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 2 S. V. JULY, 1919.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

189'

CLASSICAL PARALLELISMS TO THE WAR

2 S. v. 57). A striking passage of Virgil's found in ' ^En.,' x. 230. A sea-nymph

eaks :

nea, vigila, et velis immitte rudentes.

s sumus Idsnse sacro de vertice pinus,

mo pelagi Nymphse, classis tua. Perfidus ut nos

fficipites ferro Rutulus flammaque premebat ;

ipimus invitee tua vincula, teque per sequor

serimus. Hanc genetrix faciem miserata refecit ;

dedit esse Deas, sevumque ; agitare sub undis.

)t only do these words (some I italicize for ident reasons) read like a prophecy and a krning, but poetic genius ascribes grief to e sunken craft instead of to the remaining et, however distracted by their loss. This 3ws that sea-sentiment, universal among ifarers, excepting our late adversaries me, existed in full force in days of old. " Innabant pariter " (1. 222) may be ken as undying memories helping to make eh loss a gain. J. K.

louth Africa.

FORGOTTEN WRITERS (12 S. v. 150). I d in an American publication, ' Library Poetry and Song,' some information jarding the following : Frances Brown (Browne), Ireland, 1818-64. lames Joseph Callanan, Ireland, 1795- 29.

Margaret Davidson, American, 1823-
 * 8 (sic).

Edward Johnson, M.D., English. (No tes, but mentions that his poem * The bter-Drinker ' was published 1837.) Che George Washington Doane mentioned presumably the well-known American mn-writer and Bishop of New Jersey, J2. Born May 27, 1799 ; died April 27, >9. (See Julian's ' Dictionary of Hymn-

gy-')

Che Rev. Cornelius .Neale was born g. 12, 1789, and died Aug. 8, 1823. (See Life by Rev. William Jowett, M.A.) He

3 the father of the eminent and revered in Mason Neale.

J. DE BERNIERE SMITH. Gloucestei Gate, Regent's Park, N.W.I.

ELLOND SURNAME (12 S. v. 154). A lily named Kelland lived at Gainsford in i seventeenth century, and monuments, earliest " John Kelland, Esquire, 1679,'' in Ashprington Church, Devon. Accord- to an endorsement on one of the Totnes nicipal deeds dated 1520, " John Kel- d," probably the ancestor of the first [land of Gainsford, who inherited through rriage with Somaster, had a house in
 * nes in the sixteenth century, but the

name does not otherwise occur in the very complete series of Totnes records (see ' Hist^ of Totnes Priory and Mediaeval Town').

I cannot suggest a Devonshire place-name as the origin, it is more probably Cornish r Kellilan, Kellinellan, Kellow, Kelly, Kelly- han, as well as other combinations of the - first syllable, being foi nd in Cornwall. HUGH R. WATKIN.

Chelston, Torquay.

TILLY KETTLE (12 S. v. 154). Tilly Kettle was son of a coach-builder, and born in London about 1740. He studied at the Duke of Richmond's Gallery and the St. Martin's Lane Academy, and practised as a portrait painter in London and India. He died in 1786 at Aleppo.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield, Reading.

He was born in London about 1740, the son of a coach-painter. In 1765 he joined the Incorporated Society of Artists. After practising portrait painting in London went to India, amassed a fortune, and returned 1776. Exhibited at the Academy, 1777, 1781, 1783. His good fortune then deserted him ; he became bankrupt, and left London,. He set out to return to India, but died at Aleppo in 1786. There is a portrait by him of Warren Hastings in the National.' Portrait Gallery, and of Sir William Black- stone at Oxford. See Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters' and ' D.N.B.'

A. G. KEALY, Chaplain, R.N. (retired).

Gosport.

[W. B. H. and MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE also- thanked for replies. ]

HERVEY OR HERVET (12 S. v. 95, 167). I am obliged to MR. N. W. HILL for his reply to my query. But I cannot agree with him that Her vet is a diminutive of Hervey. Its form and its use alike forbid it. It is not on all fours with Pierrot and many like diminutives which are formed by adding the syllable et or ot to the name. Hare is no- addition of the syllable et, but simply a change of the final letter and sound. Nor is it the case that there are two names, Hervey and Hervet, some families called by the one and some by the other. There is but one name with two forms or two pro- nunciations, and the same families are called by both. Hervet is only the occasional provincial pronunciation of the more usual Hervey. That it is not modern is shown by its occurrence in an Inq. p.m. in the reign of Henry III. ; that it is not obsolete is shown-.