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SEALS OF THOMAS, FIRST MARQUIS OF DORSET (11 S. vi. 330).-The first legend I should decipher: "Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, husband of Cicely Harington Bonvile" (daughter of Lord Bonville and Harrington); the second: Sir Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset, son of Elizabeth Widvile (daughter of Richard Widvile, Earl of Rivers). The latter lady is, of course, Elizabeth Woodville, consort of Edward IV. See 'Burke's Peerage,' 8.v. 'Stamford,' pp. 1494-5. N. W. HILL.

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HOGARTH'S 'RAKE'S PROGRESS': 'THE BLACK JOKE (11 S. vi. 189, 311).-Another and nearly contemporary reference to this song is in Smollett, Roderick Random,' chap. liii. The Captain, during the coach ride to Bath, is boasting of his valour at Dettingen :

Notes on Books.

Whitaker's Almanack, 1913. (Whitaker & Sons.)
Whitaker's Peerage, 1913. (Same publishers.)
The International Whitaker, 1913. (Same pub-
lishers.)

HEARTY New Year greetings to the two old friends,
and a cordial welcome to the new one, for the
reference all through the year.
three will be on our writing-table ready for

The pages of the Almanack' grow with the years; that for 1912 contained 856, while the total of this is 1,052. This increase has been partly occasioned by articles dealing with the Insurance Act, economic questions connected with public and private wealth, Labour unrest in the ions, and the Rates of London. world, Labour conciliation in the British Domin6 The Almanack' courts suggestions, and "the universal demand for the restoration of the tables dealing with the devolution of Intestates' Estates will be found to have been met in the present issue." The obituary includes Robert Barr, novelist, and jointfounder of The Idler; Bigelow, American author; General Booth, founder of the Salvation Army; Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of the novelist; Principal Fairbairn; the Emperor of Japan; Labouchere, founder of Truth; Andrew Lang; Lister, discoverer of the antiseptic treatment; Justin McCarthy, author of History of our Own who committed suicide as an act of devotion to Times'; General Nogi, Japanese commander, his late Emperor; Prof. Skeat; Mrs. Arthur Stannard (John Strange Winter"); and Stead, editor of The Review of Reviews. The largest amount recorded for probate is the will of Archibald Coats, head of the Paisley firm, 1,365, 1327.

'Whitaker's Peerage' states that new honours have increased by seventeen the number of pages in this its seventeenth annual issue. At the suggestion of a correspondent, the latest rules issued by the Lord Chamberlain as to the wearing of orders, medals, &c., at public entertainments have been incorporated in the Introduction, and should be found useful; and it is noted that the expected issue of the Official Roll of Baronets from the Home Office has not taken place, though "it is hoped that this will not be much longer delayed by the necessity of awaiting the final decision of the Privy Council in the few doubtful cases which still remain." Under' Native Indian and North African Names and Titles' an explanation is given of the titles of native Indian Knights, and several authorities on this complicated

PERCEVAL LUCAS.

PRICE OF TOBACCO IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (11 S. vi. 268, 336, 413, 477). In the diary of Sir Humphry Mildmay of Danbury, Essex, running from 1633 to 1666, there is an entry of "Tobacco 18. an ounce." And in the account - book of Grace, Lady Mildmay, wife of Sir Anthony Mildmay of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, there is an entry in July, 1598, of 58. for tobacco pipes. H. A. ST. J. M.

but the

'The International Whitaker' is an entirely new book. This "Commercial Handbook for all Nations" should find favour; the plan is excellent, and the vast amount of information contained in its five hundred pages has evidently been gathered with great labour and care; editor in his Preface says that "there is no finality in the scope or arrangement of the book as it now appears," and welcomes suggestions and criticisms. We venture to think that The International Whitaker' will prove as big a graphical Note' and a speaking likeness of the success as our older friends. There is a Bio

founder of the Almanack.'

Who's Who, 1913. (A. & C. Black.) Englishwoman's Year-Book, 1913. (Same publishers.)

The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book, 1913. (Same publishers.)

