LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1907.
CONTENTS.-No. 158.
NOTES:-Fairy-haunted Kensington, 1-Lady Anne Hol-
they sigh their love into each other's ears,
and plight their troth
In words so melting that, compared with those,
The nicest courtship of terrestrial beaux
Would sound like compliments from country clowns,
To red-cheeked sweethearts in their homespun
Eil-de-boeuf," French Slang Words-T. Caverley: Jean fairy princess falls in love with him, and
Cavalier-Gamelshiel Castle, Haddingtonshire-George he returns her affection with equal warmth.
Stepney- -Eleanor of Castile- Rev. R. Rauthmel, 8-
Beneath a lofty tulip's ample shade
'Cantus Hibernici'- "Unbychid" - H. S. Kemble
London and Neighbourhood, 1750-Sea-Voyage of
Aloysius'-Romney's Ancestry-Isle of Man and the
Countess of Derby - Doncaster: Image of the Blessed
Virgin, 9-Authors of Quotations Wanted-Boddington
Family Officers of State in Scotland-John Stivens-
Scott Illustrators, 10.
REPLIES:-First Female Abolitionist, 10-St. Oswald:
"Gescheibte Turm"-Cowper, Lamb, or Hood?-Mar-
quise de la Fayette-"Mony a pickle maks a mickle"-
"The Maghzen," 11-Authors of Quotations Wanted-
"Ito": "Itoland"-" Forest of Oxtowe "- Bibliotheca
Farmeriana-Carlyle on Religion-Myddelton Family, 12
-Illustrations of Shakespeare-André-George Eliot and
Dickens-St. George's Chapel Yard, Oxford Road-Oscar
Wilde Bibliography -
-Richard Humphries, the Prize-
fighter-Monkeys stealing from a Pedlar, 13-Walton,
Lancashire West Indian Military Records "Quap
ladde"-"Poor Dog Tray," 14-March 25 as New Year's
Day-Ausone de Chancel, 15-A Knighthood of 1603-
Dole Cupboards, 16-Sante Fé, 17-Courtesy Titles, 18.
NOTES ON BOOKS:- Sheridan's Dramatic Works
Where the skies high Holland House invades.
We need not pursue the story further
than to say that the death of Albion in
battle is followed by the destruction of the
fairy kingdom and the dispersal of the
fairies. All except heart-broken Kenna
seek a home elsewhere. She continued to
haunt the grove where her mortal lover,
trying to say,
"Kenna, farewell!" had sighed his soul away.
Her faithful attachment to scenes endeared
by the memory of a lost love has been
rewarded by the bestowal of her name upon
"the neighbouring town" of Kensington.
the lapse of a hundred and eighty-four years,
Such in brief is Tickell's story, and, after
the fertile fancy of another imaginative
writer has once more given to airy nothing
a local habitation and a name. Kenna's
home is again alive with fairies, and, aided
by the fantastic pencil of Mr. Arthur Rack-
ham, Mr. Barrie has conjured up for us a
twentieth-century vision of the doings of
the "little people " of Kensington, about
whose loving and fighting Thomas Tickell
tried to interest our ancestors in the days
when George I. was king.
Tickell may be safely classed among the
forgotten poets, though he wrote a good
deal, was the companion of Addison, and
in one instance appeared as the rival of
Pope. He was a North-Countryman, a