to "Herbert" Hotel and Tavern, 1863; this was altered to "Coal Hole" Tavern, 1868, which was altered to "Occidental " Tavern in 1874. This building fell down 1887. FREDERIC BOASE. 21, Boscobel Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea. With reference to "The Coal Hole," and the mock court which used to be held there, presided over by the famous Chief Baron Nicholson, the following anecdote may interest some who, like myself, are old enough to remember the place and the persons referred to. I was in the Court of Exchequer one day at Westminster while a case was being tried before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, of dignified and withal humorous memory, when Baron Nicholson was called as a witness. Directly the pseudo-Baron stepped into the box, Pollock half rose from his seat, and said, with a dignified bow, "The Court is very glad to welcome you here, brother Nicholson." Imagine the roar of laughter that ensued. W. E. BROWNING. Inner Temple. BANKES OF CORFE CASTLE (10th S. v. 289, 372)-See The Story of Corfe Castle,' by the Right Hon. George Bankes, M.P. (1853), p. 310: "The Lord of the Manor was Lord-Lieutenant of the Island of Purbeck, an hereditary office scarce enjoyed by any private person in the kingdom; he was also Admiral of the island, and Governor of Brownsea Castle. He had power (until the passing of the Militia Act of 1757) to raise and muster a militia. Corfe Castle (long a royal Castle) anciently enjoyed great privileges, and was exempt from any services in the county." The Manor of Wimborne Borough is parcel of Kingston Lacy, and the property of Mr. Bankes; see Hutchins, Dorset,' iii. 235. A. R. BAYLEY. I cannot answer B. W.'s query in any detail, but it may interest him to know-as I learn from Mrs. Bankes, widow of the late W. R. Bankes-that the Lord High Admiralship of the Isle of Purbeck and Lay Bishopric of Wimborne are hereditary offices in connexion with the owner of Corfe Castle-the former having many privileges, such as rights of wreckage along the coast (on property and some miles out), salutes, and other complimentary things; the latter in connexion with tithes, &c. The mayoralty of Corfe Castle lapsed some years ago, the late W. R. Bankes being the last Mayor. The old silver mace is at Kingston Lacy, dating from about 1600. The whole history is most interesting, and Kingston Lacy, the residence of the Bankes family, unique in its collection of treasures, HIC ET UBIQUE. books, and pictures. THE GUNNINGS OF CASTLE COOTE (10th S. v. 323, 374). In Castlepollard Church, parish of Rathgraffe, diocese of Meath, there is a marble tablet with the following inscription: "Near this Place lies interred Miss Catherine Has virtue pierced thro' beauty's heart." THE BABINGTON CONSPIRACY (10th S. v. 190, 354).-There is a slight mistake in MR. ABRAHAMS's reply. Mr. Weyman's 'The House of the Wolf' first appeared as a serial, not in The Graphic, but in one of the early volumes of The English Illustrated Magazine. G. L. APPERSON. Wimbledon. CAPT. WILLIAM WADE (10th S. v. 327).— An article in a local newspaper was my authority for stating that Capt. Wade was on a second occasion a candidate for the B. W. T. office of M.C. at Bath. "REBOUND," VERB (10th S. v. 345).—I do not see any difficulty in accepting the explanation in the N.E.D.' of the meaning and etymology of this word as it occurs in the Alliterative Poems,' B. 422. The meaning which N.E.D.' gives, namely, "to bound or leap, esp. in return or response to some force or stimulus," supplies a perfectly satisfactory sense to the whole line, and is supported by the other quotations, one of which is from a poem written quite early in the fifteenth There is no difficulty about the century. form rebounde: it is a preterite form of rebound; compare bilde, pret. of bildan, to build, and bende, pret. of benden, to bend. I do not think that any one will be inclined to give up this very satisfactory, I might almost say obvious, explanation for that which is proposed by DR. SMYTHE PALMER. He suggests that the word rebounde in this passage is the past tense of a verb reboun, a compound of a French re- and an English verb boun. But surely in the Alliterative and J. T. PAGE as to blue being the m Poems' the preterite of boun could not be suitable colour for general adoption by bounde. We should not expect the syncope Conservative and Unionist party. Althou between nasal and dental. However, the fatal objection to this explanation is that we have no sure instance of the employment of the prefix re- with words of Germanic origin as early as the fourteenth century. N.E.D.' says: "Towards the end of the sixteenth century rebegins to rank as an ordinary English