MARGUERITE POWER (8th S. ii. 209).—Mr. S. C. Hall, in his ' Memories of Great Men and Women,' third edition, p. 404, says that Margaret Power, one of the two daughters of Col. Power, Lady Blessington's brother, died in 1868, and her sister (name not given) in 1872. WM. H. PEET. The following extract from the Athenæum of July 13, 1867, will furnish an approximate date of her death: "The last illustration of a once brilliant circle, the very meeting-place of which is razed to the ground, died the other day-Lady Blessington's niece Miss Marguerite Power. She claims a place in these columns, as having attempted rather than succeeded in light authorship, having written tales, verses, and a book of travels. But even more than in the case of her gracious and graceful aunt will she be remembered by her personal elegance and suavity of manner, not unaccompanied by lively touches of humour and shrewd observation, rather than by any literary individuality or merit. The two were born for society-neither of them to achieve a lasting reputation by their butterfly pen-work." 71, Brecknock Road. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. [The 1867 date is correct.] MUMMY WHEAT AND HENBANE (8th S. ii. 187). -I had hoped we had heard the last of the foolish hoax of mummy wheat; but here we have a revival of this belief in the impossible. Nothing short of flawless proof is worth producing in support of a miracle. That seeds of any sort should retain their vitality under any circumstances for hundreds of years would be nothing short of miraculous, for it would be contrary to all we know of vegetable life. And what does COL. MOORE's "proof" consist in? That certain plants sprang up on soil spread in Frampton churchyard; that the said soil was taken from below the floor of the church, which had not been disturbed for two hundred years; whence he assumes, first, that the seeds were in the soil within the church; secondly, that they had lain there since the last time the floor was disturbed; and he proceeds to "vouch for the fecundity of a much smaller seed [than mummy wheat], viz., henbane, which, in two cases within my knowledge, has fertilized after a burial of at least two hundred years." Great is the human appetite for the marvellous; so great that COL. MOORE does not hesitate to give his voucher for a fact which no botanist will believe; for I need not waste time in showing what a slender connexion there is between the supposed origin of the seed and its fertilization in the churchyard. Did CoL. MOORE inquire how baskets; and were these all brand new, or had the soil was carried out-in barrows, bags, or they been thoroughly cleaned before being used? How can he expect his voucher to be received unless he can answer these questions? If the barrows, bags, or baskets were neither new nor clean-cadit questio. I trust he will not resent There are too many enigmas in natural science, the emphasis with which I resist his assumption. requiring the best faculties we possess for their solution, to allow of fictitious problems occupying a moment's attention. The plant, whatever it was (the description sounds like a borage-wort), that sprang up in Frampton and Wigtoft churchyards was not henbane, for henbane is not handsome, nor has it prickly flat leaves and light-blue flowers, nor does it grow three or four feet high; but is a heavy, viscid plant, with a disagreeable smell, with pinnatifid leaves and dingy yellow flowers veined with dull purple, and rarely exceeds two feet in height. If COL. MOORE will send me a specimen of flowers and foliage, I will endeavour to identify the plant. HERBERT MAXWELL. Monreith, Wigtonshire, N.B. From the description given by COL. MOORE, I am led to doubt whether his plant is really henbane. At any rate, he omits the most striking characteristics-the woolly, clammy feel of the plant and its most fetid odour. The leaves are not prickly, and I should be surprised to see any fifteen inches long. The flowers are not light-blue, but dirty yellow, or buff, with dark purple veins, and carry venom in their looks. Altogether there are few more utterly disagreeable and deadlylooking native plants than Hyoscyamus niger. Norwich. JAMES HOOPER. The black variety (Hyoscyamus niger) is the only FAIRS (8th S. ii. 267).—Certainly there " are still fairs in France," and more important ones than ever existed in England, both as trade fairs and as pleasure fairs. The upper classes attend those held in villages. In towns and in the neighbourhood of Paris they only attend under the circumstances pleasantly described by "Gyp,' or for the benefit of the children. D. the former is January 31, and of the latter saint THUNDERBOLTS (8th S. ii. 242).