misprints abound, and, to give only one example, the name of the "great George" is consistently misspelt "Cruickshank." Some notice of the collected editions should also have been given, as the prefaces which Dickens specially wrote for some of the volumes are of value. These, however, are minor blots, which can easily be removed if a second edition is called for. To say that the book is not perfect is merely equivalent to saying that it is a bibliography. A great dramatic critic of my acquaintance once told me that he considered the thirties" of the last century the barrenest period in theatrical history. This remark cannot be applied to literature, for that decade witnessed the blossoming into fruit of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. But it also created several problems in literary history, some of which still remain unsolved, and are likely to elude the acumen of the most skilful bibliographer. I have in my possession a small quarto volume, the contents of which consist of plays extracted from The Carlton Chronicle, and pasted down by the writer of the plays and the former owner of the book. This was the late Mr. W. H. Logan, the author of 'A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs,' and co-editor with James Maidment of The Dramatists of the Restoration.' The plays are really burlesques, of the 'Bombastes Furioso' order, and are all in print, with the exception of the last, which was copied in manuscript by Mr. Logan, who prefaced the collection with the following note : "The following absurdities appeared in the pages of The Carlton Chronicle-a clever Conservative journal of the time-which was edited by Percival Weldon Banks, Esquire, Barrister-at-Law, the 'Morgan Rattler' of Fraser's Magazine. In The Carlton Chronicle appeared for the first time some of Boz's 'Sketches." W. Harrison Ainsworth, James Maidment, Theodore Martin, W. B. D. D. Turnbull, and the writer of these pages, were contributors. It is supposed that at this dateDecember, 1856-there are not above four complete sets of The Carlton Chronicle in existence.W. H. L." The plays written by Mr. Logan are dated 1836 and 1837, when Dickens was contributing his Sketches' to The Evening Chronicle. I have never seen a copy of The Carlton Chronicle, and the only one that I can trace was that formerly belonging to James Maidment, which realized the sum of six shillings and sixpence at the sale of that gentleman's library on 17 May, 1880 (lot 5018). Mr. Maidment's copy was purchased by the late Mr. John Mansfield Mackenzie, of Edinburgh, at whose sale on 11 March, 1889, it fetched only three shillings (lot 245). The book There world was evidently unaware of the value of the compilation, owing, doubtless, to the fact that Dickens's contributions had never come within the cognizance of bibliographers In one of Mr. Logan's productions, a Christmas pantomime called 'The Loves of Hookey Walker and Sally Roy; or, Harlequin Humbug,' a note occurs at the bottom of the page: "See Thwackaway's 'Mountain Sylph,' in which Eolia most ingeniously transforms herself into a butterfly. are other references to the 'Mountain Sylph,' which is styled an opera; but, so far as I know, its existence has been ignored by all writers on Thackeray, although it is known that about the date of The Carlton Chronicle he occasionally occupied himself in composing trifles for the lyric stage Of the contributors. to The Carlton Chronicle who are named by Mr. Logan, the venerable and respected. figure of Sir Theodore Martin alone survives. W. F. PRIDEAUX. Memory of Lieut Tho" Edgar of the Royal Navy He came into the Navy at 10 Years of age- in his last Voyage when he was killed in the south Seas the 14th Feby, 1778. Hollis, Long Island, New York. This distich had considerable vitality, for in 1580 a brass put up to Edmund Hodson, formerly Fellow of Winchester College, in. the cloisters there, runs : Whoso thow art, wyth lovinge harte, Stonde, reade, and thincke on me; For as I was, so nowe thow arte, And as I am, so shalte thow be Finally, on a tombstone dated 1810, in Penalt Churchyard, Monmouthshire, I have N. & Q.' before. The monument is an upright seen the inscription :— Remember