No More Learning

This story, which contains probably the
Lord Dunraven is now a warm Federalist.
sole instance in fiction of an Archbishop of His argument throughout this book is that, Returns of Accidents and Casualties, as
Canterbury in the character of fairy god- first and last, Ireland has been bled by the Reported to the Board of Trade by the
mother, is prolix, artless, and ill-constructed financial arrangements between the two Several Railway Companies in the
or rather not constructed at all. It countries. The one bright patch in her United Kingdom during the Year
ending December 31st, 1911, 4d.
would have been better reading if the author financial history is, in his view, the period of
had concealed his conviction that all
Stationery Office
Grattan's Parliament, and he contends that
goodness, probity, good manners, and good
when the Act of Union was passed, Ire- These returns should be carefully studied
looks belong to well-born persons of clerical land's financial position was perfectly sound. ” by every member of Parliament, and the
and military families, that solicitors are
In setting down his facts and making his main facts contained in them should be made
inevitably rogues, and that the Army is a deductions he displays a remarkable temper- familiar to every citizen. The fact that
school of morality and honour. His per ance, judiciousness, and love of accuracy: railway companies enjoy special privileges
sistent loading of the dice tends to destroy The subject bristles with difficulties, and and are ruled by special laws not only lays
his readers' interest.
in many departments it his interpretations upon them a particular responsibility to
of the facts would be contested by men of the public, but also makes the Legislature,
Oppenbeim (E. Phillips), PETER RUFF, 2/ net. another school. But his keenest opponent and the public behind that Legislature, in
Hodder & Stoughton will admit that he has marshalled his figures some degree responsible for the manage-
Set a thief to catch a thief, and Mr. Oppen- and elaborated his narrative in a way which ment of the railways and the welfare of the
heim tells, in this series of amusing stories, is as fair as it is lucid. Especially convincing men employed.
how successful the result may be. The situa- is his exposure of the manner in which, Unfortunately, the information is not
tions are original, the heroine is a charming during the years between the Union and the presented in such a manner as to be clearly
type of strong woman, and the humour with amalgamation of the two Exchequers, the comprehensible at first sight. The accidents
which the stories are told is delightful—all smaller island was saddled with an enormous are divided into two groups : those occurring
the more delightful, perhaps, because rarely debt which, left to herself, she would never on railways in the United Kingdom in the
met with in a book of this kind.
have contracted. Lord Dunraven holds the course of public traffic,” and those occurring
view that the granting of Homo Rule would upon their [the railway companies') pre-
Oxenham (John), QUEEN OF THE GUARDED
MOUNTS, 6/ Hodder & Stoughton tion.
not lossen the strength of the case for restitu- mises, but in which the movement of
vehicles used exclusively upon railways
A romance of the French Revolution
not concerned ”-not the clearest
and the rising in La Vendée and Brittany in
Dunraven (Earl of), THE OUTLOOK IN IRE- possible differentiation. Of the first group
1793. The plot concerns the fortunes of LAND, 6d, net.
Murray of accidents a tabulated summary appears
some exiled aristocrats and their unsuc- This new paper - covered edition incor- on p. 3; but the second group appears
cessful efforts to re-establish the monarchy, porates much additional matter relevant there only in a paragraph, so that the
The author writes in a breezy and invigorat- to recent developments. So forcible and reader who desires to know the whole number
ing style, and his story, though lacking in 'pointed an excursus well merited a reprint. of persons killed and injured in the year
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No. 4409, APRIL 27, 1912
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Τ
22
over
a
of a year.
22
on
must make out a tabular summary of the its range," and the “ only true embodiment
second group for himself, and add together of equitable law and order. These may
W. T. STEAD.
the totals. As regards railway servants, seem extravagant claims, but they are
the totals in the first group are 379 killed, acutely argued, and the author offers a lucid
The doubts which might have been enter.
5,280 injured ; in the second, 56 killed and exposition of the achievements, aims, and
tained concerning the fate of Mr. William T.
22,537 injured. The latter totals include, tendencies of Liberalism as a creed and a
Stead, who was on board the Titanic, were
however, a comparatively small number practical expedient. We think, however,
settled on Saturday last by the report of an
of servants of contractors employed upon that insufficient distinction between Liberal eyewitness, Miss Hilda Slater.
