9th S. ii. 358. 66 · "ANON" (10th S. i. 246, 337).—What was said at both the above references seemed to was restricted to The Miss Roberts mentioned superintended St. Louis Exhibition wrote to me for explathe extensive revision of the large Hoyt nation. I hope the American press will copy Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations,' com- my answer from 'N. & Q.' JAS. HAYES. pleted in 1895, and in the preface Mr. Hoyt Church Street, Ennis. pays full tribute to her ability. During this work she made search for the author of the five-stanza poem with the cradle-rocking refrain, which, in whole or in part, had been proceed on the assumption that Thackeray's 39 anon peculiar use of " for several years a waif in literature-now gathered into collections of Best Poens,' the example quoted from the lecture on and now appearing in newspaper columns-George IV. There are, however, other inand learned the authorship in conversation stances of precisely the same treatment with Mr. Leigh in 1893 or 1894. Later, she elsewhere in the author's works. Several of wrote to The Critic of New York the letter them occur in the 'Roundabout Papers.' which in 1897 appeared, in substance, in The In the section, e.g., entitled 'On a Joke I Church Family Newspaper and is printed at once Heard,' the essayist says, "I saw Hood once as a young man, at a dinner which seems almost as ghostly now as that masquerade at the Pantheon (1772) of which we were speaking anon." Again, in the happy discourse which he delivers concerning Two Roundabout Papers which I intended to Write,' he opens a paragraph with the remark, "We spake anon of good thoughts." of the particle, a legitimate example occurs in As an offset to these irregular applications the paper 'On Letts's Diary.' The genii of the Theatres," here observes the homilist, which our young folk will see and note anon are composing the Christmas pantomime, in their little diaries." Evidently, as was suggested at the second of the above references. Thackeray considered that the adaptable flexibility of "anon" was similar to that which characterized the Latin olim, and therefore deliberately used it either for past or present, to suit his immediate purpose. It is curious that no one should have drawn his attention to the unwarrantable assumption before the reissue of his lectures and essays. THOMAS BAYNE. Mr. Leigh gave the time of the occurrence rather vaguely as many years ago," but if he was correct in his recollection of the persons who participated in this particular gathering it is easy to fix the date with close approximation. The only time when John Brougham and Artemus Ward could have shared in such a familiar meeting was in the winter of 1865-6. Brougham returned from London to New York in October, 1865, while Artemus Ward, then at the height of his popularity, left New York for England (never to return) some time in 1866. This gives very closely the date when William Ross Wallace wrote The Hand that Rules the World.' New York. M. C. L. SIR R. PEEL'S FRANKED AND STAMPED LETTERS (10th S. v. 48, 216).-I am familiar with Sir Robert Peel's letters and "franks." The name Robt. Peel" is neither lithographed nor written by a secretary. The letters enclosed in these envelopes make these matters plain. I inquired only as to uniqueness. The letters were written to a friend, and no secretary intervened. The ink of the frank "Robt. Peel" is a little faded, showing that seven or eight years separated the writing on "franks" from that on the address-"John Singleton, Esq.' In a collection of about 200 curious franks (1732-1840)-mostly Irish-the most curious is Henry Grattan's frank of "H. G." I believe initials as franks are unknown except my unique example (done in Cork). The "H. G." letter reached the addressee in Clare unchallenged, such was the popularity of H. G. at this period (1789). I am obliged to MR. PIERPOINT for his possibilities in explanation of the curious matter. Hundreds of people who saw these franked and stamped letters of Peel at the G. J. HOLYOAKE: CHARTISTS AND SPECIAL CONSTABLES (10th S. v. 126, 156, 191, 212).—My best thanks are due to MR. J. C. FRANCIS, MR. J. C. MARRIOTT, and MR. A. NEWELL, for their courteous correction of my misimpression. They make it quite clear that it was the late Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, and not Mr. G. J. Holyoake, who during the late fifties lectured at Sheffield under the name of Iconoclast. As a matter of fact, it may be pointed out that at that time (I refer to 1858) Iconoclast kept his identity a profound secret, and the outside public at Sheffield were quite unaware who the lecturer really was. The curious part about it is that when, some two years ago, I had occasion to write to Mr. Holyoake, and quite incidentally mentioned that it must have been nearly half a century ago when the lectures in question were delivered by him, he promptly Fair Park, Exeter. In sending my note on this subject I abstained from stating my recollection as to the number of special constables sworn in London (100,000), as I could not then discover any verification of this enormous number but I find in the recently published life of Archbishop Temple (vol. i. p. 73) the following: "On April 7th what was known as the 