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A NIGHTCAP STRATAGEM (7th S. vi. 48).-The following historic story, which is doubtless that sought in PROF. BUTLER'S inquiry, I take from 'A Thousand Notable Things,' published by J. Gleave, Manchester (1822); whence derived the author does not impart :—

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think, in 'N. & Q.' I will not pillory the bookseller who was thus illtreated by his printer. He was made to advertise for sale "Marryat (Capt.), Pirate and Three Butlers, beautifully illustrated," &c. The association of the two great predatory classes, by sea and by land, seemed to me, as the æsthetics would say, "distinctly humorous." JULIAN MARSHALL.

PENDULUM CLOCKS (7th S. vi. 286, 389).—

made for George Mylne [master mason at] Holyrood
"A clergyman in Glasgow possesses [1849] a clock
House, Edinburgh, and on the dial-plate,

Remember, man, that die thou must,
And after that to judgment just.

"Henry, Earl of Holsatia, surnamed Iron because of his strength, having got into favour with Edward III., King of England, by reason of his valour, was envied by the courtiers, whereupon they one day, in the absence of the king, counselled the queen, that forasmuch as the earl was preferred before all the English nobility, she would make trial whether he was so noble born as he gave out, by causing a lion to be let loose upon him, saying, That the lion would not so much as touch Henry if he was noble indeed.' They got leave of the queen to make trial upon the earl. He was used to rise before day, and to walk in the outward court of the castle to take the fresh air of the morning. The lion was let loose in the night, and the earl, having a nightgown cast over his shirt, with his girdle and sword, coming down stairs into the court, met there with the lion bristling his hair and roaring. He, nothing astonished, said with a stout voice, 'Stand, stand, you dog.' At these words the lion crouched at his feet. To the great amazement of the courtiers, who looked out of their holes to behold the issue of this business, the earl laid hold of the lion, and shut him up within his den; he likewise left his nightcap upon the lion's back, and so came forth, without so-My copy, which I have always regarded as bemuch as looking behind him. Now,' said the earl, calling to them that looked out of the windows, let him amongst you all that standeth most upon his pedigree go and fetch my night-cap': but they, being ashamed, withdrew themselves."

Bishopwearmouth.

R. E. N.

CURIOSITIES OF CATALOGUING (7th S. v. 505; vi. 54).—“ Junior's (D.) Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is," &c., hardly needs explanation.

"Bart (S.), Anaesthesia, Hospitalism, Hermaphroditism, and a proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases, embellished with wood engravings, thick 8vo., cloth, 2s., pub. 14s., 1871"; and "Bart (J.), Selected Obstetrical and Gynecological Works, containing the substance of his lectures on Midwifery, thick 8vo., cloth gilt, 6s. 6d., 1871." Both by Sir James Y. Simpson,

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John Sanderson, Wigton, fecit 1512. This is the oldest pendulum clock we have seen, except one in the possession of Mr. Sharp, watchmaker, Dumfries, dated 1507, which is considerably prior to the date of Galileo's first application of the pendulum to mechanism."-Mackie's 'Prisons, &c., of Mary, Queen of Sir R. Phillips says, "The first pendulum clock was made 1641 for St. Paul's, Covent Garden." R. W. HACKWOOD.

Scots.'

SWIFT'S 'POLITE CONVERSATION' (7th S. vi. 403).

longing to the first edition, bears date 1738, being
printed at London for B. Motte and C. Bathurst,
at the Middle Temple Gate, in Fleet Street.
Lowndes mentions the same edition.
F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

'BOMBASTES FURIOSO' (7th S. vi. 379).—In your
"Notices to Correspondents" at this reference you
say you "believe the author of Bombastes
Furioso' is unknown." Davenport Adams, in his
'Dictionary of English Literature,' states him to be
William Barnes Rhodes. I suppose the 'Diction-
ary' is an authority.
JOHN TAYLOR.

