Discomposure, ii. 82...., you will be able to account for my discomposure; ii. 99. She returned, in visible discomposure, (D. not 1828Disconsolation, iii. 120...., and the Hermit shook his head in profound disconsolation, (D. not 1840-1755, nor later.)

1741.)

Dish, iii. 97....: will you have the goodness to give me a dish of coffee? (T. uses it. The D. has it from 1855 and 1679 only.)

Dole, i 16...., mending my usual dole stockings;

she gives no figures, no proof of any kind, yet for over a century it has been repeated by others as something obvious. Fielding's popularity in England is conceded, but it is insisted that really to understand him one must be born within sound of Bow Bells. Blackwood's Magazine for March, 1860, contains an article- A Word about Tom Jones' of-in which the anonymous writer finds much that is ill and little that is good in Fielding's work, and paraphrases Mrs. Barbauld thus : 'While in France and Germany we find men willing enough to welcome Goldsmith, Sterne, or Richardson, they never at any time welcomed Fielding.' Yet this writer knows his Fielding so little that he refers to Mrs. Waters as Lucy," thus confusing the reputed mother of Jones with the ill-reputed mother of the Duke of Monmouth.

Dressing-room, i. 37...., and the stranger was soon introduced into a dressing room, ii. 11....and on their adjourning to her dressing room, accompanied by Lord Drew, Mrs. Leland, and Martha, iii. 46.. was much surprised on being intro duced into the dressing-room, to find her attended by two lovely girls, his cousins. iii. 124. Zoriada consented, and the Doctor retired to the dressing room, where she promised to join him; iii. 127.. hurried her into her dressing room, where Doctor Withers tenderly received her. (Not D. 1803-1683. It has apparently the sense of a reception-room adjoining a bedroom.) Drop in, ii. 35...., until he had dropped in at Heath-house, (D. not 1850-1754.) Drops, ii. 6.. recollected she had put some drops in the front pocket, iii. 6. Zoriada begged a few drops; (In the sense of medicine not D. 1810-1728.)

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Ductile, i 143...., the parson's mean and ductile soul waiting to catch its colour of action... (D. not 1835-1765.)

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

(To be continued.) [We cannot agree with our correspondent so far as he implies that all the words in his list which appear in the 'N.E.D.' need further illustration.]

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any portion of learning in a woman is constantly united in this author with something disagreeable. It is given to Jenny, the supposed mother of Jones. It is given in a higher degree to that very disagreeable character Mrs. Bennet in 'Amelia.' Mrs. Western, too, is a woman of reading. A man of licentious manners, and such was Fielding, seldom respects the sex.' There, the secret is out, for Mrs. Barbauld was a woman of reading. In another place she tells us that Fielding's works are not greatly relished by foreigners," while on the Continent Richardson is popular. For this

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To take another long jump, we find Prof. William Lyon Phelps saying in The Bookman (New York) for December, 1915, that one reason why Richardson was so much more popular on the Continent than Fielding was because Richardson lost nothing in translation; Fielding lost irreparably." Here is another editor of Richardson giving fancies for facts. That Prof. Phelps knows Richardson, we may take for granted; but he could not have known that Fielding wrote an admiring criticism of Clarissa' in The Jacobite Journal, or he never would have written: "Richardson's opinion of Fielding we know from his letters; Fielding's opinion of Richardson, apart from his first novel, is not preserved, which is just as well, for it was probably unfit for publication." After all, would it not be as well to reduce these loose statements to figures ? Let me give Fielding's record, and let some devotee of Richardson give the record for his favourite.

Joseph Andrews' was published in 1742, and within fifty years thereafter there were nineteen editions printed in Great Britain and Ireland, but in the same period there were twenty editions on the Continent.

