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ELIZABETH (RUNDLE) CHARLES (12 S. iii. 414; iv. 337).-Readers of N. & Q. will be pleased to know that the tablet erected to the memory of this gifted writer and benefactress upon the walls of Combe Edge," Oakhill Way, Hampstead, has now been restored to its former state. For nearly two years the inscription and dates were quite obliterated, and afterwards only partially rendered visible.

Gibraltar to be delivered after her death. This request I duly attended to. Mrs. Mawr had been a persona grata with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva) and as the Calea where Mrs. Mawr had died was in a remote district of the capital I addressed a letter to the Queen informing her of the sad event. A few days afterwards I received a gracious acknowledgment from Her Majesty stating that whilst she was grieved to hear of the passing of her old friend she thanked me 'for THE my thoughtfulness in writing as otherwise the sad occurrence might not have reached her for some time as Madame Mawr had lived for the last few years in retirement owing to her age and infirmities. Mawr was aged 80 when she died.

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R. STEWART PATTERSON, Chaplain H.M. Forces (retired) and to the Legation and British Colony in Romania. 19 Heathhurst Road, Sanderstead, Surrey,

BEATSTER (12 S. vii. 267, 318). In Yarmouth this is always printed Beetster. Pipen he coulde, and fishe, and nettes bete Chaucer's Reve's Tale.' Chaucer adds

Of Norfolk was this Reve of which I tell.
WILLIAM DE CASTRE.

I am writing these few lines at the distance of three miles from the important Netherland port of Ymuiden, also a great seafishing centre. I have seen the women at work repairing the fishing nets. They are called here Boetsters. This shows how old the name Beatster must be. It dates back to the time when virtually the same language was spoken on the English south-east and east coasts as was in use at that period from Boulogne to the mouth of the Weser on the W. DEL COURT.

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HOATHER (12 S. vii. 331).-If a placename a likely source of Hoather (with Hoad, and Hoathley, its variations) is the parish of Hoath, six miles from Canterbury, Kent.

If a trade-name its source may be Heath or Heather (see Halliwell's 'Dict. of Archaic Words '). In Sussex "hoth " is a dialect word for furze or gorse, usually found on heaths and commons.

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The English Dialect Dictionary "Hoath or hoth: a heath; only found in place-names. W. JAGGARD, Capt.

Hoath and Hoather are names indigenous in East and West Hoathley in Sussex.

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CECIL CLARKE.

GOOSE CLUB" (12 S. vii. 310, 354). -SIR WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK has quite mistaken my original query. Probably it was not clear enough.

Between 1850 and 1860 "Goose Clubs came into existence. By whom, and where were they originated? The 'N.E.D.' gives "An association formed to a definition: provide the members with geese." One quotation is given (1859): "Turkeys from the country: Goose Clubs in town.

There is an old song called 'The Goose Club' which was possibly written in the early sixties, the first verse of which is :Joe Pickles to his Wife did say on the 1st of last September

"Twas banyan time last Christmas Day, old lady, you remember.

This year might bring the same ill-luek, so to ensure some spruce grub,

I'll tell you what I'll do, my duck, I'll take and join a Goose Club."

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The song describes the disastrous result of his investment, and finishes:If you join Goose Clubs after this, you'll have no right to holler,

At all events 'twon't be amiss just to have a joint to foller.

I seem to remember having seen in publichouse windows a card with the legend Join our Christmas Goose Club."

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J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Col..

CLAUDIUS SHAW, ROYAL ARTILLERY (12 S. vii. 269).-I have now ascertained that Claudius Shaw died at Cobridge, in Staffordshire on Nov. 10, 1875, and was buried at Salwarpe, near Droitwich, on Nov. 13.

He was the author of a book entitled "The Artilleryman's Pocket Companion,' the second edition of which was published, without date, probably about 1855. A third edition appeared, also without date, as by "Duncan Blanckley Shaw, K.S.F., &c., Late Captain 90th or Stirlingshire Militia, and Lieutenant Artillery, late British Auxiliary Legion. There is a copy in the

Who was D. B. Shaw? I have the published lists of the British Auxiliary Legion of Spain, for 1835 to 1837, but his name does not appear therein.

J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Col.

BUDEUS (12 S. vii. 332).—Budæus makes no such statement in his 'De Asse et partibus eius.' Chalmers's erroneous assertion is dished up again in H. J. Rose's 'New General Biographical Dictionary,' in which the greater part of the article on Budæus is taken verbatim from Chalmers. What we have in this latter dictionary is apparently a distorted version of the story given by Ludovicus Regius (Louis Le Roy) on p. 16 of his Latin Life of Budæus,' published at Paris in 1540: "Nuptiarum etiam die, qui est laetitiæ & hilaritati dicatus, minimum tres horas studuisse commemorant."