CHAUCER'S 'BALADE OF GENTILNESSE' (7th S. vi. 326, 454). That there were two Scogans is a fact which I never doubted; and on looking further into the matter, I now think it equally certain that the author of the ballad sent to the young princes was named Henry, and that Caxton made a mistake (thinking, probably, at the time of his own contemporary) in calling him John. Having thus answered my own query, I cannot but express my surprise at A. H. failing to see the connexion with the 'Balade of Gentilnesse,' which shows for otherwise, or if he had ever read Scogan's that he cannot have read my note very carefully, ballad at all, he must have seen that the connexion is very close, and it is just this connexion which makes Scogan's ballad so specially interesting to Chaucer students. F. N.

P.S.-Since writing the above, I have found that a John Scogan, who died in 1391, was succeeded in the lordship of the manor of Hanyles (? Haviles), in East Rainham, co. Norfolk, by his

brother Henry, who appears a few years later, viz., 9 Hen. IV., as owner of this and other property in the same parish. This Henry was doubtless our poet, and at his death (11 Hen. IV.) the estate passed to his son Robert.

THE 'BRUSSELS GAZETTE' (7th S. v. 127, 374; vi. 31, 134).-It would appear that the lines quoted from a letter of Charles Lamb's in 'Eliana,' at the first reference, had originally nothing whatever to do with Napoleon. I find that they were part of a song which is still well known and popular, namely, 'Hearts of Oak.' This was published, together with the music, in the Universal Magazine for March, 1760, pp. 152-3, and is there entitled "A New Song, sung by Mr. Champness in "Harlequin's Invasion."" As it has been much altered, the original version may, perhaps, be deemed worthy of record in the pages of N. & Q.' It runs as follows:

Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year:
To honour we call you, not press you like slaves,
For who are so free as we sons of the waves?

Heart of oak are our ships, heart of oak are our men,
We always are ready, steady boys, steady,
We'll fight, and we 'll conquer again and again,
We ne'er see our foes, but we wish them to stay;
They never see us, but they wish us away;
If they run, why we follow, and run them ashore;
For, if they won't fight us, we cannot do more.
Heart of oak, &c.

They swear they 'll invade us, these terrible foes;
They frighten our women, our children, and beaus;
But should their flat-bottoms in darkness get o'er,
Still Britons they 'll find to receive them on shore.
Heart of oak, &c.

We'll still make 'em run, and we 'll still make 'em sweat,
In spite of the devil, and Brussels gazette:
Then cheer up, my lads, with one heart let us sing,
Our soldiers, our sailors, our statesmen and King.
Heart of oak, &c.

The song was written under the inspiration of "the year (1759) of Pitt's greatest triumphs, the year of Minden, and Quiberon, and Quebec. J. F. MANSERGH.

