DE BOHUN FAMILY (8th S. vi. 447).-The children of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of King Edward I., were Humphrey, died young; John and Humphrey, successors to the honours; Edward, drowned in Scotland; William, Earl of Northampton; Margaret, died young; Alianore, married James Butler, Earl of Ormonde, &c.; Margaret, wife of Hugh de Courteney, Earl of Devon; and Isabel, who died in her childhood. This list is taken from Dugdale's 'Baronage,' vol. i. p. 184, which also refers the reader to his 'Monasticon Anglicanum,' in which I have no doubt but C. H. will find the information he requires. Banks, in his Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' gives the same list. Waldon Priory was the burial place of the Bohun family, and Elizabeth was interred there and probably the children who died young. JOHN RADCliffe. For references to the history of the De Bohun family, crest, arms, motto, and war cry, see N. & Q.,' 4th S. vi. 501; vii. 24, 150; 6th S. x. 147; 7th S. iv. 247, 417; vi. 8, 73, 308, 413. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road, TRUNKET (8th S. vi. 448).-The word occurs neither in Webster nor in the Encyclopaedic Dictionary.' In Brand's 'Antiquities,' ii. 447 (Bohn's edition), mention is made of "Trunks," a game similar to "Troule-in-Madame," with a reference to 'Poor Robin's Almanack,' 1715, and to Halliwell. Acrostic people sometimes come here in their difficulties, and I tell them that their pursuit is the only form of fox-hunting in which I can afford to indulge; but I am thankful to say I was spared this search. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. The Brassey Institute, Hastings. THE "CHANTICLEER" OF THE GOSPELS (8th S. vi. 485).—The new translation which we are promised will be thought very smart, no doubt, by our fin de siècle Athenians; but to prevent mistakes, it may be as well to note beforehand that the " cock-crowing"=" bugle" is not quite such a new idea as it looks. For a popular book, published more than thirty years ago, says :— "Some believe that allusion is made by the Evangelists, not to the actual crowing of a cock, but to the peculiar sound of the trumpet by which the termination of the third watch was announced, and which is said to I see MR. A. INGRAM's note on him, and shall be glad of any light your circle can throw upon his and my version of ἀλέκτωρ, FERRAR FENTON. "AULD KIRK" (8th S. vi. 367, 474).—It is not often one gets a chance of catching your valued correspondent MR. THOMAS BAYNE tripping; but surely, surely he must know that there is no such drink as whiskey (with an e) known in Scotland, or, at any rate, made in Scotland. Whiskey with an e, like Home Rule, is entirely of Irish manufacture. Most certainly Burns never wrote,— He would as soon have thought of writing,— Scotch who have with Wallace bled. I suppose whisky is called the "Auld Kirk" in Scotland under the erroneous impression that it is by custom established as the drink of Scotland, as the Presbyterian Kirk is by law established as the Church of Scotland. But whisky is really a comparatively modern innovation. Claret and ale were the real "Scots drink," and some of us rather resent Englishmen jumping at the conclusion that every Scotchman drinks whisky, just as we resent them jumping at the conclusion (as they all do) that every Scotchman wears a kilt, the truth being that some of us who are sane would as soon think of going about in our night-shirts as in kilts. Glasgow. J. B. FLEMING. [We fear that we ourselves, rather than MR. BAYNE, are, with Southron ignorance, responsible for the objectionable spelling.] "VARSAL WORLD " (8th S. vi. 46, 335).—Your correspondent seems to have misunderstood my note. Of course, I was perfectly well aware that "varsal" in various parts of the country is the form used for "universal." Furthermore, the quotations given by him were known to me at the time when my note was written. My note gives a special use of "varsal." This use must have arisen from some misunderstanding of the proper meaning of "ursal" or " varsal." 66 F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. RUM (8th S. vi. 363).—In 1639 De Poincy and Sir Thomas Warner, the governors of the French and English quarters of the Island of St. Christopher, ordered the entire destruction of the tobacco crops, on account of the over-production having caused a glut in the market. The planters then turned their attention to the production of sugar, which they probably learned from the Dutch up. trading to Brazil. Richard Lygon, who landed at Barbados in September, 1647, relates in his' History' of that island, how the planters had commenced sugar making five or six years before his arrival, and that there were then many works set He describes the distillation of spirits from the skimmings of the coppers, and says that this, the favourite drink of the colonists, was called kill-devil, and was sold to the shipping at the rate of 2s. 6d. per gallon. He never once makes use of the word rum. Mr. N. Darnell Davis, in his 'Cavaliers and Roundheads in Barbados,' quotes as follows from a MS. description of that island, to which he assigns the date 1650: "The chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor." Sunninghill. Miscellaneous. V. L. OLIVER. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. John Addington Symonds. By Horatio F. Brown. 2 vols. (Nimmo.) A VERY tender, discreet, and thoughtful biography is that compiled by Mr. Brown from the letters and unfinished diary of the friend whose literary executor he is. Not wholly his fault is it if the book will seem inadequate to the admirers of Symonds, and diffuse to those unable to read between the lines and recognize the principle which has influenced the selection of materials. To both classes of readers the memoir will prove painful. We poets in our youth begin in gladness, watched, holds his daughter. There is nothing special Yet all is weakness and complaint. Mr. Brown finds no Fact and Fiction about Shakespeare. By Alfred Calmour. In the often reprinted and lovingly enriched Outlines (Stratford-on-Avon, Boyden; London, Williame.) of the Life of Shakespeare' of Halliwell-Phillipps, in 'The Century of Praise,' and in the works of Ingleby, Fleay, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness, Malone, Collier (with some reservation), and a hundred says Wordsworth. To Symonds, who claimed to rank as others, down to Mr. Ordish, are materials in abundance for a poet, and spoke of himself as such, the second half of half a dozen works such as Mr. Calmour has now published. the well-known couplet alone applies. Youth, middle The selection has, however, been made with judgment, age, decline of life, all are funereal. A moral dyspectic, and Mr. Calmour'e volume presents in a compendious Symonds derived little benefit from the intellectual and an attractive form most known and trustworthy nutriment he took, and his diary and correspondence are information concerning Shakspeare, and much diligently unvirile. We wish to speak of the man with all possible collected though unauthoritative gossip. To those withrespect. He was a good scholar and a fierce and pas- out the time necessary to hunt through large volumes it sionate worker. He inspired strong faith and ardent may be strongly recommended. It is full and accurate, friendship, he was capable of violent exertion, and he and it deals in trenchant fashion with those who would groped in a futile and despairing way after truth. The fix on Shakspeare any stigma of human infirmity. It is, complainings, of which the volumes are made up, seem meanwhile, nobly illustrated, the views comprising porto us none the less puling. It is not the burden of traits of Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, and William Kemp mankind in general beneath which he sinks, it is his dancing the morris, the birthplace, Greenwich Palace, own "private and particular grief." Let it be granted Charlecote Hall, the Globe Theatre, the interiors of the that his weakness and illness claim some sympathy or "Swan" and the "Red Bull," and Robert Greene, in indulgence. He himself acknowledges that rarely indeed conceipt a design we do not remember to have previously has invalid or valetudinarian had chances such as he. seen, while the maps present London in 1593 and 1610, Without regard for expense, and with few responsibilities and part of Warwickshire. Add to these and other views of any kind, he could devote his whole life to the pursuit facsimiles of the title-page of Venus and Adonie,' of health or the gratification of whim. The most activeLove's Labour's Lost,' and of extracts from various portion of his life seems to have been spent at Davos documents bearing upon Shakspeare or in which his Platz, whence he migrated to Venice or to England, name is mentioned, and it will be seen that an interestaccording to his caprice. He was over fifty when he ing and a valuable amount of matter has been brought died, a fact which severs him widely from the Keatses together. Points on which Mr. Calmour insists are the and Chattertons, with whom he might have liked to chances of Shakspeare while his father was sheriff of be associated, and but for accident or misadventure, due Stratford having ample opportunities of seeing the stage in part to his own impetuosity and objection to restraint, performance of the Queen's players and the companies he might have been still alive. So thinks his biographer, of the Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Worcester, and other and so, in the delightfully written and eminently touch- great noblemen, and on the