roundly. Though he is a “Doctor Juris," he hardly seenis to possess the judicial frame of mind and accurate learning which entitle him to convict scholars like Nöldeke and Wellhausen of ignorance and absurdity. He singles out Winckler, who is notoriously one of the most speculative and fanciful of German savants, and dilates on his extravagances as if they were fair samples of what is urged and approved by the Higher Criticism generally. Indeed, we have some doubts whether the writer himself is immaculately orthodox when we find him reserving his praises for writers like Buckle and Mr. J. G. Frazer, Giordano Bruno and Spinoza. He quotes with approval the opinion of the last named that the true knowledge of Hebrew has perished from among men, and that "the meaning of many words which occur in the Bible we are utterly ignorant of, or they are matter of dispute" (p. 37). Surely this strange remark from a Biblical critic is suicidal. He is cutting off the very branch If we do not know the on which he is sitting. language in which the Old Testament is written, there is no room for criticism, High or Low. Dr. Reich is content to use this very crooked stick to beat the critics, because it is one chief part of his argument that "the nightmare of Ancient Oriental For his part, philology supports the enemy. he would have been well content if the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the cuneiform of Assyria had never been deciphered (p. 5)—a candid and characteristic admission of obscurantism! And yet, with strange inconsistency, he readily accepts and grasps at the accounts of the legends of the Masai, a rude African tribe, which have lately been reported by a German explorer, Capt. Merker, because they suit his purpose. One would think the interpretation of the Masai dialect was much more open to suspicion than that of Hebrew or even Assyrian. queathed to the Stoke Newington Public Library the whole of his books, prints, pictures, and manu scripts, to be kept as part of the reference library. The bequest comprises 5,000 to 6,000 volumes of standard works, including early editions of Johnson and Walpole, much about Sir Joshua Reynolds, &c., and large collections of manuscripts relating to the districts of Barking and Romford in Essex, beside some very valuable prints. As Mr. Sage resided for a long time at Mark's Gate, Dagenham, where his father was deputy steward of the lord of the manor - he had unique opportunities to collect. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MR. EDWARD BAKER, of Birmingham, has a cata. logue devoted to books on Railways. Those who want to know about the origin, rise, and progress of railways (including atmospheric and electric railways), also about accidents, Acts of Parliament, and people connected with them, should procure this list. Mr. Baker has also a general list of "at bargain prices.' books, mostly new, Mr. Thomas Baker has Dugdale's 'Monasticon Anglicanum, 1817. 247. a set of the Bampton Lectures, 112 vols., 351.; Ephraen Syri Opera Omnia,' 10.; S. Thomæ Aquinatis Opera Omnia,' 18 vols., 1570, 147.; Morris's Old English Mansions,' 4 vols. 4to, 17. 5.; and Philbert's Annales de la Société des Soi-disans Jésuites,' 5 vols., 4to, 21. 12s. 6d. Mr. Baker also publishes a list of books "Wanted to Purchase "; he leaves to would-be sellers the responsibility of stating price. · Mr. Thomas Baker has also a catalogue of Catholic Theology, which is divided into Modern Books and Old Books. The latter includes Mansi, 'Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio,' 17591798, 31 vols., folio, 607.; Gallandus, Bibliotheca Græco-Latina Veterum Patrum,' 1765-88, 14 vols., folio, 38. and St. Thomæ Aquinatis Opera Omnia,' 1570, 18 vols. in 14, folio, 127. 10s. We We notice, too, that Dr. Reich ventures sometimes to play the Higher Critic on his own account. The writers of the Tel-el-Amarna letters (about 1500 B.C.) bewail their helpless condition in Mr. B. H. Blackwell, of Oxford, devotes his the presence of their invaders, and appeal to the This cannot be de- March list mostly to topographical works. Pharaoh for reinforcements. nied," yet Dr. Reich puts his own gloss on these docu- note a few: Collinson's Somerset,' Bath, 1791, ments, and asserts that these writers were not help-6. 6s.; Atkyns's 'Gloucestershire,' 1768. 81. 8s.;. less at all nor dependent upon Egypt (p. 43). Again, Dunkin's Oxfordshire,' 1823, 57. 58. (only 100 copies. he defeats his object by extravagant statements like printed, of which 70 were for sale); Fulleylove's. these: "The Old Testament is by Higher Criticism Oxford, 1903, 27. 