'LUCRETIA; OR CHILDREN OF NIGHT,' BY LORD LYTTON (12 S. vi. 313).-Thomas Griffiths Wainewright died in 1849, not in 1852. Mr. Thomas Seccombe, in the D. N. B.,' says:-"In Bulwer Lytton's 'Lucretia he, appears as Varney, and Lucretia Clavering is supposed to be Mrs. Wainewright." On May 2, 1849, Henry P. Smith, of the Eagle Insurance Office, who had written to Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton about Wainewright on May 19 and 26, 1846, wrote to him :— appears, presumably after his imprisonment, Killadoon, Celbridge. OLD STAINED GLASS: ALTAR-RAILS (12 S. vi. 188, 231, 281, 314).-Until reading this discussion I had never heard of the supposed removal of the Winchester College glass to Salop; but some years ago I was told that the carved oak altar-rails in Winchester College Chapel had originally belonged to St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury. I cannot say if this is true. Perhaps some other reader may know. C. B. E. HURBECS (12 S. vi. 271, 341).—It is merely a matter of spelling. Littré gives the word right enough, in fact he gives it twice, under slightly different forms : la vigne." "Urebec. "Hurebec. s.m. Ancien nom de la chenille de 'eumolpe de la vigne (coléoptères)." Nom vulgaire donné quelquefois à Both words have a dagger prefixed to indicate that the Dictionnaire de l'Académie' knows them not. EDWARD BENSLY. "I have just heard that Wainewright died recently in the hospital at Hobarton. His latter days in the sick ward were employed, I am told, In Frédéric Godefroy's 'Dictionnaire de in blasphemy to the pious patients and in terri-l'Ancienne Langue Française' (Paris, 1885) fying the timid. I think that he never lived to know the everlasting fame to which he has been -damned in 'Lucretia.'' See Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton, by his grandson the Earl of Lytton' (London, 1913), vol. ii. p. 88 note. There seems to be no doubt, therefore, that T. G. Wainewright is represented by Gabriel Honoré Varney. Like Mr. White, however, I know of nothing that would seem to connect Lucretia Clavering with Mrs Frances Wainewright. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT DOUGLAS OF ANTIGUA AND ST. KITTS (12 S. vi. 333).-MR. PEACHEY will find various references to Governor Walter Douglas in Oliver's History of Antigua' (see vol. i., pp. 208-15), but his parentage is not there given, unless he may have been a son of Walter Duglas, who was a planter in Antigua in 1672. He appears to have been educated at the University of Utrecht, which he is said to have left to join King William of Orange (vol. iii., p. 419). He was super is this entry : "Hurbec, s.m., chenille de la vigne: Liset, ver coquin, hurbec, qui ronge les bourjons de la vigne. (Jun., Nomencl,' p. 59, éd. 1577.) Convolvulus, un ver qui gaste les raisins en la vigne, qu'aucuns appellent ver coquin, les autres hurbecs, ou chenille de vigne. (Calepin, Dict.,' Bâle 1584.) Volvox, Liset, hurbec, ou ver coquin, qui ronge les bourgeons des vignes (Ib.). Les morpions, vers à coquilles. Les hurbecs, les puces, les taons. ('L'Anatomie d'un nez à la mode,' Var. hist. et litt. V., 139.) James Howell's 'Cotgrave's French and English Dictionary' (London, 1673), says :— "Hurbec: as Liset: That worm callel a Vine-fretter; or devils gold-ring." JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. LATIN AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (12 S. vi. 202, 234, 261, 282, 300, 321).—In the triannual overhauling of my books two small volumes claimed a long neglected recognition, the mere titles of which may prove of interest under this heading. (1) Idioma Idiomaticum Anglo-Latinum in quo Phrases tam Latinæ quam Anglicanæ Linguæ sibi mutuò respondentes sub certis quibusdam Capitibus secundum Alphabeti ordinem è regione collocantur. In usum tam peregrinorum, qui Sermonem nostrum Anglicanum, quàm Nostratium, qui Latinum Idioma callere student.' Quinta Editio. Cui accessit istiusmodi Phrasium, &c., Idiomatum additio in Utraque Lingua ad minus trium Millium. Operâ, Studio, Industriâ Gulielmi Walker, S.T.B. Londini, Typis W. Horton, impensis T. Sawbridg, sub Signo trium Iridum auratarum in Vico Vulgo vocato Little Britain, 1690. The book is dedicated to Archbishop Sheldon, and is dated 'Colsterworthiæ in agro Lincolniensi, Prid. Id. Mai. An. Dom. 1670." Some of the English phrases are curiously archaic, e.g.: "You will be whipt to dead and "You deaf me," rendered: "ad necem usque operiêre " and "obtundis respectively, and the Latin equivalents are culled from classical authors. (2) This bears as title Delectus Sententiarum et Historiarum, ad usum Tironum accomodatus.' Londini: In Edibus Valpianis, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane, 1815. This volume is made up of classical passages and miscellaneous sentences. J. B. McGOVERN. Sussex, some years ago. A certain Newton. SHAKESPEARE'S S. "SHYLOCK" (12 vi. 244).