He was
the railways. Thus
400 railway ideas and their practical embodiment has
seen clinging to a raft, after helping others,
servants were killed and over 27,000 injured been observed.
and finally was compelled by the freezing
in the United Kingdom in the course of
water to release his hold. Characteristically,
last year. No injury is reported that does
FOREIGN.
he had been tager for the chance of
not compel the injured person to be absent
describing a first trip on so up-to-date
history and Biography.
for a whole day from work.
vessel. The voyage was no idle whim, and
Two other tables show the number of Zeitschrift für Brüdergeschichte, Vol. VI. would, no doubt, have been the theme of
Part I.
a scathing article on
men injured in each branch of the service
that superfctation
and the number of persons employed in
Herrnhut, Moravian Brotherhood
of luxury which has received for once such
dire condemnation.
that branch. The total of railway servants
In this number Herr J. Th. Müller con-
employed was 608,750. Comparing with tinues the series of extracts from Count Born in 1849, the son of a Congregational
this the figures of men injured-exclusive Zinzendorf's papers. The first here given minister, Mr. Stead went to Silcoates School,
of the killed—wo find that roughly one man (third of the series) is a “short account of and later became an apprentice to a Tyne-
in every twenty-two is injured in the course Herrnhut and Bertholsdorff from the time side merchant. He had a passion for reading
of the departure of Herr Heitz”; next, which endangered his eyesight, wrote boyish
Every one of the six great railway com-
dated 1727, we have “ the latest history of essays for prizes, and was so far successful
panies reported more than 150 coupling the Brothers from Moravia”? ; and then the in amateur journalism that he was called
accidents. The Great Eastern had nearly
History of the four united Brothers in 1871 to edit The Northern Echo in Dar-
one every day—360; the North-Eastern (1727) and an “ Historical account of the lington. He left it in 1880 for The Pall
574, or more than three every two days. constitution of the Brethren from Moravia Mall Gazette, with which he was connected
Nearly 77 men injured daily
There is also a biography
the and Bohemia. ”
as assistant for four years, and editor for
railways of this country; one man killed of Samuel Christlieb Reichel, who, at the turn six. Already in the North he had made
every day and some 50 over at the year's of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a practice of “discussing every livo subject,
end these are the outstanding facts which represented a movement among the Moravian and compelling attention”; and on the
it behoves every citizen to remember.
Brethren away from dogma in the direction Pall Mall he wielded a power and influence
of purely humanitarian idealism.
in public affairs which made him one of the
Royal Colonial Institute Year-Book, 1912.
most prominent men of his time, tho greatest
The Institute
of contemporary journalists, if not the father
Contains the rules, the charter of incorpora-
of modern journalism. To detail his exploits
tion, lists of meetings and papers, various
LADY ASHBURTON'S LIBRARY.
would be to write the history of the time.
committees and activities connected with
On Monday, the 15th inst. , and the four follow and attractive form, and an eye for “ copy
He had a gift for presenting a case in lucid
the Institute. The non-resident and resident
Fellows and the geographical list of Fellows ing days, Messrs. Sotheby sold the library of the
late Lady Ashburton, removed from Melchet which has seldom been surpassed. Further,
are also included.
Court, Hants. The most important books were : from early days he had insisted on not
Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great, 6 vols. , writing against his convictions, and his
Tous les Chefs-d'Euvre de la Littérature
1858–85, presentation copy from the author to
française : BALZAC, EUGÉNIE GRANDET;
fearless advocacy of what he believed was a
Lord Ashburton, 251. Discourse on the Death of
and LES POÉTES DE LA PLÉIADE, 1/ net Marshal Keith, 1764, presentation copy to Lady Puritan, Jingo and self-advertiser, he im-
fine side of his character Fanatic and
each.
Dent
pp. in
Two more issues of the masterpieces of Sophie de Prusse, 2 vols. , 1812, Carlyle's copy,
his handwriting, 531. Mémoires de Frédérique pressed himself on the public, perhaps,
French literature in the companion series to 311. Aikin, Annals of the Reign of George Hill, by the qualities themselves. Opinion was
as much by the defects of his qualities as
Everyman.
