and committed forgery. He was, however, allowed to leave Dudley and reire to Wales, where he edited a paper and wrote books. He died quite suddenly at Bron'r Hendref, near Carnarvon, Nov. 4, 1847. The 'D.N.B.' contains an account of Mr. Bransbury, with a list of his publications. H. G. HARRISON.

Aysgarth, Sevenoaks.

STEPHEN HOPKINS :

See

DAVY MICHELL THOMAS COTESMORE (12 S. v. 292).-The livings held by Hopkins were apparently East and West Wrotham (now Wretham) in Norfolk, not Wrotham, in Kent. Cooper's Athena Cantabrigienses,' v. i, 212, and the list of the rectors of those parishes in Blomefield's History of Norfolk.' Cooper does not mention his taking the degree of B.D. EDWARD BENSLY.

SIR EDWARD PAGET (12 S. v. 126).— Facing page 268 of vol. ii. of The Paget Papers (Heinemann, 1886), there is a reproduced portrait, evidently from an oil painting, of General Sir Edward Paget, but the letterpress does not disclose the whereabouts of the original.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

"GRAM IN PLACE-NAMES (12 S. v. 266).— The places named being all hamlets, I think the suffix represents a contraction of the O.Fr. grange, a barn or granary, also a farm, and the place where formerly rents and tithes were received; see Johnston's Placenames of England and Wales,' s.v. Abbotsgrange and Grangemouth. In Bartholo mew's 'Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles' I find Kilgram Grange in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and Kill (i.e., Cell) of the Grange in co. Dublin. Angram may Grange, and Legrams for Les Granges. stand for Atten-Grange, Leagram for La

in the United States, where it occurs as a Pegram is purely a patronymic, except place-name. It comes from Lat. peregrinus, O.Fr. pelegrin, a pilgrim, the having disappeared and the common change of n into m taking place.

and Wagram is radically different, the former Needless to say, the terminal in Agram deriving from Slavonic Zagreb, and the latter from O.H.G. Wagreine.

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AUTHOR OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.— (12 S. vi. 15.)

When wild in woods the naked savage ran. The line as usually quoted is from Dryden :I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

'Henry VIII.' is in several ways, that the or dinary reader does not perceive, different from the authentic plays of Shakespeare. We think he may have touched it up here and there; but general assent will be given to Mr. Sykes's views that it is the work of Fletcher and Massinger.In metrical quality it is markedly unShakesperian. A Yorkshire Tragedy' and a part of Pericles are assigned to Wilkins. All readers of taste will be glad to find Shakespeare relieved of uncouth stuff with confusing elliptical constructions which does not seem worthy of a master-hand. Mr.

C. A. COOK.

Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming.

The correct version is: "When wild in woods the noble savage ran," and is from Dryden's 'Conquest of Granada,' pt. i, Act I, sc. i. The late Andrew Lang once wrote an article in The Morning Post headed "When wild in woods the noble Marquis ran," and said: "The remarkable line which heads this paper may be found, I think, in the early works of Sir George Trevelyan." Is this so or was Andrew Lang's memory misleading W. A. HUTCHISON.

him?

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Some of Almanzor's bravest lines were parodied and put in the mouth of Drawcansir in the Duke of Buckingham's Rehearsal.'

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is one of his most telling pieces of argument, supported as it is by abundant learning. Another dramatist who takes on a new importance is Peele, who, if he is the author of The Troublesome Reign of King John,' stands at the head of the English school of chronicle-dramas. A book like this makes one realise how widely as well as how wisely Shakespeare adapted the plays of others, a fact which is sometimes forgotten by those who exclaim at the amount of work he got through. Certainty on such questions is difficult matter to achieve; but we had sooner read one essay by Mr. Sykes than a dozen pretentious books explaining that Shakespeare was somebody else. He is both erudite and careful, and we regard his arguments as "good gifts," if we may use a Shakespearian phrase. We hope that he will pursue his inquiries.

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Notes on Books.

Sidelights on Shakespeare. By H. Dugdale Sykes. (Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-onAvon, 78. 6d.)