we as you pass by! [See first query, p. 28.] The following inscription is to be seen on a granite headstone in Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, Tooting, S.W : In Memory of of Balham, By Race of Jonah i. 9. But God will redeem my soul from the power I dread no evil, God is near. M. L. R. BRESLAR. I have not been able to verify the quotation, time not permitting of an exhaustive search; but it seems to me to be so thoroughly characteristic as to deserve a place in the collection published in 'N. & Q.' ALAN STEWART. I send an epitaph from an old stone in the cemetery at Dacca, Bengal, which, although written from memory, is, I believe, correct: Oh ye of Scotia's sons For whom music hath a charm slab, and at the top are depicted two angels In Memory of Mr Richard Joy It is said that he could lift a weight of 'YANKEE DOODLE.' (See 10th S. ii. 480.) -The original version of Yankee Doodle' consists of fifteen verses of four lines each, which may be found in 'Young Folk's History of America,' edited by Hezekiah Butterworth, pp. 266-8 (Boston, 1881). Of the other amusing songs belonging to the same epoch (1775-83), one, entitled The Battle of the Kegs,' is printed in the appendix to (Surgeon) James Thacher's 'Military Journal,' Hartford, 1854. Both these books are in my library. EUGENE F. McPIKE. Chicago, U.S. CLERGYMAN AS CITY COUNCILLOR. The following is from The Times of 22 December, 1904 "In Castle-Baynard Ward, at which Alderman Sir David Evans was the returning officer, Mr. G. T. Thornes retired, and the Rev. Percival Clementi-Smith, Master of the Mercers' Company and rector of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, was Smith is the first clergyman who has been elected unanimously elected in his place. Mr. Clementito the Corporation since the Reformation." H. W. UNDERDOWN. CRANMER'S LIBRARY. (See 6th S. xi. 309, 412; 7th S. xii. 345.)-At the first and last of the above references a request is made for information concerning any books bearing the autograph "Thomas Cantuarien.," with the statement at the first reference that the greater portion of Archbishop Cranmer's books are in the British Museum, but that many were sold and scattered. I may say that there is a book bearing this signature on the top margin of the title-page in the library of the Royal College of Physicians. Its title is: Digesto- rum seu Pandectaru’ Iuris Cæsarei Tomus Secundus, quod | vulgo Infortiatum appellant. [Woodcut, I send the following epitaph, copied from printer's device.] Parisijs | Ex officina Claudij the churchyard of St. Peter's, near Broad- Cheuallonij, sub | Sole aureo in via ad diuum stairs, believing it has not appeared in | Iacobum. | 1527." 8vo. It is significant that Your souls to cheer, your hearts to warm, ALEX. THOMS. THE HOLY MAID OF KENT.- Mr. Sidney Lee, at p. 48 of his new book, 'Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century' (1904), in his interesting account of Sir Thomas More, refers to Elizabeth Barton, "the Holy Maid of Kent," as "staying with the monks of the Charterhouse at Sion House, London." I may perhaps be allowed to point out that it is against the rules of the Order of Carthusians to permit women to enter a Charterhouse unless it be a nunnery, which the one referred to evidently was not; indeed, the order had no nunnery in the English Province, all their priories being for monks. Further, there was no Charter house at Sion House. abbess, dwelt in one court, and the canons and lay brothers in a separate court by themselves (Mon. Angl.,' Ellis, vol. vi. p. 542). It is said that the rule, although less austere than that of the Carthusians, included a strict enclosure and the exercises of a contempla(See Hendriks's 'The London Charterhouse,' 1889, pp. 127-8, and G. J. Aungier's 'The History and Antiq. of Syon Mon.,' 1840; see p. 85 as to More's meeting with the Maid.) tive life. It may be worth while also to call attention here to the note on p. 13 of Thomas Wright's 'Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries' (Camden Soc., 1843), wherein, referring to the subject of the Holy Maid, he mentions "the fathers and nuns of Syon, the Charter House, [sic] and Sheen," as if there were three places. What, of course, must have been intended was the monks and nuns. of Syon and the monks of Charterhouse at H. W. UNDERDOWN. Sheen. There was a Carthusian Priory or Charterhouse, founded by Henry V., at (West) Sheen, now known as Richmond in Surrey, and the priory would not be far from where list is perhaps not complete, and some details ENGLISH CANONIZED SAINTS.