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304 Royal Court, at the suit or instance (except as aforesaid) of Her Majesty's Procurator General for the said island:

(e.) All fines recovered under this Act shall be paid to the officers who by the law and practice of the said island are entitled to receive fines levied by order of the said courts respectively, and shall by such officers be accounted for and paid to Her Majesty's Receiver General in the said island on behalf of the Crown:

(f.) All proceedings under this Act in any of the courts the said island shall be regulated according to the ordinary practice of those courts respectively, and all fines shall in default of payment be enforced in the same manner as fines payable to the Crown in the said island:

(g.) The rules prescribed by the law of the said island with respect to appeals in civil and criminal cases shall be followed as to appeals from any orders, judgements, or convictions made in cases of summary jurisdiction under this Act:

(h.) The expression "the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890," shall mean the law for the time being in force in the said island for the formation, regulation, and winding up of companies:

(i.) All friendly societies and branches within the bailiwick of the said island may invest any part of their funds in any of the public funds under the guarantee of the states of the said island.

2.) As respects the bailiwick of the Island of Guernsey:

(a.) The Court of Primary Instance within the bailiwick shall have all such powers and authorities as are by this Act conferred either on courts of summary jurisdiction or on county courts in England: Provided that a sentence may be appealed from, if the case admits of an appeal under the Orders in Council now in force within the bailiwick, but that the decision of the Royal Court when sitting in a body as a court of appeal shall be final:

(b.) All friendly societies and branches within the bailiwick shall be authorised to invest any part of their funds in the state bonds either of Guernsey or of Alderney:

(c.) The expression "the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890," shall mean the law for the time being in force in the said bailiwick for the regulation and winding up of companies

(d,) All offences and fines under this Act shall be prosecuted and recovered summarily before the court of primary jurisdiction at the suit or instance, except in the case of a complaint under section eighty-seven of this Act, of the law officers of the Crown or of a constable of a parish:

(e,) All fines recovered under this Act shall be paid to the Receiver General, to be by him carried to the account of the Crown Revenue.

105. As respects the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, when any sum of money becomes payable on the death of


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a person entitled to make a nomination under this Act that islands and sum shall, in default of any such nomination, be paid to the deceased member's legal representative, according to the law of the island in which that deceased member was domiciled.

106. In this Act, unless a contrary intention appears:

The expression "the registrar" shall mean for England the central office, and for Scotland or Ireland the assistant registrar for Scotland or Ireland:

The expression "land" shall include any interest in land:

The expression "property" shall extend to all property whether real or personal (including books and papers):

The expression "registered society" shall mean a society registered under this Act, and shall include societies subsisting at the commencement of this Act to which the provisions of this Act apply:

The expression "amendment of rule" shall include a new rule, and a resolution rescinding a rule:

The expression "branch" shall mean any number of the members of a society, under the control of a central body, having a separate fund, administered by themselves or by a committee or officers appointed by themselves, and bound to contribute to a fund under the control of a central body:

The expression "committee" shall mean the committee of management or other directing body of a society or branch:

The expression "persons claiming through a member" shall include the nominees of the member where nomination is. allowed:

The expression "officer-" shall include any trustee, treasurer, secretary, or member of the committee of management of a society or branch, or person appointed by the society or branch to sue and be sued on its behalf:

The expression "meeting" shall include (where the rules of a society or branch so allow) a meeting of delegates appointed by members:

The expression "gazette" shall mean the London Gazette for England, the Edinburgh Gazette for Scotland, and the Dublin Gazette for Ireland:

The expression "Treasury regulations" shall mean any regulations made and approved by the Treasury and in force under this Act.

107. The Acts mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule.

108. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January next after the passing thereof and shall extend to the whole of the British Islands.

109. This Act may be cited as the Friendly Societies Act, 1896.

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306

1. The name and place of office of the society.

2. The whole of the objects for which the society is to be established, purposes for which the funds thereof shall be applicable, the terms of and admission of members, the conditions under which may member may become entitled to any benefit assured hereby, and the fines and forfeitures to be imposed on any member, and the consequences of nonpayment of an subscription or fine.

3. The mode of holding meetings and right of voting, and the manner of making, altering, or rescinding rules.

4. The appointment and removal of a committee of management (by whatever name), of a treasurer and other officers, aid of trustees, and in the case of a society with branches, the composition and powers of the central body, and the conditions under which a branch may secede from the society.

5. The investment of the funds, the keeping of the accounts, and the audit of the same once a year at least.

6. Annual returns to the registrar of the receipts, funds, effects, and expenditure, and numbers of members, of the society.

7. The inspection of the books of the society by every person having an interest in the funds of the society.

8. The manner in which disputes shall be settled.

9. In case of dividing societies, a provision for meeting all claims upon the society existing at the time of division before any such division takes place.

And also in the case of friendly and cattle insurance societies:—

10. The keeping separate accounts of all moneys received or paid on account of every particular fund or benefit assured for which a separate table of contributions payable shall have been adopted, and the keeping separate account of the expenses of management, and of all contributions on account thereof.

11. (Except as to cattle insurance societies) a valuation once at least in every five years of the assets and liabilities of the society, including the estimated risks and contributions.

12. The voluntary dissolution of the society by consent in a friendly-society of not less than live sixths in value of the members, and of every person for the time being entitled to any benefit from the funds of the society, unless his claim be first satisfied or adequately provided for; and in a cattle insurance society by consent of three fourths in number of the members.

13. The right of one fifth of the total number of members, or of one hundred members in the case of a society of one thousand members and not exceeding ten thousand, or of five hundred members in the case of a society of more than ten thousand members, to apply to the chief registrar, or in case of societies registered and doing business exclusively in Scotland or Ireland to the assistant registrar for Scotland or Ireland, for an investigation of the affairs of the society, or for winding up the same.


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 "Do nothing! How did you get on with the milking?"

"I managed it somehow—after you taught me. 'Remember?" Then the talk stopped with an almost audible jar. Still no Mrs. Jim.

"That reminds me, I owe you fifty rupees for the condensed milk. I thought perhaps you 'd be coming here when you were transferred to the Khanda district, and I could pay you then; but you did n't." "I passed within five miles of the camp, but it was in the middle of a march, you see, and the carts were breaking down every few minutes, and I could n't get 'em over the ground till ten o'clock that night. I wanted to come awfully. You knew I did, did n't you ?"

"I—believe—I—did," said "William, facing him with level eyes. She was no longer white. "Did you understand?"

"Why you did n't ride in? Of course I did." "Why?"

"Because you could n't, of course. I knew that." "Did you care?"

"If you had come in—but I knew you would n't—but if you had, I should have cared a great deal. You know I should." "Thank God I did n't! Oh, but I wanted to! I could n't trust myself to ride in front of the carts, because I kept edging 'em over here, don't you know?" "I knew you would n't," said William, contentedly. "Here 's your fifty." Scott bent forward and kissed the hand that held the

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1896.

The Society is registered as a [friendly society,cattle insurance society, benevolent society, working-men's club or specially authorised society] under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, this day of.

The foregoing amendment of the rules of the Society is registered  under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, this  day of

The is registered as a branch of the Society [and of the  branch of the same] under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, this  day of

The foregoing amendment of the branch rules of the is registered under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, this  day of

Know all men by these presents, that we, A.B. of, one of the officers of the Society [or of the  branch of the  Society] having its registered  office at , in the county of , and CD. of (as surety on behalf of the said A.B.), are jointly and severally held and firmly bound to E.F.of, GH. of, and LK. of, the trustees of the said society [or branch], in the sum of to be paid to the said E.F., G.H., and I,K., as such trustees or their


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308 Successors, trustees for the time being, or their certain aitomej ; for which payment well and truly to be made we jointly and severally bind ourselves, and each of us by himself our and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated the day of  in the year of our Lord

Whereas the above-bounden A.B. has been duly appointed to the office of of the  Society [or of the  branch of the  Society] having its registered office situate as aforesaid, and he, together with the above-bounden C.D. as his surety, have entered into the above-written bond, subject to the condition herein-after contained :

Now therefore the condition of the above-written bond is such, that if the said A,B. do render a just and true account of all moneys received and paid by him on account of the said society [or branch], at such times as the rules thereof appoint, and do pay over all the moneys remaining in his hands, and assign and transfer or deliver all property (including book and papers) belonging to the said society [or branch] in his hands or custody to such person or persons as the said society [or branch], or the trustees or committee of management thereof, shall appoint, according to the rules of the said society [or branch], together with the proper and legal receipts or vouchers for such payments, then the above-written bend shall be void, otherwise shall remain in full force.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of [two witnesses.]

