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AFTEH GLEANINGS ■OK TIIK LOG SHANTY BOOK-SHELF OF 181)t), It was imagined in 1895 that thereafter possibly the "Log Shanty Book- shelf" would cease to be a feature in the Pioneers' Cabin by a kind of neces- sity, but it has since been found that a number of miscellaneous books that had been overlooked or forgotten, still remained, which might have been included in one or other of the preceding "shelves." It was resolved, therefore, to make up one more so-called "shelf" out of these remainders, and even to prepare the way for a successor in the following year, should such an adjunct to the Pioneers' (Jabin still be re(|nired. As to the title " Log Shanty Book-shelf," it has on a former occasion been explained as being a reference to a feature often to be seen mi the log edilice of an original settler— a stout unplaned plank of pine resting on strong wooden pins driven into one of the solid logs of the building, up near the slope of the roof, — and here were to be seen perhaps the family Bible, with a few obscure volumes brought possibly by the original settler from his home in the old country, and some additions made from time to time of such scanty literature as was then procurable. It was iu a collection thus commenced years ago that the several Log Shanty Book-shelves that have been displayed iu the Pioneers' Cabin for a series of past years, had their origin and starting point. There have now been nine of these exhibitions ; the first was in 1887, and consisted of pioneer school books, aids to self-culture and the acciuisition of general knowledge. That in the year following was entitled, "The (Gatherings of a Not Forgetful Pioneer Emigrant from {Devonshire," tracts, pamphlets, guide books, legends, dialects, local histories, maps relating to the west of England^ eagerly secured and carefully garnered by the collector. The third, in 1889, was an assenddage of pioneer Bibles, that is to say, early printed Bibles froni many lan<ls and in many tongues. The fourth was cornj)osed of specimens of pioneer typography of early printed books from the times of Gutenburg and Caxton downwards. The next was entitled " Relics of a Pioneer Anti- Obscurantist " (Erasmus of Hotterdam). The exhibitor having been familiar- ized with the colloquies of Erasmus, used as a class book at school, became an admirer of P^rasmiau ideas and a collector of Erasmiau books. Rejoicing in the gheck given by Erasmus to the prevalence of Dark Age doctrine in the [3] I 4 AFTER (iLKAMN(JS 16th century, he aimed to he within his little sphere an anti-ohscurantist himself. The sixth, for 1892, was illustrative of pioneer Shakespeare culture in Canada. That of the following year displayed " Books of a Sententious Character, Proverhs, Allegories, etc." (an early pioneer gathering). The eighth "shelf" was lahelled "Horace (.^anadianizing," interpreted to mean " Early pioneer life in (^anada recalled by sayings of the Latin poet Horace." The ninth thrcM' light upon "Early pioneer travel tendencies, with some re.sults." Its ;;eneral description was (1) " My travel books" ; (2) ' Aids to the travel tendency such as an early Pioneer could lay hold of from time to time " (specimens shown). The tenth Log Shanty Book-shelf is the one now displayed. I have styled it "Aft'r Gleanings" because the books of which it is composed might, if they had come into view in time, each of tliem have been distributed among one or other of the previous shelves, but it happened otherwise ; and it is likely that as my search into old accumulations proceeds — carried on now, alas, by means of borrowed eyes — material may be discovered, enough to furnish forth a "shelf" for 1897, should it be wanted, and even another for a following year. Among the specialties of the present display will be found a few volumes containing the autograph or book-plate of a former possessor having some interest. In the case of certain items in this compartment 1 have even ventured, as was likewise done on one or two former occasions, to turn the book in (juestion to some autobiographic account, as when the writer of the autograph and occasionally the author of the volume itself v/as personally known to me in past days. H. S. AFTER GLEANINGS, Etc. Camden's Annals (in Latin) of Enjflish and Irish affairs durinj^ the time of Queen Elizabeth. Leyden Elzevir, 162.'i. Imprinted at London for the Stowe's Eniflish Chronicle continued down to the year 1618. Company of Stationers, 1618. The Kei^ister of the Times, or Political Museum, containing a select, impartial and interesting collection of political transactions and occurrences. London : printed by C. Whittingham, 1794. The Spirit of the Public .Journals for 1812, being an imimrtial selection of the most ingenious essays and jeux d'esprits that appear in the newspapers and other jjublications. Ridgeway, London : 1813. Napoleon, of course, figures lai"gely in the pages of this volume. PcJpular Voyages and Travels throughout the Continents and Islands of Asia, Africa and America ; in which the geography, the (iharacter and the niatniersof nations are described ; and the phenomena of nature most worthy of observation are illustrated on scientific principles- London : Whittal^er, 1820. A brief resum6 of German afTairs from a.d. 1617 to a.d. 1643, in Latin. Eiiitome rerum Germanicarum ad anno MDC.Wll lul .\LIII gestarum. On the title jiage is seen a fttie figure of Meri^ury flying across Germany and bearing a scroll on which appears the preceding title, below is the date MDCXLIII, FOU TIIK U)(; SHANTY IfOOK-SII KLK OK I8U(). O FJel^fii ('(»nft'<U'iati duscriptio ; l.eydeii Klzevir, 17.{() ; fntfruveil title jtOKe. Prof. Hecrfn's Mamiiil of Ancit'tit Ilixtory, particularlv with rtjfani to the roiistitutioiis, the coiiiiiieri'c and the colonies of states oi aiitii|iiit.v. Oxford : Talho\s, \HXi. A Tour Through the Whole iMluiid of iitat Britain, with iiiiniite desiinptiuns and statistics. By a Gentleman. 4 vols., London : 17(5'.. Kpistolae lioKlianae, .lanii's Howell's familiar letters, domeslii' and fi>rei;;ti ; divide<l into sundry sections, partly historical, politica., |ihiloHophieal, upon emergent oeciusions. London: 165(1. Julius Charles Hare's copy, with his hook-plate. The Book of KiiKlish Trades and Library of I'ueful Arts, with 7<» eii}yra\ injfs. London : .Sir RichanI Phillips. 