never so exaggerated as to be unnatural; but there entered into them a quiet and genial humor, a kindly sarcasm, and a homely good sense, which would have ensured their popularity whatever their outward form might have been. brother of Deborah, resident at the farm, and a "ne'er do well;" "Deacon Fratinkind of a .. Mr. Richard Grant White's remark on George Cruikshank. Sturgis. talism. 1877. Lying as a Fine Art. Kingsley. Timothy Pickering. Lodge. Appletons'. Lippincott's. Mag. of Am. Hist. Catholic World. " " " NOTES AND QUERIES. "Job Sass," an honest farmer of Walpole; the abuse of the word admire, in the Atlantic "Deborah," his wife, too aggressive a champion Monthly for April, brings to mind Dickens's apof feminine privileges to live in entire harmony parent misapprehension of the American use of with her liege lord; "Benjamin Titcomb," the term. In Martin Chuzzlewit, chap. xxxiv, Captain Kedgwick exclaims to the hero, on his return from Eden: "Why, what the tarnal ! gale," a neighbor and political opponent of Job's, Well, I do admire at this, I do!" Now omit but much liked by Deborah; Caleb Dypthong, from this sentence the redundant preposition at, the village schoolmaster; Miss Sally Sharpe and and the word admire represents tolerably well its Miss Nancy Ross, spinsters of uncertain age, correct English signification-wonder mixed were among the characters whose haps and mis- with approval. But in Scott's Antiquary, vol. haps were described, and whose eccentricities II, chap. i, we find it thus employed: "nor could were depicted in these articles. They won she sufficiently admire or fret at the extraordinary immediate notice, and were widely circulated. combination of circumstances," etc. And, in an Many of them pertained to village life and gos-article on the Russian War, Blackwood's Magasip, while others were called out by the political zine for March [N. Y. reprint], p. 362, the word movements and social events of the day, and lost is used in a sense similar to that of Scott: "The something of their force as the occasion passed Russians had experienced, as yet, no resistance which gave them birth. Partly for this reason like this during the war, and they were astonished from one who has already studied history or is only a begin. they were never collected into a volume, although Neither did their admiration abate when the some one author can tell him all he ought to know about selections might easily have been made which, if Turks, following up their advantages, descended civilization. But we doubt if either Guizot, Buckle, or Dragiven the dignity and permanence of book-publiupon Lovatz or Loftcha, drove out the Russian per can do that. Guizot is dry, tedious and opinionated, cation, would have added something to the world's garrison, and captured a quantity of arms and and belongs to the older school of historical investigators. Whoever is curious to store of good humor. ammunition. Yet though they were astonished," Buckle was an enormously industrious accumulator of facts, upon which he reasoned very poorly when he had gathered read a specimen of the letters will find one in etc. It will be seen that in the two last extracts, them. He differs thoroughly from Guizot in being a godHarper's Magazine for March, 1853, into which admire indicates wonder mingled with disapprov-less theorist, while Guizot makes Providence a factor in the it was copied on page 563. The editor remarks al. This meaning, used seriously and in good affairs of the world. Draper is coldly non-religious like of it that the spelling is not excelled by anything faith, is quite as open to criticism as the utter- Buckle, but a clearer and stronger thinker and reasoner. in Thackeray's Yellowplush Papers for conance of the imaginary Captain Kedgwick who, densation and pungency, but adds that this is the being a "fictionary" character, is no more releast of its amusing attractions. It is a "Kard "sponsible for his words than the poetical coach of thanks for various courtesies which honest Job had received during a visit to Boston. Following is one of the acknowledgments: "tu the Parson & proprieturs of the Stone church in summer street-for a Chance to promenard Up & Down the broard Ile of the same on Sunday last-in sarch Of a bein molested. & tu The saxton Of the same for seat-without An offer of a Free seat in the garret." It was in 1873 that the last "Job Sass "article appeared. Failing health checked Mr. Foxcroft's literary work, and his contributions to the papers from 1873 to 1877 were few and slight. On the 13th of March, 1878, the pen was laid forever aside, and the busy brain, which · often in the midst of discouragement and heavyheartedness had ministered so much kindly enjoyment to others, was set at rest. There are several curious blunders in the enumeration of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in The tale of the Shipman and Chaucer's story of Stopford Brooke's Primer of English Literature. Melibeo are omitted, and the number is made good by making two each of the story of the "Nun's Priest" and the "Canon's Yeoman." These are not mere typographical errors, for, in the latter case, Mr. Brooke expressly says that "the Canon's, Yeoman's, Manciple's, Mark's and Parsone's," are "five" tales, though they are, of course, but four. A. G. ARTICLES of special interest in recent American and English periodicals are as follows: APRIL. Literature of the Servians and Croats. Westminster Rev. derdonk. MAY. The French Stage. Baker. Bohemian Literature in the 14th Cen tury. Ward. I was interested in the article upon "Caxtonian Discoveries," having had a little success of my own in searching old book covers. volume published in Boston about the year 1720, I found, recently, part of an unfolded sheet of Eliot's Indian Primer, which I succeeded in detaching from its hiding place, between the board and the lining, without injury. It contained the upper portion of eight pages, showing Discipline in American Colleges. parts of a catechism, of the Lord's Prayer, and The Phonograph and Its Future. of a spelling lesson, each printed, first in English, and then on the opposite page in the Massachusetts language. The paper and ink are in perfect condition, and show no sign of glue or paste. Several copies of the Primer are in the His book covers more ground than Buckle's, which is a mere beginning, confined mostly to England; but it is on a much smaller scale. For the History of Civilization we fear no one book can be recommended as satisfactory, and the recent extensive discoveries and researches in archæology have put the subject into a very unfixed condition. To read Guizot on one hand, and Buckle and Draper on the other, always keeping in mind their different points of view, might give a respectable general knowledge of the subject, and be at the same time a useful training in the formation of indery Maine's Ancient Law and Early History of Institupendent opinion. Tylor's Researches into the Early Histions, will be found very suggestive and judicious, as well as entertaining, treatises on the beginnings of civilization. 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