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a useful and interesting series which we have noticed more

than once. "English History by Contemporary Writers," "Gas- coigne," " Whelhamstide's Register," " William of Worcester," and " The Paston Letters," are among the sources from which Miss Thompson has drawn. From " Gascoigne " is quoted a passage on ecclesiastical abuses. "Many infants," he writes, "• die without baptism, because the parish churches have not fonts." " If a man would found a college, let him see that he found it out of his own goods, not by appropriating parish churches to it." The " Traits of King Henry," and " The Queen's Adventures," are among the particularly interesting piece=.