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Novels. "I* that any Novels, sir? " (554a.)
Jonson mocks the French "que nouvelles 1 "
in 'Every Man Out,' V. ii. (1599).
" Less Appetite to desire such Novels "' (i. 190). Harvey has also "Novellets" (i. 215) .and " Novellists " (ii. 208).
The foregoing parallels seem to me to show that Gabriel Harvey was the chief offender in word-coining, against whom Jonson designed the part of Juniper. There is nothing, or very little, personal in these hits. The very selection of the humblest of trades and the love of balladry may have been pleasantry against Harvey, who detested both. Jonson had no real quarrel with Harvey, as he had later with Marston and Dekker. H. C. HART.
(To be continued.)
DEAN'S YARD, WESTMINSTER, NO. 17.
A VERY pleasant book of Westminster memories connected with the old school has been written and given to the world by Capt. F. Markham, under the title of ' Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster, 1849-55.' As is, perhaps, only natural, the pages which afford the best reading [are those wherein the schoolboy scrapes, &c., are recorded. Among his early escapades perhaps his first was stealing a bell-handle at the instigation of a bigger boy named Slade, which is recorded as follows :
"Slade joined me with another bludgeon con- cealed under his gown. He led the way to the Bishop of Gloucester's house. The door was painted a beautiful olive green ; the knocker, door-bell, name-plate, and letter-box were of brass, all beau- tifully polished. Slade said, 'Now, then, here you are ; you take the bell and I will take the knocker. When I say "Go," pull the bell out to full stretch and give it a good whack with your stick.' I have the bell-handle on my mantelpiece,"
the author unblushingly continues when closing the story, and there appear to be but few regrets underlying the admission. The house herein described as the residence of the Bishop of Gloucester ceased to be so soon after Capt. Markham went to West- minster in 1849. In that year the Rev. Dr. Milman, Canon of Westminster and Kector of St. Margaret's, where he had been since 1835, was preferred to the Deanery of St. Paul's. He had lived, so far as I can find out, at any rate for a considerable portion of the time while holding his Westminster ap- pointments, at Ashburnham House, standing in Little Dean's Yard, and with, in those days, an outlet in the rear into the south walk of the cloisters. This house, in many ways very notable, was called after Lord
Ashburnham, who occupied it in 1708, its
chief attraction being its exceedingly
beautiful staircase, constructed by Inigo
Jones. Here had also been housed the King's
Library in 1712, and in 1730 that of Sir
Robert Cotton. Therefore it will be seen
that Dr. Milman was lodged amidst memo-
ries likely to be congenial to a student
of his character. A subsequent occupant
was the Rev. Lord John Thynne, for many
years a Canon of Westminster and Sub-dean.
At his death the house became associated
with Westminster School, by the authorities
of which it is still used. Dr. Milman's suc-
cessor at St. Margaret's and in the canonry
was the Rev. Dr. William Cureton, and during
his early days at Westminster, if not from
the first, the fine house alluded to as having
been hitherto that of the Bishops of Glou-
cester was vacant. By the special desire
of Queen Victoria, it became the rectory
of St. Margaret's parish, and in it have lived
all the subsequent occupants of that position,
viz., the Rev. William Con way, M.A. ; Rev.
Frederic William Farrar, D.D., F.R.S., after-
wards Archdeacon of Westminster, and lately
Dean of Canterbury ; Rev. Robert Eyton,
M.A. ; Rev. Joseph Armitage Robinson, D.D.,
now Dean of Westminster ; and the present
rector, Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson, B.D.
It is a noble structure of good old honest brick-
work, containing many large rooms, and is in
every way an ideal residence for the student,
as the quietness of the spot is proverbial,
and it would be difficult to find another locality
in the centre of one of the busiest parts of
London where the sound of the passing traffic
of the outside world becomes but a low
murmur, adding to the charm of its almost
complete isolation. That its situation has lent
itself to the cause of study there are many
who will be thankful, for beyond all doubt
many of the sermons preached both in the
Abbey and in St. Margaret's Church have
gained much from the peacefulness of the
surroundings of the study in which they were
prepared ; and much of the work, less clerical
and more secular, of Drs. Cureton, Farrar,
and Robinson gained not a little from the
same happy circumstance. The edifice has
also been the scene of many reunions, at
which most of the notabilities of the latter
half of the bygone century, in the world of
poetry, art, science, drama, law, and medicine,
have assisted, in addition to those whose
avocations were almost entirely centred in
religious work. One can scarcely help fancy-
ing that the present Bishop of Gloucester,
Dr. Ellicott, must often feel a pang of regret
at its alienation from his diocese, and it
