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A Bygone Oxford by Francis GoldieThe Irish Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 93 (Mar., 1881), p. 156Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20496477 .

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156 New Books.

home? Nothing has yet been discovered to tell his name. All that

we know about him is that he was a man of rank, of wealth, and of

refined taste. Mr. Nicholson fixes the date of the building of the

Villa at the close of the reign of Gallienus. The remaining articles of this number of The Antiquary will have

much interest for those who concern themselves with the deeds and

manners of the men of past times.

V. A Bygone Oxford. By FRNCis GOLDIE, S.J. (London: Burns & Oates. Oxford: Thos. Shrimpton & Son.)

IT will be found a great gain by the Catholic visitor to Oxford, that Father Goldie has published, in a separate form, his paper on " Bygone

Oxford," and that, like other guide books, it can be obtained on the

spot. Most Catholics who visit what is now our great Protestant University have before their minds only a vague consciousness that Oxford must have looked very different in Catholic times, and that much of what they see at present had its origin in Catholic and re

ligious foundations. But Father Goldie's interesting sketch of Oxford, as it once was, rich in splendid establishments of each Order celebrated

for learning in the Church, enables his readers to re-picture to them selves the bygone scenes, and gives new, though melancholy interest to many localities which no longer retain any trace of their past glories. A plan of the ancient city, partly filled in with modern names, is of excellent service in localising for the eye the site of each former religious house, so as to extend the interest of this pamphlet to all

who are more or less familiar with the appearance of Oxford as it is now.

VI. The Burlington. A Monthly Magazine. Edited by HELEN B. MATHERs, author of " Coming through the Rye," &c. (London: Remington & Co.)

THis magazine began its life with the new year, 1881. It seems to hold among the sixpenny magazines the same relatfon to The Argosy that Temple Bar does to The Cornhtll. In each case a sheet of letter-press is added in place of the illustrations that are dispensed

with, an excellent equivalent, we think, for such pictures as magazine illustrations are wont to be. The stories on which the ordinary reader

will be sure to pounce, we, extraordinary readers, have been able to refrain from, while we have pounced eagerly upon Mr. G. Barnett Smith's article on " Irish Story and Song." In proof of the "1 fulness and richness of Irish poetry at the present moment," he refers to " Aubrey de Vere, with his chaste ana artistic genius; William Alling ham and Denis Florence MacCarthy, men of culture and high lyrical gifts; the brothers Joyce, who have revivified the dry bones of ancient Irish heroes, and given new life to old Irish story and romance; Sir Samuel Ferguson, whose talent is versatile enough to have given us

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