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in 1734, "at his house in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens." EDWARD H. Marshall, M.A. Hastings.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &a. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715 to 1886. Being the Matriculation Register of the University. Alphabetically Arranged, Revised, and Annotated by Joseph Foster. Vols. II., III., and IV,, completing the work. (Parker & Co.) WITH expedition which seems "phenomenal," and for which his subscribers owe him their gratitude, Mr. Foster has completed his heroic task of printing the Alumni Oxonienses, a record of the members of the birthplace, year of birth, and degrees. The appearance University of Oxford, 1715-1886, with their parentage, of the first volume was chronicled in N. & Q.' (7th S. iv. 378). Its completion shows how worthily Mr. Foster wears the mantle of Col. Chester, and establishes him in a foremost place among genealogists. Work such as Mr. Foster has crowded into the last half a dozen years is, indeed, in its line, unprecedented. Far beyond the genealogist extend the obligations conferred. Thanks to the information Mr. Foster is the first to supply, facts and dates of the utmost importance to biographical and historical research are now accessible. No sign of haste is there in the work he pours forth with industry so unfailing. So far as our researches extend-and his various works have been frequently tested-his compilations are as remarkable in accuracy as they are monumental in research. Of this matriculation register of Oxford University the mere title conveys an idea of the extent of labour involved. To give any insight into the contents which the simple mention of the book does not convey is not, of course, to be hoped. Under names from Matthew Arnold to Samuel Wilberforce the reader may satisfy himself of the plan and the execution of the work, which occupies between sixteen and seventeen hundred pages, closely printed in double columns. The book thus defying analysis, we will give it warmly such help as lays in our power. Mr. Foster's list of sup porters is largely-we may say principally-composed of subscribers or contributors to our own columns. It includes thirteen Oxford and five Cambridge colleges, the principal libraries in England and America, and other public institutions. Large as seems the list, however, the result so far is a deficit of 2,000, which will necessitate an augmented subscription for the four volumes of the earlier series, 1500-1714, the MS. for which is in an advanced state. Mr. Foster naturally shrinks from committing himself to publication unless individuals it is, of course, frequently a question of his subscription list is greatly increased. With private means, or other similar cause, and it is no mission of ours to chide those whose names do not appear. It is, however, fair to point out that in Mr. Foster's list does Gray's Inn Library alone among the libraries of the not appear a single club, English or American; that Inns of Court figures in the list; that while the Royal Library at the Hague and thirteen American libraries secure the book, royal, parliamentary, and municipal patronage is refused to it in England; and that Sydney Public Library is the only institution in any English colony to support the undertaking. It is, indeed, remarkable that no name of nobleman, with the exception of two bishops, or member of Parliament is in the list. Of Mr. Foster's labours we can only say that they are of national importance, and that what reward or recompense a public or private recognition can afford

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Oxford and London. Subscriptions may, however, be
sent to Mr. Foster, at 21, Boundary Road, N.W.

Kensington, Picturesque and Historical. By W. J. Loftie,
F.S.Ä. (Field & Tuer.)

Ir local histories are henceforth to resemble that now
before us, they are destined to a place in the affections
of the bibliophile higher than has hitherto been assigned
them. Topographical works have (somewhat unjustly
perhaps) been depreciated as books appealing to others
rather than true book-lovers. Whatever truth the charge
might once have possessed must soon disappear.
In
whatever light the new history of Kensington is regarded,
it merits praise. With its three hundred illustrations of
spots of interest or beauty, many of them in colours, and
all executed in a style of modern art, it puts in a claim
to general popularity, and is no less fitted for a place on
the dwelling-room table than on the library shelves. Its
importance as a record of whatever is known concerning
the "old Court suburb" commends it to the historical
reader, and its literary merits render it a worthy com-
panion to the homelier History of London' of the same
author. Those full and elaborate pedigrees which com-
mend a work of the class to the genealogist, and the
special information concerning remains of interest which
are the delight of the antiquary, are alike supplied, and
the whole information is conveyed in a style which is
easy, flexible, and void of affectation,

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in the seventeenth century, in consequence of renewed
outbreaks of the plague and the dangers of the journey
along the lonely park wall after nightfall, and the manner
in which it grew to be "the best, the most fashionable,
the most secure, and most healthy of all the Middlesex
villages," furnish matter of extreme interest. It is but
natural that the associations, literary and artistic, of Ken-
sington should receive full attention, and the houses of
Thackeray, Sir F. Leighton, Sir John Millais, Mr. G. F.
Watts, and others supply numerous illustrations. Some
of the more noteworthy tombs in Kensal Green are also
reproduced. A chapter is devoted to the church. On the
present Church of St. Mary Abbots Mr. Loftie passes some
strictures. The illustrations also include a view of the
short-lived Hippodrome. The coloured illustrations in-
clude a dance in Kensington Square in 1815, the Row in
1793, Kensington Palace in the same year, Kensington
Gardens and Kensington Palace in 1744, and a com-
posite representation of travelling in sedan chairs.
Whatever the publishers could do for this book,
which by command is dedicated to the Queen, has been
done, and the arrangement of the inner portion of the
cover with a gold scroll on cloth is an attractive novelty
due to Mr. Tuer, sure to come into general use for worke
of character and importance.