prefix, chiefly employed with words of Latin origin, but also freely prefixed to native verbs, a practice rare before this period, though Wyclif and Trevisa have renew, sug gested by Lat. renovāre." Shakespeare has recall, but it is interesting "DIAMOND STATE" (10th S. v. 189). This Philadelphia. blue sashes were worn by the Royal during the Great Rebellion, we cannot for the blue and buff of the Whig party a cent ago (which survives to the present in cover of The Edinburgh Review), when a coat was the mark of every Whig. Sur no Tory could wish to sport a colour adop by Charles James Fox to show his sympa with the rebellious American colonists ( coats and buff waistcoats being the unifo of Washington and his troops), and w nearly half a century later, by some V peers. As for the ballad True Blue,' was, could not make out which side it Ettrick Shepherd, Tory and Jacobite a intended to favour. R. L. MORETO originally by the heraldic colour" of Was not local party colour determ family of the candidate, or of the lea family of the party in the neighbour concerned? ROBERT PIERPOI STEWARD OF THE HOUSEHOLD (10th 348). Robert Huish, in his Memoi George IV.,' published in 1831, the year the King's death, gives a long accou Lady Conyngham and her position a Court. He makes no mention of any s post having been created for her, but says, ever, that "even the commonest dome in the Castle were constrained to subm the control of the Marchioness." Mr. ville, in his 'Memoirs' (quoted by G. E. his Peerage'), states that "she con herself entirely as Mistress of the F hold." It seems probable, therefore, th merely took advantage of her hus position as Lord Steward, and of he household, just as she would have d influence with George IV., to rule the the post had been created for her. H. J. B. CLEME THOMAS BETTESWORTH (10th S. v. 308): Probably Thomas Bettesworth, of Winchester, and of Chidden, in Hambledon, Hants, eldest son of Thomas Bettesworth, of Petersfield, by Elizabeth, daughter of BURY FAMILY (10th S. v. 349).-Th Henry Lucas, of Suffolk, and afterwards of of "Mrs. Bury was carried away" from Froyle, Hants. In 1644 he was serving in on 6 (sic) April, 1787 ('Bath Abbey Reg the Parliamentary army under Col. Richard Harl. Soc. Publ., 1901, ii. 472). In Norton. On 18 October, 1645, as Thomas the slight discrepancy as regards Bettesworth, jun., he was appointed by the she was, no doubt, the "Mrs. Berry House of Commons High Sheriff of Hants, body is stated to have been brough and to command the horse raised in that Bath for interment in Winchester Ca county. (See Godwin's 'Civil War in Hamp-on 5 April, 1787. Florence Bury, w shire, p. 249; 'Vis. Sussex,' Harl. Soc., p. 196; and Berry's 'Hampshire Pedigrees,' p. 208) ALFRED T. EVERITT. PARTY COLOURS (10th S. v. 65, 194, 271).-I beg to differ from Messrs. HERBERT SOUTHAM interred in the Cathedral on 2 (sic 1801, was probably sister of Thomas who was interred there on 27 Feb For, according to The Gentleman's M "Thomas Bury, Esq., of Colleton, died in Grosvenor Place (London) on 1802; and his sister Mrs. Florence Bury had died there on 21 (sic) Nov., 1801 (lxxi. 1062; 1xxii. 278). Their family name was at one time spelt either "Bury" or "Berry." See Westcote's View of Devonshire' (edition of 1845), p. 496. H. C. G. J. HOLYOAKE AS A LECTURER (10th S. v. 223). Through the courtesy of the editor I have just received a copy of The South Place Magazine for May, in which I find my con: tribution at the above reference is reprinted on pp. 125-6. With it comes a copy of the lecture I heard delivered on 28 Feb., 1886, so that I now know it to have been printed. Perhaps some of your readers may like to know that it is entitled 'Hostile and Generous Toleration (A New Theory of Toleration),' and is published at twopence by E. W. Allen, Ave Maria Lane. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. GOLDSMITH VARIOUS READING IN THE TRAVELLER (10th S. v. 167, 295). In the evolution of The Traveller' from 'A Prospect of Society,' the latter being the earliest form of the poem by Oliver Goldsmith, as edited by Mr. Bertram Dobell and published by him (1902), and in a reprint of the first edition of The Traveller' published therewith, one finds that the quotation inquired after is the same in each case, viz.:Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise or humbly court the ground; and then follows Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, which should prove conclusively that are was in this case the original word, and so favoured on reflection. JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A. "NOW THIS IS EVERY COOK'S OPINION" (10th S. v. 268).