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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1899.

CONTENTS. -No. 59.

N )TES : The Sibyls in Scotland, 101 Cataloguing, 102 Bast Window at Bolton Percy The Author of ' II Don Giovanni,' 103 Historical Parallel Error in the ' Spec- tator 'Prices of some Rare Books Kime to " Month " Cromwell and Christmas, 104 Place-names Grey Stone Shakspeare's ' Julius Csesar,' 105 Parish Registers : Put- nam Family" Are we better ? " 106.

QUERIES .A Christmas Carol Atkinson = D'Arbon J. Calcot Charles Young Roger Williams Sir A. Iruin "Furlybirs" "Junames" Walton, 107 ' fflores Cortox' Rolling Day Col. Starck Book of Verses " Kylon " St. Michael's, Crooked Lane Thomas Shakspeare " Cam- buscan bold" White Money Rev. W. More "Chal"

The Three Sergeants,' 108-Scot Abroad Spelling of Sur- namesMr. Sainthill Isaac Johnson W. Boyle Authors Wanted, 109.

REPLIES : Prime Minister, 109-Silchester Church, 110 Peter Schlemihl Eating of Seals Lost Register Ar- thurian Puzzles, 111 Alfrey Mickefer Columbaria Wanstead House, 113 Names: Saxon and Norman " Randan "Wordsworth and Scott Execution of Anne Boleyn " Kings !" 114 Callings of Persons Trethowan The Captive Stag Royal Naval Club H. Alken " Pip in the webe " The Sister Churches " The policy of pin- pricks," 115 Theatre Tickets Carkeet and Andrews- Houses without Staircases Saying of Bright Oriel=Hall Royal Rounds or Rungs, 116 "So-ho" ' Blackwood's Magazine '" On the carpet," 117 ' Eclectic Review'

Whole Duty of Man 'Lee's Life of Shakespeare,' 118.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Cust's Records of the Gust Family ' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

THE SIBYLS IN SCOTLAND : LIVILANDS.

(See 3 rd S. x. 467; xi. 144.) AT the first reference the late ME. J. MAID- MENT contributed an account of pictures oJ the Sibyls, then discovered in the house oi Western Livilands, Stirling. At that time the pictures were partly covered, and MR MAIDMENT supposed they were ten in number They have now been taken out of their con- cealment, and it is found that they are six in number, each painted on a separate panel o: wood. Each Sibyl holds her prophetic book with her message in verse printed below in a semi-Gothic lettering, and the name of each is painted alongside. These are as follows:

Sib. Persica. The Mother of th 5 eternal Father and Sonne

de hathe His Birth Saluation

Shall bring the World and life, yet farre from pride Though King of all. He on an Asse did ride Into Hierosalem, where with wrongful wrath Condemn'd by wicked. He shall suffer death.

Sib. Libica.

A King of lews shall the Redeemer be just gentle guiltlesse, for the guiltie, He Shall suffer much : the Scribes with scornefull brow Shall him forbid his father to avow Within their Synagogue yet shall he preach The Way of peace and it the people teach.

Sib. Delphica. After long years due revolution past, jlod, of a Virgin borne, to man dis-Grac't Shall make the Hope of Sinnes Remission shine And, though Almighty (and his throne devirie laue bin for Ay in Heauen) yet, His to saue Trom Death, will He both suffer Death & Graue.

Sib. Cumaa. \.n age shall shortly bring about the Day When the great king of kings shall lodge in clay Three kings conducted by a glorious Starre Visit his cradle, shal from Eastward farre }ome to adore Him and right humble sould To Him shal offer Incence Myrh and Gold.

Sib. Erri...ca. [ see the Sonne of God (corn's downe from Heaven Held in an Hebrew Virgins Armes ; and euen Sucking the milke of her pure mayden brests He, in his Man-age manifold distrests Shal beare for those whome His he...d r...d Shewing to them, a Fathers

Heavens er ordin Ite is ar, u at...l...

Of brightest s gi...

With good R...

Di lall

His S...ne e...

Com

The last verse and the name of the Sibyl are almost obliterated.

MR. MAIDMENT was of opinion that these were the only examples of such paintings " in the North "; but so far as I have been able to ascertain, there are no examples in the South, as in a 'List of Buildings having Mural Decorations,' by C. E. Keyser, pub- lished by the Science and Art Department, only two places are referred to as haying paintings of the Sibyls, viz., Bradninch Church arid Ugborough Church, both in Devonshire. But on inquiry I find that this is probably incorrect, and that the figures may not be Sibyls at all. At Ugborough there are twelve female figures on the screen bearing the emblems of the Crucifixion, and the Bradninch examples seem doubtful. MR. MAIDMENT further states that a German volume of extreme rarity printed in small quarto at Frankfurt, MDXXXL, contains por- traits which exactly correspond to the portraits at Livilands. He also refers to a Spanish book (which he evidently had not seen) containing the verses. Do any of your readers know of the existence of these books or can any one give information as to the source of the verses ?

It will be very remarkable if there are no paintings of the Sibyls in England. Mr. Keyser refers to the Exeter Diocesan Archi. Soc., Second Series, ii. 96, and the Ecclesiologist, xxviii. (xxv. New Series) 308; but both of these are difficult to come at here. If any