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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 93., Oct. 10. '57. 



Highbor Lace (2"* S. iv. 248.) — Probably a 

 Cornish motto composed of the name of the person 

 who adopted it : High or Hioh (? Hugh) Borlace. 



D. B. 



May not this be merely intended for Highborn 

 Lass ? F. C. H. 



JamiesoiTLS Dictionary (2"*^ S. iv. 145.) — The 

 Abridgment published in 1818 contained only 

 those names which appeared in the work pub- 

 lished in 1808 in two vols. 4to., as the " Supple- 

 ment " thereto was not published until 1824 : con- 

 sequently the octavo of 1818 must be very 

 defective. T. G. S. 



Blennerhassett (2"*^ S. ii. 87.) — In the pedigree 

 mentioned by C. M. B. the compiler states that 

 Sir John Blennerhassett, Baron of the Irish Ex- 

 chequer (1619 to 1624), was first cousin to the 

 ancestor of the co. Kerry family. Is there any- 

 thing known of his ancestors, father, grandfather, 

 &c.? Y. S.M. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



It is strange how strong a hold a thoroughly hearty, 

 healthy English book takes on the reading public. Here 

 we have Tom Brown's School Days, hy an Old Boy, al- 

 ready at a third edition, — an honour which it has attained, 

 not from the interest of the story — for, as to mere story, 

 the Avriter might answer with Canning's Knifegrinder, 

 " Story, God bless you, I have none to tell, Sir," — but by 

 the plain, simple, unpretending style in which the writer 

 has described the every-day life' of an English public 

 school-boy, — a straightforward, honest boy, who naturally 

 looks upon a lie or a meanness as a thing to be hated and 

 despised, and upon whose simple truthful nature higher 

 motives and principles are readily grafted by wise and 

 loving hands. At the present moment, when attempts 

 are making to bring English educational systems into 

 closer resemblance with those of Germany, a book like 

 this, written for boys — and which no "boy can read 

 without exquisite delight, and without being the wiser 

 and the better — is indeed doing good service in support 

 of a system which has done so much to make the English 

 character what it is. Judge the two systems by their 

 fruits, and who that is wise would desire a change ? But 

 we are running away from the book, of which we can say 

 no more than that it is really a Boy's own Book, and that we 

 can paj' the author no higher compliment, than to express 

 a hope that, as he has given us his account of Brown, he 

 will soon give us like biographies of Smith, Jones, and 

 Robinson. 



Such of our readers as have perused the Memoir of Ro- 

 bert SurteKS, the historian of Durham, published by the 

 Society which bears his name, will well remember how 

 important were the additions made to Mr. Taylor's me- 

 moir by the Rev. James Raine, the historian of North 

 Durham, and must have seen in those additions ample 

 proof of Mr. Raine's fitness for the duties of a biographer. 

 Better evidence of such fitness, however, is now before us 

 in the first volume of a life of the histori&n of Northum- 

 berland. Mr. Raine's 3Ieinoir of the Rev. John Hodgson, 

 M.A., Vicar of Hartburn, and Author of a History of 

 Northumberland, is, indeed, to use the words in which he 



has dedicated the book " to the Memory of his Friend," 

 — " a record of a life spent in true christian faith, hu- 

 mility, and usefulness ; " and in this respect very touching 

 and interesting it is in many parts. It has also charms 

 of another kind, charms which will recommend it to a 

 large circle of readers : it abounds in notices of Hodgson's 

 contemporaries ; and what will interest that now widely- 

 spread class, the members of the various archaBological 

 societies scattered over the face of the country, it will 

 show how and by what means the historian of Northum- 

 berland became a master of his craft. We look forward 

 with great anxiety for the completion of this most plea- 

 sant and well- told story of a life. 



Mr. Timbs has in a great measure re-written, so as to 

 make it in the main a new work, the new edition of his 

 Things not generally known, — Popular Errors explained and 

 illustrated. If this book was popular before, and it was 

 deservedly so, there can be little doubt that it will be still 

 more popular in its new and improved form. 



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