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Tom Jones' appeared in 1749, and in the next half-century thirty-five editions were published in Great Britain and Ireland, while the Continent produced forty-six.

at all, they prove a greater popularity abroad as commonly edited, has no intelligiblethan at home, and Fielding's popularity in metre. England has never been questioned. If we Whether this simple emendation hás oc-were to take the second half-century for curred to anybody else, I do not know, not comparison we should find the figures quite being within reach of a good classical library.. as unfavourable for Richardson; there would Before it presented itself to me, I had put be more English than foreign editions of the lines, in an idle moment, into hexameters Fielding, but fewer editions of Richardsonprovoked by a Cornish version which with which to compare them.

Did Fielding, I wonder, anticipate all this when he wrote: They found the limits of nature too strait for the immensity of their genius, which they had not room to exert without extending fact by fiction"?

FREDERICK S. DICKSON.

215 West 101st Street, New York.

SAPPHO A SUGGESTION.-
ξέσπερε, πάντα φέρων ὅσα φαίνολις ἐσκέδασ ̓ Αὔως,
φέρεις δῖν, φέρεις αἶγα, φέρεις μάτερι παῖδα.

Farnell (Greek Lyric Poets '), p. 167.
"Oiv and alya cannot mean lamb (duvos) and

kid (pupos); nor does the coming of daylight separate the young from their dams, since all go to pasture together: so that iv and alya are not to be construed with μárept, as seems to be usually done, and the meaning must be that Evening (undoing the work of Morning) brings back the flocks to the homestead, and (a human touch) the shepherd-boy to his mother-a pretty little picture, such as a Welshman would delight in putting into an englyn.

αποιον,

Farnell remarks (p. 341) that
found in one of the authorities after the
last pépes, led Bergk to adopt the reading
άTÚ; and he seems willing to believe that
Sappho, after emphasizing Morning as the
separator, might have spoken of Evening, the
reuniter, as taking away (ȧπоpéрeшv) the
daughter from the mother. This, with all
respect to two learned men, is nonsense,
which is not relieved by the reference to
Catullus (lxii. 21), where the context is
different. ATTOLOV must be a corruption of
ȧ' olŵv, and instead of a distich we are
in presence of a stanza-no doubt the first
of a series :-

1. Γέσπερε, πάντα φέρων ὅσα φαίνολις ἐσκέδας Αὔως,
2. φέρεις δϊν, φέρεις αἶγα, φέρεις ἀπ' οἰῶν
μάτερι παῖδα.

3.

1. Hex. Heroic. :

seemed to me to be inaccurate; and whether my conjecture is accepted or not, they are at least true to my conception of Sappho's meaning:

:

Hespere, cuncta ferens quot lucifer abstulit Eos,
Fers et ovem et capram, genetrici fers quoque
natum.
WALTER J. EVANS.

GENERAL WOLFE.-I am compiling a record of relics relating to this intrepid soldier, and, certain officers who served under him in the campaign in North America, 1757-60. There are, undoubtedly, many interesting items other than those already published, if one could but learn of their whereabouts.

It is to get into touch with them that I trespass upon the kindness of your readers. in the hope that they will send me any particulars known to them. My investigations show how widely such items are distributed, and how increasingly difficult it will become to locate and collate them as time goes on.

In view of all that Canada has done and is doing, I earnestly appeal to your readers to assist me in making as complete as possible a work which should prove of some historical importance, depicting as it will, by means of reproductions, the portraits of men who accomplished great things for our country, their homes, their letters, and many other military and personal items as they were in those times.

From support already received, I venture to hope that the collection of illustrations with descriptive notes will prove interesting, representative, and successful.

A. O. WOLFE-AYLWARD. Quebec House, Westerham, Kent.

DE LA POLE: POOLE.-Can any one give information concerning the direct descent of 8 Capt. Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass., from Sir William de la Pole, Baron of the Exchequer, knighted in 1296, and died about 1329? Through which one of the three sons of William has the American branch descended, and where may I obtain the complete English genealogy?

BERTHA L. SHAW.

University Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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RIME ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY.-Have any of your readers come on anything parallel or similar to the following ?—

Than Thomas' Day,

All men must say,

There's no day that is shorter.
When that is past,

SOUTHEY. I am preparing for publication a work entitled The Early Life of Robert Southey (1774-1803).' I should be grateful to any of your readers who might supply me with new information concerning Southey, or help me to locate any unpublished letters remain in the hands of private persons. or other documents touching him that may WILLIAM HALLER.

