The French account was that they were expecting the arrival of the very valuable FrancoAmerican convoy that, under threat by Robespierre of loss of his head if he failed, Villaret was sent out to meet and bring into port, and that he succeeded-saving his head by saving the convoy. See the account that Villaret gave Capt. Brenton when his prisoner in the Belleisle in 1809, after the surrender of Martinique. Probably one of the most disagreeable duties of a minister is apportioning rewards to men who in war have done well, but no more than well, and especially if their deeds have caught the public fancy, or removed much anxiety. Sense of duty, and not political prejudice, probably swayed the minister in 1794. The dictates of the royal heart are probably hit off in Peter Pindar's 'Apology for Kings,' where the Earl of Pembroke prevents the king knighting the Salisbury verger tho' a fine fellow, 'pon my word." Any way, after Nelson had shown what victory meant, Sir Rob. Calder, in 1805, found himself courtmartialed and disgraced, after defeating an enemy of superior force and capturing line-of-battle ships. It was considered that he ought to have followed up his victory. The nation had greatly changed its views under the teaching of the hero of the Nile. HANDFORD. "SAPIENS QUI ASSIDUUS" (7th S. iv. 528; v. 37). The only baronetcy conferred on the name of Mitchell, so far as I know, is to be seen in Burke's 'Extinct Baronetage,' published in 1838. It is Mitchell of Westshore, in the Isle of Shetland. The title was created in 1724, and became extinct in 1783. Sir B. Burke gives the arms, but not the motto. There was a Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, who died in 1855 or 1856, but he was only a knight, not a baronet. The list of baronetcies in my little book MR. F. RULE may well have searched in vain, as it contains those only which are still in existence. E. WALFORD, M.A. 7, Hyde Park Mansions, N.W. EARLINGS: EARLY (7th S. v. 67).-As regards early, it may be important to note the first use of it in the language as an adjective. This will be found in the 'Ancren Riwle '(Camden Society, p. 258), in the expression "his earlich ariste," which is equivalent to his early rising" in the English of to-day. Here," says Mr. Kington Oliphant, in 'Old and Middle English," "early for the first time becomes an adjective; it had hitherto been only an adverb." In the sense of " timely," &c., we find in 'Pericles,' III. ii. : At these early hours shake off The golden slumber of repose. "The early and latter rain" of James v. 7 is an example of the contrasted serial use of the word, and the "late and early roses " in 'Enoch Arden (p. 19) may be added as a further illustration of similar character. A notable and famous use of “early June " is in ‘Thyrsis,' in the first line of the stanza in which the poet compares the premature death of his friend to the departure of the cuckoo before midsummer. The comparison opens thus: So some tempestuous morn in early June, &c. Helensburgh, N.B. 66 Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. How to Write the History of a Family. By W. P. W. CAN any one teach the art, if it be an art, of writing Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L. (Stock.) family histories? Mr. Phillimore evidently thinks such a thing is possible. For ourselves, we take leave to doubt, notwithstanding our appreciation of the value of much of the matter brought together with this view by Mr. Phillimore. If his book had been entitled "Helps towards or Notes in Aid of the Writing of a Family History," the true purport and the true value of the book would have been, we think, better set forth. For if the power of writing such a difficult book as a family history be not in the person who sets to work to write it, no amount of study of manuals like Mr. Phillimore's will implant it in him. Nor, we imagine, would Mr. Phillimore himself expect such a result from the diligent perusal of his pages. Family history may clearly be written in many different ways, and each may have much that can be said in its favour. Mr. Phillimore's suggestions are often excellent in their way, but they would not, so far as we can see, have given us the Lives of the Lindsays' or the Earls of Kildare-books which assuredly we could not spare from Scottish and Irish family history. It is true that these are branches of the subject with which Mr. Phillimore does not profess to deal, but his normal them, or be far too limited in its applicability. Nor can scheme of a family history must either be applicable to we see that the exclusion of those branches justifies Mr. Phillimore's neglect so much as to mention Mr. Seton's Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland,' which, under the name of a treatise on Scottish heraldry, con tains a mass of the most valuable material for the student of heraldry and genealogy in general, as well as of information concerning MS. sources in Scotland and in Sir Bernard Burke's 'Reminiscences, Ancestral and England for research into Scottish family history. Anecdotal,' should also have been mentioned, for the useful details which they contain in regard to M8. sources for Irish family history. We are glad to find that Mr. Their zeal and energy seem to be as untiring in geneaPhillimore devotes some space to our American cousins. logy as in commerce, and the results of the systematic researches now being carried on by Mr. H. F. Waters for the New England Historic Genealogical Society deserve the heartiest commendation of English geneslogists. Sussex Archæological Collections." Vol. XXXV. (Lewes, H. Wolff.) It is always a pleasure to us to welcome a new volume of this well-written and well-edited series. No society with which we are acquainted, English or foreign, has more resolutely striven against encumbering its pages with the useless padding which some people seem to derive a mild sort of excitement from writing than has the one whose home is at Lewes. The volume before us is, perhaps, not quite up to the very high level of some of its predecessors, but there is not to be found a single bad paper from one end to the other. Everything is as it should be-short and to the purpose. Capt. Attrees's account of Wivelsfield is charming. How we wish that every village in England could have its annals chronicled by one who knows so well how to hit the salient points! We think, however, that he need not have encumbered himself, after giving the true derivation of the name-from Wifel, a personal namewith other people's guesses. Among the field-names in the parish is one called Lockstrood. This reminds us of Lockwood, in Yorkshire. Can they both have a common origin, and be a reminiscence of Loki, a malignant personage in the Teutonic mythology. Sir George Duckett's