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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 13. 1855. 



" Gentle Zitella," from The Brigand ; " Jim 

 Crow," of the Adelphi ; " The Gipsy King," of 

 Nelson; "Lucy Long;" "Annie Laurie," the 

 rage of the Exhibition year ; and " Mary of Ar~ 

 gyle." Of those he names, I give the authors of 

 the words and music, in as many cases as I re- 

 member. " Woodman spare that tree," by Morris 

 and Russell ; " Cheer boys, cheer," " To the 

 West," and " I'm afloat," by Mackay and Russell ; 

 " Vilikins and his Dinah," sung by Robson, of the 

 Olympic ; " Lucy Neal," and " Mary Blane," sung 

 by the Ethiopian Serenaders at the St. James's 

 Theatre ; " Love not," by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 

 and Blockley ; " Britannia the pride of the ocean," 

 sung by Davenport. " Minnie " was brought into 

 notice by Madame Anna Thillon, at Julien's con- 

 certs this year. " The old Arm Cliair," and " Tlie 

 Englishman," by Eliza Cooke ; " Marble Halls," 

 and "Then you'll remembei','* from Balfe's Bohe- 

 mian Girl; "Jeanetteand Jeannot," and "Will you 

 love me then as now ? " appeared in the advertis- 

 ing columns of The Times, about five years ago, if 

 I remember right. There will be some difficulty 

 found in identifying the modern songs with their 

 authors, as I see on the title-page of " The Rat- 

 catcher's Daughter," the simple announcement, 

 "immortalised by Punch." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



D. S. tacks a suggestion on to my Note on this 

 subject for an inquiry into the causes which have 

 led to our being favoured in these latter days 

 with " maudlin slip-slop," instead of the jolly old 

 tunes and pathetic ditties with which he was wont 

 to have his sense of hearing charmed in " Auld 

 Lang Syne." It strikes me that there is an 

 almost insurmountable difficulty to be overcome 

 before his suggestion can be carried out, and that 

 is, to make us all think as he does on the subject, 

 or at all events to fix some precise period to which 

 we can refer as the time when the " slip-slop " 

 began encroaching on the territory of the beauti- 

 ful and manly. It occurs to me very forcibly 

 that it commenced with the first importation of 

 " grinders" — perhaps some of your correspondents 

 have a note of when that event took place — for I 

 must contend, for one, that the beautiful in melody 

 is not quite lost to us yet amongst our song- 

 writers, but that we get it so ground into us night 

 and day, whenever it occurs, that the " famili- 

 arity " really " breeds the contempt ; " and I 

 think if D. S. had his wish fulfilled to the utmost, 

 if our song-writers were restored to such senses 

 as would enable them to attain the perfection he 

 desires, which I fear must be the senses of their 

 grandfathers, and any one of them did thereupon 

 perpetrate " an old and antique," after the first 

 week our Italian friends had set their mills to 

 work on it, even your correspondent would not 

 ask for " that strain again." R. W. Hackwood. 



No. 311.] 



Nova Scotia (Vol. x., p. 68.). — The statement 

 in Chambers' Journal, quoted by B. T., is perfectly 

 correct ; and his Queries may be answered thus. 

 The sovereign was George III. ; the favourite was 

 Frederic, Duke of York, whose creditors, or their 

 assignees, have the exclusive use of " the great 

 mineral fields of that (to this extent) ill-used 

 province." They neither work them to such ad- 

 vantage as they might, nor allow others to do so. 



E. H. D. D. 



" Go tvhen the morning shineth " (Vol. xii., 

 p. 205.). — This hymn was written by Ware, and 

 may bfe found in a Collection of Sacred Poetry^ 

 second series, published by Oliphant of Edin- 

 burgh. The sixth line of the first verse is 



" Fling earthly thought away." 

 The whole verse is as follows : 



" Go when the morning shineth, 

 Go when the moon is bright, 

 Go when the eve declineth, 

 Go in the hush of night ; 

 Go with pure mind and feeling, 

 Fling earthly thought away, 

 And in thy chamber kneeling, 

 To God in secret pray." 



T. D. Hilton. 

 Guernsey. 



Names of Illegitimate Children (Vol. xi., pp. 313. 

 352. 392.). — With Mr. Sansom I can testify to 

 the father's name being very often entered in 

 baptismal registers. With such instances in 

 mind, and with a view to perpetuate the infamy 

 of both parents alike, I have invariably on such 

 occasions, during the last quarter of a century, 

 myself inserted the father's name, as well as the 

 mother's, in full ; only taking care to give the 

 uppermost place to the mother's name, as being, 

 in fact, the only one which can be absolutely cer- 

 tified, and to add to the supposed father's name 

 the words " reputed father." As to the legality 

 of such an entry, there cannot, I conceive, be any 

 question ; for though such an entry be not re- 

 quired by the literal form of the register, I am 

 not aware of any statutory hindrance to its in- 

 sertion, or indeed, to the insertion of any other 

 circumstance which the officiating minister can of 

 his own knowledge certify, so long as the form 

 itself is otherwise carefully filled up. For in- 

 stance, I suppose that almost every parochial 

 clergyman is in the habit of subjoining to registers 

 of private baptism, when followed by public re- 

 ception, both the word " private," and also some 

 words indicative of the subsequent "public" re- 

 ception, and of its date. True, no such entry is 

 for any legal purpose required; but no such 

 entry is, or can be, illegal, so long as it supersedes 

 not, nor interferes with, the entry which is by 

 law explicitly required. J- J. 



Avington. 



