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EDWARD FRANCIS, Athenæum Press, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.-Saturday, December 25, 1914. ELEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. X. SUBJECT INDEX [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, 64 Alphabetical nonsense, alliterative, 468 American War of Independence, Hessian con- Amersham, churchyard inscriptions, 216 Amphitheatre in London, proposals for building, Ampthill, painting of St. Christopher at, 158 66 Anent," derivation of the word, 47 Angell and Browne families, 427 Apuleius and Vitalis, W. Browne and, 384 Argonne, forest of, owners of the soil, 250 Army, British, stature of the officers, 210, 237 Arrow," the broad arrow the King's mark, Arrowsmith (T.), Devonshire artist, c. 1820, Artemisia, character in a play, 108 Aschenald, meaning of the surname, 49, 233, 317 Asquith (Mr. H. H.) and the City of London Attila, Cromwell "the English Attila," 349 308 Austro-Hungarian, nine languages of the monarchy, "Annandale Beef-stand," mentioned by Scott, Avignon, reproductions of frescoes at, 250 69, 117 Annunciation, Church of the, on the site of Anonymous Works:- Civil Polity....the Nature of Government, Hair-Splitting as a Fine Art, 1882, 488 Madame de Sévigné and her Contem- Maria to Henrie, and Henrie to Maria, Slang Dictionary, published c. 1859, 488 Transport Voyage to Mauritius, 1851, 310 B Bacon (John), 1738-1816, Receiver of the First Bagehot (Walter), pronunciation of his name, 289, Baker (William), Winchester scholar, 1520, 34 Balnes, identification of place-name, 37, 77, 137 Bankers of Lombard Street, c. 1690-93, 17 "Barking Dogs," tavern sign, Moorfields, 506 Bateman (John) of Waterford, knighted 1809, Bayonet, German use of the, 289 Beaumont, Bowman, or Boman family, 229 Belch (W.), printer, Borough, S.E., 350 Belgians described as 'brave" by Julius Cæsar, "Bell and Horns," Brompton tavern sign, 109 Bells of Cullompton, story connected with, 290 Bermuda, colonists in, in 1620, 247 Bernard (Sir T.), Bart., author, c. 1816, 388, 436 Bookselling and publishing, 225 Browne (Sir Thomas) and his books, 321, ་ Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' Dr. 'Chickseed without Chickweed,' 366, 418 Chronicle of the Kings of England,' 25 'Diary of Lady Willoughby,' 1844, 241, 297, Dickens's Pickwick Papers,' first edition, 153 Johnston (Arthur), 346 Loseley MSS. printed at Louvain, 230, 295, Louvain, Irish MSS., 207 Machiavelli, Testina editions, 128 "Nichol's Cities and Towns of Scotland,' 229 Periodicals published by religious houses, 250, Scott (W. Bell), 28, 93 Southey (Robert), 489 Stow's Survey,' 1618 edition, 248 Birmingham, "the toyshop of Europe," 346 Black Mass of the Germans, 388 Blakeway (J. B.), M.A., 1765-1826, 229, 277 66 Bligh (Capt. W.), the voyage of the Providence, 66 Blizard or Blizzard as surname, 14, 58 Boehay (Sir James), his pedigree, 149 Bolton (--), four MSS. by, on heraldic subjects, 90 Boman, Bowman, or Beaumont family, 229 Bon Gaultier Ballads,' Kenny Meadows and, 93 Bonar, origin of the surname, 190, 237, 277, 333 Books recently published:- Almack's (E.) Fine Old Bindings, 238 Analecta Bollandiana, Tomus XXXIII. Fasc. Ballard's (A.) The English Borough in the Bayeux Tapestry, Introduction by H. Belloc, Beauchamp (Richard), Earl of Warwick, 1389– Bible Dictionary, The Universal, 239 British History, Picture Book of, Vol. I., 459 Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Proceedings Cambridge History of English Literature: Denny's (Rev. H. L. L.) Memorials of an Ditchfield's (P. H.) London Survivals, 38 Drake, New Light on, trans. by Z. Nuttall, Dwelly's Parish Records, 3 vols., 139 Figgis's (J. N.) The Fellowship of the Mystery, Fleetwood Family Records, Part II., 279 Books recently published:- London, its Gomme's (Sir L.) London, 38 Hodson's (L. J.) A Short History of the London-Survey of London : Vol. V. St. Morris's (J. E.) Bannockburn, 39 500 New English Dictionary on Historical Nobility, Titled, of Europe, compiled and Pettman's (C.) Notes on South African Putnam's (G. H.) Memories of my Youth, 99 Seebohm's (F.) Customary Acres and their Shaftesbury's Second Characters,' edited by Sommer's (H. O.) The Structure of Le Livre Stanhope's (G.) and G. P. Gooch's The Life Stratton's (M.) Bruges : a Record and an Sussex Verse, edited by C. F. Cook, 478 Tout's (T. F.) Reign of Edward II., 78 Waley's (A. S.) The Remaking of China, 160 Bookselling and publishing, bibliography of, 225 Bowman, Boman, or Beaumont family, 229 British regimental history, bibliography of, 276 Browne (Sir Thomas), 1605-82, and his books, 321, Browne (William), Vitalis, and Apuleius, 384 'Bull and Poker,' story alluded to, 1757, 108 Burnap alias Burnett, surname and place-name, 52 Burton (Edward) of Llandewy Hall, 1772, 229 Burton (T.), Archdeacon of St. Davids, 1752, 229 C "C2K," American slang word, 329 Calais, Dover seen from, temp. James I., 86 Calvert (Richard), Etonian, 1754, 38 "Cannuk," word used 1596, 288 Carr (W.), Mayor of Liverpool, 1741, 131, 176 "Case is Altered," origin of tavern sign, 146 |