Rev. Alfred Malin, Grove Field House, Southendon-Sea, and to M. J. Rutgers le Roy (of New York), 14, Rue Clement Marot, Paris, both of whom have recently been investigating the pedigree of the Claypole family, from which they respectively claim to be descended. The references to 'N. & Q.' given above show in what part of the States the American branches of the family are to be found. F. W. M.

Very full and valuable notes of reference from cathedral registers, municipal records, State papers, heraldic and other MSS., pertaining to the family of Claypole are given in vols. iii. and iv. of Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. The contributions are signed by the Rev. W. D. Sweeting, John Taylor, Justin Simpson, D. Hipwell, J. Rutgers le Roy, &c. E. EYLES.

The name appears in the Registers of St. George's, Hanover Square' (Harleian Society). There are five entries in Hotten's Original Lists,' London, 1874. See also Gent. Magazine, obituary notice, 1731, p. 81, and Foster's London Marriage Licences,' under "Price (Aubury)," p. 1091.

187, Piccadilly, W.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

WHITECHAPEL NEEDLES (8th S. iii. 87).-There was a noted manufactory of real prosaic needles at Whitechapel in the earlier days of those useful tools, before the Midlands became famous for making them. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings.

I do not know if the following passage in the "most lovable of all books" throws any light on D.'s inquiry:

"The sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was not sharper than Scrooge, blunt as he took it in his head to be."-Dickens's Christmas Carol,' Stave Taree.

lousy,' 1848 (Allibone) or 1849 (Halkett and Laing), under the name of R. N. Hutton. Mr. Newmarch, who is said in the 'Register' to have been "in the Merchant Service," graduated at C.C.C., Cambridge, in 1855, and has held the rectory of Wardley with the vicarage of Belton, near Uppingham, for thirty-seven years. Crockford describes him as Joint author (with Prof. Buckman) of 'Illustrations of the Remains of Can your correspondent MR. SAYLE or any other Roman Art,' 4to., 2 eds., Bell, 1850 and 1851, 21s." of your readers tell me who wrote 'The Memorials of Rugby'?

D. C. I.

HISTORIC HEARTS (8th S. iii. 83).-ST. SWITHIN may be glad to learn that the late Rev. L. B. Larking's paper on the heart shrine in Leybourne Church, Kent, is printed is 'Archeologia Cantiana,' vol. v. p. 133. The author therein states that, judging from the character of the architecture of the niche or shrine, a date not later than the early part of the reign of Edward I. must be ascribed to it, and that the deposit enshrined "must necessarily be the heart of Sir Roger de Leyburn, who died A.D. 1271." Vols. vii. and x. of the same publication also contain references. The late Sir Gilbert Scott, in vol. x. mentions a heart shrine in Bradbourne Church, Kent. Miss Hartshorne published a book called 'Enshrined Hearts,' but I am unacquainted with the name of the publisher.

Maidstone.

FREDK. VALLANCE JAMES.

TRANSCENDENTAL Knowledge (8th S. iii. 64).— MR. C. A. WARD, inquiring after the "many Coleridgean documents in the possession of J. H. Green," observes: "Green published 'Spiritual Philosophy,' a work supposed to be founded on teachings of Coleridge." How far this supposition is correct is a question which I have more than once asked in vain (6th S. vi. 186; x. 454), and about which the descendants of our Christian

philosopher and bard seem strangely indifferent. would probably throw light upon this question also. The "documents" inquired for, if procurable,

Clevedon.

G. L. FENTON.

TO MAKE NEW BRONZE DARK (8th S. iii. 69). -The 'South Kensington Museum Art Handbook on Bronzes,' by Mr. Drury. Fortnum, contains the

following account of the means of imparting an artificial colour to bronzes :

Ashton-under-Lyne.

WALTER J. ANDREW.

Studies by a Recluse in Cloister, Town, and Country. By Augustus Jessopp. (Fisher Unwin.)

"I AM a fumbler and bungler in history," says Dr. Jessopp over and over again throughout this delightful volume. If that be so, he is the neatest fumbler and the brightest bungler that we have come across for many a long day. But, if we may make so bold as to contradict Dr. Jessopp, the whole charm of the book before us lies in the fact that the historian has been good enough to assume for the time being the guise of the smatterer, thereby attracting the outside mob of real smatterers, who are fearful, as a rule, of approaching such stern solidities as Stubbs and Freeman. This wolf in sheep's clothing-if Dr. Jessopp will excuse the simile -will be enticing many a lamb to follow him away into the wilds of historical inquiry.

