graph. I would also mention that this magazine in some measure supplies a want which has lately been expressed in "N. & Q."-that of an index to current periodical literature, each number containing a list of the principal magazines and reviews, English as well as foreign. ONALED.

"SONGS OF SHEPHERDS," ETC. (4th S. ii. 203, 261.) -The song inquired for can surely be none other than that printed in the edition of Bishop Percy's folio manuscript, iii. 303. Mr. Hales, one of the editors, states in his introduction that the song had appeared in print in Westminster Drollery (Part II. 1672, p. 64), under the title of "The Hunting of the Gods," and that there were other copies in Wit and Drollery (1682), Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707), and and Dry Dryden's Miscellany

Poems. This, of course, puts aside all idea of the song being the production of either Porson or George Alexander Stevens. It may possibly have been used by the latter in some of his entertainments, and perhaps have undergone some alteration at his hands, as the Percy copy, although not altogether faultless in respect of its rhymes, cannot be called "a farrago" of bad ones; there is certainly nothing in it approaching the badness of the rhymes mentioned by the correspondent, whose reply appears on p. 261 of your present volume. W. H. HUSK.

THE FAIRFORD WINDOWS (4th S. ii. 265, 313, 330.) -The eminent archæologist Mr. J. G. Waller has recently visited Fairford Church, and states in The Builder (October 17) his reasons for thinking the fine specimens of glass there are not the work of Albrecht Dürer. He took with him a

number of the wood engravings known as the " small Passion," works executed in the purest manner of the master; but on comparing them with the windows, he could find scarcely any of the characteristics of Dürer in the latter. Dürer rarely used the nimbus in his compositions, and often disregards conventional treatment. "In the details of costume, the angular drapery, the faulty drawing of the nude, and the observance of ecclesiastical tradition, we recognise the early Flemish school, and had those works been assigned to any follower of the school of Van Eyck, the disproof would be exceedingly difficult." As regards the monogram, Mr. Waller examined it carefully, and pronounces it no A. T., but "simple modest unpretending letter A." He thinks it probable that it was a final letter, part of an inscription, the colour having gone beneath it. Swords being often inscribed, it may be the final letter of an appropriate legend, as "IRA" or "LUXURIA." Much more investigation will be needed before this interesting question is settled.

JOHN PIGGOT, JUN., F.S.A.

NAPOLEON AND SYDNEY SMITH (3rd S. iii. 230.) As regards the traps laid by Napoleon for Sir

Sydney, I think I recollect an English caricature (by Gilray, if I mistake not) representing the two British admirals, Nelson and Smith, with outstretched legs, allowing Bonaparte to pass underneath, and reaching Egypt unmolested.

P. A. L.

BREECHES BIBLE (4th S. ii. 322, 359.)-I have understood the form "ye" for "the" to be thus accounted for. For some time after the establishment of the English language the Anglo-Saxon letter representing "th" continued in usage; in appearance it resembled "y," and its use in latter days may have been possibly confined to the particle in question. This Anglo-Saxon letter was not included in the first moveable types for printing, and in MSS. had passed into the ye it greatly resembled. The printers copied the ye, and it has continued, as LORD LYTTELTON observes, up to the present time in occasional use.

THOMAS E. WINNINGTON.

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In the edition of 1576-7 the word "the," in the verse quoted, is printed in full; and, consequently, the peculiar abbreviation in the edition

of 1610 must have arisen from circumstances un

connected with the original translation.

S. H. H.

COMMONERS' SUPPORTERS (4th S. i. 73.) - To this list may be added the King family of Barra, Aberdeenshire, N.B., who formerly bore as supporters, "two wild men crowned and girt about the loins with leaves." The baronetical family of Corrard, county Fermanagh, descended from the above stock, are probably entitled to bear the same supporters, though they have never been assumed since the family's settlement in Ulster, during the reign of King Charles I. C. S. K.

"FATHER" MATHEW (4th S. i. 258.) - With reference to the supposed illegitimacy of this gentleman (which your correspondent GUALTEMORE reasserts), Sir B. Burke writes, in his Corrigenda to the Landed Gentry for 1858: "Father Mathew was not, we are informed, descended illegitimately, as stated, from the Mathew family." C. S. K.

HOGG (4th S. i. 124.) - A Scottish surname in Ireland. This surname is also to be found in the North of Ireland, where the family is now represented by Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart. C. S. K.

BURNS QUERIES (4th S. i. 553; ii. 283, 355.)I hardly like to publish Dr. Thomson's description of the state of Burns' mind at the near approach of death; but I may at least say that it is very, very different from the accounts given by the poet's biographers. The gentleman in whose MSS. I find it was a clergyman, for whose strict and undeviating truthfulness I can personally vouch. He states that having met Dr. Thomson when on a voyage to London by sea, and having long resided in the neighbourhood of many of the scenes

KATTERN'S DAY (4th S. ii. 201, 233, 333, 377.) Having already given my opinion that the above feast is in honour of St. Catherine (p. 233), I have but little to add on the subject. It is, however, by no means improbable that the feast began from the beneficent patronage of lace-makers by Queen Catherine of Arragon, related by A. А., and was fixed for St. Catherine's day in correspondence with that queen's name, and patron saint. Thus both theories would be very naturally combined in the festival. That St. Catherine was considered to have been a spinster, is illustrated in a wall painting in the church at Limpenhoe in Norfolk, where she is represented as seated at home spinning, when a messenger arrives on horseback, holding up a ring, to indicate proposals from the emperor to her to marry his son.

