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WASHINGTON IRVING'S ' SKETCH-BOOK ' <11 S. iv. 109, 129, 148, 156, 196, 217, 275).

3. " Darkness and the grave " (p. 109). This appears to be a misreading of the ' Sketch-Book.' In ' The Broken Heart ' Irving quotes the half -line " darkness and the worm " from Young's ' Night Thoughts ' :

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm.

Night IV.

9. 'Corydon's Doleful Knell' (p. 129). In my copy of Percy's ' Reliques ' it is stated that the poem Corydon's Doleful Knell ' is given, "with corrections, from two copies, one of which is in ' The Golden Garland of Princely Delights.' " The author, I believe, is quite unknown. 14. When this old cap was new,

'Tis since two hundred yeare. P. 129.

Some versions of this song are signed with the initials " M. P.," supposed to indicate Martin Parker, for an account of whom see the ' D.N.B.'

33. The ship sailed " and was never heard of more " (p. 148). A quotation evidently from ' The Castaway Ship,' an extremely popular and formerly much admired poem by John Malcolm. The closing lines are as follows :

It may not be ; there is no ray By which her doom we may explore ; We only know she sailed away, And ne'er was seen or heard of more ! The author, a native of Orkney, served as an officer in the Army, and died com- paratively young. His poem ' The Cast- away Ship ' appears in several Scottish school-books of fifty or sixty years ago, and is painfully associated in my recollec- tion with the tremulous tones of scholars in terror of the teacher's taws. Malcolm published three volumes, mostly in verse, and contributed largely to periodical literature, but does not find a place, strangely enough, in the ' D.N.B.,' where, without doubt, he should have appeared.

38.^ Apparition in the Tower (p. 148). See ' The Romance of London : Super- natural Stories,' by John Timbs, in the

Chandos Classics," pp. 18-26.

39. Lyly's writings perpetuated in a proverb (p. 148). Is not the allusion to Lyly s ' Euphues,' which added to the English language a new word, " euphu- ism," commonly employed to designate
 * n affected or inflated style of writing ?

41. ' Hue and Cry after Christmas ' {p. 148). The author is probably un-

known. There are several publications with somewhat similar titles. In 1651 the Rev. Richard Culmer wrote ' The Minister's Hue and Cry.' ' Hue and Cry after the False Prophets and Deceivers of our Age ' was written by Edward Bur- rough in 1661. Somewhere I have seen a title, ' Hue and Cry after the Christian,' but have mislaid my note of it. There are several other similar titles, but the refer- ence by Irving does not seem to apply to any of them.

44. ' Cupid's Solicitor for Love ' (p. 148). Richard Crimsall was the author of ' Cupid's Solicitor of Love,' presumably the same publication as that mentioned by Washington Irving. W. S. S.

'THE CATALOGUE OF HONOR' (11 S. iv. 488). I subjoin a copy of the title-page of this book on heraldry and genealogy, &c., by Thomas Milles. It is a folio volume, pp. x + 100, viii+36, and ii+1131. There is an engraved title-page by Renold El- stracke, six engravings of the costumes of the nobility (pp. 33-49), a portrait of the King in State (p. 61), and a plate of the King in Parliament (p. 69). Pp. 493-4 are usually mutilated, but in my copy they are perfect.

" The | Catalogue of Honor | or | Tresury of True Nobility, peculiar and | proper to the Isle of Great Britaine. | That is to say : | A Collection historicall of all the Free Monarches ] as well Kinges of England as Scotland (nowe | united togither) Avith the Princes of Walles, | Dukes, Marquisses, and Erles ; their wives, child: | ren, Alliances, Families, Descentes, & Achievementes of | Honor. ] Wherunto j is properly prefixed : A speciall Treatise of that kind of (Nobility which Soverayne Grace, | and favour, and Contryes Customes, | have made meerly Politicall handled before). | Translated out of Latyne into English : | London. | Printed by William .laggard. | 1610."
 * and peculiarly Civill (never so ] distinctly

CHAS. L. CUMMINGS.

This no doubt is the work by Thomas Milles of 1610, folio, printed and published by my namesake-ancestor, of which an exemplar may be seen at the British Museum. A copy, annotated throughout in MS. and illuminated in colours, is in my collection of Jaggard-printed books.

WILLIAM JAGG ARC.

Avonthwaite, Stratford-on-Avon. [MB. ROLAND AUSTIN is also thanked for reply.]

MAID A (11 S. iv. 110, 171, 232, 271, 334, 492). I can raise no objection to MR. RHODES making use of any books or army lists which he thinks proper, and I only