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QUERIES:-Emerson's English Traits,' 9-Hidden Names in Elizabethan Books-Bramble-Hutton, 10-Pirie- General Stonewall Jackson-French School of Fine Arts in London-William Phillips: Trace of MSS. Wanted- Elephant and Castle-Brown: Bellingues: Hopcroft Épater le bourgeois." 11-Grave of Emperor Honorius -Gissing's On Battersea Bridge"-" Beauty is but skin deep"-Urchfort-New England - Pagination - Chair c. 1786" Catholic"-Deal as a Place of Call-Sheriffs in Scotland, 12-General James Oglethorpe-John Thornton -Monkshood-Capt. G. W. Carleton-Henry Jenkins: Killed in a Duel-John Witty-Capt. C. J. Grant Duff Miss Gordon, Schoolmistress - Grain Seeds lent by Churches-Sonnets of this Century,' 13-Leper's Win- dows: Low Side Window-'In albis'-'Philochristus': 'Ecce Homo'-Thomas Pagard-John Ellis, D.D.-Theo-. logical MSS. Identification Wanted-Tunstall-Walvein Family, 14- Bocase" Tree- E. Owen of Swansea-Capt. Henry Bell-Edward Kent Strathearn Steward-Valua- "Anno Domini millesimo centesimo primo, Wills-Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth at Sand- charter of Roger de Gloucester, and as gate -Unfinished Eleventh-Century Law Case, 20- David, 'Episcopus Recreensis' Daggle Mop-John Domesday records that Westwood had been Wilson, Bookseller-Persistent Error-Green Holly, 21-given to St. Peter's by Durand for the soul Master Gunner-"Ney": Terminal to Surnames, &c., of his brother Roger, this entry in the list Fideles -Rime on Dr. Fell, 23-Alleyne or Allen-Pannag, 24-Finkle Street-John Wm. Fletcher-George Shep- herd-Title of Book Wanted-Authors Wanted, 25- Coorg State : Strange Tale of a Princess-Charles Lamb 22-Author of Anthem Wanted-Tom Jones'-'Adeste of donations appears suspicious; all the more so because a charter concocted by the monks yields a third story, Westwood being made a gift of Walter de Gloucester for the soul of his father (cp. 12 S. v. 261-2). 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The remarkable A comprehensive collection of Soldiers' Songs, Marching TOMMY'S TUNES First and Second Series, 28. 6d. net. These volumes are stocked by all booksellers, and are ideal A Series of Brilliant Literary Studies by GERALDINE HODGSON, D.Litt.. Vice-Principal of Ripon Training College. Author of The Life of the State,' The Teacher's Rabelais,' In the Way of the Saints.' Demy 8vo, cloth. CRITICISM AT A VENTURE The Contents include articles on-The Legacy of Tennyson THE ART OF WRITING VERSE By F. JENKINSON, with many copyrigh examples. Fcap. "A very handy little manual, sound and simple, and setting "A plain brief statement and exposition of the rules of A NOTES AND QUERIES quotations page will be added ERSKINE MACDONALD LTD., NOTES:-Herbert of Gloucester and Herbert theChamber- lain, 1-Shakespeariana, 2-Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 5-"Eryngo and " Eruca," 7-Napo- leonic and Other Relics in New Orleans-Pictorial MR. A. S. ELLIS wrote that on the death of Records of London '-Archdeacon Francis Wrangham -The Trinity House at Ratcliff, 8-"Stinting"--Sam QUERIES:-Emerson's English Traits,' 9-Hidden Names in Elizabethan Books-Bramble-Hutton, 10-Pirie- General Stonewall Jackson-French School of Fine Arts in London-William Phillips: Trace of MSS. Wanted- Elephant and Castle-Brown: Bellingues: Hopcroft Epater le bourgeois." 