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JOHN VANDERBANK: JOHN FABER (12 S.
xii. 450).—There were two John Fabers,
father and son, both engravers. Their
lives and that of John Vanderbank will
doubtless be in the D. N. B.' But the
book which will be of most use to GENERAL
DALTON is John Chalmer Smith's British
Mezzotint Portraits,' 4 vols., 8vo. (London,
H. Gotheran, 1883). In vol. i, p. 358, he
will find a description of the engraving by
John Faber, junior, of Bishop Edmund
Gibson's portrait by John Vanderbank.
Faber does not seem to have produced any
engraving of Mrs. Gibson, but it may be
possible by an examination of the descrip-
tions of Faber junior's 419 engravings
(mostly of men) contained in the volume, to
identify the lady whose portrait is the
companion picture to Bishop Gibson's.

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There were two John Fabers, but I do
not know which one was of the Golden Head
John Faber, the elder (? 1660-1721)
a native of the Hague, set up a print shor
in London, and practised as a mezzotint
engraver. He is noted chiefly, perhaps, fo
his pen portraits on vellum, but also for his
engravings, especially in sets, of which
those of the founders of the Oxford and
Cambridge colleges are the best known.

John Faber, the younger (? 1695-1756) is
noted for mezzotint engravings of historical
and domestic subjects, and of more than
forty portraits, e.g., of Miss Jane Collier
(whole-length), Charles II, and Ignatius
Loyala-and of sets of "The Beauties of
Hampton Court," and "The Kit-Cat Club,"
painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

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Non sono animabus mortuorum sed auribus
viventium.

Non nomen fero ficti sed nomen Benedicti.
A. D. T.

AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. xii. 434):
1. Is from Longfellow's "Hiawatha
Introduction) :-

(the

Groping blindly in the darkness,
Touch God's right hand in that darkness,
And are lifted up and strengthened.
J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.

AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. xii. 476):
Many a youth and many a maid,
Dancing in the chequered shade
is from Milton's 'L'Allegro,' 95-96.
been suggested that the last words are a re-
miniscence of

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The Heptateuch, Aelfric's Treatise on the Old and
New Testament and his preface to Genesis.
Edited by S. J. Crawford. (Oxford University
Press, for the Early English Text Society.
£2 2s. net).

EDWARD THWAITES, of Queen's College, Oxford,
published an edition of the Old English
Heptateuch in the late seventeenth century.
There has been a double reprint of this in
German, but no second English edition till the
one before us. Eight manuscripts have been
used in its preparation, and for the Heptateuch
the Cottonian MS. Clauduis B IV has been
first time and collated with all the rest.
taken as the basis, printed here in full for the
The

earlier editions were grounded on a MS. in the
Bodleian, Land Misc. 509, which, though not

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so early as that other is more complete. Mr.
Crowford gives a summary, but substantial
account of the several existing MSS. and frag-
The evidence seems to show their
general derivation from a standard text, but a
mutual independence. For Aelfric's Treatise
on the Old and New Testament the above-
mentioned Bodleian MS. has Bodley 343 printed
side by side with it so for as this extends. The
translation of this running at the foot of the
page is William L'isle's, published in 1623-an
excellent decision. The Old English Hepta-
teuch has at the foot of the page the vulgate
upon which it was based. There are four
reduced facsimiles of MSS of which the two
from MS. Cotton Clauduis B IV show some of
its delightful drawings. The authorities at
the British Museum, though they still assign
this MS. to the eleventh century, are inclined
to doubt its belonging to the early part of the
century as was formerly supposed. An inter-
esting note (Appendix III) sets out what has
been ascertained as to the provenance of the
two principal MSS.

A Study of the Variations between the Original
and the Standard Editions of Les Chouans.
By Helen Elcessor Barnes. (University of
Chicago Press).

