the peninsula of Cantire, Argyllshire, is 2,170 feet high; although its name is omitted in the tables of the Scotch mountains and hills, that give altitudes down to that of Arthur's Seat, 823 feet high. CUTHBERT BEDE. In "going to and fro in the earth" I have often been perplexed to make proper distinction between a hill and a mountain. It is well, as a rule, to follow local usage; but the trials are many Not long since, I had the company of a Welsh gentleman in a walk out of Merthyr Tydfil, and he took me to an eminence some few hundred feet in height. "Do you call this a hill, or a mountain?" I asked. The answer was, "A mountain." Therefore, to avoid contention, I called the molehill a mountain, and shall hope to do so again. But, for my own convenience, and to establish something like a rule for conversational I have since determined that a mountain must have an altitude of one thousand feet, at least, above the surrounding plain, or whatever tableland or level it rises from. I should like to have the opinion of a few experienced travellers as to the propriety of this rule. SHIRLEY HIBBERD. purposes, The Rev. John Mitford was not without an authority for his choice of Prior's Poems as a present to a lady friend. Johnson was no great admirer of Prior, and does not hesitate to say that Hans Carvel is "not over decent "; but he said to Boswell, when the latter was posing as a guardian of public morality, "No, sir, Prior is a lady's book. No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library." (Boswell's Life, vol. vii. pp. 10, 11, Murray, 1835.) EDWARD H. MARSHALL. ANCIENT PORTRAITS IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS (5th S. xii. 324, 455; 6th S. ii. 150, 290).—A whole page engraving, said to be by R. Cooper, of the so-called "Monster," Renwick Williams, exactly resembling the portrait described at the last reference, may be found facing p. 265 of Wonderful Characters, published by John Camden Hotten. There is no date of publication on the title-page of the book, but in all probability it was issued about 1870. The book in question is chiefly an abridgment of, and compilation from, two larger works, James Caulfield's Portraits of Remarkable Persons, and Henry Wilson's Wonderful Characters. There is a short account of him given, and very likely the engraving was executed originally from a sketch taken at the time of his trial, in 1790. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "A COMMENTARY VPON DU BARTAS" (6th S. iii. 69).-Curiously enough, at the time of the publication of this query I was reading the book in question. While, however, I had independently made the conjecture that the T. L. part of the initials might stand for Thomas Lodge, I am by 66 no means so certain of the fact as A. S. seems to be, who, not having seen the book, says, "I have not the slightest doubt that it was by him." Neither do I think that Euphues' Golden Legacie and the like, or a Treatise on the Plague, or his translations of Josephus and Seneca, show that such a work was quite in his way." The copy in the British Museum (12202, h. 5) is "A learned summary [not "Comentary" as in the Stationers' Registers] upon. ... Translated out of the French [of Goulard de Senlis] by T. L. D. M. P. [Sold] by J. Grismand. 1621." At the ends of the "Dedication" and the "Address to the Reader" these initials are printed as T. L. D. M. P. and T. L. D. M. P. respectively. Now, Lodge's lighter and lesser works, those written earlier in his life, bear on their title-pages "by T. L. Gent," and even their later reprints, as of Euphues' Golden Legacie in 1616 and 1634, have the same, though occasionally we find "Thomas Lodge" at the end of the dedication or preface. But in his later and more serious works. enumerated above) the title-pages bear "by Thomas Lodge, Doctor of Physicke." Secondly, D. M. may stand for M.D., and P. for Paris, Pavia, or Padua. But Lodge graduated at Avignon, as witnessed by the note of his entry into the University of Oxford. Thirdly, in 1620 he reader of his being then busy in a manner which was revising his Seneca, and in it he speaks to the rather suggests that he was doing more in his profession than he had previously done. Lastly, I would repeat the Rev. Joseph Hunter's words. Speaking in his New Illustrations of Shakespeare, i. 334, of a Thomas Lodge, M.D., of those times, who married the widow of one Solomon Aldred, he says: "But there is still something wanting; some better proof than we yet possess that the scholar, lawyer, soldier, poet, translator of the classics, and physician, was one and the same Thomas Lodge." While