κрávov TÓTоs-is due to the convex surface of the ground rather than to the presence of human remains in the locality. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Library, Claremont, Hastings.

THE ALLEN FAMILY AND THE MS. "CONCERTATIO" (6th S. iii. 8, 213).—An admirable bibliographical analysis of the very celebrated book entitled Concertatio Ecclesia Catholica, Trèves, 1594, is to be found in The Popery Tracts of the late Mr. Jones, p. 47-50 (Chetham Soc., vol. xlviii.). The first edition of 1583, which is in the Bodleian, is said by Dr. Cotton to have been the first book printed at Trèves, but Deschamps disputes the statement. The 1594 edition, 4to., is in the Chetham Library. Portions of it are of extreme value in the elucidation of the history of

Elizabethan Lancashire. Could not MR. GILLOW be induced to re-edit it? JOHN E. BAILEY. Stretford, Manchester.

OBITUARY VERSES (6th S. i. 34, 84, 225, 287; ii. 97, 291; iii. 133).-I believe I have now got down to the original author of these lines. He was neither Zachary Boyd nor Dean Swift.

"This Painting puts me in mind of a piece I once saw in a Country Inn, where was with the best skill of the workman represented King Pharaoh, with Moses and Aaron, and some others, to explain which figures, was added this piece of Poetry

Here Pharaoh with his Goggle Eyes does stare on
The High-Priest Moses, with the Prophet Auron.
Why, what a Rascal

Was he that would not let the People go to eat the
Phascal."

much corroded, an old fire back, apparently of the seventeenth century, having a coat of arms on it with the following quarterings:-1 and 4, A chevron between three demi-lions rampant; 2, A fess vair between six crosses patonce; 3, A fret and a canton. Elstree Hall belonged to the Nicolls, and was devised in 1747 by Samuel Nicoll, of Hillingdon, co. Middlesex, to his cousin John Nicoll, of Brayton, co. York, who sold it in 1768. Afterwards it belonged to the Villiers, and was sold by them to Dr. Morris, Rector of Elstree, at whose death in 1846 it was sold to Mr. Henry Robinson, and by him to me in 1874.

After careful examination it was found impossible to repair the house efficiently. Its street front was irredeemably ugly, made of plaster and with pseudo-Gothic sham windows in it. There was absolutely nothing worth preserving, and there was no other course possible but to pull it down. This is now being done, and the chimney-pieces and panelling have been removed to this house. HENRY HUCKS GIBBS. Aldenham House, near Elstree.

HENRY HALLYWELL, MINISTER OF IFIELD, AND HENRY HALLYWELL, VICAR OF COWFOLD (6th S. iii. 324).—I find I have made a mistake in fixing the death of Henry Hallywell of Ifield in 1665/6. He was buried Feb. 14, 1666/7. Colonel Chester sends me an additional fact, viz, that Henry Hally well the younger had a son James, baptized at Slaugham Dec. 7, 1681. H. FISHWICK.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

1672, preface.

R. R.

BOOKS PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION (5th S. xii. iii. 136, 232).—I have a copy of "Excerpta quædam e Newtoni Principiis Philosophic Naturalis, cum Notis Variorum. Cantabrigiæ, MDCCLXV.," 4to., with a list of the subscribers, numbering 248, the greater part of whom are eminent Cambridge men, bishops, professors, heads of colleges, fellows, and divines, the whole forming an interesting and valuable list of the men of intellect of the time. The copy of the book in question is inscribed, "E Libris Robi Thorp, S.T.P.," one of the subscribers.

Little Ealing.

A. H.

BRIC-A-BRAC (4th S. ii. 228; 6th S. iii. 216).— Littré holds that this word is formed in imitation of the phrase de bric et de broc "from hither and thither," which meant originally "with bric (i.e, snare to catch beasts) and with broc (i.e., bottle of a peculiar shape)," the whole meaning what is obtained by hook or by crook, by every method, and from all sorts of odd places. So Littré, but I don't suppose each part of the word is capable of exact etymological analysis. It is probably one of those reduplicative words like our flim-flam, whim wham. A. L. M.

thing taught which constitutes the real value of instruction. There is so much of interest contained in the warrant the publishers in issuing a second instalment of volume that we hope it will meet with such success as to Mr. Payne's essays.

The Popish Kingdome, or Reigne of Antichrist. Written in Latin Verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and Englyshed by Barnabe Googe, 1570. Edited by R. C. Hope. (Satchell & Co.)