WE reflect with sorrow that Mr. A. H. Bullen, one of the soundest of our Elizabethan scholars will write no more on his favorite subject. Whether anything of note remains among his papers we do not know; perhaps his Publisher's Note to Mr. Sykes's volume is the last fruit of his ripe knowledge. Publishers are apt in these days to praise their goods without always scrutinizing too closely their literary worth. But Mr. Bullen was a learned critic as well as a publisher, and experts will we think, endorse his opinion of the worth of Mr. Sykes's researches which, like those of our old contributor, Mr. Charies Crawford, bring forward parallels and correspondences as a guide to the authorship of dubious or disputed plays. This method of discovery can, as in many Baconian books, be grossly and foolishly overdone; but the work of Mr. Sykes supplies an accumulation of evidence not relying on commonplaces which deserves #rious consideration. The Shakespeare Apocrypha are a fair field for conjecture and discussion. Arden of Feversham good critics have not generally, we think, followed Swinburne in regarding as Shakespeare's, and the pages before us offer strong reasons for assigning tto Kyd. It has passages of unusual power, but we quite agree with Mr. Bullen in not regarding these as signs of Shakespeare's workmanship.

now in the Library of Christ Church, Oxford. Edited by A. Hiff. (Humprey Milford, 78. 6d. net.)

FOR Some a catalogue may not be full enough and for others it may seem inconveniently bulky, but in this volume it would be hard to find any serious fault it seems to fulfil exactly the purpose for which it is intended. It is a short but sufficiently detailed hand-list of the printed music in the Christ Church Library, which'in no way attempts to compete with Mr. Arkwright's larger work, but sets out to provide a convenient list with just enough information to make it generally useful. Mr. Aloys Hiff has, we think, fulfilled the expectations of his friends and co-workers in Oxford, but those of us who may wish to incorporate the volume in future musical bibliographies would have liked the compiler to explain the system of " finding" or class-marks which he has adopted.

Tales by Washington Irving. Selected and edited with an Introduction by Carl van Doren. (Humphrey Milford, 38. 6d. net.)

HERE is a welcome addition to the "Oxford Edition of Standard Authors." Interest in Irving's work is apt to be confined to Brace-bridge Hall' and Rip van Winkle'; but there is much more that is really attractive, and in the admirable Introduction the merits and defects of the man who first gave a strong lead to American fiction are fully explained We only regret that nothing is said of Irving's charm as a man, his life as a bachelor with the nieces who stood to him as daughters, and his generosity, which eased the difficulties of his publisher, if we remember right, at a serious crisis. Irving was historian, wit and essayist as well as story-teller; but in the last line only lies his claim to general recognition to-day. His stories, too, are not "short stories

of the sort America now produces so freely. Compared with O. Henry, he is nowhere in point and smartness, in carefully engineering and revealing at the right moment a surprise, or even a double surprise. He lacks the restless vivacity and slang of modern America. He is not great at depicting incident as such. His bandits are nothing like so great, for instance, as Luigi Vampa in Monte Cristo.' The Adventure of the Little Antiquary seems rather tame, and Governor Manco and the Soldier' a little too obvious, though redeemed by the spirited touch of its last words. Irving knew that "the author must be continually piquant," and hardly reached that difficult goal. But the very smoothness and excellence of his style may serve as a new recommendation nowadays. He does not write telegraphese, or pepper his narrative with dashes, like some formless purveyors of fiction in the twentieth century. He needed for his best work a story ready made for him, a legend he could embroider. His is not only a style recalling Addison, but also the sly wit of that master, excellently shown, as the Introduction points out, in the satirical medievalism of The Widow's Ordeal.' It is in touches of character that he excels, as in The Adventure of the Englishman accused of insensibility by the fair Venetian. The Stout Gentleman' is justly described as a "flawless episode." There is nothing of unusual incident in it, and the title-character never justifies himself by revealing to the reader in detail the figure of John Bull. He is seen only in a partial glimpse at the end. The piece is a success of style and, for once of imagination, for this was the quality which Irving lacked, or did not indulge, let us say, as freely as he might have.

We think it quite likely that the present age, tired of excessive and devastating cleverness, may return to such writing as Irving's. Anyway, a judicious_reader should find pleasure in this collection. It recalls what Dr. Saintsbury has described as "the Peace of the Augustans." We may not return exactly to that kind of peace: but we can appreciate the intellectual curiosity and social good sense of the eighteenth century as something more desirable than the world of frenzied fashion and vulgar advertisement which produces such inferior and snobbish journalism for eager readers to-day.

The British Academy: Seals and Documents. By Reginald L. Poole. (Published for the Academy by Humphrey Milford, 2s. 6d. net.) THIS little paper booklet should not be overooked on account of its modest appearance, for it is the work of a master in diplomatics who compresses into a short space the results of abundant erudition. The path of the student of seals is strewn with difficulties and forgeries; and some curious gaps in our knowledge still require to be filled up. Mr. Poole shows the abundant interest of the subject and dwells briefly on the various forms which the seal has taken, not the least important of which is the Papal bull. England, however, can claim developments of her own as well as the use of foreign introductions.

