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 9* s. IV. Deo. 2, •».] 451 NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATURDAV. DECEMBER t. 1898. CONTENTS.-No. 101. HOTES:—' Dr. Johnson as a Grecian,' 481 — Parish and other Accounts, 462—Shakespearian*, 463—Wentworth s ' Orisons' — Hawkwoorl, 454 — Henchman — Vanishing London—Creation of Women—Keble and Thomas a Kcmpis —Henry Waller— "Camlres," 455-Battle of Hastings— United Empire Loyalists — " Sjambok " — " Lex non script a "—Parnell's 'Hymn to Contentment, 456. QUERIES: -" Heudln " — " Herd " — MacDowell Family - E Thelwall-R. Grammage or Gamage-Coats of Arms Wanted-Delorme—" Grim "-Verses by Earl of Norfolk —Bouillccs at Verulam—" Nets "-Forgotten Dramatic Author, 457-Stafford Family—I. Ware —Wharnchffe- Pewter Marks, 458—"Starry Galileo "—Preservation of Silk Banners—Widow's Peak—Medal for Navarino, 459. HEPLIES:-Wharton Barony by Patent. 459-"Tiffln "— Churches washed away, 460-'Sesame and Lilies — •As- sure as there is a hip on a goat "—" Piert "—"Per pro — Folkinghorn-Origin of "Tips," 461—" Misegun beans -"God's first creature '—Trade= Road — Earl Marshals Curt—"Polder": "Loophole," 462-Prince Augustus of Prussia —Foot Outlines as Pilgrim Records, 463—John Bull of French Origin—The Name Swlgg - May Road Well, Accrington, 464-Bowyer—Portrait of Speaker Sir E Tumour — " Outlander " — Reid of Hailles, 485 -The Poultry-Anglo-Saxon Speech — London Churches, 466— The Surname Morcom—List of Knights -Thames Tunnel, 467—Alphabetic Apophthegms—"Heer-breeadB," 468. NOTES ON BOOKS :—Gasquet'B ' Eve of the Reformation ' —Weston's ' Story of Tristan and Iseult ' — Cameron's ' History of Fettercalrn' — Israels's ' Spain ' — ' Photo- grams '- Femald's ' Intermediate-School Dictionary.' Notices to Correspondents. goUss. ■DR. JOHNSON AS A GRECIAN,' BY GENNADIUS. Readers and contributors alike would acknowledge that the principal article in the volume of ' Johnson Club Papers by Various Hands,' which was published a snort time since, is that of Mr. Gennadius, formerly Greek minister to this country, on Dr. John- son's knowledge of the literature and language of ancient Greece. Several of the other con- tributions are pleasant specimens of magazine articles, written with a genial lightness of style ; and one of them, that of Dr. Birkbeck Hill on 'Boswell's Proof-Sheets,' throws a flood of light on the composition of the biography which we all enjoy. But the gem of the volume is the paper ot Mr. Gennadius. Unfortunately this essay is not free from defects which nave escaped the observation of its author and the editors of the collection. Attention has already been drawn by a critic to the accents of the Greek words, and his reflections were not made without justifica- tion. But there are other misprints and points which the writers in the press have not commented upon. P. 21. Johnson is said to have read Euripides on 19 June, 1794. It should be 1784. P. 23. Reference is made to an anecdote of Ford on Johnson, and a quotation is taken from Gifford's edition of Ford's works. As mention of Jacob Bryant is made in the extract, the anecdote could not have come from Ford. It is, in fact, the narrative of a conversation which Gifford had with Bryant. P. 24. " In M. Tyers's biographical sketch." The sketch was by Tom Tyers. P. 28. "Mr. Coleman/ This is George Col man. P. 29. An edition of Xenophon by Edwards and Owen is said to have been published in 1875. It should be 1785. Edwards, says Mr. Gennadius, " appears to have been Johnson's fellow-student." This is an error. The fellow-student was Oliver Edwards, a solicitor in Chancery, ignorant of classical lore. The editor of Xenophon was Edward Edwards, D.D., of Jesus College, Oxford. P. 30. " Hesiod, with- Porson's ' Lexicon ' at the end of it." This should be " Hesiod, with Pasor's ' Lexicon' at the end of it." P. 33. " Nichol's ' Lit. Ann.'" and " Nichol's statement." His name was Nichols, and the work referred to was Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes' (not' Annals'). P. 35 et seq. Wasse's Greek trochaics to Bentley. Mr. Gennadius states with accu- racy that Dr. Hill's index gives the Christian name of Wasse as Christopher, but that it should have been Joseph. He then adds that this scholar was " a fellow of Queen's College " without mentioning the university. The passage should have run "a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge." Mr. Gennadius does not seem to be aware that the error of Dr. Hill's indexer arose from the fact that England produced in the seventeenth century two eminent scholars—(1) Christopher Wase, who lived from about 1625 to 1690, and (2) Joseph Wasse, whose years were from 1672 to 1738. The latter was the author of the trochaics in question. The biographer of these Englishmen in the 'Dictionary of National Biography' erroneously transfers to the former the censure of Dr. Johnson on I" 1 lose linos P. 43. Johnson's life of Dr. Parr. This should be Johnstone's life of Dr. Parr. P. 45. There is a misprint in the title of Baxter's Anacreon. P. 46. A misprint in the name of Apollonius, and the date of the letter to Warton should be 1755, not 1765. Reference is made on this page in both text and note to Sir W. Scott. A careless reader might suppose this to be Sir Walter Scott; it should have been printed " Sir William Scott, afterwards Lord Stowell."