A Third and Corrected Edition of the Life

OF VISCOUNT PALMERSTON. With Selections from his
Diaries and Correspondence. By the RIGHT HON. SIR HENRY
LYTTON BULWER, G.C.B., M.P. 2 vols. 8vo, 30s., with fine
Portrait.

The Recovery of Jerusalem: an Account of

the Recent Excavations and Discoveries in the Holy City. By CAPTAIN WILSON, R.E., and CAPTAIN WARREN, R.E. With an Introductory Chapter by DEAN STANLEY. Demy 8vo, with Fifty Illustrations, 21.

The Life and Letters of the Rev. Richard HARRIS BARHAM (Author of the "Ingoldsby Legends"), including his Unpublished Poetical Miscellanies. By his Son, the REV. R. H. DALTON BARHAM. 2 vols. large crown 8vo, with Portrait, 21s.

Travels in the Air: a Popular Account of

Balloon Voyages and Ventures: with Recent Attempts to Accomplish the Navigation of the Air. By J. GLAISHER, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Royal 8vo, with 132 Illustrations, 25s.

A Life of Adventure: an Autobiography.

By COLONEL OTTO CORVIN. 3 Vols. crown 8vo, 31s. 6d.
RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington Street.

Now ready, price 18.

THE WONDERFUL LIFE, PROPHECIES, and

DEATH OF MOTHER SHIPTON, the FEMALE MERLIN. Faithfully Reprinted from the 1687 Quarto Edition, with the Original Woodcuts, Fae-similes, &c.

E. PEARSON, 36, St. Martin's Court, Charing Cross, W.C. 4TH S. No. 158.

(PRICE FOURPENCE. Registered as a Newspaper.

IN consequence of the abolition of the impressed Newspaper Stamp, the Subscription for copies forwarded free by post, direct from the Publisher (including the Half-yearly Index), for Six Months, will be 10s. 3d., which may be paid by Post Office Order, payable at the Somerset House Post Office, in favour of WILLIAM G. SMITH, 43, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. 259, will

be published on SATURDAY NEXT.

CONTENTS:

I. OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. II. MODERN WHIST.

III. COUNT BISMARCK, PRUSSIA, AND PAN-TEUTONISM. IV. REVENUES OF INDIA.

V. INVASION OF FRANCE.

VI. THE IRISH LORD CHANCELLORS. VII. CATHEDRAL LIFE AND WORK.

VIII. FRENCH PATRIOTIC SONGS.

IX. POLITICAL LESSONS OF THE WAR.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

Now ready, in 2 vols. 8vo.

TINSLEY BROTHERS' NEW BOOKS.

AT ALL LIBRARIES.

FROM SEDAN to SAARBRUCK, via Verdun, Gravelotte, and Metz. By AN OFFICER of the Royal Artillery. In 1 vol. crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.

A LIFE'S ASSIZE: a Novel. By MRS. J. H.
RIDDELL, Author of "George Geith," "City and Suburb," "Too
Much Alone," &c. 3 vols.
[This day.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: a Novel.
the Author of "Lost Sir Massingberd," &c. 3 vols.

GERALD

By

HASTINGS: a Novel. By the

Author of "No Appeal," &c. 3 vols.

BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: a Novel. By

the Author of "Golden Pippin," &c. In 1 vel.

BY BIRTH a LADY: a Novel. By GEORGE

MANVILLE FENN, Author of "Bent, Not Broken," &c. 3 vols.

THE MONARCH OF MINCING LANE: a

Novel. By WILLIAM BLACK, Author of" In Silk Attire," &c.
(from Tinsley's Magazine). In 3 vols.
[Just ready.'

THE GOLDEN BAIT: a Novel.
Author of The King's Mail," &c. In 3 vois.

THE "MERMAID" SERIES OF OUR OLD DRAMATISTS.

"What things have we seen

Done at the Mermaid."-Beaumont.

Edited by LIEUT.-COL. F. CUNNINGHAM.