THE most interesting variations between the
original and standard editions of Les Chouans'
are the changes of name which serve to make
this first of Balzac's novels a member of the
Comédie humaine,' and the changes-chiefly
modification or amplifying of conversations-
which serve to bring out a character more
fully. These are worth study. One pleasant
example of the latter is brief enough to quote.
The heroine, in a moment of alarm upon her
lover taking her hand. says, in the original,
"Vous voyez
je pense comme l'empereur
romain, qu'il faut mourir debout!" but, in the
standard edition, J'aieu peur;
mais
maintenant
It is not difficult to show
that the work has on the whole gained by
revision, and that some of the omissions and
alterations of mere words or phrases are really
instructive. They tighten, as it were, or square
and clinch the fabric. Nevertheless, many of
the minuter differences here recorded seem
hardly worth a thought, and Miss Barnes neg-
lects one frequent source of verbal variation-
the caprice of the ear, which tries one rhythm
after another, and prefers this or that some-
times without much reason.

66

The word "animatism" is here employed to
denote an animal's name used as the appella-
tion or description of a man. We confess to
disliking this, but find it tolerable in com-
parison with Miss Barnes's invention of
vegetablism." Our author shows in some
other instances a certain insensitiveness to the
proper value of words and phrases, as when
"depth of character is said to be salient
in the nature of the heroine. The industry
which this study displays, as well as its general
brightness and readableness deserve praise.

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Studies in the Development of the Fool in the
Elizabethan Drama. By Olive Mary Busby.
(Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d.)
MISS BUSBY has here a most interesting and
many-sided subject, and the reader perceives
at once that she is well-equipped for dealing
with it.
out successfully the evolution of the fool or
On the main English lines she sets
clown as a character in drama and the develop-
ment, as the drama itself develops, of the
characterisation of the clown. In the later
stages of this evolution the direct influence of
ancient classical comedy is not altogether
negligible, and some discussion of this seems
wanted to make the study complete. And it
may be suggested that perhaps one other ele-
ment, in addition to those here set out, has
contributed to the peculiar English taste for
the fool in drama, other than a humorous com-
passion for the feeble-minded. Probably every-
one has at some time been witness of the good-
natured tolerance displayed by simple people
towards harmless, even though ungainly and
imbecile eccentricity. If there is but one step
from the sublime to the ridiculous, there is
often also, and perhaps markedly to English
apprehension, but one step from the ridiculous
to the pathetic to the poignant even where
any hint of madness is present. Indeed the
popular attitude towards madness might help
to elucidate the average Elizabethan English-
man's appreciation of clown, much as Shake
speare's attitude towards it throws light on
the Shakespearian fool.

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Printed and Published by The Bucks Free Press, Ltd., at their Offices, High Street,
Wycombe, in the County of Bucks.

TWELFTH SERIES.-VOL. XII.

SUBJECT INDEX.

[For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, CHRISTIAN
NAMES, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, LONDON, MOTTOES, OBITUARY, PLACE-NAMES, PROVERBS.
AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, RHYMES, SONGS, SURNAMES, and TAVERN SIGNS.]

Angier, his will, c. 1792, the whereabouts of,
334

"A few kind of," use of the phrase, 71, 118, Angsoka, meaning of the word, 171

158

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Fragments of Truth, 1852, 90

Infallible Scheme to Pay the Publick Debt
of Ireland in Six Months, 215, 379
Lady Organist, poem, 414

Legend of Cloth Fair, 14

Letter to the Intelligencer, 215, 379

Letter (a second) to the Intelligencer, 215,
379

Martin Toutrond, 14, 59

Numbers for the Sorrowful, poem, 1869, 312
Roy Modus et la Royne Racio, 171

St. Patrick: by an Antiquary, Scottish
novel, 1819, 234

Soldier and a Scholar, poem, 215, 259, 379
Whole Duty of Man, 475

Ansell (George), b. c. 1731, his parents, 231
Antiperistasis, use of the word, 270

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Apponina," picture, 1794, the subject, 492
Architect, Scottish, in Russia, 491
Arms, hereditary use of, 14, 75

Arnold (Matthew), reference in his Essay on
Milton,' 414

Arthur, (King), his spear called Ron, 229
Arthurian Romance, Hrethel the Great, 327
Artist of Gloucester, of 18th century, 232
Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer,' biblio-
graphy of, 172

