revisers, which was probably an advantage. Mrs. Cornish's paper is a pleasant exposition of The A. V. actually lacks, so far as extant evidence Thackeray's home affection and kindliness to goes, the authority indicated by its title: but children. Mr. Birt's would be more interesting Lord Selborne is quoted as writing to The Times if he could have told us more of the tastes of in 1881 to suggest that the Order in Council Thackeray's grandfather. We learn that he was which gave this authority was among the Council a generous friend and patron, absorbed in the books and registers destroyed by fire in January, education of his sons and daughters, and busy 1618, O.S. Mr. Pollard, however, nctes that in his garden, but we are not told whether he had the A. V. was "appointed," not ordered, for literary or artistic ability. church reading, and suggests that, all parties being agreed, legal formalities were omitted. This is supported by earlier usage. 79 66 There are, of course, other members of the family who were well known before the novelist came to repute, as may be seen in Gunning's 'Reminiscences of Cambridge.' The appearance of this memorial number suggests that a book might be made out of different aspects of Thackeray, his family, home life, public appearances, &c., an article being devoted to each. The Records are well chosen, and supply many interesting things. We find Tyndale's own narrative of his experiences in London; Dobneck's account in Latin (with a translation) of how he routed Tyndale out of Cologne; and Sir Thomas More's views concerning the use of the words "prestys," chyrch," and "charyte." Some of | At the end of the number answers are given the spelling in these documents is quaint. Thus to the paper on Stevenson; and Sir Algernon Coverdale speaks of the Vulgate as "costum-West sets another on the letters and works of ably red in the church." The preface to the Thackeray. version of 1611, The Translators to the Reader,' is not devoid of pedantry, and is overloaded with quotations from the Fathers and a few pagan authors but it contains a good deal of sound sense which might be profitably considered by revisers of the Prayer Book. The Cornhill for July is a Thackeray number, and supplies a good deal of interest concerning the great novelist. A Centenary Poem and an unpublished portrait of Thackeray from a photograph of 1863 are the first items. When we say that the poem is by Mr. Austin Dobson, our readers will know that it is informed with the neatness and grace which make appreciation seem so easy. Lady Ritchie's charming note by way of Preface to the newly discovered Cockney Travels' is a little guide to their method and merits. It is as well, however, to add that, unlike other recovered pieces, the Travels are a real find, worth reading by all admirers of the master. A letter in facsimile by W. M. T. to " Dear Yedward" (FitzGerald), including a characteristic sketch of a chambermaid, is excellently gay, and explains inter alia : "I wrote a poem in the Llangollen Album as follows A better glass nor a better Pipe Saml. Rogers." BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JULY. MR. JAMES G. COMMIN'S Exeter Catalogue 275 is devoted principally to books from the library of our old contributor the late Dr. T. N. Brushfield, and opens with a collection of publications and original manuscripts by and relating to Hawker of Morwenstow, several of the volumes having bibliographical notes by Dr. Brushfield. The price of the collection is 181. Among letters in Hawker's characteristic hand is one dated Nov. 10th, 1853, in which he writes: "I beg to Ballad beside the two lines of the chorus which say that not a trace of the original Trelawney are incorporated in my Song ever turned up." In an article in MS. he quotes the doorhead verse graven in stone over the church of Mor wenstow Vicarage : A House: a Glebe a Pound a day: Other items in the Catalogue include, under America, Monardes's Joyfull Newes out of the New-found Worlde,' black-letter, 1596, 41. 15s. (the concluding portion, Of the Benefit of Snow, is wanting). Under Bibliography is a large-paper set of Pollard's Books about Books," 6 vols., 31. 108. There are works under Cornwall, Devonshire, Lancashire, London, &c. Dictionaries include The English Dialect Dictionary' and Farmer and Henley's Slang Dictionary.' There are a number of Halliwell-Phillipps's works, and many curious old medical books. Mr. George T. Juckes sends the " Special Coronation Issue" of his Catalogue, and the title, Bibliotheca Rariora, is fully justified. The publications of the Essex House Press include the Book of Common Prayer, 1903, of which the first copy was pulled especially for Edward VII., 71. 78.; and Gray's Elegy,' 51. 