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AN able number of the Fortnightly opens with a paper
on 'War,' by Lord Wolseley, the importance of which it
is not easy to overestimate. Mr. Swinburne rhapsodizes
on Victor Hugo.' Mr. J. A. Symonds contrasts 'Eliza-
bethan and Victorian Poetry.' Mr. Oscar Wilde, under
the title Pen, Pencil, and Poison,' deals with Thomas
Griffiths Wainewright, of whom he disposes as a whole-
sale poisoner. Mr. Edmund Gosse writes on 'Ibsen's
Social Dramas,' and the Hon. George Curzon describes
A Visit to Bokhara.' As the Review is completed by
Mr. H. H. Johnston on The Ethics of Cannibalism,' Mr.
Mallock on 'The Scientific Basis of Optimism,' and Mr.
Frederic Harrison on 'The Future of Agnosticism.' it is
readable from cover to cover.-' Posthumous Vicissi
tudes of James II.,' contributed by Mr. J. G. Alger to
the Nineteenth Century, gives a curious account, in part
taken from N. & Q., of the treatment accorded the
body of this monarch. Under the title of 'The Decay
of Lying,' Mr. Oscar Wilde sends a clever and para-
doxical article. Dr. Jessopp has some valuable sugges-
tions for turning to account the large stores of informa-
tion still accessible and unused in the shape of MS.
records. Other important articles, mostly political, are
supplied, and bear very distinguished names.-Keep-
ing up its high character, the Century begins with a
paper on Giotto,' with reproductions of half a dozen
pictures. Mr. Remington's Horses of the Plains' is
equally excellent for letterpress and illustrations, both
are from the same source. 'Pagan Ireland' has great
interest, antiquarian and other. Round about Galilee,"

Mr. Loftie's avowed aim has been to trace the history
of Kensington from the first appearance of the name till
to-day. With regard to the name of Kensington, as with
that of the hundred of Ossulton, in which it is situated,
he has had to dismiss with more or less of derision not
only the theories of "a number of writers who think that
because 'Kensington' begins with a Kit must have some-
thing to do with a king," but those of the most import-
ant of his predecessors. From Thomas Faulkner, the
author of the History and Antiquities of Kensington,'
1820, as well as of historical and topographical accounts
of Chelsea, of Fulham, and of Brentford, Ealing, and
Chiswick, and Daniel Lysons, the historian of The En-
virons of London,' 1792-6, to Mr. Walford in his "splendid
book Old and New London,"" all writers are heretical
as regards the derivation. Óssulton is, Mr. Loftie holds,
Oswulf's "ton," though who Oswulf was who gave the
name to the hundred he does not know, while Kensing-
ton is simply the "ton" of the Kensingas, a tribe who
appear also in other parts of England. No contemporary
reference to Kensington is discovered earlier than the
Norman Conquest, though in the account of it in the
Domesday Book there is a reference back to the time of
Edward the Confessor. Twenty years later Kensington
was held by Albericus de Vere, at first under the great
Bishop of Coutances (Chenesitum), in which name
Lysons, who is followed by Faulkner and others, found The West Point of the Confederacy'-a rather sadden-
the origin of Kensington. The passage in the Domes- ing record of boyish heroism-and 'The Life of Adminis-
day Survey is quoted with a translation, and from this trative Exiles' are excellent in their various ways. Not
text a sermon of interest is delivered on the condition of to preserve and bind the Century is recklessness. The
Kensington in the eleventh century. Of the family of volumes are a delight.-In Macmillan, 'Dr. Johnson's
Vere & pedigree is given, with the descent of the manor Favourites' gives a very pleasing account of Bennet
of Kensington. Other pedigrees of Cope and Rich, of Langton and Topham Beauclerk. A Practical Philan-
Fox of Holland House, of Hicks and Noel of Camp-thropist and his Work' depicts the life and doings of
den House, are supplied. It is, of course, impossible to Jean Baptist André Godin. 'The Bloody Doctor' of
give a full account or analysis of Mr. Loftie's scheme or Mr. Addrew Lang deals with a fly affected by trout, and
treatment. Beginning with the geography of Kensing- not with any more than ordinarily zealous professor of
ton, which is accompanied by maps, Mr. Loftie devotes the healing art. "The Practice of Letters' is rather
his second chapter to the Veres and their connexion with severe upon the latest translator of Cellini's autobio-
the manor. Holland House is treated in a third chapter, graphy. Not very important are the 'Personal Recol-
Old Kensington in a fourth, and Kensington Palace and lections of the Great Duke of Wellington' contributed
Gardens in a fifth. The growth of Kensington, in spite by Lady De Ros to Murray's, but they are agreeable
of the restrictions upon building in the suburbs enforced reading, and show the great captain in a pleasant light.

