architecture. But why copy some existing
inscription when so many excellent virgin
phrases offer themselves? A brief study, for
instance, of Bacon's Essays' might reveal a
number of crisp sentences suitable for MR.
MCCARA's purpose.
WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.
[MR. H. W. UNDERDOWN also refers to the book
by S. F. A. Caulfeild.]

connected with the vicinity of a tenement
so called, I imagined its bearer to have been
a bard, and the dwelling to have derived its
name from him; but I have lately seen a
case in which Harper would seem to be a
corruption of Harepath (=Herpath), and
its situation might well be distinguished as
lying close to the military route. It occurs
in a printed handbill, dated 29 September,
1820, announcing the sale by auction of "that
messuage called Harper, otherwise Hare-
path......these premises adjoin the Turn-
pike road leading from Okehampton to
Exeter, and are distant about a mile from
S. Tawton lime-kilns."
ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.
TOPOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT LONDON (9th S.
MACMICHAEL is au courant about the ceme-
tery of the French refugees in London in
1721, will he kindly send us a word as to the
register of the burial of their dead at that
period? Does it exist? Does it tell us
where Pierre d'Urte (whose Baskish transla-
tion of Genesis and a part of Exodus I
criticized in an unfortunately single-proofed
article in the American Journal of Philology
for the year 1902) died and was interred?
E. S. DODGSON.

DR. SAMUEL HINDS, FORMERLY BISHOP OF NORWICH (10th S. i. 227, 351, 415).-I remember, when a boy at school, the strange rumours prevalent in 1857 regarding this prelate's resignation, which was caused by an entire loss of memory and mental aberration of a very distressing character, culminating in the scandal of his second marriage. After his resignation he lived in the neigh-xii. 429; 10th S. i. 70, 295, 457). —As MR. bourhood of Notting Hill, and during the years 1863 to 1866 I often used to meet him in the streets of that neighbourhood, and in his strange attire he presented a striking appearance. It was said that at first he was in very straitened circumstances, eventually relieved, as it was commonly reported, by the bounty of the fourteenth Earl of Derby, the Prime Minister, who more than once unsuccessfully endeavoured to obtain for him a pension from ecclesiastical funds, and upon one occasion raised a debate upon the subject in the House of Lords, thus paving the way for the existing law, passed a few years subsequently, authorizing the payment of a pension, out of the salary of his successor, for a bishop who is compelled by age or infirmity to retire.

Dr. Hinds had been a Fellow and Tutor of Queen's College, Oxford, and was VicePrincipal of St. Alban Hall when and after Archbishop Whately was Principal. He was Dean of Carlisle for about a year (October, 1848, to September, 1849), succeeded Bishop Edward Stanley in 1849 as Bishop of Norwich, and was a member of the first Oxford University Commission. F. DE H. L. HAREPATH (10th S. i. 190, 459).-Harepath is a common field-name in Devon in and within a few miles' radius of South Tawton, and I have noticed it in a Wiltshire terrierI think, near Bishop's Canning.

"SEND" OF THE SEA (10th S. i. 368, 456).— In the Gentleman's Dictionary,' London, 1705: "When a ship falls deep into the trough or hollow of the sea, then 'tis said she Sends much that way, whether a-head or a-stern." In J. K.'s New English Dictionary,' fifth much, i.e., falls with her stern deep into the edition, London, 1748: "The ship sends hollow between two waves.'

W. S.
BLIN (10th S. i. 428).-The New England
Register,' vol. xvi. p. 19, contains a pedigree
of a family of this name.
CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

"GOLF": IS IT SCANDINAVIAN? (10th S. i.
168; see also the quotation from the 'Book
of Articles in the first column of 9th S. vi.
445.)-It is hardly likely that Mary should
be described as playing "with the palmall
and goif," unless these words meant the
clubs used in the games now known by the
names of pall mall and golf. We cannot be
certain until the 'N.E.D.' has treated the
preposition with.
Q. V.

A farmer told me once he fancied that one of his meadows might have got the appellation from its being traversed by hares, the tracks or paths worn by their habitual use being even more clearly discernible than those made by rabbits. The field or place name Harper is also to be met with in the neighbourhood. Having found a twelfth or thirteenth century surname "Le Harpur" | printed.

DOGE OF VENICE (10th S. i. 469) —In the Venice,' Byron gives the account of him in Appendix to his 'Marino Faliero, Doge of

Of which the true date is 1568, and not as there

GAYUS DIXON (10th S. i. 449).-Extract from Catalogue No. 40, 1904, issued by A. Russell Smith, 24, Great Windmill Street, London, W. :

344 Dickson (D.) A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew (imperfect at end), 28., Glasgow, 1647. Was this the first "Dickson" recorded? RONALD DIXON. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

Present,' by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne.—Vol. I. (published by Hutchinson & Co., but without date), POLITICIAN will find at p. 69 of vol. i. a portrait of John Bellamy, who is there described as being the "founder of the Kitchen Department of the House of Commons," it being further noted that, as proprietor of "Bellamy's Kitchen," he was intimate with

