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Hill, Lady Masham-Coleridge and Newman on Gibbon"Souletin Pastorales," 387- Leicester's Ghost'-"Saturday" in Spanish-John Caley Cast not a clout till May be out"-"Butcher": "Hoe Scottish Newspaper Press-Earthquakes in Fiction, 388-Rev. S. Marsden, of New South Wales-Kipling Obscurities - Ladies' Head dresses in the Theatre-" Brock": "Badger"-Cardinal Wiseman's Tomb-Polytechnic Institution, 1833-John Bull's Bible-Kings and Queens Compared-J. F. Vigani, 389-Abbey of St. Evroult, Pays d'Ouche, 390. 15. C. F. C. Grain, widow of Col. H. Grain, R E., ob. 9 Feb., 1903. 16 Maria Shonnard Hays, d. of General William Hays, of the United States army, and w. of William Wordsworth, of Sockbridge, Westmoreland, and Villa Wordsworth, on this island, b. in N. York, 31 May, 1854, d. at Capri. 7 Mar., 1903. 17. Elizabeth Martha Wildes, ob. 12 Dec., 1899. REPLIES:-Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, 390-Dickens 18. Alfred Stanford, ob. 12 July, 1874. 19. Lorenzo Mackens, a. 20, a native of Leith, Scotland, ob. in Capri, 14 Mar, 1875, while travelling in search of health. (In Italian.) 20. Thomas Cecil Pakenham, ob. 26 May, 21. George Hayward, b. near Bury St. Ed Oxford Higher French Series "Mackinnon's History munds, 26 May, 1810, ob. at Capri, 8 April, 1878. of Modern Liberty' Stepniak on The Russian Peasantry Wenhaston and Bulcamp, Suffolk.' Obituary:-Rev. H. A. Walker. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notes. INSCRIPTIONS AT CAPRI. THE following inscriptions in the cemetery founded in 1878 by George Hayward, of Bury St. Edmunds and New York, for non-Catholic interments, may perhaps hereafter be of use to genealogists: 1. Henry Wreford, for fifty years a resident at Capri, ob. 26 Mar., 1892, a. 86. 2. Isabella Eleanora Beauclerk, b. 28 Sept., d. 9 Oct., 1881. 3. Ethel Mary, child of Richard Crofts and Mary Jane Mote, ob. 23 March, 1882, a. 9. 4. Willie, eldest s. of Michael and Ada Gutteridge, b. 28 Dec., 1873, ob. 11 Oct., 1882. 5. William Wildes, ob. 8 Feb., 1891, a. 65. 6. Laura Esse Farley Paley (née Farley), b. 20 Oct., 1869, ob. 26 Jan., 1892, the adopted d. of Raymond and Annie Paley. Also in memory of Elsie Besley, b. 14 Dec., 1844, ob. 31 Jan., 1892, the devoted friend of the above. 7. Edward Gough, ob. 10 Nov., 1893, a. 56. 8. Constance Elizabeth Gough, ob. 3 Dec., 1895, a. 73. 9. Robert Swan Stephen, of Douglas, I. of Man, b. 30 Nov., 1843, ob. 17 Mar., 1903, a. 59. 10 Lieut.-General George Julius Melliss, 22. Maria, w. of James Cross, vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, ob. 13 May, 1878, a. 27. 23. Maria Salvia, w. of Walter Maclaren, ob. at Capri, 12 Feb., 1882, a. 28. (In Italian.) 24. Arabella, youngest d. of the late William Symons, Esq., of Hatt, Cornwall, ob. at Capri, 8 Feb., 1895. 25. Richard H. W. Whitehead Artist of Washbrook Hollingwood Oldham Lancashire, ob. 2 Mar., 1889, a. 33. (There are no stops to this inscription, and the word “Artist" is so placed that it appears to form part of the name.) 26. Herbert Shortridge, ob. 18 Mar., 1890, a. 33. 27. Frank James James, ob. 18 April, 1890, a. 25. R.I.P. 28. John Shortridge, b. 4 May, 1887. ob. 15 Sept., 1889.-Norah Shortridge, b. 4 Feb., 1889, ob. 27 Dec., 1890.-John Wood Shortridge, Barnsley, Yorks, England. (Date unfortunately omitted in my notes.) There are a few interments without inscriptions. The following, both in Italian, are in the Catholic cemetery : 29. Thomas Brinsley Norton, Lord Grantley, b. at London, 15 Nov., 1831, d. at Capri, 24 July, 1577. 30. Maria Chiara Elizabetta Federico, widow of Lord Grantley, a. 58, ob. 1 Feb., 1892. Erected by her children Riccardo and Carlotta. G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col. 18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne. MONTAIGNE, WEBSTER, AND MARSTON: DR. DONNE AND WEBSTER. (See 10th S. iv. 41, 121, 201, 302; v. 301.) MONTAIGNE says: To forbid us anything is the ready way to make us long for it.-Book ii. chap. xv. p. 315, col. 1. [Love is] a pleasure inflamed by difficulty.Book iii. chap. v. p. 434, col. 1. The price or honor of the conquest is rated by the difficultie."