He leaves, bitterly reviling himself for his Against her will, her most unmannerly grooms, failure: ...all hell's furies light on the proverb That says "Faint heart." The Widow's Tears.-Tharsalio endeavours to conceal his ill-success from Lysander, but finds that he has already got wind of it. What, blanketed?" exclaims Lysander. "O the Gods! spurn'd out by grooms like a base Bisogno ? thrust out by th' head and shoulders? Both he and Cynthia his wife bait Tharsalio unmercifully, Cynthia sarcastically congratulating him upon the easy conquest he has made. "The whelp and all! exclaims the mortified Tharsalio, as Hylus, too, adds a gibe at his expense. He next goes to the pandress Arsace for assistance in his designs. She and her servant Tomasin have also heard the news, and they likewise jeer at him. Arsace asks the servant in his presence whether they had not already heard of the success of his suit :-- Arsace. Did not one of the Countess's servingmen tell us that this Gentleman was sped? Tom. That he did, and how her honour grac't and entertained him in a very familiar manner. Arsace. And brought him downstairs herself. Tom. Ay, forsooth, and commanded her men to bear him out of doors. Arsace. Nay more, that he had already possessed her sheets. Tom. No indeed, Mistress, 'twas her blankets. Tharsalio angrily kicks Tomasin out of the room. The Parliament of Love.-On Clarindore's return from his interview with Bellisant, his friends Novall and Perigot, hearing of his reception, resolve to make merry at his expense. On his entrance, melancholy and taciturn, Perigot mockingly suggests that his silence must be due to pride at his success, and Novall greets him with :— We gratulate Upon which Clarindore exclaims, aside :- For so 'tis rumour'd, took him by the shoulders Clarindore, in a transport of rage, pulls the nose of one, kicks the other, and makes his exit. The Widow's Tears.-Tharsalio gives Arsace a jewel to present to the Countess, and Arsace, thus provided, gains admittance to her, and, as a means of arousing her interest in Tharsalio, tells her that he is a dangerous profligate and of his reputation amongst courtesans. By bribing the ushers, who have been "charg'd to bar his entrance," Tharsalio again manages to obtain an interview with the Countess. This time her anger at his boldness gradually gives place to admiration. She yields to his suit, and consents to marry him." The Parliament of Love.-Clarindore's first interview with Bellisant is contrived by giving Beaupré a purse as an inducement to admit him. He instructs her always to praise him to her mistress, and to tell her how many women are mad for his love and of his notorious reputation for profligacy. In spite of his first repulse, he seeks and obtains a further interview with Bellisant. On this occasion his passionate protestations of his affection, and of his deep repentance for his previous outrageous behaviour, coupled with a threat to kill himself if she him, or rather to pretend to surrender, for refuses, induce her to surrender herself to Massinger here introduces a fresh development of his plot in the shape of a repetition of the ruse by means of which Shakespeare's Helena reclaims her husband in 'All's Well that Ends Well.' H. DUGDALE SYKES. Enfield. SIR JOHN GILBERT, J. F. SMITH, AND "THE LONDON JOURNAL.' (See 11 S. vii. 221, 276, 375; viii. 121, 142. I THOUGHT I had finished with Smith, but quite lately I have been lent a little volume of the greatest interest to those who can Amongst other sarcastic pleasantries Novall recollect the times-literary, artistic, and observes: I have heard that Bellisant was so taken with Bohemian-it concerns itself with, namely, about fifty year after 1837. In this I find Your manly courage, that she straight prepared the following: to describe dramatic situations was likely to carry him away from dry historical fact into the realms of fancy; and-a matter of more importance from a printer's point of view--his delivery of copy was uncertain. After a brief period, therefore, the work was placed in more competent hands, William Howitt having undertaken at a short notice to continue it." The title of the book in which I found this is The author tells me that he knew Smith, and that he dyed his hair black. It certainly looks very black in his portrait. (See viii. 143, col. 2.) That he was somewhat deaf may account for his apparent want of sociability (see vii. 223); and that he was never overburdened with cash seems to give the keynote of his object in emigrating to the United States. 66 has "The Prelate. By the Rev. C. S. "It is impossible to speak of this fiction without adverting to the unworthy trick by which, in advertising it, an attempt was made to foist it on the public as a tale by the author of Peter Plymley's Letters.' 