—I have heard a somewhat similar couplet, which I think occurred in N. & Q.' some time ago, viz :— Many people have different opinions: Some like apples, some like inguns (onions). JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A. SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S SKULL (10th S. v. 346). -I was very pleased to observe, from a similar paragraph to those quoted from The Tribune which appeared in the Daily Mail of the same date, that a movement was on foot for the return of Sir Thos. Browne's kull to its original resting place. It has always seemed to me that this step should have been taken long ago by its present custodians, and I very much hope that a record of its reinterment will soon appear in the pages of 'N. & Q.' I may mention that several interesting notes on Sir Thos. Browne's skull appeared at 8th S. vi. 64, 233, 269, and on his portraits at 8th S. viii. 21. At 8th S. viii. 325, it was recorded that his long-lost coffin-plate had been found and restored to the church of St. Peter Mancroft. JOHN T. PAGE. For "centenary" please read tercentenary. EDWARD BENSLY. "Two SNEEZING CATS" (10th S. v. 328).Larwood and Hotten in their History of Signboards,' in alluding to the sign in Rouen of "The Laughing Dog (le chien qui rit), say that it was one of the quaint signs of which we have examples in this country, "as the Two Sneezing Cats,' which is said to be somewhere in London; the Flying Monkey,' Lambeth; the Monkey Island, at Bray, near Maidenhead; the Gaping Goose,' at Leeds, Oldham, and in various parts of Yorkshire; and the 'Loving Lamb' two in Dudley." The "Cow and Snuffers" at Llandaff, Glamorgan, seems almost incomprehensible, unless we attribute it to some one in some way associated with the "snuffers" (perhaps the inventor), who became the tenant of a house with the pre-existing sign the "(Red ?) Cow." If I live long enough, I shall hope to complete my 'Signs of London' in The Antiquary, by the elucidations of contributors upon the subject. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. Hazelmere, Tooting Common. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iii. 148, 197, 335; iv. 16, 91).-Having succeeded in tracing the source of the first quotation, "L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes, c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes," I venture to answer my own question. The phrase occurs in 'De l'Influence des Passions sur le Bonheur des Individus et des Nations,' by Madame de Staël (see vol. iii. p. 135 of 1820 ed. of her works). Its quotation in The Athenæum of 10 Sept., 1904, p. 345, led to my inquiry. In addition to the reference to Byron's 'Don Juan' (can. i. st. 194) already mentioned, can. iii. st. 3 has : In her first passion, woman loves her lover: "Dans les premières passions, les femmes aimer l'amant; dans les autres, elles aiment l'amour." Referring to question No. 7, I have found a proverb (in Ray's 'Proverbs') which runs thus: He loseth his thanks who promiseth and delayeth. (Gratia ab officio, quod mora tardat abest.) EDWARD LATHAM. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Cambridge Modern History. Planned by the late Lord Acton. Edited by A. W. Ward, Litt.D., G. W. Prothero, Litt. D., and Stanley Leathes, M.A.-Vol. IX. Napoleon. (Cambridge, University Press.) IN none of the volumes of the series hitherto issued are the advantages and disadvantages attendant upon the scheme of The Cambridge Modern History' so apparent as in the present. Short as is the period between the establishment in 1799 of the Consulate and the death of Napoleon on 5 May, 1821, no other period of modern times is, as is said in the editorial preface, so completely "dominated by a single personalty." Except the Revolutionary period which immediately preceded it, no epoch treated in the various volumes was pregnant with more important influences, or exercised a more farreaching effect upon modern history. It is scarcely conceivable, accordingly, that a single writer, whatever his energy and erudition, should be able to deal with the entire range of subjects herein discussed. On the point of thoroughness the present work eclipses all that has been produced on the subject; in that of picturesqueness and of poignant interest it leaves somewhat to be desired. Repetition is inevitable, and contradiction to be expected, when different pens deal with the same epoch; and no legitimate exercise of supervision on the part of editors-who appear to have done their spiriting gently-could avail to banish it. A singularly wide range of writers is employed in the compilation. The five years of the Consulate, which constitute a species of prologue to the swelling theme of the imperial tragedy, are assigned to Dr. Georges