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individual statements arc clearly and precisely given , and shall conclude b y stating that both the Blazon of Episcopacy and the Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms aire indispensable portions of the library of ' every liberally educated brother of the Craft , to each of whom we may say that both of thc authors ask for any additional information that may tend to add to their success ; and among such , indications we would especially urge tho communication of the existence of any documentary evidence as to the earliest dates of authenticated coats of arms .
Shelley Memorials , from Authentic Sources . Edited by Lady SHELLKV . To which is added , an Essay on Christianity , by PERCY BYSSIIE SIIELLKY . ( NOW first printed . ) Smith , Elder , and Co . CAPTAIN MEDWIS ' Life of Shelley will be in no way affected by the present volume , for it must still hold the position of the most complete memoir of Shelley given to the world . In the above
named book , Lady Shelley throws no li ght upon the dark passages in the poet's life , contenting herself with a reference to family papers which mi ght clear up the doubts , but withholding them , wc presume , because one of the poet ' s children by his first wife is still living . If there lingers any regret that these passages arc not explained , it is considerabl y hei ghtened by Lady Shelley ' s withdrawing such family papers from the last editor of thc poet's
memoirs , Mr . Hogg , wlio sat clown to his task and accpiittcd himself with an amount of intelligence , good faith , and fairness , that no other biographer of Shelley can pretend to ' . All that ive find new in the present volume relates to the first and second wives of Percy Bysshe Shelley , and we shall quote , as an example of thc second lad y ' s clear and direct reasons for being of no party , an extract from her diary , in 1838 . She says : —
" I have been . so often abused by protended friends for my lukewarmness in ' the good cause , ' that , though I disdain to answer them , I shall put down here a few thoughts on this subject I have never written a word in disfavour of liberalism : that I have not supported it
openl y in writing arises from the following causes , as far as I knew : — That f have not argumentative powers ; I see things pretty clearly , but cannot demonstrate them ; besides , I feel the counter-arguments too strongly . 1 do not feel that I could say aught to support tho cause efficiently ; besides that , on sonic topics ( especially with regard to my own sex ) I am fiir from making up my mind AAlien I ' fecl that f can say what will benefit my fellow creatures 1 " . will speak ; not beforo . Then I recoil from the vul abuse of tho inimical I do more than
regar press ; coil : proud and sensitive , I net on the defensive—an inglorious position . To hang back , as I do , brings a penalty Alone and poor , I could only be something by joining a party ; and there was much in me—the woman ' s love of looking up , and being guided , and being willing to do anything if any one supported and brought me forward—whieh would have made me a good partisan . But Shelley died and I was alone . . . . If I had raved and ranted about what I did not understand ; had I set of
adopted a opinions , and propagated them with enthusiasm ; had I been careless of attack , and eager for notoriety ; then the party to which T belonged had " gathered round me , and I had not been alone . It has been the fashion with these same friends to accuse mo of worldliness . There indeed , in my own heart , and conscience , I take a high ground . I may distrust my own judgment too much—bo too indolent and too timid ; but in conduct 1 .-un above merited blame . " Of the Essay ou Christianity , the less said about it the better . It is totally unworthy of Shelley ' s powers , and has but one redeeming point , the love of purity aiid goodness .
A Select Glossary of English Words . By tho Very Eev . EICIIAP . D CIII : XI _ TKES . CH - , D . D ., Lean of Westminster . Svo . John AV . Parker ancl Son , AVest Strand . Tin . study of the mutation of language must necessaril y be one of importance to our Craft , for in our ritual , there are many expressions that have lost their meaning , and sorely puzzle the members whose reading is not of a character to make them
acquainted with the sense in which those ivords were used . The Dean of AVestm ' mstcr has long done good suit and service in this cause , and we have derived much information of a useful and practical nature from bis previous efforts . Some time since , Dr . Trench gave a scries of lectures to thc students of the Training College at AVinchcster , on The Sturli / of 1 Vords , which , not being intended for a learned audience , ' bave , as a book , become most deservedl
y popular . These were followed b y , English , Past and Present , and give some very curious insight into the derivation of words . Then came , from the same pen , Proverbs and their . Lessons , which ivere a collection of painstaking , and in many cases original , remarks on the proverbial sayings found in several languages . A \ e have now . 1 Select Glossan / of English Words , in ivhich , in a popular though scholariike style , the Dean traces for general readers thc changes which many
words common to our forefathers and ourselves have undergone ancl of which in their case and ours the signification is quite dif ! ferent . In this plan Dr . Trench does not aim at limiting research but to those who choose to consider the subject one of interest his Select Glossary of . English Words will act as a whetstone . In our Bible and Prayer-Book there are several ivords of this kind , ancl they appear to those unacquainted with archaic and
obsolete significations very obscure . Thus , in Isaiah iii ., IS , we read of the " bravery of tinkling ornaments . " To the ordinary reader this may appear an error , as he connects with "bravery " courage ; but among the older writers , at the time of the translation , and long after , "bravery" was used to denote finery . Thus , Bacon says , " In bravery of their liveries ; " and Massinger speaks of " hurt to the kingdom by superfluous bravery . "
Carriage also was not , as now , employed to denote the means of transit for persons or burthens , nor the vehicle used for those purposes , but it signified the baggage , or luggage itself , so when David ( 1 Sam . xvii . 22 ) "left his carriage in the hands of the keeper ofthe carriage , " it means that he left his luggage in charge of a servant .