—Mr. C. TOм- MR. TOMLINSON will, I am sure, excuse me for pointing out a slip in his interesting note on thunderbolts. Surely it was not the neolithic people who "made considerable advances in the pictorial arts," but the paleolithic. The latter scratched with flint points on bones sketches of mammoths, &c., which no existing men, wholly uninstructed, could approach with a pencil on paper. H. J. MOULE. Dorchester. Surely MR. LODGE means St. Aidan, and must have stumbled on a misprint. He was a celebrity, being one of the Celtic monks, known to Bede and of the Benedictine house of Biscop ruled over by Benedict of that name, and Bede describes him as the "friend of the poor and, as it were, father of the wretched." This he wrote at the end of his life, which extended from 673 to 735, and he had had good opportunity of knowing Aidan well. The late Bishop Lightfoot (Durham) has said, "Not CONVERTINE CONVERTIVE (8th S. ii. 247).— Augustine, but Aidan, is the true apostle of Eng-The ship about which PROF. LAUGHTON inquires land"; and again, "Augustine was the apostle of Kent, but Aidan was the apostle of England." He is the person, I believe, for whom MR. LODGE is inquiring; and if he will look in 'Sketches of Christian Life in England in the Olden Time,' by the author of 'The Schonberg-Cotta Family,' or in ⚫ Martyrs and Saints of the First Twelve Centuries,' by the same writer, he will find full descriptions of St. Aidan. But as to St. Aidus, I find no record in any bagiology, no matter how diffuse. JNO. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. I cannot find any such person. Is it not a misprint or a contraction for St. Aidanus; that is, St. Aidan. In Potthast's alphabetical list of saints in the Supplement to the Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi,' Aidanus, Bishop of Fernes, is given under January 31, and Aidanus, Bishop of Lindisfarne, under August 31. EDWARD PEACOCK. There are two saints called Aidanus, one bishop and confessor, honoured at Ferns, in Ireland, and the other a bishop and confessor of Lindesfarne, or Lindisfarn (Holy Island), Durham. The day of was named the Convertine. The name is plainly written in several navy lists in Pepys's MSS. There was also a ship called the Convert, and both of these were engaged in the battle with the Dutch on June 2 and 3, 1653. The origin of the former name seems very uncertain; possibly the latter may have been a captured vessel from the Dutch or Prince Rupert, and then renamed. W. D. MACRAY. HERALDRY IN FRANCE (8th S. ii. 189, 277).There is a Marquis de Magny who is termed "Directeur des Archives de la Noblesse de France et du Collège Heraldique de France à Paris." SEBASTIAN. SWIFT'S FRIEND, ROCHFORT (8th S. ii. 46).The Rochforts were a charming Irish family, with whom Swift was intimate. The father, Robert Rochfort, was made Attorney-General to King William, June 6, 1695, chosen Speaker of the House of Commons the same year, and appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1707, in which post he continued till the death of Queen Anne. to have descended to myself, and will not be driven away by any other suggestion that could be made. I am under the impression that the triple words were rung forth from the neighbouring steeple of Norton Canes that left the effect in my sire's J. BAGNALL. memory. Water Orton. 'THE MARSEILLAISE' (8th S. ii. 124, 191, 238). He died suddenly at his seat of Gaulstown, Oct. 10, 1727. It is generally supposed that Swift's letter was addressed to the wife of his elder son George, who married Lady Elizabeth Moore, youngest daughter of Henry, Earl of Drogheda. George Rochfort represented the county of Westmeath in Parliament, was a member of the Privy Council, and Chief Chamberlain of the Court of Exchequer, a post which he held till his death, July 8, 1730. His eldest son, Robert, was created Baron of Bel--That Rouget de Lisle composed both poetry and field, March 16, 1737; Viscount of the same place, music of the Marseillaise' has been proved. The sonorous Alsatian melody" and other myths are Oct. 5, 1751; and Earl of Belvedere, Nov. 13, 1756. Swift's publisher, Faulkner, and the writer dealt with in Les Mélodies Populaires de la of the obituary notice quoted by H. H. S., believed France,' by Loquin, published in Paris in 1879. W. H. CUMMINGS. the letter was addressed to the wife of the Chief Baron's younger son, John Rochfort, who married a daughter of Dr. Staunton, a Master in Chancery, and long survived his brother. Kashmir Residency. W. F. PRIDEAUX. "ULLORXAL" (8th S. ii. 268).