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EDWARD BACON, M.P. (8th S. vi. 407).—If in each case is as follows: The Anglo-Saxon g is information as to the date of Edward Bacon's hard before y, gyth was pronounced güth, with y death has been forwarded, as asked, direct to MR. like the German ü, and the th vocal as in HOLBOMBE INGLEBY, I may hope for its repetition "smooth." But A.-S. g was pronounced as y in the pages of N. & Q.,' as the Member of before i, and then fell away. Thus, A.-S. giƒ was Parliament in question was of more than Norfolk pronounced yif, and is now if. fame. Bacon not only succeeded Sir Robert Walpole as member for King's Lynn in February, 1742, when the statesman was created Earl of Orford, but he sat for Callington during most of the Parliament of 1747 as a colleague of Horace Walpole; and, after being returned for Newport, Cornwall, in 1754, defeating at the poll Jeffery French and Richard Rigby, two of the Duke of Bedford's "Bloomsbury gang," he resigned the seat two years later in order to succeed Horatio Walpole at Norwich. He is mentioned in Horace Walpole's correspondence as a not unlikely candidate for the Speakersbip, and he filled for a time the Chairmanship of Committees. Was he a son of Waller Bacon, who sat for Norwich in six Parliaments earlier in the eighteenth century? DUNHEVED.

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NOTES ON THE PEDIGREES OF THE AUDLEYS, STANLEYS, AND SNEYDS (8th S. vi. 463). -The statement of the writer of the notes on the early pedigrees of the Audleys, Stanleys, and Sneyds, about Liulf Aldredeslega not being Liulf de Aldithelege is, I think, further confirmed by considering the derivation of Aldithelege. Aldredeslega is obviously Eald-rades-leah, that is Ealdræd's lea, Ealdræd being a common AngloSaxon name. And we must notice the masculine genitive in es. But Aldithelege is obviously Ealdgythelege, that is, Ealdgyth's lea, Ealdgyth being a female name (vide Liber Vita' of Durham), so the genitive is in e and not in es. Our Edith was the Anglo-Saxon Eadgyth. The change

Now in the eleventh and twelfth centuries the and y were confused, consequently A.-S. g passed into the consonantal y sound, even before the vowel y; so that gÿth actually became yith, and, of course, it next became ith. Ealdgyth, being feminine, as I said, had a genitive in e, and so we have Ealdgythe-lege, or Aldithe-lege, Aldithe, genitive in e; lege, dative in e. Datives occurring constantly in place-names, at or at being understood, the parts of the name being Eald, old, gyth, battle, ley, lea.

So you see there is no connexion whatever between the place-names Aldredeslege and Aldithelege, and a great wrong has been done to the memory of my ancestor Liulf de Aldethelege by assuming that he was charged with the murder of Gamel. G. A. SNEYD.

Chastleton Rectory.

COLE'S 'RESIDENCES OF ACTORS' (8th S. vi. 467).-In a privately printed catalogue of the antiquarian and topographical publications of John Cole, in my collection, is the following entry :

"Histrionic_Topography; or, the Birth-places, Residences, and Funeral Monuments of the most distinguished Actors. Engravings. 8vo. London, 1818." In breaking up my collection the copy was secured by the British Museum. JOHN TAYLOR.

Northampton.

The book which MR. I. C. GOULD inquires for
is probably 'Histrionic Topography,' by J. N.
Brewer, which will be found in the British
Museum.
WM. DOUGLAS.

1, Brixton Road.

LEPER HOSPITALS IN KENT (8th S. vi. 428).— There was a pest house at Cranbrook when I was at the Grammar School. See 'Annals of Cranbrook Church,' by William Tarbutt (published by Mr. Dennett, Cranbrook, 1873), page 64. Mr. Tarbutt quotes the following extract from the parish register:-"1735, July 7, John Polly, of Burwash, died of the small pox in the pest house." It was still called the pest house, Mr. Tarbutt adds, in 1873. S. E. W.

ANCIENT BRASSES (8th S. vi. 388).-A correspondent who has been kind enough to send me some information on this subject privately, informs me that the library, drawings, MSS., &c., of the late John Meyrick, of Peterborough House, Parson's Green, were sold by King & Lochée, at their rooms, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, the sale lasting twelve days, from April 21, 1806. On the

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last day four lots of brasses (2,536-7-8-8*) were disposed of for 21. 28., but the copy of the catalogue in the possession of my correspondent does not give the name of the purchaser. One lot is described as "A monumental effigy in brass from Fulham Church," and another as A monumental effigy and ancient inscription on the decease of Margaret Cheyne, 1578." I should much like to trace the present whereabouts of these two brasses. The firm appears to be extinct. Any information or suggestion will be greatly valued.

CHAS. JAS. FÈRET.

49, Edith Road, West Kensington, W.

