had retired." The life of Paris had a great charm for Disraeli : there were balls, dinners, and entertainments of all kinds, while the splendour exceeded anything he had then seen. His more serious moments were devoted to concluding, if possible, a commercial treaty with France. To the exclusion of Disraeli from office in 1841 we Owe Coningsby,' the popularity of which has proved to be lasting. This popularity was partly due to its being regarded as the manifesto of the Young England party, but "still more to the fact that it contained many references, some of them caustic, to living statesmen." In 1845 this was followed by Sybil,' portions of which he wrote with "the printers on his heels." I have never been through such a four months," he wrote on May Day, and hope never again." Sybil is dedicated, as will be remembered, to "the most severe of critics, but-a perfect wife." Mr. Monypenny quotes a passage from 'Sybil which eloquently defines Disraeli's wish as to the future : "That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy, and a privileged and prosperous People, is my prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer We must prepare for the coming synonymous. hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity." The volume closes upon the overthrow of Peel in 1846 with the words: "From the moment that he [Disraeli] succeeded in driving Peel from office, he never uttered an offensive word against him.' The consideration he showed to Peel was in long years to come to be shown to himself by his illustrious adversary Gladstone, who on the death of Lady Beaconsfield was among the first to offer sympathy. On the death of his old antagonist on the 19th of April, 1881, Gladstone rendered special praise to the dead statesman's three great characteristics-his courage, his loyalty to his own race, and his devotion to his wife," closing his tribute by recording it as his "firm conviction that in all the judgments ever delivered by Lord Beaconsfield upon myself, he never was actuated by sentiments of personal antipathy." There is a foot-note in the Life of Gladstone edited by Wemyss Reid: "It is interesting to recall that this conviction, which Mr. Gladstone often expressed in conversation, was explicitly confirmed by Sir Stafford Northcote." We are glad to hear that Mr. Murray has arranged for the completion of the history of a life so full and crowded even to its close. WITH Some few exceptions, the articles in The Fortnightly Review for this month are devoted to setting the world to rights. In the matter of drama we get a paradox which is instructive and suggestive. Mr. Warre Cornish, in his highly interest ing discussion of Greek Drama and the Dance,' tells us, of the people from whose sense for drama our own is directly-though not solely-descended, that the Greek "scarcely regarded a play as literature." Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, lecturing in New York, tells his audience emphatically that no effort and no expense in the production of plays will bring satisfaction or lasting honour "unless you get those plays passed and hall-marked as literature." To mention a few of the opportunities for enlightenment here afforded, the President-elect of the United States utters burning words on the right of a free people to manage its own affairs apart from financiers; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tells us what we ought to do in face of the stirring in German breasts of an enthusiasm for war; Mr. Fielding Hall points out and illustrates the kind of mistakes we are making in the training of young men for the Indian Civil Service; Mr. Baumann castigates the Madness of Party'; Mr. Wadham Peacock brings. before us our misconceptions concerning the Albanians, and enables us to correct them; Mr.. Herbert Vivian sets himself to correct yet other misconceptions concerning other peoples in the Near East; Mr. Heathcote Statham offers principles by which to build the new Delhi; and Mr. Hudson Maxim comforts us with the assurance that those people are mistaken who expect to see all the strenuous efforts at improvement made by thedifferent nations brought to an untimely end by the explosion of the world. in The Nineteenth Century for February deals with a The Near Eastern great variety of subjects. question is represented by Lady Blake's Santa With the Bulgarian Staff, and Sir Edwin Pears's Sophia and its Memories,' Mr. Noel Buxton's refutation of statements 'Christians and Islam in Turkey'-the last a in Mr. Marmaduke Pickthall's communication to this review December. Mr. Yoshio Markino discourses on. The Post-Impressionist and Others' in a manner which, we confess, we found hardly witty enough. Two interesting articles, whose reference is to the to compensate for the slightness of the matter. Tavernier's The Jew in France,' and Mr. R. F. future as well as to the present, are Mr. EugèneJohnston's account of the formation of a new league for the better direction of the new development of China, 'A League of the Sacred Hills.' Miss Gertrude Kingston's Who Dictates? A Question of Dramatic Demand and Supply,' is fairly effective as a criticism of critics, and of the Englishman's. knowledge