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 9* s. vi. DEC. i, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 439 Opur- testant who came over to England. This I know to be incorrect as regards his grand- father, but I think that such a definite state- ment probably has a substratum of truth. I find three individuals of the name in a recent Chicago directory, amongst them a Gustave Mellard. ALEYN LYELL KEADE. Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool. THE GUEVARA FAMILY (9th S. vi. 270, 375). —ME. GUEVARA may be interested to know that in the chancel of the old church of Stenigot, Lincolnshire, are two monuments of Elizabethan character to the family of Guevara of that place. If my memory serves me, they are both male kneeling figures under canopies, and I think the inscription beneath one describes him as from Bilbao. On the erection of a new church in a more con- venient situation, the nave was pulled down, but the chancel still stands in the churchyard about a mile from the Donington (Station of the Louth and Lincoln Railway. I have also a Guevara pedigree, transcribed, I think, from a Lincolnshire Visitation. It begins with Veles de Guevara in Spaine, who married, and was father of " Francis Veles de Guevara of Stanygott, in com. Lincoln, being a Spaniard by birth," with whose great- grandson John Guevara it concludes. The arms given, as granted 1617, are : 1 and 4, Or, three bends ermine ; 2 and 3, Gu., five water- cress leaves pendent in sal tire argent; and the crest a spearhead argent, thereon a Saracen's head proper, wreathed sable. D. W. MAESDEN. 4, Harcourt Buildings, Temple, B.C. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Amtwementa of Old London. By William B Boulton. 2 vols. (Nimmo.) MR. BOULTON has written a readable and gossiping book concerning sports and pastimes, playhouse! and parks, tea-gardens, coffee-houses, clubs, an< other places of urban resort and entertainmen during the period between the restoration p Charles II. and the accession of Her Majesty. Thie Mr. Nimmo has enriched with a dozen reproduc tions of contemporary designs by Hogarth, Rowland son, Alken, and others, all hand-coloured, which with the typographical attractions of the volumes give the whole the appearance of a work de luxe So abundant are the materials for a compilation of the kind that there is scarcely any saying whenc information may not be derived. Our own column constitute, naturally, a source of supply. Book such as the account by Messrs. Wroth of ' Th London Pleasure Gardens,' Mr. Larwood's ' Stor of the London Parks,' the recently publishei 1 Account of White's Club,' Morley's ' Bartholomew Fair,' and a score others similar in aim or class, a nee suggest themselves. Diarists and letter- •riters. from Pepys and Evelyn to Horace Wal- ole, Boswell, Selwyn, and even Casanova do eingalt, overflow with particulars. Ned Ward, 'om Brown, Addison, and Steele contribute, and he matter contained in old magazines — Mint's 'ournal, the Gentleman'*, the European, the Toien tt'l Country, and the Car/ton Home—is practically nexhaustible. From these sources and innumer- ble others Mr. Boulton has drawn two agreeable chimes descriptive of the sports and the follies of ur ancestors. We approach Elizabethan times when we see bull-baiting and bear-baiting, though the [lustrations like those of cock-fighting and duck- lunting are drawn from Alken or his sons, who, of ourso, belong to the present century. The long oom at Bagnigge Wells is from a design of 1776, ind serves as a frontispiece to the first volume; hat to the second volume depicts Vauxhall Gar- lens. Hogarth is responsible for 'The Royal ilasnuerade, Somerset House,' and for the humours of ' Southwark Fair,' while' A Kick-up at a Hazard- Table' is one of the vigorous and turbulent designs of Thomas Rowlandson. To other plates—'The .nterior of Sadler's Wells Theatre," the tight >etween 'Humphrys and Mendoza,' and '1784; or, ,he Fashions of the Day'—no name of draughtsman appears, while the view of Vauxhall is prettily reproduced on the cover. The letterpress is of irecise.ly similar interest throughout, and a single }age might be taken as representative of the whole. The book gives a good account of fashionable levit ies, and of the proceedings of women of fashion, dandies, rowdies, roughs, &c., including those of " Lady Holland's Mob," which seem to have anticipated Dy a century and more the ways of the " hooligan," whom some assume to be a growth of to-day. The information supplied is often full, always curious and amusing, and rarely exhaustive. When it ipproaches modern days it is less accurate than it seems to be when dealing with the life of the last century. In regard to modern clubs it is some- times misleading even, as when it says that the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks "still holds its meet- ings in rooms of its own in the Lyceum Theatre." The rooms still exist, but belong to the theatre, the society itself having long been dead. It seems funny"to have " the office of arbiter elagantiarum " associated, even indirectly, with a woman. The spelling of the second word is, of course, a misprint. History of the Church of England. By the Rev. A. H. Hore. (Parker & Co.) WHEN Mr. Here's concise ' History of the Anglican Church' came out nine years ago it was received on all hands with a chorus of approval that was practically unanimous. Nor was this surprising, as the writer had manifestly taken the most con- scientious pains to be candid and impartial in hid treatment of matters which are only too apt to be dealt with from the point of view either of the heated partisan or of the cold and indifferent philo- sopher. His own standpoint is that of a convinced and devoted Church of England man who firmly believes in the Apostolic origin and historical con- tinuity of the great society whose annals he un- folds. Eschewing controversy as far as possible, he lets facts, accurately recorded, speak for them- selves. This third edition of his book is superior to its predecessors in being augmented by a new concluding chapter, which brings events down to the current year, and even finds mention for the recent