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As the Rev. E. O'M. is now dead, would not MR. WM. FRASER do well to give the name in full? Cases that are unauthenticated are worth nothing. Noting them is waste of time.

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C. A. WARD.

PETER CAUSTON, MERCATOR, LOND.: LATIN POEMS (7th S. ii. 169). An enlarged edition of Tunbrigialia,' the third of these Latin poems, seems to have been published separately in 1684. Another edition of this particular poem appeared in 1709.Button, in his 'Descriptive Sketches of Tunbridge Wells,' &c. (1832, pp. 31-3), refers at some length to the Tunbrigialia,' but apprehends that Causton's name is "unknown to fame."

Edition

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G. F. R. B. "CORISANDER'S GIFT" (7th S. ii. 209).-Corisander's gift was a rose. The passage in which it is mentioned is found at the end of Lord Beaconsfield's 'Lothair,' and, if I remember correctly, runs as follows: "I went into the garden of Corisande, and she gave me a rose.'

The Heights, Rochdale.

CAROLINE FISHWICK.

[We are authorized by a valued contributor to say that Mrs. Lynn Linton admits the accuracy of our conjecture. "Corisande's gift of a rose and all that it implies, is her own account of the allusion.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. ii. 209).

Far [not "for"] dark, along the blue sea glancing, &c. Byron, The Giaour,' 11, 167-8. FREDK. RULE.

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(7th S. ii. 109, 159.)

I have seen how the pure intellectual fire, &c. I thank MR. RULE for this reference. The quotation as sent by me was intended to be written

I have seen how the pure intellectual fire

In luxury loses its heavenly ray;

And how, in the lavishing cup of desire,
The pearl of the soul may be melted away.

I am sorry my want of care has led to the variations from this. The stanza was thus quoted by Lord Justice Bowen in his address to the Birmingham law students January 8, 1884. I have consulted the reference given by MR. RULE, and in the edition of Moore's works, collected by himself (10 vols., Longman, 1853), I find the verse runs thus :

I reflected how soon in the cup of desire The pearl of the soul may be melted away; How quickly, alas, the pure sparkle of fire We inherit from heaven, may be quenched in the clay. Which the correct version? PLATO.

Miscellaneaus.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Popular County Histories.-A History of Devonshire,
with Sketches of its Leading Worthies.
Worth. (Stock.)
By R. N

IT is not easy to praise or blame Mr. Worth's book without the feeling that one is guilty of some injustice. That it is "popular" no one who reads it will doubt; neither would we be understood to call in question that Mr. Worth knows much of many parts of his subject. But a history of Devonshire is a vast undertaking, and being compelled to work within the narrow lines of 340 its difficulties are increased, not diminished, by its author pages. The plan of arrangement we hold to be almost entirely bad for historical purposes. Mr. Worth tells us, in his introductory note, that he decided to treat the places of chief historical interest in their respective localities diate territorial associations." For a guide-book such a as centres, and to group around them their more immeplan is admirable, but for a work that claims to be in any sense a history we do not know anything more arrange the places treated of under the letters of the objectionable. It is quite as bad as it would be to alphabet. Another great fault is the fact that references are not given, except on the rarest occasions, and therefore the reader has no opportunity of testing the careful-at least, we are bound to say that we have author's assertions. We believe that Mr. Worth is usually come on no specimens of blundering such as too often occur in books treating of provincial antiquities-but we have no power of testing the accuracy of one who knowledge. Take, for instance, chap. xvi., which treats carefully hides from us what are the sources of his of Lundy Island. It is a very careful and, we trust, accurate piece of work, but it bristles with statements on which thoughtful persons in and out of Devonshire sentence tells us something not a little wonderful. It are likely to seek for further knowledge. The very first appears that in 1850 two stone kists were found, in one of which was a human skeleton eight feet two inches in length. Mr. Worth knows, we are quite sure, that the size of the men of the stone age, to which he tells us these remains belonged, is a matter of great scientific interest and some controversy. Anthropologists will desire to know where the best account of this giant is to be seen, and whether the bones have been preserved so that they may be inspected by those who might be able to tell us of what race he came. After tracing the history of the island in considerable detail through the author tells us that "the island seems to have fallen Middle Ages, we arrive at the year 1625, when the into the hands of a Turkish squadron, and thenceforward for many years it was nothing if not piratical." "Seems" is a very vague word to use in a case like this. Surely it did or did not fall into Turkish hands; one of two things must have been true. If it did so fall, are we to assume that the Lundy Island piracies "for many years took place because the sons of Islam continued to hold possession of it? If true, it is a most strange thing that a part of England should have remained, even for a short time, subject to a Moslem power. We are, however, quite in the dark on everything concerning these Turks and their doings, as no reference of any