echoing these words, I would add that, though they were the same, the T. L., even if he be M.D. of P., may well have been a T. L. otherwise unknown to fame; also that the four verse lines (evidently by the writer) which close Thomas Lodge's "Address to the Reader" before the Countesse of Lincolns Nurserie, 1603, do not read to me like the verses of Thomas Lodge the poet. Other copies of the Summary are Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1637," but whether these were a with a new title-page, I have not yet ascertained. new edition, or a reissue of unsold copies of 1621 There is no entry of "assignment" in the Stationers' Registers. A copy of the date 1637 is in the London Library. B. NICHOLSON. P.S.-I have just found that Lodge, in his Dedication and Address to the Reader before his Seneca, has "Tho. Lodge, D.M.P., or Doctor Medicus Phisicus." The Summary is therefore by Lodge. "COCK ROBIN" A SUBSTITUTE FOR "ROBERT"? (6th S. ii. 27, 155, 495).-Robin may have become a term of "affectionate endearment," but at first, as I shall endeavour to show, it meant a country fool, or at least a simpleton. In Barclay's translation of The Ship of Fools, Cawood, 1570, under the head of "Olde fooles, that is to say, the longer they liue, the more they are geuen to foly," is given an illustration of an old man on crutches, with one foot in the grave, and over his head is written "robin ye foule," f. 11. This inscription appears to have been put there by the translator's instructions, for it is not in the copy of the much earlier Latin version which I have. But I cannot speak confidently on this head, for there were so many early editions of this book in German and Latin that I have not seen them all. good liuyng, thei neither would resort or approch or reade the Scripture is not for loue of your soules (which "I write no ieste ne tale of Robin Hood, Thomas Heywood, writing a few years after Robert Toft, has left evidence, in his often-quoted lines, that he did not consider it a compliment or an affectionate term of endearment " to be called In The Academy of Compliments is the follow-"Robin" instead of Robert :ing dialogue : "Robin. Methinks I never saw a better platter face than thine in my life. Doll. Ay, is this your courting? Robin. Nay, be not angry; for I swear by my ingenuity, 'tis true. Doll. What, that I have a platter face? Doll. I think thou art a Robin by nature as well as name. Robin. Why, if I did not take you for a fool, I could not think you could love me; for I am as lanthorn-jaw'd as you are platter-fac'd."-Academy of Compliments (about 1660). 66 I wished also to give a passage from Chaucer of somewhat the same meaning, but am not able, because in a weak moment I allowed a friend to wheedle my favourite copy out of me a few weeks ago. 'He would value it so much, and it would be such a help to him, because it was full of my marks and marginal notes, and I had an old folio edition, so I could easily spare it." I did " spare it," and got a new one, and can't find anything I want in it. There's Robin Goodfellow. I should not suppose he was a particular "dear" of anybody's. "There was also Robin Hood," some one may say. So there was; and whatever we may think about him now, Robin Hood was decidedly "low" three or four hundred years back. I do not know one complimentary allusion to him by a person of education or position, but many much the reverse. "When Diogenes on a certain time treatyng, and making a declaracion of an earnest and saige matter of Philosophie, had not one hearer, that would giue diligente eare vnto him, he begun to sing soch another foolish song as (Robin Hood in Barnsdale stode, &c.) and sembleed as though he would daunce withall. And when a verie greate multitude of people had now gathered together and swarmed about him, he tooke them all vp for stumblyng, because that to thinges foolish, & seruyng to no good purpose, thei came rennyng by whole flockes, and as merie as Pies, where as to serious matters, and thesame moche auailable vnto "Greene, who had in both Academies ta'ne R. R. MRS. WINDIMORE, COUSIN OF MARY, QUEEN Westminster, one Mrs. Windimore, whose maiden name AUTHORS OF Books Wanted (6th S. iii. 109).— dale. The two clergymen who brought out the new edition of this book were, I believe, the Rev. Benjamin Webb, John Mason Neale, late Warden of Sackville College. now Incumbent of St. Andrew's, Wells Street, and Dr. EDMUND RANDOLPH. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. iii. 109). "He made the desert smile." I may be mistaken, for I was a guest at Alton Towers the line under the bust of a former Earl of Shrewsbury, more than forty years ago, but I fancy that I recollect who laid out the gardens, was, "He made the barren wilderness to smile," evidently taken from the line in Addison's beautiful hymn, "The Lord my pasture shall prepare," &c."The barren wilderness shall smile." J. R. B. 6th S. III. FEB. 12, '81.] Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. 139 lifetime has confined himself to utterances in a single For though I do not love to say thee nay, It With Por The Boke named the Gouernour. By Sir Thomas Elyot, Edited by H. H. S. Croft. Knight. traits of Sir Thomas and Lady Elyot after Holbein's original Drawings. 2 vols. (C. Kegan Paul & Co.) THE first edition of the Gouernour was published in 1531, and in the succeeding fifty years it was seven times reissued. The subject of the book is described in the author's "Proheme" as treating of "the education of them that hereafter may be deemed worthy to be gouernours of the publike weale," and the rapidity with which it reached its eighth edition attests the popularity it at once attained. It was one of the most valued educational works during the youthful years of the brilliant crowd of statesmen and courtiers who adorned the court of Elizabeth, and of the still more illustrious group of writers who imparted to her reign its most enduring glory. Many of the distinguished men, in whom the age was prolific, presented living examples of that type of character which the training inculcated by the Gouernour was specially designed to form. The time at which "Th' incessant brazen flash of Homer's war," it was written, and the influence it may once have exercised, should alone secure for the book a hearty welcome. But it claims attention on a variety of other grounds. Imbedded in a mass of quaint pedantry are to which exhibit a suggestive felicity only to be matched writer has for a moment nodded, it must be borne in be found valuable hints on educational questions which by some of the Laureate's; and if, here and there, the mind that minor blemishes are more obtrusive than modern teachers have but lately appreciated, and some suggestions which they may yet utilize. Elyot urges on gentlemen the advantages of acquiring a knowledge of elsewhere in the "sonnet's scanty plot of ground." For music, and of cultivating a taste for painting and sculp-close and loving pictures of nature, for noble sympathies ture, while Philistines will applaud his strenuous ad- and lofty aspirations-things which have played a concan recall no recent book of verse which will at all vocacy of dancing and manly exercises. The chapters siderable part in the equipment of the greatest poets-we which deal with these subjects, illustrated by the mass of curious information which the editor has collected, compare with Mr. Turner's, hampered as he was by a will probably prove of the greatest general interest. restricted and uniform vehicle of expression. But the book also throws light on a variety of points Chartes de la Terre Saint provenant de l'Abbaye de V.D. de Josaphat. Publiées par H. F. Delaborde. (Paris, connected with social life in the sixteenth century; Thorin.) affords materials for an estimate of the extent of classical learning at a time when the revival of letters worked such momentous changes; possesses, from a linguistic point of view, an especial value, since Elyot wrote in English to prove the capabilities of the language at an interesting stage in its development; and, lastly, is the original source whence is derived the time-honoured story of the committal of Henry V., then Prince of Wales, to prison by Judge Gascoigne. The intrinsic value of the book, now reissued in two handsome quarto volumes, is enhanced by the very successful labours both of the editor and the publishers. Mr. Croft, with an industry which deserves the highest praise, has collected a number of new facts concerning the hitherto obscure parentage and life of Elyot. He has traced to the original source the learned references with which the book is crowded, and illustrated the text from his own copious acquaintance with English and French literature of the sixteenth century. He has supplied ample indices and an admirable glossary of the many rare and curious words used by his author. The value of his lengthy extracts from modern authors is open to doubt, and they largely contribute to the great bulk of the book. With this possible exception, this edition of the Gouernour leaves nothing to be desired, and it may be cordially recommended as offering many points of interest to every class of reader, and especially to