society for 1879, and contains some account of the literary and artistic wealth stored up in the Maison Plantin. The printing press of that great house fitly closed the representation of "Intellectual Antwerp " in the historical procession which formed one of the distinguishing features of the centenary. So ended "Verlichte Antwerpen," but the story of its glories, as unfolded before those who were present at the festival, remains with them a cherished memory to this day. The York Buildings Company (Glasgow, James Maclebose), a paper read before the Institutes of Bankers and Chartered Accountants in Glasgow by Mr. David Murray, M.A., F.S.A.Scot., tells the singular story of an English water company, "the Governor and Company of Undertakers for raising the Thames water in York Buildings," which became mixed up with the estates of the forfeited nobility and gentry of Scotland during the '15 and '45, and was the cause of an astonishing amount of litigation before the Court of Session and in the English courts down to 1824. Mr. Murray tells this curious tale with much vigour, besides enriching it with quaint details from the records of the company, illustrating the various notable characters who played their parts in its history. We must remark, however, that there never was an Earl of Widdrington in the English peerage, and that it is inaccurate to style the Scottish Earls Marischal "Earls of Marischal," as though the title was derived from a place instead of an office. The Continent (Philadelphia and New York), in its number for Aug. 22, has much to tell us of Chautauqua, an interesting place from many points of view, the location of a celebrated" Assembly," born of a camp-meeting, transformed into a Sunday school gathering by statute, and by yet another statute erected into a university. The editor tells us that Chautauqua is a "paradox among lakes," and it is probable that English readers of the Continent may think that, as a "University born of a camp-meeting," it is a "paradox among universities." But so large a centre of intellectual life is well worth studying, and its history and working are well told by Judge Tourgée and his colleagues. Marion Harland's "Judith "-of which, by the way, we have not seen the commencement, the Post Office sometimes seeming to fail in its powers of delivery of American magazines-is decidedly powerful. "Harry" Macon's dream of Doom, told amid the ghostly surroundings of Christmas in Old Virginia-" a wide world of whirling white," for all the world like an old English Christmas-can scarcely be read, even in golden-tinted autumn, without an "eerie" feeling. There should be many on this side of the Atlantic who will appreciate this story of Virginia "before the war," were it only for the sake of Marion Harland's touching portraits of the true-hearted Virginian ladies, whose wit and whose beauty live again in the pages of the Continent. OUR well-known correspondent the Rev. W. S. LachSzyrma sends us a useful and interesting paper on the Relics of the Cornish Language, reprinted from No. xxvii. of the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Mr. Lach-Szyrma estimates the number of words which have actually survived as being about two hundred, most of which live on mixed up with their English neighbours of the existing Cornish dialect. In his list of evidences concerning the language of the Celtic inhabitants of Britain, Mr. Lach-Szyrma does not include the placenames of Clydesdale, which nevertheless certainly deserve study as being among the most enduring traces of the kingdom of the Strathclyde Britons. There are yet e Cornish MSS. remaining unpublished; would it not work worthy of the Royal Institution of Cornwall ablish them? MR. L. UPCOTT GILL, in part v. of his Guide to the Identification and Valuation of British Coins, continues the Scottish series. We think that what has generally been read as a cross in the legend "Dn's P'tector M's Lib'ator" is in reality a medieval contraction for "et," which seems required by the text. We remember seeing some of the coinage which bears this legend dug up in an old Argyleshire churchyard, and we so read it at the time. THE English Illustrated Magazine more than fulfils the expectations formed concerning it. The woodcuts are superior to anything of their class seen in English magazine literature, and the letterpress, both prose and verse, is excellent. An engraving of Lady Lilith, in an article on "Rossetti's Influence on Art," is marvellously tender and beautiful. A NEW and attractive candidate for the favour of the musical public appears in the shape of Pitman's Musical Monthly, the first number of which has this week appeared. Philip II. of Spain chose the particular period he did IT has always been a matter for conjecture why Some light is thrown upon this question by a very curious for the descent of the Spanish Armada upon our shores. letter sent to the king by one of his agents, which contains a description of the defenceless state of England. 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