Cunning , too , was not , as now , used to express deceit , but was derived from the Anglo-Saxon koi / iieu , to know . So reading "let my right hand forget her cunning , " ( in Psalm exxxvii ) it implies knowledge , or as Caxton meant , when speaking of the Earl of AVorcester ' s death , as " a gretc loss of suche a man , consideryng his estate ancl conmjng , " and as Sir Thomas More uses it when he states , "St . Austyn , St . Hyeromc , St . Basyle , St . Gregory , with
so many a godly cminijnge man . " 'The Dean of AVcstminstcr lays claim to thc merit of ori ginality , and it is justly his due . He tells us , — " Of my citations , f believe about a thousand in all , I may owe some twenty , at the most , to existing dictionaries or glossaries . " And with such a small number out of a thousand passages selected from Chaucer , ShakespeareBaconDonne , .
FullerBurtonMiltonSouthBar-, , , , , , row , and numerous other writers of the sixteenth and . seventeenth centuries , is certainly a very limited amount to draw on others ivhose works bave preceded his . To give our readers any particular class of words would be to do injustice to this very excellent work , _ therefore wc shall take a few ' haphazard , to show of what material the book is composed , and its paramount utility . Babe and baby arc words of early use . Doll is one of late
introduction into the English language , certainl y later than Dryden . Babe , baby , or puppet supplied its place , thus : — " True religion standetli not in making , setting up , painting , gilding , clothing and decking of dumb and dead images , whicli be but great puppets and babies , & e . —( Homilies . ) " But all as a poor pedlar did he wend , . Bearing a- truss of trifles at his back ,
As bells and babes ancl glasses in his pack . Spenser : Shepherds Calendar . _ " Think you that the child hath any notion of the strong contents of riper age ? or can lie possibly imagine there are any such delights as those his babies and rattles afford him . ' '—Attestrcc : Sermons . Blackguard . AVe arc informed , in connection with this word , that " The scullions and other meaner retainers in agreat householdwho
, , when progress was made from one residence to another accompanied and protected the pots , pans , and other kitchen utensils , riding among them , and being smutted by them , were contemptuously styled the ' black guard . ' It is easy to trace the subsequent history of the word . AVith a slight forgetfulness of its origin , he is now called a ' blackguard / who would have once been said to belong to the 'black guard ' : —¦ " A slave that within these twenty years rode with the black guard in tho duke ' s carriage amongst spits and dripping pans . "— Webster : The White Devil
. . ' Dunce has a peculiar ori gin . " Buns Scotus , whom Hooker styles 'the wittiest ofthe school divines , ' has given us this name which now ascribes hopeless ignorance , invincible stupidity , to him on whom it is affixed . Tho course hy which this Canute pass was as follows : —When at the reformation and revival of learning the works of the schoolmen fell into extreme disfavour at once with all thc reformers , and with all votaries of the new learning , Duns a standard bearer among those , was so often referred to with scorn and contemp t by these , that his name gradually became thc bveword ivhich now it
: — "AVhat Dunce or Horbonist cannot maintain a parodox . " G . Harvey Pierce ' s Sujiar . rogaiion ¦ " Remember ye not how within this thirty years , and far less , and yet dureth unto this day , the old barking curs , Dunce ' s disciples and like draff called Scotists , & c . " —Ti / ndulc : Works , 1575 , p . 278 . Aim re , Garb , Whirlpool , and Times are ' worthy of attention . Under the words Knave and Garb we have examples of the happy conciseness with which the Dean of Westminster , when he chooses , can convey his meaning . He savs ;—
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individual statements arc clearly and precisely given , and shall conclude b y stating that both the Blazon of Episcopacy and the Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms aire indispensable portions of the library of ' every liberally educated brother of the Craft , to each of whom we may say that both of thc authors ask for any additional information that may tend to add to their success ; and among such , indications we would especially urge tho communication of the existence of any documentary evidence as to the earliest dates of authenticated coats of arms .
