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 320 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. OCT. u. iw& Apart from the great names supplied of judges and -other legal luminaries belonging to one or other oi the two inns, the burials include those of many men eminent in letters. First in rank conies, ol •course, Oliver Goldsmith, and next, perhaps, ned Jongo intervallo, John Selden.James Howell of the ' Epistoke Ho-elianie,' Dailies Harrington, and James Boswell the younger, the Shakespeare editor, with others of leas reputation, and a few men more or less distinguished in science. More interesting, in some senses, are the records of obscurities who by -accident are " there sepultured," for the list is far from being confined to benchers and legal lumi- naries or to those now scarcely more obscure individuals who exercised humbler professions, as clerks, servants, pannyermen, gardeners, butlers, <>r even laundresses. Now ana then we wonder •how Mr. Anthony Lewis, sea captain, conies to •depart this life in 1634 at Baron Trever's chambers in the Inner Temple; or read how " One Longe, a stranger," that died in Middle!Temple Walkes of tli'1 plague in 1636, is buried in the churchyard: -or how on 5 September, 1832, there was " Buried in the churchyard a man found drowned at the Temple Stairs. Name unknown." In the year 1665 -appears frequently at the end of a record, " Of the plague." This dismal entry is generally affixed to the name of a servant, the master having, pre- sumably, departed to live or die in the country. In 1652 Mrs. Katheryne Shuter is announced as the " wife of John Shuter, esquire, antientest barrester •of the honourable societie of the Inner Temple." " Antient" is often used, but " antientest" is un- common. Richard Aburey is simply described as "an ancient gent." In 1773-4 (p. 69) are recorded the deaths of Joseph. Valentina, Jane, Sophia, •Charles, Martha, Sarah, Catherine, Charles, Lucy, Humphrey. Joseph (2), Ann, Robert, and John 'Temple. Why the name should occur so freely will be better understood when it is stated that the •patronymicinquestion is thatconstantly bestowed on foundlings, who appear to have been very numerous. Another striking thing in the entries is the attempt to define strictly the place of the tomb. Amphelia Xiisle is thus said to lie " in the round walke of the Temple church under the north window at the end of the iron grate or movements of the Knight "Tempelers"; and Lady Elizabeth Younge is buried "in the Temple church neere the highe alter, •betwixt the 'doore and Mr. Clement Coke's monu- ment, close by the doore and wall att the upper -end of the quire in the syde isle on the inner Temple side." Like some others, this gentlewoman was buried at night. Two succeeding entries, equally .grim, record the murder in Tanfield Court of Eliza- beth Harrison, Ann Price, and Lidia Duncomb. These were slain by Sarah Malcolm, whose portrait iin the condemned cell was painted by Hogarth. There is, it is seen, much that is interesting in •the volume, the publication of which is, in all respects, judicious and commendable. For Sarah Malcolm see 6th S. xii. 205, &c., and Mr. Seccombe's •Quaint Sayings from the Work* of Sir Thomas Brovme. By Martin Hood Wilkin. (Stock.) THIS very elegant and attractive little volume, con- sisting of pregnant passages from ' Religio Medici,' 'Christian Morals,' 'Hydriqtaphia,' 'The Garden •of Cyrus,' &c., has a portrait of Sir Thomas, and is in a charming binding. Without in any way •exhausting the Norwich knight, whose fame stands higher than ever, it contains a marvellous amount of wit and wisdom, of wise reflection and quaint utterance. Goethe's Faust. Translated by Anna Swanwick. (Bell & Sons.) To "The York Library" has been added Mis* Swanwick's vigorous and acceptable translation of ' Faust.' in another useful and commendable form the work has long been accessible. Both parts of 'Faust' are included in the volume, as is all the translator's very useful prefatory matter. To bring it up to date an introduction and a bibliography are added by Dr. Karl Breul, one of the best- informed and most accurate of modern scholars. The volume thus constituted is, accordingly, one of the best and most serviceable of a line series. We welcome with delight each succeeding volume of "The York Library," and rarely fail to reread a portion, if not the whole, in this new and alluring guise. This volume is specially welcome, since, apart from the fact that it supplies ua with the best results of modern criticism of Goethe, it in- spires us with the hope that the autobiography, the ' Wilhelm Meister,' the ' Conversations with Ecker- mann,' and other works may follow in the same exquisitely readable shape. Is not a reprint con- ceivable of Lewea's ' Life of Goethe' ? /'/." Newspaper Reader's Companion, a serviceable little book by Mr. Albert M. Hyamson, has been added to Routledge's " Miniature Reference Series." THE last number of The Photominiature is of a helpfully practical nature. Some picture* by Mr. Curtis Hi Red Indians are specially excellent. $ofires to ComsponbtnU. We must call upecial ail union to tht notices:— ON all communications must be written the name mil address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. 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