I, A.B. of, hereby bind and oblige myself, to the extent of £ at most, as caution and surety for C.D. a person employed by the Society [or the  branch of the  Society], that he, the said C.D. shall on demand faithfully and truly account for all moneys received and paid to him for behalf of the said society [or branch], and also assign and transfer or deliver all property (including books and papers) belonging to the said society [or branch] in his hands or custody, and that to such person or persons as the said society [or branch], or the trustees thereof shall appoint, according to the rules of the said society [or branch].

Dated at this day of Signature of Cautioner. E.F. of witness. G,H, of witness.

The above bond shall not require a testing clause or subscription clause, and may be wholly printed, or partly written and partly printed.

The trustees of the Society [or the  branch of the  Society] hereby acknowledge to have received all moneys intended to be secured by the within [or above] written deed.

Signed [Signatures of Trustees.] Trustees.


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1896.

  An Act to consolidate the Enactments relating to Friendly Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies which receive Contributions and Premiums by means of Collectors. [7th August 1896.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows :

1. This Act shall apply to every such —

(a) friendly society or branch, whether registered or unregistered (in this Act referred to as a collecting society) ; and

(b) person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, granting assurances on any one life for a less sum than twenty pounds (in this Act referred to as an industrial assurance company),

as receives contributions or premiums by means of collectors at a greater distance than ten miles from the registered office or principal


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434 Tricks, shamanistic, –

Trujillo, ,

Trumpets, ; Bronze age,

Tubular pipe, distribution,

Tuckahoe, bread made from,

Tumpline, ,

Turkey, domestication of,, , ,

Turtles, great, at Quirigua,

Twined basketry, ,

Twins, story of,

Uaupés,

Ulotrichi, found in Australian-African group,

Underground houses, ; Plateau area, ,

Unfaithful wife, distribution of story,

Urn burial,, , , –

Uxmal, ,

Vaginal teeth, distribution of story,

Variability, of head form,

Vegetable, foods, salmon area, ; southeastern area, ; southwestern Déné, ; products, secondary dependence on in various areas –

Venezuela, highland populations exterminated by the Spaniards,

Ventriloquism, in Amazon area,

Venus, important god of the Aztec and Maya,

Verse, aboriginal, ; origin of in song, ; Eskimo,

Vihuk, Cheyenne god,

Village sites, North Atlantic area, ,

Villages, fairly permanent, salmon area tribes,

Viracocha, Inca god,, ; Peruvian culture hero, ,

Vision, origin of supernatural power, ; to obtain personal guardian,

Vocabularies, classification of linguistic stocks, based on,

Wabano cult, Central Algonkin,

Wakan, compared to Peruvian huaca, ; defined,

Walls, forms of, ; New World buildings,

Walum Olum, Delaware,

Wampum, belts woven of,

War, ; honors, graded, ; song, Pawnee, –

Warfare,

Weapons, ; guanaco area, ; North Pacific Coast area, ; Plateau area,

Weaves, basketry, ; fineness of in Peruvian cloth,

Weaving, cedarbark, ; Chonoans, ; Déné region, ; distribution of, ; Eastern Woodland area,, ; Huichol, ; high development among the Maya, ; Inca area, ; Maya, ; modern Mexican, ; Navajo, , ; New World, ; North Pacific Coast area, ; Northern Shoshonean tribes, ; Ojibway, ; Pueblo area, ; sage-brush bark, ; Southeastern area, , ; technical limitations of, ; technique, influence on design, , ; types of in the New World, ; wild goat wool,

West Indies,, , , ,

Whirling log symbol, Navajo, ,

Whistling jars, ,

Wheel, absence of in New World culture,, , , ; development in the Old World,

Whipping, ceremonial, ,

Wickerwork basketry,

Wild plants, as food in Pueblo area,

Wild rice culture, Eastern Woodland area,

Windows, rarity of in New World houses,

Witches, trial of among Iroquois, ,

Wives, exchange of, –,

"Woman who went to the Sky," distribution of story,

Women, agriculture work of,, ; taboo against, in ceremonies,

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210 place of business of the society or company, and, in the case of an industrial assurance company, at less periodical intervals than two months:

Provided that nothing in this Act shall, except as expressly provided thereby, apply to any assurance with an industrial assurance company the premiums in respect of which are receivable at greater periodical intervals than two months.

2.—{1.) A collecting society shall deliver to every person, on his becoming a member of or insuring with the society, a copy of the rules of the society, together with a printed policy signed by two of the committee and by the secretary, at a price not exceeding one penny for the rules and one penny for the policy.

(2.) In the case of a family enrolled in one book or card, one copy of rules and one family policy shall be sufficient.

3. A forfeiture shall not be incurred by any member or person insured in a collecting society or industrial assurance company by reason of any default in paying any contribution until after—

(a) notice stating the amount due by him, and informing him that in case of default of payment by him within a reasonable time, not being less than fourteen days, and at a place to be specified in the notice, his interest or benefit will be forfeited, has been served upon him by or on behalf of the society or company; and

(b) default has been made by him in paying his contribution in accordance with that notice.

4.—(1.) A member of or person insured with a collecting society or industrial assurance company shall not, except in the case of —

(a) as respects a collecting society, an amalgamation transfer of engagements or conversion into a company under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896 ; or

(b) as respects an industrial assurance company, an amalgamation or transfer of business under the Life Assurance Companies Acts, 1870 to 1872 ,

become or be made a member of or be insured with any other such society or company without his written consent, or, in the case of an infant, without the consent of his father or other guardian.

(2.) The society or company to which the member or person is sought to be transferred shall, within seven days from his application for admission to that society or company, give notice thereof in writing to the society or company from which he is sought to be transferred.

5.—(1.) At least one general meeting of every collecting society and industrial assurance company shall be held in every year.

(2.) Except where the day, hour, and place of an annual or other periodical meeting is fixed by the rules, notice of every general meeting shall either be given by the society or company to the members by advertisement to be published at least twice in two or more of the newspapers in general circulation in every county where the society or company carries on business, or be served upon every member.


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 missionary zeal and Howard-like philanthropy, been awakened to a sense of his unhappy position, and induced to enter upon an amended career, whereby he has manifested a disposition to act rationally and conform to discipline whilst he remained under my charge, and has ultimately become a respectable member of society." And Colonel Champ, the head of the Tasmanian Convict Department, bore further testimony to the "constant and unwearied exertions of Bishop Willson in administering to the spiritual needs of the convict population, and the success with which those exertions have been attended." Sir William Denison, the Governor of Tasmania, wrote in these terms on the eve of the Bishop's departure for a brief visit to Europe in 1852: "If the government owe you much, so do the convicts; and they, I am certain, will participate in those feelings of regret, with which every one who has had the pleasure of your acquaintance w411 hear of your approaching departure."

Like all the other pioneer prelates, Bishop Willson threw himself on the generosity of the Irish Church, in the full assurance that his appeal for more missionaries to man his island diocese would not be fruitless. There were only three priests and three churches in the whole of Tasmania at the time. The Rev. Thomas Kelsh, the biographer of Bishop Willson, describing his visit to Ireland, states that "though great difficulties prevented his getting the supply of priests he had hoped for, some ecclesiastical students, quite captivated by his venerable appearance and address, volunteered for the distant colony as soon as their studies were completed." They kept their promise, came out to Tasmania, were ordained by Bishop Willson, and were established in various parts of the island, where their presence was sorely needed. Having provided his diocese with a fresh

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 of clergy, the bishop proceeded to the erection of St. Mary's Cathedral in Hobart, which he was enabled to do through the princely generosity of a local Irish Catholic, Mr. Roderick O'Connor, who gave him the noble sum of £10,000 for the purpose. The spirit in which the bishop set about this great undertaking is shown by his own words, expressing an earnest desire for "an humble revival of that taste and skill which influenced our forefathers in the faith, when erecting St. Peter's in Canterbury and York, St. Patrick's in Dublin, St. Canice's in Kilkenny, St. Finbarr's in Cork, and the many glorious churches, the pride of our land." Dr. Willson was not spared to see the completion of the cathedral in whose erection he took so laudable a pride, but the structure has been finished under the supervision of his successor, the Right Eev. Daniel Murphy, the present venerable Bishop of Hobart. Dr. Murphy is the Nestor of the Australasian prelates, having worn the mitre for more than forty years, first under the burning sun of India, and afterwards under the beautiful skies of temperate Tasmania.

