rather than a "contraction of gentleman or genteel." The Encyclopaedic Dictionary' gives as an example of this ancient adjective a line from Robert de Brunne To wite of her maners, to se his body gent. Mr. John Payne uses it freely, with many other Wimbledon. time clerk of the cheque at Portsmouth." His I am grateful to MR. WALLER for his reply to my query. Would it be trespassing too far on his The word is used by Edward Moore some time good nature to ask for the dates of Brett's birth about the year 1750: The prisoner was at large indicted For that, by thirst of gain excited, One day in July last at tea, And in the house of Mrs, P., From the left breast of E. M. gent, With base felonious intent, &c. 'The Trial of Sarah Palmer, alias Slim Sall.' This abbreviation was quite general in the six- Swallowfield, Reading. and death? I should like to know the sources 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea. SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED (8th S. vi. 128, 172).— How rev'rend is the face of this tall pile, &c. Norwich, CONTINUATION OF EDWIN DROOD' (8th S. vi. 348).-I have heard of this ridiculous story before, though unluckily I cannot verify it. But if C. H. W. is interested in the general subject, he may like to refer to 'N. & Q.,' 5th S. ii. 407, 475, 526; iii. 136, 177. There is also a very valuable paper on the subject, by the late R. A. Procter, in the Cornhill Magazine for March, 1884. C. F. S. Warren, M.A. Longford, Coventry. THE REV. CHAS. BOULTBEE (8th S. iv. 508; v. A PIONEER NEWSPAPER (8th S. vi. 25, 154, 234). 77, 293, 438).-I extract from a MS. book of 600-Information as to the commencement of the Stampages relating to the Boultbee family and pedigree, both in my possession, that this gentleman was originally of Boulogne, in the kingdom of France, a cornet in H.M.'s 10th Hussars, afterwards a clerk in holy orders. On applying for his discharge from bankruptcy in 1823 he is described as first of Misterton, Northants; afterwards of Ather- | holme, Warwick; then of Derthill, same county; and late of Kirkford, Sussex, clerk. His marriage settlements were dated July 7/8, 1812, and his family history is shown from various deeds extracted, which relate to himself, brothers and sisters, and their ancestors. 181, Coldharbour Lane, S.E. HENRY W. ALDRED. TIMOTHY BRETT (8th S. vi. 287, 353).—An entry in the Gentleman's Magazine, March, 1799 (vol. Ixix. pt. i. p. 250), records the death, in 1790, at Greenwich, co. Kent, of Timothy Brett, 66 a most mild, benignant and amiable character," " ford Mercury in 1712 will be found in 'N. & Q.,' 5th S. ix. 214. It was there mentioned that an earlier newspaper was printed in Stamford. This was the Stamford Post, mentioned by MR. JUSTIN SIMPSON, and it is remarkable that the No. 82 of that paper to which he refers was printed on Jan. 3, 1712, the same day on which No. 1 of the Stamford Mercury was published. A copy of No. 97 of the Stamford Post, published April 17, 1712, is in the possession of Mr. C. W. Holdich, Cromwell Road, Peterborough. The Stamford Post was a weekly paper, and the first number must have been issued on June 8, 1710. The paper bears no printer's name, but it was printed by Francis Howgrave, who became the printer of the Stamford Mercury on June 13, 1732. Stamford. Jos. PHILLIPS. NORSE EARLS OF ORKNEY (8th S. vi. 289, 352). some-A pedigree and some interesting information A set of verses in which the two lines of W. T. will be found are to be seen in N. & Q.' (7th S. i, 26), and are said to occur in a commonplace book of an Aberdeen citizen about the middle of the seventeenth century. A query whether these lines were to be met with elsewhere obtained no reply. ED. MARSHALL, [Those interested in the subject should consult 'Poems and Psalms,' by Henry King, D.D., edited by Rev. J. Hannah (Oxford, Macpherson, 1843). The lines in question appear under the title of Man's Mortalitie,' and are appended to the Microbiblion' of Simon Wastell, 1629. They are also inserted at the close of Quarles's' Argalus and Parthenia,' and signed by Quarles, who expressly says that they are his "Hos ego versiculos." The first and best-known of similar poems, "Like to the falling of a star," &c., is ascribed to Francis Beaumont and to Dr. King. There are, in addition, Like to the Grasse that's newly sprung, &c., And and Like to the blaze of fond delight, &c.—Quarles. Like to the Rowlinge of an Eye, &c., Like to an eye which sleepe doth chaine, &c., both assigned to Mr. Malone.] Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Poems of William Drummond. With Memoir and Notes by W. C. Ward. 2 vols. (Laurence & Bullen.) To their delightful" Muses' Library," including already the most prized poets of the seventeenth century, Messrs. Laurence & Bullen have added a new, complete, and well-edited edition of Drummond's poems. From the estimate that places Drummond higher than Drayton we dissent, and we hold that the editor is inclined to overindulgence in estimating the character of the man. Drummond is, however, a delightful poet, and an edition such as the present of his poems is a boon in all senses of the word. Mr. Ward has taken uncommon pains in elucidating the sources whence Drummond has drawn in part his inspiration. The proofs of indebtedness to French and Italian sources add greatly to the value of the work. On one point we should have liked further information. In what is called 'Song' (vol. i. p. 32-40), a delightful poem in all respects, Drummond employs