LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3100, 2 June 1917, Page 11

LIBER'S NOTE BOOK

Answers to Correspondents. "Soldior," 'JWlham.—As far n.s 1 know Joromo K. Jorotno was alive when the last English mail loft. Hie last published book is entitled' "Malvina in Brittany," a collection, of short stories, I do not know whether ho has seon service in Franco. Cod Savn the. King. There has recently been an interesting discission in tho "Times Weekly Literacy Supplement." upon the qustftion of tho authorship of "God Save the King." One correspondent thought lie hud mado tho discoyery that the song had its origin in a. hymn of welcome Bung at St. C'yi" whoa Louis the Fourteenth visited tho clmpel tliore. It was pointed out, however, by other correspondents, that this iu quite an old story, founded, on the forged, or at leant "faked," "Memoiro of the

Marquis do Crequi" and that "a hymn uot- exactly identical with the form noiv in iisti, but not unliko it," was sung at, a. banquet, given by one of tho groat, .liouddii companies to .lames tlni .t'lrnl. 1 ; years before Loilis XIV was born. The first, Continental Sovereign to adopt and adhere to a particular ceremonial hymn or air wns, it appears, the .King nf. Denmark, who chose "God iSaiolbo King." Uo was followed by iho King of Prussia and Saxony, who also choso the sauio hymn, with—in tho Prussian case—a march embodied in it. Next comes :i correspondent, who quotes from thn recontly-puhiislied "Diary of James Gallabin" (au American diplomat, whose family originally oauio from Geneva), to' sboiv tliai "God Save tho King" is tho "National Hymn of Geneva." Gallatin tells us.it was played thero in IGO2, and adds, "the nanus (if tho composer is nob known; both Lulli and Handel claimed it; but that, is absurd, as tho original manuscript is in the Arsenal Library at Geneva." I. :io\v turn up my old friend, Dr. Brewer's "Dictionary of Phraso and. Fable," and there i'inrl it stated that "both tlio words and iho music of the anthem wore composed by Dr. John Bull (1563-1022), organist "at. Antwerp Cathedral, where tho original manuscript is preserved." Dr. Brewer adds:

Others attribute the words to Homy Carey, author of "Sally iu Our Alley." "ho words, "Semi him victorious," olc, look like a. .Incobito song, and Sir John Sinclair tells us ho sow that vereo cut into an, old glass tankard, tho property of a Scots gentleman, whore ancestors wero slaunoh Jacobites. . iSo doubt the words of tho anthem hare often Iwen altered. The air and words wero prol>ably first suggested to Dr. John Bnil by t!io Domimis Salruin of the Roman Catholic Church. Jn .1605 tho lines, "Frustrate their knavish trioks," etc., wero added in reference to the Gunpowdor Plot. In 1715, Bonxj. Jacobite added the words, "Send him (the Pretender) ■victorious," pfr.. And in 171(1 .Henry Carey reect both words and music for the Mercers'. Company on the birthday of George IJ.

All this is very interesting, but in tho most recant issue to hand of the "Times" Literary Supplement (February 22), a correspondent, reminds us that in the first English comedy, "Ralph Doister Doister" (acted about 1510) them in a sort, of litany which clearly suggests soma source 'for tho later _ form of our National Anthem. Tho linos run as follow:

C Hero they sing. G. Good. Tho Lord preserve our most noble Queen of renown, And.her virtues roward with tho heavenly crown, distance. Tho Lord strengthen her most excellent Majesty, Long to reign over us in all prosperity. Trustio. That her godly proceedings tho faith defend, Ho may ,'stablish and mainlain through to the end, Merjgreek. God grant hoc, as sho doth, tho Gospel to protect, Learning and virtue to advance, and vico to correct, lfoister. God grant her loving subjects both the mind und grace, Her most godly proceedings worthily to embrace. Harpax. Her . highness' most worthy counsellors, God' prosper With honour'and love of all . men to minister. Omnes. Clod grant tho nobility her ■ serve and love. With all the wholo common ty, as dotli them boi IIOVO. —Amen.

