Homer und sein Zeitalter. Eine Untersuchung über Uebersetzung. Breslau, 1878.-8vo. B.M. 8715 à die Zeit und das Vaterland Homer's......Autorisirte...... 27 (9). deutsche Ausgabe von......D. Bendan. Jena, 1877.-8vo. B.M. 11335 bb. 8. See 1876. *The Iris of Homer: and her relation to Genesis ix. 11-17.-Contemporary, April, 1878, pp. 140-52. *Liberty in the East and West.-Nineteenth Century, June, 1878, pp. 1154-74. A modern "symposium." Is the popular judgment in politics more just than that of the higher orders?Nineteenth Century, July, 1878. Mr. Gladstone's contribution is on pp. 184-9. It is reprinted in Gleanings,' 1879, i. 193-202, and in 'Questions Constitutionnelles,' 1880. *England's mission.-Nineteenth Century, September, 1878, pp. 560-84. *Kin beyond sea.-North American Review, September, 1878, pp. 179-212. Reprinted in Gleanings, 1879, i. 203-48, and in 'Questions Constitutionnelles,' 1880. See also Prose Masterpieces,' 1886. *The sixteenth century arraigned before the nineteenth. A study on the Reformation.-Contemporary, October, 1878, pp. 425-57. Reprinted in Gleanings,' 1879, iii. 217-73. *The slicing of Hector.-Nineteenth Century, October, 1878, pp. 752-64. *Electoral facts. -Nineteenth Century, November, 1878, pp. 955-68. A translation of the article in the Nineteent Century for October, 1877. 1879. ་ *The friends and foes of Russia.-Nineteenth Centur January, 1879, pp. 168-92. *On epithets of movement in Homer.-Nineteenth Cer tury, March, 1879, pp. 463-87. *Probability as the guide of conduct-Nineteenth Ce tury, May, 1879, pp. 908-34. Reprinted in 'Gleanings,' vii. 153-99, under th title The Law of Probable Evidence and i Relation to Conduct.' See 'Gleanings' below. *Greece and the Treaty of Berlin.-Nineteenth Centur June, 1879, pp. 1121-34. *The Evangelical Movement, its parentage, progres and issue.-British Quarterly Review, July, 1879, pp. 1-2 Reprinted in 'Gleanings,' 1879, vii. 201-41. *The country and the Government.-Nineteenth Ce tury, August, 1879, pp. 201-27. *The Olympian system versus the solar theory.-Nin teenth Century, October, 1879, pp. 746-68. The speech......at Wellington College......Nover ber 3rd, 1879. Wellington College, G. Bishop, 1879.8vo. pp. 18. B.M. 12301 c. 51 (8). Inaugural address to the students of the University Glasgow......1879. London, John Murray, 1879.-81 pp. 40. B.M. 12301 c. 51 (9). *Dean Hook, an address delivered at Hawarde London, Bentley & Son, 1879.-8vo. pp. 32. B. 4906 dd. 31 (18). *Gleanings of past years, 1843-78 [sic]. London, Jul Murray, 1879.-8vo. 7 vols. B. M. 2344 a. The dates on the general title-pages (facing t special volume title-page) vary somewhat. Vols. iii., iv., v., and vi. have the date 1843-78; vol. has a date differing only by one year, 1844-75 but vol. vii. has 1860-79 on its general title-pag and 1843-79 on its special title-p -page. It wou seem as if these dates should have been tran posed. The date 1879 (instead of 1878) for t series is correct, as vol. vii. contains two articl reprinted from magazines of 1879. One of the of this seems rather uncertain. The year 1845 is The Law of Probable Evidence,' and the da this foot-note: given under the heading on p. 153, and there "First published in, and reprint from, the Nineteenth Century for March, 1879 "March" is a misprint for May. The wording the note seems to imply that the article w written earlier. And in the table of conten p. vi, the date 1849 is placed after the headi This article, reprinted from the Nineteenth Cen-Thus there is contradiction whichever way we tu tury, May, 1877, occupies pp. 119-153 of vol. i. of "Current Discussion,' edited by E. L. Burlingame, published in New York, 1878, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. See September, 1887, December, 1889, and September, 1891. *Homer......London, Macmillan & Co., 1878.-12mo. pp. 153. B.M. 2322 a. One of J. R. Green's "Literature Primers." *Montenegro. A Sketch. The paths of honour and of shame. London, 1878.870. B. M. 8139 b. 1 (3). See Nineteenth Century for March. Moreover, the dates on the special title-page vol. i., "1875-8," do not seem to be quite corre as the first address reprinted was delivered April, 1862. Κοσμου Νεοτης, τουτεστιν οἱ θεοι και άνθρωποι της ἡρωικής εποχης. Συγγραμ ἐξελληνισθεν ὑπο Α.