IT cannot now be said that "the world knows nothing of its greatest men." Who's Who' and the public press have long since prevented that possibility. This is the sixty-fifth year of issue of Who's Who,' and, owing to the continually increasing number of biographies, more pages are required every year. The alteration in size is a great improvement. What a contrast this book is to the first volume of the kind issued, a small book entitled Men of the Time! published by David Bogue (afterwards the work passed to Kent & Co.) In the edition of 1858 the men numbered only 710, including foreign sovereigns; while the Women of the Time' were but 75.

son

The Englishwoman's Year-Book' also adds issue by issue to the valuable information it contains, and should be read and possessed by all who desire to know the part taken by women in public or social life. The first section is devoted to Education,' and shows how during the last fifteen years the whole position of education in England has altered, great developments having taken place in every direction. There is a short article on Women's Suffrage,' tracing the history of the question from 1832, when the word "male" introduced before " perrestricted the Parliamentary suffrage to men. The first Women's Suffrage Societies were formed in London, Manchester, and Edinburgh in 1867, and in Bristol and Birmingham in 1868. Of the twenty-one existing in England, seven are militant. Under Employment and Professions' eighty for women are described. reference is made to the revival of morris-dancing during recent years. The Industrial Section contains statistics and articles on the various occupations under that heading. A section is also devoted to Temperance.' All the articles bear witness to the pains taken by the specialists who have written them, many of whose names are mentioned in the Preface. Miss G. E. Mitton again deserves praise for her careful editing, which has evidently been a labour of love.

developments in the domain of print-collecting, and although in Whitman's lifetime five editions of this work were published, health did not allow him to undertake the extensive revision required. This has now been successfully done by Mr. Salaman. One great development has been the increased interest taken in old English colour-prints. Mrs. Frankau performed "the pioneer work with her sumptuous volume Eighteenth-Century ColourPrints.' Since then, colour-prints, both English and French, have advanced enormously in favour," and "the sensational prices of twelve years ago sound quite modest to-day." Another development has been the anxiety of collectors to acquire French line engravings of the later decades of the eighteenth century; these, and colour-prints, are very meagrely represented in the British Museum."

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Mr.

Mr. Salaman has also extended the scope of There is a the work by including modern art. chapter that will prove of practical use to buyersthat on The Money Value of Prints.' Salaman advises the collector "to gain his information as he goes along, and one of the best ways in which he can build up his knowledge is auction rooms, looking by frequenting the through the portfolios when the prints are on view, carefully noting the quality of the impressions offered, and watching the bidding and the prices realized."

The last chapter of the book Mr. Salaman devotes to "giving the amateur an introduction to the national collections of prints and drawings that are carefully preserved, for the public use and enjoyment, both at the British Museum and at the Victoria and Albert Museum-the former being in some respects unsurpassed by any other cabinet in Europe.'

The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book,' also edited by Miss Mitton, continues to supply useful information. The advice given as to MSS. is

excellent.

are

room

This was

On the 23rd of June, 1887, the handsome at the British Museum was opened, and it is visited by more than seven thousand students annually. Besides this room, there several where prints are stored, while some of the most treasured possessions. are preserved in the officers' private studies. There is also a very fine exhibition gallery, specially fitted. opened in 1888, when an assemblage of Chinese and Japanese paintings, chiefly Japanese, was exhibited such as had never before been seen in the Western World." Among other exhibitions in this gallery have been Frau Wegener's collection of old Chinese paintings; etchings of Rembrandt; the mezzotints bequeathed by Lord Cheylesmore; and Dürer's prints. The collection has also been enriched by important bequests, such as 13,000 widow, and 150,000 specimens of book-plates bequeathed by Sir Wollaston Franks.

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PRINT-COLLECTORS will give a hearty welcome to the sixth edition of thisHandbook,' now revised and enlarged by Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman, who in his Introduction refers to the valued friend collectors lost when Alfred Whitman died, so kindly and helpful a guide was he, so glad and ready always to give generously of his extensive knowledge, suggesting to the student the right direction for his research, assisting to train the would-be collector in the way he should go, and clearing that way of the inevitable false scents.'