Towards the end of book v. of the De Asse,' ed. 1551, p. 793, and in a letter of his to Sir Thomas More (Budaei Epistolae,' 1531, pp.v. sqq.), part of which was entered by Southey in his Commonplace Book,' i. 165 sq., Budé informs us that he was not led by his wife and children to neglect his studies. In a letter to Cuthbert Tunstall, printed also in editions of Erasmus's Epistolae (coll. 148 sqq. in the London ed. of 1642, and No. 583 in Mr. P. S. Allen's second volume), he calls Philologia his

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INSCRIPTION ON BELL (12 S. vii. 332).A rubbing of the inscription mentioned by H. C. may be seen at the Library of the Society of Antiquaries. It will be found to be:

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ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH, DUCHESS KINGSTON (12 S. vii. 290, 336, 358).-In giving the date of the Duchess's death as 1785 I made a slip of the pen which I regret, as it has given some correspondents the error which was trouble of correcting an obvious, as I believe every authority is in agreement as to the year in which the Duchess died. I am greatly obliged for the several letters that have reached me direct, and for the others which have appeared in N. & Q.' The mystery at present remains unsolved. The evidence is in favour of the body having been buried in France, and possibly there I may find my answer. W. COURTHOPE FORMAN. Compton Down, near Winchester.

MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS has omitted the date of The Pall Mall Magazine which contains Miss Louisa Parr's Elizabeth Chudleigh.' It is July, 1900.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

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AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. vii. 311, 359).—I do not believe any one described Genealogy as "the science of fools with long memories.' CELESTES AVDITE SONOS MORTALES IW 1593. Surely it was Heraldry which was so branded. I understand this as an invocation to Planché in his 'Pursuivant of Arms,' (my mortals to listen to celestial sounds. This copy undated but about 1851, I think)

to this "smart saying," but does not mention the name of the man who thus contemptuously spoke of Heraldry which Planche himself considered the shorthand of history. R. S. B.

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"NEW EXCHANGE," LONDON (12 S. vii. 371).—This Exchange, originally known "The Bursse of Britain was built in 1608, and opened in 1609 by James I. It stood on part of the site of Durham House on the south side of the Strand, now occupied by houses Nos. 54 to 64. Coutts's Bank, before its removal to the north side of the Strand, being in the centre. The New Exchange was demolished in 1737.

Exeter Exchange stood on the site of Exeter House on the north side of the Strand; its exact position may be seen in Rocque's 'Survey,' 1746. It was cleared away in 1830.

J. P. DE C.

This bazaar was erected in 1608 on the south side of the Strand directly facing what is now Bedford Street. James I. gave it the title of "Britain's Burse." Strype, bk. vi. p. 75, describes it as follows:

"In the place where certain old stables stood belonging to this house (Durham House) is the New Exchange, being furnished with shops on both sides, the walls both below and above stairs, for milliners,

sempstresses, and other trades that furnish dresses; and is a place of great resort and trade for the nobility and gentry, and such as have occasion for such commodities.'

It was taken down in 1737. For further particulars I would refer MISS CHATWIN to London, Past and Present,' by Wheatley and Cunningham. In that same work she will find a description of Exeter Change' a later establishment of an analogous kind, which stood where Burleigh Street, Strand, now is. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

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The "New Exchange in the Strand is undoubtedly meant by this allusion; the best summary of its history was provided by the late Dr. T. N. Brushfield, F.S.A., Britain's Burse or the New Exchange, reprinted 1903 from the Journal of the British Archæological Association. It was built, 1608, by Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, on the site of the stables of Durham House, and continued with more or less success until 1737, when shops and dwelling. houses were erected on the site (Maitland, p. 736). These still exist although sadly mutilated and may be identified as the

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west of Durham House Yard, formerly occupied by Messrs. Coutts's Bank.

Exeter Change was an entirely different building although originating as one of the imitators that the success of the "New Exchange" late in the seventeenth century occasioned. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's allusion to the "New Exchange" just predates its disreputable period. There is a view illustrating the boutiques or stalls of about this date in the illustrations to some periodical or novel as yet not identified. The title is 'The Unlucky Glance.' I am not familiar with any view of the exterior. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

R. DALTON BARHAM (12 S. vii. 349).— Richard Harris Dalton Barham, eldest son of the author of the 'Ingoldsby Legends,' matriculated at Oriel College on Mar. 12, 1834, aged 18; B.A. 1838; Rector of Lolworth, co. Cambridge, 1839-75; and died Apr. 28, 1886. He wrote the 'Life and Letters of R. H. Barham; with Selections from his Miscellaneous Poems,' 2 vols., 8vo, 1870; and the ‘Life and Remains of Theodore Hook' (his father's friend), 2 vols.,. sm. 8vo, 1849. A. R. BAYLEY.

