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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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to be found in the collected speeches of
Sheridan, and those who refer to them give
no date. The fact that they are of ' Sheri-
daniana ' origin is not in their favour. The
pith of the remark exists in a note among his
loose sketches for a comedy of affectation.
In 8 th S. x. 199 I quoted this note and sug-
gested that it might have been borrowed
from a similar idea in ' Gil Bias.' Sheridan
appears to be like Swift in his posthumous
production of " funny tales."
GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool.
Bartlett gives as his authority ' Sheridani- ana ' (London, 1826). At the same time it is shown that it is not wholly original : '"On peut dire que son esprit brille aux depens de sa memoire,' Le Sage, ' Gil Bias,' 1. iii. ch. xi." (1891, p. 443). There are collections of Sheri- dan's speeches, e.g., Bohn, 1842.
ED. MARSHALL.
BOOK-BORROWING (9 th S. ii. 66). More than twenty years ago, to my knowledge, the pre- sent librarian introduced into the University Library at Durham the plan here suggested of placing in the space previously occupied by the borrowed book a wooden tablet bear- ing the name of the book, the press-mark, the name of the borrower, and the date. I think it was about 1874, but as the said librarian is a well-known and highly esteemed contributor to 'N. & Q.,' perhaps he may inform us. W. C. B.
ANDR (9 th S. ii. 47). In the churchyard at Bathampton, near Bath, are buried Mary Hannah Andre, ob. 3 March, 1845 : Ann Marguerite Andre, d. 8 August, 1830 ; Louisa Catherine, d. 25 Dec., 1835 ; Marie Louise Andre, their mother, d. 13 Feb., 1813. There is also a M.I. to their brother, Sir William Louis Andre', Bart., who died unmarried at Deans Leaze, near Southampton, 11 Nov., 1802. HORACE MONTAGU.
123, Pall Mall.
NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.
A Bibliography of British Municipal History, in-
chidiny Gild* and Parliamentary Representation.
By Charles Gross, Ph.D. (Longmans & Co.) THIS work forms vol. v. of the " Harvard Historical Studies" issued by the authorities of the great American University from the income provided by the bequest of a most praiseworthy citizen, the late Mr. Henry Warren Torry. We have already noticed several of the former issues of the studies, and have in each instance felt bound to describe them as scholarly productions. We cannot in any way contrast Prof. Gross's compilation with the works
of his predecessors. It is so different in character
from them that comparison is impossible. We
may venture to say, however, that it will be far
more useful for the serious students of this country.
It is an undoubted fact and we trust \ve need not
say that we deplore it that, since the great struggle
\vith the slave power came to an end, the English-
men who take intelligent interest in materials for
American history are very few ; but the number of
those who are attracted oy our municipal history
are many, and we are glad to think there are signs
that they are on the increase. The time has gone
by when men could say that all corporations were
so much alike that when you were acquainted with
the history of one you knew them all. This, like the
parallel nonsense that all boroughs were the direct
and immediate creation of kings, has passed away,
and we are perhaps now drifting into the opposite
error of thinking that they are all of democratic
origin. Those who possess themselves of Prof.
Gross's elaborate bibliography will now have such
means of study as they never had before. It is an
admirably compiled book, and arranged in a very
lucid manner. There are two sections only one
dealing with general authorities and the other with
those which give information as to the municipal
life of particular towns. This latter extends from
Aberdeen to Youghal. We have carefully examined
those parts of the work which we are able to test,
and have found them very full and accurate ; perhaps,
indeed, rather too full, for here and there we en-
counter an entry directing attention to some obscure
book which is pretty certain to disappoint the stu-
dent who examines it. This is, however, an error,
if error it be, in the direction of safety. We appre-
hend compression has been thought necessary,
otherwise we might not unreasonably complain that
the notes added to some of the entries could
have been made fuller and more numerous. We
would also have gladly had a longer introduction
from the pen of one so well fitted to instruct us.
We quite agree with the author in his severe criti-
cisms on the way many of our town histories have
been put together; but it must be remembered as to
the writers of the older ones that they had in many
cases no opportunity given them of examining the
local archives.
The Ayricola of Tacitus. Edited by Henry
Furneaux, M.A. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) HAVING given us already excellent editions of the ' Annals and 'Germania' well known to scholars, Mr. Furneaux here presents us with another treatise of his favourite author, admirably edited, with a critical introduction and full apparatus of notes. The 'Agricola' affords ample scope for the varied erudition of the editor, as, in addition to questions of text and interpretation, it incidentally raises many considerations of a topographical and anthro- pological character which do not come within the range of the mere classical scholar. In both fields of inquiry Mr. Furneaux seems equally at home. The fifth section of the introduction, in which Tacitus's account of Britain and its conquest is discussed in the light of comparative research, will be of special interest to the student. Here, as elsewhere, while exercising an independent judg- ment, the editor shows an intimate acquaintance with the works of our own anthropologists, Dawkins, Elton, and Evans, no less than with the great German commentators, Wex, Andresen, and Draeger. " The map at the end of the volume,"
