Mr. Lanier supposes. The book is superbly got The Mount of Olives, &c., of Henry Vaughan. means that in this country charm superstition is dead. We can assure him that this is by no means the fact. "Rushlights, Cruises, and Early Candleholders in the Isle of Man' is a valuable disquisition on an interesting subject. Whether rushlights still burn in any part of the country we do not know, but they were common in the early Victorian era. The writer (Mr. P. M. C. Kermonde) has reproduced many of them, but has not given a representation of the rushlight shades which frequently accompanied them. As the rushlight, when used in sick rooms at night, commonly stood on the floor, these shades were required to protect it from draughts, and also to keep the apartment in comparative darkness. The shade was a circular metal screen, higher than the rushlight. It was pierced by a series of holes about the size of shillings, and in consequence threw large circular spots of bright light in many places about the room, while the rest remained in shadow. Children were often alarmed by this, and even to grown-up people, when seen for the first time, it must have had a weird effect. Sir W. Hastings d'Oyly, Bart., has a paper on the heart of Queen Anne Boleyn, which he thinks may have been removed to Erwarton, in Suffolk. What he says is interesting, but we are not convinced. Mrs. C. C. Stopes contributes two papers on one of the conspiracies in the reign of Mary I., which will well repay the reader. Mr. J. A. Lovat-Fraser, in his paper on The Old Scottish Aristocracy,' gives interesting information. He proves conclusively that the scions of the Scottish houses never regarded trade as a stain on their nobility. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices : ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pubThe Antiquary. Vol. XXXVIII., January-Decem-lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ber, 1902. (Stock.) WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. THE Antiquary contains some valuable papers, with To secure insertion of communications correhere and there one which, so far as we can see, has spondents must observe the following rules. Let little in it which will cling to the memory. Mr. F. each note, query, or reply be written on a separate Haverfield continues his important series of notes on slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and Roman Britain. They are not only interesting at such address as he wishes to appear. When answerthe present, but must be of great service to future ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous inquirers who desire to give a picture of what our island was like and how men lived when we were put in parentheses, immediately after the exact entries in the paper, contributors are requested to a part of the empire. The writer says that at Lin-heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to coln, near the Newport arch, Roman discoveries which they refer. have been recently made of a sepulchral character, queries are requested to head the second comCorrespondents who repeat "but no record seems to have been kept, and no munication" Duplicate." local interest shown in the matter"; and adds that Lincoln is, of course, so far as Roman archæology is concerned, one of the most backward towns in England. Mr. Thomas Sheppard contributes two valuable papers on Hull merchants' marks, illustrated by several good engravings. Merchants' marks, British or foreign, have never been studied as they deserve. We ought to have a descriptive catalogue of all the known examples which exist in our island. They are nearly akin to heraldry, and have been spared the degradation from which the latter "science" has suffered. We have good reason for thinking that some genuine armorial coats have been developed from these trade signs. Mr. E. C. Vansittart communicates some interesting Italian invocations or charms, with English translations. From his opening sentence he seems to be of opinion ENQUIRER ("Anthony Pasquin").-His real name was John Williams, under which appellation consult 'D.N.B.' A. R. S. ("Alright").-See 9th S. viii. 240, 312, 413, 493; ix. 72, 111. R. HODDER ("Mont Pelée ").-See 9th S. x. 37. NOTICE. Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. THE ATHENEUM JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, THE DRAMA. Last Week's ATHENÆUM contains Articles on SOME EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MEN of LETTERS. The OLD TESTAMENT in the LIGHT of HISTORY. CITIES of INDIA. LIFE in MIND and CONDUCT. NEW NOVELS:-The Circle; The Red House; The Gates of Wrath; The Parish Doctor; The Man who Lost his Past; Behind the Granite Gateway. BOOKS on DANTE. RECENT VERSE. FRENCH HISTORY. OUR LIBRARY TABLE:-Life at West Point; Vicissitudes of Fort St. George; The Progress of British Empire and of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century; Guide to Municipal London; Madame Adams's Romance; James Chalmers; The New Revolution; The Literary Year-Book. LIST of NEW BOOKS. ZIGEUNERLIED; MR. DANBY FRY; ESSEX'S POEM of 'The BEE'; SALE; The PUBLISHING SEASON; SIR THOMAS MALORY. LITERARY GOSSIP. ALSO SCIENCE :-Human Personality and its Survival of Death; Societies; Meetings Next Week. FINE ARTS:-MacColl on Nineteenth-Century Art; The Brothers Van Eyck; Mrs. Ady's 'Life of Millet'; Sales; Gossip. MUSIC: Madame Sobrino and Messrs. Ysaye and Busoni's Concert; Handel's 'Solomon'; Sullivan's 'Light of the World'; Gossip; Performances Next Week. DRAMA :-'A Man of Honour'; 'Es Lebe das Leben'; Gossip. SCIENCE:-The Tanganyika Problem; Chemical Literature; Societies; FINE ARTS:-The Argive Heræum ; Old Picture Books: The MUSIC: Signor Busoni's Recital; Miss Marie Hall's Concert; Mr. D. DRAMA:- Resurrection'; 'Die Versunkene Glocke'; 'A Clean LITERARY GOSSIP. SCIENCE:-Recent Publications; James Glaisher, F.R.S.; Societies; FINE ARTS:-Minor Exhibitions; The Lost Portrait by Francia; The ATHENEUM, every SATURDAY, price THREEPENCE, of JOHN C. FRANCIS. Athenæum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. And of all Newsagents. Mr. Lanier supposes. The book is superbly got up, and its illustrations, which are varied and numerous, render it singularly attractive and delightful. These comprise portraits of Shakespeare, Spenser, Surrey, Wyatt, Drummond, Drayton, Ben Jonson, Sylvester, Sidney, Marot, Leicester, Fletcher, and innumerable others, facsimiles of title-pages, MSS., and other objects, and are rich enough to render the work desirable, if not indispensable, in a well-appointed library. On its merits it repays study, and the instructed reader will enjoy it none the less for finding himself in occasional disaccord with the author's opinions or conclusions. that in this country charm superstition is dead. We can assure him that this is by no means the fact. Rushlights, Cruises, and Early Candleholders in the Isle of Man' is a valuable disquisition on an interesting subject. Whether rushlights still burn in any part of the country we do not know, but they were common in the early Victorian era. The writer (Mr. P. M. C. Kermonde) has reproduced many of them, but has not given a representation of the rushlight shades which frequently accompanied them. As the rushlight, when used in sick rooms at night, commonly stood on the floor, these shades were required to protect it from draughts, and also to keep the apartment in comparative darkness. The shade was a circular metal screen, higher than the rushlight. It was pierced by a series of holes about the size of shillings, and in consequence threw large circular spots of bright light in many places about the room, while the rest remained in shadow. Children were often alarmed by this, and even to grown-up people, when seen for the first time, it must have had a weird effect. Sir W. Hastings d'Oyly, Bart., has a paper on the heart of Queen Anne Boleyn, which he thinks may have been removed to Erwarton, in Suffolk. What he says is interesting, but we are not convinced. Mrs. C. C. Stopes contributes two papers on one of the conspiracies in the reign of Mary I., which will well repay the reader. Mr. J. A. Lovat-Fraser, in his paper on The Old Scottish Aristocracy,' gives interesting information. He proves conclusively that the scions of the Scottish houses never regarded trade as a stain on their nobility. The Mount of Olives, &c., of Henry Vaughan. Edited by L. I. Guiney. (Frowde.) VAUGHAN is one of those worthies, like Fuller and Herbert, whose slightest remains are deserving of remembrance, and we are grateful to Miss Guiney for gathering some of them into this little volume, though we had rather she had not modernized the spelling. In addition to 'The Mount of Olives,' which is a devotional manual, we have here Man in Darkness' (1651) and 'The Life of Paulinus' (1654). Miss Guiney seems to assume that she who edits a quaint writer must herself be quaint; certainly in the preciosity of her strained and euphuistic preface she out-Vaughans Vaughan. For example, "How rich this [the interior life] was with him, how subtly individual, each of his tractates shows, almost as well as those six-winged seraphic numbers, which liegemen of our elder | singers know by heart (p. vi). "The treatises are like a soft cloister-garden; the gritty innuendoes, a succession of little sand-storms encountering one among the roses.' After this the editor tells us in her foot-notes that questionless We must call special attention to the following without question, unable notices :means incompetent, and "lavers" basins for washing. