Such assemblages of typical characters seem to be still popular in France. Quite recently there reached me a modern coloured cartoon presenting an array of seven persons. It had the title of : Les différentes positions sociales de l'homme. These seven personages and their verses are as follow: Le Prêtre : ALBUM AMICORUM' OF WANDERING group of the French quartette the lawyer is introduced with a cynical utterance. SCHOLARS (12 S. ix. 309). -An interesting He is figured as flourishing a bag of money. article on these alba will be found in Much more high-minded is the English con- Archæologia, vol. lxii., pp. 251-308, by ception of the character. the late Mr. Max Rosenheim, who describes 20 volumes from his own collection and 22 of the 400 or so volumes preserved in the British Museum. In the Notes on Sales' in The Times Literary Supplement for Aug. 29, 1918, a detailed account is given of the Album of Capt. Francis Segar, and several letters appeared in the same journal on Sept. 8, 1918, describing other volumes. Illustrations from the Stammbuch' (1578-83) of Gregory Amman at Cassel, showing the passenger boat plying between Venice and Padua, and from the volume in the Egerton MSS. 1191 at the British Museum showing Venetian mountebanks, are given in Bates's 'Touring in 1600," while a fine album of the seventeenth century with illustrations is described in Maggs Brothers' Catalogue No. 395 of 1920. The Stammbuch of Thos. Platter the younger, who visited London in the late sixteenth century (now at Basle) is referred to with a brief extract in The Cornhill Magazine for August, 1920, article Three Foreigners in London.' MALCOLM LETTS. J'éclaire les âmes qui doutent Le Ciel est à ceux qui m'écoutent. Le Médecin : Je combats toute maladie Et vous assure longue vie. Le Maître d'Ecole : J'ai soin de votre adolescence Vous enseignant vertu, science. Le Marchand : Riches ou pauvres, trouverez Chez moi, ce que vous désirez. Le Soldat: Je te défends, chère Patrie, Qui méprise le travailleur Le Paysan: Le Bon Dieu fasse à son plaisir, Tous les six je dois vous nourrir. The only figure in this group that excites remark is the schoolmaster, who, from a blackboard whereon are written the letters of the alphabet, is teaching the A B C to a child who, from his stature and dress, ought certainly to be able to read. It would, I think, interest MR. P. J. ANDERSON, in connexion with his interesting reference to two Scotch Alba Amicorum." to refer to the very interesting communicstion made to the Society of Antiquaries of London by Mr. Max Rosenheim, Dec., 1909. This appears in Archeologia, vol. xii. No fewer than 42 such albums are there described with detail. ARTHUR DU CANE. The modern cartoon finds place for three of the figures displayed in the almanac of 1820: the priest, the soldier, and the farmer. Four entirely new characters are introduced -the doctor, the schoolmaster, the merchant SIR RICHARD BROWN, BART. (12 S. ix. 310). and the artisan. The Law is unrepresented. Neither the English advocate nor the un-There have been a good many baronets of the name of Richard Brown. The man after amiable French attorney having been invited to become members of this society. K. S. whom COL. LESLIE inquires was third baronet of Depden, Co. Essex, who was born about 1656, admitted to Lincoln's Inn May 12. 1670 (one of these dates must be wrong). He married, Sept. 13, 1688, Dorothy, widow of Michael Blackett of Newcastle, daughter of William Barnes, who after Brown's death married, as his second wife, John Moore, D.D., Bishop of Ely. Brown was killed in Flanders, 1689, by Col. Billingsley (G.E.C. 'Baronetage,' iii. 92). His grandfather, the first baronet, was Lord Mayor of London 1660-1, and created a baronet July 22, 1660. baronetcy became extinct," or possibly only The Adam. My poor master, you are not wellRobin. Gideon Crawle, it won't do-I've seen 'em all my ancestors-they're just gone. They say that I must do something desperate at once, or perish in horrible agonies. This is the only mention I can find in the libretto of Gideon Crawle (not Crawl), and I am consequently at a loss to understand on what G. M. bases his theory that "He seems from the allusion to have been a man who returned to a life of crime after an interlude of virtue.” As to who Gideon was, or whether he ever existed in fact or in fiction, I have failed to discover, and shall await with interest any light other correspondents can throw on the query. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. ANNE BOLEYN'S EXECUTION (12 S. ix. 311). In an appendix to Paul Friedmann's History of Anne Boleyn' (Macmillan, 1884), the author states that she was "beheaded with a sword by the executioner of Saint Omer," and he cites as his authority for the statement the Cronica del Rey Henrico Octavo.' then curator, Viscount Dillon, told me that at the time of Anne's execution she asked one of those attending upon her to point out the headsman; this showing that he did not always wear a particular dress at this period. I forget whether he told me as to a sword or axe being used. In the past, I have seen some very good historical film pictures abroad, and when English history is in question, certain details were not always correct. The same may be the case now. In a fine French film portraying certain incidents in the life of Queen Elizabeth, in which the Divine Sara represented the Queen, the Royal Arms of England were very incorrect. HERBERT SOUTHAM. I am in possession of a very old manuscript entitled 'An Epistle concerning the Criminal Process made against the Queen Anne Boullan of England. By Carles Almoner to Mons. le Dauphin. Printed at Translated from Lyons in the year 1545. the French by P. L. Buée, Doctor of the College of Sorbonne.' The manuscript is without date and is of 43 pages. The following account is given of the execution. After a long speech from the Queen on the scaffold it is stated: When the Queen had let down her white collar should meet with no obstacle she fell humbly and put off her hood in order that the blow on her knees pronouncing repeatedly these words: "Christ I beseech Thee receive my soul. O grant pity!" One of the Damsels shedding unremitting tears approached her to perform the last and lamentable duty of her office and veiled her face with a linen cloth. Then the Master who was himself disconsolate and dismayed on account of the execution refraining his emotion to fulfil his duty levelled at her neck the last stroke of a sword by which it was immediately cut through. whom you would have thought almost lifeless The head and body were taken by the ladies from the languor and excessive feebleness they were in. But they feared that their Mistress should be touched and held by the hands of inhumane men. The manuscript in describing the execution of Lord Rochefort states that he presented his head to the cruel scimitar which cut it off at one blow. EDWARD H. DOBRÉE. Udney Hall, Teddington. JOHN CRAWFORD (12 S. ix. 310).—In 1789 Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait from which J. Grozer did a fine mezzotint. Chaloner Smith's book on portraits spells the name Crauford. E. E. LEGGATT. [12 S. IX. Oct. 29, 1921. EARLY HISTORY OF CRICKET (12 S. ix. 1742, and D.D. 1762. 311). In 1811 This is almost showing The Grand Female Cricket Match he is very likely the person required, as no a print was published certainly the son of John and Barbara, and between the Hampshire and Surrey Lasses other Abraham of the period graduated at for 500 Guineas, and played at Newington Trinity. There is a manuscript pedigree Green, near Ball's Pond, Middlesex, October in existence of the descendants of John 2, 1811, when the Hampshire won by Symes and Barbara Sandam. fourteen notches.' Twenty years ago I had a copy of this, and sent it to The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, in which paper a reproduction appeared on July 13, 1901. I the print soon afterwards to some county gave cricket club, I think either Surrey or Hampshire. HERBERT SOUTHAM. A relic belonging also to Roman times was found in the bed of the Fisher-beck inscribed with the following consonants : P.R.S.V.R.Y.P.R.F.C.T.M.N. which have been ingeniously supplied with Ever keep these precepts ten. Vicarage, Newry. H. B. SWANZY. Lord Chief Justice (created 1714), I might CULCHETH HALL (12 S. ix. 291, 336).— statement that this old house was occupied There appears no sufficient foundation for the by a family bearing its name middle of the eighteenth century." The Hearth Tax Rolls of 1673 and the Associa ** until the tion Oath Rolls of 1696 make no mention of the family as of Culcheth, though the William and Ralph Culcheth of Burscoughsurname appears in other places, viz, (unable to write) and another, John Calcheth, who could sign his name: Edward Culcheth and James (x) in Bickerstade and Skelmersdale; Thomas in Ince; Ralph in Wigan. It would appear that John Rushley, Esq. residents of Culcheth above the rank of and John Holroft, Esq., were the only yeoman in the Hearth Tax Roll. WALLACE GANDY. It is not unlikely that the stops are printer's errors. It is not explained why the stone was believed to belong to Roman times. The previous notes have assigned this puzzle inscription to a house at Hangle- OLIVER CROMWELL ON HUNGARY (12 8. ton, near Brighton; a Welsh church; ix. 310).