-The following the Observatory now is, in the Old Deer I am unable to fill in; but, such as it is, Park. More, in his letter to Cromwell, printed in the Rev. T. E. Bridgett's Life recent discussion in N. & Q.' under the it may be of interest in reference to the and Writings of Sir Thomas More (1892), heading Martyrdom of St. Thomas: refers to the Prior of the Charterhouse at Shene" coming to him and talking about the Maid (p 330); and further on he states "that after her own confession declared at Paul's Cross" on 23 November, 1533, he sent word by his servant "unto the Prior of the Charterhouse, that she was undoubtedly proved a false, deceiving hypocrite." But there does not appear to be anything to show that the Maid ever went to Sheen Charterhouse. In the same letter, however, More expressly states (p. 326) : "After this, I being upon a day at Sion, and talking with the fathers together at the grate, they showed me that she [i.e., the Maid] had been with them, and showed me divers things that some of them misliked in her......Afterwards, when I heard that she was there again, I came thither to see her, and to speak with her myself. At which communication had, in a little chapel, there were none present but we two." Compare also F. A. Gasquet, Henry VIII. and the Eng Mon.' (1895), vol. i. p. 143. Sion Monastery was on the opposite side of the river to Sheen, the site being now occupied by Sion House, between Isleworth and Brentford, in the county of Middlesex. It was a foundation of the Order of St. Bridget of Sweden, and according to the rule of the order monks and nuns lived under the same roof, though the two communities were completely separate. The sisters, with the St. Thomas of Hereford.' I. Formal Canonizations. 1. St. Alban is stated by Matthew Paris to have been canonized by Pope Adrian I. in 794. 2. St. Willibald was canonized by Leo VII.. in 938. 3. Pope Adrian IV., the only English Pope, canonized St. Siegfried in 1158. and 4, 5. Alexander III. canonized St. Edward the Confessor, 7 February, 1161/2, by the bull Illius devotionis constantium, St. Thomas of Canterbury on 22 March, 1173/4, by the bull Gaudendum est universitati. 6, 7. Innocent III. canonized St Gilbert of Sempringham in 1202 (bull lost), and St. Wolstan, 14 May, 1203, by the bull Cum secundum evangelicam. 8, 9. Honorius III. canonized St. Hugh of Lincoln, 18 February, 1220/1, by the bull Divinæ dignatio pietatis, and St. William of York, 18 March, 1226/7, by the bull Qui statuit terminos. 10. St. Edmund Rich was canonized by the bull of Innocent IV., dated 11 January, 1247/8, Novum matris ecclesiæ. 11 St. Richard of Chichester was canonized 20 February, 1261/2, by the bull of Urban IV., Exultet angelica turba. 12. St. Thomas of Hereford was canonized 17 April, 1320, by the bull of John XXII., Unigenitus Filius. 13. Boniface IX. (Pope from 1389 to 1404) as stated to have canonized St. John of Bridlington. 14, 15. Callixtus III. (Pope from 1455 to 1458) canonized St. Osmund of Salisbury, 1 January, 1456/7, and (according to Platina, who is probably wrong) St. Edmund the King (date unknown). 16. In some year unknown St. Stephen Harding appears to have been canonized on 17 April (see Benedict XIV., 'De Canoniz.,' lib. i. c. 13, n. 17, t. 1, p. 100). II. Equipollent Canonizations. When the offices of a saint are extended to the Universal Church he is said to receive -equipollent canonization. St. Ursula and her companions were thus honoured by St. Pius V. (Pope 1566 to 1572); St. Anselm by Alexander VIII. (1689-91); St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland, by Innocent XII, 15 September, 1691; St. Boniface by Pius IX. (1846-78); St. Augustine of Canterbury by Leo XIII., 28 July, 1882, and St. Bede by Leo XIII., 13 November, 1899. I may add that St. Bede was at the same time declared a Doctor of the Church. The same title of honour was declared to St. Anselm by Clement XI. in 1720. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. DAGGER PIES.-By the accidental omission of a reference in the first edition of Nares's Glossary' a quotation of two lines has been run on, in subsequent editions, to form part of another quotation which follows it, and the whole is printed thus: "Good den good coosen; Jesu, how de 'e do? When shall we eat another Dagger-pie? Out bench-whistler, out; I'll not take thy word for a Dagger pie. Decker's 'Satiromastix, p. 115. Hawkins 3." meete.’ The N.E.D., vol. iii. p. 7, col. 3, quoting from Nares, as above, naturally attributes them to Satiromastix.' Another mistake in Nares also affects this 'Dagger-pie' article in the 'N.E.D.' There were two taverns with the sign of the "Dagger." Nares knew only of that in Holborn; but it was the "Dagger " in Cheapside which gave its name to the pies. See the second part of 'If you know not me, you know nobody,' Act I. sc. ii., by Heywood. The scene is Hobson's shop. During his absence the two apprentices leave their business The second prentice, going out, says: "I must needs step to the Dagger in Cheape, to send a letter into the country vnto my father." Hobson comes back to his shop, and, when this prentice returns, asks him, "And where have you been? 2nd Pren. At breakfast with a Dagger-pie, sir." Collier, in the Shakespeare Society's reprint of the play, has a note on the two" Daggers." P. A. DANIEL. I must have been a little "hooligan," for one VANISHED PASTIMES.-When I was a boy of the pastimes or diversions of winter was indulgence in the dangerous practice of shooting orange-peel at all and sundry from a copper Y-shaped "toy," the horns of which were connected by elastic, from which the tiny catapults of orange-peel were shot broadcast. I do not know what recalled to me quite spontaneously the memory of those boyish instruments of torture, but I have not seen them in any of the small shops devoted to the menus plaisirs de la jeunesse for many years past, and now wonder whether police restrictions were quietly brought to bear upon the vendors in the same way as they were upon the vendors of "squirts" and other obnoxious pastimes which were such discordant conditions of life in the last century. M. L. R. BRESLAR. NELSON IN FICTION. "Nelson's peerless " has time and again figured in the or less veripages of romance with more of Trafalgar coming on this year, I have similitude. Just now, with the centenary noticed three tales of adventure in which "the Norfolk Hero," as we love to call him, is introduced. These are: name 1. Mr. Henty's last story, 'By Conduct and Courage,' said by some to be his best book. 2. The Commander of the Hirondelle,' by Dr. W. H. Fitchett, which contains fine thumbnail sketches of Nelson. 3. England Expects: a Story of the Last Days of Nelson,' by Frederick Harrison, which has a stirring account of the culminating scene at Trafalgar. It would be interesting if a complete list of tales dealing with Nelson and his times, directly or indirectly, could be furnished. Norwich. JAMES HOOPER. of the parish church, immediately above the Hoskyns family pew. It is the Union Jack which was flying on the ill-fated Victoria when she went down after being rammed by the Camperdown a few years siuce. When the Victoria sank this flag, strange to say, was found floating on the surface of the sea. It was picked up and sent to the Admiralty. The late Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskyns, when he had the command of the Mediterranean Fleet, hoisted the same flag on the Victory, then his flagship, and it was in turn hauled to the masthead by Admiral Tryon, who afterwards assumed the command, and who, it will be remembered, went down with his ship. On the occasion of the funeral of the late Sir Anthony Hoskyns, at North Perrott, the flag was used as a pall. It was afterwards given by the Admiralty to Lady Hoskyns. On her death this relic passed to the family, and they placed it in the parish church, where it haugs in graceful folds, commemorating the names of two brave men, and is a visible reminder of one of the saddest disasters in the history of the British Navy." W. LOCKE RADFORD. LUTHER FAMILY. (See 10th S. ii. 323.)