Μ. Ιδρωμενου. ἐν Κερκυρ 1879, &c.-8vo. B.M. 11315 de. 14. See 1869. *Political speeches in Scotland, November and Decem- Germer, Baillière et Cie......1880.-8vo. pp. li, 03, ber, 1879. Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1879.-8vo. and Table des matières. B.M. 8139 df. 7. pp. 103. B.M. 8139 bbb. 1 (11). P. 2 contains an Itinerary, giving Mr. Gladstone's movements from November 24 to December 6. The Preface, signed "J. J. R.," occupies p. 3; an Advertisement, signed "W. E. Gladstone," forms p. 4. These speeches were reissued in 1880, when J. J. R.'s Preface was p. 1, the titlepage not then being counted; the Itinerary, p. 2. A second Preface, signed "W. E. G.," occupies pp. 3-6; and the Advertisement, p. 7. The first speech begins on p. 9; the last ends on p. 106. B.M. 8139 aaa. 5. Political speeches in Scotland, November and December, 1879...... With an appendix, containing the Rectorial address in Glasgow, and other non-political speeches. Beprinted from the Scotsman reports. London, W. way, 1879.-8vo. pp. 255. B.M. 8138 f. 4. This volume contains translations of the speech at Manchester, April 23, 1862; of the article on the Prince Consort in the Contemporary, June, 1875; of those in the Church Quarterly Review for January, 1877, and January, 1878; of those in the Nineteenth Century, November, 1877, January, 1878, and July, 1878; and of that in the North American Review, September, 1878. 1881. The Irish Land Bill. Speech......April 7th, 1881. National Press Agency.-London, 1881. 8vo. pp. 39. B.M. 8146 c. 2 (3). The Irish Land Bill. (Second reading.) Speech...... May 16th, 1881. National Press Agency.-London, 1881. 8vo. pp. 30. B.M. 8146 c. 2 (4). Ridg-1881, on 1. Land and "Fair Trade."-2. Ireland.-3. *Free trade, railways, and the growth of commerce.-. Nineteenth Century, February, 1880, pp. 367-88. This article is omitted under Mr. Gladstone's name in the index to the volume, but appears under "Free Trade." *Russia and England.-Nineteenth Century, March, 1880, pp. 538-56. *Religion, Achaian and Semitic.-Nineteenth Century, April, 1880, pp. 710-25. *Political speeches in Scotland, November and December, 1879...... With an appendix, containing the Rectorial address in Glasgow, and other non-political speeches. Revised edition. Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1880.-8vo. Pp. 255. B.M. 8139 df. 9. This edition (the fly-title and title not being counted) contains on p. 1 J. J. R.'s Preface; on pp. 3-4, the Itinerary. Under the Contents, pp. 5-13, the heads of the speeches are given. The Advertisement forms p. 14; but the Preface signed "W. E. G." does not appear. Political speeches in Scotland, March and April, 1880. Second Series. Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1880.-8vo. pp. 91. B.M. 8139 aaa. 5. The title-page is not counted, p. 1 containing the Contents, and the fourth Midlothian speech beginning on p. 3. Political speeches in Scotland, March and April, 1880...... With an appendix, containing addresses to the Midlothian electors, and a letter to Count Karolyi. Bevised edition. Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot, 1880.-8vo. Pp. 366. B.M. 8139 df. 9. In this volume the fly-title and title form pp. 1-4; Dew Preface by J. J. R. is p. 5; the Itinerary, March 16 to May 8, forms pp. 7,8. The Contents, PP. 9-16, contain the heads of the speeches. The approaching general election. Speeches delivered in Midlothian, during......November, 1879. London, H. J. Infield, 1880.-8vo. B.M. 8139 aaa. 4. Questions constitutionnelles (1873-1878). Le trône et Prince-époux.-Le cabinet et la constitution. Par W.E. Gladstone...... Traduit de l'anglais et précédé d'une introduction par Albert Gigot......Paris, Librairie *Fixity of tenure.-Fair rent and free sale. These portions of speeches, reprinted from Hansard, vol. cxcix., form pp. 37-45 of Mr. Gladstone and the 'Three F's,' issued by the Irish Land Committee, 31, South Frederick Street, Dublin, 1881. B.M. 8146 b. 1883. National expenditure. Speech......in the House of Commons......6th April, 1883. London, National Press Agency.