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BOOTLE FREE LIB

MUSEUM

AND

TE CHNICAL S CH O OL

JOURNAL

VOLUME II.

CONTAINING

FIFZ'

EEN ILLUS TRA TIONS .

E DITED B Y

CHARLES H . HUNT,

L ibrarian and Curator,

AND

JOHN J . OGLE ,

D irector of Technica l Instruction .

PUBLISHED FO R THE COMMITTE EFRE E LIBRARY AND M US EUM, 0mm, RnAD , Boormc

MDCCCC I.

CONTENTS .

Artic les

Gl impses of the Potter ’ s Art i n Early Li verpool , byC . H . Hunt

Nathaniel Hawthorne andLi \ erpool , by C . H . HuntLi verpool in Charles the Second ’s Tim e , by C . H . HuntAn Old -tim e Bootle Benefactor , by C . H . HuntThe A uthoress of “ John Halifax , Gentleman ,

L inacre Grange, Bootle , by C . H . Hunt

Jenny L ind and Li verpool , by C . H . Hunt

Bootle Coffee House and its A ssociations , by C . H. Hunt

The Story of “ Auld Lang Syne , by C. H . Hunt

The Spi ri t ofChristm as Past and Present , by C . H . Hunt

An Old Li verpool Plan and i ts author , by C . H . Hunt

Rep rints

Dr . Hodgkin ’ s “ Italy and her Invaders , from ThePeriodical

A Crosby Novelist,by from the Lady ’

s P ictorialBootle VVaterm i l l , from Bennett and E lton ’s H istory of

Corn M i lling

The Mak ing of Bootle a final draftof the Bootle Charterof Incorporation , 1868

The Making of Bootle : clippings from ContemporaryRecords

M i ller ’s Castle,

Bootle,from Picton s 111emorials of

L i ve? p ool

Great Men ’s thoughts on Education

Reading Lists

Books relating to the Chinese Empi re , comp iled by W . T.

Montgom ery ”

Books and Maps for Cycl ists,comp iledbyW .T. Montgom ery

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l D6 d at)

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52

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Notes and NewsPAGE

Library (notes on books , &o. ) 5,21

, 8 1 , 109, 133 , 11-

13,

160

Museum notes (i ncluding Curator’ s Addresses ) 6 , 13 , 20, 32, 71 ,

Technical School Notes 5 , 25 , 44 , 68 , 89, 1 16 , 141 , 16 1

Students ’ Social Union Notes 92, 120, 164

Interm ediate School Notes 9 1,142

,16 1

Additions to the Li brary

Lending Departm ent 14, 37 , 55 , 76 , 103 , 129 , 146 , 174

Reference Departm ent 19 , 59 , 106 , 149

l LLUSTRATlONS

Thom as HughesThom as A . Browne

,Rolf Boldrewood

Egerton CastleA rthur W . Marchm ontLibrary and Larder , VVadham College , Ox fordMary KingsleyLi verpool CastleThomas BeriM i ss Muloc h at the GrangeM i ss Muloc h and M i ss MyersO ur Lost Cat

Bootle Charter PartyPubl ic Li brary and Museum (Front E levat ion )Publ ic Lib rary and Museum (Entrance Hall )M i l ler’ s Castle , Bootle

Boot l e Free Library Museum and

Techn ical School Jou rnal

Vol . II—No. 9 MARCH

Notes on Books New and O ld

HE emphasis of passing events on the Imperialism of Bri tainshould draw attention to an adm i rable seri es of books , entitledthe “ Bui lders of Great Britain ,” som e of wh ich have lately been

acquired for the Library . The“ life of that wonderful clerk i n the

East India Company ’s serv i ce who rose to fame as Lord Cli ve i sW ritten by Sir A . J. A rbuthnot . The famous Bri stol explorers , Johnand Sebastian Cabot, are the subjects of a volum e by C . R . Beazley .S ir . Walter Raleigh i s the them e of M . A . S . Hum e

,Who in h is

treatm ent of it has added attraction to one of the m ost attractiv esubjects of biography.

The hero of the defence of Mafek ing , Colonel Baden -Powell,i s the

author of th ree books lately acqui red The M atabele Camp a ign,published in 1897 the Downfall of Premp eh , 1898 , and a l ittle boolé

'

on S couting. No doubtm any readers wi ll like to read one or m ore 0them . These prev ious efforts raise high hopes of a thrilling narrative

,from his pen when the Boer W ar i s over .a ax:

To our l ist of books on South Afri ca , i n Vol . I. pp . 122- 125 , may.

now be added Carte r’s 1Var7~ati zre of the Boer War [ 1880 and RiderHaggard ’s The LastBoer ,

War . A small book on Our L i ving Generals,by A . Temple , i s calculated to inspi re confidence in the heart of anyreader of i ts brief biographies of Roberts , Buller , W hite , Kitchener,Wood and others. Besides Theal ’s H istory of South Africa ,

thelibrary now has the two- volum e work of research by that author,enti tled : South Af rica under the Dutch East India Comp any ( 1652

Fifty years of the history of the Rep ublic in South Africa (17951845) begins where the work of Theal j ust mentioned leaves off.Judgin from the remarks in the Appendix , the attitude of the Britonto theHoer has often been anything butpraiseworthy.

Home -travellers would do well to peruse two excellent books byA . H. Norway , Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall , and asim i lar one on Yorkshire.

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Am ong fine works of travel now i n the library may be mentionedM rs. B i shop ’ s Yangtz e Valley and Beyond ; Fitzgerald ’sC limbs '

ind he1Vew Z ealanrl A lp s , and the H ighest A ndes. By the way , readers ofA lpine books should be well sati sfied with what the l ib rary nowcontains on thi s subj ect. Baring -Gould ’ s D eserts of S outhern Franc e,though not very recent 13 very good , and VVood’

s In the Valley“

of theRhone may also be m entioned .

A successful m an ’ s survey of life is always interesting ; henceW . E H . Lec ky

’

s [VIap of L ife conductand character , will appeal tothe thoughtful .

A' good book to take up at odd m om ents i s Jam es Payn ’ s

Backwater of Life, a v olum e ofessays .

Chi ldren and young folkwi ll find som ething new to

thei r taste by borrowing , _ fromthe l ist of books added

,any

of those m arked with an

asteri sk

The books entered afterTh om as Hug h es the nam es of Guy Boothby,

E . F. Benson , G.

J . Bloundel le—Burton , B . L . Farjeon , G. A . Henty , _

M aurice Hewlett ,Mau rus Jokai , David Lyall , J. E . Muddock

,E . Ph il lp ots, ‘

W . PettRidge

, S i enk iewi cz , Gordon Stables , Halliwel l Sutc l iffe H .-G. W ells

,

John Strange W i nter , ” and I. Z angwi l l need no bush . Here i sfiction for the most egregious appeti te , and to suit the m ost epi cureantaste .

Quiet people will enj oy More Pot-

p ourri from a Surrey Garden,by Mrs. Earle Cri ckete rs will revel in W . G. Grace ’s Rem iniscences ;Young E lectri cians wi l l scan Fah ie’s H istory of Wireless Telegrap hy ,

1838 - 1899 ,with interest ; men of the study will turn over Frederic

Harrison ’ s last volum e of essays , and delight i n his pleasant flowingstyle,while discours ing on Tennyson, Ruskin, M i ll , and others .

The public interest in

temperance and its own powerful characte r wi ll ensureattention to J . A . Steuart

f

s

Wine on the Lee-s, a study infiction of a real aspect ofunwholesom e li fe .

QUARTERLY JOURNAL s

W . S . Churchill ’s River War , the re- conquestof the Soudan, gi vesprobably all an ord inary reader cares to know aboutour last considerable war . S ir Herbert Maxwell ’s L ife of Well ington i s anotherm i litary work whose _ issue was looked out for with great expectationsby the m i litary public. Several other good works on m i l itarycharactersor m i litary operations wi ll be found in our list.

T. A . Browne “ Rolf Boldrewood

Extra copies of Fitzgerald ’s The Transvaal f rom Within, andKipling’ s Barrack Room Ballads

,have had to be obtained to meet the

dem and .ax: as

The autobiography of the preacher at the Tem p le‘

in Holborn , theveteran Dr . Josep h Parker , may be recomm ended for the Sundayand week - day reading of Christian men .

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From Ki ng Orry to Queen Victori a gi ves i n brief the history ofManx land . It i s written by E . Callow ,

and may be recomm ended .

The editor of the L i rerp ool Daily Post has a pleasant way of

sp eak ing and writing about everyth ing , as bec om es a journal i st, henceS ir Edward Russell ’s That rem inds m e —should be specially welcom e

to t i red business m en who want a light but not fri volous book forlei su re reading .

The cult o'

f Robér Stevensonl s p robablyfk

o‘verdone

,but hi s

Letters to hisfam ily an f riends should reveal tos

‘many a new readera character which -was undoubtedly generous and '

otherwise fine.

3,a

Among fine r

works recently. a dded to the Refe rence Library one

may m ention Shaw’ s D resses and Decorations of the M idd le A ges .

L ike the greatwork of Rac inet 011 Histori cal costum e,this may well

be consulted by dressm akers in search of c ostum es for fancy dress ballsand Shawhas. the advantage over Rac inetth atthe explanati ons are inEngli sh not in French .

A' boo'k of drawings by Char les Keene edited by J . Pennell

,i s sure

of a favorable recepti on from lovers o-fbeauti ful li ne d rawing .

O ur Il lustrations

The - famous firm‘

of Macm i llan 83 Co. has again c om e to ou r aidwith the loan of i llustrations . The portraits are of the late venerableJudge Hughes , author , of Tom Brown

’

s S chooldays and Vacation

Ram bles, .a writer of fine ideals,whose fam e needs no trumpeting ;

and the charm ing Australian writer Mr. T. A . Browne , better knownas Rolf Boldrewood .

” M acm i llan ’ s sixpenny i ssue of Robberyunder A rms has m ade the latter writer known in m any a new hom e

, but

our catalogue shows a long list of other works from his p en,and all of

them good . It i s fine i n these days of Im perial unity to get i n touchwith the A ntipodes through such writings . The Bi rd picture is fromthe volum e by A . H. Evans , i n the Cam bridge Natu ral History deal ingwith Birds. This series of books i s qu ite the ' best . of its kind n

‘

ow

published . The Kagu i s anati ve of New Caledonia .

QUARTE RLY JOURNAL 5

News and Notes

The Town Counci l has recently approved a schem e for bui lding abranc h reading room , book de l ivery station and p ubl ic bath s ,and the m ak ing of a public garden in M arsh Lane , near the corner ofSalisbury Road—a public hall i s also to -be builtover the reading room .

Sketch plans were subm i tted to the Counci l and an outlay of onthe schem e approved .

It i s to be wished that m ore attention were paid by students i nthe Technical School to the hom e work setthem by thei r teachers .A bout 200post cards calling attention to neglect have been sent outlately . As the exam inations draw near i t becom es increasingly nec essary to attend to th is m ethod of reviewing what i s learntand of fixingit i n the m em ory . Itm ust not be im agined , however, that hom e workis neglected by all . Many students are v ery praiseworthy i n thei rattention thereto , and from experience and obserxati on we can pred ictthat these students will com e out well in the exam inations .

M r. J . F. Gi l l , Derby Scholar , and Mr. J . H. S inc lair, PickupScholar , old students of our school , have done well in the Chri stm as term inal exam inations atUni versity College . M r. W . E . M . Curnoc k ,another old student of the school

,i s also doing well there . Mr. J. I.

S c ott, of M erton College , Oxford , a form er student here , has latelyadded anm-her scholarship to h is attainm ents . Iti s of £50per annum,and given by the Grocers ’ Company . A l l these old scholars have our

s incere congratulations .

The Free Lectures have been a sourc e of great pleasure to manyon Tuesday evenings during the winter . One person on leaving theTown Hall the other evenn remarked that they got better andbetter . C rumbling i s not agreeable , but m any who habitually com elate m ight be a li ttle earlie r . Early attendance adds to one ’ s ownand others ’ com fort , and improves the lecture by setting the lecturerm ore at ease from the interruptions of squeak ing boots and shuffl ingchai rs .

The Reading Lists i ssued on the subj ects of the lectures have beenm uch p raised = by lecturers and others . Borrowers at the librarywould do well to k eep old ones by them to refer to when they arechoosing books for thei r after i nstruction .


M US EUM NOTES

Insects —Ou the evening of Decem ber 9th last,the Curator

del ivered the thi rd of this season ’ s addresses to teachers . A s usual theelect ri c lantern

,operated by M r. J . H . Hort

,i llust rated his rem arks .

The principal points in the structure of an insect were m ade clearby reference to the Dragon -fly the body alm ost di vided into three , thej ointed legs— three pai rs of them , attached to them iddle section of thebody ; the peculiar open ings called trachea at the sides of the body,which are lined with a kind of spi ral spring or continuous fibre andthrough whi ch the insectbreathes ; the m outh parts with jaws , workingnot up and down l ik e ours , but sideways (or else adapted to the sucking of juices and honey from flowers

,as i n butterfl ies ) , were m entionedas characteristi c of insects .

Compari son was m ade with other insect - lik e creatures , as thep erip atus and the spider with thei r different l imbs and other features .

The m outh parts of the Bee and the Butterfly with the foldingparts of the form er,and the rolled -up j aws of the latte r insect , werei llustrated and explained .

The legs of Bees and thei r uses introduced the c onnection betweenthe v isits of i nsects to flowers and the ripening of fruit.

The c lassification of insects was fitly i l lustrated by m any slides .The usual nam es of the larger classes are form ed from the Greek andrefer to peculiarities of the wings in perfect in sects , but in m ost ofthe groups there are included som e insects wh ich are di fferent from the

main i nstances of thei r group in thei r wing - structure or absence of it.

The Ap tera i nclude the springtai ls which spoil the florists’ bestbloom s .The Orthop tera m ay be represented by the earwig . There are three

m ain d ivisions here , the Runners (c ockroach ) , the W alkers (insectswhi ch im i tate the form of leaves ) , the Leapers (loc usts , cri ckets , Ste . )

The Neurop tera include Dragon -flies , am ong the m ost beautiful ofin sect form s , and W hite Ants , most prolific creatures which buildm ounds several feet high and destroy thousands of pounds ’ worth oftim ber structures ev ery year in A fri ca .

The -Lep idop tera or Moths and Butterfl ies are very well known .Thei r li fe h istory from egg to caterpillar , then to cocoon or Chrysalis ,and finally to flying insect, i s v ery interesting.


The Coleop terai s the nam e for the d ifferentk inds of beetles . The

Bootle Museum has ' a very fine European collect-ion contain ing m anythousands of specimens . Many of these too, are very beauti ful .

The Hem ip tera includes sm other -flies, plant -bugs and plant - l ice .The D ip tera or

' two -winged fl ies are not so m uch studied asbutterflies

,but the li fe - history of som e of these creatures i s a fai ry tale

of wonder . The Cx -warble,the Horse bot-fly ,

the gall - flies,and the

Daddy long legs,are all near cousi ns of the comm on house fly .

Th e Hymenop tera include bees and ants besides wasps and lastlythe com mon flea is put in the class Ap hanip tera .

The imm ense number and variety of insects i s appall ing and anycareful student of one group i s alm ost bound to m ake new discoveries .Though in som e sections the Briti sh insects have been fully stud ied asto thei r form s and varieties , probably no section has been exhaustivelytreated as to the habits and life - histories of its m em bers .

Plants— The fourth address (Decem ber 18th ) of the series was onPlants . It i s im possible in the space at our disposal to give anadequate summ ary . The structure of the flower , the fertili sation offlowers

,the habits of growth

,parasites , the phenom ena of sensiti ve

ness,the fly - catching and pitcher plants , m ountain , desert , and

tropi cal plants were subj ects touched upon , rather with the v iew ofarousing curiosity than of sati sfying it.

Any one of these div isions is sufficient of i tself for an interestinglecture .Am ong the i llustrations shown were orchids , cuckoo - pint , thegreat Javan parasite called Rafilesia ,

som e rootparasites from Englishm eadows , the m i stletoe growing 011 its host- plant

, the dodder, m ountain willows and pines no larger than a roadside herb

,switch plants

and other leafless form s from the deserts,lianes

,bamboo thi ckets ,

m angroves from swamps,and climbing palm s of the tropical regions .

M am m als—The even ing of January 23rd ,was gi ven to the sub

j cet of M amm als . Only the barest outline can be given of this address .M amm als were compared with Fi shes

, Am phibians (as the frog )Repti les and B i rds

,and points of agreem entand of d i fference noted .

Whatis a Mammal It i s ' a vertebrate animal with a fourchambered heart with a parti cular arrangem entof the aorti c arch overthe leftbronchus , ithas a diaphragm ,

and i s warm blooded the outersurface produces hai r (not feathers , nor scales , nor i s i t naked wholly ) .The female possesses m i lk - glands and there are ce rtain well -markedpeculiarities of the j aw , and of the connection between the base of theskull and the top of the back - bone . Mamm als always possess forelim bs and their teeth form the best part for separating them intoclasses .

In si z e Mamm als vary from the Harvest Mouse to the Rorqual ‘W hale which has been found 80feet in length and weighing 80 tons .Som e m amm als burrow l ike the m ole , som e inhabit trees like them onkey and squi rrel , som e fly like the bats

,and som e li ve in the sea,like the manatee and the dolphin .

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The uses of Mamm als are var i ous and very important . A s draughtan imals , for food , for clothing of leather or fulu for use and decorati on1 11 1vory bone and horn and for provision of oils and scents they arecomm ercially m ost valuable to m an .

A l1st of the principal ki nds with representati ve an imals mustconclude th i s account.

i lfonotrem es The Duck - bill .tl/Iarsup ials , Opossum s , Bandicoot , Phalangers. W ith a few

ex c ep tl ons 1 11 Am erIc a , these classes are confined to the Austral ianreg lon .

E dentates , The S lot-

h, the Pangolin , the A ard - vark .

S irenia,the Manatee and Dugong (aquati c ) .

Hoofed An imals,the Tapi r , the Hyrax , the E lephant , the Hippo

p otam us, the Llam a , the Gi raffe .

Rodents,the Squi rrels

,Porcupines and Hares .

Whales and Dolp hins.

S

Beasts of Prey The Jungle Cat, the Bear , the Racoon , (b ) the‘eals .Insecti rores The Hedgehog , the Mole , the Shrew .

Bats— The Elv ing Fox , the Bat, the Vampi re .Pr imates -The Aye

-Aye , the Marm oset , the Ourang -Outang , theGori lla .

The vari ety of form and habit i t wi l l be observed i s very great,but as a whole the M ammals are m uch l ess num erous than m any other

great classes of an im als . They cannot compare with the Bi rds,o r

Fi shes,or Insects for exam ple .

Mamm als are the m ost com plex and , E v oluti oni sts say,the m ost

recentanim als on the face of the earth .

Corals , S ea = Anem ones and oth er low ly' form s of an im al

l ife - The lastaddress of the series was delivered 011 February 12th .

It i s rather d ifficult to gi ve a useful summ ary in brief space of thisaddress . The m eaning of th e l iv ing cell of protoplasm and the

resemblance between the s im p lestform s of anim al and v egetable li fewe re dwelt upon. The almost form less Amoeba , the shell - secretingrhizopods

,many beauti fu lly symm etrical Retic ularians and

Radiolarians were m entioned and v i ews of som e of them shown . A

step higher— the Infusorians possess a lim iti ng m em brane and a defin itepo int of i ngress for food but sti l l n o stomach . At som e stage inthei r li fe they have a whip - l ik e lash or fringe of v ibrating hai rs , andthey m ove about freely . One of them i s responsible for the

phosphorescence of the sea at ce rtain tim es . Most of the creaturesalready nam ed are so small that several c an li e abreast on the edge ofa dull razor .

QUARTE RLY JOURNAL

The Sp onges are m ore complex in thei r structure though sti ll verysimple . It i s necessary to study v ery young specim ens to m ake outthe nature of the system jof canals running through thei r interior andthe other cavities therein . W ater . i s c onstantly flowing in at someopenings carrying nourishm ent to the sponge and out at others.Inside are m any vibrating hai rs assisting the water along the passages .Most sponges also produce curious sm all spikes of various and beautifulshapes

,which m ay be shaken in thousands out of a new sponge , butrequi re to be exam i ned through a m icroscope .

The Coelenterates have a dist inct body - cavity , but are yet verysimple in their build . The greater part of them l ive together i ncolonies . The Fresh W ater Hydra is a green or brown thing found i nponds and stream s and may be about 2 i nch long . Itadheres to stem sof plants som etimes and m ight be m i staken for a piece of the stem itselfun less watched . It has a m outh at the top with a ci rclet of feele rsaround

,by which i t assists the m otion of the water to i ts m outh

,and

the feelers are arm ed with sm all coi led up darts in their cell substancewhich it can release atwill and by which itparalyses its m inute prey .Anem ones and Corals are m ore elaborate anim als of the sam e generaltype . Corals are aggregated together and secrete or form a basisof chalky or stony m atter which is fam i liarly called coral (white orred ) , butwhich is only the skeleton of the real coral , a living creaturepossessing tentacles and an interi or cavity , a m outh and an appeti te .Anem ones are a sort of enlarged and indi vidual coral anim al whichdoes not produce Coral . ”

Hydroid Zoophytes at one stage of thei r li fe are like a compoundfresh water hydra and thei r history i s very i nteresting . They looklik e plants or sea -weeds but som e bud - l ik e heads break away and livea life like a m edusa or j elly fish

,grow spores or eggs which they let

fall and these grow up into branch - l ike stocks agai n,with hydra - l ik e

heads having a m outh , interior cav ity , and feelers , and at certain tim esproducing the bud- li ke growths referred to above.The E ch inoderms are a step higher in the scale of li fe than the

Coelenterates ; th ey have an alim entary canal , or food - cavity,as

well as a general body - cavity wh ich contains various special organs.

They have also a wonderful system of water -tube feet by which theycrawl about . They are radially arranged as to thei r parts (notbi laterally like a worm ) . This class i ncludes Starfi shes , Brittle S tars ,C rinoids (a sort of stalked Brittle Star) , Sea Urchins

,and Sea

Cucum bers .The Museum contains m any excellent specim ens (in spirit or

m ounted dry ) of d ifferent form s .Several groups of scholars have

,since the lectures were delivered ,vi sited the Museum with thei r teachers for further study of the m atte rs

dealtwith . Prizes have been offered to the Public E lem entary S choolsfor the best essays sent in 011 these subj ects . A fai r number of essayshave been sent in from the following elem entary s'chools —ChristChurch , St.

“

John ’ s and Bedford Road and Gray StreetBoard Schools .

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Th e Kag u

Though form erly the Kagu was not rare i n i ts nativ e i sland,i t i s

now restricted to the wilder portions , where it i s to be met w itham ong the rock s of craggy rav ines or near stagnant waters

,sleeping

th roughout the day and issuing from its concealm ent towards evening .Itwalk s quickly , yet in a stately m anner often com ing to a standsti llor crouching and rem aining m otionless for a long period ,

but it canalso run rapidly with the head and neck outstretched

,and the body

carried after the m anner of a Rai l . The habits i n confinement, however,m ake it som ewhat doubtful whether the bi rd i s as noctu rnal as

i s asserted , for in the daytim e it i s qui ck and li vely i n its m otions ,chasing i ts fellow- capti ves , dancing round with the ti p of i ts outspreadwing or tai l held fast i n its bi ll , tossing about d ry leaves or pieces ofpaper

,s p reading out its wings and th rusting its beak i nto the ground ,kicking with its legs , and finally tum bling about as if in a fit. T e

note i s guttural and rattling , or alm ost a sc ream the food consists ofm olluscs , worm s and insects , sought from am ong the grass or i ncrannies , while the bill i s often plunged into the soi l , and worm spulled out

,shaken and swallowed . \Vhen in quest of food the bi rd

often paws the earth wi th gentle strokes , and snails are usually beatenupon the ground to break the shel l . Itwill bathe in capti vity

,and i s

said to like wet weather in its nati ve haunts . The nest i s unknown ,buteggs laid at the Zoologi cal Society ’s Gardens in London are reddishbuff with brown and grey m arkings , and recall those of the W oodc ockor Corncrake . ” —From A . H. Evans ’ B irds.


A S p lend id Book of Referenc e

DR. HODGKIN’S “ ITAL Y AND HER INVADERS

This book,as now completed ,

contains i n eigh t volum es the historyof Italy , and in som e m easure of Europ e also , during the 35 1 yearswhich elapsed between the death of Julian and the death of Charlemagne . [The complete work 1s now on our Reference Library shelv es.

Itthus to a certain extent t raverses the sam e ground as Gibbon ’ sH istory of the Dec line and Fall of the Roman Emp ire,and may seem onsuperficial exam ination to be under the obvi ous disadvantage of challenging com parison with that m onum ental work . Dr. Hodgkin has ,however

,by varying h is poin t of v i ew, effectually shielded h im self fromthe imputation of any such presum ptuous ri valry . W hereas Gibbon

takes for his subj ect the whole Orbis Roma nns,and follows the fortunes

of all the nations comprising it , Eastern as well as W estern , for fourteen eventful centuries,i ncluding Saracen Caliphs and Turki sh Sultans

am ong the m any figures of his splendid panoram a,Dr. Hodgkin has

undertaken the hum bler duty of describing only the suc c essiv e invasionsof Italy during them uch shorter period abov e 1 efe1 red to. His title , however

,i s Italy and Her Invaders

,and he has endeavoured to br i n g before

his readers with sufficient fullness the history of all the greatbarbariannations by Whom Italy was successively overrun between the fifth andthe eighth centuries Thus the Visigoths , the Huns , the Vandals , theO strogoths the Lom bards and the Franks , pass successively in revi ewbefore h im . Having traced the history of som e of these nat ions fromin fancy up to m anhood he seem s to becom e inte rested l n thei r fate , andthe reader i s som etim es uncertain whether his sympathies are not beingenli sted 011 behalf of the in vaders rather than the i nvaded . Th is i spartly t1ue of the Visigoths—A lari c and Ataulfus— whose stories are 10lated 1n the fi rstvolum e , but the partiality i s m ore clearly seen i n thecase of Theodori c the Ost rogoth , who after all cam e into Italy rathe1 asa l iberator than a conqueror . That greatprince , whose li fe and reignare very fully described in the thi rd volum e may perhaps be consideredthe central figure of the whole history .

But i n the fourth volum e the Imperial general Bel isarius appearsupon the sc ene. The marvellous cam paigns in which he restored theauthority of the empi re i n Italy , especially his long and brilliantdefenceof Rom e itself against overwhelm ing Gothic hosts , are told , often in thevery words of his li terary a ide-de-ramp l ’roc op ius ; and here thoughthe author has no love for the character of Beli sarius ’ m aste r Justinian ,his adm i ration for the hero him self seem s alm ost to make h im unfaithful to his O strogothic friends .

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In the fi fth and si xth volum es—amuch‘m ore difficult task i s attem p ted . The Lombards are perhaps the least interesting and ' the leastattracti ve of all the invaders of Italy

,and though the picturesque Sagas

of thei r greatnational h istorian Paulus Diaconus som et im es brightenu p the historian ’ s narrati ve , both th e author and his readers have oftento regret the loss of such a g uide, se ski lful a writer, and one se -v ersedin the ways of camps and courts , as the Byzantine Procopius .

The last two volum es are practically the history of Charlemagne andhi s father as far as thei r dealings with Italy are - concerned and herewe have again to thank a literary courtier , E inhard , Charles’ secretary ,fo r som e of the m ost li fe - lik e touch ’es inthe '

p i cture . S ide by side withthe deve lopm ent of the Frank ish power which c ulm l nated in the p roclam ation of Charles the Great as Emperor of Rom e , another changewas silently but stead ily going forward , the t ransform ation of theBi shop of Rom e

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into a sovereign prince . ’

This process,generally calledthe foundation of the Tem p oral Power of the Pop e , i s traced with con

siderable detai l in the concluding volum es .Itwi l l interest Dr. Hodgkin ’ s readers to be inform ed of the ci rcum

stances in which the idea of writing this h istory fi rst occurred to theauthor . A residence of som e m onths

_in the R i viera i n th e year 1868

and again in 1870, accom panied by v isits to Florence and Rome,awakened in hi s m ind a v iv id interestin Ital ian hi story . ItWas, however ,atfi rstthe period of the Renaissan ce , the figures of the M ed ici , of Picodella M i randola, and of Savonarola and som e of thei r contem porariesby which he was m ost attracted . He prop osed to him self to write ashort p opular history of Italy which would include this period .

Muratori’

s great collection ofRerum Ital iearnm S cri p toreswaspurchased ,and the earl ie r v olum es were dili gently perused . The fascination of thestudy of a great hi stori cal period in the orig inal authorit ies was stronglyfelt. That awful cataclysm— the subversion of the great worldempi re of Rom a—seem ed to be a worthi er subj ect of study “

than thesquabbles of the French and the Spanish kings for t-he possessi on ofNaples and M i lan . Th e poem s of C laud ian , the letters of Apollinari sS idon ius,the

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Consolation" of Boethius , were carefully studied. Reading“Vulfila

’s translation of th e B ible into Gothic

,the author— as Dr .

Hodgkin him self has since said— seem ed to breathe the very atm osphereof the cam p of A laric . Fe l lm ann , Pap enc ordt, Dahn , W aitz , and m anyother Germ an authors by thei rm onographs guided the h istorian ’

s labours ,and i n m any a del ightful j ou rney he explored th e c i ti es and the battlefields of Italy i n order to describe them to hi s readers in the nex tlivraison of his h i story .

From these various causes i t has c ome to pass that the popularh istory of m ediaeval and m odern Italy in th ree volum es

,which was in

the author ’ s m ind when he began to write in the year 1873 , has beentransform ed into a history in eight volum es , the writing of whi ch hasoccu p i ed twenty - si x years , and which only bri ngs down the storyto the th reshold of the M iddle Ages . Dr . Hodgkin hopes thatsom e younger hand will now take up the arduous tale ”

a nd describewith sim i lar detai l the c haotic centuries between Charles and Hildeb rand and the glorious dawn of the great Italian Republi cs .

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Th e Quoit= Th rower

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My1on seem s to have devoted h im self alm ost exclusively toathleti c statues , statues in which the dom inant m ot ive i s theforcible real isation of a situation , and an imal statues . His bronzecow is the subj ect of innum erable epigram s , as being so l ike aliv ing anim al that the cowherd tries to drive it off

, or that itm ust be a real cow with a bronze sk in , or a bronze cow with al i v i ng soul , and others sim i larly pointed . An epigram on hiscelebrated statue of Ladas , the runner , hits off this power of v iv idand realisti c presentation of li fe— the sculptor has grav ed in theWhole body the hope of the crown . There i s a bronze statuetteof Marsyas in the Bri ti sh Museum , bel i eved to be copied from a.

group of h is representing Athena with Marsyas‘ a marble replicai s i n the Lateran Museum at Rom e . But the m ost fami liar ofMyron ’ s work s i s the Quoit-Thrower , of which m any copies remainwhich correspond generally with one another and wi th thedescript ion of Lucian —“ the quoit - p1ayer , who i s stop p ingforward i n atti tude to throw, twisting his body round toward thehand that holds the quoit , half crouching on one leg and lookingready to spring up as he makes h is cast” —ex cept that in them ajori ty of the m arble c ep ies (British Museum and Vatican

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Rom e ) the head i s turned to the ground before him ,whereas in a

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s account of The NatalCam p a ign. His wide ex p erien ce of war , gathered in m any a campaigni n alm ost every quarte r of the world ,

his intimate knowledge ofm i litary detail , hi s sound j udgment and picturesque style , have wonfor h im considerable popularity , which his interesting “ book i s l ik elyto enhan ce .

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Carey ’s Twel ve Good Women of the XIXth Century . A better bookcould notbe found to im press true womanly qualiti es

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a younger generation .

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R .

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Barr , we have a briskand cheerfu lly written v olum e of experi ences of travel in Egypt,

Tripoli , the Holy Land,etc . The absen c e of dates and geographical

inform ation wi ll not , perhaps , be resented by those to whom the

book appeals .

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,will be sim ply fascinating .

M erchants,too

,who are interested in the A frican trade , will find

m any significant facts and shrewd observations ; and travellers andsettlers i n tropical countr ies m ay also glean m any sagacious hints forthe guarding of health . The work is capitally i llustrated .

The Modern Safety B icyc le, by M r. H . A . Gar ratt, i s a v ery usefuland practi cal hand - book . The work i s fully i llustrated with diagram sand should prove of serv ice to those of our readers who cycle .

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”R . Buchanan

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,R. W . Cham bers

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Maxwell Gray , ” E . T.

Heddle,A . W . Marchmont , R . Masson , F. M . Peard and M . Suther

land .

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Parson Kelly ,by Mr. A . E . W . Mason and Mr. Andrew Lang , is

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The untim ely decease of G. W . Steev ens lends a pathetic interestto hi s unfinished record From Cap etown to Ladysm ith . The closingchapter of the book leaves upon the reader the strong im pression of am ost remarkable personality ,

in which i t i s hardly poss ible to saywhich was the m ostpotent factor , the easy scholarship which m arkedhis work throughout , the swift vivid im pressions which he set forthin the clearest and m ost vigorous word pa inting , or the genial fr iendship which characterised the whole of h is too short career .

Students of Frenc11 historywill derive much pleasure fromMr. I. de Saint-Am and ’s LouisNap oleon and M ademoiselle de

Al ontij o. It recounts Napoleon ’ schildhood

,and goes over the

v arious p olitical m ovem entswhich . agitated France while hewas grewing up .

,Itpicturesque

ly narrat

ps the ir

fi

c idents of hisunsuccess ul stre es for ower

M" A ’ W . M arc hm'

ont.

at Strasburg and Boulbgne,followshim through his captivi ty

in the fort of Ham, and tells of h is final triumph and coup d

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etat.

The picture given of the luxurious court li fe at Compiegne has apeculiarly historical value , as the author was him self a spectator of thescenes enacted there . His recor'd '

of Mdlle .‘

de Montij o ’s chi ldhoodand m aidenhood is of enthralling interest . Itm ay be pronounced them ost sympathetic episode in a narrati ve of unflagging charm .

it

Mr. Edwin Glasgow , M .A . (Victoria ) , son of R. J . Glasgow , Esq .,

J .P. an old and esteem ed resident of this Borough , has recently i ssuedthrough M essrs . Methuen Co.

,a charm ing seri es of d rawings of

W adham College , Oxford . Thanks to the courtesy of the publishers,and the kind perm i ssion of the author , we are enabled to . reproduce

one of these picturesque sketches i n our presentnum ber .

W e are indebted to thecourtesy of M ess rs . HutchinsonCo. for the portrait of Mr. A .

W .

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M archm ont , the weaver ofthrill ing rom ances . His By Rightof Sword , which occurs in ourl ist of recentaddi t ions, i s full ofint-crest and excitem ent fromthefi rst page to the last

,and it

di splays a wealth of i nv entionwhich does the greatest credi tto its author ’s ski ll .

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Tec h n ic al S c hool Notes

The exam i nations in Sci ence and Art whi ch have just been concluded were not quite so well attended as in 1899 , the total ofindi vidual papers worked being about 380, nearly 40 less than lastyear . Som e of our form er students entered the exam inat ions and tooka large number of papers in competiti on for national scholarships ,these of course are notreckoned in the figures stated above but anysuccess they may attain wi ll be largely due to their earlier training inthe Bootle Techn ical School .

The New Technical School Building i s to be opened by LordDerby

,in Septem ber . The Comm ittee are earnestly considering plans

for the extension of the even i ng school work , and for the establi shm entof a day Interm ediate S chool for boys from 12 years of age who canenter for a three years ’ course of thorough - going educati on of them odern type . A School of A rt with a thoroughly expert A rtMasteri s also to be established

,and both day and even ing classes wi ll be

held .

The Interm ediate School will have the advantage of the finestlaboratories

,shortof Universi ty rank , i n the neighbourhood of Liverpool

,both for Chem istry and Physi cs

, the latter subj ect includingE lectricity , Mechan ics , Optics , A cousti cs , &c . In these laboratorieseach boy who enters the School wi ll recei ve a thorough grounding inexperim ental science , a fine basis for a super - structure in after yearsof techni cal and trade knowledge .

it

A VVoed -work Shop and an Engineering W orkshop will also beavai lable for m anual instruction , the latter, however ,will probably onlybe used , so far as the day school i s concerned , by boys of 15 or 16 inthei r thi rd year’s work .

The third year ’ s work will probably be speciali sed in twodi recti ons , one group of boys intended for higher industrial pursuitstaking an engineering or building course ; and another intended forcomm ercial life , taking a course including book -keeping , businessm ethod , comm ercial history , 810.


Through the S chool a broad stream of li terary culture wi ll beturned

,and this wi ll be possible by excluding the classical languages

,

Lati n and Greek , which , however excellent i n them selves and as

train ing for professional li fe , as a preparation for comm ercial andindustrial l ife are inferior to these Sci ences which develop powersof accurate observation , and the reason ing and inventi ve faculti es .At least one foreign language will be taught, and d rawing wi l l be donei n the A rtSchool by al l the‘ boys of the Interm ediate School .

Ségg

rié

It 1s hoped to start thi s departm ent of the Munic ipal Techn i calSc hool in Janua1y next. A m oderate fee wi ll p 1obably be adopted forBootle residents . Many p a1 e11ts will doubtless await furtherdevelopm ents with i nte1 est .

Re p ort on E xam ination for Re id” Pri z e .

I have much pleasure in forwarding herewith results of theExam ination , th e fol lowing being the m arks obtained by the threecandidates—m aximum 120

Leev ers,F. W .

Barclay,W .

Bell, J . A .

The successful candidate has done a m ost creditable paper and 1s inevery way wo1thy of the prize .

In th e case of the other two candidates , although they haveobtained com parati vely low m arks , it i s pleasing to note that in thequestion s they have attem pted they have shown a very good knowledgeof the subject . Tak ing into acc ountthe fact that yon have nota specialclass l n Graph i c Statics the resultm ust be regarded as v e1y satisfacto1y

J . WEMYSS ANDERSON,

M .I.M ech E .

Notice to ®ur 1Reaoers

Th e Bootle Free Li brary , M us eum

and Tec h n ic a l S c h ool Journa l

is new issued under. the jointeditorsh ip of Mr. JNO . J.

OGLE , and Mr. CHAS . H . HUNT . The form er treats of

m atters ap p ertain ing to the Mun ic ip al Techn ical

S chool and the develop m entof technical and secondaryeducation in the Borough , and the latter deals with

the work of the Free L ibrary andMuseum .


A Crosby Nove l ist

M . E . FRANCIS (M rs. Blundell )

The collection of simple and pathetic tales which introduced M .

E . Francis ” to the publi c as a writer of fiction,had no difficulty in

finding their way to the hearts of their readers and when the bookreached the North Countree folk , they were not slow to discoverthat they had had “ a chiel among them who had taken notes , and

prented them . ButM . E . Francis had nothing to fear when heri dentity becam e known in secluded Crosby —the Thornleigh of herbook . She had written about a place and people whom she i ntim atelyknew ; but in a m anner so sweet and hum an , that it seem ed as if shehad paid a gracious complim ent to both when she selected them fordelineati on .

One or two of the tales which appeared originally in Longman’s,

attracted the attention of readers of that m agazine , and when thevolum e containing the collection of twelve tales was brought out in1893 , by Osgood M cIlvaine Co.

,i t was cordially received by the

public , and favourably noticed by the press ; but i t would indeed havelefta stigm a upon the taste of Engli sh readers i f these idy l li c sketchesof a secluded sp ot i n theNorth Country had been allowed to perish atthei r birth .In reply to my question , “ And where exactly i s the North

Country village ? ” Mrs. Francis saidThornleigh stands for Crosby , and I m ight w ith truth call i t .an

oasis in the m idst. of a great comm ercial desert, were it not that desertdoes not apply to a huge industrial comm unity . Crosby is a quietsp ot lying between Li verpool and Southport, and so untouched is i t bythe turm oil of the outer world

,that you feel as i f a hundred m i les

separated you from the m ainsprings of acti ve li fe , ifnotfrom civi li sationitself. ”

From a very early period i n my acquaintance , Mrs. Franciscontinued , “ I longed to write about it, as i t seem ed -to m e that thel ittle communi ty of its inhabi tants was essentially original . The peoplekeptu p many quaint old custom s , and they are , not apparently , butabsolutely , unconscious of the din of the struggle for existence going onj ustoutside thei r bounds .Had you always l iv ed in the country ? ” I asked .

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Not i n England ; my hom e was i n Ireland before my m arriage,and com ing as I did to Cro’sby from a place where the relations of

landlord and tenanthad becom e strained almost to breaking poi nt, Iwas much struck by the absolute and whole - hearted devoti on of thepeople of C rosby to thei r Squ i re and it was never m ore forciblyshown than at the tim e of his death . A lthough he did not die in thei rm idst

,every m an

,woman and chi ld m ourned for h im as though h e

were thei r own kin . and when he was brought hom e the m en of theplace would willingly , had it been possible , hav e carried h im to h isresting place in th e ehurc hyarr

I suppose Crosby has been honoured by the presence of thetouri st since its identity with Thornleigh becam e known ‘7

Yes ; a few pi lgrim s cycle over from L iverpool or Southportnew and then butI fear , ” M rs. Francis added , laughing . that them aj ority of the vi sitors look upon the place as overrated , as there isnot an alehouse to be found in my North Country vi llage I

Then we m ay supposethat thirsty sightseers regard your Fi rstSuccess as a fraud 3”

I am su re that i s so butI think even the thi rsty cycli st wouldrelent i n favour of C rosby , i f not of m y book , i f he could see the wayi n wh ich som e very old custom s are kept up in the village . The

peculi ar rites of Mothering —or M id -LentSunday— have never beenallowed to die out.

1 Bank Holidays are called Neighbou ring Days . ’The m en go to wo rk as usual , but the wom en congregate together totalk and watch the v i si tors who drive through the v i llage to visit thepublic houses further on .

A S c ene in“A North Country Vi l lag e .

(Rep roduced by kind p erm iss ion of the p ubl ishers , Messrs . Harp er (f: Brothers. )

BOOTLE FRE E LIBRARY

and I have not exaggerated in th e very least the beauty and simpli cityof his character , or his influence over his people and the great lovethey bore h im .

”

And the v illage itself i s , no doubt, as faithfully described inthat fi rst chapter as the good canon .