The Late Noel Hodgson. Tho war pooms, only a. slender sheaf, of the late Lieut. 'William Noel Hodgson, a sou of tho Bishop of Ednnmdsbury and Ipswich, aro lepriutod in a littlo volume entitled "Verso and Prose in Peaco and AY'ar." The author, who won the Military Cross tu Octoher, IUIS, and foil in the Battle of the Somme last July, is at his best in a poem "composed while marching to rest camp alter severe fighting at Loos." The "Times" reviewer describes it as "a poem throbbing with tho stir of the figut." Some sample verses: A leaping wind from England Tho skies without a stain, Clean cut against the morning Slim poplars after raiu, , The foolish, noise of sparrows And starlings in ft wood— , , After {he grime of battle Wo know that these are' good. Death whining down from Heaven, Death roaring from the ground, Death stinking in the nostril. Death shrill m overy Bound. Doubting we charged and conquered— Hopeless we struck'and stood. Now when the fight is ended . Wo know that it was good. AVe that havo been the strongest Cry liko a beaten child, Tho sanest eyes unholy, The cleanest hancb defiled, ' We that have known the hearlblood I/ess than tho lees of wino, Wβ that ha'vo seen men broken, i Wo know man is divino.

Parody. The appearance of Mr. Squire's now book of. parodies, "Tricks of tho Trade," has 'reminded a "Westminster (lunette" reviewer how differently this particular form of mimicry (parody) has been viewed by some, of our distinguished authors. Sir Walter Scott, always a sensiblo man, thoroughly enjoyed the parody ou his own verso contained, in "Tho Rejected Addresses," , laughingly (declaring that h<) must havo written tbo linen himself. Wordsworth, wo fancy, did not tako so kindly to tho parodies of his ponl.ry. Matthew Arnold declared,parody to bo "a vilo art," yet when, ;i olovor skit on himself appeared in one of tho journals iiu oiio relished it inoro .heartily than he. Browning, like Wordsworth, a much parodied pout, was, wo know, greatly tickled when » friend quoted to him Clavorloy's inimitablo linos — "I liko to dock the smaller parts-o'-spceob, A As wo curtail (lie already cnr-taiTd cnr."

Pink Pars for Pale peopln. Tho. lal tor-day novelisL has midioUhick i;i. very humorous touch. A-few <•*- amples:— "A good pair .of eyes ;.u'o worth lu a girl moro than a head full of Latin." —"The Light Aboyo the Cross Roads," by Mrs. Victor Rickard. "You raay always know that a, womiiii of ilie world is really old when sbo says that to do a. certain thing would bo 'luikind.' Ono grows niollow as tlio years leave the paesions of youth ■ further and further behind.''—"Dandelions," by C'oulson Cade. __ "Tho spare bedroom justatieft its nanio in more wa.yß than. one. Everything about it was spare."—"T'ho Mau witb ii. Square Face," by Dorothy Black. ' ■■'■■• "Ho never tilled her hear!.. He only stood in the doorway so l.bat no, ona else could come in." "Her gkneo rested on him for tho fraction of a. moment, that is all a

woman needs i.o tnko in, not only effect, but detail."'

. ' 'What I really like is the good old piouii Sunday,' said JYoddy, 'when .you look afc tho horses and fioratcli tlio pigs' backs aflor niornin' cliurcb, and go to sleep in iho afternoon over tho 'Winnin' Tost , or tho 'Quiror, , or somethin', while yciiir u-xfo—if you bavo one—reads 'Lino ■upon Lino , ' to the kids—if there .arc -any.' " —"Tho Stars in their C'oursos," by Hilda Sharp. "Miss Courtier's, father was a Justice of the Peaco and everything ho should be, 'including , a bully nf ,tho country-side." — "Hatchways," by Ethel Sidgwick.

Disraeli anrt Gladstone lu bis recently published "PiirJiaIteminisrences and I) eftections, 1803-1885," Lord George Hamilton has much to say of the (wo groat, parliamentary giaDts of bis earlier political career, Disraeli and Gladstone. Of '.Dizzy," ho says;—

"Disraeli was so complex a personality fcliat only <lioso who know him and whom ho liked camo in contact with the fine awl fascinating treits of his inner self. Ho irae much more seusitivo than was generally believed; bis immovablo and ephinx-liko calloiwness in debate was originally a. pose, but it gradually became- second nature. Ho was profoundly conscious of his unpopularity in certain quarters, and especially amongst thoso with whom he wan ;m.\ioua to establish personal relations. To tho'se whom ho liked and who wero intimato with him, ho revealed an extraordinarily kind ami magnanimous iliaposition. Ho was tlio et.-iuncb.ttb 'of frionds and. most brilliant and cutcrtaining of hosts."

Of Gladstone .Lord Georgo Hamilton gives loss pleasjmg pictures. He Insists again and again upon his "trickinoss," bnt ho admits thaf "No statesman in my tiino possessed anything approaching his marvolloiw histrionic, power. Tt is tjruo that tho peso was always the earno vir pictat-o gravis; but tho wonderful adaptation of this poeo to every parliamentary difficulty and contingency waa an exhibition of tho highest art, a.nd this poso so grow upon him that it becamo to him secoud. nature."

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