11-Grave of Emperor Honorius -Gissing's On Battersea Bridge "-" Beauty is but skin deep"-Urchfort-New England - Pagination - Chair c. 1786" Catholic"-Deal as a Place of Call-Sheriffs in Scotland, 12-General James Oglethorpe-John Thornton -Monkshood-Capt. G. W. Carleton-Henry Jenkins: Killed in a Duel-John Witty-Capt. C. J. Grant Duff- Miss Gordon, Schoolmistress Grain Seeds lent by Churches Sonnets of this Century,' 13-Leper's Win- dows: Low Side Window-'In albis-Philochristus': 'Ecce Homo'-Thomas Pagard-John Ellis, D.D.-Theo-. logical MSS. Identification Wanted-Tunstall-Walvein Family, 14-" Bocase" Tree- E. Owen of Swansea-Capt. Henry Bell-Edward Kent Strathearn Steward-Valua- gave lands in Westwood, in Erchenfield, co. Here- ford, to St. Peter's, Gloucester, for the soul of his Domesday,' p. 78. The authority given is: "Hist. et Cart. Mon. "Anno Domini millesimo centesimo primo, REPLIES:-The Moores of Egham, Surrey, 15-Mrs. Anne Wills-Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth at Sand- charter of Roger de Gloucester, and as gate - Unfinished Eleventh-Century Law Case, 20- David, 'Episcopus Recreensis' - Daggle Mop-John Domesday records that Westwood had been Wilson, Bookseller-Persistent Error-Green Holly, 21-given to St. Peter's by Durand for the soul Master Gunner-"Ney": Terminal to Surnames, &c., of his brother Roger, this entry in the list Fideles-Rime on Dr. Fell, 23-Alleyne or Allen-Pannag, 24-Finkle Street-John Wm. Fletcher-George Shep- herd-Title of Book Wanted-Authors Wanted, 25- Coorg State: Strange Tale of a Princess-Charles Lamb 22-Author of Anthem Wanted-Tom Jones'-'Adeste of donations appears suspicious; all the more so because a charter concocted by the monks yields a third story, Westwood being made a gift of Walter de Gloucester for the soul of his father (cp. 12 S. v. 261-2). If the whole entry is not an invention, it may probably confuse two separate acts by Roger de Gloucester, viz. : (1) a confirmation of his father's gift of Westwood, and (2) a gift of two rodknights, &c., for the soul of his brother Herbert, the date applying only to the latter. (If so, were these new grants at Westwood, or where ?) This suggestion may receive some support (quantum valeat) from a charter of Henry I. in the cartulary, which states that Roger's gift was made by the king's permission, but does not mention "Sciatis......et terram quam Rogerus de Glouces- tria dedit ecclesiae Sancti Petri de Gloucestria pro anima fratris sui Hereberti, scilicet duos radenithes, FROM ERSKINE MACDONALD'S NEW LIST The most ambitious work of a brilliant young poet who died SYMPHONIE SYMBOLIQUE By EDMUND JOHN, Author of 'The Wind in the Temple,' "A very notable piece of work, beautifully served with sym- "Pure symbolism, the symbolism which aspires to the SEVEN REPRESENTATIVE ANTHOLOGIES A TANKARD OF ALE A collection of English Drinking Songs, old and new THE MALORY VERSE BOOK A Treasury of Contemporary Poetry. Crown 8vo, cloth. A CLUSTER OF GRAPES The Representative Poems (selected by themselves) of CHINESE LYRICS Taken from The Book of Jade,' by JUDITH GAUTIER WELSH POETS A Selection of the best Poems of W.H. DAVIES, ALFRED SOLDIER POETS: SONGS OF THE FIGHTING MEN. The remarkable A comprehensive collection of Soldiers' Songs, Marching TOMMY'S TUNES First and Second Series, 2s. 6d. net. These volumes are stocked by all booksellers, and are ideal A Series of Brilliant Literary Studies by GERALDINE CRITICISM AT A VENTURE The Contents include articles on-The Legacy of Tennyson THE ART OF WRITING VERSE By E. JENKINSON, with many copyrigh examples. Fcap. "A very handy little manual, sound and simple, and setting "A plain brief statement and exposition of the rules of A NOTES AND QUERIES quotations page will be added ERSKINE MACDONALD LTD., |