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NOTES:-Editorial Good Wishes - Origin of Yeomanry Cavalry, 1-A Lifetime's Work-Special Literature for Soldiers, 2-" Boer"- Rogers's 'Ginevra' and "Zebra," 3-A Pastille-Burner-Henry Cavendish- "Wroth Silver" - Poe's 'Hop-Frog "Winded"-Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, 4-A Pasquil Kinnui: Jewish Fke-names- "Waits "Gaitas," 5-Partridge, the Almanac-maker- Omar That an imperial rescript should put one great and energetic country a year in advance of its neighbours, though a little surprising in modern days, is not unprecedented. On the other side of the land over which this imperial doctor or scientist holds sway is a country in which a calendar other than ours prevails. The same holds true of Turkey, and once held true of Republican France. To add to the complexity of calendars seems a subject for regret. At any rate, in presence of conflict- ing authorities--imperial, ecclesiastical, or Marriage Gift-Author Wanted-Moseley Hall, 7-popular-the attitude coincides with that of Dandy's Gate-"The Beurré "Witchelt"-Ill-shod, 9. REPLIES:- Cromwell and Music, 9-'An Apology for of English Ambassadors to France- On a Pincushion - Cathedral Service'-"To Priest "Pickwickian Studies -Boxing Day, 10-"The Appearance"-Polkinghorn- Swansea-Shepherdess Walk - Hawkwood, 11-Bryan, Lord Fairfax-The Mint-"Bridge"-Stafford Family- "Lowestoft China, 12 The Great Oath-"Tiffin Well, Accrington - "A_pickled rope Authorship of Margaret Blount - Hannah Lee-Hoastik carles," 16- NOTES ON BOOKS-Sidney Lee's 'Life of Shakespeare THE recent issue of the Jubilee Number of Notes and Queries having brought the editor into communication, more or less close and personal, with some to whom individually he was the mere shadow of a name, and having elicited manifestations of toleration and even of sympathy, by which he has been flattered Galileo when, striking the earth with his foot, he said, or is reputed to have said, “E pur si It is still the nineteenth century, and the Editor at least will wait for a time THE ORIGIN OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY. IN connexion with the decision of the Government, announced on 20 December last, to recruit a new mounted infantry force for service in South Africa from the ranks of the Yeomanry, it may be interesting to place on record the fact that it is to the great Suffolk The germ of Young's idea of forming a "militia of property for this country is contained in some reflections on the French Revolution at the end of his 'Travels in France,' published in May, 1792. In August, 1792, he repeated the suggestion in vol. xviii. of his 'Annals of Agriculture' (p. 491), and expanded it in his well-known pamphlet entitled "The Example of France a Warning to England,' which went through four English editions in 1793-4 (besides two editions in French-one published at Brussels and the Year to wish his contributors a full share of Young says in his 'Autobiography,' first published at the beginning of 1898, that his " great plea of a horse militia produced immediately three volunteer corps of cavalry, which multiplied rapidly through the kingdom." His health was the first toast given for being the origin of those corps which, when assembled, had this opportunity of publicly declaring their opinion" (Autobiography,' p. 204). At a dinner given by the Duke of Bedford at Woburn, Young was told "by a gentleman of great property, captain of a troop of Yeomanry, that whenever his troop met he always drank my [Young's] health after the King's, for being the undisputed origin of all the Yeomanry corps in the kingdom" (p. 206). It is significant that in Young's own personal copy of his 'Annals' the passages relating to his suggestions as to the Yeomanry are marked, apparently in his own hand. In his own county of Suffolk Young enrolled himself as a private in the ranks of a corps raised at his recommendation in the vicinity of Bury St. Edmunds, and commanded by Lord Broome, afterwards Marquis of Cornwallis (p. 205). In vol. xxvii. of the Annals of Agriculture' (1796), p. 537, Young prints a statement of the expense of equipping (with jacket, waistcoat, surtout, breeches, boots, gloves, cravat, &c.) a trooper in the Suffolk corps of Yeomanry Cavalry —which, under the title of the Loyal Suffolk Hussars, now (1900) has as its Honorary Colonel H.R.H. the Duke of York-and he even prints a song, obviously written by himself, commencing "Hear ye not the din from afar?" and winding up with these unexceptionable if rather tritely expressed sentiments: Then, gallant Yeomen, sing with me. Firm our union, just our cause, 13A, Hanover Square, W. A LIFETIME'S WORK. (See 9th S. iv. 550.) In the flush of youth's beginning, Ere the eve of life draws nigh, To completion ere we die. But the march of time, incessant, Proves our hopes but evanescent, And the plans of finished labours Dwindle down to two or one; Strange delays, still unexpected, Seems the task that lies undone. And are dwindled to a span; To complete the cherished plan. Hastens onward to its close. Still to follow on the trace; Such as lifts the human race. Truth is one! To grasp it wholly Lies in One, its Author, solely; And the mind of man can master But a fragment of the plan; Every scheme, howe'er extensive, Though it seem all-comprehensive, Is a portion of a portion Fitting life's allotted span. Death is near; and then-what matter Thou laboriously didst raise? If a single brick abideth That thine honest toil provideth, Thy success hath proved sufficient, Thou shalt win the Master's praise. WALTER W. SKEAT. [The poem has already appeared in print.] SPECIAL LITERATURE WRITTEN FOR SOLDIERS. -Since our soldiers form a great topic of conversation just now, brief allusion to some books written for them when on active service may not be out of place. From the nature of the case, they are few in number. A soldier's first duty is to fight, and he is not supposed to have any leisure to read, except the scanty correspondence he may be fortunate to receive from friends at home. However, in our great Civil War there were some curious little manuals and treatises written for him, now very scarce and interesting historically. Their dates lie between 1640 and 1649-that is, between the election of the Long Parliament and the king's execution. The Parliament had not long been in power when it began to |