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'The Old Cloak,' by Maxime du Camp, is very touching.
Mr. H. H. Statham, editor of the Builder, answers, with
some asperity, Mr. Shaw Lefevre's recent paper in the
Nineteenth Century on Public Buildings of London.'
The Earl of Clarendon will, of course, be heard on
'Party Government.' We fancy Our Library List' will
before long disappear.-In Temple Bar, What Men live
by,' from the Russian of Count Tolstoï, by Lady Lech-
mere, is an admirably characteristic specimen of the
Russian author's work. Charles Lamb's Letters' should
rather be called Lamb and Coleridge. Puns' and
Thomas Campbell are the subjects of papers.-Mr.

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Haweis writes in the Gentleman's on the Late John
Ella,' and Mr. W. J. Lawrence gives an account of Pan-
tomime One Hundred and Fifty Years ago.' 'Curious
Tenures' is on a subject of constant interest to readers
of 'N. & Q.'-Berkeley Castle is treated of in the English
Illustrated under Glimpses of Old English Homes." In
addition to good views of the place some of the fine
pictures in the collection are reproduced. Gwalior' is
the subject of an excellent paper, with illustrations, by
the Hon. Lewis Wingfield. Mr. Oscar Wilde has a paper
on 'London Models.' An engraving of 'The Virgin and
Child,' from the painting by Lorenzo di Credi in the
National Gallery, is the frontispiece.-' Studies of Ele-
mentary School Life,' in Longman's, gives some essays
by boys which are sufficiently comic. A Queen Anne
Pocket Book' has a mildly antiquarian interest. In At
the Sign of the Ship' Mr. Lang furnishes some variants of
rhymes concerning which he might with advantage have
consulted N. & Q.'-'In a Burmese Prison,' in the
Cornhill, gives a grim account of life under unfavourable
conditions. Pickwick' introduces much matter re-
cently discussed in N. & Q.' The Grocer's War' tells
again a very strange story.-Mistletoe and Holly' is
treated of, with other subjects, in All the Year Round.

SOMEWHAT behind time appears the concluding num-
ber for 1888 of Le Livre. The most remarkable paper
it contains is La Destruction Volontaire des Livres ou
la Bibliolytie,' and is by M. F. Drujon. It gives an
account of the books destroyed by their authors and by
other individuals. The list is long, no fewer than 268 works
being included in the list given, of which the first half
only appears. The whole is very curious. An illustration
representing a lovely binding of 'La Française du Siècle,'
in the possession of the author, M. Octave Uzanne, ac-
companies the number.

MESSRS, CASSELL & Co.'s publications lead off with Old
and New London, Part XVI. This begins about Corn-
hill and the neighbourhood adjacent, and gives repre-
sentations of Crosby Hall in 1790, Gresham House in
Bishopsgate Street, Cornhill in 1630, an excellent repre-
sentation of the old India Office in 1803, Stow's monu-
ment in St. Andrew Undershaft, old Bethlehem Hospital,
and other spots of interest.-Our Own Country, now at
the forty-eighth part, with no sign of stoppage, deals with
Flintshire and Winchester. A capital view of Winchester
serves as frontispiece, and is followed by one of Rhuddlan
Castle. Many striking views in Winchester are supplied.
-The Illustrated Shakespeare, Part XXXVI., is occupied
with 'King Richard the Third.' Full-page illustrations
include the mourning of Queen Margaret, Clarence and
Brakenbury, Queen Elizabeth lamenting, the Prince of
Wales and Buckingham proceeding to the Tower, and
the progress of Hastings to his death.-Part X. of the
translation of Naumann's History of Music is occu-
pied with the Old French school and the Nether-
lands to the beginning of the Renaissance. It re-
produces two designs of Van Eyck from Ghent, and
has a portrait of Meyerbeer.-Still in Melbourne, Pictur-
esque Australasia, Part III., gives an animated scene on
Brighton beach, not to be confounded with Brighton in

