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 i2s. VIIL AFRILSO, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 359 Owen Tudor by the Princess Katharine of France ; another of whose sons, Fychan Tudor de Beraine, married his son to Jasper the Earl of Pembroke's daughter. These were immediate parents to the lather of Katharine de Berayne by Constance d'Aubigne, dnine d'homseur to Anne de Bretagne. She brought him this one only child, an hcin'st, who was ward of Queen Elizabeth, and in her fifteenth year married, with Her Majesty's con- sent, to Sir John Salusbury of Llewenney Hall. . . . After his demise fair Katharine gave her hand to Sir Richard Clough, the splendid merchant. . . . After Sir Richard Clough's death (she] married Maurice Wynne of Gwydir. . . . He was not, however, her last husband. She wedded Thelwall of Plasy ward after she was quite an old woman. ' Autobio graph v of Mrs. Piozzi ' (ed. Hay ward), ii. 8. So many persons of rank and fortune were descended from Katharine that she was called Mam y Cymru (the Mother of the Welsh). Pennant says there was a tradition that Maurice Wynne proposed to her on the way home from the burial of her first husband. She replied that Sir Richard Clough had proposed on the way to the burial, and that she had accepted him, but if she survived her second husband she would be pleased to have Wynne for the third. DAVID SALMON. Swansea. AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. viii. 311). The lines on the book collector are from Alexander Barclay's ' Ship of Fools,' where they are found in the first stanza of the first chapter, that on ' Inprofyt- able bokes.' The correct form of the quotation (see p. 20 in Paterson's reprint of the first edition) is this : " Styll am I besy bokes assemblynge For to haue plenty it is a plesaunt thynge In my conceyt and to haue them ay in honde." The line that follows is less flattering to the collector, " But what they mene do I nat vnderstonde." Barclay's satire, written in 1508, printed by Pynson in 1509, was a translation, founded on Jakob Locher's Latin version (1497) of Sebastian Brant's ' Narrenschiff ' (1494). The lines in Locher are these : " Congestis etenim stultus confide libellis, Spem quoque nee parvam collecta volumina praebent, Calleo nee verbum, nee libri sentiomentem." The passage in Brant being : " Vff myn libry ich mych verlan Von biichern hab ich grossen hort Verstand doch drynn gar wenig wort." The accompanying woodcut in the original Basel edition is familiar in reproductions. The collector is seated with a book-hutch before him, his fools-cap hanging on his shoulders and huge spectacles on his nose, while he dusts one of the volumes with a feather broom; EDWARD BENSLY. on Counsels and Ideals from the Writings of Sir William Osier. Selected and edited by C. K. B. Camac. (Oxford University Press, &?. 6d. net.) Tins second edition of a pleasant and inspiriting compilation has been enriched by the addition of passages from articles by Sir William Oshr which have appeared since 1904. Osier himself, we are told, during his last illness, -express? d a wish that a second edition should be produced the remainder of the first having gone down in a torpedoed vessel on its way to America in 1918. He was well inspired in that wish, for this " mosaic " represents in a happy manner those special qualities of the writer's mind and character which made him, good man of science as he was, a yet better trainer and leader of the young. He had the peculiar feeling for goodness which makes the teacher par excellence. In fact, there is more than a touch of moral genius in his ever-fresh realization of the importance and the beauty of simple principles, which are very apt to appear trite to people who do not live by them. Concentration on the day's work, fraternal kindness, equanimity these formed his three- fold ideal and it is paying tribute to his success in following that ideal to say that he could write of them to the last with the eagerness of a discoverer, as well as with the assurance born of a life's experience. The purely intellectual counsels of this volume present the same clear, wholesome simplicity and the same kindly wisdom, expressed in an easy, unaffected English which runs readily, on the one hand into epigram, on the other into fluent description, and, without rising exactly to distinction, keeps true in its ring of unfailing vitality. Osier's appreciation of outstanding personalities, whether among scientific workers or in literature, his eager interest in the oncoming generation, his grasp of the difficulties, material, mental and moral, of the rank and file in medicine, and his enthusiasm for the medical profession as a vocation, bear, in an indefeasible youth- fulness which permeates them, a certain trans- atlantic character which well becomes them. Necessarily, humour is rarely much in evidence though its presence may often be felt, and there is at least one good example of it in the picture of a country doctor in his surgery. The eagerness with which Osier thought and wrote sometimes, as was to be expected, betrayed him into small slips. We do not see why these should have been perpetuated. Why should Aug. 22 be called St. Bartholomew's Day, or Bernard of Morlaix be confused with St. Bernard ; or Elijah, instead of Elisha, be said to have been summonod from the plough when there cannot be any doubt that Osier would have corrected these tiny blemishes at a word ? A more con- siderable and very curious infelicity appeals twice in these pages. Osier is urging the medical practitioner to beware of tittle-tattle and says, in two different works, that a man should make it a rule " never believe what a patient tells you to the detriment of a brother, even thoiu/h you -may think it to be true." The important words are employed in both passages, and what