of the dramatic, but she leaves the main. subject in the confusion in which she found it. Dr. Wickham Legg's article on the Ridsdale Judgment ought to give pause to some rash controversialists. The most delightful contribution to The Cornhill' Magazine for February, by reason of strangeness as well as charm, is Mr. E. D. Rendall's John Smith at Harrow,' which also, incidentally, throws pleasing side-lights on the possibilities in boys. Both the papers on the Near East-Miss Edith Sellers's chat about Montenegro before the war, and Mrs. Philip Howell's account of Turkish women friends of hers-are picturesque and pleasant to read. Miss Claudia Gale's story of a visit toAmiens with Ruskin contains several touches and small incidents which, though not exactly of importance, were well worth recording. descendants of Goethe meet us in Mrs. Moberly's account of Weimar. The writer lived as a girl for a year or two in part of the poet's house. A paper interesting in itself, and worth consideration as to its practical suggestions, is Mr. A. F. Schuster's The Poor Man's Lawyer,' where it is proposed1 that the briefless barrister should enrol his name on a list of those who shall profess themselves. ready when called upon to act as counsel for the poor without fee, in cases where litigation has. proved unavoidable. The THE most interesting papers in The Burlington Magazine for this month are, perhaps, Mr. Clutton Brock's criticism of Alma Tadema; Signor Gustavo Frizzoni's plea for the reintegration of the Bellini altarpiece now in the Church of Sant' Uhaldo, Pesaro-a reintegration which he believes would be effected by transferring to it the Pietà now in the Venetian room at the Vatican; and Mr. T. A. Joyce's study of Peruvian pottery from the Nasca Valley. We have also the continuation of Mr. W. T. Whitley's 'Turner as a Lecturer,' a valuable, if somewhat painful addition to our knowledge of the painter gleaned by laborious research in the periodicals of the time. Mr. P. M. Turner deals with the pictures of the English School possessed by or lent by collectors to the Metropolitan Museum at New York-a subject which the English public may well follow with serious interest; and Mrs. C. C. Stopes gives us a first instalment of Gleanings from the Records of the Reigns of James I. and Charles I.' BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-FEBRUARY. There woman a drawing of 'The Death Chamber,' showing in the Messrs. Parsons have likewise sent us a Catalogue (No. 274) of their Old Books and MSS. This sets out a fine array of examples of bookbinding, of which the most valuable would appear to be the Breviary of Urban VIII., PlantinMoretus, 1697, in the Grolier style, for which 187. 188. is asked, though a specimen of Nicolas Eve's work, in brown morocco, 10l. 108., and MR. WALTER DANIELL'S Catalogue of Auto- one of Bozerian's in blue, 131. 138., are hardly graphs (No. 7) contains autographs of statesmen, less interesting. Good items are four sets of sovereigns, and legal characters. are Chinese drawings: one, of date about 1700, connumerous Stuart items, among them a French sisting of 19 drawings of interiors and genre letter of Charles I., apparently to the King of subjects, 26 guineas, and another of the same date France, complete and in perfect condition, un- of 78 drawings of natural history subjects. dated, 421. 10s. ; a letter of James II.'s before 20 guineas; the third, 1817, composed of 48 exhis accession to the Comte d'Estrée, with its amples of work by the flower-painter Han Shan, silks and seals, 167. 168.; and a letter, unsigned, 81. 88. ; and the last, for which 77. 10s. is asked, a from Rupert to Charles concerning Newark, series of 9 pictures of domestic interest. There 187. 188. There is also a good letter of Queen are five collections of casts or prints from antique Elizabeth in French, dated 1582, to the Duc de gems, by far the most interesting being the Montpensier, 421. Of the letters of foreign 14,000 casts in red wax from Tassie's collection of princes the best would seem to be one of Catherine antique gems, 1791, of which the price is 25 de' Medici, dated 1581, also to the Duc de Mont- guineas. An important item is a set of 50 plates pensier, 187. 108. Burke is here well represented, (proofs) engraved by Cousins from Lawrence, by a letter to Mrs. Montagu, 71. 58. ; a letter which includes much of his finest work, and is dated 1790 expressing his views on the French offered for 85 guineas. For the same price may Revolution, 12.; and another of the be had an Ovidius Opera Omnia,' in four quarto year to Wyndham on a presentation from the volumes, Burmann's edition printed at Amsterresident graduates of Oxford, 5l. 108. We noticed dam, 1727, with a series of 57 drawings by an interesting set of letters (the price of which is Claudius de Bock, the subjects being taken from 127. 158.) in Sir R. Bulstrode's correspondence with the "Metamorphoses.' The letters offered are Conway, Secretary of State during 1681-3; principally of the last century, and include several and we may also mention a letter of Elizabeth's of high interest, particularly those of Dickens, favourite Leicester to Dr. Hofman at Paris, asking Fanny Burney, and Leigh Hunt. him to buy him seeds "and all kinds of rare flowers, besides seeds for melons, cauliflowers, and such like," 501.; and a letter from Strafford, dated 1635, to the Earl of Leicester, 71. 