"forties" there was a song very much in vogue, which described the sights of London, and one stanza, I recollect, ended with "Centrifugal Railway." The only others I remember (very imperfectly) are the following:

Did you ever go to Madame Tussaud?

Your portrait in wax-work she's anxious to show:
There's the King of the French, and Fieschi the
traitor,

Commissioner Lin, and the Great Agitator,
Oh, oh, oh, oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Another stanza, referring to the Chinese
Exhibition, was something like this:-

Ching, a-ring, a-ring, ching, Feast of Lanterns,
Such a crop of chopsticks, hongs, and gongs,
Hundred thousand Chinese, crinkums crankums,
All among the Pekin pots and tongs.

I fancy the song came from one of Planche's
extravaganzas. If any correspondent knows
the whole of the words, and will communicate
them to me, I shall feel greatly obliged, as I
remember the tunes perfectly. Each stanza,
I may add, had a different tune.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

1, West Cliff Terrace, Ramsgate.

THOMAS POUNDE, S.J. (10th S. iv. 184, 268, 472). At the first reference MR. WAINEWRIGHT pointed out that "in various places it is asserted that our Thomas Pounde's mother's sister married a Mr. Britten." This assertion seems to be confirmed by the will of Thomas Pounde's uncle, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who died at the end of July, 1550. For in the will, which he made shortly before his death (P.C.C. 13 Bucke), the earl mentions his "sister Breten," as well as his 66 sister Pounde" and his "sister Laurence." The will is printed in the 'Trevelyan Papers' (Camden Soc., 1857), p. 206. "Sister Breten does not appear, at any rate by that surname, in the pedigree as kindly furnished at the last reference by ROUGE DRAGON. According to Berry's Hampshire Genealogies,' 320, Thomas Knight, of How, Northants, married the earl's sister "Anne." I suppose that he was the "Mr. Knyght" who, in a letter to Wriothesley, dated 12 April, 1538, was wished "a better turn if he marry your sister" (L. and P., temp. Henry VIII.,' vol. xiii. pt. i. No. 749); and also that he was the Thomas Knight who was then in Wriothesley's employ (ibid., Nos. 20, 324), who accompanied him on his embassy abroad in the autumn of 1538 (ibid., pt. ii. Nos. 542, 1140, &c.), and who in April, 1540, became a clerk to the signet in succession to Wriothesley, upon his appointment as a principal Secretary of State (ibid., vol. xv. No. 611, 17). This clerk of the signet is identified (ibid., vol. xviii., index) with Thomas Knight, clerk

of the Parliaments (1543), who had been a Winchester scholar (1521), and afterwards a fellow of New College (Oxford Univ. Reg.,' O.H.S., i. 331). ROUGE DRAGON (loc. cit.) does not mention his marriage with any sister of the earl.

there is an interesting account of Thomas In ‘L. and P.,' vol. xiii. pt. i. No. 748, Pounde's mother, "Mistress Elyne," her virtues, and her popularity as a godmother, White, of Southwick, shortly after she and in a letter of 12 April, 1538, written by John her husband had settled in White's neighbourhood in Hampshire. The supposition that her maiden name was Wriothesley has prevailed so long that perhaps ROUGE DRAGON may be induced to give us his reasons and authorities, presumably good ones, for making her only a uterine sister of the earl, with the maiden name of Beverley. H. C.

AUSIAS MARCH (10th S. iv. 469).-The highly praised 'Canzones' or love poems of "Ausias or Augustin March, the great Catalan Troubaflourished c. 1450, have never been translated dour,' and a follower of Petrarch, who into English, although they deserve a translation, according to the opinion of Señor Arteaga, himself a Catalan by birth. The late Lecturer on Spanish in the University of Oxford, H. B. Clarke, in his excellent handbook of Spanish literature (1893), ascribes to Ausias March the glory of being the greatest master of his native tongue. As I find in Tickner's History of Spanish Literature," "his works passed through four translated into Latin and Italian. In the editions in the sixteenth century, and were of no less consequence than Montemayor proud Castilian they were versified by a poet (cf. Ticknor, l.c., vol. i.). A recently reprinted edition which I have before me bears the title: 'Les Obres del valeros Cavaller y elegantissim poeta Ausias March,' pp. 255, sm. 8vo, Barcelona, 1888.

