is his right. His publishers are Messrs. Parker & Co., of
Oxford and London. Subscriptions may, however, be
sent to Mr. Foster, at 21, Boundary Road, N.W.

Kensington, Picturesque and Historical. By W. J. Loftie,
F.S.A. (Field & Tuer.)

IF local histories are henceforth to resemble that now
before us, they are destined to a place in the affections
of the bibliophile higher than has hitherto been assigned
them. Topographical works have (somewhat unjustly
perhaps) been depreciated as books appealing to others
rather than true book-lovers. Whatever truth the charge
might once have possessed must soon disappear. In
whatever light the new history of Kensington is regarded,
it merits praise. With its three hundred illustrations of
spots of interest or beauty, many of them in colours, and
all executed in a style of modern art, it puts in a claim
to general popularity, and is no less fitted for a place on
the dwelling-room table than on the library shelves. Its
importance as a record of whatever is known concerning
the "old Court suburb" commends it to the historical
reader, and its literary merits render it a worthy com-
panion to the homelier History of London' of the same
author. Those full and elaborate pedigrees which com-
mend a work of the class to the genealogist, and the
special information concerning remains of interest which
are the delight of the antiquary, are alike supplied, and
the whole information is conveyed in a style which is
easy, flexible, and void of affectation,

in the seventeenth century, in consequence of renewed
outbreaks of the plague and the dangers of the journey
along the lonely park wall after nightfall, and the manner
in which it grew to be "the best, the most fashionable,
the most secure, and most healthy of all the Middlesex
villages," furnish matter of extreme interest. It is but
natural that the associations, literary and artistic, of Ken-
sington should receive full attention, and the houses of
Thackeray, Sir F. Leighton, Sir John Millais, Mr. G. F.
Watts, and others supply numerous illustrations. Some
of the more noteworthy tombs in Kensal Green are also
reproduced. A chapter is devoted to the church. On the
present Church of St. Mary Abbots Mr. Loftie passes some
strictures. The illustrations also include a view of the
short-lived Hippodrome. The coloured illustrations in-
clude a dance in Kensington Square in 1815, the Row in
1793, Kensington Palace in the same year, Kensington
Gardens and Kensington Palace in 1744, and a com-
posite representation of travelling in sedan chairs.
Whatever the publishers could do for this book,
which by command is dedicated to the Queen, has been
done, and the arrangement of the inner portion of the
cover with a gold scroll on cloth is an attractive novelty
due to Mr. Tuer, sure to come into general use for works
of character and importance.

AN able number of the Fortnightly opens with a paper
on War,' by Lord Wolseley, the importance of which it
is not easy to overestimate. Mr. Swinburne rhapsodizes
on Victor Hugo.' Mr. J. A. Symonds contrasts 'Eliza-
bethan and Victorian Poetry.' Mr. Oscar Wilde, under
the title Pen, Pencil, and Poison,' deals with Thomas
Griffiths Wainewright, of whom he disposes as a whole-
sale poisoner. Mr. Edmund Gosse writes on Ibsen's
Social Dramas,' and the Hon. George Curzon describes
'A Visit to Bokhara.' As the Review is completed by
Mr. H. H. Johnston on The Ethics of Cannibalism,' Mr.
Mallock on 'The Scientific Basis of Optimism,' and Mr.
Frederic Harrison on 'The Future of Agnosticism,' it is
readable from cover to cover. Posthumous Vicissi
tudes of James II.,' contributed by Mr. J. G. Alger to
the Nineteenth Century, gives a curious account, in part
taken from N. & Q.,' of the treatment accorded the
body of this monarch. Under the title of The Decay
of Lying,' Mr. Oscar Wilde sends a clever and para-
doxical article. Dr. Jessopp has some valuable sugges-
tions for turning to account the large stores of informa-
tion still accessible and unused in the shape of MS.
records. Other important articles, mostly political, are
supplied, and bear very distinguished names.-Keep-
ing up its high character, the Century begins with a
paper on Giotto,' with reproductions of half a dozen
pictures. Mr. Remington's Horses of the Plains' is
equally excellent for letterpress and illustrations, both
are from the same source. 'Pagan Ireland' has great
interest, antiquarian and other. Round about Galilee,'