kind is given to the documents on which this curious statement is founded. One thing only can we surmise, and that is, of course, a mere guess. Our ancestors were not ethnologists. To them everybody was a Turk who followed the religion taught by the great prophet of Mecca. Arabs, Moors, and Berbers were all Turks to them. This might be shown by a hundred examples, the best known of which is the third collect for Good Friday, when we pray for the conversion of all "Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks." Either Mr. Worth is in the same pre-scientific state of mind, or he has slavishly followed the authorities which remain hidden, If Lundy Island were ever occupied by a Moslem power at all, it is probable that its occupants were North African pirates, who went by the name of Salee rovers, and were in those days terrible to the commerce of the

whole Christian world.

During the siege of Exeter, when the West rose in arms for the restoration of the rites of the old worship, Mr. Worth tells us that the citizens were reduced by famine to eat "horse bread." A note is required here. Very few of his readers will be aware that until quite recent times bread was commonly made for horses, as it is in Sweden at the present. In Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour,' Sogliardo calls a rustic "You thread-bare, horse-bread-eating rascal" (III. ii.), but it was well known long after Jonson's time; recipes for making it are given in the Sportsman's Dictionary,' a book the third edition of which was issued in 1785. The Manx Runes. By Isaac Taylor, M.A., LL.D. Reprinted from the Manx Note Book for July, 1886. (Douglas, Johnson.)

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of some of the inscriptions from that cave which are given in his Prehistoric Annals of Scotland.' The sug. gestion, incidentally thrown out by Dr. Daniel Wilson, that the origin of the interlaced ornament, commonly called the Runic knot, may be due to the "knitting and netting of primitive industrial arts," seems to be taken up and amplified by Canon Taylor in his suggestion of crosses of wattles or wickerwork as the originals of the ornamented stone crosses. We prefer Dr. Daniel Wilson's other suggestion, pointing to the prevalence of a similar ornamentation among the Greeks and Romans, and thus leading us up to a source for Celtic art on the shores of the Midland Sea.

To the series of illustrations of old Southwark, equally interesting from an artistic and an antiquarian standpoint, Mr. Drewett, of Northumberland Avenue, has added an etching by Mr. Percy Thomas of the old Tabard (Talbot) Inn in the Borough. A more faithful reproduction of a spot which has been probably the object of more pious pilgrimages than any other in London which does not appeal to the vulgar as a "sight" is not to be hoped. The accessories are well disposed, and the execution is thoroughly competent. It is difficult to imagine a souvenir of "vanishing London" more satisfactory and more precious than this. The history of the "Tabard " and its associations with Chaucer and the Canterbury pilgrimage are meanwhile explained in an interesting monograph by Mrs. Charlotte G. Boger, by which the etching is accompanied. It seems but yesterday that turn out of the noise and turmoil of London streets to the "Tabard" was in existence, and the traveller might gaze upon a scene which, in spite of the effects of fire and re-edification, preserved, it may be supposed, not a few of the characteristics of medieval time. Of this quaint and picturesque spot this illustration is now the best memorial. Fortunately for our successors, who will not have seen the original, the reproduction is as exem

