Concerning Gulliver's Travels,' which, though it resembles the novels in appearance, is published under separate supervision, nothing is to be said, except that it is exactly reprinted from the first edition, and contains, among other additions, Henry Morley's account of Cyrano de Bergerac and his voyages to the sun and the moon, and a note on the name Gulliver, together with half a dozen other writings of Swift, including his reflections on the death of Mrs. Johnson (Stella). The very capable introduction is, like the concluding essay on Cyrano de Bergerac, signed H. M., which suggests that Henry Morley is responsible for both. Text and introductory matter are alike satisfactory, and the edition is exemplary in all respects.

The English Historical Review. April. (Longmans.) THE Rev. Dykes Shaw, D.D., contributes a paper of great value on The Fall of the Visigothic Power in Spain. Early Spanish history is in many of its phases so saturated with legend, and, as we hold, on occasion with absolute falsehood, that it is nearly impossible to winnow the good corn from the noxious seed which accompanies it. Dr. Shaw is assuredly not too sceptical, but he wisely rejects very much that some people have hitherto been content to accept as verifiable history.

Cicero was an artistic and entertaining letterwriter, though only a second-rate philosopher. His weak character constantly appears in his correspondence, and we cannot admit that the disturbed time in which his lot was cast makes more than a very slight excuse for his want of moral firmness. Hardly any correspondence during the Middle Ages is important when regarded as literature. The letters of St. Bernard and St. Thomas of Canterbury are mines of information, but cannot be classed with those which in themselves furnish entertainment. The correspondence of the Paston and Plumpton families, though valuable to the historian, is mostly on matters of business and the domestic utilities. When we come to the seventeenth century it is much the same; the letters of Oliver Cromwell, and, in a less degree, of Lady Brilliana Harley, are political documents for the most part, not letters of friendship or gossip. It is not until we arrive at the time of the Georges that correspondence became once more a fine art-an art which has, we are sorry to know, decayed with the introduction of penny postage.

of affairs.

Mr. C. H. Firth draws attention to the fact that there is preserved at Paris, in the Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, a long series of debates in the British Parliaments of the eighteenth century. They are, we are informed, specially valuable documents for our own political history, for the reports which appeared in our own magazines, and were afterwards reprinted in The Parliamentary History,' are well known to be in many cases very untrustworthy. The writer suggests that a Parliamentary grant should be made for their transcription, and the copy deposited in the Record Office. He furthermore expresses a hope, with which we ardently sympathize, that, some day or other, a new edition of The Parliamentary History,' with necessary additions and corrections, may be produced.

Mr. William Hunt reviews the last two volumes of Mrs. Paget Toynbee's 'Letters of Horace Walpole.' He labours under the impression that no such work was called for at the present time. The chief reason for this opinion seems to be that certain letters, probably of an important nature, are at present withheld by their owners. This is much to be deplored; but we cannot see any reason on that account for depriving the present generation of a relatively complete edition, because at some indefinite future period access may be gained to the secluded documents. Had Carlyle reasoned after this fashion, we should still be waiting, it may be, for The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell.'

The Quarterly Review. April. (Murray.) 'SOME LETTER-WRITERS, ANCIENT and MODERN,' is a paper dealing with the correspondence of Cicero and Pliny, and then, at a bound, passing to the men and women of the eighteenth century. |

but it is certain that the surface effects were far greater there than in Germany, Spain, or even in the land of its birth. The writer takes a dispassionate view of Rabelais, though there are certain passages which might awaken controversy. A Plea for Cambridge' is worthy of attention, especially by those who still labour under the delusion that the University, as distinct from the colleges, is a rich body. So far is this from being the case, that it may be described as being very short of funds. We hope this paper will be widely read by those who can help forward the good work which Cambridge is accomplishing in so many directions.

THE period of fatigue which has followed that of storm and stress in politics has rendered our magazines much more interesting, and after one utteranceon the education question and two on the condition of things in Russia, The Fortnightly Review devotes. itself to literature and kindred subjects. Writingupon Richard Burton, Ouida utters sentiments with which we are in accord, and narrates action taken by herself which we ourselves also took. In depicting 'The Ruin of Middlesex,' Mr. J. B. Firth

deplores that ravage of the country which we also have to bewail. Mr. E. H. R. Tatham deals with The Library of Petrarch.' Twenty-five of Petrarch's MSS. are in Paris; one each in Venice, Milan, Padua, Florence, and Troyes; and six in Rome at the Vatican. What has become of the rest is a problem to which no answer is at present forthcoming. Part II. appears of Mr. H. B. Irving's English Stage in the Eighteenth Century. A very bright account of The Fellah's Yoke Mate' is supplied by Sir Walter Miéville. M. Jules Claretie has an important paper on The Comédie Française, the director of which he is. 'Words, Words, Words! is a characteristic essay by that brilliant scholar Prof. Tyrrell. Mrs. John Lane writes on The Minor Crimes'; and the second part is given of Tolstoy's The Divine and the Human.'