”

Yes,it is an exactpicture of the place . I can see i t n'

ow 011 a

hot day in summ e r , when it's ram bling street is quite deserted

,and the

inhabitants apparently asleep,but i n real ity busy at what they call

thei r Mate . ’Oh , I rem em ber , I said , about the fine odour of bacon in the

Yes itwas always bacon i n Crosby , when it wasn ’t toad - in - thehole ’ or Iri sh stew .

And new about the reception of the book outside its birthplace,

I said . Itwas very popular and well revi ewed was it notVery well i ndeed . I hoped that i t would be liked butIwas

notprepared for the great prai se that was lav i shed upon it. I neednot say that Iwas both grateful and delighted and when THE LADY ’SPl eToRIAL called m e th e Engli sh Mary W i lk ins , ’ I feltthat I m ightventure to sti ck a feather i n my cap .”

An i l lustrated edition of A North Country Village waspublished in 1897 , and we are able to reproduce one of the delicateand graceful original sketches by whi ch the charm i s

,to m any readers

,so m uch enhanced . The artist i s a young Am erican—Mr. Felloes bynam e .

It would be impossible for any one,except perhaps for an

unswerving champion of the decadent school,not to adm i re and to

acknowledge the simplicity and beauty of “ Tales of a North CountryVillage but the power to impart those qualiti es to her work is notthe sole l iterary equipm ent of thei r author . W e may add to i t i nsightinto character

,dramati c power

,and that strong sense ofhumourwithout

which all her other gifts,great as they are

,would have rendered

fruitless her efforts to produce a perfect picture of old -world v i llagel ife .

M . E . Franci s , who has of late becom e .known to the readingworld as M rs. Franci s Blundell

, was selected for the honour of contri buting the first serial published by the Times i n its weekly edition .Itwas her A Daughter of th e Soi l ” which had this unique distinction ,and the serial which followed in due course

, The Light of Scarthey ,

”

was from the bri lli ant and refined pen of her brother - in - law,Mr.

Egerton Castle , whose exquisi te rom ance , “ Young Apri l ,” i s one ofthe m ost popular novels i n ci rculati on this season .

The Times, wri ting of “ A North Count ry Village in 1895 ,said .

W ould thatthese p ictures of rustic life could h ave been i llustrated by the p enc ilof a Randolp h Caldecott.

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And there is no doubt that he would have caught and chained in h isin im itable sketches , the hum orous spi ritwhich ins p i red her pen when ,for instance , she descr ibed for us the aberations o

'

f The Gi lly f ’ers . ”My readei s w i ll not obj ect to be rem inded of old Jack Rutherford ,“ Gi lly f’ei Jack ,” as he was called , by the following short extract .The passage bi 1ms over with quiet li uni our.

Wh en Jack was notdig ing a grave for anybody or ringing th e church bel l or

cutting wall flowers . h e earned h is l iving by m ending the roads . That is to say in

summ er he swep tu p th e dust, and m wio

nter he scoop ed the water out of the p uddles"

91 1th h is shovel , and som etimes h e found an old shoe or two, or a brim less hat,wh i ch cam e in h andy for fill ing u p the ruts ; or if he chan ced u p on a very bad p lace,

h e scratched u p a few stones outof a more level p ortion , and laid th em in th e deep est

holes . TheThornh i ll p eop le did notlike p aying rates , and Jack never had anyth ingto mend the roads with ; therefore the Local Board thought he did verywell as itwas. And so did Jack h im self , and th e squire (who was c hairm an ) laughed when hefound h im self nearly bounced outof hi s dog - cart, and said itwas good for the l iverto be jolted a bit.

In reply to a query , M . E. Francis replied that nearlyal l her taleshave a slight foundation in fact ; and that

,i n comm on with the

m aj ority of her contemporary noveli sts,she has the m ai n p lot of herstories clear i n her head before she begins to write . Personally

,she

prefers writing long stories to short tales for magazines , but she writesthe latter with greater ease

,and finds it less difficult to keep the

evolution of the plot with in bounds . Iti s scarcely necessary to m entionthat the first success of a writer as sympathetic as the author of A

North Country Village was followed by m any others,and it i s quite

possible that her recently - publi shed novel,

Yeom an Fleetwood,

”

will one day be dram ati sed by one or othe r of our clever play -wrights ,although i n power and pathos i t scarcely reaches the high levelattained by Tales of a North Country Village . ”

(Rep rinted by kind p erm ission of the Lady’sHam-ML” )

W ORKS IN THE LIBRARY BY“ M . E . FRANCIS .

Among the untroddenA Daughter of the soi lThe Duenna of a GeniusIn a North Country Vi l lageMaim e o ’ the CornerM iss E rinThe Story of DanYeom an Flectwoocl


M US EUM

REPORT ON THE AWARD or s Es FOR SCHO OL CHILDREN.

W E beg to reporton the si xteen papers subm i tted to our judgm entfor the award of pri zes in accordance with the schem es of M useumPrizes for Elem entary S chool S cholars , thatwhile the papers reach agood level of power of expressing thought, without se rious errors ofgrammar , none of them exhibit signs of a clear apprehension of thei rsubj ects from a careful observation of the m aterials prov ided in theM useum ; on the other hand patience and indust ry and a desi re tolearn are m ost apparent i n all those to which we would award prizes .

Teachers should gi ve thei r attention rather to exciting curiosityand the power of describi ng obj ects seen in the fields

,m enageri es o r

m useum s , rather than to the producti on of an epitom e of a wide subj ectin weak im itation of text - book m ethods .

The following is our classificati on of the papers sent inEx cellent M afeking

,Mary Moncur , Chri st Church .

Kim berley , ” A nn ie Hughes , Christ Church .Very Good Ladysm i th Ethel Griffi ths , Christ Church .

Calpurnia , Ann ie Noel , Gray Street .W e recomm end that these have prizes .

Good Portia,Laura W i l liam s , Gray Street .

Epsi lon A rnold “7 i ll iam s Bedford Road .

Zeta , Charles Freem an , Bedford Road .W e recomm end thatthese have 5/prizes .

The remainder we classVery fa ir M i lli cent Xi

,

” Hope,

”Bobs .

Om ega, (butonly on account of the Sketches ) .Faith .

Proserpina,

” “ Call iope , ” M inerva .

J . J. MACK ,

W . N. CLEMMEY , Adjudicators .

JOHN J . OGLE ,

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Gl im p ses of the Potter’ s Art in Early Liverp ool

Itwould , perhaps , scarcely be expected that in such a busy placeof enterprise and comm ercial activ ity as Liverpool , we should successfully look for th e full and perfect accomplishment of so quiet , sopeaceful

,and so subtle an artas that of the Potter. Butthus it is

and L i verpool has not been behindhand with its m ore in land neighboursin the m anufacture of deli cate porcelain , and of pottery of the mostfragile nature . It i s not improbable that in m ediaeval times the coarseware of the period was m ade on the banks of the Mersey .

The first m ention of pottery , however, occurs in 1674 , when thefollowing item s appear in the list of town dues

For every cart - load of muggs (sh ipped ) into foreign ports , 6d.

For every cart- load of m uggs along the coast, 4d.

For every crate of cupps or pipes into foreign ports , 2d.

For every crate of cupps o r pipes along the coast , 1d.

”

The earliest pot -works of whi ch there i s any reliable inform ationappears to have been that of-A lderm an Shaw , s ituate atShaw ‘s Brow .

Here the works were establi shed , and here in after years they increased ,until the whole Brow becam e one m ass of potter’ s banks, with housesfor the workm en 011 both sides of the st reet and so num erous werethey that, according to the census taken in 1700, there were as manyas seventy - four houses

,occupied by four hundred and thirty - seven

persons , the whole of whom were connected with the potteries . At

these works , Richard Chaffers , to whom honour i s due for the advanceshe m ade in the m anufacture of porcelain,was apprenticed to Shaw ,

and on the Brow he established his own Manufactory .At Shaw ’s works was m ost probably m ade the earli est - known

dated example of L i verpool Delft-ware,a large flat oblong - square

plaque , which represents the vi llage of GreatCrosby as seen from theM ersey , and bears the nam e and date , “ A W est Prospect of GreatC rosby , A 11 interesting m atter in connection with the Delftware works at Shaw ’ s Brow i s th e factof a number of broken vesselsbeing discovered on its site during excavations for building the FreeL ibrary and Museum , i n 1857 . On that occasion an old slip - vatwasfound containing clay , which m i ght probably have been prepared asearly as 1680.

The credit of the i ntroduction of printing on earthenware belongsto a lsc al engraver . In Moss ’s Li verp ool Guide, published in 1790, i t i sstate

Copperplate printing upon china and earthenware originatedhere 111 l 752, and rem a i ned som e tim e a secretwith the i nventors ,Messrs . Sadler Green . ”John Sadler was the son of Adam Sadler

,a favouri te soldier of

the GreatDuke of Marlborough , and was outwith thatGeneral in the\Var of the Low Countries . Whi le there be lodged in the house of a


printer , and thus obtained an insight into the art of printing . Onreturning to England , on the accession of George I, he left the A rmyand reti red to Ulverstone , “where he m arried a M i ss Bi bby

,who

num bered am ong her acquaintance the daughters of the Earl of Sefton .

Through thei r influence he rem oved to M elling ,and afterwards leased

a house atA i ntree . The taste he had acqui red in th e Low Countriesabiding with h im

,he shortly afterwards , however , rem oved to theNew

Market, Liverpool, where he printed a large num ber of books .His son John , having learned the art of engrav ing , 011 the term in

ation of h is apprenticesh ip boughta house from his father in Harring ~ton Street, where , i n 1 748 , he comm en ced business on his own account.

Mr. Mayor thus tells the story of his discoverySadler had been in the habitof giv ing waste and spoiled im pressions

from his engraved plates to ch i ldren , and these they frequently stuckupon pieces of broken p ot from the p ot-works , for thei r own amusem ent. Thi s gave h im the idea of deco rating pottery with printedpictures , and , keeping the idea secret , he m ade m any experim ents , andult im ately explained his v iews to Guy Green , who had then recentlysucceeded Adam Sadler in his business ; and the two having “ laidthei r heads together

,

” conducted j oint experim ent-s and eventuallyentered into partnership , with a determ ination to take out a patent,which

,however

,under the advice of fri ends

, was not done .The artwas fi rst of all turned to good account i irthe decoration ofDutch Ti les , ” and in som e affidavits form erly possessed by Mr.

Mayor, they m ake oath thaton Tuesday , the 27th day of Julythey

,without the aid or assistance of any other person or persons

,did with in the space of si x upwards of twelve hundredearthenware ti les of different patterns , at Liverp oole aforesaid , andwhich , as these deponents have heard and believe , were m ore i n numberand better and neater than one hundred sk ilful pot - painters could havepainted in the l ike space of tim e in the com m on and usual way of'

painting with a penci l ; and these deponents say they have beenupwards of seven years in finding out the m ethod of printing tiles

,

and i n making tryals and experim ents for that purpose,whi ch they

have now through great pains and ex p euc e brought to perfecti onJ011 11 Sadle r , Guy Green . Taken and sworn at 2nd

day of A ugust,

A lderm an Thom as Shaw and Sam uel Gi lbody ,

c ertifye to the correctness of these facts .The partners aforenam ed soon found thei r process to be as

appli cable to servi ces and other descripti ons of goods as to tiles , andthey produced m any fine exam ples . JosiahW edgwood at fi rstopposedthe i ntroduction of thi s invention , as being , in h is opin ion , anunsati sfactory and unprofitable substitute for painti ng , but eventuallyhe determ ined to adopt the new sty le of ornam entati on , and arrangedwith the i nventors accordingly. The undertak ing was a troublesom eone

,and i n the then state of the roads the commun ication between

Burslem and Live rpool was one of great” d ifficulty . W edgwood ,however

,overcam e i t . The goods were packed in waggons and carts ,

and ev en in the pannie rs of pack - horses , and sent to; Li verpool , andwere afterwards returned to Staffordshi re ‘ by the “ sam e . k ind ofconv eyance .

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From the date of his comm encing business for him selfW edgwood was i n the habi t of m aking frequent v isits to Li verpool,always riding there on horseback and sleeping a night on the road ,

either atKnutsford or W arrington . Many necessary duties drew himthere . He had cargoes of clay to see after ; he had to purchasecobalt, hire workm en , and arrange his exportbusiness . Further

,he

had to settle m any details with M essrs . Sadler Green , as to thedecoration of his own m ostbeautiful productions in cream -ware . Yet

beyond this business relation with m erchants and others he seem s tohave been at fi rst an enti re stranger in the town ; settl ing whatconcerned h im as expeditiously as possible , and then returning on hi shom eward journey to hi s own work - room s , wherein he was becom ingso potent a m aster .

Sti ll , Li verpool as it was then—a p leasant country town ,with

fields and gorse - clad uplands lying round it with enough of its O ldPool rem ai ning with foot - bridges and by -paths to gi ve a touch of therom anti c ; with its streets , though com parati vely few in num ber

,filled with a busy and exceedingly thrivi ng population ; with itsnoble ri ver

,and its lovely seaward v iews—m usthave form ed a whole

most refreshing for h im to m ove am ongst, after the comparati veseclusion and dulness of the pottery v illag es .

The futu re great seaport covered then a sm all area. For som eyears after W edgwood ’s v i sits thereto itonly extended on the northa few yards beyond St. Paul ’ s Church ; on the west the M erseywashed its banks

,and on its m argin were three docks— The Dry Pier ,the O ld Dock , and the South Dock . The town on the south extended

to the W esleyan Chapel in PittStreet parallel to the road to ToxtethPark,which was bounded by hedges . VVestenholm Square was a

suburb ; and also the Ranelagh Gardens , on the site of the presentAdelphi Hotel

,which was the boundary in that di rection . The

Infi rm ary . 011 the site of St. George ’ s Hall , was out of town . Atthefoot of Shaw ’s Brow , comm enced Town ’ s End Lane

,now Byrom

Street , from which at the end of a few fields a road branched off toEverton , and on the opposite s ide another to Tithebarn Street , whichwas only partially built up on the north side . Here was St. Paul ’sChurch again , and the ci rcuitwas complete .Prior to 1760 there did not exi st a road decently fit for wheel

carriages nearer than W arrington . Person s v isiting the m etropoli shad to ride on horseback to VVarringt-ou ,

and thence take the stagewhi ch had been setu p i n 1757 . But from 1760 improvem ent began ;and in 1766 two coaches went di rectfrom Li verpool to London .

The town was then,as now

,principally dependent upon its

shipping and comm erce not,however

,so extensively as atthe present

tim e . Many of the inhabitants were persons of independent m eans,

who had probably selected itas thei r place of abode by reason of itspleasant rural site and contigui ty to the sea . Thus the proportion ofrespectable houses was m uch greater than at present. The m erchanthad usually h is establishm ent com plete on the spot where he resided

,and to this was generally attached a garden . There was a weeklynewspaper the nucleus of a public li brary

,which in th is day has theproud di stinction of being the fi rst publi c ci rculat ing library established


not only in Eng land but in Europe . There were bowling - greens,good inns , a theatre , and a public garden . Li verpool had also two

publi c walks of great beauty . That to the north,called the Ladies ’

W' alk

,possessed an avenue of stately trees

,and comm anded a fine V iew

seaward . There was considerable hospitality,m uch social k indness

,and neighbourly intercourse . Occasionally there was a comm otion inthe town when a press gang m ade its appearance

,a privateer was

reported , or an election 011 hand but otherwise the dai ly li fe of itsinhabitants seem s , from all which has been handed down to us , v e ryenj oyable

,p icturesque , and simple .

Sam uel Derri ck , Master of the Cerem onies , at Bath , i n h is Lettersto the Earl of Cor/c (176 7 ) has recorded for our benefit that m any of theladies were well dressed and well . bred

,but h is Opin ion i s som ewhat

less fav ourable as to the capacity and literary attainm ents of thegentlem en . Though few of the m erchants

,he says

,have had m ore

educati on than befits a counting -house , they are genteel i n thei raddress . They are hospitable , v ery friendly to strangers , ev en thoseof whom they have the least knowledge . Thei r tables are plenteouslyfurnished , and their v iands well served up . Thei r rum i s excellent

,of which they consum e large quantities i n punch , m ade when theW est India fleets com e in , m ostly with lim es which are v ery cooling ,and afford a del ic ious flavour . But they pique them selves greatly onthei r ale , of which alm ost every house brews a suffi ciency for i ts ownuse ; and such is the unanim ity prevail ing am ongst them ,

that i f byaccident one man ’s stock runs short he sends his p itcher to hisneighbour to be fi lled . ”

In spit-e of Derri ck ’ s opinion there were at that date m erchantsand profess ional m en capable of a far higher degree of m ental exerti onthan would be necessary to keep a ledger , write a bill of lading, orpass judgm ent on ale or punch .

It was at Liv erpool that W edgwood encountered,in 1762 , hi s

fri end and future partner— Thom as Bentley , m erchant . Fri endshipi s hardly the word for the zeal

,kindliness

,truth

,unselfishness ,

i nflexible justice , with which one served the other . At Bentley ’ sresidence in Paradise Street , a centre of considerable i ntellectualacti vity , W edgwood m et Dr. Priestley

, Seddon , Dr . A ik in , theHeywoods,

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the I’erc ivals John and Charles Eyes— the form er anattorney to whom at a subsequent date the i llustrious Roscoe wasarti cled , the latter an architect and surveyor who, with the -Messrs .Taylor , of Manchester , had made the survey of the Trent and M erseyCanal i n 1755 , at th e expense of the L i verpool Corporation—Cadd ickand Chubbard , who were both well - known portraitpainters , JosephDeare (uncle of the afterwards celebrated John Deare the sculptor ) ,Pennington , Burdett , and other arti sts and engravers .

The history of the Ceram ic A rt i n Li ver p ool i s a subj ect of nom ean interest, and would furn ish the them e for sev eral inform ingarticles .

Readers who m ay desi re to further pursue this fascinating topicare referred to Jewitt’s Ceram ic A rtof GreatBritain , and M eteyard ’ sL ife of Josiah Wedgwood ,

copies of which are contained in t heReference Departm ent of the Li brary .

CHAS . H . HUNT.


Cholmondeley (M . ) Diana Tem pestChurchi ll (W . S . ) Sav rola

itCouc h (A . T. Qui ller Q.

” Histori cal tales from ShakespeareCoutts (T. ) A com edy of temptation

’

99

Recollections of JohannesDawson (W . J . ) The m ak ers of m odern prose .Dietrich (A . ) and VVidm ann

‘

JJ . V . )Brahm s . ’

99

Dolbear (A . E . ) Matter, E ther and M ot ion .

’99

Drumm ond (H . ) The New E vangel ism and other papers . ’99

Dunne (F. P. ) Mr. Dooley in the hearts of hi s countrym en . 1900

Edwards (M . Betham Anglo -French rem ini scences 1875 -99 .

1900Edwards (T. C . ) Tt od-Man (DaviesLecture , ’

95

E ll icott (C . J . ) Ed . The New Testam entComm entary . 12V .

St. Matth ew E . H . Plum p tre 15260 Th essalonians A . J . Mason

122110

12391

12405

12392

10222

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13402

15255

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1567715257

15268

15269

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St. Mark E . H . Plum p tre 1 5261 Tim othy H . D . M . S p ence 15268

St. Luke E . H . Plum p tre 15262 Titus H . D . M . S p ence 15269

St. John H . W . W atkins 15263 Ph i lemon A BanrryA cts E . H . Plum p tre 15264 Hebrews W . F. Moulton

Rom ans W . Sanday 15265 St. Jam es E G Punchard

1 Corinthians T. T . Shore 15266 1 St. Peter A . J . Mason

2 Corinth ians E . H . Plum p tre 15266 2 St Peter A Plumm er

Galatians W . Sanday 15267 St. John W M . S in c lair

E p h esians A Barry 15267 St. Jude A . Plumm er

Ph i lip p ians A . Barry 15267 Revelation W . B . Carp enter 15271

Colossians A . Barry 15268

E lworthy (F. T. ) The E vi l Eye, an account of thi s ancientand widespread superstition .

’

95

Em erson (P . H . ) Natural ist i c Photography . ’99

Fidler (T. C . ) A practi cal treatise on bridge - constructioni fFitch ett (W . H . ) How England saved Europe , the story ofthe Great War (1793 - 18 15) 4v . 1899 - 1900

1 . From the Low Countries to E gyp t 3 .

2. The Struggle/for the S ea . 4. lVaterloo and St. Helena .

Flem i ng (J . A . ) E lectri c Lam ps and E lectri c Light ing. ’99

[Foulkes L lyfrbryf . John Cei r iog Hughes. ’87

Fowler (E . T. ) The Farringdons

Garratt (H. A . )Gasquet F. A . )

The M odern Safety B i cycle . ’

99

The E v e of the Reform ation . 1900”

Gingold (H . ) l lIrs. L . Cowen . The Ch ill ingfield Chron ic lesGleig (C. ) Bunter ’s C i uiseGluck (C . W . ) A lceste . (0p era )Gordon (M rs. The Li fe and Correspondence of W i lliam

Buc kland .

’94

dould (S . Baring Furze BloomGras (F. ) The White TerrorGray (Maxwell )” M . G. Tuttiet.

other talesThe

.

W orld ’ s Mercy and

The W'

ar in the Peninsular.

13785

15662

12394


*Habberton (J Helen ’ s BabiesHarper ’s Magazine . ’

99

Heaviside (O . ) E lectrom agnetic Theory . 2v . 1893 - 99

Heddle (E . T. ) Marget atthe ManseHeilp rin (A . ) A laska and the Klondyke . ’

99

Hobson (J. A . ) The W ar i n South Afri ca , its causes andeffects . 1900 15681

Idler . 1899 - 1900

Institute of Bankers . Questi ons on Banking Practice . ’

98

Jerrold (W . ) Sir Redvers H . Buller , V .C . 1900

Johnston (M . ) By order of the Company

King (B . ) A History of Italian Un ity , 18 14 - 71 . 2v .

’99

Ki rk (R. C . ) Twelve m onths in Klondike . ’99

Lang (A . ) S ee MasonLeland (C . G. ) and Ward (H . S . ) Ed . Useful A rts andHandicrafts . Vol . 1 . 1900 13795

Design and Drawing , C . G . Leland . W ood Carving , C . G. Leland . Th e

tools , the wood, and the working , Jack Plane.

” Pi cture frames ,‘

C . G. Leland

and T. Bolas. Dyes , stains, inks , etc , T Bolas. D ecorated wood-work , C . G .

Leland and C . E . Dawson . Gouge—work , C . G. Leland and F. C . Lambert.Wood- engrav ing and p lacard

- cutting , C . G. Leland and T . Bolas. Bent iron or

stri p work , G. Day and C . G. Leland . Pyrograp hy and wood roasting , T. Bolas

and C . G. Leland . Stained and leaded g lass , W . T. W h iteh ead . Artific ial wood,0. G. L eland and F. C . Lambert. Marquetry , C . J . Lock . Venetian Marquetry,C. G. L eland . Chur ch Decoration (p ermanent) , W . T. Wh itehead .

Lodge (0. J . ) S ignalling across space without wires . N.D . 13793

MacDonald (W . Ed . Select charters i llustrativ e of Am ericanHistory

,1606 - 1775 .

’99

Mahon (A . T. ) Lessons of the W ar withSpain . 1900

Manning (H . E . ) The Teaching of Chri st , sermons from theAnglican writings . N.D .

Marchmont (A . W . ) By right of Sword .

Marcou (J. ) Li fe , Letters and Works of Loui s Agassiz . 2v .

’96

Marr (J . E . ) Th e Scientific study of Scenery . 1900

Marshall (A . ) Peter B inney , UndergraduateMason and Lang (A . ) Parson KellyMasson (D. ) Chatterton ’

99

Masson (R . ) The TransgressorsMatheson (G. 1 Studies of the Portrait of Chri st.

’99

Moore (A . ) The Gay DeceiversMorgan (W Trans. The Book of Job [a reprint of Llyvyr

Job,

’88 15258


Pall Mall Magazine . ’

99

Peard (F. M . ) Donna TeresaPlum er (L ieut. Col . 11 . A I1 Ii reg11lar Corp s 111 Matabeleland ’99Poulton (E . B . ) Charles Darwin and Natu1 al Selection . ’

96

Ramsay (W . ) The Gases of the A tm osphere . ’

96

Ri chardson (S i r B W . )‘

B i ological Experim ent 1tion ’96

Ripper (W . ) Steam engine theory and practi ce .Romanes (G.J . ) Darwin and after Darwin , an exposition Of

the Darwinian Theory . 3v . 1895 97

E ssays . Ed . C . L. Morgan . ’97

Ruskin (J 011 the old road ,m i scellaneous essays . 3v .

’

99

Praeterita,outl ines of scenes and thoughts in my pastli fe . 35V .

’

99

de Saint -Amand (I. )Monti j o . ’

95

“ St. A ubyn (A . )other stori es

Sergeant (A . ) A Ri s e i n the W orldS im s (G. R . ) In London ’ s Heart .

Sm ith (G. ) The United Kingdom a politi cal history . 2v .

’99

Louis Napoleon and Mademoiselle de

Frances Ill d rshd ll . The Loyal Hussar and

Spenser Anthology . 1548 1591. A .D . Ed . E . A rber . 2v .

’99

Steev ens (G. W . ) From Capetown to Ladysm ith . 1900

M onologues of the Dead .

’96

Sutherland (M . ) One hour and the nex t

Trevelyan (S ir G. O . ) Th e Am erican Revolution . Pt. 1 .

’

99 .

In Tune with the Infinite .1766 - 1776 .

Trine (R . W 1900

Valentine (E . S . ) Veldt and Laager'

:

Vandam (A . D . ) A CourtTragedyVan Dyke (H . ) The Gospel for an age of doubt .

tales of the Transvaal

VVeekes (A . B . ) Prisone i s of W ar

W hitby (B. Bequeath .edW hiting (L . A study of E l izabeth Bari ett Brown i ng.

W i ll iam s (E . ) Poem s , lyri c andW i lliam son (C . N. ) The adventu re of Princess Sylv iaW i lmot (Cap t. S . Eardley OurNavy for a thousand years . ’

99

W oodward (C . J . ) Crystallography for beginners . 96

Younghusband (Cap t. F. ) South A frica of To- day . ’

99

14963

12398

15659

10163

10156

10164

12408

12403

15250

12416

12418

10165

1 1426

124 12

15679

13401

15657

Boot l e Free L i brary Museum and

Techn i ca l School Journal

Vol . II—No. 11 SEPTEMBER.

Notes on Books , New and O ld

OVERS of nature who are , at the sam e tim e , lovers of books , willfind much to appreciate in Mr. W . H . Hudson ’s Nature in Down

land . This i s t ruly a book on the country in itthe Sussex Downsare described by one whose love for nature i s deep and of long standing .He discourses affectionately of those breezy hi lls , of the i nstincti vedelight he has in wi ld nature and a Wide prospect.

Burma ,published under the j oint authorship of Mr. and M rs .

Ferrars, i s a real and substantial addition to ou r knowledge of thatterritory. Detailed accounts are given of Bu rm ese fam i ly life , themonasti c course , religious m atters , architecture , arts and crafts , riceculti vati on , forestry water - carriage , and festivals . The book i sliberally and beauti fully i llustrated with photographs .

In Vl eW of what i s tak ing place at the present tim e in the FarEast , Mr. R . C . Cobbold

’

s InnermostAsia i s an exceedingly opportune,as well as an extrem ely interesting volum e . In the course of h is

travels the author visited a considerable stretch of country which hadnever before been seen by an Englishman , and he is the onlyEuropean

,other than Russian

,who has traversed the Oxus in the

region of Roshan and Shignan .

Mr. S . J; W eyman is one of the m ost successful of the group ofwriters who have gi ven a new populari ty to the histori cal novel . Hislatest story Sep hia presents a picture of both town and country li fe inthe days of George II.

,nearly all of the characters being m em bers of

the Society of that period .

Students of Engli sh Hi story have reason to be grateful to Dr.J. Mackinnon for the labour and research which he has expended soungrudgingly and wi th such valuable results , on The History ofEdward the Third . As a new study of an im portantperiod , a studyenti rely based on contemporary chronicles and docum ents , the work i sof greatand abiding value .


H ighways and Byways in Normandy , by the Rev . P. Dearmer,is

a charm ing b00k . The author i s a student of architecture and churchornam ent

,and since the m ai n obj ect of travel in Normandy is to see

churches , cathedrals and castles , no one will quarrel with h im for

hav ing m ade the architectural interest predom inate in his work . The

i llustrations by Mr. J.

‘Pennell are adm i rable .t

a:

Mrs.

‘

Meynell’s John Ruskin i s a useful interpretati on of the

Professor ’s various works . Probably no one has ever done m ore to foste rthe love of the beauti ful in artthan the venerable sage who so recentlypassed away and the expository treatise above -nam ed should greatlyassist students and lovers of hi s writings in thei r endeav our to graspthe true significati on of hi s m asterly critici sm s .

Thanks to the courtesy ofM essrs . Macm i llan Co. we are

enabled to present our readerswith a portrait of the lateMary Kingsley , author andtraveller . Som e years ago thisintrepid lady went to W estA frica with a comm i ssion fromthe Briti sh Museum to studyfresh -water fishes . Her bookentitled Travels in WestAfricawas the outcom e of thi s . A

late r work entitled WestAfrican Studies added to he rreputati on , and showed thatshe had fam i liarised hersel fwith the problem s of W estAfri can Governm ent . Bothbooks are in the Library . M issKingsley di ed at S imon ’sTown ,where sh e was nursing the

wounded Boer pri soners .M iss Mary King s ley

The best of recently - added fiction i s catalogued under the following nam es —G. A llen

,G. Boothby

, A . and E . Castle , R. W . Chambers ,S . C rane , S . R . C rockett , A . C . Doyle

,H . E . Dudeney ,

T. Gallon ,

S . C . Gri er , H . R. Haggard,J . Hoc k ing , Iota , ” A . McAulay ,

R.

Macdonald,H . C . Mael lwaine, H . Mathers , F. F. Moore

,Rita ,” M .

Roberts,H . B . M . W atson , B . W hitby , and P . W hite .

The following publi cations of the Cycl ists ’ Touring C lub now finda place on the Li brary shelves z—Handbook and Guide (Bri ti sh andIrish ed ition ) and the British Road Boole. These important volum esm eritthe attention of local wheelm en .


Every student of affairs on the Indian fronti er will deri ve bothinterest and profit from a perusal of S ir R. VVarburton

’

s Eighteen years

in the Khyber . The sketches of nati ve character and habits wouldalone render it invaluable to all who desi re to understand the problemof the Gate of India.

“ A llen Raine ’ s ” latest story , Garthowen , has all the tenderness ,the sympathy with beauty in nature and goodness in m an and woman

,

that m ade A Welsh S inger, Torn Sails, and By Berwen Banks,

delectable . Novel readers should m ake a note of these wholesom estories of W elsh li fe .

TheWelsh Peop le by Professor J . Rhys and Mr. D . B . Jones , Q.C . ,

M .P.,i s a m ost important contribution to W elsh history and m erits

the attention of all intel ligentW elshm en . For its general excellenceand accuracy as a book of reference

,and an authoritative account of

W ales past and present, the nam es of the authors afford a sufficientguarantee .

Mr. A . R . Colquhoun’

s The Overland to China i s by far the m ostcomplete and readable account of the Chinese and Far Eastern questions before the reading publi c . It i s not m erely an i nteresti ng andvaluable record of a j ourney from European Russia across the TransS iberian Rai lway , but it contains as well a striking and suggesti vesurvey of the politi cal , physical , and financial condit ions of present -dayChina .

H ighlanders atHome,or Gaelic Gatherings , by Mr. R. R . M cIan

,

i s a book that should appeal to those of our readers whose hearts arein the Highlands . The letterpress and illustrations are valuable asillustrating phases of Highland life and character which have passed orare fastpassing away .

Mr. H . M cPherson’s HerbertSp encer : the man and his work

,i s an

appreciative notice of ou r great English phi losopher . In this volum ethe author presents concisely and lucidly the leading features of Mr.

Spencer ’ s phi losop hy , and gi ves a sym patheti c picture of the

personality of the man and of his struggles with adverse ci rcum stances .

Hurrah for the L if e of a Sailor ! by Adm i ral Kennedy , gives avaluable and interesting picture of a sai lor ’ s li fe as it was during fiftyyears which have witnessed m any changes in m en

,m anners

,and

methods . The author ’ s style is easy , humorous , and gossipy , and thevolum e possesses , i n no trifling degree , that charm which seem s almostinseparable from the sayings and writings of those who do business i ngreatwaters .


TECHNICAL S CHOOL

Parents who i ntend to send thei r boys to the new Day S c h oolshould comm unicate with th e Director of Technical Instruction atonce

,who will answer enqui ri es with pleasure .

$1 n

Septem ber 27th has been fixed upon as the day for the Offic ialO p en ing of the New School Building . Lord Derby has k indlyconsented to declare the building open , and the occasion i s to be gracedby the presence of the Head of Un iversity College , Li verpo’ ol , PrincipalDale . It i s hoped also that Professor O li ver Lodge , soon to becomePrincipal Lodge of Bi rm ingham , will be present and speak .

itse

lf

Th e evening school work wi ll begin on Monday,O ctober 1st. Old

students and new should scan the prospectus , which will probably beready in the fi rstweek of Septem ber , for new features of interest . The

comm ercial side is to be provided with a course of lessons in Bus ines sM ethod ,

and another course,which ought to prove an attraction in

this port,on Com m erc ial Geog rap hy and History . M r. J . W .

Marshall can be trusted to m ake these subj ects not on ly profitable butinteresting .

it it=X<

Considerable rea rrangem ent of the sci ence work wi ll be apparent .Mr. A . E . Easthope i s by th is tim e well known to engineering studentsas a clear and effecti ve exponent of such subj ects as Applied Mechanicsand Steam . He i s to continue to teach these and Practi cal Mathem ati cswhi le hi s work in Theoretical M echanics will be expanded . This lattersubj ectwill no longer be taught011 Saturday evenings

,and it i s hoped

thatmany will therefore j oin and acquire that necessary foundation oftheory to enable th em to get on very well in the advanc ed stages ofApplied M echanics and Steam . W orkshop instructi on in the processesof m oulding , forging , fitting , and turning is going to be carried on .W orkm en of known skill will giv e the actual tuition , but the sequen ceof work and the general superintendence of th is course of instructionwi l l be comm itted to M r. A . E . Easthope . The fact of his early work

“shop experi ence and later scientific t rain ing , proved by his having helda W hi tworth Exhibiti on ,

should ensure a good following of youngengineers in thi s course .

legg

’x:

Mr. L . Sm all , B.Sc . ,has taught the experim ental sciences known

by the general nam e of Physics with considerable success during pastyears . The Comm i ttee have i ntrusted to h im the evening tuiti on i nboth Physics and Chem i stry . Practical work in the new laboratori esi s to be added to the usual class work in theory , i n Physics as well asin Chem istry . W hen the great conveni ences of the new laborato ri esbecom e known , there i s l ittle doubt that these classes will greatlyin crease .


School Hym n Book . He is convinced by experi encethat Comm ercialSubjects with Science and Art are capable of furni shi ng not only asound education but also , in the cas e of m ost town boys , the bestpreparation for the work of li fe . Under h im we may expect to seethe work of the whole school advanced

,not m erely a distinction won

for the clever boys whi le the restare neglected . W e hope when Mr.

Gorse rem oves to Bootle with his fam i ly it will be for a long and happyres idence am ong us.

iBootle W aterm i l l

The following ex tract , concern ing the Bootle W aterm i ll , i s takenfrom Messrs . Bennett and E lton ’ s inform i ng work entitled H istory ofCorn Ill i lling (vol . III) .

So far as we are able to trace , the earli est installati on of steamat or near Li verpool i s to be cred ited to the ancient m anorial waterm i l lof Bootle , i n the northern suburbs of the present city this being oneof the m i lls of the e rstwhile k ing ’s m i lle r of Liverpool , Sir Edwardhl oore

From the days of M oore the old m i ll had seen m any vici ssitudes .Ithad endured ti ll after the expi ration of soke restri ctions [an exclusivepri vi lege claim ed by a m i ller of grinding all the corn used within themanor i n which hi s m i ll stands , or of being paid for the sam e as i factually ground] , and had been worked in connection with a wi ndm i llerected in its v icinity in ti ll in 1791 a final effort was m ade torehabi litate its fallen fortunes

,and bring i t ahead with the latest

improvem ents of the tim es by install ing a steam - engine .But the Bootle m i llers seem to have been altogether unequal to

grappling with the difficulti es in cident to the new machine , and verysoon the old m anorial m i ll was despoiled of the new industrial honourapp ertain ing to i t the steam - engine being in continentlytaken outandthe whole plant offered for sale S team -Engine at Bootle To be soldby aucti on on the prem i ses a steam - engine with water -wheel

,nearly

new . May be seen on application to S . Nelson at Bootle . Cylinder18 i nches

,wate r -wheel 14 feet4 i nches, with su itable geers , pan 7 feet ,and all other necessary apparatus [L i verp ool Advertiser , January 23 ,

179 1]

Subsequently trade fell enti rely away , and the waterm i ll wasfor som e years uti li sed for the m anufacture of paper ; though thewindm i ll was worked as usual till January 4

,1834

, when (after beingburnt down in February , 1831 ) i t was enti rely destroyed by fire

,and

was not rebu i lt. The use of the engine at the waterm i ll had beenadopted

,as al ready explained , not for driv ing the m achinery , but, asthe . m ention of the water -wheel shows , m erely for pum ping the

water from a low to a high level to secure a steady and continuousflow .

”

“ To be sold by auction on August26 nextthe very benefic ial interestof th eassignees in Bootle water corn m i ll and the newly erected windm i l l

standing between th e waterm ills and the Bootle Coffee House, etc .

”

[L iverp ool Advertiser. Aug . 3 ,

C .H .H.

QUARTERLY JOURNAL . 47

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Liverp ool

c leanings from the “ English Note- Books

It may not be generally known to readers of the Journal thatNathaniel Hawthorne , the Am eri can rom ancer, occupied the posit ionof Am erican Consul in Li verpool from 1853 - 7 .

The years which he passed in England were outwardly the m ostsuccessful

,in worldly prosperi ty the m ost abundant , and in other

respects am ong the happiest of his life.The Consulate of the Un ited States at that tim e was located in

Washington -bu i ldi ngs (a shabby and sm oke - stained edifice of fou rstories high ) , at the lower corner of Brunswi ck Street, contiguous tothe Goree - arcade , and in the neighbourhood of som e of the oldestdocks.Hawthorne ’ s English Nate-Books

,published posthum ously , are rich

in local references . They deal chi efly with the superficial aspect ofEnglish l ife , and describe the m aterial obj ects with which the author wassurrounded . His descriptions are often adm i rable , and the ruralbeauty of the country has never been m ore happily expressed .

Here i s a picture of Eastham i n halcyon days April 3d,

1854—1 walked with J [Julian Hawthorne] , two days ago , to Eastham ,

a vi llage on the road to Chester , and five or si x m i les from RockFerry . On ou r waywe passed through a v i l lage , in the centre of whichwas a sm all stone pillar , standing on a pedestal of several steps , onwhich chi ldren were sitting and playing . I take it to have been an

old Catholic cross ; at least, I know not what else i t i s . It seem edvery ancient .

Eastham i s the finest old Engli sh vi llage I have seen , withmany antique houses

,and with altogether a rural and picturesque

aspect,unlike anything in A m erica

,and yet possessing a fam i liar look ,

as i f itwere som ething I had dream ed about . There were thatchedstone . cottages interm i xed with houses of a better k ind , and likewise agateway and gravelled walk , that perhaps gave adm i ttance to theSquire ’ s m ansion . Itwas not m erely one long , wide street , as in m ostNew England vi llages , but there were several crooked ways , gatheringthe whole settlem ent into a pretty sm all compass . In the m idstof itstood a venerable church of the comm on red freestone , with a m ostreverend ai r , considerably sm aller than that of Bebington , but m orebeautiful and looking quite as old . There was i vy on its spi re andelsewhere . It looked very quietand peaceful , and as i f ithad receivedthe people into its low arched door every Sabbath for m any centuries .


There were m any tombstones about i t,som e level with the ground

,

som e rai sed 011 blocks of stone,on low pillars

,m oss -grown and

weather -worn ; and probably these were but the successors of otherstones that had quite crum bled away , or been buried by the ac cum u

lation of dead m en ’ s dustabove them . In the centre of the churchyard stood an old yew -tree

,with imm ense trunk

,which was al l

decayed wi th in , so that i t i s a wonder how the tree retains any life ,which , neverth eless , i t does . It was called the old Yew of Eastham ,

si x hundred years ag oA fter passing through the churchyard , we saw the v i llage inn

on the other side . The doors were fastened,buta gi rl peeped out of

the window at us,and letus in , u shering us into a v ery neat parlor .

There was a cheerful fire i n the grate,a straw carpet 011 the floor

,a

m ahogany sideboard , and a m ahogany table in the m iddle of theroom and on the wal ls , the portraits of m ine host (no doubt) and ofhi s wife and daughters , —a very nice parlor , and look ing lik e what Im ight have found in a country tavern athom e

,only this was an

ancient house , and there i s nothing at hom e lik e the glimpse , from thewindow

,of th e church , and its red , i vy - grown tower . I ordered som e

lunch,being waited on by the gi rl , who was very neat, intelligent ,

and com ely ,— and m ore respectful than a New England m aid . A s we

cam e out of the inn ,som e v i llage u rchin s left thei r play , and ran to m e

begging,calling m e

“ Maste r ! ” They turned at once from play tobegging

,and

,as I gav e them nothing

,they turned to thei r play again .

Th is v i llage i s too far from Li verpool to have been much inj u red as yetby the novelty of cockney residences , which have grownup almost everywhere else , so far as I have v i s ited . About a m i lefrom it

,however

,i s the landing -place of a steam e r (whi ch runsregularly , except i n the winter m onths ) , where a large , new hotel i s

bui lt. The grounds about it are extensi ve and well wooded . W e gotsom e biscuits at the hotel , and I gave the waiter (a splendid gentlem an in black ) four halfpence , being the surplus of a shilling . Hebowed and thanked m e very humbly . An Am erican does not easi lyb ring h is m ind to the sm all m easure of English li beral ity to servantsi f anything is to be given

,we are asham ed not to give m ore , especially

to clerical - looking persons,i n black suits and white neck - cloths .”

