destroy their combs and pests......Now the number surrounded by a wreath. A segment of the of mice is largely dependent, a8 every one knows, circle is cut off, and bears the initials J. D. on the number of cats;, and Col. Newman says, and the date 1796. The peculiarity is that Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than else- three-stump, and not two-stump cricket is where, which I attribute to the number of cats represented, and it is (so I understood from that destroy the mice. Hence it is quite credible Mr. Willett) the earliest representation of that the presence of a feline animal in large num. the modern double-wicket game known on bers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the pottery. The players wear tall hats and frequency of certain flowers in that district!” knee-breeches, and the bats are club shape.

ST. SWITHIN.

Two spectators, in red and blue coats, three

cornored hats, and silks,, recline in the foreBALLAD: SPANISH LADY'S LOVE FOR AN ground. In my 'Surrey: Highways, By ways, ENGLISHMAN (10th S. iv. 107, 153). In and Waterways” (pp. 30 and 31), 'I figured addition to the information given at the last the bowl and the medallion. Mr. Willett reference I may refer your correspondent to told me that there were only (1895) two the note contained in vol. ii. p. 247 of Percy's ceramic representations of eighteenth-century Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, ed. by cricket known, and that my bowl was one. Mr. Wheatley, 1889, which quotes at length

C. R. B. BARRETT. the information given by my father, Charles Wandsworth. Lee, a descendant of the Sir John Bolle, in a letter to The Times of 1 May, 1846. I am

In the early days of The Illustrated London unaware of any claimants other than those News (about 1843) there were portraits of referred to in Mr. Wheatley's note. If S. A. celebrated cricketers of those times-as Pilch, should not have access to the above book, I Box, Lillywhite, and the Mynns. There is shall be pleased to send him a copy of the also a fine coloured engraving depicting the note in question. A. COLLINGWOOD LEE. Eleven of England' in days when cricket Waltham Abbey.

was played in top hats. No one seems as yet

to have referred to the famous cricket match, CRICKET: PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS (10th Dingley Dell against All Muggleton, in the S. iv. 9, 132).—I have a cream-ware bowl, Pickwick Papers '(the date probably 1830), maker Wedgwood (name on base), and dated and to the scarce print of it inserted in 1796. The diameter is 11 in., the height 4} in. some editions of that work. It was made by Wedgwood for John Durand,

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. of Carshalton, Surrey, son of John Durand, of Woodcote, Wallington, Surrey, and by him presented to the then Carshalton Cricket

Miscellancous. ClubMr. Durand was an enthusiast with regard to the game. Like many another

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. cricket club, that at Carshalton fell upon Byrcays in the Classics, including 'Alia. By Hugh evil days. Its headquarters used to be the E. P. Platt, M.A. (Oxford, Blackwell.)

Greyhound Hotel," and there its property EMBOLDENED by the success of his 'Alia,' Mr. Platt was kept. The members falling into arrears has issued a more comprehensive little volume, for for dinners, &c., the hotel-keeper became which a friend suggested the punning title of possessed of the

goods of the club, the bowl Morsejalia.' It is an enchanting opuscule, which among them. From a descendant of the he may turn with the certainty of entertainment.

the scholar may carry in his pocket, and to which hostess (it was a landlady), one Wayte or Not easy is it to give a full idea of the treat proWaite, who was for many years parish clerk vided. To some extent the work is a collection of of Carshalton, my father, the late Rev. Alfred passages in Greek and Latin, parallel with those Barrett, D.D., obtained the bowl. This must employed by moderns. As such it furnishes objecte have been about 1865 or 1866. Since 1887 it illi qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.” Sometimes a

for the objurgation of Ælius Donatns, “Pereant bas been in my possession. The inner rim mere anticipation of a well-known phrase is given, of the bowl (which is perfectly plain) has a as when painted border – vine-leaves, bunches of Quand on n'a pas ce qu'on aime

Il faut aimer ce qu'on a grapes, and tendrils in propor coloursbetween two deep chocolate bands. On the is traced, among others, to Menander and Terence, outside of the bowl is one group of flowers Ciceronian observation, "Quis aut scit aut curat?

“Who knows or cares?" is found in the and fruit, gaudy and by, no means well

Sometimes we find familiar, but not too accessible executed in colour. The base of the bowl jokes, as inside has a 6-inch medallion, in which there See, ladling butter from a pair of (alternate !) tubs, is a now unfortunately very much damaged Stubbs butters Freeman, Freeman butters Stubbs, representation of a game of cricket. This is for which a species of suggestion is fonud in

a

usonius. Sometimes, again, we have humorous Carlyle has some acres of it in his 'French Revo. omments, as in “Nenio repente fuit turpissimus, lution,' where it seems more forced than forcible, It takes five years to make a solicitor," or a pun and grows very wearisome. ach as that on equam in a quotation from Horace In his preface Mr. Platt speaks of words which y Lord North ; see p. 60. Following these come have no equivalent in Latin as throwing light op Mottoes,' one of the earliest of which for golf the history of morals. There is one word which is rom Virgil's 'Georgics,' ii. 129) is very droll :- essentially Latin in its origin, but which we defy Miscuerunt herbas et non innoxia verba.

any scholar to translate into Latin-and that is

Romanticism." Modern applications of the classics are largely

The popular and medical mispronunciation of aken from parliamentary proceedings in the time

angina f Pitt and Gladstone.

was dissipated by some dons of Tripity, At p. 52 are given the se-to characterize Æneas-of the words “ Pius,” to have been a favourite quotation with Fielding, erses (imitated from The Tatler, No.