Pariset, Professor of Modern History in the University of Nancy; the period passed at St. Helena, which may be accepted as an epilogue, is entrusted to Mr. H. A. L. Fisher. Between these opening and closing portions come twenty-two other chapters, the work of some of the best English and foreign professors. Chaps. xix. and xxi., in some respects the most important of all, deal with the Congress of Vienna, and are contributed by the Master of Peterhouse. Chap. viii. is occupied with the command of the sea, and includes the crowning victory of Trafalgar. It is written by Mr. H. W. Wilson, of Trinity College, Oxford, who is also responsible for the second section of chap. ii., which is concerned with the Armed Neutrality,' ending in 1801. The first section of this is in the hands of Dr. T. A. Walker, of Peterhouse. To Col. Lloyd are assigned the two fighting chapters, ix and x., which are occupied with the Third Coalition. In these is included the collapse of the Prussian State, the weakness of which, though it had been for half a century a military model, had been perceptible to observers so thoughtful, shrewd, and penetrative as Mirabeau and Catherine II. of Russia. At this period, 1806, patriotism was scarcely conspicuous among the inhabitants of Berlin, who received Napoleon with friendliness, if scarcely, as has been said, with enthusiasm. Dr. J. Holland Rose has an edifying chapter (xi.) on The Napoleonic Empire at its Height, 1807-9.' and a second on 'The Continental System, 1809-14.' The war of 1809 is Major-General (retired) August Keim, of the German army; while to th fessor of Modern History is assign important disquisition on The P To the same authority is left the Hundred Days. Among foreign c lion's share is awarded Prof. Ant Zurich, though Russia under A the Invasion of 1812' is in the h Stschepkin, Professor of History the War of Liberation' in those von Pflugk-Harttung, Professor of University of Basel. One of the m portions of a splendid contributio the last, showing the pose of St. Helena. This gives De Tocque epitaph, "He was as great as a man virtue.' In the present volume th constitutes a specially important a feature. Notre Dame de Paris. By Victor by Léon Delbos, M.A. (Oxford, Cl Mémoires de Madame Campan, 178 by H. C. Bradby, B.A. (Same pul THESE two works are representative called "The Oxford Higher Fren publication of which has been begun don Press. It is rather painful to that the execution of the scheme is Neither work is, to begin with, apology is put in by M. Delbos, but i When a work such as Hugo's 'Notre is promised, it is unworthy to give it form, with the more lengthy descrip and details entirely or partly omitted the notes are excellent. It is, howe to find a stern condemnation of F whose book is always extravagant, less, and seldom witty or amusing. T though he said of Rabelais, "Où il jusqu'à l'exquis," depreciated the fo the Renaissance, is true. To fi days such an estimate advanced a scarcely conceivable. An English not enceinte of Paris is ungrammatical. The Mémoires de Madame Cam "with a few trifling omissions," that p Campan's account of the life of Ma which covers the period from 1785 the memoirs end. Each work contains a portrait of the time when the respective books were A History of Modern Liberty. By kinnon. 2 vols. (Longmans & Co.) DR. MACKINNON'S qualities are alre historical students. He has a lively subject: he has read widely; and he ease. But he is not a critical scholar ever go very deep, nor are his judgme balanced. This book has all the defe of the merits of its predecessors. I in style, and unoriginal in matter. merely a réchauffé of what was previ and the whole is little more than a sur history from a particular standpoint. velopment of the ideas of freedom the book with this title might be expected to say. Dr. Mackinnon has very lit chapters on political theory are as are inadequate. Still, the general rea in this work a good deal of interesting But Dr. Mackinnon's guidance is by no means always trustworthy. The bibliographical details at the end of the chapters are a useful feature. The Russian Peasantry: their Agrarian Condition, Social Life, and Religion. By Stepniak. (Routledge & Sons.) By arrangement with Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Messrs. Routledge have issued a cheap and popular edition of Stepniak's important work. Its appearance cannot be otherwise than opportune at a time when all eyes are fixed upon the fortunes of the great people it depicts. It has been found impossible to bring the information quite up to date. Russian folk-lore has a strongly marked character of its own, and of this the volume incidentally treats. A large number of readers will be