the antiquary and the philologist. Collected Sonnets, Old and New. By Charles Tennyson THERE is a something abnormal, and even a suggestion of the French Archæological School established at Rome, grant made to the Church of our Lady of Jehoshaphat by Arnoul de Rohes, Patriarch of Jerusalem; the last one, dated October 17, 1289, is a letter from Nicholas, Patriarch of Jerusalem, authorizing the abbot of the monastery to return to Europe for the purpose of putting in order the monastery's estates in Sicily and Calabria. All these pieces form part of the State papers at Palermo, and are, with a few exceptions, the original deeds. M. Delaborde has published photographic fac-similes of two of them, and the volume is completed by a good alphabetical index. The Threiplands of Fingask. A Family Memoir, written in 1853 by Robert Chambers, LL.D. (W. & R. Chambers.) Ar a time when the last page, so to speak, of the Stuart romance has been closed by the recent passing away of the last survivor of the two brothers who claimed to be legitimate heirs of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," a book so full of Jacobite memories as the one now before us has more than ordinary interest. The Threiplands of Fingask, whose chequered story is here so graphically told by the late Robert Chambers, have a history which is practically unique in that it is so exclusively bound up with the vicissitudes of the later generations of the House of Stuart. Distinguished by the "king over the water as of an entirely different temper from those of his adherents who were "over solicitous about them we think, from the specimen of its work now before us, decided wisely in bringing into general circulation much matter of interest more than local which the zeal of local antiquaries has from time to time accumulated. The illustrations of the first number are remarkably good, and add to the value of The Bradford Antiquary.' Ye Old Style Valentines. (Manchester, Falkner & Sons.) 'Tis pleasant to see what store of Valentines there be nowadays, for them that like of such Vanities. Truly, time was when y Maiden herself was Valentine unto her Sweetheart; and did ofttimes cost him a pretty penny thereby: but now, to speak of Valentines, 'tis but some little Card or Book (yet not so cheap neither) showing Fancy and Favour, or else desiring the same. Poor Innocents! Yet, if any will have these things, here be twelve Cards, aptly writ with good Verses out of Master Drayton, and Mr. Dean of Paul's, and Carew that served His late Majesty, and that worthy Knight of the Queen's days, Sir Philip Sidney. Mighty pretty toys are they all; and pictures therewith-wherein we do spy the Grecian figure ȧvaxpovioμóc. But Lord, what good pictures Mistress Kate Greenaway do make! THE January number of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register contains a paper by Col. Chester, of great interest to genealogists on both sides of the Atlantic, clearing the history of Margaret Locke, third wife of Governor Francis Willoughby, MR. HENRY GRAY, Cathedral Yard, Manchester, has selves," the title of Lord Fingask was destined for the head of the house, had the "Right Steward come back to rule the Land o' Cakes." Instead of this, the Threip-issued No. 2 of his catalogues of second-hand books. ¡On lands lost all, and only kept their honour. That remained to them throughout, and it is pleasant to know that they, at least, are "enjoying their ain again." The First Quarto Edition of Hamlet in 1603. Two Essays by C. H. Herford and W. H. Widgery. (Smith, Elder & Co.) In the beginning of 1602 the play of Hamlet was acted; in the following year the first quarto was printed and published; and in 1604 was issued the second quarto, containing the "true and perfect copy of the tragic "Hystorie of Hamlet." These facts have given birth to a famous and well-contested controversy, of which the main point is the relation of the first quarto to the final play. The question, speaking shortly, is whether the first quarto contains an early sketch from the hand of Shakspeare of the final play, or the final play itself corrupted by the blunders of a reporter. This was the subject of the Harness prize in 1880, for which the authors have written two able and painstaking essays, adjudged by the examiners to be equal in merit. Both essays present the chief features of the discussion in a clear and not unattractive form; and those who are interested in the subject will find that this little volume contains the main arguments in a compact and inteldigible shape. 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