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pubThe Antiquary. Vol. XXXVIII., January-Decem-lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ber, 1902. (Stock.) 66 means Notices to Correspondents. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. THE Antiquary contains some valuable papers, with To secure insertion of communications correhere and there one which, so far as we can see, has spondents must observe the following rules. Let little in it which will cling to the memory. Mr. F. each note, query, or reply be written on a separate Haverfield continues his important series of notes on slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and Roman Britain. They are not only interesting at such address as he wishes to appear. When answerthe present, but must be of great service to future ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous inquirers who desire to give a picture of what our island was like and how men lived when we were put in parentheses, immediately after the exact entries in the paper, contributors are requested to a part of the empire. The writer says that at Lin-heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to coln, near the Newport arch, Roman discoveries which they refer. have been recently made of a sepulchral character, queries are requested to head the second comCorrespondents who repeat "but no record seems to have been kept, and no munication "Duplicate." local interest shown in the matter"; and adds that Lincoln is, of course, so far as Roman archæology is concerned, one of the most backward towns in England." Mr. Thomas Sheppard contributes two valuable papers on Hull merchants' marks, illustrated by several good engravings. Merchants' marks, British or foreign, have never been studied as they deserve. We ought to have a descriptive catalogue of all the known examples which exist in our island. They are nearly akin to heraldry, and have been spared the degradation from which the latter "science" has suffered. We have good reason for thinking that some genuine armorial coats have been developed from these trade signs. Mr. E. C. Vansittart communicates some interesting Italian invocations or charms, with English translations. From his opening sentence he seems to be of opinion ENQUIRER ("Anthony Pasquin ").-His real name was John Williams, under which appellation consult 'D.N.B.' A. R. S. ("Alright").-See 9th S. viii. 240, 312, 413, 493; ix. 72, 111. R. HODDER ("Mont Pelée").-See 9th S. x. 37. NOTICE. Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. THE ATHENEUM JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, THE DRAMA. Last Week's ATHENÆUM contains Articles on SOME EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MEN of LETTERS. The OLD TESTAMENT in the LIGHT of HISTORY. CITIES of INDIA. LIFE in MIND and CONDUCT. NEW NOVELS:-The Circle; The Red House; The Gates of Wrath; The Parish Doctor; The Man who Lost his Past; Behind the Granite Gateway. BOOKS on DANTE. RECENT VERSE. FRENCH HISTORY. OUR LIBRARY TABLE:-Life at West Point; Vicissitudes of Fort St. George; The Progress of British Empire and of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century; Guide to Municipal London; Madame Adams's Romance; James Chalmers; The New Revolution; The Literary Year-Book. LIST of NEW BOOKS. ZIGEUNERLIED; MR. DANBY FRY; ESSEX'S POEM of The BEE'; SALE; The PUBLISHING SEASON; SIR THOMAS MALORY. LITERARY GOSSIP. ALSO SCIENCE :—Human Personality and its Survival of Death; Societies; Meetings Next Week. FINE ARTS:-MacColl on Nineteenth-Century Art; The Brothers Van Eyck; Mrs. Ady's Life of Millet'; Sales; Gossip. MUSIC: Madame Sobrino and Messrs. Ysaye and Busoni's Concert; Handel's 'Solomon'; Sullivan's 'Light of the World'; Gossip; Performances Next Week. DRAMA :-'A Man of Honour '; 'Es Lebe das Leben'; Gossip. SCIENCE:-The Tanganyika Problem; Chemical Literature; Societies; FINE ARTS:-The Argive Heræum ; Old Picture Books; The MUSIC:-Signor Busoni's Recital; Miss Marie Hall's Concert; Mr. D. DRAMA:- Resurrection'; 'Die Versunkene Glocke'; 'A Clean The ATHENEUM for February 14 contains Articles on SOPHOCLES and EURIPIDES in ENGLISH VERSE. POLITICS and RELIGION in SCOTLAND. NEW NOVELS:-The Pit; The Man in the Street; The Inn of the TRAVEL. OUR LIBRARY TABLE.