u, and as written by him on more occasions than one, the name is plainly "Alueua." I wish, having discovered this, to take an early opportunity of acknowledging my mistake. HERM ENTRUde.

Brodie, the first baronet. The dates of the birth and death of J. J. Halls must be incorrect, for in 1801 he painted a portrait of my mother, and another in 1802 of my eldest sister, then a baby. And in 1836 I met him in Worcestershire, a hale man. I believe he died shortly afterwards. Perhaps the picture which most deserved to be re

PEG WOFFINGTON'S ALMSHOUSES (8th S. iii. 128, 216). Towards the close of a capital monograph on Margaret Woffington, in her 'Illustrious Irish-membered was one which showed much poetic women,' I find Miss Owens Blackburne saying:— "The story that she erected the almshouses at Teddington is quite without foundation. They were built a hundred years previously, and the one added during her lifetime was built by subscription. She may possibly have been one of the subscribera." W. J. LAWRence.

VICAR OF BRAY (8th S. iii. 206). Here is another instance. In 1697, William Molyneux writes to John Locke :

"Some men alter their notions as they do their cloaths. in complyance to the mode. I have heard of a master of the Temple, who, during the siege of Limerick, writ over here to a certain prelate, to be sure to let him known, by the first opportunity, whenever it came to be surrender'd, which was done accordingly; and immediately the good Dr.'s eyes were opened, and he plainly saw the oaths to K. William and Q. Mary were not only expedient but lawful, and our duty."-Locke's 'Letters,' 1708, p. 184. W. C. B.

[See 6th S. xi. 167, 255, 335.]

imagination. It was the Witch in Macbeth, sailing in a sieve, in a tempestuous sea. "Her Husband's to Aleppo gone, Master of the Tigris: but thither in a sieve I'll sail." J. CARRICK MOORE.

REFERENCE IN MACAULAY (8th S. iii. 229). — The passage quoted has reference to Sir James Mackintosh, and may be found in the essay on Mackintosh's History of the Revolution in 1688 (p. 316 of the Students' Edition). Compare, also, with this a similar reference to Sir James Mackintosh which appears in chapter iii. of Macaulay's History.' These references are indexed under "Mackintosh" in all Longman's editions. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

This is the character, from a literary point of view, which Macaulay assigns to Sir James Mackintosh in the review of the History of the Revolution in 1688,''Essays,' vol. i. p. 312, 1852. THE HOLY EUCHARIST BURIED WITH PEOPLE ED. MARSHALL. (8th S. iii. 188).-I will not dispute whether the GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MACE AND STAFF (8th question is expressed correctly. For information S. iii. 222).—DR. GORDON remarks : ......Aberrequired, see Smith and Chetham's 'Christian been or Edinburgh. The last two possess no maces Antiquities,' s.v. "Obsequies," xix.; see also Mr. at all." This is altogether erroneous. Descriptions Scudamore's 'Notitia Eucharistica,' p. 920. At of the Aberdeen and Edinburgh maces are given the first reference it is stated that "an oblate was in Mr. Cosmo Innes's Fasti Aberdonenses,' placed on the breast of St. Cuthbert "; that "in p. lxiii, and Sir Alexander Grant's Story of the the late and fabulous Life of St. Basil,' falsely University of Edinburgh,' vol. i. p. 250. A deascribed to Amphilochius, the saint is said to have tailed account of the maces of all the Scottish ordered a portion of the Eucharist, which he con-universities, by Mr. A. J. S. Brook, is to be found secrated on a certain occasion, to be reserved that it might be buried with him"; and that St. Benedict is said to have ordered the Sacrament "to be placed on the breast of a corpse that had been cast out of its grave by invisible hands." EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

in vol. xxvi. of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. P. J. ANDERSON.

DR. GORDON will pardon me, I am sure, for reminding him that the words "in Galliam ablata," mean simply "carried off to France," and that they do not imply per se that the mace was "overhauled " 66 or renewed" there.

Ventnor.

E. Walford, M.A.

UNLUCKY HOUSES (8th S. iii. 224).—I am one of very few laymen who is well acquainted with the following case. A well-known Ecclesiastical College, which must be nameless here, possessed a building known as the Rhetoric House. Many years ago, a student, when labouring under temporary insanity, committed suicide within its walls. Long afterwards, another student threw himself out of the top window of the same house. He survived long enough to receive the last rites of the

Church. When questioned, he declared, with deep
contrition, that he had been suddenly driven to
his fatal act by a mysterious command of irre-
sistible potency.
One can understand how a
byper-sensitve mind and nervous organization, by
brooding over the dread history of the previous
occupant, may have become unhinged, and how the
dark tempter found easy prey. The window from
which the second student precipitated himself is now
built up with solid masou-work; but the outline of
the former window is still clearly marked. After
the second tragedy the room was altered into an
oratory, over the door of which is now inscribed in
Latin, "From a sudden and unprovided death,
O Lord deliver us!"
W. J. F.
Dublin.