a metre we do not recollect to have seen elsewhere. It is the ordinary rhymed ten-syllable verse, but the rhymes are like those in the French rhymed alexandrines, alternately masculine and feminine. This is observed throughout. We give the terminations of the first few lines to show: "pole "=" roll," " appeareth "= heareth," "6 ="breath," (be)queath "warble" "marble," 99 66 cares"=" snares,' ""wander"=" meander"; and so on through over two hundred and fifty lines. If this metre has been elsewhere used in England we shall be glad to hear of it. Drummond's poems are generally chaste enough as well as beautiful, and his religious poems are among the best and most fragrant we possess. He occasionally, however, goes beyond most men, even of his own time, in indelicacy-a fact more than a little surprising in a poet who was a canny and Senses,' which Mr. Ward hesitates to ascribe to Druma pious Scot. Had James I. seen the poem 'The Five mond, but which is certainly not the least decent in his work, the fate of Drummond would have been that of Raleigh. James is therein openly accused of all the vices which scandal has coupled with his name. A portrait, the best obtainable, adorns the first of two delightful volumes, which should rest on the shelves of every man of taste. · The Hero of Esthonia, and other Studies in the Romantic Literature of that Country. By W. F. Kirby. (Nimmo.) MR. KIRBY is responsible for the first serious and important contribution that has been made to English knowledge of Esthonian folk-lore. Such articles as have appeared in English consist principally of contributions to cyclopædias, magazines, and reports. In Germany, as is but natural, explorations have been ample, and it is from the works of Kreutzwald, Jannsen, and other authorities, German and Esthonian, that the principal stories have been extracted. The first portion of the work consists of a prose account of the Kalevipoeg.' For the sake of publishing this work he has interrupted his work upon a critical edition of the Kalevala,' the great national epopee of Finland. Very far from being a mere variant of the Finnish work is the Kalevipoeg,' though some of the stories are naturally the same. It is a poem of some nineteen thousand lines, the metre being the eight-syllable trochaic common with the Esthonians and the Finns, and familiarized in this country through its adoption by Longfellow in 'Hiawatha.' The subject is the adventures of Kalevipoeg, or Kalevide, a mythical hero of gigantic size, who, Mr. Kirby holds, is obviously the Kullervo of the Finnish epic. A digest of the adventures is given, the interminable lyrics with which the whole is "graced" being omitted. Many of the incidents are familiar in all tales of giants and strong men, such as the three sons of Kalevide trying their strength by hurling rocks into the lakes. A serious interest is supplied by the murder by Kalevide, in a drunken quarrel, of the eldest son of a smith, who has supplied him with a matchless sword. This action results in the sword ultimately cutting off his legs, and bringing about his death. The invasion of Pörgu, otherwise Hell, and the fight with Sarvik, the prince of that region, introduce some sufficiently romantic adventures. Following the aceount of the poem comes a selection of the Esthonian tales that bear upon it, a second volume being occupied with Esthonian folk-tales in general. Strange_variants of well-known stories are found in them, There are, of course, abundant stories of buried treasure, and of dwarfs, not seldom headless, of mira- The Ancoats Skylark, and other Verses, Original and The Life of Jonathan Swift. By Henry Craik. 2 vols. A SECOND edition of Mr. Craik's admirably full, thoughtful, judicious, and interesting life of the great Dean of St. Patrick's will be welcome to students of last century politics and literature. With the exception of a few corrections, the new edition is practically the same as the old. Mr. Craik, who is an eloquent and earnest, and to a great extent convincing apologist for Swift, still holds to his marriage with Stella, supplying in an appen: dix the authorities on which his opinion is based, and still finds much that is mitigating in his treatment of Vanessa. It is naturally to the portion of the biography dealing with these relations one first turns; and after a perusal of the complete work one turns to them again. Explanations of Swift's conduct to women are like analogies, in not running on all fours, and explanation is bound to remain to a great extent conjectural. The theories most generally prevailing amongst the best informed are not, indeed, easily put forward. "A proneness to tender emotion, along with a constitutional thinness of temperament that allows the emotion easily to die away," as Mr. Craik well and temperately says, is possible explanation of the alternate tenderness and coldness in Swift." Such explanation as is obtainable he finds in Swift's general character, in a certain "intensity of will," "force of intellectual passion," by which his strong feelings are perpetually tortured and crushed. This is an explanation like another, and is, in fact, as good as another. The story is, at least, interesting and edifying to read afresh as Mr. Craik thoughtfully tells it. Of the principal events in Swift's chequered career an admirable account is given, and we admire the justice and wisdom of comment such as that on the personal bond between Harley and Swift. 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