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AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. iii. 150, 178, 218).—

"The kisses were in the course of things," &c. In the second line of the second verse of Heine's poem, ante, p. 218, titter'd should be read for "loiter'd." EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. (6th S. iii. 229.)

"On such a night," &c.,

seems to be a passage inaccurately quoted from Shak-
"Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd."
WILLIAM PLATT.

dogs might conveniently be taken by gentlemen
going to shoot. That the dogs were there "as safe
as rats in a trap" would be a very natural observa-
tion to make while the thing was a novelty, and,
no doubt, was made hundreds of times. From
this to call the dog-cart "the trap" was a very
easy and natural step. These dog-carts, being
rather "swell" affairs, became extremely popular,
as I well remember. They were not only smart
but they were also very convenient-a great im-speare (2 Hen. IV. I. i.):-
provement on all that had gone before. By letting
down the "tail-door" and moving the seat they
could be made to carry four persons very com-
fortably, sitting back to back. Every spruce young
farmer, even although he had no dogs, must have
a dog-cart. He would be sure very quickly to
pick up the slang word "trap," because it would
look knowing, and to be the first to show an
acquaintance with a new cant word of "the
quality," especially sporting slang, gives such a
man great distinction in the eyes of his fellows at
markets, ordinaries, &c. So first these particular
vehicles were called "traps," then all others were
gradually confounded with them. I believe this
was how the term arose.
R. R.
METASTASIO'S "ODE ON THE INDIFFERENT"
(6th S. iii. 164).-The canzonetta of Metastasio,
La Libertà a Nice, beginning with the words:
"Grazie agl' inganni tuoi

Al fin respiro, o Nice," &c.
was written at Vienna, where Metastasio was Poeta
Cesareus, in the year 1733. C. TAMBURINI.

"MARRIED BY THE CLOG AND SHOE" (6th S. iii. 126).—I believe the clog and shoe weddings, mentioned in Haworth Past and Present, were such as consisted in the simple ceremony of the man taking off his clog and giving it to the bride, who signified her willingness to become his wife by giving him one of her shoes. Heywood's Register records several runaway weddings of people at Bingley and in the district. The words "stole his wife" sometimes occur. J. H. T.

"NEVER OUT OF THE FLESHE THAT IS BRED IN THE BONE" (6th S. iii. 126).-Your correspondent asks for instances of this proverbial phrase before 1557. Taverner, in his Prouerbes oute of Erasmus, 1539, fol. 37, has, "For verelye full true is our Englyshe prouerbe: That is bred by the bone wyll neuer awaye." Stewart, Croniclis of Scotland, 1535, ii. 386, gives the following version :

"Difficile is, tha said that tyme ilk ane,

Bring throw the flesch that bred is in the bane." and, again, p. 651 :—

"Rycht hard it is, other for boist or blame,

Bring fra the flesche that is bred in the bane." Still earlier we find the phrase in Mallore's Morte Arthure, 1485 (repr. 1816, i. 436), "So Sir Lancelot smiled, and said, 'Hard it is to take out of the flesh what is bred in the bone.""

XIT.

Some of your correspondents may not know the parallel passage to Shakspeare's 2 Hen. IV. I. i."Grain. So pale and spiritless a Wretch, Drew Priam's Curtain in the dead of Night, And told him half his Troy was burnt". which occurs in Suckling's Brennoralt, II. i. The passage from Henry IV. is probably that which 'D. W. C. JULIAN MARSHALL.

wishes to trace.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury. Vol.
II. Edited from the MS. C.C.C. 438, for the Master
of the Rolls, by William Stubbs, D.D. (Longmans &
Co.)
THE minor historical works of Gervase, the Monk of
Canterbury, are now published for the first time, with
the exception of the Lives of the Archbishops, which fill
some ninety pages, and were included with Gervase's
greater chronicle in Sir Roger Twysden's collection.
The manuscript from which they are printed is one of
the unique and priceless treasures given by Archbishop
Parker to the library of Corpus Christi College, Cam-
bridge. It contains Gervase's smaller chronicle, with a
that of Edward II., the Gesta Pontificum, and a Mappa
continuation by later hands from the reign of John to
Mundi; but the early chronicle is a mere abridgment, of
no historical value until we reach the history of John's
reign, when some important details are noticed which
are not recorded by any other historian. They are
ascribed by the editor, with some misgivings, to Gervase
himself, but the annals from 1207-which form the most
important division of the chronicle-were certainly the
work of a later hand. The contents of this volume will
add nothing to Gervase's reputation as an historian, and
it requires all the consummate scholarship of the editor
to justify the publication of a manuscript so much more
curious than useful.

