[11 S. I. FEB. 12, 1910. Mr. Carter's other list contains manuscripts, edition, from the library of the late Dr. Hornby, autographs, charters, deeds, and relating to the Star Chamber; documents 8 vols., full russia, 41. 48. The beautiful Riverside Holborn, 1601; "The Bell," Shoreditch, 1617; uncut, is 21. 28. There are also original editions "The Red Lyon," Press edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 13 vols.. tolls in Covent Garden Market, 1817, &c. 19 vols., green calf, 6l. 158. of Rowlandson; first editions of Scott; and Sheridan's edition of Swift, revised by Nichols, · Mr. W. M. Murphy's Liverpool Catalogue 152 opens with a good copy of Ormerod's Cheshire,' 3 vols., folio, contemporary russia, 1819, 71. 78., followed by Baines's Lancaster' extra-illustrated, 4 vols., royal 4to, 1836, 37. 108.; and Drake's Eboracum,' fine copy, large folio, russia gilt, 1736, 5l. 108. General books include a set of The Art Journal, 1851–69, 27.; Bruce's Roman Wall,' large paper, thick 4to, 1853, 21. 108. University and Colleges of Cambridge,' 2 vols.. Dyer's royal 8vo, 21. 108.; 4 vols, 1882-3, 11. 58.; Mrs. Everett Green's Ogilvie's Dictionary,' series of The Princesses of England,' 6 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1850-55, 41. 48.; Hallam's Works, 10 vols., half-calf, 1. 58. ; Homes and Haunts of the Poets,' 1849, 17. 58. ; Howitt's Kinglake's Crimea,' 9 vols., 11. 78. 6d. ; and Motley's Dutch Republic,' 3 vols., cloth, 11. 18. An extra-illustrated copy of Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters,' 2 vols., 4to, half-morocco, 1798, is 3l. 108. ; and a collection of pamphlets relating to Queen Caroline, also Byron's Poems on his Domestic Circumstances,' Hone's 'Political Tracts,' &c., 5 vols., half-russia, 1816-24, 81. 88. (a printed list of the pamphlets will be sent on application). Under Scott is the Abbotsford Edition, 12 vols., half-calf, 4l. 108. set of "The Story of the Nations Series," 62 vols., A complete original cloth, 1885-1903, is 7.; the Édition de Luxe of Staunton's Shakespeare,' with Gilbert's illustrations, 15 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1881, 5l. 58. ; and a set of Hakluyt's ' Navigations,' 12 vols., 1903-5, 71. Charles J. Sawyer. Ltd., have a specially interesting item in their Nineteenth Catalogue, being the Log-Book kept by Major Kirkham on board the ship Providence on a voyage to Russia, 1798, as well as remarks made on board other ships, including the Royal George, 1806-9, to which the Major was drafted, with others, after being taken by a press-gang at a public-house in Bristol. Further notes include descriptions of Boston and New York; the former is described as being 3,630 yards long and 1,076 yards broad, the population 33,370, and the number of houses 6,000; whilst New York is 9,600 feet long, and 9,600 feet broad, population 100,000, and number of houses 17,000. There are 66 full-page maps and 97 smaller maps and plates in pen-and-ink, sepia, and colours, besides two remarkably fine plans of New York and Boston. reproduced on a smaller scale, on the second page The former of these is of the cover of the Catalogue. The price of the whole is 251. There is also the original MS. of the Privy Purse Expenses of the Duchess of Portland from May, 1786, to May, 1794, 207. had her diversions: going to Her Grace a five-pound note; she has a little flutter in a Ranlegh costs lottery, play debts are also mentioned. general items include a complete collection, under The Bibliotheca Curiosa, of the reprints edited by Goldsmid, large-paper copies (of which only 75 were issued to subscribers), 64 vols., 121. There is the first edition of Byron's' Hours of Idleness,' handsomely bound in levant by Rivière, 1807, 71. 12s. 6d. Under Milton is Mitford's 66 Choice Shakespearian Engravings, Topographical It A JAMES PLATT, JUN.