1824. (iray's Memoria Techniea, with tables i)roper to the several sciences and mfinorial lines adapted to each table. London : printe<l for Charles Kinu', Westminster Hall, 17.to. Hymns for Infant Minds, by the authors of original poems, rhymes for the nursery, etc. London : Harvey & Darton, 1822. Other writers for the younjr at the close of the la.st century were: Day. " Sandford & Merton"; Mrs. Trimmer, "The Story of the Robins": .Mrs. Sherwoo<l, "The Fairchild Family": Maria Kdgeworth, "The Parents' Assistant." A further specimen of books of this class for the benefit of the youiii,' is given : Dr. .Vikin and Mrs. Burbanld, "Kvening at Home, or The Juvenile Budget Opened," modern repnKiuclion of the edition of 17S2-Hi. with one hun- dred wood-cuts by the brothers Dalziel ; also .Mrs. Pri.scilla Wakefield's Intnxluctii.n to Botany, in a series of familiar letters with illustrative erigra\ings ; tenth edition. London: isai. Placed with these are an engraved portrait of .Mrs. Trimmer, an autograph letter In Mrs. Trimmer, and an autograph copy of "The Live Doll," by Mrs. Barbauld. Enfield's Speaker, early edition, 1792, 2 vols. London : .J. Johnson, St. I'auls (,'biirchyard. A work consisting of choice extracts from Knglish jioetical and prose writers, divi<led into narra- tive pieces, didactic pieiies, argumentative pieces, orations and harangues, dialogues, descriptive pieces, and pathetic pieces, intended to assist young jiersons in their early studies, and at the same time to introduce them to an acquaintance with general Knglish literature. Hannah More's "Moral Sketches," ninth edition. Londoti : 1821. Fenelon's Treatise on the Kducation of Daughters, translated from the French. English readers. Cheltenham: H. Ruff, ISO."). Adajited to F(5n61on's " .\d ventures of Telemachus" (in French); A Londres: 171HI. The binding of this odd volume of Telemachus consists of a covering of some old legal parchment document or agreenu'iit, utilize<l for the puri)ose. On a (uige inside the cover is to l)e seen the aiitograj)h " W. H. Boulton, V. C. C," the initials of " Upper Canada College." The vctlume thus |)robably belonged to Mr. W. H. Boulton. former mayor of the City of Toronto. This reminds me that M. De la Haye, the first teacher of French in l']>))er Canada College, brought with him on his arrival here in lS2!» a large tuiiuber of French school books, bound in this economical and durable way, which were duly introduced for use in the French cUusses. In this cast-off parch- ment dress, Levizac's grammar, a convenient little dictionary. The Henriade, Telemachus. (Jil Bias, Boileau, and other works first became known to us. The Henriade here given is another siiecimeii. La Henriade (in French), with Di8.sertation on the death of Henry IV. Paris: 1813. As a parallel to " La Henriade," a poem about Henri, i.e.. Henri i^uatre, the French king, I show a rude epic in six books, printed anonymously in London in 17W), entitled "The Bruciad," i.e., a poem on Bruce, namely Robert Bruce, the famous Scottish king. 6 AKTKIi (iLKANINCS Les Avfntures (If T<?lt'iiia^ne, par Ki^ndlon, I'aris: iniprinn' juir Bt^thune et Plon. KdiU'urs J. Mallet ft i.'if, 1840. With an elaborate essay on Feneloii and his works, by I'hilijxtti de La Madel.iinc. Illustrated by twelve larije and many small enjfravinjjH. The frontispiece is a fine portrait of Ft-nt^lon His rijfht hand rests on a volume inseribwl "Homer." The contents of Telemachus show to what >coo<l purpose Kenelon had .studie<l the Hiad and Odyssey of Homer. Mutthiae's Oruek (grammar, abridg:e<i, by Charles J. liloiiifleld, O. I>. Albemarle street. London : John Murray, This was the Oreek jfra. nmr intro(hu;e<I by Dr. Harris at' Upper Canada Collejfe in 1821), in pliu'e of the old F^ton Oreek ^'rammar previously ii.sed in the Royal (irannnar Sc^hool under Dr. I'hillips. The new ^ranunar explained everythin;f in Kn^ilish. The old ^'rammar explaine<l everythitu; in Latin. It wiut the custom even to translate from the (5 reek Delectus in Latin, not in Kn(;lish. I have Dr. Harris' autoifraph in a number of U. C. Coll. prize volumes, "Joseph H. Harris," /.<■., Joseph Heminu'ton Harris. I have a Latrii inscription from the hand of Dr. PhillipH in an old jirize voliune still jirescrved. Dr. I'hillips l.atinizcl rather inj^eniously the nani" of the old jrrannnar .school over which he presidwi. He styled it .Schola Ke^^ia (iranunatica I'llerioris I'rovincae apud Caiuwlenses, which, substituting; Collegium for Keiiria Schola (iranunatica, became afterwards the received Latinizatioti of rpi)er Canada L'ollct^e. Herewith is place<i an old copy of the Eton (Jreek i^rammar, datinl 180S, with the ori;,'inal vNoo<l-cut title pa^e. I preserve another autofjraph relit- of r.he Rev. Dr. Phillii)s in the form of a copy of "Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon." edited by Charles Simeo", M.A., Fellow of Kin^^s Collej^e, printed at Cambrid(fe in 1801 -a work jtrcsented to me by Dr. I'hillips in 1831. Howard Staunton's Accoiuit of the Great Schools of Entjland— Eton, Winchester, Westminster. St. I'aul's, Merchant Tailors', Harrow, Rujfby, Shrewsbury, etc. London : Sampson, Low & Co. Numerous fine views. At pa^'c 70, in the account of Winchester a'hool, a portion of the princi- pal schoolroom is thus described : "On the west wall, ujion a larnc tablet, are painted a mitre and crozier, to represent the rewards of clerical learning;; a jien and ink horn, and a sword, the insi,vi:nia of civil and military pursuits, and a \oun Winton-rod, typifyinj,' the fate that would liefall those too indolent to devote themselves either to study or to active life." Beneath each emblem is the approjiriate IcK'end, " .\ut disce aut discede ; nmnet sors tertia, caedi,"- a I^tin verse which may be thus translated :— " Either study or go, the third alternative remains — to be cuned ; " — a freer rendering is sometimes jfiven,— "Study hard or else be jotrginij. Or you'll get a plaguy flogging." Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, sketched by head scholars of Eton, Winenester, Shrewsbury, Harrow, Rugby, Charterhouse. To which is adde<l a brief noti(;e of St. F'aul'sand Merchant Tailors' schools, and Christ's Hospital. London : (iritflth and Karran (successors to Newbury and Harris), west corner of St. Paul's Churchyard. Schools, School-books and School-masters, by Carew Haslitt. London : Jarvis & Son, 1888. Cooper's History of the Rod in all Countries, from the earliest period to the present time, with numerous illustrations. London : John Camden Hotten. Q " Light from the West ; or. The Parochial Visitor," edited by Rev. H. A. Simcoe, Cornwall : ^ Penheale Press ; published by Simpkin & Marshall, London ; H. A. Hannaford, Exeter ; W. Cater, Launceston ; and all booksellers : 5 vols., o f various dates. A useful and livel.v religious monthly intended to circulate among the cottagers and farmers of the county of Cornwall, especially. It bears on its title page a wood-cut of the Eddystone Lighthouse as seen at night, with the Latin motto below it, " Dare luccm et servare vitam," " To give light and to preserve life." The name of Rev. H. A. Simt^oe, given as that of the editor and printer of thisj)eriQdicii4i. was at the time the head and representative of the Simcoe family, whose name' is so'TiiinfiStCly T FOlt TlIK L<)<. SMANTV UOOK-SHKLK (»F IS90. aR8ociut(*(l with thf early history of Westt-rii raiiiida. The Petihciilf Pri-ss of tVie title pa«e wan a private priritinij; presH set up anil iiiaiiit.une<l liy Mr. Siuicoe in his resilience, situated in the parish of Ejfloskerry, some four or fixe miles north-west of l.auneeston. In T. H. T. Kscott's hook. " Platform, Press, Politics and Hay," puhlishedso recently a» 181M5, occurs, M'ry unexpectedly, p. 'l:i, a refereni'e to this i-ler^.x nian un<l his residence, Penheale, vvi.Mi the owiierNhip of which, it ap|>cars, Mr. Kscott's forefathers fiad somethintf to do. The pasB.tjfe reut Is a.s follows :- "My paternal jfreai-^'reat-vrandfut^ter, (Jeorjfe Hweet, a lawyer of hi)fh local eminence, had, I believe, a home divided between Lord Palmerslon's old horou^h of Tixerton and l.aunceston, near which latter town he was possessed of a fine old count r\ seat. " Pcidiealc." This place will be perfectl\ familiar to many west country readers in the days when ii belontfed to m\- father's first cousin, Charles Sweet, and was rented by a memorable Cornish worthy, the late Rev. Henry Simcoe, who had established an industrial villajfe outside the park ifates, whose Heri'ulean form in it- old world costume, and whose tiusseled Hessian lKK)ts were familiar wherever between the Kxe and the Fal clerics met in confereni'e or S(|uires as8end)led in sesHion." At the time when the private printiniif press was set up, Pcnheale had become the property of the Kev. Mr. Sinu^oe, by purchase. The family .seat of his father, (Jen. SinuMie, with whose name Cantulians are familiar, was situatetl in Hevonshire, not far from the town of Honiton. This spacious residence was known as Wolfonl, an<l wiis occiipieil by his family and widow up to the time of the death of the latter in 18.')(i ; but Mr. Simcoe never vacated Peidieale, which had now become the home of a larjre family and household. It may be ob.serve<l, by the way, that there is at this moment in the eastern portion of Ontario some- where near the Ottawa, a township of VVolford, deriving its name from the Hevonshire head- (|uarters of the Sinicoes. At the Wolfonl near Honiton, it ou^fht also to be added, the mortal remains of (Jen. Simcoe are deposited, in a private chapel attached to the house. Keturnint; now to Peidieale and the printin>r press establishwl there, I have place<l with my copies of "The lA'^hl from the West" sevenvl other Penheale publications. (1) A selection of psalms and hymns, for the use of the churches of Ksfloskerry and Tremaine. " Teachinif and admonishinjr one another in {walmsand hymns and sjii ritual sondes ; siiitrint; with jrrace in your hearts unto the Lord." ("or. iii., 1(1. Cornwall : Kev. H. A. Simcoe, Penheale Press, 183L In the preface to this collection the compiler writes : " When the heart, as well as the voice, is tuned to the jjlory of (iod, sinyinj;' becomes the noblest part of his woi^ship, and comes nearest to the tflorioiis employment of heaven itself , but it must be recorded with jiaiii that it is a part of our service which h.as fallen into woeful decwy. One reason of this is that tlie end of sin>(in>f has been forufotten ; the true end is the nlorifyinjf of (io<l, anil the refreshment and rejoicinfr the hearts of those enfjaged in it." This was in 1831. Great improvements in public worship have taken plac'e tliroiii^'boiit the Kntrlish-speakint,' world since then. The Tremaine mentioned in the title pas,'e was a small parish combined with K^loskerry. (2) A reprint of Obadiah Orew's " Sinners' .Justification." (3) Rudallon "The Offertory." (4) " A Voi(!e from the Tomb of Peter, Martyr." (5) Archdeacon Gregory on "The Sabbath." (B) Reprint of the " Plains Man's Pathway," etc. " Piudges' Christian Naturalist," reprinted from the " Light from the West ". In two of these volumes is an autogra])h of the editor of the " Light from the West," " with affectionate regard " e.\pres.sed for the present writer. In a volume of Breay's Sermons I carefully preserve the autograph of " Henry Walcott Simcoe," Mr. Simcoe's eldest son, who died prematuicly. This volume was presented to me as a memorial of him. I have, besides, a volume given to me by himself, it is that which follows : Livy complete, an Amsterdam edition, i rinters, Gulielmus Blaeu, MDCXXXIII (1633>. With emblematical engraved title page. \ 8 AFTKR (JLEAMNtSS ThiH voluiiu' r'ontiiiiiH the l>oi>k-()late of '" William Walfott, Ks(|r»'.," arclati\e, from whom Henry Wulrott deriveil his haptiNinal name. Mr. Walcott residetl at Onndell, in Northampton- Hhire. Hi' wan a (liNtinKniM)u-<l l<ililio|)hiti' and waM a t)at'helor, and at liis deceaMe liit; fcilleotion of curionH ItookN waH tranHfcrrtnl to Penhculf ; anion); them I saw for the tirHt time T. Krc^lhull DitxlinH* " Decameron," Nii|>erhl_v hound. " In DilNlin's Keminiflt-enc^eM, of a Literary Ll.e," 18311, Vol. I, p. 5(il, there is'a reference to Mr. Wal<'ott. I,onl Spenc*, writinjc in 1813, informs Mr. DilKtin that Mr. Walcott, g( Oiindell, hul lately liroiiKht to him a copy of the MoniilicM, printed liy Whitchurch, in \ery pretlNcondition, and admirably printed in