The following is a pleasing word - picture of the Mersey and of theold Church of St. Ni cholas A ugust9th , 1853 - A pretty com fortable day

,as to warmth , and I believe there i s sunshine overhead but

a sea - cloud,composed of fog and coal - sm oke

,envelops Liverpool . At

Rock Ferry,when I left i t at half past n ine , there was prom i se of a

cheerful day . A good m any gentlem en (or , rather , res p ectable businesspeople ) cam e in the boat , and it is notunpleasant, on these finemornings

,to take the breezy

,

atmosphere of the river . The huge steam er ,Great Britain , bound for Australia , li es right off the Rock Ferrylanding and at a l ittle di stance are two old hulks of ships of war , dism antled , roofed over , and anchored in the ri ver , form erly for quarantine purposes , but now used chiefly or solely as hom es for old seam en ,whose light labour i t i s to take care of these condemned ships .


There are a great m any steam ers plying up and down the riverto various landings in the v icini ty and a good m any steam - tugs also ,many boats , m ostof which have dark - red or tan - colored sai ls , beingoiled to resist the wet also , here and there , a yacht , or pleasu re - boat,and a few ships riding stately at their anchors , probably on the pointof sail ing . The river

,however

,i s by no '

m eans crowded because theimm ense m ultitude of ships are ensconced in the docks , where thei rmasts m ake an intricate forest for m i les up and down the Li verpoolshore

. The sm all , black steam ers , whizzing industriously along , m anyof them crowded wi th passengers, m ake up the chief li fe of thescene

At one o ’ clock , or therea-bouts , I walked into the city , downthrough Lord Street, Church Street , and back to the Consulate ,through various untraceable crookednesses . Com ing to ChapelStreet, I c rossed the graveyard of the old Church of St. Ni cholas .Thi s is , I suppose , the oldest sacred s ite in Li v erpool , a church havingstood here ever s ince the Conquest , though , probably ,

there i s l ittle ornothing of the old edifice in the present one ei ther the whole of th eedifice or else the steeple , being thereto shaken by a chim e of bells ,orperhaps both , at differenttim es , —has tum bled down butthe presentchurch is what we Am ericans should call venerable .

W hen the first church was bui lt , and long afterwards , i t m usthave stood on the grassy v erge of the Mersey ; but now th ere arepavem ents and warehouses , and the thronged Prince ’ s and George ’ sDocks

,between i t and the river and all around it i s the very busiest

bustle of comm erce , rum bling wheels , hurrying m en , porter - shopseverything thatpertains to the grossest and m ost practi cal l ife . A nd

,

notwithstanding , there i s the broad churchyard e xtending on th reesides of it, j ust as it used to be a thousand years ago . It i s absolutelypaved from border to border with flat tom bstones , 011 a level with th esoi l and with each other , so that it is one floor of stone over the wholespace , with grass here and there Sprouting between the crevi ces . A l l

these stones , no doubt , form erly had inscriptions but, as m any peoplecontinually pass

,i n various di rections , across the churchyard , and as

the tom bstones are not of a very hard m aterial , the records on m anyof them are effaced . I saw none very old . A quarte r of a century i ssufficient to obliterate the letters , and m ak e all sm ooth , where thedirect pathway

,

from gate to gate l i es over the stones . The c limateand casual footsteps rub out any inscripti on in less than a hund redyears . Som e of the m onuments are cracked . On m any is m e rely cutThe burial -place of so and so on others there i s a long listof hal freadable nam es ; on som e few a laudatory epitaph , out of which , however , itwere far too tedious to pick the m eaning .

But i t really i s interesting and suggestive to think of this oldchurch , fi rstbuilt when L iverpool was a sm all v i llage

, and rem aining ,with i ts successi ve dead of ten centuries around it,now that the

greatest commercial city in the world has its busiest centre there . I

suppose people sti l l continue to be buried in the cem etery . The

greatest u p holders of burials in citi es are those whose progenitors havebeen deposited around or within the city churches . If this spacious


churchyard stood in a sim i lar position in one of our Am eri can citi es , Irather suspect that long ere now itwould h ave run the ri sk of beinglaid out i n bui lding - lots , and covered with warehouses ; even if thechu rch itself escap ed ,

~ but itwould not escape longer than ti ll its di srepai r afforded excuse for tearing it down . And why should it , whenits purposes m ight be better served in another spot? ”

The Engl ishNote Books abound in fel i citous descriptions of sceneryand places 1 11 and around the city ,

but the exigen ci es of space Wi l l notperm i t of further quotation . The lover of antiquities m ay ,

however ,derwe both pleasu re and profit from a perusal of the aforem enti onedvolumes , copi es of which are obtainable atthe Free Library .

CHAS . HY. HUNT.

W ork s in th e Library by Nathan ie l Hawthorne

Hawthorne (N Dolliv er Rom ance , etc .Dol l iver Romanc e. Fanshawe. Sep tim ius Felton . Ancestral Footstep

M arble FaunM osses from an Old ManseOur Old Hom e

,and Engli shNote books . 2v .

’83

Passages from the Am erican Note -books . ’83

Passages from the French and Italian Note -books . ’83

Passages from the Note -books . 2v .

’70

Tales . 2v .

1 . Twic e-told Tales, Snow Image, and oth er Tales . 2. Housewith theSeven Gables, S carletLetter.

Tales , Sketches and B iographyTransform ati on or

,Romance of Monte Beni

Twice - told

Derby Ex h ib itioner

Congratulations to Mr. J . F. Gi ll , the Derby exh ibiti oner , who haspassed his Interm ediate exam ination in the B . S c . course of VictoriaUniversi ty.

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The Hom e of th e Boxers

S OME O PPORTUNE READING

Mr. A rthur Sowerby gi ves a lucid account of the origin of theBoxers in the July issue of the Contemp orary Review. The subj oinedextractm ay lend an added interest to the reading list on the ChineseEmpire which follows

The Boxer m ovem ent i s the work of Yu Hsien , ex -Governorof Shantung . He took occasion of a spi ri t of di scontentthat had arisenfrom two or three causes in Chihli and Shantung . The occupation ofKiao Chow by the Germ ans , the scarcity of rain last autum n— forwhich the Buddhi st priests blam ed the Christians —and som edifferences between the Catholics and thei r neighbours in Chihli , werethe chief sources of the trouble . No seri ous di fficulty wou ld havearisen had not Yu Hsien gi ven the m alcontents his protecti on andassisted th em to organise them selves into the ‘Great Sword Sect . ’The m ovem ent increased under this patronage , and the winte r days ;when the villagers and canal populati on can afford to be idle

,were

spentby them in dri ll ing , combined with a good deal of rhodom ontade .Yii Hsien , through the pressu re of the Germ an Governm ent , wasrem oved from Shantung but he was received at Pek in with greatfavour and high rewards

,and has been appointed Governor of Shansi .

He should be m arked for sev ere and condign punishm ent.

The Boxers assum ed the nam e of IHo Chuan , ’ wh i ch m ean s‘Righteousness conj oined with Protecti on

,

’ and by a pun it becom esIHo Ch ’uan . ’ Righteousness and the Fi st , ’ hence the ni cknam eBoxers . ’ The society have been denounced by edicts i ssued by theGovernors of Chihli and Shantung , and although they were perm ittedto destroy the houses and property of converts to the Catholi c andProtestant Chu rches , they were held in som e check

,and were not

allowed to attack foreigners . For a tim e the local authoriti es k eptthem quiet , but from the fi rst the Empress gave them countenancein the Imperial edicts . Thei r ranks are composed of the scumpopulati on 011 the banks of the Grand Canal , and the peasant farm ersin Chihli and Shantung . There is nothing strong at the back oftheir r ising except the sinister protecti on afforded them by theEmpress , and they could easi ly be subdued by a few di sciplined troops . ”

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COMPILE D BY W . T. M ONTGOMERY .

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General W orks .

Beresford (Rear -A dm iral Lord The Break -up of China ,with an account of i ts presentComm erce

, Currency , W aterways , A rm i es , Rai lways , Politi cs , and future prospects . ’99 15584

*Bi rd (I. L . ) M rs. B ishop . The Golden Chersonese and the

way thither . ’83

Gives descri p tions of Canton and B ong-Kong .

*Boulger (D . C . ) History of China. 3v . 188 1 10708

Bourne (F. S . A . ) Report of the M issi on to China of theBlackburn Cham be 1 of Comm erce . 1896 7

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98 15527Brit ish Governm ent : Diplom atic and Consular Reports Annualand M i scellaneous . 1886 to (late

These Rep orts c ontain a m ass of offic ial inf01mation onth e Tradeand Comm erc e of Ch ina and other nations.

Carnegie (A . ) Round the W orld .

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79Contains an ac countof travel in Ch ina .

*Colquhoun (A . R. ) A cross Chryse , a j ourney of ex p lm ation

through the South China Border Lands . 2v .

’83

China i n Transform ati on . ’98

The O verland to China . 1900*Coote (W . ) W anderings , South and East.

’82

*Cornaby (lv . A . ) A string of Chinese Peach -Stones .

Character sketch es of th e Chinese .

*Cumm ing (C . F. G. ) Wanderings in China . 2v .

’86

*Dav i s (S ir J . F. ) The Chinese . 2v . N.D .

Dilk e (S ir C . W . ) Greater B1 itain a record of travel i nEnglish speaking countri es . ’

85Has a chap te1 entitled English influence in China

*Douglas (R . K . ) China . (S tory of the .Nations) .*Dunn (.Mrs. A . ) The W orld ’ s Highway .

’94

Inc ludes destri p tions of Canton and Hong -Kong .

*Fielde (A . M . ) A corner of Cathay studi es from life am ong

the Chinese . ’94 1 1085

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*FO Itune (R Three years ’ wanderings i n the Northern P1 ox i nc esof China . ’

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Hong = Kong .

Bonwick (J The British Colon ies and their resources (A sia ) ’86

Briti sh Gov ernm ent : Colonial Reports , A nnual and M isc ellaneous. 1889 to date .

Th ese Rep orts are ful l of offic ial information on the Tl ade andFinances of 0m Colonies .

Faunthoi p e (J. P . Geography of the Britist olon ies.

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74

Im perial Institute Year Book : a statisti cal record of the11 1

esou1 ees and trade of the Colonial and Indian possessionsof the Briti sh Em pi re . ’

92

Lucas (C . P . ) A historical geograp hy of the British Colonies .Vol . 1 .

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88See a lso General W o1kson the Ch inese Em p ire

M anc h uria.

*Jam es (H . E . M . ) The Long W h ite M ountain , or a j ourney in

Manchuriaf’

88S ee a lso General W ork s on the Ch inese Em p ire

Th e Pam irs .

*Cobbold (R . P . ) Innerm ost A sia ; t ravel and sport i n thePam i rs . 1900 15695

Cum berland (M aj or C . S . ) Sport on the Pam l rs and Turk istanSteppes . ’

95 11084*Dunm ore (Earl ) . The Pam i rs a year ’s expediti on through

Kashm i r , W estern Ti bet , Chinese Tartary and RussianCentral A s ia . ’

93 10867S ee alsoGeneral W orks on th e Ch inese Em p ire.

Tibet.

Bi rd (I. L . ) M rs . B ishop . Am ong the Tibetans . ’

94'

11081*Geddi e (J. Beyond the Him alayas travel and adventure in

the wilds of Thibet 2733*Hooker (S ir J . D . ) Him alayan Journals , or notes of a naturalist . ’

9 1 1994Inc ludes a descri p tion of th e Tibetans

*Knight (E . F. ) W here three Empi res m eet : a narrati ve ofrecent travel i n Kashm i r , W estern Ti bet, Gi lgit, etc .

’96 1 1046

*Landor (A . H . S . ) In the Forbidden Land : an account oi aj ourney i n Tibet. 2v

’98 15474

*Lev eson (H . A . ) The Hunting Grounds of the old world (A sia. 2746

W el lby (Cap t. M . S . ) Through unknown Tibet. 1545 3‘

W i lson (A . ) The abode of snow ; observations o n a j ourneyfrom Chinese Ti bet to the Ind ian Caucasus : ’

75S ee a lso General W orks on the Ch inese Em p ire.

Yangtz e Val ley .

B i rd (1 . L. ) M rs. B ishop . The Y angtze Valley and beyond .

’99 15645

See a lso General W orks on th e Ch inese Em p ire .

AXE —For m agaz ine arti c les refer to the Periodical Index es ofStead and of Poole, and the A nnual L iterary Index .

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Books marked with an A sterisk are suitable for children.

A llen (G. ) Hilda WadeA rgosy .tlantic M onthly . 1900

A xon (W . E . A . ) Echoes of O ld Lancashire . ’99

Barr (A . E . ) Was i t right to forgi veBarras (P. F. J. N. ) M em oirs . Ed . G. Duruy . 4v . 1895 96Batt (J . H. ) Dwight L . Moody . 1900 .

Black ’s Guide to Can terbury and the watering p laces of EastKent. 14th ed . 1900 .

Blackwood ’ s Magazine . 1900Boothby (G. ) A m aker of nationsBrongniart(A . ) Coloring and decoration of Ceram i c Ware . ’

98

Bryce (G. ) The remarkable history of the Hudson ’s BayCom pany .

Burgin (G. B . ) The person in the houseThe tiger ’ s claw .

Carpenter (W . B. ) A popular history of the Church of England .

1900

Castle (A . (E . The Bath Com edyCentury Magazine . 1899 - 1900

Cham bers (R. W . ) Outs idersA gay conspiracy

Churchi ll (W . S . ) London to Ladysm ith via Pretor1a . 1900

Cobbold (R . P . ) Innerm ostA sia . 1900

Colquhoun (A . R . ) The ‘ Overland ’to China .

Connell (F. N. ) The n igger knightsCorelli (M . ) Boy , a sketch . 12457 .

Cornhil l Magazine . 1900

Crane (S . ) Pictures of warRed badge of courage

Crock ett (S . R . ) Joan of the Sword HandLittle Anna Mark

Cycli sts ’ Touring Club . B 1 itish Road Book . 3 1 1 . 1898 - 1900

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157 12v. l—Southern Counties . v . 2 South M idland Counties : W ales : and EastAnglia .v. 3 —Nerth e1 11 Counties .


Cycl ists ’ Touring Club . Handbook and Guide (British and Irishedition ) . 1900 1571 1

Cym 11

11 .

’99 2v . 19072 , 19073

Davis (R . H . ) and others . The Great Streets of the W’ orld ’92 15690

Dea1m er (P . Highways and byways in Norm andy . 1900 15700Doyle (A . C . The Green Flag and other stories 12444

Drury (W . D . ) Ed . Th e book of Garden ing. 1900 13809Dudeney (M rs . .H . E . ) Fol ly Corner 12446

Farrar (D ean F. W . ) The L i fe of Liv es : further studies 111 thel ife of Chri st . 1900

Ferrars (M St (B . Burm a. 1900Fi eld s (M rs. J . T. ) A shelf of old books . ’

94

Flamm arion (C . ) The Unknown . 1900

Gallon (T. ) KiddyGam li n (M rs. H . ) Nelson ’s Friendships . 2v .

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99

Y Geninen .

’99

Gentleman ’s Magaz m-

e. 1900

Grier (S . C . ) M iss H . Greig. Th e Kings of the EastGrossm ann (E '

. B. ) Edwin Booth . ’94

Haggard (H . R. ) Black heart and white heart,and other sto ries

Haec kel (E . ) The History of C reation . 2v .

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99

Hardy (E . J. ) Mr. Thom as Atkin s . 1900

Harper ’s M onth ly Magazine . 1899 - 1900

Herm ann (F. Painting on glass and porce lain,and enam el

paint ing . ’97

Hobbes (John Ol i 1 er. M rs. Craigie. The School for SaintsHock ing (J. The purple robe

*Hocking (S . K . ) W hen li fe i s youngHudson (W . H . ) Nature i n Downland . 1900

Hum phry (M rs ) M anners for m en .

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99

Manners for wom en . ’

97

Idler . 1899 and 1899 - 1900. 2v .

“ Iota . K . M . Cafij/n . T he Min x 12449

Jam es (J . S . ) Hanes Hen Eglwys y Cym ry . Cyf. 2.

’99

Jerom e (J. K . ) Three m en on the Bumm el .

Keble (J . ) The Chri stian Year . ’87 15283

Kennedy (Vice-Adm iral S ir W . ) Hurrah for the l i fe of asai lor fifty years i n the Royal Navy 10189

Kick (F. ) Flour manufacture,a treatise on m i lling , sc ience

and practice . ’88 13804

Kingsley (M . H . ) Travels 1n W est A frica . ’97 15707

Kip ling (R. ) F10m Sea to Sea and other sketches . 2 11 . 1900 15698

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Le Queux (W . ) W i les of the wicked 12438

Leighton (R. ) A practical comm entary upon theFi rst Epistleof St. Peter . 2 1 . N.D .

Liddon (Canon H. P . ) Li fe of Edward Bouveri e Pusey . 4v .

’94

Linsk ill M . ) GodwynRobertHolt ’ s i llusion

Longman’s M agazine . 1899 - 1900

Lorim er (N. ) M irry -Ann

Lorne (Marquis) V i scount Palm erston

McAulay (A . ) The Rhym erMacdonald (R. The sword of the king “

MacCunn (J The making of character . 1900

Mack innon (J. The History of Edward the Third (13271900

McIan (R. R . ) Highlanders athom e , or Gaeli c gatherings . 1900Costum es of the Clans of Scotland . ’

99

MacIlwaine (H . C . ) Fate the fiddlerMcMaster (J. B . ) A History of the people of the United

States . Vols . 4 and 1900

Macm i llan ’8 Magazine . 1899 - 1900Macpherson (H . ) Herbert Spencer . the man and hiswork .

900

Maguire (T. M . ) Out l ines of M i litary Geograp hy . ’99

Mathers (H. ) M rs. H . Reeves. Beckyde Méneval (Baron C. F. ) Mem oi rs to serve for the history of

Napoleon I.,from 1802 to 1815 . 3v .

’95

Meynell (M rs ) John Ruskin . 1900

Mitford (B . ) A letta , a tale of the Boer 1nvasionMoody (D . L . ) Anecdotes , i ncidents and illustrations . N.D .

Moore Nell Gwyn—Com ed ianMurray ’s Handbook for Lancashi re .Handbook for Shropshire and Chesh ire . ’

97Music S cores

Jones S . ) San Toy . (Musical Comedy )M eyerbeer (G. ) Dinorah (le Pardon de l ’loermel ) . (Op era )Monckton (L . Caryll (I. A Runaway Gi 1

11. (Musical Play )Stuart (D. ) Flor .odora (Musical Comedy)Sulli van (A . ) The Light of the W01 111. Oratorio)

Osborn (E . B . ) Greater Canada . 1900

Ouida L . de La Rame‘

. Held in BondageUnder Two FlagsTheW aters of Eder

Pike (0. G. ) In Bird v land with field -glass and cam era . 1900 13414

Quine (J The Isle of Man Illustrated .

’99 15703

Rae (J. ) Li fe of Adam Sm ith . ’95

Raine (A . ) M rs. B. Puddicombe. Garthowen


Ready (A . W . ) Essavs and essay wri ting for public exam inations . 1900

Rees (W .L. The Li fe and Tim es of S11 GeorgeGrey N.D .

Reid (G. A . ) The presentevolution of man .

’96

Review of Rev iews . 1900 .

Rhys (J 81 Jones (D . Bryninor) 1 The W elsh People . 1900

Riddell (111 7s ) Did he deserve itRita M rs. W. D . Hump hreys. Peg the RakeA wom an of Sam aria

Roberts (M . ) The A dventures of a Ship ’ s DoctorThe P1under 1

e1 s

Robertson (A . Th e Beauti ful 1nNature and m the fine arts . ’

96

Robertson (E ) Ea. Letters and papers of Andrew Robertson . ’95

Sa1 age (M . J. ) Li fe beyond death . 1900

Short (F On the m ak ing of Etchings . ’98

S i chel (E . ) The Household of the Lafayettes . 1900

Sm ith (A . H . ) Vi l lage Li fe in China . 1900

Spurgeon (C . H . ) M essages to the m ultitude (Serm ons ) . ’99

Steel (F. A . ) Voices i n the nightStrand Magazine . ’

99

Swan (A . S . ) M rs. B arnett- Sm ith . The Burden - bearers 12429

Swift (B . ) Nude Souls

Tadd (J . L . ) New m ethods in educat ion : art,real m anual

training , nature study . ’99 13074

Taylor (B . ) Storyology : essays in folk - lore,sea - lore

,and

plant- lore . 1900

Temple Bar. 1900

Thucydides . Trans . 8 . Jowett . 2v . 1900

Y Traethodydd .

W arburton (Col . S ir R . ) E ighteen years in the Khyber .1879 - 98 . 1900

W atson (H. B . M . ) The RebelVVedm ore (E ) On books and arts. ’

99

W eym an (S . J . ) SophiaW hitby (B . ) Bequeathed‘White (P. ) The W estEnd . .

W hite (W . ) The p rinciples of art as illustrated by exam plesi n the Ruskin M useum atSheffield. 95

W h iting (L . ) Kate Fi eld .

’99

W i lk ins (W . H . ) The Love of an uncrowned Queen , S ophieDorothea , Con sort of George I. 2v . 10183

W i nter (John Strange ) M rs. H . E . V. Stannard . The

m arried M i ss B inksThe m oney sense

W om an AtHom e . 1898 -99 and ’99 . 2v .

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ACTS or PARLIAM ENTActs of Parliament and Provis ional O rders relating to W allasey ,

1809 - 1899 .

’99

The Publi c General Acts passed in the 62nd and 63rd years of theReign of Her Maj esty Queen Victoria .

Annandale (C . ) The Concise English Dictionary , new ed. 1900.

Balfour (G. ) The Educational System s ofGreat Britain and Ireland .

’98

Ballinger (J and Jones (J. I. ) Cardiff Free Librari es Catalogue ofprinted l iterature in the W elsh Departm ent . ’

98

Blanc han B i rd Neighbours . 4to .J

’98 .

Bourgeois (E ) The Century of Louis XIV . i ts arts , i ts ideas .4to. N.D.

Briti sh Army , by a Lieutenant-Colonel . ’99 .

BRITISH GOVERNM ENT PARLIAMENTARY PAPERSBritish South Africa Comp any

Accounts and E stimates for the years 1896 - 1900. Fol io ’

99.

Correspondence with Mr. C . J. Rhodes relating to the proposedex tension of the Bechuanaland Railway (folio ) . ’

99 .

Papers relating to the Brit ish South Africa Co. (folio ) . ’99 .

South African Rep ublic .

Correspondence relating to the Bloem fontein Conference , 1899(folio ) . ’

99 .

Correspondence relating to the claim of the South A fri canRepubli c for dam ages on account of Dr. Jam eson ’ s Raid(folio ) . ’

99 .

Correspondence relating to the Explosi ves Monopoly in theSouth A frican Republic (folio ) . ’

99 .

Correspondence relating to the Status of the South A fri canRepublic (foli o ) . ’

99.

Further correspondence relating to political affai rs i n the

South A fri can Republi c . 2v (Folio ) . ’99 .

Further Correspondence relating to proposed political reform sin the South A fri can Republic (folio ) . ’

99 .

Pa p e rs relati ng to the complaint-s of British Subj ects in theSouth A frican Republi c (folio ) . ’

99 .

Report of the Trade , Comm erce , and Gold M in ing Industryof the South A frican Republic for the year 1897 .

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98 .

Cardiff Public Li b rary Journal , 1897 - 98 .

Chisholm (G. G. ) Europe (Stanford ’ s Compendium ) . Vol . 1 .

’99 .

Coward (T. A . ) and O ldham (C . ) The Bi rds of Cheshi re , 1900.

Cym ru Fydd. Vols . 1 -3 . 1888 - 90.

Dana (J. D . ) Corals and Coral Islands. ’90.

Davies E . ) Celti c Researches on the origin , traditi ons and languageof the Ancient Britons,1804 .

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Historic Society of Lancash ire and Cheshi re . Transacti ons,1898 1900

Hutton (C . A . ) Greek Te rra cotta Statuettes (Portfol io ) . ’99 .

1010 Manusc ri p ts ; a se lec ti on of A ncient W elsh.the collection m ade by E W i ll iam s Morgam rg for

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’88 . L i verp ool .

Jacobs Ed . The Jewish Y ear Book , 5660(189 9 ’

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Lee (0. A . J. ) Am ong British B i rds in thei r nesting,

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Li l ley (H. T. ) Ed. Guide to Portsm outh , Southsea and neighbour 'hood.

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Lottie (W . J . ) Ed . O rient L in e Guide . ’96 .

London Catalogue of 1700to 1822. 17674 822 .

London Quarterly Review . January , 1899 todate .Low (Sam pson . ) The English Catalogue of -99 . 315

1898 - 1900.

M c Intosh (W . C . ) and Masterman (A . T. ) The li fe -h i stori es of theBriti sh m arine food -fishes .

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M ason (T. ) Public and Pri vate L i braries of Glasgow . 85 .

M odern Bookbi ndings and thei r designers (“ Studio W inter No. )1899 - 1900.

M orrah (H . ) Ed . TheL iterae ear- book andBookman s Directory, 1900.

Mullen. (B . H . ) Salford and the inauguration of the Publ ic FreeL ibraries . ’

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O rm erod (E . A . ) Rep ort of obse rvations of i nj ur i ous i nse c ts "

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c ommon farm pests during the year 1898.

’99 .

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“ Gweirydd ap Rhys. Hanes y Brytaniaid a’

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Cym ry . 2v . 1872 - 74 .

Pugh (E . ) Cambria Dep ic ta : a tour th rough North W ales . ’16 .

Quaritc h (B . M onum ents of Typ ography and Xylography . ’97 .

Shaw (G. T. ) and W i lson (W . F. ) History of the A thenaeum ,

Li verpool,1798 - 1898 .

’98 .

Smetham (H . ) History of Strood . ’99 .

Sutton (A . ) Bibl iotheca Lancastriensis.

’98.

Thom son (S ir C . W . ) and Murray (J Ed. Rep ort on the sci entificresults of the voyage of H .M . S . Challenger , dur ing the years1872- 76 . 5v . La. 4to . 1882- 95 .

Tyndall (J Heat , a m ode of m ot ion . 189 8 .

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,

” said Diderot, not to open these enchanting books , i f you haveany duties to fulfi l .

In his Talesf rom Tennyson, the Rev . G. C . A llen hasput withinthe reach and com p rehension of young readers the substance ofthe Idylls of the King . ” He has succeeded very well in h is task

,and the l ittle book should beget a further interest in the legendaryhistory of King A rthur and hi s Knights .

The L ife of Edward White Benson, by his son , i s an importantaddition to ecclesiastical biography. W e can hearti ly recomm end ourreaders to M r. A . C . Benson ’ s pages for the full accountof his father ’ sblam eless hom e life . Even i f it records som e trivialit ies

,i t presents a

touchingly noble , and at the sam e tim e unstudied,picture of what

such a li fe should be .

Stones Rolled Away ,and other Addresses to Young Men , by the

late Professor Drumm ond, make an inspi ri ng volum e . The personality

of the lecturer was a very capti vat ing one , and his reputation was

such that .his lectures invariably drew crowded audiences . Youngm en will percei ve a wonderful charm in these manly addresses .

Readers who can appreciate a thorough work of fiction,destitute

of all affectation,genuine in feeling and true to real li fe . m ay be safely

recomm ended to obtain M i ss R . N. Carey ’ s Ruewith a Difi'

erence.

In the Farm ing Industries of Cap e Colony,by ProfessorR . W allace

,

we have a m ost im portant work . The results of observations made by theauthor are em bodied in this well - i llustrated v olum e , the appearance ofwhich is opportune , in vi ew of the interesting problem s at presentassociated with this portion of our Colon ial Empi re .


The attention of Sunday School teachers is directed to Dr.Hastings ’ D ictionary of the B ible

,the thi rd volum e of which has

recently been added to the Library . Iti s , from a teacher ’s point ofview

,hardly possible to over - estimate the value of the vastand varied

amount of well - digested inform ation contained in this work .

Dr . K . Fricker’s The A ntarctic Regions is a fascinat ing and tim elybook . The obj ect of the writer is to present a general vi ew of the

extent of our knowledge of these regions , and in thi s he has beensuccessful . His chapter on the i ce i s wonderfully th ri lling .

The principal fiction of the m om ent i s entered in ou r list under thethe following nam es —0. Agnus , J . L . A llen

,G. Atherton

,J . M .

Barrie , S ir W . Besant, G. Boothby , M . E . B raddon,A . Cam bridge

,

E . Castle , M . Corelli , W . S . Davis , C . Dawe,D . Gerard , E . Glasgow

,

R . Grant , H . Harland , J . Hatton , “ A . Hope , W . W . Jacobs,H

.

Jam es, “ L . Malet, ” H . S . M erriman ,F. F. M oore , O . Onions

, G.

Parker and E . Phillpotts .

Mr. E . C lodd has written a pleasant book in GrantA llen, a

Memoir . The serene courage with which Grant A llen bore poverty,his sterling integrity , and his scorn of anything m ean or tricky , cannotbe sufficiently praised ; nor can anyone look at the bibliography

appended to this volum e without being astonished by the writer ’samazing industry and versat il ity .

One of the m ost versatile writers of the day , the Rev . S . BaringGould

,has essayed novels of several kinds , fai ry tales , sermons ,ecclesiastical hi story and biography , chi ldren ’ s books , poem s , andbooks of travel

,and in not one of all hi s efforts can he be said to

have scored a fai lure while i n som e of his novels , aided by a charming style and considerable sk i ll in the developm ent of plot

,he has

made notable successes . His latestnovel IVinefred m eri ts attention .

Those who have 110 love for the sea had better gi ve M11

. W . C larkRussell’s romances a wide berth , for one and all are m ore or lessimpregnated with the saltwater . Butto those who, l ike Byron , haveloved the ocean from a boy , and found m usic in i ts roar

, but who , asadults , have perhaps , scant opportunities of seeing itor sai ling on itto such Mr. Russel l ’s stories wi ll constitute a never - ending sou rce ofpleasure . His latest nautical effort i s The Pretty Polly .

QUARTERL 11

JO URNAL 65

Liverp ool in Charles th e S ec ond’s Tim e

Messrs . HenryYoung and Sons , the enterprising local firm of booksellers

,issued

,towards the close of last year , an important publicationentitled *

L iverp ool in King Charles the S econd’s Time

,by Sir Edward

Moore , Bart,of Bank Hall

,Li verpool . The docum ent i n question

,which bears the date of 1667 -8 , i s a species of Rent Roll raisonné, andwas intended by its author for the use of h is son W i ll iam ,

who,how

ever,died before com ing of age. An edition was printed for the

Chetham Society in 1847 , under the title of *The M oore Rental butonly a sm all number of copies -were struck off for i ts m embers . The

work has never before been publi shed for sale .The fam i ly of Moore , or de la More , are supposed to have settledhere shortly after the Norman Conquest, and are noticed in Blom e

’

s

description of Li verpool in 1673 . Bank Hall was builtby them ,for a

country or summ er residence . Gregson,in his account of Bank Hall

,has the following noti ceIt appears , from m any ancient deeds rem ain ing in the fam i ly

,and the achievem ents and inscripti ons engraved on the walls,that

the fam i ly of More were the possessors of these houses [More andBank Halls] for upwards of twenty generations . S ir W i lliam de laMore was m ade knight-banneret by Edward the Black Prince

,at the

battle of Poictiers . He was a man of cons iderable importance : hewrote the l i ves of Edward I and III. , works m uch quoted by authorsof those days . This fam i ly m arried into the Fenwicks , of the north .In Liverpool there are More -fields, More - street, Fenwick - street

, etc .,and here they weregreat and liberal landowners .

Sir Edward Moore was , at the tim e of writing his Rental, the

largest landowner i n L i verpool , and is the only one known to havelefta full and precise account of his property , and of the nam es andcharacters of h is tenants . This work

,which furnishes the earliest

known desc ription of Li verpool and its i nhabitants having any pretenceto m inuteness , i s interspersed with curious notices of the state of thetown , as well as with sketches of the characte r of som e of h is contemporaries . S ir Edward was fully alive to the enormous prospecti vevalue of the land he held

,and h is m ain purpose i n writing the book

was to impress that conviction upon the m ind of his son,and to assi st

him in keeping up and adding to the rents as occasion offered . In the

course of his instructions he gives an exactaccount of the rents paidand services rendered by each tenant , which would have proved ofgreat value '

to his hei r had not the grim destroyer intervened .

The historical s ign ificance of the work , however , remainsunimpaired and we are thereby enabled to see that land and housesi n Castle - street , Water - street , Dale - street, Chapel - street. Tithebarnstreet

,Old Hall - street , Fenwick - street, Pool - lane (new South Castle

Street ) , and other parts of the city , whose annual rents are nowreckoned by m any hundreds of pounds

,were then let for the m ost

The Reference L ibrary conta ins a cop y of each ed ition .


t rifl ing sum s of m oney , with the addition of two or three hens and

from one to three days ’ labour per annum for shearing .Besides th is inform ati on , the sh rewd author th rows out suggest ions for making new streets through som e of h is fields

,many of which

have since becom e arte ries of the ' city for erecting a sea -wall at thebottom of Chapel - street to prevent loss of land by encroachm ent fo rim prov ing his land which abutted 011 the Pool (at thatdate Li verpool ’ sonly harbour ) and for developing h is property in various other way sas the necessiti es of the town increased . Subj oined are a few ex tractsfrom th i s rem arkable and noteworthy docum ent

Im prim i s,Iwill begin w ith Lev erp ool l . In th i s town was your

ancient house,form erly called More Hall

,together with the street it

stood in . Of this m ansion Ifind your ancestors possessed tim e out ofm ind

,m ost of al l your deeds for your land and houses there beingwithoutdate . Only one I find of John de la More , son of John de

Mora,dated anno Dom in i 1200, and one other deed from John of Gaunt

to Thom as de la More,with m any great and large privi leges belonging

the m ostof wh ich are now claim ed by the fam i ly of the Lord Mullinexof Sefton

,by a pretended purchase from the Londoners

,they having

it am ongst other things pawned by Ki ng Jam es . Li kewise you rancestors form erly had the ferry boats , butlerage , and other perquisiteswhich now the Mul linexes have by lease from the crown, (for twol i ves

, thi s Lord and h is son ) . There be,besides all thi s

,m any ancient

and honourable grants from oth ers of the kings of England and dukesof Lancaster to your ancestors , concern ing things in thi s town , only asto priv ileges for ‘as to the deeds of your lands here , they a re all , orm ost, as I said before , without date . Towhich I refer you parti cularlyto v iew

,and only take what follows by way of Rental , as prom i sed ,

abov e said . ”

The following entries have reference to property in Chapelstreet

Horton , W idow , New wife of Mr: W ard . W henever this fallsout of lease , you may m ake your best advantage of i t ; Mr. Horton

,who

bui lt the house,never had any chi ldren

,neither doth any of his

relati ons li ve i n these parts —it will give one hund red and fiftpounds fine for three li ves . Rem em ber to build a wall all along thebank side ti ll you com e to the town field otherwi se , i n tim e , I am

afraid, the sea wi ll wear away the whole bank . For m y great - grandfather,W i lliam Moore

,m ade a lease of the bank to one Gogney for ten

pounds fine and five shi llings per annum rent my grandfather , Edw.

M oore,set i t to one l ’emberton for thirty shi l lings a year and now i t

i s so m uch worn away with the sea that I cannotmake five shill ings ayear of it. W hen you m ake a wall , it need not be above two yardshigh and two feet th ick then fi ll the earth to the back of it - thiswall wi ll cost about n i nety pounds at the m ost . If it be possible , getwarehouses or dwelling -houses bui lt all along the

_

wal l, and m ake a

street to go up in the very m iddle of i t through to the north of theO ld Hall . Thi s i s a proj ect

,i f God bless the town

,may be possible .

Note : that from the Chapel street to the town field the whole breadththereof

,down to low water m ark

,i s your inheritance

,by Special grant


from K. Charles II. ,under the broad seal of England

,to Edw. Lord

Brabazon , earl of Meath , feoffee i n trust for your m other . Thereforelet none get stones there without your consent , for two reasons thefirst

,for that it i s the great cause of washing the bank away and the

other reason is , whenever please God you do make a wall , i t will benecessary either to build it of that stone, or at least to back it withthat stone. This house of Mrs. Horton ’s i s in lease for her own li feand twenty - one years after . May be you may m ake two hundredpounds fine

,i f you be discreet, in regard there i s no ancient tenant toit. She pays si x gallons of white wine a year , or twenty shi llings inlieu thereof. Rent ,

Lanc let,Thom as . A drunken , idle fellow : to thi s house he

hath a fine large croft on the back side . If I could have bought h imout of it

,there was one would have laid out four hundred pounds on a

dwelling house and other necessaries ,— for in all L iverpool, so near thewater side,there is none hath so much room on the back side.

Rem ember , there is room to bui ld several houses between this houseand the st reet

,down to Mrs. Horton ’ s house ; these m ay be di stin cthouses of them selves . Ihave

,under his hand and seal

,l iberty to build

new i f I please (vide his contract with m e ) but if i t be not builtbefore i t com e out of lease

,be very careful how you lease i t again

,but

di vide i t as I say . This fellow and his wi fe are two such idle peoplethat they Scarce ever pay m e either rent or hens . Here belong to thishouse fish yards and a free fish ing , which our ancestors have had abovefour hundred years

,as you may see by the original grant . If any wise

body had these fish yards , m ight much advantage be made of themthey used to m aintai n your ancestors ’ fam i ly with fish three days aweek

,when they were above thirty in fam i ly

,and li ved at the Old

Hall . Rem em ber you have liberty to adm itothers to set fish yards,notwithstanding thi s lease to h im , provided you do not take the very

places where hi s new stand (vide h is lease ) . Thi s house will give youthi rty pounds fine

,and only allow a little garden to it on the back

side,and £1 rent besides , you m ay build three houses fronting to thestreet,at ten shi ll ings old rent apiece and three rent hens apiece and

you may build on the water side , and lay the rem ainder of the crofttomake them back sides . But rem ember you prej ud ice not the intendedstreet from the water side through the parlour -hey (vide Mr. Andow

’

s

directions ) . Be very careful how you lease thi s place ; here manyconveniences belong to it. If you could buy the W alnut- tree hey,which at present Mr. Andew hath as tenant to Mr. Fazakerley

,it

m ight,peradventure , help you in back sides for your street from the

water side . Upon this place you have thi rty pounds fine for the oldhouse , with a l ittle garden . and old rent , and three houses m ore tenshillings apiece rent (and for these fines let them build

, ) and n ine hens .Atpresent this fellow pays on ly thi rty pounds fine

,and all other boons

as the old tenants do,three days ’ shearing

,and three rent hens and

old rent,

Som e fifty years after the writi ng of the work aforenam ed,the

Moore fam i ly fell upon evi l t im es , and the whole of thei r pro p erty wassold to the Earl of Derby , and other local landowners , for a very smallsum of m oney

,after an occupation extending over 500y ears .

CHAS . HY . HUNT.


TECHNICAL S CHOOL NOTES

The Techni cal School now has entries 011 its books andstudents . The School of A rt i s not largely attended by day studentsat present

,but when its excellent equipm entand staff becom e better

known a large increase m ay be expected . The Dom estic Departm enthas m ore than 200entries, ‘and an E xhibiti on of Food and Cookery i sshortly to be held by the M istress of Dom estic E conom y and thestudents . The Day School of Interm ediate Education will be begun onJanuary 9th ,

and the entrance exam ination wi ll take place two daysbefore

. The i llustrated Prospectus has been in good dem and and parentswho have boy s to send should send in an application form at once .These are fi led in the o rder of receipt , the earlier appli cations havingthe better chance of acceptance .

as

It i s_

astonishing how little known in certain quarters i s the pastwork of the Comm ittee for Techn ical Instructi on . The following factshave been pretty well canvassed , but they will bear repeti tion here

The Bootle Muni cipal Technical School becam e a distinctin stitution in the winter of 1891 , though the beginnings of its growthm ust be sought i n th e establishm ent of Science Classes at the FreeLibrary and Museum i n the winte r of 1887 . The Students attendingthe Science Classes , under the fostering care of the Comm ittee of theLi ve rpool Sci ence and Art C lasses , ass isted by the Free Li brary Comm ittee of the Borough , grew in fou r years from 23 to 209 . In 1891 aconsiderable sum of m oney deri ved from Im perial taxation on beer andspi rits was set free for the purpose of technical instructi on in boroughsand counti es . Th e Free Library Comm i ttee of Bootle , seizing theopportun ity , had a schem e qui ckly

prepared for appropriating the

Borough ’s share of this fund ; but id not at. onc e recomm end theerecti on of a school bui lding . The schem e was approved by th e

Town Counci l , and i ts su c cess in attracting students was imm ediate .E ight hundred and se v en indi vidual students j oined the classesannounced to be held during the first session in the adaptedbasem entof the Free L ibrary and Museum . Owing , however , to thecomparat ive unfitness of the room s fo r the accommodation of the largenum ber of students attending , the Comm i ttee began to look aroundwith a v i ew to a suitable s ite for a bui lding m ore adequate to the needsof the S chool . From 1894 to 1897 the Comm ittee were gi ving thei rbest attention to thi s m atter , v isi ting existing schools , consideringfinancial needs

,endeavou ring to obtain aid from the Science and Art

Departm ent of the Governm ent , obtain ing com peti tiv e plans ,m od ifying accepted plans , securing the present site . These laboursultimately resulted in the acceptance of plans for a bui lding designedby M essrs . Best and Callon , of W estm i nster , which were a greatimprovem ent on thei r original competiti ve design , at least from the

point of V i ew of convenien ce for the purposes of adm i n istration andpracti cal teachi ng . The contract for the new build ings was let for

thi s price to include fixed furniture .


Forty - one free scholars from the E vening Conti nuation Schoolhav e been recei ved into the School and free tex t books for two subjectsawarded to them .

In conclusion , a word may be allowed to u rge the students ofthe school to work harder and m ore zealously,under the new and

im proved conditi ons in ‘

th is recently - opened building,for thei r own

credi t and advancem ent and the honour of the School . The proposalwhi ch will be subm itted this even ing for the formation of a Students ’Social Un ion , when carried out, should afford a better opportunity thanhas h itherto ex isted , for the culti vation of a sense of com radeship instudy and of ind iv idual interest in the success of our school . Teachersand scholars will be able to m eet on comm on ground and to know theless stern and m ore attractive qualities of each other , and the dangersof a narrow vision be averted and a proper ésp rz'tde corp s

'

cultivated.