France is entitled to the honour of having planted Catholicity in New Zealand, but, just as in the other Australasian colonies, the working of the Church is now almost entirely in the hands of Irish ecclesiastics. Dr. Pompallier, the first bishop of New Zealand, landed there in 1838, accompanied by one priest and a lay brother. He, and the clergy who followed in his footsteps, made many converts to Christianity amongst the high-spirited Maories, and a large percentage of the present, but rapidly-vanishing, generation of New Zealand natives, is thoroughly and devotedly Catholic. One priest in particular, the Very Rev. Walter McDonald, has laboured for many years so

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1896.
 * 12 Geo. 3. c. 20.
 * An Act for the more effectual proceeding against Persons standing mute on their Arraignment for Felony or Piracy.
 * 12 Geo. 3. c. 24.
 * An Act for the better securing and preserving His Majesty's Dockyards, Magazines, Ships, Ammunition, and Stores.
 * 12 Geo. 3. c. 45.
 * An Act for the better Regulation of Carters, Carriages, and loaded Horses, and for removing Obstructions and Nuisances upon the Streets and Highways within that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
 * 12 Geo. 3. c. 72.
 * An Act .... for extending the Privilege of Bills to Promissory Notes and for limiting Actions upon Bills and Promissory Notes, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland.
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 21.
 * An Act the title of which begins with the words "An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act" and ends with the words " to the Children of such Children."
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 32.
 * An Act the title of which begins with the words "An Act for repealing so much of an Act" and ends with the words "Parsnips, Pease, and Carrots."
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 52.
 * An Act for appointing Wardens and Assaymasters for assaying Wrought Plate in the Towns of Sheffield and Birmingham.
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 54.
 * An Act for the more effectual preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and for repealing and amending several of the laws now in being relative thereto.
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 59.
 * An Act for repealing so much of an Act of the thirty-first year of his late Majesty as inflicts capital punishment for Frauds and Abuses in the marking or stamping of Gold or Silver Plate ; and for inflicting another punishment for the said offence.
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 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 32.
 * An Act the title of which begins with the words "An Act for repealing so much of an Act" and ends with the words "Parsnips, Pease, and Carrots."
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 52.
 * An Act for appointing Wardens and Assaymasters for assaying Wrought Plate in the Towns of Sheffield and Birmingham.
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 54.
 * An Act for the more effectual preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and for repealing and amending several of the laws now in being relative thereto.
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 59.
 * An Act for repealing so much of an Act of the thirty-first year of his late Majesty as inflicts capital punishment for Frauds and Abuses in the marking or stamping of Gold or Silver Plate ; and for inflicting another punishment for the said offence.
 * }
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 54.
 * An Act for the more effectual preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and for repealing and amending several of the laws now in being relative thereto.
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 59.
 * An Act for repealing so much of an Act of the thirty-first year of his late Majesty as inflicts capital punishment for Frauds and Abuses in the marking or stamping of Gold or Silver Plate ; and for inflicting another punishment for the said offence.
 * }
 * 13 Geo. 3. c. 59.
 * An Act for repealing so much of an Act of the thirty-first year of his late Majesty as inflicts capital punishment for Frauds and Abuses in the marking or stamping of Gold or Silver Plate ; and for inflicting another punishment for the said offence.
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1896. (3.) The notice shall specify the day, hour, and place, and the objects of the meeting, and in case any amendment of a rule is intended to be proposed shall contain a copy of every such amendment.

(4.) The society or company shall publish the last of such advertisements, or serve such notice as aforesaid, at least fourteen days before the day appointed for the meeting, and shall during those fourteen days keep a copy of the notice in legible characters affixed in some conspicuous place in or outside every office at which the business of the society or company is carried on.

(5.) For the purposes of this section the several ridings of the county of York, the several Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man respectively, shall be deemed to be counties.

6—(1.) A copy of every balance sheet of a collecting society shall, during the seven days next preceding the meeting at which the balance sheet is to be presented, be kept open by the society for inspection at every office at which the business of the society is carried on, and shall be delivered or sent by post to every member on demand.

(2.) The annual returns required to be sent to the registrar under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, shall, in the case of a collecting society, be certified by some person not an officer of the society (otherwise than as auditor thereof) carrying on publicly the business of an accountant, and if not so certified shall be deemed not to have been made.

7. In all disputes between a collecting society or industrial assurance company and any member or person insured, or any person claiming through a member or person insured, or under the rules, that member or person may, notwithstanding any provisions of the rules of the society or company to the contrary, apply to the county court, or to the court of summary jurisdiction for the place where that member or other person resides, and the court may settle that dispute according to the provisions of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896.

8. A collector of a collecting society or industrial assurance company shall not, whilst he is such, be capable of—

(a) being a member of the committee; or

(b) holding any other office in the society or company except that of superintending collectors within a specified area; or

(c) voting at or taking part in the proceedings of any meeting of the society or company.

8. In the case of any collecting society registered after the Name of thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and collecting ninety-five, the last words in the name of the society shall be "collecting society."

10. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall be set forth in the rules of every collecting society and, where applicable, of every industrial assurance company established after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.


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18 much as possible; never aggravate their faults, and thus add fuel to the fire of anger already kindled, in a master and mistress's bosom; remember their extreme ignorance, and consider them as your Heavenly Father does the less culpable on this account, even when they do wrong things. Discountenance all cruelty to them, all starvation, all corporal chastisement; these may brutalize and break their spirits, but will never bend them to willing, cheerful obedience. If possible, see that they are comfortably and seasonably fed, whether in the house or the field; it is unreasonable and cruel to expect slaves to wait for their breakfast until eleven o'clock, when they rise at five or six. Do all you can, to induce their owners to clothe them well, and to allow them many little indulgences which would contribute to their comfort. Above all, try to persuade your husband, father, brothers and sons, that slavery is a crime against God and man, and that it is a great sin to keep human beings in such abject ignorance; to deny them the privilege of learning to read and write. The Catholics are universally condemned, for denying the Bible to the common people, but slaveholders must not blame them, for they are doing the very same thing, and for the very same reason, neither of these systems can bear the light which bursts from the pages of that Holy Book. And lastly, endeavour to inculcate submission on the part of the slaves, but whilst doing this be faithful in pleading the cause of the oppressed.

4. Act on this subject. Some of you own slaves yourselves. If you believe slavery is sinful, set them at liberty, "undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free." If they wish to remain with you, pay them wages, if not let them leave you. Should they remain teach them, and have them taught the common branches of an English education; they have minds and those minds, ought to be improved. So precious a talent as intellect, never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth. It is the duty of all, as far as they can, to improve their own mental faculties, because we are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin, if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others, which would enable them to perform this duty. Teach your servants then to read &c, and encourage them to believe it is their duty to learn, if it were only that they might read the Bible.

But some of you will say, we can neither free our slaves nor teach them to read, for the laws of our state forbid it. Be not surprised when I say such wicked laws ought to be no barrier in the way of your duty, and I appeal to the Bible to prove this position. What was the conduct of Shiphrah and Puah, when the king of Egypt issued his cruel mandate, with regard to the Hebrew children? "They feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive." Did these women do right


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118 to the river from the sea is barred by a reef; but it is about this locality that we can collect such magnificent Alga, driven in here by the high waves. Let us see now; here is a mass which we pull in on our oar's blade, and we find Areschotugia conferta, Acrotylus, Apjohnia lætevirens, Ballia Brunonia; and in a heap thrown up on the beach we discover no less than six different species of Caulerpa, viz.:—geminata, filifolia, sedioides, hypnoides, scalpelliformis, and obscura, Codium tomentosum frequent, Callophyllis, Bryopsis, Curdiæa, Conferva. There are little rocks at the mouth of the river on which grows the elegant box-leaved Alyxia, the wood of which is most fragrant. We once nearly lost our life whilst algologising on the beach near this place; the wind had been blowing a perfect hurricane for many days, causing such a commotion along the coast, as those only who reside westwards can understand,—a lull came, and we ventured forth, tightly buttoned up, staff in hand, to make fresh discoveries amidst the dense masses of seaweed cast on the shore. We noticed at a few paces distance a lovely Calithamnion left dry by the retreating waves, and rushed forward to secure it ere their return. We succeeded. Another met our eye, and whilst stooping to grasp it, we were thrown down by a crested wave, covered from head to foot with sand, and had we not saved ourselves by thrusting a long stick which we carried into the ground, we should hardly have been here to-day to speak of the beauties of the Hopkins. Before closing this chapter, and bidding farewell to our readers we must turn to a very pleasing article by Mackie, on " Seaweed as


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 * "Sea-weeds as Objects of Design" in The art journal, new series, volume 4, pages 5–8, 85–88 (1858)

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 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "Ode to Silence" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "Ode to Silence" in Poems I.

