full the three Confiscation Acts of 1651 and 1652, and Chicheley, by Mr. Chester Waters, is that of Sir John her careful index makes these valuable records as easy Waters, who was famous for the passage of the Douro, to consult as the alphabet itself; her preface also is a and who signed the Returns of Waterloo. The story of model of what such prefaces should be. Mr. Gomme's his eventful career and many achievements of shrewd Index, with its numerous references, and the vastness and audacity, which established his fame as one of amount of information he has crowded into his intro- the heroes of the Peninsular War, is as interesting as duction, fills a gap that has long perplexed historical a romance, and many people who would not care to buy and political students. The volume is simply invaluable. so large and expensive a work as the Memoirs will be Mr. Wheatley has added some important lists to his glad to know that Messrs. Reeves & Turner have for sale excellent tract since we noticed it last year, and his a few copies of Sir John Waters's Life separately, which answer to his own question is already a standard autho- were reprinted for the family. rity. With such a brilliant commencement, the Index Society can hardly fail of a prosperous career. THE LONDON LIBRARY.-A correspondent writes to us: "As one who took great interest in the establishment of the London Library, was an early member, and numbered among his personal friends many of its most earnest and influential promoters, and who had served under dear old George Cochrane, its first librarian, in the Foreign Quarterly Review, allow me to express the gratification with which I have read the Report of the Committee presented to the general meeting on the 28th ult. That gratification is founded on the fact that the library now contains nearly ninety thousand volumes, that it numbers no less than sixteen hundred members, and, best of all, that the committee find themselves in a position to entertain the idea of purchasing the present premises, and so ensuring the perpetuity of an institution so valuable to all literary men that it would be a disgrace to them if the opportunity were lost." THE National Portrait Gallery, as recently opened to the public at South Kensington, will no doubt be widely appreciated by a more permanent class of visitors than the Whitsuntide holiday makers. Here, thanks to the skill with which Mr. George Scharf has carried out the directions of the Trustees, we are for the first time enabled to estimate the historical interest of the collection of portraits long hidden under the vast accumulation of we may now enjoy the sight of Mary Queen of Scots and Mary of Modena, Wolsey and Pole, Latimer and Ridley, Knox, "dinging us wi' his clavers," Isaac Barrow, the "Exhaustive Preacher," the Duchess of Queensberry, Prior's "Kitty, beautiful and young," posing as a milk maid, "Gentle Oliver," who was "never so friendless but he could befriend some one," Dickens and Faraday, and many another name well known in politics, science, religion, literature, or art. Those who know how to value such helps to study will do well to pay an early visit to the new gallery in Exhibition Road. miscellaneous treasures in the British Museum. Here WE are glad to hear that Mr. Joseph Bain, F.S.A. Scot., one of our most valued contributors, has been appointed by the Lords of the Treasury to edit, under the direction of the Lord Clerk Register, the earliest documents connected with Scottish history contained in the English Public Records. Nearly five years ago the attention of the Treasury was called to such a work by the late Sir William Stirling Maxwell. Since his lamented death and that of the late Lord Clerk Register, Sir William Gibson-Craig, other eminent persons connected with Scotland have interested themselves in the appointment now made. Mr. Bain, who has long devoted much of his time to such pursuits, has some hereditary claims connected with Scottish records, his uncle of the same name having been one of the founders of the Maitland Club, a literary society which, like its elder compeer the Bannatyne, has done much to bring to light the early monastic and other chronicles of Scotland. AMONGST the interesting Lives in that encyclopædia of biography, the Genealogical Memoirs of the Chesters of WE have to record with much regret the death of Mr. William Thomas Mercer, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, which occurred somewhat suddenly on Friday the 23rd ult. Mr. Mercer had spent the greater part of his early life in China, where he held the Colonial Secretaryship at Hong Kong. He was devoted to literary and antiquarian pursuits, and was a constant contributor to " N. & Q." down to the very latest date. MESSRS. G. E. DOD Co., 26, Parliament Street, Westminster, S. W., have been appointed the London agents of the Société Biographique de France. Applications for membership, and biographies of Englishmen intended for publication in that society's Journal, should be addressed to them. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notice: ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. ALICE.-It is doubtful, to say the least, whether the ballad known as Marie Hamilton, and lately reproduced as a song under the name of The Four Maries, has any Sir Walter Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border historical basis. Two separate versions are printed by (Edinburgh, 1848, vol. iii. p. 298), and by Prof. Aytoun and two other versions are mentioned by Sir Walter. in his Ballads of Scotland (Blackwood, 1861, vol. ii. p. 45), But the " haynous murther, committed in the Court; yea, not far from the Queen's lap," which is supposed to furnish the basis of the ballad, is by Knox, the only histhat served in the Queen's chamber," while all the known torical authority for it, attributed to a "French woman versions of the ballad agree as to the Scottish nationality of the heroine. ANON. asks for reference to an article in the Saturday of the name of the town now known as Devizes, but Review some few years ago which treated on the origin which was formerly called The Devizes. R. CURTIN.-The phrase was first applied to a special period of the great French Revolution. E. E. DANA.—The reply will probably appear with others. Various letters forwarded. ERRATUM.-Ante, p. 424, col. i., last line but one from the bottom: "1191 " should be 1091. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries '"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. ...218. 248. 308. 368. per imperial gallon. On receipt of a Post-Office Order, or reference, any quantity will be forwarded immediately by HEDGES & BUTLER. 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That there is a wide-spread and growing interest in our Popular Antiquities, and an increasing desire to preserve the fast-fading relics of our Popular Fictions and Traditions, Legendary Ballads, Local Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions and Old Customs, is manifest from the number of Provincial Newspapers in which a FOLK-LORE COLUMN" now forms a prominent feature; while at the same time the researches of the antiquary and archeologist on these points are now generally recognized as important elements in the scientific evidence as to human history. 66 The FOLK-LORE SOCIETY, founded on the principle so successfully originated by the Camden Society, has been established for the purpose of furnishing a common centre where these materials may be brought together and preserved for future use. The FOLK-LORE SOCIETY will gather together and publish the more important Folk-Lore articles scattered throughout English literature; original communications on the same subject; and such accounts of the Folk-Lore of the colonies and of other countries as may serve to illustrate and explain that of our own. It will also be the work of the FOLK-LORE SOCIETY to bring under the notice of the Members the most important works on Folk-Lore published on the Continent. The publication of the Society for 1878 is THE FOLK-LORE RECORD, Part I. CONTAINING :-Some West Sussex Superstitions lingering in 1868. By Mrs. Latham.-Miscellaneous: Notes on Folk-Tales. By W. R. S. Ralston, M.A.-The Folk-Lore of France. By A. Lang, M.A.-Some Japan FolkTales. By C. Pfoundes-A Folk-Tale and various Superstitions of the Hidatas Indians. Communicated by Dr. E. B. Tylor.-Chaucer's Night-Spell. By William J. Thoms, F.S. A.-Plant-Lore Notes to Mrs. Latham's West Sussex Superstitions. 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