shadow of a name. Comparatively few of his works have, before the appearance of this volume, seen the light. His Epitaph on Shakespeare' was long ascribed to Donne, in the 1633 edition of whose poems it is included; and his Angler's Song,' though written at the request of Izaak Walton and given in The Compleat Angler.' has failed to win for its author any recognition. His poems existed, however, in manuscript prepared for the press. They now at length see the light under conditions, typographical and other, that should appease the shade of the poet, supposing it to take cognizance of sublunary things. Not one of his more successful rivals, not even Donne himself, the unconscious appropriator of his honours, has received the tribute of so handsome and scholarly an edition. Much of the early work of Basse was traced home to him in N. & Q Collier, who printed, among his Illustrations of Early English Popular Literature,' 1864, the 'Sword and Buckler' of Basse, attributed it to another writer. The Pastorals and other Workes,' Basse's SIR R. BENET, OR BENESE (8th S. iii. 187).-"most important achievement," he printed for the first It may be of service to your correspondent to know that in James Bohn's Catalogue for 1840 is the following entry :

"Benese (Sir Richd.). The Boke of measurying of Lande, as well of Wood-land as plow-land, and pasture in the felde, and to compt the true nombre of acres of the same. 12mo., fine copy, morocco, gilt edges, by Lewis, 15s. London, T. Colwell, n.d."

The Heart of Midlothian. By Sir Walter Scott. Edited
by Andrew Lang. (Nimmo.)
Or the attractive" Border Edition" of the "Waverley

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Novels " The Heart of Midlothian' constitutes vols. xi.
and xii. The illustrations, which are equal to any
that have gone before, include a design by Sir John
Millais in his best style depicting Effie and Geordie.
This is more to our taste than one or two presentations
of Jeannie Deans, who is made a little too "dour-faced."
The Duke of Argyle, it should be remembered, speaks of
her as a "good, comely, sonsy lass." It is amusing in
this, one of the best of Scott's novels, to find the author
dropping into Dickens-like fervour of description which
leads him into injustice and inconsistency. In her inter-
view with the duke (vol. xi. p. 227) Jeannie refuses the
"doch an' dorroch" proffered her, saying that she had
never tasted wine in her life, her father having charged
his children that they should drink no wine. Later, we
find the fun growing "fast and furious," old David assist-
ing at something not far removed from a debauch, and
Jeannie even pledging toasts in something stronger than
water. Mr. Lang's preface and notes remain excellent,
and the value of the edition grows increasingly obvious.
The Poetical Works of William Basse, 1602-1653.
Edited by R. Warwick Bond, M.A.Oxon. (Ellis &
Elvey.)
Now that every scrap of the poetic and dramatic litera-
ture of Elizabethan days is being collected, the appear-
ance of the poetical works of William Basse was to be
expected. To general readers Basse is not even the

time in his Miscellaneous Tracts of the Time of Elizabeth and James I.' Very little else of Basse has seen the light until the present editor has collected for the first time all surviving and accessible writings, ushering them in with a biographical and critical introduction of highest value and interest. For the story of Basse's life we must refer the reader to this or to the account supplied by Mr. Sidney Lee to the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' Basse is a genuine poet. We bave been tempted to read through every line that is preserved, and have found the task not specially difficult. He has not much singing gift, and he is an indifferent artist, but he has a pleasant, if homely, versification, and his enthusiasm, that especially for a country life, seems genuine. He is an avowed disciple of Spenser, and we are inclined to accept the theory that ascribes to him the authorship of Brittain's Ida.' We are unable to supply specimens of Basse's versification, and a bald enumeration of his works would have little interest. We may safely say, however, that no collection of Elizabethan poetry is complete without this admirable edition of a writer unjustly neglected in his time, and now the subject of so strange and flattering, if tardy, recognition.

Journal of the Ex-Libris Society.

IN the present number of this young and assertive periodical appears the opening portion of a description of the exhibition of book-plates held a few weeks ago by the Society. The heraldic editor points out that mistakes are made in armorial book-plates through the employment of non- qualified heralds. Two new and admirable book-plates are among the illustrations,

Such a

WE have received from the English Dialect Society 4 Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., and A Glossary of Northumberland Words, by R. O. Heslop (Vol. I.). The Grammar' is enriched with a series of specimens of dialect phonetically printed. work must prove invaluable to experts, but cannot be used by those who have not become familiar with the forms by aid of which the sounds of dialect are recorded. The spread of education will we fear, as time goes on, stamp out all varieties of folk-speech. We cannot, therefore, be too thankful that Dr. Wright has permanently recorded what may be regarded as a typical West Riding form. Mr. Heslop's Glossary of Northumberland Words' extends to the end of the letter F. It is very valuable as representing the Anglian form of our common language in its We also find in the author's purest surviving shape. pages geological and mining terms which do not occur

""Butts,"

elsewhere, or if they be given in modern dictionaries Coracle' with fish. The Bruised Serpent' makes a sort are imperfectly, nay, sometimes inaccurately explained. We believe Mr. Heslop's compilation will be studied by many to whom the dialect of Northumberland is as a foreign tongue. We would direct especial attention to the longer articles, such as "Border Watch," "Cadger,' Dagger-money," ""Earth-fast," and "Fullplough." Under "Cadger "the author quotes some partisan verses relating to the triumph of the Puritans in the seventeenth century which we do not remember to have seen before.