-Book iii. chap. v. p. 439, col. 1. It is against the nature of love not to be violent, and against the condition of violence to be constant. -Book iii. chap. v. p. 451, col. 1. Philocalia. But, dear madam, your reason of loving him? Dulcimel. Faith, only a woman's reason, because I was expressly forbidden to love him...... Phi. But, when you saw no means of manifesting your affection to him, why did not your hopes perish? Dul. O Philocalia! that difficulty only enflames me: when the enterprise is easy, the victory is inglorious....... Phi. O love, how violent are thy passages ! Dul. Pish, Philocalia! 'tis against the nature of love not to be violent. Phi. And against the condition of violence to be constant. The Fawn,' III. i. 242-73. The source of Gonzago's saying re lies, in III. i. 420-23, is dealt with at 10th S. iv. 122-3. As I shall be dealing presently with the passage in Montaigne that is supposed to have been copied from Marston by Webster, I will anticipate matters here by showing further resemblances between 'The White Devil' and the 'Essays.' Marston may or may not have got a hint from Montaigne for a saying in the following speech Hercules. Your father, I may boldly say, he's an ass To hope that you'll forbear to swallow 'The Fawn,' III. i. 512-14. But there can be no manner of doubt about the origin of the same or a similar saying in Webster, who, like Montaigne, uses it in relation to the question of self-slaughter. Montaigne notes instances of men who have attempted, but failed, to kill themselves outright, courage having deserted them in their extremity. The smarting wounds they inflicted upon themselves served but to intensify the anguish of mind they already suffered, thus adding to their torments. To kill one self with a sword requires a steady hand and an unfaltering purpose; at the moment of execution there is no time to consu and blood; the mortal instrument is a meate a man must swallow without &c.-Book ii. chap. xiii. p. 312, col. 2. Vit. Cor. To kill one's self is meat that take Like pills, not chew 't, but quickly swallow The smart o' the wound, or weakness of the May else bring treble torments. The White Devil,' ll. 3319-22, p. 47, The previous speech by Vittoria Cord elicits a reply from Flamineo which a close imitation of Montaigne : Vit. Cor. I prithee, yet remember Millions are now in graves, which at last d Like mandrakes shall rise shrieking. Flam. Leave your prating, For these are but grammatical laments, Feminine arguments: and they move me, As some in pulpits move their auditory, More with their exclamation than sense Of reason or sound doctrine. 'The White Devil,' 11. 3306-14, p. 47, Caesars gowne disquieted all Rome, w death had not done: the very sound of which jingleth in our eares, as, "Oh, m master" or "Alas, my deare friend"; good father"; or, "Alas, my sweete da When such like repetitions pinch me, an looke more nearely to them, I finde them b maticall laments, the word and the tune w Even as Preachers exclamations do ofte their auditory more then their reasons, &c. chap. iv. p. 425, col. 2. I showed that both Webster and At 10th S. iv. p. 42, col. 1, and p. 121 had taken notes from Montaigne, chap. xl. pp. 117-18. Another case of in The White Devil,' where Flam ing from the same interesting chapter caught in the toils, and about to mee He laughs at the threats of Lodovi follows up this display of merrimen presence of death by asking : Would'st have me die, as I was born, in v Gasparo. Recommend yourself to heaven Flam. No, I will carry mine own comme thither. Lines 3461-3, p. 49, To another that exhorted him to rec himselfe to God, he asked, "Who is going t And the fellow answering, "Yourselfe sl "If it be his good pleasure, I would to might be to morrow night," replied he commend but your selfe to him," said th "and you shall quickly be there." "It then," answered he, "that my selfe carry n commendations to him."-P. 118, col. 1. Again, Montaigne states that W Duke of Guienne, for penance-sake, wore continually a corsel a religious habit.