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SIR WALTER DE MANNY (8th S. vi. 368).Beltz, Order of the Garter,' p. 122, gives the arms of Sir Walter Manny, K.G., "Or, three chevronels sa.," and states in foot-note :

"These arms appear not only in many MSS. of authority, but also on a seal of Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, to a charter, temp. Richard II., the original of which was, according to Sandford, p. 207, in the possession of Sir Edward Walker, Garter."

Alloa.

A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN.

Beltz, in his 'History of the Order of the Garter (pp. 110, et seq.), gives a full account of this gallant knight, and blazons his arms as "Or, three chevronels sable.' These arms appear not only in many MSS. of authority, but also on the seal of Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, to a charter, temp. Richard II., the original of which was, according to Sandford, penes Sir Edward Walker, Garter. Burke gives "Sable, a cross voided arg.,' but cites no authority.

C. E. GILDERSOME DICKINSON.

with suffering; happy, recognizable, and full of expression in others; and in others, again, serene, passionless, inert. The volume is, accordingly, fertile in suggestion, and the task of exploration once begun is not easily abandoned. Very large is the collection, but the masks are of unequal authority. In some cases Mr. Hutton can vouch for their authenticity; in others evidence both internal-so to speak—and external has to be consulted. No reference is traceable in literature to any mask of Sheridan, and no surviving member of the family of Coleridge has heard of the existence of a death mask; yet both are here, and both are obviously genuine. Mr. Hutton's collection is not what is ordinarily known as a phrenological collection, and in this is one of its greatest merits. For purposes of contrast, a mask of a Florida negro boy is given at the close. There are, however, no

appalling or agonizing monstrosities. The heads shown us are, with a few exceptions, those of the greatest, wisest, best of mankind-Dante, Shakspeare, Garrick, Kean, Beethoven, Mirabeau, Newton, Thackeray, Keats, Rossetti, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Turner, Wordsworth, Agassiz, Burke, Swift, Scott, Washington, and the like. If American statesmen and actors occupy, according to English estimate, a somewhat disproportionate share, the former are, of course, the subjects of Mr. Hutton's patriotic pride and admiration, while the latter were his personal friends. It is difficult to convey to others the impression made by these revivifications, for such some of them are, of past heroes. What seems a glow of contentment is seen in the broad, square, handsome face of Tasso. Mrs. Siddons's long, interminable nose and large and somewhat flaccid under lip are very salient. The face of Louise of Prussia is exquisite in beauty and repose. Malibran's long face and thick quasi-African lip convey little idea of personal seduction. Beethoven looks coarser, but not less powerful, than in his portraits. Mendelssohn is excellent. Newton's breadth of jaw seems almost grotesque. In Thackeray we scarcely see the broken nose. Coleridge's head is fascinatingly "strange and suggestive. In Keats the sensuous beauty of the lips is shown, though we lack the intellectual contrast of the eyes, Johnson's head seems almost grotesque. That of Rossetti conveys an idea altogether unlike that which memory supplies. Leopardi's seems serene and strong. In Scott the supreme altitude of the forehead has an effect almost uncanny. Perhaps the most striking resemblance of all to familiar portraits is found in the mask of Brougham. We have dealt with a few only, and those principally European, of the masks Mr. Hutton has given. The masks of Edwin Booth, one of which serves as frontispiece, do not recall his face as we remember it. The same may be said of the masks of one or two other Americans who have recently passed away. Mr. Hutton's letterpress is interesting as matter and delightful in style. His book is welcome. We only hope that he will live largely to augment his collection, large as this is, and give us companion volumes no less interesting, valuable, and artistic.

Eden Bridge. GRETA (8th S. vi. 449).-Your correspondent has not mentioned the best-known Greta, thanks to Sir Walter Scott, which falls into the river Tees near Rokeby. R. B.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Portraits in Plaster from the Collection of Laurence
Hutton. (New York, Harper Bros.)
MR. HUTTON claims-and his pretensions will scarcely
be disputed-to possess the largest collection extant of
portraits in plaster. His catalogue raisonné of these
first saw the light in Harper's Magazine, from which,
with large additions both to the illustrations and the
text, it is now reprinted. That the mask furnishes an
unfailing phrenological index to the shape of the head
and the proportion of the features will scarcely be con-
tested. The handsome volume now issued has, accord-
ingly, keen and abiding interest to students of character,
and constitutes a profoundly valuable, if limited, addition
to our galleries of portraits. No flattery is there in the
mask, which, indeed, does "nothing extenuate nor set
down aught in malice." The absolute features are
before us, warped in some cases and all but distorted

Celestina; or, the Tragicke Comedy of Calisto and Meli-
bea. Englished......by James Mabbe. With Introduc.
tion by James Fitzmaurice Kelly. (Nutt.)
THE latest volume of Mr. Henley's admirable series of
"Tudor Translations" consists of Mabbe's translation of
the Celestina' of Fernando de Rojas, known as the
longest drama-dramatic poems apart-in the world. It
is a curious fact that though editions and translations
of this strange, powerful, characteristic, and moving
work multiply, all have remained scarce. What, even,
is the date of the first Spanish edition-1499, or later-
remains conjectural, like the authorship of the first, and
immeasurably the longest, of its twenty-one acts, or,

