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 356 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.ix.ocT.2o.mi. group of the French quartette the lawyer is introduced with a cynical utterance. He is figured as flourishing a bag of money. Much more high-minded is the English con- ception of the character. Such assemblages of typical characters seem to be still popular in France. Quite recently there reached me a modern coloured cartoon presenting an array of seven persons. It had the title of : Les differentes positions sociales de I'hoimne. These seven personages and their verses are as follow : Le Pretre : J'eclaire les ames qui doutent Le Ciel est a ceux qui m'ecoutent. . Le Medecin : Je combats toute maladie Et vous assure longue vie. Le Maitre d'Ecole : . J'ai soin de votre adolescence Vous enseignant vertu, science. Le Marchand : Biches ou pauvres, trouyerez Chez moi, ce que vous desirez. Le Soldat : Je te defends, chere Patrie, Pour toi je donnerais ma vie ! L'Ouvrier : Qui m^prise le travailleur Est indigne de tout bonheur. Le Paysan : Le Bon Dieu fasse a son plaisir, Tous les six je dois vous nourrir. The only figure in this group that excites remark is the schoolmaster, who, from a blackboard whereon are written the letters of the alphabet, is teaching the A B C to a child who, from his stature and dress, ought certainly to be able to read. The modern cartoon finds place for three of the figures displayed in the almanac of 1820 : the priest, the soldier, and the farmer. Four entirely new characters are introduced the doctor, the schoolmaster, the merchant and the artisan. The Law is unrepresented. Neither the English advocate nor the un- amiable French attorney having been invited to become members of this society. K. S. NELSON'S SIGNALMAN AT TRAFALGAR ( 12 S. ix. 301). In the United Service Museum, Whitehall, is an exhibit (173) : Photograph of Pensioner Boon (not Boon}) who hoisted Lord Nelson's famous signal at the Battle of Trafalgar. The photograph was taken in 1858 when Boon was over 80 years of age. He was then a patient of the donor at Greenwich Hospital. Given by Inspector General F. W. Davis, B.N. S. PONDER. Torquay. ' ALBUM AMICORUM ' OF WANDERING SCHOLARS (12 S. ix. 309). An interesting article on these alba will be found in Archceoloqia, vol. Ixii., pp. 251-308, by the late Mr. Max Rosenheim, who describes 20 volumes from his own collection and 22 of the 400 or so volumes preserved in the British Museum. In the ' Notes on Sales ' in The Times Literary Supplement for Aug. 29, 1918, a detailed account is given of the Album of Capt. Francis Segar, and several letters appeared in the same journal on Sept. 8, 1918, describing other volumes. Illustrations from the ' Stamni- buch' (1578-83) of Gregory Amman at Cassel, showing the passenger boat plying between Venice and Padua, and from the volume in the Egerton MSS. 1191 at the British Museum showing Venetian mounte- banks, are given in Bates's ' Touring in 1600,' while a fine album of the seventeenth century with illustrations is described in Maggs Brothers' Catalogue No. 395 of 1920. The ' Stammbuch ' of Thos. Platter the younger, who visited London in the late sixteenth century (now at Basle) is referred to with a brief extract in The Cornhill Magazine for August, 1920, article ' Three Foreigners in London.' MALCOLM LETTS. It would, I think, interest MR. P. J. ANDERSON, in connexion with his interesting reference to two Scotch ' Alba Amicorum,' 1 to refer to the very interesting communica- tion made to the Society of Antiquaries of London by Mr. Max Rosenheim, Dec., 1909. This appears in Archceologia, vol. Ixii. No fewer than 42 such albums are there described with detail. ARTHUR Du CANE. SIR RICHARD BROWN, BART. (12 S. ix. 310). There have been a good many baronets of the name of Richard Brown. The man after whom COL. LESLIE inquires was third baronet of Depden, Co. Essex, who was born about 1656, admitted to Lincoln's Inn May 12, 1670 (one of these dates must be wrong). He married, Sept. 13, 1688, Dorothy, widow of Michael Blackett of Newcastle, daughter of William Barnes, who after Brown's death married, as his second wife, John Moore, D.D., Bishop of Ely. Brown was killed in Flanders , 1689, by Col. Billingsley (G.E.C. 'Baronet- age,' iii. 92). His grandfather, the first baronet, was Lord Mayor of London 1660-1, and created a baronet July 22, 1660. The baronetcy became extinct, " or possibly only