Vane's Story, Weddah and Om-el-Bonain, and other
Poems. By James Thomson. (Reeves & Turner.)
IF, as we are informed at p. 110 of the present volume,—
"As surely as a very precious stone
Finds out that jeweller who doth excel,
So surely to the bard becometh known'
The tale which only he can fitly tell,"-
we must perforce conclude that some untoward accident
accompanied the revelation of Vane's Story to its author.
That its tone is flippant and irreverent is no more than
we must expect in the sworn disciple of Heine; but it is
also obscure, and, despite clever passages, unmistakably
tedious. Mr. Thomson's public would be, we imagine,

of a very restricted and morbid kind if he depended wholly upon efforts of this nature. But the poem which immediately follows it is of a far different order. Out of a pair of pages in Stendhal's De l'Amour he has constructed a singularly powerful and pathetic tale, culminating in a situation of really tragic grandeur. He says that the original deserves a better version than he has given it; but his modesty is needless, for it may be fairly said that none but the rashest hands will attempt to render it after him. Another piece, called Two Lovers, is good, but the serious treatment of the story is a little marred by the fact that, from a Philistine point of view, there is something almost comic in the futile efforts of the hero and heroine to reconcile their passion and their creeds. Daudet, who has handled the same theme in La Double Conversion, has done more wisely in making it a conte after the manner of La Fontaine. Of the remaining pieces of the volume some of the shorter ones strike us most. Shameless is a pleasant little essay in familiar verse, and there is more than one pretty song, notably that beginning "The fire that filled my heart of old." We confess, however, that our sentiments respecting Mr. Thomson are of a very mixed character. That he is a poet, and a very individual poet, we frankly allow. But with some of his views we have no sort of sympathy, and, unluckily for us, it is upon these that he appears to specially insist.

The Hanmet Shakspere.-The Tragedy of Coriolanus, according to the First Folio. With Introduction, &c., by Allan Park Paton. (Longmans & Co.) THIS is the sixth play which Mr. Paton has edited in accordance with his theory that the capital letters found in the several Folios, but more particularly the Fourth, are not the result of accident or caprice, but have a certain special value, and were inserted for the purpose of emphasizing the words in which they were used. Believing this, he looks upon the Fourth Folio, in which these capitals are most plentiful, as one the owners of which are to be envied, and adds that "the editor or editors of the 1685 edition must have entered on the task with a feeling of loving responsibility in the matter of these capitals, and must have had access to the autograph manuscript for continual reference." We confess that we cannot at all agree with Mr. Paton's theory as regards the special significance of the capitals, or his assumption that the 1685 edition followed an autograph MS. As to the latter, where is to be found the slightest ground for the assumption? and as to the former, it seems to us to be raising the compositor or printer to the position of judge. It would be an easy matter, did space permit, to point out numerous instances in the present play where, had capitals been intended to bear a special significance, they would undoubtedly have been used, but are not. In fact, there is hardly a page in which such cases do not occur. Mr. Paton having modernized the spelling, why did he not also adopt the modern divisions into act and scene? As matters stand it is a most troublesome matter to collate a passage. And again, why has he retained the misprints of the First Folio, as in II. iii. 57, tougne for tongue! Are such spellings as doe, voyce, &c., more difficult to the reader than misprints? The volume contains two phototypes: the first of the title-page of North's' Plutarch,' 1612, with (as Mr. Paton contends) Shakspeare's autograph, and the words "pretiù i6"," reproduced by Mr. Paton as "pretiu- 166." The second phototype is of the title-page of the Dial of Princes, of the history of which Mr. Paton gives a most interesting account. But surely a very slight acquaintance with seventeenth century handwriting would satisfy any one that the date of John Taylor's signature is 1718, not 1616 or 1716 as suggested

by Mr. Paton. The introduction gives evidence of so much labour and earnest application that one regrets that Mr. Paton's talents have not been turned to a better account.

The Makers of Florence. By Mrs. Oliphant. (Macmillan & Co.) WE are glad to find that the third edition of this most useful and interesting work has appeared in a cheap and portable form. It is useless to visit the City of the Lily without having previously acquired some information about the many great men who have been concerned in its making; and we know no book more useful for that purpose than Mrs. Oliphant's. We think, however, that the index might have been a little more copious.

THE following particulars relating to the late Mr. W. J. Bernhard-Smith, whose death was briefly mentioned ante p. 220, may be of interest. He was the eldest son of the late Capt. John Bernhard-Smith, R.N., and was born in Manchester Street, Marylebone, in the year 1818. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1842. He was an active member of the Royal Archæological Institute, and also a member of its Council, whose deep regret at his death was expressed at the last meeting of its members. He married, in 1864, Charlotte Jane, daughter of Mr. Samuel Naylor, by whom he has left a family. He was buried at Woking Cemetery.

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COUNTRY.-The real question is whether a given coat not found in such books as Burke's General Armory, the is to be found in the records of the College of Arms. presumption would be against the arms having been duly registered. Since the disuse of Visitations, however, the College has little, if any, direct means of interposition, short of its authority being invoked by persons desirous of obtaining heraldic legalization for the arms which they may have been in the habit of using without certainty of their title thereto. In any case, crests could not be used as suggested in your query. Where an intermarriage has occurred which carried the representation of a family, the crest of such family is sometimes borne in addition to the crest of the paternal line, but in this country the usage of multiplying crests does not prevail as in Germany and other continental countries.

Francesco Batallia, M. Parthey's "Wm. Hollar," No. JOHN KIRK.-It is a portrait of the Stone Eater, 1689. Batallia is mentioned in nearly all the books on

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A CORRESPONDENT asks when Dr. Mackay will publish Obscure Words and Phrases in Shakspeare, &c., announced in our last volume, p. 220.

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