Cut short in the youth of manhood, who can tell what Percy Bysshe Shelley might not have become, living for us even perhaps at this moment? What need we care, though, for does not the "Empire of the dead increase of the living from age to age?" Shelley's terrestrial body may have been cast up by the waves on the lonely Italian shore, in sweet companionship with the souls of Keats and Sophocles. His mundane elements, purified through the fire, may have returned to their kindred elements, and been "made one with Nature, where is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above." His cinereal ashes may lie beneath the cypresses, near the dust of the "Adonais" of his muse, under Roman sod, and where he said: “To see the sun shining on its bright grass, and hear the whispering of the wind among the leaves of the trees, which have overgrown the tomb of Cestius, and the soil which is stirring in the sun-warm earth, and to mark the tombs, mostly of women and young children, who, buried there, we might, if we were to die, desire a sleep they seem to sleep." All this may have happened, but why need we repine, for as eternal as the sea, as infinite as Nature, and as the phoenix, he revivifying lives, transmigrated and transfused into humanity, for with certainty we know that "He lives, he wakes-'tis Death is dead, not he.” " Immortal amid immortals, his spirit in communion with the Most High, fully conscious in its individuality-immortal amid mortals, his place need never be refilled, for he stands betwixt the old and the new-immortal amid the sons of song, do poets still breathe his divine afflatus-immortal amid philosophers and the regenerators of the race, with Buddha, with Moses, with Socrates, with Mahomet, with Christ-immortal amid the noble, the virtuous, the good, the wise-immortal as when living here, for from spirit-spheres we hear him bidding us repeat: To be published by SUBSCRIPTION, in three volumes octavo, of about 250 pages each, cloth, with Portraits and Illustrations. Price, $2.50 per volume. LIBERAL ESSAYS. BY CHARLES SOTHERAN. As a wish has been expressed by many of Mr. Sotheran's friends and others, to have a complete collection of his miscellaneous writings published, it has been determined, after careful consideration, to issue a REVISED edition of his Essays under the above title, in three volumes. Each volume will consist of about 250 pages, printed in good readable type, and will be illustrated with Portraits and Wood-cuts. LIST OF CONTENTS. 1. Secret Societies; Their Uses and 12. Spiritism among the Greeks, Romans, II. Spiritism among the Ancients of 18. Alessandro di Cagliostro: Impostor Egypt, India, Chaldea, Persia, and China. or Martyr? 19. American Genealogy. ETC., ETC., ETC. The names of those desirous of subscribing to the above work, will, it is hoped, be forwarded at as early a date as possible to CHARLES P. SOMERBY, Publisher, 139 Eighth Street, New Or to the author, CHARLES SOTHERAN, Office of the 'American Bibliopolist,' 84 Nassau Street, New York City. α b BY THE SAME AUTHOR. GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA Relating to the Family of Sotheron, of the counties Durham, Northumberland, York, etc., and to the Septs of MacManus. By Charles Sotheran. Including many pedigrees and other documents, specially certified by Sir John Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, and G. H. Rogers - Harrison, Esq., Windsor Herald. Illustrated with upwards of 50 Wood Engravings of Arms, Heraldic Seals, and Fac-simile Signatures. Large paper, demy 4to. 91 pages. Limited impression of 100 copies, privately printed. London, 1871-3. (New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau St. Price, $6, boards, or $9 half morocco extra.) From the "Reliquary, Quarterly Archæological Journal and Review," edited by Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. Vol. xv. (1874), No. 57, pp. 55 and 56 : "The name of Sotheran, or Sotheron,* is one of considerable antiquity, dating back in the county of York to the time of Henry the Third. The family, not improbably, come through the de Mittons, Lords of Mitton, at the Conquest, at which time we find recorded by Whittaker, the County Historian, one Ralph de Mitton. From this Mitton the descent of the Sotherons may probably be traced: Ralph, above-named, was father of another Ralph, who had four sons, Stephen, Orme, Jordan, and Sir Everard; of these, Sir Everard de Mitton was ancestor of the well-known family of the Mittons, of Mitton and Halston, co. Salop. His brother, Jordan de Mitton, His brother, Jordan de Mitton, was Lord of Mitton, co. York, and by Wimaca, daughter of Ralph de Eland, appears to have had issue Oto de Bayley, Lord of Bayley, from whom the Sherburnes, of Stonyhurst, paternally descended, and Hugo de Mitton, Lord of Mitton, who by his wife, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Gosnargh, had with another a son, Sir Roger de Mitton, donor of the advowson of the church of Mitton to God, St. Mary, and the Abbey of Cockersand. From Sir Roger, the line proceeds through his son, Sir John le Southern, of Mitton, Steward or Bailiff to Queen Eleanor, and the father of Hugh le Southern, *The origin of the name is thus explained in 'Our English Surnames; Their Sources and Signification. By Charles Wareing Bardsley, M.A." London, 1874, pp. 122-3: Apart from this, too, the term Le Noreys, was ever applied in early times to the Norwegians, and to this sense mainly it is that we owe the use of the name. And yet it has another origin. It was used in the mere sense of northern,' one from the north country. Thus in the Hundred Rolls we meet with the two names of Thomas le Noreys' and Geoffrey le Northern,' and there is no reason why they should both not have the same rise. A proof in favor of this view lies in the fact that we have their counterparts in such entries as 'Thomas le Surreys' and Thomas le Southern,' the latter now found in the other forms of Sothern' and 'Sotheran,' Sotheran.' Nor are the other points of the compass wanting. A 'Richard le Westrys' and a 'Richard .l'Estrys' both occur in the registers of the thirteenth century, but neither I believe now exist. whose son, Sir Robert le Southern, inherited the Lordship of Mitton from the De Mittons, of whom a good pedigree, including the de Bayleys and Sotherons, is now in the press. In 1316, we find by Whittaker's Craven, the Nomina Villarum, and the Parliamentary Writs, that Thomas Sotheron, vel le Southern, was found 'Lord of Mitton conjointly with the heirs of Sir Henry de Percy. Thomas Sotheron, last named, was the son of Sir Robert le Southern, and the father of Sir John Sotheron, Lord of Mitton; by his wife, Johanna, daughter of Sir Simon Cusack, who was summoned to Parliament 48 Edward III., as Baron of Colmolyn, and was a grandson of Sir Simon de Geynville, Baron Colmolyn (descended from the Gennevilles, Princes of Joinville, Counts Joigny, Seneschals of Champagne, etc.) Sir John Sotheran had a daughter, Isabella, to whom he gave eighty marks portion on her marriage with Walter Hawksworth, of Hawksworth, co. York, Esq., ancestor of the Hawksworths, Baronets; and a son, Chrisopher Sotheron, Lord of Mitton, who was the father of John Sotheron, who in 1419 resigned the living of Upton-cum Chalvey, co. Bucks., and of Robert Sotheron, of whose son, Sir Robert Sotheron, of New Elvet, Durham, many records remain. He was the father of Rowland Sotheran, who had with other issue Sir William Sotheran, and Capt. Lewis Sotheran, of H. M. Ship “ Elizabeth of Newcastle," whose son Christopher was father, by his wife Isabel Smythe (granddaughter of Anthony Smythe, Esq., and his wife, Margaret Belasyse, second cousin of Sir Henry Belasyse, ancestor of the Earls of Fauconberg), with other issue, of Stephen Sotheron, Sheriff of Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1561, and of William Sotheron, merchant adventurer, of that place. This William Sotheran married Katherine, daughter of Ralph Willy, of Haughton-le-side, of a family described by the late Mr. Surtees, in his History of Durham, as yeomen-gentry," and, with other issue, |