28. (one of 300 copies); Kilkenny declared to be a forgery" (p. 83). "The spade, now Archæological Society's Transactions, 1855-90, 41.;: so busy in Palestine, will undoubtedly, and in the and Archæologia Cambrensis, 51 vols., 217. near future, unearth a copy of Genesis in the cuneiform script, dating from the thirteenth or twelfth century BC.......This is the lie direct to all the theories of the Higher Critics'"! (p. 186). Many other minor matters we blench at, eg., the playful apostrophizing of an opponent as "Doctore subtilissime" (p. 100); the misspelling of Goldziher's name (p. 142); the reference to Prof. Cornill as "the musical Higher Critic" (p. 163); and to "the ill-scanned atmosphere of reality' (p. 183). In fine, Dr. Reich's slight and crude attempt, flippant in manner and ponderous in persiflage, is not conclusive against the critics; and if any one of them should think it worth while to issue a reply, he might fairly entitle it The Failure of the Attack on the Higher Criticism.' MR. E. J. SAGE.-At 10th S. iv. 480, 540, reference was made to the decease of this old contributor to "N. & Q.' We may now add that Mr. Sage be Mr. Bertram Dobell has first and early editions of Byron, Dickens, Scott, Tennyson, and Thacke ray; also the first edition of Fors Clavigera,' 50s. 'Modern Painters,' vols. i.-iv. (vols. iii. and iv.. first editions), 51. 10s.; Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare,' fourth edition, 10s. 6d.; Landor's Imaginary Conversations,' 1826-9, 5 vols., 40s.; Leigh Hunt's Reflector, original edition, 2 vols., 10s. 6d. ;: and Charlotte Bronte's 'Shirley,' first edition, 1849, 26s. There are interesting items under Alpine, taking us back to the days of Albert Smith. Messrs. William George's Sons, of Bristol, have a very interesting catalogue of 850 items, entirely military. Mr. George P. Johnston, of Edinburgh, has two catalogues, one being devoted to English Pamphlets, 1618-1700. The other contains rare Scottish Tracts before 1700. About 350 of the entries bear the imprints of Scottish printers. Most of them have been collected during the last ten years, and many are extremely rare. chronologically. Both lists are arranged Mr. Charles King, of Torquay, has the copy of Addison's Works which belonged to George IV., Tonson, 1721, 10.; a large-paper copy of the first edition of Emerson's earliest work, Nature,' original cloth, Boston, 1836, 57.; and first edition of Leigh Hunt's Classic Tales,' 1806, 21. 12s. 6d. Under Lord John Russell is The Nun of Arrouca: a Tale,' 12mo, boards, Murray, 1822. 21. 2s. This was soon suppressed. Disraeli, in his Runnymede Letter' addressed to Lord John, 30 January, 1836, thus refers to it: "Your ambition sought from prose fiction the fame which has been denied to your lyre, and your intellect in consequence proThe duced the feeblest romance in our literature." catalogue includes a very large collection of books relating to Napoleon. ་ Herr Georg Lissa sends us from Berlin a catalogue of books concerning Germany and German life which covers a wide range. We notice a copy of the 'Poésies Diverses' of Frederick the Great, 1760, several Goethe and Schiller items, two copies of Schlegel's translation of Shakespeare, 9 vols., and some early printed books of value. Mr. Macphail, of Edinburgh, has six holograph letters of Scott, offered at prices from 17. 6s. 6d. to 37.58.; also a choice copy of 'Guy Mannering,' the rare first edition, Edinburgh, 1815, 20 guineas; and Journal of the Archæological Institute, 1845-64, 41. 15s. There are a number of interesting Burns items, including the scarce print entitled Inauguration of Robert Burns as Poet Laureate of Can. Kil., Edin., 1786.' There are a number of reports of trials, including those of Eugene Aram and Palmer of Rugeley. Much of interest will be found under Ballads, Glasgow, and Jacobite. copy of Shakespeare's Will, faithfully copied from the original in the Prerogative Court,' 1838, 78. 6d. There are interesting items under Sussex, including old Brighton drawings, 1795 to 1799, 51. 5s. There is a tract entitled Search after Claret,' 4to, 1691; in it are given all the important taverns throughout London. There is a copy of especial interest of More's 'Lucubrationes, Utopia, &c., 1563, 51. 5s. It contains on the title the signature of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, in this form: "E. Hertfordie et Amicorum." Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, haev Burton's 'Arabian Nights,' 16 vols., 367.; Beaumont and Fletcher, folio, 1679, 121. 12s.; Book of Common Prayer, the Sealed Book of Charles II., 1662, 37. 10s.; and first edition of Boswell's Johnson,' in which is inserted a letter of Boswell's in reference to the Monastery of Fail: The Friars o' Fail They made guid hail On Friday when they fasted, As long as their neighbours lasted. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Mr. James Roche has some choicely bound classics. Under Shakespeare is the Clarendon Press edition of 1771, 27. 28. Chalmers's 'British There are Essayists,' 1823, is priced 57. 128. coloured military plates and costumes, including Armand Dumaresq' s Uniformes de l'Armée Française,' 1861, rare, 6l. 18s. 6d.; and a very scarce collection of cavalry illustrations, magnificent old plates in colours, very rare, 1776, &c., 6l. 188. 6s. A copy of Le Brun's pictures of the Flemish School; 1792-6, is 107. 