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given to Lieut. Miller (whose promotion I dealt with on the before-mentioned page), and since then several Army bandmasters have been promoted to second lieutenancies, and continued to practise their profession. A few have also been promoted quarter- master, with the honorary rank of lieutenant, the first one being Bandmaster Read (now deceased) of the 1st Middlesex Regiment, on 11 June, 1890. I give below a complete list of commissioned bandmasters to date, and it will be noticed that not a single cavalry or line regiment is represented, although Lieut. Rogan served in the West Surrey Regiment, Lieut. Hall in the Dra- goons, and Lieut. Williams in the 10th Hussars and the Royal Marine Artillery, before they received their Household Brigade Bandmasterships. Godfrey, D., Grenadier Guards, 2nd Lieut.,

1 July, 1887. Miller, G.J.. M.V.O., 2nd Lieut., 15 Nov., 1899.

Lieut,, 28 Dec., 1899. Zavertal, L., Royal Artillery, 2nd Lieut., 28 Dec.,

1898. Sommer, J., Roval Engineers, 2nd Lieut., 4 Feb.,

1899. Franklin, C., Egyptian Army, 2nd Lieut, 13 March,

1901 ; now Director, Royal Naval School of

Music. Wright, J., Royal Marines, 2nd Lieut., 6 Nov.,

1901. Rogan, .!., M.V.O., Coldstream Guards, 2nd Lieut.,

27 Feb., 1904. Hall, C., M.V.O., 2nd Life Guards, 2nd Lieut.,

25 Jan., 1905. Williams, A., M.V.O., Grenadier Guards, 2nd

Lieut., 2 Jan., 1907. Ferguson, F., Egyptian Army, 2nd Lieut.,

14 Oct., 1908. Green, B., Royal Marines, 2nd Lieut., Oct., 1911.

Lieuts. Godfrey, Zavertal, and Sommer have retired on pension, and Lieut. Wright is deceased. CHARLES S. BURDON.

THE EARL OF SURREY AND DE BAIF. Students of sonnet literature must, like my- self, have come across in more than one anthology a sonnet by the Earl of Surrey, beginning

Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green ; and Mr. John Dennis in his ' Selection of English Sonnets ' quotes in his notes one from ' The Phoenix' Nest,' 1593, which reads like an imitation of the former, and is un- signed.

Whether Surrey himself claimed originality for his work is of no importance now ; but I would modestly suggest that during his various sojourns in France he may have come across and borrowed even more than the mere subject from the Pleiadist, J. A. de Bai'f (1532 to 1589), unless, which is less

likely, the latter has borrowed from Surrey .- Of course the sonnets are not absolutely identical, but are too similar to have been, both original in the true sense.

I quote the French sonnet from ' Poesies choisies de J. A. de Baif,' by L. Becq de Fouquieres, Paris, 1874, for such as it may interest :

Mets moi dessus la mer d'oii le soleil se leve, Ou pres du bord de 1'onde oil sa ilame s'eteint ; Mets moi au pais froid, ou sa chaleur n'ateint, Ou sur les sab Ions cuits que son chaud rayon greve j. Mets moi en long ennuy, mets moi en joye breve, En franche liberte, en servage contraint ; Soit que lib re je soy, ou prisonnier relreint, En assurance, ou doute, ou en guerre ou en treve ;. Mets moi au pie plus bas ou sur les hauts somets Des mons plus esleve"s, 6 Meline, et me mets En une triste nuit ou en gaye lumiere ; Mets moi dessus le ciel, dessons terre mets moi,, Je seray tousjours mesme, et ma derniere foy Se trouvera tousjours pareille a la premiere.

The superiority of Surrey's more varied sonnet does not, of course, affect the quea- tion of origin. A. WEBER.

SHAKESPEARE ALLUSIONS.

1. Be thou the Lady Cressit-light to mee, Sir Trollelolle I will prove to thee.

Rowlands, ' The Letting of Humors Blood in the Head-Vaine,' 1600, Satyre 4.

2. Yet let none say he's broke or run away, But (as the wiser call 't) he did convey Himself e into a Church, in policie.

John Taylor, 'Hill -'ANePfiHOS : or, An, Ironicall Expostulation ' (1648), A. 3.

3. Tell me no more of Laureated Ben, Shakespear, and Fletcher, once the wiser men. Their Acts ('tis true) were Sublime I yet I see They 'r all Revisedly compos'd in thee.

Arth. Tichborne, before M. Stevenson's ' Poems,' 1673.

4. In Shakespear read the Reason mixt with Rage, When Brutus with fierce Cassius does engage In loud expostulations in the Tent,

The heights of Passion, Turns, and the Descent Observe, and what th' art likely to despise, Is that in which th' Excellence chiefly lies.

' Innocui Sales : a Collection of Ne\r Epigrams,' 1694, p. 16.

I am, of course, aware that No. 1 may have no reference to Shakespeare's ' Troilus and Cressida,' but the passage seemed worth recording, if only to compare with the lines beginning- Come, Cressida, my cresset light, of ' Histriomastix,' which, by the way, I cannot find in the ' Shakspere Allusion- Book.' G. THORN-DRURY.

DOMESDAY BOOK AND THE LUTTRELL FAMILY. The Daily Telegraph of 12 Octo- ber, in its review of the Report of the Inland Revenue Commissioners for the year ended