THE PLAYS OF PHILIP MASSINGER.

From the Text of William Gifford, with the addition of the Tragedy "Believe as you List," now first printed with his Works. Edited, with Introductory Notice and Glossarial Index, by LIEUT.COL. F. CUNNINGHAM. Crown 870, cloth, bevelled boards, 5s. THE WORKS

OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, including his Translations. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by LIEUT.-COL. F. CUNNINGHAM. Crown 8vo, cloth, bevelled boards, 5s.

Just out.

BEN JONSON'S WORKS, COMPLETE.

Gifford Edition, with the Life of Ben Jonson, by Gifford, and the whole of his Notes to the Life and Works, Edited by LIEUT.-COL. F. CUNNINGHAM, 3 vols. crown Svo, cloth, bevelled, per vol. 5s.

[Just ready.

zine to 1817, 184 vols. 215; Annual Register to 1835, 79 vols. calf, uniform, very good set, £4 14s. 6d.; "N. & Q." complete to June 1867 (two Indexes), 37 vols. £8 8. Owen & Blakeway's Shrewsbury, LARGE PAPER, £8 188. 6d.; Dugdale's Warwick, by Thomas, 2 vols. illustrated with 28 extra Drawings and Author's Autograph Letter, 32 guineas; Surtees & Raine's Durham, £20 108.; Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries, 8 vols, impl. 4to, claret morocco, a noble set, £20; Sussex Archaological Collections, 7 vols. (11 to 17) 50s.; Chrysostomi Opera, 13 vols. folio, best edition, £13; Philonis Opera, best edition, 2 vols. folio, £4 108.; Hutchins' Dorset, 11 parts, £7 10. See NEW PART of CATALOGUE, sent free to any address.-W. GEORGE, Second-hand Bookseller, 29, Bath Street, Bristol.

OLD ENGLISH" FURNITURE.

Reproductions of Simple and Artistic Cabinet Work from Country Mansions of the XVI. and XVII. Centuries, combining good taste, sound workmanship, and economy. COLLINSON and LOCK (late Herring), CABINET MAKERS,

109, FLEET STREET, E.C. Established 1782.

TAPESTRY PAPERHANGINGS.

Imitations of rare old BROCADES, DAMASKS, and GOBELIN TAPESTRIES.

COLLINSON and LOCK (late Herring), DECORATORS,

109, FLEET STREET, LONDON. Established 1782.

Notes, Chronological View, and Preface. Portrait of Dante. Post Svo, limp green cloth gilt, magenta edges, 2s. 6d.

LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENG-
LISH POETS, with Critical Observations on their Works; to
which are added the PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE, and the
Review of the "Origin of Evil."

By SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.,
with a Sketch of the Author's Life;
By SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

London: ALBERT J. CROCKER & BROS., "Ye Mermayd," Temple Bar, 227, Strand, W.C.

A Valuable Assemblage of Books and Manuscripts, sold in Consequence of the War.

ESSRS. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL BY AUCTION at their House, No. 13, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C., on WEDNESDAY, January 11, at One o'clock precisely, a valuable assemblage of Books and Manuscripts, sold in consequence of the War, comprising Early Editions of the Bible, in German and Latin, and other Works with curious Woodengravings; rare French Romances. Spanish Books, including the extremely rare Cancionero General, 1535; beautifully illuminated Books of Hours, Missals, and other Manuscripts, upon vellum and paper; fine Books of Prints, Natural History, Galleries and modern Works of Art: splendid specimens of Printing upon Vellum, including a unique copy of Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance"; Early Typography, &c. To which is added, another property, in which are a few beautifully illustrated and other Books, bound in Morocco and Calf, by the best binders; Magnificent Collection of Native Drawings of Flowers of Hong Kong; Japanese Paintings, on Silk and other material; Illustrations to Dr. Dibdin's various works, collected with great judgment and taste during many years, &c. May be viewed two days prior. Catalogues may be had, if by post, on receipt of two stamps.

