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architecture. But why copy some existing
inscription when so many excellent virgin
phrases offer themselves? A brief study, for
instance, of Bacon's Essays' might reveal a
number of crisp sentences suitable for MR.
MCCARA's purpose.
WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.
[MR. H. W. UNDERDOWN also refers to the book
by S. F. A. Caulfeild.]

connected with the vicinity of a tenement so called, I imagined its bearer to have been a bard, and the dwelling to have derived its name from him; but I have lately seen a case in which Harper would seem to be a corruption of Harepath (Herpath), and its situation might well be distinguished as lying close to the military route. It occurs in a printed handbill, dated 29 September, 1820, announcing the sale by auction of "that messuage called Harper, otherwise Harepath......these premises adjoin the Turnpike road leading from Okehampton to Exeter, and are distant about a mile from

S. Tawton lime-kilns."

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

DR. SAMUEL HINDS, FORMERLY BISHOP OF NORWICH (10th S. i. 227, 351, 415).-I remember, when a boy at school, the strange rumours prevalent in 1857 regarding this prelate's resignation, which was caused by an entire loss of memory and mental aberration of a very distressing character, culminating in the scandal of his second marriage. TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT LONDON (9th S. After his resignation he lived in the neigh- xii. 429; 10th S. i. 70, 295, 457).—As MR. bourhood of Notting Hill, and during the MACMICHAEL is au courant about the cemeyears 1863 to 1866 I often used to meet him tery of the French refugees in London in in the streets of that neighbourhood, and in 1721, will he kindly send us a word as to the his strange attire he presented a striking register of the burial of their dead at that appearance. It was said that at first he was period? Does it exist? Does it tell us in very straitened circumstances, eventually where Pierre d'Urte (whose Baskish translarelieved, as it was commonly reported, by the tion of Genesis and a part of Exodus I bounty of the fourteenth Earl of Derby, the criticized in an unfortunately single-proofed Prime Minister, who more than once unsuc-article in the American Journal of Philology cessfully endeavoured to obtain for him a for the year 1902) died and was interred? pension from ecclesiastical funds, and upon one occasion raised a debate upon the subject in the House of Lords, thus paving the way for the existing law, passed a few years subsequently, authorizing the payment of a pension, out of the salary of his successor, for a bishop who is compelled by age or infirmity to retire.

Dr. Hinds had been a Fellow and Tutor of Queen's College, Oxford, and was VicePrincipal of St. Alban Hall when and after Archbishop Whately was Principal. He was Dean of Carlisle for about a year (October, 1848, to September, 1849), succeeded Bishop Edward Stanley in 1849 as Bishop of Norwich, and was a member of the first Oxford University Commission. F. DE H. L. HAREPATH (10th S. i. 190, 459).-Harepath is a common field-name in Devon in and within a few miles' radius of South Tawton, and I have noticed it in a Wiltshire terrier I think, near Bishop's Canning.

A farmer told me once he fancied that one of his meadows might have got the appellation from its being traversed by hares, the tracks or paths worn by their habitual use being even more clearly discernible than those made by rabbits. The field or place name Harper is also to be met with in the neighbourhood. Having found a twelfth or thirteenth century surname "Le Harpur"

E. S. DODGSON. "SEND" OF THE SEA (10th S. i. 368, 456).— In the Gentleman's Dictionary,' London, 1705: "When a ship falls deep into the trough or hollow of the sea, then 'tis said she Sends much that way, whether a head or a-stern." In J. K.'s 'New English Dictionary,' fifth edition, London, 1748: "The ship sends much, i.e., falls with her stern deep into the hollow between two waves."

W. S.

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"GOLF" IS IT SCANDINAVIAN? (10th S. i. 168; see also the quotation from the 'Book of Articles in the first column of 9th S. vi. 445.)-It is hardly likely that Mary should be described as playing "with the palmall and goif," unless these words meant the clubs used in the games now known by the names of pall mall and golf. We cannot be certain until the 'N.E.D.' has treated the preposition with. Q. V.

DOGE OF VENICE (10th S. i. 469)-In the Venice,' Byron gives the account of him in Appendix to his 'Marino Faliero, Doge of

* Of which the true date is 1568, and not as there printed.

518

NOTES AND QUERIES.

the 'Cronica di Sanuto' (Muratori, 'SS. Rerum Italicarum,' vol. xxii. 628-39) in the original Italian, with an English translation by Mr. F. Cohen, from which latter I extract the following:

"And they did not paint his portrait in the hall of the Great Council:-but in the place where it ought to have been, you see these words:- Hic est locus Marini Faletro decapitati pro criminibus.' ......I must not refrain from noticing that some wished to write the following words in the place where his portrait ought to have been as aforesaid :Marinus Faletro Dux. Temeritas me cepit. Pœnas lui decapitatus pro criminibus.' Others also indited a couplet, worthy of being inscribed upon his

tomb:

tentans,

Dux Venetum jacet heic, patriam qui prodere Sceptra, decus, censum, perdidit, atque caput." The inscription on a black tablet is still to be seen on the frieze in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, but "Falethri," not Faletro," appears to be the correct reading. Faliero was executed 17 April, 1355.

