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1900
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That an imperial rescript should put one great and energetic country a year in advance of its neighbours, though a little surprising in NOTES:-Editorial Good Wishes-Origin of Yeomanry modern days, is not unprecedented. On the Cavalry, 1-A Lifetime's Work-Special Literature for other side of the land over which this imperial Soldiers, 2-" Boer"- Rogers's 'Ginevra'-" Quagga' doctor or scientist holds sway is a country in and "Zebra," 3-A Pastille-Burner-Henry Cavendish- "Wroth Silver" - Poe's 'Hop-Frog Wound" for which a calendar other than ours prevails. "Winded"-Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, 4-A The same holds true of Turkey, and once held Pasquil Kinnui: Jewish Eke-names "Waits "Gaitas," 5- Partridge, the Almanac-maker- Omar true of Republican France. To add to the Khayyam-"Byre"-St. Michael's Church, Bassishaw, 6. complexity of calendars seems a subject for QUERIES:-Portrait of Madame Laffitte-Correspondence regret. At any rate, in presence of conflict- of English Ambassadors to France- On a Pincushion '- ing authorities-imperial, ecclesiastical, or Lambert in Guernsey-" The Dukes "-Methodist Plea' Marriage Gift-Author Wanted-Moseley Hall, 7-popular-the attitude coincides with that of Remote""Thomas Tomkinson, Gent."-Lieut. James Galileo when, striking the earth with his foot, -Brothers Mayor and Town Clerk - St. Eanswyth Wagner's Meistersinger-Dr. Syntax-Stop-press Edi- he said, or is reputed to have said, “E pur si tions-Marylebone Churchyard Public Vault-Toad Mugs- muove," It is still the nineteenth century, Sidney, Young, and Brownlow-Hogarth's 'Sigismunda' and the Editor at least will wait for a time -Viscount Cholmondeley's Scotch MSS., 8-"Bully"- Dandy's Gate-"The Beurré" Witchelt"-Ill-shod, 9. he may never see before congratulating his REPLIES:- Cromwell and Music, 9-'An Apology for readers on the advent of the twentieth.
Cathedral Service '-"To Priest "Pickwickian Studies' Boxing Day, 10-"The Appearance"-Polkinghorn- Swansea Shepherdess Walk-Hawkwood, 11-Bryan, Lord Fairfax-The Mint-"Bridge"-Stafford Family- "Lowestoft China," 12-The Great Oath-"Tiffin Edgett, 13- "Cordwainer"- Boudicca May Road Well, Accrington-"A pickled_rope -Authorship of
"The Red, White, and Blue'-Prefaces, 15 -Morcom- Margaret Blount Hannah Lee-Hoastik carles," 16- "Dozzil"-"Middlin'"- Cox's Museum, 17-"King of Bantam "-Grolier Bindings, 18.
NOTES ON BOOKS-Sidney Lee's 'Life of Shakespeare' 1 Fernald's 'Students' Standard Dictionary' -'The Library'-Reviews and Magazines. Notices to Correspondents.
THE ORIGIN OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY. IN connexion with the decision of the Government, announced on 20 December last, to recruit a new mounted infantry force for service in South Africa from the ranks of the record the fact that it is to the great Suffolk Yeomanry, it may be interesting to place on agriculturist Arthur Young that we owe the inception of Yeomanry Cavalry.
The germ of Young's idea of forming a militia of property" for this country is contained in some reflections on the French Revolution at the end of his 'Travels in 1792, he repeated the suggestion in vol. xviii. France,' published in May, 1792. In August, of his 'Annals of Agriculture' (p. 481), and expanded it in his well-known pamphlet entitled "The Example of France a Warning to England,' which went through four English editions in 1793-4 (besides two editions in French-one published at Brussels and the other at Quebec), and made a great sensa- tion in its day.
Young says in this pamphlet:-
THE recent issue of the Jubilee Number of Notes and Queries having brought the editor into communication, more or less close and personal, with some to whom individually he was the mere shadow of a name, and having elicited manifestations of toleration and even of sympathy, by which he has been flattered and touched, he feels justified in taking the opportunity of the first number of the New Year to wish his contributors a full share of the privileges and blessings with which, in spite of a not too propitious outset, he is "A regiment of a thousand cavalry in every fain to hope it is charged. His indebted-county of moderate extent, just disciplined enough ness to those who make his post enviable enrolled and assembled in companies three days in to obey orders and keep their ranks, might be and his labours light is not to be expressed. every year, and in regiments once in seven, at a Should even his aspirations be of no effect, very moderate expense to the public......It has been the attitude of benevolence-to use the word said that such a militia is impracticable; I will not in its classical sense-is like that of devotion venture to assert that a law which legalises and reason on a case absolutely new, but we may or prayer, good in itself, and is a step regulates the mode in which all the land proprietors (the longest that can be taken) towards its in the kingdom......may instantly assemble, armed, Gwn fulfilment. For congratulations on the in troops and regiments......a law which prepares arrival of a new century he has still twelve the means of security and defence, while the rage months to wait. That fact, simple as it is and order, must be good, and may be essential to of attack unites and electrifies the enemies of peace is not obvious to all. To him and to most of the salvation of the community."-Fourth edition, his readers it is patent as the sun at mid-day. | 1794, pp. 141-2. 33769
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