Deputy-Lieutenant. N. remarks, this is a kind of honorary grade in society which has vastly increased of late years, apparently in consequence of the assumption of a military uniform, which is very convenient for wearing at Court, particularly since the decline of the militia and volunteer regimentals. In 1808, if I am not mistaken, there was only one DeputyLieutenant of Leicestershire, viz. Clement Winstanley, jun. esquire. May I inquire how far other counties were similarly situated in this respect?

J. G. remarks that, in the list of places where printing was practised before 1500, derived from Santander, and printed in various common books, as in Horne's Introduction to Bibliography, i. 175, and Johnson's Typographia, i. 64, the city of Granada is entered under the date of 1497, with the printer's name of Menardus Ungut. Horne further gives the title of the book which was first printed there as "Franc. Ximenes de vita christiana." J. G. refers to "Spain and the Spaniards in 1843, by Captain S. E. Widdrington, vol. ii. p. 196," for a passage which establishes more correctly the date when printing was first practised in Granada, the name of the printer, and the title of the book printed. In the library of the University at Santiago Captain Widdrington was shewn a book with the following colophon, "Fue acabado y impresso este primero volumen de vita Cristi de Fray Francisco Ximenes de la grande y nombrada ciudad de Granada, en el postrimero dia del mes de Abril A. 1496, por Bernardo Ungut y Johannes de Nuremberg, Alemanes, por mendado y espenas del muy reverendisimo Senor Don Fernando de Talavera, primero arzobisbo de Granada de la santa Iglesia de esta ciudad. This first volume of the Life of Christ was finished and printed by Fray Francisco Ximenes [the celebrated Cardinal], of the great and celebrated city of Granada, on the last day of April, 1496, by Bernard Ungut and John of Nuremberg, Germans, by order and at the expense of the most reverend Senor Don Fernando de Talavera, first Archbishop of Granada, of the holy church of that city."

KINGSTON CORONATION STONE. In Mr. Williams's letter in our last number, p. 381, line 1, 2nd column, for Edwin read Edwy. The error was that of the Editor of the Decem Scriptores, who has throughout Edwinus instead of Edwius.

How comes it that the Kingston authorities omit Edwy from their list of kings consecrated there?

Mr. G. Y. ALLAN wishes us to point out a confusion in the new "Catalogue of the Printed Books of the British Museumletter A." John Allen, the Master of Dulwich College, is improperly made to be a different person from John Allen the author of the Inquiry into the history of the Royal Prerogative; and William Allen, the lecturer at Guy's, is in like manner entered as if he were a different person from the Lindfield philanthropist.

We are very much obliged to B. A. A. for his kind letter. At the present time we fear it is not possible to make any such proposal as he suggests. Without relinquishing our own freedom of opinion, we have endeavoured that the Magazine shall steer a straight course between the bodies to which he alludes. We will keep the matter in mind, and shall be glad to hear from him on any future occasion.

May, p. 543. The marriage of the late Capt. Basset is incorrectly stated. It was Mr. Basset of Bonvilstone who married Miss Homfray. Capt. R. Basset married Frances, daughter of Stephen Dowell, esq. of Bath; she survives him, without issue. Some exception has been taken to our relation of the circumstances under which Captain Basset recovered the estate of Beaupré; but we have not been able to ascertain that the facts were materially different, except that Mr. Jones the legatee was in some way related to the Bassets, and had perhaps never entirely lost sight of the representatives of its ancient lords.

The authorities in the department of antiquities at the British Museum are busily occupied in the reception of the new arrivals of REMAINS FROM NINEVEH. They consist principally of bas-reliefs similar in general character to those with which the public are already familiar. The Colossal Bull has not yet reached England.

Mr. Scharf, the well-known artist, has made a curious and important discovery at Marbury Hall, in Cheshire, of a fragment of the frieze of the Parthenon. The authenticity of the fragment--to say nothing of its merit-would satisfy an officer of the detective police, for it fits its parent stone in the British Museum with a nicety that removes all doubt.-Atlas.

ERRATA. In p. 335, col. 2, lines 20 and 23 from top, for Frolesworth read" Broughton Astley."

IN noticing "The Prelude by William Wordsworth," we must become for awhile retrospective reviewers; for this poem is not of to-day, nor even of this generation. Five times, since its concluding lines were written, has the period enjoined by Horace for the revision and retouching of the original manuscript passed away; nor, in the meanwhile, has the work been remodeled by its author. It is, as it were, virgin from his pen. It is now printed as Wordsworth conceived and transcribed it nearly half a century ago. It relates, objectively, to the England and Europe of 1800; and, subjectively, to the vernal prime of him who, but a few months ago, died full of years and honours. Both historically and psychologically, therefore, this posthumous yet youthful work is of the highest in

terest.

Historically, it carries us back to the very threshold of the nineteenth century. "It was commenced in 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805." It speaks to us across a gulf of fifty years. Nor is the circumstance of its real date alone impressive; for during that interval of fifty years, while the manuscript slumbered in its author's desk, or was partially communicated to his friends, more complete and comprehensive mutations were enacted in the world than can be recorded of any equal period of time, without excepting even the half-century that followed the victory at Platea, or that which succeeded the burning of the Papal

bull and decretals at Wittenberg. In literature as well as in history most things during that interval have "become new." For the Prelude is elder than the meridian products of Goëthe's genius, than the deepest thoughts of Jean Paul, than the criticism of the Schlegels, than the philosophical works of Coleridge, than the poetry and the prose of Byron, Shelley, Southey, and Carlyle. And, as regards history, the Prelude is anterior to the greatest war and to the most appalling catastrophe the world has ever seen. It is elder, too, than all the mechanical strides of science, and all the political and social developments which have rendered the nineteenth century an epoch far more momentous and marvellous than any epoch of equal duration "in ancient or in modern books enrolled." We approach, therefore, this record of a poet's mind with a feeling of two-fold homage -in part to his genius, and in part to the age; and, in relation to the Prelude itself, the sources of this homage are so intimately connected with each other, that in our abstract and survey of it we shall not attempt to separate them. The octogenarian bard may be fitly regarded as a representative of the acts and thoughts of the last half-century.

The Prelude, as its title-page indicates, is a poetical autobiography, commencing with the author's earliest reminiscences and experiences, down to the year 1805. It consists of fourteen books. Two of these are devoted to the childhood and school-time of the