into a volume ten numbers of a periodical which has
been started by the proprietors of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle for the preservation of a vast amount of curious matter in "lore and legend," terms which we find to be practically extended to very wide limits, that might either be forgotten and lost altogether, or buried in the in- sooessible files of a newspaper. "Northumbria," as it was, is to be the "hunting-ground," so to speak, and everything that concerns its past history, its inhabitants, its folk-lore, and other matters too numerous to mention, the proper materials. Some very carious and interesting information is to be found in this volume,—particalars, for instance, of Marat (the famous or infamous revolutionist), when he lived in Newcastle. Then there is a whole catalogue of cen- tenarians, enough to drive Mr. Thom or Sir G. C. Lewis to despair. Then, again, we have some details about "Willie Carr, the Strong Man of Blyth." Carr once shouldered an anchor and chain weighing half-a-ton, and carried it to his father's smithy. He could " put " a sixty-pound weight twenty-four feet. Why did not Fate reserve him to make a " record " in these later days ? The illustrations are plentiful and good. We wish the periodical long life.
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