Bohn's three-volume edition of the works of Sir
Thomas Browne, edited by Simon Wilkin, F.L.S.
J. H. I.
There is a portrait in the folio edition of the
Religio Medici, published in 1663. Macaulay in
the third chapter of his History refers to a Tour in
Derbyshire, by Thomas Browne, son of Sir T.
Browne, also to a Journal by the same author.
WM. H. PEET.

There is a finely-engraved portrait of the author in the sixth (and best) edition of the Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1672). This edition was published under the author's care ten years before his death; therefore there is every reason to believe the portrait a good one. J. Y. W. MACALISTER. Leeds Library.)

THE HAWICK "RIDING SONG" AND "TERIBUS" (6th S. ii. 446, 495).—A cheap edition of this song, at twopence or threepence, could be had a few years ago, and probably can be had still, from any bookseller in Hawick.

C.

"The country is probably that of Cabul. It is a very ancient denomination, for Ptolemy calls its inhabitants Cabolite and the town itself Cabura, which is obviously a corruption from Cabul, for the Persian name for a shed or pent-house is indifferently pronounced cabul and cabur. Tradition says that Cabul was built by an ancient king of that name, and the place where he lived is still shown near Cabul. They generally call him Shah Cabul."

At p. 495, after speaking of Bámíyan and its distance and bearing from Cabura or Orthospána, the present city of Cabul, he says:"One of the Sanskrit names of Cabul is Asa-vana, and sometimes by contraction Urd'h'-As-vana, or, as it is always pronounced in the spoken dialects, Urdh' Ashbán or Asbána. The upper Nilábi, or Naulibis in Ptolemy, falls in at Ghorbund, or Gorasd van in Sanskrit, which appears to be the Alexandria ad Paropamisum of the historians of Alexander."

By-the-bye, it does not follow that Cábul was the first name of the river. River names are doubtless been called "the river of Cabul," and in time the occasionally derived from towns. It might have

Cábul.

Nice.

R. S. CHARNOCK.

MR. GLADSTONE'S LATIN RENDERING OF THE HYMN "ROCK OF AGES," &c. (6th S. ii. 346; iii. 16).-MR. TERRY has resolved any doubt as to the orthodoxy of Mr. Gladstone's grammar in his rendering of the above hymn into Latin. Permit

me to adduce two other instances from Horace where the nominative adjective is found agreeing with the vocative substantive, and vice versa. In Ode 1, ii. ll. 30-2:

Dublin.

"Tandem venias, precamur, Nube candentes humeros amictus Augur Apollo."

"Sive neglectum genus, et nepotes,
Respicis Auctor

Heu nimis longo satiate ludo."

CHARLES MARSHALL, PAINTER (6th S. i. 415; iii. 16). This landscape painter exhibited at the Again, at 11. 35-7 :— Royal Academy, 1828-78 (52 works); at the British Institution, 1828-67 (52 works); and at Suffolk Street, 1828-79 (138 works). He lived, 1828-31, at 24, Everet Street, Russell Square; 1831-2, at 14, Parliament Street; 1833-5, at 8, Cumming Place, Pentonville; 1835-41, at 62, Upper Stamford Street; 1846, at 4, Berners Street; 1848-51, at 35, Haymarket; 1853-57, at 1, Upton Road, Kilburn; (in 1852, 1855, 1856, and 1857, he addresses from Her Majesty's Theatre); 1859-60, at 4, Park Cottages, Park Village East; 1861-2, at 4, Great Marlborough Street; 1863-66, at 13, Douro Place; 1867, at Meriden, Coventry; 1868-70, at 35, Haymarket; 1872-3, at 11, Golden Square; and 1874-9, at 72, Park Road, Haverstock Hill. I have not heard of his death. In 1838 he exhibited a "View of Shepperton Lock, Evening." The other three views he does not seem to have exhibited. ALGERNON GRAVES.