Specimens of Chénier, De
2 vols. , 1820, Carlyle's copy, 361. Audubon's
Birds of America, 4 vols. , 1827-38, 5401. Goethe,
with him, as
Musset, Montaigne, Voltaire, Rousseau, and
was said of Gladstone, a
Hermann und
others are to follow by the end of May. The
Dorothea, 1826, presentation zymotic disease, and we cannot doubt that,
copy.
with an autograph verse, 421. Horæ like Gladstone, he was always fully im-
type is somewhat small.
B. V. M. , printed by Pigouchet, 1498, presentation pressed with his own rightness, however
copy from the Archbishop of Taranto to Caroline
Pampblets.
Bonaparte, 2251. About 330 coloured caricatures
much the world might wonder at the new
by Gillray, &c. , 271. Ruskin, Stones of Venice, fad or the latest casuistry. He is credited
Burlford (T. R. ), BRITANNIA'S AWAKENING :
3 vols. , 1851–73, presentation copy from the with the practical invention of the inter-
BRITAIN IN 1922, 6d. net.
author to Carlyle, ż01. Correspondence relating view, one of the most subtle forms of mis-
Marshalsea Press to the North American Boundary, &c. , 10 vols. ,
An illustrated booklet designed to incul- 1827-41, . 411. Tennyson, The Princess, 1847,
representation in journalism; and those who
valued his exposition of the national con.
cate the
12 of the country, presentation copy to Carlyle from the author, 461.
beautification
science must often have wished the expositor
Tariff Reform, &c.
a mind better balanced and less sensational
Dunraven (Earl of), THE NEW SPIRIT IN
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS.
methods of promoting his ends.
IRELAND, ld. net.
Murray On Monday last Messrs. Sotheby sold a collec-
His fame declined after he left The Pall
A reprint of a lecture delivered at Cork in tion of autograph letters, the property of a well-
January last. It inculcates the "All-for- known collector, among the highest prices being Mall, and started The Review of Reviews,
the following : Thomas Hardy, autograph MS.
one of those short cuts to knowledge in
Ireland " doctrine that what Ireland most
of · The Melancholy Hussar,'
needs is a burial of the hatchet with the autograph MS. of his poem 'The Quest,' 161. 108.
501. , Žipling, ample accord with the spirit of the age.
His various penny booklets, begun in 1895,
growth of a unified national sentiment. Sterne, letter to Sir W. Hamilton, March 17, 1766,
451. Washington, letter to G. Polson, June 24,
and suggested, no doubt, by his own reading
Reid (Sir George), THE WORLD OF MATTER
1771, 201. R. L. Stevenson, Travels with a
of Shakespeare in a similar form in his young
AND THE WORLD OF MIND: AN ADDRESS
Donkey in the Cevennes, 1886, with an autograph days, were a real boon to many, though here,
TO THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL note to Messrs. R. & 'R. Clark, 171. Dickens, too, his rage for condensing could not be
SOCIETY, EDINBURGH, FEB. 22ND, AND
Life, by Forster, 3 vols. , extended to 6 by extra restrained.
illustrations, 1872-4, 1401. A collection of letters
GLASGOW, FEB. 23RD.
The Society and papers of the Duke of Wellington, 501. The
The Daily Paper, which he began a few
The speaker, assuming the dualism of total of the sale was 7231. 158.
years ago, quickly collapsed, and he lost
mind and matter, makes an earnest plea for
reputation by his dealings with the occult
the consideration of the former. Apparently
in Borderland 1893–7, which tended to
preferring the argument from design to the
the ludicrous. His vigour was, however,
theory of ovolution, he goes on to urge the
• THE ISCARIOT,'
undiminished, and ho made some noise by
importance of psychology in education, and
an account of his first sight of the inside
of education in practical life.
Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, April 8, 1912 of a theatre. He visited the Tsar in 1898,
Vavasour (Sir William), COMMUNAL INTER- It is interesting to note that the idea of and had of lato been busy with various inter-
AN ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS Me. Eden Phillpotts's poem under this title national schemes, being a firm believer in
OF THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.
was embodied in an essay, 'Judas Iscariot, the Hague Conference.
