AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8th S. vii. 69).

He dying bequeath'd to his son a good name. This is the final stanza of a popular song written by John O'Keefe, the dramatist, with music composed by William Shield, in 1787. It begins "Ere around the huge oak," and is known by that name. I think it was first sung by Darley in 'The Farmer.' The song merits transcription :

Ere around the huge oak, that o'ershadows yon mill,
The fond ivy had dared to entwine;

Ere the church was a ruin that nods on the hill,
Or a rook built its nest on the pine;
Could I trace back the time, a far distant date,
Since my forefathers toil'd in this field;
And the farm I now hold on your honour's estate,
Is the same that my grandfather till'd.
He, dying, bequeath'd to his son a good name,
Which unsullied descended to me;

For my child I've preserv'd it, unblemish'd with shame,
And it still from a spot shall be free.
This is the reading in The Bullfinch,' 1788, and 'The
Myrtle and Vine,' vol, ii. p. 87, 1800.
J. W. EBSWORTH.

Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive. Walter Scott, 'Marmion,' canto vi, stanza 17. This, in expression, is partly imitated from Shakspeare

and Milton:

I will not practise to deceive.

'King John,' I. i. Yet not enough had practised to deceive. 'Paradise Lost,' bk. iv., 1. 124. Yet all experience is an arch, &c. Lord Tennyson, 'Ulysses.' E. YARDLEY. [Many replies are acknowledged.]

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage. By Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms. Edited by his Sone. (Harrison & Sons.) A History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke. Edited by his Sons, 2 vols. (Same publishers.)

A History of the Colonial Gentry. By Sir Bernard Burke. Edited by Ashworth P. Burke, Vol. II. (Same publishers.)

FRESH energy and enterprise have been put into Burke's 'Peerage' and the companion works since they have descended from the hands of the late learned editor Sir Bernard Burke into those of his two sons. Concerning the importance of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage,' the largest and most authoritative work in its class in England, and probably in the world, we have not to instruct our readers. During more than half a century it has been a trusted and accepted guide to all who seek information concerning our noble families, and has been at the right hand of all interested in historical, genealogical, and heraldic pursuits. It is a work of monumental labour, and the amount of sustained effort involved in the annual alteration and rectification of details is far heavier than those who take up the book light-heartedly are liable to think. A keen scrutiny will reveal that some thousands of alterations in the

peerage of 1894, additions and corrections, and the like, are perceptible in that of 1895, which carries the information up to date, and includes memoirs of the new baronets created so recently as the January of the present year. The most interesting new matter brought up is in connexion with the demise without male issue of Francis, second Earl of Cromartie. The case is believed unique in this country of the same family having in the direct line, like that of the Duke of Sutherland, two separate peerages. Lord Cromartie left two daughters and coheiresses. It was considered at the time of his death doubtful whether the earldom of the United Kingdom descended to his elder daughter as heiress of line or remained in abeyance between both daughters. The question seems likely to be decided in favour of the elder daughter. This, however, will not absolutely decide the interesting point that has been raised. Many attempts have been made to resist or disprove the claim of the Earls of Denbigh to descent from the ancient counts of Hapsburgh, but the claim is baronetcy, of which no patent of creation or warrant is again mentioned in the 'Peerage.' The Cockburn on record, disappears, though the title is still assumed. Other striking omissions are the removal of the supporters to the arms of St. John Mildmay, the Mildmay coat only being shown. No arms are assigned to the Smith baronetcy of Tring. For additions the reader may look under heads such as "Thomas, bart. of Wenval," "Langrishe," and "Walker." The earlier generations of Thomas have been much amplified and revised; four generations have been added to the Langrishe genealogy. In the case of this Walker family the lineage has been much modified. We are no longer vaguely told that the ancient surname of the family was Forestier or De Forestier. The connexion shown in earlier editions between the family of the learned Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms, and that of the present baronet disappears. The Joseph Walker who in 1698 married Mary Price, and was the immediate ancestor of Sir George Ferdinand Radzivil Walker, is said to have probably been a nephew of Sir Walter Walker, of Bushey Hail, Herts, the father of Sir George Walker, bart, whose baronetcy is extinct.

In the History of the Landed Gentry,' the eighth edition of which is now issued, similar alterations and improvements are recognizable. More than four hundred pedigrees are now given for the first time, the twovolumes extending to over 2,300 pages. It is difficult to signal out for special comment individual pedigrees, but a glance in the supplement at Burton-Mackenzie of Kilcoy, Darwin of Creskold, Buller-Kearney of Drom, or, in the body of the book, at Ames of the Hyde, Lockhart of Cleghorn, Moray of Abercainy, Haggard of Bradenham, Leadbitter of Warden, Sneyd-Kynneraley of Loxley, Cramer-Roberts of Sallymount, Smith-Carington of St. Cloud, Howard of Wygfair, Lee of Coton, Haymes of Kibworth. Corse-Scott of Lynton, Rowley of Priory Park, Jones-Parry of Llwyn Oun, Sneyd of Keele Hall, Newall of Hare Hill. Kynaston of Hardwick, Nevile of Thorney, Lloyd of Dolobran, Houblon of Hallingbury, Gosling of Hassobury, Gaisford of Offington, Huddleston of Sawston, will reveal how much matter of highest genealogical importance is now added. Some names disappear, being those of families now severed from their ancestral association.