It is well to exaggerate any little strictures we may wish to pass on these 'Studies': finding fault with them is a bad business, and we must make the best of it we can. If one essay stands out as being a little less satisfactory than the rest, it is 'Letters and Letter Writers'; excellent rules are laid down therein, rules especially useful for lady correspondents of society journals. But why, when Dr. Jessopp writes his book of travels, is be going to "describe nothing he ever saw......and only tell his readers what he has heard"? It is true that "you can't go on indefinitely using up superlatives and ringing the changes upon all the names of the colours in a paint-box"; but what about the specimen

culled from that "incomparable collection of letters " and quoted at the end of the essay? How much conhe saw? Dr. Jessopp seems to be rather hard on things sists of what Charles Lamb heard, and how much of what and persons in general throughout this essay. for instance, the relentless attack upon Pliny the Younger Compare, with our historian's account of him thirty pages back: kind-hearted and polished gentleman than that rugged "He [Pliny] was an incomparably more honoured and Cato...... But Pliny came out now and then as a sportsman:

..pigsticking......was a fine manly sport. Kindly, are full of a pleasant, breezy freshness and healthy encourteous, very generous and high-minded...... His letters joyment," &c.

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.....that coxcombical and self-conceited prig, commonly known as the Younger Pliny. Yes, he was rather the beau idéal of a prig......he could not help being a prig......what sort of letters could you expect from such a man?"

If space would permit we should be disposed to transfer five or six pages wholesale from our author himself. But we must rest content with marking a few passages as being especially fascinating and characteristic of Dr. Jessopp's "holiday" style. There are shocker" nauseous; our mind wants a rest-a holiday, times when work is impossible and the "shilling in fact. Such is the moment for taking up the 'Studies" of our Recluse. We may dip here into the daily routine of a Benedictine monk, here follow the country gentleman back through middle and ante-Christian ages, and here refresh our memories with a look at Brother Matthew and his history-making-and yet all the time we are imbibing really sound instruction, emanating though it does from this "poacher in Clio's wide domains. They say you can never cure a rogue of poaching; it is born in him. I believe I shall go on poaching to the end; yes, as long as I can crawl." Happy the man who is elected to carry the bag!

The first three essays-which with 'L'Ancienne Noblesse' are the cream of the book-deal in a delightfully refreshing way with the monk-life of England in general and East Anglia in particular. They form a useful supplement to the writings of Prof. Froude on the same subject -in some ways, too, a corrective, for Dr. Jessopp is most careful to point the differences between a monk of the ninth, the thirteenth, and the sixteenth centuries. Our writer is no bigot. Keeping his admiration of the monastic life and work well in check, he admits that the fittest. e., the country parson-has survived, and that the monasteries brought their punishment, outrageous though it was, on their own head. They were not all abodes of the bleet; some were scholars' homes; some mere hidingholes for the lazy, the failures among the younger sons of the gentry, pitchforked sometimes into a vacancy"it is difficult to say how," adds Dr. Jessopp. Perhaps some of our men in high places will be willing to suggest a solution of the difficulty.

The Land and its Owners' raises questions upon which the writer and certain of his readers may not agree; but at the same time there is not a page in it which is not admirably lucid and suggestive. The same remark applies to the essay immediately preceding. We recommend smatterer and "solid man "2 to go hand in hand to this treatise and take a lesson at least in clearness of style and arrangement, if not in a certain adherence to fact which may benefit the one as much as the other.

A few more books like this to whet the appetite, and Dr. Jessopp will have very substantially supplemented his many untiring efforts to popularize the study of history.

Physiologie des Quais de Paris. Par Octave Uzanne. (Paris, Ancienne Maison Quantin.)