CABUL (6th S. ii. 269, 418).-In a paper on Mount Caucasus (Asiatic Researches, vi. 486) Capt. Francis Wilford, speaking of "Chávilá, where gold is found," says:

R. S. BROOKE, D.D.

LAYTON OF WEST LAYTON (6th S. ii. 287, 351, 457).-There is in the church of Kirby Hill (which is the parish church of Kirby Ravensworth) a monument said to be that of a member of the Layton family, and probably the one referred to by MR. RAINE. It is about ten feet from the ground, at the east end of the north aisle. An organ has been lately built close in front of it, so that it is impossible to find anything more about it. I saw what can be seen, and the sexton told me to whom it belonged. I am sorry I can tell MR. CARMICHAEL no more of it. C. G. C.

RICHARD POMEROY: POMEROY AND HARRIS FAMILIES (6th S. ii. 328, 493).—MR. CARMICHAEL, in noticing my query concerning the descendants of Richard Pomeroy of Bowden, calls his eldest son Sir Henry Pomeroy. I am aware the Harleian Society Visitation calls him so, but I do not find

any authority for it in the Harleian MSS. There is no doubt Edward Harris (to whom Cornworthy Priory was granted in 1559) and his son, Sir Thomas Harris, married mother and daughter, the second wife of the former being Agnes or Anne, daughter and heiress of William Huckmore, and mother, by a subsequent marriage with Henry Pomeroy, of Elizabeth, who married Sir Thomas, son of Edward Harris by his first wife. W. S.

ECPHUISM (6th S. ii. 346, 436).-Allow me, as an illustration, to refer to The Monastery, in which Sir Walter Scott has most graphically and amusingly drawn the character of a euphuist of the days of Elizabeth, that of Sir Piercie Shafton. How very easy it is to imagine any one being the "homo unius libri" in those days, when there were so few printed books, comparatively speaking, in existence.

was not to the taste of his public. Now, perhaps, we should prefer to the work of either of those popular artists that manly style which could lend a semblance of strength even to the smooth elegance of Stothard; but in his own day it was not thought safe to allow him to engrave his own designs. They must be lucidly translated by a more compliant burin. It is, therefore, the more remarkable that, remanded as he continually was served sufficient enthusiasm to enable him, in spite of to the humbler offices of art, he should still have preneglect and discouragement, to produce such splendidly individual work as the Songs of Innocence and Experience, the Gates of Paradise, the Grave, and the magnificent Illustrations to the Book of Job. And posterityhas long done justice to these wonderful performances. the posterity of critics and connoisseurs, at all eventsOne of the foremost admirers was the late Mr. Gilchrist, to whose excellent biography we owe it that Blake is no longer a Pictor Ignotus, a qualification which, we observe, is very properly omitted from the title-page of this new edition. We say "new edition," though the words but imperfectly describe the present handsome reissue, which is something more. In the first place, it includes some thirty new letters, addressed by Blake to his pinchbeck patron, William Hayley. These, the majority of which belong to Mr. Frederick Locker and Mr. Alexander Mac

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. JOHNSON'S RESIDENCES IN LONDON (6th S. ii. millan, are of the highest interest, although collectively 328, 355):

"All Johnson's places of resort and abode are venerable...... Nevertheless, in this mad-whirling all-forgetting London, the haunts of the mighty that were can seldom without a strange difficulty be found......With Samuel Johnson may it prove otherwise! A gentleman of the British Museum is said to have made drawings of all his residences: the blessing of Old Mortality be upon him!" -Carlyle's Miscellaneous Essays, vol. iv. p. 113, edition of 1872.

To what does this refer?