'The Prelate' needed no such quackery.” What I consider a further confirmation is that I find that most of the characters in The Prelate' have names the same as those used by Smith in The London Journal. This makes two novels identified, so that if another is found, Vizetelly's remark (11 S. vii. 221) may be justifiable. I have now come to the conclusion that the less we know of Smith's private life the better. I wish to ask your readers to erase the name of Stiff (viii. 122, par. 3), and substitute the name of the second proprietor of The London Journal-W. S. Johnson. RALPH THOMAS. (To be continued.) BRITISH ISLES. Having been through The London Journal again, I observed two facts which had previously escaped me. I notice that to 'Stanfield Hall (11 May, 1850) Smith puts author of The Jesuit,' 'Robin Goodfellow,' &c.," and to the first chapter of The Will and the Way,' author of "The Jesuit,' 'The Prelate,' &c." I have not been able to find any novel with the title 'Robin Goodfellow.' It may have been a play, but I find none with that title during STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE Smith's time in any of the lists, nor has your able contributor and all-round expert on the subject of actors and the stage, MR. WILLIAM DOUGLAS, any note of a play with that name in the years in question.* With the anonymous novel simply entitled 'The Prelate' I have been more fortunate, as I think I have clearly identified it. In the Index to The London Catalogue 1816-51,' at p. 126, I find The Prelate, a Tale of the Church.' On referring to the Catalogue' itself, I find "The Prelate, a Tale of the Church. By the Rev. S. Smith. 2 vols. 1. 18. Boone," publisher. The London Catalogue' gives no dates. (See 10 S. xi. 441; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401; RELIGIOUS LEADERS: PREACHERS, THEO- WILLIAM CAREY. Kettering, Northants.-On 22 July, 1909, a bronze plate, fixed to a stone setting, was unveiled in front of the house in w ich the Baptist Missionary Society was inaugurated in 1792. The house is now owned by Mr. J. T. Stockburn J.P., who readily gave his consent. The plate was designed by Mr. R. J. Williams of Kettering, and was unveiled by the Rev. J. B. Myers, Home Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society. It bears the following inscription: In this house on October 2nd, 1792, a meeting was held to form a society for propagating the Gospel among the heathen, and 131. 2s. 6d. was contributed for that purpose. Andrew Fuller was elected Secretary, and Reynold Hogg, Treasurer. William Carey, to whose sermon at Nottingham, in May of the same year, the movement was due, embarked for India on June 13th, 1793. This meeting marks the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society, and the inauguration of modern Foreign Missions. On the lower part of the stonework is carved Carey's famous motto: "Expect great things from God: attempt great things for God." In the Carey Memorial Church, opened in October, 1912, is a stained-glass window containing a medallion portrait of Carey and the following inscription : William Carey, D.D. 1834. who was born at Paulerspury, Aug. 17th, 1761, The remains of his father Edmund Carey The headstone on Edmund Carey's grave inscription recut. Born Paulerspury 1761. Died Serampore, Bengal, was renovated at the same time and the The whole work was executed at the cost of Mr. E. S. Robinson of Bristol. Founder of Modern Missions. A Northamptonshire Shoemaker, Baptist Pastor, First Missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society, Professor of Oriental Languages, Government Translator, and Author of many Versions of the Scriptures in Indian languages. Moulton, Northants.-On the wall of the Baptist Chapel, at the back of the pulpit, is a marble tablet inscribed as follows :— This Tablet is erected to the memory of the honoured founder of became the Evangelist of India, in the College of Fort William, He died at Serampore, June 9th, 1834, the Rev. William Carey, D.D., as Pastor of this Church A.D. MDCCLXXXIX. and left his native country as a Missionary to India A.D. MDCCXCIII. where he rose to the highest eminence as an Oriental Scholar. Hackleton, Northants. - The Baptist Chapel was rebuilt in 1887 as a memorial to Dr. Carey. A tablet on the front of the building is thus inscribed : This Chapel was built to the glory of God in memory of Dr. Carey, the Father of Modern Missions to the heathen, and one of the Founders and the first Missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society. He toiled as a shoemaker, was converted to God, and preached his first sermon in this Village. A Baptist Church existed at Hackleton so far back as 1781, and its 133rd anniversary was celebrated in May last. Calcutta, India.