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NOTES ON BOOKS:-Balfour Paul's 'Heraldry'- Clephan’s Defensive Armour' - Arkwright's Milton's Anthems'-'Scribner's Magazine.' Notices to Correspondents. Hotes. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. THE following sad list of war correspondents who have suffered during the present war in South Africa appeared in the Daily Express on Wednesday, the 6th inst., and I have obtained the cordial permission of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson to place it as a permanent record in the pages of "his old friend N. & Q.'” :— Mr. G. W. Steevens, Daily Mail, died of enteric during siege of Ladysmith. Mr. Alfred Ferrand, Morning Post, killed at Ladysmith. Mr. Albert Collett, Daily Mail, killed in action, Molteno. Mr. Lambie, Melbourne Age, killed at Rensburg. Col. Hoskier, Sphere, killed near Stormberg. Mr. Ernest G. Parslow, Daily Chronicle, shot dead by Lieut. Murchison at Mafeking. Murderer, penal servitude for life. Mr. Mitchell, Standard, captured, escaped, took enteric fever, and died. Mr. W. Spooner, Reuter's, died of fever. wounded, Maritsani (recovering by last news). Mr. A. G. Hales, Daily News, wounded and cap tured. Mr. Julian Ralph, Daily Mail, struck by shell fragment at Belmont, and severely injured in accident. Mr. F. W. Walker, Daily Mail, wounded at Stormberg. Capt. Wright, Daily Mail, injured while despatch riding. Lord Delawarr, Globe, wounded at Vryheid. Mr. P. J. Reid (son of Sir H. G. Reid), Echo, seriously wounded at Kheis. ing Mauser bullet at Belmont, right arm ampuMr. E. F. Knight, Morning Post, shot with sporttated. Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, Morning Post, captured at Chieveley, afterwards escaped. Lord Cecil Manners, Morning Post, captured near Johannesburg, and liberated. Mr. Hales, Sydney Morning Herald, captured. Mr. George Lynch, Morning Herald and Echo, captured, released, in hospital with enteric fever, now in England. Mr. M. H. Donohoe, Daily Chronicle, captured probably released on 5th of June. May 21st, supposed captured. Mr. A. F. Hellawell, Rev. Adrian Hofmeyr, Mr. John Stuart, Morning Post, nearly blind after siege of Ladysmith, recovered, now ill with dysentery. Mr. W. Maxwell, Standard, enteric fever during siege of Ladysmith, recovered. Mr. Alfred Kinnear, Central News, enteric, invalided home. Mr. Jos. S. Dunn, Central News, twice captured, enteric, recovered. Mr. W. Martindale, Mr. W. S. Swallow, and Mr. Charles Bray, Central News, enteric, recovered. Mr. F. A. Stewart, Illustrated London News, down with dysentery at Durban. Mr. W. T. Maud, Daily Graphic, laid up with enteric fever after Ladysmith, and invalided home. Mr. Bullen, Daily Telegraph, invalided home. Mr. H. W. Nevinson, Daily Chronicle, in hospital with fever, now recovered. Mr. J. A. Cameron, Daily Chronicle, enteric, permanently invalided." Mr. Brayley Hodgetts, Express, invalided with enteric. Mr. Lester Ralph, Mr. H. Lyons, Mr. R. C. E. Nissen, and Mr. L. Oppenheim, Daily Mail, invalided. It is of interest to note that the first war correspondent was Henry Crabb Robinson, who, when the Spaniards rose against the French in 1808, was entrusted by the conductors of the Times with the duty of special correspondent in the Peninsula.* It is to the enterprise of the Daily News that we are largely indebted to the first war correspondence by telegraph instead of by post. This was done at the suggestion of Mr., now Sir John Robinson, during the Franco-German war, when the late Archibald Forbes was its correspondent. Mr. Fox Bourne, in his book English Newspapers,' states that, mainly by the the paper rose from 50,000 to 150,000 a day. graphic letters which appeared in its columns, This correspondence included 'The Diary of a Besieged Resident in Paris,' by Henry Labouchere. In this war the New York * 'Dictionary of National Biography,' xlix. 16. Tribune had the most expensive telegrams of any paper. These were arranged for by Mr. G. W. Smalley, now the New York correspondent of the Times; and as there was an alliance between the Daily News and the Tribune providing for the use of each other's telegrams, the readers of the London paper no doubt received much benefit. The present outlay of the Daily News for war telegrams, exclusive of the remuneration and expenses of the correspondents, amounts to an average of 1,200l. a month. Although the cost to the daily newspapers for correspondence and telegrams during the present war must be large, it cannot, of course, compare with that of the American Press during the fight between the North and the South. The New York Herald during the four years the contest lasted employed sixty special correspondents. The loss in horses was seventy-eight out of one hundred and twentythree.