E. S. DODGSON.

A news cutting states:

1851). An examination of Dr. Gessert's 1712." Dr. W. Derham is recorded in the
book will put an end to the belief that thereD.N.B.' as President of St. John's College,
were no artists in stained glass during the Oxford. He died in 1757.
seventeenth century. An article of over
40 columns in Meyer's Conversations-
Lexicon,' which is based on Gessert, supplies
lists of seventeenth-century artists in glass
for the Netherlands, Germany, France,
England, Switzerland, and Spain. See also
chap. vi. in Mr. Eden's book, where, in
describing the revival of ecclesiastical glass-
painting encouraged by Archbishops Abbot
and Laud, he mentions, among Flemish
glass-painters who settled and worked in
England, Baptista Sutton and Bernard and
Abraham van Linge. Another artist men-
tioned by him is Henry Giles of York, " who,
in 1687, finished some of the uncompleted
work of the younger van Linge in University
College Chapel."

For some eighteenth-century English artists on glass see the following lives in the 'D.N.B.': William Price (d. 1722), Joshua Price (fl. 1715-17), William Price his son (d. 1765), Thomas Jervais or Jarvis (d. 1799), Francis Eginton (1737-1805), James Pearson (d. 1805), and Eglington Margaret Pearson (d. 1823).

EDWARD BENSLY.

Your correspondent will find references to artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in chap. v. of A History of English Glass Painting,' by Maurice Drake, published in 1912. Amongst others, the names of Richard Greenbury, Henry Gyles, Abraham and Bernard van Linge, William Peckitt, Francis Eginton, William Price, Jervais, Pearson, Forest, J. H. Miller, Robert Godfrey, and William Brice occur, and specimens of their work are referred to.

Exeter.

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H. TAPLEY-SOPER.

SUBMARINES (12 S. iii. 356).-In "The Table " of Physico-Theology:.... .By W. Derham,....The Seventh Edition. London, 1727," MR. ACKERMANN will read " Drebell's submarine Ship "; and on p. 5 this note about it :

"But the famous Cornelius Drebell contrived not only a Vessel to be rowed under Water, but also a Liquor to be carried in that Vessel, that would supply the want of fresh Air. The Vessel was made for King James I. It carried twelve Rowers, besides the Passengers. It was tried in the River of Thames; and one of the Persons that was in that submarine Navigation was then alive, and told it one, who related the matter to our famous Founder, the Honourable and most Ingenious Mr. Boyle." This book is "the Substance of Sixteen Sermons Preached in St. Mary-le-BowChurch, London; ....in the Years 1711, and

"Few would associate the name of Napoleon
with the submarine, and yet, had it not been for
might have been inseparably linked for all time.
the vigilance of the British Government, the two
When Napoleon was banished to St. Helena,
various schemes were set on foot to effect his
escape. One of the most remarkable of these
originated in the brain of a notorious smuggler
named Johnstone. A submarine vessel, says Scott-
in his Life of Napoleon,' was to be the means of
effecting this enterprise. It was thought that by
sinking the vessel during the daytime she might
escape the notice of the British cruisers, and, being
raised at night, might approach the guarded rock
without discovery. The vessel was actually begun
in one of the building yards upon the Thames, but
the peculiarity of her construction having occa-
sioned suspicion, she was seized by the Govern-
ment."
R. J. FYNMORE.

the Submarine (Sampson Low, 1908) traces
Lieut.-Col. Cyril Field in The Story of
these under-water craft back for many
Chap. i. is from B.C.
A.D. 1559. It is fully illustrated.

centuries.

415 to

RALPH THOMAS.

ever

LOPE DE VEGA (12 S. iii. 274). So far
as I know the 'Pastores de Belen' has never
been translated into English; nor is this
surprising in view of the fact that only a
tiny fraction of Lope's output has
appeared in this form. Of course, English
plays have been based on those of the
Spaniard. Moreover, versions of separate
scenes and passages have appeared in various
review articles, literary histories, &c. But
I am acquainted with only one play that has
been completely rendered-the Montague-
Capulet drama, which has obviously to be
classified under Shakespeariana. Further,
there are various short lyrics done by Long-
fellow and others: a sonnet and its English
equivalent by Churton figured quite recently
in these pages (ante, pp. 210, 314).
like Lord Holland gave a few specimens
from the longer poems, too. And, finally.
we have the renderings of the 'Peregrino en
su patria' which formed the subject of a
correspondence at 11 S. xi. 417, 498; xii. 53.

