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full and consecutive account that has yet been published of the restoration
and remodelling of the Benedictine Order in England, abridged from the
two folio volumes of Weldon’s original “ Memoirs,” which were finished
in 1709, it is to be hoped that the wants hitherto felt have, in some
measure, been supplied. The editor has appended to his introductory
remarks a full and interesting biographical sketch of Bennet Weldon, the
pious and learned author of these “ Notes.”
Travels in South Kensington, with Notes on Decorative Art ana
Architecture in England. By MONCURE D. Conway. Triibner &
Co. 1882.
In this handsomely-illustrated volume, the author of “ Sacred Anthology,”
&c., tells in an amusing, and at the same time instructive manner, a great
deal that is worth knowing concerning the rise and progress of the South
Kensington Museum, from its establishment in 1857 down to the present
time, and discourses at length
on its collection of objects,
its educational or art training
method and character, and
on what is to be learnt that
may be useful in architecture
and decoration by a study of
its contents. “ The little six
penny guidebook sold at the
door,” as our author tells us,
“ is necessarily provisional ;
the historical and descriptive
volume which such an institu
tion requires must remain a
desideratum so long as the
Museum itself is changing
and growing daily before our
eyes.” In the volume under
notice, Mr. Conway has at
tempted to do no more than
convey his impression of the
value of the collection as a
whole, as a medium of edu
cation. He has illustrated
his remarks with engravings
of several interesting objects,
including a Chasse, or reli
IVORY TANKARD (AUGSBURG, I7TH CENT.)
quary (13th century), pastoral
staves (14th century), an ancient Persian incense-burner, an Italian salt
cellar (15th century), and the Cellini sardonyx ewer, mounted in enam
elled gold, and set with gems (Italian, 16th century). This last-named
engraving, and also that of an ivory tankard (Augsburg, 17th century), we
are enabled, by the kindness of the publishers, to reproduce as examples
of the illustrations.
The second half of Mr. Conway’s book, dealing with “ decorative art
and architecture in England,” embraces a wide range of subjects, from the
railway-bridge at Charing-cross and the Albert Memorial in Hyde
Park, to the decoration of Penkiln Castle in Ayrshire, and of Sir Walter
Trevelyan’s house at Wallington, in Northumberland.
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The Antiquarian Magazine
Mr. Conway concludes his work with a short and graphic account of
that “ Utopia in brick and paint in the suburbs of London,” called Bedford
Park, in the neighbourhood of Turnham-green,—a little red-brick town,
made up of the quaintest of “ Oueen Anne” houses.
Kelly's Directory of the Six Home Cotinties. o. vols. Edited by E. R.
Kelly, M.A., F.S.S. London : Kelly & Co. 1882.
A quarter of a century ago Kelly’s Post Office Directory for the Six
Home Counties was a modest volume of less than 1,500 pages ; but such
has been the increase of population in the suburbs of London of late
years, that it has been found necessary to divide the work into two parts,
each forming a volume, and embracing the home counties north and
south of the Thames respectively. The first volume, dealing with Essex,
Herts, and Middlesex, extends to over 1,500 pages, the corresponding
portion of the same book in 1845 having been comprehended in rather
less than 300 pages ; whilst in the second volume the County of Surrey
alone claims 915 out of a total of 2,474 pages. In contrasting the present
edition with those of earlier years, one cannot fail to be struck with the
great improvement which has taken place in the historical portion of the
work, and consequently, the antiquarian and archaeologist may now find
plenty of food to suit his taste in the notices of the several parishes, for
not only is mention made of the foundation of its church, schools, and
other institutions, but short descriptions are added of its ancient castles,
fortifications, ho^telries, and manor-houses, where such are to be found.
Exception must be taken, perhaps, in some instances to the editor’s state
ments with respect to the styles of ecclesiastical architecture ; but in such
matters there is ample room for differences of opinion, for it must be
remembered that until a very recent date nearly every Norman building
was set down as “ Saxon.” However, it may be safely stated that in by
far the majority of instances Messrs. Kelly’s descriptions are thoroughly
correct.
Les Melanges Poetiques d’Hildebert de Lavardin. Par B. HAUREAU,
Membre de l’Institut. 8vo. Paris : Pedone-Lauriel.
The works of Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours, were pub
lished in 1708 by the Benedictine monk Beaugendre, in one folio volume ;
they comprise, as most scholars are aware, not only metaphysical treatises,
but a considerable number of poems, which procured for their author,
among his contemporaries, the reputation of an elegant writer and of an
enthusiastic admirer of classical antiquity. We might easily fill pages
with quotations testifying to the popularity enjoyed in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries by him who was universally designated as the “ egregius versificator,” but want of space prevents us from doing so, and we
shall merely transcribe, by way of specimen, the following elegiac couplets
of Laurentius, Abbot of Westminster:—
‘ ‘ Inclytus et prosa, versuque per omnia primus,
Hildebertus olet prorsus ubique rosam.
Diversum studium fidei subservit eidem ;
Multa camcena quidem tendit ad illud idem.”
Students of mediaeval literature are, of course, anxious to know whether
Hildebert de Lavardin deserves all the praise which has been lavished
upon him, and they would naturally turn either turn to Beaugendre’s
edition or to the reprint given in the Abbe Migne’s collection, and by the
Abbe Bourasse. Unfortunately, the learned Benedictine, who was nearly
eighty years old when he undertook to publish the Archbishop’s works,
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Place of publication: 4 p. ; 18 cm.
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