In answer to the inquiry of MR. SALA, I have to observe that "coiffer Sainte Catherine" means to keep her festival, to honour and show devotion to the saint. Accordingly a bisque soup is to be prepared for the feast. F. C. H.

"Coiffer Sainte Cathérine" is a familiar French phrase expressing the fact of a woman becoming an old maid, even as "Quedar para vestir imagenes" is used in Spanish to denote the same thing. Saint Agnes may be in some sort the protectress of single women; but St. Katharine (whose mystical espousals have formed the model of those conventual vows by which the dedicated virgin is "wedded to our Lord") has, in France at least, been ever regarded as the especial patroness of the sisterhood devoted by our fathers to the task of "leading apes in hell." The speech of the child, therefore, who says of her mother"qu'elle va coiffer Sainte Catherine," is of course a blunder of the Malaprop genus, invented for the drollery with which it contradicts itself.

NOELL RADECLIFFE.

LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD AT LUDLOW (4th S. ii. 341.)-The last time I was at Ludlow was in July, 1865. The iron arrow was then on the gable of "The Fletcher's chancel," and I have no doubt is there still. W. J. BERNHARD SMITH.

A YEAR AND A DAY (4th S. ii. 322, 379.)

"If a marriage shall subsist for a year and part only of the day next ensuing the year, all deeds granted in contemplation of the marriage subsist (Febr 25, 1680, Waddel), which arises not so much from the favour of marriage, the only reason assigned in that decision, as from the legal meaning of the expression year and day;

for where any right is to be completed or act to be performed within a year, of which many instances are to be met with in our land, a day is generally adjected to the year (1661, ch. lxii.; 1694, ch. xxiv.) in majorem evidentiam, that it may appear with the greater certainty that the year itself is completed; and, therefore, the running of any part of the day next after the year hath the same effect as if the whole day had elapsed. - Erskine's Institute of the Law of Scotland, Book 1. title vi. § 42.

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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, including all his occasional Works, namely, Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices, and all authentic Writings not already printed among his Philosophical, Literary, or Professional Works. Newly collected and set forth in Chronological Order, with a Commentary Biographical and Historical. By James Spedding. Vols. III. and IV. (Longmans.)

The present publishing season is heralded in by two works of great historical importance, both relating to the period of Elizabeth and James I. We last week noticed one of them, which dealt with the daring adventures and the miserable fate of Raleigh: we have now to direct attention to the other, which has for its subject many imperishable thoughts of Bacon, and some years of the brilliant but struggling portion of his career.

Throughout the range of English literature we scarcely know a work which, in the circumstances of its composition, is of greater interest than this. The editor, a man of high and varied attainment, has for many years past devoted his life to the elucidation of the works and acts of Bacon. He prosecutes his task with a perseverance that knows no pause; with an amount of knowledge of his subject, and of all the minutest incidents connected with it, which is quite unparalleled; and with a devoted patient zeal, which omits no labour that is requisite for untying the many knots which come continually across his path. Fortunately for us, Mr. Spedding's is no barren task. Some of the results are before us in these the third and fourth volumes of a work which is at once a model and an authority. Every step of Bacon's progress, every event in his career, every word that he is known to have spoken, every sentence he ever wrote that has come down to us, is here brought to the light and scrutinised. His whole life is thus, as it were, played over again before the readers of this work, and they are left to draw their own conclusions as to the results.

The present volumes carry on Mr. Spedding's labours from 1601 to 1613. It was a period of great importance. We cannot follow out the narrative which is here presented to us. It will be sufficient to remind our readers that it comprises the death of Elizabeth; the accession of James I.; the publication of Bacon's Advancement of Learning, his Instauratio Magna, his book on the Wisdom of the Ancients, and many others; his marriage; his appointment, first as Solicitor- and afterwards as AttorneyGeneral; the death of Prince Henry; the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth, and of Somerset and the Countess of Essex; and, most important of all in reference to Bacon, the death of the Earl of Salisbury. Through these and many collateral occurrences Bacon's course is minutely traced in the way which we have described.

