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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1907.

CONTENTS. No. 199.

NOTES : Civic Baronetcies since 1837 Lamb, Dyer, an

Primrose Hill, 301 Shakespeariana, 302 'The Victori;

Oldest Photographer, 306.

QUERIES : Beauchamp of Somersetshire, 307 La Fete di Felici Cornutelli Admiral Neale and the Atkinson Family KUbride of Ellerton Chatterton Portrait C. F. de Breda, Portrait Painter " The Rose of New port," 309 Sudlow Family Thomas Atkinson Schools and Schoolmasters during the Civil War "Pale-facec Simeon " Newman Street Strzygowski " Bacon " 'The Bazaar Girl' Nelson and Walmer Castle Bruce and Fleming, 310.

REPLIES : Joseph Knight on the Lanreateship Major Money's Balloon, 311 ' The Outlaw ' " Pot-gallery," 312

"Every man has his price" Mrs. Marsh 'Rule, Britannia' "Sops and Wine" "Point of war," 313 Pantaloons v. Trousers Pre-Reformation Parsonages Elder-bush Folk-lore, 314 'The Melton Breakfast' Hume's Papers Bouvear or Beauvais St. Anthony's Bread, 315 "Passive Resistor " Rotherhithe "Ebn Osn" Nana Sahib, 316 Albert Moore and the 'D.N.B.*

Highlanders "barbadosed" Latta Surname Moon and Crabs, 317.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Small Library ' ' The Castle

of Otranto' 'Poems of Shelley.' Booksellers' Catalogues. OBITUARY : Isaac Chalkley Gould.

CIVIC BARONETCIES SINCE 1837.

THE dignity of a Baronet has of late been so frequently conferred on those who have held the office of Lord Mayor of London that since the election of 1899 (inclusive), each of the eight Lord Mayors has been so created, viz., Treloar (1907), Morgan (1906), Pound (1905), Ritchie (1904), Samuel (1903), Dimsdale (1902), Green (1901), and Newton (1900). These consecutive creations are, however, a comparatively modern practice. During the twenty pre- vious years, 1879 to 1898, but nine Lord Mayors (i.e., not half the number) received Baronetcies, viz., Phillips (1897), Renals <1895), Tyler (1894), Knill (1893), Savory (1891), Whitehead (1889), Hanson (1887), Fowler (1885), and Ellis (1881). During the twenty years before this period, 1859 to 1878, only five Lord Mayors (i.e., exactly a quarter of the number) were thus dignified, viz., Lusk (1874), Waterlow (1872), Gibbons <1871), Lawrence (1868), and Gabriel (1866). The proportion of Baronetcies conferred on the Lord Mayors during the first twenty- two years (1837 to 1858) of the reign of Queen Victoria shows a slight increase, being eight (i.e., a little more than a third of the number), viz., Carden (1887), Salomons

(1869), Moon (1855), Musgrove (1851), Duke (1849), Magnay (1844), Pirie (1842), and Cowan (1837).

The Baronetcy of Carden, however, was not till thirty years, and that of Salomons not till fourteen years, after their respective Mayoralties 1857-8 and 1855-6; that of Moon was for the entertainment at Guildhall. 19 April, 1855, of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Emperor and Empress of the French; that of Musgrove for a like entertainment of the Queen and Prince Albert, 9 July, 1851, to celebrate the success of the " Great Exhibi- tion of Industry " in Hyde Park ; that of Duke for the opening of the new Coal Ex- change, 30 October, 1849 ; that of Magnay for the opening of the Royal Exchange, 28 October, 1844; that of Pirie for the birth of the Prince of Wales, 9 November, 1841 ; and that of Cowan for the Queen's entertainment at Guildhall, 9 November, 1837, shortly after her accession.

Many of the Lord Mayors during the first half of the long reign of Queen Victoria did not even receive Knighthood. Such were Besley (1869-70), Allen (1867-8), Cubitt (two years, 1860-62), Carter (1859-60), Wire (1858-9), Finnis (1856-7), Sidney (1853-4), Challis (1852-3), Hunter (1851-2), Farncomb (1849-50), Hooper (1847-8), Johnson (1845- 1846), Gibbs (1844-5), Humphery (1842-3), Johnson (1840-41), Wilson (1838-9), and Kelly (1836-7), the said Thomas Kelly being actually in office on, and many months after, 20 June, 1837, the accession of the Queen to the crown. G. E. C.

LAMB, DYER, AND PRIMROSE HILL.

LAMB did not care for sunrise. His
 * onfession was :

"We are no longer the sun's courtiers, to attend at his morning levees. We hold the good lours of the dawn too sacred to waste them upon such observances ; which have in them, besides, something Pagan and Persic."

ile further held, or pretended to hold, that Vlilton's 'Morning Hymn' was penned at mid- night and that Jeremy Taylor's " richer de- scription of a sunrise smells decidedly of the ,aper." He was not averse from seeing the sunset from Canonbury Tower ; but of the ,wenty-four hours, those later on suited him letter ; and, despite his assertion that he lad no ear, he knew the music of " the jhimes at midnight." We cannot think if Elia, even in his Enfield days, parting with ,n evening guest, playing the while the part if Jerningham to his friend's Clare as the iriginals did in what Lamb was pleased to