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JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [MR. J. DORMER, MR. J. A. J. HOUSDEN, MR. E. PEACOCK, and MR. R. A. POTTS also refer to Marino

Faliero. 1

GUNCASTER (10th S. i. 448).-Guncaster bears such a similarity to some ancient forms of Godmanchester that there is little room to doubt the identity in question. It was called Gumicastra, Gumicestre, and Gumycester. In the Cotton MS., quoted in Dugdale's 'British Traveller,' are certain particulars of the customs of the manor of Godmanchester, where, it says,

"also it is ordeyned and statutyd, that if any man of the s towne of Gumycester have two or three sons by one woman lawfully begotten, the younger of the sd sons shall be the ayer, according to the use and custome of borough English," &c.

So in Lewis's 'Topog. Dict.': "The manor was first granted in fee farm to the 'Men of Gumcester."" J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

The Record Interpreter,' in A List of the
Latin Names of Places,' give Gumicastrum,
Godmanchester, Hunts. Dunum is given for
Doncaster, Yorks.
ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

(10th S. I. JUNE 25, 1904.

Fox, Sheridan, and the younger Pitt. At pp. 70, 72-5, 80, and 265-6 is much information concerning this well-known place. At p. 72 is reproduced much of Dickens's characteristic description from 'Sketches by Boz.' We are told that the practice of supplying wine to members with their meals "led to lucrative transactions outside the House, and so the foundations were laid of a business which exists to this day in Westminster." The latter statement is not quite true at the present time, for the business carried on at 38, Parliament Street, by Messrs. Bellamy, Smith & Boyes, underwent some changes, it became Bellamy & Smith, and now the firm and after being thus known for many years, is entirely extinct. A wine merchant's business is still carried on in the old offices by Messrs. Liberty & Co., but they inform me that they did not take over the business. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. C2, The Almshouses, Rochester Row. "HEN-HUSSEY": "WHIP-STITCH": "WOODTOTER" (10th S. i. 449, 475).—Whip-stitch in Annandale's 'Imperial Dictionary is explained to be a tailor in contempt. The Rev. T. L. O. Davies, in his 'Supplementary English Glossary,' says it means to stitch slightly, and gives the following quotation from Quip for an Upstart Courtier,' by Robert Greene (1550-92)::

"In making of velvet breeches......there is required silke lace, cloth of golde, of silver, and such and draw out." costly stuffe, to welt, guard, whip stitch, edge face EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

GAYUS DIXON (10th S. i. 449).-Extract from Catalogue No. 40, 1904, issued by A. Russell Smith, 24, Great Windmill Street, London, W. :

344 Dickson (D.) A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew (imperfect at end), 2s., Glasgow, 1647. Was this the first "Dickson" recorded? RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Poems and Ballads.
Windus.)

First Series. (Chatto &

"BELLAMY'S" (10th S. i. 169, 352). In that well-known book Parliament, Past and Present,' by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. —Vol. I. (published by Hutchinson & Co., but without date), POLITICIAN will find at p. 69 of vol. i. a portrait of John Bellamy, who is there described as being the "founder of the Kitchen Department of the House of Commons," it being further noted that, as proprietor of "Bellamy's Kitchen," he was intimate with

A COMPLETE edition of Mr. Swinburne's poetical and dramatic works has long been demanded, and the gift is at length in the way of being conceded. Poems and Ballads,' which merits the position The opening volume consists of the first series of assigned it, inasmuch as, though preceded in date