'Gagging Act' was passed in a panic by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons; and on April 10th London was filled with troops, 100,000 special constables were enrolled, and some of the public offices were garrisoned and provisioned." Birklands, Southport. HENRY TAYLOR. the mob to break into the hotel every moment, and thinking "discretion the better part of valour," groped his way in the darkened room to the fireplace, with the full intention of concealing himself within the great chimney. But on the unhappy F-s reaching his would be refuge and attempting to ascend, he found his efforts were in vain; and why-because the chimney was already filled with special constables, and there was no room left for poor F-s! However, the troops eventually drove off the Chartists, who fled, and F-s and his comrades were saved. Many a laugh have I enjoyed in old days at Christmas-time over this anecdote, and at the quaint way in which the narrator used to relate it. D. K. T. QUARTERING OF ARMS (10th S. v. 168, 215). -Without being able to answer J. M. E's second question as to the rights or wrongs of a quartering in the case stated by him, I can give him an instance of arms being quartered under similar circumstances. The late Sir John E. Millais, P.R.A., quartered the arms of Le Geyt. His great-great-grandfather married Rachel, daughter of John Le Geyt. The last male Le Geyt descendant of this John Le Geyt died in 1894. Several years ago I used frequently to spend Christmas with a relative (now deceased), who was then in possession of our ancient family residence in the neighbourhood of Newport, Monmouthshire; and as I went fully into the facts of this case in the house at this season was filled with 8th S. x. 451, and there described this guests, the services of an old waiter in New- quartering as a mistake; but because the port (who rejoiced in the name of a country, compiler of the Millais pedigree had approved by the way, where no doubt his ancestors of this quartering, in complete ignorance of had sworn horribly ") were requisitioned Millais, whom he described as "Rachel, the parentage of the wife of Edward to assist the butler and footmen in the pantry d. and h of--Le Geyt," and consequently and in waiting at table. Now F-s was a comical fellow and quite a "character," and also in ignorance of the fact that in 1865, afforded my relative and myself much amuse- Le Geyt descendant of Rachel's father was when the pedigree was printed, a male ment when the former used to 66 draw" him, in the smoking-room of an evening, to relate still living. some of his experiences; but the tale which used to keep us in a roar was that of his experience as a special constable during the Chartist riot at Newport in 1839. When the Chartists in their thousands came down from the hills to attack the town, F-s, with many other special constables. took refuge in the Westgate Hotel, which was barricaded and held by a company of the 45th Regiment (see Haydn's Dict. of Dates'). Constables and soldiers were all congregated in the front ground-floor room of the hotel, the latter firing on the rioters (who were vigorously attacking the hotel) through the loopholed shutters, which the Chartists, having broken all the windows, tried to batter in with heavy missiles. As the fighting grew fast and furious, our friend F-s, expecting CHAS. A. BERNAU. The person asking the two questions will, I fear, be in an unhappy position in regard to the replies of ULSTER and B. M., it not being clear whether the latter is intended as a reply to query No. 1, to No. 2, or to both. If intended as a reply to No. 1, it is clearly opposed to the opinion expressed by ULSTER. The point raised by No. 2 is simple and easily answered; but that raised by the first query is of considerable interest. I happened to have two of the works referred to by ULSTER on my table, and the third work referred to at my feet, at the time of reading his reply. I venture to think that it would have been difficult to refer to three works more helpful to the student than these. Strangely, however, perhaps the most useful of these on the specific point-Dallaway-is in favour of B. M.'s view (if his answer refers to query No. 1), being, in fact, his (Dallaway's) example No. 4. The rule as cited by Dallaway from the Glover MS. is : "If a man whose ancestors have married with divers inheritrixes do marry with an inheritrix by whom he hath divers daughters, and afterwards marry another inheritrix by whom he hath issue male, the issue general of the first wyfe shall bear their father's armes with their owne mother's quarterly." I have always understood that the rules laid Kersal Cell, Manchester. GRANTHAM OF GOLTHO FAMILY (10th S. v. 70, 231). My attention has been called to the letter of LINDUM COLONIA accusing me of taking a window out of one church and some recumbent effigies out of another, both relating to the Grantham family, and of adopting arms that do not belong to me. With the exception that I have placed the window in Barcombe Church and the effigies in a mission room in the same parish, there is not a word of truth in his statements, the facts relating to which he is apparently in absolute ignorance of. The window, or rather some of the glass in it, was found in a