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King dwara VII.

Hung be the heavens with black, yield day

to night !

Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting

stars That have consented unto Henry's death !

SHAKESPEABE'-S words come to our mind when the whole world is mourn- ing the loss of King Edward VII. The shock is terribly sudden and over- whelming.

Twice the nation has quivered with hope and fear over the illness of the monarch once when, as Prince of Wales, in 1871, he wrestled night and day in the grip of fever ; and again when the Coronation was so dramatic- ally postponed. But these attacks were surmounted with so great a heart and so vigorous a constitution, and we were so reassured by King Edward's wonderful activity in all kingly duties, that we hoped to see him for many years a power in the land, the best of interpreters of the people's voice. To the very end he insisted on working ; he did not come to the throne as a young man, but throughout his reign of nine years he showed an example of untiring labour in the service of the State which should be the admiration of all thinking men. He is known everywhere as Edward the Peacemaker, and in England speci- ally as a consolidator of Empire.

belongs to fairy lore. There is more truth in the words with which Rous seau began a letter about princely education : "Si j^avais le malheur d'etre ne prince." Edward VII. went through the tedium of function after function with unfailing grace and good humour. A sportsman and a man of the world, he met with an open mind the strife of parties and religions ; his personal intercourse with his subjects extended far beyond the limits of the Court ; the abundant touches of humanity which marked his career won for him and his gracious consort in her gift of compassion the uni- versal affection of his people.
 * ' Happy as a King. n The proverb
 * every way a Queen, but most queenly

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY Ik, 1010.

CONTENTS.-No. 20.

KING EDWARD VII.

NOTES : Hereditary Standard-Bearer of Scotland, 381 Baretti: a Little-Known Book, 3S2 Ma> Day at Brighton Kite or Dragon Aviation and Lichfleld Books in Wills, 383 Hertfordshire Nell Gwyn The Horse in Venice, 384 Yeovil Golden Torque The Game of Sticks', 385 Open- Air Marriage" Humanitarian " Spermaceti and Ambergris, 386.

QUERIES : Edward : Horwerth VII. A. M. Ross W. K. Loftus Amersham Rectors Crof ton Family, 387 Spades and Shields John Nicholl Daubeny Commemorative Medal Sir Anthony Standen, 388 Touching for the King's Evil George Knapp, M.P. Basbow Lane" E " Mute in English " Worth " in Place-Names " Galley " in Place-NamesFlax Bourton " Broche " ' Cramond Brig,' 389 Roger Holland Silver = Marshall Samuel Hart, 390.

REPLIES: "The Peter Boat and Doublet," 390 Eight Kings: Nine Ladies, 391 "God save the People!" " Onocrotalus " Lady William Stanhope Travellers not in 'D.N.B.,' 392 Latin Quotations "Bang-beggar" Gil Martin Chalmers's 'Scoticanse Ecclesife Infantia,' 393 Levels of Northampton May Baskets " Derry " and " Down " ' Edwin Drood' Continued The Brazils 394 " Postally "Fountain Pen Watering-place Guide Lists of Martyrs Sir John Chadworth, 395 Feast of the Ass Hon. John Finch, 396' Canadian Boat Song' China and Japan Barfreston Church Sir N. Crispe "Hogler" Duke's Place Roman Augurs, 397 Green Park Avenue ' Rape of Proserpine ' Yule Log Tournaments, 398.

NOTES ON BOOKS: Hakluyt Society Publications ' Burlington Magazine.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

HEREDITARY STANDARD-BEARER OF SCOTLAND.

OUR friends in Scotland will probably be pleased to have a note in ' N. & Q. s on this subject.

After long litigation, judgment was given by the Lord Chancellor on the 7th of April in the appeal of Henry Scrymgeour Wedder- burn of Birkhill, Fife, against the judgment of the Scotch Court of Session in the action raised by the Earl of Lauderdale in 1902, as to the right to the hereditary office of Standard-Bearer to the King of Scotland.

The Court of Claims had decided in favour of Mr. Wedderburn, who accordingly carried the banner of Scotland at the coronation of our late beloved sovereign King Edward ; but the result of the action of declarator in the Scotch Courts was that the claim of the Earl of Lauderdale to the office was upheld.