Asgill (Gen. Sir Charles), c. 1762-1823, his burial-
place, 451

Ashmolean Museum, building accounts of, 1678.
183

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Baber (Sir John), physician to Charles II, 452,
516

Badge, official: identification, 111, 154
Badges, Royal, lions and eagles, 32, 74, 139
Bailey (Bernard), prior of the Schottenkirke,
1731, 394

Balvaird (Lord), 1643, 57

Banca Romana of Rome, whereabouts of, 132
Bannister (John W.), Settler," his biography,
92, 138, 219

Baptismal entries, Falmouth, errors in, 507
Baptists, Seventh Day, of Mill Yard, White-
chapel, 26, 92

Barbados, General account of Barbados,' MS.
1755, 212

Barcarole-olle, early use of the word, 130
Barry (Charlotte), portrait of, by T. Hickey, c.
1782, 91

Barry (Mrs. Elizabeth), 1658-1713, and Thomas
Otway, 103
"Bat,
a construction of timber in church,

512

Battles of Mechen, c. 1060, 71, 119: of the Boyne,
eyewitness's account of, 246: of Navarino,
1827, relic of, 131

Bayonne Cathedral, English arms and escutch-
eons in, 351, 398, 437, 498
Bazalgette family, 413

Beale (Mary), her portrait of "Mr. Crum-
holen," 31

Bean Club, 1660-1922, derivation of name, 32, 74,
corrigendum 120

Beatty (Sir William), at Trafalgar, 35
Beaufort (Cardinal) and St. Swithin's shrine,
c. 1538, 290

Beaupenny (Sir Thomas), c. 1564, his family
and estate, 431

Beckenham, orthography of the place-name,

432

Becket (Sir Thomas à), of Norfolk parentage,

223

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Beckford (Peter), Sportsman of Berkshire,"
his biography, 92, 138

Bedell family, N. & Q.,' Feb. 4, 1871, corri-
gendum, 211

Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire wills, list of
before 1700, 234, 314, 379
Beeton (Isabella), 18, 56, 79

"Behaviourism " behaviouristic," use of the
words, 233

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Ascanius, or the Young Adventurer,' 172
Boccaccio (Giovanni), his Decamerone,' 13,
72, corrigenda 100

Caesaris (Č. Julii), Que Extant, 334, 377
Catholicon, 413, 452

Colvil (Samuel), his The Whigg's Suppli-
cation,' 1657, 253, 419

Cruden (Alexander), 819, 877
Dublin piracy, 331, 396, 416

Evans (R. H.), bookseller, letter of, 486
Islington Garland,' 109

Libraries of chained books, 369, 418, 458, 493
Lusignan family and the Fairy Melusine, 13
St. Clair: Tales of the Convent,' 1823, 151
Upcott (W.), his Sale catalogue, 1846, 68
White (Gilbert), his Natural History of
Selborne,' 53

Whole Art of the Stage, 1684, 252, 298
Biographical particulars_desired, 394, 514
Birmingham mint and French coinage, 76
Birse (Thomas), Surgeon, R.N., c. 1805, 110, 156
Birth and death dates, 92, 138, 219, 433
Bispham family, 71
Bissett (E.), his verses

Coin," 1823, 171
Blackmore (Richard D.),
isms, 39: his poem
Mea,' 152

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on "The new Gold

Lorna Doone' critic-
'Dominus Illuminatio

Blenheim, theatre at, 156
Blisland, Cornwall, the rectors of, 215
Bludworth (Sir Thomas), Lord Mayor 1665-6,
his father, 473
Bluestocking, origin and meaning of the word,

33

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vol. iv, A.D. 1389-1392, J
Calina's (J.), Shakespeare in Poland, 379
Cambridge Ancient History, ed. by J. B.
Bury, S. A. Cook, and F. E. Adcock, vol.
i, 439

Casanova, Adventurer and Lover, by Joseph
Le Gras, trans. by A. Francis Steuart,
140

Chandhuri's (S. K.), Visions from Afar, 120
Chettle's (Henrie), Kinde-Hartes Dreame,
1592, 399

