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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2 ad S. IX. May 12. '60. 



Heraldic Qcery (2 nd S. ix. 326.) — The arms 

 and crest described by J. apparently belong to 

 one of the following families : — 



" Dunch (Little Witnam, co. Berks). Sa. a chev. be- 

 tween three towers triple- towered ar. Crest. Out of a 

 dueal coronet or, an antelope'a heal az. inaned, armed 

 and attired of the first. 



" Dunch (co. Berks). Sa. a chev. engr. or between 

 three towers triple-towered ar. Crest. A demi antelope 

 az. bezintee', armed, inaned, and attired or." — Burke's 

 Armory. 



. " Dunce (Down Arapney, co. Gloucester). Arms as 

 Dunch of Little Witnam. Crest. Out of a crown an ante- 

 lope's head, all ppr." 



A. Shelley Ellis. 



Field Family (2 nd S. ix. 162.) — Arms used 

 by the Fields, and not given in Burke's Armory : 

 Vert, two garbs in fess ppr. on a chief, arg. a lion 

 pass, gules. Quartering arg. a fess between three 

 hands coupcd ppr. Crest : a demi lion pi\, hold- 

 ing a garb or. Motto : Decrevi. J. "W. 



Masterly Inactivity (2 nd S. viii. 225.) — Con- 

 fer. Hor. Epist. lib. i. xi. 28. : — 



" Strenua nos exercet inertia."' 



R. C. 

 "Wright of Plowland (2 nd S. ix. 313.)-— 

 Ache will see a pedigree of the family of "Wright 

 of Plowland, and afterwards of Bolton-upon- 

 Swale,"iu Dugdale's Visitation of YorJtshi?-e, p. 98., 

 lately published by the Surtees Society. 



' G. W. M. 



$ltetclian.r0tt<s. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



An Arctic Boat-Journey in the Autumn of 18") t, by 

 Isaac J. Hays, Surgeon of the Second Grinncll Expedition. 

 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by D. Norton Shaw. 

 (Bcntley.) 



In the autumn of 1854, the author of the present work 

 was one of eight persons, being a portion of the crew of 

 the brig " Advance," under the command of Dr. Kane, 

 then in Rensselaer Harbour, who made an unsuccessful 

 attempt to reach Upernavick Sri North Greenland, the 

 nearest outpost of civilisation. The party were absent 

 nearly four months, and were doomed, after an amount 

 of suffering and endurance which must be read to be 

 fully appreciated, to return to the brig without success. 

 Of this party Mr. Petersen was chosen leader, and our 

 author was in medical charge. His pages are a record of 

 its trials and fortunes. Stirring and deeply interesting 

 as have been many of the records of Arctic enterprise 

 already given to the world, we know of none which ex- 

 hibits these qualities more vividly than the present 

 little volume ; and few will rise from its perusal without 

 heartily bidding God speed to the writer, who has under- 

 taken to conduct another expedition to the North Pole. 



Scotland in the Middle Ages. Sketches of Early Sco ch 

 History and Social Progress. By Cosmo Innes, Professor 

 of History in the University of Edinburgh. (Edmonston 

 & Douglas.) 



The name of Cosmo Innes is one so well known to all 

 students of Scotch history that any work on the title- 

 page of which that name appears is sure of being received 

 with attention and respect, Mr. Innes claims as the 



only merit of these sketches, that they teach that true 

 history is best to be learnt from the study of its original 

 materials, — not in the elegant summary of Hume, or the 

 glittering narrative of Gibbon, but m the rough and 

 vivid pictures of events recorded by contemporary chroni- 

 clers; and that they who would really judge a people 

 must do so by their institutions and laws; by the culti- 

 vation of their soil; by their literature, and by their 

 progress in science and art. To the consideration of such 

 evidence as this the ten chapters of which the present 

 volume consists are devoted, and the result is a volume 

 at once amusing and instructive, and which, with its il- 

 lustrative maps, Glossary, and copious Index, might wall 

 be styled a Handbook of the Early History of Scotland. 



The Semi -Detached House. Edited by Lady Theresa 

 Lewis. (Bentley.) 



We have in this ifow volume of Bentley's Standi ird 

 Novels a reprint, in a popular form, of this graceful and 

 pleasing story, ushered into the world under the editor- 

 ship of Lady Theresa Lewis, who has already won for 

 herself the reputation of an accomplished authoress in 

 another department of literature. 



Lady Morgan ; her Career, Literary and Personal, with 

 a Glimpse at her Friends, and a Word to her Calumnia- 

 tors % By W. J. Fitzpatrick, &c. (Skeet,) 



What we said of the pamphlet entitled The Friends, 

 Foes, and Adventures of Lady Morgan, out of which the 

 present work has grown, — namely, that it was "pleasant, 

 genial, and gossiping," — applies with full force to the 

 volume before us, which aspires to be considered, how- 

 ever, as a perfectly new work, and may well do so from the 

 amount of new materials introduced intc- it. And these, 

 be it observed, refer not merely to the heroine of Mr. Fitz- 

 patrick's lively and amusing volume, but to the many re- 

 markable personages with whom Lady Morgan became 

 acquainted in the course of her brilliant career. 



How we Spent the Autumn ; or, Wanderings in Brittany. 

 By the Authoress of The Timely Retreat. (Bentley.) 



There is no part of France more replete with interest 

 to travellers from these islands than Brittany, and no 

 part perhaps which has been more frequented by travel- 

 lers of the sterner sex. The present volume, telling in 

 a simple and unaffected style what are the objects best 

 worth seeing in Brittany, and the easiest way to visit 

 them, will be found an agreeable, almost an indispensable, 

 companion to ladies who may, during the coming'season, 

 turn their steps towards this chosen land of old romance. 



$fltt'tc<» to Corrr3p entente. 



R. Pcpys's TVill has nevtr to the lest of our belie/ been printed iu 

 cxtenso. 



2. e. We have a letter for this correspondent. How shall it be for- 

 tainted t 



Mn. Low.ve is thanked/or his polite communication. 



X. Neither Mann's norCoate's History of Reading notices the farce 

 The Disagreeable Surprise. 



Abhba. Our correspondent has overlooked the references to Valentine 

 Greatrakes in our 2nd S. ill. 510. 



C. T. The inscription on the wall of Chiswick church is printed in 

 Faulkner's Chiswick, p. 310. This bungling writer firtt mitouotes the 

 inscription, that the wall was made at the charges of '" Lorde i 

 RusselUWke {instead of Earle) of Bedford in 16SS, and then 



no Duke 0/ lie** 'lord qf the Ktuiett family till 

 1694 1 " 



Beplies to other correspondents in our next. 



Errata. _5nd S. t. p. 32. col. i. 1.22. from bottom, for "Scotland" 

 read " Ireland." 



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