Though long contemplated by Sir Bernard Burke, the publication of the History of the Colonial Gentry' owes its execution to Mr. Ashworth P. Burke. Difficulties innumerable had to be routed, but the task is now accomplished when the second volume sees the light.. An aim of Sir Bernard was " to promote the good fellowship of all the citizens of the Empire by showing how

close were the ties of relationship that bind the colonies to the mother country and one colony to another." It will, of course, be readily believed that the names of those who assisted at the making of England are to be found in the record of the making of the colonies. The most illustrious names in England's roll abound herein. What, however, is more remarkable and interesting is the manner in which "the old Dutch families in the Cape, the French families in Canada, and the German families in Australia have grafted themselves on to the no less ancient stock of English, Scotch, and Irish origin." In many cases the genealogy is naturally the same as that of the English family to which the colonist belongs. The task of tracing out the connexion has been one of no small labour, and entire accuracy is a matter difficult of attainment. No pains have been spared, however, to secure correctness as well as concision. In the case of the United States even, where it was supposed after the separation from the mother country heraldic devices were rejected as frivolous and unworthy of the Spartan simplicity of a republic, the coat armour of English families is not seldom still worn, with or without justification, by those who bear the same name, a fact to which we drew attention in noticing American book-plates. In the colonies English arms are constantly worn, and engravings of these form a pleasantly conspicuous feature in the book. In the cases however too frequent, as it seems-where the arms are assumed without any proven right, they are printed in italics. In the compilation of this useful work, the first of its class to be issued, Mr. Ashworth Burke acknowledges his indebtedness to his brother and active collaborator the Somerset Herald. We congratulate the editors on the manner in which an arduous task has been accomplished, and the supremacy of Burke's heraldic histories has been maintained.

German Classics. Edited by C. A. Buchheim, Phil.Doc. -Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit. The First Four Books. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)

IN this edition of a German classic Prof. Buchheim has rendered another service to that "select circle of the English-speaking community which sympathizes with the spirit of German literature," and he could scarcely have selected a finer work out of the prose writings of Goethe. We envy the English student of German who reads Dichtung u. Wahrheit,' with the notes, full, learned, scholarly, of the German professor. Just a little do we regret the fact that the editor of this valuable edition has modernized the spelling. It may be merely a romantic looking back, but we certainly prefer the orthography used by Goethe himself, the orthography through which we first read the delightful record, half historical, half poetical, of Goethe's autobiography-a book which covers the years between 1749 and 1775. Goethe was on the verge of old age when he undertook to recall his childhood, boyhood, youth. Indeed, the fourth volume was published in 1833, and was, therefore, a posthumous work. Prof. Buchheim's edition comprises the idyl of Sesenheim, the episode of Wetzlar, the amour with Lili. It is not, however, necessary to speak in detail of a work so great and so well known. It is enough to direct the attention of our German students to such a master work, edited with such distinctive ability and with such honest labour.

The Great War with Russia. By Wm. Howard Russell, LL.D. (Routledge & Son.)

THE personal character attached to this work, the second title of which is A Personal Retrospect of the Battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkermann, and of the Winter of 1854-55, &c.,' is likely to render it a special favourite with Dr. Russell's readers, More

graphic and animated than the previous contribution on the same subject, which thrilled England to the core and even roused officialdom for a while from its lethargy, the present volume can scarcely be. It is, however, more of a book of adventure, depicting the hardships and difficulties the brilliant journalist had to face in his position, self-styled, of a camp-follower. It is a book from which we cannot make extracts, and with which we are not able to deal at length. We may say, however, that its records exercise an absolute fascination over the reader, that our pulses beat high at the display of heroism and endurance, and that some of the stubborn feeling of wrong and mutiny roused in our troops by the sense of the incompetency of those who left them, practically unled and unarmed, to fight some of the most desperate combats of modern days surges in our hearts as we read again the painful story of incompetency and neglect. Bitterly resented have been the revelations of Dr. Russell by those high in office; and when honours and recognitions were showered lavishly he was passed over. His only recompense has been the pride taken in him by his countrymen. The appearance of his book synchronizes, however, with that of the contributions to the Fortnightly Review of Sir Evelyn Wood, which bear out almost every word for which Dr. Russell is responsible. We go somewhat out of the beaten track in recommending a work of this class; but we unhesitatingly do so. The lessons Dr. Russell teaches have been learned. How long, however, will it be before they are forgotten and the old reign of happy-go-lucky neglect and indifference is resumed?

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