178-9.

[39] Works, i. 157-63.

[40] Vallet's "Charles VII.," i. 251.

[41] "Proces de Jeanne d'Arc," i. 133-55.

[42] Monstrelet.

[43] Vallet's "Charles VII.," iii. chap. i. But see the chronicle that
bears Jaquet's name; a lean and dreary book.

[44] Monstrelet.

[45] D'Hericault's "Memoir," xl. xli.; Vallet, "Charles VII.," ii. 435.

[46] Champollion-Figeac, p. 368.

[47] Works, i. 115.

[48] D'Hericault's "Memoir," xlv.

[49] Champollion-Figeac, pp. 361, 381.

[50] _Ibid._, pp. 359, 361.

[51] Lecoy de la Marche, "Roi Rene," ii. 155, 177.

[52] Champollion-Figeac, chaps, v. and vi.

[53] _Ibid._, p. 364; Works, i. 172.

[54] Champollion-Figeac, p. 364: "Jeter de l'argent aux petis enfans
qui estoient au long de Bourbon, pour les faire nonner en l'eau et
aller querre l'argent au fond."

[55] Champollion-Figeac, p. 387.

[56] "Nouvelle Biographie Didot," art. "Marie de Cleves"; Vallet,
"Charles VII.," iii. 85, note 1.

[57] Champollion-Figeac, pp. 383-386.

[58] Works, ii. 57, 258.

VIII

SAMUEL PEPYS

In two books a fresh light has recently been thrown on the character and
position of Samuel Pepys. Mr. Mynors Bright has given us a new
transcription of the Diary, increasing it in bulk by near a third,
correcting many errors, and completing our knowledge of the man in some
curious and important points. We can only regret that he has taken
liberties with the author and the public. It is no part of the duties of
the editor of an established classic to decide what may or may not be
"tedious to the reader." The book is either an historical document or
not, and in condemning Lord Braybrooke Mr. Bright condemns himself. As
for the time-honoured phrase, "unfit for publication," without being
cynical, we may regard it as the sign of a precaution more or less
commercial; and we may think, without being sordid, that when we
purchase six huge and distressingly expensive volumes, we are entitled
to be treated rather more like scholars and rather less like children.
But Mr. Bright may rest assured: while we complain, we are still
grateful. Mr. Wheatley, to divide our obligation, brings together,
clearly and with no lost words, a body of illustrative material.[59]
Sometimes we might ask a little more; never, I think, less. And as a
matter of fact, a great part of Mr. Wheatley's volume might be
transferred, by a good editor of Pepys, to t