THE O'FLAHERTY FAMILY: KINGS OF CONNAUGHT (12 S. viii. 188). The Note on Notes on Books. from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) by N. Kershaw. (Cambridge University Press, 88. 6d. net.) 66 this family reminds me of a Mr. O'Flaherty Stories and Ballads of the Far East. Translated whom I knew in Liverpool in the early nineties. He claimed to be lineal representative of Sir Morogh O'Flahertie, who, he maintained, was created Baron O'Flahertie THE Sagas which form Part I. of this interesting by Queen Elizabeth. I do not know and instructive volume are taken from the whether he is still alive--it is about twenty-Fornaldar-sögur Northrlanda, Stories," that is, seven, or eight, years since I saw him- The texts date from the thirteenth and early "of Ancient Times about the Northern Countries.' but if he is he might be able to clear up some fourteenth centuries, and they were edited by of the points raised by your correspondent. Rafn in 1829-30 and by Asmundarson in 1886-91. He had a great mass of papers relating to the They are not, either in historical or literary value, equal to the great Icelandic sagas. Their source family. is found rather in old poems than in living tradition, and the story-teller makes no difficulty about confusing history and mythology, dates, tribes and personages all in a medley together. This is exemplified most strikingly in the finest of these Sagas, that of Hervör and Heithoek, where we begin with mythology and insensibly find ourselves in the midst of a great battle between the Goths and the Huns. The description of the battle, and then the character and exploits of the maiden Hervör raise this Saga to a higher rank than the rest. Hervör is unknown save here and in the Faroese ballad also. included in this volume. Her dialogue at the barrows, amid the flaming death-fires and the where she wrings from him by her insistence the ghosts with her dead father the berserk Angantyr terrible sword Tyrfing would not be easily sur passed in grimness, horror and an eery delicacy of imagination. The Saga also includes, besides a wealth of minor incident, the riddles of Gestumblindi, some of which yield wit, and many of which furnish pretty observations of nature. I have a note that a William Wilson of Clare, co. Suffolk, migrated to co. Donegal, and took over from Sir Henry Docwra, an estate of 2,000 acres in that county in 1610. William Wilson had two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, John, was created a baronet in 1629. His youngest son, Andrew, married in 1640, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Docwra, and had a daughter, Anne an heiress to whom Sir William Anderson, Kt., was appointed guardian in July, 1644. Is it possible that the Wilson, Barrister-at-Law, and land agent to Lord Londonderry, was a descendant of this William Wilson? JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39 Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. "A HOGARTH MINIATURE FRAME" (12 S. viii. 210)." Hogarth is a pattern name applied to a type of frame, obtainable from any framemaker. It is generally made in black and gilt, and, in appearance, is very similar to the Bartolozzi"-so similar, in fact, that, in the provinces, particularly in Birmingham, the terms are frequently reversed. Although William Hogarth was not generally known as a painter of miniatures, an example ascribed to him was contained in the well-known Wellesley collection, recently dispersed at Sotheby's. BEATRICE BOYCE. (12 S. viii. 212.) 1. The lines :- occur in the threnody of Lieut. Eric Wilkinson The very heterogeneity of the Sagas-they are chiefly in prose but have intercalated long passages of verse, which are to be considered remnants of the original form of the story-this of tradition. very heterogeneity illustrates the conservatism The whole may be a patchwork,. but such individual pieces as have come down have rigidly retained their character. The Faroese ballads which form Part II. arein English new. Ole Worm in the early seventeenth century took down five of them which have since been lost; it is Svabo, working at the end of the eighteenth century, whom we have to thank for the first collection. He spent the last years of his life in the Faroe Islands and this labour was his principal occupation. His collection remains still unpublished in the Royal Library at Copenhagen, but it has effectively inspired later enthusiasts whose activity has culminated in Hammershaimb's collection, and in the great Corpus Carminum Faeroensium in sixteen volumes by Grundtvig and Bloch which comprises every known Faroese ballad with all' its variants, and also still awaits publication. For folk-lorists the Faroese ballads have several points of peculiar interest. In the first place the making of them has not yet died out; any exciting adventure or unusual exploit will inspire some one or other to make