"

Since the work was written twelve years ago, there have been, as our readers know, important

hundred and eighty works. The volume contains a Bibliography of two

M. T. Varro on Farming. Translated, with Introduction, Commentary, and Excursus, by Lloyd Storr-Best. (Bell & Sons.)

THIS is a piece of work which should help in that reconstitution of classical learning which seems slowly going forward. From an almost exclusive interest in classical diction and abstract ideaswhich has in many cases run out to little better than an interest in grammar and äraέ λeyóμeva— we are coming to attend to the subject-matter of

the classical works remaining to us in a fresh and fruitful manner. From this point of view what is left to us of Varro is of a value almost unique. We trust the time will come when to set a boy to read the Georgics' without his having first read the Rerum Rusticarum' will seem an absurdity. Yet to plough through this mass of Varronian Latin would be but an absurdity of another kindwould be prolonging the old mistake of language first and subject-matter second. It is here that the use of a version will come in; and we congratulate Mr. Storr -Best on having produced one which should admirably serve all purposes. It is as pleasant to read as an original, while the close and careful notes perform, in a very satisfactory way, so much as is necessary of the functions of pure scholarship. More than that, the writer has dealt originally and successfully with more than one crux, and, in particular, we think he has proved his point with regard to the place of the dialogue in the second book and to the occasion, viz., the Palilia, being celebrated in Epirus. For "Palibus " in the archetype Mr. Storr-Best makes the brilliant suggestion of Pali bis; and he has also, we think, rightly explained the meaning of the "Seian" house. He gives an ingenious reconstruction of the aviary at Casinum.

This is a book which should find lodgment on many shelves. For, in noticing the excellence of the editor's work, we must not forget that the original in and for itself has much to offer, not only in the way of curious or antiquarian information, but also homely, practical counsel, and in illustration of methods still in use.

THE literary articles of the January Fortnightly Review are of unusual interest. Prof. Gerothwohl has a brilliant study of Alfred de Vigny in relation to Genius and Woman,' which is both more keen-sighted in its discrimination, and more choice and lively in style, than such other studies from his pen as we have seen. Mr. Maurice Hewlett's The Windows' is at least good reading, though the contribution he makes to the reader's imaginative wealth proves in the end slight. André Lafon, as we know, has been awarded the first Grand Prix de Littérature by the Académie Française for his Elève Gilles,' and Lady Theodora Davidson gives a welcome and sympathetic account of him and his book. Mr. F. G. Aflalo in Winter Travel' surveys the habitable regions of the world from the point of Sir Hubert von view of escape from England. Herkomer's Hints on Sketching from Nature should be useful, not only as furnishing technical "tips," but also as elucidating some of the broader principles often forgotten by the student in his pursuit of the fashion of the moment. Another paper which deserves attention is Mr. P. P. Howe's on St. John Hankin and his Comedy of Recognition.' The War and kindred subjects naturally fill many pages, and we may mention Mr. Henry Baerlein's article on Masters of the Southern Slav.'

The

The Cornhill Magazine for this month has a table of contents more than usually various. Judge Parry gives us some more scenes with John Honorius-3een presiding over the keeping of Christmas. Miss Edith Sellers, not without her rather pleasant occasional acridity, gives us A Question of Good Manners' (the giving up

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a seat to a lady), as discussed in a Finnish debating Society. Mr. Stanley J. Weyman's brief tribute to James Beresford Atlay is charming, sympathetic, and conspicuously well-considered. The sombre glamour of the East is represented by Sir E. C. Cox's Devilry of Ghoolam Rasool and another side of Indian life and affairs by Major G. F. MacMunn's 'Maharajpore and Punniar.' The story of the origin of the Ada Lewis Home, the home for women on the principles of a Rowton House, which was made possible by Mrs. Lewis's legacy of 50,000l. for that purpose, is related by Sir Algernon West. 'Found-An Actor,' by Miss Emily Buckingham, is a lively paper on the "discovery " of Edmund Kean; and Riders of the Plains,' by Miss Agnes Deans Cameron, is a description of the hardy, courageous life of the Mounted Police of North-West Canada. Mr. E. F. Benson begins a serial, Thorley Weir'; and Mrs. Henry de la Pasture's Michael Ferrys' is continued.

