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 V.JUNE 9, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 0, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 128.

NOTES : Holyoake Bibliography, 441- Anglo-Saxon Names as Surnames Robert Greene's Prose Works, 442 Sana- torium at Midhurst Michel Family, 445 Poem by Fielding Chepstow Castle and Sir Nicholas Kemeys, 446 Verify your References Thiers and the Dosne Family Alfonso and Victoria " Pale Ale" as a Nickname for Englishmen, 447.

QUERIES : Jean Nicot Col. Hugh Forbes "In a hnff " Corn-rent Bdouard Pingret Mountain Family "Deployment," 448 "Nuts in May" Order of the Koyal Oak Authors of Quotations Wanted St Andrew's, Antwerp Burney's Theatrical Portraits Sir William Gordon. Banker Shakspeare for Foreigners Balasore St. Genius Direction Post v. Signpost "Mininin." a Shell, 449 Miss Meteyard Banner or Flag Mary Mun- day at Mullion Cove Gild Churches Ruskin and Taor- mina, 450.

REPLIES : Blandina, 450 Dover - Winchester Road Decuyper's 'College Alphabet' West's Picture of the Death of General Wolfe, 451 " Plane "=Sycamore Tarot Cards Mr. Bradley's 'Highways and Byways in South Wales,' 452 Prisoner suckled by his Daughter, 453 Pidgin or Pigeon English Female Violinists Tom Thumb's First Appearance in London Polytechnic Insti- tution, 1838 Gallie Surname "Anon " Chichele's Kin, 454 Heraldic Coleridge and Newman on Gibbon Can- Virv House, Middlesex Rev. Samuel Marsden, Chaplain of N.S.W. J. Rampini Vandecar The Babington Con- spiracyTravelling in England, 1600-1700, 455 Earl's Eldest Son and Supporters ' Century of Persian Ghazels.' 1851 Doncaster Weather-RimeDogs at Constantinople Duke of Guelderland : Duke of Lorraine Ralph, Lord Hopton, 456 Ropes used at Executions Abbey or Priory Hafiz, Persian Poet The Gunnings of Castle Coote, 457.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Hakluytus Postbumus' ' The King's English' 'The Fool of Quality '' The English Historical Review ' ' The Quarterly Review ' ' The Burlington Magazine ' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

HOLYOAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

MANY years ago, in more energetic days, I "began a bibliography of G. J. Holyoake's separate publications ; but it had to be abandoned with various similar projects. I shall never do the bibliography now, and therefore write to say that I will lend what I have done and all the works I have to any sympathetic, responsible person who will compile such a catalogue (and pay for its being printed ?).

There are about 113 entries under Holy- oake's name in the British Museum Cata- logue. One of the first things to be done would be to rearrange the whole of these titles, in order to disentangle them from the confusion they are now in, caused by the titles being placed in what is supposed to be alphabetical order. They would be of greater use if, instead of being alphabetical, they had been in historical or biographical order of date. The alphabetical is almost useless, rand fortunately has not been adopted by

the Bodleian, the Guildhall, and other libraries.

I have only about sixty pamphlets ; among them is a heartfelt tribute by Holyoake to his first wife, Eleanor Williams Holyoake (1819-84).

He wrote on all kinds of subjects : a child's book, biographies, &c. ; and two English grammars, an art in which, like William Cobbett, he was somewhat behind in early life I mean more so than most of us.

There are several "anonyma" (8 th S. ix. 342), as "The Purple lecture used by the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 1846"; and another on The India and China Teamart,' Glasgow (185-1). The 'Life of the Celebrated Lord Brougham' is pseudonymous. I happened to dip into this. Holyoake says :

"The English nation has just lost the greatest nobleman it possessed Lord Brougham pub- lished an edition of ' Paley's Natural Theology ' more ambitious than successful and left Paley rather less interesting than he was before."

"Brougham," he says, "wrote three volumes of Political Philosophy, by which no politicians were ever made philosophic." A little further on, talking of Brougham's "capacity to see, when commencing a sentence, what the end of it should be, !> Holyoake says :

"Most speakers have some difficulty in beginning a sentence, and have no idea whatever what the termination will be, and not infrequently in their hands a sentence never attains to a termination at all."

Holyoake had a great capacity for looking at most things statements or matters in a different light from others.

His name first appears in 'Men of the Time' in 1872. Mr. Washington Moon left him out of the thirteenth edition, which he edited in 1891. Mr. V. G. Plarr did not reinstate him in the next edition, 1895. Whether these editors thought he must be dead or 'did not know him is doubtful. Holyoake reappeared, however, in ' Who 's Who' in 1897, and continued to the last edition.

About 1875 he was, says a paper of that date, " in broken health, and a fund is sought to be raised on his behalf." This was subscribed to by persons of all shades of religious and political opinions, and I believe that a small annuity was bought for him.

If I had the call, 1 should like to name Mr. W. E. A. Axon as the person to under- take such a bibliography ; and with his unlimited capacity for work it would be little trouble to him, I imagine.

B.ALPH THOMAS.