The Author, 225, Goldhawk Road, W. by Thomas De Quincey, vol. vi. , Collected Mr. Stead was a copious and agreeable
A panegyric of Liberalism as embracing Works, Author's Edition, 1863 (Adam & talkur, much liked by his friends, and ever
* all communal sections," “universal in Charles Black).
J. G. BLACKWAN. ready at his busiest to help others.
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No. 4409, APRIL 27, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
469
common
was
already printed off on small paper, but not used, and that many of the typographical,
BYRON'S 'HOURS OF IDLENESS': on large, the same instruction might quite ornaments are identical in the two books.
well have served one compositor to set up
AN OLD QUESTION APPROXIMATELY a cancel and another to rectify standing in the mythologies (as I am not) tell us any.
Can any reader of The Athenoum learned
SETTLED,
type ; and, in the unknown conditions of thing to the advantage or disadvantage of
the work at Ridge's, there is nothing to
46, Marlborough Hill, St. John's Wood, N. W.
substantiate the theory that the large-paper at such pains to stamp out ?
this Moriah whom the youthful poet was
The only
So far as length is concerned (Ars longa ! ) compositors had got so far ahead of the Moriah that comes back to my memory is
there is not much to choose between biblio- small at the end of the job as to win the race
not a goddess at all, but whether connected
graphy and its august relative art. As after all. Neither can it be safely assumed
with folly or not is a matter of opinion. It
long ago as the 5th of December, 1885, that the small-paper men kept the lead
was in the land of Moriah that Abraham
The Atheneum published some four or five and got their book finished first. It is
was commanded to offer his son up as a burnt
columns on the suppressed and destroyed likely enough; for the small-paper book is sacrifice and then stopped by an angel as
Byron quarto of 1806 and its variants, a rather non-chalant production, anything he raised the knife; and it was on Mount
including Hours of Idleness. That article but exemplary for type, ink, or presswork; Moriah in Jerusalem that Solomon began
led to å good deal of more or less silly whereas the large-paper book is well finished the forty years' task of building a temple on
speculation on supposed variants, &c. The and carefully printed from good fresh types the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite,
correspondence on the subject, in which the and with good ink; and circumspection in But what about this goddess of folly whose
editor gave me the last word, ended in the making the best use of press material abolition has preserved for us all the evi-
Athenceum of the 23rd of January, 1886; obviously takes time.
dence we have as to the priority of the two
but in the number of the previous week
There is a scrap of evidence as to priority varieties of the first edition of “Hours of
an eminent bookseller, the late Mr. Francis
Harvey, had called public attention to the
in vol. i. of Mr. Ê. H. Coleridge's edition of Idleness ’May we assume that the Greek
fact, already well-known to bibliographers, of the title-page of the small-paper issue, taken by the youth for a proper name, or
Byron's poetry. Facing p. xii is a facsimile
noun uwpla (silliness) was mis-
that the large-paper copies of Hours of
Idleness' were printed with different type lished impression," and describes as a small purposes of his poem to create a goddess
which Mr. Coleridge calls “the first pub- that he thought it allowable for the rash
and ornaments from those used for the
8vo.
ordinary copies. Why a small country
It is clearly from the ill - executed for the occasion and regarded the addition
press like that of s. & J. Ridge of Newark, book, being distinguishable at a glance of an h to the common noun as sufficient
where the two books were printed (con. tidiness of the imprint, in which the last who know better?
for the purpose, till set right by some ono
Or is there really such
currently, as far as we know), should have
two lines are much out of the centre. In the a goddess, unbeknown
chosen to employ two founts of type and top margin it is recorded in MS. that this
to
H. BUXTON FORMAN ?
two sets of compositors, instead of re-
arranging the small 8vo pages into largo natural to expect that the poet's mother
“Mrs. Byron's Copy”; and it is but
8vo forms, may well be left as a trivial would have one of the earliest copies.
unsolved mystery ; but up till now first-
edition collectors have vexed their souls
Thus the balance of considerations seems CUNNINGHAM'S EXTRACTS FROM
with the question-Which of the two books, to favour the precedence of the small-paper
THE REVELS: BOOKS.
the large or the small, is to be regarded as in point of time, though, for aught we know
“the real Simon Pure" ? Having fine to the contrary, both may have come
April 6, 1912.
