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The Omnibus as a School of Manners. Leisure Hour, Feb., 1886.

Conduct in Omnibuses. Queen, 26 Dec., 1903.

Chastisement des Dames. By Robert of Blois. Notice in Gentleman's Magazine, circa June, 1867.

Salutations. Home Circle, 10 Jan., 1852, p. 29.

Etiquette of Riding. Live Stock, Oct. or Nov., 1902.

Austrian Politeness. Cornhill, Nov., 1866.

Good Society : a Complete Manual of Manners. By the Right Hon. the Countess of ********. Routledge & Sons, 1869.

French Manners forFourpence. Queen, 10 Nov. 1886.

Dutch Etiquette. Leisure Hour, Feb., 1882.

The Sins of Etiquette. By " Rita, 1 ' Daily Mail, 26 May, 1904.

Men's Manners. By " Au Fait," Queen, 2 Jan. 1904.

The Etiquette of Evening Dress. By " Au Fait," Queen, 21 Nov., 1903.

Man and his Manners. By the Hon. Mrs. R. Erskine, Court Journal, 16 Jan., 1904.

Holiday Fiction : Is the Englishman rude when Abroad ? Daily Mail, 26 Aug., 1902.

Our Bad Manners, Ibid., 17 Dec., 1904.

Mixing in Society. By the Right Hon. the Countess (Longmans ?).

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

ROYAL MANNERS TEMP. WILLIAM IV. The difference between royal manners during the first half of the nineteenth century, and those happily in vogue now, is curiously illustrated in the memoirs of the former period. Thus Raikes, writing in his diary under date of Friday, 13 June, 1834, residing in Paris, says :

Mrs. D. [i.e. Darner, then visiting Paris]

showed me a letter from, which says

' I went, yesterday, with their Majesties to the private exhibition at Somerset House. We were received by the president of the Royal Society, who, among other portraits, pointed out to the King that of Admiral Napier, who has been com- n i. n\ding the fleet for Don Pedro. His Majesty did not hesitate to show his political bias on this occasion by exclaiming immediately, ' Capt. Napier may be d d, sir, and you may be d d, sir ; and if the Queen was not here, sir, I would kick you down stairs, sir ! ' '

At this time Don Pedro and Don Miguel were fighting for the Portuguese crown, and Don Carlos was fighting for the Spanish crown, and was against Don Pedro, while England and France secretly assisted Don Pedro, for political reasons. But Don Pedro showed no gratitude to England for its help, and favoured other Powers. William IV. had been bred up a sailor, without any reasonable prospect of the throne, which may account for his style assimilating to that of his great admiral. See ' Journal of Thomas Raikes, 1831 to 1847, 1 vol. i., 1858, V- 147. L. M. R.

MANNERS AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGH- TEENTH CENTURY. A curious light i& thrown- on the manners and customs of this period by the recently published journal by Mrs. Thrale of her tour in Wales with Dr. Johnson in 1774. For instance, when she meets, in a country house near Bangor, For the first time " a company of genuine Welch folks,' 1 although she cannot boast the elegance of the society," she is con- strained to admit, " The men, however, were not drunk, nor the women inclined to dis- jrace themselves.'* At another entertain- ment in the same neighbourhood, while there was " obstreperous merriment among the men," Mrs. Thrale records that she saw none of them drunk when they came to tea r after which " we all returned home in very good time as could be, the servants sober and the mistress too. I wondered ! ? '

On their way back to London the party stopped a night with Burke at Beaconsfield, where a very different state of matters was found. An old Mr. Lowndes, who dined with them, " got very drunk, talking politics with Will Burke and my master after dinner " ; while Edmund Burke and Lord Verney, who had been out election- eering, came home at night " very much flustered with liquor. n This leads the journalist to remark that she

" had spent three months from home among: dunces of all ranks and sorts, but had never seen a man drxink till I came among the Wits. This- was accidental indeed, but what of that ? It was so."

See * Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale,' by A. M. Broadley, pp. 189, 192, and 217. The book y published by Mr. John Lane, is dated 19l6 on the title-page, though included in the ' List of New Books ? in The Athenceum of 27 Nov., 1909. T. F. D.

pSBALDISTONE : ITS PRONUNCIATION.

It is curious that this name of the hero of Scott's ' Rob Roy ' is accented on the second syllable (Os-bal'dis-tone) in ' The Cyclopaedia of Names.' The name is genuine it is- derived from a township in Lancashire and the stress is on the first and third syllables (Os'bal-dis'tone). The same is the case with Barnardiston, Chelmondiston T and others of the same type. There is no tendency to shift the stress, but, as with most long and unmanageable names in English, they may be abbreviated. I have met with a case of Osbaldistone being cut down to Osboston ; and Chelmondiston is some- times called Chimston.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.