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THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY &> NATURALIST. 



married Henrietta Howard daughter of Lord Henry 

 Howard and niece of the twelfth Duke of Norfolk, 

 the alliance was spoken of as a union of the blood of 

 the Howards with the hereditary genius of the 

 Herberts, who themselves date back to Charlemagne, 

 the great Duke of Brabant, King of France, and 

 Emperor of the Romans." It is told of the first Earl 

 of Carnarvon that when, as Colonel Herbert, he 

 represented Wilton in the House of Commons, he 

 was present at the time of the Gordon riots. When 

 Lord George Gordon took his seat wearing a blue 

 cockade, the House being meanwhile besieged by the 

 mob, Colonel Herbert declared with great spirit that 

 he could not sit and vote in that House 

 whilst he saw a noble lord in it with the 

 ensign of riot in his hat, and threatened if he 

 would not take it out he would walk across the 

 House and de so for him. Whereupon Lord George 

 put the cockade in his pocket. In Highclere church 

 there is a memorial tablet to Charles Herbert, the 

 eldest son of Philip, fourth Earl of Pembroke, who in 

 the earlier part of the sixteenth century " was sent out 

 to Italy as a youth in order to obtain some of the 

 science and knowledge that was then the almost 

 exclusive property cf that country." Dying there, he 

 was buried, till at the French Revolution his tomb 

 was ransacked and his bones scattered. They were, 

 however, subsequently recovered by the present Earl 

 of Carnarvon and now lie peacefully in one of the 

 family vaults. The house, it appears, is not without 

 its ghost, which more than one attempt has been 

 made to lay. The park is noted for its fine trees and 

 its celebrated collection of rhododendrons and azaleas. 

 The article is illustrated with views of the Park, the 

 Castle, the Library, the chair and table from 

 Fontainebleau which belonged to the great Napoleon, 

 and portraits of the fourth Earl of Carnarvon and 

 Thomas, Earl of Arundel (the collector of the 

 Arundelian marbles). 



"LIFE OF JANE AUSTEN." 

 Hampshire readers will welcome the " Life of Jane 

 Austen " which Professor Goldwin Smith has 

 contributed to the "Great Writers '' series,* for Miss 

 Au.sten is distinctively a Hampshire worthy. With 

 the exception of a short period spent in Bath her 

 whole life was spent in this county. Her early life 

 was spent at Steventon, where she was born on 

 December 16, 1775, and it is the life at Steventon 

 that forms the groundwork of some of her novels. 

 Between 1805 and 1809 she, with her mother and 

 sister, resided at Southampton, in a large old- 

 fashioned house in Castle Square, with a garden 

 bounded by the town wall. From here the Austens 

 removed to Chawton, to be near Jane's brother, who 

 had come into some property there and changed his 

 name to Knight. Lastly, on account of illness Miss 



* " Life of Jane Austen." By Goldwin Smith. Lon- 

 don : Walter Scott. 1890. 



Austen removed to Winchester, where she died on 

 July 18, 1817, and was buried under a slab of black 

 marble in Winchester Cathedral, near the centre of 

 the north aisle. Her life was therefore devoid of any 

 exciting interest, and it is with her works, rather 

 than with herself, that her biographer necessarily 

 has to deal. 



As a novelist Jane Austen takes a high position, not 

 only for the merits and lasting interest of her works, 

 but as having initiated the modern " novel of 

 manners " as distinguished from the romantic school 

 of Mrs. Rakliffe and other writers. Her novels 

 are simply portrayals of the familiar commonplace 

 lite around us, and in this consists their verv charm. 

 As Mr. Goldwin Smith remarks, " her genius is 

 shown in making the familiar and commonplace 

 intensely interesting and amusing. Perfect in her 

 finish and full of delicate strokes of art, her works 

 require to be read with attention, not skimmed as 

 one skims many a novel, that they may be fully en- 

 joyed. But whoever reads them attentively will 

 fully enjoy them without the help of a commentator." 

 We can thus learn what a quiet country life was like 

 at the beginning of the present century. 



After narrating what is known of her life, 

 Mr. Goldwin Smith devotes a chapter to each of her 

 works, " Pride and Prejudice," " Sense and 

 Sensibility," " Northanger Abbey," " Emma," 

 " Mansfield Park " and " Persuasion," and concludes 

 with an estimate of her novels as a whole. Appen- 

 ded are a table showing her chronological relation to 

 the other English novelists, and a bibliography of 

 her works and of books and magazine articles 

 relating to her, compiled by Mr. John P. Anderson, 

 of the British Museum. 



HOLY WELLS IN HAMPSHIRE. 

 The Antiquary for April contains the second instal- 

 ment of a list of " Holy Wells: their Legends and 

 Superstitions," by Mr. R. C. Hope, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., 

 and (we may add) litera^' cribber, for we find that the 

 list of these wells in our own county of Hampshire 

 has been taken bodily without acknowledgment from 

 some notes on the subject contributed to the Hamp- 

 shire Independent of April 9, 1887, by Mr. T. W. 

 Shore, F.G.S. These notes have been unblushingly 

 appropriated word for word, with only some slight 

 transposition. To show at once the clumsiness and 

 palpable dishonesty of the operation, we may mention 

 that where by a trifling printer's error, a full point 

 was in our issue inserted instead of a comma, Mr. 

 Hope has copied and intensified the blunder. But, 

 infinitely worse than this, he has appropriated Mr. 

 Shore's remarks in the first person as if the opinion ex- 

 pressed were his own. Thus we read, and the words 

 are not in inverted commas : 



On the mainland we have St. Clare's Well, near Sober- 

 ton, St. .Mary's Well, at Sheet, near Petersfield. and the 

 holy bourn and spring- at Holybourn, near Alton. These 

 I take to be genuine examples of the mediaeval holy wells. 