Coulton's (G.G.), Five Centuries of Religion,
vol. i, 319

Cox's (Dr.), English Church Fittings, Furni-
ture and Accessories, 479

Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia, The Bear-

of the Cursus on the Text of, by P. Toyn-
bee, 480

Essays, English Critical (xvi-xviii centuries,
ed. by E. D. Jones, 79

Essays and Studies by Members of the Eng-
lish Association, vol. viii, collected by G.
C. Moore Smith, 79

Finberg's (A.J.), Notes on Four Pencil
Drawings made by J. M. W. Turner, 1793,

480

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Guttridge's (G.H.), The Colonial Policy of
William III in America and the West
Indies, 99

Halliday's (W.R.), The History of Roman
Religion, 159

Hávamál with Selections from other Poems
of the Edda, ed. by D. E. Martin Clarke,
139
Heptateuch, Aelfric's Treatise on the Old
and New Testament and his preface to
Genesis, ed. by S. J. Crawford, 519
Hewlett's (Maurice), Extemporary Essays,
139

Holmes's (Sir Charles), Constable, Gains-
borough and Lucas, 459

Karlgren's (Bernhard), Sound and Symbol
in Chinese, 279

Kemp's (William), Nine Daies Wonder,
1600, 399

Lamborn's (G.) and G. B. Harrison's,
Shakespeare, The Man and his Stage. 420
Letts's (Malcolm), Law and Order in a
Medieval Town, 440

Levy's (Reuben), Persian Literature, 280

London County Council Survey of London,
vol. vii, St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 219
Mahon's (R.H.), The Indictment of Mary
Queen of Scots, 360

Morier's (James), The Adventures of Hajji
Baba, 399

Muddiman's (J.G.), The King's Journalist
(1659-1689), 259

Nicholson's (R.A.), The Idea of Personality
in Sufism, 339

Peet's (T. Eric), Egypt and the Old Testa-
ment, 120

Pepysian Gospel Harmony, edited by M.
Goates, 380

Pollard's (A.W.), The Foundations of
Shakespeare's Text, 480

Powell's (Harry J.), Glass-making in Eng-
land, 299

Power's (Eileen), Medieval English Nun-
neries, c. 1275-1535, 39

Prior's (E.S.), Eight Chapters on English
Medieval Art, 60

Shakespeare, The Foundations of Shakes-
peare's Text, by A. W. Pollard, 480
Shakespeare, The Man and his Stage, by
G. Lamborn and G. B. Harrison, 420
Shakespeare, the New: Much Ado about
Nothing, 260

Shakespeare in Poland, by J. Calina, 379
Smith's (Logan Pearsall), English Idioms,
400

State Papers, British and Foreign, 1920 (vol.
cxiii), 500

Stuart Papers, Catalogue of, belonging to
His Majesty the King, preserved at Wind-
sor Castle, vol. vii, 359

Sturt's (George), The Wheelwright's Shop,

419

Tolstoy (Leo), The Plays of, 399

Toynbee's (P.), The Bearing of the Cursus
on the Text of Dante's De Vulgari Elo-
quentia, 480

Trollope's (Anthony), An Autobiography,
320

Turner (J.M.W.), Notes on Four Pencil
Drawings made by, 1793, by A. J. Finberg,
480
Vising's (Johan), Anglo-Norman Language
and Literature, 180

Walpole's (A.S.), Early Latin Hymns with
Introduction and Notes, 20

Watkin's (H.R.), Blag. olache, Black and
Blake in Place-names, 80, 438

Whittaker's (Thomas), Macrobius on Phil-
osophy, Science and Letters in the year
400, 239

Wright's (Dr. J. and E.M.). An Elementary
Old English Grammar, 500

Year's Work in English Studies, vol. ii,
1920-1, ed. by Sir S. Lee and F. S. Boas,
99.

Booksellers' Catalogues, 299, 340, 380, 420
Bosco (Johannes de Sacro), c. 1220, his birth-
place, 463

Bosco (Remigius de), c. 1230, of Hailsham,
Sussex, 184, 265, 363

Bosco (Walter de), of Hailsham, c. 1205-1270.

265

Bosco, see also Wode

Bovaine (Beauveysn?), its situation, 293, 359

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