or conjecture, but that his career reveals a falling away from a simple trust in the supreme to complicated systems of perverted truth." We should willingly grant that the careful and patient investigation of any myth, Solar, Dionysiak, Arthurian, or by whatsoever name called, may throw much light on the primitive religion of man. And within such limits Mr. Brown has done a great deal of good hard work. But we cannot admit that any one myth covers the entire field of research, and herein therefore lies, in our judgment, the radical weakness of Mr. Brown's theory. In all such attempts to make a part do the work of the whole there is a necessary one sidedness, an inevitable straining of meanings, however unconsciously to the writer. Having got hold of a "horned divinity," Mr. Brown cannot let the unfortunate island Kerastis take its name from the simple fact of its shape, but must press that name into the service of his divinity. His presentment of a Japanese Dionysus is truly formidable, not to say repulsive. We should not be surprised if those who may worship before it were to do so, as we lately heard a Hindoo gentleman state to be his own habit, with closed eyes. Mr. Brown must surely have been nodding, like the good Homer, when he introduced, at p. 137, a reference to "Porphery, De Antro Nymph," a writer and a title alike unknown to us. Memories of our Great Towns, with Anecdotic Gleanings concerning their Worthies and Oddities (1860-1877). By Dr. John Doran, F.S.A. (Chatto & Windus.) Memories of our Great Towns, a posthumous work of Dr. Doran, which as the latest outcome of his genial, versatile, and scholarly mind has a special interest for readers of "N. & Q.," consists of a series of notices, which first appeared in the Athenæum, of places selected for annual meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The period between 1860 and 1877 is comprised in the series, the latest paper describing Plymouth, the scene of last summer's gathering. One of Dr. Doran's latest tasks was to complete the revision of the sheets, and restore them with his own hand to the printer. The volume constitutes thus his latest accomplishment. It has every grace of his singularly happy and attractive style. It is a mere commonplace of criticism to say that no living writer could furnish information so curious, so varied, and so full of interest. Whether gossiping about the muster of Yorkshire squires at Doncaster; chronicling the appearance of those "famous wits" to whom Cambridge, albeit not always an alma mater, proved herself "native or hospitable"; depicting the strife for precedency between Dundee and Perth; dwelling upon the presence at Norwich of "beauty so abounding, so dazzling, so intoxicating," that the place has ever since remained famous; describing the growth of Brighton beneath princely patronage; or crystallizing into a few delightful sentences the comic history of the Plymouth stage, Dr. Doran is always unapproachable. In the account of the coach journey to Bath before the days of railways, and in the picture of the gentlemen between Marlborough and Sandy Lane looking in anticipation of highwaymen "to their silver-hilted rips," hiding "their watches in their boots," and stowing "6 away their guineas in places where robbers always looked for them," we have a perfect reproduction of old life, and at the same time a capital specimen of Dr. Doran's gentle humour. How pleasantly expressed, too, is the contrast between Bath in 1720 and the same place in 1864! "To-day the philosophers may communicate through the telegraph wires with friends at a distance, at a low tariff, and in a few minutes. A hundred and fifty years ago the Bath express letter office would carry your message to London, at any time, in a day and a night, and charge 21. 13. for the service." Apropos of Liverpool Dr. Doran chronicles the answer of G. F. 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