(1882), ascribe the authorship of this book to Charles Marsh and not Dr. Maginn. G. F. R. B. (6th S. v. 28.) Piozziana; or, Reminiscences of the late Mrs. Piozzi, with Remarks by a Friend (the Rev. E. Mangin), 1833, 8vo., reviewed by Quarterly Review, xlix. 247, and Athenæum, 1833, 129. WILLIAM PLATT. Though not devoid of interest, it is now superseded by Mr. Hayward's memoirs of that unhappy lady. W. P. COURTNEY. friends, among blind old women, old presidents, and AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. editing her letters. In the present century he might iv. 514). "C'est l'amour, l'amour," &c. This song came out in the year 1821, and remained very popular for many years. It will be found in Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France, vol. ii. p. 180, published by G. de Godet, 6, Rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris. There are four verses, and if MR. GORDON will favour me with his address I shall be happy to send him a copy of EDGAR MACCULLOCH. them. Guernsey. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. George Selwyn and his Contemporaries. With Memoirs and Notes. By J. Heneage Jesse. New Edition. 4 vols. (Bickers & Son.) SELWYN never destroyed a letter, and this habit, so entirely at variance with his general carelessness, has produced these four volumes of his friends' correspondence. They lift the curtain upon fashionable society in the days of its defiant licentiousness, its abandoned ease, and its profligate gaiety. We take a place at the faro table at Brooke's, White's, or Almack's; we lounge into the parks, Betty's fruit-shop, or the House of Commons; with the most exquisite of the Macaronis we ogle the company at Mrs. Cornelys's or Vauxhall; we drink the waters at the wells, or recruit our jaded strength in country houses. Here is gossip told by such masters of that art as "Horry" Walpole, Gilly Williams, Lord Carlisle, and the Duke of Queensberry-respecting the lives of great personages and of famous beauties, such as Lady Harvey, the "lovely Molly Lepel," whom Pope idolized as much as he hated her husband, his Lady Fanny and his Sporus, Lady Sarah Bunbury, whose charms turned the youthful head of George III., and "those goddesses the Gunnings"-Lady Coventry and the Duchess of Hamilton. George Selwyn, whose bons mots would equip a dozen wits, abhorred the country, and, like Jekyll, delighted in the clatter of hackney coaches on paved streets. His country house was Matson, two miles from Gloucester, overlooking the city and the Severn, where Charles II. and the Duke of York had spent some days during the siege of 1643, and recorded their visit by carvings on the wainscot. The house was good, the situation charming; yet he rarely visited it, though it gave him the command of the Gloucester elections. He was also proprietor of the borough of Ludgershall, and as the patron of four seats was the deserving recipient of sinecures. Unlike most Englishmen of his day, he lived much in Paris. An accomplished French scholar, with a better pronunciation than any other living Englishman, he was the idol of Parisian salons and the favourite of the queen of Louis XV. "The queen," writes Lord March, asked Madame de Mirepoix si elle n'avait pas beaucoup entendu médire de M. Selwyn et elle. Elle a répondu, 'Oui, beaucoup, madame. J'en suis bien aise, dit la reine." He lived in Paris, said his have become a distinguished antiquary. One of his friends visited the scene of the execution of the Maréchal Duc de Biron, and thus writes to Selwyn : "How many anecdotes you would have called to mind; how many books would you have read the night before to have amazed the warder and tired us; how many mémoires would you have quoted!" While in Paris he was pestered with requests from ladies or dandies in London to send them velvets and ruffles, tambour needles, bellropes, and clothes from Le Duc, the fashionable tailor; in return he orders from England chip hats, tea, and fans. The number and variety of the commissions which he executed, and the contents of his house at Matson, prove him a man of taste, but the articles he was called on to select were as incongruous as his ruling passions for gambling, children, and executions. Lord Carlisle gives a sketch of his life in London:"You get up at 9; play with Raton [his dog] till 12; then creep down to White's and abuse Fanshawe; are five hours at table; sleep till you can escape your supper reckoning; then make two wretches carry you with three pints of claret in you three miles." Thefamous partie quarrée or out-of-town-party which Horace Walpole entertained at Strawberry Hill used to consist of Selwyn, Edgcumbe, and Gilly Williams. The scenes described in these volumes raise the inquiry whether society is as accomplished, as witty, and as lively now as in the eighteenth century. On one thing we may congratulate ourselves: that in all the externals of morality we have improved. Would public opinion now tolerate the First Lord of the Treasury, the Duke of Grafton, leading a Nancy Parsons in triumph through the opera-house, or that Miss Ray should do the honours of Hinchingbroke for Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, or that a Lord of the Bedchamber, the Duke of Queensberry, should drive down to Newmarket with an Italian opera dancer, the rest of the garliceating tribe following in a second carriage? It is to be hoped that our egotism is more justifiable than that of the Pharisee. In conclusion, we strongly recommend these volumes, which