1849 Second-Hand Book Department given up. House damaged by fire, and old buildings 1862 Colenso's 'Pentateuch' published. 1863 New building finished. Absorbed Parker's business. Alpine Journal_started. 1866 Macaulay's Complete Works published. 1870 Beaconsfield's Lothair' published. 1871 Lang's Ballads and Lyrics of Old France' published. 1874 Supernatural Religion' published. 1875 American Agency opened. 1876 Trevelyan's "Life of Macaulay' published. 1878 Lecky's England,' Vols. I. and ÎI., published. 1882 Longman's Magazine founded. 1883 Gave up Retail Department. 1885 Badminton Library, first volume published. Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses' published. 1886 English Historical Review founded. 1890 Absorbed Rivington's business. 1891 Longmans' Cricket Club started. 1894 Electric light first used. 1895 Badminton Magazine founded. Bombay House opened. 'The Golliwogg 'born. 1896 Acquired William Morris's Works. volume 1899 Oxford Library of Practical Theology started. In the Reign of Edward VII. 1902 Handbooks for the Clergy started. Indian Education founded. 1905 Political History of England started. 1906 Calcutta Branch opened. 1907 Longmans' Cricket Club revived. (*T. Longman IV., born 1804, became partner 1832, died 1879.) 1838 Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & *Longmans. (*T. Longman IV., and William Longman, born 1813, became partner 1839, died 1877.) 1841 Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1856 Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts. (The first "Longman" is only a figurehead from 1842 to 1859. Thomas Roberts, born 1810, became partner 1856, died 1865.) 1859 Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. 1862 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. 1865 Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer. (Thomas Reader, born 1818, became partner 1865, retired 1889, died 1905. Robert Dyer, born 1817, became partner 1865, died 1884.) 1889 Longmans, Green & Co. Since the founding of the firm it has never been without a Thomas Longman, and the present is the fifth bearing that name. When one considers the freedom with which theological questions are now discussed, it is strange to remember what offence was 1908 The Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland, given to some friends of the firm by the published. publication of Essays and Reviews' in 1861. As to Colenso's Pentateuch' in 1862, all the blame fell on the Bishop. Looking at the record of the chief events in the history of the Longman firm, I can imagine none which it regards with greater pleasure than its association with Macaulay, which was vividly recalled to public remembrance by the affectionate terms in which his nephew Sir George Trevelyan referred to it at the recent Booksellers' Dinner as recorded in literary history-a connexion never an old family connexion, as prolonged as any clouded by suspicion, never disturbed by even the shadow of a misunderstanding. It began in the year 1842, sixty-six years ago, when Lord Macaulay's books were published; indeed, it may be said to have begun in 1825, when the Essay on Milton was sent to The Edinburgh Review...... Macaulay has left much to me, and to those who are coming after me; than the close bond of friendship, and mutual serbut he has left us hardly anything of higher value vice, which has already united us for two generations to a certain house in Paternoster Row.' JOHN C. FRANCIS. 'Ill Companie,' p. 519. Like as the......remain upright, &c., (signed) Th. Hudson, fol. 452. I will now supply references for passages that remain unidentified in Collier's edition of Englands Parnassus,' omitting those which have been traced by others than myself. As much space would be occupied if I quoted in full, I will content myself by citing first lines or parts of lines, with the signatures given by Allot. When the latter are wrong, I will say so. 'Conscience,' p. 41. The feare of Conscience entreth yron walles. 'Epist., Lady J. Grey to Dudley, (signed) M. Drayton. 'Craft,' &c., p. 44. Craft, wrapt still in many comberments. 'Musophilus,' 11. 913-14, (signed) S. Daniell. Inconstant change such fickle turnes hath lent. 'Content,' p. 47. Thos. Lodge's Marius and Sylla,' V. i. (No author named.) 'Courage,' p. 48. ......To Courage great, &c. 'Faerie Queene,' V. v. 38, (signed) Ed. Spencer. Where is no Courage, there is no ruth nor mone. 'Faerie Queene,' VI. vii. 18, (signed) Idem, viz., Spenser. Good hart in ill, doth th' evill, &c. 'Faerie Queene,' V. x. 22, (signed) Idem, viz. Might, wanting measure, moveth surquedrie. ......Valour mixt with feare, &c. 'Civil Wars,' III. 46, (signed) Idem, viz. S. Daniel. 'Danger,' p. 57. Danger hath honour, great designes their fame. Daunger's the chiefest joy to happinesse. The Daunger hid, the place unknowne, &c. 'Faerie Queene,' I. i. 12, (signed) Ed. Spencer. A thousand perills lie in close awaite. 'Muiopotmos,' 11. 221-4, (signed) Idem, viz. Spenser. 'Death,' p. 61. ...... Oft things done, perhaps, do lesse annoy, &c. 'Civil Wars,' V. 84, (signed) S. Daniell." .Delaie, in close awaite. 'Faerie Queene,' IV. x. 14, (signed) Ed. Spencer. ...... Times Delay new hope of helpe, &c. 