Men

On the moral question raised by your correspondent I cannot enter at length..

D

"Ruiz and Lopez de Ayala combine, characteristically enough, moral laxity with devotional unction. Piety, the outcome of a fugitive remorse and an abiding dread of the Hereafter, is a capital trait of the Spanish genius, and in this respect the Archpriest and the Chancellor are typical."

H. O.

co. Gloucester, settled in Cambridgeshire, of which the last male representative, Sir Thomas Sclater, of Catley Park, Bart., died s.p. in 1684."Burke's Landed Gentry.'

It is curious that in Boyer's Political State of Great Britain,' 1726, the death of Mrs. Bacon is given as "wife of Thos. Slaughter Bacon, M.P."

A Robert Swinburn, schoolmaster, in the Old Jewry," died March 31, 1729 (Historical Register ').

A Robert (or Henry) Stevens, "serjeant at law," died March 21, 1739, aged 69 (Boyer's 'Political State of Great Britain'). The "Rev.-Price, at Thetford, Norfolk," died March 4, 1737 (Gent. Mag.).

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of

A Thomas Dickson, Alderman London," died Nov. 20, 1729 ('Historical Register '), but I do not think there was an alderman of that name. "Joseph Downing, printer," died Aug. 31, 1734 (Gent. Mag.). W. R. W.

Would not Thomas Wotton, "at the Three Daggers and Queen's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street, the compiler of 'The English Baronetage,' ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL SUBSCRIBERS TO 5 vols., 1741 (and query the Thomas 'LIFE OF COLET (12 S. iii. 148, 282). Wootton, bookseller,' who died April 1, *Thomas Sclater of Catley, Lynton, co. Cam-1766, London Magazine), be the person bridge, M.P. Bodmin, 1713-15, Cambridge, inquired for? January, till 'unseated May, 1715 (and, as T. Bacon), 1722 till he died "of a Palsey, worth 200,000l., and without & Will," Aug. 23, 1736 (Gent. Mag.); his library and pictures sold, 1737; son of Sclater; was a student at Trin. Coll., Cambridge, on Dec. 10, 1684; admitted a student of Gray's Inn (as of Hatley [sic, but should be Catley], Cambridge), Jan. 25, 1694 (Registers); inherited the estates of his great-uncle Sir Thomas Sclater, Bart., of Catley Park, under his will, at his death, Dec. 10 or 19, 1684; took the additional surname of Bacon between 1715 and 1722; married Elizabeth, sister of Peter Standley of Paxton Place, Hants; she died Dec. 16, 1726, and was interred at Linton, under a handsome monument designed by Wilton (Burke's Extinct Baronetcies,' which wrongly gives 1734 as the date of Mr. Bacon's death). Sir Thomas Sclater purchased considerable estates in co. Cambridge, of which he was High Sheriff, 1686, and was created baronet, July 25, 1660; married Susan, -daughter of Freeston of Norwich, and relict (1) of Cotton, and (2) of Rev. Comber, D.D., of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, but died s.p. Dec. 10 or 19, 1684, aged 68; title extinct. Mr. Bacon devised his estates to the family of Thomas Sclater King, which gentleman sold them in 1768 to Lord Montfort, who again sold them in 1771 to Dr. Keene, Bishop of Ely (Burke). Why the name of Bacon was adopted I have not found -out. The fact that his parentage was not recorded when he entered Gray's Inn may be taken to mean that he was over age, and his own master, his father being probably dead. The Registers of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, would, however, most likely give his parentage when admitted there.

