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 io» 8. iv. SEPT. 2,19050 NOTES AND QUERIES. 197 direct male line from Frederick IV., Duke of Holstein Gottorp (elder brother of Christian Augustus), whose son, Charles Frederick, married Anne, daughter of Peter the Great. But a claim might be preferred on behalf of King Edward VII., who is descended from Eleanora Catherine, another sister of King Charles X., and the wife of Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg. His Majesty is tenth in descent from Gustavus Vasa, through Sophie Antoinette, of Brunswick- Luneburg. who married Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, great-grand- father of the late Prince Consort. W. F. PRIDBAUX. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iv. 168).— To maintain The day against the moment. Tennyson, 'Lines to the Duke of Argyll,1 beginning "O patriot statesman," p. 575 of the "complete" Macmillan edition, 1894. Like aa the wavea make, &c. Shakespeare, Sonnet Ix. H. K. ST. J. S. [PROF. BENSLY and ST. SWITHI.V also answer the latter.] ROMANOFF AND STUART PEDIGREE (10th S. iv. 108, 157).—Sophia Dorothea of Wurtem- berg, who married Paul I. and took the name of Marie Feodorovna, was daughter of the sister of Frederick the Great, whose mother, Sophia Dorothea, was daughter of George I. The Empress Alexandra, wife of Nicholas I., •w&s also a Prussian princess, and inherited Stuart blood in the same way. Marie Feo- dorovna, wife of Alexander III., ne'e Dagmar of Denmark, has Stuart blood through both father and mother. Thus the present Emperor, Nicholas II., has three separate strains thereof. The little Czarowitch derives again from the Stuarts through his mother. So far as I know, the wife of Alexander II. was not descended from the Stuarts. HELGA. JANE WENHAM, THE WITCH OF WALKERN (10th S. iv. 149).—If MR. QERISH will refer to 2"1 S. iv. 131, he will find a long editorial reply to a query, with the titles of six (not five) pamphlets published in 1712, all of which are in the British Museum. I am not acquainted with any portrait of her. EVBRARD HOME COLEMAN. "MAN OF NOSES" (10th S. iv. 125).—The .'./-.'••• arenaria has another sobriquet. In the neighbourhood of Southampton, where they are eaten, the fishermen call them "Old Maids." They are greatly used as bait on the banks of Newfoundland, the cod being very partial to them. Dr. Gould says : " The ckun (Mya arenaria) is still more important in an economical point of view than the oyster About 5,000 bushels of clams are annually brought to Boston market." CONSTANCE RUSSELL. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. The Native Races of South Africa. By George W. Stow. F.G.S. Edited by George McCall Xheal, Litt.D. (Sonnenschein & Co.) THE author of this work, George W. Stow, at one time a resident at Bloemfontein, in what was then the Orange Free State, did not live to see his col- lections through the press—appears, indeed, to have left them in what was to some extent an inchoate condition. They were dedicated to Sir H. Bartle Frere, who took an intelligent and active interest in their progress. The MS. was purchased from the writer's widow by Mies Lucy C. Lloyd, the "greatest living authority upon the Bushmen," who, appraising the accuracy of Mr. Stow's obser- vations, though doubting that of some of his con- clusions, determined that it should be published. She placed it accordingly in the hands of Dr. Theal, the present Colonial Historiographer, the author of a 'History of South Africa' in seven volumes, and the ex-keeper of the archives of Cape Colony. Detecting at once that no work of equal value upon the native races of South Africa had seen the light, Dr. Theal undertook to pilot the book through the press, corrected, jointly with Miss Lloyd, the proofs and revises, supplied an index, divided the whole into chapters, and, adding nothing to the text, banished such extraneous matter as placed the book outside the possibility of publication. From the large collections of Miss Lloyd he enriched the volume, in addition to its other illustrations, with photographs of Bushmen which "show the striking features of the people of this race: the hollow back, the lobeless ears, the receding chin, the sunken eye, the lowness of the root of the nose, the scanty covering of the head with little knots of wiry wool, and the low angle of prognathism as compared with negroes." The result is a work of solid value in its line, the nearest approach of which we know to the accounts of the Australian races by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. The conclusion at which Mr. Stow ultimately arrived was that the Bushmen were the true aborigines and sole proprietor* of South Africa, and that the stronger races, without exception, were mere intruders. Missionaries were in the habit of assuming that the existence upon a given spot at the time of their arrival of certain tribes furnished proof irrefragable that "these particular natives must have been its rightful owners from time immemorial." Like all who have undertaken similar researches, Mr. Stow regrets that investigations have been so long deferred, and with most he holds that before another quarter of a century has passed the opportunity of rescuing any further portion of tribal traditions will have been lost. We find no hint of the species of reverence which leads barbarous races to be reticent or wilfully mis- leading with regard to tribal superstition, out in its place we find deliberate mutilation and adul- teration of the tradition so as to suit altered con- ditions of the nation or the tribe. In gathering material for the memoirs upon the Frontier Hot-