the Mack letter for the periinl. " 1 ){ralefully reniemher that Mr. Walcott forwarded to me, here in Canada, when I was yet hul a Htriplin^', in order to encoiiraKc me in my Htiulie.s, (Jeo. Kinher'H 'The YotniK' Man's HeHt (,'ompanion '. AlltiouKh this identical copy Hom been mislaid by me, I have mipplie<l its place with a duplicate accidentally picke<lup; and on Mr. Walcott's decease there was sent to me, 08 a Houvenir, a fine old copy of Dean Stanhope's work on the Kpistles and (lospels from Mr. Walcott's library, and containiiif; his book-plate. As to Penheale itself, I aild six small phototfrajihs and some pajres of a manu8cri|)t journal in the handwriting of Henry WaU'ott Simcoe, ^ivinK some ulimjtses of daily life within the walls of that venerate*! home, As a further relic of Mr. Walcott, I preserve a printiMl copy of a speech by him in ]7!)3 at Northampton, on the (x'casion of a political anti-French meeting there. In this speech he says : " I feel myself impelled and emboldened by the duty I owe to my Oo<l, to my kiiiK, and to my country for the bleHsiuffs I enjoy in it. to <:onie forward and publicly express my hearty approbation of the wise and spirited measures w. ich have lately been adopted by our sovereign and his ministers to protect and secure to us thot^ inestimable rights ami privi- le)fes which we now possess under the mildest anil most e(|uitft»'c- system of (;overmnenl that tlie wis<lom of man has ever yet been able to dcvist." Having mentione<l Mr. Waloott's present to me of b'isher's " Young .Man's Best C'omj)anion," as an aid to my boyish studies, I cannot refrain from ••ecalliiig a similar action on the part of another kind, early friend, a somewhat distinguished lady resi<ling in the cathedral clo.se at K.xeter, Miss Hunt, who had been in her day a governess to the Princess Charlotte, whose death in 1817 was so greatly lamented. Miss Hunt's present, in order to further my boyish studies, was a flnecojiy in six volumes of Goldsmith's "History of England, to the death of George II., with a continuation to the accession of George IV., by William Jones. London: Thos. Tegg, ]82r)." This work I deposite<l in the Canatiian Institute, but I carefully preserve, along with Mr. Walcott's pamphlet here shewn, a brief brochure from the pen of Miss Hunt, entitled, "An Fls-say on Time," with poems added. St. Leonards, Exeter : printed by and sold for the benefit of the deaf and dumb children at the Institution, 1832. I have, moreover. Miss Hunt's autograph in a copy of " James on the Collects." I add one more particular in regard to the Rev. Mr. Simcoe of I ^. leale. The initials of his name, H. A., stand for " Henry Addington," his godfather having been the statesman after- wards better known as Lonl Sidmouth. Our Canadian county name Afldinglon, generally used in conjunction with that of the county of Lennox, is due to the name of the same statesman. Sermons preached in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall by Charles Merivale, U.I)., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, one of Her Majesty's preachers at Whitehall. Cambridge: printed at the University Press, 1841. Mr. Merivale was for a time, also, Chaplain to the House of Commons, and then Dean of Ely. He was the author of a now well known standard historical work, " History of the Romans under the Empire." Six vols. I used to attend Mr. Merivale's class room in St John's with great satisfaction, experiencing there much sympathetic consideration ; and in after life I received very valuable encourage- ment in many lit«rary undertakings from an occasional correspondence with him down to the time of his death. Mr. Merivale's department at St. John's embraced the study of the Greek and Latin classics. With Or. Hymers, the prin<'ipal tutor in the mathematical department, I was equally fortunate, / ^•oll IIIK I.CMJ SHANTY ItOOKSIIKI.F OK ISUti. 9 an<l rftiiiiiitl lothf lust a pfrxoiial frit'McNhi|> \nih him. I lu'Vt luld some of Mr llvnicrs' workM, also iiicliidt'il hi-i'f. (I) A Trt'iitiHf till Trigonometry, with h xtU'ctinii of iirolilt-niN and thtir KolutioiiM, liy .1. Hymtrs, lt.lt., KtOlow ami Tutor of Si .lohiiN CoIIck*-, Ciimbridiff. ( amhridxe : I'liiviTHHv I'rtss, 1H41. i'i) The funeral Mernion of Mmifuret, ( 'oiinteMn of Hfchniond and Der/ty. mother to Kiiitf Henry VII., and foundrcKM of ChrisiHu ? John's Colle^fe, Canilirid-.'e; jireafheilhy HiNhoji Kisherin l.'^inil. with Baker's i)refa<f to the same, I'ontiiiiiinif nouw further ai'iount of her charitieH and foundations, together with a calaloi.'ue of her |iroiesHors lioth ut <'uniliridi;e and Oxford, and of her preacherM at ('amhrid(fe. Kdited l)y ,1. Iluners, HI)., Kellow of St. .lohn's ( 'o|lei;e ; with iiliHlrations, nolett, uddition.s and an appendix. ( 'an.iiridK'e : I'niverMJtN I'resH, lHH\. With I>r, Hyniern' hooks I place two workH iin!«K'iated witli the names of t\vodiHtin),'nished personajren with whom, at all events, I was well wcjtiuiiitet' h.\ ni^ht (II "Ohservations on the StatiiteH of »he Iniver-ify of Camhridjre," hy Oeoiye Peacoek, l>.|).. V.l'.K.K., etr. London: 1841. (■2) A \ohinie once the [irojierty of Prof. Sedj^t > .^. and containinif his autoKraph and nian\ nnder-scorinjfs ma<le hy hiw pen. This is, "((wen i i the N.iinre of l.inihs," a diwoiirsed'l'v red before the Koyul Institution of (Jreat Urituin in iS4!i. (3)ConnopThirlwairs - py of W.ilkei Oustavas Vn^n. London: l»i:!. With tht auto. Kraph inscription, "Coiinop Thirlwali, the (fiH of (rror^e VVadiiin^'ton ". (4) "On the Principles wf Knijlish rniversit> Sduiation," hy the Rev. VViUium Whewell, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Lalle^fe, Canil ridift London : 183S. The Cyropaulia of Xenophon (in (Jreek). Lonrlon : ITti'J. " Prostant apiid viduani .lonae Howyer, a<l insijftie Rosae in vico vul^odic^to Patt r-.No.ster Row ' Within this volume is to he seen the holdly-written uuiojfraph, " J. Scholetleld," from the i>en of u it)rnier owner, the well- known Regius Professor of Greek in the University .f ('amlirid),'e. It is for the sake of its con- nection with this eminent scholar that 1 jireserve and here trunscrihe a characteristic letter in the handwritinn' of the Rev. t'has. Simeon, addres.