"About the commencement of the seventeenth

century a branch of this family [Sclater of Hoddington House, Hants, now Lord Basing], which had been lords of the manor of Slaughter,

1686 he

KIRKPATRICK OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT (12 S. iii. 299).-James was a son of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, 1st Bart. of Closeburn, by his first marriage, in 1666, with the Hon. Isabel Sandilands, daughter of John, Lord Torpichen. His father's third marriage, to Grizzel, daughter of Gavin Hamilton, gave him great offence. The dispute ran so high that immediately after witnessing the ceremony he left the church, and severed his relationship with his family for ever. In emigrated" to England, and having gained the affections of Ann, only daughter of the Rev. Hoar, at Romsey, he married, and received with her a dower deemed at that time considerable. They removed to the Isle of Wight, and in 1704 purchased a capital messuage or dwellinghouse, with a large garden, in the best situation in Newport." He died in October, 1719, leaving his only son James, and daughter Jane, wife of Matthew Rolleston, Esq., amply provided for. Esther Williams, by whom he had issue three sons: (a) James, b. 1756, d. 1818, married in 1786 Margaret Everett, daughter of Marvin Everett of Heytesbury (b. 1763, d. 1800). (6) John, b. 1757, d. 1810, married Susannah, eldest daughter of Joseph Godman of Chichester and Parkhurst, Sussex (b. 1765,

The son married

and from 1890 to 1896 at Ashleigh, Addlestone. He was a member of the R.B.A. from 1856 to 1894. Mr. T. Mewburn Crook, Hon. Sec., has no record of Cobbett's death. The late Mr. Frederic Boase tried to find a record of Cobbett's death in the register at Somerset House, but could not succeed in doing so. Perhaps the artist died abroad.

Two of his works are in the Walker Art Gallery at Liverpool: The Showman,' or The Peepshow,' 29 in. by 39 in.; and A Country Lane,' 16 in. by 20 in. The latter is inscribed on the back: Philip Westcott, Esq., with E. J. Cobbett's compliments. E. J. Cobbett, July 2, '45."

but

Cobbett was not a member of the Liverpool Academy. His work is good and pleasant. He is not recorded in the 'D.N.B.' or in Painters,' Bryan's Dictionary of references to him are in Mr. Algernon Graves's works, 'Royal Academy Exhibitors,' vol. ii. p. 90, and British Institution Exhibitors, p. 106; Bénézit's Dictionnaire des Peintres,' vol. i. p. 973; The Year's Art' for 1881; and Boase's Modern English Biography,' Supplement, vol. i. col. 696. THOS. WHITE.

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Junior Reform Club, Liverpool.

AUSTRALIAN SLANG (12 S. iii. 296).-Only

Bokays. Surely only "bouquets
Imshee.-Arabic, I believe.
Nark.-Again not Australian.
slang for an informer.

Thieves'

National Liberal Club, S.W.

Cliner, an unmarried girl, is probably derived from the German die Kleine=the little one; and guyver from the Hebrew gäevah=" pride." Both these words have been incorporated into Jüdisch, and subsequently become slang. Guyver is not uncommon in Cockney slang. ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

[W. B. S. also thanked for reply.]

In Through the Fields with Linnæus ' the last on the list of so-called Australian (2 vols., Longmans, 1887) Mrs. Florence slang words is to be found in Austral Caddy relates on p. 329 the anecdote about English: a Dictionary of Australian Words,' the gorse. It should be remembered that by Edward E. Morris (Macmillan, 1898): our common furze is confined to Western Yakka, v., frequently used in Queensland Europe, and Linnæus had possibly never seen bush-towns. .It is given by the Rev. W. it before. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Ridley, in his 'Kámilarói and other Australian Languages,' p. 86, as the Turrubul (Brisbane) term for work,' probably cognate with yugari, make,' same dialect, and yengga, make,' Kabi dialect, Queensland.' Imshee, Arabic, probably by now a familiar phrase among Australian troops quartered in Egypt.

Mag, "sub., a magpie. v. 6. To tease, worry incessantly, to scold, complain, find fault; to abuse ('E.D.D.,' s.v.). Nark, to annoy, vex, irritate, exasperate ('E.D.D.,' s.v.), or Nark, Romany nak, nose-a police spy, or informer (N.E.D.,' s.v.).

C. W. FIREBRACE.

Boko.-I should say this was not peculiar to Australia-at any rate, in the sense of head." There was once a ballad about the Sayers-Heenan fight, which ran somewhat as follows:

Bash him on the boko, dot him on the snitch!
Such a mighty fighter, there never was sich.
It is possibly riming slang for "cocoa-(nut)."

