Per bend ermine and ermines a lion rampant or.' Papworth gives the following:-Edwards (of Brislington, Somerset); Lloyd. THE Accused Queen, whether in fairy tale romance makes a most attractive subject, and the story-tellers who again and again resorted to it will be understood and approved of as long as anyone loves stories. Perhaps some of those who read Professor Schlauch's study will learn for the first time how immense and drawn too from over all the world Mos--is the mass of story on this theme. The same but per bend sinister; Davies (Shropshire); Dymock (Warwick); Edwards (Denbigh, Devon, Yorks., Leics. and Shropshire); Hosier (Shropshire); Mawson (Bp. of Llandaff); Lloyd (Lexton Knolls); tyn (Flint); Trevor (Bp. of St. Asaph); Young, and Wynne (Eyarth). As the last, but with a crescent for difference :-Jenkens; Mostyn (Flint). As the last but the lion armed and langued azure-Edwards (London); Pennant (Carnarvon, Flint and Jamaica); Trevor. WILFRED DRAKE. 1 Holland Park Road, W14. GRAVES'S · SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE (clii. 136, 392, 429).-In Hewett's 'History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, Berks,' 1844, it is stated that some of the characters of this book were drawn from persons living in the neighbourhood of Aldworth, where Graves was curate. Mr. Wilmot was intended for the Rev. Walker, of Whitchurch, Oxon; Jerry Tugwell for old Bacon, a noted cobbler of Aldworth; and Mr. Woodville, for Mr. Bartholomew. The story of Mrs. Rivers is partly founded on fact, being a narrative of the romantic courtship of the author and his lady. Many of the incidents related actually occurred during Mr. Graves's residence in this parish. Our of author has examined all the important collections of tales and pronouncements of authorities, and from her assembled material works out a clear and convincing theory of Chaucer's the development of the Accused Queen Cycle. Man of Law's Tale may be said, in this regard, to stand in the centre of things. The first accuser of Constance is a man whose love she has rebuffed and who takes a horrible revenge upon her. Her second accuser is her mother-in-law. In the first we have a relatively new character, and one which as we look forward at the more developed romances we find back to old folk-tales which have carried up elaborated and varied; in the second we look through one generation after another traces of a matriarchal system of inheritance, primitive ignorance of nature, and of cruel primitive superstition. In these early forms of the story neither does a villain appear (the accuser is father or mother-in-law, demon or witch) nor is the Queen accused of infidelity, the common accusation of later days. The early accusations are of some monstrous crime, bringing forth of animals, child-murder or witchcraft. There is perhaps no type of story which and most widespread primitive beginnings up we can follow so distinctly from the crudest into the greatest literature of the world, nor which on the way presents so many interesting variations, so many opportunities for a poet to work out characters and hearers' hearts, as the story of the Accused Queen. Professor Schlauch follows it all out in detail. We are glad to observe that she deprecates the exaggerated sureness and definiteness which some workers in this field give to their accounts of how the stories arose and the exact implications belonging to them. A Note on the Family of Black of Over Abington, 1694-1924. By William George Black. (Privately printed). THE story of the Black family begins with William Black of Abington, Crawfordjohn, and the notes of his affairs, which he kept (and his son and his grandson after him) in a certain "neat black pocket-book bought in the year 1694. William was a prosperous sheep-farmer and an estimable man, given, however, to the use of strong expressions which did not always please his neighbours. He died in 1723, and his successor. James, ad touch " his vanced upon his father's prosperity, marrying a Willison, grand-daughter of Lord Annandale (whose mother was a heroine of romance), and playing his part among the local county magnates. The family presently came to settle in Glasgow. By the careers of sons and marriages of daughters, it has come to be represented in many parts of the Empire, and allied to well-known names. We noticed that a daughter, Jane Rodger, of James Black of Dalmonach, born in 1847 married, in 1858, General Sir Archibald Alison. Is there some misprint here, or was she in fact married at the age of 11? The pedigree is beautifully printed, and is illustrated by eight Additional portraits beautifully reproduced. are provided on the families of Willison, and suggestive remarks on Marston and Chap- By Geoffrey L. (Humphrey Milford, for the British Academy. 