—P. 122, col. 2. In 'The White Devil' "two noble Hungary," who accompany "the Mo said to have vowed for ever to wear, next their bare Notumque, furens quid fœmina possit. We come now to the passage in Marston that Webster is supposed to have copied. As I have abundantly proved that both dramatists imitated the Essays' independently of each other, I will merely deal with the parallels in the ordinary way. Wishing and enjoying trouble us both alike. The rigor of a mistris is yrkesome, but ease and facility (to say true) much more; forasmuch as discontent and vexation proceed of the estimation we have of the thing desired, which sharpen love and set it afire. Whereas satiety begets distaste: it is a dull, blunt, weary, and drouzy passion.-Book ii. chap. xv. p. 315, col. 2. In Marston thus: Herod. Upon four great madonnas have I this afternoon grafted the forked tree! Hercules. Is 't possible? Fie on this satiety! - 'tis a Herod. Possible! dull, blunt, weary, and drowsy passion.-'The Fawn,' IV. i. 103-8. Marston's phrase "grafted the forked tree" is also from Montaigne : He would hardly have perswaded Calisthenes to refuse his faire daughter Agarista to Hippoclides, because he had seen him graft the forked tree in her upon a table. Book ii. chap. xii. p. 299, col. 2. The parallel in Webster comes in with other matter that was manifestly filched from Montaigne, but I will not stay to point out the resemblances; yet it is interesting to note that a correction by Dyce accords with the phrasing in the Essays" Flamineo. What is 't you doubt? her coyness? that's but the superficees of lust most women have yet why should ladies blush to hear that named which they do not fear to handle? O, they are politic: they know our desire is increased by the difficulty of enjoying; whereas satiety is a blunt, weary and drowsy passion.-'The White Devil,' 11. 103-9, p. 6, col. 2. The old quartos make Flamineo say "where a satiety is," &c. Dyce altered to "whereas," the word used by Montaigne. The last words of Herod's speech are followed by this question :Who would be a proper fellow to be thus greedily devoured and swallowed among ladies? Faith, tis torment-my very rack! 383 Hercules. Right, Herod, true; for imagine all a When I imagine man fraught with all the commodities may be wished, let us suppose all his severall members were for ever possessed with a pleasure like unto that of generation, even in the highest point that may be; I finde him to sinke under the burden of his ease, and perceive him altogether unable to beare so pure, so constant, and so universall a sensuality.-Book ii. chap. xx. pp. 344-5. Verily according to the lawe which nature giveth desire: their part is to beare, to obey, and to them, it is not fit for them [women] to will and consent. Therefore hath nature bestowed a perpetuall capacity; on us [men] a seld and uncertaine ability. They have alwayes their houre, that they may ever be ready to let us enter.-Book iii. chap. v. p. 450, col. 2. Hercules. O, sir, Nature is a wise workman. She knows right well that if women should woo us to the act of love, we should all be utterly shamed. How often should they take us unprovided, when they are always ready!- The Fawn,' IV. i. 136-40. CHARLES CRAWFORD. (To be continued.) THE PORTMAN FAMILY AT KEW, In my reply as to the Portman family - In all the accounts of Kew, beginning with that of Lysons in Environs of London (1792), the "old palace" now remaining is. said to have been once the property of Sir It is also shown that this Hugh Portman. palace occupies the site of a mansion called the Dairy House, which formerly belonged to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth. The Portman proprietorship at Kew would probably be unknown but that Lysons had found mention in 'The Sydney Letters' (Collins's ed., i. 384) of "a rich gentleman," viz., Sir Hugh Portman, who in December, 1595, was Kew to dine with her Lord Keeper, Sir John knighted by Elizabeth when she came to Puckering.