hayloft, where it had been put and lost after the private chapel in which it had been ceased to be used, and was then given to me by the owner; but that its origin should not be lost sight of, I had its original home recorded on the window in its new home. The recumbent effigies LINDUM COLONIA speaks of, which doubtless, at one time, were in the church he mentions, but which must have been taken out many years ago, when the church was removed-I found, very much damaged, under a heap of dung, and removed them at the suggestion of the then Dean of Lincoln (Dean Butler), as the Cathedral authorities would not give them a home. His story about my arms is equally fic titious. As to his remarks about my family, if they were true I should be proud to think I had succeeded in rising to the position of a judge from the husbandman or trigger he speaks of so contemptuously; but knowing something more than your correspondent of the migration of my family more than two centuries ago, I have tried in vain to find any connexion with those respectable handicraftsmen he refers to as Sussex Granthams; but I shall not enter into a discussion with such a correspondent, either as to my family history or the history of the Grantham memorials he alludes to. I shall be delighted to give MR. GREEN, of Heralds' College, as I have informed him, a full history of them, as he apparently is ignorant of it, though I fully discussed the matter with one of the members of that College, now dead, some years ago. WM. GRANTHAM. I know nothing of this family, but I must protest against the inference, still most common, that people low in the social scale, as husbandmen and basket-makers, cannot possibly be akin to families of high standing. Fabrication of ancestors is very properly condemned, but it is a strong statement to make that no Grantham of Essex has ever been shown to be connected in any way with Lincolnshire. Does your correspondent claim to have exhausted all records relating to families of the name? Perhaps recordevidence can very easily be cited showing such connexion. I hope this will be done by those who are interested. GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD. 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E. SIR WILLIAM H. DE LANCEY (10th S. iv. 409, 517; v. 72).-Lady De Lancey's narrative is printed in The Century Magazine for April. Two very interesting letters from Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens appear with it, and show us how deeply they were affected by reading the pathetic story in manuscript. Among the names mentioned by Lady De Lancey is that of a Lady Hamilton. Who she was I do not know. But among the portraits that illustrate the article in The Century is that of Lord Nelson's Lady Hamilton. A great error has been made. It cannot have been Lord Nelson's idol, for she died some months before Waterloo. Can any of your readers tell us what Lady Hamilton it was? There were seven or eight British officers of that name present at the battle. Was she related to any of them? Her name, however, does not appear in Lady De Ros's list of the company who were invited to the Duchess of Richmond's ball. She seems to have been acquainted with a gentleman named James, who was then in Belgium; and he perhaps was the Mr. James who had married Lady Emily Stewart, half-sister of Lord Castlereagh. I am informed that an edition of Lady De Lancey's narrative with notes will very soon be published by John Murray. It would be well if some correspondent could clear up the point at once. WATERLOOENSIS. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Lincoln: a Historical and Topographical Account of the City. By E. Mansel Sympson. (Methuen & Co.) THE series of Ancient Cities," published by Messrs. Methuen under the general supervision of Mr. B. C. A. Windle, has received a noteworthy addition in a history of Lincoln by Dr. E. Mansel Sympson. The pretensions of Lincoln to rank among the most interesting and important of ancient English cities will not be challenged. It has now found an historian worthy in all respects of zeal and competency, whose life has been passed beneath the shadow of its noble and venerable minster, and in the contemplation of its antiquities. The capacity of the writer to deal with the subject is transmitted, and his volume is piously dedicated to the memory of two workers in the same field. Of these, one is his own remote ancestor, T. S. (Thomas Sympson), who has left in the Gough MS. Collection in the Bodleian Adversaria; or, Collections for an History of the City of Lincoln, Indigesta Moles, March 25, 1737," and Lindum; or, the History and Antiquities of the City of Lincoln'; and the second, the late Precentor Venables, a well-known contributor to our columns, and one at whose feet Dr. Mansel Sympson reverently sat. As a proof of the esteem in which the city has been held, the author quotes the famous saying or prophecy, yet far from its complete fulfilment, Lincoln was, London is, and York shall be The greatest city of the three. With reference to its name and its Roman origin, it is stated that, with the possible exception of Colchester......and the actual exception of Köln or Cologne (Colonia Agrippinæ) in Europe, no other city has retained any trace of having