a ballad' which will then take its place in the great collection along with the ancient composi ballad is still sung to the accompaniment of the dance. We are grateful to Mr. Kershaw for giving us the notation of many of the tunes and refrains, which, as he says, have something in common with Gregorian music, and are remarkable too for the curious close of the song which falls often on the supertonic or leading note, with an effect to our ears of surprise. There is no instrumental music in the Islands, and the song and dance are conducted by a precentor. The most important of the ballads given here is a Faroese variant of the Hervör story, which is somewhat inferior to the Saga in movement and colour. No very great literary merit can be claimed for any of the ballads-but the reader will find a good deal to interest him from the mythological and sociological points of view. Mr. Kershaw gives an excellent general introduction to each division of the book, and each separate item is preceded by a short account of its history and elucidation of its subject matter. English Place-Name Study: Iis Present Condition and Future Possibilities. By Allen Mawer. (Humphrey Milford, 1s. 6d. net). THIS brochure gives us the excellent address delivered by Frof. Mawer last January to the British Academy. We had recently the pleasure (ante, p. 39) of reviewing his work on the placenames of Northumberland and Durham, and of mentioning two sound rules therein laid down by him. The first fixes 1500 as a working limit; names for which no forms earlier than that date are extant are to be held unprofitable for etymological study. The second prefers historical and especially topographical to linguistic reference in fact erects the superiority of topographical reference into a principle. The reader will find these rules again and somewhat more fully discussed here and therewith the contention put forth that the piece-meal study of placenames is unsatisfactory. The first requisite for this study would then be the collecting and ordering of material from the whole of England. Work on Prof. Mawer's principles, as he says, could hardly be performed by isolated scholars; it must be taken up by some learned society, and, in fact, he sets himself to persuade the British Academy to come forward in the cause. He has a good deal to urge both as to the advantage accruing from the study of place-names to other studies, and as to the example of the Scandinavian kingdoms. London County Council. Indication of Houses of Historical Interest in London. Part XLV. 3d. THE Council's work of indicating by means of memorial tablets the houses of interest in London The goes steadily, though somewhat slowly, on. publication of these excellently printed pamphlets, giving short biographies of the personages concerned, illustrations of the houses, and sketches of the tablets and inscriptions is hardly less good a work than the affixing of the memorials themselves. We have here accounts of 87 Jermyn Street (Isaac Newton); 188 Camberwell Grove and 40 Prince's Gardens (Joseph Chamberlain); and 10 Berkeley Square (Colin Campbell). The tablet on Joseph Chamberlain's birthplace in Camber. well Grove, though literally correct, seems likely to prove misleading to the casual visitor. Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. Vol VIII. No. 1. (Liverpool: University Press.) WE are glad to welcome the re-appearance of these Annals after an interval of four years. The number before us is of the highest interest. Mr. F. Ll. Griffiths gives a detailed and illustrated account of some of the work of excavation carried out by the Oxford Expedition in Nubia (1910-13) at Faras. Mr. J. L. Myres describes a rare Cypriote fibula of the Early Iron Age from Rhodes. Prof. Halliday contributes a instalment of a delightful work: 'Pheidippides: first a Study of Good Form in Fifth-Century Athens.' It is a most deftly-wrought piece of mosaic, displaying all the vivacity of a picture, and having each particle in the text unobtrusively referred to abundant references and erudite notes at the end of the article. We have received a useful and interesting Handlist of Indexes to Norfolk and Suffolk Works.' The compiler has indexed or re-indexed, over collections-Records, sixty Visitations, local Histories and other like masses of material, the indexes being mostly both nominum and locorum, in the case of Folk-lore publications also rerum. Students desiring to avail themselves of these compilations are invited to communicate with W. de Castre, care of the Librarian, Public Library, Great Yarmouth. We have received The Durham University Journal for April (Durham, 1s. 6d. net) which contains a further instalment of Mr. W. T. Jones's scholarly account of the walls and towers of Durham illustrated by a ground plan of the city. Notices to Correspondents. 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