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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH A, 1911.

CONTENTS. No. 62.

NOTES : Englishmen as German Authors, 161 Thacke- ray's Nose John Boxall, 162 Sir C. Hanbury Williams, Sir Woodbine Parish, and Carlyle Green Park Lodge, 163 Berkshire Churchwardens' Accounts Anna Howe and Charlotte Grandison, 164 Capt. Cook Memorial Bap- tismal Scarf-Scout=Spy, Sneak, 165-Sixteenth-Century Rules for Servants Sticklac Yews in Churchyards, 166.

QUERIES : Bethlem Royal Hospital " Gentlemen " : "Armiger": " Privilegiatus " Honorary Degrees at Cambridge Tennyson's ' Flower in the crannied wall ' Alien Priories Goodbetter Smallpox and the Stars Shersons of Ellel Craig, 167-" Cackling clouts" " Car- millions " " Gainshot " " Hunnin'-pin" " Kmchie r< Sufflee " Physician's Cane Samuel Byrom Latin Hexameters Ricketts : Goodwin: Johnson, 168 Free- man : Beauchamp: Lawrence G. Rumney Sir W. Romney Romney Family Thomas Barrow, 169 Simon Pincerna and Westminster, 170.

REPLIES : " Bezant," 170 Walter Haddon Adders' Fat as a Cure for Deafness Ear-Piercing, 171 Murderers reprieved for Marriage American Words and Phrases " George Inn " at Woburn "Had I Wist," 172-Canons, Middlesex -Alexander Holmes "Love me, love my dog" " No great shakes "Ordinaries of Newgate Col. Oakes
 * and Queen Caroline's Funeral Underground Soho, 173

Pyrrhus's Toe Stair Divorce' Death of Capt. Cook ' Spider's Web, 174 Raleigh and Tobacco "Vail" Parish Formation "Stick-in-the-Mud" Bibliography of Folk- lore Gratious Street=Gracechurch Street, 175 Fairfax : Sayre : Maunsell-Keats, Hampstead, and Dilke Leader of the House of Commons Absinthe-drinking Amphis- fcsenic Book, 176 -Water Shoes Phipps or Phip Family- Lea Wilson's Bibles Authors Wanted" Let us go hence, my songs," 177 'Les Arrivants ' Sir Robert Peel and his Speeches Dryden as Place- Name Dom Francisco Manuel de Mello " -de- " : " -ty-," 178 " Ware " Potatoes "Almighty Dollar "Julia Pastrana J. Jane way, 179.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage ' 'Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery' 'A Good Fight ' ' Newspaper Press Directory ' Writers' and Artists' Year-Book.

ENGLISHMEN AS GERMAN AUTHORS.

AMONG the minor German poets there are a fair number of English birth. These men are either the sons of English parents born in Germany or there for professional reasons or for purposes of study. The first of these Englishmen as German poets are in point of time three born between 1763 and 1770 Collins, Mellish, and Sinclair.

Collins (1763-1814) wrote Masonic songs .as well as other poems not published till after his death. As at this date the students .at the University of Konigsberg were in every faculty obliged to attend lectures on philosophy, Collins must have studied under Kant during the year he spent at that Uni- versity (1784-5). He seems to be the only one of English birth who attended Kant's lectures.

Mellish (1768-1823), who at the age of thirty had received the title of Prussian " Kammerherr," lived in Weimar on a friendly footing with Goethe and other literary men in Court circles. His poems appeared in 1818 as ' German Poems of an Englishman,' with some translations. They have never been reprinted.

Sinclair (1770-1815) was the son ol a learned Scottish baronet of some importance in the political world. He studied from 1788 to 1793 in Tubingen, where he made the acquaintance of Hb'lderlin, the author of ' Hyperion,' who later dedicated two poems to him. It is interesting to note that the biographers of Holderlin do not seem to be aware that Sinclair, who did his best to help the unhappy half-insane poet, was a Scotchman. Sinclair is generally known in Germany as Isaak von Sinclair. He is the author of tragedies on the Huguenot risings in the Cevennes, published in 1806. Some of my information about the above authors I owe to Brummer's ' Lexikon der deutschen Dichter bis Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.'

Between 1802 and 1865 were born five Englishmen who wrote German poems. The eldest of these, Charles Major-Forseyth (1802-1852), the son of a Scottish merchant captain, was born in Memel. He became a clergyman, and published a volume of poems in 1846. The second, Sir Henry H. F. B. Maxse (1832-83), Governor of Heligoland and after wards of Newfoundland, married in 1860 a German actress. Through the influence of his wife he took a great interest in the German theatre, for which he wrote tliree plays, one of which, ' Louise de la Valliere,' has often been performed.

The remaining three poets, Percy Andrese, Mackay, and Marshall, are described in Brummer's * Lexikon der deutschen Dichter und Prosaisten des neunzehnten Jahrhun- derts.' Of these, Percy Andreae, born in 1858, wrote two plays ; and Marshall, born in 1865, published a volume of poems in 1895 under the title of 'Einsame Blumen.'

John Henry Mackay, born at Greenock in 1864, came to Germany at the age of two. He is a very fruitful poet and dramatist, besides being the author of numerous philo- sophical writings in defence of his stand- point as an individualistic anarchist. Among his works are translations of American and English poets, and a Social Democratic poem entitled * Arma parata fero.' In the history of philosophy Mackay appears as the editor of the minor works of Stirner, the individualist.