She died in 1750. There is a picture of her by
B. Schwartz at Williamscote. Of Bishop Gibson
I can give information if CLARISSA will favour me
with her address.
J. E. T. L.

"THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN LORD FALKLAND
AND MR. HAMPDEN (6th S. ii. 308).-Messrs.
Halkett and Laing ascribe the authorship of
Dialogues of the Dead to George Lyttelton, Lord
Lyttelton, with the exception of the last three
dialogues, which are said to have been written by
Mrs. Elizabeth Montague.
G. F. R. B.

THE VICAR OF BADDOW (6th S. iv. 512).—Your correspondent has evidently got hold of a late edition of Daniel Defoe's History of the Devil. This book was first published in 1726; my edition is the fifth (1754), and contains the lines quoted, also these, which are familiar to many :

"Where-ever God sets up a house of Pray'r The Devil always Builds a chapel there." I know nothing of the "Vicar of Baddow." JAMES ROBERTS BROWN.

The book, History of the Devil, in which the lines quoted appear, must be of a much earlier date than that indicated by the copy in MR. HOOPER'S possession. I have an edition printed in London, 1793, but which does not contain any clue as to its author or the author of the verses, part of which has been quoted, but the writer states that he "borrows the lines of a friend."

Swansea.

ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

It may be of use to know that earlier editions exist of the History of the Devil than the one mentioned by MR. JAMES HOOPER (1822). I have one printed at Berwick in 1794, which is stated in the title-page to be a new edition." The poem quoted by MR. HOOPER appears in this copy without change. With regard to the Vicar of Baddow, possibly the "learned Dr. B- mentioned in the paragraph immediately following the poem, may be the same. The author speaks of "imploring his most sublime haughtiness, that when his other more momentous avocations of pedantry and pedagogism will give him an interval from wrath and contention, he will set apart a moment to consider human nature devilized, and give us a mathematicalanatomical description of it, with a map of Satan's kingdom in the microcosm of mankind, and such other illuminations as to him and his contemporaries, &c., in their great wisdom shall seem meet."

Northampton.

F. A. TOLE.

SIMMERIN PRIMROSE (6th S. iv. 449).-It at first struck me that this name might have been derived from that of a saint, say from St. Médard, whence the surname Semare. Two of the French names for Primula veris are herbe St. Paul and herbe St. Pierre; one of the Spanish names is

JEREMIAH CLARK, OR CLARKE (6th S. iii. 410; iv. 112, 256, 316, 352; v. 73).—After reading MR. CUMMINGS's last note on this subject, I again examined the three anthems by Clark which I had named, and I willingly admit that MR. CUMMINGS may be right in attributing the handwriting to Henstridge. I do not, however, think that this invalidates, though, of course, it to some extent weakens the evidence as to the spelling of Clark's name. Henstridge was as likely to copy the name correctly as Ward or any one else. Without a larger body of evidence, I do not expect to see belief is now that Clark spelt his name sometimes a settlement of this doubtful spelling. My own

with and sometimes without a final e; but I do not

think the point worth further discussion.

JULIAN MARSHALL,

"BUSSOCK" (6th S. v. 86).—Permit me to point out, in the interests of the English Dialect Society, that the note upon this word is of little value, because the locality of it is not indicated.

Cambridge.

WALTER W. SKEAT,

"MEDICUS CURAT," &c. (6th S. iv. 388, 436, 457, 477, 495; v. 35).-Another approximation: "Non medicina sanat, sed quicquid videtur sanasse, medicina est" (Quint., Declam., viii. 9). T. W. C.

Some additional proverbial phrases, conveying about the same notion as that in question, are (Sprüchwörterbuch, &c., p. 20, by Georg von Gaal, Wien, 1830):

"Gott hilft, und dem Arzte dankt man.

"Dio è quello che guarisce, e il medico ne porta via i

danari.

"Dieu est celui qui guérit, et le médecin en emporte l'argent.

"God cures, and the physician takes the fee.
"Wenn es wohl geräth, so sind es die Hebammen.
"Arznei hilft, wenn Gott will."

Churchdown.