58. Among the Kelmscott Press productions is Ellen Terry's copy of The Earthly Paradise,' 8 vols., with book-plate, 1501. (the first book printed on the paper with the apple watermark). Other choice specimens of the Kelmscott Press are Keats's Poems, The Golden Legends,' and 'The Life and Death of Jason' (the copy exhibited at Glasgow as a specimen of binding). There are also four presentation copies from Morris with his full signature: The Order of Chivalry,' The Defence of Guenevere,' "The Glittering Plain,' and News from Nowhere,' the price of the four being 1,2001. Under Shakespeare are the Cambridge Edition, 40 vols., 4to, original cloth, 121. 128. (only 500 printed); and the larger Temple Edition, 12 vols., vellum, 127. 128. Under Spenser is the Japanese-vellum edition of The Faerie Queen,' illustrated by Walter Crane, the complete set of 19 parts, 251. Under Tennyson will be found a choice copy of 'In Memoriam,' Bankside Press, New York, crimson levant, 5l. 58.; and the first edition, Moxon, 1850, calf, 41. 4s. The Vale Press issues include Shakespeare, 39 vols., royal 8vo, hand-made paper, with the new fount of "Avon 81. 88. (one of 310 copies); Chatterton, Blake, type, Marlowe, and many others. Under Scott is the Abbotsford Edition, 12 vols., calf, 107. 108. Under Byron is Murray's Library Edition, 11 vols., orange levant, 1833-9, 127. 12s. In an autograph letter Wendell Holmes thanks Mr. Gell for his 'kind letter" and its picture of English life in its sweetest aspect, which will last me until the outer world around me fades from my sight." Mr. Juckes also offers two choice bookcases, one a Chippendale. the Poems,' Dodsley, 1768, 321. 10s. Under 66 graph Letters and MSS. it. REV. W. J. LOFTIE.- The Guardian for last week contained a notice of the death on 16 June of the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who signed his contributions to N. & Q.' sometimes with his full the latter case the address Savile Club served to name and sometimes with his initials. In distinguish his communications from those of a Dublin correspondent with the same initials. antiquarian knowledge of London. Mr. Loftie put into many guides and books his Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Messrs. Maggs's Catalogue 268 contains rare Books, Prints, and Autographs. Works under America include one of the few copies issued with the plates in colour of Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico,' 9 vols., imperial folio, half-morocco, 1831-48, 135l. Under Art are the Catalogues of the Free Society of Artists, 1760-83 (those for 1780 and 1781 in manuscript), and those of the Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-91, the whole inlaid to royal 4to, and illustrated by the late E. B. Jupp with about 350 original drawings and sketches, including specimens of the work of Sandby, Nollekens, Romney, Flaxman, Morland, Gainsborough, and other artists, also about 650 mezzotints and 100 autograph letters, the whole bound in 10 vols., 475l. Matthew Arnold's prize poem at Rugby, Alaric at Rome,' is 631. There is a fine copy of the first complete edition of Bacon's Essays,' small 4to, original calf, 1625, 251.; also the scarce first edition of The Advancement of Learning,' small 4to, new levant, 1605, 25l., and the Novum Organum,' folio, 1620, levant by Rivière, 267. 10s. A fine uncut set of Bewick, 5 vols., imperial 8vo, half-print, and to this rule we can make no exception. morocco, 1805-20, is 301. There are many fine specimens of binding. Under Blake is the extremely rare original edition of Innocence,' russia, 1789, 1101. Under Burns is Songs of an uncut copy of the first Edinburgh edition, morocco, 251. Under Byron is the rarest of Byron first editions, The Waltz,' 1813, published at 38., now priced in crushed levant 1207. Messrs. Maggs state no copy has occurred for sale by public auction for many years. Under Carlyle is a set of 61 vols., all first editions, calf extra, 801. Under Cruikshank is an uncut copy of The Humourist,' first edition, 4 vols., 12mo, bound in morocco, with the original covers at the end, 1819-20, 1107. Under Gray is an uncut copy, in the original wrapper, of the Odes,' 1757, 631. This was the first book printed at Strawberry Hill. There is also an uncut copy of WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the value disposing of them. of old books and other objects or as to the means of 66 EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to lishers "-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery "The PubLane, E.C. M. L. R. B.-Forwarded. C. McC. ("I'm the sweetest sound in orchestra heard ").-The riddle is by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. A solution in verse is printed at 7 S. i. 517; but no wholly satisfactory explanation is known. foot, for "dubbing " read drubbing. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1911. CONTENTS.-No. 80. NOTES:-William Makepeace Thackeray, 21-The Military The Lotus and India - Queen Elizabeth at Bishop's Garrick, 27-"Agasonic"-"Though Christ a thousand times be slain"-Bishop Fletcher-Robinson Arms and Motto-Authors of Quotations Wanted-" Here sleeps a Youth"St. Aubin; or, The Infidel, 28-Limburger Cheese and Coffin - Genealogical Collections-John Rustat - Heraldic Visitations for the life of a soldier!"-"Bursell," 29-Alpine Lyrics'- Cardinal Allen's Arms-Apparition at Bovingdon, 30. REPLIES:-Capt. Cook Memorial-The Cuckoo and its Call, 30-Cuckoo Rimes-Thomson, Bonar & Co., 31Sir John Arundel of Clerkenwell-Burial Inscriptions, 32 -Apparition at Pirton, Herts-Macaulay's Ancestry 'Lizzie Lindsay,' 33-Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneNovel with Three Titles-Book Inscriptions-Museums of London Antiquities "Taborer's Inn," 34" Haywra," Place-Name John Gallot-Scots Music "The Gag." "Guillotine," and "Kangaroo," 35-Lamb's 'Rosamund Gray'-Forbes of Skellater-St. George and the Lamb, 36Waverley': "Clan of grey Fingon" - Matthew Arnold on Hurry-Raikes Centenary-Figures rising from the Dead-Shipdem Family-Moor, More, and Moory. Ground, 37-Ralph Piggott, Catholic Judge - Speaker Yelverton-Rags left at Wells, 38. NOTES ON BOOKS:-The Church Year and Kalendar' -Reviews and Magazines. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. Notes. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, JULY 18TH, 1811-DECEMBER 24TH, 1863. ON the eve of Christmas, 1863, while I was at work in my office, the whistle of the speaking tube sounded; I went to it, and the words came: "Thackeray found dead in his bed this morning." The suddenness of the event was so startling that it sent a thrill through the whole world of literature, and the grand old English festival opened with a note of sadness. Thackeray's last evening was spent just as he himself would have had it, had he known that in the night he would hear the call of the Master; for he was making children happy with Christmas games in his house at Kensington. On the evening of the day on which he died he was expected to join a family party for the usual Christmas 66 A fortnight previously, as related by the Master of Charterhouse, the Rev. Gerald Davies, at the commemorative dinner in the old hall on Wednesday, the 28th of June, Thackeray had been present on Founder's day, and had spoken at the dinner. While the Master was speaking, the chapel bell tolled the Curfew, as it had tolled, but for one long interval, every night for 540 years." Mr. J. A. Foote, K.C., also related how he was present, then a boy of fourteen, and did not consider that the novelist had made a good speech, but was consoled in after years when he read in The Roundabout Papers' Thackeray's own confession that "he could not make a good after-dinner speech, because he never could remember the excellent things he thought of in the cab.” 6 school within a fortnight of his death, but Not only did Thackeray visit his old The Times in its notice on Christmas Day mentions his visit to his club two days previously, "radiant and buoyant with glee, full of plans and hopes " : "On Monday last he was congratulating himself on having finished four numbers of a new novel; he had the manuscript in his pocket, and with a boyish frankness showed the last pages to a friend, asking him to read them and see what he could make of them. When he had completed four numbers more, he said, he would subject himself to the skill of a very clever surgeon and be no more an invalid.” The Times, referring to his early writings does It was "not think, on the whole, as we look back, that if his fame at that time was unequal to his merits, the public were much to blame. The of him must have been due more to personal intervery high opinion which his friends entertained course than to his published works. not until 1846 that Mr. Thackeray fairly showed to the world what was in him. Thea began to be published in monthly numbers the story of Vanity Fair.' It took London by surprise. The picture was so true, the satire was so trenchant, the style was so finished. It is difficult to say which of these three works is the best, Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond,' or The Newcomes. Men of letters may give their preference to the second of these, which indeed is the most polished of all his works. But there is a vigour in the first 6 mentioned, and a matured beauty in the last, which to the throng of readers will be more attractive. At first reading, Vanity Fair' has given to many an impression that the