Style

The Nineteenth Century is also stronger than usual on the literary side. Prof. Tyrrell's in English Literature' brings us to no definite conclusion, but the instances quoted, and the amusing criticism of Stevenson's extravagances, and the mere method of the considerations, at least make for better insight into the problem. Mr. M. H. Spielmann's study of The Portraitur interesting piece of work. Mrs. Frederic Harrison of George Frederic Watts' is a thoroughly has Some Thoughts about the Novel' which are rather disjointed, and seem to us to prove but little. Among the most arresting of the articles we should reckon Mr. G. R. S. Mead's Mystical Experiments on the Frontiers of Early and Mr. M. A. R. Tuker's The Christendom The latter goes Gospel according to Prisca.' through the evidence which might be held to justify the attribution of the Epistle to the Hebrews to Prisca's household: the former deals with those names of mystery and romanceHermes Trismegistos and Iamblichu s, and with the so-called Hymn of Jesus' from the latest discovered fragments of the Acts of John.' We may notice briefly Mr. Walter Sichel's Disraeli: the Second Phase,' and Mr. T. Jamieson's paper on The Small Holdings Problem.'

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the unsettled times of the Civil War is a

difficult one. The lax methods of registering

births under the Commonwealth, too, mili-

tate against the searcher. Neither can

testamentary evidence of the most direct

character be brought to bear on the question,

since no will of Sir Christopher Milton nor

administration act is extant.

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He married Thomasin Webber (Masson,
i. 685). This lady we may presume to have
been a daughter of John Webber of St.
Clement Danes, "taylor" (buried there, as a
housekeeper,' 5 June, 1632), in whose
will, dated 16 July, 1625 (P.C.C. 67 Audley),
are mentioned a wife Isabel and a son
William, and daughters Anne, Isabel
Thomasin, and Katherine, all minors.
Webber, it appears, was a native of Broad-
hempston, Devon, and a man of some
substance. His widow was living in St.
Clement's Churchyard in 1645 (Masson,
iii. 437, 442).

I have not come across the record of
Thomasin Milton's death. Masson (vi.
762) confuses her with a daughter of the
same name. The issue of the marriage,
so far as I have ascertained, was as follows.
The numbering is arbitrary where un-

Booksellers' Catalogues.

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Notes.

THE FAMILY OF SIR CHRISTOPHER

MILTON.

(See 11 S. vi. 100.)

ACCORDING to the researches of the late

Prof. Masson, as recorded in his Life of

Milton (iii. 485-6), Christopher Milton, on

his marriage (? 1638), settled at Horton in

Buckinghamshire with his father, John

Milton the elder. Later (1641) he moved to

Reading; thence (about 1643) to Exeter;

then back to London, where in 1646 he was

in St. Clement Danes; and finally, before 1656

and after a period unaccounted for, to

Ipswich, or rather Rushmere, where he died.

He was buried at St. Nicholas's Church,

Ipswich, 22 March, 1692.

It will be agreed, I think, that the task

of tracing the births of his children in the
circumstances of such peregrinations during

1. Infant son. Buried at Horton, 26

March, 1639 (Masson, ii. 72).

2. Sarah Milton. Baptized at Horton,

11 Aug., 1640 (Masson, ii. 488).

3. Anne Milton. Baptized at St. Law-

rence's, Reading, 27 Aug., 1641 (Masson, ii.

489).

4. Christopher Milton. Buried at St.

Nicholas's, Ipswich, 12 March, 1667, as son

of "Mr. Melton esq"."

as

5. Thomas Milton of the Crown Office,

Deputy Clerk of the Crown. Baptized at

St. Clement Danes, 2 Feb., 1646/7; buried

at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, 17 Oct., 1694,

"Thomas Melton out of Fleet strete.'

Administration of his goods was granted

3 Dec., 1694, to his relict Martha (P.C.C.,

Act Book, fo. 229). The said Martha was

a daughter of Charles Fleetwood of North-

ampton (Masson, vi. 763). She married

again by licence, dated 27 May, 1696 (Fa-

culty Office), William Coward of St. Andrew's,

Holborn. Coward, who was M.D. and a

deistical writer, and is noticed in 'D.N.B.'

(without, however, any reference to his

Milton connexion), removed to Ipswich,

where his will was proved 20 April, 1724.

This document contains no mention

children of his wife either by himself or

of