Richard Harris Dalton Barham was the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham, the author of the Ingoldsby Legends.' He was born at Westwell, Kent, October, 1815, and was educated at St. Paul's School, London, and at Oriel Coll., Oxon., B.A. 1838. He was Rector of Lolworth, Cambs, from 1839-75. For the last twenty-three years of his life he lived at Dawlish, where he died April 28, 1886. He published the Life of T. E. Hook,' in 1849, and the 'Life and Letters of his father in 1870. So far as I am aware no collected poems of his were ever published.

H. G. HARRISON.

R. Dalton Barham was the eldest, and sole surviving, son of "Thomas Ingoldsby."

Richard Harris Dalton Barham, born in 1815, was for many years Rector of Lolworth, near St. Ives (Hunts), and being fragile in health retired to South Devon, dying at Dawlish on Apr. 28, 1886. He was the author of a ‘Life of Theodore Hook in 1848: and of one of his father, Richard Harris Barham, in 1870-a later (and slightly altered) edition of which appeared in 1880.

Besides the fugitive pieces which appeared

Barham wrote a short story entitled 'The Rubber of Life,' which appeared in 1841 and was reprinted in 1854. Mr. Barham also designed a frontispiece ('The Spectre of Tappington ') to his father's 'Legends.'

R. B.

Notes on Books.

Four Plays of Gil Vicente. Edited from the editio princeps (1562), with Translation and Notes by Aubrey F.G. Bell. (Cambridge University Press, 17. net.)

THE student of European literature, even if he do DOMESTIC HISTORY IN THE NINETEENTH not occupy himself specially with Portuguese, must CENTURY (12 S. vii. 191, 216, 257, 295).-After-find a place in his mental picture of the whole for

noon tea dates back much earlier than 1857, though it may have been, and probably was, an occasional rather than a daily custom. See p. 7 of David Garrick's 'Peep behind the Scenes, 1772, where this passage occurs :"First woman: You and I will drink a dish of tea together in comfort this afternoon."

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Gil Vicente. And, whatever be his main study, remote background, where details become vague, that place should not be fixed somewhere in the and the poet's significance meagre. For Gil Vicente has three or four good claims to high consideration. To the curious, he presents a set of personal problems-in which respect his life not a littleresembles Shakespeare's. What we know about him amounts to little. Yet that little has recently been increased and the accounts given in encyclopaedias and text books now require certain corrections in the light of new study-notably, the discoveries and the arguments of Senhor Anselmo Braamcamp Freire. There was a goldsmith, Gil Vicente, and, contemporaneously, a poet Gil Vicente. There has been a readiness to make of these two separate persons; but more accurate information and better considered criticism now identify them, though here and therearises cause for doubt. It would seem too that descriptions of Gil Vicente as a student of jurisprudence, or a learned person of any kind, have now to be dismissed as without foundation. The commonly given dates of his birth and death. should also be revised: Aubrey Bell in his Introduction, suggests c. 1465 to 1536 or 1537, instead of

1475 or 1480 to 1557.

Although his origin and family and many questions of date and place remain full of obscurity, we possess a good deal of picturesque detail and anecdote as to his life at the Portuguese Court, and its many successes and vicissitudes; and there is much of an interesting nature to be traced out and surmised, from allusions and familiarities in his work, concerning his probable rustic origin. He was actor too, as well as playwright; and in all this, yet again, offers obvious matter for comparison with Shakespeare.

Above all, however, Vicente is a great poet; he wants indeed little of being among the few greatest. So wide is his range, so fearless and stinging his wit, so vivid his presentment of character, and so perfect does he show himself in delicacy, music, and imagination in his flights of lyrical poetry that it is worth learning Portuguese for the sake of reading him. The work before us should then receive attention and a welcome. Mr. Bell's Introduction deals fully and competently, and in the light of the most recent work on the subject, with the poet's life and plays, his quality as dramatist and poet, and his position in literature.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (12 S. vii. The Plays offered-text and English translation 351).3. Thou. for my sake, at Alla's shrine, And I-at any God's for thine!

are the words ending an address from Hinda to Hafed in the Fire Worshippers (Lalla Kookh,' by Thomas Moore) They are the 310th and 311th lines of the fourth division of the poem.