author is too cynical. There was no man less ill-natured than Mr. Thackeray, and if anybody doubts this, we refer him to The Newcomes,' and ask whether that book could be written by any but a most kind-hearted man. We believe that one of the greatest miseries which Mr. Thackeray had to endure grew out of the sense that he, one of the kindest of men, was regarded as an illnatured cynic." scarce, gives a reproduction of the portrait belonging to his favourite club, the Garrick. Whether the Fraser connexion influenced his writings or not, all who know the circumstances of his life must admire the stouthearted way in which he bore the great sorrow which cast a perpetual shadow on his home. The affliction from which his beloved wife suffered could never be out of his memory; she survived him for nearly thirty years. Their short married life It is curious, as a reminiscence of Thack-together had been perfectly happy, and eray's early days, to find Sir Henry Cole in his' Fifty Years of Public Life' (pp. 144-5) recommending Thackeray in these terms for employment to the Anti-Corn-Law agitators : "The artist is a genius, both with his pencil and his pen. His vocation is literary. He would like to combine both writing, and drawing when sufficiently primed, and then he would write and illustrate ballads, or tales, or anything." Two illustrations are given by Cole. The designs were suggested by Cobden. A note states that the first of these cuts was printed in No. 8 of The Anti-Corn Law Circular, July 23rd, 1839, and the second in No. 18, December 10th, 1839. "They were not republished in the volume of Thackeray drawings....These engravings are rare, but can be seen in the British Museum." In reference to Thackeray's cynicism, The Athenæum in its obituary notice, which appeared on the 2nd of January, 1864, attributes it in some measure to his early contributions to Fraser's Magazine : "It may have been that, to suit the tone of that periodical, which was at that time sarcastic and unscrupulous, he exaggerated a humour for banter and indifference, occasional personality, and too habitual a resolution to look upon the seamy side of life and manners, which, if not born with him, certainly grew into marking characteristics of his style and purpose as an author.” However, his close connexion with the many and powerful men who established Punch had a good influence; they "could hit as hard as the best among the Maginns and Lockharts-though let it not be forgotten with meanings as generous as those of the Fraser squadron were otherwise." Although a prominent member of the staff of Regina, Thackeray did not attain the honour of separate portraitship in the Gallery.' He has, however, a place in the cartoon of the "Fraserians which appeared in the number for January, 1835, and a copy of which is now in my hand. To repair this omission Mr. William Bates in The Maclise Gallery,' published by Chatto & Windus in 1873, and now very though his "marriage was a wreck," he had such an affection for her that "he was prepared to do it over again." Very pathetic are the references to her in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' as well as to his affection for his two daughters-Anne Isabella, now Lady Ritchie, and Harriet Marian, who in 1867 married Leslie Stephen, and died on the 28th of November, 1875. These passages show him in quite a different light from that in which he was regarded by so many during his lifetime, who looked upon him as cynical and overbearing. These glimpses into his home life fill us with regret that Thackeray's strict injunctions that no biography of him should be written have prevented his daughter Lady Ritchie from giving to the world a biography which would no doubt have been to her a labour of love, and would have shown how greatly he was misunderstood by many who came in contact with him. Those who knew him well, however, could form with him the choicest friendship. His personal appearance and manners on first acquaintance caused him to be regarded as aggressive. I well remember his presence at the burial of Macaulay in Poets' Corner on the 9th of January, 1860. There he stood head and shoulders above all the other mourners. Charlotte Brontë, after she had long gazeď in silence at the portrait by Lawrence, exclaimed, " And there came up a Lion out of Judah"; and Mr. W. L. Courtney_in his valuable article which appeared in The Daily Telegraph on the 26th of last month said: "In many respects he was like a big boy, a giant of 6 feet 3 with the soul of a child." His brain was very large, weighing no less than 58 ounces. Sir Richmond Thackeray Ritchie relates, in the biography which appears in Chambers's Encyclopædia,' that when Thackeray was a child of five his aunt