-In 1842, eight years after the death of Carey, the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India decided by resolution to place a marble bust to his memory in the Society's new apartments at the Metcalfe Hall, there to remain a lasting testimony to the pure and disinterested zeal and labours of so illustrious a character." The bust was duly sculptured by Lough, and shows forth to this day "the veneration in which the name of the illustrious founder of the Society is held." Serampore, India.-Dr. Carey's remains were interred in the Baptist Mission burialground. His grave is marked by a plain slab of stone, bearing merely his name and Devoted to the ministry of the Gospel among the the dates of his birth and death. At the heathen CANON HAIG BROWN. Godalming. In front of the chapel of the Charterhouse School is placed a statue of Canon Haig Brown. It was set up by the subscriptions of past and present Carthusians during the Canon's lifetime. The beloved head master is represented seated c'ad in his academic gown, and holding in his right hand a small model of the school chapel. The pedestal contains the following inscription: William Haig Brown Head master 1864-1897. Sapientia ædificabitur Domus et prudentia roborabitur. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. (To be continued.) HUGH PETERS: POST-RESTORATION SATIRES AND PORTRAITS. The rest consist of mere gossip, but I do not think there is one in the book that can be traced to any ancient jest-book. In later editions of this book (Mr. Peters, his Figaryes,' &c.) Scoggin's Jests' and other outside sources were freely drawn upon in order to increase the number of tales, with the result that the book became even more worthless. "S. D." was the Simon Dover of Speeches and Prayers' fame, and it is tolerably clear that the book was published by him in order to divert attention from himself as the printer of that fraud. In like manner George Horton, the pub lisher of the various Anabaptist "Scouts" which attacked Cromwell, issued on 2 Sept., 1660, The Speech and Confession of Hugh Peters,' &c., and many similar tracts of the same class. This contained the first biography of Peters, and was merely abusive fiction from end to end. There are at South Kensington two (See 11 S. vi. 221, 263, 301, 463; vii. 4, 33, portraits of Peters which I believe to be 45, 84, 123, 163; viii. 430, 461.) THE post-Restoration satires about Peters have been the subject of much hostile comment, a great deal of which is justified; but the hitherto received inference, that they were uniformly the work of Peters's enemies, is erroneous. With the exception of satirical ballads, they were all the work of Peters's quondam supporters, and were published partly in order to prove a loyalty that was more than doubtful; and, in one case at least, to divert the attention of those sent to search for the fraudulent Speeches and Prayers' and other seditious tracts which the same publishers were secretly dispersing to another class of customer. 6 The most important of these satirical books is the Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters,' a copy of the first edition of which is in the Dyce and Forster Library at South Kensington Museum. The title-page of this edition runs : "The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters. Collected into one volume. Published by one that hath formerly been conversant with the author in his life time, and dedicated to Mr. John Goodwin and Phillip Nye. Together with his sentence and the manner of his execution. London. Printed for S. D., and are to be sold by most of the booksellers in London. 1660." The dedication is also initialled "S. D." The book contains 59 tales, and consists of 32 pp. Many of the tales have been taken haphazard from Royalist Mercuries and satires, and all are most inaccurately told. unique. The first is prefixed to-but no part of the Dyce and Forster copy of the Speeches and Prayers,' and is a halflength engraving of Peters, clad on one side in full armour, in reference to his share in the Irish massacres, and on the other in a gown, as a preacher. He carries a standard with L. L. L." on it (Lords, Lawyers, and Levites-the three classes he would have had destroyed). The following inscription is underneath :-- Magister Hugo Peters, Clericus, Olivero Cromwellio a consiliis tam Ecclesiasticis quam civilibus intimis, religionis et Ecclesiæ Anglicane persecutor, Caroli I. Regis Proditor, Anabaptarum, eorumdemq. dogmatum patronus. Vir tistarum, Quackerorum, Independentium, ChiliasInsignis Malitiæ et Atheus." The probable date is 1660. It may be Dutch. There is another engraving in the same volume depicting Peters presenting some Dutch petitioners to Thurloe. 