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"wanting reasonableness, propriety, issue; (3) Elizabeth, married Francis, fifth solidity." It is probable that the word Baron Willoughby of Parham (she died in should properly be simply sleeve, without 1661, leaving surviving three daughters, viz., the terminal less, which would seem to have Diana, Frances, and Elizabeth, all of grown out of the negative meaning of a word, whom married, but the eldest died s.p.; the radical sense of which had become the line of Frances became early extinct; obsolete. Thus O.N. sliofr, Dan. slör while Elizabeth, who married Richard Jones, dull, inactive, blunt; Sw. sló dull, Earl of Ranelagh, is now represented by deadened, inert, barren. Lord De Ros); (4) Frances, married second As for the interchange of the sleeve and the Viscount Saye and Sele, and is now repreglove between Diomed and Cressida, Shake-sented by her heir general the Lord Saye and speare there introduces a custom. Gloves and sleeves were both frequently worn in war as the token of esteem from a lady love. Hall, the chronicler, in a notice of a tournament of the time of Henry VIII. says:"One part had their plumes at whyt, another hadde them at redde, and the thyrde had them of several colours. One ware in his headpiece his ladies sleeve, and another bare on hys healm the glove of his dearlynge."

TOM JONES.

"TELLING" NUMBERS (11 S. v. 390).-A long and interesting series of examples of telling numbers in various parts of the world was published in The Daily News a year or two ago. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

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'BITE AGAIN, AND BITE BIGGER (11 S. v. 369).-There used to be a saying, "Bite bigger, Billy," used as sarcastic comment when any tall" tale was told. "Bite bigger, Billy," occurs in a dialect recitation, I believe; probably the one which MR. JAMES W. WALKER asks about. In one of the children's monthly papers-The Children's Friend, I think-many years ago there was an illustration of two children, the girl holding an apple to the boy, entitled Bite Bigger, Billy,' and having, I think, a few verses with it. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

I certainly read a story based on this expression in The Band of Hope Review in the early sixties. Whether it was told in rime or not I cannot recall. But I think its title was, 'Bite Bigger, Billy.'

JOHN T. PAGE.

EDWARD CECIL, VISCOUNT WIMBLEDON (11 S. v. 428).-The senior representative of this nobleman is somewhat obscure, but it is not difficult to point out the line of research. He left four daughters his coheirs (1) Dorothy, who died in France in 1652, unmarried; (2) Albinia, wife of Sir Christopher Wray of Barlings Abbey, co. Lincoln, Knight, who died in 1646, leaving

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The senior coheirship, of course, fell to the descendants of Albinia, the second daughter, and Sir Christopher Wray. They had a large family of six sons and six daughters. The male line is extinct, but the heirship eventually vested in the descendants of the granddaughters of Lady Albinia through her eldest son, Sir William, who died in 1669. There were five of these coheiresses of their brothers, viz.: (1) Olympia, senior next of kin to her brother Sir William who died unmarried; (2) Margaret, the Wray, who died in 1686. She married Rev. James Jeffreys, D.D., Prebendary of Canterbury, younger brother of Judge Jeffreys. He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, him many years, being buried as 6 Sept., 1689, aged 40. His wife survived Jeffreys, widow," 21 Sept., 1723. Margaret There were two children of the marriage, both baptized in the Cathedral, viz., Tufton (a daughter), bapt. 29 March, 1688, buried 31 Dec., 1689, and John, bapt. 22 Aug., 1689. What became of the latter I have failed to discover, but he was probably the father of Dr. Jeffreys, residentiary of St. Paul's in 1799, who is said by Burke (Extinct Peerage,' sub Jeffreys of Wem') to have been grandson of the Prebendary of Canterbury and Margaret Wray. If this be so, then in his issue (if any) now vests the senior co-representation of Lord Wimbledon. Failing this, we have the three younger sisters of Margaret. These were: (3) Albinia, said to have married after 1680 Lewis. (4) Tufton, wife of Sir James Montagu, Chief Baron of the Exchequer (d. 1712), who left an only daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir Clement Wearg, Solicitor-General, who died in 1726. His widow survived till 1746, but died s.p. (5) Drury, the youngest sister, married to Sir William Sanderson, Bart. His male line failed in 1760, but he had a daughter Tufton who was twice married-first, to a Capt. Barrie; secondly, to Alexander Horton of the Grove, Buckingham. W. D. PINK.

