NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Breviarium ad Usum Insignis Ecclesiæ Sarum. Fasciculus III. Labore ac Studio Francisci Procter, A.M., et Christophori Wordsworth, A.M. (Cambridge University Press.) THIS is the third and concluding volume of the reprint of the Sarum Breviary, undertaken by the Cambridge University Press, under the competent editorship of the Rev. F. Procter and the Rev. Chr. Wordsworth. The first volume, containing the Psalter and the Common of Saints (Fasciculus 11.), was, for convenience of cross reference, published out of the proper order in 1879. The second volume (Fasciculus I.) appeared in 1882. Both these volumes were reviewed in our columns at their respective dates. Now the last volume has come out, after an interval of four years, containing the Sanctorale-always the most interesting part, historically speaking, of any Breviary-together with the curious Accentuarius, for saving the reciters of the Breviary offices from making false quantities, and a certain amount of additional liturgical matter for Festa Synodalia (xxi-xxvi). From the list given on p. xxiv-it should be (xxiv)—it appears that the editors have accumulated a good deal more of supplementary matter, which want of space prevents their printing now. It certainly would not strictly fall under a reprint of Chevallon and Regnault's folio Sarum Breviary of 1531, but it may be hoped that interesting and valuable material, collected from various and often obscure quarters, will not be long or altogether withheld from the public. It would be impossible within the limits of our reviews in N. & Q.' to do justice to this important and laboriously executed publication. A mass of liturgical material is now placed within reach of every student which could previously only be referred to in the rare books contained in a few public, and a still fewer private libraries. As regards our English saints especially, this ancient Breviary contains much fuller information than could be expected in the now almost universally used Breviarium Romanum. A comparison of such a service as that for St. Dunstan in the Sarum Breviary (May 19) with the corresponding service in the body of the Roman Breviary, or even with that among the modern supplemental Officia propria Sanctorum pro Anglia,' will exemplify our meaning. A large field of study and inquiry in points of minute but interesting liturgical research is now within general reach. Take such a point as this. The list of variations in text and order between the old English and the postTridentine Roman Breviaries is a very long one. But in how many of these does the Sarum book agree with the pre-Tridentine Roman text? And in how many does it preserve a genuine national or local peculiarity? Here is a bit of interesting work for any one who has leisure for and interest in the study of Breviaries. But these three handsomely printed Cambridge volumes are not a mere reprint. They contain in the index to Fasciculus I. and in the introduction to Fasinformation not to be found elsewhere. Much of it is due ciculus III. a mass of bibliographical and liturgical to the research of the late lamented Mr. Henry Bradshaw, Indeed, the delay in the appearance of the last volume is due to the known unwillingness of Mr. Bradshaw to print anything until he could print everything-until, for example, in the present case, he had handled and examined every printed edition of the Sarum servicebooks, and until he had solved every problem, however, unimportant, in connexion with them. This was like waiting for the Greek kalends. Some problems, both liturgical and bibliographical, had better be stated as problems; such as the exact mode of using the triple invitatory (p. mdxviii) and the question whether Chevallon was a printer as well as a publisher (p. cxxiii). We have also appended to Fasciculus III. a most admirable series of fifteen indices, preceded by an "Index Indicum." This will enormously increase the value of the work, and render it an indispensable aid to any one hereafter discovering or editing fresh MS. or early printed liturgical material. Here and there a few typographical or other errors have been discovered. With one exception they are of a trifling character, and it would be both needless and ungracious to point them out. They can cause no serious confusion. The wonder is that in a work of such magnitude there is not a long list of corrigenda and addenda. The one exception to which we refer is in the list of Sequences of the English Church printed in Fasc. III. pp. xcii-xcix. There the following Sequences are erroneously stated to be found in the York Use: Ad te pulchra cymbala. Christicolarum sacrosancta lacrimentur. Gaudens Christi præventia. Jubilans concressa paraphonista. Omnes sancti seraphim. Sollemnitate rutilans apostolica. The word "Ebor" must be erased after each of these lines, and a corresponding deduction must be made from the number of 172 Sequences, said on p. xcii to be contained in the York Missal. The above list of first lines refers to the Anglo-Saxon Tropary of Ethelred (Bodl. MS. No. 775). It is