IN this interesting essay, which is itself a testimony to
the high standard of excellence of the matter contri-
buted to the Manx Note Book, Canon Taylor discusses
some of the vexed questions relating to the antiquity of
the Manx crosses bearing Runic inscriptions. He de-plary in fidelity as it is attractive as art.
cides, rightly, as we believe, in favour of the superior
antiquity of those bearing Celtic names and ornament
over those which bear Scandinavian names and orna-
ment. He decides, on less sure grounds, as we believe,
in favour of a relatively modern date for the entire
Maux group of ornamented and inscribed crosses. The
question of the actual antiquity of a given cross or group
of crosses is, however, one of difficult solution, on account
of the continuance to a very late period of a traditional
school of art in regard to the ornamentation of these
crosses. It is impossible, we think, regarding the
question scientifically, to separate the consideration of
the Manx crosses from that of the Celtic and Celto-
Scandinavian crosses of the West of Scotland, to which
Canon Taylor does not refer, just as it is impossible to
separate the consideration of any of them from that of
the parent school of art in Ireland. Crosses with Celto-

THE DIVERSIONS OF A BOOKWORM' is the title of a
small volume, about to be issued immediately through
Mr. Elliot Stock, by the author of The Pleasures of a
Bookworm.'

Scandinavian ornamentation of the school of Iona are found in Argyleshire with memorial inscriptions of the fourteenth century, and even of a later date. But similar ornamentation is found on crosses in Strathclyde and Cumbria, as well as in the islands of the Clyde, in connexion with ecclesiastical remains of a very high antiquity, and in close proximity, in some cases, to prehistoric remains. Oghams, as is well known, occur on some of the crosses bearing the interlaced ornamentation and zoomorphic designs found on the Manx crosses, and Oghams have lately been discovered in Man.

We observe that Canon Taylor seems to assume all the Runic inscriptions in the cave of St. Molio, or Molios, Holy Isle, Lamlash, to be of the thirteenth century. This assumption, apparently a part of his argument, is certainly not in accordance with the statements of Dr. Daniel Wilson, nor does it harmonize with the engravings

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CONTENT S.-N° 39.

NOTES:-Social Position of Clergy in Seventeenth Century, 241-W. Oldys, 242-Monro Family-Lord Byron's Statue, 244-" Abraham "a Mushroom-Dr. Bevis - Milton and Eyford, 245-Henchman-British Bishops of Fourth Cen

tury, 246.

QUERIES:-John Shakspeare, Shoemaker-Apsley House-
Burke Pictures and Relics, 247-Posters - Medal-Pigot

Diamond-Farrar Queries-Longfellow's Vocabulary-Editor
of 'Critical Review '-Charles Connor-Middleditch Family,
248-Price's Shepherd's Prognostication'-Wood Family-
Archbp. Parker's Family-Nicolaus of Butrinto-Camden

mention of Eddystone - Twitchen-Sir F. Vere-Bogie:

Bogy, 249.

REPLIES:-Privileges of Duchy of Lancaster, 250-Birthplace of First Prince of Wales, 252-Poems attributed to Byron-Plou--Llan-, 253-Effects of English Accent-Name of David's Mother-Holderness-Mompox-Transmission of Folk Tales, 254-First Protestant Colony in Ireland, 255Antiquity of Football-"Tom and Jerry "-Author of City of Buda-Registers of Births, 256-Wasted IngenuityRev. J. Mence-"Fate cannot harm me "-Huguenots, 257 Cinque Ports-Peculiar Words in Heywood, &c.- Halys

Family-Livery of Seisin, 258-Authors Wanted, 259.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-Stubbs's 'Lectures on the Study of

History''Winchester Cathedral Records'. -Christie's

Diary and Correspondence of Dr. Worthington'-Pelham's

'The Chronicles of Crime.'

Notices to Correspondents, &c.

Notes.

THE SOCIAL POSITION OF THE ENGLISH
CLERGY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
I have lately been reading in the "English Men
of Letters Series" Mr. J. Cotter Morison's very
interesting, and on the whole very fair, critique
on Macaulay and his writings; and I should be
glad, with the Editor's permission, to jot down a
few thoughts which have occurred to me on the
subject of Macaulay's 'young Levite," although
I hardly suppose that I can at this time of day
say anything that has not been said before in one
form or another.

