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AUTHOR'S NAME WANTED : ' RAMBUES AROUND NOTTINGHAM,' c. 1855 (11 S. xii. 320). In ' Biographical Sketches- of Remarkable People,' by Spencer T. Hall (1873), is a short notice of Capt. Matthew Henry Barker, who, under the name of '" The Old Sailor," wrote works illustrated by George Cruikshank between 1824 and 1845. Hall says that Barker was

"author of 'Walks round Nottingham' for

-some years editor of The Nottingham Mercury

His later years were spent in London in editing

one of the illustrated papers 1 saw him there

in 1843."

'The ' D.N.B.' notice of Barker (1780-1846) says that he edited a Nottingham news- paper, 1827-38, and does not include '* Walks ' in its list of his works, which -apparently does not assume to be exhaustive. If Barker wrote the book mentioned in the query, its date would be earlier than there suggested, unless a reis&ue. W. B. H.

" IRRELAGH ; OR, THE LAST OF THE CHIEFS " (12 S. v. 69, 105). The REV. J. B. McGovERN will find some information about Miss E. Colthurst, the author of ' Irrelagh,' In ' Poets of Ireland,' published by Houlston <fe Stoneman, London, 1849.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

Dublin.

PRAGELL FAMILY (12 S. v. 42). This surname seerns to be an earlier form of Prall, which Lower in his ' Patronymica Britannica ' derives from the Anglo-Norman pray ell, a little meadow, from French pre, a meadow, whence prairie, grassland.

N. W. HILL.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (12 S. v. 98). If of dull wits this stripling you suspect, Make him a Herald or an architect,

is a translation of the last two lines of an epigram

of Martial :

Si duri puer ingeni videtur, Praeconem facias vel architectum.

V. 56, 10, 11.

The poet is advising a friend on the profession for which he should train his son. He urges him to have nothing to do with literature, and to dis- inherit him if he writes verses. If the lad wants to take to a pursuit that has money in it, then he should be trained as a musician. If he seems a blockhead, then his father should make an auctioneer or builder of him.

The choice of the less appropriate " Herald " as the equivalent of prceco, and the use of a capital, suggest that the English lines were quoted with a personal application. The most famous instance of a man obnoxious to such an attack' is that of Sir John Vanbrugh, dramatist, architect, and 'Clarenceux king-at-arms. In his two latter capacities he provoked much hostile criticism.

EDWARD BENSLY. I

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Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. XIX.

Edited by Frederick A. Crisp. (Privately

printed.) Visitation of Ireland. Vol. VI. Edited by

Frederick A. Crisp. (Privately printed.)

IT is with pleasure that we welcome two more volumes of this valuable modern Visitation. As in previous issues, the pedigrees are restricted to the last four generations of the families concerned. Exhaustive particulars of the family history of each member are given, which will be invaluable to future generations. There are forty-two pedigrees in the ' Visitation of England and Wales,' viz. : Barnard, Bolt on, Bvrdett, Burrough, Cazalet, Corder, Cross, Denne, Douglas, Farnham, Ficklin, Forth, Fripp, Good, Goodman, Gower, Haversham, Holmes, Jackson, Jex-Blake, Landon, Lombe, Madan, Nelson, Parmoor, Penny, Pytches, Hushbrooke, Scott, Staples, Suckling, Surtees (2), Tarleton, Tennyson-D'Eyncourt. Turney, Walker, Woollcombe- Adams (2),* Wolseley, WoYthington, and Zetland. Some of the pedigrees are illustrated with portraits. There are also armorial book- plates of William M. Cazalet and Philip B. Ficklin, the former being one of the productions of Sherborn.

The ' Visitation of Ireland ' contains thirty pedigrees, viz. : Ashbourne, Barry, Bellew, Boyle, Chambers, Coplen-Lanford, Edgeworth, Fairan, Fox, Gardner-Brown, Higginson, Hurly, Inchiquin, Lecky, Leslie, Lisle, M'Cance (2). Macanlay, Mac- Dermot, Magee, Meadows, Morgan, Ogilby, Plummer, Scott, Shawe-Taylor, Westropp, Wilson, and Wolseley. Several are illustrated with armorial book-plates.

The appendix to each volume, consisting of additions and corrections to previous volumes, is long and has a sa.d tale to tell of casualties due to the war. Each volume is also provided with an excellent index.

In addition to the present interest of these volumes, they will, no doubt, be of still wider interest to many other families through inter- marriages in the future.

Journal of the Folk-Song Society, no. 21 (Vol. VI. Part I.). (The Society, 19 Berners Street, W.)

THIS number is of special interest, for the editor, Mr. Frederick Keel, has just resumed his duties after three and a half years' internment at Ruhleben. We congratulate both him and the Society upon the happy termination of his sufferings.

He has signalized the occasion by contributing to the present issue a number of songs collected by Lieut. lolo Williams and himself in 1913 from the neighbourhood of Haslemere. One of these is noteworthy as supplying the name of the com- poser :

These words were composed by Spencer the Rover, Who travelled most parts of Great Britain and

Wales.

This was sung by a garden labourer aged 64. He, however, is a comparative stripling beside Mr. James Stacey, who sang " The Ten Command- ments " or " The Twelve Apostles," for he is 83 years of age. The annotations on this old