-1883. 8vo. pp. 12. B.M. 8229 de. 31 (15). Parliamentary oaths. Speech......on the second reading of the Parliamentary Oaths Act Amendment Bill, 26th April, 1883. London, National Press Agency, 1888. -8vo. pp. 16. B.M. 8132 ee. 16 (8). [2nd June, 1883]. Tradotto in Italiano da G. Zaffira. Londra, A. Andrews, 1883.-8vo. pp. 15. B.M. 10604 f. 2 (5). Il discorso di W. E. Gladstone intorno a G. Garibaldi *Senti, senti, anima mia.-Nineteenth Century, September, 1883, pp. 357-9. A translation in Italian of Cowper's hymn "Hark, my soul! it is the Lord." The Conservative legacy, 1880. Liberal work, 18801883. Speech......at the inaugural banquet, National 1883. 8vo. pp. 16. B.M. 8139 bb. 46 (1). Liberal Club......1883. London, National Liberal Club. (To be concluded.) THE LORD CHIEF BARON NICHOLSON. I do not find that in any work treating on London much has been said about the Judge and Jury Society, an institution which, whatever may be thought of its moral character, existed during a series of years, was one of the stock amusements of London, and one of the first places visited by country cousins on their arrival in the metropolis. I therefore propose putting together some facts respecting this mock court and its founder. Renton Nicholson was born in a house opposite to the Old Nag's Head Tavern, in the Hackney Road, on April 4, 1809; but his parents dying when he was very young, he was brought up by his sisters, who kept a seminary near St. John's On Sunday, July 1, 1838, in conjunction wi Street Road. He was educated under Henry Joseph Last and Charles Pitcher, a man of fortu Butter, the well-known author of the 'Etymological and a sporting character, he started the Crow Spelling-Book,' which went to a two hundred and a weekly paper supporting the beer-sellers, whic thirty-eighth edition in 1860. At the age of with No. 42, on April 14, 1839, came to a twelve he was apprenticed for three years to auntimely end. pawnbroker in High Street, Shadwell, and from On June 13, 1839, he took a benefit at th that period till 1830 was employed in various Queen's Theatre, Tottenham Street (afterward pawnbrokering establishments. About March, 1830, known as the Prince of Wales's), when an extrav he started in business as a jeweller at 99, Quad-ganza called 'The Town,' and a farce entitled 'Th rant, Regent Street; but on Dec, 1, 1831, he Licensed Victualler,' both pieces written by th became an insolvent, and paid the first of his bénéficiaire, were produced, and the net proceed many visits to the King's Bench Prison. Quickly were upwards of 400l. following on this event he was incarcerated in Whitecross Street Prison, on emerging from which he was in such an absolute state of poverty that for several nights he slept on the doorstep of the Bishop of London's house in St. James's Square. He was next connected with "brown money' gambling rooms, and then with billiard rooms, while in the summer months he went speeling, an | amusement on a racecourse, consisting of playing roulette in a tent. About 1836 he married, and took a cigar shop in Warwick Street, Regent Street, which had a room behind it where the customers gambled and were supplied with strong drinks. He is next found as a wine merchant in Leicester Place, Leicester Square; but this establishment did not last long, as on April 22, 1836, he was made a bankrupt. " In conjunction with Thomas Bartlett Simpson in 1841, he opened the Garrick's Head and Tow Hotel, 27, Bow Street, Covent Garden, and in large room in this house, on Monday, March 1841, established the well-known Judge and Ju Society, where he himself soon after commence presiding under the title of "The Lord Chi Baron." On the first occasion of wearing h ermine robes he had among his audience Job Adolphus, the father of the English bar. Men bers of both houses of Parliament, statesme poets, actors, and others visited the Garrick Head, and it was not an uncommon occurrence see the jury composed of noble lords and membe of the lower house of the legislature. The tria were