A COMPLETE edition of Mr. Swinburne's poetical and dramatic works has long been demanded, and the gift is at length in the way of being conceded. The opening volume consists of the first series of assigned it, inasmuch as, though preceded in date 'Poems and Ballads,' which merits the position

by The Queen Mother and Rosamond' and by
Atalanta in Calydon,' it was the first purely
lyrical offspring of Mr. Swinburne's invention. To
men of to-day the pother caused by its appearance
is a thing so wholly of the past that no further
mention seems requisite or expedient. Men of
yesterday can scarcely dispose of the question so
Such remember
placidly and with so much ease.
the welcome awarded 'Atalanta in Calydon,' a
work in its revelation of strength and beauty
constituting the most remarkable poetic firstfruits
that had been seen since the days of Milton.
Neither the envy nor the hatred of dulness could
deny the grace and glory of such work, and criticism
grudgingly conceded that a new planet had swum
into the world's ken. With the appearance of
'Poems and Ballads' came an opportunity not to
be missed of maligning genius and compensating
for enforced eulogy. From the recognized critical
organs of the day there went up a scream of con-
demnation and execration, in answer to which the
peccant volume was withdrawn by a publisher
whose caution was in advance of his other gifts.
To these things, to which we should not, probably,
have recurred had not Mr. Swinburne himself re-
ferred to them in combative fashion, the appear-
ance of the first volume of the collected works
constitutes a complete answer. No reply was, in
fact, needed, such having been brought about in
the best and simplest fashion. The only effect of
the spasm of indignation and affright on the part
of Mrs. Grundy, and the subsequent action on the
part of the publisher in question, was that a new
name appeared at the foot of the title-page of a
work in which no elision of any kind had been
made, and that copies of Poems and Ballads' with
the original title-page, differing in no respect what-
ever from the later issues, were purchased at an
enhanced price by a few guileless collectors. When
now, as the first volume of the new edition,
"Poems and Ballads' is reprinted, our search fails
to detect the slightest variation. The order of the
poems is the same, and the dedication "To my
friend Edward Burne-Jones" is retained. In type
and format the editions are different, and the new
volume has, in addition, a dedication of the col-
lected poems to Theodore Watts-Dunton, together
with a dedicatory epistle to the same writer, which
is equally honouring to both. In these things is
found the matter of most interest to the possessor
of the earlier edition. In no sense can the preface
be regarded as an apologia. It is to some extent,
however, autobiographical and elucidatory, and it
is in a high degree defiant. In the last lines the
characteristic attitude of Mr. Swinburne towards
critics and friends reveals itself: "It is nothing to
me that what I write should find immediate or
general acceptance: it is much to know that on the
whole it has won for me the right to address this
dedication and inscribe this edition to you." Else-
where Mr. Swinburne says: "To parade or to dis-
claim experience of passion or of sorrow, of pleasure
or of pain, is the habit and the sign of a school which
has never found a disciple among the better sort of
English poets, and which I know to be no less
pitifully contemptible in your opinion than in
mine." Of the dramas (for the introduction covers
the entire field of Mr. Swinburne's poetical works)
the poet says that it is needless to remind Mr. Watts-
Dunton that when he writes plays "it is with a
view to their being acted at the Globe, the Red
Bull, or the Black Friars," a piece of information

which tells the sympathetic critic little that he
does not know, but which will be of highest service
to the but half-enlightened reader. The whole of
the epistle dedicatory tempts to extract. For the
sympathetic, the cultivated, and the scholarly
reader the book now reprinted contains more
exquisite poetry than is to be found in the writings
of any man of similar age. Such limitation, even,
might be withdrawn, and we might repeat than in
any firstfruits.

The Gull's Horn Book. By Thomas Dekker. Edited
by R. B. McKerrow. (De La More Press.)
THE Gull's Horn Book' is the most popular of
Dekker's works, and was rendered accessible in an
edition by Dr. Nott, in modern spelling, in 1812,
long before the rage for reprinting Elizabethan and
Jacobean literature had set in. Published as it
was at a price (36s.) all but prohibitive, this book
became nearly as hard to find as the original edition.
One or two reprints have since appeared, and the
work has long figured on our own shelves in the
reprint of Dekker's prose works issued by Grosart
In this the old spelling
in "The Huth Library.
is preserved. In publishing the work afresh, in an
eniinently artistic shape, Mr. McKerrow follows
pretty closely the edition of Nott, whose text (in
the main), notes, glossary, and initial letters are
preserved. An introductory chapter gives a brief
life of Dekker and much bibliographical informa-
tion, while a supplement supplies a chapter on
'How a Gallant should behave himself in a Play-
house,' which was substituted for that of the
original by Sam Vincent, in a curious and scarce
imitation called 'The Young Gallant's Academy;
or, Directions how he should behave himself in
all Places and Company.' Few books cast a
brighter light upon life in Shakespearian times
than 'The Gull's Horn Book,' and the work is one
that no serious Shakespearian student should be
without. It is quaintly and fantastically written,
and may be read with amusement as well as studied
with advantage. It can scarcely be desired in a
more attractive shape.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic: a History. By
John Lothrop Motley. (Bell & Sons.)
To the "York Library" has been added, in three-
pretty, artistic, and handy volumes, Motley's his-
tory of The Rise of the Dutch Republic,' reprinted
Standard Library." This record now
from the
ranks as a classic, and in its present pleasing
guise is likely to attract thousands of readers. We
owe an enormous debt to the "Standard Library,"
and are glad to welcome its masterpieces in so
pleasing a garb. These books should find their way
to every home that owns any cultivation.

A Dictionary of Names, Nicknames, and Surnames
of Persons, Places, and Things. By Edward
Latham. (Routledge & Sons.)

EVIDENCES of Mr. Latham's industry and zeal in
the compilation of his book have been frequent in
So far as the general public is con-
our pages.
cerned, Mr. Latham has rendered a genuine service.
We wish he had gone further and assisted the
scholar, and we urge him to do so in the new
edition soon to be demanded. We find here too many
names the significance of which is forgotten or, at
any rate, expiring, such as the Modern Pliny, the
Modern Wagner, the Michelangelo of Music, the
English Erasmus, &c., instead of which we should

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