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Books Received.

Putnam's Art Hand-books. Edited by Susan N. Carter, Principal of the "Women's Art-School, Cooper Union." "Landscape Painting" and "Sketching from Nature." New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Current Discussion: A Collection from the Chief English Essays on Questions of the Times. By Edward L. Burlingame. Second volume: Questions of Belief. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Economic Monographs: France and the United States; Suffrage in Cities; Our Revenue System and the Civil Service—shall they be Reformed? New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Off on a Comet: A Journey through Planetary Space. From the French of Jules Verne, by Edward Roth. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.

A Year Worth Living: A Story of a Place and of a People one cannot afford Not to Know. By William M. Baker. Boston: Lee & Shepard.

The Voyages and Adventures of Vasco da Gama. By George M. Towle. Boston: Lee & Shepard.

The Fall of Damascus: An Historical Novel. By Charles Wells Russell. Boston: Lee & Shepard.

Adventures of a Consul Abroad. By Samuel Sampleton, Esq. Boston: Lee & Shepard.

The Future State (Christian Union Extras). New York: Christian Union Print.

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New Music Received.

The Broken Ring, and The Young Recruit: Part-songs for Male Voices. Composed and arranged by A.H. Rosewig. (Lotus Club Collection.) Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co.

Strew Sweet Flowers o'er my Grave: Song and Chorus. Words and Music by M.C. Vandercook. Arranged by D.H. Straight. Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co.

Monthly Journal of Music and General Miscellany. Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co.

Latest and Best Lancers. By Frank Green. Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co.



FOOTNOTES:

[1] Gentleman's Magazine, 1807.

[2] Fuller's Worthies.

[3] Churches of Bristol.

[4] Taylor's Book about Bristol.

[5] The Churchgoer.

[6] The documents are given in full in the appendix of Dr. J.J. Chaponniere's memoir in vol. iv. of the Mem. de la Soc. Archeol. de Geneve. The former is signed by Bonivard, apostolic prothonotary and poet-laureate.

[7] The story is told by Bonivard himself in his Chronicles, and may be found in full detail in the Second Series of Dr. Merle d'Aubigne's volumes on the Reformation, vol. i. chaps. viii. and x. The story that Pecolat, about to be submitted a second time to the torture, and fearing lest he might be again tempted to accuse his friends, attempted to cut off his own tongue with a razor, seems to be authenticated. The whole story is worthy of being told at full length in English, it is so full of generous heroism.

[8] "Je n'ai vu ni lu oncques un si grand mepriseur de mort," says Bonivard in his Chronicles.

[9] The text of this act is given by Chaponniere, p. 156.

[10] We have the history of one of them in a brief of Pope Clement VII. addressed to the chapter and senate of Geneva, in which he expresses his sorrow that in a city which he has carried in his bowels so long such high-handed doings should be allowed. One Francis Bonivard has not only despoiled the rightful prior of his living, but—what is worse—has chased his attorney with a gun and shot the horse that he was running away upon: "quodque pejus est, Franciscum Tingum ejusdem electi procuratorem, negocium restitucionis dicte possessionis prosequentem, scloppettis invasisse, et equum super quo fugiebat vulnerasse." His Holiness threatens spiritual vengeance, and explains his zeal in the case by the fact that the excluded prior is his cousin.

[11] Advis et Devis des difformes Reformateurz, pp. 149-151.

[12] It is needful to caution enthusiastic tourists that nearly all the details of Byron's poem are fabulous. The two brothers, the martyred father, the anguish of the prisoner, were all invented by the poet on that rainy day in the tavern at Ouchy. Even the level of the dungeon, below the water of the lake, turns out to be a mistake, although Bonivard believed it: the floor of the crypt is eight feet above high-water mark. As for the thoughts of the prisoner, they seem to have been mainly occupied with making Latin and French verses of an objectionable sort not adapted for general publication. (See Ls. Vulliemin: Chillon, Etude historique, Lausanne, 1851.)

[13] This touching tribute of conjugal affection is all the more honorable to Bonivard from the fact that this wife, like the others, had provoked him. Only a few months before he had been compelled to appear before the consistory to answer for treating her in a public place with profane and abusive language, applying to her some French term which is expressed in the record only by abbreviations.

[14] Avolio: Canti Popolari di Noto.

[15] Guastella: Canti Popolari del Circondario di Modica.

[16] D'Ancona: Venti Canti Pop. Siciliani, No. 5.

[17] An "ounce" equals twelve francs seventy-five centimes.

[18] Auria: Miscellaneo, MS. segnato 92, A. 28, Bib. Com. Palermo.

[19] Pitre: Fiabe, Novelle e Racconti Pop. Sicil., No. cxlviii.

[20] Piaggia: Illustrazione di Milazzo, p. 249.

[21] These gifts are called spinagghi and cubbaita.

[22] Alessi: Notizie della Sicilia, No. 164, MS. QqH. 44, of the Bib. Com. of Palermo.

[23] Traina (Vocab. Sicil.) defines macadaru as nuptial-bed, and cites Pasqualino, who derives the word from the Arabic chadar, which signifies "bed," "couch."

[24] So called, according to Traina (Vocab. Sicil.), because of the frequent occurrence of the notes fa, sol, la.

[25] Buonfiglio e Costanzo: Messina, Citta Nobilissima.

[26] Pitre: Studj di Poesia Pop., p. 21.

[27] This may be translated, "Palermo needs a long purse." See Pitre: Fiabe, Novelle, etc., No. cclxviii.

[28] Dante: Div. Com., Purg., vi. 84.

[29] See the Giornale di Sicilia, An. xv., No. 84.

[30] 20 kopecks = 6-1/2 d., or 1/5 of a rouble.

[31] This play upon voda ("water") and voyevod ("a general") has no equivalent in English. Perhaps the best rendering would be "the battle of Waterloo."

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