Additional Materials towards the History of the Priory of St. Pancras, at Lewes,' is useful. The list he gives of the documents relating to this house, preserved in the National Library of Paris, is especially valuable. Mr. Frederick E. Sawyer contributes a glossary of Sussex place nomenclature, which will be of service to others engaged on similar work for any part of England. There is a pathetic interest in the return of the aliens resident at Cuckfield and Lindfield in 1793. They were most of them Frenchmen who had fled from the revolutionary terror. One of them was an ecclesiastic, Jean Ringard, Rector of St. Germains. refugee it should be possible to obtain some information. Concerning this It is stated that there were at one time eight thousand of the French emigrant clergy in England. If it be possible, their names should be collected. The list would have considerable interest both in France and England. A note at the end of the volume tells the reader that a large number of personal and place names are not entered in the index. This is surely a great blot; an imperfect index is well nigh as bad as no index at all. An Inventory of the Church Plate in Rutland. By Robert Charles Hope, F.S.A. (Bemrose.) THERE is very little medieval church plate in England except examples that have been imported from abroad in recent days. In the Edwardian and the Elizabethan time every endeavour was made by those who carried on the work of the Reformation to remove from the eyes of the people everything that had been connected with the Roman Catholic Mass. There can be no doubt that it was the intention of the authorities that every old chalice and paten should be flung into the melting-pot. A few remain still to gladden the hearts of antiquaries. The paten which some happy accident has preserved at Edith Weston is an example. There is no hall-mark upon it, but Mr. Hope conjectures it is of about the year We should ourselves, judging from his representation of it, have dated it a few years earlier. It is Bix inches in diameter, very plain, with the hand of God in the centre, surrounded by a cruciform nimbus. 1480. Literary Sketches. By H. S. Salt. (Sonnenschein & Co The Life of Mrs. Abington. By the Editor of 'The Life THE merits of this compilation do not extend far beyond the get-up, which is tasteful, and the pleasing reproducauthor has drawn together from various sources a number tion of a portrait of Mrs. Abington by Cosway. The sins of inaccuracy are, however, so numerous that the of facts concerning the life of this brilliant actress. His value of the book for purposes of reference is slight. The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and THIS volume is a reprint of the antiquarian_articles Legend. (Scott.) which have appeared from time to time in the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, and is, in fact, nothing more nor less than a scrap-book made up of cuttings from that paper. The result is a very agreeable miscellany, containing a variety of interesting matter bearing on the history, traditions, folk-lore, and legends of Northumberland. Its best commendation is to say that as we turn its pages we are strongly reminded of Hone's Every-Day Book and Chambers's 'Book of Days.' memorated, however, are of so very local importance The worthies comthat few but Northumbrians will care to read their story; and the illustrations, for the most part, hardly deserved to be reproduced. The Forum. Edited by Lorettus Metcalf. Vols. I.-IV. THIS magazine, which is in some respects an American Nineteenth Century, is always interesting, whether for (New York, Forum' Publishing Co.) its discussion of both sides of questions of the day-such as cremation, alcoholism, the books which distinguished men of letters have found most helpful to them-or for magazine numbering among its contributors such very difits generally wide scope and independent criticism. A ferent specialists as Moncure D. Conway, Prof. Freeman, and Lord Wolseley shows at once that there is no subject of human interest which it does not desire to touch at some Some of the post-reformation plate in the Rutland-reading Mr. Moncure D. Conway's account of his pilpoint. We were not a little amused, we may admit, at shire churches is interesting. The cup at Preston, of grimage to the shrine of Madame Blavatsky in search of which a good engraving is given, is very fine. Its date a miracle. Most unfortunately, the supply had just been is 1603. The bowl is surrounded by grapes and conven- stopped, jussu superiorum, before Mr. Conway arrived. tional foliage, excellently rendered. In character it So he has still to confess, we presume, to a differs widely from most of the examples of English unsatisfied longing." church plate that we have seen. "restless, General Greely's paper on althe celebrated Arctic expedition which he commanded. coholism is practically an account of his experiences in On the whole, his conclusions seem fairly free from prejudice, and they are certainly based on a very severe testing of the value of alcohol in Arctic cold. Edward Eggleston's account of books which have helped (or hindered) him is very quaint, and suggestive of Monadnoc and the simple life of the Far West. His At Barrowden there is a cup of the common form, dated 1569. It is preserved in a leather case, of which an illustration is given. Mr. Hope does not point out that this case is earlier than the vessel it is now employed to contain. Unless we are much mistaken, it belongs to the middle of the fifteenth century. It was probably employed aforetime to hold the chalice. dolorous plaint concerning the evil done to him by imbibing the maxim "Waste not, want not," is quite in keeping with the whole tone of his paper. The Forum certainly deserves to be read attentively on both sides of the Atlantic, and so long as it continues to be conducted on its present lines cannot fail to command the attention which it merits at our hands in the Old Country. Le Livre of Feb. 10 gives a full account, accompanied by a profile sketch, of Felix Arvers, the author of the superb sonnet beginning, Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère, of which also it supplies a hitherto unpublished version, differing slightly from that generally accepted. La Bibliothèque d'une Dame Anglaise au XVIII Siècle' is a translation of a paper in the Spectator (Addison's). Another translation from the English is that of a recent review in the Athenæum of Prof. Colvin's 'Keats.' A good portrait of Théophile Gautier is a pleasing feature in the number. MR. COWPER'S Registers of St. Peters, 1560-1800,' are in the hands of the binder. The 'Registers of St. Alphage, 1550-1800,' will shortly be issued to subscribers. 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