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the time of the Stuarts and the Revolution, when he might with equal justice, or rather injustice, have been reproached for his picture of the naval officers of that day? I suppose the navy was not offended because Macaulay said that those thorough seadogs, Sir Christopher Mings, Sir John Narborough, and Sir Cloudesley Shovel, "to whose land owes a debt never to be forgotten," entered strong natural sense and dauntless courage Engthe service as cabin-boys, and to landsmen "seemed a strange and half-savage race." If it was just to reproach the historian for writing that the clergy were plebeians it would have been equally just to reproach him for writing that our best naval officers were plebeians. If the seventeenth century country clergy were plebeians where was the harm in Macaulay's saying so? At any rate, if people were angry with Macaulay they ought to have been equally angry with some of our greatest poets, who in one way or another have said the same thing. Nearly a hundred and fifty years before the Reformation in England Chaucer drew his immortal portrait of the "poore parsone of a town," who is represented as a thorough "man of the people" in his origin, as is sufficiently proved by the poet's description of the character immediately following:

With him there was a ploughman his brother, Who had y-led of dung full many a fother. Surely Macaulay's description of the domestic chaplain currying the horses, carrying a parcel ten miles, or nailing up the apricots, is not a whit more "offensive" than the morning star of song's ' description of a parish priest's brother not only ploughing, threshing, diking and delving, but actually leading muck! And yet I am not aware that Chaucer has ever been blamed for this. And why not? Simply because it is true to life. But then so, I contend, is Macaulay's picture of the young Levite. Chaucer's parson was, I understand him to mean, a Lollard, and, notwithstanding his being a roturier, he is represented as a very dignified personage indeed; wherein Chaucer considerably differs from ShakeMr. Morison says that at the time of the pub-speare, writing more than than two hundred years lication of the 'History of England,' and I suppose for long after, nothing gave so much general offence as Macaulay's presuming to say that the Church of England clergy in the seventeenth century were not, as a rule, gentlemen. Why people, even in so aristocratic a country as England, should have been offended because a great historian writing in the middle of the nineteenth century made the assertion is hard to understand. Had Macaulay said that the country clergy of A.D. 1849 were a plebeian class there would have been just cause for offence, simply because it would not have been true; but what he stated was true of the period of which he was writing. Why should Macaulay have been blamed on account of his picture of the low-born clergy of

later. There are four Protestant clergymen, and no more, to the best of my recollection, in Shakespeare's plays, every one of whom is drawn as a ridiculous, and, I think I am justified in adding, thorough plebeian, character- namely, the pedant, Sir Nathaniel; the hedge-parson, Sir Oliver Martext; the reverend pedagogue, Sir Hugh Evans, with his delightful clipped English; and the Lady Olivia's chaplain, Sir Topaz. The last-named may not be considered to come into the category, because he is only the clown Festë disguised as the chaplain; but Festë is, I think, intended by reflection to make the chaplain appear ridiculous. There is a curious parallel between Sir Hugh Evans and Macaulay's domestic

Punch's pictures, besides being infinitely pleasanter to look at, are as faithful a record of the social manners of our age as Hogarth's are of his age (pace Charles Lamb and Mr. G. A. Sala); and they will be far more valuable to future historians than many graver and more pretentious works. JONATHAN BOUCHIER. Ropley, Alresford.