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with telling them, very truly, that synonyms are words that express different shades of a common meaning. No two words in the English language express identically the same meaning.' Then, in the body of the work, he offers them articles like this, taken at random :

"Care, O.E. cearu; O. Sax. kara sorrow. "1. Bitterness, want, need, burden, load, fret, hardship, misgiving, mistrust, fear, dread, watch, heedfulness, forethought, watchfulness, heed, thrift, husbandry, keep, yearning, longing. "2. Anxiety, trouble, distress, affliction, irritation, apprehension, solicitude, scruple, devotion, alarm, vigilance, attention, circumspection, prudence, precaution, minuteness, frugality, economy, duty, concern, charge, custody, ward, pressure, diffidence."

Many of these words are, of course, not in any 15 care true sense synonyms of at all, while to fling them all in a heap before the presumably unlearned reader to whom the Preface is directed is actually to promote that depraving of words by the obliteration of their finer distinctions which every lover of a language deplores and resists.

MESSRS. JACK'S "People's Books" go Mr. Nevinaccumulating, as we are glad to see. son's Growth of Freedom is a fine book, touched with the writer's idealism, and mindful of the many-sidedness of human life, so that other aspects of freedom than the merely political one are duly recognized. The only unsatisfactory thing is, we think, the slightness, after the first chapter, of his treatment of authority, a principle related to psychological facts as real and profound as those concerned with freedom. Mr. Hilary Hardinge's Julius Cæsar is a clever, lively, and, for popular purposes, adequate presentment of the most fascinating career of the Western world. The point being to render something of the personality of Cæsar and to define his achievement, the slurring over of difficulties and the reduction of technicalities to a minimum were perfectly legitimate, even though they will strike the classical scholar as amateurish. Seeing how much has hinged on imperium and imperator, the exact meaning of these words to a Roman of Caesar's day should surely have been brought out more carefully. Francis Bacon, by Prof. Skemp, records The omission is typical.-The Foundations of Science, by Mr. Whetham, is a masterly piece of Bacon's Days of Preparation,' Days of Struggle,' work-one of the best we have seen in the whole Days of Prosperity,' and The Days of Adseries. humble He gives us a history of the progress,versity,' and tells how his life ended in " and states the present situation, of the physical, and faithful service.' Two chapters treat of his New Atlantis' and biological, and psychological sciences with a Philosophy, and of the Essays. In reference to style Prof. Skemp says: singularly happy judgment in his selection from "In Bacon's greatness as the vast mass of material at his hand. In our orator lies the desire that the book should be widely read, we secret of his characteristic greatness as a writer.. regret the frequent use of unexplained technical All his work directly addresses an audience.. terms and "long words," which to the very Read aloud any passage from the English philoreaders for whom this elementary survey of sophical works, and you hear the splendid and science would be the greatest boon may prove sonorous harmonies of great speech; read aloud a little too puzzling. the essays, and you hear the rattle and crack of quick debate."

Prof. Baly's Inorganic Chemistry possesses all the advantages which flow from a knack of easy, lucid writing, almost as good as speech; its method of presentation betrays at once the practised teacher. Those who, lacking opportunities for mastering the elements of chemistry in the ideal way, i.e., by means of direct instruction and experiment, nevertheless feel the need of some knowledge of the subject, could hardly do better than master the contents of this book, which is sufficiently detailed to constitute a body of real information, yet does not offer a task beyond the powers of any one who properly knows how to read.