The last session was hardly favourable to the best work being done’,the W ar was unsettling to m ind and employm ent . May the session

now begun bring the successes of the School up to a form er level , andbeyond I

The Students ’ Social Union referred to in the Director ’ s Reporthas now becom e an accom plished fact. The students have rall i ed i ntosectional groups intent on m atters dram ati c , m usical , scholarly andrecreati ve . The Chai rman of the Techni cal Instructi on Comm ittee ,M r. Councillor J . J . Mack , has been elected Pres ident of the Unionthe Vi ce - Presidents are 'M rs . Roberts and M r. W est , the SecretaryMr. J .J Edgar , theTreasurerMr. Nicholson , andthere i s an E xecutive of20students , the whole of the teaching staff, the Chai rm an and DeputyChai rm an of the Comm ittee of Technical Instruction , and the Director.All comm unications respecting th is new organ isation should be addressedto M r. J . J . Edgar . In the next number of the Quarterly Journal wehope to report the doings of som e of the sections with reasonablefulness.

Students would do well to be on the qui ri ve for the parti culars ofthe Scholarships lately attached to the Techni cal School . Nextspring no fewer than four Scholarships , it i s expected , wi l l be open to

scholars of the School . One , the Derby , to Engineering students , andperhaps also the new Davies Scholarsh ip one , the Owen Scholarshipto Comm ercial students and one to students in the A rt School .Each of these S cholarships will probably be worth £50per annum .

Two Matheson exhibition s for one year tenable in the DayInterm ediate School wi ll be awarded on the results of the Entran ceExam ination . These are worth £5 5s. each .

QUARTERLY JOURNAL . 7 1

The 1ntermediate Day School will begin with a strong staff ofmasters . The Head Master is an M .A . of London , and has had along experience in the best secondary schools in London . The masterfor Science and Mathematics has passed the B . Sc . of London sincehis appointment . The m aster for French and English subj ects i s a B .A .

also of London . Another master wi ll have charge of the boys ’ gam esand assist generally in th e School. Parents hav ing boys to send mayobtain an i llust rated prospectus on application to the Director .

J. J. O.

MUS EUM NOTES

The antiquities from Abydos , recently presented to the Museumby the President and Counci l of the Egypt Exploration Fund

,are

now on v iew . A series of labels explanatory of the exhibits has beenprepared , and it is hoped that these wi ll lend an added interestto thecollection . A facsim i le of the Book of the Dead and a list of theprinci p al works in the Library relating to Egypt have been placed sideby side with the objects displayed .

Lovers of mature , we venture to assert , will derive considerablepleasure from an ins p ection of the beauti ful photographs , partlyi llustrati ve of Bri tish flora and fauna, which have lately been hung inthe Bi rd Room . The pictures are the work of Mr. R. VVelc h , ofBelfast , an expert i n naturalisti c photography .

On Thursday evening , November 15th , the Curator deli vered thefi rst of a series of free Museum addresses i n the Bi rd Room . Therewas a record attendance

,fully one hundred and fifty persons being

present . Dealing wi th Som e Famous Pictures,

” he gave an accountof the principal productions of thi rty -eight great artists

,from

C innabue , the father of modern painting , to S ir J . E . M i llais,the late

President of the Royal Academy . The address was i llust rated by aseries of beautifu l lantern slides . The v i sitors afterwards adjourned tothe ArtRoom and inspected a number of choice books relating to A rtand Art History , selected from the Free Li brary . Considerableinterest was also shown in the autoty p e reproductions of world - famouspictures , which form partof the permanent collection .

BOOTLE FREE LIBRARY

1 586.

THOM A S BE RI.Wa ltazg

-wz -t/ze-H i l/C[turf/z , Lancers/a re.


An O ld = tim e Bootle Benefactor

THOMAS B ERRY

There is preserv ed , in the Vestry of the parish church of VValtonon - the -Hill , a m onum ental brass relating to Thom as Beri , or Berry .Itconsists of a quadrangular plate bearing the effigy or figure at theleft side , with the date , while the rem ain ing space i s fi lled with aquaint rhym ing inscription comm emorati ve of the deceased and of acharity founded by him .

The figure of Beri shows an elderly man with beard and m oustache ,wearing a ruff about his neck , and fri lls at hi s wrists . His hands arejoined in prayer

,and he is turned towards the i nscri p ti on . He wears

a tunic with a sash or belt tied in a bow in front. O ve r this he wearsa heavy cloak

,an article of dress comm on in E l izabeth ’s reign .

A lthough open at the top , it i s closed lower down , so as to h ide thewearer ’ s legs .The date 1586 i s engraved above the figure , the numbers 15 being

on the left, and 86 on the right of his head . There i s also,adj oin ingthe figure

,a devi ce which appears to be a m erchant ’s m ark

,consisting

of the initials T. B . with the figures 42. The m ean ing of these num bersis not apparent.

The i nscription reads as followsIn God the lord p ut all you r truste ,

Repente your form er wicked waiesE liz abethe our quene m oste j usteB lesse her 0 lorde in all he r daiesSo lord encrease good c ounc elersAnd preachers of his hol ie wordeM islike off all papistes desiers0 lord cut them off with sworde.

How sm all soever the gifte shal l beThanke God for h im who gave itthee

XII peni e loaves to XIIpoore foulkes( i eve everie sabothe day for aye . ”

The i n itial letters of these lines , read backwards , spell nam eThomas Beri .

It i s beli eved that Beri was a native of W alton,and he is said to

have been baptised i n the parish church there . He afterwards wentto London , where he prospered , becom ing a citizen and fishm onger,and , i t i s thought, a m ember of the Common Counci l . He left m oneyfor a rem embrance of himself to be m ade in brass

,and placed in the

parish church of W alton .


His last will was proved January 15th,1608 . Its purport

,as

revealed in the *Rep orts of the Comm issioners enquire

concerning Charities (181 9 i s as follows

Thom as Berry , by hi s W i ll , bearing date 2d July 1601 , gave tothe parson and churchwardens of the parish of St. Mary Magdalen

,old Fish street, London , and their successors,the eighth and last

m essuage or teriem entwhich he bought , to h im and his heirs , of EdwardStreet , by the nam e of Ithe Red C ross , then conv erted into twom essuages , i n the pari sh of St. George in Southwark , then i n theoccupati on of Jam es Swi ftand his assigns , for the yearly rent of 10Z. ,upon trust

,that they should pay yearly , for ever , to the parson andchurchwardens of the parish - church of W alton in Lancashire

,and to

thei r successors or assigns 54s ,by half -yearly paym ents

, 52s. thereofto provide 52 dozen of white bread for every Sunday in the year , to bebrought and left in som e conv enient place of the said church , then andthere to be given to twelve poor people at the churchwardensdiscretion

,whereof he desi red that three should be of the poor of

Bootle , and the other 2s. he gave to the churchwardens for th ei r painsand he desi red that the said parson and churchwardens should followthe form er di rection s prescribed to W alton for bread for the poor ofSt. Mary M agdalen , the like quantity at thei r good discretion , withthe 2s. yearly for thei r pains therein to be taken , the parson not

exem pted ; and he desi red that the said parson and churchwardens ,and th ei r successors , should yearly pay , out of the rents and profits o fthe said m essuages or tenem ents , to two honest and sufficient m en ofthe town of Bootle , or to thei r sufficient deputy or deputies , 50s . , at

any tim e within ten days before Chri stm as - day , 30s . thereof to prov idea dinner every St. Thom as ’ s - day , i n h is brother Jam es ’s then dwellinghouse in Bootle , for all the householders and m arried people of thesaid town

,with so m any of his k insfolks as should please to com e

thither,and 20s. for a supper in the sam e place for all the youth and

young people of the said town,and of his kindred likewise as should

please to resort thither . The other 42s. of the said yearly rentof 10l .he referred to the good discretion of the said parson , with the comm oncounci l of the parish of St. M ary Magdalen

,and the chu rchwardens ,

whether to dispose that to the poor of the parish,or towards paying of

fifteens for such as should not be able to pay , being no subsidy - people .

The V icar of Walton receiv es annually from the rector andchurchwardens of that parish the sum of 4l . 10s . as the amount of ay ear

’s legacy (deduct-ing the land - tax ) due to the townships of W alton

and Bootle .Of thi s sum 2l . 7 s . i s reserved for bread -m oney

,and the sum of

2l . 3s . i s paid to the overseer of Bootle,the 14s . deducted for land -tax

being div ided equally .Twelve penny loav es are placed 111 W alton church c v ery Sunday ,

and given away after m orning service to the m ost deserv ing poor ofW alton , and three from Bootle

,selected by the m in iste r and church

wardens , 5s. being added annually from the sacrament -m oney to m ake


up an equal distribution . The churchwardens do not recei ve the 2s.

given to them for thei r trouble .The m oney paid over to the township of Bootle i s dist ributed

amongst poor persons of that township , in sum s varying from 2s . to7s. It has for m any years been given in the sam e manner [at St.

Mary ’s Church , Bootle ]The Comm i ss ioners farther state In our account of the chari ties

in St. Mary Magdalen , Fi sh - street- hi ll , London , will be found a statement of the increase in the annual v alue of the property devised byThomas Berry , to which we m ust refer, and it i s only necessary shortlyto repeat

,that in our opinion the poor of Walton and Bootle are

enti tled to an increased paym ent , bearing the sam e proporti on to thepresent rent as the share originally gi ven to them bore to the rent atthe date of the testator ’s wi ll .” [This statem ent has recently beenacquired ]

Beri ’ s religious views are indicated with considerable force in theepitaph already quoted . In the Church of St. Mary Magdalen—thischurch was burntin the Great Fi re , and was rebuilt by S ir Chris topherW ren— there was a duplicate brass , the on ly difference consisting insom e of the letters being differently shaped , and som e of the wordsdifferently spelt . The London counterpart of the brass i s kept at theclerk ’ s house

,and is to be set up in St’

. Martin ’s, Ludgate . It i s

probable that these brasses were ex ecuted , and perhaps set up ,before

Beri ’ s death , notwithstanding h is having leftmoney for h is posthumouscomm em oration .

In Maitland’s H istory of London, am ong the annual donat ions

attached to St. Mary Magdalen ’s church , occurs the following“ 1601 . By Thomas Berry , which looks as i f he were living aslate as 1601 , and the date of proof of his will seems to place this beyonddoubt .

The following entry , which has reference to the subj ect of thi sarticle , occurs in the *Calendar of Wills (PartII. )

Berry (Thom as) , fi shm onger .—A will nuncupati ve , whereby heleaves to h is si ster M istress Ann Roupe and her hei rs a certain housein the pari sh of S . Mary Magdalen , near Old Fish Streete , i nsteadof a house at Little Hadham e

, which he had given her in a form erwill , and sold away again from he r since the m aking of the said form erwi ll . Declaration of will made 27 Apri l , A .D.

Thom as Beri was cousin to Robert Beri e,alderman of Liverpool

,a brother to Richard Berie,of Bootle . The pictorial representation of

the brass of this old - tim e worthy occurs i n Mr. Jam es L . Thornely’

s*Monumental Brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire, from whoseentertaining pages several of the foregoing facts have been derived .

Contained in the Reference Dep artment of the Library.

CHAS . HY . HUNT.


RECENT ADDlTlON-S TO THE LIBRARY

LENDING DEPARTM ENT

Books marked with an asterisk are suitablefor chi ldren

A ckworth (John ) F. R. Sm ith . The M inderAgnus (O . ) Jan Oxber

A in sworth (W . F. ) A personal narrativ e of the EuphratesE xpedition . 2v .

’

88 .

A lberg (A . The Floral King: a life of Linnaeus . ’

88*A l len (G. C . ) Tales from TennysonA l len (J. L . ) Th e i ncreasing purposeAm es (P . W . ) Ed . Chaucer M em orial Lectures 1900Anstey (F. ) F. A . Guthrie. The Brass BottleA therton (G. ) Senator NorthAtonem ent i n m odern religious thought : a theologi calsymposium . 1900 15286

Badenoch (L . N. ) Rom ance of the Insect W orld .

’93

Bagot (A .G. Sport andtravel 111 India and Central Am erica . ’97Baker (H. B . ) Stories of the streets of London .Barr (R. The Streng Arm

Barri e (J. M . ) Tomm y and GrizelBayley (R . C . ) M odern Magic Lanterns . ’

95

Benson (A C . ) The Li fe of Edward W hite Benson . 2v .

’99

Besant (S ir W . ) The Fourth GenerationBoothby (G A Prince of Swindlersde Bourgade (E . Par .aguay ’

92

B011rne (G. C . ) Comparative A natom y ofAnim als . Vol .Braddon (M . E . ) M rs. J . Maxwell . The Infidel

*Brightwen (Mrs. ) Glimpses i nto plant - life . ’

97Burton (J. Bloundel le Servants of s in

Cam bridge M rs. G. F. Cross. Path and goal 16645

Cam eron (M rs. L . ) A fai r fraud 12491

The Lodge by the Sea 16603

Canada . O fficial Handbook . ‘

1900 15723

Carey (R . N. ) M rs. Rom ney 6262

Rue with a difference 16607 , 16608

Cassell ’ s Magazine . 1899 - 1900 19087

Castle (E . ) The Death dance and Marshfield the observer 16630

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H i l l (H. ) The Queen of NightHobbes (John O li ver ) 1117 's . Cra igie Rohei tO range

A sequel to th e S chool for Saints.

”

Hock ing (S . K . ) To pay the priceHolm es (G. C . V. ) Ancient and Modern Shi p s . Part 1 .

Hope (Anthony ) A . H . Hawkins. Father StaffordQuisanteHopkins (T. The S i lent Gate

Hornung (E . W . ) Belle of ToorakHum e (F. ) Madam e M idas

The S i lent House in Pimh c o

Jacobs (W . W . ) A Master of CraftJam es (H . ) The soft side

Kernahan (i ll rs. C . )“ J . Gwynne Bettany .

”The Avenging of

ButhannaTwo Legacies

Kiepert (H . A Manual of Ancient Geography . ’81

Landon (J . The Principles and Practi ce of Teaching andC lass Managem ent . ’

99

Lankester (M rs. W i ld Flowers worth notice . N.D.

Le Queux (W . ) In W hite raim entLei sure Hour . 1899 - 1900

Leland (C . G. ) and W ard (H . S . ) Edd . Useful A rts andHandicrafts . Vol . 2 . 1900 13796

Church Decoration (tem p orary) , W . T. Whitehead . Home Made Lathes ,J . J . Holtz ap ffel F1 etCutting ,

“ Jack Plane ’and C . G. Leland . Rep ousséand

M etal Chasing , C. G. L ela‘

nd . Tools and their uses. T. Bolas and C . G. Leland .

W ood Turning for beg inners, F. C . Lam bert. Cyc le Rep air and Maintenance ,A . W . M arshal l . E tch ing on Metals, T. Bolas. Stenc i l Cutting and Sten c i l ling ,Jack Plane .

” Firststep s in Painting . .C E . Dawson . Pastel or Crayon Drawing ,C . E . Dawson . Stone Cutting and Polish ing , G. Day.

Longman’s M agazine . 1900

McMaster (J . B . ) Ben jam in Franklin . ’87

Malet (Lucas ) M rs Harrison. The gateless barri erM arsh (R . The Devi l s Diam ond

Th e Mystery of Phi llip Benn ion ’ s deathM eade (L. T. ) and Hali fax (C . Stories from the diary of aDoctor

Merrim an (H . S . ) H . S . S cott. The Isle of UnrestM eyrick (E . A Handbook of British Lepidoptera . ’

95*M i les (A . H . ) E d . Fifty two Fai 1y TalesM ivart (St. G. ) E ssays and Cri tic ism s . 2v .

’92

Monteiro (R. ) DelagoaBay : i ts nat1 1 es and natural h 1story ’91Montgom ery (F. ) Prej udgedMoore (A . W . ) A history of the Isle of Man . 2v . 1900

M oore (F. F. ) The conscience of CoralieM orley (J . O l iver Cromwell . 1900

Morrison (A . Cunn ing MurrellMunro (H . H . ) The r i se of the Russian Empi re. 1900

19068

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Music S cores

Caryll (I. ) and Monckton (L. ) The Messenger Boy 12832

Norman (H. ) The peoples and poli tics of the Far East . 1900 15720

Oliphant (M rs. ) The Lady ’ s W alk 16604

Pall Mall Magazine . 2v . 1900 19089, 19090Parker (G. ) The lane that had no turning 16625

Pearson s Magaz ine1898—14900. 1899—19098 .

1899—19097 . 1900—19099 .

Pemberton (M . The footsteps of a thronePhillips (J. ) Vesuvius . ’

69

Phillpotts (E . Sons of the m orn ingPixley (F. W . ) A history of the Baronetage . 1900

Planche (J. R . ) Hi story of British Costum e . ’93

Pliny ’s Letters : Books I. and II. with notes , by J. Cowan .

Book III. with a comm entary by J . E . B . Mayor.Pratt (E . A . ) Catherine Gladstone . 1900

*Pumphrey (S . L . ) A l i ttle brown Pebble . ’90

Quiver . 1899 - 1900 19 102

Ridge (W . P. ) A breaker ofAn important man

,and others

Rita .

” M rs. W. D . Hump hrey/3 . A W oman in itRule (M . ) The l ife and tim es of St. Anselm . 2v .

’83

Russell (W . C . ) The Pretty PollySt. Aubyn (A . ) Frances M arshall . A prick of conscience 1661 1

Sergeant (A . ) Blake of O riel 12493

Shiel (M . P. ) The yellow danger ” 12482

Simmonds (T. C . The art of Model ling l n clayand wax .

’92 13085

Sim son (A . ) Travels in the wilds of Ecuador . ’

86 15735

Sm ith (J . H . ) E lem ents of Geom etry . ’90 13421

Sm ith (T. R . ) A rchitecture Gothic and Renaissance . ’96 13077

Smith (T. R . ) and Slater (J A rchitecture : Class ic and EarlyChristian . ’

98 13076*Stables G(

GOn war

’s red tide : a tale of the Boer War 16642

Strand Magazine . 1900 19094Surrey and WyattAnthology , 1509 -1547 . Ed . E . A rber (B.A . 19001 1408

Taylor (J. E . ) The Aquarium : i ts inhabitants,structu re

and m anagem ent . ’84

Temple Magazine . 1899 - 1900Thom son (C . L. ) Samuel Richardson . 1900

Twain (Mark ) S . L . Clemens. The man that corruptedHadleyburg , etc . 16613

Walford (E . ) Pleasant days in pleasant places . N.D .

Wallace (R . ) Farm ing industries of Cape Colony . ’96


W ells (H . G. ) Love and M r. LewishamW estall (W . ) As luck would hav e i t

The O ld Factory*W i ll iam s (W . L. ) Gwr y Dolau neu ffordd y troseddwrW i nter (John Strange ) ” M rs. A . Stannard . A self -madeCountessThe Truth -Tellers

W ood (M rs. H . ) Danesbury House

LIBRARY AND MUS EUM STATISTICS

The i ssue of books from the Lib rary during the past four m onthshas been as follows

Home Reading

AUGUST 6368

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NO VEMBER

The visits paid to the Reading Room s and MuseumReading Rooms Museum

AUGUST 15978

SEPTEMBER 166 10

OCTOBER 21282

NOVEMBER 20607

011 the 30th of November , 2970 persons had borrower ’ s ti ckets ;1007 chi ldren were borrowers , and 173 teachers had obtained thespecial teacher ’s tickets .

Bootle Free L i brary M useum and

Techn i cal School Jou rnal

Vol . II—No. 13

Notes on Books , New and O ld

HE contents of Dr . Fitchett’s vigorous and ably edited work,

Well ington’s Ill en

,are four autobi ographies of soldi ers who

fought with Well ington during his hard - hitting duel with th e Frenchin Spain , and atthe crowning com bat of W aterloo . The story of m en

who did so much to m ake the Empi re what it i s to - day , i s sure of awarm welcom e .

A s a sketch of th e personality of our late beloved Queen , M rs .

Oliphant ’s Queen Victoria i s a work of considerable charm . It bringsinto conven ient lim its a large stock of i nform ati on , and as a tribute tothe character of theQueen , while it i s , of course , laudatory , it i s alsofrank and honest.

Storiesfrom the Faerie Queen,by Mary Macleod

,i s an adm i rable

book“

The tales them selves , from Spenser ’ s inim i table allegory , aredaintily and v ividly told , and the glam our of the old romances restson each page.

Dr. A . C . Doyle ’ s The Great Boer War i s a m ost important contribution to the l iterature of the South A fr i can Cam paign . Iti s a finepiece of writing , painstak ingly accurate , and as picturesque as any ofthe novels which have m ade his nam e a household word .

a:

In Wooings and Weddings in Ill any Climes, Mrs. L . J. M ilnpleasantly and cleverly describes m atters of world -wide interest . It

i s a m ost attractive and sumptuously got-up volum e , and is enrichedwith num erous photographs .

Tramp ing with Tramp s , by M r. J . Flynt,i s probably one of the

most fascinating and valuable works that has been written in recenttimes . It i s an accountof the adventures of a scientific studentwholived the life of a tramp

,with all its pe ri ls and vici ssi tudes , in various

countries,in order that he m ight study the question of tram ps and

their relation to crim e 011 its own ground and in i ts own peculiarconditi ons and environment .

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In the Handy 111an Afloatand Ashore,by the Rev . G. Goodenough ,

the l ife of our blue - j ackets and marines in training - ship, m an -of-war

,and barracks,i s popularly described the ir work

,thei r play the social

li fe of the lower - deck , ” together wi th naval yarns and songsanci entand m odern .

The Land of the Long Night, by M r. P. DL1 Chaillu ,i s a sti rring

book . Nothing in fiction could be m ore thri lling than the accounts ofsnow hurricanes and blizzards . The land travel between the A rcti cC i rcle and the Frozen Seai has never , perhaps , been m ore pi cturesquelydescribed .

By far the m ostm em orable of recently - i ssued biographies is Mr. L.

Huxley ’ s L ife a nd Letters of Thomas Henry H ux ley . The author haslargely told his father ’ s story in his father ’s words . He has g iven theworld an immense m ass of letters

,m any extrem ely valuable and

i nte resti ng , and all characteri sti c , and has connected them by a wellwritten consecuti ve narrati v e

9!

In Highways and Byways of EastA ngl ia ,Mr. W . A . Dutt describes

som e of the leading features of Norfolk and Suffolk , a region r ich alikein arch itecture , ci vi l and eccles iastical , and in the varied beauties ofpasture , woodland , and water . The work i s i llustrated by Mr. J .

Pennell .

Dr . A . R . W allace ’ s weighty work,Studies : S c ientific and Soc ial ,

i s not only instructi ve,but suggesti ve and deeply inte resting . The

two volum es contain the m ost important of h is contributions toperiodical literature ranging over the last th i rty -five years . The

opin ions of a m an whose m i nd has been trained and furnished by thestudy of p hysic al sc ienc e are always of peculiar interest when heappli es thattraining and that knowledge to subj ects of m ore generalconcern .

Lord Roseberry is one of those gi fted individuals who could notspeak or write indi fferently on any subject , and the fact that hi s latestwork

,.Nap oleon The LastPhase, has obv i ously been stim ulated by a

genui ne interest in and liking for the subj ect, and prepared withsincerity

,care

,and thoroughness

,i s a suffi cient guarantee of its value.

and im portance . .The book , as i ts ti tle implies , only deals with thestory of the capti vity at St. Helena .

Some readable fiction i s entered in ou r l ist under the followi ngnam es - 0. Agnus

, G Boothby , R . B roughton , J . M . Cobban ,A . T. Q. Couch , F. M . C rawford , S . R . C rockett, A . J. Dawson

,

T. Gallon , M . Hewlett, J . Hocking,E . W . Hornung . D . Lyall , Rita , ”

F. A . Steel A . S . Swan , K . Tynan , H . W ard,H . B . M . W atson , and

I. Z angwil l .


The Authoress of John Hal ifax , Gentleman,

”and Linac re

Grange ,” Bootle

It may not be generally known to the many adm i rers of

the writings of the late Dinah M . Muloch (Mrs. Craik ) thatthe gifted authoress of John Halifax , Gentleman

, resided withher brother a little over forty years ago at “ Linacre Grange ,Bootle , where “ she wrote sev eral of her homely stories, includ

A Life for a L ife. The “ Grange , judging from a faded

M iss M aloc h at the“ Grang e.

photograph,must hav e been a delightfully picturesque habita

tion,with its old - fashioned garden , stocked with ancient fruit trees .

But thi s old house , l ike many another , has had to giv e place to themore pressing necessities of modern existence , and Bootle knows it nomore . Itstood originally on land now in the possess ion of the Mayorof Bootle (Mr. A lderman Asc roft) , an old and esteem ed residentof theborough

,and his present abode

,Li nacre House , i s closely associated

with the site of the vanished hom estead .


In 1858 there appeared in Chambers’Journal a charm ing litt lesketch from the hand of th e authoress abov enamed entitled B rother

Jonathan’s Pet, wherein we are afforded som e pleasing word - pictures of

scenes 011 the Mersey , thatnoble r i ver upon whose heaving tide theprosperity of the great city of Li ve rpool mainly depends . The spaceat ou r d is p osal will only p e rm it of a few extracts therefrom buttheenti re sketch m erits the attenti on of those readers who deri ve pleasurefrom retrospective gl impses of the portand its shipping .

Who,l i ving within reach of that big town does not know

the long low line of the ‘ Mersey shore , ending , or rather beginning , inthe interm inable sandy flats of W aterloo ? For all that, it isnot a bad place , nor an ugly place ; and pleasant to run down to byrai l

,for ‘ a sm ell of the sea

,

’ half a m i le off. If by rare chance youhappen to catch the tide athigh water— as I did the other day—and

,for a few m inutes , the leagues of sand becom e sea , and the sea becom esa flood of si lver , and gold , and diam onds under the paly sunshine of a.December afternoon—why , then , W aterloo i s not far

‘

from beingactually pretty . One variety it has

,

'

someth ing a live and sti rringon the great expanse of uni form i ty—the ships . Generally, there i s ad reary look about ships outat sea notpassing and repassing busi ly ,as at or near a seaport town , butpeered at telescopically from an idle

shore . They glide so ghostly , si lently , sol itari ly , like unquiet soulsadriftupon space . Butat W aterloo

,the ships are notspectres .

You have there , softened into picturesque form ,the full benefit of the

M ersey comm erce , the ‘ flocks ’ of sai li ng - vessels outward or hom eward bound , the long fai ry - like threads of sm oke cast across thehori zon by i nnum erable passenger steam - boats and when som e fine‘ l iner ’ passes up or down Channel she som etim es comes nearenough for you to hear the di stant whi r -whir of her m achinery

,above

the alm ost equally di stant m urm ur of the sea ; you watch her greatbulk as contrasted with all other steam ers , wonder what she i s , andwhere on earth she i s going to .

I thus stood watching a big steam er m ak ing her way upthe river towards L i verpool . W ith her long h igh hulk

,far out of the

water , her enorm ous paddle -wheels , and her low m asts all dressed withflags

,she m ade a sufficient]y prom inent obj ectbetween m e and the sun

to catch the noti ce even of a lazy landlubber . And so,when

final]y she steam ed out of s ight into that m i sty forest of m asts to whichthe M ersey narrows above Bootle , and I had taken my saunterover the sand - hi lls

,the big steam er sti ll l ingered sufficiently in my

m ind for m e to m ake a careless rem ark concerning her,wh en I reached

hom e Attention was roused imm ed iately .A ‘ big ’ steam er . Very big , was she ? Paddles or screw ? ”

A fter a great effortof nauti cal m em ory , I replied deci si vely , “ Paddles.

Long hulk ? High out of water ? ” Very high— in fact,with her

low masts,I m ight alm ost say clum sy . Clum sy ! Ah

, yen knownothi ng ! W hy , she was the Adriati c . You m ustactually have seenthe Adriatic ! ” I humbly suggested that thi s fact did notim part any inform ation to my benighted self . Notknowthe Adriati c , the great Am erican l iner , built to sai l against ourPersia !” Why , the Adriatic i s Brother Jonathan ’ s last

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get i t,makes a Decem ber day the pleasantest of any for sightseeing.

The ai i was so clear , vou cou ld have counted every window in the

houses along either shore and the vessels as we passed them by ,seem ed to stand up spar by spar , and rope by rope , cut out sharplyagainst the cloudless sky .

And now we cam e in sightof Jonathan s Petfi that i s,we had been

in sight for ever so long , butm y inexperienced eye had never detectedher , or distinguished her from half a dozen other big ships . ” Don ’ tyou see her ? lying beside that old fashioned , clum sy built traderwonderful craft ! W ould do actually sixteen knots in sixteen hoursl1 a ha ! — and m odern superiority laughed hearti ly at the respectableslow coach , ” which no doubt was thought an aston ishing ship in herdav . That’s the Persia to leeward . and there ’ s the Adriatic .When we neared her, and noti ced how high she stood out of the water,h ow the boat loads of people that kept crowding i n seem ed to be disp ersed over her decks of no m ore account than a stray half dozen or so,the 1m p ression of her size in creased . A s our boat lay to

,waiting to

com e alongside , the learned of our company had opportun ity fully tocriti ci se the points of Jonathan ’

s Pet,wh ich they did with great gusto .

I,unlearned and ignorant

,could only gaze idly at a sociable party of

sea—gulls,which swam from under her bows

,apparently as tam e and

com fortable as a brood of ducks in a pond ; and then at thi s giganti cfloating palace , which had just m ade safely her fi rstvoyage .W e were on board at last . Most people

,i n these travelling days

,are

fam i li ar with the interior of the m agnificent ocean steam ers,where

every luxury of furn iture , l iv ing and sleeping accommodation , i s prov ided for a fortunate passenger— subj ect only to the sl ight drawbacksof sea s ickness

,drowning

,burning

,or blowing u p . But—her

engines . The scientific m ind ev idently thought every m inute lost thatwas not spent in the exam ination of her engines . So we hurriedly ranth rough the passenger domains and finally made our way tothe engine gallery .Perhap s , of all hum an handiwork , there 1s noth ing grander than a

fine piece of m achinery— especially a steam eng ine . It3own to have been

li teral ly awed at sight of thi s one— this dum b monster of sh iny brassand dark sol id i ron

,wi th its enorm ous cyli nders m oulded as accurately

as a si lv er flower-bell ornam ent ing a tea -

p ot, and kept as bright as thebest house -wife ’ s best fam i ly plate with its crank . and itspiston - rod

,that

,m ov ing up and down

,m ust look as terrible , rem orse

less,and unswerving as the greatarm of ju stice .Any one going back by the next boat ? ” Yes about 300

or so,who,appearing out of inconcei vable nooks , descended the

ship ’ s side,and crowded the ri ver - boat on every square feetwhich two

hum an feet could take possessi on of . In five m inutes we had droppedaste rn , and saw the great hull of the Adriati c gradually lessening to

'

that slender shape into which she dwindles at a very slight distance .As she lay with her stars and stripes st ream ing against the sti ll clearsky

,and the red winter sunset throwing its glow upon her great

m otionless paddle wheels , we hearti ly wished her good speed . Ay , eventhough our own Persia lay , a short space off, plum ing her feathers forthe fl ight . ”


M iss Muloch wrote at least two other sketches during her residence at Li nacre Grange , nam ely , My Babes in the W001l and Our LostCat. The form e r i s a delightful study of bi rd li fe at the Grange ,”and the latter treats of adventures which befell the authoress whilstsearching for her favourite c at. These sketches have been reprintedunder the title of Stud ies f rom Life.

I am i ndebted to the courtesy ofMr. Jam es W i ll iam son , the Farm ,

Stanley Road , L inacre , for the following additi onal particularsThe few bare facts of which I have knowledge are as follows In

1858 , I believe , M r. Benj am in Muloc h ,brother of the authoress , having

obtained an appointm ent i n the L i verpool Borough Engineer’ s O ffice ,his si ster came up from London to reside with h im at Li nacreGrange , ” then in the occupancy of Mrs. Jam esW i lliam son , the widowof my great-uncle .

M r. M uloch was one of the pioneers in the art of photography,

then in i ts i nfancy , and his practice with his s iste r , her fr iends andsurroundings

,resulted in the batch of photos which I recently showed

you . [Of these we are enabled to reproduce three] .The Grange

,as you will rem em ber

, was an anci ent bri ck houseturning its back to the road , and facing a large garden encompassed byhigh walls . There i s ample internal evidence in M i ss Muloc h

’

s writings,at th is period

,of the charm th is old -world garden possessed for her

,

with its sm ooth expanse of lawn sur rounded by beds of old ~ fash ionedflowers

,its orchard of aged fruit- t rees

,and its shady walks with tall

box borders . Here through the sum m er m onths,i n sweetseclusion from

the outer world,she m ade her study walking u p and down the narrowpaths beneath the trees evolving her l iterary them es .

And the subj ects of several arti cles which afterwards a p peared i nChambers

’Journal were derived from her pi cturesque envi ronm ent.

An interesting young fam i ly [of blackbi rds] , reared in a hol e inthe trunk of a venerable apple -tree

,at the corner

,of the garden

,

”iri

spi red that entitled My Babes in the WOOd ,

‘ i n which she says : It

was towards the end of May , and our garden was becom ing a perfectav iary . It i s a very old - fash ioned garden

,stocked with ancient frui t

treesApple and pear

,and plum and cherry

,

Or anything else to m ake us m erry ,as m any a bi rd sang

,or m eant to sing , in bi rd language with luxuriant

un

il

prgrowth of currants , gooseberries , raspberries , running alm ost

wi c

Then the loss of he r cat “ Lotos —so called evidently from hishabit of taking life eas ily as represented in the p hotograp h fl furnished

the topic for O ur LostCat. This eat,itappears , had been sent on by

rai l in advance from London,and when h is m ist ress arrived at the

“ Grange ” pussy was m issing , and in the contribution abovenam ed

she describes the search for and ultimate recovery of her p et.

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O ur Lost Cat.

As I recently noticed a paper of yours in the Bootle [herereprinted] on these Li nacre writings of M i ss Muloc h ,

i t i s no usem y going over the sam e ground , ex cept that it m ay be of interest tostate that the old gentlem an referred to in Our LostCat, as rem indingher of Mr. Dickens ’ Gashy the Patriarch , was identified by contemp oraries as Mr. Hope

,father of the . late M rs. Danson , whose hus

band was one of the donors to you r insti tution .The “ lodge of the big house of the vi llage

,to which allusion is

m ade in the sam e sketch, and where she witnessed such a pleasant

dom esti c scene , was that attached to the house called Hom efield ,

”

then occupied by Mr. Hudson Lutwyche [see Burke ’ s Landed Gentry ofGreatBrita in for particulars of this ancient fam i ly nam e] . The lodgehas d isappeared , but the house surrounded by bri c kfields sti ll e xists .

My inform ant ’ s fam i ly has been associated with Linacre for u pwards of three hundred years .CHAS . HY . HUNT.

QUARTERLY JO URNAL


The Director del ivered his lecture on Tim ber and Tim ber

Trees on W ednesday,February 27th , in the A ssem bly Hall of the

School , Mr. Jam es W ebster , J .P.,presid ing . About230persons ch iefly

emp loyed i n the timber trade attended and listened with apparent interest to the Chairm an ’s practical rem arks , and plea for increasedinterest i n thei r work and greater knowledge of i t . The m eeting m aybe said to have proved the ex istence ‘of a desi re on the part of theyounger generation '

for definite instruct ion on the nature and uses,

the convers ion and season ing of timber, and concerning the m achineryem p loyed in the trade . Thi s k ind of instruction as Mr. W ebster saidi s notprovided as yet in the Techn ical School . The importance of thetimber industry demands som e pro v is ion , and there i s no doubt thatone so deep ly engaged in the timber trade as Mr. W ebster

,and having

so intim ate a knowledge of its practical side,will notrest satisfied unti l

the desire is m et.

The lecture was an attempt to outline the field of enqui ry respecting the material of construction concerned , and dealtwith th e botany ,the distributi on

,the statistics , and the prin cipal uses of timber . The

botanical aspect was necessari ly m ost fully expounded ; the m eaningofWoody fibre,ai r vessels or pores

,m edullary rays and resin ducts was

ex p lained by a description of the early and later stages of growth intrees and num erous pictures of thei r anatomy . The value of thin sbavings across the log i n determ ining kinds of wood closely resembling eachother in the mass was shown , and whilstpictures of various comm ontrees of Europe

,A sia and Am erica were being shown to i llustrate thei r

general aspect, a few suggesti ons as to thei r special good points andcharacteristic faults were m ade , with due apologies for daring toinstruct practi cal m en in th is fashion .

Som e scenes from the forests of Canada,the United States

,Central

and South Am erica,and the Antipodes aroused interest. These

included views of those giants , the Redwood trees of Californ ia ,the Oregon Pine

,the Kauri Pin e of Auckland (N. Z . ) and

the Eucalyptus (Jarrah ) of Western Australia ; also som e v iews ofmahogany fell ing and transport f rom a rare Li \ erp ool t ract . Atthe

close some fifty v olum es on Forestry,the strength of m aterials (includ

ing Timber ) , the diseases of Tim ber, i ts m easurem ent, its identificati on,

and botanical or practical characteri stics,were shown to as m any of the

audience as cared to stay behind and look at them . All these bookswere kindly lent by the Public Librarian , Mr. C . H . Hunt, for theoccasion . Several stayed to ask questions , and on the day followingthe lecture others called at the School to seek further inform ation .


If duly qualified practi cal experts can be obtained for the secondand thi rd parts of the schem e , i t i s hoped to establi sh a cou rse of som eeight or nine lectu res ; say three or four deal ing with distri buti on(Forests ) m inute anatom y and identificati on , natural defects , di seasesand paras ites ; three or four w ith form s i n which im ported , uses

,

m ethods of sawing , seasoning , m easurem ent and strength for constructi ve pu rposes one or two on saws and saw m i ll m ac h inerv .

There are plenty of m en with practi cal knowledge , there m ust surelvbe som eone with the power of im parti ng it through lectu res freelyi llustrated by the lanterns The comm ittee would be ” glad to hear fromany such withoutdelay .

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The imports of timber into Great B ritain in 1899 , am ounted invalue to 25; m i llions of pounds . The in crease as c‘ompared with 1890was equal - to The timber imports are m uch m ore thantwice the tea imports i n sterling v alue .

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The exam inations are upon us . The fi rstof the season are inPractical Cookery and Laundry W ork , and wi ll be held on the 8thinst. Nearly every day thenceforth unti l Easter

,brings i ts exam i na

t ion . The Science and Artexam inati ons which begin l ate in Apri l andconti nue n early to VVh itsuntide , will have lost som e of their glorynow that the school does not send in candidates for the elem entarystages . The m ore incum bent is it on students to uphold the honour ofthe school by doing well in the ad vanced stages .

There will be a hearty com petiti on for the Owen S c holarsh i p .

Thi s i s tenable for one or two years i n the new School of Comm erce,established at University College by the Li verpool Chamber of Com

m erce , and subsidi sed b y the C ity Counci l . The subj ects of competit ionare Engli sh (com pulsory ) and A rithm etic (com pulsory ) , and at leastthree out of the following : French or Germ an or S p anish , Shorthand(60words a m i nute ) or Book -Keeping , Business Method , Comm ercialGeography, Hi story . Any student of the school during the cu rrentsess ion m ay com pete . The advanced stages of the non - compulsory subjects count for double m arks , and the exam inati ons of the Union ofLancashi re and Cheshi re Institutes are the test of m eri t . The fortunatewinner wi l l find after paying the fees of the School of Comm erce asubstantial sum towards the cost of hi s maintenance rem ain ing . Hewill of course be expected to give up all h is tim e during the period ofh is scholarship to h is studies .

The Dav ies’ S c holarsh i p i s another new one intended to help theelectri cal or m echanical engineer . No nam es can be taken for this

scholarship after March 8th ,nor for the Derby scholarsh ip

,both of

which will be awarded on the result of the Apri l and May exam ination of the Board of Edu c ation (which now includes the Sci enc e andArtDepartm ent of form er years ) . The Davies Scholarsh i p i s worth£25 per annum at least'

for one , two or three years , and will be worth


£50i f augm ented by the Board of Educati on as hop ed . This augm entation may depend on the am ount of i nterest shown by students i n thecom p etition . The Derby S c holars h i p i s intended to help m echanicalengineers . The subj ects and conditi ons of the competitions have beencirculated in the School , and the Director begs a careful reading andhopes for at least half -a-dozen entries in competi tion for each .

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The S c hool of A rt is doing very good elementary work , and i sequipped for the accomplishm ent of m uch higher k inds of work . It

does notappear that itsdevelopm ent is '

suffic iently advanced to supportcompetiti on this year for the Lam b S c holarsh i p established by the exMa-yor . The part iculars should be kept steadily in V iew by studentsthata hearty competition m ay be entered into next year .

The Director will be very glad to make appointm ents with artstudents who desi re to see the room s devoted to Artstudy. Unfortun

ately these room s were empty atthe official opening of the School lastSeptem ber . Too few of our townsfolk know of the beautiful modelsand good furnishing which have since then been installed . A veryfai r show of works executed in the School will be sent up to SouthKensington very shortly . The qualifications of the ArtMaster are ofa k ind to insp ire hearty confidence , and when his work is better known ,the School will be better appreciated by the outs ide publi c . An

Assistant ArtMaster also h ighly qual ified is assisting Mr. Bulm er i nthe school i nstructi on . The term s fo r day instruction are very m oderate in comparison of those usually charged in ArtSchools .

Interm ed iate S c hool Notes

The firstterm entries i n the Interm ediate School are such as toshow the reality of the need for such a school in the di st ri ct. A lthoughmore than twenty applicants were dec l ined adm i ss ion as not com ingup to the educational standard required , s i xty scholars are now on theroll . Twenty - fou r boys are residents beyond the Borough lim its . It

is too soon to speak of the work being done , but this may be said thatvery complim entary letters have been recei ved by the Director and theHead Master from p arents of boys . Good provis ion i s m ade forp hysical drill and gym nastics , but hitherto unusual difficulties haveattended the attem pt to obtain a cricket and football ground , but i t i sbelieved that these di fficulties are about to disappear . Parents woulddo well to take an interest in the moderate am ount of home -workrequired from the boys by the i r m asters , and especially to guardagainst thei r hav ing too m any evening di st ractions and engagem entscalculated to interfere with the doing of the work set .

The competiti on for the M ath eson S c holars h i p s of five guineaseach in value resulted in the following lis t in order of m eritz w l st.

Frank Louis Gorse . 2nd. Jam es Stewart. 3rd . Derm ot Murray . TheHead Master ’s son waived his claim and the award was made in favourof Stewart and Murray .

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Enqui ries have been m ade as to whether boys m ay ente r theschool at the half - term . This p racti ce i s not conduci ve to good workand w i ll not be encoura ged . A n exam ination for entrance at theSumm e r Term which will begin on Apri l 23rd will be h eld on VV

ednes

day ,April 3rd at 10-0 a .m . Applicat ions may now be sent to theDirector . A Prospectus c ontain ing a form Of application may be hadby writing to the Di rector of Technical Instruction .

