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LONDON, SATURDAY, KOV EMBER f f, 1911.

CONTENTS. -No. 97.


 * NOTES : Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 361

Palaeologus Family in England Commissioned Band- masters, 364 The Earl of Surrey and De Bai'f Shake- speare Allusions Domesday Book and the Luttrell Family; 365 Syllepsis or Zeugma" Silly Season " Cock- flghting and Coronation Mugs Sir Joseph Napier Colley Gibber's Marriage -"Strip and Go Naked= " Gin, 366.

QUERIES : Jacob Behmen Bishop Elphinstone's Tomb- Motto of Cotton's ' Angler 'Arms of Midhurst Hulton Abbey Cartulary Mil ton-next-Gravesend, 367 Pin in Necromancy Arms of the Colonies Duchesse de Berri et de St. Leu Burial in Woollen: " Dolberline " 'Englische Schnitzer ' John Worsley, Schoolmaster ' Memoirs of H B. H. Charlotte Augusta ' Daniel and Edward Purcell " Broken Counsellor," 368 Wesley Journals Drury Family Arms Clerks of the Peace Knockanegonly : Garugh John Bode, 1639 " Fra- ternal " : " Sisterly," 369 Marlowes, 370.

REPLIES : John Preston, D.D., 370 " Warden " Pears, 371 "Bon Chretien" Pears Bristol M.P.'s, 372 "Thon": "Thonder" "Thorpsman" Nelson: " Musle," 373 C. Corbett, Bookseller Earl of Jersey's Ancestress Dumas on Cleopatra's Needles, 374 History of England with Riming Verses, 375 Arno Surname T. Oliver, Bond Street Leman Street, 376 " All my eye and Betty Martin" "As sure as God made little apples " Dates in Roman Numerals, 377 R. Parr, Centenarian, 378 Dr. Mead, Centenarian Twins and Second Sight, 379.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-' Frederick James Furnivall' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi. 441; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401; 11 S. i. 282; ii. 42, 242, 381; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181.)

MEN OF LETTERS (continued).

Hughenden, Bucks. On an eminence in Hughenden Park is an obelisk about 50 feet high, erected in 1863 by Viscountess Beacons- field to the memory of her husband's father, Isaac D' Israeli, author of 'The Curiosities of Literature.' It is thus inscribed :

In memory of Isaac Disraeli of Bradenham in this county, Esquire, and Hon. D.C.L. of the University of Oxford, who by his happy genius diffused among the multitude that elevating taste for literature which, before his time, was the privilege only of the learned. This monument was raised in affectionate remembrance by Mary Anne, the wife of his eldest son the Bight. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Lord of the Manor ; Chancellor -of the Exchequer, 1852, 1858, 1859, and now for the sixth time Knight of this Shire.

j An inscription to the memory of Vis- countess Beaconsfield, who died 15 December, 1872, has since been added.

Freshwater, Isle of Wight. On the anni- versary of Tennyson's birthday, 6 August, 1897, a beacon cross was dedicated to his memory on the outermost angle of the western coast of the island. It is con- structed of Cornish granite, and is about 38 feet high. The ceremony of unveiling was performed by the Very Rev. Dr. Bradley, Dean of Westminster, and prayers were offered by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The spot is one to which Tennyson used to make a daily pilgrimage, and was formerly occupied by the Nodes Beacon. On the east face of the cross is the following inscription :

In Memory of Alfred Lord Tennyson

this Cross is raised,

A Beacon to Sailors,

By the people of Freshwater and other friends

in England' and America.

Arbury, near Nuneaton. Close to South

Farm, where George Eliot (Mary Ann

Evans) was born 22 November, 1819, a

monument has been erected to her memory in

Arbury Park. It was set up by Mr. F. A.

Newdigate-Newdigate, in whose family her

father was employed as land agent. The

memorial is in shape like a milestone,

and stands on three receding blocks. The

front is thus inscribed :

George

Eliot

1819-1880.

Sheffield. On 26 August, 1854, a bronze statue of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer, was erected by public subscription in the Market-Place. It is the work of Barnard, and represents the poet bareheaded, seated upon a knoll. In 1875 it was re- moved to its present position in Weston Park, "where it remains, sadly neglected, if not despised, as a work of art." On the plain square pedestal is carved the one word

ELLIOTT.

Sheffield. At the cost of 1,OOOZ., raised by public subscription, a bronze statue of James Montgomery, the journalist-poet, was placed over his grave, near the principal entrance of the General Cemetery, in 1861. On the pedestal it is stated that a prominent part was taken in the erection of the statue by the teachers, scholars, and friends of Sunday schools in Sheffield. There are also inscribed suitable extracts from Mont- gomery's poems ' Prayer ' and ' The Grave,' and the following lines :

Here lies interred, beloved by all who knew him, the Christian poet, patriot, and philanthropist. Wherever poetry is read, or Christian hymns sung, in the English language, ' he being dead, yet speaketh,'by the genius, piety and taste embodied in his writings.