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A.D. 1896.]

To amend the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1887. Ch. 43. U.K.

Imposition of Duty on. See (c. 28 s. 7).

To consolidate the Enactments relating to Friendly Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies which receive Contributions and Premiums by means of Collectors. Ch. 26. U.K.

See (c. 24); (c. 23).

See Table II., c. clxxiv.

To make better provision for the Prevention and Settlement of Trade Disputes. Ch. 30. U.K.

See (c 37); (c. 47, Part IV.).

(No. 1.) To apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the 31st March 1896 and 1897. Ch. 3. U.K.

(No. 2.) To apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the 3lst March 1897. Ch. 7. U. K.


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312 11.—(1.) The chief registrar may, on the application of a collecting society registered or applying for registry, with the approval in each case of the Treasury, grant to the society a certificate of exemption from the foregoing provisions of this Act, in any case in which he is of opinion that the society is not one to which those provisions ought to apply.

(2.) The certificate shall be subject to revocation by the chief registrar, with the approval in each case of the Treasury, but shall remain in force until so revoked, and until notice of the revocation has been advertised in the London Gazette and in some newspaper in general circulation in the neighbourhood of the registered office of the society, and also transmitted by a registered letter to the society.

(3.) So long as the certificate is in force the society shall be subject to all the provisions and entitled to all the privileges of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, as if it were a friendly society not receiving contributions by means of collectors at a greater distance than ten miles from the registered office.

12. The provisions of section seventy-six and sections seventy-eight to eighty-three of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, relating to the appointment of inspectors, the calling of special meetings, and the dissolution of registered societies, shall apply to every collecting society, and in the case of a society having branches shall so apply without the consent of the central body of the society.

13.—(1.) The provisions of sections sixty-two to sixty -seven and section eighty-four of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, relating to payments on the death of children, shall extend to industrial assurance companies, as if the word society where used in those sections included all industrial companies assuring the payment of money on the death of children under the age of ten years.

(2.) An assurance made, or to be made by an industrial assurance company, of a sum of money payable on the death of a child under the age of ten years, which would be valid if effected with a registered society, shall not be invalidated by reason of any provision contained in the Life Assurance Act, 1774

(3.) The provisions of this section shall extend to industrial assurance companies which do not receive premiums by means of collectors at a greater distance than ten miles from their principal place of business, and to assurances with any such company the premiums in respect of which are receivable at greater periodical intervals than two months.

14.—(1.) It shall be an offence under this Act if —

(a) a collector of a collecting society or industrial assurance company becomes a member of the committee, or holds any other office (except as in this Act provided) in the society or company, or a member of the committee becomes a collector, or a collector votes at or takes part in the proceedings of a general meeting;

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 * Coates, Florence Earle (1910), "How Wonderful is Love" in Harper's Monthly Magazine (June 1910).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "How Wonderful is Love!" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "How Wonderful is Love" in Poems I.

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 VII THE CAUSES OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR

Bismarck revelations are studiously calculated to confuse the central problem of his career, the responsibility for the war of 1870. All the voluminous literature regarding Moltke and Roon ignores the question ; and the significant suppression of the memoirs of Bernhardi, Bismarck's agent in Spain, shows that there is a secret still to be concealed.

Let me illustrate by a curious instance the difficulties that beset the path of a historian. Bismarck relates that Count H———, the Bavarian Master of the Horse, was sent from Versailles to negotiate with the King of Bavaria for the proclamation of the German Empire, and that the emissary travelled to Munich and back without loss of time. The story which these bald words are meant to hide is as follows: After the fall of Bismarck his successor found a deficit of a couple of hundred thousand pounds in the sequestrated Guelphic Fund, which the Chancellor administers beyond the control of Parliament, and he found that the money had gone to Munich. He requested the Bavarian Minister at Berlin to go home at once and find out what it meant. It meant that the King of Bavaria had agreed to propose the erection of the German Empire in return for £15,000 a year, to be paid to him secretly out of the Guelphic Fund, and that his Master of the Horse was handsomely rewarded out of the same 204


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1896. to another without such written consent as is by this Act required;

(c) a collecting society or industrial assurance company to which a member or person is sought to be transferred fails to give such notice as is by this Act required.

(2.) The provisions of the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, with respect to offences under that Act and the procedure relating thereto, shall apply in the case of offences under this Act, and as so applied shall extend to unregistered collecting societies and industrial assurance companies as if they were registered societies.

15. If any person wilfully makes, orders, or allows to be made any entry, erasure in, or omission from a contribution or collecting book, with intent to falsify that book, or to evade any of the provisions of this Act, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds recoverable at the suit of the chief or any assistant registrar, or of any person aggrieved.

16. Where any notice is required by this Act to be served upon any member or other person, the notice shall be in writing, and either delivered or sent by post to him, or, in the case of a notice of default, left at his last known place of abode.

17.—(1.) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The expression "collector" shall include every paid officer, agent, or person, howsoever remunerated, who, by himself or by any deputy or substitute, collects contributions for a collecting society or industrial assurance company, or holds any interest in a collecting book thereof, but shall not include—

(a) the secretary or other officer of a branch of a society who receives contributions on behalf of the society or of any other branch thereof; or

(b) any officer appointed to superintend and receive moneys from collectors within a specified area, not being himself a collector; or

(c) any agent appointed and remunerated by members, and not under the control of the society or company, or of any officer thereof.

Other expressions have the same meaning as in the Friendly Societies Act, 1896.

(2.) The power of the Treasury to make regulations for carrying the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, into effect shall extend to the making of regulations for carrying this Act into effect.

(3.) The application of this Act to Scotland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands shall I e subject to the same modifications as are expressed in the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, with respect to the application of that Act.

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Rh purse. When this was detected it was kept quiet, but H———, who had done the work, was superseded on the plea of ill-health. This transaction, splendidly illustrating the devious dexterity of the Chancellor, is still shrouded in utter darkness.

In investigating the true cause of the war, we are confronted by the interesting fact that Sybel, writing with the sanction and support of Bismarck, exonerates the Emperor, and also the Empress, while Thiers vehemently denied the guilt of the Prussian Chancellor. The explanation of this generosity on the part of Thiers is that he desired at that moment to conciliate Bismarck. He was negotiating with Germany to prepare for the election of the next Pope, and he wished to propitiate him in favour of his own candidate, who was Cardinal Ginoulhiac, Archbishop of Lyons, a dull man, but reputed the most learned prelate in France. It was in the midst of these communications with Arnim that the wrath of the royalists overtook him.

The evidence I have collected makes it difficult to approve these verdicts of absolution. The question goes back to 1865. In that year the Emperor's illness became known, and men began to doubt whether he would live to consolidate the dynasty and to secure the succession for his son. In that year also the surrender of Lee altered the conditions of European politics. The victorious Americans, combining the forces of North and South, resolved to expel the French from Mexico, where they had set up an offending European monarch under cover of the Civil War. They appointed a general to command the army of Mexico, which was to be recruited largely among the Confederates, and to relieve the Union of a disturbing element, and they sent him to Paris to show his patent to the Emperor. Napoleon saw and understood. Without a struggle, without a protest, he recalled his army and left Maximilian to his fate.

