with records of incest, Biblical, classical, or romantic. A useful feature of the present edition, suggested by Dr. Furnivall, consists of a short summary of such of the one hundred and fourteen stories as are not too familiar to need any form of analysis or explanation. What is known as the Fairfax MS. has been used by Mr. Macaulay, who in the course of his labours has become increasingly convinced of the value and authenticity of the text. From the introduction we learn that the 'Confessio Amantis' was the first English book to be translated into a foreign tongue, a Spanish translation, dating apparently from the very beginning of the fifteenth century, being accessible, and a Portuguese version, not now to be found, having been executed. A critical estimate of the poetic merits of the poem is good, and the passages quoted are the best to be selected. The circumstances under which the poem was written at the command of King Richard II., and those under which the dedications were altered and the complimentary allusions to Chaucer were omitted, are told. Chaucer seems, indeed, to have changed his views as to the "morality," using the term in its conventional sense, of the 'Confessio Amantis, and even to have reflected upon the author. The orthography, phonology, and inflexion are treated separately; a treatise on the metre follows, and the differences (in some cases sufficiently great) of the forty or so MSS. are explained. Other particulars, including an account of the Spanish translation, are given. The notes are few and useful, and the glossary is ample and satisfactory. Readers are to be congratulated on the approaching completion of an important and a wellexecuted task. Occleve, whose literary baggage is not extensive, and Lydgate, whose 'Fall of Princes' and Troy Book' have strong philological interest and are not without other claims on attention, may be commended to the consideration of the Clarendon Press. Lydgate especially uses characteristic words to be found in no other writer. THE first article in the present issue of the Quarterly Review relates to Eastern North Africa. 'Negro Nileland and Uganda,' as the article is called, is an eminently picturesque description of those vast regions the greater part of which is under English influence. There is hardly anything therein directly relating to politics, but it sets before the reader, in a manner we have never met with before, the great possibilities of the country and its extreme interest for those who study nature in any of her various forms. To the anthropologist the account of the dwarf races of the south-western limits of the Nile watershed will be of much interest. When the blood has remained unmixed the race appears to represent a very ancient type. It would be rash to affirm that these little men are the most archaic examples of the human race now known to be in existence, but there is not a little to be said in favour of those who hold this opinion. The classical writers had evidently heard in some way or other of these small people, and the tradition of them did not die out, for we find them in medieval romance. Hangings adorned with pigmies are mentioned sometimes in inventories, and there was in Lincoln Cathedral, before the pillage, a box, silver covered, on which were represented a nian and a woman called pigmies." The endeavour to ascertain the exact date of Dante's pilgrimage to that world which is not ours is by no means light reading, but it is of a high degree of interest. Appearing where 66 it does, we do not think it was needful to imply that the subject might be regarded as "trivial and unimportant." The question in debate is, Was the year selected by Dante 1300 or 1301? The latter is, to our thinking, the more probable, but certainty has not yet been arrived at. The paper contains much curious learning, and the account of the various dates on which the year has been reckoned to begin in Christian times will be of service to some who take little interest in the great Florentine. There are but few matters in which people have shown a greater capacity for blundering. The result has been a large crop of chronological mistakes. The Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell' is well-intentioned, and is written by one excellently posted up in the annals of the time. It must do good, as helping to mitigate that excessive heroworship which in all cases tends to produce an equally imbecile reaction. The writer goes certainly too far when he says that "the story of the major-generals is an unsolved riddle." Whether their creation was a blunder or a necessity we will not discuss. 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