That handbook of my youth, Colman's Our Woodlands, Heaths, and Hedges,' whispers to my attentive ear :

our

"It is said that when the famous botanist Dillenius first visited England and saw commons covered with the brilliant bloom of the furze, which he had been accustomed to look on as a choice exotic, he went on his knees in grateful delight."."-P. 90.

Miss Anne Pratt also testifies ('Flowering Plants of Great Britain ') :—

"The delight of Dillenius on seeing it in profusion on the English common, and the rapture of Linnæus when he knelt on the sod thanking God for its loveliness, can be well understood by the lover of flowers."-Vol. ii. p. 78.

I do not consider this authoritative, but it is interesting.

The Encyclopædia Britannica' does not mention the gorse story under Dillenius or under Linnæus. Perhaps it is one of the anecdotes of the latter which it refrains from repeating as being of very doubtful ST. SWITHIN. authority."

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KEATS QUERIES (12 S. iii. 273).-Poets, dise, for one would think that, the "happy and especially poets like Keats, must not hunting ground" once attained, no cruel be interpreted too strictly by the letter. pierce could bring again sense of the Their language is figurative and allusive; gnawing fire at heart and brain." they give us (as somebody has said) not the bare fact, but its emotional value. But it is not difficult, I think, to get at the idea behind the words in most of the passages queried by your contributor.

"A young palmer in Love's eye" ("Isabella,' 1. 2).--One whom Love regards as a palmer or pilgrim, or what the old song calls the pilgrim of Love."

"If looks speak love-laws, I will drink her tears (ib. 39).I read this: "It is the law of love that we share a loved one's sorrow; if looks can speak, mine shall show that I share hers." Cp. Psalm lxxx. 5.

The passage relating to "Theseus' spouse (ib. 96) does not seem to need any further explanation than your correspondent gives it, but, as to the bowing, compare Keats's own far-spooming ocean bows to

thee.'

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"Great wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay (ib. 136) probably means cunning in the use of the tongues in which their business was conducted. They took no account of the songs of Grecian years their learning was all for gain.

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:

Waking an Indian from his cloudy hall is highly allusive, even for Keats, but not, I think, extravagantly so. Compare a poor Indian's sleep' in Sleep and Poetry' (1. 87).

Atom darkness (ib. 322) seems to mean a darkness that when the spirit disappears breaks up into palpable particles; so, in l. 327, we find the spangly gloom froth up and boil."

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66 Atom-universe (Hyperion,' ii. 183): compare Young's atom-world ('Night Thoughts,' iv. 421), and Leibnitz's theory of monads, in which God Himself is the supreme monad.

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C. C. B.

('Isabella,' 1. 2).-Love's

"Love's eye sight, view, perception.

66 Love-laws ('Isabella,' 1. 39).-Love's desires. Laws express desires, and so here the word stands for desires.

"Great wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay (Isabella,' 1 136).-Great adventurers using their wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay trade.

Waking an Indian from his cloudy hall" ('Isabella,' 1. 270).-" Cloudy hall seems to imply a state of sleep or dream brought about by a narcotic or intoxicant. I hardly think it can mean an Indian para

PICTURE OF OUR LORD (12 S. iii. 332).See the communication at 9 S. i. 234 on "Portraits of Christ' by W. C. B. (the late Rev. Walter Consitt Boulter), with the many references there given; also Macray's 'Annals of the Bodleian,' under the year 1722. The statement in the inscription that this representation of Christ was sent to Pope Innocent VIII. by the Sultan in order to redeem his captive brother is amusing, considering that Bajazet II. was willing to pay a large sum to have Djem put to death, or to pay a yearly tribute to have him kept safely in prison where he could do no mischief (Creighton, History of the Papacy,' bk. v. chap. v.). According to the usual version of the story, the special relicby the gift of which Bajazet tried to secure the Pope's goodwill was the head of the spear by which our Saviour's side was pierced on the cross. See Platina's life of Innocent VIII. in his Historia de Vitis Pontificum Romanorum.' This offering from an infidel seems to have provoked doubts :