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REPLIES:- Cromwell and Music, 9-'An Apology for - Cathedral Service '-"To Priest "-'Pickwickian Studies' Margaret Blount - Hannah Lee-Hoastik carles," 16- "Dozzil"-" Middlin'"- Cox's Museum, 17-"King of Bantam "-Grolier Bindings, 18. NOTES ON BOOKS-Sidney Lee's 'Life of Shakespeare' - Fernald's Students' Standard Dictionary' - -The THE recent issue of the Jubilee Number of THE ORIGIN OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY. record the fact that it is to the great Suffolk Yeomanry, it may be interesting to place on 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 1792, he repeated the suggestion in vol. xviii. France,' published in May, 1792. In August, of his 'Annals of Agriculture' (p. 401), 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 the privileges and blessings with which, in spite of a not too propitious outset, he is "A regiment of a thousand cavalry in every fain to hope it is charged. His indebted-county of moderate extent, just disciplined enough ness to those who make his post enviable enrolled and assembled in companies three days in to obey orders and keep their ranks, might be and his labours light is not to be expressed. every year, and in regiments once in seven, at a Should even his aspirations be of no effect, very moderate expense to the public......It has been the attitude of benevolence-to use the word said that such a militia is impracticable; I will not in its classical sense-is like that of devotion reason on case absolutely new, but we may or prayer, good in itself, and is a step regulates the mode in which all the land proprietors venture to assert that a law which legalises and (the longest that can be taken) towards its in the kingdom......may instantly assemble, armed, own fulfilment. For congratulations on the in troops and regiments......a law which prepares arrival of a new century he has still twelve the means of security and defence, while the rage months to wait. That fact, simple as it is, of attack unites and electrifies the enemies of peace is not obvious to all. To him and to most of the salvation of the community."-Fourth edition, and order, must be good, and may be essential to his readers it is patent as the sun at mid-day. | 1794, pp. 141-2. a 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. IN the flush of youth's beginning, 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 Thou shalt win the Master's praise. [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 |