A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. By the late Samuel Halkett and the late Rev. John Laing, M.A. Vol. II. (Edinburgh, Paterson.) WE have received the second instalment of this most valuable book of reference. In a work of such magnitude much care necessarily has to be taken in the final revision of the almost numberless entries. This, coupled with the untoward deaths of Messrs. Halkett and Laing, is quite sufficient to account for the delay in the publication of these volumes. The work has now been brought down to the letter N, so that we may hope to hear before long of the completion of the dictionary. Mr. Wheatley, who so generously abandoned his own intention of preparing a similar work of this kind, still continues to give his valuable assistance to Messrs. Paterson. We may mention that one of the more noticeable features of the present volume is Mr. Wheatley's interesting article on Junius, in which he gives a list of the various claimants to the authorship of the Letters, accompanied by critical notes on some of the more important claims. A word of praise is due to the publishers for the manner in which they are producing this dictionary; both type and paper leave nothing to be desired. Glimpses of our Ancestors in Sussex, and Gleanings in East and West Sussex. Second Series. By Charles Fleet. (Lewes, Farncombe.) WHEN the first series of this work appeared we spoke highly of it, as it well deserved. The second series is, however, in many ways an improvement upon the first. It is better and more carefully written, and the illustrations are of a higher order. The volume consists of nearly thirty papers, every one of which deals with some subject of permanent interest. That on the Pelhams, with which the volume opens, is a well-considered piece of family history, which, if it contains nothing absolutely new, will be conceded by the most captious critic to be a very useful condensation of our knowledge regarding a noteworthy race. The same praise may be given to the articles on the Shirleys and the Percies. The article on the Quakers in Sussex might well have been longer. Short as it is, it cannot but prove useful to those who are interested in religious history. Mr. Fleet gives a short account of the Knights Templars, in which he produces a deed-unhappily in an English version onlyby which it seems that an elderly married woman named Johanna Chaldese was on one occasion admitted into the order. This is a fact which, as the author remarks, would have drawn down ridicule if it had appeared in the pages of a modern historical novel. Sussex has, it seems, the unenviable notoriety of being the last county in England where the atrocious punishment of peine forte et dure was carried out. In 1736 a man was indicted at Lewes for murder and robbery. There seems to have been little doubt as to his guilt. The prisoner, however, when brought up for trial, pretended to be dumb. That it was a pretence only is rendered almost certain by the fact that several persons in court swore to having heard him speak. As he continued mute, he was carried to Horsham Gaol. "They laid on him first 100 weight; then added 100 more, and then made it 350 lb., yet he would not speak. Then adding 50 lb. more, he was just about dead, having all the agonies of death about him, when the executioner, who weighs about sixteen or seventeen stone, laid himself upon the board which was over him, and, adding to the weight, killed him." Thus says the old account. One wonders how many poor wretches were tortured to death in this manner in the "good old times," which some dreamers think to have been so much happier than those in which our lot is cast, Our Yorkshire readers will remember the case of Margaret Clithero, who was pressed to death because she refused to plead to an indictment of having harboured priests. Mr. Fleet gives a curious witchcraft story of the seventeenth century. In some of its incidents it is much like events which simple folk have thought to be supernatural, which have come to pass in our own times. Cathedra Petri; or, the Titles and Prerogatives of St. Peter, and of his See and his Successors. By C. F. B. Allnatt. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (Burns & Oates.) WE have already spoken of Mr. Allnatt's work with the favour which his industry and research warrant, apart from any theological bias as to the view which his catena of excerpts and translations is intended to support. To this praise he is additionally entitled for the increased usefulness of the third edition now before us. As to the relative value of many of Mr. Allnatt's authorities, both as to person and time, readers of different communions will necessarily hold different opinions. But it is a very convenient vade mecum for the student of ecclesiastical history, who can in no case dispense with the consideration of that very interesting and important factor in the story of the Western Church, the Petrine claims as involved in the traditions and history of the Roman See. It is obvious, of course, that Mr. Allnatt's book should serve as an introduction to, not as a substitute for, the original authorities whom he cites. M.D. (Juta, Heelis & Co.), which has reached a second The Transvaal and Bechuana Land, by G. B. 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