240 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY H. GOULD, late W. CARY, 181, STRAND. From June 24, to July 23, inclusive. Thermometer. Barom. Weather. 99 fair 11 77 cldy. fair, rain 12 86 fr. cldy.slt.rn. 58 29. 96 do. do. do. 14 55 29. 88 cloudy, fair 87 do. do. 16 77 do. rain 17 60 68 61 68 63 64 62 67 60 29. 98 fair, cldy. rain 53 29. 78 cldy. hvy. rain 66 56 29. 88 do. fair 61 66 55 29. 69 hy.sh.cl. fr.rn. 58 30. 15 do. do. rain 59 29. 89 hvy.rn.cloudy 19, Change Alley, London, E.C. PRINTED BY MESSRS, JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. THE Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. SEPTEMBER, 1862. CONTENTS. PAGE MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-The Clarendon Press-The late John Mitchell Kemble 242 286 292 299 The Runic Inscriptions at Maeshowe..... Notes on the Roadside Crosses and other Remains in Mid Devonshire ANTIQUARIAN AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-Archæological Institute, 303; CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-Discovery of Monumental Tablets at THE NOTE-BOOK OF SYLVANUS URBAN HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS, AND LITERARY NOTICES.- MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE 335 336 344 345 APPOINTMENTS, PREFERMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS BIRTHS MARRIAGES OBITUARY.-Lord Dungannon-Sir Henry Bold-Hoghton, Bart., 360; Major-General CLERGY DECEASED DEATHS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Registrar-General's Return of Mortality and Births in the Metropolis-Markets, 375; Meteorological Diary-Daily Price of Stocks BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. 348 349 350 351 354 364 367 368 376 MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. NOTICE, SYLVANUS URBAN requests his Friends to observe that Reports, Correspondence, Books for Review, announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, &c., received after the 20th instant, cannot be attended to until the following Month. THE CLARENDON PRESS. MR. URBAN,-I recently purchased from a London bookseller a copy of Cotton's Typographical Gazetteer," printed at the Clarendon Press. On examination, I found the copy sent me spotted and stained on almost every leaf. On communicating with my bookseller, I was told that he had learned from the booksellers to the University of Oxford the to me astounding fact, that all the remaining copies were in this defective and-must I say it ?-disgraceful condition. Subsequently, I got my injured copy exchanged for one something better, but was at the loss of the portage to and from London. Perhaps you, MR. URBAN, on whose omniscience we, Sylvani banished from the great Urbs, implicitly depend, can inform me whether the authorities of the University Press intend to force the public to purchase all the damaged copies of this most valuable work before they issue another edition? The volume requires to be re-edited, to bring it up to the knowledge of the present day, (it was published in 1831); the learned and Venerable editor is, thank God, still spared to us. Will the University Press deprive the world of the benefit of his matured knowledge ?-I am, &c. JAMES GRAVES, Clerk. Kilkenny, August 8th, 1862. THE LATE JOHN MITCHELL MR. URBAN,-Macaulay, the brilliant essayist, poet, and historian, lies entombed among kings, statesmen, and poets, in Westminster Abbey, ennobled when living, and honoured in his death. I have no desire to take exception to this, but only to remark that it contrasts forcibly with the neglect evinced by the antiquarian world to a writer of somewhat less note, yet still one who ought not to be forgotten. J. M. Kemble, the author of "The Saxons in England," a man of rare acquirements, died in Dublin about four years ago, and his remains lie shelved in a vault in a church in that city. Is not this a reproach to us? THE CHRISTCHURCH ARCHEO LOGICAL ASSOCIATION. MR. URBAN,-Will you allow me to say that in omitting all mention of the Christchurch Association from my recent letter I did not mean in any way to slight such an excellent Society. From the notices of it which I had read in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE I inferred that it was merely local, and that it did not purpose becoming a county Association. Obviously Winchester would be the proper centre for a general county Association, although Christchurch, Southampton, and other towns would be each the fitting centre of its own district.