+ explaining this very civilly to her, but she began to L. E. T. Here is still an earlier reference. In the Complete Account of the Ceremonies observed in the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England,' 4th ed., 1727, 4to, it is stated, p. 24 :— "Two Breadths of Blue Broad-Cloth are spread all along the middle of the Passage, from the Stone Steps in the Hall, to the Foot of the Steps in the Choir, ascending the Theatre, by Order of the Lord Almoner for that Day, amounting in all to 1,220 Yards; which Cloth is strewed with Nine Baskets full of Sweet Herbs and Flowers, by the Strewer of Herbs in Ordinary to his Majesty, assisted by six Women, two to a Basket, each Basket containing two Bushels." JOHN HODGKIN. OTFORD, KENT: PERHIRR AND BELLOT (11 S. ii. 329).-I think that the interpretation of the record quoted is: David Polhill was married to Elizabeth Borret, January the 31st, 1719." historical year. David Polhill was born 1675, and died 1754. His monument (mural with bust) is LOYAL ADDRESSES (11 S. ii. 266).-The address to Queen Anne from the nobility and It would appear that, excluding the date, gentry of Hertfordshire, dated 10 July, u=a, a=v, e=o,r=l,l=r,o=e, aa=w, n=m1710, to which MR. GERISH refers, was obDavid Polhill, M.P. at various dates, marviously one of the flood which poured in ried for his third wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Borrett of Shoreham, prothonotary upon her Majesty in that and the following She was & secution of Sacheverell was at its height, he was a great-grandson of Oliver Cromwell. month, when the storm aroused by the pro- of the Court of Common Pleas great-granddaughter of John Hampden, and and the Whig Ministry, as a consequence, was about to be dismissed. They were She died in 1785, aged 87. Very likely the republished in the same year in A Collec-date 1719 would be 1720 according to the tion of Addresses' for general circulation; and while it is difficult to understand how the originals could have become distributed in the way now indicated, I should be very glad to know if the one is also on sale that was presented to the Queen at Kensington on 6 August from "the mayor, recorder, deputy recorder, aldermen, town clerk, common council, free burgesses, and other inhabitants of Dunheved alias Launceston,' 22 declaring their detestation of republican principles." Launceston's recorder, George Granville-Pope's "Granville the polite -assisted in the presentation of this Tory address, and two days later several of the Whig ministers were replaced. DUNHEVED. in Otford Church. For some account of the Polhill family see 10 S. xi. 149, 314, 412. Can any reason for the cryptic entry in the parish records ROBERT PIERPOINT. be suggested? [MR. H. D. ELLIS, SCOTUS, and MR. C. STRACHEY send similar keys to the entry. MRS. M. POLLARD also thanked for reply.] ENGLISH WINE AND SPIRIT GLASSES (11 S. ii. 328). I have no doubt that Mr. W. E. Wynn Penny, in his article in The Connoisseur to which MR. CANN HUGHES refers, was alluding to the town of Frome, in Somerset, and to collections of glasses formed there by the late Mr. W. Carpenter Penny (his father) and the late Mr. John Webb Singer. Two or three years ago Mr. W. C. Penny's collection of glasses was to be seen in a large case just inside the main entrance Joane, dau. of John and Joane to the Bristol Art Gallery and Museum, Moakes, baptized. MOKE FAMILY (11 S. ii. 130, 194).-I 1640, Jan. 1. Joane Mokes buried. Mary, wife of Thomas Mokes, buried. Sandgate, Kent. and it may be there still; it is somewhat varied in character. Mr. Singer died in May, 1904, but his extensive collection of twisted-stem wine-glasses, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (a 2 A comprehensive work on English glasses is Mr. Albert Hartshorne's Old English Glasses. An Account of Glass DrinkingVessels in England from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With Introductory Notices of Continental Glasses during the same Period,' published by Edward Arnold. as a We abstain from quoting particular passages because there are so many nice things to quote, of all life except its own, has reached a position as and because Mr. Dobson, even in an age incurious a specialist which needs no comment of ours. His account of The Oxford Thackeray whole is at once judicious and entertaining, exhibiting his nice taste both in illustrations and text, and we need hardly add-in a very different style from that of Prof. Saintsbury. Of the merits of Thackeray as an artist Mr. Dobson admits 66 that