11 S. V. MAY 4, 1912.]
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digne tie foi : j'ai constate par centre et sa
superstition concernant le matelas en temoigne
que le Roi avait toujours eu le pressentiment
que le vendredi lui serait fatal."
ST. S WITHIN.
NOVEL BY B. DISRAELI. In the excellent memoir of Beaconsfield by Mr. T. E. Kebbel in the ' D.N.B.,' 1888, vol. xv. p. 101 et seg., I find no mention of a novel by this great political writer entitled ' Walstein,' though there seems to be the intention to give a list of all his works. ; The Modern Dunciad,' 1826, is given as his first published work, and ' What is He ? ' as produced in 1833.
I read ' Walstein ' in The Court Magazine I think vol. iv. for 1834. It had only the first few chapters, and I am unaware if the story was ever finished. The hero claimed descent from the great Wallenstein, and the title is evidently an abbreviated form of that name. If only a fragment, being by such a writer, it was worth mentioning ; and what there was appeared to me both well-written and more interesting than some of Disraeli's works. Disraeli's name does not appear. The work is said to be by ' the Author of 'Coningsby,' &c.," and it is manifestly in his colloquial, epigrammatic vivid style. L. M. R.
[A Bibliography of Benjamin Disraeli appeared at 8 S. iii. 321, 361, 401, 443, 482 ; iv. 22. ' The Modern Dunciad ' was not Disraeli's first contri- bution to literature. It is noted in the article at the frst reference that the opening portion of " The Dunciad of To-day ' appeared in Xo. 5 of The Star Chamber on 10 May, 1826 ; but the earliest item in the Bibliography is ' A True Story,' which appeared in Xo. xl. of Leigh Hunt's Indicator on 12 July, 1820.
L. M. R.'s note is, however, of much interest, for under 1891, in the last instalment of the Bibliography, the compiler mentioned (8 S. iv. 24) that he had not been able to trace the first appearance of three stories included in ' Tales and Sketches by the Bight Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield,' published by W. Paterson & Co. in 1891. The stories were ' Walstein ; or a Cure for Melancholy ' (pp. 158-74), ' The Midland Ocean ' (pp. 285-8), and 'An Interview with a Great Turk ' (pp. 346-50). L. M. R. has given a clue to the first. Perhaps he or other correspondents will supply exact references for all three.]
GENERAL GRANT. It is, I believe, a common idea that Genera] Grant, whose family migrated from Dorsetshire to Ame- rica, was of Scotch extraction. This is entirely wrong, and shows how very treacher- ous names may prove hi genealogy. As a matter of fact the Grants were settled in Wilts and Dorset from feudal ages, as any study of Wilts and Dorset juries on LP.M.'s
will prove. Also in a plea of the Bishop, of
Salisbury against certain inhabitants of
Sherborne in 1384 (' Liber Niger,' Sarum
Diocesan Registry, fo. 202) John Grant
occurs frequently as one of the interested
parties. Parish registers in North Dorset
and Wilts corroborate this settlement of
Grants. EDMTTND R. NEVTLL, F.S.A.
Salisbury.
GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES, 1825-54. The original certificates of marriages cele- brated at Gretna Hall between 1825 and 1854, signed by the contracting parties ; the Gretna Hall marriage register, a quarto volume containing transcripts of the certi- ficates in the handwriting of John Linton, and an index to the same, formed lot 458 in Messrs. Sotheby's sale by auction of books and manuscripts on 29 March.
DANIEL HIPWELL.
[We see by The Athenaium of 6 April that they realized 420Z.1
CHISWICK CHURCHYARD. The monu- ments and memorials here are of great interest. Here rest the third daughter of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, Mary, Countess of Fauconberg ; Miles Corbet the regicide ; Sir Thomas Chalmers, the dis- tinguished Elizabethan chemist ; Thomas Bentley, the partner of Josiah Wedgwood ; Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, the famous beauty of the Court of the second Charles ; and William Hogarth, on whose monument is Garrick's inscription :
Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reached the noblest point of Art,
Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart.
If Genius fire thee, Reader, stay ; If Xat'ure touch thee, drop a tear ;
If neither move thee, turn away,
For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here.
Here, too, were buried Lord Macartney, the great Ulsterman who was English Am- bassador to China ; and Ugo Foscolo, the Italian patriot.
In a recent number of The Architect is given Mr. Arthur J. Pitman's interesting paper on ' The Notable Dead of Chiswick ' (read before the Upper Norwood Athenaeum). In view of the Cromwellian associations of Chiswick Church, it is strange to read that the registers before 1621 were destroyed by the Protector's soldiers quartered in the church, who used them for lighting fires, little suspecting the interest which would come to be attached to the place in later days, WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR.
Dublin.