-It all depends on the point of Penshaw Church, near Durham; Beeston view-and it must be kept in mind that Regis Church, near Cromer. Probably, like there is more than one opinion as to what many epitaphs in verse, it was used in many constitutes places. Fisher-beck is, I think, a stream the speech made by Cromwell to the "Lords Christianity.' Carlyle gives which falls into the Lune at or near Caton. and Gentlemen of the Two Houses of Parliament " on Jan. 25, 1658. In this be points out that the King of Hungary s aiming "to make himself Emperor of Germany," and that he will then follow the policy of his father, “whose principles. interest, and personal conscience guided him to exile all the Protestants out of his own patrimonial country." on to say that "the Protestants are tossed He then goes out of Poland into the Empire; and out thence whither they can fly to get their bread." ROBERT PIERPOINT. WILSON PRATT SYMES: LE HUNTE (12 S. ix. 310).-Burke's Landed Gentry' for 1846, sub. tit. 'Symes of Ballybeg,' states that Jeremiah Symes of Glascarry, Co. Wexford, married Barbara Payne, sister of the private secretary to King James II., and had a fourth son, John Symes of Hillbrook, Co. Wicklow, who married Mary, second daughter of Richard Sandam of Rushamore, Co. Louth, and had numerous descendants. Abraham Symes, son of John, Generosus, born in Co. Wicklow, entered T.C.D. in 1733, aged 18, and was B.A. 1738, M.A. See Oliver Cromwell's "Letters Chapman and Hall, 1872). This is the and Speeches,' vol. v., p. 106 (London : only reference to the King of Hungary I can find in Cromwell's speeches. T. F. D. E. R. HUGHES, ARTIST (12 S. ix. 250, 294). The Year's Art, 1897,' at p. 106, gave his first Christian name as Edis, but probably this was a printer's error for Edw., though it occurs in other issues of that useful publication. According to 'Who Was Who, 1897-1916,' he died May 15, 1908. The portraitpainter Edward Hughes (b. Sept. 14, 1832) had died the preceding day. Were they related? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. Have any novelists of our days a scene and catastrophe more strange and terrible than this which occurs at noonday within a few yards of the greatest thoroughfare in Europe? The brave Dumas, the intrepid Ainsworth, the terrible Eugène Sue, the cold-shudder-inspiring Woman in White,' the astounding author of the 'Mysteries of the Court of London,' never invented anything more tremendous than this. The murderous attack was not on a wellknown attorney," but on Major William Murray. On Major Murray's death in 1907, having "survived by over forty years one of the most terrible experiences which can possibly fall to the lot of man," The Daily Telegraph for April 4 had a long article on this "classic example in London's annals of crime for the ferocious and bloody nature of its hand-to-hand encounter." Murray's own account of the struggle is there reprinted. As the Major's assailant died in Charing Cross Hospital and the Coroner's jury brought in a verdict of justifiable homicide, celebrated trial," which may there was no account for the story not being as widely known as it deserves. It can be confidently recommended to readers who want a thrill. Is there a good account accessible apart from the contemporary reports and the newspaper revival at the time of Major Murray's death? EDWARD BENSLY. 66 I. DONOWELL (12 S. ix. 330).-John Donowell (f. 1753-1786), architect and draughtsman, exhibited architectural designs and views of Weymouth, Melcombe Regis, &c., at the Free Society of Artists in 1761, at the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1762-65 and 1767-70, and at the Royal Academy in 1778-81 and 1786 (A. Graves, Society of Artists' and 'R. A. Exhibitors '). He was a director of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1768-71, 1773, and 1775 (Papers of the Society in the R.A. Library). In the King's Library, B.M., are views of the exterior and interior of St. Gilesin-the-Fields, inscribed "Jno Donowell delint. Anty Published Walker sculpt. 1 March 1753, and sold by the Proprietor Jno Donowell in Norris Street near the Haymarket, London"; also & view by him of Monkey Island,' between Maidenhead Bridge and Windsor, published in December, 1753. Edited by Sir The Merry Wives of Windsor. Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover Wilson. (Cambridge University Press. 88. net.) THE theatre has continuously and triumphantly vindicated The Merry Wives' against their peevish detractors of the study. Mr. Harold Child, in three or four serried and pleasant pages ments at the end of this book, marks the few "improve"" or "revisions" it has undergone, and its many successes, when performed more or less as my Lord Chamberlaines servants" left it to us. John Dennis in 1702 made a fresh version of it, soon abandoned; Frederick Reynolds in of the notion of improving it was seen in Swin1824 turned it into an opera; in 1874 the last ebb burne and Sullivan's substitution of a new song for Anne Page's' Fie on sinful fantasy !' On the whole the stage accepted it as it stands and, maugre Pepys, found it well worth playing. To the student the difficulties of the text and construction of the play, and the two famous legends connected with it-that of the deerstealing in Sir Thomas Lucy's park, and that of the play's having been written by the express command of Queen Elizabeth-have made The Merry Wives of Windsor' a problem of some solemnity. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch accepts the tradition of the origin of the play despite its being first mentioned only by the aforesaid John Dennis. His main reason is that this story will account for the confusion and inconsistencies with which the play abounds and which are readily understood if the work was hurried through in a fortnight. As evidence of haste he makes much of the hopeless attempt to throw a characteristically Elizabethan play back to the time of Henry IV. by allusions to " the mad Prince" and the like. He shows that topical allusions were provided and gives a most ingenious and pleasant elucidation of the word "garmombles." He suggests that The Merry Wives' was written up from a play belonging to the repertory of Shakespeare's company called The Jealous Comedy,' having a plot probably based on an Italian story. Into this had to be inserted the character of Falstaff which was done by superimposing the knight upon some priggish, long-winded personage whose utterances have not all been taken out. . stage war, which was carried on about the time of the production of The Merry Wives,' hinged, as Sir Arthur says, upon Jonson's classical theory of the comedy of humours; Nym, with his " operations" in his head which be humours of revenge," recalls Jonson's well-known head troubles, and the name itself is "short "for" Hieronymos,' the very name of the Marshal of Spain in The Spanish Tragedy' which Jonson was then, or had recently been, playing in the provinces. The conjecture strikes us as a brilliantly happy one. The Introduction as a whole is a delightful example of the handling of rather tiresome matters in such a way as to make them delightful. But this is an art of which the writer is a past master, and on which he needs no commendation. The study of the composition of the play and of the state of the text is taken further in Mr. Dover Wilson's essay on the copy for The Merry Wives of Windsor.' 1623. MR. GEO. A. STEPHEN, City Librarian of Norwich, writes: In reply to the letter of MR. EUGENE F. MCPIKE, at ante, p. 320, the following extract from The Eastern Daily Press of September 23 gives the required information : "His experiences on the Western Front led Mr. [Tom D.] Copeman to the resolve to devote his energies, when peace came, to the prevention of war by the furtherance of international goodwill. With this in view he found the material close to hand in the Adult Schools, and set to work to organize the Adult School International Correspondence Bureau, which has now reached considerable dimensions, necessitating the employment of a voluntary office staff. Started in and directed from Norwich by Mr. Copeman, its headquarters will probably be removed to London in the near future. 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This was François Bonivard, of who a short account will be found in the Encyck pædia Britannica.' account of the man who hoisted Nelson's signa CORRIGENDA.-The correct reference to t should read-C.O. 284/43, May 20, 1852. This refers to The Tasmanian Colonist nes paper, which had copied the account fe Chambers's Journal, but the date of which w not given. E. H. FAIRBR THER Ante, p. 310, col. 2, 8.v. Artemus Ward.' "John Camden's Introduction to" read Jaks Camden Hotten's Introduction to. |