S oc ial Un ion Notes

The Social Union flourishes . The Choral Society, the SpanishSociety ,

the Debating Society,the Chess and Draughts Club , and the

the Needlework ci rcle have had many very pleasant and profitablem eetings . The Engineering Society m eets less often

,butEngineering

problem s are discussed once a m onth and there i s a goodly number ofm em bers . A n A thletic section is sti ll enrolling m em bers with a vi ewto the summ er season . A Fi eld and Rambling C lub will start shortlynam es should be given in to Mr. J . J . Edgar

,or at the office . The

Dram ati c section i s the on ly one which seem s to languish . W e hopeto publ i sh from tim e to tim e notes of work accompli shed i n thesections , but for th is m ust depend on the reports furn ished by theSecretari es of sections .

Th e Literary and Debating S ec tion was form ed early i nDecem ber . M r. Sm all was elected Chai rman , and M r. TattersallHonorary Secretary . There i s a C omm ittee of seven m embersfor the governing of the section . The meeti ngs are held fortnightlyon Saturday Even i ngs at 7 - 30 p .m . The fi rst m eet-ing was held onDecem ber 1st

,when Mr. Small (the Chairman ) read the o p eningaddress on Prog ress ,

” preceded by a few remarks on what wasexpected of a Li terary Soci ety and the benefits gained by being am ember of one . Th e paper was well recei ved

,several gentlem en spoke .

Th e nextm eeting was on Saturday , Decem ber 15th , when Mr. Spicergave a paper on the Dev e lop m ent of E lec tric ity ,

” i llustratinghi s rem arks by experim ents . The next m eeting was on January 12th ,

1901 . when a debate was held . The m oti on before the house:was

S hould th e Hous e of Lords be abol is h ed .

” Mr. Ni cholsonproposed and M r. R . A . Roberts opposed the m otion . Several mem

bers spoke,and on a vote being taken the m otion was lost by 12— 9

The 4th m eeting was held on Satu rday , January 26th ,when Mr. Ogle

read a paper on “ Th ree Great Ev i ls— Ignoranc e , Greed and

Drink ,

” dealing with them in the order nam ed ; The paper was wellreceived

,severa l m embers Spoke . The fifth m eeting was held on

February 9th ,Mr . Sm all being unavoidably absent, M r. R. A . Roberts

took the chai r . Mr. Browne read a paper on India, whi ch wasthoroughly enj oyed by the m eeting .


Considerable enthusiasm has been shown by the various societi esand it augurs well for thei r future that increasing interest is apparenti n the doings of nearly every secti on . For a new union

, we may congratulate ourselves that we are upon a firm basis , a nd though ourm em bersh ip i s not quite as large as itm ight be , a large number of thestudents hav e given that supportto itwhich is essential to success

,and

we may look forward to m any recruits j oining us at the beginning ofthe new session . The President of the Union i s Mr. Counci l lor J . J.

Mack,and the S ecretary Mr. John J . Edgar . The full li st of officers

i s too long to prin t here,bj it the executi ve in cludes the Chai rman and

Deputy—Chairm an of the Techni cal Instruction Comm ittee , the Directorand the Teaching Staff and a large number of students elected bythem selves . I cannot close Without alluding to the ex ceedi ngly generous way i n which the Comm ittee of Techn ical Instructi on for theBorough has m etus . In fact

,but for thei r assistance we could hardly

hav e proceeded . The Union tenders to them its best thanks for perm itti ng them the use of the School , and light , and for the interestm ani fested by them . It now only rem ains for the students to rallyround

,and j oin the various societies

,and m ake the Union notonly a

social and intellectual benefit to them selves , but also an ornam enttothe Borough of Bootle .

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M US EUM NOTES

On Thursday even ing , Decem ber 13th , the Curator del ivered anaddress in the B i rd Room on “ The A rchitectural Beauties of theA lhambra . ” There was a large attendance

,about 120 persons being

present. At the outset of his rem arks,the lecturer briefly referred to

th e conquest of Granada and to the downfall of the Moors . He thenWent on to describe the m ost characteristi c features of the palace fortress of the Granadine kings . In the A lham bra m ay be found thespeaking art of the Egyptians , the natural grace and refinem ent of theGreeks . the geom etrical com binati ons of the Rom ans , the Byzantinesand the A rabs . The ornam ent wanted but one charm— sym boli sm .

This the religion of the M oors forbade but the want was m ore thansupplied by the inscriptions , which , addressing them selves to the eyeby thei r outward beauty , atonce excited the intellect by the difficultiesof deciphering thei r cu ri ous and com plex involutions

,and delighted the

im aginati on by the beauty of the sentim ents they expressed and them usic of thei r composition . The Moor ever regarded what i s held tobe the fi rstprinciple i n architecture— to decorate constructi on , neverto constructdecoration . In Moorish architectu re not only does th edecoration arise naturally from the construction , butthe constructiveidea is carried out i n every detai l of the ornam entation of the su rface .The address was i llustrated by lantern slides and by m odels from theSouth Kensington Museum .


On Thursday even ing , January 10th , the Curator del ivered anaddress in the Bi rd Room entitled Tea, and where we get i t . ” Therewas a good attendance . The lectu rer ’s remarks were principally con ~

fined to the Ceylon product , which has become an important i tem ofthe world ’s commerce . The export of the Ceylonese comm odity whi chin 1875 was only 492 lbs. ,

has now reached the great total of 90m i llion lbs. per annum . An account was given of the methods employedin its culti vati on , and of the v arious processes by which the leaf is converted into the m anufactured arti cle . The address was illustrated bylantern v iews and by exhibits in the permanent collection .

The Belfast and Northern Counties Rai lway Company has recentlypresented to the Museum a series of twelve beautiful photographsillustrati ve of Irish geology , the handiwork of Mr. R. W elch

, Belfast .The pictu res , which undoubtedly possess considerable educationalvalue , hang above the m ineralogical exhibit in the Magazine ReadingRoom .

The South Kensington Museum loan c ollection was exchanged onJanuary 2l st, for an interesting collection of woodcarvings , Germanstoneware

, English and French earthenware , German and Dutchelectrotypes,bookbindings and leatherwork , oi l paint-ings , water

colour paintings il lustrati ve of the Coronation of George IV . , em

broideries,designs for woodcarvings , and reproductions of leatherwork .

The collection is valued at

On Thursday even ing , February 14th , the Curator delivered anaddress in the Bi rd Room , entitled “ Sugar : and where we get it . "There was an audience of about 150persons . The m ethods employedin the culti vation of sugar - cane , beet - root , sorghum and other sugaryielding plants were described , as well as the various processes ofmanufacture whereby the raw material i s converted i nto the fin ishedarticle of comm erce . In the Un ited States and in Canada great quantities of sugar are obtai ned from the sap of the sugar -maple . TheGulf States and the W est Indies are the principal sources whence thesuppli es of sugar - cane are deri ved ; the sugar used on the Continentis chiefly obtained from the beet . Sugar was only vaguely known tothe Greeks and Rom ans i t seem s to have been introduced into Europeduring the tim e of the C rusades . The cane was grown about the m iddleof the twelfth century in Cyprus , whence , som e time later , i t wastransplanted into Madei ra , and about the beginn ing of the s ixteenthcentury itwas thence carried to the New World . Lantern slides andMuseum specimens were used to il lustrate the address .


Privy Counc i l di d proceed to consider the said Peti tion , and hav ingfully c ons idered it, have advised US to grant thi s Charter of Incorporation to the Inhabitants of the said Town of Bootle - c um - Linacre ,embracing the whole of the Townshi p of Bootle - c um - L inacre . WETHEREFORE ,

as well by v i rtue of the Powers and A uthorities vestedin US by vi rtue of OUR Royal Prerogati ve as by vi rtue of the Powersand Authorities giv en to US by the said recited A ctof the fi rst year ofOUR reign or any other A ctof Parliam ent, and all other Powers andA uthorities enabling US in this behalf , by the adv ice of OUR Pri vyCounci l DO HERE BY “GRANT and declare that the Inhabitants ofthe said Town of Bootle - c um -Linacre , em bracing the whole of the Townsh i p of Bootle - cum -L inacre

,and thei r Successors

,shall be for ever here

afte r one Body Politi c and C orporate in deed , fact, and nam e , and thatthe said Body Corporate shall be called “ The Mayor , A lderm en , andBurgesses of the Borough of Bootle - c um -Linacre

,and them by thenam e of “ The M ayor

,A lderm en , and Burgesses of the Borough of

Bootle - c um -L inacre ” into one Body Corporate and Politi c in deed ,fact, and nam e . W E do hereby ' for US , OUR Hei rs and Successors ,erectand constitute by these presents , And W’

E do grant to the saidBody Corporate and Politi c , thatby the sam e nam e they shall havepe rpetual Succession , and be for ever hereafter pers on s able andcapable i n Law to have and exercise , and do and suffer and that theyshall have and exerci se , and do and suffer

,all the acts , .

powers,authorities , imm unities , and pri vi leges whi ch are now held and enj oyed ,

done and suffered , by the several Boroughs nam ed in the Schedules tothe said A ct passed in the Session of Parliam ent held in the 5th and

6th years of the Reign of h is late Maj esty King W i lliam the Fourth toprovide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporati ons in England and

W ales,in the like m anner , and subj ect to the sam e provis ion s as fully

and am ply to all i ntents and purposes whatsoever as i f the said Townof Bootle - c um -Li nacre , em bracing the whole of the Township of Bootle ~c um -Linacre , had been one of the Boroughs nam ed and included i n thesecond section of Schedule (B ) to that A c t annexed . AND W E dohereby extend to the Inhabitants of the said Town of Bootle - c umLinac re , em bracing the whole of the said Township, al l the powers andprovisions of the said Ac t passed in the Session of Parliam ent held in.

the 5th and 6th years of the Reign of h is late Maj esty King W i ll iamthe Fourth

,to provide fo r the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in

E ngland and W ales , and of all and every other A cts or A ct of Parliam ent m ade and passed for altering

,am ending , or enlarging the said

A c t,and the powers and provi sions thereof , or in anywise relat ing

thereto which A cts are hereinafter referred to as the said A cts .AND WE further will , grant and declare that the said Mayor ,A lderm en , and Burgesses of the Borough of Bootle - cum -Linacre andthei r Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have a Comm on Sealto serve them i n t ransacting thei r business , and also shall and m ay use

and assum e A rm orial Bearings and Devi ces , which shall be duly enteredand enrolled in the Herald ’ s College . AND . WE further will

,grant,

and declare that the said Mayor , A lderm en , and Burgesses shall beable and capable in Law to purchase , take , and acqui re such lands ,tenem ents , and fi

hereditaments , situate , ly ing and being within the saidBorough , as shall be necessary for the site of the bu i ldings and prem i ses


re ai red for the official purposes of the Corporation . TO HAVEA D TO HOLD the said lands , tenem ents , and hereditaments to thesaid Mayor, A ldermen , and Burgesses and thei r Successors for ever.AND WE further will , grant. and declare that the Counci l of thehereby created Borough of Bootle c um Linacre shall consist of a Mayor

,

six Alderm en , and eighteen Counci llors , to be respectively elected atsuch tim es and places , and in such and the like manner as the Mayor ,Aldermen , and Councillors for the Boroughs named in the Schedules tothe said A ct for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Englandand Wales , ex cept that the fi rst Mayor , A ldermen , and Councillors ,and the fi rst Auditors and A ssessors for the said Borough of Bootlec um -Linacre , shall be respecti vely elected at such times and i n suchmanner as hereinafter m entioned ,

and that the said Mayor,A lderm en ,

Councillor ,s Auditors , and A ssessors so to be elected for the said

Borough shall respecti vely have the sam e qualificat ion , and have ,exercise and enj oy all the powers , immunities and pri vi leges , and besubj ect to the same duties , penalties , liabilit ies and disqualifications asthe Mayor , A lderm en , Councillo rs , Auditors , and A ssessors of theseveral Boroughs enumerated in . the said A ct for the Regulation ofMunic ipal Corporations in England and W ales , so far as the same areor may be applicable to the said Borough of Bootle - cum -Linacre .AND WE further will , grant , and declare that the ti tle and -

qual ification of the Burgesses of the said Borough of Bootle - cum - Linacre shallbe the sam e with regard to the said Borough , as the title and qualification of the Burgesses of the Boroughs named in the said A ct, forRegulating Municipal Corporations In England and W ales are , withregard to such Boroughs exactly as if the said Borough of Bootle cumLinacre had been included In the S chedules to that A ctannexed ; andthat all persons possessing such ti t le or qualification wi th respectto thesaid Borough of Bootle - c um -Linacre shal l be entitled to be placed uponthe Burgess Li st hereinafte r m entioned . AND W E further w i ll ,grant

,and declare that the said Borough of Bootle~ cum ~ Linacre shall

be divided into three Wards,to be respecti vely called Derby W a l d ,

Stanley Ward , and “ Knowsley W ,ard and that the said Wardsshall be bounded and described as follows (that Is to say )

DERBY WARDAn imaginary line drawn from a point in the centre of Kirkdale Road ,on the northern Boundary of the Borough of Li verpool

,i n a northwardly

direction along the centre of Ki rkdale Road , to a point in the centre ofKirkdale Road where the same m eets Merton Road

,thence in a west

wardly direction along the centre of Merton Road to a point where theLiverpool

, Crosby , and Southport Rai lway crosses the last -m entionedroad , then in a northwardly di rection along the centre of the said Rai lway to a point where the sam e crosses Marsh Lane , thence in a northeastwardly di rection along the centre of Marsh Lane and in a northwardly di rection along the centre of Linacre Lane to the northernboundary of the Township of Bootle - cum -Linacre , thence along thenorthern , eastern and southern boundaIies of the said Township , aswell defined by old boundary stones , t o the first mentioned point in

.the centre of Ki rkdale Road .


STANLEY WARDShall compri se so m uch of the Township of Bootle - c um -Linacre as l ieswithin the following boundary (nam ely ) z—An im aginary line drawnfrom a point i n the centre of Kirkdale Road on the northern boundaryof the Borough of L i verpool , along the said boundary in a westerlydi recti on , and on the south side of the North Dock W arehouses , acrossRegentRoad to the south - east corne r of Canada Dock Basin , along thesouth side of the said Basi n to low -wate r m ark

,thence in a northwardly

directi on along low -water m ark for about one thousand and eightyl i neal yards,thence turning eastwardly in a straight li ne to a point in

the centre of Church StreetW estwhere the sam e m eets Regent Road,thence along the centre of Church Street W est , Church Street, Irlam

Lane,and M erton Road to a point in the centre of Ki rkdale Road ,thence i n a southerly d i recti on along the centre of K i rkdale Road to

the starting -p oint in the centre of Ki rkdale Road aforesaid and

KNOWSLEY WARDShall comprise so m uch of the Township of Bootle - c um L inacre as lieswithin the fol lowing boundary (nam ely ) z—An im aginary line drawnfrom the northwest corner of Stanley Ward at low -water m ark in aneastwardly di rect ion along the northern boundary of Stanley Ward toa poi nt i n the centre of Church Street W est where the sam e m eetsRegent Road , thence in an eastwardly di recti on along the cent re ofChurch Street W est , Church Street, _

and Irlam Lane and M erton Roadto a point where the said Li verpool , Crosby , and Southport Rai lwaycrosses the last~mentioned road

,thence in a northwardly d i rection along

the centre of the said Railway to a point where the sam e crossesMarsh Lane , thence in a north - eastwardly di rection along the centreof Marsh Lane

,

and i n a northwardly d irection along Linacre Lane tothe northern boundary of the Townsh ip , thence along the centre of theRim rose Brook , being the northern boundary of the said Township , tothe Rim rose Bridge

,thence i n a westwardly di rect ion to low-water

m ark at a point about one thousand three hundred and twenty -five

l ineal yards in a north -westwardly di rection from the starting - pointatthe north -west corner of Stanley W ard , thence i n a southwardlydirect ion along low -water m ark to the starting - point aforesaid .AND W E further wi ll

,grant

,and declare that each of the said

W ards shal l return si x Councillors . AND W E further wi ll , grant,and declare that'

OUR t rusty and well -beloved Ri chard Holden ofLi verpool

,in the County of Lancaster

,Gentlem an , and i n case of hi s

death , i nabi lity , in capacity , refusal , or default , then OUR trusty andwell - beloved Charles W alker , of No. 5 Cannon Row ,

W estm inster ,Gentleman , do, on the; l 2th day of January , i n the year 1869, m ake anA lphabet ical L ist , to be ’ called the Bu rgess L ist , of all persons whoshall possess the title and qualifications requi red by the said A ct ofBurgesses of the said Borough of Bootle - cum -Linacre as aforesaid , andshall cause a copy of such Burgess Li st to be fixed on or near the doorof the A ssem bly Room s in the said Town of Bootle - c um -L inacre , or insom e other publi c and conspicuous - situati on within the said Boroughduring eight days next before the 22nd ~ day of January in the year


1869,and that such Burgess Roll shall be the Burgess Roll of the

Burgesses of the said Borough entitled to vote in the choice ofCouncillors , A ssessors and A uditors of the said Borough , and theW ards .

thereof respectively ,at any election or elections which may take placein such Borough before the l et day of Novem ber in the year 1869 .

AND WE further wi ll , grant, and declare thatthe firstE lection of theMay or

,A lderm en

,Counc i llors , A uditors , and A ssessors for the said

Borough shall be respective ly holden as follows (that i s to say ) Thatthe fi rstE lection of Counci llors for the said Borough sh all be holden onthe 9th day of March i n the year 1869 , and that the fi rst A lderm en ofthe said Borough shall be elected on th e 16th day of March in the year1869

,and the Councillors for each Ward imm ediately after the fi rst

E lecti on of A lderm en shall choose or assign an A lderm an for suchW ard . And the Counci llors , imm ediately after the fi rst electi on ofA lderm en , shal l appoint who shall be the A lderm en who shall go outof offi ce according to the said A ct, upon the 9th day of Novem ber1872, and thereafter those who shall go out of office shall always '

be

those who have been A lderm en for the longest tim e withoutre - election ;and that the fi rst M ayor of the said Borough shall be elected from andout of the A lderm en and Counci llors of the said Borough on the l 6thday of March i n th e year 1869 , and that the fi rst election of Auditorsand A ssessors for the said Borough and the several W ards thereof

,shall take place on the 6th day of A pri l i n the year 1869 . AND W E

do hereby appoint OUR trusty and well - beloved W i lli am Hall , ofLitherland near the said Town of Bootle - c um -Linacre

,Esqui re

,and i n

case of h is death , inabi lity , i ncapacity , refusal , or default , then OURtrusty and well - beloved Ri chard Johnson , of Crosby , near the saidTown of Bootle - cum -L inacre , E squi re , to ac t as Return ing Officer atsuch fi rst E lection of Councillors of the said Borough and the several\Vards thereof , and at any subsequent E lection of a C ounci llor orCouncillors of the said Borough whi ch may take place , or which itmaybe necessary to hold previ ous to the said 6th day of A pril in the year1869 , with the sam e Powers as by the said A ct for the Regulation ofMunici p al Corporations i n England are given to the Mayor, or to hi sappointees , or .

to the Mayor and A ssessors or to an A lderman andA ssessors at E lecti ons of Counci llors for the Boroughs nam ed in theSchedules to the said A ct.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF WE have caused these OURLETTERS to be m ade PATENT. W ITNESS OURSELF at OURPALACE at this day of in the32nd year of OUR Reign and in the Year of Our Lord 1868 .

Nor m—The foregoing docum entwas p resented to th e Free Publ ic Libraryand M useum by Mr . J . W CAV IC- B ltOWN—C AV IC, who acted as IIon . Sec . to the

Bootle In corp oration Comm ittee.~


RECENT ADDlTlONS TO THE LIBRARY

LENDING DEPARTM ENT

Books marked wit/1 an A sterisk are suitablefor children.

Adcock (A . St. J. ) The luck of Private Foste rAgnus (O . ) Love in our v i llageAllen (G. ) Science i n A rcady . ’

92

Andom (R. ) A . W. Barrett. We three and troddlesArgosy. 2v . 1900

Atlanti c Monthly . 1900

Barr (A . E . ) Trinity Bells a tale of old New YorkBecke (L. ) Rodm an , the boat steererBlackwood ’s Magazine . 1900Boothby (G. ) Long Li ve the King

The W oman of DeathBroderip (F. F. ) Hood (T. ) Edd . Memorials of ThomasHood . 2v .

Broughton (R. Foes i n lawBrown (T. E . ) Letters . Ed. with m emoi r by S . T. Irwin.

2v . 15015Burton (J. H . ) L i fe and corresp ondence of Dav id Hume .

2v .

’46 15029

Cassell ’ s Magazine . 1900 19088Cave (H . W . ) Golden Tips : a description of Ceylon and itsgreat Tea Industry . 1900

Century Magazine . 1900Cham bers ’ s Journal . 1900*

Church (A . J . ) Helm et andCobban (J. M . ) I

’d Crowns resignCornhi ll Magazine . 1900Couch (A . T. Quiller Q. O ld fi res and profitable ghostsCrawford (F. M . ) In the Palace of the King

The Rulers of the South . S ici ly , Calabria , Malta . 2v . 1900Crockett (S . R. ) The Stick i t M in ister’ s wooing , and othei

iralloway stories 16663

Curran (Rt. Hon. J . P . ) Speeches , Ed. with memoi r,by

T. Davis . N.D. 15757

Davis (T. ) Li terary and Historical E ssays . N.D . 15759

National and Hi stori cal Ballads , Songs and Poem s . N.D . 1 1431

Dawson (A . J. The Story of Ronald Kc st1el 16676

Dawson (W. J . ) The Making of Manhood . 1900 15289


Doyle (A . C . ) The great Boer War. 1900*l ) n Chai llu (P. ) The Land of the Long Night. 1900 .

Duffy (8 17 C Gr. A B i 1d ’s eye V i ew of I1 ish History . N.D .

ShortLi fe of Thom as Davis , 1840 1846 .

’95

Dunlop’ (R . ) Dani el O ’

Connell and the revi val of national li fei n Ireland 1900

Dutt (W . A . ) Highways and Byways in East Anglia .Engli sh Illust rat ed Magazine . 1900

Engli shwoman ’ s Lo v e Lettei s. 1901

Feilden ’s Magazine

,theworld ’ s record of industrial progress . 1900

*Fenn (G. M . ) Charge ! a story of B riton and BeerUncle Bart ; the tale of a tyrant

Fi tchett (W . H . ) Ed . VVel l ington’

s Men som e soldierautobiographies . 1900

Fletcher (J . S . ) Baden -Powell of Mafeking . [1900]Roberts of Pretoria the story of his life . 1900

Flynt (J. Tram ping with tram p s : studies and sketches ofvagabond l ife . 1900 15762

Forster (H . 0. Arnold The War O ffice , the A rmy , and theEm pire . 1900 15766

Gallon (T. ) A Rogue in love 16694

Garrett (C . ) Loving Counsels Serm ons and Addresses . ’92 15290

Y Geninen . 1900 19070Gentlem an ' s M agazine . 1900 19058

Good W ords . 1900 19107Goodenough (G The HandyMan afloat and ashore . 19106

Grattan (Rt. Hon . H . ) Speeches : with a comm entary 011 hiscareer and character by l ) . O . Madden . N.D 15758

Harper (C . G. ) TheGreatNorth Road the old m ai l road toScotland 2v . 1901

Harper ’s Magazine . 1900*Henty (Or. A . ) In the Irish Brigade 16654 , 16655 ,

Outwi th Garibaldi 16660, 16661 ,W ith Buller in Natal 16657 , 16658

Hewlett (M . The L i fe and Death of Ri chard Y ea-and -Nay*Hill (C . The Lost Daughter

Sunday , i ts i nfluence on health and 11ational prosperi ty .

’87

'

1 ales about SundayHocking (J . The m adness of Dav id Barl ngHornung (E . W . ) Peccav iHuxley (L. Li fe and Letters of ThomasHenry Huxley . 2v . 1900

Idler. 1900 19092

Jokai (M . ) The day of wrathKelly (J . Fi tzmaurice The Li fe of M iguel de Cervantes

Saaved ra. ’92 15012


Robinson (F. A bridge of glassRosebery (Lord ) Napoleon . the last phase . 1900Russell (D . ) A great temptationSanderson (E . ) The Briti sh Em pi re at hom e and abroad .Vol . 1 . 1901

S locum (Cap t. J . ) Sai l ing alone around the world . 1901

Spon (E . ) 85 (F. N. ) _W orkshop receipts (5th series ) . ’

97*Stables (G. ) In Far Bol iv iaSteel (F. A . ) Th e Hosts of the LordSt1 and Magazine . 1900

*Sturges (J . Guide to the gam e of Draughts . ’

99

Sunday Magazine . 1900

Sutcl iffe (G. L . ) Ed . The p rm c ip les and practi ce ofmodernHouse construction . 2v .

Swan (A . S . Ill rs. BurnettSm ith . An Am er1can wom an 16687 ,

Taylor (Henry ) Autobiography , 1800- 1875 . 2v .

’85

Tem ple Bar. 2v . 1900.

Y Traethodydd. 1900

Tynan (K . .Mrs. H . A . H inIcson. A daughter of the fieldsTh1 ee fai r m aids

*Verne (J . ) The W i ll of an eccentri c 16682

W allace (A . R . ) S tudies : scientific and social . 2v .

W ard (Ill rs . H . ) E leanorW arden (F. ) Ai rs. G’. James. The plain M i ss C rayW atson (H . B . M . ) Chlori s of the i sland .

Watson (J . ) Ian M ada ) en Church Folks ..

1900

The Doctri nes of Grace . 1900

W om an at Hom e . 1899 - 1900

at Hom e.W ood (C . W . ) The Rom ance of Spain. 1900

Yorke (C . ) Jil rs. R . Lee. Carpathia Knox . 16668

Z angwi l l (I. ) The m antle of E lij ah 16674

REFERENCE DEPARTM ENT

Annual Registe 1 , 1899A shton (J . A righte m e rrie Ch ristmasse ! the st01 y of Ch i ist tide .

4to . N. D .

Bacon (G. W . ) Ed . Comm ercial and Library A tlas of ' the BriIsles . 4to . 1900.

Bennett (R. ) and E lton (J. ) Hi story of Corn M i lling . Vol . 3 .

Feudal laws and custom s .


BRITISH GOVERNM ENT PARLIAMENTARY PA PERSBoard Of Trade Rep ortsFi rst Annual Abstractof Foreign Labour Statistics . 1898 -99 .

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99

Strikes and Lock -Outs of 1898.

’99

Trade Unions i n 1898 .

’99

Intermediate Education (Ireland ) Comm issionFinal Report of the Comm i ssioners and M inutes of Ev idence .

Fol io . ’

99

Royal Comm issions

Final Report on Liquor Licensing Laws. Folio . ’99

Index to M inutes of E v idence on Liquor Licensing Laws .Folio . ’

99

Mem oranda of Royal Comm ission 011 Local Taxation . Foli o . ’

99

Reports of Royal Comm i ssion 011 Local Taxation. Folio . ’99

Sp ec ial Comm ittees

Comm ittee of Council on Education . Report 1898 -99 .

’99

Select Comm ittee on Public Lib raries . Reports for 1849 and1850-51 . 2v . Fol io . 1849 -5 1

TurkeyCorrespondence respecting relief work in Crete . Foli o. ’

98

WestIndiesFurther Correspondence relating to the Hurricane 011 l0th - 12th

September , 1898 . Foli o . ’

99

BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS CATALOGUES - w

A frican Plants collected by Dr . F. W elwitsch in 1853 -6 1 . Vol . 2.

Part 1 . Monoeotyledons and Gym nosperm s , A .B . Rendle . ’99 .

Bi rds (Hand -List ) . R. B . Sharpe . ’

99

Fossi l Bryozoa . Vol . 1 . The Cretaceous Bryozoa , J. W .

Gregory . ’99

Lepidoptera Phalaenae. Vol. 2. Arctiadae, S ir G. F.

Hampson . 1900Monograph of Christmas Island , C . W . Andrews . 1900

BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS GUIDE BOOKSThe Genera and Species of Blastoidea . ’

99

Burke (S ir B . ) A Genealogical and Heraldic hi story of the LandedGentry of Great Britain . 4to. 1900

Calisc h (I. M . ) Dictionary of the English and Dutch languages . 2v .

1890- 92

Canada . Official Handbook .

’99

Cappelli (A . ) Dizionario d i Abbreviature , Latin ed Italiane . ’99

Cardiff Corporation : Cardiff Records . Ed . J. H . Matthews . Vol . 2.

4to . 1900Cassell ’s German Dictionary. (Germ an -English—Engli sh -Germ an ) .

Ed. E . W e ir . ’

97Chambers (T. ) W estern Australia. ’

99Crane (W . ) The Bases of Design . ’

98Credland (W . R . ) TheManchester Public Free Libraries . ’

99

Dawson (P. ) E lectric rai lways and tramways,thei r construction and

Operation . 4to . ’97


Dumas (A . ) Celebra ted C rim es . SV .

’95

Eastlake (C . L . ) Pictures in theNati onal Gallery , London . Folio . N.D

.

Greenwood (T. ) fl

d . British Li b rary Year Book, 1900- 1901

Hastings (J . ) Ed . A Dictionary of the Bible . Vol . 3 . 4to. 1900Hern isz (S . ) A guide to c onversation in the English and Chinese

Languages . Oblong 8vo.

’54

Index to the Periodi cals of 1899 . W . T. Stead. 1900

Jackson (B . D . ) A Glossary of Botani c term s . 1900

Leyland (J . ) E d . Naval A nnual , 1900Li verpool . Chart of the approaches to Liverpool , from a Survey m ade

W . Lord . 1854

L i verpool MarineB i ologyComm ittee . Mem oi rs on typical Briti sh MarinePlants and Animals . Ed. W . A . Herdman . 1899 - 1900

1 . A sc idia ,W . A . Herdman .

’99 2. Cardium , J . Johnstone

‘

99 .

3 . E chinus , H . C . Chadwick , 1900. 4 . Codium , R . J . H . Gibsonand H . P. Auld , 1900.

L iv erpool . Souveni r of the vi si t of T.R .H . Prin ce and Princess of W alesto the C ity of Li ver p ool to open the new North DoOks

,

8th Septem ber , 1881 . 4to .Li verp ool Un ivers ity Col lege . - 1901 . 5v .

Local Governm entBoard . 28th Annual Report . 1898 - 99

M acdonald (J . J . ) Passm ore Edwards Institutions : founding ando p ening cerem onies . 1900

New South Wales Legislative A ssem bly . Report of the Departm entof Public W orks , 1898 . Folio . ’

99

Newm an (E . ) A n i llustrated natural h istory of Briti sh Butterflies andM oths. N. D.

Notti ngham Un iversity College . Calendars , 1890- 9 1 ; 1894 - 1900. 7v .Queen Victoria. Early portrai ts . 1820- 1855 . Folio . ’

97

RAY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONSM cIntosh (W . C . ) Brit ish Annelids . Part 2. 4to. 1900

Record of Techni cal and Secondary Education,1891 - 98. 7v

Rhodes (T. ) Ed . Steam ship Guide . 1900- 1

Ric c i (S . ) Ed. E p igrafia Latina. 98

Roberton (W . ) The Novel - reader ’s handbook . 99

Rooses (M . ) Ed . Dutch painters of the Nineteenth Century .Vol . 3 . 4to .

Sm ith (A . M . ) Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Gold and S i lve r Coins ofthe W orld , from A .D . 1885 back to B C . 700.

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86

Spiers (R . P ) E The Orders of A rchitecture, Greek , Romanand Ital ian . Folio ’

97Tim es Atlas . 1900

UNITED STATES GOVERNM ENT PUBLICATIONSAnnual Reports of the Director of the U. S . Geologi cal

1897 -98,parts 3 and 5 and 1898 - 99 , parts 1 and 6 , by C . D .

W alcottReportof the Comm i ssioner of Education for 1897 - 98 . 2v .

Un i versity Correspondence College . Calendar , 1897 - 1901 . 4v .

Correspondence College . M atri culation Di rectory . June 1900W hitworth (G. C . ) An Anglo -Indian Dictionary . ’

85

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A lthough the account given by Captain A . Dreyfus in Fi re Yearsof Ill y L ife of h is trial and imprisonm ent, throws no light 011 the“ A ffai re

,

” yet th e deeply pathetic story of h is sufferings cannot fai lto arouse a profound feeling of pity for the unfortunate pri soner ofDevi l ’ s Island , and to re -awaken the interest taken by the world at

large in h is sti ll i nexplicable case .itSt

The Ship’

s Adventure i s one of M r. W'

. C . Russell ’s happi estinspi ration s . It teem s wi th dram ati c interest . This fascinatingwrite r , who has al ready written a goodly num ber Of successful novels ,shows no sign of com ing to th e end of h is tether .

The leading fiction of the m om ent will be found entered i n ourli st under the following nam es z— Antrobus BachellerBarry Cobb Cobban CrokerCrottie “ Francis Fraser (Mrs. GlynGoss Hatton Hock ing (J . ) and Jokai

l

M

Kernahan M archm ont Marriott M oore (F.F.

Murray Norri s Pem berton Raym ond (W’

.

R idley (Lady ) , Roberts Sheehan and Tynan5?

it

How to Make and How to M end i s a m ost useful,suggestive

,and

fully i llustrated li ttle book . Ittells one how to blast boulders as wel las bi nd books

,how to make a log - roller and blow eggs . For boys of

an ingenious turn .of m ind this work wi ll be a del ight.

In The S in of Jasp er Standish Rita has seldom more bri ll iantlydi splayed her creative and descriptive powers than in this wel l - toldrom ance , which i s undoubtedly one of the best the present season hasproduced .

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81:

A lfred ,the WestSaxon ,

by M r. D. M cFadyen, i s a pleasant book ,which com es outatan appropriate m om ent. The author i s no dry - asdust antiquarian

,but he has an affecti on for pretty legends whether

they have been exploded or not.fit

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In The S ilver Skull M r. S . R . C rockett , as usual , lays firm hold ofhi s li steners i n the fi rst chapter

,and he retains thei r attention with

m ost enj oyable i ntensity to the end . There i s a buoyancy andv ivacity in his writing which is pecul iarly fascinating.

In A Sack of Shakings, by Mr. F. T. Bullen , we see li fe aboardship from the under side . The Shak ings are bits of waste ac cum u

lated during a voyage,and are the perquisi tes of the fi rst mate . The

author was an A .B. seam an and knows whereof he writes , and thesestudies cannot fai l to i llum inate and entertain .

QUARTERLY JOURNAL 1 11

The L ife and Letters of Ph illip s Brooks, by Mr. A . V . G. A llen , i sa noble and enduring m onum ent of the great Am erican preacher . The

work affords a m ost interesting picture of one who not only fascinatedmen by his oratory , butalso stim ulated them by his suggestiveness .

A ll lovers of literature in general , and students of folk - lore inparti cular

,will accord a hearty welcom e to The Golden Bough , by M r.

J. G. Frazer . The work is radiant with the lights thatm ake anancientdarkness i ntelligible and it wi ll probably be looked backupon by our successors as one of the few really significant booksproduced in the am bitious lastyears of the nineteenth century .

Sp anish H ighways and Byways, by M i ss K . L . Bates , i s a bookto be read by all who wish to know Spaniards , and especial ly Span ishwom en and chi ldren

,as they really are . This work may be hearti lyrecomm ended to those who have travelled in Spain , those who intend

to travel there , and those who mean to stay at hom e and travel inbooks .

M iss M . Fi ndla’te r writes with more than ordinary acum en , andA Narrow Way i s very pleasant reading . A S a study of characteralone it should m ake its m ark , the m ore so , contrad ictory though thi smay seem ,

because the story is never sacrificed to the study.

BOOKS AND M APS FOR CYCLISTS

The L ibrary contains m any books and m aps of great value toreaders who i ndulge in the pleasant pastim e of cycl ing . Fi rst onour list we place these works which deal with the const ruction , m aintenanc e , and repai r of the cycle , and w ith the history and art ofcycling generally .

In addit ion thereto the Library possesses a number of road andguide books to various parts of the British Isles

,as well as other places

,which should afford great assistance to local cyclists who contemplate ahol iday tour during the present season . The m ost important are theBri tish RoadBooks

,published bythe Cyclists ’Touring C lub ,

and thesecontain a m inute and detailed descripti on of the di rect ion , surface , andgradients of the roads 011 all the m ain as well as the importantsubsidiary routes in England

,W ales

,and the Isle of Man .

In the charm i ngly written and dainti ly i llustrated “ Highwaysand Byways series,the authors of which cycled through the di stricts

they describe , we have a delightful setof books , the perusal of whichshould afford considerable pleasure to wheelm en .

BOOTLE FREE LIBRARY

Recent editions of the guide book s published by M essrs . Black , aswell as those i ssued by publishers whose nam es are enum erated below

,all cater for the needs of c yclists , and are well i llustrated by m aps .Deta ils concerning other m aps , which m ay be consulted in the

Reference Librarv ,are also given .

Cy c les and Cy c l ing .

Bury (Viscount) and Hi lli er Cycl ing (Badm intonL ibrary ) . 189 1

Ch iefiy of h istorical interest.

Cv c l ists’Tour ing C lub Gazette . June

,1899 , to date

Contains narratives of tours , 01 itical a1tic les on the construction andrelative values of th e vai ious typ es of mach ines, and other m atter of

inte1 estto cyc lists .

Cyc l ists’ Touring Club . Year Book . 1901 157 1 1

Contains exhaustive chap ters on the p hysiology and hygiene of

cyc l ing , h ints on tow ing and 1 ep ai ring mach ines, 1 ai lway rates, steam

boatao

nd fe1 1 y charges , etc .

Derwent.

”A cheap bicycle , and how to m ake i t (i n

“ English M echanic,vol . 1899

Garratt (H.A . The M odern Safety Bicyc l c . 1899A p 1actica1 treatise on th e construction and rep air of th e b icyc le,

with a descri p tion of th e various typ es of bicyc le fittings and ty1 es .

Graham Cycles (in “ Modern M echan ism . ) 1892

Hilli er and Bram son Am ateu r Cycl ing , withh ints on training . N.D .

Marshal l Cy cle repai r and m aintenance . 1900

and Others . The Complete Cycl ist (Isthm ianL ibrary ) . 1897 13727

Cyc les and cyc ling . The cyc le 1n soc iety . The choic e of a mach ine .

How tok eep a m ach ine 1n good ordei . The hum ours of cyc ling . Howtoride . Tou i ing . Rac ing , and training . Clubs and c yc ling institutions .

Tandem s , multi cyc les , and m otor cyc les How to bu i ld a cyc le, etc ,

Stevenson (A . ) Safety bicycle construction for am ateurm echanics (in Am ateur “fork ”

new series , vols . l and 2)9482, 9483

W rinkles for Cyclists , by a practical repai rer (i n “ Amateu rW ork

,

”new series

,vol . N.D .

Cy c l ing Trav e l .

Cole The Gypsy Road a journey from Krakow toCoblentz . 1894 .

1 1083

The record of a cyc le tour through Poland , Hungary, Morav ia,Boh em ia . and Germ any .

Fraser Round the W orld 011 a wheel . 1899 15533

Th e auth or and h is two com p an ions ex p erien ced som e ex c itingadventures during th ei r tourPennell (Mrs. E . B . ) To Gip syland i llustrated by J . Pennell .1893

An ac countof a

W

e) c le tour by Mrs . Fennel ] and her husband

through Hungary and Roum an ia .

W orkm an (F.B . and Sketches awheel in fin de s1ec le1be ri a 1897 1 1156

A desc i i p tion of a cyc le tour th rough S p ain .

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Norway Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwal l ,i llustrated by J . Pennell and H . Thom son . 1898 15639Contains a m ap with author

'

s c yc ling route marked .

Highways and Byways in Yorkshi re,i llustrated by

J . Pennell and H . Thom son . 1899Contains a m ap with author

’

s c yc l ing route marked .

Praeger (R . L. ) O fficial Guide to County Down and theM ourne Mountains (4 m aps ). 1900 1574 1

Contains a c yc ling sketch -m ap of County Down .

Quine (J . ) The Isle of Man Illustrated , ” with m ap1 1899 . 15703

For oth er general guide books see under names of the variousdistricts in the L ibrary Catalogue .

15640

M ap s .

Bacon A tlas of the B riti sh Isles,from the O rdnan ce Survey .

1900.

Th e county m ap s contained in th is Atlas are on a scale varyingfrom two to four m i les to the inch , with m ain and c ross roads p lain lym arked .

Map of Lancash ire for cycl ists and tou rists (Scale , 3 m i les to 1 i nch ) .Cycl ists ’ Touring Club . Road Maps of England

,W ales

,and the Isle

of Man ,see Bri tish Road Books .

Kelly ’s Map of Lancashi re (Scale , 3 m i les to 1 i nch ) .Map of Yorkshi re : East R iding (Scale , 4 m i les to 1 inch ) .Map of Y orkshi re : W est Riding (Scale , 6 m i les to 1 i nch ) .

ORDNANCE SURVEY M APS .

Anglesey,published in 1839 -41 (Scale , 1 m i le to 1 in ch ) 5 sheets .

Chesh ire , revised in 1894 - 95 and published i n 1894 - 96 (Scale , 1m i le to 1 i nch ) , 14 sheets .

Denbighshi re,published in 1840- 4 1 (Scale , 1m i le to 1 inch ), 4 sheets .

Flintshi re,published in 1840and 1898 (Scale , 1 m i le to 1 i nch ) ,

4 sheets .Lancashi re , revi sed in 1894 -96 and publi shed in 1896 - 98 (Scale, 1

m i le to 1 inch ) , 11 sheets .Philip ’ s Map of Staffordshire (Scale , 3 m i les to 1 i nch ) .

Map of VVarwi c k sh ire (Scale , 3 m i les to 1 i nch ) .Map of W orceste rshi re (Scale , 3 m i les to .1 inch ) .

S later’ s Map of Cheshi re (Scale , 3 m i les to 1 i nch ) .Map of S cot land (Scale , 10m i les to 1 i nch ) .

S ee a lso m ap s in the Guide Books enumerated abov e .

N. B .-For maga z ine artic les refer to the Periodical Indexes of Stead and

of Poole, and to the Contents-Subj ectIndex , by A . Cotgreave.

WM . T. MONTGOMERY .