opinion has been somewhat divided." He finds no reason for putting him much below Doyle; and, in the matter of initial letters, we hold the pair-in invention at all events to have been nearly equal." Without being seriously disturbed at the last contention, the present writer puts Doyle's original and always delightful figures of fairies some way above anything that Thackeray did. If the great writer and other books, he might have been a great had had the practice of illustrating Pickwick illustrator. As it is, with admirable élan he has given us his own ideas of his own characters, and we confess that other attempts at Becky Sharp look to us beside his sad failures. There is a 'Descriptive Catalogue of IN The Cornhill Mr. Justice Darling has a short. Glass Vessels in South Kensington Museum,' poem on the New Forest Woodnotes,' while by A. Nesbitt, published by Chapman & Hall, Mrs. Margaret Woods has one of the best of her Pastels in an account of The Victoria Falls and a smaller work on Glass' by the same on the Zambesi. The railway bridge across the author, forming one of the “ South Kensing-gorge is, it appears, the highest in the world, and, ton Museum Handbooks.2 The "Handbook" is of date 1878, so copies may not now be procurable. W. S. S. [MR. J. T. PAGE also refers to Mr. Hartshorne.] Notes on Books, &c. when it was being constructed, an engineer fell from it and had a marvellous escape, being caught in the branches of a single tree that kept him suspended over the abyss. He was rescued without having suffered physical harm, but we are not surprised to hear that he was in hospital some time for nervous shock. The Unemployable and the Unemployed,' by Miss Edith Sellers, is an important article, for it deals with the arrangements of casual-wards and the sort of treatment which creates the loafer who will not And Old Kensington Palace, and other Papers. By work and is an expensive nuisance to the country. We extract one or two of the striking dicta which Austin Dobson. (Chatto & Windus.) Miss Sellers gives us. Staying in a country THIS collection of essays gives us great pleasure. district which was in many respects a model We have noticed from time to time in The district, she found that not a single boy in the National Review many of them, and there are few schools "had received, or would receive, any authors who bear re-reading better than Mr. training whatever in trade or handicraft." Dobson. He supplies us with ample information" even in London, so far as one can make out, only and sound conclusions; yet all is so neatly done, some twenty-five per cent. of the County Council and so easily, that we are not conscious of being school children have any technical training whatinstructed, and are wholly free from that sense ever, either before they leave school or after." of heaviness which, alas! often accompanies the A good many of the unemployable are so because results of the expert. they are badly fed, for "not one Englishwoman in fifty can cook a decent dinner." If schoolboys became skilled workers, and girls good housewives, the unemployable unemployed crowd," says Miss Sellers, "would soon begin to dwindle.' She recommends reformed casual-wards of the sort there are in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Mr. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy's ings by the Lambourne' is a very pleasant paper on fishing and other open-air pleasures, while Miss Rosaline Masson tells the story of Holman Hunt painting in 1852 near Hastings, learning Italian from Edward Lear, and being sent a Miss Lettice butterfly from Regent's Park. Digby has a well-written paper on 'The Cell: the Unit of Organisation.' If all Mr. A. C. Benson's Leaves of the Tree' are as good as his Apart from two excursions into French subjects - Madame Vigée-Lebrun' and Cléry's Journal' -Mr. Dobson is deep in his favourite eighteenth century, adding in The Oxford Thackeray' a paper on the author who has introduced to many of us the greater figures of that epoch. Here, though there is a paper on ' Percy and Goldsmith,' the essays are for the most part concerned with persons of secondary importance, and, like Johnson's Lives of undistinguished versifiers, none the less interesting for that. Hawkins, the rival of Boswell, well deserved a niche in Mr. Dobson's gallery, while Lyttelton as man of letters, and Chambers as architect, are revived without that prejudice which has, perhaps, obscured their merits. Loiter 21 character-study of Bishop Westcott, the series will be the best thing