Shelley Memorials , from Authentic Sources . Edited by Lady SHELLKV . To which is added , an Essay on Christianity , by PERCY BYSSIIE SIIELLKY . ( NOW first printed . ) Smith , Elder , and Co . CAPTAIN MEDWIS ' Life of Shelley will be in no way affected by the present volume , for it must still hold the position of the most complete memoir of Shelley given to the world . In the above
named book , Lady Shelley throws no li ght upon the dark passages in the poet's life , contenting herself with a reference to family papers which mi ght clear up the doubts , but withholding them , wc presume , because one of the poet ' s children by his first wife is still living . If there lingers any regret that these passages arc not explained , it is considerabl y hei ghtened by Lady Shelley ' s withdrawing such family papers from the last editor of thc poet's
memoirs , Mr . Hogg , wlio sat clown to his task and accpiittcd himself with an amount of intelligence , good faith , and fairness , that no other biographer of Shelley can pretend to ' . All that ive find new in the present volume relates to the first and second wives of Percy Bysshe Shelley , and we shall quote , as an example of thc second lad y ' s clear and direct reasons for being of no party , an extract from her diary , in 1838 . She says : —
" I have been . so often abused by protended friends for my lukewarmness in ' the good cause , ' that , though I disdain to answer them , I shall put down here a few thoughts on this subject I have never written a word in disfavour of liberalism : that I have not supported it
openl y in writing arises from the following causes , as far as I knew : — That f have not argumentative powers ; I see things pretty clearly , but cannot demonstrate them ; besides , I feel the counter-arguments too strongly . 1 do not feel that I could say aught to support tho cause efficiently ; besides that , on sonic topics ( especially with regard to my own sex ) I am fiir from making up my mind AAlien I ' fecl that f can say what will benefit my fellow creatures 1 " . will speak ; not beforo . Then I recoil from the vul abuse of tho inimical I do more than
regar press ; coil : proud and sensitive , I net on the defensive—an inglorious position . To hang back , as I do , brings a penalty Alone and poor , I could only be something by joining a party ; and there was much in me—the woman ' s love of looking up , and being guided , and being willing to do anything if any one supported and brought me forward—whieh would have made me a good partisan . But Shelley died and I was alone . . . . If I had raved and ranted about what I did not understand ; had I set of
adopted a opinions , and propagated them with enthusiasm ; had I been careless of attack , and eager for notoriety ; then the party to which T belonged had " gathered round me , and I had not been alone . It has been the fashion with these same friends to accuse mo of worldliness . There indeed , in my own heart , and conscience , I take a high ground . I may distrust my own judgment too much—bo too indolent and too timid ; but in conduct 1 .-un above merited blame . " Of the Essay ou Christianity , the less said about it the better . It is totally unworthy of Shelley ' s powers , and has but one redeeming point , the love of purity aiid goodness .
A Select Glossary of English Words . By tho Very Eev . EICIIAP . D CIII : XI _ TKES . CH - , D . D ., Lean of Westminster . Svo . John AV . Parker ancl Son , AVest Strand . Tin . study of the mutation of language must necessaril y be one of importance to our Craft , for in our ritual , there are many expressions that have lost their meaning , and sorely puzzle the members whose reading is not of a character to make them
acquainted with the sense in which those ivords were used . The Dean of AVestm ' mstcr has long done good suit and service in this cause , and we have derived much information of a useful and practical nature from bis previous efforts . Some time since , Dr . Trench gave a scries of lectures to thc students of the Training College at AVinchcster , on The Sturli / of 1 Vords , which , not being intended for a learned audience , ' bave , as a book , become most deservedl
y popular . These were followed b y , English , Past and Present , and give some very curious insight into the derivation of words . Then came , from the same pen , Proverbs and their . Lessons , which ivere a collection of painstaking , and in many cases original , remarks on the proverbial sayings found in several languages . A \ e have now . 1 Select Glossan / of English Words , in ivhich , in a popular though scholariike style , the Dean traces for general readers thc changes which many
words common to our forefathers and ourselves have undergone ancl of which in their case and ours the signification is quite dif ! ferent . In this plan Dr . Trench does not aim at limiting research but to those who choose to consider the subject one of interest his Select Glossary of . English Words will act as a whetstone . In our Bible and Prayer-Book there are several ivords of this kind , ancl they appear to those unacquainted with archaic and
obsolete significations very obscure . Thus , in Isaiah iii ., IS , we read of the " bravery of tinkling ornaments . " To the ordinary reader this may appear an error , as he connects with "bravery " courage ; but among the older writers , at the time of the translation , and long after , "bravery" was used to denote finery . Thus , Bacon says , " In bravery of their liveries ; " and Massinger speaks of " hurt to the kingdom by superfluous bravery . "
Carriage also was not , as now , employed to denote the means of transit for persons or burthens , nor the vehicle used for those purposes , but it signified the baggage , or luggage itself , so when David ( 1 Sam . xvii . 22 ) "left his carriage in the hands of the keeper ofthe carriage , " it means that he left his luggage in charge of a servant .