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The Annual Exam inations will be over by the tim e thi s i ssuereaches the reader. The Union of Lancashi re and Cheshi re Insti tutesconducts the comm ercial , dom esti c and woodworking exam i nati ons ,the C ity and Gui lds ov ondon that in plumbing , and the Board ofEducation those in Science and Art subj ects .

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In advanced practical Cookery 16 were exam ined , and in A rtisanpracti cal Cookery 17 . There would have been a larger number but forvari ous reason s— not all satisfactory ones be it noted . A num ber ofstudents did notsit

,after being m ostanx ious to have a second exam ina

tion arranged to give them the opportunity . It i s p robable that thespecial exam ination fee for this subj ectwill be requi red to be depositedi n adv ance in future

,and forfeited by absence from the exam ination . In

the principles of Cookery , 40were exam ined .

Practical Laundry work claim ed ten exam in ees,and 14 sat to be

tested on the Principles . In Dressm ak ing 22 and in M i llinery 12 wereexannned .

Twenty - four were tried in the W oodwork tests and paper . It i sto be hoped that the students wi l l use thei r opportunity in the summ ertim e of getting better acquainted with th e timber - yielding trees whichgrow in our neighbourhood . Ince W oods are not far off, and elm andash and oak

,sycam ore and scotch - fi r

,with other forest denizens , maybe studied in thei r beauty there , at thi s season especially .

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Our efforts to di scover the right kind of man to gi ve a cou rse oflectures on Tim ber and Tim ber con version , & c . ,

have not yet beencrowned with success,though an enqui ry has been set on foot which

may yetprove fru itful .3k

The numbers attending other exam inati ons of the Un ion ofInstitutes were

A rithm eti c 21 German 9

Business Routine 17 Sh01tl1and 36

Comm ercial Geography 1 1 Bookkeeping 53sa,s

The exam i nations l n English and i n Hist-c ry were held to allow ofm arks being added in the competition for the Owen Owens ’ S cholarship

,for whi ch si x names were entered . A certifi cate in E nglish i s

necessary to prevent disquali fi cati on for the Institutes ’ special prizesin foreign languages

. .Throu'gh this regulation som e of our students inthe pasthave been disqual ifi ed from bearing off these coveted honours.

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not officially noti ced . It i s , however , to be hoped that an increasingnumber wil l testthei r knowledge at the elem entary sc ience exam inati ons . It i s especially to be regretted that 110 exam ination of thestudents in the Practi cal Mathem atics class was held

,as only the

elem entary stage has hitherto been taugh t in the School . It wouldbe interesting to know what dem and there is for the advanced course .

it asit

The exam inations for registered students of the Techni cal S choolhave also served for a wider district— students frOm classes at

\Vaterloo and Li therland tinder the Board of Education,hav e sat side

by s ide with our own . Som e pri vate students have also been adm i tted .

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The Board of Educati on has intimated that it will favourablyconsider the award of a Derby and a Davies Scholarsh ip if thecom peti t ion in thi s year ’ s exam inati ons prove satisfactory . - The awardof the Owen Owens scholarsh ip wi ll probably be known by the end ofJune .

The L i verp ool Da ily Post has been advocating the union underone educational authority of Bootle

,Li v erpool , and other urban places

on both banks of the M ersey . The following letter in reply appearedi n the Post of May 1 l th

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY POST.

S ir, -Ih your leader of May 9th you m ix up the discussion of them eri ts and dem erits of the Governm ent Education Bi ll with that ofthe questi on of a si ngle l ocal educational authority for Li verpool ,Bi rkenhead , Bootle , and som e other places .

A s one deeply interested in the developm ent of adult education inBootle , wi ll you allow m e to m ake a few observations on som e of yourrem arks You say , Nei ther i n the case of Bootle i s thereany reason why for educational purposes [ i t] should not be associatedwith Li ve rpool . Letti s exam ine your argum ents i n fav our of yourproposed “ ideal .

1 . Universi ty College ought to becom e the Univ ersity forGreater Li verpool and all the populat ion round about.

”It is very

diffi cult to see why this ideal cannot be accom pli shed quite i rrespecti veof any com bined local authority . Probably it wi ll , whether theideal local educational authority be form ed or not . In other words,

the question of a single educational authority for both banks of theM ersey has no connection with that of the form ation of a Un iv ersi tyof Li verpool .

Second , Bootle cannot hope to enj oy all theeducati onal advantages that associat ion with the educational in stitutions of Li verpool would confer . ’ W hat advantages ?You instance scholarships i n L i verpool art and science and secondaryschools ” and the “ Uni v ers ity and you say these Bootlecannotprovide for its own chi ldren . The plai n answer i s that Bootle

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has at the present two scholarship holders at University College , aPickup scholar and the holder of both a Harland"

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ship,and nextwinter wil l have two or three 5 0115111113Refitfithireg hy;

means of local exhibitions , from the m unicipal tec hnical ’sdhdolso 9 J 3 0 o 1

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If I j udge the temper of Bootle people rightly , som e m ore cogentreasons m ust be advanced before they wi l l partwith thei r educati onalautonomy . The policy of the Town Council and Techni cal InstructionCommittee of Bootle towards education has been amply justified byits results . The people look with pride upon thei r new MunicipalTechni cal School buildings , and with greater pride on the fou r sqhoolswhose home i t i s —viz . , the evening science , technical , and comm ercialclasses

, the school of art (day and evening ) , the school of domesti c arts(day and even ing ) , and last, butby no m eans least, the rapidly - growinginterm ediate day school .

Bootle has j ustified the remarks of the assi stant comm i ssioner , inreference to Bootle , i n the re p ort of the Royal Comm ission onSecondary Education of 1895 , that the acti vity apparent on the

comm ittee and the large am ountalready done w ith sm all m eans suggests that a comm ittee of the Town Counc il , or som emodification of it, will be found the bestbody to deal with secondaryeducation.

”

Cc -operativ e acti on for special purposes between representati vesof the secondary education authorities of the three towns there hasbeen

, and will continue to be , but the absorpti on for the su p posedreason that Li verpool may gain in educational power and efficiencyis notdesi rable eithe r in the true interests of education o r of localself -government as a general principle . I am som ewhat surprised thatthe L i verp ool Da ily Post should advocate so retrogressi ve a step asthe practi cal abol ition of l iberty of self -government in educationalmatters i n a town which , though com parati vely small , has shown theway in many things to some of the larger municipalities . - Yours

, &c .,

J . J . MACK ,

Chai rm an Techni cal Instructi on Comm ittee , Bootle .Bootle , l0th May ,

The new Education Bi ll of His Maj esty ’ s Governm ent i s l ikely togive greater importance and powe r to the Comm ittee of the TownCounci l which manages the Techn ical School . If this bi l l becom e lawthe responsibi li ty for the ev ening contiuati on schools of the Boroughwill rest primarily with the Comm i ttee , although the School Boardmay be charged with thei r management as heretofore , on conditi onsto be m utually agreed upon . In Bootle , hitherto , the two educationauthorities have acted together in harmony , and there is no reason to

apprehend any great change of relati on under the bi ll should it bepassed . The evening conti nuati on schools must be carri ed on underone authority or anoth

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A’noth er point of importance in the B ill i s the widening of the

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p f Ithe : education which m ay be given by th e EducationIC

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ttect

sofff

aGaunt'y Borough Counci l . Hitherto , Latin and Greek(have heen ‘

debar‘

red subj ects i f there should be any demand for classes‘1

fi n , these; languages , the Comm ittee would , after its passing , beglegaLIIy entitled to m eet it. C learly , however , the B i l l i s only a step to‘

a‘ as those who read S ir John Gorst’s speech perceive .

fitat

It i s grati fying to find that som e of the students inthe Techni calSchool are desi rous of attending summ er courses of instruction inChem i stry , Latin , French and other subj ects . It i s thought

,however

,

thatthe dem and for these would not j ust ify the provision of publiccou rses of thi s k ind . The Comm i ttee are will ing

,however

, to givefaci liti es for pri vately - arranged summ er - tim e instructi on .

The Record of S econdary and Techni cal Instruction for Apri l , aquarterly j ournal publi shed by Macm i llan,contain s an i llustrated

account of the Developm ent of Technical Instruction in Bootle .

S oc ial Un ion Notes

The winter session being now over , it will interest som e of ourreade rs to learn what has been accomplished i n the session . The

S p an ish S oc iety ,whose president i s Schor Rosete , has listen ed to

and di scussed papers and lectures on Las aventuras de Gi l Blas deSanti llana , ’ by the president, “ Spanish Li terature ,” by M r. HaroldW yatt , ’ “ Advantages of a knowledge of Span i sh , by Mr. R . G.

Collins and M r. H . K . Quant, ” Discoveries of the 19th Century,

”

by M r . T. J . Fr ance , “ Guardias C i vi les , by M r. G. C raig , “ BullFighti ng , ” by Schor J . Bernal y Ruiz , “ How DO 11 Quij ote becam edubbed a kn ight , ” A Visit to Cuba , ” by Mr. H . VVvatt, Bibliom ania

,by the President, Spani sh Industry , ” by M r. G. Craig . At

m any m eetings shortpassages in Spanish were read , and som e of theSpanish lectures were freely Englished by m em bers . Surely thi s is afine reco rd of work for a fi rstsession

Th e Choral S oc iety has an able conductor i n Mr. J . W .

Marshall , and nearly 60enthusiasti c m embers . M rs. C ross has kindlylent- a piano throughout the sessi on , and this kindness i s greatlyesteem ed . The following prog ramm e has been studied andpractised

011 Hush thee my babySoftly falls the shade of EveningEarly S p ringFarewell to the ForestSoldi ers ' Chorus Gounod

The Gallant Troubadour M i chael WatsonA Spring Song Ciro Binsuri

Com e , Dorothy , Com e S . Vol/cslied

QUARTERLY JO URNAL

THE M AKING OF BOOTLE

Clip p ings f rom Contemp orary Records

THE RECEPTION. OF THE CHARTER

On Monday a deputation appointed by the Bootle Charte r Comm ittee , consi sting of Mr. Sam uel Baker (chai rman of the HighwayBoard ) , Mr. W i lliam M olyneux , and Mr. Joseph Musker, left Bootlefor London , accompanied by thei r solici tor , Mr. Holden

,for the purpose

of receiving the corporate charter for Bootle . On Tuesday the deputa ~tion returned , bringing with them the charter granted by her Maj esty .In the m eantim e , arrangem ents had been m ade for the retu rn of thedeputation , the m anner of reception being placed in the hands of M r.

Cave -Browne -Cave , who , with several influential res idents , proceededin an open barouche , drawn by four grey horses , with postil li on s andoutriders , to Lim e - street Station . The deputation arrived athalf - pasttwo o’clock , and at once proceeded to Bootle . They were m et atthe

boundary road by a large num ber of influential i nhabitants and crowdsof people and a fine brass band . A fter crossing the border

,a pro

cession was form ed,headed by the band and outriders , and a m arch

took place round the township and to the Nati onal Schoolroom , wherethe chai r was taken by Mr. S . Baker , who, afte r an Opening address

,

called upon Mr. Holden , am idstmuch cheering , to read the charter .Mr. Molyneux and Mr. Musker addressed the m eeting on the adv an

tage of the charte r and it was apparent that local feuds hadpassed away

,and thatBootle , with its multitude of ratepayers , wouldbe enabled to sustain its new dignity . The exh ibiti on of the charte r

by the chai rman and three cheers for her Maj esty closed the m eeting .

In the evening a dinner took place atthe Dolphin Hotel , Bootle . M r.

W . Molyneux presided the usual toasts were p roriosed , and theBootleites were never m ore enthusiasti c . Great credit i s due to Mr.

Hudson for the way in which the dinner was provided, and to Mr.

Li lburn , of Bootle Village , for the highly respectable wav in which heturned outthe carriages

,horses

,&c .

THE NEWLV -INCORPORATED BOROUGH

A fortn ight ago we gave insertion in the Da ily Post to a paragraph relati ng to the proceed ings atBootle consequent on the receiptthere of the Royal charter creating that place a corporate borough .There was much rej oic ing on the occasion . The d isplays throughoutthe day were m ostdemonstrati ve

,and in the evening a grand banquet


took place . The account publi shed,owing to then existing ci r

c um stanc es, was necessarily short and incomplete . Itmay not , there :fore , be un interesting if we revert to the subj ect, and g ive som e fewparticulars relating to Bootle itself and to the ci rcum stances that ledto the application for , and the obtaining of , the charter of incorporati on .

Bootle , or Bootle - cum -Li nacre,as i t is in local phraseology styled ,has undergone no little v icissitude within the present

,

century . Likem any other of the townships and distri cts surroundingLi verpool , ithas ,within the last thi rty years

,increased with alm ost m agical rapidity

and its topographical characteristi cs are now very,different to what

they originally were , when Bootle Village was, what its nam e implied ,a rural di stri ct. Between 70and 80years ago Bootle was a place ofm uch m anufacturing importance paper -m ak ing

,

' bleaching,cotton

printing , felhnongering , tanning , glue -m aking , and a vari ety of othertrades

,being carried on there to great extent. The adoption of a

proj ect of the veri est importance to Li verpool had the effect of ruin ingBootle as a m anufacturing place . On the establishm ent of the W ateworks at Bootle i n 1797 (sold i n 1848 to the Li verpool Corporati on for '

the water which supplied th e m anufactories was drawn off,

and necessari ly the various businesses had to be abandoned . Bootlethen reverted to its original character of a rural v i llage . L i ttle m orethan a quarter of a century ago the west side of Bootle , near to the

river,was a gorsy m arsh , and to th i s day Derby - road , now one of the

principal streets , and the districtrunning parallel with theMersey , areby the old inhabitants called Bootle Marsh . At the tim e spoken ofthere were not two hundred houses in the district , and the inhabitantsd id not num ber a thousand . It was then governed by a constable

,overseers, and a surveyor of the highways . There was only one

principal road— nota street— l ined by hedges , and thatwas so narrowthattwo carts could not pass each other without di fficulty . By thatroad the produce from Litherland , Crosby (Little and Great ) , A ltcar

,

Ince,Formby

, was conveyed to the Li verpool m arkets . The roadused by the out-townships southward for that purpose was along thesands . Toll on the conveyances was then taken near to W estm orelandplace

,off S cotland - road

, ,i n Li verpool . In 1830 the num ber of

assessments to the poor - rates was 130 it i s now about and theassessm entam ounts to neae on rateable value .

Bootle for a length of tim e before it was so nearly j oined byLi ve rpool becam e a resort as a favourite bathing place , and subsequentlythe place of residence of large numbers of gentlem en engaged inm ercanti le and other pursui ts in Li verpool . It contains m any of whatm ay be called v i lla residences , and in som e of its streets , Merton - roadm ore especially

,are to be found som e of the best - constructed dwell ing

houses , detached in pai rs , of any town in the kingdom , m ost of whichstand back from the street

,hav e a plot of rai led -off land in front, upon

which grow trees , sh rubs and flowers,imparting to the thoroughfare

the j o int character of a suburban road and a st reet. The num ber ofthe i nhabitants of Bootle at the present tim e is about twentythousand . The boundary of the borough extends south to north , from


E lli s , Robert Sm i th , Joseph Musker, Henry Musker, John Tattersall,and A lexander Starkey and Mr. Cave -Browne -Cave acted as honorarysecretary. Most of the gentlem en of the comm ittee were m embers ofthe Highway Board . After an act ive agitati on of som e n ine m onths ,the prom oters were successful in obtain ing thei r obj ect

,and the

charter , which was granted on the 3oth of December last wasrecei ved on Tuesday week

,the 5th [January] instant , i n the wayalready described . By vi rtue of that charte r the borough will begoverned by eighteen counci llors and six alderm en (si x of the form er

and two of the latter for each ward ) , from whom '

a m ayor will beelected . The boroughl is apporti oned into three wards , nam ely ,Derby , Stan ley , and Knowsley W ards , the respective boundaries ofwhich are m inutely set forth in the charter of incorporat ion . The

j oint constituency of the wards i s M r. Hans Stuart Hawthornei s the barrister appointed to revi se the burgess list. The revi sion willtak e pl ace in February next . The election of councillors is to takeplace on the 9th of M arch

,on which occasion M r. W i l liam Hall

,a

county m agist rate,will act as retu rning officer. The election of m ayor

and alderm en will take place a week afterwards , on the 16th of thesam e m onth . A l ready the approaching elect ion is the subj ect of livelyconversati on , and although no parti cular gentlem en are positi velynam ed as candidates

,m any are spoken of as lik ely to be proposed as

such . W ith respect to the election of m ayor , there appears to be analm ost universal opinion that the dignity should be c onferred upon Mr.

W i lliam Molyneux,timber m erchant , in acknowledgm ent of the

v aluable serv i ces he rendered as chai rm an of the comm ittee appointedto agitate for the charter . Mr. R i chard Holden , soli citor, who has

been the law advi ser to the Highway Board , will act as town - clerkunti l som e gentlem an may be appointed by the council .

Itm ay be m entioned incidentally that the late occasion was not

the first tim e that the Bootle ratepayers battled for their pri vileges .Previously several attempts had been m ade to impose upon them the

Local Governm entA ct, all of which they successfully resisted . The

last attempt was m ade in 1866 , when a poll was taken , the result ofwhich was a rej ection of the adoption of the A ct by a m aj ority of333 the num bers being for the A ct585 against i t 252. In April oflastyear the subj ectof the charter form ed the ground of opposition atthe election of m em bers to the Highway Board . Itwas held by m anyof the ratepayers—by a large m aj ority as i t turned out— that the sine

qua non in a candidate was a favourable v iew to the adopti on of thecharter . A poll was dem anded by the opposi tion , and the result ofthe v oting was the election of gentlem en in favour of the charter by am aj ority of 690

,the num bers being 926 for agai nst , 236 .

The new counci l will comm ence i ts work under m ost fav ourableci rcum stances . Bootle i s one of the healthi est towns in the North ofEngland

,a fact which i s attributable

,i n the fi rstplace to its position

and natural advantages and,i n the next , to i ts adm i rable and perfect

sewerage . Ithas fine open stre ets,and a clean thoroughfare running

enti rely through it from westto east, and the wind prevai ls from theocean eight months out of the twelv e . The Earl of Derby , who i s lord

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of the manor , has been an invaluable benefactor to the township ofBootle , and for that reason it i s that the wards of the new boroughhave been called after him ,

his son , and the place where his mansion issituated . His lordship , we are told , has expended upwards of

i n the formation of roads and sewers for the distri ct,and

that , while the whole of the rates (with the exception of the poor rate )amount to only l s .2d . i n the pound,had the township had to do for

itself what. his lordsh ip has done for i t , itwould have taken a rate ofhalf- a- crown in the pound for the next thi rty years to accomplish

,besides the current expenses .

The Mersey Docks and Harbou r Board bui lt a sea wall and laidout the GreatFloatat Bootle , so that ithas already the advantage ofthe timber trade . Th e two Carriers ’ Docks and the Canada DockBasin are within its distri ct, and the important subj ect of laying outdocks sti ll m ore contiguous to Bootle m ay at som e future period forman important subj ect for discussion i n the counci l of the new borough .There are a canal and a railway running rightthrough the heartof thetown (bringing Li verpool within a seven m inutes ’ ride ) , two adm i rablehighways (one , Stanley - road , the best in England ) , afford ing faci litiesfor entering or leaving Liverpool at two important points

,and these

roads swarm with om n ibuses . W ith al l these advantages i f Bootle“ becom e not , and that shortly , an important place of trade andcommerce

,her local legislators will be alone to blam e .

L iverp ool Daily Post: Sup p lement, January 21st, 1869 .

Norm—The newsp ap er cuttings here rep rinted were p resented to the FreePublic L ibrary and Museum by Mr. J . W . Cave-Brown -Cave,who acted as Hon .

Sec . to the Bootle Incorp oration Comm ittee—C . H . H .

M US EUM NOTES

The m anager of the Great Northern Rai lway (Ireland) hasrecently presented to the Museum two very fine carbon photographs,

the handiwork of M r. R. W elch , Belfast, i llustrati ve of typical Irishantiquities . They m easure 36 x 26 inches . The first affords an excellent view of the Round Tower at Kells

,co . M eath . These towers were

probably belfries , standing on ly a few feet apart from the little prim itive church ; but they were also used as places of refuge when theSettlement was attacked by the Northm ent

,who waged a relentless

war againstChristian Ireland for several centuries . The architecturedates from A . D. 000- 1000. In the second i s depicted a beauti fullyexecuted anci ent Iri sh C ross , which is standing at Monasterboi ce

,in

the valley of the Boyne . This superb cross,considered by m any to be

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the finest of its kind i n the world , was erected to Muredac h ,who was

an abbot of Monasterboice in the early part of the 10th centu ry . It’

has twenty - four scu lptured panels , including th e crucifixi on , the

sacrifice of Isaac , th e empty tom b guarded by sold iers , Sam pson withthe li on and bear , David with Goliath , Christ i n Glory , etc . One ofthe finest of the Round Towers , and two other tall Crosses , arein the sam e graveyard .

On Thursday even ing , March 14th , the Curator deli vered anaddress in the B i rd Room , entitled A nts and their work .

”

There was a large attendance . No in sects are m ore fam i l iar tou s than ants i n warm countries som e of them e ven invade theh abitations of m an or establish their comm uniti es in imm ediateprox im ity to his dwellings . Thei r industry and pertinaci ty have

,even

in rem ote ages , attracted the attenti on and adm i ration of serious m en .

Observati on has revealed m ost rem arkable phenom ena in the l i ves ofthese insects . Indeed , they have acqui red in m any respects the artofl i ving together in soci eties m ore perfectl y than our own speci es has

, ,

and further, they have anticipated us in the acqui siti on of som e of thei ndustries and arts thatgreatly facil itate social l ife . The prolonged

life of ants— in the case of certain speci es atany rate - their exi stencein the perfect state atall seasons , and the highly social li fe they lead ,are facts of the greatestbiological importance . There can

,indeed

,be

l ittle doubt that ants are really not only the “ highest,

” structurallyand m echanically , of all insects , butalso the m ost efficient. Lanternv i ews and specim ens were used in i llustrat ion .

On Thursday even i ng, Apri l 1 1th , the Curator deli vered an

address i n the Bi rd Room . entitled Bees and their work .

”There

was a good attendance . The comm on honey -bee has from the earli estperiods been kept i n h ives for i ts wax and honey . It

,

li v es inswarm s of from to indiv iduals . These swarm s containthree c lasses of bees— the perfect fem ales or queen bees , the m aleso r drones

,and the imperfect females , called neuters , constituting

th e work ing bees . These last are the labourers ~

of the hive . Theycollectthe honey

,form the cells , and feed the other bees and the young .

They are furn ished with a proboscis , by whi ch they suck the honeyfrom‘ flowers

,and a m outh by which they swallow it , convey ing it

then to the hi ve i n thei r stom achs , whence they di sgorge it i nto thecells . Th e pollen of flowers settles on the hai rs with which thei r bodyi s covered

,whence it i s collected into pellets by a brush on thei r

second pai r of legs,and deposited in a hollow in the thi rd pai r. It i s

called bee - bread,and is the food of the larvae . The adultbees feed on

honey,and the wax i s form ed by secret ion . The fem ales and neuters

have a barbed sting attached to a bag of poison , which flows into thewound infli cted by thesting. W hen a h ive becom es over - stocked anew colony is sentout under the di rection of a queen bee . This i scalled swarm i ng . A number of lan'

tern sl ides and spec im ens were usedin i llustration .


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Pond (Zlfaj or J . B . ) E ccentri cities of gen ius m em ories offam ous m en and wom en of th e platform and stage . 1901

Posc h inger (M . von ) L i fe of the Em peror Frederick . 1901 .

Praed (M rs . C . )‘A s a watch l n the night ’

Prichard (H . ) W here black -1 ules white : a j ourney ac 1oss andaboutHayti . 1900

Raym ond (W . ) Good souls of C ider - landR idley (Lady A . ) Anne M ainwaringR ita 111 rs. W. D . Ham p h i ez/s The si n of Jaspe 1 Standish

Roberton (H . S . ) Voices of the past f10111 A ssyria and Babylonia . 1900Roberts (M .

‘ Lord Linli thgowRobinson (S ir J . ) A li fe tim e i n South A fri ca . .1900

Robinson (M . ) The new fam i ly herbal . N.D .

Russell (W . C . ) The ship ’ s ad venture

Sallust. Cat iline . Ed . T. M . Neatby and B . J . Hay es . N.D .

Sanderson (E. ) The Bri tish Empi re ' at hom e and abroad.

Vols . 2 , 3 , and 4 . 1901

Sheehan (P.A . My new curateS imm ons (A . T. ) Physiography for beginners . 1900 .

Sm ith M odern c i iti c ism and the preaching of the O ldTestam ent . 1901

Sm i th (S . ) The claim s of Rom e . 1898

Stadling (J. ) Through S iberia. 1901

Ed . An Am er1can anthology , 1787S teven son (W . ) The trees of c omm e i c e . .D.

Sulley (P. ) The Hundred of VVirral . 1889

Taine (H . A . ) Journ eys through France . 1897

Taunton (E . L . ) Th e English black m onks of St. Benedict .2v .

Taylor (Canon J . ) W ords and places . 1896Teatro m oderno E spanol . 1885

E l tantro p or c iento, p or A . L . de A yala . Flor de nn dia. p or F.

Cam p rodon . La c ru z del m atrim onio, p or L . de Egui laz .

Temple Bar. 1901

Thom as (B . ) In a cathed ral ci tyThom as (E . ) Rom an life under the Cae sars . 1899

Thomas (R. M . ) Trewern : a tale of the thi rti esThompson (G. E . ) A round the Roman Campagna . 1893

Spring at the Italian lakes . 1892

Tynan (K. ) M rs . H inkson. That sweet enem y

Valdes (A . P . ) La herm ana San SulpicioValera (J Pepita J iménez

W all (J . C . ) A lfred the Great , his abbeys of Hyde , Athelneyand Shaftesbu ry . 1900W a1 den (Florence )” Ai rs. F. James. The m aster key

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The Good Red Earth , by Mr. E . Phillpotts,though innocent of

problem s , i s genuinely entertain ing by reason of i ts shrewd observanceof m en and w ,on1 en and its gay hum our , but i t possesses a fulle r valuein its loving obse1 van c e of nature , and its proof that a m an may gete\ en closer to nature than to his fellow m en .

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s Irish Exp eriences, Mrs. K . D . W iggi n has succeededadm i rably in reproducing the pecul iarities of Iri sh wit, courtesy ,and unconscious hum our .

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s Wise M en and a Fool contains a num ber ofessays di stingu ished by independent j udgm ent and sympathetic insight, and altogether the volum e i s one for whi ch every student ofliterature will be grateful .

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Deserting the paths of he roic adventure so recently trodden,Mr. S .

R . C rockett has once agai n taken up the portraiture .of hom ely Scotchli fe . For those who know and love the country beyond the TweedCinderella will possess a wondrous charm .

A new book by that genial sati ri st_

“ Max O’

Rell i s sure of awarm welcom e . Her Royal Highness Woman teem s with brilliantpassages and wi tty sayings

,all of them full of . good sense and wisdom .

The Life of the Bee, by Mr. M . M aeterlinck , is a graceful piece ofwritin g . Th e book i s not in any way a guide to the m anagem ent of ahi ve , buta disquisiti on on the curious , profound , and intim ate side ofits inhabitants . It i s to the reader who i s al ready an earnest studentof bee li fe

,and well acquainted wi th the science of the subj ect , that it

wi l l chiefly appeal .

Mrs. C . Gearey’s Cowp er and M ary Unwin i s a simple record ,

unaffectedly told . Ithas evide ntly been a thorough labour of love toher , and though no new or original m aterial has been introduced them ain features of the poet ’ s l ife

,m ore parti cularly i n his relationsh ip

with Mary Unwin , have been treated with such a reverential handthatthe readei wi l l probably be far m ore interested in the book thanhe would i n an effort of greater p urpose.

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The writers of the various articles included in The Heart of the

Em p i re claim that they have for the m ost part a first hand knowledgeof th e conditions of which they write . The subj ects they deal with ,such as The Housing P1 o ,

hlem The Ch i ldren of the Town , ’ Tem

p eranc e Reform ,

’ ‘The Distribution of Industry , ’ The Church and thePeople , ’ and ‘ Som e A spects of the Problem of Chari ty , ’ are fraughtwith the greatest importance and interest and they are subj ects thatdemand to be considered .

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The following extracts will show som ething of the spirit thatanimates the foregoing work W e would plead for the service ofall who love for all who suffer ; for the proclam ation of the way ofescape from the ev ils to com e for the ass istance of all to whom ignorance in the presence of knowledge is a perpetual challenge , and m i seryin the presence of happiness a perpetual reproach . W e would welcom eenergy however aroused , sacrifice howev er stimulated , ideals howeverattained .

.VVe dem and m ore settlem ents , m ore churches , m ore li vingintercommunication of class and class ; we desi re to force into everyhouse a knowledge to which m any would shut their ears , and to renderthe plea of ignorance of none effect. But over and beyond all these ,as the only possib il ity of peaceful escape from the gathering diffi cultiesof the future , we need a real and living rel igion— som e outp during ofspiritual effort which will revital ise dogm as and injunctions nowentombed in neglected and unreali sed creeds . ”

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Som e readable fiction occurs i n our li st under the followingnames — Barr (A . Besant (S ir Boothby BurtonChurchill Fowler (E .

“ Franci s (M . GarlandGerard “ Grier (S . C . Harte Hope Johnston (MLe Queux M cAulay M cCarthy Mathers Munro

Runkle S lade (A . Steuart (J . and VVh ishaw (F. )

Our Il lustration

MILLE R’

s CASTLE

About 1824 ,M r. W i ll iam Spurstow M i ller , a sol icitor in Li ver

pool,purchased on lease a piece of land on the m argin of the sea at

Bootle , and erected a castellated stone m ansi on , long known asMi ller ’s Castle .

By the exertions of this gentleman , the road now called DerbyRoad

,opening up the whole district , was constructed . Previous to

this,there was no road to the western part of Ki rkdale and Bootle ,except along the m argin of the shore on the west , and a m ost round

about and inconvenient road , following pretty nearly the presentWestm i nster Road , on the east.

In 1827 , St. Mary ’s Church , Bootle , was bui lt at the expense ofthe Earl of Derby , whi ch contr ibuted m aterially to the developm entof the district, the nearest church being atW alton , two m i les di stant.

The front to the shore nextbegan to be fringed with m arine residences .Mersey View

,Brunswi ck Terrace , Stanley Crescent, etc . ,

presented aseries of seaside habitati ons on a m oderate sc ale.

”

Picton’s llIemorials of L iverp ool .


So trium phant was the first hi storical opening on the field withwhich she so intimately identified herself in later years . It was a

wonderful passage from the atm osphere of the Figlia to that of thei ll essiah

,

1 but the English knew now at what level her suprem egi fts lay

,and they welcom ed her on to the ground of thei r fam ousoratorio with a heartiness of recogni tion which she cordially recog

n ised. It was to the Engl i sh that she specially lov ed to sing them usic of the ora torio . Her lastday at Li verpool was taken up withv isits to v iew the new Wing of the Southern and Toxteth Hospital

,due

to her previous year ’ s singing and with receiv ing there a si lver teakettle and a pai r of s i lver c andlesti cks .

011 the evening before sail ing for Am erica , her Swedish heart wasat work she could not let herself go on this n ew and strange ex p erim ent without desi ring the sanction and the blessing of the oldfolk at hom e . So she sat down and wrote the following lette r

,

with its buoyant hope,with i ts tender daughterly hum i l ity

Li ve rpool , 20th August , 1850.

My dear Parents , —May these lin es find you in the enj oym entof good health . I have been very well since I left Sweden , andam now starting fo r the New W orld . For we leave to-m orrowm orning at half -past ten . I have been eight days in England ,and have sung here in two concerts , both of which have beenm ost successful

,and the English publ i c has greeted m e as if I

belonged to them . Ia in m et everywhere with hearti ness and lov e .O h ,

m ay I succeed in deserving them m ore and m ore ! I havebeen to see the steam er which will take us over to Am erica

,and

n othing grander of i ts k ind,I should think , could be found in any

country . The vessel ‘ i s 300 feet by 80,and is decorated so

m agn ificently that one can fancy oneself in a ri ch pri vate house .I look forward to the sea— the ocean W hen I have got across

,

I shall let you hear again . A s my m other wished to have aDaguerreot y peof my poor features , I have sat for one in London .I hope itwill have succeeded . Farewell

,good m amm a and papa

Think of m e with friendliness , and give m e now and then yourblessing , for a parents ’ blessing is som ething good to travel with .

Letm e hear occasionally how you are atPomm ern (a sm all placetaken by her for her parents ) . Rem em ber to look into the bookswhi ch I gav e you , whi le stopping with you there—and m ay theLord Him self enlighten and bless you Thus prays m osts incerelyY our attached Daughter .

The whole letter i s a delightful foi l to the following a ccount ofthe wild popular exci tem ent that was ferm enting , at thi s m om ent,_round the gi rl . The extract i s taken from the “ Il lustrated London

News , dated August 24th , 1850 Li verpool,W ednesday night .

Jenny Li nd is gone —gone am id a scen e of triumph which was notm ore a tribute to her own surpassing work and talen t , than to the artwhich it i s her honour to profess , and to which she does so m uchhonour. E re these few hasty lines are before the reader , thi s incomparable songstress wi ll have perform ed one - fourth of her voyage to


the United States , where , we are assu red , a reception awaits herwhich wi l l cast in the shade even the splendid ovation which has j ustattended her departure from am ong her European adm i rers .

Fresh as I am from thi s magnificent display of public feeling andsympathy , I can scarcely enter into detai ls . W ith ears still deafenedwith the boom ing of cannon

,and the shouts of the thousands who were

assembled on either side of theM ersey,and eyes dazzled bythe gay effect

of innumerable craft, which were i llum ined by the sunlightas they ranto and fro on the river

,or followed in the wake . of the Atlantic , I can

scarcely gi ve you a sober description of this extraordinary scen e .The authoriti es foresaw there would be a great dem onstration , and

took thei r prec auti ons accordingly . Fancy whatm ust be the inte restexcited by Jenny Lind , when the poli ce thought itnecessary to noti fyto M 1

1

. Barnum ’ s agent,that if the lady took her departure from the

quay at the hour generally expected , they could not ensure the safetyof li fe and limb . We doubt m uch whether any sovereign was c om ~

p elled to change the programm e of his m ovem ents for such a reason .Yet so itwas ; and much hurrying to and fro was there in c onse

quenc e . Instead of leaving at nine or ten o ’clock , as had beenarranged , Jenny L ind was obliged to slip outprivately at a quarter toeight

,and go down all manner of back streets to be able to get to thepier unperceived . In this she was successful and while the intend ing

sightseers were disp osing of thei r m uffins and coffee , th e little womanwhom they were all going outto see had quietly gone on board theAtlanti c i n a river steam e r butnotunti l after she had been annoyed(during a few m in11tes’ . stay on the pier ) by a crowd of idlers whopressed round her i n the m ost rude m anner and could scarcely be keptoff by the p olice .

W hen at last the 150 passengers who had engaged all theberths were recei ved on board , with all thei r luggage , and hadtaken leave of all thei r friends

,and when the sound of a gun boom i ng

across the water from the bows of the steam er announced that al l wasready for departure , what was certainly a great scene comm enced .

The immense floating m ass began to m ove , and, as i f by m agic , all thecraftthathad been playi ng about on the sur face of the ri ver , form edinto lines , and m ade a sortof procession . As the Atlantic steam ed upfrom herm oorings

,pastthe A lbertDocks , she turned her head inshore ,

in the di rection of the town,and slowly passed in front of the

magnifi cent line of quays,am idst the enthus iastic shouts of thousands

of human beings who lined the shore,not m erely on the Li verpool

side , but also all along the Cheshire coast, from B i rkenhead onwards tothe m outh of the greatarm of the sea . Salutes were fi red from the

shore and were returned from the Atlantic and the whole scene,—such

an army of craft of all sorts and k indsfloating ,with pennants fly ing— sucha shouting— such a roaring of cannon— such a bright sun l ight (which

broke out suddenly,as i f to afford presage of fai r weather ) —was reallyone of the m ost extraordinary s ights we ever witnes sed . Every eye

was strained to get a sightof Jenny Lind . There the l ittle womanstood on th e paddle - box ,

with her arm i n that of Captain W est, and

waving her handkerchief enthusiastically in return for the greeti ng ofthe crowds who had assembled to witness her departure . ”


Such was her farewell as she passed from the Old W orld to theNew. The subj ect of th is arti cle was born atStockholm , October 6th ,

1820, and di ed atW ind ’s Point ,Malvern , Novem ber 2nd ,1887 . There

are few careers which have a m ore fascinati ng tale to tell of rapid andbri lli ant passage out of darkness into triumph , out of poverty andharshness into a blaze of glory and that story has been m ost sympathetically told by M essrs . Holland and Roc kstro i n thei r delightfulm em on '

.

CHAS . HY . HUNT.

M US EUM NOTES

Through the courtesy of Mr. John M organ, of St. Leonards -onSea,

the collection of corals i n the Museum has been considerablyaugm ented

,and the v arious specim ens properly classified and arranged .

The donor in questi on i s an authority on li fe in th e seas , and i s thepossessor of a very fine collecti on of corals . These have been onexhibiti on atthe South London A rtGallery

,Camberwell . Mr. Morgan

writes W hen asked W hat i s coral ? ’m any persons reply

,

‘A

substance m ade by insects under the sea . ’ Now,it i s t rue that it i s

m ade under the sea , but the m akers are not insects . They are term edvariously Polyps

,a word that may ,

be rendered ‘with many feet , ’though the so- called feet are m ore strictly speaking arm s or fingersalso Zoophytes

,or anim al plants

,because early inv estigators could

not determ i n e wh ich of the two they were or , lastly , A ctiniae ,because these fingers or tentacles stand out from a di sc like so m anyray s com ing from the sun . If there i s n eed for a popular word for theanimals that form coral , i t should be Coral -Polyps , or coral - anem ones .e polyps can only be said to m ake coral in the sam e sense as we

may be said to m ake our bones . Both are involuntary growths , theresultof unconscious operations , by which carbonate of l im e and othersubstances are deposited in the body . The corals are the skeletonsof polyps dead and gone . In thei r form ati on there was no work atalll ike that of the bee , who works up the wax and form s her honeycom b ,adding piece to piece

,but the whole grew within the organi sm , certain

parts of which secreted the l im e supplied by the ocean , deposi t ing iti n varied patterns and form s .”

at

M r. W i ll iam Swan , of Ki ng s Road , has recently presented acase of li ving ants to the M useum . These were taken , i n a torpidconditi on , from a log of Texas ash , consigned to the C log Sole W orksfor m anufacturing purposes . Som e ants li ve in trees , and c ut and

chi sel the wood in a wonderful manner . The bestknown i s F. Fuliginosa,the emm et or j etant , a brill iant black insect . Woodcarving ants alsoin fest the beam s of houses , and imperi l their safety . The curator willbe pleased to show the in sects to anyone inte rested . W e are alsoindebted to the sam e gentleman for a number of larvae of wood - boringi nsects .


The prize distribution wi l l be held before the work of the sessionbegins

,nam ely on Thursday , Septem ber 12th . The proceedings wi ll

be enl ivened by m usic from the Choral Union of the students , underthe able leadership of M r. J . W . Marshall . There will be less speechm ak ing than usual , and a m ore social character will be imparted tothe gathering than heretofore . ’

At an early date the annual m eeting of the Students ’ SocialUnion will be held ; due notice will be gi ven on the School noti ceboards .

A course of lectures on the st ructure and diseases of timber i sbeing arranged for . ItW i ll consistof s ix lectures . Announcem entswil l appear in due course .

Outof eighteen works of A rt sent in to the Board of Educati onby students from the School , with a view to count-i ng towards A rt

teach ing qualificati ons,thi rteen have been accepted . The accepted '

works are in perspecti ve,geom etri cal drawing , ornam ental drawing ,

design,drawing from the figure and m odelling from flowers . Unfor

tunately there was no competition for the Lam b Scholarship in A rt,but the School of Art i s young as yet , and its great advantages butim perfectly known .

The Interm ediate School is steadi ly growing in favour . 011September 7th an exam ination for entrance wi ll take place . Applicati ons should be filed at once . No school in the di stri ct can o ffer betteradvantages in p reparat ion for practical l i fe , and the term s are veryeasy . A rrangem ents are com pleted for an additi onal m aster . The

entrance exam i nation i s not of greatdi fficulty , though few boys undereleven years of age could pass it. N0 charge i s m ade for the exam inat ion and

,i f desi red

,entrance into the school may be deferred one te rmafter passing . A football field has been secured for the approachingseason . Ten free scholarships have recently been established .

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A s to the boys in the school th e head m aster M r. F. Gorse , M .A .

reports that 1" the efforts of the boys since j oin ing us have been highlytone and conduct of the boys I have nothing

but praise . ” The school roll now num bers 83. There i s ampleaccomm odati on for n early twice that num ber .

An appreciati ve notice of the wo rk of the past sessi on appears i nthe County Counc il Times of August 24th .

J.J.O


Bootle Coffee House ”and Its Assoc iations

In a delightful m onograph on Sefton, by W . D . Garoe andE . J. A . Gordon , a copy of which m ay be seen at the Reference Library ,there is an account of the doings of the Mock Corporati on of Sephton ,which occupies som ething like 359 pages of the work . This v olum econtains m any interesting local references

,a few of whi ch are here

given —“ The M ock Corporation of Sephton appears to have beenestablished by Li verpool gentlem en

,m erchants and others , for the

purposes of social intercourse with one another on the Sabbath day .The earliest date [known ] in connection with the origin of th i s MockCorporation i s 1764 , after [which] there i s no account of the Corporation ti ll the year 177 1 , when the ex ist ing records begin . These are contained i n two books of unequal size and interest . From these booksitappears that the m eetings of the Corporation were held from 177 1 -83

exclusively at Sephton , in a room which recei ved the ti tle of theMansion 'House . ’ Itwas part of the old Church Inn .