A DEEPLY interesting article in The Nineteenth Century is that of Ameer Ali, C.I.E., on 'Spain Another essay on things under the Saracens.' Spanish is a rhapsody by Mr. Austin Harrison entitled "The Joys of Spain.' 'Mr. Gladstone's Library at St. Deiniol's, Hawarden,' is by his daughter Mrs. Drew. Miss Isabel Clarke writes Some Women Poets of the Present Reign.' Mr. H. Heathcote Statham discusses 'The Salons and the Royal Academy.' Mr. Norman Bentwich in his Euripides in London' attributes justly to the merits as a poet and a translator of Mr. Gilbert Murray the success that has attended the classic Sir John performances at the Court Theatre. Macdonell sends a contribution on 'The LawMaking Mania.'

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AN interesting article by Prof. Sonnenschein on Latin as an Intellectual Force' arrests attention in The National. It throws some curious light upon the probable indebtedness of Shakespeare to 'The speech of Seneca in the famous Merchant of Venice.' The Hon. Charles Lister has an eloquent rejoinder to the attack on Eton by Mr. Reginald Lucas which appeared in the May number. Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., writes authoritatively on Earthquakes.' Mr. Holt Schooling describes 'Our Position in Colonial Markets'; and M. Emile Vanderveld, the leader of the Social Democratic party in the Belgian Parliament, has some deeply interesting, speculations concerning The Future of Belgium.'

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Press, Cambridge: "The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press have in preparation an edition of the works of Giles and Phineas Fletcher as part of their Cambridge English Classics.' They would like to have included therein the version of the Lamentations of Jeremiah from the MS. formerly in the library of King's College, Cambridge, mentioned in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' under the title of 'Egidii Fletcheri versio Poetica Lamentationum Jeremiæ. Presented to the College 2 Feb., 1654/5, by S(amuel) Th(oms), Soc., and entered in one of the oldest catalogues at King's as 'Lamentationes Jeremiæ per Metaphrasin. Authore Egidio Fletcher.' Unfortunately, the MS. cannot be found in the library, and it probably disappeared a long time ago, as it is not mentioned in a catalogue made some fifty or sixty years since, nor in one made about twenty-five years ago, nor in the one made by the present Provost. If any of the readers of N. & Q' can throw any light upon the matter, or offer any hint that might lead to the MS. being traced to its present home, the Syndics will be grateful. Communications may be addressed to F. S. Boas, Esq., Cranford, Bickley, Kent, the editor of the new edition referred to above, or

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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 advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.

S. MYER ("Life's work well done").-At 9th S. iv. 167 F. J. P. stated that the lines were written by his brother, the late Dr. E. H. Parker, of Poughkeepsie, New York. At 9th S. vii. 406 a letter was printed from Mrs. John Mills, of Hale, Cheshire, in which she said: "The lines inquired about were written January, 1878, to the memory of a brother who died in 1877. by Mr. John Mills, banker, of Manchester......After the death of Mr. Mills the lines were published in a selection of poems entitled Vox Humana'; and in The Life of John Mills, published two years ago, is some account of their origin."

ERRATUM.-Ante, p. 438, col. 1, 1. 24 from foot, for "Dunfermline" read Dumfriesshire.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1906.

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CONTENTS.-No. 129.