copies of both books, I am, as a bibliographer boarded from the bindery at the same TAE continuation of Mr. Ernest Law's
should be, wholly disinterested in the solu. moment and been put on sale simultaneously. long letter in defence of Cunningham calls for
tion, if ever solution is admitted to have
come. So, I believe, is that mighty hunter poet that lends a shadow of significance to He complains of my using the phrase “at the
It is only the enormous eminence of the in The Athenceum of July 22nd-29th, 1911.
little reply beyond what I have already given
and accomplished bibliographer Mr. Thomas
J; Wise who has recently
obtained curious, details of the cancelled leaf and the cancel end,” in referen 29 to the Wier-drawers''
though I think not quite conclusive, ovi- have some slight literary interest on the expenses: He says it is the beginning of p. 4.
on .
It will be remembered that both books has on the recto the close of the 'Stanzas used the phrase
same ground. The leaf, pages 21 and 22, discussing the list of plays, and naturally
contain a list of Errata-meant to be the to a Lady, with the Poems of Camoens,' and
at the end,” meaning
same list, although the one does not follow
at the end of the first part. Is this not
on the verso the opening of 'The First Kiss
the other in absolutely every detail. Both of Love. ' It was not the recto but the verso
rather a quibble than an argument ?
lists make a correction in " page 64 line 1” that the young poet wished to alter. The I had pointed out that there was a dis-
which really refers to line 2 of that page; poem had been printed off with the opening-crepancy between the dates of the plays
and both direct the substitution of lovelier
and the dates of the expenses of the work-
for “ lovlier ” in line 9 of page 86, whereas
Away, with your fictions of flimsy romance,
Those tissues of fancy Moriah has wove;
men preparing for them. The plays begin
the horror in that line to be done to death
on the 1st, the expenses on November 5th.
is no less fearsome a thing than “ lovvlier
and a foot-note to the name “Moriah
The period of the bill is from October 31st,
in both books. But, while the small-paper
had explained The Goddess of Folly. ”
1611, to October 31st, 1612. The Declared
list correctly amends an error on page 153, But the cancel drops the foot-note with the Accounts begin from October 31st. So do
the large-paper list purports to amend it on name and reads-
the Revels Accounts (though the “ Master
page 163, where, of course, it does not occur, Away, with your fictions of flimsy romance,
begins on the 30th by planning for the others),
the books being page for page and line for Those tissues of falsehood which Folly has wove; I am aware it is only the Wier-drawers’
line identical.
The rejected reading had appeared in the account which begins from November 5th,
Mr. Wise's now evidence is that of a copy privately printed 'Poems on Various Occa- but that work was necessary for the pro
of the small-paper issue in which the bindersions, "fancy” and all, and with the same
duction of plays. * I had also noted that the
has left both a cancelled leaf and the sub-foot-note, and had had a forerunner in a
number of plays given were different from
stituted leaf, or cancel. ” The leaf con- | manuscript at Newstead,
those given in unsuspected documents.
sists of pages 21 and 22. The cancelled
Mr. Law explains that the Queen also had
Moriah those air dreams and types has o'er wove.
leaf, the third in signature D, was duly
her Master of the Revels, who saw to the
mutilated by the printer for the binder's It would seem but natural that ‘Poems on expenses of her plays, &c. I confess I have
guidance; but the “
cancel,” printed as Various Occasions' furnished the copy for not heard of that official. It is true that
the fourth leaf in signature b, was left in 'Hours of Idleness' as far as the two collec. Samuel Daniell was appointed what we
that position (immediately after the Errata) tions consist of the same compositions.
should call a Censor of Plays for Kirkham
instead of being substituted for D3
and the Queen's Children of the Revels ;
With my own (formerly Mr. Becher's) but it was 1615
before he was granted a more
through the default of that binder, whose rescued sheets of the destroyed quarto of important office in relation to the youths
copies there is no cancelling of the leat in their original wrapper and their pristine authority of the “ Master of the Rovels. ” It
of the Queen's Chamber at Bristol, under the
D 3 being printed in accordance with the state of preservation, and alongside of them is true that expenses for royal performances
regenerate Õ 3 of the small-paper copies.