’A fter 1783 ,chiefly on account of the i nclem ency of the weather during the winter ,

the m eeti ngs were held partly at Sephton and partly at .Bootle atSephton during the summ er m onths , at Bootle duri ng the winterm onths , from the 1stSunday after October 18 to the m iddle ofMay . The

place of m eeting atBootle was called the Bootle Coffee House butits nam e i s chiefly preserved by the canal bridge , which was builtclose to itabout 1773 -4 and wh ich bears the nam e of Coffee HouseBridge . ’

The constituti on of this Corporation was very sim i lar to thatof al l Cor p orati ons , m ock or otherwise . Itwas composed of a Mayor ,two Bailiffs , a Recorder , a Town Clerk , a certain num ber of A ldermen and Comm on Counci l Men

,a Sword - and Mace - bearer , a Bellm an ,

together with a number of Free Burgesses . The Mayor and Bail i ffswere elected annually on St. Luke ’ s Day

,October 18 ~ —the ancient dayof electi ng the Mayor of Li verpool ti l l the year 1836 and 011 the sam eday , or the Sunday following , the other m embers with a few exc ep

tions , A lderm en , Common Counci l Men,and Free Burgesses , i n addi

ti on to the sober ti tles by which they were known,had som e m ock

office or other conferred upon them , or were reinstated in those theyformerly enjoyed . Thus i t happened that nearly every m em ber boresom e whim sical title . In accordance with this rule , every n ew m em

ber on hi s adm issi on into this society—and one or more were adm i ttednearly every Sunday— recei ved at the tim e , or on the Sunday following , a m ock distinction .

Another custom connected with the adm ission of m embers wasd rinking on the m ace . The aspiring candidate had to take the oath , :and then drain the m ace . For thi s purpose one of the sm aller m aceshad a m ovable top , which , being taken off, revealed a hollow space inthe shape of a cup , containing abouthalf a pint . The following isan instance of a m ember drinking on the m ace

AtBootle , 4th Dec . , l 79 l .—On the m otion of Burgess Taylor ,seconded by the Recorder

, M r. Martin was unanimously voted andadm ltted Historical Painter to the ancient and loyal Corporati on , on


which occasion he took the oath of offi ce i n such a style of compositi on as pourtrayed with colour and effect the excellency of the winethat dignified the arti st’ s d raught.

It should be stated that Mr. Martin had j ust expressed a wish topresenttwo emblematical paintings to the corporation to decorate thenew council cham ber wi th

,at Bootle .

A nother custom that was observed on the day of the Mayor ’ selection

,or the Sunday. following , was the appointm ent of a Lady

Patroness for the ensuing year . This was determ i ned by competition ,the m em bers present bidding so m uch wine for the pri vi lege of nom inating the lady .

The nam es of the M ayors hav e been gathered , not only fromthe Records , but from the desks of the pew which the m embersof the Corporation were won t to occupy in Sephton church . Thispew i s sti l l to be seen . In som e cases the nam es are deeply engraved

,

i n others lightly traced i n lead , though still qui te legible.Passi ng on to the bills of fare thatwere subm itted to the M ock

Corporation [note i s taken of the following]Bootle , 28 O ct.

,1787 . This being the first Day of m eeting at

Bootle , M 11 Halliwell [proprietor of the Bootle Coffee House] provided

two ex cellent M uggs of Turtle . N.B .—N0 green Fatt left . ”

Again AtBootle , on Sunday , 4th Jan . , 1789 , being the fi rstSunday in the New Y ear . Present : Mr. A lderman W halley in yeChai r [and] Mr. Recorder

,who d ined together on the following

dishesA Boi led CodFish and t rimm ingsA Couple of Boil ’d Fowls , with proper sauceA Roasted shoulder of MuttonA Roasted spare rib of PorkA Plum b pudding

,m ost excellent . M ine ’d pyes

,toasted cheese

,and som e pretty tippling ale brewed on purpose by A lderm anBanner . ”

A fai r repast for two m en ,though of course m ore were expected .

Howev er , [they must have fared well for adds the ch roni cler]They dined like m en of Gath and proved the strength of the

hum an appetite ad m aximum ,and concluded thei r repastwith a Bottle

of Good old Z erry from the v aults of A lderm an Newsham the Corp oration Vintner .

The Records reveal many other interesting facts , of which thefollowing are examples

' At Bootle,on Sunday 22nd Nov . 1789 . Present : [8 mem

bers] - All of whom din ed together and spent a v e ry agreeable afternoon unti l they were interrupted by shrieks that rent the ev

’n ing

air,

’ and upon going outto inqui re i nto the Cause ,

'

Itwas discoveredthat Mr. Burgess Bevan had been th rown over hi s Horse ’ s head (to thedanger of his own neck ) occasioned by a fi lthy , nasty , Black Cur,


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A lexander (Mrs ) Mrs. A . Hector . The heritage of Langdale 16810Andom A . W. Barrett. Martha and I 16764

Atlanti c M onthly . 1901 19147A rgosy . 1901 19 137

Barr (A . E . ) The m aid of Maiden LaneBesant (S ir W . ) The Lady of LynnB i sm arck (Pr inc e) . Love - letters . 2v . 1901

Bi ss (Cap t. H . C . J. ) The reli ef of Kumasi . 1901

Blackwood ’ s Magazine . 1901

Boldrewood (Rolf ) T. A . Browne. In bad com pany, andother stoxies

Boothby (G. ) The mystery of the clasped handsBrabrook (E . W . ) Provident societi es and industrial welfare . 1898Broadhurst (H. ) The story of h is li fe , from a stonem ason ’ sbench to the Treasury Bench . 1901

*Buckley (A . B . ) M rs . Fisher . The fai ry - land of sci ence . 1899

Burton (J . Bloundelle A vanished ri val

Cassell ’ s Magazine . 1900- 1901

Churchi ll (W . ) The cri sisC li fford (M rs. W . K . ) The last touches and other stor i esC louston (J. S . ) The lunati c at largeCornh ill Magazine . 1901

C rock ett (S . R. ) C inderellaCycli sts ’ Touring Club. Briti sh Road Book . Vol .

(S cotland ) .Cym ru. l 90l

E nqui re within upon everything . 1899 13845

Farjeon (B . L . ) The pride of raceFeilden

’

s Magazine . 1901

Fison (A . H . ) Recent advances in astronomy . 1900

Fi tzgerald (P. ) Fi fty years of Catholi c li fe and soc ial progressunde r Card inals W i seman Mann ing , Vaughan , andNewman . ' 2v . 1901 15310

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Fowler (E . T. ) S i rius , and other storiesFrancis (M . E . M rs. F. B lundell . Fiander’s widow

Francis Letters . Ed. B . Franci s and E . Keary with a noteon the Junius controversy by C . F. Keary . 2v . 1901

Gallon (T. ) The second Dandy ChaterGarcke (E . ) and Fells (J . M . ) Factory accounts thei rprinciples and practice . 1893

Garland (H . ) Her m ountain loverGearey (C . ) Cowper and Mary Unwin . [1901]Gentleman ’s Magazine . 1901

Gera1d (D . M adame L . de Longgarde. SawdustThe suprem e crim e

Gissing (G. ) Charle s Dickens . a criti cal study . 1898

Gomm e (G. L . ) London l n the 1 eign of Victoria (1837 - 1897 ) 1898*Gordon (W . J. ) Our country ’

s shel ls and how to know them . N.DGould (N. ) Running itoff ; or , hard hitGould (S . Baring ) Cheap Jack ZitaGreswell (W .P . The growth and adm in istrati on of the

British Colon ies , 1837 - 1897 . 1898

Grie1 (S C . ) M i ss H . Greig . The warden of the m arshesGriffi n (G. ) The Colleen BawnGriffiths (Maj or A . ) The Rom e ExpressGruggen (G. ) and Keating (J Stonyhurst : its past hi storyand life in the present. 1901 .

Gwynn (S . ) Tennyson a criti cal study 1899

Hamm erton (J . A . ) Tony ’s Highland tou r . 1901

Harpe i ’8 Magazine 1900- 1901

Harte (Bret ) . Under the redwoodsHeart of the Empire . discussions of problem s of m odem cityli fe 111 England . W ith an essay on im perialism . 1901 .

Hentyr (G. A . )

o

A h idden foeHinsdale B(B A . ) Horace Mann . (GreatEducators . )Holland (C . My Japanese wifeHope (G. ) A Cardinal and his conscienceHopkins (T. The man i n the i ron mask . 1901

Hornung (E . W . Under two skiesHum e (F. ) The bishop ’ s secret

Jacobs (W . W . ) The skipper ’ s woom gJam es (G. P. R . ) Beaucham p ; or , the error

Cl1a1 les Ty i rell 01 the bitte r bloodHeidelbergRussell . a tale of the re i gn of Charles II.

Johnston (M . ) The O ld Dom in ion

Kernahan (C . ) W i se m en and a fool . 1901Knight (G. ) The ci rcle of the earth

Landor (A . H . Savage China and the A ll ies. 2v . 1 901

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158 15


Le Queux (W . The gam blersHer Maj esty ’s m in i ster

Leaning (J . ) Bui lding specifications,for the use of architects

,surveyors,builders

,etc . 1901

M cAulay (A . ) Black MaryM cCarthy (J . ) Monon ia a 1OV e story of Forty eight ’M c Carthy (M . J . F. ) Fiv e years i n Ireland

,1895

Mack intosh (A . ) Timber sawing,m oulding

,etc . 1897

M aeterli nck (M . ) The l i fe of the bee . 1901

M arry at (F. M rs. E . L ean . A blighted nam eMarsh (R . urios : som e strange adventures of two bachelors

The house of m ysteryM athers (H . ) M rs. H . Reeves. CindersMonroe (W . S . ) Com enius . (GreatEducators) 1900

Munro Doom CastleM usic S cores

Farm er (J Ch 1 i stand hi s soldie rs .Franz ( .R Thi rty songsTaylor (S . Coleridge Hiawatha’swedding feast. (Cantata )

Norri s (W . E . ) Matthew Austin . .

Ogi lvy (A . J . ) The elem ents of Darwinism . 1901

O liphant (J . ) Victorian noveli sts . 1899

Oppenheim (E . P. A m onk of C rutaO

’

Rel l (Max ) P. Blouét. Her Royal Highness W om an . 1901O verton (J . H . ) The A nglican Revi val .

Phillpotts (E . ) The good red earth*Pinto (F. Mendez ) . Voyages and adventu res .

Renan (E . ) Recollecti ons of my yout-h . . 1897R idge (W . P . ) London onlyRi ta . M rs . W. D . Hump hreys. M i ss Kate o r

,the

confessions of a caretakerRose (J. H . ) The ri se of dem ocracy . 1898

Runkle (B . ) The helm et of NavarreRussell (W . C . ) A m arriage at sea

Slade (A . F. ) A wayside weedSm ith (G. A rm itage The free trade mo1 en1ent and its

results . 1898

Sm ith (J . ) A p ilg 1 image to Italy . 1899

Steuart (J. A . ) The eternal questSti llm an (W . J . ) The autobiography of a j ournal i st.

Strand Magazine . 1901

Stretton (C . E . ) The historyof the M idland Rai lway. 1901

Stubbs (Dean C . Charles Ki ngsley and the ChristianSocial M ovem ent . 1900

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16790

13437

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Royal Comm issions

South A fri can Cam paign . Report and m inutes of ev idenceupon the care and treatm ent of the sick an d wounded .Folio . 1901 .

S iege of Sebastopol , 1854 - 5 .

“

An ac count of the artillery operati ons , compi led by W . E . M . Reilly . 4to . 1859

of Sebastopol . Jou rnal of the Operations conducted by theCorps of Royal Engi neers . 2v . (with plans ) 4to . 1859

BRITISH M USEUM PUBLICATIONS : FACSIMILE S

Kenyon (F.G. ) Ed . Facsim i les of B ibli cal Manuscripts in theBrit ish Museum .

- 4to. 1900

Bryant Ed . Picturesque Am erica. 4v . 4to . N. D.

Canadian Governm ent . Experim ental Farm s . Reports for 1899 . 1900Cassel l ’s Ri vers of GreatB ritain (East Coast) . 4to. 1889

Ri vers of GreatBritain (South and VJestCoasts ) . 4to. 1897The Royal R iver the Tham es , from sou rce to sea. 4to. N. D.

Cheyne (T. K . ) and Black Edd . Encyc lop eedia Bibli ca a

criti cal the Bible . Vols . 1 and 2 . 4to . 1899 - 1901

Chichester (H . M . ) and Short (G. Burges The records and badgesof every regim entand corps in the British A rmy . 1900

Co- operati ve Congress (31stand 32nd A nnual ) 1899 - 1900. Proceedings .4to. 1899 - 1900

Cotgreave (A . ) A contents - subj ect index to general and periodicalliterature . 1900

Durer Soci ety : [Portfol io] with introductory notes by C . Dodgson .l st, 2ud and 3rd seri es . 1898 - 1900

Egypt Exploration Fund . A rc heeologic al Report, 1899 - 1900. Ed.

F. L . GriffithFe rguson (J . ) Som e aspects of bibliograp hy . 1900

Gi ovanni Fi orentino . The l ’ec orone .

Green (J . R . ) A short history of the Engli sh people . Illust .3v . la . 8vo. 1898

Green e (W . T. ) Parrots in captivi ty . 3v . 1884 - 87

Gross (C . ) The sou rces and literatu re of Engli sh History , fromearl iesttim es to about 1485 . 1900

Guyot(A . ) Physical geography . 4to. [ 1885]

Harm er (S . F. ) and Shipley (A . E . ) Edd . The Cam bridge NaturalHistory . Vol . 8 . Am phibia and repti le s , H . Gadow . 1901

Haydn’ s Dictionary of dates and un iversal inform ation . 1898

Herdman (W . G. ) Pictorial rel ics of Anc ient L i ve rpool . Fol io . 1843Holm e (C . ) Ed . Modern Briti sh dom esti c architecture and decora

ti on Studio Summ er No. ) 1901 .

M odern p en drawings European and Am eri can Studio W i nterNo . ) 1900- 1901


Holmes (R. R . ) Queen Victoria . 4to . 1897

Humphreys (H . N. ) Masterpieces of the early printers and engraversa series Of facsim i les from rare and curious books. Foli o. 1870

Hutchinson (H. Gregory (J. and Lydekker (R. ) The l i vingraces of m ankind . Vol . 1 . 4to . [1901 ]

Huxley (T. H. ) The scientific m em oirs . Ed. S ir M . Foster and E .

Ray Lankester . Vol . 3 . 1901

Index to the Periodicals Of 1898 . (Review of Reviews

Library : a quarterly rev i ew of bibliography and library lore . Ed.

J . Y . W . Macalister . New series . Vol . 1 . 1900

Library A ssociation Record : a m onthly m agazine Of l ibrarianshipand bibli ography . Ed. H . Guppy . Jan . 1899 to date

Library Journal . Jan . 1892 to dateJournal . General Index . Vols . 1 -22 (Sept . 1876—Dec . 1897 ) 1898

Library W orld . July 1898 to dateLiverpool and Bi rkenhead Official Red Book for 1901Liverpool Athenaeum . Proceedings of the celebration of the centenary ,Dec . 19th

,1898 . 1899

Li verpool E ngineeri ng Society . Transacti ons . Vol . 21 . 1900

Liverpool Geological Soci ety . Proceedings . Session 4 1 . 1899 - 1900

Liverpool Marine B iology Comm ittee . M em oi rs on typical B ritishm arine plants and anim als . Ed. W . A . Herdman . Vols . 5 , 6 and7 . 1901

5 . A lcyonium , S . J . Hi ckson . 6 . Lep eop hth eirus and Lernaea, A . S cott.

7 . L ineus , R . C . Punnett.

Liverpool Marine B iology Comm ittee . Reports upon the fauna OfLi verpool Bay and the neighbouring seas . Ed . W . A . Herdman .5v . 1886 - 1900

Local Governm ent Board . Annual Report (29th ) . 1899 - 1900Low (S . ) The English Catalogue of 1901

Morrah (H . ) Ed . The Literary Y ear - bookandBookm an ’ s Directory 1901Museum s A ssociation . Proceedings

, 1900Musicians. Incorporated Society . Register of m embers , 1901Nettleship (J . T. ) George Morland and the '

ev olution from h im ofsom e later painters . (Portfolio ) . 1898

New York Public Library Bulletin, Jan. 1897 to date

Price (W . F. ) Inscribed and dated stones 011 som e O ld Lancash irehouses . 1901

Quevedo Villegas (F. G. de ) Pablo de Segovia the Span ish sharper ,i llustrated by D . Vierge

Rabelais (E . ) Gargantua and hi s son Pantagruel . 2v .

RAY SOCIETY PUBLICATIONSBuckler W . ) The larvee of the British butte rfl i es and m oths .

Ed. G. T. Porritt . Vols . 8 and 9 . 1899 - 1901


Sayle (C . E . ) Early Engli sh printed books in the University Library,

Cam bridge (1475 Vol . 1 . (Cax ton to F. Ki ngston ) 1900

School W orld : a m onthly m agazine of educational work and progress

, Jan . 1899 to dateSm ith (A . ) Ed . The Registers of the Parish Church Of W alton -0n

the-Hil l,1586 - 1663 . 1900

Spiers (A . ) Dictionnai re Général Francai s -Anglais , Anglais -Francais.2v . 1882

Spofford (A . R . ) A book for all readers . 1900

Straparola da Caravaggio The Nights . 2v .

Thom son (D . Butler (H . E . ) and Halton (E . G. ) Edd . The

Paris Ex hib i ti on , 1900. 4to . 1901

UNITED STATES GO VERNMENT PUBLICATIONSReport oi the Comm i ss ioner of Education for the “year 1898-99.

2v . 1900

LIBRARY AND M US EUM S TATISTICS

The i ssue O f books from the Library during the past two m onthshas been as follows

The v i si ts paid to the Reading Room s and Museum

Museum

JULY

On the 31st Of July , 3095 persons had borrower’ s tickets1 159 chi ldren were borrowers , and 206 teachers had obtained thespecial teacher ’ s ti cket

154 BOO TLE FRE E LIBRARY

In The Eter nal City , Mr. H . Caine has produced a rem arkablenovel . The serious doctrine Of the book is preached wi th am azingrhetorical force

,and it i s i nterwoven with a love story which i s told

with considerable sk i ll and power .

Tr istram of Blent i s a book thatdeserves attention . It shows awonderful insight into character ; and i t i s full of the bri lliant andsubtle conversati on in which Mr. A . Hope so easily ex cels .

sa:a

M r. H . VJ. Mac rosty’s Trusts and the State is a tem perate , lucid ,and thoughtfully written work , and hi s exposition of th e Fabian

point O f v iew 1 11 relati on to the econom i c p roblems of which he treatsi s worthy of the attention and respect even of those m ost stronglyopposed to the tenets of the body of whi ch he is so able and wellequ ipped a spokesman .

31:

Commerc ial Education atHome and A broad , by M essrs . Hooper ,and Graham , treats O f the much discussed subj ectof comm ercial education . A dm itti ng that fai r provi sion has been m ade for teachingapplied physical sci ence as it bears on producti on ,

the writers pointoutthe absence of any proper provi s ion for train ing i n Comm erce , andsketch a curri culum beginn i ng with a general educati on that replacesthe classics by Fren ch and Germ an , and leading up to a special course .They then give a full account of the progress m ade throughout theConti nent i n this di rection , and explain how naturally our countinghouses com e to be fi lled with Swiss and Germ ans . Lastly they descri bewhat has been done ath om e , with good result , in the West R iding

,

and furnish h ints for the organisation Of Comm ercial Classes andE vening S chools .

M r. E . Phi llpotts’ The Striking Hours represents a series ofstor ies told for the m ost part by the‘ folk . They t reat Of the oldsupersti ti ons

,O ld custom s

,and O ld loves and hates Of fifty years agoupon Dartm oor , and by putting the narrati ves into the m ouths of those

who hav e lived through them the writer gains much in nervous forceand picturesqueness O f description .

Mr. H . S . Sutton ’ s volum e of Poems i s devoutly m editative incharacter . His range i s not wide ; but i t i s im p ossible to read h ispoetry care fully without percei ving that im aginati on i s at w orkth roughout, and that the individuali ty of the writer i s impressedupon every page .

In the Young Barbari ans,“ Ian Maclaren has produced an

ex ceedingly pleasant and healthy Scottish story . Boys wi ll revel init, and grown - ups may also derive m uch entertainm ent from its

hum oursom e pages .


The Story of “ Auld Lang Syne”

Scotland ’ s songs are Scotland ’s pride and every other country ’ sadm i ration . In the spi ri t of the nation ’s genius they speak thatlanguage which is comm on to all nations and to all t im es—the languageof the human heart. This i s especially true of Auld Lang Sync ,which may , perhaps , be styled the Scotti sh National Anthem ,

ananthem whose ennobling strains awaken a chord of kindly brotherhoodand patrioti c fervour in all true Scotti sh hearts ; and not in thesealone , but , wheresoever its im port i s m ade known , in the hearts of allour brethren of m ankind .

Auld Lang Sync , though i t owes its ‘

birth to Scotchm en and toScotland , has been so popular for qui te a hundred years wit-h EnglishSpeaking people all the world over , that itmay fai rly rank as a lyri cof universal sentim ent and universal nationality . But contrary tothe general belief Auld Lang Syne was not written bythe author Of Tam O

’

Shanter.

”And

,as a matter Of history

, Burnsnever once claim ed the song as h is It so happens that

,l ike many another ballad that lives in the hearts of the people , thi sessentially hum an song was written by a writer unknown, who mayperhaps hav e never written anything else worth rem embering. In

Scotland . m any Of the humbler folk possess the giftof m ak inghom ely v erses , and m any a piece has found its way into the worldanonym ously , to find a reciprocating welcom e in many a heart andhom e . But, though Burns did not write thi s song , which is includedin nearly every collection of his poem s published , he was the fi rst togive i t to the world in the form which we now know and sing it . In

deed,m any pieces have been attributed to Burns which he never

wrote Many inj udicious Burnsites have been too anx ious toover - exalt a reputation that already stood and stands as high alm ostas any poetcould wish

However , i t i s notof Burns’ genius that Iwish to write - that haslong been acknowledged—but of Auld Lang Sync and his connectiontherewith . Naturally the ph rase i s of the heather born , and eventhe quaint lex icographer, O ld Jam ieson , could nothelp growing sentim ental over the soothing words , in hi s Scottish Dictionary To

a native of the country,he says

,it conveys a soothing idea to the

m ind,as recall ing the m em ory of j oys that are past . It “ compresses

into small and euphonious m easure m uch Of the tender recollection ofone ’s youth which , even to m iddle - aged men , seem s to be broughtfrom a very distant but very dear past.

”A uld Lang Sync , be itrem embered , was a ph rase in use in very early tim es , and i t c an betraced to the days Of E lizabeth , i n connection with the social feelings

and the social gatherings of the Scot as a convivial and friendly songit existed in broadsides prior to the close of the 17th century . AI1

early version of the song is to be found in Jam es VVatson ’

s collection


of Scotti sh songs , publi shed in 17 11 , and i t will be seen from the

v e rses quoted below , that Burns very spi ritedly changed the weakperiphrasis of the O ld poet i nto the tender and beauti ful phrase sopeculiarly pathetic and S cotch

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

And never thoughtupon,

The fiam e of love exti ngui shedAnd fai rly past and gone

Is thy k‘ ind heartnow grown so cold ,In that loving breast of th ine ,

That thou canst never once reflectOn old long syne ?

Here we have a very fine idea badly expressed—the touch of sincerityseem s lacking , whilst the art is comm onplace . This stanza is from apoem written by S ir Robert Ayton (1570- 1638 ) O f Kin caldie. Hewas the friend of Ben Jonson and other E l izabethan writersS ir Robert undoubtedly obtained the ph rase from current idiomati cexpressions A l lan Ram say

,who

,before the advent of Burns

,

’

was m aking an encou raging reputati on as a writer of verses and '

a

com piler O f O ld songs and ballads soon seized upon the rough lyricbelieved to have been polished by Franc is Sem p il l , of Beltrees a

and destroyed the intention '

of the original , as may be Observed fromthi s v erse , i n which Ram say casts good - fellowship overboard

, and

makes love the keynoteShould auld acquaintance be forgot ,Tho

’ they return with scars ,These are the noble hero ’s lotObtained in glorious wars

W elcom e my Vara , to my breast ,Thy arm s aboutme twine

,

And m ake m e Once again as blestA s Iwas Iang

This song of honest A l lan ’ s was fi rst printed in his Tea-Table Misc ellany i n 1724 ,

from which i t was transferred to Johnson ’ s “MusicalMuseum ,

” published during Burns ’ soj ourn in the Scottish capital .Burns , who was partly responsible for the editing of the MusicalMuseum ” for Johnson , i n which so m any ancientpieces fi rst saw the

l ightas printed m atter,m ade m any annotati ons and alte rations

, andof A uld Lang Sync he wrote Ram say here , as usual with h im ,has taken the idea of the song and the fi rst li ne from the old fragment 3which wi ll appear in the Museum ,

’ vol . v . ” Of th is O ld fragmentI shal l have som ething to say later . But i t may be as well to statethat i t i s very evidentthat there were several verbal versions of thissong long known to the peasantry and others of Caledon ia ste rn andwild . It was decidedly a folk - song , and though it i s not easy toconj ectu re when , or how Auld Lang Sync arose as a ' form of speechor song

,its i ntroduction into literature i s not so problem atical .

On the 17th December, 1788 , Mrs. Dunlop,O f Dunlop recei ved

from Burns a lette r , i n whi ch the following passages occurred


W e twa hae run about th e braes,

And pu ’d the gowans fineButwe ’ve wander’d m ony a weary footS in

’ auld lang syne .W e twa hae p aidl ’t i ’ the burnFrae m orn ing sun till dine

But seas between us braid hae roar’dS in

’

auld lang syne .And h ere’s a hand my trusty fere ,And gie‘s a hand 0’

thine ,And we ’ l l tak ’ a right guid -willi e waught ,For auld lang syne .

And surely ye ’ ll be your pint - stoup,

And surely I’ l l be m i neAnd we ’ l l tak ’ a c u p 0

’ kindness yet ,For auld lang syne . ”

Itm ay be noted that between th e version given toMrs . Dunlop andJohnson and thatis sued by Thom son there i s one important d ifferencein the sequence of the stanzas . In Johnson ’ s publication the last v ersei s placed as the second , and this arrangem ent was used for som e years ,butthe order of the stanzas , as g i ven above , i s obviously correct .

A s to the m ean ing of will i e -waught, ” several opinions have beenoffered . However , in a collection of Scotch songs , published byBlack ie and Son i n 1843 , the words “ guid ” or gude and “ wi llieare j oined together by a hyphen

,which m eans

,will take a right good

w il ling (God - be-with -you ) draught—the draught of good -will andfri endship . The grasping of hands in the sam e verse seem s prettystrong proof thatthat i s its m eaning . By the way , i n th e Museumthe words are signed with a Z ” signifyi ng that it i s an old songwith add i tions and alteration s . The fi rst

,fou rth and fi fth verses are

unden iably fragm ents of an old ditty ; the second and thi rd versesbet ray the tenderness and sentim entof the poet him self , and these weare inclined to accept as being by Burns.

The facts above recorded are taken from Mr. S . J . Adai r .Fitz -Gerald ’ s Stories of Famous Songs. This work is the practicalproof of som e fifteen years agreeable labour in the fields of lyric literature and song lore , and m erits the attent ion of those who love the oldsongs .

CHAS . HY . HUNT.

Edna Lyall ’s ” new Seventeenth -Century story , In sp ite of all , i stold with a keen regard for h istori cal accuracy and with all theauthor ’s old charm of manner.

oUA RTERLY 110URN/1L

MUS EUM NOTES

Mr. A . G. Hillhouse of Hornby Road , has recently presented tothe Museum a fine Moose ’ s head , m ounted on an oak shield . In ao

c ep ting the gift the Comm ittee accorded the donor a special vote ofthanks . The Moose belongs to the fam i ly Cervidae, the A lces m alekis

of those who hold thatiti s the sam e as the Elk of Europe the Moosedeer of Am erica , by som e considered specifically distinct from the

European Elk ,and then called A lc cs amer icana , i s the largest animal

of its kind i n Am erica , and corresponds to the E lk of Europe , beingv ery different from the Am eri can Elk or W apiti . The m ale m ay at

tai n to the heightof 17 hands , and weigh lbs or m ore . The

form is very ungainly , with humped withers and sloping quarters . anda very heavy,unshapely head . The horns are enorm ous and c om

p letely palmate , with m any short points . A kind O f bag or pouchhangs from the throat. The lim bs are thi ck , with broad hoofs ; thetai l i s very short the ears are large and slouching and the m uzzle i svery broad

,with a th ick pendulous upper l ip . The colour i s brown

of variable shade . The fem ale i s hornless,and m uch sm aller and m ore

slightly bui lt than the m ale . It is grati fying to note the increasinginterest i n the Museum on the part of local residents .

Am ong the m ost helpful of m odern developm ents in the work of amuseum i s the increasi ng use of photography in i llustrating featureswhich cannot be adequately represented by specim ens alone . Thus ingeology the usual collection of m inerals

,rocks

,and fossi ls may besupplemented with advantage to students

,and at the sam e tim e be

made of m uch greate r interestto the general public by a carefullyselected seri es of photographs i llustrati ve of typical geologi cal phenomena . S im i larly in zoology , m uch valuable inform ation may beconveyed as to the habits , habi tat, and associati on with other form s ofall classes of animals . Bi rds in parti cular furni sh innum e rable op p ortanitics i n this di rect ion . A large number of such pictures m ay beinspected at the Museum . Nor i s photography without its uses in theherbarium . The characteristi c featu res of our forest trees cannot beshown by the d ried twig on the herbarium sheet, butm ay be perfectlyseen in a good photograph . A 11 interesting collecti on of photographsof fam i liar t rees in thei r summ er and winte r appearance

, with en

larged views of thei r bark , leaves , flowers , and fruit has j ust beenacqui red by the Comm i ttee,and these are now on view in the M iddle

Room .

On Thursday evening , O ctober 24th , the Curator delivered anaddress in the Bi rd Room on “ The Art of the Potter. ” There was afair attendance . The lecturer , after referri ng to the work of theancients , gave an account of the rise and progress of Bri ti sh pottery .


Vessels made from clay have been known in Britain from the earl iesttim es , though i t is only within the lasttwo centuries that they havebecom e of general use . The ancientBritons used clay to m ake theurns i n which the calci ned bones of thei r dead were placed , and theyhad no defin ite obj ects of dom esti c use in pottery . The Romans , whenthey in vaded Britain

,brought many of their arts with them

,and their

pottery shows a great advance but the Anglo -Saxons fell back to

the m ore prim iti ve form s . Urns , vases , bowls , or dishes were thechief objects m ade.

”

The m anufacture of pottery . in England forgeneral use comm enced .about the end of the l 6th century ,

thoughprior to that tim e pottery‘ and porcelai n had been im ported from the

Contin ent and from China . The introduction of the Cologne stoneware led to the attempt at producing sim i lar ware in this country .

Num erous m anufactories gradually cam e into operation in variousparts of England

,unti l pottery has now becom e one of the comm onest

m aterials for dom esti c and comm ercial use . The manufacture ofporcelain appears to have been comm enced about 167 1 , at Fulham .

Li verpool ware was fi rst m ade in 1752. John Sadle r was the discovere r of the process of transfe r printing so com m on on Li verpoolware . Lantern slides and specim ens were used in i llustration .

On Tuesday , O ctober 29th , upwards of 30 of the senior pupilsfrom the A rnot Street Board School , visi ted the M useum to i nspec t i tsv ari ed contents . The young folk were i n charge of M r. H . Edwards

,whose deep hum an interest in ch ildren,both i n and out of school , i s

c reditable alike to his intellect and heart . The Curator conducted theparty through the various room s , and drew attention to the m oresali ent features. Much interest was ev inced in the exh ibits

,which

comprise am ong other things , m inerals , fossi ls , bi rds , shells , insects ,m ammals

,econom i c products , choi ce photographs i llustrative of British

flora and fauna and of geologi cal phenom ena , and reproducti ons offam ous pictures . .It i s to be regretted that m ore schools do not avai lthem selves of the opportuni ty of v isiting local m useum s , seeing thatthe Board of Educati on now perm i t the v i s i t to register as a schoolattendance .

Good books , li ke good friends , are few and chosen the moreselect , the m ore enj oyable and like these are approached withdiffidenc e

,nor sought too fam i l iarly nor too often , having the

precedence only when friends t i re . The m ostmannerly of com panions ,accessible at all tim es,i n all moods , they frankly declare the author’s

m i nd,without giving offence . Like li ving fri ends , they too have their

voice and physiognom i es,

and thei r company is prized as oldacquaintances . W e seek them in our need of counsel or of am usement ,without impertinence or apology

,sure of having our claim s allowed .

A good book just ifies ou r theory of personal suprem acy , keeping thisfresh in the m emory and perennial . W hat were days without suchfellowship We were alone in the world without i t .


A pleasant episode in the School ’s h i s tory was the recent presentati on of a reading lamp and shade to Mr. W . Ditchburn

, B . Sc . ,the

Science M aster of the Day School . His colleagues of the wholei nstitution subscribed to this express ion of their goodwill to h im andhis bride . Mr. Gorse i n m aking the presentation referred also to theform er presentation to Mr. H . E . Bulm er on a sim i lar occasion

,and

to the fact that lastJanuary Mr. R. G. McKinlay brought a bride tothe new scene of h is labours .

RE P O RT

OF THE

DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION

Presented to theMeeting f or the D istribution of Pri z es held in the A ssembly Hall ,

Technical S chool , Bootle, 12th Sep tember, 1901 .

The total number of exam i nation passes for the past session was470, an increase on the form er sessi on of 86 . This i s the m orerem arkable as no students were sent in by the School m anagers forE lem entary Science Exam inations . Science subj ects contributed 82successes (last year all in advanced grades

,A rt54

,Plumbing 7 ,other subj ects 327 .

The first- class passes obtained were in Sci ence 18 (11 last year )i nclud ing a pass i n part I Honours , i n A rt, 19 , in other subj ects 85 ,including four with distinction .

The num ber of . papers worked was i n Science 122,i n A rt 96 , i n

C i ty and Gui lds Exam ination 8 , i n Union of Insti tutes 363 ; total 589‘ (last year The percentage of passes last year for the wholeschool was 69 3 ,

thi s year it i s 80.

A very large num ber of E lem entary Science Students wereexam i ned at thei r own expense , but these do not count in the record ,although m ost of the exam inees received their instruction in thi ssc hooL

The Owen Owen Scholarship for Com m ercial Knowledge wasawarded to M r. Frank Louis Gorse , after a keen com peti tion .

Word has notyet been received about the results of the *Derbyand Davies ’ Scholarships Competit ions , but i t is probable that Onlyone of these will be awarded owing to the very m eagre competitionam ong the Engineeri ng students . It i s to be hoped that a keenerSpi rit of emulati on will '

be evoked by the tim e one or both of thesescholarships are agai n open for com petition .The Derby S cholarsh ip was granted to M r. John H . Sinc lair. The

“

Davies’Scholarsh i p was notawarded .

M.


The Lamb Scholarsh ip for Art was by reason of the youth of ourexcellent School of Artbeyond the attainm entof our present students ,There is every reason to hope for a good competition in the nearfuture , as outof 18 works of A rtsent up to count towards Artteachers ’and m asters ’ certificates , 13 have been accepted by the Board ofEducation , a very sati sfactory proportion .Pastscholars of the School hav e done rem arkably well thi s year .

Victoria Un iversity awarded B . Sc . with first- class honou rs to Mr.

W . E . M . Curnock B . Sc . with second - class honours to Mr. J. F. Gi l land Oxford University had the nam e of Mr. J. I. Scott in i ts l i st offirst- class m en i n the Honours S chool of Science . M r. Edgar J . Kippshas also had the good fortune to recei ve an importantpostas organisingand consulting engineer to one of the largest fi rm s in the South ofgland—M essrs . W e lcom e , Burroughs andThe Comm ittee are indebted to the following gentlem en and firm s

for the gift of prizesM ess rs . Johnson B rothers , M essrs . Jam es W ebster and B rother ,

Mr. Edward Reid , M r. Counci llor Lam b , M essrs . Cam pbelland Isherwood , M r. F. W . Edwards

,and the Town C lerk ,

M r. J . Henry Farm er .Mr. W . J. W emyss Anderson , A ssoc .and M r. Jam es M ackenzie , have also renderedexcellent honorary serv ices as exam iners .

For the offer of Scholarships , whethe r awarded Or not, the thanksof all the students are also due to Lord Derby , to Mr. Owen Owen , of.London and L iv erpool , to Mr. Thos . Davies

, J.P. ,and to Mr.

Councillor Lamb .The Comm ittee have awarded 39 free scholarships to two classes

of the School , each scholar recei ving besides ten shi llings worth oftext- books grati s .

No fewer than 104ostudents are to ‘

rec eiv e prizes . Each of thesehad already received what i s far better than a prize , a considerableaddition to his of her stores of special knowledge

,and a development

of m ental power during its acquisi ti on m ost will carry away to -n ighta valuable accession to the hom e library—a store of potentialknowledge—in the future doubtless to be transform ed into k ineti cenergy for practical achievem ent .

S ince the Report was i ssued the following awards have beenmade

Fi rstpri ze for Comm ercial Geography, Union of Lancashire and

Cheshire Institutes , Mr. G. H . A l len,also Gold M edal

awarded by the Canad ian Governm ent .Prize for Physiology (a M ic roscope ) Union of Institutes

,

Mr. C . B . Gi les .

Mr. Ki p p s has since leftthis for another ap p ointment.


S tudents’ S oc ial Un ion

The Annual Meeting was ‘

held on Saturday , October 12th ,the

President , Counci llor M ack , in the chai r . M r. J . H . Ni cholson , theTreasurer , presented a statem ent of accounts , which sh ewed a balancein hand . The Secretary read a reportof m eetings held by the varioussect ions

,and reported 167 m em bers on the roll . The reports were

adopted and the electi on of officers proceeded with , the followingbeing the result Presi dent , Counci llo r J . J . Mack V ice -Presidents

,

M iss B. L . Townshend and M r. Macdonald W est ; Secretary ,Mr.

J . J. Edgar ; A ssistant Secretaries , M iss A . Bradley and M r. R .

Dempsey Treasurer , Mr. J . H . Nicholson . The nam es of the studentm em bers of the Comm ittee elected at the m eeting are '

Mrs. C ross ,M i ss C . Hean , M i ss Heasley , M i ss Gi l l , M iss Forrest , M iss L . A l lan

,

M i ss Edwards , Messrs . E . J. W i lk i nson , T. A . Humphreys , T. H . Parry,

T. Fell , R . R. Owen , R . A . Adam,W . R . Outram ,

T“

. R . McKel v ie,

F. W i lliam s , H . J . Bentley,I“. Spicer . Som e proposed slight

alterations in the rules , of which due notice had been gi ven , were considered and adopted . The effect of these alterati ons i s to enableanyone once a m em ber to conti nue a m em ber on paym ent of theannual subscripti on of on e shi lling and to allow of the formati on of asection

,approved by the executi ve , even though fewer than 20becom e

m em bers . Thanks to the Techni cal Instruction Comm ittee and to theSocial Union Officials concluded the business . The Choral section ofthe Union , under the expert leadership of M r. J. W . Marshall

,continues to flour ish,and is now practi sing som e very attracti ve new

pieces,including “ The Charge of the Light Brigade ” by Edward

Hecht “ Hear m y Prayer by M endelssohn and Pinsuti ’s There i sMusic by the r iver , i n addi tion to the m any pieces p racti sed duringlast sess ion . M r. T. Humphreys is th e Secretary of this section of theUnion . The m em bers are

.grateful to the continued kindness of Mrs.

C ross for lending them a piano.

A French section has been form ed under the j oint leadership ofM r. Anthony R . Book and Mr. R . G. M cKinlay , B .A .

, with Mr.

Frank Loui s Gorse , Owen scholar , as Secretary . On the 9th Novemberthe fi rst discussion was held . Thi s was preceded by a short d iscourseby Mr. M cKinlay on Les av antages d ’une SociétéFrancaise .” The

subj ect of conversation “ Peut -ou concili e r la politesse et la v erac itéwas also introduced at length by the Chai rman and taken part- in bym ost of those present , including M issForrest , M i ss Edwards , Mr. F. L .

Gorse , and Mr. J. J . Ogle .

On the 2md November a m eeting was held to form a Hom e Reading C i rcle . The Director presided , and about twelv e persons werepresent

,including Mr. Laurence Small , B. Sc .

,Mr. E . J . W i lk inson ,


LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY

No of m embers , 39 . Ten m eetings were held duringthe sessi on

,and the following papers were read , i f Progress,

” “ Developm ent of E lectri city , ” “ Three Great Evils ” (Ignorance , Greed andDrink ) , India , ” Christopher Marlowe , and “ Darwinism .

Debates on “ Should the House of Lords be abol ished , and W as

the recent W ar in South A fri ca j ustifiable ,” and also an Impromptun ight . ” These are all‘ interesting topics for discussi on , and reflectgreat credit on the l iterary taste of the m embers . Regarding the

accounts of the soci ety , the‘

Sec retary writes N0 need for a subscripti on was foreseen , and none requi red .”

ENGINEERING SOCIETY

NO . Of m embers , 30. Fi ve m eetings were held , and papers on thefollowing subj ects were read , -

“ The progress of the SteamEngine ,” Engineering Problem s ,” Foundry Blast

,

” and Iron andSteel M anufacture . ” On one evening two gentlem en exhibited amodel of A sp inal

’

s Patent Marine Governor , and a H igh S p eedHorizontal Engine . V is its were paid to the Borougho

E lectricGenerating Stati on in Pine Grove , and the Grain Storage in StrandRoad . Inform ation has evidently been the m otto of this section , andit i s pleasing to note its success . The Treasurer reports a balance Inhand of £ l l s . l0d.

CHORAL SOCIETY

No. of members , 47 .

I

M eetings were held 011 ev ery alternateSaturday throughout the sess i on , and the following pieces wererehearsed

,i . e.

O Hush thee m y babySoftly fall the shades of eveningFarewell and E arly SpringSoldi ers ’ chorusThe Gallant TroubadourA Spring Song ” .

Com e DO Iothy , Com eGood Ni ght

The Executi veComm ittee k indly granted the Society a donationof £1 towards the buying of m usic .

The Society m ade its fi rst bow to the publi c at the BootleGymnasium A nnual Dem onstration Of Musi cal Drill

,and was well

received .

The fi rst Annual Pi cni c of the Society took place at EcclestonFerry on 8th June last . 53 took advantage of the same , and a m ostenj oyable day was spent .

A . S . Sullivan

J . L . Hatton

M endelssohn

GounodM ichael Watson

Ciro Pinsuti

Swabian Volkslieol

Dr. Garrett


The Comm ittee of Technical Instruction for the Borough askedthe Society to prov ide the m usic for the Prize Distribution on 12thSeptember last . This they were only too pleased to do . Fi ve selectionswere gi ven .

