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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JAN. 30, 1909

Mr. Edward Walford gives an account of Ruckholt Hose in his ' Greater London,' i. 485. A. R. BAYLEY.

Ruckholt House is noticed in Thome's ' Environs of London,' 1876.

W. D. SWEETING.

Ogborne states that the earliest owners of Ruckholt were the families of Bumsted and Franceys. W. W. GLENNY.

See 7 S. v. 229, 318, 433 ; and Gentleman's Magazine, vol. Ixxxiv. (1814).

JOHN T. PAGE.

[MK. R. FREKMAX BULLED and MR. F. HIICHIN- KEMP also thanked for replies.]

THE LONGMANS : THE ' MARSEILLAISE ' (10 S. xi. 2, 50). For purposes of record, it may be worth while to point out another error, to which attention was drawn by Mr. John Hodgkin in The Pali Mall Gazette. Johnson's ' Dictionary ' was first published by the Longmans not in 1757, as stated in the list, but in April, 1755. A second edition was published in 1756, but none in 1757. Messrs. T. & T. Longman were merely one firm among a large number of other publish- ing houses who issued the book as a syndi- cate. Mr. Hodgkin remarks that " the publications of this book being a landmark in the literary history of the eighteenth century, it is as well to have the date correctly stated."

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

MR. FRANCIS refers to Macaulay's death, and to his comparative indifference to fame ; but I think the great historian would have been pleased, could he have known how the news of his death was received in the kitchen of a small farm-house in Nottinghamshire.

We were just sitting down to dinner when The Nottingham Journal was brought in, and my father, opening the paper, announced in an awed voice, " Macaulay is dead ! " My eldest brother, who was then sixteen, came in from his field-work at the moment. " Macaulay dead ! " he cried ; " then the ' History ' will never be finished " ; and he burst into tears. C. C. B.

MR. ARKXE will find ample particulars regarding the music publisher Longman in Mr. Frank Kidson's ' British Music Pub- lishers, Printers, and Engravers' (1900). There is nothing to show that James Long- man, who was active about 1767 at " The Harp and Crown," 26, Cheapside, was related to the book publishers : nothing to the contrary. He probably succeeded John Johnson. The original imprint, J. Long-

man & Co., gave place in two or- three years to Longman, Lukey & Co., which about 1777 was expanded to Longman, Lukey, Broderip. Lukey presently dropped out, and the style thereafter remained Longman & Broderip until 1798, when the once flourishing firm became bankrupt. The John Longman of that date afterwards carried on business for a short time, first in partnership with Clementi, and afterwards as Longman & Co.

The subsidiary query as to the ' Mar- seillaise ' interests me more than the ques- tion as to the Longmans. That MR. ARKLE'S copy is an early British edition is undoubted, as it must have appeared not later than 1798 ; but is it the first ? The melody is not that of the first (Strasburg) edition, for which see Grove's ' Dictionary ' ; on the other hand, only the six original couplets of the poem are given in French. The English version (who wrote it ?) is in four stanzas only. There is a virtually identical contemporary edition published by J. Bland (I have both), the chief difference being that the French words, with the melody, are on p. 1 of the sheet ; the fourth page is devoted to Eland's ' Theme Catalogue of French Songs,' of which ' The Marseilles March ' is No. 26. After careful comparison, I have no doubt that one of these publica- tions was copied from the other, or else both were taken from one not at present in evidence. In neither case is there any helpful watermark. The style of engraving is that of the last decade of the eighteenth century. John Bland, according to Mr. Kidson, died or ceased business about the end of 1794. His business, however, was carried on by others, who may not have had his plates altered, and may even have used his name on their publications. A considerable acquaintance with the loose ways of music publishers of that time makes me think this quite possible ; and the fact that Eland's edition is " entered at Stationers' Hall " makes me suspicious.

E. RIMBATJLT DIBDIN.

Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton.

[MR. J. S. SHERLOCK has kindly furnished copies of Mr. Kidson's articles on Longman & Co. and Broderip & Wilkinson, and these we have forwarded to MR. ARKLE. A. F. H. is also thanked for reply.]

LASCAR JARGON (10 S. xi. 27). I think the book of Lascar phrases to which MR. PLATT refers must be ' A Lascari Dictionary ; or, Anglo-Indian Vocabulary of Nautical Terms and Phrases in English and Hindus- tani, chiefly in the Corrupt Jargon in use