10s; and Sowerby's ' English Botany," 1719-1814, 20 guineas. There are a number of works CONSTANT READER ("He saw a certain minister"). under Arctic, also under India and the East; and under London are many of Ackermann's views,This line is from a verse included in some editions 1809, 2s. 6d. per plate. Mr. H. Seers, of Leyton, has a good clearance catalogue of general literature. Mr. A. Russell Smith has 'Albert Durer Revived,' folio, 1685, 21. 2s.; and the first edition of Major Cartwright's American Independence the Interest The and Glory of Great Britain,' 1774, 17. 58. 66 At a catalogue quotes H. Stevens as stating, time when no member of Parliament had decision of mind to propose the Independence of America, Major Cartwright suggested the expediency of a Union with the Colonies under separate LegislaA Defensative tures." There is a good copy of against the Poyson of supposed Prophecies, by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, folio, 1620, 31. 3s. This book is often quoted for its illustrations of Elizabethan manners. Lewis's History of the Abbey of Faversham,' 1823, is 41. 4s. Under London is Ralph Agas's Map, with text by Overall, 1874, 17. 5s.; and under Shakespeare is Payne Collier's WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. as to the value of old books and other objects or as of Coleridge's poem 'The Devil's Thoughts.' See the various versions given in the long note on pp. 621-3 of Dykes Campbell's edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works' (Macmillan, 1893). W. B. FRYER ("La vie est vaine ").-The lines are by the Belgian poet Léon Montenaeken. See 8th S. vi. 26. S. D. C.-Many thanks. We think it best not to prosecute the subject. NOTICE. Editorial communications should be addressed to " The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Adver tisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1906. CONTENTS.-No. 117. NOTES:-Westminster Changes in 1905, 221-G. J. Holy- Street Changes, 227. 227-Sir Joshua Reynolds at Le Portel-Greek and Roman John Miller was for many years member of Mead, of Ware-'The Lustful Fryar '-Writing on Ivorine -African Sloths-Heraldic-John Bull and his Wonder- REPLIES:-Royal Arms in Churches, 230-"Sacræ Pagina Carriage Portmanteau Words and Phrases - Bowes Castle, Yorkshire, 235 Princess Roval's Daughters Emperor and Poets Laureate, 237-Charing and Charing Cross-Oscar Wilde Bibliography, 238- A Medley Finale to the Great Exhibition Trump" as a Card Term, 239. NOTES ON BOOKS:- Lectures on Early English History Recreations of a Naturalist-The Edinburgh Review' Bausteine.' Obituary:-Peter John Francis Gantillon, M.A. Hotes. WESTMINSTER CHANGES IN 1905. IT cannot be said that the changes which have taken place during the past year have been so extensive as in some years gone by they have, in the main, only continued changes previously begun. It will be well to begin the notice of them in the Millbank district of St. John's parish, where the work has been continued with more or less vigour during the past twelve months. Within that period a start has been made on the river side of Millbank Street, and towards the end of the year bills were issued announcing a sale of the contents of No. 1, known as Dorset Wharf, in the occupation of Messrs. T. J. Miller & Son, sperm oil merchants and spermaceti refiners; of 55 and 57, in the occupation of Messrs. William & J. Russell Freeman, stone and granite merchants; and of 65 and 67, lately known as Allcott's Wharf. In this sale, which was notified to take place on 23 January, 1906, were included many items on the premises of 62, on the other side of Millbank Street, also occupied by Messrs. Freeman. In connexion with the sale of No. 1, Millbank Street, it may be thought worthy of notice that the late Mr. Taverner On the river side of Millbank Street, Nos. 71, 39, 33, 31, 29, and 19, are empty, and ready, apparently, for early demolition. No. 33 was a public-house known as "The Brewers' Arms." The extensive building being erected by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners progresses towards completion, which is, however, still in the distance; but distinct advance has been made since 1904. The two houses in Great College Street, Nos. 14 and 15, have, it is found, nothing to do with the offices of the North-Eastern Railway Company in Cowley Street, but will be devoted to private residences. The welldesigned offices of the railway company, numbered 3, 4, and 5, Cowley Street, will, in all probability, soon be ready for use. It will be convenient, perhaps, to continue along Great College Street to its junction with Tufton Street. The building for Westminster School has been completed, and is being used for several purposes; the two shops on the ground floor are occupied, one by Messrs. W. & J. R. Freeman (" established over a hundred years in Millbank Street ") as an office, and the other by Mr. Martin, a boot and shoe maker, who thus comes back to nearly the same spot as he occupied before being disturbed, at the corner of the closed Black Dog Alley. This old established firm has supplied many generations of Westminster School boys with boots and shoes, and with racket bats and balls and other necessaries for sport. The house at the corner for the Society of St. John the Evangelist, or