Cunning , too , was not , as now , used to express deceit , but was derived from the Anglo-Saxon koi / iieu , to know . So reading "let my right hand forget her cunning , " ( in Psalm exxxvii ) it implies knowledge , or as Caxton meant , when speaking of the Earl of AVorcester ' s death , as " a gretc loss of suche a man , consideryng his estate ancl conmjng , " and as Sir Thomas More uses it when he states , "St . Austyn , St . Hyeromc , St . Basyle , St . Gregory , with
so many a godly cminijnge man . " 'The Dean of AVcstminstcr lays claim to thc merit of ori ginality , and it is justly his due . He tells us , — " Of my citations , f believe about a thousand in all , I may owe some twenty , at the most , to existing dictionaries or glossaries . " And with such a small number out of a thousand passages selected from Chaucer , ShakespeareBaconDonne , .
FullerBurtonMiltonSouthBar-, , , , , , row , and numerous other writers of the sixteenth and . seventeenth centuries , is certainly a very limited amount to draw on others ivhose works bave preceded his . To give our readers any particular class of words would be to do injustice to this very excellent work , _ therefore wc shall take a few ' haphazard , to show of what material the book is composed , and its paramount utility . Babe and baby arc words of early use . Doll is one of late
introduction into the English language , certainl y later than Dryden . Babe , baby , or puppet supplied its place , thus : — " True religion standetli not in making , setting up , painting , gilding , clothing and decking of dumb and dead images , whicli be but great puppets and babies , & e . —( Homilies . ) " But all as a poor pedlar did he wend , . Bearing a- truss of trifles at his back ,
As bells and babes ancl glasses in his pack . Spenser : Shepherds Calendar . _ " Think you that the child hath any notion of the strong contents of riper age ? or can lie possibly imagine there are any such delights as those his babies and rattles afford him . ' '—Attestrcc : Sermons . Blackguard . AVe arc informed , in connection with this word , that " The scullions and other meaner retainers in agreat householdwho
, , when progress was made from one residence to another accompanied and protected the pots , pans , and other kitchen utensils , riding among them , and being smutted by them , were contemptuously styled the ' black guard . ' It is easy to trace the subsequent history of the word . AVith a slight forgetfulness of its origin , he is now called a ' blackguard / who would have once been said to belong to the 'black guard ' : —¦ " A slave that within these twenty years rode with the black guard in tho duke ' s carriage amongst spits and dripping pans . "— Webster : The White Devil
. . ' Dunce has a peculiar ori gin . " Buns Scotus , whom Hooker styles 'the wittiest ofthe school divines , ' has given us this name which now ascribes hopeless ignorance , invincible stupidity , to him on whom it is affixed . Tho course hy which this Canute pass was as follows : —When at the reformation and revival of learning the works of the schoolmen fell into extreme disfavour at once with all thc reformers , and with all votaries of the new learning , Duns a standard bearer among those , was so often referred to with scorn and contemp t by these , that his name gradually became thc bveword ivhich now it
: — "AVhat Dunce or Horbonist cannot maintain a parodox . " G . Harvey Pierce ' s Sujiar . rogaiion ¦ " Remember ye not how within this thirty years , and far less , and yet dureth unto this day , the old barking curs , Dunce ' s disciples and like draff called Scotists , & c . " —Ti / ndulc : Works , 1575 , p . 278 . Aim re , Garb , Whirlpool , and Times are ' worthy of attention . Under the words Knave and Garb we have examples of the happy conciseness with which the Dean of Westminster , when he chooses , can convey his meaning . He savs ;—