-*e<l to t'has. Grant, India House, London: Kiwj'H Colleije, Cambridge. Aug. 20, 1819. My Dear Sir: —The new college in Bengal is of great moment; and the hishops letter ahoui it is a good one. If you have the means of recommending a Heafl, I have a Dealtry in my pocket for yon, a man every way ipialifled hy piety, diligeiii • and the highest attainments, (juite laden with university honours, and not ohnoxious on acci int of his religion, either. It is no other than my assistant, Mr. Scholefleld. I have sunt (hem a Marlyn and a Thomason, md I will now give them precisely what you will understand ut all itn benrinijn, a Dealtry. Are you likely to want more than one chaplain ':' AtTect'ly yr)urs, ('. SI.MKON. Mr. Scholefleld, however, did not go out to India, he became Regius Professor of Cireek at Cambridge, and had charge of a parish church there which I was in the habit of fre<iuenting. Mr. Simeon I knew personally, and was* often present at social gatherings of young men at his rooms. I was present at his funeral, which took place in the magniflccut chapel of King's College, where his remains r';-;t in one of the sepulchral vaults beneath the building. Another distinguished personal Cambridge friend was the Rev. .1. D. Lane, Fellow of St. John's College, whose earthly career, however, was brief. My memorial of him is a volume of sermons delivered as curate of Barnwell, close to Cambridge. I also carefully preserve a manu- script programme of a pedestrian tour in the Isle of Wight, drawn up by him for my use and duly carried into effect. I reads as follows : — 10 AFTKIt GLKANINOS To Portsmouth per Times from Kiiifr's) Head, bottom of Snow Hill, twelve on Wednesday. Book your lugifa^e for Plymouti. (per Bruiiswicli, Friday evening) at Blewitt's Brunswick office, Point street. Cross to Ryde by first piicket, Thursday morning, seven or half-past seven. Leave Ryde by nine o'clock. Walk to Bradin)r, four miles, see ehurchyanl, " Little Jane's" tomb at back of church. Walk on to Shanklin ; see the (,'hine. Walk up the Chine fririii l)()ttoiu. Kn(iuire the way to Ventnor Cove, under the land sli]) ; when i)assed throujfh the land slip observe the little church, one of the smallest in Enifland. Walk tlirouffh Undercliff, beauti/vl. Dine at Ventnor. Go on to Bonctmrch, and as far as possible on the Newport Road ; if possible, sleep at Newport. In the morning, walk on to Carisbrooke ; go over the castle ; look at church. Observe fine owers. Observe Needles from top of castle. Leave Newport for Cowes by 2 o'clock. Steam packet at Cowes at se\en. Hope you may have a pleasant trip. J. I). Lasb. Colenso, afterwards Bishop of Natal, shared on e(|ual terms with Lane, the proceeds of his college living, in order that he might have him as his colleague in the working of his parish. One more survivor of the far past was Professor Farisb. I attended his Icctiu'es on Science applied to the Arts, illustrated by instances. One was, I remember, the construction of a hat, the material being fur clii)ped otf fnmi a rabl)it skin before tbe eyes of the spectiitors, and then manipulate*! through all the necessary stages until at last a rudely shaped felt hat came into view, requiring only to be duly dried and pressed. The interesting syllabus of I'rof. Farish'g lectures I still have in my collection. The Public Discourses of Prof. .1. J. Blunt, Hugh James Rose and Henry Melville were also highly valued. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White, also containing his Melancholy Hours. With a memoir by Robert Southey and an introduction by Rev. John Twld. Boston : Phillips, Sampson &Co., 1854. The name and career of Henry Kirke White were very fresh in the public mind during the time of m.v residence in Cambridge, from 1833-37. It so happened that the rooms occupied by me in St. .lohti's College were those inhabited by Kirke White at the time of his decease, and I frequently saw, pacing through the courts of the college, the venerable form of the identic^d Mr. Catton, who is named iti Kirke White's memoirs as having so nobly aided him in his studies. With Mr. Simeon, of King's College, who was also so active in his behalf, I was, as stated before, personally accpiainted. Professor Smyth, too, the writer of the inscription on Kirke White's monument, and author of the well-known Lectures on the French Revolution which continiie to be re-printed, I used constantly to see in the streets. That inscription ran as follows :— " Warm with fond hope, and learning's sacred flame. To Oranta's bowers the youthful Poet came ; Unconquer'd powers, the inunortal mind displayed. But worn with anxious thought the frame decay'd ; Pale o'er bis lamj) anil in his cell retired. The martyr student faded and expired. O Qenius, Taste and Piety sincere. Too early lost, midst duties too severe I Foremost to mourn was generous Southey seen, He told the tale and show'd what White had been. FOR THE LOG SHANTY BOOK-SHKLF OF ISOt). 11 Nor told in vain — far o'er th' Atlantic; wave, A Wanderer came and soui,'hi the Poet's grave ; On yon lo' • stone he saw his lonely name, And raised this fond memorial to his fame." "The Wanderer from o'er the Atlantic- Wave" was Mr. Krancis Boott, of Boston. This (fentle- man on visitirij,' Canibridj^e was surprised to find the ttruve of Kirke White so inadei|uately marked, and then obtained V)ermission to place at his own expense, on the wall of an adjoining^ church, a tablet commemorative of the youiif? poet. The church was All-.Saints, situate just across the street opposite to the principal jfateway of St. .lohn's Colles^e (the tablet was after- wards removed into the interior of the chapel of .St. .lohn's College, when the church of All- Saints was taken down and its surroundinj; churchyard converted into a paved open space). Lord Byron was deeply touched with the history and career of Kirke White. His fine; lines will be remembi.'red. " Unhappy White I while life was in its sprinir, .Antl thy young nmsc just v aved her joyous wing. The spoiler came ; and all thy i)romise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep forever there. Oh I what a noble heart was here undone, When science self-destroyed her favourite son I Yes, she too much indulged thy fond pursuit, She sow'd the seeds, but Heath hius rea|)ed the fruit. 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, .