humorous, yet gave occasion for seriou eloquence, glowing repartee, and fluent satir He was now fortunate enough to make the ac- Truth compels me to say that too frequently th quaintance of Joseph Last, printer, Edward Street, cases taken related to seduction or crim. con Hampstead Road, who employed him to edit and when men dressed in female attire were cros bring out the Town, a weekly paper, the first examined, and the judge, counsel, plaintiffs, an number of which appeared on Saturday, June 3, defendants all indulged in double entente an 1837. This paper, a kind of society journal deal- other language of an immoral nature. The atter ing with the phenomena of flash life, was a success tion of the public was kept directed to this mim from the first, and although some of its contents court of law by advertisements containing amusin were not of a highly moral nature, it contained a sham law reports, by poetical broadsides, and b great deal of information and exposed many the exhibition of an immense painting at th swindling companies. The Town contained some corner of Wellington Street, Strand. This pictur illustrations for which "Gillray the younger a work of artistic merit, by Archibald Hennin made the sketches on wood, and Ebenezer Landells cost nearly 2001. It contained portraits of man engraved them. In the earlier numbers Nicholson of the celebrities of the day, and continued as a wrote the greater part of the paper; after that ornament of the thoroughfare for a great numb he had as contributors, among others, Mr. Ander- of years. The most popular of the counsel wa son, late editor of the Marylebone Journal; John Henry Pellatt, always known as Henry Broughan Dalrymple, the writer of burlesques in which while John George Canning was equally good Mrs. Honey appeared (in 1839 when on his a prisoner, a witness, or a suitor. Nicholson death-bed, he was taken out of his house and shut position as a mock judge was one of the sterne up in Newgate on a false charge of forgery, and realities of eccentric history. Attorneys whe died the following morning); Henry Pellatt, after-suing him said, "Well, my lord"; sheriffs' office wards known as the double of Lord Brougham; when executing a writ apologized for the di John George Canning, who wrote under the signa- agreeable duty they were compelled to perfor ture of Theophilus Pole, and died in 1847; Dr. on the court"; and even the highest judges William Maginn, dramatic writer, who died the land recognized him and his office while ac Jan. 19, 1842, aged forty-nine; and Edward ing judicially in their own courts. In a case Leman Blanchard, who deceased so recently as the Common Pleas, Bickley, an attorney, v. Taske Sept. 4, 1889. No. 156, Saturday, May 23, 1840, a wine merchant, the newspapers of the day r appears to have been the last issue of the Town. ported a very amusing conversation betwee Nicholson, a witness, and Sir John Jervis, the Lord Chief Justice. In the Ingoldsby Legend of The Ghost,' Barham says of the judge and jury:It more resembled one of later date And tenfold talents, as I'm told, in Bow Street, Where kindlier-natured souls do congregate; And though there are who deem the same a low street, Yet I'm assured, for frolicsome debate And genuine humour it's surpassed by no street, When the "Chief Baron" enters and assumes To "rale" o er mimic "Thesigers" and "Broughams." In 1844 the Judge and Jury Society was removed to the Coal Hole, Fountain Court, 103, Strand, and the entertainment was varied by the introduction of mock elections and mock parliamentary debates. At various times Nicholson "went circuit," and held his court at Southampton, Canterbury, Manchester, Glasgow, and in many other large towns. During the summer months he attended Epsom, Ascot, Hampton, and other races, with a very large tent, in which he dispensed refreshments, and was, as he says himself, the first judge who ever sold beef on a racecourse, and perhaps the only poet ever engaged in such a novel commercial undertaking. He was also a Caterer at Camberwell and other fairs, where he had dancing-booths. On July 31 and Aug. 1 and 2, 1843, he gave a