We are glad to see monographs of this kind: they are the best justification for the existence of an Academy, an institution which the average student of letters in this country does not regard with great favour

Obituary.

A. H. BULLEN.

MR. ARTHUR HENRY BULLEN who was laid to rest at Lullington on March 5 last had a welldeserved reputation as a scholar, especially in the Elizabethan period. Indeed, he doubled for many years the parts of scholar and publisher, and his bluff, hearty personality fired the imagination of more than one rising writer to whom he gave help and encouragement. We believe he figures, for instance, in Mr. Albert Kinross's novel The Way Out,' and in one of Major A. J. Dawson's earlier books. His first activities as a connected with the firm of Lawrence & Bullen, and in 1904 he established publisher were the Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-onAvon, whence he issued his fine "Stratford Town Shakespeare in several volumes, a work which reveals his mastery of Elizabethan drama. That indeed, was known to the expert from his excellent editions of Marlowe, Middleton, Marston, Peele and Campion. The last-named, a lyrist of the first quality, he may be said to have discovered when he was looking for songs in the Elizabethan music-books in 1887. He collected Campion's poems, the best of which have since figured in all good anthologies, but characteristically, as Mr. Gosse has recently written, warned admirers in 1903 against making Campion "the object of uncritical adulation.' His first publication, an edition of the works of John Day, 1881, reveals that careful and measured erudition which is characteristic of all his work, and which will preserve it as of permanent value.

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CORRIGENDA. Owing to the late return of proofs some errors appear in the article on Statues and Memorials ante. pp. 5-7. On p. 5 for "Skinner's" read Skinners and for "Sept." read Sep. ; on p. 6 for "Tunerelli" read Turnerelli, for "Ronwold" read Romwoid, for "Irelane" read Ireland. for "the" read their, from Berkeley Square onwards for "George II" read George III. The inscription on statue of George III (p. 7) on back of pedestal should read

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WORDSWORTH'S ECCLESIASTICAL

SONNETS':

DATE OF COMPOSITION.

(Pt. iii., Nos. 16, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31.)

THE following paragraphs embody the results of some recent investigations made among the manuscript collection of the late Mrs. Henry A. St. John of Ithaca, New York, and it has been suggested that the establishment of the dates of composition of certain of Wordsworth's 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets' might be of interest to the readers of 'N. & Q.'

Of Pt. iii., Nos. 26, 27, 28, and 31. In the Letters of the Wordsworth Family,' iii. 249, Knight has printed as follows part of a letter from William

Wordsworth to Henry Reed :—

Rydal Mount, Sept. 14 [sic] 1842, MY DEAR MR. REED,

...A few days ago, after a very long interval, I returned to poetical composition: and my first employment was to write a couple of sonnets upon

continues thus:

..and the Funeral Service. I have also, at the same time, added two others, one upon Visiting the Sick, and the other upon the Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, both subjects taken from the Services of our Liturgy. To the second part of the same series I have also added two, in order to do more justice to the Papal Church for the services which she did actually render to Christianity and humanity in the Middle Ages...."

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Bishop Wordsworth, in his 'Memoirs of William Wordsworth,' quotes the letter Correctly (London edition, 1851, ii. 389-90), as does also Henry Reed, under whose supervision the Memoirs' were published in America (Boston edition, 1851, ii. 394-5). We have final evidence, then, 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' iii. 26, 27, 28, and 31, entitled respectively 'The Marriage Ceremony,' Thanksgiving after Childbirth,' 'Visitation of the Sick,' and 'Funeral Service,' were composed "a few days before Sept. 4, 1842. They must have been composed after April 28, 1842, as is proved by the following quotation from Reed's letter of that date. The original manuscript in Mrs. St. John's library has been consulted :

"....I trust you will not think your kindness in this matter [the composition of the sonnets on Aspects of Christianity in America '] is made a pretext for me to abuse it, if I suffered myself to be tempted to make another suggestion respecting the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, the completeness of which, considering the sacred association of the whole series, is especially to be desired. This consideration will I hope weigh with you as some excuse for my venturing to inquire whether among the sonnets in the latter part of the series on the rites and ceremonies of the ChurchBaptism-Catechizing and those (very favourite ones) on Confirmation, there should not be introduced two more, on the solemnization of Matrimony, and the other on the Burial Service...."

That Hutchinson and Nowell C. Smith in their respective editions of Wordsworth's poetical works show uncertainty as to the date of the sonnets Thanksgiving after Childbirth' and Visitation of the Sick' is partly due to their failure to consult the reprint of Wordsworth's letter of Sept. 4, 1842, as given in the Memoirs,' but perhaps more directly to the incomplete version of the