by 'The Queen Mother and Rosamond' and by Atalanta in Calydon,' it was the first purely lyrical offspring of Mr. Swinburne's invention. To men of to-day the pother caused by its appearance is a thing so wholly of the past that no further mention seems requisite or expedient. Men of yesterday can scarcely dispose of the question so placidly and with so much ease. Such remember the welcome awarded 'Atalanta in Calydon,' a work in its revelation of strength and beauty constituting the most remarkable poetic firstfruits that had been seen since the days of Milton. Neither the envy nor the hatred of dulness could deny the grace and glory of such work, and criticism grudgingly conceded that a new planet had swum into the world's ken. With the appearance of "Poems and Ballads' came an opportunity not to be missed of maligning genius and compensating for enforced eulogy. From the recognized critical organs of the day there went up a scream of condemnation and execration, in answer to which the peccant volume was withdrawn by a publisher whose caution was in advance of his other gifts. To these things, to which we should not, probably, have recurred had not Mr. Swinburne himself referred to them in combative fashion, the appearance of the first volume of the collected works constitutes a complete answer. No reply was, in fact, needed, such having been brought about in the best and simplest fashion. The only effect of the spasm of indignation and affright on the part of Mrs. Grundy, and the subsequent action on the part of the publisher in question, was that a new name appeared at the foot of the title-page of a work in which no elision of any kind had been made, and that copies of Poems and Ballads' with the original title-page, differing in no respect whatever from the later issues, were purchased at an enhanced price by a few guileless collectors. When now, as the first volume of the new edition, Poems and Ballads' is reprinted, our search fails to detect the slightest variation. The order of the poems is the same, and the dedication "To my friend Edward Burne-Jones" is retained. In type and format the editions are different, and the new volume has, in addition, a dedication of the collected poems to Theodore Watts-Dunton, together with a dedicatory epistle to the same writer, which is equally honouring to both. In these things is found the matter of most interest to the possessor of the earlier edition. In no sense can the preface be regarded as an apologia. It is to some extent, however, autobiographical and elucidatory, and it is in a high degree defiant. In the last lines the characteristic attitude of Mr. Swinburne towards critics and friends reveals itself: "It is nothing to me that what I write should find immediate or general acceptance: it is much to know that on the whole it has won for me the right to address this dedication and inscribe this edition to you." Elsewhere Mr. Swinburne says: "To parade or to disclaim experience of passion or of sorrow, of pleasure or of pain, is the habit and the sign of a school which has never found a disciple among the better sort of English poets, and which I know to be no less pitifully contemptible in your opinion than in mine." Of the dramas (for the introduction covers the entire field of Mr. Swinburne's poetical works) the poet says that it is needless to remind Mr. WattsDunton that when he writes plays "it is with a view to their being acted at the Globe, the Red Bull, or the Black Friars," a piece of information

which tells the sympathetic critic little that he does not know, but which will be of highest service to the but half-enlightened reader. The whole of the epistle dedicatory tempts to extract. For the sympathetic, the cultivated, and the scholarly reader the book now reprinted contains more exquisite poetry than is to be found in the writings of any man of similar age. Such limitation, even, might be withdrawn, and we might repeat than in any firstfruits.

The Gull's Horn Book. By Thomas Dekker. Edited by R. B. McKerrow. (De La More Press.) THE Gull's Horn Book' is the most popular of Dekker's works, and was rendered accessible in an edition by Dr. Nott, in modern spelling, in 1812, long before the rage for reprinting Elizabethan and Jacobean literature had set in. Published as it was at a price (36s.) all but prohibitive, this book became nearly as hard to find as the original edition. One or two reprints have since appeared, and the work has long figured on our own shelves in the reprint of Dekker's prose works issued by Grosart in "The Huth Library.' In this the old spelling is preserved. In publishing the work afresh, in an eminently artistic shape, Mr. McKerrow follows pretty closely the edition of Nott, whose text (in the main), notes, glossary, and initial letters are preserved. An introductory chapter gives a brief life of Dekker and much bibliographical information, while a supplement supplies a chapter on How a Gallant should behave himself in a Playhouse,' which was substituted for that of the original by Sam Vincent, in a curious and scarce imitation called 'The Young Gallant's Academy; or, Directions how he should behave himself in all Places and Company.' Few books cast a brighter light upon life in Shakespearian times than 'The Gull's Horn Book,' and the work is one that no serious Shakespearian student should be without. It is quaintly and fantastically written, and may be read with amusement as well as studied with advantage. It can scarcely be desired in a more attractive shape.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic: a History. By John Lothrop Motley. (Bell & Sons.) To the "York Library" has been added, in threepretty, artistic, and handy volumes, Motley's history of The Rise of the Dutch Republic,' reprinted from the "Standard Library." This record now ranks as a classic, and in its present pleasing guise is likely to attract thousands of readers. We owe an enormous debt to the "Standard Library," and are glad to welcome its masterpieces in so pleasing a garb. These books should find their way to every home that owns any cultivation.

A Dictionary of Names, Nicknames, and Surnames of Persons, Places, and Things. By Edward Latham. (Routledge & Sons.)