ONE more important and delightful contribution to the enjoyment of the bibliophile has been made by M. Uzanne. In dealing with the quays of Paris it is the bookstalls ranged along them with which he is concerned. No visitor to Paris can be unfamiliar with the long rows of second-hand bookstalls which, since the beginning of the century, and, indeed, since a very much earlier date, have lined the left bank of the Seine, and have constituted a sufficiently remarkable feature in the physiognomy of Paris. These have now, when under modern institutions the rights of the shopkeeper are held less sacred and when the Government is no longer sensitive as to the risks, political or moral, attending the free circulation of books, extended to the right bank also. By application to the Préfet de la Seine, indeed, any one may now obtain permission to sell books on the quays within the limits of ten mètres, which is all that is accorded him. Of the bookstall keepers and their customers, or in Parisian phrase the bouquinistes and the bouquineurs, M. Uzanne has constituted himself the historian. His work was begun some years ago, but has been put aside on account of the pressure of other work. No one will tax with indolence the editor of Le Livre, Le Livre Moderne, and L'Art et l'Idée, and the author of a dozen works equally dear to the student, the man of the world, and the bibliophile. The excuse may accordingly be held valid. Now, at any rate, with the assistance of M. B. H. Gausseron, the work sees the light. With its brilliant contents, its handsome cover, presenting a view of the quays, and its delightful illustrations by M. Emile Mas, it is a work to be prized. Among the subjects of which the author treats are the origin and early history of the bookstall, the étalagistes of yesterday, those of to-day, the book-hunters, male and female, the stealers of books, the physiology of the bouquiniste, and the like. Most interesting, perhaps, of all to the English reader is the account of the bibliographers, from Peignot to M. Uzanne, who have loved to linger over the stalls, and have left in literature and journalism abiding mementoes of their tastes and predilections. Of these some most realizable sketches are presented. Rough and somewhat soured are not seldom the dealers, who nurse a philosophical grudge against those customers always seeking to beat them down in price, and grumbling because a book worth a hundred francs cannot now be picked up for four sous. Many of them are originals, however, and some of them men of education. On all connected with these occupations M. Uzanne casts a light, and he depicts the humours of the auction sales-not those, as a rule, of catalogued books, but the great evening sales, where a score miscellaneous volumes are disposed of for a couple of francs. Many interesting particulars are given concerning men whose names among book-lovers are household words, and delightful stories are told of M. Xavier Marmier, who left in his will a sum of money to give, after his death, a joyous dinner to the bouquinistes of the quays. The dinner, attended by seventy-five guests, was given, according to M. Uzanne, in the Café Véfour in November last. The book is issued in a limited edition. It is sure of a welcome in England, and, indeed, wherever books are prized.

Rob Roy. By Sir Walter Scott. With Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang. (Nimmo.) FOLLOWING the example of Scott in the famous first collected edition, in forty-eight volumes, Mr. Nimmo, in the "Border Edition," departs from strict chronological sequence, and brings 'Rob Roy' upon the heels of The Antiquary. This, being the order n waicat ae novels are ordinarily read, will meet with general acceptance.

With the exception of The Escape of Rob Roy,' which is etched by Ch. de Billy from a painting by Sam Bough, R.S.A., the etchings, ten in all, are designed and exe cuted by R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. All are admirably executed, the mountain scenes being, naturally, the most effective. While admitting the claims of The Antiquary' and Quentin Durward, and, in another line,The Bride of Lammermoor,' we have always held Rob Roy' the most fascinating of Scott's novels-the most charged with adventure, and with something of the entrancing quality of As You Like It.' The meeting near the Forth of Frank Osbaldistone and Di Vernon is one of the most charming things in romance. Mr. Lang does full justice to the character of Di, and, indeed, though we are loth to say it, goes somewhat beyond justice when he links her with Helen and Antigone. For so good a classic and delightful a writer, indeed, Mr. Lang is needlessly fond of linking people with Helen. Very just are the censures on the treatment of the story which he passes. He repeats that the conclusion of Rob Roy' is "huddled up," and that the sudden demise of all the young Osbaldistones "is a high-handed measure." Similar instances have, however, been known. Mr. Lang says, admirably, that "the love of Diana Vernon is no leses passionate for its admirable restraint," and he quotes with warm approval the two farewells between the lovers, seemingly parted for ever. The scene by the Forth is commended for its divine reticence and beauty. We accept plenarily all the praise that can be bestowed upon it, and yet hold that the romance of the situation is its supreme and ineffable charm, "All men who read 'Rob Roy' are reverent rivals of Frank Osbaldistone," says Mr. Lang. This, again, is true, and our own adoration is exemplary, though we are not of those who readily admire women who own fowling-pieces, and challenge on a first acquaintance their admirers to feats that may cost them their lives. The " Border Edition remains the most desirable of all.

AMONG books promised by M. Asher & Co. are Monuments of the Renaissance Sculpture of Tuscany, under the direction of Wilhelm Bode, edited by Frederick Bruckmann, and The Bible and Homer, by Max OhnefalschRichter, Ph.D., with numerous illustrations.

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Her robe, ungirt from clasp to hem.

Rossetti, The Blessed Damosel.' PALAMEDES ("The Golden Rose").-See 8th S. ii, 309,

414.

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