\nd hel]>ed to j)lant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the i)lain, No more through rollitig clouds to .soar again, V'iew'd his own feutliers on that fatal dart, Aiid winged the shaft that (juiver'd in his heart. Keen were his i)angs ; but keener far to feel. He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warnuMl his nest, Drank the last life-drops oi his bleeding breast." With Kirke White I place a work by his friend, Capel LofTt, Endosia or a Poem on the Universe. London : 1781. Solutions of the Examples Api)ended to a Treati.se on the Motion of a Rigid B(j<iy, by W. N. Griffin, B.l)., Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Caml)ridge. University Press, 1848 : The author of this volume was the Senior Wrangler f>f his year. I was so fortunate as to accjuire his friendship at St .lohn's, and was in t he habit of staying with him at his Vicarage on several later visits to England. I transcribe from autograph letters of his a sentence or two, dated : Ottpringe Vicarage, F.WKRsiiAM, 15th October, 1891. "This is about the time of year fifty-eight years ago when you and I were ' first accjuaint, and let us repeat the remembrances of our doing our Euclid together before Mr. Hughes, and ovr Protagoras before Mr. Merivale, yet flourishing as Dean of Ely, and our Scripture subject with Mr. B'lshby. How deeply the eventsand people of those daysare impressed on my memory. I dometinies think that there can never have been an equal space of time so full of momentous events as the sixty years which you and 1 can trace since we began to be observers of men and things about us. As for ('ambridge, what an extension the studies have taken, what a new race of teachers, married men dwelling away from college, college lectures open to other collejxes, oven to ladies I I have still confidence that the heart of Cambridge is sound, holding the faith and maintaining good works, and that a stream of good men continues to flow out to 12 AFTER GLEANINGS. a wider riuiKe of einplDynu'iit, and not so largely for Holy Ordere as in our time. Here 1 joy; on, with some strenjfth left for my <lutie.s, with an earnest young colleague. One of my sons practising as a solicitor in Favershani dwells with me— the other two are in their duties away." Again : "Thanks for your letter of the 13th January. It starts many recollections of those with whom we lived and worked in those interesting three years of our lives at St. John's. Of those you mention, the following have gone forward : Niven, Sharpe, Smalley, (Jurney, Martin, Hudson, Oower. It was not our contemporary Bromby, I think, but his elder brother who was a colonial bishop. I have lost sight of Hickman, Kennion, Urowne, Ramsden, Jeffreys. Rrumell is in wonderfidly g.xxl case at his living of Holt. He and I were lately side by side in the Senate House on the voting about the retention of Greek as a necessary subject. How we voted I leave you to judge. If you had been there I expect our majority would have been greater by one Do you ever set; our college magazine, The Eagle? It would interest you nmch in the memorials it contains of many of our members as they pass away, with other college news, which speak to you and me of strangely changed times. Hymers died several years ago. He went out of college to the living of Brander Caston, and there spent tVie rest of his days in a very quiet way." "The Eagle" here mentioned is a perio<Ucal devoted exclusively to Johnian affairs, taking its title from the crest of St. John's College, an eagle, in allusion to the well-known painting of St. .lohn the Evangelist by Domenichino. Its pages now contain an extended and very inter- esting memoir of the writer of the i)receding extracts. Two botanical works, one compiled from the manuscripts of Prof. Henslow, the other from the pen of Churchill Babington. I well remember Prof. Henslow, and with Churchill Babington I wius on one occasion brought into close relations. He, as a Fellow of St. John's, was the official technically styled a Father, ajipointed by the college to guiile the candidates for the degree of D.D., in regard to the recpiisite exercises and ceremonies, and also to introduce them to the Heads of Houses, whose signatures were re(piire<l to be attached to each candidate's Sui>plicat. It was while going my rounds for this iHirjujse, under his direction, that I had a memorable interview with the famous Master of Trinity, Dr. Whewell. This took place at the Master's Lodge, and I found the Doctor most complaisant and friendly, and exhibiting an especial interest in a candidate for D. D. hailing from Canada. Wordsworth's Apocalypse in Greek, with new translation, scripts. London : 1849. Facsimiles of the oldest nianu- This Christo])her Wordsworth was the son of Dr. Wordsworth and nephew of the poet Wordsworth. The latter waa a member, not of Trinity, but of St. John's, where in the Retiring room of the Fellows his portrait hangs by the side of that of Wilberforcc, Herschel, Palmerston, Henry Martyn and others (for portraits of Johnian worthies generally, e.ff., Ben •lonson. Lord Burleigh. Bentley, etc., see Beynon's Memorial of St. John's College, publishe<l a few ycai-!' since at Cheltenham). Christojiher Woi-dsworth, the author of the work 6n the Apocalypse, was conspicuous in my time as the so-called Puhlii; Orator of the University, whose duty it was to present, with appropriate compliments, to the Vi<'e-Chancellor, distinguished personages when honorary degrees were conferred upon them. On such occasions I have often heanl him speak in the Senate House. He was afterwai-ds Canon of Westminster and Bishop of Lincoln. He kindly furnished me with a letter in the handwriting of his father for my collection, as also a Latin version of the Collect for Cnity, by hiniself, with an autograph mem. to that effect. I associate with this two original collects by a learned Professor well known in Toronto, the Rev. James Beaven, and copied out for nie with his own hand. One of these, for " Friends and Benefactors," 1 transcribe :— "O Almighty God and Heavenly Father, we humbly beseech Thee to bless our relations, friends and benefactors : watch over them with Thy never-failing providence, preserve them !■ L FOR THE LOG SIIAN'TY BOOK-SHKLF OF 1S96. 