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1900

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OFFICE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, CHANCERY LANE, EC.

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That an imperial rescript should put one
great and energetic country a year in advance
of its neighbours, though a little surprising in
NOTES:-Editorial Good Wishes-Origin of Yeomanry modern days, is not unprecedented. On the
Cavalry, 1-A Lifetime's Work-Special Literature for other side of the land over which this imperial
Soldiers, 2-" Boer"- Rogers's 'Ginevra'-" Quagga' doctor or scientist holds sway is a country in
and "Zebra," 3-A Pastille-Burner-Henry Cavendish-
"Wroth Silver" - Poe's 'Hop-Frog Wound" for which a calendar other than ours prevails.
"Winded"-Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, 4-A The same holds true of Turkey, and once held
Pasquil Kinnui: Jewish Eke-names "Waits
"Gaitas," 5- Partridge, the Almanac-maker- Omar true of Republican France. To add to the
Khayyam-"Byre"-St. Michael's Church, Bassishaw, 6. complexity of calendars seems a subject for
QUERIES:-Portrait of Madame Laffitte-Correspondence regret. At any rate, in presence of conflict-
of English Ambassadors to France- On a Pincushion '- ing authorities-imperial, ecclesiastical, or
Lambert in Guernsey-" The Dukes "-Methodist Plea'
Marriage Gift-Author Wanted-Moseley Hall, 7-popular-the attitude coincides with that of
Remote""Thomas Tomkinson, Gent."-Lieut. James Galileo when, striking the earth with his foot,
-Brothers Mayor and Town Clerk - St. Eanswyth
Wagner's Meistersinger-Dr. Syntax-Stop-press Edi- he said, or is reputed to have said, “E pur si
tions-Marylebone Churchyard Public Vault-Toad Mugs- muove," It is still the nineteenth century,
Sidney, Young, and Brownlow-Hogarth's 'Sigismunda' and the Editor at least will wait for a time
-Viscount Cholmondeley's Scotch MSS., 8-"Bully"-
Dandy's Gate-"The Beurré" Witchelt"-Ill-shod, 9. he may never see before congratulating his
REPLIES:- Cromwell and Music, 9-'An Apology for readers on the advent of the twentieth.

Cathedral Service '-"To Priest "Pickwickian Studies'
Boxing Day, 10-"The Appearance"-Polkinghorn-
Swansea Shepherdess Walk-Hawkwood, 11-Bryan,
Lord Fairfax-The Mint-"Bridge"-Stafford Family-
"Lowestoft China," 12-The Great Oath-"Tiffin
Edgett, 13- "Cordwainer"- Boudicca May Road
Well, Accrington-"A pickled_rope -Authorship of

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"The Red, White, and Blue'-Prefaces, 15 -Morcom-
Margaret Blount Hannah Lee-Hoastik carles," 16-
"Dozzil"-"Middlin'"- Cox's Museum, 17-"King of
Bantam "-Grolier Bindings, 18.

NOTES ON BOOKS-Sidney Lee's 'Life of Shakespeare'
1 Fernald's 'Students' Standard Dictionary' -'The
Library'-Reviews and Magazines.
Notices to Correspondents.

Fotes.

EDITORIAL GOOD WISHES.

THE ORIGIN OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY.
IN connexion with the decision of the
Government, announced on 20 December last,
to recruit a new mounted infantry force for
service in South Africa from the ranks of the
record the fact that it is to the great Suffolk
Yeomanry, it may be interesting to place on
agriculturist Arthur Young that we owe the
inception of Yeomanry Cavalry.

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The germ of Young's idea of forming a
militia of property" for this country is
contained in some reflections on the French
Revolution at the end of his 'Travels in
1792, he repeated the suggestion in vol. xviii.
France,' published in May, 1792. In August,
of his 'Annals of Agriculture' (p. 481), and
expanded it in his well-known pamphlet
entitled "The Example of France a Warning
to England,' which went through four English
editions in 1793-4 (besides two editions in
French-one published at Brussels and the
other at Quebec), and made a great sensa-
tion in its day.

Young says in this pamphlet:-

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THE recent issue of the Jubilee Number of
Notes and Queries having brought the editor
into communication, more or less close and
personal, with some to whom individually he
was the mere shadow of a name, and having
elicited manifestations of toleration and even
of sympathy, by which he has been flattered
and touched, he feels justified in taking the
opportunity of the first number of the New
Year to wish his contributors a full share of
the privileges and blessings with which, in
spite of a not too propitious outset, he is
"A regiment of a thousand cavalry in every
fain to hope it is charged. His indebted-county of moderate extent, just disciplined enough
ness to those who make his post enviable enrolled and assembled in companies three days in
to obey orders and keep their ranks, might be
and his labours light is not to be expressed. every year, and in regiments once in seven, at a
Should even his aspirations be of no effect, very moderate expense to the public......It has been
the attitude of benevolence-to use the word said that such a militia is impracticable; I will not
in its classical sense-is like that of devotion venture to assert that a law which legalises and
reason on a case absolutely new, but we may
or prayer, good in itself, and is a step regulates the mode in which all the land proprietors
(the longest that can be taken) towards its in the kingdom......may instantly assemble, armed,
Gwn fulfilment. For congratulations on the in troops and regiments......a law which prepares
arrival of a new century he has still twelve the means of security and defence, while the rage
months to wait. That fact, simple as it is and order, must be good, and may be essential to
of attack unites and electrifies the enemies of peace
is not obvious to all.
To him and to most of the salvation of the community."-Fourth edition,
his readers it is patent as the sun at mid-day. | 1794, pp. 141-2.
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