three days' fête at Cremorne Gardens. It was called the Thousand Guinea Fête, and, by means of ingenious advertisements, large crowds were attracted to the gardens. At Easter in the following year he gave a similar fête, and then opened the grounds on Sunday afternoons for promenade and refreshments. In October, 1844, he was again in the Queen's Bench, and Cremorne Gardens fell to T. B. Simpson, who, being favoured with a series of fine summers, made 100,000l. in ten years. He died June 22, 1872, aged sixty-six. In 1846 Nicholson was again back at the Garrick's Head, where he added to his usual attractions poses plastiques and tableaux vivants in Connexion with a musical entertainment, in which he delivered a lecture on poetry and song. In the same year he brought out a troupe of female serenaders at the St. James's Rooms (formerly Crockford's), St. James's Street. His wife died at Boulogne, on Sept. 15, 1849, and shortly after this date he is found located at the Justice Tavern, in Bow Street. By this time he was again in poverty, and was glad to receive an annual salary to preside at the Garrick's Head, where, in company with Farquharson Smith, the vocalist, he managed the entertainments till July, 1851. At this period he quarrelled with Simpson, and Edward Tyrrel Swith advanced him the money to take the Coal Hole Tavern, where he held his court three times a night. As fast as it was emptied it was crowded again. When E. T. Smith took Drury Lane Theatre in 1852, Nicholson became poet laureate to the establishment, and wrote poetical and prose puffs of the theatre. Smith, who died Nov. 26, 1877, aged seventy-three, immortalized himself by refusing to permit several members of his company to perform before Her Majesty at Windsor. The Lord Chief Baron made his last removenamely, from the Coal Hole to the Cider Cellar, 20, Maiden Lane-on Jan. 16, 1858, and opened his court and his exhibition of poses plastiques on Jan. 22. Here, in March, taking advantage of a discussion in the newspapers on the social evil, he produced a case on that vexed question, and was rewarded with crowded audiences. The address of his leading counsel, Richard Hart, was printed, and many thousand copies of it were circulated. The chequered and extraordinary career of the Baron came to an end by his death from dropsy and heart disease, at the house of his daughter, Miss Eliza Nicholson, proprietress of the Gordon Tavern, 3, Piazza, Covent Garden, on May 18, 1861, aged only fifty-two; and he was buried in Brompton Cemetery on May 22. He left two daughters, who had for some time helped him in his hotel business. The elder was afterwards the manager of E. T. Smith's Cremorne Restaurant, at the corner of Wardour Street, Leicester Square. Nicholson was the author of 1. Cockney Adventures. 1838. 2. Nicholson's Noctes; or, Nights and Sights in London. 1842. No. XI., Saturday, May 14, 1842, is the last number that I have seen of this periodical. 3. Dombey and Daughter: a Moral Picture. 1858. 4. The Lord Chief Baron Nicholson: an Autobiography. 1860. The Judge and Jury did not die with its founder, for Mr. H. G. Brooks, who had for some time acted as deputy baron, succeeded to the ermine, and continued to hold the court at the Cider Cellar till 1864. It was afterwards removed to a house on the eastern side of Leicester Square, which is now known as M. Phillippe's Cavour Hostel and Restaurant. It was advertised at night by men having on their heads square boxes with canvas sides and lights in the interior, thus enabling the lettering on the canvas to be seen in the dark. About 1878 the Judge and Jury Society came to an end, and it does not seem probable that such an exhibition will again be permitted. Views of the interior of the court will be found in The Bachelor's Guide to Life in London,' p. 8, and in the Illustrated Sporting News, May 21, 1864, pp. 129 and 133. GEORGE C. BOASE. 36, James Street, Buckingham Gate, S.W. SHAKSPEARE IN OXFORD.