NOTES:-Daniel Tuvill or Tutevil, 461-Robert Greene's
Prose Works, 463-Shakespeariana, 465-Inscriptions at
Lucerne "Eshin'":"Beltin""-Caning, 466-Burial in
Woollen-"Jour de Bouhourdis"- Masham Family-
Steam Communication with America, 467.
QUERIES:- The Dean of Badajoz John Cooke, the
Regicide, 467-Butler of Toderstaff-Col. A. R. Dunn-
Robin Hood in French-Percy Folio' in "The King's
Library"
'Emblemes d'Alciat'- Blunden Family -
Santorin and St. Irene, 468-King John's Baggage lost
crossing the Wash-Percival Gunston, of Thorpe-on-Tees
Catherine: Katharine : Katherine Society Ladies-
Keene or Kyme Family-Rime" v. "Rhyme"-Thomas
Phelpes, 1679-Flags-Gordon: the Name in Russia, 469–
Wykehamist" First Used-Seddon Family-Col. By,
R.E.-Irun, Spain-Proverb against Gluttony, 470.
REPLIES: -"Pigbtle":"Pikle," 470-Robert Harley.
Earl of Oxford, 471-" Duma"--Barnes: Origin of the
Name, 472-Snakes in South Africa-John Hook, of Nor-
wich-Greek and Roman Tablets-John Bull's Bible'-

Louis Philippe's Landing in England, 473-Cast not a clout till May be out"-May Song-Macaulay's "New Zealander "-Capt. Onley, R N., 1735-Dante's Sonnet to Guido Cavalcanti-Japanese and Chinese Lyrics, 474"Place"-Cateaton Street, 475-Americans in English Records-Cheyne Walk: China Walk-Bibliography of Publishing and Bookselling-Watches and Clocks with Words instead of Figures-Twyford Abbey-Home, Sweet Home: Additional Verses, 476-G. Rossetti's Tre Ragionamenti' - Ladies' Head-dresses in the Theatre-Gray's NOTES ON BOOKS: -Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama"The World's Classics "The Works of Ralph tion; or, the Romance of Monte Beni'-' History of the Liberty of Peterborough The International Directory of Booksellers'-' French Idioms and Proverbs.' Booksellers' Catalogues.

Elegy: its Translations, 477.

Waldo Emerson'-'On the Spanish Main '-'Transforma

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DANIEL TUVILL OR TUTEVIL.

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JOHN SPENCER in his 'Things New and Old,' 1658, is the only one, so far as I have been able to discover, who makes any mention whatever of Daniel Tuvill, and even he is not always consistent in the spelling of the name, referring to it as "Tutevil," Tutevile," and "Tuvill." Two facts, however, are to be gathered from Spencer: the one that Tuvill was alive in 1631; the other that in that year he preached a "Suttons Hospitall,' afterwards known as "The Charter House" (see Wheatley's *London Past and Present, vol. i. p. 362). In 1609 Tuvill published the first edition of the 'Vade Mecum,' under the title of Essayes Morall and Theologicall,' dedicating the little book to James Montague, at that time Bishop of Bath and Wells, and afterwards Bishop of Winchester. Montague died in 1618. This first edition is not accessible to me; but perhaps I am not far wrong in saying that Tuvill had at that time either entered into holy orders or was about to do so, and the dedication was intended as a tribute of respect to his present or prospective diocesan. That dedication is not

"19 Aprilis [1608].

"Matheue Lownes. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes of Master Powell and the wardens Essayes politique and Morall' To the right honorable the Lady Anne Harrington, vjd."

As indicated in this entry, the volume is dedicated "To the Right Honorable, and vertuous Ladie, the Ladie Anne Harington." This lady was the daughter and heiress of one Robert Kelway, Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and was married to Sir John Harington about 1590. The latter was raised to the peerage as Lord Harington in July, 1603. Of this marriage there were several children, one of them being Lucy, in after years famous as the Countess of Bedford, and the friend of Donne, Ben Jonson, Chapman, Drayton, and Daniel. In passing let me say that. Mr. Gosse, in his admirable and exhaustive Life of John Donne,' has many most interesting references to this Countess of Bedford and the relationship in which she stood to the illustrious men I have named. Lord Harington died at Worms, in Germany, on 13 August, 1613, and his remains were interred at Exton, in Rutlandshire. His widow died in June, 1620, at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and she too was buried at Exton beside her husband. In 1603 Princess Elizabeth, James I.'s unfortunate daughter, was placed under the care of the Haringtons, who were resident at that time at Combe Abbey, Warwickshire, the property as it would appear, of Lady Harington. This lady was distinguished by her gentleness and refinement," says Miss Bradley in the 'D.N.B.'; "she lived in great poverty after her husband's and son's deaths [the latter died at Kew on 27 February, 1614], and went back for a time as lady-in-waiting to Princess Elizabeth."