easy to see how the mistake has arisen. The Index of Sequences at the end of the second volume of the York Missal (Surt. Soc., vol. lx. pp. 351-3) has been excusably, but unfortunately, taken to be what it is not, an exclusive Index of Sequences of the Use of York. An Almanack for 1887. By Joseph Whitaker, F.S.A. (Whitaker & Co.) WHITAKER'S 'Almanack,' the value of which has received universal recognition, has now expanded into a volume of 632 pages. New features have again been introduced into what might claim to be a species of encyclopædia, and the right of the volume to a place on the shelves of every library and most offices is once more vindicated. It is difficult to over-estimate the importance of the information supplied and the extent of labour involved in its production. AMONG Christmas books a word of praise seems deserved by the prettily got-up book, published by Mr. Wm. Stevens, The Drawing Room Fortune Teller; or, Sibyl line Leaves, by A. E. M. K. It may be said that no diablerie underlies the peeps into futurity, which consist of extracts from the best poets, from Shakspeare to living writers. MR. A. W. HALL has issued Vol. VI. of his Great Thoughts from Master Minds, extending from July to December, 1886. It is illustrated with portraits. A WORD of recognition of the loss experienced by 'N. & Q.' in the death of Dr. Norman Chevers (Calcuttensis) will be grateful to many who knew what stores of erudition were possessed by our old contributor, and how gladly they were placed at the disposition of all applicants. The only son of the late Forbes Maclean Chevers, some of whose experiences while surgeon on Le Tonnant at Trafalgar were communicated by Calcuttensis to N. & Q.," Dr. Norman Chevers entered, in 1845, the E.I.C.S., and retired in 1876 with the rank of Deputy Surgeon General. He wrote many works on medical subjects, and his Manual of Medical Jurisprudence' carried off the Swiney Prize, awarded by the Society of Arts and the College of Physicians. His leisure Dr. Chevers devoted to historical and antiquarian subjects, one result of his researches being the valuable contributions with which during very many years he occasionally favoured our columns. He leaves behind him, in addition to other matters, a large collection of engravings illustrative of English history. These and other particulars, communicated by his daughter, reached us, unfortunately, too late for insertion in our previous number. THE Council of the Essex Field Club has determined in future to issue the Transactions and Proceedings of the Club combined, in the form of a monthly periodical entitled the Esser Naturalist. This will contain papers read before the Club, reports of meetings, and, as space allows, commnnications upon matters of interest connected with Essex. The first number of the Essex Naturalist will appear in January next, and will be conducted by Mr. W. Cole, who has edited the publications of the Club since its establishment seven years ago. AMONG the contents of the January number of Walford's Antiquarian will be given a seasonable article on The Literature of Almanacs,' an illustrated paper on the Domesday Book, and, under the heading of Frostiana, a quantity of information touching severe winters and hard frosts from a remote period, both at home and abroad. The number will also contain a paper by the editor on Tom Coryate and his Crudities. From the beginning of the new year the magazine will be enlarged to sixty-eight pages monthly. 6 Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." J. H. WILLIAMS ("Johannes Quincarboreus 'Insti tutiones Linguæ Hebraica").-The latest known edi. tion of this work of Cinq-Arbres, first published Paris, 1582, in 4to., is that in 8vo., Paris, 1621, which you named, the additions of P. Vignal, was published, also possess. Another edition, containing, like that last in Paris, 1609, in 4to. Some of our readers may know of later editions, in which case we shall be glad to hear from them. MR. C. WYLIE is desirous to know where the words courtship of Mr. Grig and Miss Shop, or some such can be found of a comic song on the subject of the name, which belongs to the time of Grimaldi, if it was not sung by him. tion has been forwarded to MR, LYNN. W. GRAHAM F. PIGOTT.-Your obliging communica CUTHBERT BEDE ("Covered Altar Rails").-See 5th S. ii. 309, 522. MAJOR SIDDONS ("Siddons Family ").--Shall appear shortly. M. L. FERRAR, B.C.S.-("C'est des deux oreilles.") See 7th S. i. 498, June 19, 1886, where this query is fully answered.-(" Patience and shuffle the cards.") 'Don Quixote,' part ii. chap. xxiii. E. ("Ballad of Wednesbury Cocking ").-Apply to Editor Shropshire Notes and Queries,' Shropshire Chronicle Office, St. John's Hill, Shrewsbury. Portions of the ballad are too broad to print. ERRATUM.-P. 488, col. 2, the query of M. LE M. concerning the "De Vil Family" should read De Vic Family. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 22, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return com. munications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception, Supplement to the Notes , with No. 56, Jan. 22, 1887 INDEX. SEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. II. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY published, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPEARIANA, and SONGS AND BALLADS.] A. on John Dyer, 107 A. (D.) on the meaning of shelmo, 28 A. (E. C. A.) on John Bury, 326 A. (E. S.) on poets who have mentioned their own names, 370 A. (H. S.) on anonymous works, 449 Lunby (Mr.) on Tunis, 307 Aaron, his breastplate, 428, 478 Abrahams (I.) on the binding of pamphlets, 446 Butchers and the Jews, 398 Accent, English, its effects, 42, 90, 235, 254 Adam, duration of his life in Eden, 327, 414, 458 Addison (Joseph), and Westminster Abbey, 25; and Addy (S. O.) on Edward Hellowes, 485 Lee (Sir Henry), 485 Livery of seisin, 258 Martin (David), engraver, 489 Sheaf, vale of the, 381 "Adjournal, Books of," 128, 209 Adria stony sea, 78, 196, 331 Agincourt, excuse for French defeat at, 169, 277 Agnosticism, papers on, 480 Akinside (R.) on Barber Surgeons, 69 Ale songs, index of, 413 Allen (T.) on Shakspeariana, 305 All-feed-all-seed, 126, 216 Anagrams on names of the seven bishops, 305 Spain (King of), his birth, 16 Anderson (P. J.) on bibliography of Scotticisms, 363 Anglesea (Earl of), the last, 16 Hair turned white by sorrow, 6 Anonymous Works: Aboriginal Britons, 429, 499 Alma Mater, 329, 433 Anonymous Poems, by F. C., 49 Art of Stenographie, 306 Barbary and its Maritime Power, 449 Book of Aphorisms, 369 Brief Chronicle of the Success of Times, 309, 394 Archdeacon family arms, 55, 492 Arcturus, the star, its name, 106 Armorica, Bede's use of the word, 146 Arnold (E.), words in his 'Light of Asia,' 448 Ashbee (H. S.) on Shakspeare or Burton? 424 Atherton (John), Bishop of Waterford, 229 Auction Mart, its foundation, 9 Australia, was it known to the ancients? 36, 97 Axon (W. E. A.) on bibliographies, 416 Blanketeer, its meaning, 69 'Brief Chronicle of the Success of Times,' 394 Felbrigg (Sir Roger de), 148 Snuff-box inscription, 69 Ayermin (William), Bishop of Norwich, 71, 179, 217 B. on Sir Thomas Candler, 189 'Phoenix and the Turtle,' 268 B. (A.) on Comte de Fronsac, 329 B. (C. J.) on 'School of Shakespeare,' 28 Supplement to the Notes , with No. 56, Jan. B. (E. E.) on John Collinson, 492 B. (E. F.) on "Bonnie Cravat," 98 B. (E. P.) on Bongs, a place-name, 107 B. (F. W.) on mediæval reckoning of the hours, 389 B. (G. F. R.) on the Alnager of Ireland, 176 Bentley (R.), Designs for Six Poems by Mr. Bergamot pears, 35 Blue John, 273 Bohn's "Extra Series," 514 Carlingford (Lord), essay by, 194 Clarke (Stephen Reynolds), 55 Coins, copper, 1864 and 1871, 118 Dallas (Sir George), 187, 435 Davis (Thomas Osborne), 230 Delpini (Charles), 359 'Dictionary of Biography,' 215 'Dublin Penny Journal,' 375 "Farmer's Creed," 15 Hood (Thomas), 373 Howden, its history, 477 Lamb (C.), lost book by, 475; 'Elia' and Law (Stephen), 396 Medal of Charles I., 399 'Olla Podrida' and its author, 449 Pepperell (Sir William), 195 "Poor Robin," 57 'Protestant Tutor for Youth,' 274 'School of Shakespeare,' 155 'Scots Presbyterian Eloquence Displayed,' 272 "Town and Country Magazine,' 419 Von Barby family, 156 B. (G. F. R.) on novel entitled 'Waldegrave,' 135 B. (G. S.) on T. Forster, artist, 418 'Light of Asia,' 448 B. (H. G.) on Under in place-names, 38 B. (J. P.) on Sir William Pepperell, 107 B. (R.) on Copt and Copt Hall, 335 Christmas, a Christian name, 506 Christmas waits and mummers, 506 Dictionary of National Biography,' 102, 324 Elleker family, 434 Epitaph at Stratford-on-Avon, 446 Macaulay (Lord) and Shadwell, 234 Oxen as beasts of labour, 266 "Slip of a boy," 271 "Tam Marti quam Mercurio," 316 B. (W. H.) on Arbortrium, 454 B. (W. T.) on Scott and Shelley, 471 Back ago, in time past, 106 Bacon (Francis, Baron Verulam), his Barclay (E.) on the imp of Lincoln, 308 Barnard's Inn, its origin and progress, 101, 141, 181, Barnes family of Yorkshire, 468 Barnes (Rev. William), the "Dorset poet," his death, 340 Barra, its etymology, 408 Barrack=temporary hut or cabin, 326 Basire (Jacques), engraver, and his family, 189, 275, Baskerville Prayer Book, inscription in, 329, 419 Bat, harlequin's, 347, 418, 455 Bathing machines, their introduction, 67, 135, 214, Batho surname, 37, 153 Bayne (T.) on bell of flax, 273 "Deaf as an adder," 115 Pope (A.) and Gray on Dryden, 406 Bayne (W.) on Mary, Queen of Scots, 67 Beale family of Maidstone, 508 Beale (Mary), artist, temp. Charles II., 289, 315 Beaver or bever, its meaning, 306, 454, 514 Fortunæ, 7, 78, 214; passage in his 'Advance- ment of Learning,' 32 Badcock (Samuel) and the 'Monthly Review,' 123 Badges, county, 34, 98, 138, 213, 336, 433 Bagnall family arms, 37 Bahr, German surname, 408 Bailey (J. E.) on Lord Chesterfield's verses, 68 Smith (John), 48 Sorocold (Thomas), M. A., 82 Baillie (E. J.) on Twink-chaffinch, 117 St. Matthew's Gospel, 110 Baker (T. H.) on Cornwall dukedom, 174 Banns, their publication, 65 Banyard (J. S.) on Thomas Cobham, 233 Barber Surgeons, separation of their ancient guild, 69, Belvoir rustics, 446 195 Bemrose (W.) on Charles Edward Stua:t, 326 |