'M. Hubberd's Tale, 1. 327, (signed) Idem, viz., Spenser. 'Desire,' p. 69. Things much retain'd, do make us, &c. than once contemplated starting such a library myself, but, as I may remove from Epist., Edward IV. to Jane Shore,' (signed) here on selling my house, I cannot establish Idem, viz., Drayton. 'Dispaire,' p. 74. Farre greater folly is it, &c. 'Legend of Cordilla,' st. 48, (signed) I. H., 'Mir. of M.' Envie,' p. 84. The other held a snake, &c. a library until in a more permanent residence. I hope, however, to do it later. If genealogists interested in a certain district or county were willing to lend their books, or certain of them, on some such terms as I have suggested, they might com Faerie Queene,' V. xii. 30-31, (signed) Idem, bine to compile a compound advertisement viz., Spenser. 'Envie,' p. 86. Envy harboureth most. &c. giving the names and addresses of owners of books for each district or county. This Arcadia [Grosart, 'Poems,' iii. 36], (signed) would make the cost of advertisement small S. Ph. Sidney. To heare good counsell Error never loves. 'Fig for Momus,' Sat. i. (signed) D. Lodge. Adde Faith unto your force, &c. 'Faerie Queene,' I. i. 19 (signed) Ed. Spencer. 'Fame,' p. 93. Fame with golden wings, &c. 'Ruines of Time,' ll. 421-4, (signed) Ed. Spencer. 'Fate,' p. 102. ...The Fates can make, &c. 'Faerie Queene,' III. iii. 25, (signed) Ed. Spencer. .....Indeed the Fates are firme. 'Faerie Queene,' III. iii. 25, (signed) Ed. Spencer. In vaine with terror is he fortified. CHARLES CRAWFORD. (To be continued.) GENEALOGICAL CIRCULATING LIBRARY.For some time past I have thought it would be a great convenience to amateur genealogists, especially those residing in country places, if a Genealogical Circulating Library could be established. There must be plenty of persons interested in this science who have already a large collection of heraldic and genealogical works now lying idle on their shelves, that they could easily lend, at a small charge, the borrower paying postage each way. The borrower might leave a deposit with the owner, according to the value of the books he proposed to borrow, which would be returned to him, less the charge for reading and amount of postages incurred, when he had finished borrowing. I, for one, should be very glad to avail myself of some such system. I have more for each member, and the advertisement itself would be a useful directory to all genealogists requiring any book on a particular district in which they might be interested. ORKNEY HOGMANAY SONG.-The following Hogmanay song I took down from the lips of a girl here in January last. It is doggerel in parts, but I give it as I heard it :— This is good New Year's evening night, Dance before Prince Albert's sight, Prince Albert, he is not at home, Courting a lady and bringing her home, And that's before Prince Albert's sight, Get up, old wife, and shake your feathers; That's before Prince Albert's sight, Gie's the lass wi' bonnie broon hair, The children go round the table, Do you wish to remind us A Happy New Year? Stromness. * A bow. ALEX. RUSSELL. LATIN EPITAPHS.-On a tombstone dated 7 June, 1691, set up in Old Ballaugh Churchyard, Isle of Man, by Patrick Phillips to the memory of his wife Eleanor Garrat, there is the following epitaph : O Mors, quam dura Tristiaque sunt tua jura! And on another stone in the same place:— Mors mea vita mihi! CHARLES SWYNNERTON. BEFANA: EPIPHANY. "On the eve of the Twelfth Day, the Creature [the children]......anticipate a midnight visit from a frightful old woman, called the Befana (an obvious corruption of Epifania, the Epifany), for whom they always take care to leave some portion of their supper, lest she should eat them up; and when they go to bed, they suspend upon the back of a chair a stocking, to receive her expected gifts. This receptacle is always found in the morning to contain some sweet things, or other welcome presents .......provided by the mother or the nurse. here a dressed-up wooden figure of La Befana, sufficiently, hideous, the bugbear of all naughty girls and boys."-Rome in the Nineteenth Century, iii. 205, quoted in Alexander Keith, 'Signs of the Times,' ed. 4, 1833, ii. 238. There is W. C. B. ALL HALLOWS E'EN: TOKENS.-Tokens and death warnings run in some families, and I believe will so run in spite of everything. I know several old Derbyshire families-the better sort of working households-who still firmly believe in tokens and warnings of death, and some members are constantly receiving such, though they are by no means on the look-out for them. Here is an instance. A member of a household was lying ill in Sheffield eight or nine years ago. He was the head of the family, and with him were some of his nearest relations, his wife and the rest of the family being at their home some miles away. One night the weights inside the case of a grandfather clock in their house fell to the bottom of the case with a great clatter. The faces of the wife and children grew blank, and “ a great fear fell upon them." The next day a message came to say that the husband had died at the same time as the clock-weights fell. The clock remains with the weights at the bottom