A volume has been added to the series of "
Oxford Historical and Literary Studies" upon Henry Tubbe, by Mr. G. C. Moore Smith (Oxford University Press, 6s. 6d. net). Henry Tubb* was born in 1618 and lived till 1655. He was a strong Royalist, and enjoyed the patronage of the Marchioness of Hertford (sister of the third Earl of Essex) and of Lady Spencer (sister of the fourth Earl of Southampton). His literary remains, in prose and verse, which fill two large manuscript volumes in the British Museum, have never been printed; and the selec- tion given by Mr. Moore Smith shows something of the strength of the feelings of the Royalists against their enemies during the Civil War. "If there bee no other remedy but Death," writes Tubbe in one of his letters, " what true-hearted Soule would not rather leave his Body to bee a Feast for the Wormes than remains above Ground to have his Sences eaten up by these Cankers of State, whose very Beefing (as it is now reared by the Devill) is nothing else but a pernicious Blast of Blasphemie, Witchcraft, de Rebellion P " Tebbe's distress was deepened by the fact that his only brother, to whom he was much attached, was among his political opponents.
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