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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 287. 



Burial Custom at Maple Durham (Vol. xi., 

 p. 283.)- — I cannot answer the Query of your 

 correspondent E. H. A., but the following fact 

 may perhaps convince him there is a probability 

 of truth in it. On the death of Lord Ferrers, of 

 Baddesley Clinton, co. Warwick, which took place 

 some time about the passing? of the Catholic 

 Emancipation Bill, many gentlemen were invited 

 to the funeral as pall-bearers who were Pro- 

 testants. Greatly to their astonishment, when the 

 cortege arrived at the church, a Roman Catholic 

 priest met it at the gate, and performed the Ca- 

 tholic service. I knew personally some of the 

 gentlemen who were present ; and although there 

 was one, if not more, Protestant clergymen 

 amongst the bearers, all were so amazed at the 

 suddenness of the act, that it was suffered to pro- 

 ceed without interference. The rector of Bad'- 

 desley was from home at the time, but on his 

 return, and being made acquainted with the cir- 

 cumstance, he made so much inquiry into it, that 

 the priest who had officiated thought it most 

 prudent to leave the country. The Eerrers were 

 an old Koman Catholic family in the county, 



H.J. 



Handsworth. ■■ 



NOTES ON BOOKS, BTC. 



Well does Mrs. Jamesoa observe, that the names of 

 certain important social movements which have recently- 

 been made have been sounded through the brazen trum- 

 pet of publicity, and mixed up unhappily with party and 

 sectarian discord, instead of being whispered tenderly and 

 reverently in our prayers. The object she has proposed 

 to herself in her newly-published little volume, Sisters of 

 Charity, Catholic and Protestant, Abroad and at Home, is 

 not to treat of a particular order of religious women belong- 

 ing to a particular church, but of the vocation of a large 

 number of women in every country, class, and creed ; and 

 ♦' to show, from what has l)een done in other countries, 

 what may be done in our own, to make this vocation 

 available for public uses and for social progress." It is 

 fortunate for the question that it has found an advocate 

 in Mrs. Jameson, whose unsectarian spirit will secure her 

 listeners who would turn deaf ears to appeals in the same 

 direction, if addressed to them by those who might feel 

 authorised to speak upon such points. The question has 

 been looked at with a natural jealousy by many right- 

 minded persons, whose alarms have been excited by the 

 injudicious advocacy of a measure, which, however good 

 and wise in itself, is and has been liable to abuse, Mrs. 

 Jameson has done much to clear away the misapprehen- 

 sion which exists; and her volume will be read with 

 attention and respect by all who take an interest in that 

 special "vocation" of women which it is intended to 

 promote. 



Many and valuable as have been Mr. Bohn's recent 

 additions to the long series ef useful -works which con- 

 stitute his Standard Library, few have been more im- 

 portant and useful than his new edition, in two volumes, 

 of the Lectures on Modern History, from the Irruption of 



the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolu^ 

 tion, by William Smyth, Professor of Modern History in 

 the University of Cambridge. Though opinions may occa- 

 sionally differ as to the accuracy of the Professor's view 

 of the value of some of the historical writings on which 

 he discourses, of the great utility of his work, as a guide 

 to the historical student, there never has been the slightest 

 doubt. 



Under the title of The Widoiv's Rescue, Sir Fortunalus 

 Dwarris has just issued a little volume of selections from 

 his early writings, for the benefit of the widow of a former 

 colleague. This is stated, not to deprecate criticism, but 

 to invite liberality ; but who would be critical, even if 

 criticism were called for, on a volume put forth for so 

 excellent a purpose? We could not, and so we bid the 

 book God speed ! 



'J'he Parker Society, having brought to a close the 

 series of works for the publication of which the Society 

 was instituted, is about to complete its useful labours by 

 issuing a most elaborately and carefully compiled index 

 to the whole series. This, we understand, will occupy a 

 couple of volumes, and, from what we have heard, pro- 

 mises to be one of the most admirable indices, and conse- 

 quently, with reference to the period to which it refers, one 

 of the most useful works which have lately been given 

 to the press. 



Books Received. — A Dictionary of Greek and Roman 

 Geography by various Writers, edited by William Smith, 

 LL.D. Part XII. The new number oif this most valu- 

 able contribution to our knowledge of Greek and Roman 

 geography extends from the article Macrobii to iViz- 

 sainones. 



Lectures on Gothic Architecture, chiefly in relation to 

 St. George's Church at Doncaster, by Edmund Beckett 

 Denison, M.A. Mr. Denison advocates well and wittily 

 the excellence of Gothic architecture, and points out its 

 beauties most effectually in the type which he was illus- 

 trating, and which was of course familiar to his hearers. 



Woodleigh, or Life and Deatli, by the Rev. G. Tugwell, 

 B.A. It is not often one complains of a story being too 

 short, yet of Woodleigh may this be most truly said, 

 written as it is to enforce " that to live for others' good is 

 alone life, and this not because it shall tend to our hap- 

 piness, but because it is our duty ; a trust in the plastic 

 influence of suffering ; a belief in the elevating power of 

 a cultivated love of the beautiful." 



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