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 9 ">s. viii. OCT. 19, 1901.) NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Mine is the heart at your feet, Here that must love you to live. Ask nothing more of me, Sweet, All I can give you I give.

It is evidently a man's song to a maiden, not a girl's song to her lover. It would show too much of what Rosalind calls " a corning- on disposition " if she sang thus to a man. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who knew the world's ways of her more reticent time than that of our " girls of the period," declared that "He comes too near who comes to be denied." I could ascertain the composer, if required. J. W. EBSWORTH.

The Priory, Ashford, Kent.

PALL MALL (9 th S. viii. 14, 170). There is a Rue du Mail and also Le Mail at the present time at Blois. The latter, says M. L. de la Saussaye, author of 'Blois et ses Environs' (p. 228), was "le champ d'exercices des joueurs de mail ou palle-maille, jeu qui partagea le succes et suivib la chute du jeu de paume." A few months ago I sought in vain in Quimper to find Le Mail, which is, according to Mr. Augustus Hare ('North- Western France,' p. 376), the principal thoroughfare. That I certainly discovered, but I could not assure myself of its identity with Le Mail. In ' A Little Tour in France ' (p. 117) Mr. Henry James found some small modern fortifications, another shady walk a mail, as the French say, as well as a champ de manoeuvre. ST. SWITHIN.

' PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA' (9 th S. viii. 81, 191, 270). The copy in my possession is said to be the " seventh and last edition corrected and enlarged by the author," and is dated 1686 ; a fine portrait of the author is prefixed. It is a small folio with the margins not much cut down, and also contains the ' Religio Medici,' ' Hydriotaphia,' and 'Certain Mis- cellany Tracts.' The copy in the Norwich Library was much injured by fire, and the librarian expressed a wish to receive my copy as a gift to replace it.

JOHN PICKFOKD, M.A.

ST. CHRISTOPHER (9 to S. v. 335 ; vi. 150). The author is Mrs. Craik (Miss Mulock), writer of * John Halifax,' and the poem may be found in Schaff and Oilman's ' Library of Religious Poetry ' (Sampson Low, 1881), p. 78. C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

FAMILY LIKENESS (9 th S. viii. 62, 169, 268). In Chambers's ' Book of Days,' i. 199, there is an interesting passage discussing the per- severance of physiognomy as illustrated in the British royal family. Chambers notes

the resemblance manifested, at the time of his writing (forty years ago), between the youthful portraits of Prince Charles Edward and those of the Prince of Wales, and traces the type upwards among the Stuarts. He is confident as to the existence of the general likeness "over three centuries and eleven generations." THOMAS BAYNE.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Chevalier de St. George and the Jacobite Move- ments in his Favour, 1701-1720. By Charles San- ford Terry, M.A. (Nutt.)

THIS volume, the fourth of the series known as "Scottish Texts from Contemporary Writers," depicts the earliest struggles of the Jacobites, and covers a portion of history outside the ken of all but close students. Books on the outbreak of 1715 are sufficiently common, but those dealing with previous and subsequent days are neither numerous nor easily accessible. The present volume is a com- panion to that by the same author dealing with ' The Rising of 1745,' with which we are not acquainted, though we know his ' Life and Campaigns of Alex- ander Leslie, First Earl of Leven.' The latest volume has at least the advantage over ' The Rising of 1745' that most of the materials employed are unfamiliar. The work is, as the compiler confesses, a mosaic rather than a picture. Much tact and judgment have, however, been necessary in order to piece together and shape into a consecutive narrative accounts from various sources. Lock- hart's ' Memoirs concerning the Affairs of Scotland' and ' The Lockhart Papers ' have naturally been laid under contribution, as has been Major Eraser's manuscript. Not a few important authorities are given for the first time in their entirety. Such are the accounts of the French expedition of 1708 and the ' Memoirs of the Duke of Melfort.' Espe- cially valuable are the portraits, maps, and other illustrations with which the work abounds. A portrait of the Chevalier de St. George, from a miniature in the possession of the University of Aberdeen, serves as frontispiece. Others which follow are of James II., after Kneller; John, Earl of Mar, and Thomas, Lord Erskine, from the family collection ; John, Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, after Allan Ramsay ; James, Duke of Ormonde ; George, tenth Earl Marischal; and the Princess Maria Clementina. Some facsimiles add to the value of a work which is indispensable to every student of history and casts a much-needed light upon many obscure episodes of Jacobite struggles. Like many other historical writings of its class, it constitutes a rather sorry record of jealousies and feuds.

Oliver Cromwell. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner,

M.A. (Longmans & Co.)

THIS admirably useful and trustworthy life of Oliver Cromwell, by the greatest authority on the subject, is practically the same text as that con- tributed by Dr. Gardiner to the " Illustrated Series of Historical Volumes" of Messrs. Goupil. The illustrations are reduced to a single portrait of the Protector, from the panel by Samuel Cooper in Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and the whole