EDWARD H. MARSHALL. 6, King's Bench Walk, Temple.

they convey an almost painful impression of that entirely hollow pact, the friendship of "the enthusiastic, hopefostered visionary" (as he somewhere styles himself) and the scribbling, flatulent "Hermit of Eartham." Then, again, there is the letter defending Fuseli, which Mr. Swinburne unearthed from the Monthly Review for 1806, with its vigorous and Hogarth-like fling at dilettantism. Mr. W. M. Rossetti has also much extended his "Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings" in the first edition, so as to bring it down to the latest date; while Mr. F. J. Shields supplies a new and careful description of certain of the recently discovered designs for Young's Night Thoughts, now in the possession of Mr. Bain, of the Haymarket, and part of which, engraved by Blake himself, were published by Edwards, of New Bond Street, in 1797. The keenly sympathetic review contributed by

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. ii. Mr. James Smetham to the London Quarterly is printed 429, 458).

"There is no home," &c.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Life of William Blake, with Selections from his Poems and other Writings. By Alexander Gilchrist. New and Enlarged Edition, illustrated from Blake's own Works, with Additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. (Macmillan & Co.)

"THE artist is never paid; it is the artisan." Thus wrote Goethe of Chodowiecki, and the words might stand for epigraph to the story of William Blake. All through his career he seems to have been fighting against the hard truth of this maxim, girding at it or fretting under it, but absolutely refusing to be repressed by it. The only way in which he could exist at all, apart from the fostering patronage of such men as Mr. Butts and Mr. Linnell, was by engraving; and even his engraving, compared with that of the Heaths and Schiavonettis,

in the second volume, which fitly closes with a brief but welcome memoir of Mr. Gilchrist by his widow. So much for the literary additions to the Life. In point of embellishments the gain is equally notable. New facsimiles of the Job by the Typographic Etching Company replace the old spotty photo-lithographs of 1863, while excellent copies of sketches by Mr. Herbert Gilchrist enable us to realize the Felpham cottage, with its "thatched roof of rusted gold," and the narrow room in Fountain Court, with its window overlooking the muddy Thames, where Blake drew, and dreamed, and died. In addition there are some finely engraved cuts, borrowed from Mr. Horace Scudder's article in Scribner's Magazine for June last, a new plate from the Jerusalem, and a striking design to Hamlet. These, with a photographic copy of the Phillips portrait in the Grave, make up the tale of the principal supplementary illustrations. A very beautiful cover, contrived by Mr. Shields from one of Blake's fairy designs, completes what, without any reservation, is undoubtedly one of the most tasteful and "thorough" editions of a fine-art book which we ever remember to have seen.

Historical Portraits of the Tudor Dynasty and the Reformation Period. Vol. II. By S. Hubert Burke. (Hodges.)

A PERUSAL of the second volume of Mr. Burke's work has only served to confirm the opinion which we formed

workings of the poet's mind, and an acquaintance with his methods and his mannerisms. He is rather a practical than a theoretical reformer. He neither makes alterations to display his ingenuity, nor does he emend to effect a fancied improvement or to satisfy his preconceived theories. Where the text affords a satisfactory meaning he scrupulously adheres to it, and only exercises his power of conjectural criticism when the corruption of a passage may reasonably be inferred from some patent ambiguity of expression or from some deficiency or excess in the scansion. Reckless excision or sweeping changes are generally the result of haste, where the evil is seen, but the remedy is not readily discoverable. The expenditure of labour is more truly gauged by the slightness than by the extent of an alteration. In all his emendations Mr. Vaughan endeavours to give sense to corrupt passages by the slightest change possible, and a comparison of his simplicity with the elaboration of some of his predecessors will attest both his labour and his success. The apparent obviousness of many of his suggestions excites surprise-in such cases the highest praise that no one ever thought of them before. Space does not permit us to quote examples of Mr. Vaughan's skill in textual criticism from a work which all Shakspearian readers would do well to read. We shall look forward with interest to the publication of the succeedvolumes, in the hope that they may prove of equal merit to the first.

