In Personalia Academica,' though some of the pieces are a little banal-thus William of Wykeham and Conington are simply taken from the 'D.N.B.'-most are such as combine together successfully to make a sufficiently pleasant sequence. Walton's description of Bishop Sanderson; Hearne's account of Dean Aldrich; Randolph of Corpus as seen in a paragraph of R. L. Edgeworth's; A Walk with Mark Pattison'; and the two extracts from Recollections of H. J. S. Smith' may be mentioned as specially good. Colleges : Life and Customs and Oxoniana' present more fully than any other sections the general character of the whole book in epitome, with their bits from curious old accounts of Oxford, their occasional reproaches, their biographical details. A good deal of space is given to Carlyle on Johnson. There are several extracts which seem to us hardly worth including here The book winds up appropriately enough with the Bidding Prayer, whose fine cadences will recall many a voice, and many repetitions of one well-beloved scene. To the present writer the memory of St. Mary's on a Sunday morning in term-time has in it always in the foreground of the picture, tilted upward a little and listening intently, the white head of "Lewis Carroll." Why has he no place in this anthology? Could Alice in Wonderland' have been born anywhere but in Oxford? And if one had to disti! out the very essence of the humours of this volume, what else would one get ? Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Edited by W. Bruce Bannerman.-March. (Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke.) THE contents include the arms of Armytage and Wentworth, with an illustration and pedigree. There is an unpublished letter of the Earl of Richmond, 1485. Among other pedigrees are those of John Kynaston and the Dingwalls of Brucklay. The Dingwalls were a clan in Ross-shire which was dispersed after some sanguinary conflicts with the Mackenzies and the murder of their chief. Some settled in Aberdeenshire, some in Fife. Modern times, modern manners. The Dingwalls now known to us are peaceable doctors and pastors. We have accounts of the Fordyces of Gask, the Lindsays of Cushnie, the Irvines of Brucklay, and the Herries of St. Julians, Kent. Charles Herries was a London merchant who in 1779, during the war with the American colonies and France, with the assistance of some friends, raised a regiment of London merchants called the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, which, after being disbanded in 1783 during better times, was reconstituted in 1794 for gentlemen in general, as well as for merchants. Herries, who is said to have been one of the best swordsmen and horsemen of his time, became its commanding officer, and gave to this regiment the care and time required by his own business in those anxious days. In consequence, he found himself in 1798 a ruined man. His regiment refused to accept his proffered resignation, and without consulting him purchased for him an annuity of 1,000l. He died at Hastings, 3 April, 1819, and the regiment gave him a military funeral in Westminster Abbey, and placed his bust by Chantrey in the south aisle of the nave. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JUNE. MR. GEORGE GREGORY of Bath, in his Catalogue 215-216, offers 29 vols. of the Gazette Nationale, ou le Moniteur Universel, 1789-1802, for 301. An Introduction Historique' gives “un abrégé des anciens états-généraux des assemblées des Notables, et des principaux évènements qui ont amené la Révolution." Sets of this periodical are scarce; the one in question bears the exlibris of Lord Auckland. Another interesting set, of which the price is 501., is the Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette,' in 13 vols., 1822-8, having 152 coloured stipple and copper-plates by S. Alken, J. R. and R. Cruikshank, and Landseer, as well as a great number of small woodcuts. An amusing illustration occurs in vol. xii.: the 'Charvolant or Patent Kite-Carriage,' an object which, as the article describing it remarks, has no parallel." Kip's Views in England and Scotland. Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne.. à Londres, chez David Morlier, Libraire, 1715-17, a good copy of a rare work, is also priced at 501. A complete D.N.B.,' best edition up to 1904, 68 vols. in all, is to be had for 247. ; and Constable's English Landscape Scenery, a set of 22 mezzotint engravings from Constable by David Lucas, for 201. We noticed also a first edition of Turner's A Booke of the Natures and Properties as well of the bathes in England as of other bathes in Germanye and Italye very necessarye for all sycke persones that cannot be healed without the helpe of Natural bathes,' imprinted at Collin by Arnold Birckman, 1568, 71. 78.; Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine,' London, 1676, 67.; The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B., from his Lordship's Manuscripts,' by the Rev. James Stanie. Clarke, and John McArthur, 4 vols., 30.; and a Gower's Confessio Amantis,' the third edition, printed by Berthelet in 1553, 171. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Adver. tisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers"-at the Office, Bream'3 B ́ildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. warded to other contributors should put on the top CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forleft-hand corner of their envelopes the number of the page of N. & Q' to which their letters refer, so that the contributor may be readily identified. H. R. S. COLDICOTT and T. F. DWIGHT.-Forwarded. LUCIS. "The flaming ramparts of the world" is a translation of "flammantia monia mundi" (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura,' i. 73). HIC ET UBIQUE writes to point out that the word "Jester " in line 6 of the verses quoted under William Tell,' ante, p. 469, should be Gesler. Containing an Account of the Flag, Reprinted June, 1908. With COLOURED ILLUSTRATION according to scale. JOHN C. FRANCIS and J. EDWARD FRANCIS, Notes and Queries Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. FRANCIS EDWARDS, Bookseller, 83a, HIGH STREET, MARYLEBONE, LONDON, W. Catalogues Just Issued:- Early English Literature, including Books from the famous HUTH COLLECTION, Books relating to AUSTRALASIA, including some important items on the ANTARCTIC. 35 pages. Published Weekly by JOHN C. FRANCIS and J. EDWARD FRANCIS, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.; and Printed by ELEVENTH SERIES-VOL. V. SUBJECT INDEX. [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, "A structure of hope," wall inscription, 1784, | Anthem, National, suggested origin of, 266, 355 Abacus, Roman, description of, 173, 271 Abbey of Aumône, Normandy, Cistercian, 1121, Abbots Langley, Herts, epitaphs in churchyard, Abercromby family, 489 Accentuation of Latin words, 33 Advertisement of coffee and chocolate, 1657, 406 Alphabet, biliteral, of Francis Bacon, 1623, 426 "America as a Scottish place-name, 38 Antigallican Society, c. 1780, its principles, 59 Araujo (Antonio d'), c. 1812, Portuguese, 149 Asgill (Sir C.), Bt., his biography, 229, 317 Atkins (Thomas), origin of soldier's nickname, 146 Atticus (Cosmas) and Nicolaus Mysticus, 408 America, foreign journals published in, 1910, 53, Aumône, Cistercian Abbey of, Normandy, 1121, 137; Yorkshiremen in, 1657-1794, 127 American political verses, 210 Americanisms and old forms of speech, 264, 398 Amersham rectors, 1660-1753, biographies of, 169 Amidei (Alexandro), Hebrew teacher, c. 1700, 70| Anne (Queen), the number of her children, 69, - 229, 375 Babbylubie "water-worn stone, 388 229, 336 Bite Again and Bite Bigger, dialect poem, 369 Bacon (Edmund), c. 1592, his Christian name, Dives and Pauper, 54 Dr. Syntax in Paris, 448, 490 Dr. Syntax studying the Antique, 448, 490 Twice a Traitor, 390, 496 William Tell, play for children, 469, 520 Bacon (Francis, Lord Verulam), register of his Badham (John), Westminster scholar, 1817, 429 Baghott (Thomas), Westminster scholar, 1813, 449 Ballard (John Toft), Westminster scholar, 1775, 429 Ballard (Martin Lobb), Westminster scholar, 1775, 429 Bampfylde (J. Codington), poet, 1754-96, 387 Barker (Edward), Cursitor Baron of the Ex- Barking, Knell Book of, its whereabouts, 269 Barnett (Jonathan), Westminster scholar, 1781, Barnett (S. Wells), Westminster scholar, 1779, Barnett (William), Westminster scholar, 1777, 288, Barrow (George), Westminster scholar, 1786, 288 Barrow (Richard), Westminster scholar, 1782, 288 "Bartholomew ware," meaning of, c. 1594, 130, Bartlett (John), Cambridge student, 1815, 309 Bateson (George), Westminster scholar, 1772, 288 Beale (Miss) and Miss Buss, rimes, 291, 392, 497 369 Beauclerk family, 389 Beaumont and Hamilton families, 247 Beaupuis, French patriot, his biography, 91, 157 Bed-making on Friday, superstition, 346 Bedford (Thomas), d. 1773, his death, 229 Belvoir, England, and Beauvoir, Normandy, 88 Bentley (J. Cumberland), Westminster scholar, Bequest to supply Bibles annually, 1694, 56, 151 509 Beresford (Marcus), Westminster scholar, 1777, 509 Berney (Robert), Westminster scholar, 1770, 509 Bevan (Richard), Westminster scholar, 1776, 449 Alexander the Great and Paradise, 48, 154 County bibliographies, 30, 178, 196, 278 Drummond (William), 92, 230 Hood (Robin), 29, 94, 296 Manorial literature, 208 Shakespeare, Italian translations of, 25 Bill of Rights Society, Revolution Society, &c., Billingsgate, monuments and inscriptions in "Birch's," 15, Cornhill, old carving at, 186 Blake (H.), tombstone inscription, 1780, 168, 273, Blakesley, Buchanan, and Walter families, 308 Böhme (Jacob), English translations of, 290, 411 Begging, licence for, and loss by fire, 248, 317, Bolivar (Simon), 1783–1830, and the Jews, 28 Belasyse family, 269, 436 Bell (Beaupré), d. 1745, place of burial, 99, 139 Bell (Nancy) and Lord Lovel, ballad, 330 Bell (William), Westminster scholar, 1815, 449 "Bell of arms," meaning of the term, 1768, 249, Bellay (Joachim du), 1524-60, sonnet by, 25 Bonaparte (Napoleon), his Imperial Guard, 93; Book-plate, c. 1610, its owner, 169 Books recently published:— Amateur Angler's (E. Marston's) Easy Chair Analecta Bollandiana, Tomus XXX. Fasc. IV., Barlee's (W.) A Concordance of all Written |