58. same MESSRS. E. PARSONS & SONS have sent us their Catalogue No. 26, which gives particulars of some 600 items: engraved portraits and original drawings by Old Masters. They have Beauvarlet's Madame du Barry,' after Drouais, offered for 211.; Watson's Lady Broughton,' after Reynolds, 181. 188.; Cousins's mezzotint of The Calmady Children as Nature,' from Lawrence, 371. 168.; Lady Crosbie,' by Dickinson after Reynolds, 681. 58.; and The Duchess of Devonshire,' by V. Green after Reynolds, 631. Perhaps the best of the portraits is Bartolozzi's Miss Farren,' a proof before title with publication line and artists' names only, for which the price asked is 1251. In the way of original drawings none is more interesting than the Blake: the pencil [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. 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. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers "-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. C. L.-Reply to A. C. C. forwarded. MR. CHARLES WELLS, of The Bristol Times and Mirror, informs us that that paper noticed the death of Mrs. Colman, J. S. Mill's sister, on 16 January. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1913. CONTENTS.-No. 164. . NOTES:-Baron Stulz, 121-Hugh Peters, 123-The Foot Guards in London, 124-The Rastells of Coventry-Bibliography of Theses: Duncan Liddel, 125-Stratford in 1760-Orchard House-"Take his haste" - Sheridan's 'School for Scandal,' 126. Robert Armour, 130. QUERIES:-Stuart Portraits: Edgar Family-Reference Wanted-Ottery St. Mary-The London, British, and 'English' Catalogues of Books, 127-Walter Cary Leigh Hunt at Hampstead-Diogenes Laertius-"Les Rochers Cambridge: Ely: Hull-Gothurst, 128-Testament du Chevalier Walpole-Extraordinary Fountains in Ireland, Brittany, and Sicily-Richard Simon: Lambert Simnel"Monk" Lewis-Thames Bridge at Walton, 129-Almshouse near the Strand-Author Wanted-The Tailor on a Goat-The Earldom of Somerset in the Mohun Family REPLIES:-Galignani, 130- Hymn by Gladstone-R. Carr: T. Carter-Vicars of St. John the Baptist, Little Missenden-Baccarat "Notch," 133-Died in his Coffin "Dope"-The Murder of Sarah Stout at Hertford, 134 -General Beatson and the Crimean War - Richard Andrewes-"Apium," 135-"Sex horas somno"-Reference Wanted-"Saraft"-"Of sorts"-Schopenhauer and Wimbledon, 136-Exciseman Gill-First Folio Shakespeare-Brasidas's Mouse, 137-Irish Families: Taylor of Ballyhaise - Horace Pearce-Author Wanted-"Thou ascended" Armorial - Diary of Timothy Burrell of Cuckfield-William Somerville-" Topping of the land," 138. "A friend of his [Mr. Storey's] family was the famous tailor Stultz, who had made a considerable fortune in business. Stories are told of Stultz that represent him in rather a ludicrous light. There is the one, for instance, about a little encounter he once had with his most distinguished customer, George Prince Regent. The Prince, so it is averred, asked him where he had been lately, and the honest tradesman said he had been shooting at a certain place in the country. How did you enjoy yourself?' he was asked. O, very well, sir,' he replied, 'but the fact is the company was rather mixed.' Hang it all, retorted the Prince, did you expect them all to be tailors? Stultz may or may not have had social ambitions, but there is no doubt that he did a lot of good with his money. As one example, he built almshouses at Kentish Town for the accommodation of decayed members of his calling, and his friends and admirers had a bust of him prepared to commemorate the good deed. The sculptor was Behnes, of Osnaburgh-street, and Stultz took young Storey with him to Behnes's studio." In this account there is apparently some confusion or misunderstanding, as the renowned tailor of the Regency period died without issue nearly two years before Mr. Storey was born. The business in Bond Street was, I believe, carried on for several years under the same name, and it was probably a successor to the original Stultz to whom Mr. Storey was indebted for his introduction to the celebrated sculptor. I am not sure if any memoir of Stultz-or Stulz, as the name was more properly spelt-has ever appeared in England, but perhaps a short sketch of his career, and of the historic house in which he passed the last years of his life, may prove to be not without interest. George Stulz was born in 1762 at Keippenheim, a small town in the territories of the prince who was then known as the Margrave of Baden. He was brought up to the trade of a tailor, and soon displayed such excellence in his calling that he became the arbiter of fashion in the Margrave's capital of Carlsruhe, in which he had established himself. It was in this town that he began to amass the fortune that subsequently, wherever he resided, he devoted to the most charitable objects. He afterwards settled in London, where he gained the favour of the Regent and attained a very wide celebrity. In 1820 he gave up business, and was created by the Grand Duke of