Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 5.djvu/41

 9* s. V.JAN. is, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES,

33

chair, which he tries to move closer to Cathe- rine's. * .Roland Dismissed ' is dramatic, but incorrect. When the lady became angry Roland fell at her feet, and when he finally took his leave she was in an almost fainting condition. In the frontispiece of vol. i. (' Woodstock ') the lady is without a veil, although we are told on p. 264 there should be represented a lady completely veiled ; the story tells why this is necessary. Also in describing the ' Burial of Tomkins ' (' Wood- stock ') mention is made of the body of a man wrapped in a deer's hide. In 'The Mon- astery ' the Sub-Prior should be shown with a beard. The Cruikshank illustrations are correct in this respect, but in the other illus- trations the beard is omitted. In 'Count- Robert of Paris' the Countess Brenhilda appears to be a knight brilliantly equipped when she and her husband meet Agelastes in their stroll to the city ; the artist gives us the costume probably worn later on at court. The combat between the Crusader and the Saracen ('Talisman') shows Kenneth not with the barred, flat-topped helmet of the tale. An artist cannot hope to meet the con- ception of each reader, but he should at least follow his text in matters of detail.

E. M. DEY.

Apropos of authors', or rather artists', mis- takes, permit me to call attention to a print which was reproduced in the Sunday at Home for 1888, p. 665, entitled ' The Entry of the Prince of Orange into London,' where Old St. Paul's, destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, figures conspicuously in the background. It is described as a " reduced facsimile of a por- tion of a print, bearing date 1689, by Romein de Hooge." It would look as if the artist inserted the structure for purposes of effect, notwithstanding that it had been non-existent for twenty -three years.

ALEXANDER PATERSON, F.J.L

Barnsley.

A picture entitled 'Eve Tempted' in the permanent collection of the Manchester Cor- poration Art Gallery encloses the garden of Eden with a brick wall that would do credit to any suburban back garden. CASHIER.

Several mistakes of neglecting to reverse lettering appear in the engravings by the author appended to Lockinge's 'Historical Gleanings on the Memorable Field of Naseby ' (London, 1830). JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Under this heading your correspondent MR. HEMS accuses Tenniel of making a blunder in one of the Punch, cartoons, for

drawing a crocodile with a tongue. But this must not be deemed an artist's, but a corre- spondent's mistake, according to the following extract from a work on natural history :

"Crocodile the tongue fleshy, flat, and so

much attached to the sides of the under jaw, that the ancients supposed it to be wanting." May I recommend MR. HEMS to purchase a modern work on the subject?

T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D., F.S.A. Salterton, Devon.

WORCESTERSHIRE DIALECT (9 th S. iv. 476) Your correspondent W. C. B. may be inter- ested in a Yorkshire example of tombstone verse which scarcely corresponds with the teachings of those who when we were young professed to instruct us in the arts of speaking and writing our own tongue with "ease, elegance, and propriety." I saw and copied it some years ago in the churchyard of Wath, near Rotherham. It was on an upright stone standing, if my memory be not at fault, near the south-east corner of the burial-ground :

"To the memory of Betty, wife of Christopher Tayler, of Wath, who died Nov. 29, 1820, aged 20 years.

Here lies she who has his wife,

A tender mother and a virtuous wife ;

Free from all hatred and sedition ;

Happy are they that dies in her condition."

ASTARTE.

BLACK JEWS (9 th S. iv. 68, 174, 234, 312). My father, who was the son of a Portuguese of the Malabar coast, used to tell me that the Portuguese of India were blacker than the natives. V. Heber's ' Journal,' i. 67-9.

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

THE POET PARNELL (9 th S. iv. 495). In the Cheshire Notes and Queries for September, 1896, is a pedigree of the Parnell family by an amateur hand. It is obviously tentative as no doubt its compiler, Mr. Thomas Cooper, would be the first to allow; neither does it settle the exact date of the poet's death ; the editorial foot-note appears to do that if any reliance at all is to be given to parish register extracts. Mr. Cooper gives the year as 1718, but no month or day is mentioned. The object of this note is attained in calling the attention of any interested in Parnell to the attempt at a pedigree which some might make conclusive. R. L.

Urmston.

ST. MILDRED'S, POULTRY (9 th S. iv. 478, 528). Your correspondent G. S. P. will find copies of the monumental inscriptions and notes from the registers of the above church in Mr. Milburn's 'History of St. Mildred the Virgin, Poultry.' If, however, G. S. P. is