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A word to PROF. SKEAT before quitting this subject. He says that he does " not see that any proof has been offered in favour of the Celtic treatment of the sound of wu as '%." If he will not believe me that the Welsh say 'oomem, 'ood, "ool, 'ord, 'arid, &c., dropping the English w in each case, perhaps he will credit William Shakspeare and be good enough to turn up 'Henry V.' and mark Fluellen's speech. He might also like to be referred to a paper on ' The Scottish Vernacular,' by Dr. James Colville, in the Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, vol. xxx., 1898-9.

Of course, the Welsh w is a consonant as well as a vowel. HY. HARRISON.

NUMBER OF BARONETS IN EACH REIGN (9 th S. iv. 517; v. 114). The reply of MR. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN seems hardly satis- factory. The list in Whitaker is "exclusive of those merged in the peerage "; extinct and dormant titles are not mentioned ; besides, there is no classification as to the various reigns wherein the baronets were created. I do not think any work recently published contains exactly what MR. FRANCIS W. PIXLEY requires,, but in Wotton's 'Baronetage of England ' (1741 and 1771) there are "correct lists" of all the English baronets from James I. to the year of publication, " illus- trated with their coats of arms," including those " who are now peers of Great Britain and Ireland, those foreigners who have had this dignity conferred on them, and those whose titles are now extinct." The names are arranged, in order of precedence, under that of the sovereign by whom created. A similar list appears, I believe, in Almon's (father of Debrett's) 'New Baronetage of England,' 1769. Beatson's 'Political Index' contains a list of baronets from their creation up to 1806-7, but in Haydn's continuation of this work ('The Book of Dignities') the baronets were "eliminated," together with other lists which were "considered super- fluous." It should not be very hard to com- plete the list up to date ; but it would involve much time and research, and would probably be unreliable and imperfect.

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane, S.E.

CAMPBELL AND KEATS (9 th S. v. 86). Dr. Beattie (' Life and Letters of Thomas Camp- bell,' ii. 350) says that the ' Lines to the Rain- bow ' were written at Sydenham in 1819, and that in their first shape they " differ materi- ally from those subsequently published." A foot-note to this statement is " See Appendix," but the biographer fails to implement the

apparent promise of this direction, for the appendix contains nothing on the subject. The Rev. W. A. Hill, who edited Campbell's ' Poems,' appends a note to the ' Rainbow ' ode, writing as follows :

"Theseexquisitelines, whichdiffer materially from those originally given to the public, were composed at Sydenham, in the summer of 1819. This, together with the stanzas beginning ' Maid of England/ and some thirty other small pieces, appeared at different times in the pages of the New Monthly Magazine, of which as is well known the Poet was editor during ten years, namely, from December, 1820, to January, 1831."

As it appeared in the New Monthly Maga- zine for 1821, the poem, with the exception of "its" for her in the tenth stanza and some differences in punctuation and the use of capital letters, is identical with the version given by Hill and subsequent editors. Appa- rently, therefore, it must have been "given to the public " through some other medium before it was used in the New Monthly Maga- zine as the second item of its first number. There it is preceded by the first of Camp- bell's ' Lectures on Poetry,' and followed by a version, from the poet's pen, of a song from the Bohemian, entitled 'The Lover to his Mistress on her Birthday.'

THOMAS BAYNE.

LADY SHOEMAKERS (9 th S. v. 87). In a very pleasant story just published, 'Yeoman Fleet- wood,' by M. E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blun- dell), will be found in chap. xi. a description of a scene in which the heroine employs her- self in making a pair of shoes. The period of the story is that of the early years of the present ceiitury and before Waterloo.

WM. H. PEET.

In Punch for 1872 (I regret I cannot give a more exact date) appeared one of the late George Du Maurier's society pictures entitled for an Industrial Exhibition.' The duke is discovered knitting a stocking, other members of the family are doing equally unnatural things, and the duchess is making a pair of strong boots. Her grace is seen in the centre of the picture with hammer uplifted in the act of striking a palpable nail into the heel of a wapping boot. JOHN T. PAGE.
 * The Aristocracy manufacturing their Wares

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

LOWESTOFT CHINA (9 th S. iv. 498 ; v. 12, 73). Circumstances have prevented my earlier reply to MR. RATCLIFFE'S query. My know- ledge of this ware is by no means special, nor ray classification more trustworthy than that of many other collectors ; but the subject has been thoroughly thrashed out, and I believe that (independently of the improbability of