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Nay, to impress his friends still more forcibly with an idea of his magnanimity, he even sung his favorite song, which he never consented to sing but Blanket seventeen times as high as the Moon, and was on special occasions, about An old Woman tossed in a altogether very noisy and loud." "Our readers will find this identical' favorite song in the preface to Newbery's 'Mother Goose's Melody,' p. 7, dragged in without any excuse, but evidently because it was familiar to the writer. This coincidence is certainly of some force." and Jill,' which Goldsmith used to sing to Miss It may also be added that the rhyme of 'Jack Hawkins, will be found at p. 65 of Mother Goose's Melody.' As the preface to the little work is not long, I will venture to ask permission to subjoin it, in order to afford readers an opportunity of judging of the "evidence of style":— men. "Preface, by a very Great Writer of very Little but as we have no room for critical disquisitions we shall Books.-Much might be said in favour of this collection, only observe to our readers, that the custom of singing these songs and lullabies to children is of great antiquity: It is even as old as the time of the ancient Druids. Charactacus, King of the Britons, was rocked in his Cradle in the Isle of Mona, now called Anglesea, and tuned to sleep by some of these soporiferous sonnets. As the best things, however, may be made an ill use of, Mr. Austin Dobson, in his essay on 'An Old so, this kind of compositione has been employed in a satirical manner of which we have a remarkable instance London Bookseller' in 'Eighteenth Century Vigso far back as the reign of King Henry the fifth. When nettes,' has lightly touched upon the question of the that great monarch turned his arms against France, he assistance which, according to some writers, was composed the preceding march to lead his troops to rendered by Oliver Goldsmith in the composition Battle, well knowing that musick had often the power of Newbery's nursery books. Most people will of inspiring courage, especially in the minds of good agree with Mr. Dobson that the so-called "evidence happy nation, even at that time, was never without a Of this his enemies took advantage, and as our of style" is often entirely misleading. It is, how-faction, some of the malcontents adopted the following ever, pleasant to think of Goldsmith occasionally words to the king's own march, in order to ridicule his devoting a spare evening to the service of the majesty, and to shew the folly and impossibility of his little masters and misses whom he loved, and any undertaking. scrap of evidence that bears upon the subject is not to be neglected. One of Newbery's little Dutch-paper-bound publications was a collection of nursery rhymes, called 'Mother Goose's Melody, or Sonnets for the Cradle.' No copy of the original, which must have been published by Newbery before his death in 1767, appears to be extant, but last year Mr. W. H. Whitmore, of Boston, edited a facsimile of an American reproduction of the book which was published about the year 1785 by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass. From Mr. Whitmore's interesting and exhaustive preface I extract the following passage, which has reference to Goldsmith's alleged collaboration in these little books: "Forster, in his 'Life of Goldsmith,' gives proof that Goldsmith was very fond of children, and was familiar There was an old woman toss'd in a blanket, Here the king is represented as an old woman, en- * The music of this march is given in the text. So vast is the prowess of Harry the Great, He'll pluck a Hair from the pale-fac'd moon; Or a lion familiarly take by the tooth, And lead him about as you lead a baboon. All Princes and potentates under the sun, Through fear into corners and holes away run, While no dangers nor dread his swift progress retards, For he deals about kingdoms as we do our cards. When this was shewn to his majesty he smilingly said that folly always dealt in extravagances, and that knaves sometimes put on the garb of fools to promote in that disguise their own wicked designs. The flattery in the last (says he) is more insulting than the impudence of the first, and to weak minds might do more mischief; but we have the old proverb in our favour-If we do not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others will never "We cannot conclude without observing, the great probability there is that the custom of making Nonsense Verses in our schools was borrowed from this practice among the old British nurses; they have, indeed, been always the first preceptors of the youth of this kingdom, and from them the rudiments of taste and learning are naturally derived. Let none therefore speak irreverently of this ancient maternity, as they may be considered as the great grandmothers of science and knowledge." hurt us.' This passage should have its value in the eyes of the Porson of the nursery as giving probably the earliest reading of a rhyme which dates back at least a hundred years before Newbery published his collection. Halliwell, in his 'Nursery Rhymes,' second edition, 1843, p. 244, says that in 'Musick's Handmaid,' 1673, the air to which the rhyme is sung is called Lilliburlero, or Old Woman, whither so high.' In a notice of Mr. G. F. Northall's recently published English FolkRhymes,' which appeared in the Athenæum of Jan. 21, the reviewer says:— "In our youth There was an old woman thrown up in a blanket Three or four times as high as the moon; and surely that is better than having her drawn up. If the rhyme was taken down by a South-Country man, in a part of England where thrown is pronounced thrawn, the change can readily be accounted for." It will, however, be seen that neither Mr. Northall (who quotes from 'N. & Q.,' 7th S. i. 154) nor the reviewer is correct, and that the old woman was not drawn up nor thrown up, but tossed in a blanket.* Mr. Dobson shows in the same paper that the rhyme of "Three children sliding on the ice" could not have been written by Goldsmith, as it is found in publications long anterior to his time. The original ballad on which the lines are founded has been reprinted by Halliwell, from a work entitled 'Ovid de Arte Amandi, &c., Englished, together with Choice Poems, and rare Pieces of This reading is also confirmed by an old version which will be found in 'N. & Q.,' 3rd S. iii. 11. Drollery,' 1662 (see 'Nursery Rhymes,' second edition, 1843, p. 28). W. F. PRIDEAUX. 29, Avenue Road, N.W. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MACE AND STAFF. In the histories of St. Andrews, Fife, it is stated that the exquisite black marble tomb of Bishop James Kennedy, in St. Salvator's College Chapel, was opened in 1683. Six maces are said to have been found hid therein, three of which were retained at St. Andrews, and one was presented to each of the other three Scottish universities. Now, this is a sheer historical falsity; for there is no written record in any form of such a gift at or from St. Andrews, nor is there notice of any such costly articles in the archives of the Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, or Edinburgh. The last two possess no maces at all, while the inscription upon the Glasgow College mace negatives the erroneous historical tradition. Bishop Kennedy's unique crocketed silver-gilt mace is superb in design, while the other two silver ones, made in Paris in 1451, and kept in St. Mary's College, South Street, founded by Archbishop James Bethune in 1537, are far inferior to the former, but superior in workmanship to the Glasgow mace. In 1460, ten years after the foundation, David Cadzow, precentor of the Cathedral and first rector of the University, on the occasion of his being elected to this latter office that year, gave twenty nobles (about forty pounds sterling), towards the manufacture of the Glasgow mace. Moreover, by common consent the members of all the "nations" in the statutory congregation of the university submitted to a tax for the same end, dated on the usual day of SS. Crispin and Crispiana, in 1455. Finally, in 1490 directions were given for the reforming and correction of the silver mace at the expense of the University. It would appear that this emblem of office was now perfected, as no more collections nor taxes are notified. But in 1519 Robert Maxwell, Chancellor of the See of Moray, being elected rector, and having regard to the safety of the more precious mace used only on the higher occasions, presented to the University 66 a cane staff set with silver at the extremities and middle, to be in all time coming borne before the rector on the smaller feasts and at common meet ings." Alas! this elegant "cane staff" (like other the largest in some heads. bequests) is no more. The bump of destruction is not in use, in an oblong box, in the Faculty Room The college silver mace was of old kept, when of the old Pedagogy, in High Street, now utterly demolished for railway offices. This mace is four feet nine and three-quarters inches in length, and weighs eighty-one pounds one ounce. top is hexagonal, with a shield on each side. On Its |