A considerably stiffer exercise in imaginative thought is provided by Dr. Phillips's Radiation, a subject in which, so far as science goes, the possibility of acquiring real knowledge by mere reading is perhaps reduced to its very minimum. Yet the reader who, coming more or less ignorant bolt to the subject, refuses to "these pages and waits to read a following chapter till he has digested the one before it, will not go unrewarded for his pains.

We confess ourselves unable to discover the purpose which the Dictionary of Synonyms, by Mr. Austin K. Gray, was intended to serve. The essay at the beginning can only be of use to persons whose realization of what constitutes a language is extremely imperfect; and the writer starts out

In England in the Middle Ages Mrs. E. O'Neill gives in brief but interesting form the history of the period from the Norman settlement to the break up of the Middle Ages.

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In his account of Lord Kelvin's Life and Work Dr. A. Russell states that he has attempted to describe the scientific work in simple language, but, owing to the very advanced and abstruse nature of much of Kelvin's work, he is conscious that some of it will remain obscure to the general reader. He will be happy, however, if anything he has written induces the reader to make a further study of the subject in Kelvin's original memoirs." We feel sure that many of Dr. Russell's readers will do as he suggests, for the memoir is a most attractive one, in which we failed to find obscurity.

Hurley, by Gerald Leighton, forms the subject of another delightful memoir. Prof. Leighton has "indicated in a general way the main directions of Huxley's activity," and he advises those who want more complete details to read the pathetic biography of him written by his wife." The chapters How Others Saw Him' and The Place of Huxley' are all that can be desired.

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One never tires of reading about The Brontës, and Miss Flora Masson has written an attractive sketch, which should please and instruct many readers. At the close reference is made to the changes in Haworth since the Brontë days, when, as we remember, the nearest railway station was Keighley, and one had to take a steep stony walk of four miles to reach Haworth.

Now there is a railway station there," and the old place is much changed. The church has been rebuilt, the parsonage has been improved'; the very moors are not what they were when Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell walked on them with their arms about each other's waists. But Haworth will always be known as the home of the Brontës."

Messrs. Jack deserve all praise for this delightful series. The sections include Philosophy and Religion, History, Science, Social and Economic, and Letters. The little volumes, printed in clear type on good paper and with neat cloth binding, should find a home where books are scarce, and also a place in libraries by the side of larger works on corresponding subjects. Most of the volumes contain a chronology and a list of works referred to. We can only repeat what we have already said of "We have "The People's Books": never come across a more wonderful sixpenny

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Lord Hugh Cecil's book 'Conservatism' should do good service in helping to disentangle the essential nature and function in the State of the principle of "Conservatism "-though, as to his criticism of this particular writer, his avowed Erastianism seems to us to have proved rather disabling. Mr. Benjamin Taylor's Labour and Socialism' is a résumé of the outstanding facts of industrial history during the last few years, and a comprehensive review of the present situation.

The Cornhill Magazine begins a new serial by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, of which the first chapters, if somewhat long drawn out, are graceful in the dialogue, and not deficient in humour. Dr. Fitchett's sketch of Sir John Jones's career A Peninsular Veteran '-is drawn from Jones's Autobiography,' of which twelve copies only for family perusal.' were printed Jones is a most heroic and amiable figure, well deserving renewed remembrance. It is grievous to think that his fighting career was cut short, and severe suffering entailed upon him by sheer callousness on the part of Wellington. Wellington, however, of whom many anecdotes are here related, does not always appear in so unfavourable a light. Another military study is The Hill,' by Taprell Dorling, a strong and vivid description of the way in which the Japanese, in the late war with Russia, got possession of the height which was the key to the position at Port Arthur. ghastly exploit by which at last success was assured can, we think, hardly be paralleled in the history of war, for cool invention and bravery. Mr. Joseph Bridge contributes an amusing paper on Mr. Pepys and his Office-boys'; and in A New Ascent,' by Mr. G. Winthrop Young, we have the account of a climb up the northern face of the Weisshorn. The vivid and exquisite moments that make up the real character of a mountain climb escape," the writer tells us, "recollection."