6) on Virgil's Cambridge, as may be seen in the Life of Arch

bishop Benson. ** Infandum, regina," &c., seems. Pater," and "Dux Trojanus. (Whose are these ther 'subjects, which follow, are interesting and old, a barber-surgeon, and twice in the mouth of nes ?) Some short essays on Roman coinedy and for we have noted it three times in Tom Jones:

once when a barber regrets that he is not, as of aluable, and the entire book is a delight. It might, Partridge, who thinks it suitable for a discourse on is the author admits, be indefinitely expanded. love, and for any occasion when he sees an old Lere are a few specimens, which we supply :

woman, the whole race of them being mischievous. !ou may break, you may ruin, the vaso if you will, We think that many Johnsonian references But the scent of the roses will cling to it still. to Latin besides those given deserve collectionWe quote froni memory.)

e.g., this in Boswell's book, under 'Age 74': "On Juo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem

the frame of his (Johnson's) portrait, Mr. Beauclerka

had inscribed Testa diu.-Hor., Epist. I. ii. 69-70.

Ingenium ingens Tennyson ('Life,' ii. 289) supports Mr. Platt by

Inculto latet hoc sub corpore. Goting

What a bad, hissing line is that in the after Mr. Beauclerk's death, when it became Mr. Lloem on the death of Thomson :

Langton's property, he had the inscription The year's best sweets shall duteous rise."

defaced. Johnson said, complacently, 'It was. ind he is represented as saying,

kind of you to take it off'; and then, after a short “What dire offence from amorous causes springs. pause, added, “and not unkind in him to put it on.

The following admirable Oxford allusion we came Amrus causiz springs'; horrible! I would sooner ie than write such a line !!

across recently.. A gentlenian named Money had Trench was the

a new wife, and became daily more uxoriously fond, nly critic who said of my first volume, What

as she was in that state in which those who love singular absence of the 's!!"

The best-known source of quotation among lite. their lords wish to be-to quote a Dickensian paravailable, as our columns have recently shown in a about the lady's mantua and the geutleman's ary men is the splendid Latin Bible. Yet it is not phrase. With an exquisite fineness of point which

is almost too good, as is, according to Lamb, the quip lecently printed English edition. What could be Cremona violin, somebody quoted: nore splendid than the sentence applied to Queen Victoria's Jubilee Medal? Longitudo dierum in Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescito lextra ejus, et in sinistra gloria." Mr. Platt does not give many applications of The Church in Madras. By the Rev. Frank ireek, 80 we may introduce a passage from the Penny, LL.M. (Smith, Elder & Co.) Menoirs of my Life,' by an author whose fame In this handsome, accurate, and well-illustrated nay outlive the most potent of parliamentarians. volume the Rev. Frank Penny, an ex-chaplain of Jibbon thus prefaces a quotation in Greek from the the Indian Service (Madras Establishment) and a welfth of the Olympian Odes: “Whatsoever may well-known contributor to our columns, has renlave been the fruits of my education, they must be dered an important service to the student of thescribed to the fortunate banishment which placed growth and development of our Indian empire. No ne at Lausanne. I have sometimes applied to my attempt is made to supply a complete history of wn fate the verses of Pindar, which remind an religious progress in the place and period dealt lympic champion that his victory was the con with, por even a full record of missionary enterequence of his exile; and that at home, like a prise in Southern India. His principal aim is to homestic fowl, his days might have rolled away denonstrate how ecclesiastical events were in.. nactive or inglorious.

Auenced by the action of the East India Company Not much of Ovid has passed into current rise and its local government at Fort St. George. mong scholars; but one phrase (in Tristia,' IV. What is given consists largely of extracts from the :51) has been very widely used : “Virgilium vidi dispatches of the Directors to the Government of antum." Gibbon employs it of his glimpse of Vol. Fort St. George, with others from the replies, and aire, Scott of the look and word he got from Burns. is, accordingly, official and, in the full sense, authoMr. Platt has done little or nothing in the way of ritative. Mr. Penny's work starts with the begin.nediæval allusions in Latin, yet these have given ning of the seventeenth century, when the char. 18 Scylla and Charybdis, and * Rome was not built tered Company owned no land in the East and was aced at gth S. iv. 327.

under obligation to provide chaplains. As Mr. Platt is quite right in saying that the so- students of Hakluyt-an author to be closely fol. alled “vivid present is less used in English lowed by those who seek to benefit by Mr. Penny's han in Latin. Our own columns have dealt with early chapters—will know, the London merchants in his idiom. It is not advisable in English, and is whose hands was our early commerce with the East enerally a sign of inexperience rather than skill. were God-fearing med, who, however disposed they

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might be to, bind up the Bible with the ledger, an important and a prominent feature in a work of expected a strict observance of religious duty among exemplary erudition, opening out a curious branch their servants. In their earliest voyages, accord of Indian study. ingly, each of their pursors was supplied with a Bible, in which, after a fashion then common, was

Hannah Logan's Courtship: a True Narrative.