the mother country. Melbourne has also a suburb named
Kew. "A vanished wonderland" is the title given to the
lake district of New Zealand, to which the work then
proceeds. - Part XIII. of the Dictionary of Cookery
finishes the work, to which it gives title-page and index,
with a useful appendix.

PART LXII. of Mr. Hamilton's Parodies gives travesties
of Mr. Swinburne and Mr. G. R. Sims.

No. XVIII. of the Bookbinder (Clowes & Sons) is freely
and handsomely illustrated. Some of the colour-printed
book-covers are very remarkable.

Woman's World has a well-illustrated paper on' Fans,'
and a second on The Princesse de Talleyrand.' There
are some good views of Fontarabia, one of the most pic-
turesque portions of northern Spain.

THE ROV. W. S. Lach-Szyrma has reprinted his sermon
on The Lesson of the Armada.

MR. G. BIRKBECK HILL writes from 3, The Crescent,
Oxford:-"I have entered into an engagement with
the Delegates of the Clarendon Press to collect and
edit Dr. Johnson's letters.
them are in print, but scattered through many volumes;
A very large number of
many others still remain in manuscript. Since I pub-
lished my edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson' I have,
through the kindness of correspondents, received copies
of not a few which I had never before seen. Many, I
have reason to know, still remain hidden away in the
desks of collectors of autographs. May I through your
columns appeal to the owners of such letters to furnish
me with copies? If they would trust me with the ori-
ginals they would greatly add to the favour. The regis-
tered letter-post is a very secure mode of transmission.
Whatever I receive shall be returned without delay. If
only a copy is sent I venture to ask that the spelling and
punctuation of the original be exactly followed. In the
case of those letters which have been published, I would
suggest that they should be collated by their owners, and
that I should be informed of any inaccuracy. Johnson's
handwriting is not always clear, and not a few errors
have been committed by the copyists. As I hope to sup-
plement this work by a similar edition of the letters of
Boswell, I venture to make the same requests in his case
also.'

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CORRIGENDUM.-7th S. vi. 508, col. 1, 1. 14 from bottom,
for " Luck" read Leech.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1889.

CONTENTS.-N° 159.

probable that the chronicler would take precedence of the king, or that his name would be allowed a place in the rich foliation when those of kings, NOTES:-" Tanias el Rey," 21-Dictionary of National heroes, and architects were not so highly honoured. Biography,' 22-Christendom of Clothes, 23-Sir John Haw- A man who had deserved such esteem of his king kins-Shoemaker's Announcement-Whistling-Kittering, 24-Trowses-Bent-"The one" and "the other"-Veins would most probably still exist in the memory of in the Nose-Bezonian-Anonymous Aid-Charles II., 25-present generations. His name and his chronicles Boulevards for London-Snob-Story concerning Cromwell could not have so completely disappeared from the -Relics of Charles I.-Chalet, 26. pages of contemporary writers had he, in that grand era of heroic navigators, outshone all by his writings.

QUERIES:-'The Court Secret'-' Tales of the Spanish Main ’
-Seringapatam-Frances Cromwell - Antique Screens
Herries-Dyer, of Sharpham-Sir Robt. Norter-Classifica-
tion of Clergy-The Flower Garden,' 27-Edw. Bristow-
Court Rolls Triple Cord -Tours Cathedral- Neuwied
Ethnographicals - "Dolce far niente"-Arms Wanted -
-Sandal Gates-Curious Work-"To leave the world better
than you found it"-Twizzel, 28-Mother Ludlam's Cauldron
-Dr. Thompson-Coaching Prints-Josiah Burchill, 29.