and expressed on its predecessor. Both parts are con-
spicuous for the same merits and the same faults. No
one can read them through-and we may claim for our-
selves that we have carefully studied their contents-
without recognizing that the author is well acquainted
with the literature of the period, or without acquiescing
in the justice of his verdicts on the characters of most of
its chief actors. Most of the principal noblemen are now
acknowledged to have been time-servers, supporting or
abandoning each religious party in turn as its fortunes
rose or fell-true to no principle save that of enriching
their families with the spoils of the church which they
professed themselves desirous of strengthening. The
world has gradually discovered that the leading poli-
ticians under Henry VIII. were not endowed with such
lofty qualities as partisan historians of past ages had
assumed, and it tolerates language now which forty years
ago would have been borne down to the earth under a
storm of condemnation. Even with this change of
opinion the charity of Mr. Burke's readers must not un-
frequently be subjected to a severe strain; sometimes it
must break down altogether under the weight of the
burden. The most conspicuous instance of his want of
consideration for the dangers which lay in waiting for
the statesmen of the Tudors will be found in the reflec-
tions on the career of Archbishop Cranmer. The por-
trait of that unhappy man is painted in the darkesting
colours-there is no relief to the sombreness of the
picture. Even in the facts of the archbishop's life Mr.
Burke cannot always be relied upon. If Cranmer was
born in 1489, as stated correctly on the first page of this
volume, he could not have been in his thirty-ninth year
in 1523 (p. 5), nor could he have been forty-nine at the
time of his second marriage in Germany. What justifi-
cation Mr. Burke can allege for calling the archbishop's
mother by the name of Mary, we know not; the heraldic
visitation calls her Agnes Hatfield. When we find an
author stumbling in places where we can follow in his
steps, we should scarcely be justified in accepting im-
plicitly his opinions on points where it is impossible to
corroborate his statements. We cannot but enter a
decided protest against the vagueness with which Mr.
Burke often quotes his authorities. Bare references to
Lord Herbert's Life of Henry and White-Kennet are
enough to make the hair of the student "turn white in
a single night" with indignation. Why will he not
adopt in this matter the advice of those who are anxious
to secure a wider popularity for his labours? He must
surely be conscious that the difficulty which will beset
any one desirous of ascertaining the accuracy of his con-
clusions will prove a sore hindrance to the use of these
volumes.

New Readings and Renderings of Shakespeare's Tragedies.
By Henry Halford Vaughan. Vol. I. (C. Kegan
Paul & Co.)

THE attempt to restore the text of Shakspeare offers
fewer attractions and needs more labour than the work
of a simple commentator. Yet the less attractive task is
sometimes the most useful, since without it much of
Shakspearian commentary is but wasted industry. The
first volume of Mr. Vaughan's New Readings and
Renderings, containing King John, Richard II., and
Henry IV., Parts I. and II, seems to us to possess a
peculiar value for lovers of the great English dramatist.
The learned leisure of a man of letters is often the source
whence spring happy suggestions, almost revelations,
respecting the subject which occupies his mind. Besides
this advantage, Mr. Vaughan possesses mental gifts
which qualify him to perform successfully the task he
has undertaken. He brings to bear upon the subject
trained powers of criticism, a keen insight into the

WE hope to give a Note next week on the Library of Balliol College, Oxford, by the Rev. T. K. Cheyne, Fellow and Librarian of Balliol College.

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JOHN GLASSCOCK.-Rimmer's Ancient Stone Crosses of England, 1875. See also Journal of the British Archaological Association, vol. xxxiii., pt. iv., Dec., 1877, The Ancient Churchyard Crosses of Staffordshire, by C. Lynam; and consult references, s.v. Crosses" in Genl. Index, vols. i.-xxx, of the Journal (printed for the Association, 1875).

E. C. HULME.-The question is one which constantly crops up, for the simple reason that no arguments, however sound, convince those who do not desire to be convinced.

ALEX. FERGUSSON.-Larousse (Gr. Dict. Univ.) writes the name Ivanhoë in the article dedicated to that novel. The Firmin-Didot form, Ivanhoe, is only a different mode of marking a pronunciation identical with that in Larousse.

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