F. S.

A SUCCESSION OF VICARS FROM THE SAME FAMILY (6th S. iv. 107, 318).-Allow me to correct an error made by me at the last reference. The second Rev. Thomas Leir succeeded his father in the rectory of Ditcheat in 1730, and not in 1743, as stated. In the latter year he succeeded his uncle, the Rev. William Leir, in the living of Charlton Musgrove, holding it conjointly with Ditcheat. Accuracy is always desirable even in minute particulars, and especially in "N. & Q.," to which reference is being constantly made. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

trips to Norway were as common as they are, and before Iceland had been invaded at all. That he was a man of varied learning we knew we were not prepared for 80 very valuable a monograph as this which he has put forth. For the. MS. which Mr. Metcalfe has printed: it was once the property of Fountains Abbey, and it exact position on its own shelf in the library of that contains the necessary directions for replacing it in its famous monastery. It is a MS. of the twelfth century. It can hardly have been written by a Norseman, for there are flagrant and frequent blunders in the Scandinavian names, yet it proves to be much the most full and careful account of St. Olave which exists. Clearly it is a transcript of an older document, parts of which have long been known, but the authorship of which has hitherto only been conjectured. Prof. Storm, of Christiania, concluded from internal evidence that the Acta of St. Olaf must have been written by some one connected with the cathedral at Trondbjeim; further than that no one would venture a guess. Mr. Metcalfe's MS. has "triumphantly realized Prof. Storm's conjecture," and has done much more-it has revealed the name of the author, and declared him to be none other than "Eystein or Augustinus, second Archbishop of Trondhjeim, consecrated 1161, and died 1188, the builder of Christ Church, the present Cathedral of Trondbjeim." A scholar may well feel a little elated by such a find as this; but in this instance the find has fallen to the right ture, and well en rapport with northern specialists who Widely read in Scandinavian history and literawere in a position to supplement his knowledge; resident at Oxford, and supported by all the enormous advantages which the University affords to students who are not afraid of research, the editor has spared himself no pains and no labour to produce a monograph which on our side of the Channel is certainly unique. Englishmen are invited to consider the personal history of Olaf Haraldsen, and his relations with this country: reminded that in early youth he rendered substantial

man.

Wm. Burrell, Rector of Brightling, Sussex.

Anne Wm. Hayley, Rector of Brightling, d. 1789.

John Hayley.

John Hayley. 1

pillaged Southwark; and that he died on the field of Stikklestad, fighting for the throne which Canute had in effect robbed him of. A man of iron will and iron frame, he was cruel yet roughly just; grimly devout, with a fierce zeal for proselytizing; gifted with the instincts of a legislator, but groping for right in the absence of law, which, in a blind way, he was trying to bring to the birth full grown, like Pallas from the head of Jove. This equivocal saint comes out from Mr. Metcalfe's exhaustive study of him one of those grotesque figures which history so often presents us with the product of the old order of things which is passing, the rugged bringer in of the new, as yet shapeless, and not seldom forbidding of aspect. The time has gone by when such a life, and such a record of it as Mr. Metcalfe has unearthed, can be dealt with in the supercilious fashion once in vogue; and we hail this book as an indication that Prof. Stubbs's suggestion has not been made in vain, that even the old medieval hagiology will repay a careful study. Mr. Metcalfe, of course, enters into a number of subsidiary matters more or less concerning the personal history or the saintship of the Norse king, his religious life, his forcing Christianity upon his people, the causes of his success and his failures, his relation to the literature and the legislation of his country, above all the wonderful extent of that Olaf cult which seems to have spread over all Europe north of the Alps, from Greenland to Russia, from Poland to Spain. In London alone there were at least five churches dedicated to him, and his name was early received into the English calendar. Obviously it would be quite impossible within our limits to do justice to

this remarkable publication, but we must needs express our high sense of the thoroughness with which Mr. Metcalfe has done his work, and of the importance of this new accession to our stock of authorities for the political and religious history of a period by no means rich in original sources.

Occasional Papers on Shakespeare: being the Second Part of" The Man and the Book." By C. M. Ingleby, LL.D. (Birmingham, Josiah Allen; London, Trübner & Co.) Ir is seldom that a collection of occasional papers has value or importance greater than attaches to Dr. Ingleby's Shakespeare: the Man and the Book, of which the second and concluding instalment has appeared. A warm stickler for purity of text, and a keen opponent of those fanciful emendations which possess, apparently, an irresistible fascination for a certain class of mind, and to which the ripest Shakspearian scholars sometimes succumb, Dr. Ingleby has written one or two papers which are models of clearness, common sense, and insight. In "The Tongue of Shakespeare," which opens the volume, Dr. Ingleby's method is seen at its best. Some of the discoveries of meaning chronicled in it are not only satisfactory in themselves, but are proofs of extensive erudition. In the "Literary Career of a Shakespeare Forger "Ireland alone is dealt with, "respect for the living," as is ruefully observed, preventing any attempt to grapple with the more recent and more skilful forgeries, which have been a source of corruption alike to the life and the works of Shakespeare during the present century." Paper the third, consisting of "Metrical Tests applied to Shakespeare," is a valuable and, as Dr. Ingleby says, splendid contribution to the volume by Mr. F. G. Fleay. This is the portion likely to cause most controversy, the author himself disclaiming his acceptance of all Mr. Fleay's conclusions. That no Shakspearian library will be without the completed book is, of course, to be assumed. It is pleasant to learn from the preface that further work of the same class is to be expected from the same source.