Mr. Wise's faultless copy of the ‘Poems
were frequently paid by the Lord Chamber-
It might be hastily assumed that in this on Various Occasions? (8vo, 1807), 1. take lain, and perhaps by the Queen's Chamber.
respect the largo-paper sheet was set up the opportunity of adding to the biblio- lain. But Mr. Law does not see my point,
from a corrected copy of the small-paper graphical particulars given in The Athe-
shoot; but even that much would not be noeum in 1886 the fact that for the wrapper * The Declared Accounts mention plays presented by
a safe assumption. If, when the correction of the quarto and the paper boards of the
Hemings, one on October 31st, and the other on Novem-
ber 1st. Thane Declared Accounts are above saspicion,
arrived from Byron, signature D 3 was octavo the same bronzy - greon paper was and are my authority for those facts.
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No. 4409, APRIL 27, 1912
The Declared Accounts of the King's between 1842 and 1859—the year when he up 200 years after the event-80 likely to be
Chamber (not the Queen's) record payments retired from the Audit Office and its archives detected, as fresh sources of history are
for 32 performances. This list gives 13. were removed to the Record Office he revealed ?
Allowing for the possibly intended limitation took possession of the record, and soon after
of plays as well as masks to those presented sold it to a bookseller in Fleet Street, who about this ; your correspondent is certain
We may think, however, what we choose
before the King, the list is not correct. gave it up in 1868 to the Record Office, that the information, as regards thirteen
Four of the plays included were not pre- where it has remained ever since, classed
sented before the King; some of the plays among Audit Office Papers, Various, the list is consequently a forgery. The
out of the fourteen plays, is false, and that
are entered to wrong companies, some to Revels. "
plays, he says, cannot have been acted at
a wrong date, which is of less importance. Now let me examine the ground on which Hampton Court.
For instance, the King's Players on Now it is so confidently pronounced by your the Lord Chamberlain's warrant (printed by
Why? Because, says he,
Year's Night should have read “ New correspondent to be forged. He does not Cunningham, p. xxiv) shows that the pay.
Year's Eve,” but they did not play then refer to any appearance of falsification in ment of these performances was at the rate
before the King at all, but before the Prince, the document itself, not to any modern look of 101. each, whereas according to him-
&c. The Sunday following it was not the about it, not to anything whatever suspicious ever after March 17th, 1630/31, at least,
Children of Whitefriars, but the King's about the ink, lettering, paper, or anything every performance at Hampton Court
Players, who performed. The next Sunday else. His sole ground—which I shall show earned 201. ; and the man who made the list
after that (January 12th) it was not the to be absolutely fallacious—is that he finds did not know that ! ” (His own italics. )
Queen's Players, but the Duke of York's
a discrepancy between the place where, Indeed, the man did not know that, for he
Players, who appeared, and not before the according to the list, certain performances knew a good deal more about it than your
King. On Monday, January 13th, the were given, and the place where, according correspondent.
King's Players did perform, but before the to him, they must have been given—for a
Prince, not before the King; and on Shrove
reason based, not on evidence, but on a mere
He kney, for example--as we ourselves
Monday the Duke of York's Players played inference of his own.
may also know from the old accounts-
before the Prince, not before the King. I
that the fee for plays at Hampton Court
have taken a great deal of trouble to check of the plays Wheyond the one named [i. e.
, The
“ There is no certainty (says he] that the names in the time of King James had always been
details, not for their own sake, but because Royal Slave ') or the dates are true. And I
“ twentie nobles a peece
-61. 138. 4d. -
of their possibly helping me and others to
decide the question of authenticity.
can prove that the places where the performances to which was usually added by way of his
are said to have taken place are false. "
Maties rewards fyve marks "-31. 68. 8d. -
With all my trouble, I have not done
making in all for each play 101. As for
enough. I found, as soon as my article was
First, as to the names and dates. To instances, he probably know that such were
printed last July, that, though I was quite authority possible the Office-Book of Sir Shakespeare and other members of the
test them there happens to be the very best the fees paid to Hemynges on behalf of
price for Hampton Court plays, I should Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels at the King's
Company when they gave six per-
have taken into account the Plague of excerpts were made by Malone 120 years summer
time. From this book, though now missing, formances in that palace, including ' A Mid.