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PART LXVII. of Cassell's Old and New London contains in two sections a well-executed map of London in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Its letterpress opens in Putney and concludes in Fulham. Many of the illustra tions are very spirited.-With Part XXVII. of the Storehouse of General Information comes a coloured physical map of Europe. The information supplied ends at the Gulf Stream.

of appeal, not likely to be effective, against the Jedwood justice awarded snakes.-Mr. Percy Fitzgerald tells readers of the Gentleman's How to see Antwerp' to advantage. Mr. Frank Banfield has some acceptable 'Souvenirs of Lyonnesse,' and Dr. Strauss writes on 'Spinoza.'-Mr. Grant Allen, the most assiduous of men, writes in Longman's on 'The Epic of April,' and Mr. A. W. Kellard contributes to the same periodical an account of The First English Book Sale,' which took place in the seventeenth century, and created some stir. In the Cornhill attention is attracted by 'Our Arctic AN animated and a very attractive account of Siam is given by the Hon. George Curzon in the Fortnightly. It Heroes' and 'Actors and Actresses in Westminster comes as something like a shock to be told that along Abbey Belgravia has also an article on Fanny the principal streets of Bangkok runs a tramway, the Kemble' as well as A Holiday in the Austrian Tyrol. cars on which will shortly be drawn by electricity. Eng--The Idler remains diverting as always.-An excellent lish is, it is interesting to hear, the second language of number of the English Illustrated contains many papers the country, and there is an English library, taking in of interest. One is Mr. Wyke Bayliss's The Likeness of Christ.' A good account is given of the Edinburgh the Times and the Athenæum, and an English club. Under the titleAre Individually Acquired Characters forgeries. Mr. Ginsburg, showing how to get to Chicago, Inherited?' Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace breaks lances depicts the decks and interiors of many steamers, together with Mr. Herbert Spencer. Mr. Kernahan eulogizes with what he is pleased to call the smoke rooms. the Poems of Louisa Chandler Moulton.' Under the great improvement has been effected in this magazine. quaint title of 'Poor Abel,' Ouida condemns the sympathy with murderers which is a curious phase of our modern civilization. Concerning the murdered victims, the poor Abels, of course we are indifferent. It is Cain, the brute, the assassin, to whom our sympathies go out. Mr. F. J. Lys writes on The India Civil Service and the Universities,' and Sir Archibald Geikie has a good and an attractive paper on 'Scenery and the Imagination.' -In the New Review appears an important paper, by the late Ernest Renan, entitled 'Israel's Deep Slumber.' MESSRS. JAMES ELLIOTT & Co., Temple Chambers, Of the Chronicles, an exclusively Levitical work, Renan Falcon Court, Fleet Street, E.C., are preparing for pubholds that they are stamped by the absolute mark of lication forthwith the whole of the alchemical and impotence. A close knowledge of Hebrew seems neces-hermetic writings of Paracelsus, for the first time comsary to follow out all the author's conclusion. Mrs. Lynn pletely and faithfully translated into English, with the Linton sends an eloquent protest against certain modern sidelights of the chief commentators, and exhaustive vocashortcomings, labelling the whole When Plancus was bularies and indices. The magnitude of the undertaking Consul. Madame Novikoff writes on 'Russia, Rome, will necessitate its issue in the form of monthly volumes, and the Old Catholics,' and Mrs. Simpson continues the first of which is now passing through the press. People I have Known.'-A paper, unique in its class, appears in the Century, under the title The Chicago Anarchists of 1886: the Crime, the Trial, and the Punishment,' by the Judge who presided at the Trial. It is a strong protest against regarding as martyrs men who were simply assassins, and is amply illustrated. An Embassy to Provence,' of which the third part appears, remains very interesting. Mr. O. W. Oliphant sends a well-illustrated paper on 'The Princess Anne.' Among the illustrations is also a capital view of the eminently picturesque needles of Etretat.-An Artist in Japan,' which appears in Scribner's, gives some delightful sketches of Japanese scenes and physiognomies. of Brittany's Châteaux in the Valley of the Loire' supplies some brilliant pictures of those châteaux which adorn the Loire and its affluents. Specially good is the view of the gateway of the Château de Langeais. The Restoration House' is also brilliantly illustrated. The Arts Relative to Women' is a curious and edifying paper, from which masculine humanity may draw some satisfactory conclusions. English Whist and Whist Players' is being treated at some length in Temple Bar, the opening instalment only being given. A long and very appreciative paper on Frances Anne Kemble' also appears. One on George Meredith is more critical.Mr. Arthur F. Davidson deals in Macmillan with 'Some English Characters in French Fiction.' Many curious products of French ignorance and imagination are given. The author might, however, have found in Maupassant some that are far more comic. My Pupils in the Great Karrow 'deale with ostriches, and From a

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