-I have read the REV. J. B. MCGOVERN's paper with keen interest. Nothing he says, however, refutes the criticism that Shylock is a travesty and a caricature; not a genuine embodiment of one of the sons of Shem. The irremovable blot on Shakespeare's portraiture is the gruesome business associated with the bond. Such a document were impossible, unless Shylock were க raving lunatic, or a merry andrew with a taste for jokes of a Mephistophelian order.. No Hebrew in his seven senses would be a party to such a ghoulish proposal. His whole natural instincts would rise up in revolt against it. The emotions of hundred generations would cry shame within his breast. His education, his religion and his inherited sense of pain would forbid the sanction of such a wicked crimeladen transaction. That is the law of Hebraic mentality, to which every great portrait of an Israelite must necessarily conform. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. BOMBERS IN CHARLES II.'s NAVY (12 S. vi. 271).-Chamberlayne's 'Present State,' 1708, gives seven bomb-vessels, Salamander, Basilisk, Blast, Carcass, Furnace, Granada and Starr, each having a complement of Shylock, however, marks a definite stage 30 men and 6 guns. Other ships were fire-in progress in its sincere desire to do justice ships, yatches, brigantines, sloops, hulks to Judaism and its professors. That is and hoys. In 1727 only three bombs, as Shakespeare's eternal claim on the gratitude they were then styled, were in commission, of a grossly maligned nation. Shakespeare Basilisk, Furnace, and Thunder, each 30 painted Shylock at least as a man, with the and 6. In 1755, however, there were attributes, and the feelings of a mortal, 11 bombs; Basilisk, 274 tonnage, 271 men, and possessing a few of the finer sensations 6 carriage and 8 swivel guns; Carcass 274, in common with his traducers. He was not 274, 6 and 8; Comet 276, 100, 8 and 12; an unmitigated enemy of mankind, crawling Firedrake 283, 60, 8 and 12; Furnace 273, about by nights poisoning wells, practising 60; Granada 270, 100, 12 and 14; Lightning necromancy, stealing infants, ruining homes 275, 60, 8 and 14; Mortar 279, 100, 6 and 8; and committing all manner of hideous Serpent 275, 100; Terrible 263, 60; Terror absurdities such as Marlowe has conjured up 278, 100, the last three having 6 and 8 guns. in his monstrous Barabbas. A further stageW. R. WILLIAMS. in intellectual growth was reached when Lessing, the life-long friend of Moses Mendelssohn, astonished Berlin society with his noble delineation of a Jew in Nathan der Weise.' PARKS (OR PERKS) FAMILY (12 S. v. 317). -This name is mostly confined to the southern half of England occurring most frequently in Warwickshire and Worcester- Between these two extremes of mon without discernment stands out Shakespeare's magnificent portrait of an Israelite, a noble torso, an incomplete creation of a grand Hebrew tragically debased, the spirit of the age not being ready to understand a better conception. A really representative stage picture of the moving ideas behind Semitic psychology is still even in our own day to seek. M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney. and is commonly spoken of as "kail," or a Canton, Ohio. CAPT. ROBERT BOYLE: BRITISH PRIVATEER (12 S. vi. 45).-The first sentence in the second column of this page is, I am afraid, obscure. Personage should be read 66 EDWARD BENSLY. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTed.— instead of " passage.' I was suggesting a THE USE OF THE ROYAL ARMS ON WAR reason for Lamb's having styled Capt. MEMORIAL BOARDS (12 S. vi. 312).—I do | Robert Boyle “Honourable. not know that it would be illegal for a school to decorate its Roll of Honour with the Arms; because, for a guinea a year, a man may commandeer any blazon he pleases without being reproached by the law; but it would be an act of impudence to make use of the King's bearing without having first gained His Majesty's leave or warrant to do so. ST. SWITHIN. A. H. G. (12 S. vi. 296).