H. KREBS.

"

274; iv. 455).-I have had the palpable slip
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY' (10th S. i. 166, 217,
referred to at the first and last of the above
references marked in my copy ever since I
first read the book. I have also noted the
statement that, notwithstanding the frost
was hard enough to freeze the pump, a boy
had yet been told off to clean the back parlour
window.
JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

WELSH POEM (10th S. iv. 208, 392, 516).— W. B.'s communication is another instance of the wisdom of "verifying one's references."

doubtless to be accounted for by the fact that the relics of the martyred Pope Cornelius of the third century were brought to Compiègne by Charles the Bold, whence a portion was carried to the Chapter of Rosnay, in Flanders (see Miss Yonge's 'Christian Names,' 1884). It would be very welcome if light could be thrown on the difficult question of the etymology of "Yankee." "Jan Kees" is, however, merely one out of many nicknames applied in Flanders to the Hollanders. Another, for instance, is " Kaas-kop," .e. "Cheese-head." JAS PLATT, Jun.

has respected his uncle's scheme and intention, has corrected obvious typographical errors, and cluded in brackets such few changes or addihas, in accordance with modern practice, intions as he has felt constrained to make. Mr. Scott's chief task has consisted in the verification in proof of quotations, a labour in this instance of no common toil and importance. The text is that of the four-volume octavo edition of 1783, the last ing has been preserved, the one thing altered being published in Johnson's lifetime. Of this the spellthe punctuation, which, by express direction of Dr. Birkbeck Hill, has been rendered conformable to modern use. A more sparing employment of majuscules is, we fancy, to be traced; but on this subject, as we have instituted no exact comparison, we cannot speak with certainty. "Kees" is an abbreviated Dutch proper which renders it a grace to any library, this new Apart from its handsome and attractive form, name for Krelis, or Kornelis, which is ap-edition-which, if there were in these days any plied colloquially to a blockhead, or clumsy fellow; sometimes, also, to a fox dog (cf. Holtrop's Dutch-Engl. Dictionary,' 1801). If "Jan Kees" were, indeed, the origin of "Yankee" (after the analogy of John Bull"), both the loss of its final s and its present refined sense would be the result and polishing effect of an altered time. Perhaps some earlier instances of the first occurrence of "Yankee" may be found later, enabling the editors of the H.E.D.' to decide the question. H. KREBS.

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PARLIAMENTARY WHIPS (10th S. iv. 507).

such thing as finality, might well be definite and final-is notable for the appendices, the notes, and the index. The first named are most numerous in the cases of Addison, Cowley, Dryden, Gray, Milton, Pope, and Swift. These appendices are often biothe case of Cowley, whose life opens out the series, graphical, but more often literary and critical. In Mr. Aldis Wright gives, in Appendix A, an extract from the records of Trinity College, dated 30 March, 1636, showing that Abraham Cowley was "chosen into a drie Chorister's place in reversion," a "drie not sing, which does not seem wholly satisfactory. chorister" being, it is conjectured, one who did Appendix B supplies condemnation, by the Wartons (Joseph and Thomas), Coleridge, and Landor, of Cowley's Latin verse. Appendix C deals with moderate ambition, with Johnson's use of the unhappy term "metaphysical poets," and so forth. Appendix N, which follows, is affixed to Milton, teenth century writers said of that poet. The only and shows us what seventeenth and early eighthing regrettable in a deeply interesting note is an injudicious criticism by Dr. Birkbeck Hill himself, who, engrossed in eighteenth-century literature, expresses an opinion that Masson exaggerates [!] Milton's reputation, which provokes the exclamation, "Ne supra crepidam judicaret.