The moment when he underwent this terrible humiliation was the moment when Prussia was preparing to fall upon Austria. It was necessary for his existence on the


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 successfully in their midst as to earn for himself the high title of the "Apostle of the Maori Race" He speaks the Maori language as fluently as a native; he has made a complete study of their intricate national character; he is thoroughly acquainted with all their tribal customs and peculiarities, and has gained their absolute confidence and affection. It is of him that this pleasant little anecdote is told: "Father Walter is well known as a flute-player of more than ordinary ability; but few of the large audience assembled within the walls of the Panmure Hall, on the occasion of the concert recently held in the village, were prepared for the treat which was afforded them by the worthy parish priest, who contributed a flute solo, playing in his best style. On one occasion, in Auckland, when summoned on a sick call, Father Walter, having ministered to the spiritual wants of the patient, was chatting in his genial way, just prior to his departure, when his eye caught sight of a flute lying near by, and, taking it up, he surprised and delighted his hearers by 'rattling off' in great style 'Haste to the Wedding,' 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley,' 'The Pigeon on the Grate,' and many other old-fashioned but charming airs so dear to every Irish heart, and which have been played 'many a time and oft,' and will be played to the end of the chapter, at the 'harvest home' and merrymakings in the South of Ireland. Probably the most delighted of those present was the patient himself, who rapidly recovered, and was quite well again within a short time, such was the efficacy of Father Walter's novel prescription."

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206 throne to do something for his prestige. He would be ruined with the army if, after bringing them back from one disastrous failure in America, his policy exposed them to another in Europe. The French Empire was imperilled as much as the Austrian by the war of 1866. Napoleon made his choice, laid his plans, and did what other men have done before and since—he put his money on the wrong horse. All his generals excepting two, Bourbaki and Berckheim, believed that the Austrians would win; and he accordingly came to an agreement with Austria for the dismemberment of Prussia and the division of the spoil. He neglected to hedge. He made no similar arrangement beforehand with the other side. When his schemes were shattered at Königgratz, he sought to make terms with the victor. He urged that their victory was due to his neutrality and forbearance. The balance of power was overthrown, and he claimed compensation.

Austria was not yet subdued. Archduke Albrecht, crowned with the glory of Custoza, was on the march with the army which had defeated the Italians. Cholera was in the camp. Bismarck asked Moltke whether in those circumstances he was willing to fight the French. In a paper, which is wonderful for its matter-of-fact simplicity, Moltke explained that he was quite willing. It would not be possible, he said, to defend the frontier. But he undertook to meet the French army on equal terms after it had crossed the Rhine.

Fortified by this memorable statement, Bismarck determined to make peace at once with Austria, but to stand his ground as regarded France. The determination was quickly followed by the most dramatic incident in his life. The French demands came. When Pfordten, the Bavarian Minister, saw what they were, saw that Napoleon claimed the Palatinate, which is Bavarian territory, he threw himself into the arms of the hated Chancellor, and at once concluded the treaty of peace and the secret treaty of military alliance in time of war. With the French telegram in his hand, with the resolution to fight for the


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 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "Lullaby" in Harper's Bazar (May 1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "Lullaby" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "Lullaby" in Poems II.

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Rh integrity of Germany, he created the force that conquered France and made the Empire.

Beust hurried to Paris, but found the Emperor so much weakened by disease and pain that he could not be roused to action. The American surrender had been followed by a European surrender. The Government was profoundly discredited, for, after miscalculating the issue of war, they had mismanaged the issue of diplomacy. Drouyn de l'Huys, the Minister who had insisted on the policy of compensation, resigned office. He was followed by the Minister of War. It was believed, rightly or not, that the want of a military demonstration to back the menacing demands was due to him. He was succeeded by Niel, who reorganised the army on a scheme of 400,000 men in line, 400,000 reserve, and 400,000 National Guards. It would take five years to complete the reserve and nine years for the Garde Nationale mobile.

Looking upon History as an affair of Reason, I do not assign these preparations for a war with Germany to national pride, or ambition, or the like irrational causes. The superiority of the German army was apparent, and it was due not only to an established organisation but to excess of numbers. The population of France had almost ceased to increase. The population of Germany increased rapidly. Four German children were born for one French. Berthelot pointed out that France possessed not only fewer children, but more old men. There were fifty-eight Prussians unfit for service to a hundred French. A leading newspaper computed that Germany already had 58,000 valid recruits annually more than France. A deputy argued that the German army, in a few years, would exceed the French by 800,000. The power that was already formidable would soon be overwhelming, and France would be at its mercy. So far as politics can be reduced to figures the thing was clear.

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314  19. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January next after the passing thereof, and shall extend to the whole of the British Islands.

20. This Act may be cited as the Collecting Societies and Industrial Assurance Companies Act, 1896.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Cabs in London. [7th August 1896.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. If any person commits any of the following offences with respect to a cab, namely:—

(a) hires a cab, knowing or having reason to believe that he cannot pay the lawful fare, or with intent to avoid payment of the lawful fare; or

(b) fraudulently endeavours to avoid payment of a fare lawfully due from him; or

(c) having failed or refused to pay a fare lawfully due from him, either refuses to give to the driver an address at which he can be found, or, with intent to deceive, gives a false address,

he shall be liable on summary conviction to pay, in addition to the lawful fare, a fine not exceeding forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding fourteen days; and the whole or any part of any fine imposed may be applied in compensation to the driver.


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208 never cope with Germany single-handed. He relied on a system of alliances either to make war impossible or to make it profitable. In April 1869 he said to the Empress, who constantly urged him to make the army ready for a conflict with their neighbour, "I have obeyed your orders, Madame. I am ready, and you are not." On the 5th January 1868, Benedetti wrote that things were growing urgent, that the effective unity of Germany would soon be accomplished, and could only be prevented with Austrian aid. Prince Napoleon was sent to Berlin, and when he had failed to obtain an amicable understanding, secret negotiations with other powers were begun and were carried on by the sovereigns themselves, behind the back of Ministers.

Austria, governed by Beust, who personified the defeat of 1866, was the first and necessary ally. Austria would not move without Italy, would not move, that is, with Italy hostile in its rear. France and Italy were divided by Rome. Napoleon attempted to avoid the difficulty by allowing the Spaniards to occupy Rome instead of the French; but while this arrangement was in progress the friendly government of Queen Isabella was overthrown. Then the negotiations were resumed with Francis Joseph and Victor Emmanuel, and were suspended in June 1869. By that time the Emperor knew that the warlike support of both would be his, if he would pay the price. Italy had no ground of quarrel with Prussia; to run the risk it required compensation. There were two things the Italians desired—one was Rome, the other was the debatable land on the Austrian frontier. It was the policy of Beust that the price should be paid, not in Austrian territory, but at Rome; and he insisted that the Roman thorn should be taken out of the Italian foot. In other words, he required that France, not Austria, should be the loser, as France, not Austria, had the initiative in the warlike combination.

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 * Coates, Florence Earle (1910), "Deathless Death" in The Outlook (1 January 1910).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "Deathless Death" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "Deathless Death" in Poems I.

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1896.  2. Section eighteen of the London Hackney Carriage Act, 1853, is hereby repealed from "and in case of any dispute" to the end of the section.

3. In this Act the expression "cab" shall mean any hackney carriage within the meaning of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869

4. This Act may be cited as the London Cab Act, 1896.

An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other Duties, to amend the Law relating to Customs and Inland Revenue, and to make provision for the Financial Arrangements of the Year [7th August 1896.]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The duty of customs now payable on tea shall continue to be Duty on tea charged, levied, and paid, on and after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven on the importation thereof into Great Britain or Ireland (that is to say):— Tea, the pound- -- Fourpence.

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208 work (parfleche, cylindrical bag, etc.); use of a circular shield; weak development of work in wood, stone, and bone. Their art is strongly geometric, but as a whole, not symbolic; social organization tends to the simple band; a camp circle organization; a series of societies for men; sun dance ceremony; sweat house observances, scalp dances, etc.

In historic times, these tribes ranged from north to south in the heart of the area. (Fig. 68). On the eastern border were some fourteen tribes having most of the positive traits enumerated above and, in addition, some of the negative ones, such as a limited use of pottery and basketry; some spinning and weaving of bags; rather extensive agriculture; alternating the tipi with larger and more permanent houses covered with grass, bark, or earth; some attempts at water transportation; tending not to observe the sun dance, but to substitute maize festivals, shamanistic performances, and the midéwin of the Great Lakes tribes. These tribes are: the Arikara, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kansa, Mandan, Missouri, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Pawnee, Ponca, Santee-Dakota, Yankton-Dakota, and the Wichita.

On the western border were other tribes (the Wind River Shoshoni, Uintah and Uncompahgre Ute) lacking pottery, but producing a rather high type of basketry; depending far less on the buffalo, but more on deer and small game; making large use of wild grass seeds, or grain; alternating tipis with brush and mat-covered shelters; and not as a whole inclined to the sun dance and the other ceremonial practices of their eastern neighbors.