The Annual M eeting was held on the 28th September last , whenOfficers were elected for the ensuing session , and various v otes ofthanks passed . The Treasurer reports a balance in hand of as

well as the copies of three pieces of Music .

ART NEEDLEVVORK SOCIETY

This secti on metevery Saturday during the session , and a largeamount of fancy work was got through .

CHESS AND DRAUGHTS CLUBThi s section was only form ed at the end of last session , and has

therefore , no detai led reportto present . It i s hoped now that a newsession has been started , students wi ll j oin early and enable the sectionto hav e a good start.

ATHLETIC SOCIETY

Owing to the diffi culty of Obtaining a sui table ground withinreasonable distance of the School , no progress can be reported . Now,

however , that the Comm i ttee of Technical Instruction have obtaineda ground in theBorough for the Interm ediate Day School (a de p artm entof the Techni cal School ) , i t i s to be hoped the Comm i ttee wi ll see thei rway to allowing this to be used on Saturday afternoons by the eveningstudents of the Technical School .

The above Report was unanimously passed at the Annual Meetingheld 12th October , 1901 .

JOHN J. EDGAR ,

Hon. Secretary .

Th e S tudents’Corner

The Director invites questions from students on any matteraffecting them as students , to be answered fi rst by private letter andlater in the Journal

,so that everybody may profitfrom the i nformati on

given . For example,advice as to special courses of study , particular

diplomas , degrees , & c . ,and sources of information for continuance Of

study after leaving the Technical School . In this way the Di rectorhopes to make the Journal m ore generally interesting and v aluableto students of the School .

BOOTL E FREE LIBRARY

Great M en’s Thoug hts on Educ ation

W hen I have m oney , Iwi ll first buy Greek books and then buyclothes . ” —Erasmus.

W ere i t left to my10rdering , I should paint the school wi th thepictures of Joy and Gladness , Flora and the Graces , that wherethei r profit i s they m ight have thei r pleasure too .” —M ontaigne.

W e must offer to the young , notthe shadows of things , but thethings them selves , which impress the senses and the im aginati on .Instruction should comm ence with a real observation of things andnotwith a verbal description of them .

”—Comenius.

It i s in sm iting that one becom es a sm ith .—Comenius.

It i s no longer the thing to repeat m echanically a lesson learnedby heart . There m ust be a gradual habituation to action

,to

productive work,to personal effort.

”

He am ong us who knows best how to bear him self am id theadvantages and disadvantages of hi s lot i s in my opin ion the besteducated ; whence it follows that true education cons ists less inprecepts than in acti ons The m an who has lived longest i snot he who has numbered m ost years buthe who has had his feelingsm ost touched by life Zeal will supply m ore to talent thantalent to zeal. Rousseau.

The faculty of findi ng out things for oneself i s one of the m ostv aluable wi th which a chi ld can be endowed . There i s hardly a callingor business i n li fe i n which i t is not better to know how to search outin form ation than to possess i t ready stored . Everything which i sd iscovered sti cks in the m em ory and becom es a m ore secure possessionfor li fe than facts lazi ly imbibed from books and lectu res In

actual li fe a very scanty store of knowledge coupled with the capacityto apply it adroitly i s of m ore value than boundless inform ation whichthe possessor cannot turn to practical use . ”—S ir John Gorst.

Bees gather here and there from flowers,but they make honey

from 'them which i s enti rely thei r own and i s no longer thym e orm arjoram .

” —Montaigne.


the entry of the boar ’ s head , decked with lau rel and rosemary , recallsthe sacrifice of the boar to Frigg at the m idwinter feast Of O ld Paganism . E very Chr i stmas Day thi s right m errie jouste of ye oldentym e i s enacted at the College above - nam ed . A la rge boar ’ s head

,

weighing between 60and 70pounds , surmounted by a crown ,wreathed

with gilded sprays of laurel and bay , m istletoe and rosem ary , withsm all banners su rrounding , i s brought i nto the hall by three bearers ,whose entry i s announced by trumpet. A procession of the Provostand Fellows precedes th e entry O f the boar ’s head ; The bearers areaccompan ied by the precentor , who chants an old English carol— the

one al ready quoted— the Latin refrain being joined in by the com pany .In supportof the m yth ical story of the student and the boar , there i spreserved i n the College a pi cture of a sainthaving a boar ’s head t ransfixed ou a spear , with a mystic inscription , Cop cot and inHorsp eth Church , near which the contest i s supposed to hav e takenplace

, there i s a window containing a representation of the incident .S ir Walter Scott bewails the decline of the ancient m odes of

celebrating the Christm as festi val , and saysEngland was m erry England when

O ld Christm as broughthis sports againA Chri stm as gambol oftwould cheerA poor m an ’s h eart through all the ye

The Lord O f M i srule has been dead m any years . TheYule - logi s no longer drawn in state into the baron ’s ball

,but som e fragm ents

of ancient revels are sti ll preserved in the m umni ers’ curious perform

ance . M umm i ng is supposed to be deri ved from th e Danish wordmumme, and signifies to d isguise oneself with a m ask . Dr. Johnson

defines a m umm er as one who perform s froli cs in a personated dress .M odern m umm ers usuallydo not wear m asks , butthey dress them selvesu p in a strange garb resem bling sheepskins , except thatinstead of woolthey have coloured paper cut into ribbons . The headgear is elaboratelycovered with the sam e m aterial . The dress of the characters is variedto suit thei r parts . They have frills over the knees in a fashion som ewhat sim i lar to that represented in som e pictures of the time ofCharles 11 . Thei r weapons are wooden swords

,but “ King George

usually sports an i ron one fashioned by the v illage blacksm i th . '

The

Book of W ords i s com posed of doggerel rhym es well suited to theidiom s and

p p ronunc iation of the speakers . The fi rst person, who acts

the part of the Greek Chorus , ” i s e ither Beelzebub , otherwise rep resented as FatherC hristm as

,or M olly

,

” a m an dressed up as an oldwoman

, who introduces the characters . Then enters King George,a m ighty hero , who boasts of hi s prowess , and challenges all brave

warriors to fight . His challenge i s accepted by another m ighty hero,

who i s described in som e places as the Turkish knight,at others “as the

Duke of Northumberland or a French offi cer . In Devon shi re LordNelson also appears . A v igorous fight takes place between the twocham pions , i n whi ch “ King George ” i s usually vi ctorious , and hisopponent falls grev iously wounded . Som etim es “ King George ” i sdefeated , but he fights again and vanquishes his rival Great consternation ensues , and a doctor is hastily summ oned

To cure thi s man li es bleed ing on the ground .


The “ Doctor comes,and adm i ni sters a wonderful pi ll , which

revives the prostrate foeman . The j ester , Jack Vinny ,” extracts atooth from the wounded man

,and thus cures h im . They dance

together . Happy Jack , a very m elancholy person in tattered garm ents , som etim es bearing his fam i ly ,” a number of little dolls , onhis back

,enters , and requests som e contributions , and with som e m orerhym es repeated by Beelzebub ” the play ends , and the com pany singin turn som e m odern ditties . Such is the usual plot of a m umm ing

play.In Yorkshire the m umm ers com e round and perform a very

short sword dance . Near Bradford , bands of m en dressed as n iggerm instrels , in very fantastic costum es , perambulate the streets playingfifes , concertinas , kettled rum s , and other instrum ents , and are knownby the plain - spoken Yorkshire term Bletherhead Bands . In Cornwall the m umm ers rejoi ce i n the no less uncomplim entary term ofGeese - dancers ; ” and in Staffordshi re they are known as theGuisers . ” The Sussex m umm ers are called Tip steerers.

”

The m i stletoe i s sti ll hung in our houses at Christm as tim e , butfew connectthis instrum ent Of m i rth wi th the wild beliefs of our Norseancestors . The m i stletoe plays an important part i n Scandinavianmythology , and the custom of hanging branches of thi s planti s comm onto all Norse nations . The legend i s that Baldur was slain by a ,

m istletoe dartat the instigation of Lok i ; and in reparation for thi sinj ury the plant i s dedicated to hi s m other Frigg

,so long as i t does

nottouch the earth,which i s Loki ’ s kingdom . Hence the m i stletoe

is hung from ceilings of our houses ; and the kiss gi ven under it i s asign that i t i s no longe r an instrum ent of m i schief . In the l 6th Centuryfetes were held in France in honour of the m istletoe .

The old kissing bunch ' i s sti ll hung i n som e of the m ost oldfash ioned cottage houses of Derbyshire and Cornwall— two woodenhoops , one passing through the other , decked with evergreens , i n thecentre Of which i s hung a crown of rosy apples and a sprig ofm i stletoe . Thi s i s hung from the central beam of the l i ving - room ,

and beneath it there i s m uch kiss ing and romping . Later on,the

carol - s inge rs stand beneath i t and sing the fam i liar strains of Godrestye , m erry gentlem en , and W hi le shepherds watched .”

The day after Christm as i s sti ll known as Box ing Day,and is

so called from the Christm as Boxes which used to be in ci rculati onat that tim e . In the Briti sh Museum are specim en s of thri ftboxes — small and wide bottles with im itation stoppers , from three tofour inches in height

,of thi n clay , the upper part covered with a green

glaze . On one S ide is a slitfor the i ntroduction of m oney , and as thesmall presents were collected at Christmas in these m oney - pots , theywere called Chri stm as boxes .

The sending of Chri stm as cards i s a v ery popular custom . It is ofvery recent growth , the fi rst English Christmas - card being i ssued fromSunnnerly

’s Home Treasury offi ce , i n 1846 . The design was drawn

by J. C . Horsley , R A . ,at the suggestion of Sir Henry Cole ,

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re p resenting a m erry fam i ly party gathered round a table quaffinggenerous draughts of wine . The sale of 1000copies of th i s card wasthen cons idered a large ci rculation . S in ce those days the custom hasbecom e uni versal .

If good wishes could bring'

us happiness , our cups of joy wouldi ndeed be full , and a M erry Chri stm as and a Happy New Y earwould fall to the lot of all .

The following sources of inform ation have been drawn upon forthe foregoing facts —Chambers ’ Book of Days and Ditc hfield

’

s

O ld Engl ish Customs.

CHAS . HY . HUNT.

An O ld Liverp ool Plan and its Author

In response to a recent appeal by the Librarian for gi fts to theLibrary of item s i llustrative of local h istory , Mr. Charles W ells , J .P. ,has presen ted a fram ed exam ple of A New and A ccurate Plan ofth e Town and Port of Li verpool ; wherein all the streets , squares ,courts , wyents , lanes , alleys , yards , passages , fields , and clocks arecarefully drawn from an actual survey and fini shed March 25th , 1769 ,by George Perry .”

W riting of this and another producti on , Picton says The mapof the town , and that of the envi rons , attached to Enfield s H istory ofLeverp ool in 1773 , are m odels of accuracy and clearness . ” The presentplan bears the im press of antiquity , butage has not enti rely withered ,nor custom staled , its infinite vari ety .

The foll owing particulars concerning its author are extracted fromthe B iograph ical Anecdotes ,” publi shed in Sm ithers ’ L iverp ool

George Perry,who

,during hi s li fe -tim ef formed a design for publishing

a h istory of Li verpool,was a nati ve of Som ersetsh i re , and a descendant

of M i caj ah Perry , Lord Mayor of London in 1747 , and m em ber ofParliam ent for that city in 1739 , of an ancient fam i ly of W est W aters ,i n Devonshi re . He was originally sentto college , and intended for theChurch , which destination appears to have been changed for , i n earlylife

,we find h im engaged in the i ronworks

,at Coalbrookdale

, Shropshi re,where he becam e acquainted with John and W i ll iam W i lkinson, the

great i ron -m asters , and m ade som e successful experim ents for boring ofcannon from the solid . He afterwards rem oved to Li verpool , andestablished an i ron - foundry i n Lydia Ann Street , which took its nam efrom hi s wife , Lydia Ann Lac roy , a descendant from the old Hugonotfam i ly of _ Lac roix , which fled from France at the rev ocation of theedict of Nautz , and settled in Canterbury .

In the year 1758 there appeared an essay , with h is signature , i nthe “ Gentlem an ’ s Magazine , ’ earnestly recomm ending an “ inlandWater con veyance from London to Gloucester , W orcester , and Bristol ,or from Live rpool to Hull . ”

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RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY

LENDING DEPARTMENT “

Books marked with an aster isk are suitablefor children.

A rgosy . 1901 . 2v .

A rthur (W . ) The Tongue of Fi re or,the true power of

Chri stiani ty . 1901 15318

Badenoch (L . N. ) True tales of the insects . 1899 13442

Balfour (A . ) By stroke of sword 1684 1

Ballantyne (R. M . ) The Coral Island 4704 , 6626Martin Rattler 4704 , 6626

Y oung fur traders 4704 , 6626Barr (A . E . Souls of passage 16827Beck e (L. By rock and pool on an Austral shore 16828

B lack ’ s Guide to the counties of Hereford and Monm outh . 1892 15821

Boothby (G. ) Farewell,Nikola 16844

Bradley (A . G. ) HighwaysandByways in the Lake District . 1901 15830B rewste r (M . A . ) Three m onths ’ trav els in Egypt andPalestine , etc . 1894

B rown (A . ) King’ s EndBullen (F. T. ) Deep - sea p lunderings stories of the seaBurton (J. Bloundel le The HispaniolaPlate

Caine (H . The Eternal Ci ty 16822 16823 , 16824

Caledonian Railway Co. Through Scotland . 1901 1583 1

Cam bridge (A . ) M rs. G’. F. Cross. The devastators 16825

Camp i n (F ) A p ractical treatise on m echanical engineering. 1895 13848

Carey (R. N. ) Herb of graceCarnegie (A The gospel of wealth

,and other t imely essays. 1901 15828

Century M agazine . 1901 19 128

C lifford (J Typical Chri stian leaders . 1898 15314

Corell i (M . ) The Master Christian 16821

Crockett (S . R . ) Love idylls 16855

Cyclists ’ Touring Club . Irish Road Book. 2v . 1899 - 1900 15716

Cym ru. 1901 ” 19076

Desart Earl . ) Lord and Lady Piccad illyDuncan (S . J. ) M rs. E . Cotes. A voyage of consolation

Engli sh Illust rated Magazine . 1901 19 116


Farjeon (B . L . ) Dev li n the barber 16820

Gaboria‘u (E . ) Captain Coutanc eauThe intrigues of a poi soner

Gallon (T. ) Ric kerby’s Folly

Gi lch rist(J . G.

”d . An 1t1ne1ary of the Engl ish cathedrals

for the use of travellers . 1901*Gi rl ’s Own A nnual . 1900- 1901

Gould (N. ) Banker and brokerHarry Da le ’s j ockey W i ld RoseA stable m ystery

l ould (S .-Baring Royal

Grant (J . ) Love ’s labour wonGray (Maxwell ) 111 . G. Tuttiett. Four-1eaved clover

Hock ing (J. ) O’

er m oor and fenHocking (S . K . ) The awakening of Anthony W ei rHooper (F. ) and Graham (J Comm ercial education at hom eand abroad . 1901

Hope Anthony . ) A . H . Hawkins. Trist ram of BlentHum e (F. ) Th e crim son cryptogramHutchison (R. ) Food and the principles of dietetics . 1901

Idler . 1901 19153

Il l ingwo1th (J . R . ) Personality , human and d ivine (BamptonLectures

,1894 ) 1899 15317

Jekyll (G. ) W all and water gardens . [1901] 13849

Kipling (R. ) Kim 16845, 16846

Le Queux (W . ) The v eiled m an

Longmau’

s Magazine . 1901

Lyall (D . ) The redemption of Neil MacleanLyall A . E . Bayly . In spite of all

M ’Intosh (H . ) Is Chri st infall ible and the Bi ble true ? 1901

M cKen z ie (F. A . ) The Am erican invaders their plans, tactics,and progress . 1901 15829An ac countof the Am erican m vasion of English commerce.

Macm illan ’S Magazine . 1901 19126

Mac rosty (H . W . ) T1 usts and the State : a sketch of competition . 1901 15827

Malet (Lucas) . Mrs. Hdrrison. The history of S irRi chardCalmady

Marsh (R . ) The crim e and the crim i nalMoore (F. F. ) A nest of l innetsMoore (J . M . ) Three as p ects of the late A lfred , Lord

Tennyson . 1901

Morgan (G. C. ) The Spi ritof God. 1900


O liphant(M is . ) Neighbours on the greenOppenheim (E . A daughter of the Marionis

O rm erod (O . ) W ritings , with a memoi r of the author , by H .

C . March . 1901 19156

Pall Mall M agazine . 1901

Parker (G. ) The rightof wayPhi llpotts (E . ) The striking hoursPryce (G. ) John Jones , curateRe\ iew of Reviews .Rhys (G. The wooing of SheilRichards (H . W . ) B i ic klaying and brickc utting. 1901Ri ta M rs. W. D . Hump hreys.

'

l he m an i n possessionSanderson (E . ) The Brit ish Empire at hom e and abroad .Vol . 5 . 1901 15746

Savage (R. H . ) The shield of his honour 16817

T. N. H ep burn . The Skipper of Barnc 1 aig 16858

Shaylor (J . ) Som e favourite books and thei r autho1 s . 1901 19157Stuart (K. M . ) A lexander Moody Stuart . a m em oi r

,partly

autobiographical . 1899

Sutton (H . S . ) Poem s . 1886

Temple Bar. 1901

Tem ple Magazine . 1900- 1901

Tracy (L. ) The final warW arden (Florence ) . M rs. G. Jam es. A sensational

W are Educational foundati ons of trade and indust ry . 1901W atson (H . B. M . ) The ski rts of happy chance

*VVatson (J Ian M ac/aren.

”Y oung barbarian s

W eym an (S . J. ) Count Hannibal a romance of the Court ofFrance

W hitby (B . ) Flower and thornW hite (W . W . ) Studies i n Old Testam ent characters N.D

W hitfield (E . E . ) Comm ercial educati on i n theory andpractice . 1901

W i lson (R . ) The l i fe and tinies of Queen Victoria . 2v . 1887 88W inte r (John S trange ) . M rs. H . E . V. Stannard . AuntJohnn ie

W oman at Hom e. 1901

Som e striking fiction will be found entered in the above l ist under thefollowing nam es - Balfour Barr (A . Becke BoothbyBrown Bul len (F. Cam bridge Corell i C rockett(S . Gallon Gould (S . Baring ) , “ Gray (MaxwellHocking Hocking (S . Le Queux Malet(Lucas Parker Pryce Rhys Savage (R.

“ Setoun (Gabri el Watson (H . B . W eyman (S . andW hitby (B. )

END or VOLUME 11 .

176 BOOTLE FRE E'

LIBRARY

O liphant(Mrs ) Neighbours on the greenOppenheim (E . P. ) A daughter of the Marionis

O rm erod (O . ) W ritings , with a mem oi r of the author , by H .

C . March . 1901 19 156

Pall Mall Magazine . 1901

Parke r (G. ) The ri ght of wayPhi llpotts (E . ) The striking hoursPryce (G. ) John Jones, curateRex 1eu of Revi ews . 1901

Rhys (G. The wooing of Shei lR ichards (H . W . ) B i ic klaying and bri ckc utting. 1901

Ri ta M rs. W. D . Hump hreys. The man i n possessionSanderson The British Empi re at home and abroad .Vol . 5 . 1901 15746

Savage (R . H . ) The shi eld of h is honour 168 17

T. N. H ep burn. The Skipper of Barn c raig 16858

Shaylor (J . ) Som e favourite books and thei r authors . 1901 19157Stuart (K . M . ) A lexander Moody Stuart a m em oi r , partlyautobiographical . 1899

Sutton (H . S . ) Poem s . 1886

Temple Bar. 1901

Tem ple Magazine . 1900- 1901

Tracy (L. ) The final warW arden (Florence ) . Mrs. G. James . A sensat ional

W are Educational foundations of trade and industry . 1901W atson (H . B. M . ) The skirts of happy chance

*VVatson (J Ian M ac/aren.

”Young barbarians

W eym an (S . J. ) CountHannibal a rom ance of the Court ofFrance

W hitby (B . Flower and thornW hite (W . W . ) Studi es i n Old Testam ent characters . N.D

W hitfield (E . E . ) Comm ercial education in theory andpractice . 1901

W i lson (R ) The l i fe and tim es of Queen Victoria. 2v . 1887 - 88

W inter (John Strange ) . Mrs. H . E . V. Stannard . AuntJohnn ie

W oman at Hom e. 1901

Som e strik ing fiction will be found entered 1n the abov e l ist under thefollowing nam es —Balfou r (A . Barr (A . E . Becke (L . Boothby (G.

B rown (A . Bul len (F Cambridge (A Corell i (M . C rockett(S . Gallon Gould (S . Baring ) , Gray (MaxwellHocking Hocking (S . Le Queux

g

(W . Lyall Malet(Lucas Parker Pryce Rhys Savage (R.

“ Setoun (Gabri el Watson (H . B . W eyman (S . and.VVh itby (B. )

END or VOLUM E 11 .

Free Library , M useum and Tec hnic al lnstrtictionCom m ittee

Chairman

M r. Counci llor J. J . MACK .

Dep uty- Chairman

Counci llor Dr . CANAVAN.

Mr. A lderm an M USKER . M r. Counci l lor PARRY.

M r. Councillor J. BLUNDELL . Mr. Counci llo r PATERSON.

Counci llor Dr . CLEMMEY. Counci llor Dr. PEARSON.

M r. Counci llor GILL . Council lor Dr . R. E . ROBERTS .

And H is W orship the MAYOR .

Co-op tative IIIembers

J . W EBSTER , J.P. M r. J. W . SCHOLEFIELD , J .P.

M r. B . S . JOHNSON, J.P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS , J .P.

Town Clerk :

J . H . FARM ER .

Free Li brary and M useum S taff

L ibrar ian. Curator, and O rgan ising S ecretary

J . J . OGLE .

Sub- L ibrarian and Reg istrm

C . H . HUNT.

A ssismnts

W . T. MONTGOMERY (Senior) , J M CADAM, W . BURGESS , H . TICMPES'

I‘

.

J anifm

J S 11 ARnoc x .

’

Teac h ing S taff

W . D AL EY . A E . E as'

rnorn

L . SMAL L , J . Tl 'l‘TERINGTON.

A rt

J . SKnAN NG, assisted by B . K AUFMANN.

Commerc ial

A . R BO OK. D . D UNK icL . M . Rosu'

rn.

J. W . M AnsuALL .

lVoodwo/‘Z‘

ing

T. Lowmes'Class A ) . E . M ans ion (Class B ) .

D omestic E conomy

M iss BRIDGICW ATER. M iss W n .c ox .

LIBRARY AND MUS EUM S TATISTICS .

The issue of books froinx

the Lib rary durm g the past three monthshas been as follows

Hom e Reading Reference Daily Average

The vi sits paid to the Reading Room s and MuseumReading Rooms Museum

154 14

19721

20674

On the 30th of February , 2863 persons had borrower ’ s tickets 926

of these held chi ldren ’ s and 147 teachers ’ ti cket s .

Published atthe Bootle Free Library.

Printed atthe Times Office, Balliol Road, Bootle.

Free Library , M useum and Tec hnic al Instruction

Comm ittee

Chairman


Dep uty Chairman


Mr. A lderm an MUSKER . Mr. Counci llor PARRY .

Mr. Councillor J. BLUNDx

ELL . Mr. Counci llo r PATERSON.

Counci llor Dr . CLEMMEY.

‘

Councillor Dr. PEARSON.

M r. Counci llor GILL . Councillor Dr . R. E . ROBERTS .

And H is'

W orsh ip the MAYOR .

Co-op tative M embers

M r. J . W EBSTER , J.P. Mr. J. W . SOHOLEFIELD , J.P.

Mr. B . S . JOHNSON,J .P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS , J.P.

Rep resenting the S chool Board :

THE VERY .REV. DEAN KELLY . REV. A . W . OLIVER ,M .A .

Town Clerk :

J . H . FARM ER .

Free Library , M useum and Tec hnic al S c hool Staff

D irector of Technical Instruction L ibrarian and Curator '

J . J . O GLE . C . H . HUNT.

Sub-L ibrarian

W . T. M ONTGOME RY .

A ssistant‘s

J . M CADAM (Senior) , W . VVILLIAM S , W . BURGE SS , H . TEMPES ’

I‘.

Teac h ing S taff

S c ience

W . D AL EY . S . D AVIE S . A . E . E ASTHO PE .

L . SMAL L , R . STEVENsoN. J . TITTERINGTON.

J. SKE APING, assisted by B KAUFMANN.

Commerc ial

A . R . BOOK . D . DUNKEL . M . RO S ETE .

J . W . M ARSH ALL .

W'

oodworking

T. L OWD EN (Class A . ) E . M ERRICK (ClassB ) .Domestic E conomy

M iss BRIDG EWATER M iss W ILCOX.

LIBRARY AND M US EUM S TATISTICS .

The i ssue of books from the Library during the past three m onthshas been as follows

Hom e Reading Reference Daily Average

The v i s its paid to the Reading Room s and MuseumReading Rooms Museum

22566

19237

19971

On the 3 1st of May, 2959 persons had borrower ’ s tickets ; 1014children were borrowers

,and 156 teachers had obtained the special

teacher’s t ickets .


Printed atthe Times O ffice, Balliol Road , Bootle.

Free Library , M useum and Tec hnic al Instruction

Comm ittee

Chairman

M r. Counci llo r J. J . MACK .

Dep uty Chairman

Counci l lor Dr . CANAVAN.

Mr. A lderman MUSKER . M r. CouncillorPARRY.

Mr. Councillor J . BLUNDELL . Mr. Counci llor PATERSON.

Counci llor Dr . CLEMM EY. Counci llor Dr. PEARSON.

Mr. Councillor GILL . Council lor Dr . R. E . ROBERTS .

And H is W orship the MAYOR .

Co-op tative Ill embers

Mr. J. W EBSTER , J.P. Mr. J . W . SCHOLEFIELD, J.P.

Mr. B . S . JOHNSON, J.P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS , J .P.

Rep resenting the S chool Board 3

TH E VERY REV. DEAN KELLY . REV . A . W . OLIVER , M .A .

Town Clerk :

J. H . FARMER .

Free Library and M useum Staff

Librarian and Curator ° Sub- L ibrarian

C. H . HUNT . W . T. M ONTGOMERYA ssistants

J . M cADAM (Senior) ,“

W . WILLIAM S , W . BURGE S S , H TEMPE S '

I‘

.

J an itor —J. SH ARRO CK .Tec h nic al S c hool S taff

D irector of Technical Instruction

J o J o OGLE .’

EVENING SCHOO LS c ienc e

P. E . BOWMAN, M A . S . D AVIE S . L . SMALL ,W . DAL EY , L L .R .C. S . (Edin . ) A . E . E ASTHO PE . R. STEVENSON.

J . TITTERINGTONCommerc ial

A NTH ONY R . BOO K . D . D UNKE L . M . ROS ETE . J . W . M ARS HALL .

Technolog ical

G. W . CO LQUHOUN. A . E . EA STHOPE . A . J . W ILDE .

SCHOOL OF ART

A rtMaster :—HUBERT E _BULM ER,

SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY

M istress of Domestic E conomy—MRS C . A . RO BERTS .

DAY IMTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Head Master :—F. GORS E , M .A .

Th e fol lowing Directories m ay be freely consulted

in th e Read ing Room

BROWN’

S ADVERTISER ’

S A .B .C . DIRECTORY

GORE ’

S LIVERPOO L DIRECTORY

KELLY ’S DIRECTORY OF BIRM INGHAM , STAFFORDSHIRE , WARWICK

SHIRE AND W ORCESTERSHIRE .

KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF BUILDING TRADES .

KELLY’S DIRECTORY OF ENGINEERS

, IRON AND METAL TRADES .

KE LLY’

S DIR ECTORY OF MERCHANTS,M ANUFACTURERS AND

SHIPPERS OF THE W ORLD .

KELLY’S POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY

MACDONALD ’S ENGLISH DIRECTORY AND GAZ ETTEER . 2 Vols .

M ACDONALD ’

S IRISH DIRECTORY AND GAZ ETTEER .

MATHER AND CROWTH ER’S PRACTICAL ADVERTISING (Press

Di rectory ) .

PECK ’S CIRCULAR TRADES ’ DIRECTORY (B i rm ingham and District ) .

NATIONAL TRADES ’ DIRECTORY

S LATER’

S DIRECTORY OF MANCHESTER AND SALFORD .

SLATER’

S DIRECTORY OF SCOTLAND .

Publ ished at th e Bootle Free L ibrary.

Printed atth e Times O ffi c e, Bal liol Road , Bootle.

Free Library , M useum and Tec hn ic al Instruction

Com m ittee

Chairman

I1 . Counci llo r J. J . MACK .

Dep uty- Chairman

Council lor Dr . CANAVAN.

Mr. A lderm an MUSKER . Mr. Counci llor PARRY.

M r. Councillor J . BLUNDELL . Mr. Counci llor PATERSON.

Councillor Dr . Councillor Dr. PEARSON.

Mr. Counci llor GILL . Council lor Dr. ROBERTS .

M r. Counci llor LAM B.

And His W orship the M AYOR .

Co- Op tative Al embers

M r. J . W EBSTER, J .P. Mr. J . W . SCHOLEFIELD , J .P.

Mr. B . S . JOHNSON,J .P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS , J .P.


THE VERY REV . DEAN KELLY . REV. A . W . OLIVER ,M .A .

Town Clerk :

J . H . FARM ER .


L ibrar ian and Curator Sub- L ibrarian

C . H . HUNT . W . T. M ONTG OMERY .Tec h n ic al S c hool S taff

D irector of Technica l Instruction

J . J . O GL E .

EVENING SCHOO LS c ience

P. E . BOWM AN,M .A . S . D AVIES . L SMALL , B .se.

W . DALEY , L .R .C .P , L R .C.S . (Edin . A . E . E ASTIIO PE . R . STEVENSON.

J . TITTERINGTON.

Commerc ia l

ANTHONY R . BOO K . D . D UNKE L M RO S ETE . J . W . MARSHALL .

G. W . CO LQUHOUN A . J . W ILDE .

SCHOOL OF ART

ArtMaster :—H . E ,BU LM ER ,

A ss istantA rtMaster : —A . SM ITH .

A rtPup il Teacher—M IS S B . W ILE S .

SCHOOL OF DOMESTIC ECONOMYJIIistress of Domestic E conomy

—MRS . C . A . ROBERTS .

A ssistantM istress -M IS S B . L . TOWNSH END .

DAY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL :

Head hi aster .

‘—F. GO RS E , M .A .

A ssistantIIIasters

R . G. McK1NL AY , B.A. , W . D ITCIIBURN, B .se. , W . H . NICK SON.

JEorougb of JEootIe

Interm ed iate Day S c hool

BALLIOL ROAD

Head .Master F. GORSE , M .A . , (Lond . )Language M aster R . G. MCKINLA-Y

,B .A . , (Lond . )

S c ience Master W . DITCHBURN, B . Se. , (Lond . )Form M aster W . H. NICKSON.

Fees 1 5 5 . and £2 2 5 . p er term

(STA TIONERY a: USE OF’B O OKS INCL UDED .)

Inqui ri es respect ing adm i ssion , and other communications of abusiness character , Should be addressed to the Di rector ofTechnical Instruction , who can be seen at the School any m orningbetween 10 and 12 30, or at other tim es by appointm ent .

Send for a Prospectus to

JOHN J . OGLE ,

D irector of Technical Instruction.

Publish ed atthe Bootle Free L ibrary .

Printed atthe Times O ffice, Balliol Road, Bootle.

Free Library ,‘

M useum and Tec hnic al Instruction

Comm ittee

Chairman

Ir. Counci llo r J. J . MACK .

Dep uty- Chairman


Mr. A lderman MUSKER . M r. Councillor PARRY.

M r . Councillor J. BLUNDELL . Mr. Counci llor PATERSON.

Counci llor Dr. CLEM’

M EY .1 Counci llo r Dr. PEARSON.

Mr. Counci llor GILL . Council lor Dr . ROBERTS .

M r. Counci llor LAM B.

And His W orship the M AYOR .

CO -op tative IIIembers

Vl r. J. W E BSTER, J.P. Mr. J . W . SCHOLEFIELD

, J .P.

Mr. B . S . JOHNSON,J .P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS

, J .P.


TIIE VERY REV. DEANKELLY . l REV . A . W . OLIVER , M .A .

Town Clerk

J . H . FARM ER .

Free Library and Museum“

Staff

L ibrar ian and Curato7 Sub- L ibrarian

C . H . HUNT . W . T. M ONTG OMERY .Tec hn ic al S c hool S taff


J . J . O GLE .

EVENING SCHOO LS c ience

P. E . BOWMAN,M . S . D AVIE S L SMALL , B .se.

W . D ALEY , L [LC .P. , L .R .C. S . (Edin . A . E . E ASTIIOPE . R . STEVENSON.

J . TI'ITERINGTON.

Commerc ial

A NTHONY R . BOO K . D . D UNKE I.. M ROS ETE . J . W . M ARS HALL .

G. W . CO L'

QUHOUN A . J . W ILDE .

SCHOOL OF ART

A rtIWaster .

—H . E BUIM Ic R , A .R . C .A . A ssistantA rt —A . SM ITH .

A rtPup il Teacher—M IS S B . W ILE S .


Ill istress of Domestic E conomy —MR S . C . A . RO BERTS .

A ssistantM istress —M IS S B . L . TOWNSH END .


Head Master :—F. GO RS E , M .A .

A ssistant hi asters

R . G. M CKINLAY , D.A. , W . D ITCHBURN, B . Sc . , W . H . NICK SON.

LIBRARY AND MUS EUM S TATISTICS

The i ssue of books from the Library during the past three m onthshas been as follows

The vi si ts paid to the Reading Room s and MuseumMuseum

On the 28th of February , 3047 persons had borrower ’ s ti ckets1067 children were borrowers , and 18 1 teachers had obtained the

special teacher’ s t ickets .

Publ ished atthe Bootle Free Library.

Printed atthe Times Office, Balliol Road , Bootle.


Com m ittee

Chairman

M r. Counci llor J . J . MACK .

Dep uty- Chairman


Mr. A lderm an MUSKER . Mr. Councillor PARRY .

Mrf Councillor J. BLUNDELL . Mr. Counci llor PATERSON.

Counci llor Dr. CLEMM EY . Counci llor Dr . PEARSON.

Mr. Counci llor GILL .

N

Councillor Dr . ROBERTS .

Mr. Counci llor LAM B.

And His W orship the MAYOR .

Co- Op tative IIIembers

M r. J . VVEBSTER, J.P. Mr. J . W . SCHOLEFIELD , J .P.

Mr. B . S . JOHNSON,J.P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS

, J.P.


THE VERY REV . D EAN KELLY . I REV . A . W . OLIVER , M .A .

Town Clerk

J . H . FARMER .


L ibrar ian ( i n/l Curator S itb- L iln '

arian

C . H . HUNT . W . T. M ONTGOM ERY .Tec hn ic al S c hool S taff


J . J . O GLE .

EVENING SCHOOL

S c ienc e

P . E . BOWMAN,M .A . S . D AVIE S . L SMALL , B . S c .

W . D AL EY , (Edin . ) A . E . E ASTHO PE . R . STEVENSON.

TITTERINGTON.

Commerc ia l

ANTHONY R . BOO K . D . D UNKE L M RO SETE . J . W . MARS HALL .

G. W . CO LQUHOUN. A . J . W ILDE .

SCHOOL OF ART

A rtMaster : —H . E,BULM ER , A .B .C A . A ssistantA rt.lIaster : —A . SM ITH .

A rtPup i l Teacher—M IS S B . W ILE S .

SCHOOL OF DOM ESTIC ECONOM YJIIistress of Domestic E conomy

—MR S . C . A . RO BERTS .

A ssistantM istress : —M IS S B . L . TOWNSH ENDDAY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Head JVaster :—F. GO RS E , M .A .

A ss istant Jll asters

R . G. M CKINL AY , B .A . , W . D ITCHBURN, B .S c . , W . H . NICK S ON.

There has been an increase of 34 in the number of teachersavai ling them selves of the facil iti es afforded by the teacher ’ s card

,181

of which are now in active use .

The quarterly Journal has been regularly i ssued and i s highlyvalued as a period ical supplem entto the catalogue . Nos. 4 , 6 and 8are enti rely out of prin t . S everal publishingfirm s have again assi stedto brighten its pages by the loan of printing blocks Of photographsand book illustrationa l M r. Jam es W i lli am son

,of Linacre

,very

k indly lent three un ique local photographs ; concern ing the authoressof John Hali fax , Gentleman , ” for purposes of reproduction .

Much useful work has been done in the Museum . The perm anentcollection has been en ri ched by a num ber of exh ibi ts of a vari ed andinte resting character

,comprising choi ce photographs of natural and

archaeological scenes , several sets Of comm ercial and econom ic products,and a donation of Egyptian antiqu iti es from the Egypt E xplorati onFund . These have all been sui tably labelled and displayed .

At the request of the School Managem ent Comm ittee of theBootle School Board , Salisbury Road School was affi liated to the FreeLibrary and a Book Delivery establ ished in Novem ber. Thi s makesthe thi rd of the Board ’s schools to avai l itself of the advantagesobtainable through thePublic Lib rary . This pri vi lege

,i t may be

added,i s not lim i ted to Board Schools , butmay be extended to other

local schools should thei r m anagers des i re it.

The Bootle Li terary and Phi losop hical Society has been grantedthe use of a room for its m eet ings in the basem ent of the Li braryprem i ses . The close association of the Work of a l ite rary society withthat of the Library can only result i n m iitual benefit , i nasm uch as theSoc iety seeks to foste r a love for good literature .

Dated thi s 18th day of Apri l , 1901.

JAMES‘

J. MACK,

Chairman.

Published atthe Bootle Free L ibrary.

Printed atthe Times Office , Balliol Road, Bootle.


Comm ittee

Cha irman


Dep uty-Chairman


Mr. A lderman MUSKER . Mr. Counci llor PARRY .

M r. Councillor J . BLUNDELL . Mr. Counci llo r PATERSON.

Counci llor Dr. CLEMM EYA Counci llor Dr. PEARSON.

M r. Counci llor GILL . Council lor Dr . ROBERTS .

Mr. Counci llor LAM B.

And His W orship the MAYOR .

Co-op tative IIIembers

M r. J. WEBSTER, J .P. Mr. J . W . SCIIOLE FIELD

, J .P.

Mr. B . S . JOHNSON, J.P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS, J.P


THE VERY REV . D EAN KE LLY . I REV. A . W . O LIVER , M .A .

Town Clerk

J . H . FARMER .


L ibrarian and Curatm S ub- Librarian

C . H . HUNT . W . T. M ONTGOMERY .Tec h n ic al S c hool Staff


J . J . OGLE .

EVENING SCHOO IS c ience :

P. E . BOWMAN,M A . S . D AVIE S .

TV. D AL EY , L . ILC . (Edin . ) A . E . E ASTHOPE .

J . TI'ITERINGTON.

Commerc ia l

A NTHONY R . BOO K . D . D UNKE L. M . RO S ETE J . W . MARSHALL .

Technolog ical

G . W . CO LQUHOUN. J . H . SM ITH . A . J . W ILDE . W . W ILS ON. A . W RIGHT.

SCHOOL OF ART

ArtIIIaster :—II. E ,BU LM ER ,

A ssistantA rtJIaster : - A . SMITH .

A rtPup il Teacher :—M IS S B . W ILE S .


M istress of Domestic E conomy -M IS S B . L . TOWNSHEND .


HeadMaster : —F. GO RS E , M .A .

A ssistantIIIasters

R. G. M cKINL AY , D.A. , W . D ITCHBURN, B .Sc . , W . H . NICK SON.

a th ousand Readers to subsc ri be to

THE BOOTLE FREE l IBRAIIY, MUSEUM, AND

TECHNICAL SCHOOL JOURNAL

SUBSCRIPTION S IXPENCE PER ANNUM POST FREE.

Payment may be made to undersigned or at the

Library Cotinter

CHAS . H. HUNT

Librarian.

Published atthe BootleFree Library.

Printed atthe Times Office, M iller’s Bridge, Bootle.


Comm ittee

Chairman :

M r. Counci llor J . J. MACK .

Dep uty Chairman


Mr. A lderman MUSKER . Mr. Councillor LAM B.

Counci l lor Dr. CLEMMEY . Counci llor Dr . MACVIE .

Mr. Councillor GERAGHTY . Counci llor Dr. PEARSON.

Mr. Counci llor GILL . Council lor Dr . ROBERTS .

Mr. Counci llor HUNTER . Mr. Councillor WADSWORTH .

And His W orship'

the MAYOR .

Co-op tative JIIembers

M r. J . WEBSTER , J .P. Mr. J. W . SCHOLEFIELD , J.P.

Mr. J. BLUNDELL,J .P. Dr . T. M . W ILLS

, J.P

Rep resenting the S chool Board

THE VERY REV. DEAN KELLY . REV. A . W . OLIVER ,M .A .

Town Clerk

J . H . FARM ER .


L ibrarian and Cu7'at07 S ub- L ibrar ian

C . H . H UNT . W . T. M ONTGOMERY .And Four Assistants.

Tec hnic al S c hool Staff

D irector of Technical Instruction

J . J . O GLE .

EVENING SCHOOLS c ience

P. E . BOWMAN,M .A . S . DAVIES . L . SMALL, B . Sc .

W . D ALEY , (Edin . ) A . E . E ASTHOPE . R. STEVENS ON.

J . TITTERINGTON.

Commerc ia l

ANTHONY R . BOOK . D . DUNKEL . M . RO S ETE . J. W . MAR SHALL . J .H .Fox0RorT.

Technological

G. W . COLQUHOUN. J. H . SM ITH . A . J . W ILDE . W . W ILSON. A . WRIGHT.

SCHOOL OF ART

ArtMaster :—H . E _ BULM ER , A .B .C A . A ssistantA rtMaster : —R . RO STRON .

A rtPup i l Teacher—M IS S B . W ILE S .


M istress of Domestic E conomy-M IS S B . L . TOWNSHEND .

DAY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

Head Master : —F. GORS E , M .A .

A ssistantMasters

R . G. M CK INL AY , B .A . , W . W . H . NICK SON.

LIBRARY AND Museum STATISTICS

The i ssue of books from the Library during the p ast three m onthshas been as follows

AUGUSTS EPTEMBER

OCTOBER

The visits paid to the Reading Room s and MuseumReading Rooms Museum

AUGUST 17767

SEPTEMBER 20545

OCTOBER 22043

On the 3 l st of October, 3091 persons had borrower ’s tickets1132 children were borrowers , and 221 teachers had Obtained theSpecial teacher ’s t icket


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