Columbia University, New York.

EDWIN WAUGH ILLUSTRATIONS.—I shall be grateful for information regarding the ownership of the original sketches by Caldecott, Houghton Hague, Partington, and Morton, illustrating Waugh's works published by John Heywood, Manchester. R. J. GORDON, Librarian and Curator.

Rochdale.

It

QUEEN CHARLOTTE.-George III.'s consort was often lampooned as mean. Was she JOB HEATH'S POSSET CUP. (See 10 S. ever accused of insobriety? The type of an iii. 468.)-Having recently discovered this engraved medallic-token in my cabinet sug-posset cup in the Ashmolean Museum, gests that this was so. F. P. B. Oxford, I find new curiosity stimulated NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.-Can one of concerning the family of the Heaths. your correspondents please furnish me with was acquired by the authorities of the the Indian for the Morning Star Museum in 1893 on the death of Prof. ? It is, I believe, a hyphened word beginning J. O. Westwood, who at that time was Wabun. C. R. I. the owner of it. On Nov. 4, 1880, he delivered an address to the Royal Archæological Institute on the subject. (Cf. Journal of the Royal Archæological Institute, vol. xxxviii p. 100, where a picture of it is given, with full description of its colourings and technical decorations, &c.) Its uniqueness appears to lie in the inscription round the upper portion of the vessel, which reads "Job Heath 1702." The letters and figures are about 1 in. to 1 in. in height; the cup itself is 4 in. high, and 6 in. in diameter. Connoisseurs in ceramics will perhaps be able to tell us whether lettering of this size extending all round the cup denotes the name of the maker or that of the recipient. The learned Professor appears to have assumed it was it bears that of the former, and added that the hitherto unrecorded name of the ancestor of some of the most celebrated manufacturers He acof ceramic articles in England.' knowledges himself indebted to Llewellynn Jewitt's Ceramic Art of Great Britain' for many of the details relating to the cup. I am informed there is mention made of it also in Early English Pottery,' by T. E. Hodgkin, p. 25.

Slow first-quick last,

The days do what they oughter.

C. H. S. WILL OF NATHANIEL KINDERLEY.-Prolonged and diligent search has failed to find the will of Nathaniel Kinderley, the Engineer of the Fens, who died at Saltholm, between Stockton and Durham, in 1742. A Probate Registry official suggests that the will never was proved, but ranked as a title deed, and that it is now in some muniment box, the owner of which is unaware of the inquiries that have been made. Are there examples known of wills of that period being unproved ?

E. F. W. CALDERON.-In 'El Magico Prodigioso' (The Wonder-working Magician'), Cyprian seizes a figure in a cloak, thinking he has What am primarily seeking is an Justina, but on removing the cloak he dis-explanation of the late Professor's remark covers that he has a skeleton in his arms. touching the descendants of this Job Heath This device is, I believe, used by Calderon and their connexion with ceramic art, and twice elsewhere. Can any reader indicate this with a view to supply some gaps in the plays in which it occurs ? GWENT. my incomplete genealogical tree of a family

During these years there were

at least two potters of the name Heath carrying on business, in the "Potteries SO called or near by: Josh. Heath of Shelton, and Thos. Heath of Lane Delph, Fenton. Was this Job a near kinsman of theirs? And, if so, were they not more likely to be makers of the cup than he?