13 t all darijfers both of body and soul, keeyi tlu-in in peace and safety, and finally by Thy mercy brinjf them to thine everlasting kingdom, throujch our Loifl and Saviour, Jesus Christ.' Dr. Beaven wasi well know!! in Oxford rircles as the author of an account of the Life and W' filings of 8t. Ireneus, Bishop of Lyon.s, and martyr; ))ul)lished in London, 1841. The mortal remains of Dr. Beaven are deposited in .St. .Mark's churchyard at Niagara. Sir Fsajic Newton's Princijjia, translated into Knglish by Andrew Motte, 2 vols. London : At the Middle Temple-gate, Fleet-street, 172'). The principal parts of the I'rincipia of Newton required to be mastered by undergr.'iduates at Caml)ridge, are contained in a manual arranged by a member of St. .John's College, and bciiring the date I8H4. It is here added to Motte's translation. Also, Sir Isaac Newton's Treatises on C'hroi;ol gy. London : 1728. Shakesi)eare the Seer—The Inter))reter. .\n a Idrcss to the St. (ieorge's Society at Toronto in 18(U. The Shakespeare Ter-Cenlenary. This little production procured for me a place in AUibone's Index and also the friendly reganis of several Shakespeare writers and student.s, c//., .). I'a.vnc Collier, nalliwell-Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Cowden Clarke, H. H. Furnesa, etc. My ui'.togra\)h letter from the latter reads as follows : — "Absence from the city has alone caused my delay in acknowlwlging the receipt of your very interesting little brochure anent Sliakcsi)eare. Accept my very hearty thaiiks therefor. My only regret is that it does not contain the autograph of the author. If the new Variorum edition of Shakespeare, of which the first volume will appear in a few weeks, should ever reach the (locms, your |)luusible emendation in Sonnet 112 shall be duly recorded." Mr. Kurness a(!knowledged a second emendation as follows :— " .Many thanks for your mindfulness of me in sending the No. of (!anadian .lounial which contains your e\(^eedingly interesting article in Krrata Uecepta. I am very sorry that I ncv-?r saw it before. It is to be regretted that your ingenious emendation of "Runaway's Kyes" iloes not appear in the new Variorum "Romeo and Juliet," where it certainly deserves an honourable place. It and you shall certainly receive due honour in the second edition. Doesn't the evanescent nature of Magazine literature often strike you with sorrow'.' It does me. To be sure ' litera scripta manet.' But valuable, learned articles seem so often buried away out of sight, left for the chance literary jjlough of some future ages to ear." The Bowdlerized Shakesv)eare is memorable. It was an expurgated Shakespeare for family reading. The two volumes of Bowdler's remains in my collection are from the pen of a Bowdler closely connected with the editor of this improved Shakespeare, as may be seen by a series of Strictures dated 1808, contained in these volumes, boldly criticising iwherse articles in the reviews of the day on the subject of the family Shakespeare. The poet D'Avenant was Shakespeare's god-son. I lighted on my copy of (iondibert at Oxford in 1867. "Gondibert, an heroic poem, by Sir Williani D'Avenant. London : 1051." The Uncommercial Traveller, and additional Christmas Stories, by Charles IMckens. Bost,on : 1867. The Cncommercial Traveller thus describes himself : " I am both a town traveller and a coimlry traveller, and am always on the road. Figuratively .speaking I travel for the great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent tiarden, London, now about the city street, now about the country by-roads, seeing many little things and some great things, which, because they interest me, I thick may interest others." One of my autographs of Charles Dickens has reference to his " I ncommercial Traveller." It runs as follows :— " Is my UniJonunercial re\ ise ready ' I shall be gLvl to speak with you for a moment if you can come round," "(.'. D," 14 AFTKK GLEANINGS This waH a iiu'in. addressed to one of the coiiijKwitorH in the ntWcv of "All the Year Koiind," in which ]>ericKli('al Dickens' amusing' " I'nconnnerfial " first appeared. I have fiis name at full lenffth attache<l to a note addressed to Mrs. Cowden Clarke at Broadstairs, Sept. 10th, 1848. When heiiij; shown over the departments of the General I'ost OHlee in London in 1807, I reniemher heinj; amused at ohserviiif; amonsj letters which were l)einj.'' sorted, one addressed to Charles Dickens, Ksip-e. The Ksij. a)>pende(l to a world-wide known name for a moment startled the mind as lieinj,' somethinj; incoiij^rni)!!^. When Dickens visited North .Vmerica in 1842 I was so fortimateas to have a pleasant interview with him and his wife at Toronto. In 1842 Martin (."hu/zelwitt, Domhey & Son, Nicholas Niekleby. and the other works on which the reimtation of Dickens was solidly hiiill up had not yet ayipeared, and I, consequently, was not so deeply impressed with his jfenerai i)ers()nnfl as I should prohulily have been at a later date. I placte with "The Tnconunercial Traveller" a small pocket copy of Goldsmith's Kssays, an atflnity between the two humorists seeminjf to me (piite striking. The Childhood and Youth of Charles Di<'kons, by Robert Laii>{ton. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1891. This work consists of retrospective notes, tracitiff references to his own history iti the works of Dickens, with ei(fhty-two wood-cut illustrations embracinir numerous views of Kochester in Kent, Chatham, Cobhani, Gads Hill, etc., spots rendered familiar to me durinjf pilgrimages made aforetime to Canterbury, Dover and Folkestone. A Lecture on Heads, by Geo. Alex. Stephens, with additions by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lt'wis, to which is a<lded an essay on Satire, with forty-seven heads, by Nesbitt, from designs by Thurston. London : printed by W. Wilson, 4 Grenville Street, Hatton Garden, 1812. The characters of Theophrastus. The Family Classical Library edition. London : 1831. With fifty illustrative heads. Physiognomy, or the Corresponding Analogy hetween^the Conformation of the Features and the Ituling Passions of the Mind; translated from the original work of J. C. Lavater. Eight illustrative co|)per-plale engravings. London : 1826. Essays on Physiognomy, by .lohn (^asjier Lavater; with memoir, fine portrait, and four hundred profiles and other engravings : London : 185;{. Mrs. .Jameson's Characteristics of Women; printed at New York in 1837. The preface to this edition is dated from Toronto. Many etchings by " A. J." (Anna Jameson) are given, diflfer- ing from those in the London edition. Richard ShaqVs Letters and Kssays, in jirose and verse, l-ondon : 1934. This was the celebrated "Conversation Shai))," friend of Sydnex Smith, whose book-plate is to be seen inside this vohnne together with the autograiih of Sharp himself, "Rev. Sythiey Smith from his friend, the Author." I was so fortunate as once to hear Sydney Smith in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Somerville's Chase. London, 1817. Engravings. Johnson's Rasselas. London : 17'V'i. iCngravings. Camjibeirs Pleasures of Hope. Edinburgh : 1801. Engravings. Glover's Leonidas. London : .1. Walker, 1810, Judge Willi!