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more merciful than she, and in place of 215 persons
being killed in Richmondshire, the number that
perished was only 57. On the other hand, we read
of the two daughters of Northumberland, who were
of tender years, that they had not one penny to
relieve themselves, and could not procure fuel in
the depth of winter. It is interesting to find Sir
George Bowes, the father-in-law of Christopher
Wandesford, to whom, on account of his sufferings
in her service, Elizabeth had left Northumberland's
personal possessions, had chivalrously surrendered
them to these young ladies to relieve their needs.
Sir Christopher Wandesford the name Christopher
occurs frequently in the family accompanied
Strafford, whose friend he was, to Ireland, and on
Stratford's departure for England was himself
made Lord Deputy. It is stated in some quarters
that Charles I. made him Baron Mowbray and
Musters and Viscount Castlecomer, and that he
would not assume the style during the king's
calamitous estate. This seems, however, to have
been inaccurate. Christopher Wandesford, his son,
was created a baronet of England in 1662, and a
third Christopher, the son of the preceding, was
elevated to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Wandes-
ford and Viscount Castlecomer. John Wandes-
ford, fifth Viscount, was created, in 1758, Earl of
Wandesford. His only son, Viscount Castlecomer,
predeceased his father, on whose death, in 1784, all
his honours became extinct.
We cannotfollow further the fortunes of thefamily. The book is, in its line, a model : its pedigrees are exemplary ; the letterpress is readable, instructive, and important ; and the reprinted documents have singular interest. As well as the documents at Castlecomer, those in other quarters, public and private, have been used. A series of admirable illustrations, many of them full-page plates, add greatly to the attractions of the volume. These include portraits of Sir Christopher and Lady Wandesford, circa 1585 ; two of the Lord Deputy, one of them by Vandyke, known as the Comber portrait ; one of John, Earl of Wandesford ; one of John, seventeenth Earl of Ormonde ; with other'por- traits by Doll, Vandeist, Comerford, and T. Phillips, R.A. ; views of Castlecomer House, Kirklington Hall and Church, and the tomb in the said church of Sir Christopher Wandesford, 1590, and other objects of interest. Whose figure is shown on another fine monument in the church cannot be decided. To all concerned with Yorkshire history and genealogy the book is to be warmly commended. Among the pedigrees is one of the Colyilles of Thimbleby. One ia surprised to find in the fifteenth century the ignorant spelling Sybil.
The Works of Thomas Nashe. Edited by Ronald
B. McKerrow. Text, Vol. II. (Bullen.) THE second volume of Mr. McKerrow's edition of Nashe contains three tracts, each, in the original, of excessive rarity. Except in the very limited reprint of Grosart included in the " Huth Library," and in the present most judicious and commendable edition, the three are virtually inaccessible. First comes 'Christ's Teares over Jerusalem,' an edifying work, written when the author, in a temporary fit of penitence, thought of making friends with all his enemies, even his arch-foe Gabriel Harvey. This work is dedicated to the Lady Elizabeth Carey, wife of Nashe's great protector, Sir George Carey. He addresses her as " the most honored and vertuous beautified ladie." "Beautified," which Polonius
rightly decries as "a vile phrase," had previously-
been used by Sidney in 1580. Nashe's employment
of it in 1593 may possibly have suggested to Shake-
speare this condemnation. In his opening phrase
Nashe also calls her " Excellent, accomplisht, Court-
glorifying lady." The title-pages of the first and
second editions are given in facsimile from the
exemplars, unique in each case, in the Bodleian.
'The Vnfortvnate Traveller' follows, title-pages
of the first edition in the British Museum and the
second in the Bodleian being again given. This
work, which is regarded as Nashe's masterpiece, is
curious as the first instance in English literature of
the Picaresque novel. It contains warm praise
of Aretine, whom Nashe, who took him for a
model, describes as "one of the wittiest knaves
that ever God made." Aretine's title, "11 Flagello
de' Principi," Nashe seems to have envied. Last
comes the " Tragedie of Dido, Queene of Carthage.
Played by the Children of her Maiesties ChappeL
Written by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas
Nash, Gent." In the case of this work, which
appears as vol. yi. of the Grosart edition, it is im-
possible to ascribe their respective shares to the
two poets, though the less share appears to be
Marlowe's. The opening scenes between Jupiter
and Ganimed are poetical enough for either writer,
and, it must be added, daring enough in utterance
to justify the arraignment to which both have been
subjected. Two further volumes will, we presume,
complete a work which is a delight to the student
of Tudor literature.
Introduction to the History of Civilization in Eng land. By Henry Thomas Buckle. Edited by John M. Robertson. (Routledge & Sons.) IN one thick and closely printed volume of nearly a thousand pages we have here "an absolutely complete reprint of Buckle's work, with a new index." That such would come sooner or later was a certainty. We have had to wait, however, until the expiry of copyright for the book to be brought within general reach. Now that it comes it is in a shape that will make it a boon to the man of few books, with an introduction and copious annota- tions by Mr. Robertson, the author of 4 Buckle and his Critics.' Admirable as is in many respects Buckle's magnum opus, it is for the reader of to-day the better for the spice of criticism and comment Mr. Robertson supplies. The preface of the editor is largely made up of explanations of and apologies for the gloss he has felt bound to write upon Buckle's work. Nothing is, however, better known to the contemplative man than that the statements of the greatest and most original require modification and alteration, and that it is by the successive improve- ments and inventions of many minds that philo- sophic, like scientific or mechanical, discovery is perfected. Mr. Robertson's notes show an erudition scarcely less great and varied than that of Buckle himself, and the edition, besides being a model of cheapness, is encyclopaedic in information. A com- plete mastery of its contents would constitute a well-informed man.
KiuijJ Letters from the Early Tudors^, icith the
Letters of Henry VI1L and Anne Boleyn. Edited
by Robert Steele. (De La More Press.)
UNLIKE the previous volume of ' Kings' Letters,'
which appeared in the same delightful series known
as the " King's Classics," the present work contains
the letters of two monarchs only, the first two