-We hear with regret Jun., at the age of forty-nine. He was well known of the death on Saturday last of Mr. James Platt, for the extraordinary range of his linguistic knowledge. Esquimaux, which the ordinary man of learning extended to languages frequent and always sound like does not attempt. To our own columns he was a glance at the Index of the Ninth Series shows his interest in African names, Anglo-Hebrew slang, the contributor. Chinese in London, Dutch, foreigners in Mexico, Oriental palmistry, Persian, Roumanian, Russian, and Siamese. endowments could not fail to be of use for dictionary work, and Sir James Murray recognized A man of such wide reading and in Mr. Platt one of his most valuable helpers. Mr. Platt began writing at 8 S. i. 156 (1892) every volume since his contributions have added on the witch formula to the varied lore of N. & Q.' Emen hetan," and in his wealth of learning he had the modesty which is associated with great scholars. With all A. J. MUNBY.-The Times of the 3rd inst. contained the following: Pyrford, Surrey, aged 81, Arthur Joseph Munby, "MUNBY.-On Saturday, the 29th Jan., at M.A.Cantab., F.S.A." his initials, he was a very considerable writer in Sometimes under his name, but usually under 'N. & Q.' from 3 S. iv. to 8 S. vi. Faithful Servants,' noticed at 7 S. xii. 318; and edited a he wrote a number of excellent poems. collection of memorials of servants, In 1891 he the son of Joseph Munby, of Clifton, York, of a family connected with the legal affairs of that city; was of Trinity College, Cambridge, a barrister He was of Lincoln's Inn, 1855, and had a post in the Ecclesiastical Commission. Notices to Correspondents. notices:- WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Adver- V. H. C. (“Third river of Paradise”).—See Gen. ii. 14. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1910. In the year following a branch house was opened in London, and in 1863, just twenty years after its establishment, the firm returned to London, the business at Cambridge being carried on under the name of Macmillan & Bowes. CONTENTS.-No. 8. NOTES:-'Macmillan's Magazine,' 141-Catharine Macaulay, 142-The Parish Guttlers,' 144-Royal Billiard Tables-"Spinney"- Meredith's 'Last Poems,' 145"Moral Pockethandkerchiefs"- Hertfordshire Parish Registers-Mock Coat of Arms-"Plough Inn" at Longhope-Birch Tree Folk-lore, 146. QUERIES:-Henry Kavanagh and the Indian Mutiny-by his ability he largely developed, until the Col. Vincent Potter-Becket's Personal Habits-English After his brother's death Alexander took the full management of the business, which time came for his nephews-Frederick, who received the honour of knighthood in November last, and Maurice Crawford Macmillan— and his own son-George Augustus, who has worked hard in the promotion of Hellenic studies-to enter the firm. To a man of such enterprise it was natural to look out for some new development, and the first number of Macmillan's Magazine was launched on the 1st of November, 1859, and the Mountain-Master Stephen and his Hawk, 151- under the editorship of David Masson. The Holbein's 'Duchess of Milan'-Ward and Day FamiliesAthenæum described it as a review of Clothes and their Influence-Metrical Prayer-Epicurus in Art, 152-"Altes Haus, fideles Haus "-King's Place- political affairs, from the philosophical Edwin Drood' Continued, 153-China and Japan-Topo- rather than the partisan point of sight." graphical Deeds-Roman Ladies: Purity of their LanIn 1867 Masson was succeeded by Sir guage "Old Sir Simon"-Watson's History of Printing,' 154-Michael Livingston-Authors Wanted-Mrs. Mahon George Grove, who in May, 1883, gave place Cowes, Isle of Wight, 155-Rochechouart-Michael to Mr. John Morley. In November, 1885, Hiltprand "Earth goeth upon earth" Alvary: Alveredus, 156-R. Paltock-Children with same Chris. Mr. Morley retired, and was followed by Mr. tian Name, 157-News-Letters in the Public Record Office Mowbray Morris, who held the position -Grammatical Gender, 158. NOTES ON BOOKS:-The Scottish Grey Friars'-'The until the publication of the magazine was Romance of Symbolism'-'The Edinburgh Review' and discontinued in October, 1907. In Novem'The Quarterly.' ber, 1905, the price was reduced to sixpence. Notes. 'MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE.' To Alexander Macmillan we owe Macmillan's Magazine, the first to be published monthly at a shilling. Alexander was the younger brother of Daniel, the founder of the firm. A full account of the two brothers is given by Thomas Hughes in his memoir of Daniel Macmillan. In this is told how Daniel and Alexander were in the service of Messrs. Seeley together, and how they set up in business for themselves. The Publishers' Circular of the 14th of January, 1893, the jubilee year of the Macmillan firm, records that the first book bearing the name of Macmillan on the titlepage was Craig's Philosophy of Training,' published in 1843 by Daniel & A. Macmillan, 57, Aldersgate Street, where they had, Daniel notes, a very neat shop for a very small rent." The same year Newby's business at Cambridge was purchased, and the two brothers continued to work shoulder to shoulder until the death of Daniel on the 27th of June, 1857. 66 Among some of the most noted contributors to Macmillan's may be mentioned Tennyson, Lord Kelvin, Lord Curzon, Sir Bartle Frere, Sir Samuel Baker, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Alfred Lyall, Sir Robert Ball, Sir Charles Dilke, Maurice, Mark Pattison, Bishops Westcott, Creighton, and Alexander, Max Müller, Carlyle, Gladstone, Fawcett, Matthew Arnold, Prof. Mahaffy, Huxley, and Sir E. Ray Lankester. There were novels by the Kingsleys, George Eliot, William Black, Mrs. Oliphant, Blackmore, and others. To give all the names notable contributors would be to include most of the men and women who made the sixties a period of great advance in literature, science, and art. of received the article kindly, and in the memoir of Maurice by his son, in the second volume, pp. 356-61, is a long letter to Taylor in which Maurice writes: "Your kind and friendly treatment of an article which might easily and excusably have annoyed you deserves my warm thanks." CATHARINE MACAULAY. I HAVE already given the inscription on the base of the statue in the Warrington Town Hall. The statue is not without beauty, though it is stiff and formal. The figure is draped in a loose dress or robe; the feet are in sandals; the belt plate has the caduceus of Mercury crossed with a staff Maurice, while maintaining his conviction that such changes as the Evangelical clergy of our own communion are likely to desire and recommend cannot meet on which is the Phrygian or republican the wants of the Dissenters," writes with that courtesy which always distinguished him. 66 2 In the number for August, 1867, Carlyle's last public utterances on English politics appeared. The occasion, it may be remembered, was the Tory Reform Bill of 1867. Although the shadow of his lost wife seemed to rise between him and every other object on which he tried to fix his thoughts," he felt that the state of England at this time demanded a few words from him. To this contribution he gave the well-known title 'Shooting Niagara, and After.' Froude, vol. ii. pp. 352-3, says : "He thought but little of it, and was aware how useless it would prove. In his journal, August 3, he says: An article for Masson and Macmillan's Magazine took up a good deal of time. It came out mostly from accident, little by volition, and is very fierce, exaggerative, ragged, unkempt, and defective. Nevertheless, I am secretly rather glad than otherwise that it is out, that the howling doggeries (dead ditto and other) should have my last word on their affairs and them, since it was to be had.'" It was published in separate form by Messrs. Chapman & Hall in September, with some additions and corrections, at sixpence. This little pamphlet is now exceedingly scarce; I still possess the copy given me by the late Frederic Chapman. cap; on the brooch on the breast is the owl of Minerva; the hair in front and at the sides is dressed high in coronet fashion, while at the back are ringlets, some just touching the shoulders. The left elbow leans on five volumes lying on a pedestal ; the right hand holds a pen, the left a scroll. There was, it appears, an inscription, other than that above given, when the statue was in the church, and this was regarded as objectionable, as the churchwardens in stating their case for the opinion of Dr. Wynne say, speaking of the statue, "with an Inscription, a Copy whereof you have herewith.' This inscription is not given in the minutes. 