Studies from Court and Cloister. By J. M. Stone. (Sands
and Co. 12s. 6d.)—Miss Stone reprints from the Month, Blackwood, and other periodicals thirteen papers, some of them archaeo- logical, others controversial. It is natural that we should prefer the former division to the latter. It might be well if Roman controversialists left Foxe, the martyrologist, alone. "Fore's Book of Errors" is the title which Miss Stone is pleased to give to Foxe's book, and doubtless, with the help of Anglican historians who hate the Reformation nearly as much as she does, she can find errors in plenty. But did she ever hear that Lucas Holstenius declared that he had found eight thousand errors in the " Annales" of Baronius ? As for Foxe, if we only have the original documents which he gives, it is enough. Did Foxe forge Anne Askew's story of her sufferings in the Tower where she says : "My Lord Chancellor and Master Rich took pains to rack me with their own hands" ?
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