-The earliest record of this family in my possession is from the Visitation of Essex, 1634 Harleian Soc. vol. xiii. p. 439), and it commences with the Richard whose monument the REV JOHN PICKFORD refers to ; but no mention is made of the brother Anthonie Luther. Can MR. PICKFORD or any other of your readers give any earlier information respecting this family; also the date of Anthonie's death? It is possible that he died prior to 1634, and that the inscription was only placed on his tomb at the death of his brother Richard in 1638 My interest in the family arises from the grandson (Richard) and granddaughter (Jane) of the above-mentioned Richard having married the daughter (Rebecca) and son (Edward) of my great-great-great-great-great uncle, Alderman Edward Rudge, Sheriff of London in 1637. It was the great-granddaughter (Charlotte Luther) of Richard Luther and Rebecca Rudge, and sister of John Luther, M.P. for the county of Essex, who married, as his third wife, Henry Fane, of Wormsley, M.P. for Lyme Regis, and brother to the eighth Earl of Westmorland; and the manner in which Miles or Myless passed to the Fane family is described in the "Gentleman's Magazine Library: English Topography,' part iv. p. 96, thus: Myless, the property of F. Fane, Esq. (related to the Right Hon Earl of Westmorland), formerly belonging to John Luther, Esq. [who, though married, died s.p. in 1786], who left it to Mr. Fane at his decease." This is confirmed by the following entry in "Burke's Landed Gentry' (ed. 1846, p. 395): "Francis [second son of Henry Fane and Charlotte Luther] of Spetisbury, Dorset, and Green Park Place, Bath, M.P. for Dorchester, who succeeded under the will of his uncle John Luther, Esq., to the large estates of Myless's, &c., and died without issue, when those estates passed by entail to his elder brother". John, who married Lady Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Thomas, third Earl of Macclesfield, and by whom he had issue John, mentioned in the next paragraph, and others. Charlotte Luther is described as sister and In Burke's Peerage' (ed. 1897, p. 1524) co-heiress (with Rebecca her sister, wife of J. Taylor, Esq.) of John Luther, Esq., of Myles, Essex; and Burke's Commoners,' iv. 9, gives the representation of the Luther family as vested in Mr. Fane (John, grandson of Charlotte Luther) and Dr. Taylor (John Taylor Gordon. M.D., grandson of Rebecca Luther), of Clifton. According to ' Burke's Landed Gentry' (ed. 1846, p. 478), this Dr. Taylor, or Taylor Gordon, is of royal Scotch descent as well, as being a descendant of the Earls of Huntly. I have been unable to trace with any certainty that the Luther family of Essex were descended from Martin Luther; but it may be interesting to quote the following in this connexion, which appears in 'Burke's Commoners,' iv. 9: Henry VIII., and undoubtedly allied to the cele"Established in England during the reign of brated Reformer, the Luthers remained seated in Essex for centuries, intermarrying with the leading families of that county, representing it in Parliament, and exercising paramount influence in its local government." FRANCIS H. RELTON. 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath. "TOTEM."-If there is any book to which one turns with confidence for the etymology of American words, the 'Century Dictionary is surely that book Its note on totem would, however, be hard to beat for muddled arrangement, and liability to mislead the seeker for information : Indian wutohtimoin, that to which a person or place "Amer. Iud.; given as from 'Massachusetts belongs' (Webster's Dict.); Algonkin dodaim (Tylor); Algonkin otem, with a prefixed poss. pron. nt'otem, my family token." A commentary seems necessary to elucidate the facts which the above ingeniously conceals. (a) Massachusetts wutohtimoin, though here brought into the foreground, is at best only distantly connected with totem. If it were possible to imagine a lexicographer giving tooth as from German zahn, it would be a fair parallel to the quotation from Webster. (b) It is a detail, but the quaint ortho |