Baden Baron of Ortenberg and Knight of the Order of the Lion of Zähringen. After his retirement Baron Stulz came to the south of France, and eventually settled at Hyères, where, on 26 Nov., 1825, he became the possessor of a house to which some historic memories were already attached. Standing in the midst of a garden thickly planted with orange trees, and surrounded with high stone walls, this mansion, situated on the western side of the open space which was formerly known as the Esplanade, but after one or two changes of nomenclature is now called the Place de la Rade, formerly belonged to the Cordeliers, or Friars of St. Francis, whose convent was situated in the immediate vicinity. In 1768 this property was purchased by Victor Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau, Comte de Beaumont, Premier Baron of Limousin, & c., generally known as "L'Ami des Hommes.' the French Navy, was wrecked on the coast Apparently the Marquis, who was then of Giens, near Hyères, in 1879. More living in Paris, never occupied the house, recently a bronze statue of Massillon, who and almost immediately after its purchase was born at Hyères in 1663, has been erected he commissioned his brother, the Bailli at the north-east corner of the Place de la de Mirabeau, who held a high position in Rade. the Order of Malta, to sell or let the property if he could find an opportunity. It remained, however, for a considerable time in the Marquis's hands, and there is a tradition-a groundless one, I believe that his more celebrated son, Honoré Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, after his marriage at Aix on 23 June, 1772, with Emilie de Covet de Marignane, spent there a portion of his honeymoon. It seems, however, to be an established fact that, for a short period, the Marquis had as a tenant Anne Pitt, the sister of the great Earl of Chatham. In 1775 the house was occupied by the Genevese savant De Luc, who was one of Queen Charlotte's readers, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. "Vivo moussu d'Estu Baron Stulz died in his house at Hyères in 1832, at the age of 70, and, as he left no descendants, his property was divided between his two sisters, who had both married Baden gentlemen. The elder, Barbara, was the wife of John Metzger of Keippenheim, and the younger, Marie Madeleine, of Andrew Sohn of Heiligenzell. The latter had five daughters, one of whom, Marie Madeleine, married M. Alphonse Denis, an avocat and publicist of Hyères. A short time previously, on 26 Feb., 1833, by a family arrangement, the Hyères property had come into the possession of Madame Sohn, and on her death her daughter, Madame Denis, succeeded to it. The Baron had spent large sums of money After several changes of ownership the in improving the old mansion. The decoraproperty at last came into the hands of tion of the principal salon cost him 50,000fr. Baron Stulz, who very soon identified It was furnished entirely in the Empire himself with the life of the place. His style, and was dominated by an enormous wealth was great, and his liberality was in-mirror, which was said to have no equat exhaustible. Old inhabitants, not so many in Provence. This mansion, thenceforward years ago, recalled how, as he drove across known as the Château Denis, became celethe Esplanade in his magnificent equipage, brated for the entertainments given by its he used to be acclaimed with the rude patois new owners. M. Denis, who was a man rimeof considerable culture and learning, was Mayor of Hyères and Deputy for the Department of the Var. He was devoted to archæology, and was one of the first to encourage excavations on the site of the old Roman town of Pomponiana. He was also instrumental in procuring the sanction of the Government to the ancient castle and the Church of St. Louis being classed as public monuments. He is, perhaps, best remembered now by his admirable book, 'Hyères Ancien et Moderne,' which is a storehouse of information on everything connected with this venerable town. Qu'a lou cabrioulet plen' d'escut!" Shortly before his death the town of Hyères, in grateful recognition of his many benefactions, erected a stone obelisk upon the Place des Palmiers, on the base of which the following inscription may still be read :— A M. LE BARON DE STULZ LA VILLE D'HYERES RECONNAISSANTE 1832. Though a strict Protestant, Stulz recognized no distinctions of race or creed in his boundless charity. When the Government, during his residence at Hyères, presented the town with a fine marble bust of the great orator Massillon, it was the Baron who provided the funds for erecting it on a beautiful stone column, which was placed in the Place de la République, opposite the ancient church of the Cordeliers-now the Church of St. Louis. This bust and column passed through many vicissitudes. The former has found a resting place in the Museum, and the latter forms a portion of the cenotaph which was erected in the new cemetery in memory of the sailors who were drowned when L'Arrogante, a vessel of During his occupancy of the house it was occasionally let to some distinguished tenants. Among these were Queen Christina of Spain and her husband, the Duke of Rianzares, and