%' copy. Cornelius Nepos, Illustrious Conunanders (in Latin). Amsterdam : J. Wetstein, 174,'). Emblematical copper-plate title page. Vincent of Lerins, new translation of hi* Commonitory. Baltimore ; 1847. Boethius on the Consolation of Philosophy. Lord Preston's translation. London : 1695. A'Kempis, De Iniitatione Christi. Antwerp : Jacobus a Meurs, 1664. A minute edition witlj clasps. .t FOR THK hoc. SHANTY HOOK-SJIKLK OF 1896. 16 -r I The sanii- in Latin and (ireek, Ma\ r. Auirnslmrn' : S. Xioohuis. Kilfi. The same. Klliot, Stock's fm-siinilie rejirint (1870) of nianuscTipt in tlic Itoval l-il)riin ut Brussels. Thp sanit", Knixlish translation. Oxfonl : Parker. 1.S4.S. Potter's edition of " Haeon's Kssa\s." and i.ocke <in the "(Conduct of the rnderstaiidiii),'," witli a valual)le inlrodnetion. New York : Iliirper an<l Urothers, ISIi'J. Dr. Potter Wiis I'rofessor of Moral Piiilosnpliy in I'nion Colleife, .New York. .Another work l)y him is added. Handbook for Headers and Students intended as a lielji to indivduals, asso- ciations, school-districts and seminaries of learnin^f, in the selection of works for rea<lin>r. inves- tiKation or pro'essional study. This important work foimed Vol. Kio of Har]>er"s family library. Chap-hooks. .\ volinne of popular sonars printed at .Vewcastle-upon-Tyne, Alnwick & Stir- ling, with rude w()<m1-cuIs on the title paj^e. Sonjfs of Old Catuuia (Voyatjeur sonjjs translated). Montreal : Dawson Brothers. Oeorjye Macdoiiald's England's Antiphon. London : MacMillan Hi, I'o. Knj^dish religious poetry. Nicoll's " Great Scholars." Buchanan, Bentley, F'orson, Parr, etc.: Edinburgh. Knchiridion of Epictetus, in Greek and Latin, 2 vols., Oxford. From the Sheldonian Theatre, 1080. The first vol. contains the book plate of the distinguished Lord .lohn Somers successively .attorney -General, Lord Keeper and Chancellor in the reign of William the Third. The " Facietiae of Hierocles," and Palaephatus, etc. Contained in Dal/el's " .\nalecta Graeca Minora." Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, 182.5. A wfll-known school V)00k. Hi.slop's •' Proverbs of Scotland," with explanatory notes and glossary. Edirdinrgh. .Allan Kamsay in a work on a similar subjeet prinleil ai Edinburgh in 176:i, thus exhorts liis fellow counlrymeti to be diligent in the employment of Pro\erbs: ".As naettiing hel)is our happiness mair than to hae the mind made up with right principles, I desire yo\i, for the thriving and plea.sure of you and yours, to use your een and lend your lugs to these guid auld says, that shine with wail'd sense, and will asking as the world wags, (iar your bairns get them by heart, let them hae a jilace among your family books, and may never a window -sole through the country be without them. On a spare hour w hen the day, is clear, behind a rick or on the green novvn, draw the treasure frae your pouch and enjoy the jileasant c'omi)anion. Ye happy herds, while your hirdsels are feeding on the flowery braes, you ma\ eithly inak yoursels malsters of the hale ware. How u.sefou it will jn-ove to you (wha hae .sae few opportunities of conunon chattering) when you foregather with your friends at kirk or market, bainiuet or bridal I By your proficiency, you'll be able, in a proverbial way, to keep up the soul of a conversation, that is baith blythe and usefou." The New Testament in Greek. Samuel Bagster's miniature or so-called Poljmicrian ed:tion, 1829. "In vico vulgo dicto," Paternoster Row. On an engraved f ronti8|>iece are the words ' The .New Testament," in 48 ditferent languages, each represented in its proper character or letter Ijpe. At the bottom of the title-page is the Latin line, " .Multae terricolis linguae, coelestibus una," accompanied by a lint? in (Jreek to the same elTect, vi/.., " PoUai men timet )is glottal, miad, athanatoisi," "Among mortals are many tongues, but one alone among the immortals." The Pollai glottal suggested to the publisher, Bagster, the title Polly-glot given to his well known larger edition of the Holy Scriptures in various languages. With the I'oly- niicrian Greek Testament here shewn is placed the English Polymicrian Testament of the same series. Bagster's Miniature Concordance and Lexicon of the Greek Testament. London • 1830. rTTsi^rmmssamm 16 AFTER GLEANINGS. Pickering's Miniature Greek Testament. London : 1828. (Frontispiece, fine reduction of Leonardo-da-Vinci's Last Supper.) William RoberUon's Compendious Hebrew Lexicon or Dictionary ; with such eas\- directions for learning the language as that any knowing Christian, man or woman, of ordinar\ capacity may learn to read the Hebrew Bible, and that without a teacher. London : 1654. At the back of the title page appears the " Imprimatur," Edmund Calamy. Epictetus in Greek. Leyden, 1770. Theophrastus in Greek. Leyden, 1653. Psalms of David, in French ; by Clement Marot & Beza, 1642. (With musical notes of the tunes.) " Parmlise Lost," Pickerings miniature e<]ition, 1835. The Me<iitation8 and Soliloquies of Saint Augustine (a small manual in Latin.) Douav : Beltazar Bellerus, 1622. Alcorani Preces, small thick manuscript on vellum, in delicately written Arabic characters consisting of prayers and other extracts from the Koran. Peter Du-Moulin's Soliloquies and Prayers. London : 1692. With a dedicatory epistle to the Countess of Burlington and Cork, daughter of the Earl of Cumberland.