2s. net). notes ar Annathill and Blackie, to which Mr. M and Leopardi Black has added a letter of old family memories and piety written by the Rev. John Willison in 1826 to the second James Black. The Introductory Essay, besides its family purport, contains some interesting notes of incident and character-such as the long "settlement " dispute in William Black's day at Crawfordjohn. The original Black strain was conspicuous, one perceives, for vigour and tenacity of purpose. James Black III introduced into it a new element by his marriage with Janet Park, descendant of Deschamps, a Huguenot refugee from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This James was the man who, at the age of 17 endured, without anesthetic, the amputation of his leg, an operation which is said to have lasted for ninety minutes. It is not surprising that there are instances of longevity in the family, the most conspicuous being Christian, a daughter of James Black II who, after living sixty years in Edinburgh, where she had known some of the circle gathered round Sir Walter Scott, died in 1882, in her 99th year. 6 once Eastward Hoe,' by Chapman, Jonson and Marston. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Julia Hamlet Harris. (Yale University Press: Oxford University Press. 8s. 6d. net.). THIS play, which, as we all know, brought its writers to imprisonment by reason of sundry reflections on the Scots resented by the King, offers much opportunity to the critic, whether in the tracing of sources, the attribution of parts to their several authors, or in general literary appreciation. 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Lt.-General Sir George MacMunn, recalling a passage in a letter from Sir Henry Norman to his wife, written at Simla in '57-" By the way, I must mention that a European woman was hung at Meerut, being implicated in the arrangements for the first outbreak "-establishes with considerable probability the poor woman's identity, "Mees' Dolly" of the Meerut Bazaar. The letters to Austin Dobson contributed by his son, are continued; they include a pathetic one from W. E. Henley, of Oct. 9, 1883, about Old World Idylls": "Your book, dear poet, is a good book. Believe me, much of it will live to give pleasure to poets yet unborn. And all of it, to us of to-day, is good and sweet. Truly you haven't lived and wrought in vain. I sigh a little, as I turn the pages, and feel the good thought, the well-united verse, the happy and graceful rhymes. I should have liked to be a poet, too. And you know what I am at Somerset OUR correspondent, Mr. S. O. Addy, writes to The Times (Aug. 29) reminding us of the possibility of a Shakespeare discovery of the first importance supposing the old probate inventories House could be classified and indexed. John Hall, William Shakespeare's son-inlaw, filed an inventory in the Archbishop St. Paul's, of Canterbury's Registry near over a N interesting article in the new number of the Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research is that of Lieut.-Colonel Wilson on Old Army Customs. Here we may learn why a Sergeant-major never draws his sword except at the trooping of the colour; whence the Indian title." havildar"; the use of the forked pennon on the lance; the date of the first recorded issue of uniform clothing; the origin of the use of the drum, and who were the first troops that adopted marching in time to the sound of it; the origin of the three volleys fired soldier's grave; and that of the salute. Our author tells us that up to the time of the Boer war most of the bugle and trumpet calls in use were of Haydn's composition. We would echo his wish to know why they were superseded. The officers' mess he finds of comparatively recent institution dating from c. 1800; and the order for special uniform for mess dating 1872. The article concludes with remarks on certain military words and phrases. An interesting word is pulton, in "Alcock-Ki-Pulton " and "Broon-Ki-Pulton," meaning "regiment " and formed from the French peloton. THE September Cornhill contains a rather gracefully written article by Mary Bathurst Deane about the Deanes of Reading in the eighteenth century-very pleasant people, mingling with those of importance. Miss Kitty Deane, in October, 1805, drove to Bristol Hot Wells from Bath, and jots down this record: " Enjoying a good dinner at the Bush Inn when a waiter told us that a learned of which the documents are now deposited Halliwell-Phillipps, at Somerset House. mentioning this inventory, says that not a fragment of it is known to be in existence, but does not say that he had search made at Somerset House for it. A year or two ago," Mr. Addy continues, friend told me that when he sat in Parliament he made an inquiry about the old probate inventories at Somerset House, and I understood him .to say that according to the information given to him it would cost some thousands of pounds to classify and make an index of them. I have seen and copied old inventories in other Probate Registries, such as those at York and Lichfield, but I have never seen an inventory from Somerset House, either printed or unprinted. In my experience at Somerset House, inventories are never asked for, nor in the absence of an index could they be produced. The statement that not a fragment' of Shakespeare's inventory 18 known to be in existence' requires verifica |