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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. n. NOV. 12,
of Music,' v. 315, 316). Tonson's saying that he
ever thought him a priest in his heart is referred to
Spence, p. 200. See ' Addison' in ' D.N.B.'
KILLIGREW. (9 th S. ii. 309.) Carnage is God's daughter. Carnage (so Wordsworth tells us) is God's
daughter. ' Don Juan,' c. viii. s. ix. Byron quotes in a foot-note :
But thy most dreadful instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter : Yea, Carnage is thy daughter.
Wordsworth's ' Thanksgiving Ode.' The lines are not in the poem now called the 'Thanksgiving Ode '('Ode on the Morning of the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving, January 18, 1816'), but the 'Ode,' 1815 ('Poems of the Imagination '), contains these lines : But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent ; Thou cloth' st the wicked in their dazzling mail, And for thy righteous purpose they prevail. Here the last lines differ froni the version quoted by Byron, and I think the omission of the reference to Carnage was due to Byron's use, or misuse, of the passage. J. A. J. HOUSDEN.
Alas ! that I so lately knew thee. I should think that the line T. S. is in search of would be the following ;
Ah, why did I so late Thee know ? This is the first line of the second stanza of a hymn written by Scheffler, and translated from the German by John Wesley. The whole hymn, which begins
Thee will I love, my strength, my tower, will be found in the ' New Wesleyan Hymn-Book ' (No. 210). R. CLAKK.
NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.
Wit, Character, Folk-fore.and Customs of the. North Riding of Yorkshire. By Richard Blakeborough. (Frowde.)
EXCEPT a little squeamishness pardonable in one who announces himself as a " Society Humourist," whatever that may be we have no fault to find with Mr. Blakeborough, who has given us some apt illustrations of North Riding character, speecn, and folk-lore. That he should not, in a book in- tended to be, to some extent, popular, insert coarse, Rabelaisian, or Burns-like songs is pardonable. That in a folk-poem he inserts "bust" a word o: which, presumably, the poet never heard for, as we presume from the context, " dugs," the use of wnich is sanctioned by Shakspeare, Goldsmith and Stanley, or some similar word from the utter ance of which Queen Elizabeth would not have shrunk, is showing himself a trifle too scrupulous He is, however, complete master of his subject, am has accumulated a vast amount of matter, on th value of which we are fully entitled to speak. H tells, p. 64, a story of two "Yorkshire tykes" bar gaining concerning horses, and does not seem aware that it is in the dialect of the West Riding the best-known Yorkshire poem in existence, anc
is such is inserted in Halliwell'-s 'Yorkshire An-
hology.' His observations upon Yorkshire methods
>f thought and procedure are shrewd and accurate,
and he has collected some scores of characteristic
tories and locutions, which may be read with
imusement and delight. We personally found the
ask difficult of laying down a work every page of
vhich has interest or value. We will give him a
tory, illustrative in its way, which he does not
seem to know. A " tyke," heading a deputation,
called on the "great" Lord Derby, with whom an
appointment had been made. When at the noble-
man's house, in St. James's Square, the door was
opened, our Yorkshireman, undismayed at the
splendour around him, and scorning superfluous
speech, simply said, "Young man, is a [he] in?"
The "a" was quite sufficient to designate the Earl.
tVe can personally testify to the justice of most of
Mr. Blakeborough's comments. Such things as
refusing to ask explanations of unfamiliar words,
and consequent accidents resulting from mis-
.nternretation, are familiar, and arise from the
mingled cannyness and independence of Yorkshire
character. There is not much in the stories given
bhat we should characterize as wit, but there is
abundance of readiness, sharpness, and comic out-
spokenness of retort. Concerning proceedings
and mock errands on April Fool Day, Mr. Blake-
borough has something to say. He tells of a victim
being sent for "a bucket of steam." Did he ever
hear of a woman being sent for "a long stand," and
being kept waiting for hours on her feet ? We have
known this done. Our author omits a chapter
on the sequence of children's games, materials for
which he has. We wish he would send them us.
Information on the subject is much wanted. It
seems that the stang was ridden in Wensleydale so
recently as October, 1896. Among the public enter-
tainments at Gisborough Races in 1784 we find
"smocking." In the sweet dales watered by the
Ure, the Swale, and other " umbered" streams much
quaint folk-lore and many curious superstitions
even now linger. These things Mr. Blakeborough
has diligently collected, so far as possible, at first
hand. His work has philological value, and he has
compiled a copious and useful glossary and written
a valuable chapter on " The Grammar of the
Folk-speech." Mr. Blakeborough, who writes from
24, Trent Street, Stockton -on -Tees, is anxious to
form a North Riding folk-lore and dialectical, or
dialectal, society. Some of our readers may care to
communicate with him. We have, meanwhile, to
thank him for a useful, well-written, and enter-
taining book.
Memoirs of John A. Heraud. By Edith Heraud.
(Red way.)
ABOUT the middle of the present century John A. Heraud was a man of note and importance. We have heard Westland Marston say that an intio- duction to the author of ' The Descent into Hell,' with which he was supplied, constituted an event in his life. To some extent Heraud was responsible for the growth in England of a knowledge of German philosophy. He wrote epic poems, which were more praised than read, and dramas, one or two of which found their way on to the stage ; he was an acute, honest, and capable critic ; a friend of the Carlyles ; a correspondent of Southey, Wordsworth, and other celebrities of a previous age ; and the author of a work on Shakspeare which has won the commendations of the most advanced critics and