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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16. 1900.
CONTENTS. No. 129.
NOTES : -Freedom of the Press, 469 Oldest Basque Song, 470' Dictionary of National Biography,' 472 D. Quare 4 Tom Bowling ' Tales of the Genii " Mr. Attorney " Sir Erasmus Wilson, 474 Buskin's Residences " Cake Ink" Huish, 475.
QUERIES : " Inwardness " " I.O.U." Ronjat Installa- tion of a Midwife John White, 475 "Nower " "To help" Lola Montez Colin Campbell- J. W. Box-Thos. Johnson, 476 Somner Merryweather "Indicible " The Vase of Soissons Roods and Rood-lofts Early Evening Newspaper, 477.
REPLIES : Poem by Ben Jonson, 477 The Flag- Familiar French Quotations Cowper's Letters Ladies and Leap Year, 478 Thebal Ancestors St. Martin's Parish Cumberland's ' Jew ' Malachy Dudeny Genius and Large Families, 479 "Quagga" and "Zebra" Old Clock " Scoinson arch," 480 Poet's Immortality' White Man's Burden' G. R. De Cardonnel "La fe endrycza," &c. Kingston Coronation Stone South American Republics, 481 Melek Taus Dryden Picts and Scots, 482 "Lark- silver "Baudelaire Hops Tomb in Berkeley Church- Defoe, 483 Biblical Quotations" I '11 hang my harp," &c. " Pillillew,"4H4 Muggletonian Writings Rackstrow Crabs' Eyes, 485 Miquelon " Seriff " Erlik Khan- Tobacco Earl's Palace Football, 486 Merchant Adventurers The Mouse, 487.
NOTES ON BOOKS : Balfour Paul's Heraldry ' Cle- phan's ' Defensive Armour ' Arkwright's ' Milton's Anthems' 'Scribner's Magazine.'
Notices to Correspondents.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
THE following sad list of war correspond- ents who have suffered during the present war in South Africa appeared in the Daily Express on Wednesday, the 6th inst., and I have obtained the cordial permission of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson to place it as a per- manent record in the pages of " his old friend 'N. & Q.'" :-
Mr. G. W. Steevens, Daily Mail, died of enteric during siege of Ladysmith.
Mr. Alfred Ferrand, Morning Post, killed at Ladysmith.
Mr. Albert Collett, Daily Mail, killed in action, Molteno.
Mr. Lambie, Melbourne Age, killed at Rensburg.
Col. Hoskier, Sphere, killed near Stormberg.
Mr. Ernest G. Parslow, Daily Chronicle, shot dead by Lieut. Murchison at Maf eking. Murderer, penal servitude for life.
Mr. Mitchell, Standard, captured, escaped, took enteric fever, and died.
Mr. W. Spooner, Renter's, died of fever.
Mr. Charles E. Hands, Daily Mail, dangerously wounded, Maritsani (recovering by last news).
Mr. A. G. Hales, Daily News, wounded and cap- Mr.' Julian Ralph, Daily Mail, struck by shell fragment at Belmont, and severely injured in
Mr. F. W. Walker, Daily Mail, wounded at
Capt. Wright, Daily Mail, injured while despatch riding.
Lord Delawarr, Globe, wounded at Vryheid.
Mr. P. J. Reid (son of Sir H. G. Reid), Echo, seriously wounded at Kheis.
Mr. E. F. Knight, Morning Post, shot with sport- ing Mauser bullet at Belmont, right arm ampu- tated.
Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, Morning Post, captured at Chieveley, afterwards escaped.
Lord Cecil Manners, Morning Post, captured near Johannesburg, and liberated.
Mr. Hales, Sydney Morning Herald, captured.
Mr. George Lynch, Morning Herald and Echo, captured, released, in hospital with enteric fever, now in England.
Mr. M. H. Donohoe, Daily Chronicle, captured probably released on 5th of June.
Mr. A. Graham, Central News, missing since May 21st, supposed captured.
Mr. A. Ft Hellawell, Rev. Adrian Hofmeyr, Lady Sarah Wilson, all Daily Mail, captured.
Lord Rosslyn, Daily Mail and Sphere, captured.
Mr. James Milne, Renter's, captured.
Mr. John Stuart, Morning Post, nearly blind after siege of Ladysmith, recovered, now ill with dysentery.
Mr. W. Maxwell, Standard, enteric fever during siege of Ladysmith, recovered.
Mr. Alfred Kinnear, Central News, enteric, in- valided home.
Mr. Jos. S. Dunn, Central News, twice captured, enteric, recovered.
Mr. W. Martindale, Mr. W. S. Swallow, and Mr. Charles Bray, Central News, enteric, recovered.
Mr. F. A. Stewart, Illustrated London News, down with dysentery at Durban.
Mr. W. T. Maud, Daily Graphic, laid up with enteric fever after Ladysmith, and invalided home.
Mr. Bullen, Daily Telegraph, invalided home.
Mr. H. W. Nevinson, Daily Chronicle, in hospital with fever, now recovered.
Mr. J. A. Cameron, Daily Chronicle, enteric, permanently invalided.
Mr. Brayley Hodgetts, Express, invalided with enteric.
Mr. Lester Ralph, Mr. H. Lyons, Mr. R. C. E. Nissen, and Mr. L. Oppenheim, Daily Mail, invalided.
It is of interest to note that the first war correspondent was Henry Crabb Robinson, who, when the Spaniards rose against the French in 1808, was entrusted by the con- ductors of the Times with the duty of special correspondent in the Peninsula.* It is to the enterprise of the Daily News that, we are largely indebted to the first war correspondence by telegraph instead of by post. This was done at the suggestion of Mr., now Sir John Robinson, during the Franco - German war, when the late Archibald Forbes was its correspondent. Mr. Fox Bourne, in his book ' English Newspapers,' states that, mainly by the graphic letters which appeared in its columns, the paper rose from 50,000 to 150,000 a day. This correspondence included ' The Diary of a Besieged Resident in Paris,' by Henry Labouchere. In this war the New York
- ' Dictionary of National Biography,' xlix. 16.
