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./ho was hocussed into paying a fabulous ce for a talking dog, which used to sit in hair at a garden table of a restaurant at is, opposite his master, and, with a bill of 3 before him, call out to the gar$on for itek, pommes," or other dish. The vendor, late, proved to be a travelling ventrilo- _st, who had thrown his voice into the dog. rxandre seems to have been the prototype the modern school of ventriloquists, of lorn he may, in this humble sphere, be uobed the prince, admired as he was by his ustrious acquaintance and contemporary r Walter, who reigns on more glorious 310-hts as "le roi des romanciers."

H. E. M. St. Petersburg.

BESS OF HAEDWICK (9 th S. iii. 307). Besides

e Editor's references to previous articles

i this lady there is a most important one

8t S. ii. 283), containing an account of her

representatives who are all noble." A de-

jcription of Chatsworth in 1585 appears in

j Queen Elizabeth and her Times,' by Thomas

[fright, London, 1838, vii. 257.

EVEEAED HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

Vte History of the Island of Antigua. By Vere Langford Oliver, M.R.C.S, Vol. III. (Mitchell & Hughes.)

UBSCP.IBEKS to Mr. Vere Oliver's monumental his- >ry of Antigua may now congratulate themselves pon the receipt of the third volume, concluding the ork. What are the nature and claims of the book e explained in dealing with the first two instal- nts (see 8 th S. x. 267). The third, which is the st voluminous, contains the remaining pedigrees m Pare to Young, occupying 284 double-columned es in large folio, with appendices, index, and strations, swelling the whole out to over 500 Harbour from Friar's Hill, a panorama from a ent photograph, a picture of the Court House, John, the English Harbour from Monk's Hill, I views in Old North Sound and near English bour, taken 1830, the illustrations include a logical map of the island in 1830 and a portrait, m a proof etching by [ThomasJ Worlidge, of ptain, afterwards Rear- Admiral Richard Tyrrell, nmander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands. The I, with codicils, of this worthy, dated 20 Feb., o, and proved 5 Aug., 1766, in which he is styled Hon. Richard Tyrrell, is given. It leaves to ^ah Aylon. of Fulham, spinster, his intended cond] wife, half of all his rents for life, and the of coaches, cattle, plate, jewels, and ship fur- ure, the last named surely a curious, though no ibt valuable bequest to a lady. It also frees his particulars concerning this worthy being given, 1 his name having escaped the hawk-eyed scrutiny
 * es. Besides views of St. John from Otto's, of
 * roes, leaving to one of them 100Z. [currency],

of Prof. Laughton in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' we may be permitted to state that in 1758, when in com- mand of the Buckingham, of sixty-five guns, he fought near Guadaloupe the Florissant, of seventy- four guns, and two large frigates ; was introduced by Lord Anson to George II. , 6 March, 1759, and died at sea on board the Princess Louisa, 27 June, 1766. Bequests to negro and mulatto servants are familiar, and sometimes amount to considerable sums. Among interesting pedigrees are those of Poyntz (carrying us back to a natural daughter of Anthony Wood ville, Earl of Rivers), Russell, Staple- ton, Vernon, Walrond, and Young. Early records of Antigua have been dispersed or destroyed, pre- sumably during the French devastation of 1666, when many of the inhabitants were driven away. An ancient book, bound in parchment, and entitled ' The Book of Claims,' of which the first twenty- one folios are missing, is preserved in the Registrar's Office. It dates from about 1667, and contains many interesting particulars. On the reconquest from the French a record of fresh grants of land was taken out by order of Lord Willoughby of Parham. Following these documents come the accounts of slave compensation claims for the colony of Antigua. The largest amount granted without litigation was 6,286Y. lite, lid., allotted to Sir C. B. Codrington, Bart., for 492 slaves. Lists of officials, Close Rolls, &c., follow;. The old books of wills, it is sad to hear, are in a deplorable condition ; hundreds of pages are missing, and some folios which are legible are so fragile, from former ex- posure to damp, that the paper, on being turned over, falls to pieces. A large number, including some fragments, are now printed. Registers of baptisms and burials begin in 1689; of marriages in 1690. An interesting feature in the appendix is a " Memorandum of the Awful Earthquake which destroyed the Cathedral and Parish Church of St. John's," and rent or laid waste all the stone buildings in the island. This dolorous event took place near the middle of the present century. It is diffi- cult, if not impossible, to give an account of all the matters of interest included in this final volume. We can but congratulate Mr. Oliver and his sub- scribers on its completion, and repeat that it is invaluable to the antiquary, the historian, and the genealogist, and indispensable to the herald.

The Oldest Register Book of the Parish of HawTcshead, in Lancashire, 1568-1704. Edited by H. S. Cowper. (Bemrose & Sons.)

HAWKSHEAD is an extensive Lancashire parish in what may be called the Furness district. Who its first inhabitants were we cannot tell, but Mr. Cowper thinks that it was settled in the ninth or tenth century by Norse sea-rovers, and preserves the memory of some otherwise forgotten Haukr. Several other names in the neighbourhood are of Norwegian character. It is, however, at present far from safe to become dogmatic as to place-names. Mr. Cowper, in an excellent introduction, gives a rapid sketch of the growth of Hawk shea d, which will be found very useful by those who wish to understand the neighbourhood and its people. They must until recent days have been much secluded. At Hawkshead, if anywhere in England, we may be forgiven for dreaming that the descendants of the first settlers still live on the old homesteadings. In reading the pages of the register one cannot fail to notice that the surnames are singularly few ; about thirty of them seem to monopolize more than