[3] How refreshing is that whiff of good honest smoke in the abstemious lives of Cowper and John Newton! I have just seen, in W. Tuckwell's _Reminiscences of a Radical Parson_, a happy allusion to William Bull's pipes: "To Olney, under the auspices of a benevolent Quaker.... I saw all the relics: the parlour where bewitching Lady Austen's shuttlecock flew to and fro; the hole made in the wall for the entrance and exit of the hares; the poet's bedroom; Mrs. Unwin's room, where, as she knelt by the bed in prayer, her clothes caught fire. The garden was in other hands, but I obtained leave to enter it. Of course, I went straight to the summer-house, small, and with not much glass, the wall and ceiling covered with names, Cowper's wig-block on the table, _a hole in the floor where that mellow divine, the Reverend Mr. Bull, kept his pipes_; outside, the bed of pinks celebrated affectionately in one of his letters to Joseph Hill, pipings from which are still growing in my garden."--The date of the Rev. Mr. Tuckwell's visit to Olney is not indicated, but his _Reminiscences_ were published in the present year, 1905. [4] Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, December 23, 1804, and died at Paris, October 13, 1869. [5] _The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne._ In six volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1904. [6] _The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti._ With Memoir and Notes, etc. By William Michael Rossetti. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1904. [7] _Robert Browning._ By C. H. Herford. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1905. [8] _The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne._ Edited by Wilbur L. Cross. Supplemented with the Life by Percy Fitzgerald. 12 volumes. New York: J. F. Taylor & Co. 1904. [9] _Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of J. H. Shorthouse._ Edited by his wife. In two volumes. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1905.