Mrs. Ritchie was surprised to find that her husband's hat fitted the little boy. In the life of Tennyson his son. records, "My father grew to know Thackeray well, and would call him a lovable man" ; and he gives a characteristic anecdote of him. The two friends had been dining together, and Tennyson had said: "I love Catullus for his perfection in form and for his tenderness; he is tenderest of Roman poets.' Thackeray answered: "I do not rate him highly; I could do better myself." The next morning Tennyson received an apology from his friend, who "woke at two o'clock, and in a sort of terror at a certain speech I had made about Catullus. When I have dined, sometimes I believe myself to be equal to the greatest painters and poets. That delusion goes off, and then I know what a small fiddle mine is, and what small tunes I play on it. It was very generous of you to give me an opportunity of recalling a silly speech; but at the time I thought I was making a perfectly simple and satisfactory observation." Tennyson said of this letter: "It was impossible to have written in a more generous spirit. No one but a noblehearted man could have written such a letter." On Thackeray's appointment to The Cornhill we find him at once writing to "My dear old Alfred." It is sad that the same unbroken friendship cannot be recorded of his distinguished brother novelist Dickens, though it was Dickens's loyalty to another friend which caused the terrible breach. Pleasant, indeed, is it to remember that they were reconciled before the final parting. Lady Priestley, from whose most interesting work I have already quoted, received the following account of the reconciliation from her oldest friend Sir Theodore Martin, who was an eyewitness (pp. 71-2): "Late in the autumn of the year in which Thackeray died (1863) I was standing talking to him in the hall of the Athenæum, when Dickens came out of the room where he had been reading the morning papers, and, passing close to us without making any sign of recognition, crossed the hall to the stairs that led up to the library. Suddenly Thackeray broke away from me, and overtook Dickens just as he had reached the foot of the staircase. Dickens turned to him, and I saw Thackeray speak, and presently hold out his hand to Dickens. They shook hands, a few words were exchanged, and immediately Thackeray returned to me, saying: I am glad I have done this. I said,' he continued, is time this foolish estrangement should cease, and that we should be to each other as we used to be. Come, shake hands!"' Dickens, he said, seemed at first rather taken aback, but he held out his hand, and some friendly words were exchanged. I loved the man,' said Thackeray, and could not resist this impulse.' It A few weeks after, Dickens was standing by the open grave of the friend from whom he had been so long estranged. THE MILITARY CANAL AT SANDGATE. (See 10 S. xii. 228, 334, 377.) THE following occurs in Fortescue's ' History of the Army,' vol. v. p. 233 : "One costly work may, however, perhaps be ascribed to the French General [Dumouriez], namely, the military canal from Hythe to Sandgate. This was made in order to isolate the Romney marshes, where, according to Dumouriez, all the cattle and horses which fed an invading force could otherwise have secured on the marshes." A foot-note adds :— "But it appears from a letter from the Commander-in-Chief to the Duke of Richmond that the canal, with its ultimate extension to Cliff End in Sussex, was suggested by Sir David Dundas, H.O. Internal Defence, Duke of Richmond to C.-in-C., 13 Nov., C.-in-C to Duke of Richmond, 19 Nov., 1806." The Kentish Gazette, 11 Sept., 1804, states : "On Thursday last Mr. Pitt, accompanied by Generals Twiss and Moore, met the Lords and Bailiffs of the Level of Romney Marsh, at Newhall near Dymchurch, to consider of the best mode of inundating the Marsh in case of invasion, when it was determined that, on the appearance of the enemy on the coast, the sluices should be opened, to admit the sea so as to fill the dykes, which might be accomplished in one tide, and in case of actual invasion remain open another tide, which would be sufficient to inundate the whole level. The wall of course would not be injured, as the space of 24 hours will be fully sufficient for the intended effect." In The Kentish Gazette, 19 Oct., 1804, the Royal Military Canal scheme was ventilated. viz., a canal between Shorncliff Battery and the Rother near Rye. On 26 October there is a report of a special meeting of the Surveyor, Lords, Baylif, and Jurats convened and holden at Newhall, Dymchurch, on Wednesday, the 24th, when it was resolved : "1. It is the opinion of this meeting that the proposed canal will not be injurious to the lands |