-Would that DR. BRINSLEY NICHOLSON, soundest of Shakespearian critics, were still among us to explain his adaptation of this undoubted misprint. It might, perhaps, have been more wisely allowed to rest undisturbed under the discredit to which almost all the critics have doomed it (vide Timon of Athens,' III. iv. 105). Clearly DR. NICHOLSON intended to use it in the sense of incomprehensible, but he might easily have selected a more beautiful word from among those incapable of explanation. For at best it is monstrously uneuphonious, and it will doubtless be allowed to slumber unused and forgotten until the day of the vivification of all the stillborn words beginning with the letter U, I mean till such time as the 'N. E. D.' has arrived at that distant point, and for ever exalts it to a place in the English language, in accordance with the plan upon which that monumental work is based. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY. 16 MILTON'S 'L'ALLEGRO' (8th S. ii. 89, 192).In reply to MR. W. G. BLACK's inquiry, "Did hunting in the good old days begin before daybreak?" I would remind him of the hunting scene at Carthage in the fourth book of the 'Eneid,' where Virgil writes: It portis jubare exorto delecta juventus; and of the words of Sir Walter Scott's well-known Hunting Song': Ventnor. Waken! Lords and Ladies Gay! E. WALFORD, M.A. He BUTLER FAMILY (8th S. ii. 149).-Richard The origin of "this strange word" is to be Butler, of Kilcash, Garryricken, &c., in cos. found in that delightful book 'Shakespeare Tipperary and Kilkenny, joined the Irish in 1641, Hermeneutics; or, the Still Lion,' by Dr. Ingleby, and was made Governor of co. Wexford and 1857. The second chapter (pp. 31-38) deals with Lieutenant-General in the Irish army. "the corrupt and obscure words in Shakespeare," married Frances, daughter of Mervyn, second of which a list is given on p. 33, including "Vllorca, Earl of Castlehaven, and was grandfather of the 'Timon of Athens,' III. iii." "From the penulti-fifteenth and sixteenth Earls of Ormond, and anmate word we will call the entire class Ullorxals." But the question, "What is the meaning of this strange word Ullorca?" remains for future answer. O. W. TANCOCK. Little Waltham. VOICES IN BELLS AND CLOCKS (7th S. xii. 304, 396; 8th S. ii. 238).-May I just add that in Staffordshire a peal of three bells is supposed to say "long-tailed sow," the ai pronounced as ee in the dialect of that county? My father got the idea as a boy when living at Cannock, and it appears cestor of the present Marquess. C. MOOR. SUFFOLK ARTISTS: JOSEPH SINGLETON (8th S. ii. 249). In reply to MR. G. MILNER-GIBSONCULLUM'S query, it is certain that Singleton was a Bury man. William Upcott, a personage whose memory is still dear to antiquaries and literary collectors, was, it should be first mentioned, really an illegitimate son of Ozias Humphry, Royal Academician and Portrait Painter in Crayons to George III., although in biographies he is per 8th 8. II, OCT. 8, '92.] which "Joseph Singleton, son of Thomas Singleton, of Bury St. Edmonds, in the County of Suffolk, Stone Cutter, by and with the consent of his said father," sistently called only his godson. Upcott seems to personal names as well as genealogists will give him have treasured letters to himself from his father thanks. Cornishmen have a set of surnames of their is far more important than this is the long catalogue of and specimens of the latter's correspondence and own, some of which are very curious. What, however, dealings with others. Amongst such of these as place-names which he has compiled. The Cornish lanare now in my possession is the original apprentice-guage, we regret to say, is now dead; but the district the longest. These names of rocks, fields, and stones have, ship indenture, on vellum, dated July 8, 1767, by around St. Ives was one of the places where it lingered therefore, a special interest as being worn fragments of a lost branch of the great Celtic family of speech. The churches are well described. We gather that until the recent restorations they were in a disgraceful state. Cornishmen did not take kindly to the sixteenth century Devonshire rising testifies. The Bible and Prayer Book. changes in religion, as what is known in history as the were not translated into their tongue, and therefore, when the old services were abolished they were not able to comprehend the new liturgy which was provided for less interest in religious concerns. The great movement them, and seem, as time went on, to have taken less and of which Wesley was the leader must have done immense good