destroy their combs and nests...... Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats; and Col. Newman says, 'Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than else where, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.' Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!"

ST. SWITHIN.

BALLAD: SPANISH LADY'S LOVE FOR AN ENGLISHMAN (10th S. iv. 107, 153). In addition to the information given at the last reference I may refer your correspondent to the note contained in vol. ii. p. 247 of Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,' ed. by Mr. Wheatley, 1889, which quotes at length the information given by my father, Charles Lee, a descendant of the Sir John Bolle, in a letter to The Times of 1 May, 1846. I am unaware of any claimants other than those referred to in Mr. Wheatley's note. If S. A. should not have access to the above book, I shall be pleased to send him a copy of the note in question. A. COLLINGWOOD LEE. Waltham Abbey.

CRICKET: PICTURES AND ENGRAVINGS (10th S. iv. 9, 132).-I have a cream-ware bowl, maker Wedgwood (name on base), and dated 1796. The diameter is 11 in., the height 4 in. It was made by Wedgwood for John Durand, of Carshalton, Surrey, son of John Durand, of Woodcote, Wallington, Surrey, and by him presented to the then Carshalton Cricket Club. Mr. Durand was an enthusiast with regard to the game. Like many another cricket club. that at Carshalton fell upon evil days. Its headquarters used to be the "Greyhound Hotel," and there its property was kept. The members falling into arrears for dinners, &c., the hotel-keeper became possessed of the goods of the club, the bowl among them. From a descendant of the hostess (it was a landlady), one Wayte or Waite, who was for many years parish clerk of Carshalton, my father, the late Rev. Alfred Barrett, D.D., obtained the bowl. This must have been about 1865 or 1866. Since 1887 it has been in my possession. The inner rim of the bowl (which is perfectly plain) has a painted border vine-leaves, bunches of grapes, and tendrils in proper coloursbetween two deep chocolate bands. On the outside of the bowl is one group of flowers and fruit, gaudy and by no means well executed in colour. The base of the bowl inside has a 6-inch medallion, in which there is a now unfortunately very much damaged representation of a game of cricket. This is

surrounded by a wreath. A segment of the circle is cut off, and bears the initials J. D. and the date 1796. The peculiarity is that three-stump, and not two-stump cricket is represented, and it is (so I understood from Mr. Willett) the earliest representation of the modern double-wicket game known on pottery. The players wear tall hats and knee-breeches, and the bats are club shape. Two spectators, in red and blue coats, threecornered hats, and silks, recline in the foreground. In my 'Surrey: Highways, By ways, and Waterways' (pp. 30 and 31), I figured the bowl and the medallion. Mr. Willett told me that there were only (1895) two ceramic representations of eighteenth-century cricket known, and that my bowl was one. C. R. B. BARRETT.

Wandsworth.

In the early days of The Illustrated London News (about 1843) there were portraits of celebrated cricketers of those times-as Pilch, Box, Lilly white, and the Mynns. There is also a fine coloured engraving depicting the Eleven of England' in days when cricket was played in top hats. No one seems as yet to have referred to the famous cricket match, Dingley Dell against All Muggleton, in the 'Pickwick Papers' (the date probably 1830), and to the scarce print of it inserted in some editions of that work.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

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Byways in the Classics, including Alia.' By Hugh E. P. Platt, M.A. (Oxford, Blackwell.) EMBOLDENED by the success of his Alia,' Mr. Platt has issued a more comprehensive little volume, for which a friend suggested the punning title of Mor[e]alia.' It is an enchanting opuscule, which he may turn with the certainty of entertainment. the scholar may carry in his pocket, and to which Not easy is it to give a full idea of the treat provided. To some extent the work is a collection of passages in Greek and Latin, parallel with those employed by moderns. As such it furnishes objects illi qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.' for the objurgation of Elius Donatus, Pereant Sometimes a mere anticipation of a well-known phrase is given,

as when

Quand on n'a pas ce qu'on aime Il faut aimer ce qu'on a

is traced, among others, to Menander and Terence, Ciceronian observation, "Quis aut scit aut curat?" or "Who knows or cares?" is found in the Sometimes we find familiar, but not too accessible jokes, as