Edited by Albert Cook Myers. (Philadelphia, comprised a Book of Comnion Prayer. In 1607 it

Ferris & Leach.) was decided to employ poor priests to accompany their ships on the Indian voyage, and references to 'SALLY WISTER'S JOURNAL,' a record by a Quaker the appointment and allowance of such become maiden of her experiences during the British. frequent. Suratt, Ispahan, and Ajmere were the American war, a work also edited by Mr.

Myers, places first visited by chaplains, who seem to have introduced us to a delightful personage whom been generally graduates of one or other of the

we associated in our affections with Dorothy English universities, and to have preached before Osborne and other kindred spirits. So directly did appointment a trial sermon at St. Benet, Grace- she appeal to the public that there is little wonder .church Street, or elsewhere. Esdras Simpson

that her discoverer has sought further in the same received in 1609 331. 68. 8d. yearly for three years; also records Quaker love-making, is no way inferior

field. Bibliographically the present work, which with a gratuity of 201. for provisions at sea. Until 1660 there was no fixed allowance. The Company to its predecessor, Its paper, its printing, its seems to have permitted a system of espionage, and illustrations and facsimiles, are admirable, and it found its patience tried by reports of the inimoral gives a pleasing insight into Quaker proceedings .conduct of the chaplains. It is said that "the early in the eighteenth century. We are in love, debauched carriage of divers abroad had almost however, with Sally Wister, and we are not with discouraged them from sending any." So early as

Hannah' Logan. How much this signifies the

The new work may 1614 attempts are made for the conversion of the observant reader well knows. natives. Ou 22 December, 1616, an East Indiau be read with pleasure and advantage, but we do was christened by the name of Poter.

not, as in the previous instance, insist on its The earliest record of the desire expressed by the perusal. factors and soldiers in Fort St. George for a chaplain Punctuation: its Principles and Practice. By T. F. was in 1644. In 1647 Master Isaacson, arriving from Husband, M.A., and M. F. A. Husband, B.A. Suratt, was the first resident chaplain of the Com

(Routledge & Sons.) pany's earliest possession in India. Complaints are This serviceable and trustworthy little volume may heard of the intrusion by the French padres of be commended to general perusal, and will be Roman Catholic ceremonies. Among those who specially useful to those disposed to study as they interested then selves greatly in the religious merit Dr. Foat's comments on the same subject at welfare of English and natives was the famous author of 'The Saints' Everlasting Rest." In 1678 present passing through our columns. there are complaints that Madras is “very much pestered with Portuguese Popish priests.” In

Notices to Correspondents. 1680 St. Mary's Church, within the walls of the fort, was, after some ditficulties had been over.

We must call special attention to the following come, consecrated, and named. An interesting

notices :item (pp. 69-70) shows the attendance of Shaw On all communications must be written the namo {Shah) Raza at an English service, and his edification and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub. thereat. After this he visits the Dutch factory, lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. where, after prayers, be is entertained with “niusic To secure insertion of communications correand dancing wenches......in the very place where spondents must observe the following rules. Let .just before they had performed their devotions."

each note, query, or reply be written on a separate The building of churches at Calcutta and Bombay slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and was subsequent to the erection of St. Mary's. Such such address as he wishes to appear. When answer edifices generally came into existence with the ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous consent, and sometimes with the assistance, of the entries in the paper, contributors are requested to local Government and the Conipany's local officials, put in parentheges, immediately after the exact A full account is given of the assistance rendered heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to by the Company and the local Governnient to the which they refer.' Correspondents who repeat mission work that was accomplished by the English queries are requested to head the second com. S.P.C.K. and the Gerniano-Danish Society of Halle niunication “Duplicate." and Copenhagen. Attention is devoted to the

POLITICIAN (“Up, Guards, and at them !”).policy of the Company and the local Government in dealing with the Roman Catholic missions which Have you consulted the articles at 1" S. v. 396, were carried on by the Portuguese Capuching and 425; vi. 11, 400; viii. 111, 184, 204, 275; X. 90: the French Jesuits, both

of whom combiued mis- 6th S. iii. 61 ; 7th S. xii. 324? The Duke 'of wel: sionary zeal with political ambition. Other points lington's memorandum on the subject is printed of interest are the biographies of the chaplains, the at the penultimate reference. One sentence runs :

“What I must have said, and possibly did say, was, account of their labours, the educational work of

"Stand

Guards !"" chaplains and missionaries, and the history of

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