in the St. Ives neighbourhood. Mr. Matthews writes of it with intelligent sympathy, pointing out how great an impediment it was to wrecking, smuggling, and other evil practices. There was, however, no part of England in which Wesley was more bitterly opposed by a section of the people. Mr. Matthews says that in former days, when the churchyard of St. Ives became full of bodies, the ground was covered several feet deep more as before. As many as thirty mules, it is stated, with sand from the shore, and burials went on once have been seen pacing along in single file bringing sand for this purpose from the beach. We have evidence that the churchyards of St. Giles, Cripplegate, and All was bound for seven years from March 25, 1767, to Ozias Humphry, of King Street, Covent Garden, in the county of Middlesex, miniature painter in water colours and enamel. Singleton engraved with great skill, generally in the mixed stipple and mezzotint manner, several of his master's portraits. One of them, that of James Wyatt, R.A., was painted in 1795, so that the quondam apprentice's collaboration went on for more than a quarter of a century. FREDERICK HENDRIKS. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8th S. ii. 49, 99). Awake and listen, O bride of May. The REV. C. F. S. WARREN mentions the above as being found in Jacob Faithful'; but it was originally published long before Marryat wrote his novels-more than seventy years ago, in some magazine of the day. Can any one give the name of either author or maga-Saints, Derby, have been in like manner raised for a zine? (8th S. ii. 168.) Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light CANADIENNE. And she sits on a sapphire throne. This quotation is from B. W. Procter (Barry Cornwall), (8th 8. ii, 229.) Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, The silver key of the fountain of tears Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A History of the Parishes of Saint Ives, Lelant, Towednack, and Zennor. By John Hobson Matthews. (Stock.) MR. MATTHEWS belongs to the new school of topographers, and is a worthy member of the class. We have no fine writing in his pages; he does not seem to care much for "the dignity of history," a thing our forefathers dwelt on with such superstitious reverence. His design has evidently been to give his readers everything he can gather concerning St. Ives and its sister parishes which is likely to interest the reader. We have useful lists of the parish officers, for which students of similar purpose. In nearly every part of England there are many old churchyards which stand higher than the surrounding land, and the church has to be entered by a descent of several steps. The reason for this has been a constant puzzle to those who speculate as to the condition of things in the past. We have here, we feel sure, a clue to the mystery. Lake Country Romances. By Herbert V. Mills. (Stock.) MR. SWINBURNE reviews, in the Fortnightly, in a tone of rapturous eulogy, Victor Hugo's Notes of Travel.' Some of the passages quoted are familiar, but all are excellent, and few expressions of praise can seem extravagant. Raphael,' by Mr. Walter Pater, consists of a lecture delivered in August last, to the University Extension students. It is very eloquent, and concludes with elaborate eulogy of the Ansidei, or Blenheim, Madonna, acquired a few years ago by the nation. Á very striking account is sent by Mr. Stephen Bonsal of The University of Fez To-day.' A university for the an inculcation of ignorance and squalor is a sufficiently curious institution to be still in existence. Such, however, this appears to be. Mr. Bonsal has contrived to acquire-convey the wise it call"-some of the literary treasures of which it was possessed. Of these he gives little or no account; but he reproduces for us a map, still in use in the university, which is almost as comic as that devised by Mark Twain of the siege of Paris. Mr. F. Harrison, dealing with Mr. Huxley's Controversies,' shows how much he and the writer possess in common. Mr. Hiram S. Maxim has some very uncomfortable conclusions with regard to the future of Aerial Navigation.' In Our Weekly Reviews,' Mr. Earl Hodgson speaks up on behalf of the National Observer.