See, ladling butter from a pair of [alternate ?] tubs, Stubbs butters Freeman, Freeman butters Stubbs, for which a species of suggestion is found in

usonius. Sometimes, again, we have humorous omments, as in "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus," It takes five years to make a solicitor," or a pun ach as that on equam in a quotation from Horace My Lord North; see p. 60. Following these come Mottoes,' one of the earliest of which for golf rom Virgil's Georgics,' ii. 129) is very droll:Miscuerunt herbas et non innoxia verba. lodern applications of the classics are largely aken from parliamentary proceedings in the time f Pitt and Gladstone. At p. 52 are given the Verses (imitated from The Tatler, No. 6) on Virgil's se-to characterize Eneas-of the words "Pius," Pater," and "Dux Trojanus.' (Whose are these nes?) Some short essays on Roman comedy and ther subjects, which follow, are interesting and aluable, and the entire book is a delight. It might, the author admits, be indefinitely expanded. Here are a few specimens, which we supply:You may break, you may ruin, the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will cling to it still. We quote from memory.)

uo semel est imbuta recens, servabit odorem Testa diu.-Hor., Epist. I. ii. 69-70.

Tennyson ('Life,' ii. 289) supports Mr. Platt by oting What a bad, hissing line is that in the hoem on the death of Thomson:

The year's best sweets shall duteous rise." And he is represented as saying, "What dire offence from amorous causes springs. Amrus causiz springs'; horrible! I would sooner ie than write such a line!! Trench was the nly critic who said of my first volume, What singular absence of the 's"!"

The best-known source of quotation among liteary men is the splendid Latin Bible. Yet it is not Available, as our columns have recently shown, in a lecently printed English edition. What could be nore splendid than the sentence applied to Queen Victoria's Jubilee Medal? Longitudo dierum in lextra ejus, et in sinistra gloria."

Mr. Platt does not give many applications of freek, so we may introduce a passage from the Memoirs of my Life,' by an author whose fame nay outlive the most potent of parliamentarians. ibbon thus prefaces a quotation in Greek from the welfth of the Olympian Odes: "Whatsoever may ave been the fruits of my education, they must be scribed to the fortunate banishment which placed ne at Lausanne. I have sometimes applied to my wn fate the verses of Pindar, which remind an Olympic champion that his victory was the conequence of his exile; and that at home, like a lomestic fowl, his days might have rolled away nactive or inglorious.'

Not much of Ovid has passed into current use mong scholars; but one phrase (in Tristia,' IV. 51) has been very widely used: "Virgilium vidi antum." Gibbon employs it of his glimpse of Volaire, Scott of the look and word he got from Burns. Mr. Platt has done little or nothing in the way of nediæval allusions in Latin, yet these have given 18 Scylla and Charybdis, and Rome was not built In a day," traced at 9th S. iv. 327.

Mr. Platt is quite right in saying that the soalled "vivid present is less used in English han in Latin. Our own columns have dealt with his idiom. It is not advisable in English, and is enerally a sign of inexperience rather than skill.

Carlyle has some acres of it in his French Revolution,' where it seems more forced than forcible, and grows very wearisome.

In his preface Mr. Platt speaks of words which have no equivalent in Latin as throwing light on the history of morals. There is one word which is essentially Latin in its origin, but which we defy any scholar to translate into Latin-and that is Romanticism.'

The popular and medical mispronunciation of angina" was dissipated by some dons of Trinity, Cambridge, as may be seen in the Life of Archbishop Benson. "Infandum, regina," &c., seems to have been a favourite quotation with Fielding, for we have noted it three times in Tom Jones old, a barber-surgeon, and twice in the mouth of once when a barber regrets that he is not, as of Partridge, who thinks it suitable for a discourse on love, and for any occasion when he sees an old woman, the whole race of them being mischievous. We think that many Johnsonian references. to Latin besides those given deserve collectione.g., this in Boswell's book, under 'Age 74': On the frame of his [Johnson's] portrait, Mr. Beauclerk had inscribed Ingenium ingens

Inculto latet hoc sub corpore. After Mr. Beauclerk's death, when it became Mr. Langton's property, he had the inscription defaced. Johnson said, complacently, 'It was kind of you to take it off'; and then, after a short pause, added, and not unkind in him to put it on.""

The following admirable Oxford allusion we came across recently. A gentleman named Money had a new wife, and became daily more uxoriously fond, as she was in that state in which those who love their lords wish to be-to quote a Dickensian paraphrase. With an exquisite fineness of point which is almost too good, as is, according to Lamb, the quip about the lady's mantua and the gentleman's Cremona violin, somebody quoted :Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. The Church in Madras. By the Rev. Frank Penny, LL.M. (Smith, Elder & Co.)