Tanias is a myth. Is it likely that the names of Vasco da Gama and Nuno Cabral, who had opened the eastern and western gates of the New World to commerce, should have been relegated to comREPLIES:-Tooth-brushes, 29-Big Books Big Bores-Names parative obscurity, and that this Tanias, of whom we in De Banco Roll, 30-Pounds-Lord Bateman-Hampton know absolutely nothing, should have been imPoyle, 31-Radical Reform-Defender of the Faith-Pro-mortalized by having his name inscribed amid the gramme, 32-Birmingham Magazine-Waik: Wene: Maik elaborate foliation springing from the sides of a -Crombie-Yorkshire Expressions - - Belgian Beer-Confessor of the Household, 33-Historiated-Walpole Collec- sacred edifice, the last resting-place of some kings tion-Waterloo Ball-Monkey Island-Once a Week,' 34 of glorious memory? Graham of Gartmore-Saloop-Harper-Marginalia of Coleridge-Parkin, 35-Flint Flakes-Dictionary Desiderata, 36 Harvest Horn- Liquid Gas-Thursk-ChampflowerTweenie-Grâce me guide"-Musical Taste in Birds, 37Initials after Names-Printer's Chapel-Authors Wanted, 38.

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"TANIAS EL REY."

Many of the other derivations are equally absurd, and that given by John Latouche (Oswald Crawfurd) in his 'Travels in Portugal' is not worthy of much consideration. But Mr. Crawfurd is so happy in most of his other suggestions that I may be allowed to repeat what he says on this subject:

"Tanias el Rey is, I have no doubt, only an anagram of Arte e Linyas. The puzzle is a good one, though not quite fair, for the El rey is very misleading, and the use of the Latinized Portuguese of the period has clearly thrown the antiquaries off the scent."

How the author of 'Travels in Portugal' arrived So many descriptions of the monastery of Batalha at such a conclusion is as great a puzzle to me as have been published at various times that it would the inscription is to him. Under the roof of the be impossible to add to our knowledge of this monastery of Batalha were buried, as I have already wonderful pile, which has found so many admirers said, many of the kings, queens, princes, and among the savants of all countries. Of all the grandees of Portugal, and the building itself was descriptions, however, the most beautiful is that of erected to commemorate the great victory won at Fr. Luiz de Souza in his 'Historia de S. Domingos,' Aljubarrota, which secured the independence of and the most correct that published in the Ecclesio- Portugal. The original church was finished before logist for August, 1854. That the Portuguese place 1416, but the Capella Imperfeita was commenced too great a value on the building, from an archi- at the close of the fifteenth century, shortly after tectural point of view, it is needless to say. No the accession of King D. Manoel the Fortunate, fewer than five architects seem to have been en-just when the discoveries of Vasco da Gama and gaged on this sacred edifice, composed of "spires, Nuno Cabral were astonishing the world and pinnacles, pierced battlements, and flying but- filling the coffers of the Portuguese monarch. tresses"; but to the last, Matheus Fernandez, who died in 1515, belongs the glory of having built the "Capella Imperfeita," or Unfinished Chapel, whose western arch surpasses in richness everything else in the building. On the western side of this arch are repeated with great frequency the words "Tanias el Rey," among knots, flowers, and foliage, and the meaning of these words has given rise to great disputation at various times. By the majority of the Portuguese the words are supposed to commemorate the name of King D. Manoel's chronicler, but a careful search into contemporary history reveals no such name as Tanias. Then, again, it is very im

D. Manoel, it is well known, expended large sums in the erection of splendid edifices, and it can easily be conceived that a monarch whose ruling passion was to raise majestic piles should have built a chapel like the Capella Imperfeita, in which eventually he might be placed to rest. This would only be following out what other kings and many private persons had done before and have done since. That he was not buried there, but at Belem, means nothing more than that it was decided to bury him at Belem in the magnificent monastery which he had caused to be erected. Having accepted this theory, which to me seems reasonable,

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