been a Roman colony in its name at the present day." At all periods the history has been stimulating. Four chapters (of which the first is introductory) deal with the history from the earliest times to the Norman Conquest, Lincoln Fair, 1217, and the Commonwealth; and thence to modern times. Three chapters are devoted to the See and the Cathedral one, of special interest, to the Bishop's Palace and the Close; and one each to the Parish Churches, Monastic Institutions, the Castle and Bail, and the Municipal Government. Some idea how comprehensive is the treatment may be gathered from these statements. A great additional attraction to Dr. Mansel Sympson's scholarly work is found in the illustrations of Mr. E. H. New, which are numerous and beaufrom the Minster, and are admirably artistic. tiful. The full-page designs are drawn principally They include designs of the Jews' Houses, which are striking features in the city. Some charming initials and tail-pieces are happily illuminatory. The entire work is a model in its way, and reflects the highest credit upon all concerned in its production. Heroic Romances of Ireland. By A. H. Leahy. 2 vols. (Nutt.) The AMONG many attempts to popularize for English readers the heroic romances of Ireland, most of them undertaken with the aid of Mr. Nutt, the present seems the best adapted to achieve its purpose. It forms the second issue of "The Irish Saga Library," the first volume of which was also translated by Mr. Leahy. The romances dealt with in the first volume of the present work are The Courtship of Etain,' Mac Datho's Boar,' 'The Sick-bed of Cuchulain,' 'The Exile of the Sons of Usnach,' and 'The Combat at the Ford.' Those in the second consist of Tain Bo Fraich,' The Raid for Dartaid's Cattle,' The Raid for the Cattle of Regamon,' 'The Driving of the Cattle of Flidais,' and The Apparition of the Great Queen to Cuchulain.' These are translated partly in prose Of the first story, and partly in verse. Courtship of Etain,' two versions are given. In order to understand and appreciate the measure in which the translation-especially the unrimed portion-is executed, it is necessary to study closely the helpful and erudite preface to the first volume -a preface which, with fine irony, declares that in times when the great literatures of Greece and Rome are regarded as useless, it may be vain to hope that any attention can be paid to a literature that is quite as useless as the Greek; which deals with a time which, if not actually as far removed from ours as are classical times, is yet further removed in ideas." The task is, however, tastefully, and at times, brilliantly, accomplished; the book may be read with pleasure and advantage, and will do much to commend to English students these primitive, finely coloured, and poetic legends, the antiquity of which, though less probably than is sometimes claimed, is high. The whole is of value, and reveals to us the principal features and the character of what, in its way, is one of the most interesting literatures of the world. Bacon's Nora Resuscitatio. By the Rev. Walter Begley. 3 vols. (Gay & Bird.) ENERGETIC indeed are the efforts that are being made to prove that Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare and Tudor literature generally, and among the participants in the fray the late Mr. Begley was perhaps the most arduously persistent. In the course of the attack upon Shakespeare some philosophic humorist said he had arrived at the conclusion that the works assigned Shakespeare were not his, but were those of another man of the same name, living in the same period. This idea seems now seriously accepted, only the man so self-styled was also called Bacon. Incidentally, too, he seems to have been Bodenham and Puttenham, and we know not how many more. It would apparently be more easy to ascertain, by a process of induction, who he was not than who he is. Up to now we have read no affirmation that he is Burleigh or Raleigh, Linton. Twelve supplemental plates lead off with a superb reproduction in colours of Gozzoli's 'Rape of Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta.' Paris bears in his arms to the ship the smiling and unreluctant dame. Both design an 1 colouring are remarkable. Another reproduction in colours is of Downman's portrait of Miss Abbott. The whole is a marvel of cheapness and beauty. but Marlowe and Spenser and many another by Mr. Frederick Wedmore; and on 'The Drawwill find it hard to throw off the responsibility. ings of John Downman, A.R.A.,' by Sir J. D. Perhaps the least familiar alias we find is that of Wrednot. Most of importance that has to be said about Marlowe, Mary Fitton, and others in whom the student is necessarily interested is reserved for the third volume. In this, moreover, a defence of the mystery of the Sonnets, based in part upon the opinions of Addington Symonds, is undertaken. In this matter we are no more disposed to follow our author than in his ungracious reference to Dr. Sidney Lee and Dr. Horace Howard Furness. Mr. Begley's work appears to us a mixture of exemplary erudition and wild surmise. Supposing the conjectures in which he indulges to be maintainable, we should have to regard Bacon as the "oddest" of mankind, to add one more to the many adjectives