--Mr. Irving, in the Nineteenth Century, in an article headed Some Misconceptions about the Stage,' takes up the cudgels against Mr. George Barlow, who, Mr. Irving is told, is "a Minor Poet," and put forth in the Contemporary his views on the stage. Other recent amateur critics of the stage come in for Mr. Irving's banter. Very interesting is the account given of New Caledonia, under the title of 'A French Colony,' by the Countess of Jersey. A delightful spot, in many respects, must be the French penal settlement. Sir Henry A. Blake asks the question 'Where did Columbus first land in 1492?' writes a valuable paper, and leaves the matter still in dispute. Mr. Frederick Boyle sends A Thanksgiving for Orchids,' and shows how much delight may be obtained from their cultivation by a man of moderate means. Mrs. D'Arcy Collyer writes at some length upon The Salons of the Ancien Régime.' Mr. C. Kegan Paul supplies 'Stories of Old Eton Days,' and Mr. Clinton T. Dent, in answer to the question Can Mount Everest be Ascended?' is disposed to give an answer in the affirmative. Mr. Frederic Harrison writes, in the New Review, on London Improvements,' and dwells upon the obvious necessity for further extensive operations. Prof. Garnier, in Jim the Orang and his Cousins,' deals further with monkeys, and tells some curious and rather pathetic stories concerning them. Mr. Grace writes on County Cricket in 1892, and Mr. Williams deals with 'The Degeneration of Human Teeth,' while Mr. Vandam gives extracts from his 'Parisian Note-book.'-The Century opens with a brilliant account, by Mr. Archibald Forbes, entitled What I saw of the Paris Commune. A desperately risky life was that he depicts, and he had more than one narrow escape of being shot. The illustrations are excellent. The Lotto Portrait of Columbus' is the subject of an article leaning to the view that it is genuine. The portrait itself, which is reproduced, shows a very ascetic face. 'Picturesque Plant Life of California' is attractive. Part ii. of Pioneer Packhorses in Alaska' is also given.-The principal article in Scribner's is The World's Fair at Chicago,' of which some very striking views are given. French Art: Romantic Painting' is excellent, and has some capital reproductions of designs by Géricault, Delacroix, Millet, Corot, and others. A readable article is that on The Education of the Deaf and Dumb.' A paper on The Administration of Ether' is worth perusal.-To Mac millan's Mr. Shuckburgh sends a paper on ""Corsica" Boswell,' dealing with his controversy with Paoli. Literary Tramps' is amusing, but is quite different from what the title leads us to expect.-A Twilight Gossip with the Past,' in Temple Bar, contains much pleasant and entertaining gossip. Paul Louis Courier' is also the subject of a paper. Mr. Schütz Wilson writes, in the Gentleman's, upon 'Anna Köningsmark,' and Mr. Williams describes A Wedding and a Christening in Greece.'-In Belgravia is a paper on 'Joan Beaufort. Mr. Joseph Bennett writes, in the English Illustrated, on 'Some Musical Conductors,' with portraits of the most distinguished. 'Beards and no Beards,' by Cuthbert Haddon, has a pleasant antiquarian flavour. 'Cranborne Chase' and The Peerage in China' deserve commendation. The latter is especially interesting.In Longman's Mr. Anderson Graham describes The Making of Gunflints' and Mr. Rodway 'Day and Night in the Guiana Forest.' PART LXI. of Cassell's Old and New London is wholly occupied with Greenwich, of which it gives many good pictures. Among the best of these are the Palace in 1630, a view of Placentia, of much antiquarian interest, a view from One Tree Hill in 1846, and a picture of Easter Monday in Greenwich in 1802.-Part XXI. of Life and Times of Queen Victoria ends with the marriage of the Duke of Connaught, of which a full-sized plate is given. There is a good picture of Trooping the Colours.'Cassell's Storehouse of Information, Part XXI., carries the alphabet to "Eotvos," and has a map showing the distribution of America. THE Journal of the Ex-Libris Society has an article, partly consisting of appeal, by the editor, on Our Ex-Libris Album,' from which it seems that only a hundred and seventeen private members and seventeen public libraries have sent their book-plates. Mr. Walter Hamilton writes on Collectors in the United States,' and Mr. Arthur Vicars continues his Literary Ex Libris.' DR. BRINSLEY NICHOLSON.--MR, WALTER G. BOSWELLSTONE writes:-"I trust you will correct the misstatement that my friend Dr. Nicholson had suffered for the last seventeen years from paralysis depriving him of the house about fourteen years ago, and since then we have use of his limbs' (ante, p. 280). I first saw him at his frequently met. He certainly had full use of his limbs, and in the many letters written to me during that space of time he never mentioned even a temporary loss of power." Our statement was taken from a report of the inquest. Notices to Correspondents. 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