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indeed, the personality of its author. Since its appear- all Staffordshire writers and of all that they have written. ance it has been praised, condemned, translated into a Every book, pamphlet, or printed letter produced by a dozen languages, continued-as though it were not long native of or a resident in the county is here recorded, enough-what not. Yet not one scholar in a hundred together with the name of the writer, whenever this knows anything concerning it, or is aware, even, of its could be obtained, and a brief biography of him or her. existence. Our own introduction took place in 'La Celes- And the list, it need hardly be said, includes not a few tine,' a French translation published at Rouen in 1599, an distinguished names, from Dr. Johnson and Miss Mulock edition, like all the early French renderings, of extreme downwards. All this information has been gathered in scarcity. Later we came on an English translation and arranged and edited by a poor and untaught Staffordincluded in The Spanish Libertines,' 1707, 8vo., a trans-shire man, who when a child was deprived by an accident lation by Capt. John Stevens of four Spanish works, and of both his hands and of the whole of his left arm. He another, by "several hands," added to a translation of has, indeed, had the aid of two most efficient assistants: the Life of Guzman d'Alfarache,' of Aleman. Of the the one a devoted wife, the other-Mr. Lomax, of Lichearlier translation by Mabbe we had not heard. It now field-a generous printer, who not only advanced money comes before us, and we unhesitatingly pronounce it one for the work, but actually made its author a weekly of the most interesting and valuable of the delightful allowance to enable him to complete it. He has comseries in which it is included. Fully to explain to those pleted it, and every copy of the book is subscribed for. unfamiliar with the story the nature of 'Celestina' But the author's little funds are exhausted. He and his would be waste of time. It is the story of a Spanish wife, after years of privation and want, have accomRomeo and Juliet, and is as poignant and fateful as plished a literary purpose of no small importance; and is the story taken by Shakspeare. The surroundings are the county, recognizing this, and sympathizing with his wholly different. The lovers are brought together by misfortune and his energy, is raising for his benefit a Celestina, a creature the infamy of whose calling is only small fund, to which, of course, any one is free and equalled by the subtlety of her spells, using the term with welcome to contribute. Rupert Simms, of Newcastleno superhuman significance. Over all whom she ap-under-Lyme-that is the author's name and his address. proaches her malign influence asserts itself, and she and her dupes alike come to an evil end. Quite unparalleled in vivacity are the pictures of Spanish life and character, and the book when read will not easily be forgotten. Among the characteristics assigned the work by its latest editor is that of "perennial freshness." Seldom, indeed, has the influence of consuming passion been depicted with equal power. For the facts concerning the book, its editions and its translator, the reader must be referred to the introduction of Mr. Fitzmaurice-Kelly, which is ripe in erudition and praiseworthy in insight. All that can be sought or desired is there set down. To those who love to wander along untrodden ways Mabbe's translation will be a delight. Those who know nothing of Celestina' will make a curious acquaintance. Its pictures of human weakness and depravity are striking, and in scenes perhaps too animated for the taste of the day. Seldom, however, has human shortcoming been visited by retribution more swift and condign, and the morality of the lesson won ultimately the recognition of the Cal

vinistic conscience.

Patient Griselda, and other Poems. By E. Walford. (Chatto & Windus.)

WHEN Over seventy years of age Mr. Walford, well known in our columns, seeks to light his brows with the crown of poetry. It is true, however, that some of the poems now collected have previously seen the light. They are now first brought together, and show the author to possess a "pretty wit" and great power of expression. The earlier poems deal with legends pleasantly narrated. When we get further into the volume we find danger signals, in the way of politics and personal grievances, which induce us to rest content with introducing the

work to our readers.

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By Order of the Sun to Chile to see his Total Eclipse of
April 16, 1893. By J. J. Aubertin. (Kegan Paul &
Co.)
THE author has already appeared several times before
the public as a traveller, but the journey described in the
present work was undertaken with the special object of
seeing the total eclipse of the sun which passed over
South America in April last year. His account of his
own impressions of the great phenomenon and of the
observations taken by the scientific party which repaired
to the same station as himself, near Merceditas, in Chile,
is written in a manner which cannot fail to make it of
general interest, and the narrative of the journey will
also be found both pleasant and instructive reading.
Before returning to England the author paid a second
visit (he had been there about three years before) to the
Lick Observatory, in California, where he again met Prof.
Schaeberle, in whose company he had observed the
eclipse in Chile. A portrait of that astronomer forms the
frontispiece, and there are other excellent illustrations,
particularly one of the sun's corona during the eclipse.

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