Mr. Loftie's avowed aim has been to trace the history
of Kensington from the first appearance of the name till
to-day. With regard to the name of Kensington, as with
that of the hundred of Ossulton, in which it is situated,
he has had to dismiss with more or less of derision not
only the theories of "a number of writers who think that
because 'Kensington' begins with a Kit must have some-
thing to do with a king," but those of the most import-
ant of his predecessors. From Thomas Faulkner, the
author of the History and Antiquities of Kensington,'
1820, as well as of historical and topographical accounts
of Chelsea, of Fulham, and of Brentford, Ealing, and
Chiswick, and Daniel Lysons, the historian of The En-
virons of London,' 1792-6, to Mr. Walford in his "splendid
book Old and New London,"" all writers are heretical
as regards the derivation. Óssulton is, Mr. Loftie holds,
Oswulf's "ton," though who Oswulf was who gave the
name to the hundred he does not know, while Kensing-
ton is simply the "ton" of the Kensingas, a tribe who
appear also in other parts of England. No contemporary
reference to Kensington is discovered earlier than the
Norman Conquest, though in the account of it in the
Domesday Book there is a reference back to the time of
Edward the Confessor. Twenty years later Kensington
was held by Albericus de Vere, at first under the great
Bishop of Coutances (Chenesitum), in which name
Lysons, who is followed by Faulkner and others, found
the origin of Kensington. The passage in the Domes-
day Survey is quoted with a translation, and from this
text a sermon of interest is delivered on the condition of
Kensington in the eleventh century. Of the family of
Vere a pedigree is given, with the descent of the manor
of Kensington. Other pedigrees of Cope and Rich, of
Fox of Holland House, of Hicks and Noel of Camp-thropist and his Work' depicts the life and doings of
den House, are supplied. It is, of course, impossible to
give a full account or analysis of Mr. Loftie's scheme or
treatment. Beginning with the geography of Kensing-
ton, which is accompanied by maps, Mr. Loftie devotes
his second chapter to the Veres and their connexion with
the manor. Holland House is treated in a third chapter,
Old Kensington in a fourth, and Kensington Palace and
Gardens in a fifth. The growth of Kensington, in spite
of the restrictions upon building in the suburbs enforced

The West Point of the Confederacy-a rather sadden-
ing record of boyish heroism-and 'The Life of Adminis-
trative Exiles' are excellent in their various ways. Not
to preserve and bind the Century is recklessness. The
volumes are a delight.-In Macmillan, Dr. Johnson's
Favourites' gives a very pleasing account of Bennet
Langton and Topham Beauclerk. A Practical Philan-
Jean Baptist André Godin. The Bloody Doctor' of
Mr. Addrew Lang deals with a fly affected by trout, and
not with any more than ordinarily zealous professor of
the healing art. The Practice of Letters' is rather
severe upon the latest translator of Cellini's autobio-
graphy. Not very important are the Personal Recol-
lections of the Great Duke of Wellington' contributed
by Lady De Ros to Murray's, but they are agreeable
reading, and show the great captain in a pleasant light.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889.

CONTENTS.-N° 159.

NOTES:- Tanias el Rey," 21-Dictionary of National Biography,' 22-Christendom of Clothes, 23-Sir John Hawkins-Shoemaker's Announcement-Whistling-Kittering, 24-Trowses-Bent-" The one and "the other"-Veins in the Nose-Bezonian-Anonymous Aid-Charles II., 25-present generations. His name and his chronicles Boulevards for London-Snob-Story concerning Cromwell

-Relics of Charles I.-Chalet, 26.

QUERIES:-The Court Secret'-' Tales of the Spanish Main
-Seringapatam- Frances Cromwell-Antique Screens -
Herries-Dyer, of Sharpham-Sir Robt. Norter-Classifica-
tion of Clergy-The Flower Garden,' 27-Edw. Bristow-
Court Rolls-Triple Cord-Tours Cathedral - Neuwied
Ethnographicals-"Dolce far niente"-Arms Wanted -
-Sandal Gates-Curious Work-"To leave the world better
than you found it "-Twizzel, 28-Mother Ludlam's Cauldron
-Dr. Thompson-Coaching Prints-Josiah Burchill, 29.

probable that the chronicler would take precedence of the king, or that his name would be allowed a place in the rich foliation when those of kings, heroes, and architects were not so highly honoured. A man who had deserved such esteem of his king would most probably still exist in the memory of could not have so completely disappeared from the pages of contemporary writers had he, in that grand era of heroic navigators, outshone all by his writings.

Tanias is a myth. Is it likely that the names of Vasco da Gama and Nuno Cabral, who had opened the eastern and western gates of the New World to commerce, should have been relegated to comREPLIES:-Tooth-brushes, 29-Big Books Big Bores-Names parative obscurity, and that this Tanias, of whom we in De Banco Roll, 30-Pounds-Lord Bateman-Hampton know absolutely nothing, should have been imPoyle, 31-Radical Reform-Defender of the Faith-Pro-mortalized by having his name inscribed amid the gramme, 32-Birmingham Magazine-Waik: Wene: Maik -Crombie - Yorkshire Expressions Belgian Beer-Con- elaborate foliation springing from the sides of a fessor of the Household, 33-Historiated-Walpole Collec- sacred edifice, the last resting-place of some kings tion-Waterloo Ball-Monkey Island- Once a Week,' 34 of glorious memory? Graham of Gartmore-Saloop-Harper-Marginalia of Coleridge-Parkin, 35-Flint Flakes-Dictionary Desiderata, 36 - Harvest Horn - Liquid Gas-Thursk-ChampflowerTweenie-Grâce me guide"-Musical Taste in Birds, 37—

Initials after Names-Printer's Chapel-Authors Wanted, 38.

