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 ii s. v. JUNE i, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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MB. L. H. CHAMBERS, in his interesting communication under this head, makes a slight slip. " Garra way's Coffee -House " of South Sea Bubble fame does not now exist. Tt was pulled down in 1866, since which date Change Alley has been practically rebuilt. Mr. E. Callow, in his book ' Old London Taverns,' records much about this noted rendezvous for City men. Possibly a reply to MB. W. B. GEBISH'S query at 11 S. iv. 90 (*' Master of Garraway's ") may be found in this connexion. CECIL CLABKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

THE HE>TRY MAYHEW CENTENARY (11 S- v. 145, 256, 317). I would like to amend a stupid oversight in my last reply, in which

I assumed that Henry Mayhew had no daughters. On referring to ' " Punch's " Family Trees ' (see ' An Evening with ''Punch," ' 1891), I find it set down that Amy, daughter of Henry Mayhew, married Philip Allen, son of Joseph Allen, the landscape and scene painter. It seems odd that Athol Mayheu, in his book ' A Jorum of (1895), should not allude to his sister or her husband, though he has much to tell us about Joseph William Allen, one of the founders of the Society of British Artists (of which he was Secretary), and the intimate friend of Mayhew, Jerrold, and the rest of the early Punch staff about his wit, his love of practical jokes, and his struggle to bring up a big family on small means. J. W. Allen contributed literary sketches to No. 1 (and to many a later number) of The London Charivari.
 * i Punch," with those who Helped to Brew It '

Joshua Dorset Joseph Mayhew, attorney, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, articled all his boys (though Alfred tried the Army at first) to himself, in the hope of bringing up successors to his lucrative practice ; but they hated and abandoned the law as soon as they had served their articles all save Alfred, who gave up his military aspirations and took a stool in his father's office, where he became, in due course, partner in, and finally successor to, the business. During his own lifetime old Mayhew allowed eacli son a pound a week, besides helping them with occasional loans. At his death, in 1858, they found themselves left independent of any need to work for a living. Yet, knowing their habits and proclivities, he tied up the money in the hands of trustees ; only Horace, who invariably paid back borrowed money with interest, and Julius, the steady young man who never stayed out after

II P.M., being left unrestricted in respect of

their inheritance. And Julius, the well- behaved, turned out, from a business point of view, the only failure among the seven hopeless as an art student, " impossible " as a photographer. Old Joshua was a stern father, yet withal a kind one.

There were two daughters. Athol mentions Emily, who used, when Punch was in the brewing, to send" her brother Henry from Paris the week's Charivari.

Among his many hobbies Henry Mayhew dabbled in chemistry and the manufacture of artificial diamonds. Time and money wasted ; awful 4i stenches " created ; suc- cessive landladies driven crazy to see their best pots and pans requisitioned for scientific experiments still the eager struggle went on, undaunted by failure upon failure. Once, when he was lodging with Alfred, an explosion wrecked the kitchen, terrified the cook out of her wits, and compelled Henry to seek fresh " diggings."

Sutherland Edwards, in his ' Personal Recollections/ writes : " Henry Mayhew had more brains than all the rest of the family put together, but less conduct." When he married. Harry Baylis. the noted Punch " bidly." *' wrote an epithalamium for the occasion, dedicated to Jerrold, beginning : -

What a jolly fine thing to be father-in-law

To a blasted philosopher not worth a straw ! "

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

CONGRES INTERNATIONAUX DES SCIENCES HISTORIQTJES (US. v. 349). The following particulars from ' L'Internationalisme Scien- tifique.' par P. H. Eijkman (La Haye, W. P. van Stockum et Fils, 1911, 3 francs), may prove useful to MR. SHERWOOD and others interested in the forthcoming con- ference :

(542) Congr&s internationaux des Sciences historiques.

Les Congres suivants peuvent etre cites :

IV. Congres, 6-12 aout, 1908. (Secretaire, M. le Dr. E. Gaspar, Kaiserallee 17, Berlin W.)

[V. Congres, 1913, Angleterre.j

Lo Congres comprend huit sections : 1. His- toire ancienne ; 2. Histoire grecque et rouiaine ; 3. Histoire politique du moyen age et des temps modernes ; 4. Histoire de la 'Civilisation au moyen age et dans les temps moderues ; 5. Histoire juridique et econoinique ; 0. Histoire de FEglise ; 7. Histoire de FArt ; 8. Sciences auxiliaires de FHistoire. (Archivologie. Bibliotechnique, Chro- nologie. Diplomatique. Epigraphie, Genealogie, Geographie historique, Heraldique, Numismatique, Paleographie, Ephragistique.)

If t he local secretary for England has been appointed by the International Committee,