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 442 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io-'s.iv. DK.2.i9» to York, and from thence to Selby by Ferrybridge Every Letter directed aa it is, will be sent the same way. My wife and son join in kind respects to you am your brother with Dear Sir, your sincere friend, & obedient servant J. NELSON. Riccall, Nov. 17th, 1S04. If the 'Treatise on Inspiration' was his own, it lias not come in ray way. Joseph Nelson, the vicar of Skipwith died 15 January, 1817, aged eighty-eight. A paper-mill at Retford, built in 1794, was in the occupation of a Mr. Horatio Nelson in 1828 (Piercy, 'History of Retford,' 1828, p. 164). W. C. BOULTER. THE JUBILEE OF 'THE SATURDAY REVIEW: (See ante, pp. 382, 402, 422.) ' N. & Q." has had only a few references to The Saturday Jtevieiv. Two of these are of special interest. A well-known bibliographer, using the pseudonym P. W. TREPOLPEN, inserted a query as to the existence of a pamphlet by James Grant, of The Morning Advertiser, in which he criticized the Satur- day, which had severely dealt with him in its columns. He had intended including it in his 'History of the Newspaper Press,'out space would not allow of this. TREPOLPEN'S query brought him a loan of the pamphlet, and in ' N. & Q.' of July 3rd, 1880, he gives its title:— " The Saturday Review: its Origin and Progress, its Contributors and Character. With Illustrations of the Mode in which it is Conducted. By James Grant Being a Supplement to his History of the Newspa]ier Press, in Three Volumes, Lond.. Darton & Co., 42, Paternoster Row, 1873. 8vo." Title and preface (dated March 18, 1873), pp. i-iv; History, 5-84. Price 2n. oW. That good friend of 'N. & Q.,' MR. RICHARD H. THORNTON, of Portland, Oregon, sent us an epigram on the Saturday which had appeared in The Arrow on the 13th of Sep- tember, 1864. The Saturday had remarked that "critics play much the same part now which the Sadducees did." Tho epigram, •which was inserted in our number for the 20th of December, 1902, ran :— Our hebdomadal caustic, severe upon quackery, Was christened the Superfine, long since, by Thackeray; Men considered its bitters too nauseous and tonic, So some called it Saturnine : others, Sardonic ; But wait long enough, a good name 'a to be had, you see, For i' writes itself down as the Saturday Sadducee ! 1. ^fc editor of The Saturday Review, as ia we. "•»» was John Douglas Cook. The 1 D.N.B.,' from information supplied by Beres- ford Hope, says of him :— " Though not possessed of much literary cultnre, Cook had a singular instinct for recognising ability in others and judgment in directing them, which made him one of the most efficient editors of his day." He edited the paper till his death on the 10th of August, 1868. Cook was succeeded by Philip Harwood. The 'D.N.B.' states that about 1849 he joined Cook as sub-editor of The Morning Chronicle. " The Chronicle proved a great literary, but not » great commercial, success ; and upon its relinquish- ment by the proprietors in 1854, Harwood followed his chief to the Saturday Review," and was sub-editor until 1868, when he suc- ceeded as editor upon the death of Douglas Cook. He " had the character of being the best sub-editor ever known, and if as editor he did not very power- fully impress his personality upon his journal, he faithfully maintained its traditions, and did all that could be done by the most sedulous applica- tion and the fullest employment of his ample store- of political knowledge Personally he was a most amiable man, retaining much of the manner of tht Presbyterian minister of the old school." The Saturday Review of December 17th, 1887, contained an obituary notice of him. Walter Herries Pollock, who had been sub- editor, succeeded Harwood, but left in 189i when Mr. Frank Harris, the founder and editor of The Candid Friend, became the fourtli editor of the Saturday. On his retire- ment in 1898 the present editor, Mr. Harold Hodge, took the chair. He is in the prime of lire, having been born in 1862. He was educated first at St. Paul's School, and from there went to Oxford. On leaving college he devoted himself to social work in East London, and especially to the housing ques- tion. One of the earliest and ablest contributors was Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-94), of whom the 'D.N.B.' says :— ' He found a thoroughly congenial employment in writing social and moral articles [for the Satvr- '•/'/]. and became very intimate with other contri- butors, especially George Stovin Venablea and Thomas Collett Sandare." George Stovin Venables (1810-88) wrote the first leading article in the first number, and from that date until very shortly before his death IB contributed an article or two to that paper almost every week, and he probably did more than any other writer of his time to establish and main iain the best and strongest current style, and the lighest type of political thought, in journalism. For at least twenty-five consecutive years from 1857 be wrote the summary of events which took the place-