* The account of the capture of New Orleans, which occupied three columns, cost alone 2601., while the entire outlay during the war amounted to 120,000l. or Erezciac (= Eretziak Elegies) preserved in the mansion called Solartekua at Markina, on the margin of the provinces of Gipuskoa and Biscaya, accessible by coach from the railway stations of Olacueta-Berriz or the coastline. I had the curiosity to call there on 26 July, 1897, in order to see for myself if the words had been correctly copied and printed, and to obtain, if possible, a photograph of the page of the manuscript where it occurs. I was accompanied by Don J. M. de Bernaola, a priest of Durango, whose grandfather had entertained the learned German friend of Goethe when he made a stay in that former capital of Biscay. Don F. de Mugertegi, the master of the house (Etcheko-Jauna), not only very graciously consented to let us inspect the manuscript, but sent it to our inn on loan, so that we might look at it at leisure in true scholarlike fashion. He told us that Humboldt had been the guest of his grandfather there, and had seen the manuscript. For some account of Humboldt's tour in Basqueland see 'Guillaume von Humboldt en Espagne' (Paris, 1898), by my friend Dr. A. Farinelli, of the University of Innsbruck. The manuscript is a small library, an odd collection of miscellaneous documents in five volumes, bound in parchment, and entitled 'Antiguedades de Vizcaya,' formed by Ibarguren or Ibargüen, a lawyer of the sixteenth century. There was no index or book-marker to guide us to the page bearing the song, but my companion had the luck to find it early the next morning in tomo iii., cuaderno 71. We agreed that the text of it had never been correctly published by any of the preceding editors, most of whom had carelessly copied it blunders. We decided that the dialect in which the one from the other, with a sliding scale of it is written was Biscayan (in the provincial sense) of Ibarguren's own time, and that the song, which my friend called a sortsiko mayor,* might well be a patraña or jest of that individual himself. He thinks, rightly, that its value has been overstated. But it has a grim majesty of its own, and stands in the MUCH has been written, in five or six same relation towards later Basque as 'Beolanguages, since the time of Wilhelm von wulf' does to English. Its scansion is irregular, Humboldt, who did so much for Bascological as will be seen. It is the work of some one science, about the oldest known Heuskarian unaccustomed to Heuskarian spelling, and so song. The latest publication dealing with curt and laconic in style as to be very obscure this difficult question is the Appendix to a even for those gifted with the Pindaric spark treatise called 'Cantabria y la Guerra Can-(pindar in Basque) of vaticination. tabrica' (Tolosa, 1899) by my friend Don certainly does not come down, as some have Isaac López ta Mendizábal, of the University of Madrid. The song is the renowned Lelo Most of the newspapers, with the exception of the Times, now give the names of their correspondents. "Y.L," in the Sphere of the 9th inst., states his belief that the practice was first commenced by the Daily Telegraph in 1879 when it sent out Dr., now Sir W. H. Russell, to describe the incidents of the Zulu war. "Y. L." well describes our military historians as "no longer chroniclers; they are now literary kinematographers, who, from the distance of 7,000 miles, flash you out a transparency picture of a battle ere yet the mountains at the seat of war have ceased to resound with the roll of invisible musketry and the thunder of eight-mile-range guns." No record of special correspondents can be complete without a tribute to those brave men who fell in the Soudan, and to whom a memorial has been fittingly placed in the crypt of our great Cathedral. JOHN C. FRANCIS. THE OLDEST BASQUE SONG. * Grant's 'Newspaper Press,' vol. ii. p. 255. It * For a successful bit of work in this metre see pp. 8-11 of Amona' (The Grandmother), a senti mental poem by Antonio Arzac (San Sebastian, 5 May). |