are full of varied interest,. illustrated with some excellent prints, and published at a most moderate price. The History of the Two Ulster Manors of Finagh, in the County of Tyrone, and Coole, otherwise Manor Atkin son, in the County of Fermanagh. By the Earl of Belmore. (Longmans & Co.) IRELAND has been neglected by local historians. There are very few good town histories, and hardly any of the rural districts which can in any way be compared with what England and Scotland possess. The Earl of Belmore has done what he can to supply this deficiency, and done it in so modest a manner that we have nothing but thanks to offer him. The succession of property has suffered such violent interruptions in Ireland that local history has to be written there in a manner widely different from what we are accustomed to. Here we have a long series of public documents, commonly beginning with the Conqueror's survey, which throw light on almost every hamlet in England beyond the boundaries of the five northern shires. In Ireland the record evi'dence is scanty, and the long tragedy of confiscation has destroyed historical continuity. Even the names of places have perished and their boundaries been swept away, in many cases as utterly as the traces of the Red Indian in Massachusetts or Rhode Island. Few places in Ireland, except the Norman towns and the fenced cities, have a recoverable history earlier than the Reformation. Lord Belmore has acted wisely in not giving us wild speculation in the place of history, as some other Irish antiquaries have done. He traces the history of his domains with patient accuracy by the help of title deeds and other legal documents, and furnishes us as he goes along with a perfect treasure of Celtic names of places and persons. The book is, of course, not amusing reading in the sense that a novel or a magazine article is so, but it will be found very instructive by those who wish to understand something of the Ireland of the past and who profoundly discredit the partisan writers on all sides who have tried to enlighten them. In the appendix is what we believe to be the most accurate version of the Beresford ghost story that is extant. be valuable to students of genealogy and those who are interested in surnames. Time has The Revisers' English. By G. Washington Moon, F.R.S.L. who are lovers of the purity of the English language, or The History of Wallingford, in the County of Berks. By their own swords. The book cannot fail to interest all John Kirby Hedges. 2 vols. (Clowes.) THIS is a book over which immense labour has been expended. There is very much that we might say in its praise, and but little to find fault with except the title. It should have been called not a history, but materials for a history, of Wallingford. The author has ransacked almost every printed authority for information and some manuscripts, but he has not woven his materials together they are for the most part undigested as in a calendar. We do not find fault with this-it is far better than the practice some persons indulge in of giving us fine writing when we want facts; but it is only fair that the title should accurately describe the nature of the book. Much of the first volume is occupied with the Roman time, and we cannot speak too highly of Mr. Hedges's conscientious thoroughness in putting the whole evidence before his readers. The Roman topography of Britain is still a subject which fires the temper of certain enthusiastic students. We must, therefore, be very guarded and say as little here on the subject as possible. We are bound, in justice to one who has devoted so much time and thought to the subject, to say that we believe that Mr. Hedges is right in his conclusions as to the site of Calleva Atrebatum. We are sorry, however, to find that he does not speak quite positively as to the spuriousness of the book known as Richard of Cirencester. He is not in the position of the old race of antiquaries. He evidently would not trust the book, but still is not quite certain that it is a modern forgery. It is a matter, however, that now admits of not the slightest possible doubt. Mr. Hedges gives at length the text with a translation of Henry II.'s charter to Wallingford. It is a highly curious document, and as such was printed, in the beginning of the last century, by Brady in his treatise on Burghs. One chief point of interest in it consists in the fact that it contains a fragment of Early English imbedded in it like a fossil in a rock. The king grants, in good law Latin, freedom of toll to all the men of Wallingford in England, Normandy, Aquitaine, and -Anjou : "Bi Gater end by Strande, Bi Wode en bi Lande.” Brady's text, though verbally the same, has some differences of spelling. If the original be in existence, it is much to be wished that this early fragment of our mother tongue should be given with literal accuracy. The second volume contains several lists of public officers which will MR. W. H. DAWSON has sent us a series of interesting papers, contributed by him to the columns of the Craven Pioneer (Skipton), entitled "Skipton Castle and Town during the Civil Wars." ON Feb. 4, 1882, Chambers's Journal will have completed its fiftieth year, and in commemoration of the event Dr. William Chambers, the senior conductor, will offer to his readers a résumé entitled Reminiscences of a Long and Busy Life. Notices to Correspondents. CORNELIUS WALFORD.-Is this what you want?"Ad Tongilianum. 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