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in parallel columns-are the Auto da Alma,' the Exhortação da Guerra,' the Farsa dos Almocreves,' and the 'Tragicomedia Pastoril da Serra da Estrella.'

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(The discerning reader will perceive at once that smirch is wanted to rhyme with 'Church.) It was a pity to entangle oneself in a scheme which required such filling out as this.

Mr. Aubrey Bell compares the 'Auto da Alma' to the Dream of Gerontius,' aptly, we think. though the comparison, after the correspondences have been seen. resolves itself into a contrast.

Vicente's qualities and limitations as a dramatist and something of his character as a man, are more plainly to be seen in the other three plays of this volume. His patriotism, his skill in expressing magnificence, his pleasant roughness, and his lyrical eloquence come out in the Exhortation to War' in the farce of The Carriers' we have his turn of satire, sharp and yet good-humoured, having for its object the poor nobleman who strives to keep up an appearance of grandeur. The pastoral is a simple production which owes its charm to the peculiar quality of Vicente's genius. None of these has plot; and in all the characters are types rather than individuals: but types very vividly portrayed.

Mr. Bell supplies a few good notes, a bibliography and a list of the proverbs which appear in Gil Vicente's works.

Johnson Club Papers. By Various Hands. Second Series. (Fisher Unwin, 10s. 6d. net.) WE have read these papers with great interest and cordially commend them to the innumerable lovers of the great Doctor outside that bodyguard of his memory, the Johnson Club.

True members of the Club all the writers approve themselves, first by their affectionate study of him and all topics and persons connected with him, and secondly by the success with which each in turn carries over to the reader the familiar, but yet ever-fresh, sense of Johnson's genius and character. Perhaps no old student will find much that is new to him in these pages so far as hard facts go-but he will find a convenient account of many subjects, one or two interesting originals not very easily accessible otherwise, as well as pages of pleasant reading.

Of the contributors to this volume the Club has to mourn the loss of three. Henry B. Wheatley's paper on 'Johnson's Monument and Parr's Epitaph on Johnson' is one of the first that readers will turn to. It contains the text of a letter from Parr to Boswell, of December, 1791, not hitherto printed. A study of Johnson's expletives could not but furnish entertaining material, and this composes the essay by Spencer Leigh Hughes. Sir George Radford had contributed a most interesting

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Dr. Johnson's relations with persons represented here principally by papers on Dr. Dodd' (by Sir Chartres Biron), Lord Monboddo (by Mr. Edward Clodd), and Sir Joshua Reynolds' (by Mr. L. C. Thomas). His opinions on Ireland and on the nature of Liberty have a peculiar interest at the moment: they are dealt with respectively by Mr. John O'Connor and Mr. E. S. P. Haynes. What Johnson might have done or been if the course of his life and opinions had taken a slightly different turn, is a more interesting question than it proves itself in most cases-more profitable too, for the unfulfilled possibilities of Johnson make up a great part of his force. Mr. Roscoe's Dr. Johnson and the Law,' and Sir Charles Russell's Dr. Johnson and the Catholic Church' illustrate this well. Mr. A. B. Walkley discusses Johnson and the Theatre with all the liveliness, suggestiveness and abundance of information that his readers have learned to expect of him. The most intimate of the essays is that by Mr. H. S. Scott on Johnson's Character as shown in his Writings -by which is intended the actual self-portraiture therein detected or confessed.

Obituary.

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY. WITH very deep regret do we learn the death of this accomplished writer of verse and student of literature, who has been for many years contributor and a warm friend to N. & Q. It occurred at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, on the 2nd inst., in her 59th year. The only child of General P. R. Guiney, she was born in Boston, U.S.A, and educated in America, but has resided much in England, connecting herself especially with Oxford. Her original work, from 1885 onwards, runs to several volumes both of prose and verse-of the latter, England and Yesterday,' may be specially mentioned; and she has edited selections from James Clarence Mangan, Dr. T. W. Parson's Translation of Dante, and Vaughan's Mount of Olives.' keenness as a scholar was not greater than her generosity as a critic; she had the gift of bracing praise; and there must be many whose literary efforts will lose half their zest for the lack of her ready sympathy.

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EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The PubLondon, E.C.4.; corrected proofs to the Athenæuni lishers"-at the Office, Printing House Square, Press, 11 and 13 Bream's Buildings, E.C.4.

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CORRIGENDA.-Ante p. 320, col. 1, 1. 27, for “Bishop Branlingham" read Bishop Brantingham -P. 358, col. 1. 1. 11. for "thrummers" read thrummes.— P. 378, col. 2, 1. 5 from bottom, for "Bernhard

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