—According to the Catalogue of the London Library the answer is in the affirmative, Frank Seafield being a pseudonym of Alexander Henley Grant. A. R. BAYLEY. DIOCESAN CALENDARS AND GAZETTES (12 S. vi. 296).—Though I am unable to answer the queries propounded by the Rev. J. Clare Hudson it may be useful to put on record that the Chichester Diocesan Kalendar first appeared in 1874 and that the first number of the Chichester Diocesan Gazette is dated January, 1894. Robertsbridge, Sussex. LEONARD HODSON. The Chester Diocesan Calendar, Clergy List and Church Almanack began about 1857, as I see the issue of 1882 was for the twenty-fifth year. The Liverpool Calendar began in 1881. R. STEWART BROWN. Liverpool. EMERSON'S ENGLISH TRAITS (12 S. vi. 228).-12. "Kail of Cornwall." -Does not this refer to kaolin which is to be found in Cornwall? A clay very much like the ENQUIRER probably has in mind the translation Frere, but the lines are not quite correctly quoted,. of the 'Birds' of Aristophanes by John Hookham they should read as follows: Ye children of Man! whose life is a span, GERALD LODER.. Notes on Books. Lancashire. By F. H. Cheetham. (Methuen, always assured of a welcome among those who To the general reader the historical introduc- The omitted; perhaps, also, the bibliography which is not full enough to be of real value, and the meagre list of Lancastrian worthies. In their place we should have welcomed a convenient list of the more important specimens of domestic architecture, in which the county is by no means poor. Like its predecessors the book is carefully produced. It is just the right size for the pocket, and is well printed on good paper, which can be said of very few books in this year of grace. It is singularly free from misprints, and is furnished with a most serviceable map. The railway map which is employed as an end-paper is of less value. This is becoming a common practice with publishers, but it cannot be too strongly condemned. The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Vol. xvii., Nos. 1 and 2. (London, The Swarthmore Press. 3s.) The study falls into two parts, which the author has entitled respectively "Animate Ideas" and "Inanimate Ideas." For both he has naturally drawn on the sources with which every English student is familiar, above all, on the "N. E. D." He gives numerous illustrative quotations, and is careful to insert dates. Reference is in some degree facilitated by marginal headings; and there is a complete index of words. The general reader will probably derive considerable amusement from these pages. The impression left by them is that of rough-andThe verb stem with readiness rather than of wit. its object served for ideas connected with simple actions-mostly in some degree violent and damaging. Heal-all," and "rest-harrow" 66 are THERE are many pleasant pages in these two numbers-issued together in one cover. The most generally interesting paper is that put together out of The Haigs of Bemersyde,' by John Russell (1881), relating to the two seventeenth century One was the Haigs who joined the Friends. head of the family of his day-Anthony Haig--almost alone even among plant-names in suggesting anything comfortable. Dr. Uhrström has who suffered an imprisonment of over four years included a very odd dialect example of popular for his convictions, but on returning to the world, did not further distinguish himself as a Friend. etymology which is new to us in "Love-and-tearThe other was Anthony's younger it" for Lavatera (arborea) the tree mallow. William. He migrated to London; became the friend and son-in-law of Gawen Lawrie, a wellknown Quaker merchant, afterwards deputy governor of East New Jersey; and followed that good man into the New World, where, grown very grey," he died, at Burlington, at the age of forty-two. brother Notices to Correspondents. EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The PubCharles Tylor (1816-1902) wrote for his grand-lishers"-at the Office, Printing House Square, children, an artless but lively account of his school-days in the "Twenties" which takes the chief place in the first number. 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