of the case, and I do not know if any member of the family will dare to set the old clock going again. An old lady, dead now more than a score of years, was born on All Hallows Eve, on the stroke of midnight, and according to the "middif " and other good bodies, she would be able in future years to have 66 certain knowledge of coming events, more especially in connexion with the members of her own family; and as she came to woman hood, she developed the faculty of foretelling things in some degree. She could read the fortunes of folks in their faces as well as by the lines in their hands or the twirling of tea-grounds in the teacup. She was too good a woman for any one to insinuate that she had dealings with any evil thing, and she was, in her simple way, a wise woman in her native village. Regularly, when her in mind and body, and, as folks who knew birthnight came round, she was perturbed said, the spirit was on her." At Christmas teas and little night parties she told the At times she would look mother-like into amuse them. young people's fortunes to "Now, the face of a young lass, and say: my dear, be careful; be a good lass, and you will have a happy life." THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. 66 BRISTOL AND THE SLAVE TRADE.-Some years ago I picked up at a sale of old metal in Liverpool a very fine bell, unfortunately badly cracked. It is of the shape and design of a large ship's bell, and bears the following inscription in relief: “The gift of Thomas Jones of Bristol to Grandy Robin John of Old Town, Old Callabar. 1770." The letter d, where it occurs in the inscription, has been cut or filed away. I made some inquiries with a view to ascertaining the history of this bell, and through the kindness of the late Mr. John Latimer of Bristol, author of 'The History of the Society of Merchant Adventurers of the City of Bristol' (1903), I found that in 1770 one Thomas Jones, doubtless the donor of the bell, had for some years been a member of the Society, whilst a much older member, William Jones, probably his father, was elected Master in that very year. Owing to the loss by fire, in 1831, of the Custom House records, Mr. Latimer could not give me any further information. From another "Thomas source, however, I learnt that Jones, Merchant, Barton Street, Bristol," appears in Matthews's 'Directory of Bristol,' 1794. Grandy [Grandee] Robin John was one of the leading men of Old Town, Old Calabar, in 1770. Robin John was a sort of family name, and it is difficult to say to which of the family the bell was presented. According to a note on p. 533 of Gomer Williams's Liverpool Privateers and Slave Trade,' the leading people were the King, the Duke, Ephraim Robin John, Robin John 10 S. XI. JAN. 2, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 7 Tom Robin, Orrock Robin John, &c. We DICKENS AND PICKWICK: THE "BUSH hear, in addition, of Grandy Ephraim Robin TAVERN," BRISTOL.-During a recent visit John, Grandy King George, and also of to Bath I discovered in the City Reference "old Robin John," father of the former. Library several transcripts of local parish Mr. Gomer Williams prints on p. 541 a registers, evidently copied and presented letter, dated in 1773, to Mr. Thomas Jones to that institution by the Rev. C. W. Shickle, from the captain of one of his slave ships, Master of St. John's Hospital. In these relating to the identity of some members several notes of interest to Dickens lovers of the Robin John family. There is also are to be found. a letter from Grandy King George to a Liverpool shipowner asking, amongst other things, for bells, and that his name should be put on everything sent for him. There was at this time great rivalry between Bristol and Liverpool in connexion with the slave trade, and every effort was being made by the merchants of the former port to retain the lucrative trade, much of which was passing to their rivals. The supply of slaves was to a large extent dependent on the goodwill of the chiefs at Old Calabar, and it may safely be conjectured that the bell was given by the Bristol slave-trader for the purpose of influencing Grandy Robin John to continue dealing with him. The deletion of the letter d is curious, and is probably due to negro superstition that the letter might bring bad luck. Or it might have been done to bring the words into conformity with negro pronunciation. R. S. B. In St. Michael's register, under date 14 Sept., 1766, the marriage occurs of Richard Fisher, bachelor, of MoncktonCombe, and Ann Pickwick, spinster. Later, on 17 Aug., 1775, Eleazar Pickwick, bachelor, and Susanna Combs, spinster, were married, the witnesses on that auspicious occasion being Moses Pickwick and Frances Davis. The name of Wintles frequently occurs, but no Winkles. It is not a far cry from Bath to Bristol, an ancient city still possessing several fine old inns reminiscent of coaching days, although, I believe, "The Bush" of famous memory has passed into the shades, and become, as the epitaphs have it, "though lost to sight, to memory dear." In the Bristol and Bath Directory' for 1787 we find a few words of advertisement that make it live again :— Bush Tavern in Corn Street, |