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In this month's Fortnightly Review the most important literary contribution is Mr. Edmund Gosse's Rousseau in England in the Nineteenth Century,' a careful and detailed study of veerings in public opinion, operated to a more considerable extent than might have been supposed by articles in The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, though caused by deeper-going facts connected alike with external history and developments of national character. Mr. Gosse would evidently welcome a revival among us of interest in Rousseau, and to that end recommends a study of Mrs. Macdonald's recent work on the subject. Lord Rosebery's The Coming of Bonaparte' was written originally as Preface to the late M. Vandal's book L'Avènement de Bonaparte,' on its appearance in an English edition. In it he sweeps the reader on, by rapid and trenchant sentences, over the history of Napoleon as far as Marengo, studding the narrative with epigrams. There are two studies of women, both of the "adventuress order: Mr. Francis Gribble's lively Napoleon and Mlle. Montansier,' in which Napoleon's share is naturally very subordinate; and The Princess Tarakanova,' by Prince Bariatinsky, which sets out vividly the particulars of that tragic story, but provides no solution of its mystery. Romance versus Reality,' directed against Mr. Bernard Shaw, though much of it borders on the trite, has several good remarks e.g., "There is no dramatizing of a society without a sympathetic grasp of its true ideals and successes -a sentence which expresses the secret of the failure of many a comedy. The Centenary of the Battle of Salamanca' consists of two vivid, humorous, and gallant letters from a young lieutenant who went through the action. He admired Scott, and phrases from The Lay of the CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forLast Minstrel' crop up oddly in the midst of his description. Sir Gilbert Parker's Life-Pieces warded to other contributors should put on the top i in Arizona' is a string of incident and character-left-hand corner of their envelopes the number of sketches drawn with all that vigorous humour the page of 'N. & Q' to which their letters refer, and that manner of good-fellowship which his so that the contributor may be readily identified. readers have long since learnt to expect from him. The political articles concerned with external affairs treat of Lord Kitchener's work in Egypt (Sir George Arthur), the new Chinese Republic (Mr. Robert Machray), and Imperial policy and foreign relations (Mr. Archibald Hurd). Mr. Arthur Baumann's exposition of

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Sir Henry Lucy's Sixty Years in the Wilderness' gives us first the story of a great schism that is, of Mr. Chamberlain's breaking away from his old party-and then a series of Memories,' chiefly connected with political personages, but including a ghost-story, and an amusing account of the exploits on the moors of a London editor. Mr. Whetham's paper Electricity, Positive and Negative,' sets forth with admirable lucidity Sir Joseph Thomson's application of photography to the study of electrical discharges-the latest triumphs of physics in the direction of discovering the relations between electricity and matter.

Notices to Correspondents.

M. L. R. BRESLAR (" Oft in the stilly night ").The words are Moore's, and may be found in many albums of songs.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT ("Fighting like devils for conciliation ").—See 8 S. x. 273, 340, 404; xi. 13, 255, 371.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1912.

CONTENTS.-No. 133.

NOTES:-Sir William Jones's "On Parent Knees" Quat-
rain, 21-Cobbett Bibliography, 22-Stewart: Freeman:
Day: Pyke, 25-Runic Inscriptions on Crosses in the Isle
of man-"By a fluke," 26 -Buntingford Bell-"Visto
"Vista"-Father Constable, O.S. B., 27.

