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.
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.
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) :-
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
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
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.
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.
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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