tice is very clearly shown in an able article, written by the Biographer of Sir W. Temple, in a recent number of the Foreign Quarterly Review.* The paper abounds with pleasant illustration, of which the following, on the subject of the self-possession essential to a Diplomatist, may serve as a specimen. When a living Statesman of high talents and character was placed at the head of the Foreign Office in England, he solicited instructions from the late Lord Malmsbury. "Always keep your back to the light, and learn to take Snuff!" was the brief recommendation of one of the ablest of our regular Diplomatists. The objects were to conceal from his adversary the emotions of his countenance, and to obtain a few moments for deliberation before he spoke. * Vol. xiii. p. 1. et seq. CORONATION CEREMONIES. It had been originally intended to have treated in this Section of the present work, not merely of the Coronation Ceremonies generally, but, with reference to the approaching solemnisation of that imposing public act, to have considered more particularly the forms observed, in this country, at the Coronation of a Female Sovereign. This intention having been anticipated by M. Planché,—whose agreeable volume,* while it does credit to the antiquarian character of its author, affords a striking proof that matters of historical research may, by a judicious mode of treatment, be made perfectly welcome to the general reader,-the Editor determined to confine himself to such illustration of the coming Coronation as was to be found in the forms observed on the accession of the last Queen Regnant to the throne of these Realms. This resolve might have been shaken, had he realised his anticipation of discovering, among the manuscripts deposited in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, a Formula of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. But the document, which he had been led to suppose was of the nature referred to, having proved, upon further examination, to be nothing more than a transcript from a manuscript, in the Harleian Library of the British Museum, entitled, "Articles of the Queen's Majesty's Coronation," con * Regal Records; or a Chronicle of the Coronations of the Queens Regnant of England. By J. R. Planché, F.S.A., &c. London, 1838. + Harleian MS., No. 6064. Lambeth MS. No. 1075 b. Though disappointed in the manuscript, the Editor's acknowledgments are not the less due to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury for the readiness with which he granted his permission for its examination; and to the Rev. S. R. Maitland, the librarian, for his politeness on the |