some men distinguished in science and literature-Ampère, Philarète Chasles, and Jules Michelet. Michelet was much attached to Hyères, and wintered there for the last ten years of his life. He died on 9 Feb., 1874, in the house now numbered 1, Avenue principal business thoroughfare of the town, Alphonse Denis, the which was named by the municipality after its former head. Madame Denis died on 6 Sept., 1846, and her husband some time afterwards married an English lady, a widow of the name of Dawes. This lady had considerable wealth, and she purchased outright the Stulz property at Hyères, of which her husband had the usufruct. M. Denis died in 1876, and three years afterwards his widow sold her property,, including the château and gardens, to the town for the sum of 200.000 fr. and a life annuity of 5,000 fr. The house, externally a very unpretentious building, but rich in memories, now forms the Public Library and Museum of Hyères, while the garden-of which the forbidding walls have long been removed and replaced by iron railings, and which is filled with tropical trees and plants collected by its former owners-is one of the principal ornaments of the town. For most of the information contained in this paper I am indebted to M. Jules Icard; whose valuable work, Les Rues d'Hyères,' is full of interesting historical and biographical facts, conveyed in a very charming style. Villa Paradis, Hyères. W. F. PRIDEAUX. HUGH PETERS. (See 11 S. vi. 221, 263, 301, 463; vii. 4, 45, 84.) IX. PETERS'S PETITION, CAPTURE, AND TRIAL. IN 1660 Peters was excepted out of the King's general pardon as being one of those who had a hand in the late King's death." He then petitioned the House of Lords, asserting his innocence, and annexed a long defence to his petition. Both documents are calendared in the Historical Manuscripts Commission's Seventh Report, pp. 115 and 116, and on 19 July, 1660, Samuel Speed published the defence under the title of "The Case of Mr. Hugh Peters impartially communicated to the view and censure of the whole world, written by his own hand." The defence is an incoherent tissue of lies, carefully avoided by most of his biographers, and was the last document Peters ever wrote. He must have been quite mad at the time. At the end of August, 1660, Peters's hiding-place was discovered, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The account of his capture in Mercurius Publicus for 30 Aug.-6 Sept. is too lengthy to be transcribed, so I summarize the facts. "On Friday, Aug. 31, Peters was discovered to be hiding in the house of one Broad, a Quaker . in St. Thomas's parish, Southwark. He, however, escaped by creeping into the bed of Broad's daughter, Mrs. Peach, who had lain in two days previously; for the messenger, through modesty, did not search the woman's bed, so Peters escaped to the house of another Quaker, John Day, the cobbler. But on the Sunday following, 2 Sept., at six at night, he was caught at the house of parish. He denied his identity, saying his name Nathaniel Mun, a tape weaver of the same was Thompson, but on the neighbours coming in was forced to come downstairs. He then, to gather his spirits,' called for and drank two full quarts of small beer, for the house had no strong.' After which he said, 'I will go, but I beg for the Lord's sake you call me not Peters, for,' said he, if it be known I am Hugh Peters, the people in the street will stone me.' He was then taken to the Tower, where he remained under the custody of Sir John Robinson, Archbishop Laud's nephew, until his trial. On 9 Oct. the regicides were removed to Newgate. Dr. Dolben, afterwards Archbishop of York, and Dr. John Barwick, afterwards Dean of St. Paul's, were sent by the King to minister to the regicides in Newgate; and in the Life' of the latter, by Peter Barwick, M.D., pp. 297-9, it is said that Peters 66 was deaf to all that either of them could say, and had so stopped his ears against the admonitions not only of these two excellent persons, but crime, and were to suffer with him, and had so of those who also were his accomplices in the same perfectly shook off all sense of piety and religion (if ever he had any) that they earnestly requested these divines to intercede with his Majesty, that a person so deaf to all advice, and so impenetrable to their sacred ministrations, might not be hurried into another world till he were brought, if possible, to a better sense of his condition. The chief of these was John Cook, who yet had made no scruple that very day to vindicate and defend this wretch and to extol him as the brightest example of holiness....Accordingly, the next day, together with Cook, he was drawn upon a sledge to execution, still showing the utmost aversion to all good counsel, and even to the advice of Cook himself, seeming to believe very little in that God whom he had so often invoked to patronize his impious rebellion." A tract published on 14 Dec., 1660, and entitled "The true character of the educations, inclinations and dispositions of all and every one of those barbarous persons who sat as judges upon the life of our dread sovereign King Charles I. of ever blessed memory (British Museum, pressmark E. 1080 [15]), |