chaplain in the matter of victuals. Macaulay says, table in the presence of the dashing dragoon capand I remember that this very phrase gave great tain, and indeed sitting quite mumchance. We offence to the Quarterly reviewer, that the chaplain must not take Swift's humorous depreciation of at his patron's table "might fill himself with the his own order in a poem like this au grand sérieux, corned beef and the carrots." Sir Hugh says of still it is undoubtedly meant to be partly true, Page's dinner, "I will not be absence at the otherwise it would have no point. One of Punch's grace"; and again, "There's pippins and cheese artists some years ago represented a bevy of young to come." I am aware that the comparison ladies in council coming to the conclusion that does not run on all fours, because Macaulay says "What we want is more curates." Sir Arthur's that the domestic chaplain was expected to retire wife sums up her judgment with the words, "Give as soon as the tarts and cheesecakes made their me but a barrack, a fig for the clergy!" Does not appearance, whereas Sir Hugh evidently sat out this, slight as it may seem, alone prove how differthe entire repast. But then Sir Hugh was Page's ently the nineteenth century thinks on this subguest, not his domestic chaplain. Sir Hugh's ject from the seventeenth or even the early part heartfelt allusion to the pippins and cheese is of the eighteenth century, and how little Macaulay clearly meant for a plebeian trait of character. A deserved the strictures that were passed upon his London or Oxford clergyman of the higher order description of the "young Levite"? would hardly, even in Shakespeare's day, have looked forward with such schoolboy delight to a homely dessert of pippins and cheese; or, if he had done so, he would have kept it to himself. Indeed all through the seventeenth, and even into the eighteenth century we have the same picture, in more or less lively colours, of the country clergy. Macaulay says that it was a common circumstance for a nobleman's or squire's domestic chaplain to marry the lady's maid. This, no doubt, gave mortal offence to many of Macaulay's readers. But why so? Is an historian to keep The life of a bibliographer and literary antiquary back everything that people may find unpleasant? is spent in contemplating the images of images. With regard to this circumstance Macaulay His idols are not the idols of the tribe or market, quotes several examples from seventeenth but those of the whole human race, which, since century dramatists, ranging from Fletcher, who died in 1625, to Vanbrugh, who died in 1726, to show that it must have been a fairly common circumstance. If a very amusing story I have somewhere read of Oliver Cromwell and one of his chaplains is true, this practice does not seem to have been limited to the episcopal clergy. I confess I do not see why people need have been so deeply offended. A lady's maid, if not very highly educated, may, like Bailie Nicol Jarvie's spouse, Mattie, have " 'a loving heart and a leal within"; and the real snob was not the chaplain who married her, but the "gentleman" or "lady" who sneered at him for so doing. We must always remember, to the immortal honour of domestic service, that Burns's Highland Mary, ever to be named, as Alexander Smith says, with Dante's Beatrice and Petrarch's Laura, was nothing but a common domestic servant.

There is one other circumstance I will touch upon. A clergyman and a cavalry officer would, I suppose, in our own day be considered as holding much the same social rank, unless the officer were an aristocrat by birth or creation. This could scarcely have been the case in the early part of last century. In Swift's poem 'The Grand Question Debated,' the witty poet depicts himself as cutting a very poor figure at Sir Arthur's dinner

WILLIAM OLDYS.

the world began, have at any time been reposited in the safe keeping of books. Life of the directer sort has but few charms for men of this stamp until its essence has been compressed into type and folded compactly in the parchment or leathern covers of a book. The bibliographer's calling is but very poorly paid, because so few of his compeers can form any approximative estimate of the real value of his work. Nothing, consequently, can lead a man to a pursuit so ill requited but a true love of the study itself; and as money considerations are thus quite shut out, it is always probable that the work, if done at all, will be done well. D'Israeli calls the man so occupied " an inhabitant of the visionary world of books"; but yet are we not all in like manner vision-hunters, disquieting ourselves in vain, engaged, like the famous Bishop Wilkins, in contemplating the possibility of flying some day or other to the moon?

D'Israeli shows how bibliographers commonly leave their works uncompleted. Count Mazzuchelli set forth six large folios to represent his erudite toils, and yet he did but complete the letters A and B in his exposition of Italian literature. Goujet worked in the same way for France, but left us only a torso of eighteen volumes. David Clément got to the letter H in his task; our Dr. Kippis to the letter F in his; and Warton expired

with but a Pisgah view of the happy honeyed Zion that he could not reach.

Oldys's fate was harder still, perhaps. His published works are now appreciated, and his MSS. so well known that O.M. even is often understood for Oldys MSS.; but more than half of these precious literary jottings were lost before their value could be truly appraised, and even where they have been most used they have been treated much as sign-posts are, which direct the traveller, but are themselves left to rot in the wet, or split in the sun, or to become illegible through stress of weather and the lapse of time.

