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Notes on Books.
The Library. Fourth Series. Vol. II., No. 1. June 1, 1921. (Oxford University Press, 5s. net.)
An important paper is to be found in this issue of The Library, Professor Albert C. Clark's lecture to the Bibliographical Society on 'The Reappearance of the Texts of the Classics.' Professor Clark begins by stating the three dangers which the Latin classics had to face: the attitude of the Church towards Pagan literature; the inroads of the barbarians; and the growth of the Romance languages, which led to the corruption of Latin texts. How narrowly much of Latin literature escaped these dangers is shown by Professor Clark's long list of works (they include Apuleius, Catullus, much of Cicero, some of Livy, Petronius, much of Tacitus) which have come to us from a single manuscript. Due honour is paid to Cassiodorus, to Petrarch, to Niccolo Niccoli, to Poggio and others who laboured to discover and preserve Latin literature. The whole article is not only a notable contribution to scholarship but interesting and even exciting to read. In the same number Mr. Stephen Gaselee's paper on 'Samuel Pepys's Spanish Books,' Mr. E. R. McC. Dix's account of the initial letters and factotums used by John Franckton, printer in Dublin (1600-18), and Dr. W. W. Greg's notes on old books are of great interest and value.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society,
Oct., 1917, to May, 1920. No. LXX. (Cam-
bridge : Deighton Bell ; London : G. Bell and
Sons, 15s. net.)
THE paper of widest general interest is that in
which Dr. F. J. Allen discusses the famous " Old
Mill " at Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Dr.
Allen decides that the structure would have been
useless, when new, for the purpose of a windmill,
as unable to stand the strain. He publishes, also,
proof that Governor Benedict Arnold, who in his
will (A.D. 1677) described the building as " my
stone-built windmill," was not (as had been
supposed) a Warwickshire but a Somerset man,
and therefore unlikely to have known the Inigo
Jones mill at Chesterton, Warwickshire, which
has been regarded as the model for the New-
port ruin. He does not go so far as to conclude
that the building is indeed the remains of a round
church built by the Norse colonists in the twelfth
or thirteenth century, but he suggests that ex-
cavations should be made for further architectural
evidence. Canon Stopes and Dr. Cranage con-
tribute an interesting paper on the Augustinian
Friars and Friary in Cambridge ; and the Master
of Corpus's article on the accounts of John Bot-
wright, his fifteenth-century predecessor, is full of
good things.
The Journal of the Friends Historical Society.
Vol. XVIII., Nos. 1 and 2, 1921. (The
Friends Bookshop, 3s.)
To the curious in the drama no less than to
Friends we commend the quaint tale told in
' The Theatre and Barclay's " Apology," ' of how
a performance of Dibdin's The Quaker, at Drury
Lane, started the conversion of a Doctor of
Medicine and his wife. There is a good paper on
the Devonshire House reference library and its
foundation, and an interesting account of life at
the Friends school at Lisburn, Co. Antrim, a little
more than a century ago.
Survey of London. Vol. VII. : Chelsea (Part III.),
The Old Church. By Walter H. Godfrey.
(The London County Council. Spring Gar-
dens, S.W.I.)
WE are glad to take note of the appearance of
this new instalment of a great and most useful
undertaking. The Old Church at Chelsea is
here fully described both as to structure and
fittings. The monuments within the church
and those in the churchyard are fully listed
and their inscriptions and heraldry set out, together
with historical and biographical notes. An
Appendix gives the names and dates of rectors
and incumbents, and an index of names is sup-
plied.
Of all the priests who have had charge of the
church. Robert Henry Davies has the longest
record of service there some fifty-three years
(1855-1 908) and he is memorable, too, for having
obtained for the parish the freeholds of the well-
known Lawrence and More Chapels.
The Plates, numbering 83, illustrate every
feature of interest within the church, the more
important by drawings and plans as well as by
photographs. No one who has any experience
of this kind of work will fail to realize how much
labour has been expended upon this exhaustive
description, or to congratulate the labourers on
the successful execution of their task. It may
be worth mention that Robert Chambers's MS.
account of the church (1816), recently acquired
by the Chelsea Library, has been here extensively
used for the first time.
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