Library of the REV. W. PEARSE, of Fairlight, Sussex, ESSRS. PUTTICK & SIMPSON will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 47, Leicester Square, W.C., on MONDAY, January 16, and following days, the MISCELLANEOUS LIBRARY of the REV. W. PEARSE, of Fairlight, Sussex, and other Properties; comprising a capital selection of County Histories, Historical and Antiquarian Works, and Books in all classes of Literature. Catalogues on receipt of two stamps.

3

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1871.

CONTENTS.-N° 158.

Notes.

ALLEGORY IN "THE FAERIE QUEEN."

Spenser styles his poem "a continued allegory or dark conceit "; but he does not by that mean to say that it forms one continued allegory in the sense in which we now understand the term. In fact there is but one allegory in it-namely, the first book, "The Legend of Holiness"; and in all the rest of the poem the characters are mere impersonations of moral or physical qualities, or of real persons, without any specially connected series of events. I will here briefly state my conception of what I regard as the only allegory of the poem. This, then, I take to be the history of the Church from its commencement till the poet's own time. In Una I see, not Truth simply, but the True Church; in Duessa, not mere Falsehood, but the False Church-that of Rome. The father and mother of Una, the king and queen of Eden, I take to be God the Father and the ancient Adamic or patriarchal Church. In the Dragon I discern the great enemy of man, Satan. In the Red-cross Knight the Christian people, represented by St. George, the patron saint of England, the great champion of the true faith; and finally, in Archimage, Satan in his character of the tempter and seducer.

The adventures of the knight begin with his entering the grove of Error, and his encountering and slaying that monster. By this is pro

bably meant the conflict with the various forms of religious error or heresy in the Church. Archimage then tries his wiles, and separates the knight from Una; but his doing so by making him suspect her purity seems rather to break the allegory. However, he abandons her, and then falls in with Duessa in company with a "faithless Sarazin" named Sansfoy, that is, Paganism, whom he slays; and he is then deceived by Duessa, who Roman Empire, which now becomes Christian. conducts him to the House of Pride, that is, the named Sansjoy, by which is perhaps meant the Here he encounters and slays a brother of Sansfoy, joyless condition of the Empire when separated from the True Church. On his discovering the real nature of the House of Pride, he seizes the earliest opportunity of flight, and abandons it.

Una meanwhile wanders alone in search of the champion who had deserted her. She meets with a lion, who becomes her protector. This lion forces an entrance for her into the house of Corceca and Abessa, and kills Kirkrapine, the paramour of the latter; but is himself slain soon after, defending Una against a Paynim named Sansloy, who had overcome Archimage, who had rejoined her under the form of the Red-cross Knight. From him she is delivered by a band of fawns and satyrs whom her shrieks brought to her aid. They lead her to their abode in the woods and mountains, where she lives among them and instructs them in morals and religion. By the aid of a knight named Sir Satyrane she leaves them, and sets out again in quest of the Red-cross Knight.

signify the counts of Toulouse, who protected the In this part of the allegory the lion seems to True Church against that of Rome, and gained its members admission into the religious houses against the will of their inmates, and punished those who made spoil of sacred things. By the Paynim Sansloy may be meant the papal adherents under De Montfort and others, who overcame the counts of Toulouse, and from whom Una is saved by the satyrs, that is, the Waldenses, whose abode was in the woods and valleys of Switzerland. Sir Satyrane, who is connected with them, I take to represent the IIuguenots of France, who derived their creed and their name from the reformer of Switzerland; and it is very remarkable that he and Sansloy are left fighting-just time-and are not mentioned any more in this as the Huguenots and the Papists were at the book.

and again seduced by Duessa, and he drinks of a The Red-cross Knight meantime is overtaken fountain, the water of which quite enervates him, and he is then seized and thrown into a loathsome dungeon by a huge giant, who makes Duessa his leman, dresses her magnificently, and mounts her on a strange beast with seven heads.