, he contributed not a little to the sustenance as well as the happiness of the generations who have come after him.

Miss Caroline F. E. Spurgeon's paper on 'Mysticism in English Poetry is very attractive, but "mysticism" is one of the vaguest words in our language: hardly two people are to be found to whom the term conveys precisely the same meaning. In a region so loosely defined it is possible, without any intention of misleading, to misstate facts, to call nearly every poet a mystic, or to limit the faculty to a very few. We believe that no man was ever a poet without some degree of mysticism entering into his nature, though we think that Donne had the faculty in restricted measure. Some of the most interesting mystics are the followers of Sufiism in Persia.

he knew as "still full of green peacocks, green
pyramids, green minced pyes, and green statues.
Mr. Sidney T. Irwin's paper on Öliver Goldsmith
is worthy of praise, as it does not exaggerate his
merits or weigh too heavily on his defects.

The paper on the letters of the late Queen approaches too near the boundary line of modern politics to be dealt with here.

THE later numbers of L'Intermédiaire deal with the game of diabolo and with inscriptions on sundials. They also wander from the descendants of Marshal Lefebvre and "Madame Sans-Gêne" to historical diamonds, and thence to the natural colour of the hair of great men. Are creative geniuses, such as Rabelais, Molière, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Darwin, and Kant, usually dark or fair? Another question discussed is, How many words are needed for speech? and Max Müller ís quoted as to the paucity of words found among rural people who have never been to school. That the vocabulary of a day labourer or peasant farmer of a thinly populated district in any part of Europe has ever been so limited as his social superiors often imagine is, however, doubtful. Simple as the plenishing of an old-fashioned dwelling-room used to be, each part of each object in it had its own name; and so with the neighbouring sheds, the garden, the implements for work, the cattle, and the land itself. Many substantives must always have been needed in connexion with different kinds of soil, streams, woods, quarries, acclivities and declivities. A countryman of the early half of the nineteenth century might be glaringly, deficient in dictionary language, yet have a rich vocabulary so far as his own narrow life was concerned.

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The Gardens of Italy,' by Mr. H. Sneyd, has given us great pleasure. There are very few who have investigated the history of these gardens as Mr. Sneyd has done, and still fewer who have appreciated their beauty with such pleasing results. The Romans may have been, and probably were, the discoverers of what has been called the "pattern garden"; and the inhabitants of Italy, even in the most unhappy periods of their history, never seem to have lost this pleasing art, which eventually spread northwards as far as Scotland. Whether among the almost countless gilds which existed in this country until the beginning of the reign of spondents must observe the following rules. Let Edward VI. there were any gilds of gardeners, we do not know; but there was one at Lille, of which slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and each note, query, or reply be written on a separate St. Paulinus was regarded as the patron saint. It such address as he wishes to appear. When answer is generally assumed that the pattern garden was introduced into England about the middle of the ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous reign of Elizabeth; but it is not unlikely that it entries in the paper, contributors are requested to came in at a somewhat earlier date. There was a heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact flower-garden at Berkeley Castle in the early part which they refer. Correspondents who repeat of the fifteenth century, but we do not know what was the manner of its beauty, There are few of queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." these old pattern gardens yet left to us; most of those we have are more or less injured by time or the hands of the improver; nearly all of them were swept away when George III. was king. Fulke Greville of Wilberry, who wrote his Maxims, Characters, and Reflections' in 1756, evidently had a contempt for them; he was in favour of what was looked upon as an imitation of nature which was then becoming the fashion, for he speaks of gardens

T. W. R. ("I sit on a rock").-For this riddle see 1 S. ii. 10, 77; xii. 365, 520. MR. J. P. OWEN gave his verse solution of it at 9 S. v. 332.

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