IN this handsome. accurate, and well-illustrated volume the Rev. Frank Penny, an ex-chaplain of the Indian Service (Madras Establishment) and a well-known contributor to our columns, has rendered an important service to the student of the growth and development of our Indian empire. No attempt is made to supply a complete history of religious progress in the place and period dealt with, nor even a full record of missionary enterprise in Southern India. His principal aim is to demonstrate how ecclesiastical events were influenced by the action of the East India Company and its local government at Fort St. George. What is given consists largely of extracts from thedispatches of the Directors to the Government of Fort St. George, with others from the replies, and is, accordingly, official and, in the full sense, autho ritative. Mr. Penny's work starts with the beginning of the seventeenth century, when the chartered Company owned no land in the East and was under no obligation to provide chaplains. students of Hakluyt-an author to be closely followed by those who seek to benefit by Mr. Penny's early chapters-will know, the London merchants in whose hands was our early commerce with the East were God-fearing men, who, however disposed they

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might be to, bind up the Bible with the ledger, expected a strict observance of religious duty among their servants. In their earliest voyages, accordingly, each of their pursers was supplied with a Bible, in which, after a fashion then common, was comprised a Book of Common Prayer. In 1607 it was decided to employ poor priests to accompany their ships on the Indian voyage, and references to the appointment and allowance of such become frequent. Suratt, Ispahan, and Ajmere were the places first visited by chaplains, who seem to have been generally graduates of one or other of the English universities, and to have preached before appointment a trial sermon at St. Benet, Gracechurch Street, or elsewhere. Esdras Simpson received in 1609 331. 68. 8d. yearly for three years, with a gratuity of 20%. for provisions at sea. Until 1660 there was no fixed allowance. The Company seems to have permitted a system of espionage, and found its patience tried by reports of the immoral conduct of the chaplains. It is said that "the debauched carriage of divers abroad had almost discouraged them from sending any." So early as 1614 attempts are made for the conversion of the natives. On 22 December, 1616, an East Indian was christened by the name of Peter.

The earliest record of the desire expressed by the factors and soldiers in Fort St. George for a chaplain was in 1644. In 1647 Master Isaacson, arriving from Suratt, was the first resident chaplain of the Company's earliest possession in India. Complaints are heard of the intrusion by the French padres of Roman Catholic ceremonies. Among those who interested themselves greatly in the religious welfare of English and natives was the famous author of 'The Saints' Everlasting Rest.' In 1678 there are complaints that Madras is " very much pestered with Portuguese Popish priests." In 1680 St. Mary's Church, within the walls of the fort, was, after some difficulties had been overcome, consecrated, and named. An interesting item (pp. 69-70) shows the attendance of Shaw [Shah] Raza at an English service, and his edification thereat. After this he visits the Dutch factory, where, after prayers, he is entertained with "music and dancing wenches......in the very place where just before they had performed their devotions."

The building of churches at Calcutta and Bombay was subsequent to the erection of St. Mary's. Such edifices generally came into existence with the consent, and sometimes with the assistance, of the Jocal Government and the Company's local officials. A full account is given of the assistance rendered by the Company and the local Government to the mission work that was accomplished by the English S.P.C.K. and the Germano-Danish Society of Halle and Copenhagen. Attention is devoted to the policy of the Company and the local Government in dealing with the Roman Catholic missions which were carried on by the Portuguese Capuchins and the French Jesuits, both of whom combined missionary zeal with political ambition. Other points of interest are the biographies of the chaplains, the account of their labours, the educational work of chaplains and missionaries, and the history of St. Mary's Vestry.

an important and a prominent feature in a work of exemplary erudition, opening out a curious branch of Indian study. Hannah Logan's Courtship: a True Narrative. Edited by Albert Cook Myers. (Philadelphia, SALLY WISTER'S JOURNAL,' a record by a Quaker Ferris & Leach.) maiden of her experiences during the BritishAmerican war, a work also edited by Mr. Myers, introduced us to a delightful personage whom we associated in our affections with Dorothy Osborne and other kindred spirits. So directly did she appeal to the public that there is little wonder that her discoverer has sought further in the same also records Quaker love-making, is no way inferior field. Bibliographically the present work, which to its predecessor. Its paper, its printing, its illustrations and facsimiles, are admirable, and it gives a pleasing insight into Quaker proceedings early in the eighteenth century. We are in love, however, with Sally Wister, and we are not with Hannah Logan. How much this signifies the observant reader well knows. The new work may be read with pleasure and advantage, but we do not, as in the previous instance, insist on its perusal.

Punctuation: its Principles and Practice. By T. F. Husband, M.A., and M. F. A. Husband, B.A. (Routledge & Sons.)

THIS serviceable and trustworthy little volume may be commended to general perusal, and will be specially useful to those disposed to study as they merit DR. FOAT'S comments on the same subject at present passing through our columns.

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