A Handbook in Outline of the Political History of England to 1881. Chronologically arranged by A. H. D. Acland and Cyril Ransome. (Rivingtons.) THE scheme of this little book is excellent, and it is, on the whole, well carried out. The first part consists of the main facts of English political history arranged chronologically on the right-hand page, while on the opposite page are numerous valuable elucidatory notes and hints, and a few of the more prominent events of European and colonial history of that date. The second part consists of very useful outlines of the history of Parliament, the Church, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Justice, and the Army, as well as of summaries of special periods, e.g., gradual union of England into one kingdom, struggle between the kings and the feudal nobility, York and Lancaster, Jacobites, Catholic Relief, Corn Laws, India. In appendices we have a list of great officials to the death of Anne, and admirable tables showing the numbers of the two Houses of Parliament at different periods, and various interesting details as to their composition, the historical list of constituencies being specially good. Though meant primarily for the higher forms in schools, it is a most useful compendium for any historical student, the numerous genealogies of great families scattered lavishly throughout the work throwing much light on what has been called "historical politics." We have not, however, been able to find any list of the original authorities for each period, the addition of which in a new edition is much to be desired.

Hypermnestra: a Græco-Egyptian Myth. By George Gladstone Turner. (Longmans & Co.) MR. TURNER has chosen his subject well. Though classical, the story of Hypermnestra is not hackneyed, and in itself is a pure and pathetic tale of woman's love. He has also fully redeemed the pledge given in the motto on the title-page, and has avoided those peculiar faults which stain the pages of the classical revivalists of the nineteenth century. Some of Mr. Turner's descriptions of Argos and Egypt are pretty; there is pathos both in the reverie of Danaus after he has decreed the murder of his sons-in-law, and in the final meeting of Hypermnestra and Lynceus; and in her appeal to his mercy for her father there is some dramatic power, though this last is marred by a doggerel chorus. On the other hand, throughout the poem we are tempted to exclaim, with Dangle, "Surely I have heard that line before," though it is rather the faults than the beauties of other poets which Mr. Turner imitates. We have Mr. Swinburne's affectations without his force and exquisite power of rhythm, and Mr. Morris's jarring rhymes without his glowing descriptions; while the Lamia and Hyperion of Keats haunt us in outward shadow, with the glory of life and soul gone from them.

THE February part of the Magazine of Art shows unmistakable signs of new blood in the management. Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson's essay on the little Pilgrim's Progress illustrated years ago by Miss Bagster is a contribution which can only be the outcome of fine editorial insight. The Nuremberg article is interesting and well illustrated; so also is the paper on Alnwick Castle. Besides these there is a notable "Note on Japanese Art," by W. E. H., as well as a timely and appreciative sketch of poor Hugh Robinson by Mr. F. Cundall. Excellent cuts of the "Boy with the Kite " and the "Piping Boy" accompany this latter paper.

contains much that is attractive; not the least interestTHE February number of the St. James's Magazine ing paper is that on the late Mr. Street, the architect. WE have received vol. xvii. (1881) of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports (Smith, Elder & Co.).

last, at the age of fifty-seven, of the Rev. James. IT is with regret we announce the death, on Sunday Stormonth, the author of the Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language.

Curators Librarian of the Bodleian, in succession to the MR. E. B. NICHOLSON has been appointed by the late Rev. H. O. Coxe.

MESSRS. GRIFFITH & FARRAN will shortly issue a new and cheaper edition of Every-day Life in our Public Schools. The various papers have been revised and considerably extended.

Notices to Correspondents.

R. R. (Boston).-In our next number. There was a reason for the other appearing last week. J. A. C. V.-With pleasure.

JOSEPH THOMPSON.-See "N. & Q.," 6th S. ii. 470.

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