-The biographers of Sir William Davenant give no reason, nor even suggestion, why Shakespeare, in his journey from London to Stratford and back, chose the "Crown Inn," at Oxford, for his resting-place. I think I have found out the reason. The Avenants, or Davenants, were an old and numerous family in Warwickshire, and the lines quoted in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' from Gondibert have reference to Avenants deriving their name from the Avon, or Aven, as the river was always formerly called. As the name Davenant does not occur among the former generations of Oxford tradesmen, the Avenants must have migrated from Warwickshire very little, if at all, earlier than Queen Elizabeth's reign, and Shakespeare may not only have been an old acquaintance, but an actual connexion of the Oxford Davenants. I can show several writs relating to the Avenants of county Warwick, tempp. Hen. VI. and Edward IV. EDWARD SCOTT. "THE Zoo."-The tendency among English people to clip long words into short ones, or even into monosyllables, is notorious. Thus, "cabriolet" has become cab, "omnibus" bus, and so on. But the change of "zoological" into zoo is, to any one who knows the origin of the word, the most exasperating of all; and yet we now meet with zoo" in well-written journals like the Saturday Review; and I see the word is being advertised as the title of a book. There is another variation, which comes simply from bad pronunciation, as when a cockney holiday-maker tells you he bas been to the slogical. If "zoological" is to undergo a shortening, like that which has befallen " omnibus" and "cabriolet," let it at least become 20. Buckstone succeeded him, and conducted the hous with great spirit. His staple trade was the legiti mate drama, and the plays of Shakspere, Sheri dan, Talfourd, and others were the standing dish Lord Lytton's 'Money' was first produced here with Macready, Wrench, David Rees, B. Webster J. Webster, H. Howe, Miss Faucit, Mrs. Fitz william, and Miss P. Horton filling the principa W. WRIGHT. characters. 10, Little College Street, Westminster, S.W. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY : "PRISONER."-The following note will be found at p. 20 of the instruc tive little work by Archbishop Whately entitled English Synonims': ing one who receives a confession] and one other-i.e- " Potifar trewith hise wife's tale, And him the chwartre|| haveth bitagt¶ This would be correct so far as it went, and would not be so excruciating as the detestable zoo. " J. DIXON. are not Besides "prisoner," as used in modern time: pensioner and "exhibitioner additional examples of persons with passiv J. Glasgow. THE HAYMARKET THEATRE, PAST AND PRESENT.-Foote was the first lessee of the old house. In 1747 he made his first appearance in a piece called 'The Diversions of the Morning'; he after-functions? wards presented 'An Auction of Pictures.' From 1752 to 1761 his success continued uninterrupted. He died at Dover in 1777. He wrote some twenty pieces. George Colman followed him at the Haymarket, and continued the management of that house till the time of his death. Born at Florence, 1733, died at Paddington, 1794. George Colman the Younger (1762-1836) in 1784 produced his first play at the Haymarket, and in 1789 took the whole management upon himself. In 1824 he was appointed Examiner of Plays, and retained that office till his death in 1836. The present house was opened July 4, 1821. In 1830 the lessees were Morris and Winston. They were followed by Benjamin Webster, who carried on the house successfully for some years, producing many of Sheridan Knowles's plays. THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.-An America astronomer, Mr. J. N. Stock well, of Clevelanc Ohio, has recently been attempting to revive th theory that the celestial appearance common) called "the Star of the Magi" was in fact causeby a conjunction of planets. This theory, it wil be remembered, was first started by Kepler, an the planets supposed to be Jupiter and Satur Mr. Stockwell, however, finds that a conjunction c Jupiter and Venus (closer than that of Jupiter an Saturn in B.C. 7) took place in B. c. 6 on May 8 when those planets were visible in the mornin about two hours before sunrise, Jupiter only 3: *Punishment. |_ Prison, guard-house. |