Cowley Fathers, was also completed in the year just closed. It was on 20 July (St. Margaret's Day) consecrated by the Bishop of London (Winnington Ingram), when he also laid the foundation stone of the chapel, which at the close of 1905 was showing some signs of the progress made in its erection To return to Millbank Street, it will be found that much improvement has been made in Wood Street. Crawford's old established veterinary forge, at the corner of this street and Horse and Groom Yard, was removed in the first half of the year, which completed the demolition of all the houses from this spot to the corner of Church Street, No. 32 (for many years in the occupation of Gabetas Gowing, a carpenter and joiner) and No. 34 (formerly the residence of William Bowles, a verger at Westminster Abbey) being the last that were demolished. Wood Street was widened by June as far as the east side of St. John's Street, by which date two or three houses were down and Nos. 21, 22, and 23 empty. Proceeding up Millbank Street, we find, at the end of the year to which these notes refer, that there were only two houses standing the licensed premises at the corner of Church Street, known as "The Jolly Miller," were still open; but the next house, formerly a coffee-house and diningrooms, was closed. Thus, with the exception of the pumping station of the London Hydraulic Power Company, No. 64, at the corner of Romney Street, the ground was all cleared to that point. From Romney Street to the corner of Horseferry Road, nothing is now standing; while in the latter thoroughfare to the east side of Carpenter Street all has been cleared away. Turning down this street, we reach again Romney Street, which is clear on its south side to Millbank Street. By October a new broad street (unnamed) was open from the south side of Smith Square, across Romney Street, into Horseferry Road; and before long Grub Street will be obliterated from the map of London. Champion's Alley has already gone. The whole of the south side of Smith Square has been cleared, and Scott's Rents closed. In the south-west corner No. 32 is still standing. This was the old Rectory House of the parish, and in it resided for a long series of years the Ven. Archdeacon Jennings, the rector of St. John's, before he migrated to No. 18, Dean's Yard. St. John's Chambers, on the west side of the square, with Lion Buildings, at the rear, in Tufton Street, were sold towards the end of the year and in course of demolition. Across the ground thus cleared will be formed a new street leading into Tufton Street, and probably before long into Marsham Street, when Little Tufton Street will be done away with. It may be said in this connexion that Lion Buildings and St. John's Chambers ought never to have been built, as there were many sets of rooms on which the sun could never shine, and, so I am informed, not a few where artificial light was needed day and night. How people can be expected to lead decent lives in such places is a mystery, and it cannot be wondered at that the police had much trouble with the greater part of their inhabitants. The two houses adjoining St. John's Chambers, used for parochial purposes, are empty, as well as Nos. 8, 9, and 10 in the square, it being rumoured that several of the inhabited houses are in the hands of the L.C.C. The houses on both sides of Little Tufton Street have been demolished, those on the north side in 1905; those on the other side, round the corner in Tufton Street, and still further round to 62, Romney Street, were alluded to in a previous paper of mine. Church Court had not been closed at the end of 1905. A considerable number of houses are still standing on the west side of Romney Street, of which 28, 20, and 16 are unoccupied, while the rest to No. 2 are inhabited, but look in a very deplorable condition. In North Street Nos. 13 and 20, on the west side, and Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, and 11, on the east side, are empty. No. 13 was many years ago occupied by Mr. W. W. Grice, who afterwards became the secretary and librarian of the Westminster Free Public Library, Great Smith Street; while in the same house lived, many years before, Robert William Elliston, the great actor, and lessee and manager of Drury Lane and the Olympic Theatres. Among the noted residents in this street were Dr. Coleridge in 1824, on the other side of the street, in days before he became Bishop of Barbadoes; and the mother of Dr. Chelsom, a scholar and usher of Westminster School, and finally rector of Droxford, Hants. Col. Robertson, of the Royal Independent Invalids, died here on 20 May, 1802; and William Capon, the antiquarian draughtsman, many of whose sketches of our old city are in the Crace Collection, died here in 1827. In the little cottage situated down a gateway between Nos. 5 and 7, and, I believe, known as No. 6, North Street, although situated at the rear, lived and died Barnes, the well-known pantaloon of the London theatres. There was yet another theatrical resident, for at No. 11, among the latest residents, if not the last of all, was