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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[9 th S. II. OCT. 22, '98.
Chronicles of an Eminent Fossil. By the
Author of 'A Great Platonic Friendship.'" It
occurred to me that even the publisher who
uses the word does not know its meaning
If he does, why puzzle one in this way 1 ?
What he has done is equivalent to saying,
" Library of books with their authors' names :
this one is under a pseudonym " ! It would
have been quite easy to have said by "
the Author of ' A Great,' " &c. The next thing
will be to put the authors' names to the
"Pseudonym Library," then we shall have
a nice mixture. Who the author of the
' Chronicles ' is I do not know, as the informa-
tion on the cover was not sufficient to enable
me to find it in the Catalogue of the National
Library.
I desire to express a hope that the pub- lisher of the " Autonym " and " Pseudonym " Libraries will not confuse those words, but keep each strictly to its proper meaning.
KALPH THOMAS.
13, Clifford's Inn.
"VERIFY YOUR REFERENCES." In 1862 Lord Brougham writes to Reeve, editor of the Edinburgh Review :
" ' Cannes, April 27th. I have a complaint to make of the E.R. last number. In the learned and able article on "Jesse's Richard III.," at p. 307, Lingard is referred to as having quoted the com- mission of the High Constable. I have scanned every line and every word of Lingard and find no such commission. But in a note to the third volume of Hume, note R, the commission is given verbatim from Rymer. J ock Campbell used to hold that a false reference was an offence that ought to be made penal. I don't go so far, but the evil is very great. I have lost three or four hours in consequence. Therefore, pray have inquiry made of your contri- butor whether or not I am right ; and if not, where in Lingard the quotation is.'
" Reeve referred the ' complaint ' to Hayward, the writer of the article, who replied :
'"I believe B. is right, for when I corrected the proof I looked in vain in Lingard, although I was firmly convinced that he had quoted the document. But pray remind his lordship that, when Campbell spoke or a false reference, he meant one with volume and page.'
" Lord Brougham's answer to this defence is not given, but it is impossible to allow it to pass without protest ; for, whatever Campbell may have meant, it is very certain that a false reference, with volume and page cited, by which the falsehood is at once made manifest, is a venial offence in comparison with a false reference given vaguely, which may keep the victim hunting for it for hours, as this one actually did keep Lord Brougham." ' Memoirs of the Life, &c., of Henry Reeve, C.B.,' by J. K. Laughton, 1898, vol. ii. pp. 82, 83.
WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.
Glasgow.
CALLINGS OF VARIOUS PERSONS. The fol- lowing occupations are abstracted from the
selections from the parish registers of St.
Werburgh and St. John the Evangelist,
Dublin, published in the accounts of each of
these churches and parishes by the Rev.
S. C. Hughes (Dublin, 1889) :
Glazier, printer, wax chandler, publisher, woollen draper, apothecary, goldsmith, proprietor of registry office for servants (dr. 1717), merchant tailor, author of operettas, natter, stationer, tin- plate worker, surgeon, tobacconist, surgeon-barber, tavern keeper, actor, attorney, druggist, iron- monger, brewer, cutler, linendraper, haberdasher, bootmaker, bookseller, laceman, glass grinder, wine merchant, banker, jeweller, clockmaker, gold-lace maker, silk manufacturer, wholesale draper, bank cashier, vintner, vicar-choral, public notary, plas- terer, grocer, saddler, solicitor, cooper, fringe- weaver, looking-glass maker, hosier, tapster, baker, perfumer, sword cutler, distiller, clerk (1665), up- holder, currier, maltster, engraver, card maker, paper maker, optician, gunner, tobacco-cutter.
In the list of churchwardens, St. Wer- burgh's, there are a baker and a glover, 1508 ; public notary, 1540; gentleman, 1604 ; saddler, 1614 ; cooper, 1662 ; slater, 1666 ; scrivener, 1668 ; cordwainer, 1676 ; plumber, 1678 ; builder, 1685 ; felt maker, 1723 ; seal-graver, 1731 ; peruke maker, 1743 ; toyman, 1754 ; perfumer, 1803.
In the list of churchwardens, St. John the Evangelist, a pewterer, 1477 ; fisherman, 1531 ; same year, Thomas Tressyngham, " elk." ; painter, 1545 ; cellarer, 1622 ; cursitor, 1630 ; steeler, 1645 ; same year, maltster ; furrier, 1652 ; cook, 1665 ; butcher, 1668 ; button maker, 1698 ; sword cutler, 1704 ; brazier, 1709 ; fringe- weaver, 1711 ; trunk maker, 1762. HARRY SIRR.
SHAKSPEARE AND KEATS. In ' Merry Wives of Windsor,' III. v., we read :
' Humph ! ha ! is this a vision ? is this a dream ? do I sleep ? Master Ford, awake ; awake, Master Ford."
Compare this with the concluding lines of Keats's beautiful ' Nightingale ': Was it a vision, or a waking dream ? Fled is that music : Do I wake or sleep ?
It is just possible that Keats, who was an inthusiastic student of Shakespeare, may have had the above passage in his mind when concluding his celebrated ode.
THOMAS AULD. Belfast.
A SPANISH KINSWOMAN OF WILLIAM THE
SONQUEROR. On p. 21 of the book called
'Santa Maria La Real de Najera : Memoria
Hist6rica descriptiva por el Dr. D. Constan-
- ino Garran ' (Logrofio, 1892), in the list of
he burials in the royal pantheon of the
rypt of this interesting and once cathedral
hurch, occurs the following notice :
