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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1913.

CONTENTS.-No. 192.

NOTES: Henry Marmaduke Hewitt, 161 The Verse of 1 Julius Gesar,' 162 The Forged ' Speeches and Prayers ' of the Regicides, 164 The Uskoks, 165 -Link with "Old Mortality "Silhouette Portraits by Edouart Sterne and the Earl of Aboyne Annibale Carracci's "Three Maries,' 166 " J'ai accept^ la guerre cl'un cceur le'ger" Johnson's ' Lives of the Poets ' Dodekanisa, 167.

QUERIES : Hon. James Bruce Old Novel Wanted Rabel's Drops Pictures of Peninsular Battles, 167 'Deil stick the Minister 'Corporation of St. Pancras, Chichester Austrian Catholic Mission in the Sudan- Choir Balance : St. George's Chapel, Windsor A Healing Herb Biographical Information Wanted Jules Verne "Tramways," 168 Letters of Governor Winthrop "Buds of marjoram " Major-General Murray Source of Quotations Wanted" Cerne "Weddings Field Giffard of Bures, 169 Disraeli Queries Ring with a Death's Head Origin of Rimes Wanted' The City Night-Cap ' : < Plutus ' " The Six Lords "" Austria, the China of Europe," 170.

REPLIES : The Identity of Emeline de Reddesford, 171 "Burgee" Tailors' Riot at Haymarket Theatre, 172 Extracting Snakes from Holes Irish Family Histories "Eowestre": " Yousters," 173 Ambiguous Possessive Case Smallest Square in London Rev. John Thornley Linsey- Wool sey ' The Silver Domino' Old London Fish Shops, 174 " Nut "Johnson Bibliography, 175 Words and Tunes Wanted" The Five Wounds," 176 Bangor : Conway : Lleyn : St. Asaph, 177 Companions of George I. Inverness Burgess Act : W. Curtis Cromarty " Hollo ! " Harvest Custom : Alsace and Lorraine Ruxton, 178.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Calendar of Letter-Books of the City of London' 'The Romance of Wills and Testa- ments '' Book-Auction Records.'

Notices to Correspondents.

Jtnfes*

HENRY MARMADUKE HEWITT.

SOME years ago (10 S. vi. 130) inquiry Was made as to the authorship of a poem entitled came that it was written by Mr. M. Hewitt (ib., 173). Xo further information was given. The volume, priced in cloth at 2s. 6d., bore the title-page :
 * The Ritualist's Progress.' and the answer

" The Ritualist's Progress, or a Sketch of the Reforms and Ministrations of the Rev. Septimius Alban, member of the E.C.U., Vicar of S. Alicia Sloperton. By A. B. Wildered, Parishioner. [Mottoes.] London : Samuel Tinsley, 10, South- am])! on Stivrt. Strand, 1875." Title-page and contents 2 leaves, then pp. 103, 8vo.

It Was reissued, being the fourth volume in " Weldon's Shilling Library," in 1877 as

" The Ritualist's Progress. A Sketch of the Reforms and Ministrations of our New Vicar, the KV\. Soptimius Alban, member of the E.C.U., Yi'-ar of St. Alicia Slumbertown, as they appeared to a bewildered parishioner. With a Supple- mentary Poem, entitled The Unholy Cross. By a Graduate of the University of Cambridge. With

full-page illustrations. London : W T eldon & Co., Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, E.C.," n.d. [1877], 8vo.

The author, Henry Marmaduke Hewitt, possessed a great facility for the composition of smooth and easy verses in a flowing metre. He was one of a small band of Johnians with most of whom I was acquainted who settled in London about 1867.

Hewitt, the son of Cornelius Hewitt of Hull, gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, Was born on 18 July, 1842, and baptized at Sculcoates on 15 Aug. He was educated at Pocklington School, and admitted Pensioner at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 11 Oct., 1862, the Rev. Joseph Mayor being his tutor. On 10 Oct., 1862, he was admitted a DoWman Exhibitioner (limited to scholars from Pocklington School), and remained such until October, 1865, the value being 4tOl. a year. He became a Foundation scholar of his college value 50L a year on 16 June, 1864 (the earliest date at which he could then be elected), and would receive the emoluments until he was of M.A. stand- ing, i.e., until the March quarter of 1869. His degrees Were : bracketed eleventh in the First Class Classical Tripos (1866), third in the Moral Sciences Tripos (1866), and second class in the Theological Examination in 1867. He was not elected to a fellowship.

From 1867 to 1870 Hewitt was an assist- ant master at Derby School (Tacchella, ' Register,' p. xvi). He then came to London and engaged in tuition. His ad- vertisements for pupils will be found in The Times for 27 Dec., 1871, and 19 April, 1872. A few years later he turned his attention to the profession of the law, was admitted at Gray's Inn on 5 Nov., 1875, migrated to the Inner Temple on 11 Oct., 1876, and was called to the Bar on 3 July, 1878. But neither of these enterprises was attended by much success.

Hewitt married, on 19 July, 1884, at the Parish Church, Bushey. near Watford, Agnes Helen, only surviving child of the late George Liddon of Clifton, Bristol (The Times, 22 July), and again advertised for pupils (ib., 26 Aug.), his address being then at The Cedars, Putney He died from tetanus, the effect of sub- cutaneous injections of morphia, at 95, Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea, on f April, 1887 (The Guardian, 20 April). He was the author of a digest of ' Greek Language Examination Questions,' and of a similar work for Latin, both appearing in 1877. He also compiled a popular volume, ' A Manual of our Mother Tongue,' which was published by Joseph Hughes, Pilgrim Street, Ludgate Hill, E.G.,