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 12 s. vii. JULY 3, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. without discernment stands out Shake- speare's magnificent portrait of an Israelite, a noble torso, an incomplete creation of a grand Hebrew tragically debased, the spirit of the age not being ready to understand a better conception. A really representative stage picture of the moving ideas behind Semitic psychology is still even in our own day to seek. M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney. THE USE OF THE ROYAL ARMS ON WAR MEMORIAL BOARDS (12 S. vi. 312). I do not know that it would be illegal for a school to decorate its Roll of Honour with the Arms ; because, for a guinea a year, a man may commandeer any blazon he E leases without being reproached by the iw ; but it would be an act of impudence to make use of the King's bearing without having first gained His Majesty's leave or warrant to do so. ST. S WITHIN. GRANDFATHER CLOCK: DATE WANTED (12 S. vi. 251, 298, 320). I have a clock with the name on dial " James Bath, Cirencester. " I cannot state age, but remember it as my grandfather's when I was a boy at Abingdon, Berks, I am now in my eightieth year. R.. J. FYNMORE. A. H. G. (12 S. vi. 296). According to the Catalogue of the London Library the answer is in the affirmative, Frank Seafield being a pseudonym of Alexander Henley Grant. A. R. BAYLEY. DIOCESAN CALENDARS AND GAZETTES (12 S. vi. 296). Though I am unable to answer the queries propounded by the Rev. J. Clare Hudson it may be useful to put on record that the Chichester Diocesan Kalendar first appeared in 1874 and that the first number of the Chichester Diocesan Gazette, is dated January, 1894. LEONARD HODSON. Robertsbridge, Sussex. The Chester Diocesan Calendar, Clergy List and Church Almanack began about 1857, as I see the issue of 1882 was for the twenty-fifth year. v The Liverpool Calendar began in 1881. R. STEWART BROWN. Liverpool. EMERSON'S ' ENGLISH TRAITS ' (12 S. vi. 228). 12. "Kail of Cornwall. " Does not this refer to kaolin which is to be found in Cornwall ? A clay very much like the Chinese kaolin is found in the United States and is commonly spoken of as "kail," or a ariant spelling of this word. I understand }hat Cornwall has a deposit of clay of prac- tically the same chemical composition as kaolin. WENDELL HERBRUCK. Canton, Ohio. CAPT. ROBERT BOYLE : BRITISH PRIVA- TEER ( 12 S. vi. 45). The first sentence in the second column of this page is, I am afraid, obscure. " Personage " should be read nstead of "passage." I was suggesting a reason for Lamb's having styled Capt. Robert Boyle " Honourable." EDWARD BENSLY. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. (12 S. vi. 336). ENQUIRER probably has in mind the translation of the 'Birds 5 of Aristophanes by John Hookham Frere, but the lines are not quite correctly quoted. they should read as follows : Ye children of Man ! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous Sickly, calamitous, creatures of clay ! GERALD LODER. on Lancashire. By F. H. Cheetham. (Methuen, 6s. Qd.) A NEW volume in the " Little Guides " series is always assured of a welcome among those who care more for antiquities than hotel tariffs. They are ideal books of their class, being at once brief, and well informed. The new volume is Mr. Cheetham's ' Lancashire,' and represents a task of no little difficulty carried out with com- plete success. At first sight the difficulties would appear all but insurmountable ; for Lancashire is not only one of the largest counties, and industrial withal, but is proud of an indus- trialism to which, in the writer's words, it has never hesitated to sacrifice antiquity. But Mr. Cheetham has triumphed. Ruthless in omission and compression he omits the Lancashire lake district entirely and passes the larger modern cities in most cursory review he devotes himself as far as he can to the few antiquities that remain. Thus Furness is made considerably more promi- nent than Liverpool or Manchester, which is as it should be in a book which has in view the dilettante rather than the tourist. To the general reader the historical introduc- tion and the chapter on ecclesiology will prove - most attractive. Both are well and accurately done, especially the latter which is a model ; both, perhaps, might have been rather fuller- without loss of proportion. Thus in the para- graph dealing with medieval painted glass approximate dates would have been useful and could have been supplied from Nelson. The rather pitiful lists of such flora and fauna as have survived modern industrialism might have been