To this gracious lady, then, did "D. T. Gent." dedicate his volume of 'Essaies' in He opens his dedication with these

1608.

words :

"The desire I had to manifest my seruiceable plement, hath on such idle houres, as remained affection towards your Honour in outwarde Comfree to mee from your imployments, begot this young and tender Infant";

and then he goes on to say, evidently alluding to her relationship to the Princess Elizabeth,

"whose bosome the hand of heauen hath so richlie furnisht with all exemplary vertues, that from amongst so many, Wisdome selected you, to be the Gouernesse, from whom the Princely issue of a royall bed might receiue instruction."

At the end of this dedication he subscribes himself, "Madam, your Honors most affectionate seruant, D. T."

Let it not be forgotten that on the titlepage the author is designated "Gent.," the abbreviated form of "Gentleman"; and as he tells us he was in the service of Lady Harington, we should like to know the exact nature of his employment. If "D. T. Gent." and Daniel Tuvill, who in after years preached at Sutton's Hospital, were one and the same person, the natural inference, I think, would be that he occupied the position of tutor in the Harington family. Looking, however, at all the circumstances, I am strongly of opinion that "D. T. Gent." was quite a different person from Daniel Tuvill. I am confirmed in this opinion by the fact that all the extracts reproduced by John Spencer -excepting, of course, the one from the sermon at Sutton's Hospital-are taken from Tuvill's Essayes," first published in 1609. I have taken the trouble to verify all these extracts-Spencer, except naming the book, has no references to page or subject of essay -in the edition of 1638. I am also inclined to think that Spencer was personally acquainted with Tuvill, as he was with many notable men of his time, including Fuller, the Church historian; and that the quotation from the Sutton Hospital sermon was furnished by Tuvill himself. If this supposition be correct, it follows that Spencer would most likely be familiar with all that Tuvill had written and published. It is strange, then, that he did not lay the 'Essaies' of 1608 under contribution for the purposes of his excellent miscellany, if for nothing else than in compliment to the author.

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In my copy of the 'Essaies,' 1608, there are a number of notes in a handwriting contemporaneous with the date of the book; but they are not of any consequence. I may remark, however, that this volume of 1608 is a very much scarcer book than Tuvill's "Vade Mecum.' The former was confined to one edition, while the latter went through no fewer than four editions. As to the literary value of these two little books, they are both in their way excellent; but I should say the Essaies' of 1608 are much superior to those in the 'Vade Mecum.' I

take the writer of the former to have been both a scholar and a man of the world, and his opportunities for observing characterand he shows conspicuously his aptitude in this direction-much greater than could have fallen to the lot of the author of the Vade Mecum.'

In regard to the Vade Mecum,' I have access only to the edition of 1638, which is before me. It contains two title pages, one engraved and the other in ordinary type. The former reads:

"Vade Mecum or Essayes Morall, Theologicall. A new Edition wth some Additions. I. S. Inuent.

London Printed for I. S. and are to be sold by Bernard Langford at the signe of the blue Bible at Holbourne-bridge. 1638."

The second title-page reads :—

"Vade Mecum. A Manuall of Essayes, Morall, Theologicall. Inter-woven with Moderne Obsernobis hæc otia fecit. The third Edition. London : By D. T.-Deus vations, Historicall, Politicall. Printed by E. P. for I. S. and are to be sold by Bernard Langford, at the signe of the Blew Bible, at Holbourne-Bridge. 1638.'

The book was originally entered in the 'Stationers' Registers' as follows (ed. Arber, vol. iii. p. 392):

P.S. Since writing the foregoing, I have unexpectedly discovered a clue to the authorship of the Essaies,' 1608, above referred to. While consulting Henry Kent Causton's edition of Walton's 'Life of John Donne, D.D.' (one of the scarcest of modern books: see Mr. Gosse's 'Life of Dr. Donne,' vol. i. Pref. p. ix) in connexion with quite another matter, I was struck with the following passage in a foot-note to p. 66. I think, everything considered, that there can be little doubt that "Master Tovey," and not Daniel Tuvill, was the author of the 'Essaies,' 1608. The author of that work, as we have already seen, was in the service of Lady Harington, to whom he dedicates the volume, and it is presumably the same person who accompanied her son to the continent of Europe. "Master Tovey" predeceased his pupil, the young Lord Harington, who died in 1614. The following particulars are given on the authority of Nuge Antique" (ed. 1801, vol. ii. p. 308):—

"Being well grounded in religion and learning at home, his noble father [Lord Harington] sent him to travel abroad in France and Italy, attended by his tutor Master Tovey, a grave and learned religious man, formerly head master of the free school, at Coventry.' But how dangerous a thing it is for religious gentlemen to travel into these popish countries, may appear by the example of this nobleman and his tutor, whose sound religion and heavenly zeal for the truth being taken notice of by the Jesuits, they took an opportunity to administer a slow-working poison to them, that, seeing they had no hopes of corrupting their minds, they might destroy their bodies, and bring them to their graves.' Of this poison, Mr. Tovey, being aged, and so less able to encounter with the strength of it, died presently after his return into England; but the lord Harrington, being of strong and able body, and in the prime of his age, bore it better and conflicted with it longer; yet the violence of it appeared in his face presently after his return, and not long after, hastened his death, at the age of twenty-two."

ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS. (See 10th S. iv. 1, 81, 162, 224, 483; v. 84, 202, 343, 424, 442.)

I NOW conclude my notes on Greene's in debtedness to Primaudaye.

In chap. xlvi. Primaudaye continues "Of a house and familie, and of the kinds of marriage of certaine ancient customes observed in marriage"-a brief but interesting discourse. There is a curious passage about Queen Elizabeth's wooers in it. Greene picks a few plums out of this chapter, and places them in a storehouse, The Royal Exchange,' which is admirably suitable for the purpose. We find here where he got his Martia as an authority upon marriage (p. 494), but she furnished Greene with a name only. On p. 494 we have: "This caused a yoong man to go to Pittacus, one of the sages of Grecia, and to aske his counsell...... Marke (said this wise man) when children are readie to play at fence; go to them, and they will counsell thee...... When they saw this yoong man coming, who exceeded them in bigness,......they said aloud, let every one go to his match. Whereby he learned what he was to do." Greene has this, in slightly different words (iii. 270), and in his differing he has produced silliness: "Going to a play that they had, which was, euerie man choose his peere." On p. 497 (same chapter) we find, speaking of second marriages: "Valeria of Rome may serve for a notable example to women, who said, that hir husband died for others, but lived to hir for ever." Greene quotes these words of "the Romane Lady Valeria" exactly, in 'Penelope's Web' (v. 161). Near the beginning of chap. xlvi. (pp. 492-4), Primaudaye

has a discourse upon the four kinds of marriage, "namely, the marriage of honour, the marriage of love, the marriage of labour, and the marriage of grief." He divides the first into three sorts, all "supernatural, and appointed of God, in an unspeakable manner." He then deals with the other three. Greene, in Penelope's Web' (v. 159-60), omits the first sort entirely, and says at random: "Therefore Pittachus, one of the seaven sages, settest downe three kinds of marriages. The first of love, the second of labour, the third of griefe. As touching the first, Themistocles tearmes it a charitable conjunction, unitie, and societie of them that are good." These latter are Primaudaye's words, but he does not attribute them to Themistocles, whose name appears, indeed, on that page (493), but in a wholly different connexion. Primaudaye then quotes the comic poet Plautus "that in marriage a man must take his wife by the ears, and not by the fingers." Greene makes another jumble, quoting this correctly from Primaudaye in words, but not in application. And then he borrows "Olimpias, the mother of Alexander," and makes her say other than she did. Greene's medley is very quaint.

Primaudaye (chap. xlvii. p. 510) gives us the headings of the tale of Ninus and Semiramis, the wife of Menon. Greene developes this in good story-telling form in The Tale of Cosimo in his 'Farewell to Follie' (ix. 298). Immediately after the passage about Menon, who is quoted as an example "Of the particular dutie of a Husband towards his Wife," Primaudaye gives the cases of Marcus Lepidus, who, being driven into banishment, heard that his wife was married to another, whereupon he died for sorrow"; and "Sylanus [Sylaus in Greene], a Romane, [who] slue himself after his wife, whom he singularly loved, was taken from him and given to Nero the Emperor" (pp. 510, 511). Greene puts these two examples into Menon's mouth (p. 313), showing where he drew his story from. There is a good deal in common between this tale of Cosimo's and 'Penelope's Second Tale' in Penelope's Web' (v. 203). Greene's finish to his tale of Semiramis and Ninus has no counterpart in their known history, I believe. At any rate, he draws it from Primaudaye; it is the story, somewhat altered, of Camma and Synorix (pp. 521, 522), in chap. xlviii., 'Of the Dutie of a Wife towards her Husband.' The wording is identical, as well as the situation, in several places. Other examples in this tale of Greene's are Panthea, the wife of Abradatus; Portia, the wife of Brutus; and