Also, on the northeastern border are the Plains-Ojibway and Plains-Cree who have many traits of the forest-hunting tribes as well as most of those found in the Plains. Possibly a few of the little-known bands of Canadian Assiniboin should be included in this group in distinction from the Assiniboin proper.

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 * Coates, Florence Earle (1911), "The 'Unfinished' Symphony" in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (May 1911).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "The 'Unfinished' Symphony" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "The 'Unfinished' Symphony" in Poems II.

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   HERD, DAVID (1732–1810), collector of Scottish ballads, was the son of John Herd, farmer, of Balmakelly, in the parish of Marykirk, Kincardineshire, where he was born in 1732. The entry of his baptism in the parish records is dated 23 Oct. of that year. The traditional assumption of biographers that Herd was born in the parish of St. Cyrus, Kincardineshire, probably rests on the fact that the family for a time was resident there. But the original home was in Marykirk, and in the churchyard of the parish the epitaph over Herd's mother, Margaret Low, is still fairly legible. It is surmised that after leaving school Herd served an apprenticeship to a country lawyer. But he was essentially a citizen of Edinburgh, where he was a clerk from early manhood. For many years before his death he was in the service of David Russell, an Edinburgh accountant. His quiet bachelor life admitted of studious leisure, and he was a trusted adviser of Constable, the publisher, and other literary friends. He was popular in society, and as ‘Sir Scrape’ he was for a time president of the somewhat fantastic Cape Club, which was literary as well as convivial in temper and aim, and had many distinguished members (, Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time). In 1772, on Herd's initiative, Robert Fergusson was enrolled among the Cape knights, and in his ‘Auld Reikie’ he eulogises the club. Herd sometimes dates his letters from John Dowie's tavern, in Liberton's Wynd, a social resort visited both by Fergusson and Burns. Here the assembled worthies talked, ‘and enjoyed a bottle of ale and a “saut-herring”’ (Note to a letter of Herd's in Letters from Thomas Percy, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Dromore, John Callander of Craigforth, Esq., David Herd, and others, to George Paton, Edinburgh, 1830). When inviting his friend George Paton to meet another friend at tea, Herd adds that they will ‘adjourn together to some strong ale-office in the evening.’ In the same letter he states his intention of comparing Paton's version of ‘Philotus’ with Pinkerton's, ‘in order to advise Mr. Constable which would be the best copy to print it from.’ He died on 25 June 1810, aged 78 (Scots Mag. August 1810). He was buried in Buccleuch parish churchyard, Edinburgh, where the memorial tablet, placed by his friends in the wall opposite his grave, is ruinous from neglect. The inscription was deciphered by Andrew Jervise, who gives it, together with evidence regarding Herd's birth and baptism, in his account of Marykirk (Epitaphs and Inscriptions from Burial Grounds and Old Buildings in the North-East of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1875). Herd's curious library was dispersed by auction, and realised 254l. 19s. 10d. There is a legend that his heir was an illegitimate son, who died an army major (Introduction to the Paton Letters).

Sir Walter Scott and Archibald Constable, who knew Herd well, commend his attainments and editorial skill, and praise the simplicity and uprightness of his character. Scott mentions (Minstrelsy, i. 71) that his striking personal appearance ‘procured him, amongst his acquaintance, the name of Graysteil.’ Constable acknowledges numerous literary obligations to Herd, whom he met ‘not unfrequently in John Dowie's’ (Archibald Constable and his Literary Correspondents, i. 20).

According to the notice in the ‘Scots Magazine’ Herd did much miscellaneous writing, and one of his books—a copy of ‘Hardyknute,’ with manuscript notes by him—is known to have drifted among the booksellers. But his single separate publication is the ‘Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, &c., collected from Memory, Tradition, and Ancient Authors,’ 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1776. An anonymous collection, in one volume, had appeared in 1769, and in the 1776 preface Herd calls that ‘the first edition of this collection.’ Undoubtedly he was mainly responsible for both, though he may have been assisted by George Paton, who is sometimes credited with a chief share in the volume of 1769. Bishop Percy, writing to Paton, 22 Aug. 1774, expresses a hope that the editor of the coming edition will extract from a projected new selection of ‘Reliques’ ‘in like manner as he did in his first volume.’ In his preface to the 1776 edition Herd says that the demands for the first volume ‘since it has become scarce encouraged the editor to extend and arrange it.’ By its manifest scholarship, discrimination, and good faith the edition of 1776 at once asserted itself. Pinkerton alone criticised it adversely. Others instantly recognised Herd's superiority to Ramsay and previous editors. Ritson (Scottish Songs, vol. i.) acknowledges indebtedness ‘in gratitude;’ Scott, in ‘Border Minstrelsy,’ i. 71, hails the collection as ‘respectable and well-chosen;’ and Chambers, Aytoun, and other editors are in full accord with Scott. An imperfect reissue of the work, manifestly without Herd's supervision, appeared in 1791, and a full and satisfactory reprint was published at Glasgow in 1869. Constable mentions that Herd presented to him his own


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316 levied, and paid, on and after that day, the duties following (that is to say) :—

(2.) This section shall extend to Berlin white beer, and other preparations, whether fermented or not fermented, of a character similar to mum, spruce, or black beer.

3. In addition to the duties of customs payable on and after the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, been every description of beer (other than is specified in the last preceding section) imported into Great Britain or Ireland, there shall be charged, levied, and paid on and after that day the duty following (that is to say) : —

and there shall be allowed and paid on and after the same day in respect of all such beer a similar addition to the drawback granted on exportation, shipment for use as stores or removal to the Isle of Man, by section four of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1881 ;

And so, as to both duty and drawback, in proportion for any difference in gravity.

4. The provisions of sections forty-two, one hundred and sixty-two, and two hundred of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, which relate to the size of casks for spirits, shall be construed as if "nine gallons " were substituted for " twenty gallons."

5.—(1.) Sections forty-two and one hundred and sixty-three of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, with respect to tobacco, shall be construed as if the words "of the gross weight of not less than eighty pounds" were substituted for the words "containing not less than eighty pounds net weight of tobacco, cigars, or snuff," together with, in section forty- two, the words which follow to the end of the paragraph.

(2.) A package of tobacco shall contain tobacco only, and a package imported or carried contrary to this section shall be deemed to be prohibited goods within section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and to be goods imported or carried contrary to section one hundred and sixty-three of the same Act.


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Rh all the traits of the typical group. For example, the Mandan made some use of tipis, hunted buffalo, used the travois, worked in skins and rawhide, and armed and clothed themselves like the typical Plains tribes; but also added other traits, pottery, basketry, agriculture, and earth-lodges. Thus we see that while in this area there are marked culture differences, the traits constituting these differences tend to be typical of other areas; hence, we are quite justified in taking the cultures of the central group as the type for the area as a whole.

2. Plateau Area. The Plateau area joins the Plains on the west. It is far less uniform in its topography, the south being a veritable desert while the north is moist and fertile. To add to the difficulties in systematically characterizing this culture, arising from lack of geographical unity, is the want of definite information for many important tribes. Our readily available sources are Teit's Thompson, Shuswap, and Lillooet; Spinden's Nez Percé; and Lowie's Northern Shoshone; but there is also an excellent summary of the miscellaneous historical information by Lewis. In a general way, these intense tribal studies give us the cultural nuclei of as many groups, the Interior Salish, the Shahaptian, and the Shoshoni. Of these, the Salish seem the typical group, because both the Nez Percé and the Shoshoni show marked Plains traits. It is also the largest, having sixteen or more dialectic divisions and considerable territorial extent. Of these the Thompson, Shuswap, Okanagan (Colville, Nespelim, Sanpoil, Senijixtia), and Lillooet seem to be the most typical. The material traits may be summarized as: extensive use of salmon, deer, roots (especially camas), and berries; the use of a handled digging-stick; cooking with hot stones in holes and baskets; the pulverization of dried salmon and roots for storage; winter houses, semi-subterranean, a circular pit with a conical roof and smoke hole entrance; summer houses; movable or transient, mat or rush-covered tents and the lean-to, double and single; the dog sometimes used as a pack animal; water transportation weakly developed, crude dug-outs and bark canoes being used; pottery not known; basketry

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210 highly developed, coil, rectangular shapes, imbricated technique; twine weaving in flexible bags and mats; some simple weaving of bark fiber for clothing; clothing for the entire body usually of deerskins; skin caps for the men, and in some cases basket caps for women; blankets of woven rabbitskin; the sinew-backed bow prevailed; clubs, lances, and knives, and rod and slat armor (Fig. 60) were used in war, also heavy leather shirts; fish spears, hooks, traps, and bag nets were used; dressing of deerskins highly developed, but other skin-work weak, upright stretching frames and straight longhandled scrapers; while wood work was more advanced than among the Plains tribes it was insignificant as compared to the North Pacific Coast area (4); stone work was confined to the making of tools and points, battering and flaking, some jadeite tools; work in bone, metal, and feathers very weak.