1636, when the Players lived near Hampton ago, and were published by him in his Christmas holiday 1603-4; and he probably
Night's Dream,'
during the
Court to escape infection, with an allowance
from
the King, so that their unusual pay: prefixed to vol. i. pt. ii
. of his 1790 edition, Cunningham's book that such were the
• Historical Account of the English Stage,' knew also as we may know even from
ments there were the usual payments for and reprinted after his death in the third fees paid for presenting three playes before
other places. This weakens the strength of Variorum "-Boswell's Malone 'in 1821, his Matie and the King of Denmarke, twoo
my argument, but it does not overthrow it It is true that Herbert's list—at any rate, of them at Greenwich and one at Hampton
altogether, as to the genuineness of the
third of Cunningham's papers.
as transcribed by Malone_contains only Court,” in the summer of 1606_together 301,
some thirteen entries, that is, of plays
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM,
acted at Court from St. Stephen's Day, 1636,
“ The man who made the list” would,
to Shrove Tuesday, 1637; whereas the
moreover, have known, as we may also
know
We next print Mr. Law's final letter:
Audit Office list gives the names and dates
by careful research," that like fees
of twenty-two plays in all, presented within were paid for plays at Hampton Court
V.
the whole theatrical year from Easter throughout the reign of King Charles. He
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM,” in discussing Monday, 1636, to Shrove Ťuesday, 1637. But would have known, for instance, that
the record of 1836-7, reproves me for calling the last dozen or so entries of this impugned though the King's players received by war,
it“one of the Revels' accounts. " I maintain, list tally almost exactly with Herbert's for the rant of thọ Lord Chamberlain ("Papers,'
povertheless, that this is altogether an same period. * There is, therefore, the
class v. vol. xcii. p. 235), March 18th,
very
1630-31,
accurate phrase to apply to a packet of best reason for holding, contrary to the
Twenty pounds a piece for foure
three documents relating to payments for view of your correspondent, that at least playes Acted at Hampton Court,” the
plays acted at Court, under the superintend the names and dates of these plays, as given extra ton pounds a piece was in respect
ence of the Revels' Officers, and enclosed in in the Audit Office list, are certainly "true"; and consideration of the travaile and ex;
a sheet bearing an official note that they and a strong presumption that the names
penses of the whole company in dyet and
relate to“
plays and revels. " The authen- and dates of the others are equally to be lodging during the time of their attendance
there. '
ticity of no one of the three had ever been relied on.
questioned when I wrote; and I only referred I pass now to the question of their places later as we may know
now by the same
Also, he may have known a few years
to the packet incidentally as
records abstracted
by Cunningham from the by Malone and by Chalmers (Supplemental though the King's players received for six
one of the of performance. In Herbert's list, as given
process of
“ careful
research
that,
Audit Office.
to assert of this record that “no part of it to them seriatim; while in the impugned playes," while they had only " tenne pounds
Your correspondent, however, proceeds not their places of performance assigned plays acted at Hampton Court and Richmond
201. a peece for those
ever belonged to the Audit Office. " To this Audit Office list all the plays entered as
I unhesitatingly and emphatically answer, acted before the King and Queen on various
a peece for the other eighteone acted at
Whitehall
that every part of it—including the play dates from November 17th, 1636, to Janu.
(ibid. , vol. xcv. p. 318), the
list (assuming it, of course, to be genuine) - ary, 24th following-fourteen in all-are,
extra 101. a play was given them because
belonged to that office. The list, having each of them, play after play, specifically
“ they were not only at ye losse of their
been made out probably by one of the stated to have been acted at Hampton day at home, but at extraordinary charges
players (it seems to be in the handwriting of Court. Indeed, a small space is left, and a
by travayling, and carriage of their
Eillardt Swanston), and handed by him to line drawn above the first of these entries
goods. "
the Lord Chamberlain, would, according to and beneath the last, to distinguish them Further, it would have been clear to him
custom, have been forwarded by his Lord. from the rest, which are stated to have been then-as it can be made clear to us now
ship, with his warrant, to the Treasurer of acted at Whitehall, Blackfriars, and St. by carefully studying the Lord Chamberlain's
the Chambor as his voucher for the payment James's.