A CAPITAL reprint of a work not only curious and interesting in itself as one of the rarest of books-there being, so far as is known, but one perfect copy in existence but also valuable for the quaint descriptions of the customs and superstitions of the seventeenth century, which cannot fail to be valuable and we come to the never before been reprinted in full, but it must be

folk-lorist and student of social life. The work has familiar to many from the free use made of the fourth book by Brande in his Popular Antiquities, and besides by the reprint last year of this fourth book by Mr. Furnivall for the New Shakspere Society. Mr. Arber's careful and exhaustive introduction to his reprint of the Eclogs and Sonnettes in 1871 left but little opportunity or chance for Mr. Hope to set before us any further particulars relating to the poet, but what he has done he has done well, and he has succeeded in unearth

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Lectures on the Science and Art of Teaching. By the late Joseph Payne. (Longmans & Co.) ON educational questions the opinions of the late Professor of Education in the College of Preceptors will necessarily command the consideration of all engaged in teaching. But the valuable suggestions contained in this volume deserve for his essays a wider circle of readers. Mr. Payne brought to bear on his work an enthusiasm which years seemed rather to invigorate than diminish, and he expresses the results of his labours in a plain and pleasant style. The subject of education is one of consummate national importance, since the relative place of nations in the race of commercial enterprise will ultimately be determined by the degree of instruction each affords to its industrial classes. A high authority has said that in mercantile affairs a German excels an Englishman, and this superiority is attributed to the excellence of the German high schools. Yet England has hitherto persevered in its beaten paths, and is ignorant not only of the methods, but even of the names of great continental teachers. Mr. Payne sets himself on the one hand to remove this ignorance by stimulating the study of the chief continental systems, such as Jacotot's method; on the other, by inculcating a truer conception of the functions of a teacher. He shows, in fact, that education is a science and an art, and that the principles of the science give laws to the processes of the He argues strenuously against the unchartered liberty of teaching and the fallacy of the inward impulse to teach, and urges that it is the manner rather than the

art.

some events in Googe's career which had escaped even Mr. Arber's research. The work, which is a translation by Barnabe Googe of a Latin original by Thomas Naogeorgus (that is, Thomas Kirchmeyer), a strong Lutheran, appeared first in 1570, and is written in seven-syllabled rhyming alexandrines, which are far from being deficient in vigour and smoothness. The strong Protestant prejudices of the author are unmistakably shown in his bitter diatribes against the social and religious corruptions of the time. We heartily congratulate Mr. Hope on the manner in which he has fulfilled his task, which reflects credit on all concerned, though we should have liked to have seen the work bound in a manner more worthy of its value.

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. Preserved in the Public Record Ŏffice, the British Museum, and elsewhere in England. Arranged and Catalogued by James Gairdner.-Vol. V., 1531-1532. (Longmans & Co.)

MR. BREWER'S design of including in his calendar every known source of contemporary information regarding the reign of Henry VIII. was planned on so gigantic a scale, that it is scarcely to be wondered at that the original editor did not live to complete so vast an undertaking. Nine unwieldy volumes of nearly a thousand pages each, and twenty years of labour have only brought down the calendar to the end of 1530, so that the story of the chief events of this reign has still to be written. The documents calendared in this volume range over the years 1531-1532, and are chiefly occupied with the dreary subject of the divorce. They make it possible for the first time to trace every move and countermove in the proceedings, both at Rome and in England, whilst the king was straining every nerve to accomplish his purpose without offending the public opinion of all Europe by open defiance of Papal interdicts and excommunication. His final separation from Katherine took place in July, 1531, and from that time it was a public scandal that Anne Boleyn was the king's constant companion in all his journeys, and was universally regarded as his mistress. She rode openly by his side in his progress to the north, and in several towns which they passed through the women insulted her in the royal presence, and the populace clamoured for the king to take back his wife. Anne

Boleyn's guilty relations with the King were formally denounced in more than one Papal brief, and the imputation was never denied. None of her contemporaries doubted her guilt, and it would be idle to pretend to disbelieve it now in the face of the evidence collected in this volume. Mr. Gairdner has not attempted to challenge comparison with his predecessor as an historian, and those long historical introductions which were a labour of love to Mr. Brewer will henceforth be discontinued. It must be confessed, however, that they were foreign to the proper office of a calendarer, and that their fulness could only be justified by the editor's special qualifications and devotion to the subject; but although it is an irreparable loss to historical literature that Mr. Brewer's commentary was interrupted at so critical a period, his successor has done his work so well within the limits prescribed to him that we need have no misgivings for the successful completion of the calendar.

