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Exchequer) in 1699. For a time, upon Anne's
Accession, he found himself under a cloud; but,
partly, it appears, by his own pertinacity and
aplomb, he contrived to bring about his reinstate-
ment as Lord Justice-Clerk, and the attainment
of the place of a Lord of Session. But posterity
will perhaps remember him most willingly as the
father-in-law of Alison Rutherford writer of the
song 'The Flowers of the Forest.'
The last laird of Ormiston deserved as well of Tiis country as any Cockburn of them all, being known as the " Father of Scottish Agriculture " for the experiments and improvements which he carried out upon his estate. It is sad to think that in the end he was compelled to part with it.
Yet another famous Scottish song which has been associated with the Cockburns is 'The Laird of Cockpeu.' It seems, however, pretty clear that Lady Nairne is referring in it to a laird of a period before the year 1733, when Archibald Cockburn, belonging to a branch which was an offshoot from Caldra, acquired it. It was a son of his who married Mary Duff, whom Byron loved.
Equally erroneous is the story given by Scott in "his ' Minstrelsy of the Border ' of the hanging of A Cockburn (of Henderland) to explain the beautiful 'Border Widow's Lament' one of Sir Walter's
- ' random inventions" apparently, to quote our
authors' mot from Prof. Child.
We have left ourselves no space to mention the many interesting ramifications of these Cockburns of Cockpen, nor the Cockburns of Ryslaw, on whom also a baronetcy was conferred still less to say anything of the numerous scions which have taken coot in Jamaica, France, or America.
The illustrations chiefly portraits are interest- ing and well reproduced ; the book is beautifully printed and got up ; and the exhaustive pedigrees must command the admiration of any one who understands how costly alike in time, patience, and ven money is the business of discovering and snarshalling into their places so great an array of names.*
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. OCTOBER.
MR. BERTRAM DOBELL'S Catalogue No. 235 offers plenty of good reading, and may be recommended to the attention of collectors of moderate means, -since most of the items are comparatively inexpen- sive. There is a black-letter copy of ' The Beehive of the Romishe Churche,' translated from the Dutch by George Gilpin, printed (1580) by Thomas Dawson for John Stell, and dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney, II. 10s. ; and another good item among the -earlier books is a first edition of Bulwer's ' Philo- cophus ; or the Deafe and Dumbe Man's Friend ' in the original calf, and having a frontispiece by Marshall and a leaf of explanation in verse 1648, 31. 3*. First editions of four of Holcroft's plays, bound in an octavo volume with two others, may be of interest to readers who have been following the progress of the Holcroft Bibliography now running through our columns. A black-letter copy of 'Piers Plowman' (Rogers, 1561), offered for 21. 10*., and a MS. on vellum of 56 11. gothic letters, with painted initials in blue and red, of the fourteenth century being Hugo of St. Victor's ' De duodecim abusionibus Claustri ' und his ' De septem ultimis verbis Christi,' offered for 31. 3$., may also be mentioned. A Pope J Miscellanea ' in two 12mo volumes printed in
1727 in the original calf, is to be had for 5/. 5-v.,
and another good eighteenth-century item is a
first edition of ' Gulliver,' 11. 10-s. There is an
interesting collection of works on the French Revo-l
lution and Napoleon, and a list of between 40 andi
50 books and pamphlets on military subjects.
MESSRS. WILLIAM GEORGE'S SONS of Bristol send | us a Catalogue (No. 346) of over 700 items, which ' include several books of outstanding interest. They have a number of good works on architec-[ ture, and among the older ones we noticed, offered! for the modest sum of 12*, the three volumes of the best edition of Bloxam's ' Principles of Gothic! Ecclesiastical Architecture,' with the companion"! volume on 'Vestments.' a work which is doubtless old-fashioned, yet is still probably dear, by reason of I early associations, to most elderly lovers of archi- 1 tecture. An important item not dear at 11. 7s. is 29 vols., from 1779 to 1911, of Messrs. Bent] and Sampson Low's' London' and ' English' Cata- logues. The earliest volume records books from the year 1700, and the series thus offers a tolerably complete list of the publications of about two hun- dred years. We noticed also a good copy of Coryat's 'Crudities,' from the 1611 edition, in three volumes, 1776, 4Z. 4*. ; a complete set of the ' Cam- bridge Modern History,' 14 vols, 1906-12. ll/. ;| and a cabinet edition of Grote's ' Greece,' 12 vols, U. 4s. ; while among French books worth noting is Lasserre's 'Notre Dame de Lourdes,' 3 vols., 1893, ll. 4s.; and among military works a ' Bibliotheque Historique et Militaire,' in 4 vols., 1838-46, 16*. ; a copv of Kuropatkin's ' The Russian Army,' 1909, | 8*. 6d. ; and The Times ' History of the Last Boer War,' 7 vols., 1900-9, 21. 15-*.
[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]
SIR SAMUEL MORLAND'S 'POOR MANS DYAL.'
Mr. R. B. Prosser (75, Dartmouth Park Road,
N.W.) writes:
" In the year 18S6 I discovered in the Arch- bishop's library at Lambeth a copy of the above, which, with Dr. Benson's permission, I reprinted for private circulation. It is a dumpy quarto of seven pages only, and I cannot say that it possesses much scientific interest. It is, however, the work of a very remarkable man, who was Master of Mechanics to Charles II., and the Lambeth copy is unique. You were kind enough to notice my reprint at the time it was issued (7 S. i. 480). I have still a few copies left ; and, as I do not wish them to remain idle upon my shelves, I shall be glad to send one, post free, to any friendly reader of ' N. it Q.' who desires to make a small addition to his library."
Jlotiws to 0msp0ntenta.
MR. S. A. GRPNDY-NEWMAN writes re 'Arms of the Deans of Lichfield : Capell or Abbott ' : "For ' impaled' in the concluding sentence of my communication, ante, p. 273, read quartered.* I have to thank MR. E. L. WARNER for having written me very fully hereon. 46. Nicholas Penny. My thanks to the 'REV. FRANK PENNY for his answer."
R. T. Forwarded.