he has done. He has got the strenuous nobility of Westcott to perfection, and tells some revealing stories of his methods of teaching, while he says not a word too much of the fine face, instinct with the beauty of holiness. The number has, too, a painful story of love and desertion, The Man who Laughed,' by Mr. John Barnett, and the first half of a story by Miss Jane Findlater which promises well. We do not care for Mr. Herbert Trench's poem Requiem of Archangels for the World' which opens The Fortnightly. Mr. Garvin is, as usual, interesting in his review of Imperial and Foreign Events,' which ends with the statement that Mr. Roosevelt must either govern his party or bring it to an end. Among the political articles one on Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria,' by Miss Edith Sellers, who seems to combine exceptional knowledge alike of princes and the poor, is distinguished by an effective bitterness of style which we see rarely. Mrs. Margaret Woods has a pleasant paper on The English Housewife in the Seventeenth Century; and Mr. W. G. Howard Gritten indulges in Some Hints to the Unionist Party' which is now generally being entreated by its adherents to wake up. Mr. Laurence Housman writes on A King's Proctor for Plays,' and certainly any other scheme seems preferable to that of the present Censorship with its ludicrous anomalies. Miss Rosaline Masson in An "Inspired Little Creature and the Poet Wordsworth' revives the verse of Emmeline Fisher, who began writing at eight in 1833. The obvious comparison with "Pet Marjorie " is suggested, but unfortunately the English girl is in no way equal to Dr. John Brown's heroine. She is too good, too like Mrs. Hemans in her musings. Mrs. Billington-Greig has a firm and well-argued presentation of the case as it stands between The Government and Women's Suffrage.' In The Passing of Pierrot' Mr. Dion C. Calthrop is pleasantly fanciful, while Mr. J. F. Macdonald is vivid and entertaining in his French Life and the French Stage: Paul Bourget.' Mr. Lennard adds a third chapter to his clever study of modern types,' In Search of Egeria.' IN The Nineteenth Century Prof. J. H. Morgan opens with an article on The Constitution in Writing,' while Mr. Ian Malcolm makes a bitter attack on the inconsistencies of Mr. Redmond in Home Rule All Round.' Bishop Welldon in Some Probable Effects of Disestablishment deals frankly with advantages and disadvantages likely to ensue, but writes naturally with a bias in favour of the Established Church. Mr. Walter Sichel has one of the best articles we have seen on the opening volume of Beaconsfield's Life, The Young Disraeli.' 'Poor Law Children and the New Boarding-out Order,' by Miss Mason, an ex-senior inspector of boarding-out, deserves careful reading, as does An English Wilderness,' by a writer who shows that the country, like the town, has its defects of education and its desperate problems. The country boys will not do farm work, and drift to London and the towns to become "the barely employ.able." Mr. A. C. Benson writes once more on The Place of Classics in Secondary Education,' and writes well, of course; but we do not notice with pleasure the tendency for the magazines to become confined to a small ring of writers who repeat themselves and their ideas too often. Mr. Maurice Hewlett's A Hint from the Trees apparently instructs everybody to grow and do nothing else. It is a fantastic article, the conclusions of which are not clear to us. The Rev. A. H. T. Clarke in a third paper on The Genius of Gibbon' deals with Gibbon the Infidel.' The last word has a somewhat out-of-date air, as have some of Mr. Clarke's arguments and authorities. All we can say is "Non defensoribus istis," with fresh wonder at the patronizing air of the writer. Mr. Francis McCullagh's Some Causes of the Portuguese Revolution' is of interest as dwelling specially on the part played by religion in the uprising, which is described as Jesuit and anti-clerical outburst of which the simply an antiRepublicans took advantage." THE GYPSY LORE SOCIETY makes an appeal for new subscribers. Since its start in 1907 it has published excellent work, and it seems surprising that the 300 members who were expected did not join, especially after the Society's witness of the good use it would make of its material. The task of obtaining that material becomes, we are informed, easier every year, and we hope that the Society's finances will be so improved as to put it on a sound basis. 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