-Mountain Adventure for Non-Climbers LIST of NEW BOOKS. PROF. COWELL; The WILLIAMS DIARY: SALE; EDNA LYALL; LITERARY GOSSIP. SCIENCE:-Recent Publications; James Glaisher, F.R.S.; Societies; FINE ARTS:-Minor Exhibitions; The Lost Portrait by Francia; MUSIC;-Popular Concerts; Senhor Vianna da Motta's Pianoforte The A1HENEUM, every SATURDAY, price THREEPENCE, of JOHN C. FRANCIS. Athenæum Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. And of all Newsagents. Mr. Lanier supposes. The book is superbly got The Mount of Olives, &c., of Henry Vaughan. means that in this country charm superstition is dead. We can assure him that this is by no means the fact. "Rushlights, Cruises, and Early Candleholders in the Isle of Man' is a valuable disquisition on an interesting subject. Whether rushlights still burn in any part of the country we do not know, but they were common in the early Victorian era. The writer (Mr. P. M. C. Kermonde) has reproduced many of them, but has not given a representation of the rushlight shades which frequently accompanied them. As the rushlight, when used in sick rooms at night, commonly stood on the floor, these shades were required to protect it from draughts, and also to keep the apartment in comparative darkness. The shade was a circular metal screen, higher than the rushlight. It was pierced by a series of holes about the size of shillings, and in consequence threw large circular spots of bright light in many places about the room, while the rest remained in shadow. Children were often alarmed by this, and even to grown-up people, when seen for the first time, it must have had a weird effect. Sir W. Hastings d'Oyly, Bart., has a paper on the heart of Queen Anne Boleyn, which he thinks may have been removed to Erwarton, in Suffolk. What he says is interesting, but we are not convinced. Mrs. C. C. Stopes contributes two papers on one of the conspiracies in the reign of Mary I., which will well repay the reader. Mr. J. A. Lovat-Fraser, in his paper on The Old Scottish Aristocracy,' gives interesting information. He proves conclusively that the scions of the Scottish houses never regarded trade as a stain on their nobility. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pubThe Antiquary. Vol. XXXVIII., January-Decem-lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ber, 1902. (Stock.) 66 WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. THE Antiquary contains some valuable papers, with To secure insertion of communications correhere and there one which, so far as we can see, has spondents must observe the following rules. Let little in it which will cling to the memory. Mr. F. each note, query, or reply be written on a separate Haverfield continues his important series of notes on slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and Roman Britain. They are not only interesting at such address as he wishes to appear. When answerthe present, but must be of great service to future ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous inquirers who desire to give a picture of what our entries in the paper, contributors are requested to island was like and how men lived when we were a part of the empire. The writer says that at Lin-heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact coln, near the Newport arch, Roman discoveries which they refer. have been recently made of a sepulchral character, queries are requested to head the second comCorrespondents who repeat "but no record seems to have been kept, and no munication "Duplicate." local interest shown in the matter"; and adds that 'Lincoln is, of course, so far as Roman archæology is concerned, one of the most backward towns in England." Mr. Thomas Sheppard contributes two valuable papers on Hull merchants' marks, illustrated by several good engravings. Merchants' marks, British or foreign, have never been studied as they deserve. We ought to have a descriptive catalogue of all the known examples which exist in our island. They are nearly akin to heraldry, and have been spared the degradation from which the latter "science" has suffered. We have good reason for thinking that some genuine armorial coats have been developed from these trade signs. Mr. E. C. Vansittart communicates some interesting Italian invocations or charms, with English translations. From his opening sentence he seems to be of opinion ENQUIRER ("Anthony Pasquin ").-His real name was John Williams, under which appellation consult 'D.N.B.' A. R. S. ("Alright").-See 9th S. viii. 240, 312, 413, 493; ix. 72, 111. R. HODDER ("Mont Pelée").-See 9th S. x. 37. NOTICE. Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. |