May I point out that Lord North's interest-The Cutler of Coleman Street,' with Cowley's ing letter quoted at the above reference is not what is, at all events nowadays, called "whip." Such a letter (lithographed) is sent to every member of the House of Commons by the leader of his party before the beginning of each session.

"Whips" are notices of every parliamentary day's business, usually five a week. They come from the party whips"; eg, for the members of the Unionist party from Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, chief" whip" of that party. The chief" out the written (ie, lithographed or typewhips" send written) "whips" according to party. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Lives of the English Poets. By Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L. 3 vols. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) SUCH crown upon Dr. Birkbeck Hill's Johnsonian labours as is involved in the appearance of this splendid and authoritative edition of the Lives of the English Poets' can only be laid upon his tomb. The work itself is complete, and the worker

Home has gone and ta'en his wages. The task of final recension has, however, devolved upon his nephew, Mr. Harold Spencer Scott, who

Between the appearance of Dr. Birkbeck Hill's magnificent edition of Boswell's life and that of and the conscientiousness of the labour. The notes this edition of the poets almost nineteen years have passed, without any diminution of the earnestness

to the latter work are indeed as useful and as ample as those of the previous, and the present index constitutes a valuable appendix to that of the life, which may count as the most useful of modern days. Strict and narrow as was the limitation imposed upon Johnson by his political convictions, his lives of the poets remain priceless. While lenient and tender to the ribaldries of Prior, and indulgent to the obscenities of Swift, he is churlish and grudging to Milton. It is, however, needless and inexpedient to deal afresh with the value of Johnson's literary estimates. When these were not coloured by his prejudices, they were those of his time, and they have in plentiful measure the qualities of his robust and assertive personality. To the scholar and the man of letters Dr. Birkbeck Hill's will remain not only the best, but the only conceivable edition of the lives. So large is the mass of information these volumes contain that

10th S. V. JAN. 6, 1906.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

they form an indispensable portion of the equip-
The notes which Dr.
ment of the student.
Birkbeck Hill supplies may be read with constant
delight and edification, mixed with what is more
We rise from their
than a little bewildering.
perusal with as much doubt of the value of criticism
and the sanity of critics as we do from that of the
separate items in the great Variorum Shakespeare,
in which there is "but one halfpennyworth of
It is not
bread to this intolerable deal of sack.'
easy, however, to overestimate the value of this
edition as a contribution to literature.

L'Homme et son Image. Par Ch Moreau Vauthier.
(Hachette et Cie.)

ONE more of the sumptuous annuals issued by the great publishing firm of Hachette reaches us, and in some respects of luxury and beauty goes beyond its predecessors. In shape and design it belongs to the same order as 'L'Image de la Femme' of M. Armand Dayot, Inspecteur des Beaux-Arts (see 9th S. iv. 549), and the anonymous Portraits de l'Enfant' (see 9th S. viii. 515). It may claim, however, to be more interesting than either, and goes far to establish the opinion or heresy that in man, as in other species, the masculine figure is worthier than the feminine. No serious attempt is made to prove this by drawings from the nude, or by repro ductions of the masterpieces of ancient sculpture. A wooden statue of One or two such appear. Ramké or the Cheik el Beled, from the museum at Cairo, serves as a frontispiece; the famous marble Hermes' of Praxiteles and the Vatican 'Hercules,' with busts of Roman emperors and the like, being also supplied. As a rule, pictorial rather than plastic art has been called into request; the likenesses are draped, or in ancient or modern costume, and are in nine cases out of ten those of known or recognizable individuals. The letterpress, moreover, is able, thoughtful, judicious, and the work may on its own merits be read with interest and advantage. Incidentally the book, like others of its predecessors, is a guide to pictorial art, and furnishes illustrations of the principal schools of portraiture in Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, England, and elsewhere. It is an apotheosis of the portrait painter's art, quoting the opinion of Baudelaire that the artist must see all that shows itself and divine all that lets itself be hid, depicting for us Ingres weeping with nervousness over his powerlessness to seize what he felt to be essential, and Delacroix suffering beneath his sense of incapacity. The work of M. Moreau Vauthier is arranged under four heads, answering to as many periods: first, that of the athlete, which covers the whole of antiquity; next, that of the swordsman ("l'homme d'épée'), which treats of the Middle Ages; then that of the courtier, corresponding to the Renaissance; and, lastly, "l'homme d'affaires," who dominates the period from the French Revolution until to-day. These divisions are necessarily more or less arbitrary, but answer sufficiently well their another much into one They run purpose. and the courtier of the as do the seasons, time of Louis XIV. was pre-eminently also the man of the sword. The origin of the athlete is taken as found in Egypt, and the earliest designs are those of the Sphinx of Gizeh and the likeness of Rameses II., otherwise Sesostris, Pharaohs, and others. Assyrian and Greek art come next, and busts of Apollo and Jupiter follow those of Demosthenes and Socrates, and are in turn fol

