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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1910.

CONTENTS. No. 10.

NOTES : Errors in Macaulay, 181 The Cradle of Henry of Monmouth, 183 Dr. Johnson's Boots, 184 Easter on 27 March "Pein of the harte " " Heortology " ' Anne of Geierstein,' 185 Raffaele cle Grimalcli Modern Named derived from Latinized Forms, 186 " Roundhead," a Weapon Belgian Fisher Folk-lore Female Grooms of the Royal Chamber, 187.

QUERIES : St. Anne's, Aldersgate : Ecclesiastical Records, 187 Printing in Black-Letter "Tyrpryd" Division of the Months Wrangler Virginia, 1607' Who killed Poor Cock Robin?' "Congdon's Plymouth Tele- graph," 188 Queen Mary II. The Brazils R. H. A. Bennett General Grinfield Temple Stanyan ' Publick Buildings in London,' 1734 Roman Augurs Nottingham Earthenware Tombstone, 189.

REPLIES: London Taverns in the Seventeenth Century, 190 -Most Expensive Election, 191 Parliamentary Divi- sion Lists Newsletters in the Public Record Office- Chaucer and Boccaccio J. H. Swale, Mathematician, 192 Brighton Visitors in 1779 "Plough Inn," Longhope Henry Etough "gh" pronounced as "sh," 193 Le Soeur's Statue of Charles I. Lynch Law, 194 Charles Kingsley, 195 Burton and Fletcher " Moral Pocket- handkerchiefs," 196 " Comboloio " Parry and Perry Families Authors Wanted, 197 "No redeeming vice" "Function," a Ceremony Columbine in the Sixteenth Century Four Winds, a Fairy Story, 198.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-' The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'

'Esmond' 'The Newspaper Press Directory' 'L'lnter- mtkliaire.'

Notices to Correspondents.

ERRORS IN MACAULAY.

IT may be interesting to place on record some of the errors discovered during a careful reading of the third chapter of Macaulay's edition of vol. i., but the errors are repeated in every edition within reach.
 * History.* I refer to the sixth (1850)

I. ERRORS OF REFERENCE.

1. On p. 311 ' ; Evelyn's Diary, June 2, 1675," is given as the authority for a state- ment about the thousands of deer in Enfield. The year should be 167''.

2. In the edition from which I quote the authority for a statement respecting the city of Norwich (p. 337) is correctly given as " Journal of E. Browne, son of Sir Thomas Browne," but in later editions the E has become T.

3. Sir Robert Clayton's dining-room is described by Evelyn under the 26'th (not, a^ stated in a note on p. 351, the 20th) of September, 1672.

4. The reference to Thoresby's Diary on p. 372 should be the 31st (not the 3rd) of August, .1712.

5. The reference to Pepys's Diary on the same page should be the 11th (and not the L?th) of June, 1668.

II. ERRORS IN QUOTATIONS. From an examination of several of his writings I infer that Macaulay when quoting- English poetry trusted to his memory, because, though he always gives the sense and the rhythm correctly, he often fails to give the ipsissima verba.

1. In the sixth line of the passage from Dryden's ' Cymon and Iphigenia 4 given in the foot-note beginning on p. 291 " time " should be times.

2. In the first line of the passage from Butler quoted on p. 396 " words " should be ends, and in the second line " and " should be or.

3. In the first line of the passage from Dryden quoted on p. 406 " the ? ' should be our.

III. OTHER ERRORS.

1. The poet Gray in his * Journal of a Tour in the Lakes ' writes under 3 Oct., 1769 :

" There is a little path [from Borrowdale] wind- ing over the Fells, and for some weeks in the year passable to the dalesmen ; but the mountains know well that these innocent people will not reveal the mysteries of their ancient kingdom, the reign of Chaos and Old Night. Only I learned that this dreadful road, dividing again, leads, one branch to Ravenglas and the other to Hawks- head."

Macaulay accepts the implication that Ravenglas is in the neighbourhood of Borrow - dale, but transforms the rest of the passage thus :

" Even after the accession of George III. the path over the Fells from Borrowdale to Ravenglas w r as still a secret carefully kept by the dalesmen, some of whom had probably in their youth escaped from the pursuit of justice by that road." P. 285.

2. " At Flodden the right wing of the victorious army was led by the Admiral of England." P. 300.

Even if it is permissible to speak of the right wing of an army formed as Surrey's was at Flodden, Lord Thomas Howard (whom Macaulay probably had in mind) did not lead it.


 * . "In the drawings of English landscapes

made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain." P. 310.

A good many of the illustrations to the Duke's travels, being views of towns, vil- or mansions, do not justify any