Prefixed to the third volume is an engraving of a portrait of Bacon, from a miniature in the great collection of the Duke of Buccleugh, which was brought to notice by the Portrait Exhibition of 1865, and seems to have claims to be considered the most real likeness of the

great philosopher now known to be in existence. It is similar in general outline to the well-known portrait by Van Somer at Gorhambury. The question is, which is the original? Upon that point Sir Charles Eastlake remarked to Mr. Spedding, that "in those times it was the common practice, when a portrait was wanted, to have in the first instance a careful drawing done in miniature, from which various copies would afterwards be made in any size and style that might be wished; and, therefore," he added, " when you meet with two portraits of that period, a miniature and a life-size painting-of which there is reason to believe that one has been copied from the other-the presumption always is, that the miniature was the one taken from the life." The observation is valuable, especially in reference to the importance of preserving miniatures; and in this particular case the miniature is certainly singularly characteristic, and in many respects dissimilar in expression to any other likeness.

The Plays of Philip Massinger, from the Text of William Gifford, with the addition of the Tragedy of "Believe as

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so low priced a treasure would be welcome; but Massinger, beautifully printed, carefully edited, and with an able introductory notice by Colonel Cunningham, to be published for five shillings, seems to us a marvel of cheapness even in these days of cheap publications. Colonel Cunningham has obviously taken great pains with his share of the work, which deserves the patronage of all admirers of the Elizabethan Drama.

He knew he was right, by Anthony Trollope. Parts I. and II. (Vertue.)

We thought on reading Part I. of this new serial that it promised to be equal to any of Mr. Trollope's admirable pictures of everyday life, and now that we have read Part II. "we know we are right."

MR. MURRAY's announcements of books for the coming season, including the final volume of Lord Campbell's "Lives of the Chancellors," containing the Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham:-Dean Milman's "Annals of St. Paul's Cathedral"; Earl Stanhope's "Reign of Queen Anne"; Mr. Rassam's "Narrative of the British Expedition to Abyssinia"; Col. Yule's new version of "The Travels of Marco Polo"; Dr. Percy's "Metallurgy of Lead, Silver, and Gold"; Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of Christian Antiquities," &c.; Mr. Somerville, "On Molecular and Microscopic Science"; a new edition of Marryat's "History of Pottery," and a companion volume by Mr. Drake "On Venetian Ceramics"; Sir Francis Head, "Royal Engineers"; a new series of "Contributions to the Literature of Art," by Sir C. Eastlake, &c.

MESSRS. LONGMAN announce, in addition to the 3rd and 4th vols. of Mr. Spedding's "Life of Bacon" (noticed above), "Realities of Irish Life: being the Experiences of W. Steuart Trench, Land Agent in Ireland to the Marquess of Lansdowne, the Marquess of Bath, and Lord Digby"; "The Polar World; a Popular Account of Nature and of Man in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions," by Dr. George Hartwig; "Waterloo Lectures: a Study of the Campaign of 1815," by Col. Charles C. Chesney; "Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition of 1835-7," by General Chesney; "Reminiscences of Felix MendelssohnBartholdy," by Elise Polko; translated from the German by Lady Wallace; "The Life of Franz Schubert, translated from the German of Kreissle von Hellborn," by A. D. Coleridge; "Lives of the Tudor Princesses," by

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ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. - The Session of 1868-9 commences on Friday next, Nov. 6: when, among other papers to be read, will be one on "Albert Dürer and the Fairford Windows," by Rev. J. Fuller Russell.

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Under-Secretary Fraser's Autobiography.
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Hannibal's Passage, &c.

H. T. should apply to Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King-of-Arms, Dublin.

A SUBSCRIBER is referred to pp. 36, 69, and 159 of the present volume for information respecting the portrait of Sir Thomas Lee.

FULLER'S WORTHIES' LIBRARY. W. H. will no doubt receive full information on applying to Rev. A. B. Grosart, 15, St. Alban's Place, Blackburn, Lancashire.

W. J. W. There is no charge at present.

T. B. R. who asks the meaning of unkid is referred to our 1st S. viii. 221, 353, 604.

W. IRELAND will find nine articles on The Crescent in our 1st S. vii. viii. x. and xi.

INQUIRER. The first recorded sale of books by auction is that of the library of Dr. Lazarus Seaman, who was ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662 from Allhallows. Bread Street, and died in September, 1675. The sale yielded 700l. See" N. & Q." 2nd S. xi. 463.

J. A. G. (Carisbrooke.) The Rev. William Scott, the Imitator of Martial's Epigrams, has already been gibbeted in "N. & Q." 3rd S. xii. 124, 216.

W. J. WESTBROOK, The Maiden name of Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Hemans was Browne. Vide" N. & Q." 3rd S. iv. 323, 421, 482.

V***. For some account of Richard Heber, the famous bibliophile, see the Gentleman's Magazine for Jan. 1834, p. 105, and April, 1836, p. 412; and of Dr. Samuel Parr, the Memoirs of him by the Rev. Wm. Field. Lond. 1828, 8v3, 2 vols. with portrait.

M. E. B. is referred to some second-hand bookseller. ERRATA. 4th S. ii. p. 200, col. ii. line 12 from bottom, for "Gwnt" read" Gwent"; p. 363, col. i. line 25 from bottom, for "slich" read "sleih"; p. 369, col. i. line 2 from bottom, for "Fasburga" read "Tasbvrga"; col. ii. line 23 from bottom, for" 24" read "28."

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