"TANIAS EL REY."

Many of the other derivations are equally absurd, and that given by John Latouche (Oswald Crawfurd) in his 'Travels in Portugal' is not worthy of much consideration. But Mr. Crawfurd is so happy in most of his other suggestions that I may be allowed to repeat what he says on this subject:

"Tanias el Rey is, I have no doubt, only an anagram of Arte e Linyas. The puzzle is a good one, though not quite fair, for the El rey is very misleading, and the use of the Latinized Portuguese of the period has clearly thrown the antiquaries off the scent."

How the author of 'Travels in Portugal' arrived So many descriptions of the monastery of Batalha at such a conclusion is as great a puzzle to me as have been published at various times that it would the inscription is to him. Under the roof of the be impossible to add to our knowledge of this monastery of Batalha were buried, as I have already wonderful pile, which has found so many admirers said, many of the kings, queens, princes, and among the savants of all countries. Of all the grandees of Portugal, and the building itself was descriptions, however, the most beautiful is that of erected to commemorate the great victory won at Fr. Luiz de Souza in his 'Historia de S. Domingos,' Aljubarrota, which secured the independence of and the most correct that published in the Ecclesio- Portugal. The original church was finished before logist for August, 1854. That the Portuguese place 1416, but the Capella Imperfeita was commenced too great a value on the building, from an archi- at the close of the fifteenth century, shortly after tectural point of view, it is needless to say. No the accession of King D. Manoel the Fortunate, fewer than five architects seem to have been en- just when the discoveries of Vasco da Gama and gaged on this sacred edifice, composed of "spires, Nuno Cabral were astonishing the world and pinnacles, pierced battlements, and flying but-filling the coffers of the Portuguese monarch. tresses"; but to the last, Matheus Fernandez, who died in 1515, belongs the glory of having built the "Capella Imperfeita," or Unfinished Chapel, whose western arch surpasses in richness everything else in the building. On the western side of this arch are repeated with great frequency the words "Tanias el Rey," among knots, flowers, and foliage, and the meaning of these words has given rise to great disputation at various times. By the majority of the Portuguese the words are supposed to commemorate the name of King D. Manoel's chronicler, but a careful search into contemporary history reveals no such name as Tanias. Then, again, it is very im

D. Manoel, it is well known, expended large sums in the erection of splendid edifices, and it can easily be conceived that a monarch whose ruling passion was to raise majestic piles should have built a chapel like the Capella Imperfeita, in which eventually he might be placed to rest. This would only be following out what other kings and many private persons had done before and have done since. That he was not buried there, but at Belem, means nothing more than that it was decided to bury him at Belem in the magnificent monastery which he had caused to be erected. Having accepted this theory, which to me seems reasonable,

"excellent," and says that his book on the Commandments is "of small price and great use ('Ref. Past., 85, 153). His 'Sayings' and 'Sermon on Malt have been often reprinted as chap-books. On the malt sermon see Penny Magazine, 1832, p. 6; E. H. Barker's 'Lit. Anec.,' i. 103; Athenæum, 1869; Brewer's 'Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' 545; 'New and Old,' 1876, iv. 16; Bickerdyke's Curios. Ale and Beer,' 1887. See also 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. ii. 327; iii. 13.

P. 157 a. Much about William Dodd in 'N. & Q.' (see 5th S. i. 488). He published two sermons on fasting, preached at West Ham and St. Olave's, Hart Street (second edition, 1756).

P. 402 a. Hugh Downman. See 'N. & Q.,' 3rd
S. ix. 107. For "Cyrus" read Cyres.
Pp. 441-2. Sir F. Drake is mentioned in Blunde-
vile's Exercises' and in Owen's 'Epigrams.'