22 There were three inscriptions besides "J. F. Moore," &c., according to The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser of Wednesday, 10 Sept., 1777 : On Monday was completely finished, and erected in a marble niche, or recess, properly decorated, in the Chancel of St. Stephen, Walbrook, London, a superb white marble statue, in honour of that celebrated Lady, Mrs. Macaulay, in the character of History, in a singular easy and pleasing antique stile, and judged to be a good likeness; has a pen in her right hand, apparently as if she had just finished some lines written on a scroll she holds in her left, on which arm she leans on her five volumes of the History of England, viz. GOVERNMENT is a Power delegated for the HAPPINESS of MANKIND, when conducted by WISDOM, JUSTICE, and MERCY. At the left side of the stone she stands on is J. F. Moore Delin, & Sculp. Under which is a white marble table, where on one side is written in capital letters, You speak of Mrs. MACAULAY ; I revere her Abilities; mentioned; One cannot but express regret that a magazine with such a history, and bearing such a name, should not have received I cannot bear to hear her Name sarcastically sufficient support to enable it to continue; but the volumes on our shelves form a permanent record, and bear testimony to its honourable and useful life. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS. I would have her taste the exalted Pleasure I would have STATUES erected to her Memory; of universal Applause ; and once in every Age I could wish such a Woman to appear, as a proof that GENIUS is not confined to SEX; 'Late Lord Lyttelton's Letters On the other side of the same table, at top, is left a blank space (we suppose) for an Epitaph, and under which is as follows: tion Erected by THOMAS WILSON, D.D. Rector of 66 CATHERINE MACAULAY. A.D. MDCCLXXVII. Apparently the reference for the inscripYou speak of Mrs. Macaulay," &c., viz., "Late Lord Lyttelton's Letters to Mrs. Peach, p. 114," was inscribed on the table and supplied to the newspapers. (See The Gentleman's Magazine, 1777, vol. xlvii. 22 must p. 470.) The "late Lord Lyttelton be George, first Lord, whose son Thomas married Mrs. Peach. The correspondent of The Gentleman's Magazine at the reference just cited, signing himself Crito," denies the authenticity of these letters, quoting apparently Lord Lyttelton's executors, but not actually asserting that he has found the quotation in these letters. He ends his remarks thus :"Should they (of which I have no doubt) be spurious, what will the world think of a Christian divine who not only turns his church into a Heathen temple, but makes it the vehicle of falsehood to posterity?" Sir George Otto Trevelyan in his American Revolution,' New Edition, 1905, iii. 252, quotes from the passage referred to as really coming from the pen of George, Lord Lyttelton. Near the books is an inkstand with two quills stuck in it. The left hand holds a roll of paper, the right a quill pen. There is an elaborate background. The engraver's name is not given. I have a somewhat similar engraving taken from Mrs. Macaulay's History of England from the Revolution to the Present Time in a Series of Letters to a Friend (i.e. Dr. Wilson), Bath, 1778, vol. i. (the only volume published). It is engraved by J. Caldwall. In this the right arm with the pen in the hand leans on the five volumes, which, as in the above-mentioned engraving, are labelled History of England"; near to the volumes is the inkstand with the two quills in it. The left hand holds a card or paper inscribed " Dr. Wilson of Walbrook." There is an elaborate background. 66 In each of these engravings the pedestal on which Mrs. Macaulay leans has the following inscription : Government a power delegated for the happiness of mankind conducted by wisdom | justice | and | mercy. In Caldwall's engraving "C. Macaulay is inscribed on the base of this pedestal. Both these engravings make the pedestal about twice the width of the actual marble, which is about nine inches. The back of the body of the statue is rough hewn, as for a niche (see quotation from The Gazetteer above). 