EVIDENCES of Mr. Latham's industry and zeal in the compilation of his book have been frequent in our pages. So far as the general public is concerned, Mr. Latham has rendered a genuine service. We wish he had gone further and assisted the scholar, and we urge him to do so in the new edition soon to be demanded. We find here too many names the significance of which is forgotten or, at any rate, expiring, such as the Modern Pliny, the Modern Wagner, the Michelangelo of Music, the English Erasmus, &c., instead of which we should

like to have an account of Grobianus, the Libertines, and the like. No mention is given of Euphuism, Marinism, and Gongorism, literary movements of great importance in England, Italy, and Spain. Little Bernard, le Petit Bernard Bernard Salomon, the sixteenth-century illustrator of the Bible and Ovid, is much worthier of notice than the Little Giant. Oxford deserves mention as the Home of Lost Causes. We could supply scores of similar instances of omission. Scholarship, alas! is out of fashion, and the man in the street is, it appears, the person for whom to cater. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. By Robert Louis Stevenson. (Chatto & Windus.) To the beautiful fine-paper edition of Stevenson has been added a delightful reprint of one of that author's most characteristic works. Among the contents is the Essay on some Aspects of Robert Burns,' the agitation caused by which is not even yet forgotten.

Miscellanies of Edward FitzGerald. (Routledge & Sous.)

Six Dramas of Calderon. Translated by Edward FitzGerald. (Same publishers.)

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IN a convenient and attractive shape we have here FitzGerald's translations from Calderon, and in a second volume 'Omar Khayyam,' Euphranor, 'Polonius,' Salámán and Absál,' The Memoir and Death of Bernard Barton,' and The Death of George Crabbe.' These are cheap and eminently desirable reprints, and should do much to popularize the study of FitzGerald in that large public he has hitherto failed to reach.

Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Edited by Charles F. Forshaw, LL.D. May. (Stock.) OUR new namesake promises well. It is, as it should be, almost restricted to the service of the great county whose name it bears. If conducted on its present lines it will soon become a valuable storehouse of facts regarding the largest and, as the natives regard it, the most important of our shires. The biographical article with which it opens is worthy of attention. It is very interesting as containing not only an account of Mr. Henry James Barker, who was born at Sheffield upwards of fifty years ago, but also a selection from his poems, some of which, when once read, it is not easy to forget. The gang of coiners which, towards the end of the eighteenth century, had for some years an establishment near Halifax and was a terror to the neighbourhood, has recently attracted attention. A correspondent has supplied an interesting illustration of the effrontery of the people

engaged in this illegal trade. It is a letter written in 1770 to Joshua Stancliffe, a Halifax watchmaker, who is threatened with death if David Hartley, the leader of the confraternity, who was then in custody, should suffer for his misdeeds. The gang took terrible vengeance for Hartley's execution (see 9th S. viii. 258, 299, 350). Mr. Arthur Clapham, of Bradford, contributes an interesting paper on the Marmion Chapel and Tower at Tanfield, accompanied by two excellent engravings, one of which represents the iron "herse" which canopies the tomb of one of the Marmions and his wife, a St. Quintin. This is one of the most interesting objects in the county. Herses must have been, before the sixteenth-century changes in religion, far from uncommon, but they have now nearly all

of them perished. There is one in the Beauchamp Chapel; and a portion of another, which must have been, when perfect, of a similar character to that at Tanfield, is preserved in the South Kensington Museum.

description by Mr. Claude Phillips of An Unknown No. xv. of the Burlington Magazine contains a Watteau: a Fête Champêtre,' a reproduction of which serves as frontispiece to the number. Mr. Phillips speaks in unquestionable terms of the work in question. Another picture of the same artist is La Vraie Gaieté,' from the collection of Sir Charles Tennant. The appreciation of the earlier work, now in the National Gallery, Dublin, House is finished, as are the fine miniatures from is a fine piece of criticism. The account of Claydon the Harleian MS. of The Chronicles of Jean Breton.' These should be carefully studied in the case of any revival of Richard II.' Part ii. of Mr. Roger E. Fry's Exhibition of French Primitives' is profoundly interesting.

BARON DE TOCQUEVILLE'S 'L'Ancien Régime' is about to be issued by the Oxford University Press. The editor is Mr. G. W. Headlam, who has written a short introduction explaining De Tocqueville's position among scientific historians, together with a few notes of a more or less elementary kind.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices:

ON all communications must be written the name

and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answer. ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate."

A. B. ("O broad and smooth the Avon flows").will find quoted at the end of By Thames and From a poem by Canon H. C. Beeching, which you Cotswold, by W. H. Hutton (Constable, 1903). R. BARCLAY-ALLARDICE ("Death told to Bees"). This piece of folk-lore is well known.

D. WILLIAMSON ("Alias in Family Names").— You will probably be interested in the communications on this subject at 9th S. xii. 277. Your letter shall appear next week.

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Everybody last year asked what was meant by "PRINTERS' PIE." It was a queer title, and to-day it represents the second issue of a delightful publication NOW READY, the proceeds going to the Printers' Pension Corporation. It is unlike anything else. It contains STORIES, SONGS, and PICTURES provided gratuitously by Writers and Artists whose names are Household Words.

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