Pp. 446-7. James Drake. See 'Ñ. & Q.,' 1st S. viii. 272, 346; 3rd S. iv. 435; 5th S. ii. 389. His Ancient and Modern Stages Surveyed,' against Collier, 1699; translated Leclerc's History of Physic,’1699; edited 'Secret Memoirs of Dudley,' 1706. His Anatomy,' 2 vols., 1750; 'Anthropologia,' an appendix, 1728; 'Onania,' 1737. P. 448. Nathan Drake belonged to the same family as Dr. Samuel of Pontefract. He dedicated his Winter Nights,' 1820, to his mother, living in York, in her eighty-eighth year. No mention is made of his two earliest works, "The Speculator,' 1790; 'Poems,' 1793. Notices of him in Monthly P. 160. On Doddridge's "gay temper" see Literary Recreations, No. 7, January, 1807; Roberts's 'Life of H. More,' ii. 453. His 'Ex-Living Authors,' 1816; Annual Biog., xxi. 1837, positor' was recommended by Bishops Porteus of p. 448; Allibone; Cleveland, Eng. Lit. NineLondon, Barrington of Durham, and Pretyman teenth Cent.'; portrait engraved by Tomkins and Tomline of Lincoln (Overton, True Churchmen,' Thomson. 1802, p. 383; 'Life of W. Wilberforce'; Tyerman's Oxford Methodists').

P. 158. A Treatise of Estates,' ascribed to Sir J. Doddridge, was printed with some of Sir Wm. Noy's works, 1757, 1821.

P. 168 a. Thomas Warton sounds Dodington's "much lov'd name" in verse ('Poems,' 1748, p. 92).

P. 178 a. When R. W. Sibthorpe seceded to the Roman Church and published his 'Reasons,' Dodsworth_replied in a letter, "Why have you become a Romanist?" 8vo., 16 leaves, three editions, 1842.

P. 185 a. An account of Doggett's rowing prize in the Free-Thinker, August 1, 1718.

P. 191 b. Sir G. Wheler's congratulatory letter to Dolben on becoming Archbishop of York (Wrangham's 'Zouch,' ii. 156; Patrick's 'Autobiography,' 35).

P. 193 b. For " Bishopsthorpe" read Bishopthorpe.

P. 201 a. For "Spalatro" read Spalato.
P. 206 a. For "Anderby " read Ainderby.
P. 212 a, line 8 from foot. Insert inverted
comma after "untenable."

P. 228 a. See De Quincey's account of Donne's 'Biathanatos' in his essay 'On Suicide' ('Eng. Opium-Eater'). Archbishop Trench's character of Donne ought not to be overlooked ('Household Book Eng. Poet.,' 403-4). Parnell versified some of Donne's satires. Coleridge's praise of his sermons (Table-Talk,' June 4, 1830) and defence of him against Pope and Warburton ('Lectures on Shakspere,' 1883, pp. 358, 410, 427).

P. 238 b. Bishop Dopping married a sister of William Molyneux, Locke's correspondent (Locke's 'Letters,' 1708, p. 211).

P. 249 b. For ". Quainton" read Quinton (?) (bis).

P. 338 a. On Bishop Douglas and his 'Criterion' see Mathias, 'Purs. of Lit., 300, 432.

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P. 449 a. "Love's Name Lives, or a Publication of Divers Petitions presented by Mistris Love to the Parliament on behalf of her Husband; also several Letters sent to him by Dr. Drake, &c.,

1651."

P. 449 b. Samuel Drake was a pupil of John Cleveland, whose works he edited with a memoir (D. N. B.,' xi. 50, 52). His two assize sermons at York, Oeoû Alákovos, 1669, and 'Totum Hominis,' March 15 (year), were published by Wm. Miller, Gilded Acorn, St. Paul's Churchyard. His engraved portrait, 4to., by Birrel and Wilkinson. See much in Holmes's 'Pontefract,' 1887.

P. 450 a. Concio ad Clerum,' 1719 (on St. Matthew xxvi. 29), is here attributed to both Samuel Drakes. There is a 'Concio' by Dr. S. Drake (? which) on Acts xvii. 22, 23. Samuel Drake, jun., was born at Pontefract, 1688, educated at Sedbergh, entered as a sizar at St. John's, Cambridge, May 4, 1704 (' Adm. Reg. St. John's, Cambridge'; Whitaker's Richmondshire,' 1823, i. 328).

P. 450 b. William Drake. Annual Register, 1801, p. 68. His portrait engraved by Bromley. W. C. B.

CHRISTENDOM OF CLOTHES.-In 'Henry VIII.,' I. iii., the Lord Chamberlain says of the Englishmen lately returned from France :

Their clothes are after such a Pagan cut too,
That sure th' have worn out Christendom.

The phrase is puzzling, though, if it stood alone, it might be passed over with the explanation, that the clothes in their outlandish cut had lost, i.e., never possessed, a proper Christian look. But I find a similar phrase in Lyly's 'Euphues' (p. 443, Arber). He is counselling the ladies against pride of apparel, and he says, "Bicause you are