66 The same volume also contains (among all other and better-known satirical portraits) a small half-length engraving of Peters, with the printer's name Peter Cole " at the Et. 57. This, foot, and the legend therefore, seems to have been published in 1656, and may have been prefixed to the "recantation" Peters was said to be about to publish with regard to the scandalous events of that year. It is the original of the engraving of Peters prefixed to the 'Dying Father's Legacy' in 1660, on which the legend runs : "Etatis suæ 61." believe this copy (which is accompanied I by the later prints) has not before been noticed. The Cambridge portrait of Peters was reproduced recently by Dr. John Willcock in his Sir Henry Vane the Younger.' J. B. WILLIAMS. 66 PRINTERS' PHRASES: SET," "DISTRIBUTE," "CORRECT."-The 'N.E.D.' gives 1683 as the earliest instance of the word distribute with reference to distribution of type. See Cyril Tourneur's Funerall Poeme' on Sir Fra. Vere, 1609, c. iv. :— That, when the thunder of a hotte Alarme Drewnick and John Peter Hanson some time ago is carried out. So far no intimation has been either case. received here of a commutation of sentence in "Drewnick, who is 20 years of age, also was sentenced to die for the murder of a compatriot on the railway at Peterson last winter. A pathetic incident connected with his incarceration occurred when the condemned man's sister, who resides in another part of the province, came to see him at the jail here and requested that he be given his freedom, as she had found him a wife. It seems that it is the custom in their native Galicia that if a man under sentence of death can obtain a wife he can also obtain his freedom. Drewnick's sister apparently complied with the letter of the law as it obtains in her own home land, and brought the news here that she had been successful in securing a woman who had consented to become the wife of her brother. Naturally, she was shocked upon arrival to learn that the custom of her native country did not extend to the Dominion. "No petition has yet been circulated for Drewnick's reprieve, although an application for clemency has been forwarded to the minister of I have ventured to amend the faulty punc-justice, according to C. E. Gregory, K.C., who tuation; otherwise, the copy follows the original. RICHARD H. THORNTON. REFERENCE TO CHEVY CHASE.'-The following late testimony to the popularity of the ballad of 'Chevy Chase' has, perhaps, not yet been noticed. In "A Scourge for Paper-Persecutors, or Papers Complaint, compil'd in ruthfull Rimes, Against the Paper-spoylers of these Times. by I[ohn]. Davies]. With A Continued Inquisition against PaperPersecutors, By A. H. Printed at London for H. H. and G. G. and are to be sold at the Flower Deluce in Popes-head Alley, 1624," quarto (Bodl. Malone 296), Occur these lines at verse 67 of the Con As in North-Villages, where every line Of Plumpton Parke is held a worke divine. If o're the Chymney they some Ballads have Of Chevy-Chase, or of some branded slave Hang'd at Tyborne, they their Mattins make it, And Vespers too, and for the Bible take it. The 'Continued Inquisition' is ascribed by Wood ('Fasti,' ed. Bliss, i. 245) to Abraham Hartwell. H. SELLERS. defended the condemned man at his trial at Humboldt. So far no reply has been received in the city." PERCY A. MCELWAINE. Edmonton, Alberta. "HUCKLEBERRY."-The 'N.E.D.' ascribes this word to the United States. It seems, nevertheless, to be of English origin, as shown by the following passage from Chamberlayne's Present State of Great Britain' : "Here is great Plenty of excellent Fruit. Fields, Woods, and Hedges are stored with Apples, Pears......Blackberries, Huccleberries, Dewberries, Elderberries, Services, and the like." My copy is the 22nd ed., 1708, but doubtless the passage is in earlier editions. The fruit intended is that of Vaccinium myrtillus, the bilberry or whortleberry. If, as is conjectured, "huckleberry is a corruption of "whortleberry," it seems that we cannot ascribe the corruption to America. Westminster. J. S. THE MONTHLY CATALOGUE, 1714-17.Prof. Arber in his reprint of the Term Catation to their importance as an index to the logues from 1668 to 1711 has called attenlife and thought of the period. This imCatalogue which Bernard Lintott began to portance is fully shared by the Monthly publish in May, 1714. The only copies known to Messrs. Growoll and Eames when they published their English Book-Trade Bibliography' in 1903 were the first eight parts represented in the British Museum. The periodical, however, continued to appear for at least three years The London Library possesses the more. 'Three Centuries of |