glad of the opportunity of studying the chapters on 'The Agrarian Question, The Moujiks and the Russian Democracy,' and 'Paternal Government.' "We have to record the death of an aged priest, the Rev. H. A. Walker, whose name was better known amongst Churchmen a quarter of a century ago than it is to-day. He was one of the colleagues of the late Fr. Mackonochie at St. Alban's, Holborn, and became vicar of St. James's, Hatcham, after Mr. Tooth's resignation of that living. But it is as one of the earliest pioneers of Plainsong in the services of the Church that he will, perhaps, be best remembered. His compilation of supplemental hymns to The Hymnal Noted,' and, perhaps, his version of Missa de Angelis,' are his best-known works.-R.I.P." He was of Oriel Coll., Oxon, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; and became vicar of Chattisham, Ipswich, in 1891. Contributions from him, signed H. A. W., have appeared from 4th S. vii. to 10th S. iv. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. W. C. B. WE have received Wenhaston and Bulcamp, MR. B. H. BLACKWELL, of Oxford, has a copy of Suffolk, containing curious parish records, comHolinshed, black-letter, 1577, 358.; Evelyn's 'Sylva,' piled by the late Rev. J. B. Clare (Elliot Stock). 1664, 2, 15s.; Lodge's 'Portraits,' 1823-9, 2. 158.; It contains several noteworthy facts, but the first editions of Browning and Dickens: Grote's arrangement of the materials cannot be com-Greece,' 8 vols., 1852, 31. 3.; Gallery of Portraits, mended, and here and there we come upon mis- C. Knight, 1833-7, 7 vols., 30s.; Picturesque Europe,' takes. For example, we are told that the De 5 vols. 4to, 2. 12s. 67.; Rawlinson's Five Great before the names of some early vicars indi- Monarchies of the Eastern World,' 5. 15s. 6d. ; Sir cates that they were of noble birth. This is Thomas Browne's Works,' 1686, 21. 58.; and the not necessarily true. In fact, in a large majo- sixth edition of Religio Medici,' 1669, 78. 6d. The rity of instances it could be proved not to have 47 volumes of The British Theatre,' 1826, are priced been the case. The De was used very commonly 3. 15.; and Daniel's Works,' Spenser Society, to signify that the priest's birthplace or home in 1885, 31. 3s. boyhood was the village whose name he had appropriated. Excommunication died out slowly in the Church of England. When the last case occurred would be an interesting subject for inquiry. An account is given here of one that took place in 1732. There is also information afforded of the various Acts of Parliament relating to burial in woollen. One fact is stated of which we were unaware. As there was a heavy penalty inflicted on those who did not obey the law, and the fine went to the informer, the dying person or his friends sometimes directed one of the servants to lay the information, thus "securing the fine as a kind of legacy." Some notes and extracts relating to the condition of the poor in former times are worth attention. Several examples are given of the practice indulged in by parish authorities of paying men to marry widows with large families, for the sake of relieving their own rates. An instance occurs as early as 1761, and there are others of later date. How long this form of bribery and cheating continued in Suffolk we do not know, but in many parts of the country nineteenth-century examples could no doubt be produced. The custom probably did not entirely disappear until the passing of the poor-law of 1834. The volume has a glossary of upwards of fifty pages, containing a few matters worthy of notice. REV. H. A. WALKER.-On the 8th inst., at the residence of his brother, Major-General A. L. Walker, The Chase Cottage, Enfield, the death occurred of the Rev. Henry Aston Walker, vicar of Chattisham. Ipswich, at the age of seventy-one. The Church Times of 11 May contained the following obituary: Messrs. 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Commin, of Exeter, has Defoe's 'A 1703, rare, 27. 23. Defoe describes the pillory as A hieroglyphic state-machine Condemned to punish fancy in. A complete set of The Illustrated London News, 1842-1905, is priced 147. 10s. Under Lever are first editions of The Martins of Cro' Martin,' 1855-6, 3. 10s., and Tony Butler,' 17. 10s. (the first is in the original parts). There is a unique copy of Harrison Weir's Poetry of Nature,' containing a pen-and-ink drawing with the inscription "To Edward Capern the sweet songster that sings all the year round,' 2 10. Interesting items will be found under Dramas, Plays, Napoleon, &c. There are also sets of The Antiquary, Cornhill, and Temple Bar. Messrs. Douglas & Foulis, of Edinburgh, have a list of books withdrawn from their library, the |