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Author of 'Celestial Motions,' 'Remarkable Comets,' 'Remarkable Eclipses,' 'Astronomy for the Young,' &c. London: SAMUEL BAGSTER & SONS, LIMITED, 15, Paternoster Row. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1907. CONTENTS.-No. 189. NOTES:-'Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne,' 101Jubilee of The City Press,' 103-Spenser's 'Faerie Queene,' 105 Cape Town Cemetery Knoydart: its Pronunciation-Hume and Rousseau, 106-'Don Quixote' in English Literature-Possessive Case of Nouns ending in S- Mocock": its Meaning-C. F. Blackburn, 107. QUERIES:-John Newbery's Portrait Song on Railway Travelling - Erasmus's Ape-Richard Harman, 107Devil's Island-Rev. R. Grant-"Haberdatz"-French Testament, 1551-C. C. Pierquin, 108-Authors of Quotations Wanted-Pie: Tart-Embleton of Northallerton Pre-Reformation Parsonages-Jane Austen's Relatives"Eie sores"-"The North London Ferret,' 109. REPLIES:-Zoffany's Indian Portraits - Robert Grave, Printseller, 110-Crosby Hall-Moravian Chapel, Fetter Lane-Monks of St. Ebrald at Eton, 111-"Practice," a Rule of Arithmetic-Croppenbergh or CoppenburghBishop Best-Isles Family, 112-Beddoes SurnamePanel Inscription-" Breese in Hudibras-"Totter out," 113-MacKeachan Proverb - Queen Mary L. at Wormley 'Sobriquets and Nicknames'-"Bladum": "Siligo"-Houses of Historical Interest, 114-" Wound its Pronunciation Dollars: "Bits": "Picayune Burns's Mensuration School-" Edward" in Slavonic there are probably many errors in dates, places, and possibly in facts. These errors are much fewer than might have been expected, and none of them detracts from the essential merits of the book. On the father's side Madame de Boigne belonged to a good old Norman family, which ranked among the lesser noblesse of the provinces. The hereditary possessions of the family, having been increased by some fortunate marriages, were erected into a marquisate by the young King Louis XV. in 1719. René Eustache d'Osmond, the father of Madame de Boigne, was the greatnephew of the original grantee of the dignity. In the note on the family which forms Appendix II. of the book it is stated that "St. Osmond was Bishop of Salisbury after having enjoyed the title of Duke Dorzét [Dorset ?], which has since passed Col. Cromwell, Royalist, 1646-Cornish Vergers: Carne to the house of Sackville." It is sometimes Family, 115-"Caveac" Tavern-Lady-bird Folk-lore-stated that St. Osmund enjoyed the earldoms "Dapifer": "Ostiarius," 116 J. G. Marvin-"Slink : of Dorset and Somerset, but there are no "Slinking "-Newspaper "Editions"-Richard Baxter on the Pied Piper, 117. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Early English Lyrics-Canon and Song'-'Poems of Patriotism'-'North Wales Notes. and grounds for thinking that he was a collateral ancestor of the Marquis d'Osmond, and the claim is ignored in the account which is given of the family by Magny in the 'Nobiliaire de Normandie,' 1862, pp. 265-73. Osmund was a common enough name in the eleventh century. Madame de Boigne's maternal ancestry was of a far more interesting character. MEMOIRS OF THE COMTESSE DE The family of Dillon, sprung from an Anglo BOIGNE.' I HAVE lately finished reading the English translation of this delightful book, and have also seen several notices of it in the daily and weekly press. The reviewers, with the courtesy due to a very charming lady, have refrained from treating the book in a critical spirit. They have generally given readable summaries of the contents, and have left any slips that they may (or may not) have discovered to take care of themselves. Some of these, such as the inaccurate account of Lady Hamilton's early days, are easily corrected by every well-informed reader; others require a little research. I will venture to note a few matters regarding the authoress and her family which caught my eye while reading the book. The translation, so far as one can judge without seeing the original, seems to be extremely well done; but the editorial part of the work leaves something to be desired. In justice to the authoress it should be stated that the book was written from memory, when she was verging on the age of sixty, and that she admits that Norman stock, had been settled in Ireland since the time of King John, and in the course of years had become more Irish than the Irish themselves. Robert Dillon, her grandfather, belonged to a branch which possessed Kilcornan Castle for several generations; but his father, as the son of a younger brother, settled in Dublin as a banker and merchant. Robert went to Bordeaux, engaged in the wine trade, and, on the strength of a small property which he had acquired, became known as the Seigneur de Terrefort. It could hardly be expected that a Dillon would succeed in business, and Robert was a decided failure. His first wife had been Martha, the daughter and coheir of William Newland of Gatton, by whom he had one daughter, Christiana, who was the wife of Sir Edward Swinburne, fifth baronet of Capheaton, and the greatgrandmother of the illustrious poet of our own days. He married secondly Mary, daughter of Edward Dicconson of Wrightinton Hall in Lancashire, whose wife Mary was the sister of Sir Edward Blount, fourth baronet of Sodington. It was not Miss Dicconson's father who was tutor to the |