Mr. Beerbohm Tree. The little cottage alluded to was at the close of the year still tenanted. On the land long vacant adjacent to the chapel of the Society of St. John the Evangelist preparations were being made for the erection of the parish hall in connexion with the church of St. John, Smith Square. This in the altered condition of the parish has long been needed, but only small progress can be reported to the close of the year. However, it is now rapidly going forward. Before leaving what may not inaptly be styled the Millbank area, it must be noted that a hitch had occurred in the negotiations concerning the possession of the premises of the Westminster Electric Supply Corporation. As the premises at this spot had the advantage of a river frontage, while the new site offered for the erection of another generating station in Horseferry Road has not, it is not unlikely that the aid of the law may be invoked to determine if the site suggested can be considered as equivalent to the one of which the company is being dispossessed. Proceeding along Millbank Street, we come to Grosvenor Road, formerly Millbank, and it still remains a mystery why that historic name should have been displaced for one of which there are already too many in London. Perhaps the old name may be restored when better counsels prevail. In Bulinga Street the new buildings of the Army Hospital are complete, and, I believe, in use. At the far end of this street the buildings of the Alexandra Military Nursing Home (so named by express desire of Her Majesty) were, as the year closed, making substantial progress; and in Atterbury Street, on the south side of the Tate Gallery, a good show had been made with another important pile of buildings, which will be devoted to the requirements of the Army Military College. With reference to Vauxhall Bridge, it can only be said that the work was still going on, and completion early this year is looked for." W. E. HARLAND OXLEY. (To be continued.) Westminster. G. J. HOLYOAKE AS A LECTURER. (See ante, pp. 80, 126, 156, 191, 212.) I HAVE been very glad to read the interesting notes which have already appeared in N. & Q' concerning this remarkable man. I once had the pleasure of hearing him speak, and as the occasion was unique I think perhaps a few extracts from the notes then made in my diary may not be unacceptable. Twenty years ago (27 Feb., 1886) I was passing by South Place Institute, Finsbury, and saw that Mr. Holyoake was to give the address there the next (Sunday) morning. I made up my mind to attend, and accordingly found myself seated among the audience that assembled on that occasion. The subject of his address was 'Some New Aspects of Toleration.' He had previously read by way of lesson a chapter from the Book of Esdras, and also outlined a kind of prayer which he said would be like what he should wish to say were he sure there was a God "who was a gentleman." He also stated that he read the same form in the Memorial Hall, Boston, U.S.A., a place conducted on similar lines to South Place Institute. When he commenced his discourse he said it was about forty-six years ago, in the year 1841, that he sat in one of the seats in the gallery (pointing to a seat on his right), and wished he could some day speak something which he then thought of from that platform. Now the time had come, and he should give the subject-matter of those early thoughts, probably put into better language than he could have used forty-six years earlier. He also mentioned the fact that Mr. W. J. Fox, who was then at South Place, read out to his hearers a few Sundays afterwards. a letter which he had sent to him from a distant jail, where he was then undergoing six months' imprisonment for his opinions. During his discourse he quoted the following words, which he said Richard Baxter had taken from an obscure German treatise: "In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." Though not believing in the Bible himself, he was tolerant of those who did. For instance, when his old mother's eyes grew dim he did not hesitate to read to her from that book, because he knew its words comforted her. He also pleaded guilty to buying an old lady a pair of spectacles in order that she might see the pages of her Bible better, and to subscribing towards procuring a curate to preach in the church of the parish in which he lived. The whole of the discourse was memorable in many respects, and when Mr. Holyoake finished some of his hearers broke into cheers, a thing apparently unusual. After we had sung a hymn Mr. Holyoake said that in his opinion there was no passage in the whole Bible finer than that which ended with the words, "But the greatest of these is charity." My diary gives the following notes on his appearance and methods:: "He looks to be a man something past sixty years of age. His face is not unlike that of Robert Browning. He wears the same pointed beard, but his hair is straight and is worn low on the neck behind. Its colour is iron-grey. He appears to suffer from weak eyesight. Apparently he knows almost by heart his MS. from which he professes to |