-I am, &c., THE AUTHOR OF THE PAPER ON SIR BENJAMIN HAWES. In our number for July, 1862, p. 101, it was incorrectly stated that Benjamin Hawes, M.D. (the grandfather of the late Sir Benjamin Hawes, and the founder of the Royal Humane Society), was anthor of "The History of the Isle of Man," and other literary works. That statement should apply to the maternal uncle of Sir Benjamin Hawes, Mr. John Feltham, whose "Tour through the Isle of Man, in 1797 and 1798," was published at Bath in the latter year, and "The English Enchiridion, being a selection of Apothegms, Moral Maxims, &c," in 1799. Captain Arthur Brunel Hawes, the second son of Sir Benjamin, is a retired officer of the Indian army, and now Senior Assistant in the Audit Office of the Secretary of State for India. He is married, and has four children. Several Reports, Reviews, and Obitu aries are unavoidably postponed. The Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. THE JAPANESE COURT IN THE INTERNATIONAL BY W. BURGES, ESQ. Or all the dreams of archæologists there is none more frequent than that of endeavouring to transport oneself into the domestic life of any given period. In some cases it is not a very difficult thing to do, for the materials exist and are easily attainable. Thus, with regard to Roman life, we have the many hints given us by such authors as Apuleius and Petronius Arbiter, we have the costume from statues and gems, and lastly, there are the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, where we can stand at the very counters where the garum was sold, tread the very pavements, look at the very pictures on the walls, and, in fact, spend a day thoroughly with the ancients. With regard to the medieval times, the antiquary finds the materials for his dream far more difficult to attain. It is true that we have the literature, the costume, and to a certain extent the buildings; but there is no Pompeii to give us an insight into the domestic life; and our only resource is to study Eastern nations who, less changeable than those of the West, still keep up the manners and costumes of the times of the Crusades. Fortunately or unfortunately—this civilization is dying out day by day in Turkey, and the best nation for our purpose would undoubtedly be Persia; but somehow or other there is no display of Persian goods in the International Exhibition, and we are thrown back on to Egypt, Turkey, India, and Japan. The productions of the first three for the most part consist of textile fabrics and jewellery, but the latter presents us with so many articles of domestic use, and so nearly allied to the Middle Ages, that I propose to confine my attention to it alone. Until Lord Elgin's mission we knew but little of the state of GENT. MAG, VOL, CCXIII. Gg the arts in the group of islands generally known as the Empire of Japan. We had, it is true, seen specimens of lacquer, but these were generally imitations of European articles manufactured for the Dutch, in whose hands the whole trade had been confined for the last two hundred years. Since Lord Elgin's visit, numerous articles of Japanese workmanship have come to this country, and been eagerly bought up; but the present Exhibition gives the first opportunity of seeing them collected together in any quantity. The principal exhibitor is Mr. Alcock, the English minister at Japan, and we are indebted to his good taste for as complete a collection of articles of domestic art as one man could reasonably be expected to form. Unfortunately another collection, which arrived too late to find room, was lately sold by auction; a fact the more to be regretted inasmuch as many of the articles were exceedingly curious, such as a suit of armour, of which more anon. Captain Vyse, Consul at Yokahama, Dr. Barton, and Remi Schmidt and Co. help to complete the exhibition, which is further enriched by a very complete set of medicines and surgical instruments belonging to Dr. Myburgh. In giving a short notice of all these various things, perhaps the best way will be to divide them into classes, and go through them seriatim. METAL-WORK. Although there are not very many articles made entirely of the precious metals, there is scarcely a single thing but what is enriched more or less with them. Oliphant tells us that the great occupation of the goldsmiths is to manufacture those small ornaments which are used for such a variety of purposes, but more especially to bind on the handles of swords. Mr. Alcock has a long case entirely filled with these ornaments, which are generally in the form of a parallelogram, from 1 to 2 in. long, and about or in. high. They are made of cast or stamped copper, and are so wonderfully coloured, that without actually cutting them it is almost impossible to distinguish their material. To the eye they appear to be figures made of iron, and then damascened on the round with copper, gold, silver, and a very black metal which looks like the Berlin castiron. Upon testing them they turn out to be made of copper, a Oliphant's "Narrative of Lord Elgin's Mission to China and Japan." |