that a prose version of the substance of the quatrain had been published by Galland in his 'Paroles remarquables, &c., des Orientaux,' of which there was an edition at the Hague in 1694. (There is another dated 1701.) In the same year, also in N. & Q.,' S. R. (the late Samuel Robinson) pointed out (5 S. xi. 430) that Barbier de Meynard had given, in a lecture on Persian QUERIES:-Antonio de Ulloa-John Houghton's List of poetry (Paris, 1877), a French version of Painters-Wilkes and the Acorn- Brand of Polstead, Suffolk-Shakespeare on the Pain of Death-Sir Josceline the quatrain, and had, on the supposed Blount, 28-Great Glemham, Suffolk Author Wanted- authority of Defrémery, ascribed the authorPorson and the Greek Anthology-Pilfold of Effingham ship to Saiyid Ahmad Hatif of Ispahan, -Copper Mine in Devonshire-Delafield Arms, 29-The Coopers and John Hoskins-Milton Portrait by Samuel who is a Persian poet of the last quarter Cooper-Sir Thomas Browne and Ptolemy-Gloucester of the eighteenth century. B. de Meynard House, South Lambeth-"Yorker" at Bridge - Abel an his authority as article by Gower of Boughton St. John-William Stampe, D.D.- gave Silk Weavers' Company, Dublin, 30. Defrémery in the Journal Asiatique for REPLIES:-Brodribb of Somerset: Sir Henry Irving, 30-February-March, 1856. But, as my friend Campione and the Ambrosian Rite-Incidents at Dettingen-Barnards of Pirton, Oxford-MS. of Bishop Henry Mr. Ellis of the India Office has shown King's Poems-Trussel Family-Londres: Londinium, 32 me, De Meynard is mistaken in supposing -Gordon of Glenbucket-"Shieve"-Vanishing London: that Defrémery attributed the quatrain Proprietary Chapels-Penleaze, 33-Nicolaus Mysticusto Hatif. All that Defrémery said was Dragoon Regiments: Band-Rembrandt and Menasseh Ben Israel-Knights of Malta: Grand Master Vilhenathat the quatrain-which has verbal difOmar Khayyám's 'Rubáiyát,' 34-A Norman "Motte ferences from the Persian as published by 44 Honest Millers - Shire": Theory its DerivationAuthors of Quotations Wanted, 35- Wiltshire Phrases Jones in the Asiatic Miscellany (vol. ii. -Curiosities of the Gregorian Calendar-Breton SongMaster of Garraway's, 38-Dr. Fell: Martial-"Statio P. 374 of the Calcutta edition of 1785-6)— was one of two which had been given to him No doubt by his teacher, M. Jouannin. De Meynard's mistake is due to Defrémery's article having dealt with Hatif's poetry, and given specimens of his verses. Meynard inferred from this that the two quatrains given by Jouannin-or at least one of them-should also be attributed to Hatif. But, as a matter of fact, neither Jouannin nor Defrémery said this, and it is quite certain that one of the two is not by him, for it is given by Daulat Shah as the work of Pindar of Rey (Rhages), a very early Persian poet. I refer to the quatrain about there being two days on which no man should be concerned about death (Prof. Browne's edition of Daulat Shāh, p. 43).

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SIR WILLIAM JONES'S “ON PARENT KNEES" QUATRAIN. THERE has been much discussion in ' N. & Q.' about the Persian original of this quatrain, but the author has not yet been discovered. An important contribution was made in May, 1873, by a lady who signed herself LOUISA JULIA NORMAN. She pointed out (at 4 S. xi. 451) that an Arabic version of the quatrain was published in 1796 by the Rev. J. D. Carlyle in his Specimens of Arabian Poetry.' Mr. Carlyle suggested that the Arabic was the original of Jones's "Persian," but he did not state in what book

or manuscript he had found the Arabic. Both the Arabic and the Persian, together with Jones's translation, will be found in the Rev. Claud Field's Dictionary of Oriental Quotations,' London, 1911. In November, 1879, an Anglo-Indian Orientalist, C. Ross, stated at 5 S. xii. 417,

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There is no copy of Hatif's poems (Diwan) in the British Museum or the India Office, but there is one in the Bodleian, and another I in the Rylands Library, Manchester. have examined the Bodleian copy, and the quatrain is not there. I have not seen the Rylands copy, but it is unlikely that it contains the Jones quatrain, for the manuscript in question belonged formerly to Nathaniel Bland. He used it when he published ten of Hatif's Odes in his Century of Persian Ghazels,' and it is improbable that this elegant scholar would have omitted to see and refer to the remarkable Jones quatrain, had he found it in his copy.