warrants—that, when such special expenses
of the money due to the players for the
Would a forger, we may ask incidentally,
and losses are not specifically noted in the
performances therein recorded. Passed on have gratuitously inserted such
particulars warrants as the reasons for granting the
by the Treasurer to his " very loueing friends of place, so liable to be erroneous, if made extra 101. , they were understood and implied
the Auditors of his Mats Imprest,” they must
both by the players and their paymasters ;
have remained in the Audit Office for
and that when there were no losses or no
* Herbert's list includes two plays by Beeston's Company,
upwards of two centuries at least-until
which would have no place in the Audit Office list, as that extra expenses, or when these were made
1842, when Cunningham printed the list, with relates only to those given by the King's Company It also up to the players in some other way, then
the two other documents, in the Introduction instead of the 17th to Rollo," but this may be an error of
the regulation fee of 101. only per play would
to his
* Extracts,' p. XXV.
Some time transcription.
be authorized in the warrant,
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No. 4409, APRIL 27, 1912
THE ATHENÆUM
471
66
'to
The last case, in fact, was just that of the statement, and seeks to set him right by number must be consulted before the text
fourteen plays we have been discussing, and asseverating :-
can be established with any certainty.
I can prove conclusively, not only that these
“. But it could only be The Royal Slave'
The report gives the result of Dom
plays might have been, but that they must
which was acted at Hampton Court, because the
Donatien De Bruyne's researches in the
have been, actod at Hampton Court, and other 21 had only the usual allowance of 101. , libraries of Spain, where he has been suc-
that they could have been acted at no other and must have been acted in London. But cessful in discovering the manuscripts of
place for the following reasons. Through the writer of the list makes 14 of them acted at
Roda-now in the cathedral of Lerida
out the winter months 1636–7 the plagu
Hampton Court !
and of Urgel, which were supposed to be
was raging in London, the theatres were Clumsy forger! Ignorant man !
lost. Dom De Bruyne has also visited
closed by Order in Council, and the Court,
Yet Herbert, the Master of the Revels,
libraries in Austria and Germany, and it is
having retired early in the autumn to
Hampton Court, remained there in closely agrees with him and with the Lord Chamber satisfactory to learn that he found the
lain, and not with your correspondent.
treasures of which he was in search care.
For
being allowed within ten miles of the palace. ) (as printed, p. 239, vol. iii. , of the Variorum,
guarded seclusion, nobody from London in Malone's verbatim transcript of his list fully preserved and catalogued. The Com-
mission add a note of special thanks to Mr.
The King's players, however, were spe. 1821) we find the heading " At Hampton Pierpont Morgan for permission to collate
cially summoned by his Majesty to Court
, 1636," applying to all the plays from the famous Hamilton MS. 251–a work
assemble their companie and keepe them.
“ the first part of
Arviragus, Monday performed by Mr. Hoskier, and now available
selves togither neere
in a magnificent folio volume, containing
our Court for our afternoon, 26 Decem. ," to "Julius Cæsar
service”;
also a palæographical and critical introduc-
and were granted a special at St. James's, the 31 Jan. , 1636. ” But
tion.
allowance of 201. a week for their expenses, perhaps your correspondent will maintain
The report includes a list of the codices
commence from the first day of Novem- that Herbert was wrong, too.
ber last past, and to continue during our
that have been photographed or collated
He concludes with a remark about the
pleasure, to be taken unto them as of our ink. He had before assured us that “the (in English) upon the present state of the
with printed Bibles, a most interesting note
princely bountie”-and your correspondent constituents of the ink used in the Record Vercelli Gospels, and six illustrations.
did not know that”! This truly Office were the same from before the begin-
" princely bountie ” lasted until the end of ning of the seventeenth century down to
January. My authority is the original the date at which he [i. e. , Cunningham) used
'Letters'
FORTHCOMING BOOKS.
under the Privy Seal, dated it. ” He now declares : “ The fact that the
APRIL
Hampton Court, December 13th, 1636- ink is the same, out of the same brewing,
Theology.
parchment of eleven lines, which is to be
as in the list 31 years before, casts a
The Revolutionary Function of the Modern
found in the Record Office-State Papers, lurid light on the whole confection. " It Church, by John Haynes Holmes, D. D. ,6net:
Dom. , Charles I. , vol. cccxxxvii. , No. 33. does indeed !
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