Of the non-material traits the most distinctive are: decorative art simple and inconspicuous, rather inclining towards the Plains type on the one hand and that of the North Pacific Coast tribes on the other; lack of definite tribal organization and band distinctions; a weak but still definite social distinction based upon personal wealth, with at least a modern use of the "potlatch" ceremony; hence, there are no striking general ceremonies or ritualistic societies as in the preceding area; puberty ceremonies rather prominent and related to the general belief in personal guardians; mythology largely a record of the "trickster type."

The Shahaptian group includes tribes of the Waiilatpuan stock. The underground house seems to be wanting here, but the Nez Percé used a form of it for a young men's lodge. However, the permanent house seems to be a form of the double lean-to of the North. In other respects the differences are almost wholly due to the intrusion of traits from the Plains.

The Northern Shoshonean tribes were even farther removed toward Plains culture, though they used a dome-shaped brush shelter before the tipi became general; thus, they used canoes not at all, carried the Plains shield; deer being scarce in their country they made more use of the buffalo than the Nez Percé, depended more upon small game and especially made

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1896. (3.) The expression " tobacco " in this section includes cigars, cigarillos, cigarettes, and snuff.

6.—(1.) Section one of the Manufactured Tobacco Act, 1863, shall be construed as if the word "cases" used therein included "packages," and the words "weighing not less than eighty pounds gross weight" were substituted for the words "containing not less than eighty pounds net weight of such tobacco," and the words "fourteen pounds" were substituted for "thirteen pounds" and "eighty-six pounds" were substituted for "eighty- seven pounds."

(2.) The limitations in respect of inorganic matter and sand governing the payment of drawback under the said section may be relaxed by the Commissioners of Customs where, in their opinion, having regard to the character of the tobacco tendered for drawback, there has been no artificial increase of inorganic matter or sand during the process of manufacture.

(3.) The drawback payable under section one of the same Act on the exportation or deposit of tobacco shall be also allowed in respect of snuff deposited by a licensed manufacturer in a bonded warehouse approved by the Commissioners of Customs for the purpose of being either converted into sheep-wash, hop-powder, or other similar compounds for exportation under bond, or of being mixed with such substance or combination of substances as the Commissioners of Customs may prescribe, so as to render the snuff no longer capable of being used ns such, or as tobacco in any manner, and snuff so denatured shall be exempt from duty.

(4.) The prohibition contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, on the importation of snuff work, tobacco stalks, whether manufactured or not, and tobacco stalk flour, may be removed or modified by special permission of the Commissioners of Customs.

7. A duty of customs of one penny per pound shall be charged Duty on cocoa on that product of the cocoa bean which is generally known as cocoa butter.

8. In addition to the duty of excise payable on and after the Addition to first day of July one thousand eight hudred and ninety-six in excise duty respect of beer brewed in the United Kingdom, there shall be charged, levied, and paid on and after that day—

For every thirty-six gallons of worts of a specific gravity of one thousand and fifty-five degrees, the duty of sixpence, and so in proportion for any difference in quantity or gravity.

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Rh extensive use of wild grass seeds, though as everywhere in the area, roots and salmon formed an important food; in addition to the universal sagebrush bark weaving they made rabbitskin blankets; their basketry was coil and twine, but the shapes were round; they had some steatite jars and possibly pottery, but usually cooked in baskets; their clothing was quite Plains-like and work in rawhide was well developed; in historic times they were great horse Indians, but seem not to have used the travois either for dogs or horses. A number of ceremonial dances also remind one of the Plains. The remaining Shoshoni of western Utah and Nevada were in a more arid region and so out of both the salmon and the buffalo country, but otherwise their fundamental culture was much the same, though far less modified by Plains traits. The Wind River division, the Uintah or Uncompahgre Ute, it should be noted, belong more to the Plains area than here, and have been so classed. In the extreme western part of Nevada we have the Washo, a small tribe and linguistic stock who, in common with some of the little-known Shoshonean Mono-Paviotso groups, seem to have been influenced by California culture, since we find here a form of balsa, or the tule reed raft-like boat of California. Among other variants, the occasional use of insects as food may be noted. On the north of our area are the Athapascan Chilcotin, whose culture was quite like that of the Salish, and to the northeast the Kutenai, with some individualities and some inclinations towards the Plains, especially in social and ceremonial traits.

In general, it appears that in choice of foods, textile arts, quantity of clothing, forms of utensils, fishing appliances, methods of cooking and preparing foods, weakly developed decorative art, meager social organization, distinctions by property, religious and mythological conceptions, there was great uniformity throughout the entire area; while in houses, transportation, weapons, cut and style of clothing, specific ceremonies and war customs, the groups designated above presented some important differences. As in the Plains area, we find certain border tribes strongly influenced by the cultures of the adjoining areas.

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318 in respect of beer brewed in the United Kingdom after the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six—

For every thirty-six gallons of beer of an original gravity of one thousand and fifty-five degrees, the drawback of sixpence, and so in proportion for any difference in quantity or gravity.

10. For the purpose of the charge of duty upon beer brewed in United Kingdom, rice and flaked maize and any other description used of corn which, in the opinion of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, is prepared in a manner similar to flaked maize, shall not be deemed to be malt or corn, but shall be considered to be material capable of being used in brewing within the meaning of the definition of " sugar " in section two of the Inland Revenue Act, 1880.

11.—(1.) A dealer in or retailer of beer shall not receive or have in his custody or possession any sugar, saccharine substance, extract, and syrup, (except for domestic use, the proof whereof shall lie on him), or any preparation for increasing the gravity of beer.

(2.) If a dealer in or retailer of beer receives or has in his custody or possession any article in contravention of this section, the article shall be forfeited, and he shall incur a fine of twenty pounds.

(3.) This section shall not apply to sugar and other preparations deposited in conformity with section seven of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1885, in the entered sugar store of a brewer of beer for sale, nor to sugar or syrup kept for sale in the ordinary course of trade of a grocer, where the brewer or grocer carries on upon the same premises the trade or business of a dealer in or retailer of beer.

12. Section one hundred and thirteen of the Stamp. Act, 1891, which requires delivery of, and charges stamp duty on, a statement of the nominal capital of any corporation or company, where such company or corporation is constituted, or an increase of its capital is authorised, by letters patent or by any Act, shall extend so as to require delivery of, and charge the like stamp duty on, a statement of any nominal share capital of any corporation or company, or of any increase of such capital, where such capital or increase is authorised by an Order in Council, or a certificate of a Government Department, or in any other manner.

13. The provisions of section one hundred and sixteen of the Stamp Act, 1891 (which relates to a composition for stamp duty on policies of insurance against accident), shall apply as if the expression "policy of insurance against accident" in that section included a policy of insurance for any payment agreed to be made during the sickness of any person, or daring his incapacity from personal injury.


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 was that of Bishop of Auckland, a diocese that comprises the greater part of the North Island of New Zealand, and embraces within its bounds nearly the whole of the Maori population. His administration of ecclesiastical affairs was characterised by great vigour in the building of churches and the establishment of schools. Dr. Croke ever manifested the deepest interest in the spiritual and temporal welfare of the native population, and it was with the object of securing a supply of Irish priests to take charge of the Maori missions, that His Grace returned home in 1874. But Ireland would not allow one of the best and bravest of her sons to go abroad again. She kept him at home and made him Archbishop of Cashel, and, in that wider, loftier, and more responsible arena, Dr. Croke has become a trusted beacon-light to his countrymen throughout the world, a valiant defender of Irish rights, and a foremost champion of the national cause.

Besides Auckland in the far north of New Zealand, there is the diocese of Dunedin in the extreme south. This extensive district is under the spiritual supervision of the Eight Rev. Patrick Moran, a fearless prelate of the controversial order, whose voice and pen have been actively employed for more than thirty years in the defence and assertion of Catholic rights. Midway between Auckland, the old capital of New Zealand, and Dunedin, the most populous city and the great commercial centre of the colony, is Wellington, the political capital and the residence of the governor. Wellington constitutes a third diocese, which is ruled by the Right Rev. Francis Redwood, who, by general consent, stands in the front rank of the pulpit orators of Australasia.

