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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. x. JULY is, 1911

the ' History of the Peace ' point out how Kurope was stirred by this incident. What D'Enghien's murder was for the nobility of Europe, Palm's was for the people.

1'ii.lin was born at Schorndorf in Wurtem- berg 17 Xov., 1768, and was 38 years old when executed. The house in Nuremberg where he lived and carried on his business is 29, Winklerstrasse.

There are many German books upon Palm, and his bibliography is extensive. I wish to make clear the fact that none of these books has ever been translated into English. I print the titles in English, however, in the hope of interesting a larger number of readers. I fancy that only one or two of these are in the British Museum, but they are all in that wonderful institution at Leipzig, the Borsen- verein derDeutschen Buchhandler : -

Soden (Julius, Count). Johann Philipp Palm, Bookseller at Nuremberg. Executed by Jsapoleon's orders at Braunau, August 26th, 1806. A contribu- tion to the history of the last decade. Dedicated to sympathizing humanity, and especially to noble benefactors, by the Palm family. Nuremberg, 1814.

Life of J. P. Palm, Bookseller at Nuremberg.

Shot at Braunau by order of Napoleon With a

reprint of the book ' Germany in her Deep Humilia- tion,' as the cause of Palm's execution. Published on the occasion of the completion of the memorial tablet erected by order of His Majesty King Lud- wig of Bavaria at his former house in Nuremberg. Re-edited by his son. Munich, 1842.

Short History of the Life of the Nuremberg Bookseller J. P. Palm. Shot by Napoleon's order &c. Nuremberg, 1842.

Johann Philipp Palm. Article in the ' Conversa- tions-Lexikon,' 5th eel., vol. yii.

Ringler (Alexander). Philipp Palm. A poetic tragedy in five acts. Leipzig, 1860.

Schultheis (Friedrich). Johann Philipp Palm,

Bookseller in Nuremberg credible information,

authenticated from hitherto unknown sources, about the publisher and author of the book ' Ger- many in her Deep Humiliation.' Nuremberg, 1860.

'Germany in her Deep Humiliation.' A contri- bution to the history of the Napoleonic foreign rule. Newly edited by Henrich Merkens. Wurz- bui g, 1877.

Kckardt (Luclwig). Palm, a German Citizen. A tragedy in tive acts. Jena, I860, in ' Eckardt's Dramatic Works.' vol. iii.

Gan/.horn (\V.). Peter Heinrich Merckle, Pro- prietor of the Lion Hotel at Neckarsulm, and Gottlieb Linck, Merchant at Heilbronn, the Com- pani .us of Bookseller Palm of Nuremberg, who was shot on August 26th, 1806. From oral communica- tions and written documents. Heilbronn, 1871.

Meindl (Konrad). History of the Town of Braunau on the inn, 2 parts. Braunau, 1882 Part I., pp. 194-201, deals with the scene of the execution of Palm in 1806.

Spielmann (C.) Johann Philipp Palm. In memoriam. upon the anniversary of his death.

Rackl (J.) Palm, the Nuremberg Bookseller a Victim of Napoleonic Tyranny, with 14 illustra- tions. Nuremberg, 1905.

Besides the statue erected in 1866 at Braunau, there are portraits of Palm in Heinrich Lempertz's ' Bilderhefte,' and in the Illustrirte Zeitung, No. 1006, Leipzig. 1862.

Numerous ballads and poems were circu- lated at the time of the incident in 1806. From the current number of the Borsenblatt of the German booksellers I take the follow- ing :

" There is at present a smaller exhibition in the Century Exhibition of the Battle of the Nations in the Museum of the history of the town of Leipzig, It deals with German booksellers at the time of French rule. Palm, of course, is first thought of with the original edition of the celebrated publica- tion 'Germany in her Deep Humiliation"; also some autographs."

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

Any one seriously interested in Palm should try to consult the monographs by F. Schultheiss and J. Rackl mentioned at the end of the article in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' and his life in the ' Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.' It is strange that while MR. F. C. WHITE refers to the account of Thomas Campbell's speech as given in Sir G. O. Trevelyan's ' Life ' of Macaulay, he should have overlooked the passage in Carlyle's ' Heroes : :

" Injustice pays itself with frightful compound- interest, lam not sure but he had better have lost his best park of artillery, or had his best regiment drowned in the sea, than shot that poor German Bookseller, Palm ! " ' The Hero as King.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

The best and most complete account I have seen of the murder of Palm is in that excellent, but somewhat voluminous work entitled " The Pictorial History of England during the Reign of George III., by George L. Craik and Charles Macfarlane, assisted by other contributors," vol. iv. p. 246, note. It was published by Charles Knight & Co. My edition is 1844.

Palm had sold a pamphlet containing some criticism of Napoleon. The case seems to have been even worse than that of the Duke d'Enghien. Nuremberg, where he lived, was then under the protection of Prussia, and he was a Bavarian, and not a French subject. Notwithstanding this, he was seized and taken to Braunau. Brau- nau, too, though still illegally held by the French troops, had been restored to Austria by the Treaty of Presburg. Palm, having been warned before of this, might have escaped from Nuremberg, bxit, conscious of the justice of his cause, he could not believe