66 In Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century,' by J. Nichols, viii. 458, it is stated was boarded up till her that the statue [Mrs. Macaulay's] death, by authority of the Spiritual court." It is evident that the inscription, a copy of which, being considered open to objection, was sent by the churchwardens to Dr. In the biography of Dr. Thomas WilsonWynne, was not the first, i.e., "Government is a Power," &c., as in the presentmentDict. of Nat. Biog.' s.v. Wilson, Thomas complaint is made of " an Inscription under- (1663-1755), Bishop of Sodor and Man,' his neath the same To the memory of Catherine father he is said to have erected the statue Macauley, widow, now living," and this first within the altar rails of St. Stephen's, and I have, inscription was on the scroll held in her to have afterwards boarded it up. hand. No doubt the inscription or inscriptions regarded as objectionable were the last two, which were on the "marble table," underneath the statue, or one of them. In The Westminster Magazine of 1778, facing p. 59, is an engraving representing "Mrs. Macaulay, the celebrated historian, an elegant Portrait taken from Dr. Wilson's marble statue" (ibid., p. 681). This engraving is a picture in black and white representing 66 I think, shown that " within the altar rails " As to the alleged "boarding-up till her death," there is the positive assertion made by A. Y. Z. (see above) that the statue was taken down in the lifetime of Dr. Wilson, who died 15 April, 1784, seven years before the death of Mrs. Macaulay. Further, one would gather from what A. Y. Z. says that the statue was "taken down" in 1778 or 1779, since he suggests that the reason for its removal was either anger at the marriage, or the immediate intention of the Vestry to 'cite him to the Commons." After her second marriage Mrs. Macaulay called herself Macaulay Graham (see vols. vi., vii., viii. of her History'). On the beautiful tablet in her memory in the church at Binfield she is called "Catharina Macavlay Graham." It has a medallion, containing her head in profile, surrounded by a wreath. At the top of the tablet is an owl in relief. Mrs. Macaulay is said in the Dictionary of National Biography to have gone, after her union with Graham, first to Leicestershire and then to Binfield, where she lived after her return from America, and where she died. Vol. vi. of her History' has a preface dated Jan. 1781, Laurence-street, Chelsea, Middlesex." 66 2 It appears from a quotation from her History of England' given in The Gentle man's Magazine, vol. xlviii., 1778, p. 529, that her very worthy grandfather, Mr. Jacob Sawbridge, was among those sufferers who were deemed public delinquents, whose estates were confiscated, whose persons were imprisoned, and who suffered the disgrace of disablement from bearing office, and expulsion from the house." This was because he was a South Sea director (see European Magazine, November, 1783, vol. iv. p. 330). Mrs. Macaulay says that her grandfather was perfectly free from any intention or inclination to defraud the public, &c. The following words have been recently inscribed on the base of the statue in the Warrington Town Hall, with the consent of the Mayor, at my request :— Catharine Macaulay Historian Presented to the Corporation | by Colonel the Right Honourable | John Wilson Patten M.P. | 1872. According to The European Magazine (ibid.), Dr. Wilson purchased, and presented her [Mrs. Macaulay] with a mansion, which he called by the name of Alfred House, a library, servants, and every article of luxury and splendour." THE Select Vestries of the London parishes were until their final extinction a favourite object of derision for the local satiric wits, but the parish historians, dependant for subscriptions upon the vicar and his coadministrators of the Poor Law, with few exceptions ignored these squibs. So, although in Islington, for example, there were a score or more different lampoons, from The Chronicles of Hillhausen' to mere slip songs, Lewis, the most thorough of its When Parish Taxes shall be well apply'd, And be accounted Gutt'ling knaves no more. Among the principal characters portrayed is a goldsmith, who, complaining of unjust local taxation,, breaks out with a diatribe in which occurs : Who conjur'd up that Parish Sect, Knicky-Knocky, an undertaker, and other |