Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 5.djvu/100

 80

NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. v. JAN. 27, woe.

have the rainy weather continue, for fear some gleam of sunshine should compel you to quit your occupa- tion. What is a great gain in the matter so great, indeed, that it was scarcely to be expected is that Mr. Whitten's additions and explanations are written in the spirit of the original, and are almost, if not quite, as good. "Rainy Day" Smith's method of gossip is said to be that which he himself de- picts when to a visitor in the Print-Room he says, u What I tell you is the fact, and sit down and I '11 tell you the whole story." It is characteristic, moreover, that one story is always as good as Another.

Very much of the book illustrates, or is illus- trated by, ' N. & Q.,' which stands second in the list of works on which Mr. Whitten has drawn for his anecdotes and information generally. See, for instance, what is said on p. 8 about anodyne necklaces, with the comment thereon which ap- peared in our columns from Mr. Eliot Hodgkin. We wonder what our founder would have said About the instances of longevity cited on p. 25, where some fifty examples are given of centena- rianiam, including one at 125, one at 133, and one ,t 138. Smith's predictions concerning William Blake (p. 97) are very creditable to his intellect and taste, and have been fulfilled to the letter. At a period when the qualities of Blake were known to only few, Smith wrote: "A time will come when

the numerous works of Blake will be sought

,fter with the most intense avidity." Among -other matters are some good theatrical stories. The illustrations to the volume, both coloured and plain, are not inferior to the remainder of the con- tents. They are numerous also, and cast a brilliant light upon the early part of the last century. To those of our readers who are interested in such subjects as topography, antiquarianism, art, and literary history from the days of Johnson and Garrick to those of Byron and Southey, the volume may be commended as one to be desired.

A Draught of the Blue. Translated from the Original Manuscript. By F. W. Bain. (Parker &Co.)

!Frv T E of these deeply interesting Hindoo love stories or allegories have now reached us, and have -extorted our warm commendation. Taking them at first for a genuine find, we were disposed to rank them as among the most priceless products of the East. Now, even, when that view is no longer tenable, we are lost in admiration at their grace, tenderness, and warm Oriental colouring. The love relations of the various characters are to a certain extent sentimentalized, but have still enough that is wholly physical to justify their ascription to Indian sources. Mr. Bain has. indeed, a thoroughly Oriental luxury of imagination, and the account of the dream-seller and the entrancing and magical vision which he summons up before Ting Rudralaka is wonderful. In appearance and in all bibliographical respects the present is worthy of the previous volumes. A collection of these, so far as we know them, would constitute for any reader of taste and refinement an ideal present.

Proverbs and their Lessons. By Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D. Edited by A. Smythe Palmer, D.D. (Routledge & Sons.)

WE have here another of those popular, but valu- able books of Archbishop Trench which have received from Dr. Smythe Palmer the crowning

graces of "up-to-dateness" and exactitude. In this, as in similar works, the whole is brightly written, and full of information and suggestion. To one of the most prized works of a generation and a half ago Dr. Smythe Palmer contributes some additional notes of high value and a short but useful bibliography of proverbs. The book is a com- panion volume to Trench's ' English Past and Present' and 'On the Study of Words,' and to Dr. Smythe Palmer's 'The Folk and their Word-Lore.' This opuscule it is little more is to be warmly commended, and takes precedence of more ambi- tious works on the same subject.

SHORTLY after eight o'clock on the 22nd inst. Mr. George Jacob Holyoake, the well-known Chartist, died at Brighton. Born at Birming- ham on 13 April, 1817, Holyoake became early known as a lecturer in connexion with the Owen movement. In 1841 he was the subject of the last conviction for blasphemy. For issuing an un- stamped newspaper he incurred fines amounting to 600.000/. He was secretary to the British legation sent in 1861 to Garibaldi. Holyoake was chiefly instrumental in bringing about the Affirmation Act of 1869. An occasional contributor to our columns, he was responsible for the 'History of the Rochdale Pioneers,' 'History of Co-operation in England,' ' The Co-operative Movement of To-day,' and ' Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life' (1892). He is credited with the introduction of the substantive " Jingo."

10

We must call special attention to the following notices :

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately.

To secure insertion of communications corre- spondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answer- ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second com- munication "Duplicate."

GEO. W. HASWELL (''Campaniles"). Lists of detached belfries will be found at 10 th S. iv. 207, 290, 415, 455, 513.

D. SALMON. Forwarded.

ERRATUM. Ante, p. 56, col. 2, 1,5, for "Geevy" read Geery.

NOTICE.

Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries '"Adver- tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub- lisher" at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.G.

We beg leave to state that we decline to retura communications which, for any reason, we do not print ; and to this rule we can make no exception.