Prize Translations, Poems, and Parodies. Reprinted from the Journal of Education. (Walker & Co.) THE editor of the Journal of Education may fairly be congratulated upon having discovered an amusement which, as he says, "is at least as profitable as double acrostics." He has offered prizes for the best translations of certain French and German poems, and now reprints a selection from the most successful contributions. Speaking generally, those from the German are better than those from the French, probably from the closer affinities between the former language and our own. In none of the versions here given is the peculiar cachet of De Musset at all caught, although it must be admitted that Miss Shore's "J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie" is a creditable attempt. Nor have any of the writers at all reproduced the lofty scorn of Corneille in the "Ravages du Temps" (here unaccountably shorn of two of its stanzas), or advanced upon the excellent paraphrase of Mr. Frederick Locker, one verse of which has long seemed to us to be beyond improvement: "In days to come the peer or clown, With whom I still shall win renown, Will only know that you were fair Because I chanced to say you were." But if high praise cannot be awarded to the renderings of Corneille and De Musset, Mr. Donald McAlister has produced a really excellent Scotch copy of Béranger's "Mon Habit," and (save and except the absurd translation of faucille as "scythe ") Mr. Bourdillon's "Wild Flower pleasantly re-echoes Gustave Lemoine. Mrs. Stracey's version of Charles of Orleans is also good. But why does this lady, as well as Mr. Bourdillon, entitle this form "Triolets" (sic)? No modern critic would call it a "Triolet," still less "Triolets." Strictly speaking, although there may be some confusion in the old Arts de Rhétorique, Charles of Orleans never wrote a triolet ; but he wrote a great many rondels, of which "Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder" (we quote from D'Hericault's edition) is one. We must not omit to say a word for the clever parody of "De Profundis" at the end of the book. The epigrams, however, lack brevity and finish. On the whole, we hope the editor of the Journal of Education will give us some more selections from his "Parnassus." If the present samples cannot be wholly commended, they show abundantly that there is a great deal of literary facility stirring which only requires the stimulus of opportunity.

THE Sacristy (New Series, No. 1, for April, Hodges), under the editorship of Mr. E. Walford, M.A., and Mr. G. G. Scott, M.A., enters upon a new life, which we trust may be long enough to enable it to throw much

light upon the numerous topics, antiquarian and archæological, with which it proposes to deal. The illustrations comprise subjects of architectural interest, from the Oratory at Birmingham to the conventual Church of Sion in the valley of the Rhone. The articles touch upon fairy superstitions as well as upon brasses and purely architectural questions. There is a wide field of usefulness before the revived Sacristy, if it fulfils even but a portion of the programme set before us by Mr. Walford.

the list of contents on the title-page it will be seen to AN advanced copy of Our Times has reached us. From how diverse a class of readers this new monthly appeals for patronage.

In view of the approaching debates in Parliament on the Irish Land question, we cannot do better than draw the attention of our readers to the series of pamphlets issued by the Irish Land Committee, 26, Great George Street, S.W.

Notices to Correspondents.

ANON.-The evidence produced is a charter in Gale's Registrum Honoris de Richmond, which runs thus: Ego Willielmus cognomento Bastardus, Rex Angliæ," &c. To Mr. Freeman (Norman Conquest, ii. p. 581) this document appears "palpably spurious," and he goes on to say that "those who accept it allow it to be unique." That others gave William this designation is, of course, well known. Whether he gave it to himself must be decided by individual students of history, according to the weight they allow to the evidence offered.

wife of Ruy Gomez de Silva, favourite of Philip II. K. R.-The Princess of Eboli: Anne de Mendoza, The Princess des Ursins: Anne Marie de la Trémouille; "des Ursins" being the French form of the name of her second husband, the Roman Prince Orsini, who died in 1698.

F. M. R. ("How they brought the good news from Ghent ").-See "N. & Q.," 5th S. i. 71, 174, 298, 418; ii. 17.

W. M. P.-The statement covered the latter portion of the political period, which, strictly speaking, begins with the flight of James II. The architectural period bears no party name, but is called Jacobean.

A. A. B.-We have seen similar statements elsewhere, and believe the facts to be reported correctly, so far as they relate to the existence of such a claim and such an association.

JOSEPHUS.-The date of Lord Beaconsfield's birth has been definitely fixed as Dec. 21, 1804; but not so the number of the house in the Adelphi in which the late peer was born.

EDMUND M. BOYLE.-There is much in your suggestion, but it would be wasted on the upholders of the theory in question, and would only involve us in endless controversy.

H. P. B. ("Who was Freneau?"). "N. & Q.," 5th S. ii. 217.

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