fact that the education suping account of those last moments over which she plied Shakspeare in his boyhood was presumably higher than has been supposed. The volume has, in short, Among the numerous illustrations are some specimens genuine value and abundant interest. of Japanese book-plates. Gustavus III. and his Contemporaries. By R. Nisbet Bain. (Kegan Paul & Co.) SWEDISH history is not a branch of study much cultivated in England. Thanks to Voltaire, we have a certain moderate acquaintance with the famous madman of the North-though his name has long ceased to point a moral or adorn a tale-but we cannot escape the reproach conveyed in Mr. Bain's secondary title, that his subject is an overlooked chapter of eighteenth century history." This reproach he has now wiped away in a most thorough and satisfactory manner. His hero was a typical Vasa, endowed with a full share of that restlessness and Quixotic eccentricity for which his stock was remarkable; "a shining sort of man," says Carlyle, and that in many departments of life; a most finished gentleman, with a charm of manner which none could resist. This romantic and histrionic personage preferred to effect his deep political schemes under the cover of a superficial levity. While he seemed to be devoted to the idle pastimes and elaborate ceremonies of a frivolous court he was labouring and mining all the while to break the power of the old and proud aristocracy of the country, and to transform them into a mere ornamental appendage of his throne. He loved intrigue for its own sake, and often employed finesse and machinations when simple courses would have been equally effectual. A freethinker in matters of religion, he fell a victim, with the customary facility of freethinkers, to the clumsy arts of the Dousterswivels and Cagliostros of his time. The account of Gustavus's aber rations under the influence of the Swedenborgian fanatics is very entertaining. Nevertheless the Swedish monarchy, and the Swedish court as a centre of culture, attained their zenith in the Gustavan era, and in after ages the "Gustavan manner" was a synonym for the acme of good breeding. Mr. Bain has brought to his work two high qualifications, without which no historian can command success. He possesses a wide and accurate acquaintance with the materials, especially the original documents, on which his history was to be based, and he is the master of a bright and attractive style, which makes his work as interesting as it is instructive. (In a parenthesis we may demur to the Anglo-French à l'outrance, i. 70, and cap-àpied, i. 221.) To his second volume Mr, Bain has appended a full and able sketch of Swedish literature and of the literary men who found in Gustavus a generous patron. YET one more follower of N. & Q.' is announced, This is Middlesex and Hertfordshire Notes and Queries, edited by W. J. Hardy, F.S.A., of which the first quarterly number appears. It is a vigorous bantling, and has every prospect of outlasting its compeers. well-executed portrait of Queen Elizabeth is given, and there are many articles of interest by well-known antiquaries, including an account of the excavations at the Highgate barrow. THE January number of the Journal of the Ex-Libris Society, beginning the fifth volume, opens with a deeply interesting account by Lyon King of Arms of The Gray Bequest to the Lyon Office,' a fine bequest of our lamented contributor Mr. J. M. Gray, curator of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, which also appears in the present number of N. & Q. Mr. James Roberts Brown describes the book-plate of Robert Vyner, of Swakely, a reproduction of which forms the frontispiece. The secretary and editor pays a generous tribute to the late Frederick Warnecke, a vice-president of the society. THE Century for January continues Mr. Sloane's 'Life of Napoleon Bonaparte,' the latest instalment dealing with the portion of Bonaparte's life, 1791 to 1795, in which his revolutionary aspects asserted themselves and the signs of coming influence were traced. It is superbly illustrated. First comes a very interesting portrait of Elise Bonaparte, subsequently Grand Duchess of Tuscany. This is followed by Philippotteaux's portrait of Bonaparte as Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Battalion of Corsica, and by numerous other pictures of surpassing interest. The Armour of Old Japan' has much interest for antiquaries. Govaert Flinck's portrait of a young girl is reproduced, and there are some illustrations of Mr. Maxim's Experiments in Aerial Navigation.' In Scribner's Magazine is an account of American Wood Engravers,' with many specimens of the work of Henry Wolf. Mr. Noah Brooks has a paper, illustrated with portraits, of The Beginning of American Parties.' 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