The few facts of Oldys's life are easily thrown together. The family of Oldis, Oldesh, Oldys, stood eminently loyal throughout the Great Rebellion. The grandfather, William Oldys, M.D., of New Coll., Oxon, proctor, &c., became so obnoxious to the Parliamentary troops that he was forced to fly to Banbury, then fortified by King Charles I. Whilst he was retreating to this refuge they murdered him, and Noble gives (e, p. 421) a vivid description of it that might serve for a picture by Wouverman. Noble is rarely so graphic as this. The event occurred about 1644. Oldys's father | was Dr. Oldys, Chancellor of Lincoln and advocate of the Admiralty Court. William, however, was a natural son, and Grose says the doctor kept his mother very privately and very meanly. When he dined at a tavern he would beg the remains of fish or fowl for his cat, and the cat turned out to be Oldys's mother. Noble thinks, however, that the cat story is about as authentic as that of Whittington and his puss. Our fat friend Grose does not relate how gallant Doctor William was, if not quite so gallant as might be. He lost his post at the Admiralty and risked his head by refusing to prosecute the seamen who, under commissions from King James, had fought against England (a, vol. v. p. 243). Such an anecdote indicates the presence of fine ore in a character. However, both the boy's parents died early, and his education must have been somewhat neglected. Capt. Grose on this point says he had but little classical learning and no science. There are indications, however, that he had reached later on a respectable proficiency at least in the Latin language. His father left him some property, which he soon dissipated, for his habits were said to be intemperate (b), and, in the true simplicity of his heart, he was ever the sure prey of designing men (c, vol. iii. p. 458).

He became first assistant and then librarian to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, and served him over a space of ten years, though miserably paid; for in all that time, according to his own representation, he received but 500l. This is the more singular as he was entrusted with buying choice works and MSS. When the library was to be sold to Osborne the bookseller, it was Oldys who made out the catalogue for that purpose (b).

He wrote an excellent 'Life of Sir Walter Raleigh,' so that Gibbon, who had purposed writing one, when he read Oldys's abandoned the notion, discovering, as he says in his Miscellaneous Works,' that "he could add nothing new to the subject, except the uncertain merit of style and sentiment." D'Israeli (c, vol. iii. p. 466) is rich in praise of this life, because the narrative has such a fulness that it reads like the work of a contemporary. The book brought him into some reputation, but not before fortune had very distinctly declared against him. He had lain some time-some years, indeed -in the Fleet Prison for debt. The work, however, fell into the hands of the Duke of Norfolk, who was charmed with it. Oldys managed to let the duke, who had long been acquainted with him, know the sad situation he was in. To this the duke responded immediately, and sent him money. He then inquired into his debts and paid them. A little later on he appointed him to the office of Norroy King at Arms. This story, charmingly narrated, was given to D'Israeli by his friend Mr. John Taylor, a son of Oldys's intimate friend. Oldys had been before attached to the college as Norfolk Herald extraordinary; but his appointment per saltum gave great offence to the heralds. The patent was dated May 5, 1755. Owing to the duke's patronage it was circulated, to the injury of Oldys, that he was a Papist. This served to retard his entering upon the duties of his office for some time, and so far gratified his enemies in the college, but, being utterly untrue, had little effect beyond.

Even this appointment could not keep him long at ease. His excess, his want of thrift, and the very goodness of his nature all helped to impoverish him; so that when at last death found him, about five o'clock on a Wednesday morning, April 15, 1761, he was possessed of but little more money than would suffice to bury him (d, p. 139). His friend Dr. Taylor, the oculist, claimed to administer the estate on account of his being a bastard, or, as the phrase then ran, nullius filius. They buried him on the 19th, towards the upper end of the north aisle of St. Bennet Paul's Wharf, at. seventy-two, says Grose, but sixty-five is the fact, if he was born in 1696.

His

His researches in general literature and his special labours in bibliography entitle him to happy memory in the minds of all book-lovers and chroniclers of the contents of books. annotated Langbaine, now in the British Museum, is alone sufficient to make him a lasting reputation, so overflowingly has he crowded its margins, its interlinear spaces, and every white spot that could be written on. The treasure stored in old books was not understood in that day, and this enriched copy of Langbaine's 'Dramatic Poets,' from which all the literary world has ever since silently appropriated the pearls, was knocked

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