assigned him by Pope. Personally we have been amused by the groping after our author in which we have indulged, we admire his devotion, and feel lenient towards his mistakes, which are neither very numerous nor serious. The most important, so far as the English reader is concerned, is the mention (ii. 112) of Sir James Harington instead of Sir John. A bundle of errors is, however, found at i. 51, where we hear of the 'Contes d'Entrapel' (of Du Fail), instead of 'Les Contes d'Eutrapel,' and are led on to "Entrapelus" and similar forms. We cannot find the light which Mr. Begley claims to cast, and stumble on as best we may in darkness and bewilderment. Rembrandt: a Memorial. (Heinemann.) WE have here the first of ten parts constituting a memorial of Rembrandt for the approaching tercentenary. A prefatory note by M. Emile Michel pays a worthy tribute to the great artist. Among the designs finely reproduced are the Portrait of the Artist, from the National Gallery: The Syndics of the Cloth Hall,' from the Amsterdam Rijks Museum: Christ as a Gardener appearing to Mary Magdalen,' from Buckingham Palace: and a beautiful portrait of a lady from the Liechten stein Gallery, Vienna. When completed, the work is likely to form a fine tribute to a great artist. The English Historical Review. January, 1906. (Longmans & Co.) MR. JAMES F. BALDWIN contributes a paper on the King's Council, which contains new knowledge conveyed in a lucid manner. The truly historical spirit in which he has worked is indicated by the numerous and accurate references he supplies. Mr. Wilbur C. Abbott contributes the first part of a paper on what goes by the name of the Long Parliament of Charles II. It is carefully worked out, and will be of considerable service to the historians of the future. Miss A. M. Allen, among the 'Notes and Documents,' has an interesting paper on the conferring of knighthood on little children. The practice never can have been common, but it seems there are more instances to be found than have hitherto been known. Mr. Friedrich W. D. Brie deals with the careers of Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and renders it not improbable that they are duplicate names for the same person. The Magazine of Fine Arts. (Newnes.) A FINE number of The Magazine of Fine Arts has capitally illustrated articles on Maurice Quentin de la Tour; on The Landscape of G. F. Watts, IN The Fortnightly Mrs. John Lane has a paper on 'Afternoon Calls,' which is no less exact as a sketch of social manners in consequence of being written in a spirit of ripe humour. The lesson of this is that the secret of success in afternoon calls is found in making them at a time when the person visited is sure to be not at home. A Saint in Fiction, by Mrs. Crawford, is an appraisal of '11 Santo,' a novel by Antonio Fogazzaro, which constitutes the concluding volume of a trilogy, of which Il piccolo Mondo Antico' is the first. Mr. Roger Pocock gives a Forecast of the Legion of Frontiersmen,' indicative of a movement to be inaugurated which may well prove to be of im portance. Mr. Henry James's American contribution is on Philadelphia. A French Archbishop' is described by Constance Elizabeth Maud as the Père du Peuple, but which archbishop is indicated is kept carefully in the dark. Mr. Henry Norman writes sensibly upon The Public, the Motorist, and the Royal Commission.' . To The Nineteenth Century Lord Monson contributes My Grandfather's Reminiscences of Eton.' These deal with a period nearly a century ago, and illustrate, as his lordship affirms, amid many changes of social custom and vocabulary, several Some amusing stories deal persistent survivals. "A Novocastrian Journalist," absent with Keate. for some time from the pages, puts in a fresh appearance, but only as a reviewer of Some Recent Books, Mr. Henniker Heaton advocates An End to Political Patronage." It is interesting to see our acknowledged insularity treated from a colonial point of view, but we experience something of a shock on being told that "the amiable dullness of the English country girl is probably due to her utter [si] lack of education." Enlargement of the House of Commons seems likely to come soon within the domain of practical politics. Mr. A. MaryonWatson writes sensibly on The New Fire Protection for London.' OUR "INSOLVENT" STAGE' is the formidable title to an arraignment of things theatrical which appears in The National Review. While conceding much that the writer says, we do not hold that he quite makes out his case. He attaches too much importance to the lightest form of entertainments, and he includes among our assets actors of whom we have scarcely ever heard, and we profess to possess more than average familiarity with our stage. Dr. Cunningham gives some impressions (favourable in the main) of South Africa. Lord William Cecil has, under the title of "The Unemployable,' a word to say in favour of the tramp. THE frontispiece to the April number of the excellent Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs consists of a reproduction of G. F. Watts's desig 'The Sisters,' the portraits of which are those Kate and Ellen Terry. The original of this strik picture is in the collection of Mr. Somers Some a Following this comes A Hemicycle of Lawgiy Lers, |