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lowed by those of Augustus, Pompey, Vespasian,
Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca. Men of the sword
soon arrive, however, at portraits by Mabuse,
open out not too appropriately with Christ. We
Dürer, Van Eyck, Holbein, Cranach, and Botti-
celli, the portrait of Alva ly Antonio Moro being
perhaps the deadliest as well as the most modern.
L'Homme de
A mere nomenclature of the heads of highest
interest which we find in this section would require
more space than we can afford.
Louis XIV. Among other portraits are Jacopo
Cour' section begins with Varin's portrait of
Palma's Ariosto' from the National Gallery;
• Les
da Vinci, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velasquez, and
Titian's 'Aretino' from the Pitti Gallery; Leonardo
Reynolds, all by the painters themselves.
Hommes d'Affaires' lead off with Napoléon I. by
Houdin, unless we can regard as belonging to that
category M. Rodin, who appears in the Préface.
very striking picture by
Distinguished among the remaining designs are the
Duc de Richelieu by Lawrence; Nanteuil by
Pagnest; Balzac, a
Boulanger; Bertin by Ingres; David, Gavarni, and
Delacroix by themselves; a painter by Goya;
Manet by Fantin-Latour; Carlyle by Whistler;
Emile de Girardin by Carolus Duran; a young man
by Millet; Gérôme by Morot; Pasteur by Edelfelt;
and Tolstoi by Prince Troubetskoi. A work in its
class of equal interest is not easily to be recalled.
Incidental designs are no less noteworthy than the
other features, and the whole is in an artistic
binding of inlaid green calf. Such a gift-book would
grace any collection, and delight the philosopher as
well as the man of taste.

A Genealogical and Hera'dic Dictionary of the
By Sir Bernard
Peerage and Baronetage, &c.
(Harrison &
Burke and Ashworth P. Burke.
Sons.)
RATHER later than usual, in consequence of the
desire of the editor to include so far as possible
the promotions necessitated by the change of Govern-
ment, the eminent and authoritative peerage of
Burke-the most important of existing works of
genealogical reference-makes its appearance. A
supplement prefixed, contrary to the wont of such
things, to the volume affords all information
possible as to the outgoing and the incoming
ministry. In common with all annuals, Burke' is
subjected to the inconvenience caused by the fact
with that of a political crisis, by the results of
that the date of publication coincides precisely
which nearly every page of the contents is affected.
Some thirty odd columns of preliminary matter
serve to minimize, so far as the reader and student
are concerned, the inconvenience thus caused, and
place the peerage in its established position of
supplying the latest and amplest information.
serves equally well for announcement
What in the preface is said about the
edition
and comment. "Words......seem hardly necessary,"
the work having been too long before the public,
and [having] passed through too many editions, to
need explanation of its plan and scope, which
career unparalleled in length" (the present is the
remain without change through an unbroken
sixty-eighth edition). Without its recurrent aid,
genealogy in its most interesting phases, and
would be an unprofitable and comparatively unedi-
especially in its connexion with history and blazon,
fying pursuit, while England would lose its privi-
lege of possessing a record of hereditary honour and

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