in which I have for years been interested. between 1711 and 1721 he frequented The facts in my possession were communi- Alcester, co. Warwick, and that two of his cated to me by members of this family, sisters married into Warwickshire families. notably the late Richard Heath, well known These were Mrs. Sarah* Bliss and Mrs. in the world of literature, to whom they were Sarah* Dallaway of Henley. A third imparted by his uncle Job Heath, the great- married a John Savage; a fourth, Bird grandson of the Job Heath who, I shall of endeavour to show, was the recipient of the cup. The line of descent is as follows-it is a case of eldest sons through four generations: Job Heath, b. (?); d. Aug. 7, 1757; occupation unknown before 1721; after, a gunsmith in City of London or vicinity. Job Heath, b. 1721; d. Jan. 24, 1773; a London cordwainer. Job Heath, b. March 24, 1750; d. Nov. 6, 1825; ditto. Job Heath, b. Aug. 5, 1782; d. Sept. 24, 1869; ditto. Job Heath, b. Nov. 29, 1812; d. May 15, 1881; ditto. There is no instance of a potter along this line. It goes without saying that the Job Heath who was the recipient of the cup (or if so be the actual maker of it) may have had brothers. I am in possession of the names of his sisters. He and they may have been the children of a yet undiscovered Job Heath who was a potter in 1702, but all other Job Heaths who flourished in the seventeenth century (save one) were dead before that date (so far as I can find out). Job Heath of the second generation may, of course, have had brothers and sisters. I cannot trace them. Of the three next generations I have complete family records. There is not a potter among them.

The question is: Is the Job Heath whose name is on the cup identical with the first in the line above. I venture to assert that he is, for the following reason. Long research has convinced me there were only two persons of this name living in Great Britain in 1702. There was a Job Heath

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I have found only three other persons of this name in the seventeenth century: 1. Job Heath of Cheddleton, Staffs, b. (?); will proved March 4, 1623/4; a joiner; no son mentioned; two daughters. 2. Job Heath of Atherstone, Warwick, b. (?); letters of administration granted to widow, April 23, 1701; probably farmer. 3. Job Heath, buried Dec. 2, 1691, at Berkswell; no other information.

Like an old theological treatise dated 1591 in the possession of a member of my family which contains signatures of several of the more early Job Heaths (one dated 1695, another 1730, another 1733), the cup must have been a family heirloom and highly prized. I am in hopes that this article may be seen by members of the Heath family who can throw light upon the darkness, and especially by those gentlemen of the name of Heath who are now on the list of members of the English Ceramic Society. Perhaps one or other of them can tell us inter alia who the father of this Job Heath was.

JOHN W. BROWN.

BRAMDEAN.-In Rural Rides,' vol. ii.
I had

of Berkswell, co. Warwick-will, proved P. 90, William Cobbett remarks: Sept. 23, 1719, is in Probate Court, Lichfield; never seen Bramdean, the spot on which, it described as yeoman and husbandman is said, Alfred fought his last great and This is dated Aug. 5, 1718; glorious battle with the Danes.' aged and infirm signs with mark "I."; no son is mentioned, the only mention of Bramdean I have ever only widow and his daughter's child (a girl). I should be pleased to hear if it can be corcome across which gives that information roborated by any reader of ' N. & Q.' HUBERT GARLE.

It is difficult to believe he was either the maker or recipient of the cup in 1702. Still he may have been. Now the Job Heath at the head of the line above given is described, in memoranda of his life in my possession, as of patriarchal age at the date of his death in 1757. He could not have been born much later than 1680; and perhaps this cup was a presentation on his reaching legal maturity in 1702. Strange, if he was the maker, that no other ware with his name on it has ever been found-sic Prof. J. O. Westwood. I have also evidence that

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John Buncombe retired April 22, 1742. John Pitt, third son of the celebrated Governor Thomas Pitt, M.P., retired after John Lee, third son of Sir Thomas Lee, 1743, and d. June 23, 1750, having been M.P. 2nd Bart., M.P., of Hartwell, Bucks, for Hindon, May, 1720, to 1722; Old Sarum, married, July, 1739, a daughter of Sir January, 1724, to 1727; Camelford, 1727 Thomas Hardy, Kt.; was M.P. Malmesbury to 1734; Governor of Bermudas, 1727 to 1747 to 1754; Newport (Cornwall), 1754, till 1737; A.D.C. to the King (and brevet-he d. 1761; seated at Risely, Beds. Can colonel) in 1723 and 1741 (2007.).