* Lyons found also that this Sir Hugh Portman owned "the old house opposite to the Palace," the Palace in 1792 being Kew House. But the author of the 'Environs' seems to have been unaware of the identity of this Sir Hugh, or of his connexion with the Portmans of Somersetshire; neither is he quite right about the house owned by Sir Hugh, viz., the Dairy House, which in 1595 stood on the site of that seen by the author in 1792. Manning, in his History of Surrey' (1804), connects Sir Hugh with the Dairy House, but does not identify him; and Brayley, in his 'Surrey' (1841), finding the existing house (on the site of the Dairy House) called "the Dutch House," with some tradition of a Dutch merchant attached to it, concluded that Sir Hugh Portman was the Dutch merchant. Later writers explained that he was only Dutch in the sense of trading in Dutch merchandise-a yet later development being that he was a sugar refiner, that being a Dutch business! guesses, heir sold the property in 1697 (Lyso NORWEGIAN DICTIONARIES.-The app ing coronation at Throndhjem will be an will need a good Norwegian dictionary of importance to many Englishmen. unfortunately it is not possible to recom any of those we usually meet. Otto Ho published in Copenhagen, is common, strictly Danish, and not much to be mended at that. Another professes Norwegian, and is certainly more ambi Gealmuyden: Engelsk-Norsk Ordbog Its merits are questionable. It is en H. Eitrem," and is published at Christi It may have many good qualities, but does not put its best foot foremost. O I read :- "1. a ei s. bogstavens navn......A.C. Anno C A.R.S.A. Associate of the Royal Scottish Aca A.D.......A.R.A. Associate of the Royal Aca A.S. Anglo-Saxon. A.A.S. Antiquariorum sc socius, fellow of the Royal Society of Antiqu This, the first paragraph, is only a spec of the whole work. W. J. While authors thus mixed facts and Sir Hugh's identity lay hidden in the Port man Inquisitions pm. at the Public Record Office. These show clearly that Sir Hugh Portman, of Orchard-Portman in Somerset, and his heirs were owners of two messuages at Kew, one of which was "le Dairie Howse"; and also that he and they held the property at Marylebone acquired temp. Henry VIII. by their ancestor Sir William Portman, Lord Chief Justice of England. These Portmans never saw "the Dutch House," i.e., the yet existing Palace. About a quarter of a cen tury after Sir Hugh's death (d. 1604), his heir sold the Dairy House, &c., to a veritable Dutchman and merchant of London, Samuel Fortrey, who pulled down the old mansion, and in its stead raised the existing handsome red-brick house. The initials of himself and his WILLIAM SYMONDS'S PISGAH EVANGE wife Catherine-F.S.C., for Fortrey, Samuel-In Anth. à Wood's 'Ath. Oxon.' (ed. and Catherine-appear on the south front vol. ii. c. 142) the date of the publicatio over the entrance door, and also the date 1631, this work is given as 1605. Excepting presumably that of erection. The Fortrey copy before me, and the one mentione * It is not improbable that Portman and Pucker- Bliss as being in the Bodleian, I have 1 ing were connected, and even possible that the seen or heard of any other bearing this Dairy House at Kew was transferred to Sir Hugh The copy in the British Museum, as I ga Portman from Lord Keeper Puckering. The con- from the Catalogue, is dated 1606; and nexion is not shown in the 1623 Visitation of one or two copies which I have seen of Somerset' (ed. Harl. Soc., xi. 126); but in the by booksellers in the course of a numb earlier visitations and additions thereto (ed. Rev. F. W. Weaver) Sir John Portman, brother of Sir years (the little quarto is undoubtedly Hugh, marries the daughter of Lord Keeper Pucker- all bore the date 1606. Even Symo ing. In the 1623 Visitation the same Sir John contemporary, William Cowper, Bisho marries Ann, daughter of Sir Henry Gifford. Of Galloway, in his Prologue, so to speak course, one wife may have succeeded the other; his 'Commentary on the Revelation but, at all events, the fact of Puckering and Portman being found together at Kew in 1595, joined to St. Iohn,' 1623, gives the date of the boc the mention of an alliance in one pedigree, points 1606. In the circumstances it may no to connexion. out of place to quote here the publis |