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Talk:Fish of the Flood

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1896.

14. Where property is settled by a person on himself for life, and after his death on any other persons with an ultimate reversion of an absolute interest or absolute power of disposition to the settlor, the property shall not be deemed for the purpose of the of interest of principal Act to pass to the settlor on the death of any such other person after the commencement of this Part of this Act, by reason only that the settlor, being then in possession of the property as tenant for life, becomes, in consequence of such death, entitled to the immediate reversion, or acquires an absolute power to dispose of the whole property.

15.—(1.) Where by a disposition of any property an interest Reverter of is conferred on any person other than the disponer for the life of such person or determinable on his death, and such person enters into possession of the interest and thenceforward retains possession thereof to the entire exclusion of the disponer or of any benefit to him by contract or otherwise, and the only benefit which the disponer retains in the said property is subject to such life or determinable interest, and no other interest is created by the said disposition, then, on the death of such person after the commencement of this Part of this Act, the property shall not be deemed for the purpose of the principal Act to pass by reason only of its reverter to the disponer in his lifetime.

(2.) Where by a disposition of any property any such interest as above in this section mentioned is conferred on two or more persons, either severally or jointly, or in succession, this section shall apply in like manner m where the interest is conferred on one person.

(3.) Provided that the foregoing sub-sections shall not apply where such person or persons taking the said life or determinable interest bad at any time prior to the disposition been himself or themselves competent to dispose of the said property.

(4.) Where the deceased person was entitled by law to the rents and profits of real property (as defined by section one of the Succession Duty Act, 1853 of his wife, and has died in her life-time, such property shall not be deemed for the purpose of the principal Act to pass on his death by reason of her then becoming entitled to the property in virtue of her former interest

16. The estate duty due in respect of any annuity or other definite annual sum, whether terminable or perpetual, referred to in section two (1) (d) of the principal Act, may, at the option of the person delivering the account, be paid by four equal yearly instalments, the first of which shall bi due at the end of twelve months from the date of the death, and after the end of those twelve months interest on the unpaid portion of the duty shall be added to each instalment and paid accordingly, but the duty for the time being unpaid, with interest to the date of payment, mav be paid at any time.


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 growth of the Church in the colonies, and in summarising the ecclesiastical history of the Australasian dominion, one cannot help being struck by the extraordinary rapidity with which the complete organisation of to-day has been evolved from the small and unpromising beginnings of half-a-century ago. The now flourishing condition of the Australian Church affords another signal illustration of the utter futility of trying to impede the growth of Catholicity in young countries. An unworthy policy of that sort may have a little temporary success, but the eventual triumph must always rest with the Church. The failure that attended the efforts of the early Australian governors to make Anglicanism the State Church in the colonies, as in the mother country, is now regarded with openly expressed satisfaction by colonists of all classes and creeds. An established religion in these free, self-governed democratic communities would not be tolerated for an instant, and the principle that every denomination stands on a perfect equality from a State standpoint, receives full recognition throughout the whole of Australasia. In such a fair and open field the Catholic Church can always advance by leaps and bounds, as the wonderful strides it has made in the colonies during recent years abundantly testify. Well and truly did the Bishops of Australasia, assembled in Plenary Council for the first time in Sydney, at the close of 1885, under the presidency of Cardinal Moran, refer to the present and the past in their joint Pastoral Letter in these mingled terms of pride and pathos:

"'The prevalent impression on our minds during these days of our council is one of intense thankfulness to God, who has so blessed the mustard seed of the faith in the Church of Australasia. At a date so recent as to be quite within the lifetime of men still moving amongst us, there was not one priest, or one single altar, in all these southern lands. It is not simply that the ministration"

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 "of the Church was poor and scant; but, as a matter of fact, it did not exist. Children came into the world and there was no Catholic clergyman nearer than the northern hemisphere to baptise them. Old men were dying on the scaffold, or in their beds, but the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the coral seas of the north, lay between them and all the sacraments of the dying. Within sight of where we are now assembled the mystery of our faith, the most Holy Sacrament, was preserved by stealth in a poor man's house. It and its few faithful lay worshippers were the whole of God's Church in this part of the world at the beginning of the current century. At the present hour the priests in the colonies number several hundreds; the churches are among the most beautiful in Christendom; and there is scarcely a religious community in the old world which is not largely represented in our midst. Every town has its convent and Catholic schools; and an assembly of 18 Australasian prelates meets here in this capital of New South Wales. A Cardinal is Archbishop of Sydney, and presides over such meetings. Such a contrast between the beginning and the close of a century is unexampled in history. Such a blessing of fruitfulness is unparalleled since the early ages of the Apostles."

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320 17. Section seventeen of the principal Act shall hive effect as if there were added at the end thereof the following proviso in substitution for the existing proviso as to fractional parts of ten pounds:—

Provided that where the principal value of an estate comprises a fraction of one hundred pounds in excess of one hundred pounds, or of any multiple of one hundred pounds, such fraction shall be excluded from the value of the estate for the purpose of determining both the rate and the amount of duty, except that where the principal value of the estate exceeds one hundred pounds and does not exceed two hundred pounds the duty shall be one pound.

18.—(1.) Simple interest at the rate of three per cent per annum without deduction for income tax shall be payable upon all estate duty from the date of the death of the deceased, or, where the duty is payable by instalments, or becomes due at any date later than six months after the death, from the date at which the first instalment or the duty becomes due, and shall be recoverable in the same manner as if it were part of the duty.

(2.) The foregoing provision shall apply to the interest on all death duties as defined by section thirteen of the principal Act in like manner as if it were herein re-enacted and made applicable to those duties.

(3.) The Commissioners of Inland Revenue may remit the interest on any of such death duties where the amount appears to them to be so small as not to repay the expense and trouble of calculation and account.

19.—(1-) The settlement estate duty leviable in respect of a legacy or other personal property settled by the will of the deceased shall (unless the will contains an express provision to the contrary) be payable out of the settled legacy or property in exoneration of the rest of the deceased's estate.

(2.) The settlement estate duty leviable in respect of any such legacy or property shall be collected upon an account setting forth the particulars of the legacy or property, and delivered to the Commissioners by the executor within six months after the death, or within such further time as the Commissioners may allow.

20.—(1.) Where any property passing on the death of a deceased person consists of such pictures, prints, books, manuscripts, works of art, scientific collections, or other things not yielding income as appear to the Treasury to be of national, scientific, or historic interest, and is so as to be enjoyed in kind in succession by different persons, such property shall not, on the death of such deceased person, be aggregated with other property, but shall form an estate by itself, and, while enjoyed in kind by a person not competent to dispose of the same, be exempt from estate duty, but if it is sold or is in the possession of some person who is then competent to dispose of the same, shall become liable to estate duty.

(2.) The person selling the same, or for whose benefit the same is sold, and also the person being in possession and competent to dispose of the same, shall be accountable for the duty, and shall


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Works

 * Songs of Alban
 * "Fish of the Flood" (1912)

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 * As per Ancestry.com document (Census of England and Wales, 1911), Ms. Lorimer was single in 1911, living with her sister, Florence Mary Glen Lorimer. She worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford as a "member of the extra staff for the revision of the catalogue of printed books".  She was 29 in 1911, so I gave her a birth year of 1882. Londonjackbooks (talk) 14:04, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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In the Town a Wild Bird singing

 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "In the Town a Wild Bird singing" in Harper's Monthly Magazine (October 1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "In the Town a Wild Bird singing" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "In the Town a Wild Bird singing" in Poems I.

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 copy of the 1776 edition and a manuscript prepared for a second collection (Constable and his Literary Correspondents, i. 22).

 HERD, JOHN, M.D. (1512?–1588), historian, was born about 1512 ‘in that part of Surrey which adjoins the city of London.’ After being educated at Eton, he was admitted a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, on 16 Aug. 1529, and a fellow on 17 Aug. 1532. He proceeded B.A. in 1534, and commenced M.A. in 1546. On 19 Oct. 1557 he became prebendary of Lincoln. In 1558 he was created M.D. On 14 April 1559 he became prebendary of York. He died in the early part of 1588. Sir William Cecil asked Herd on 14 April 1563, by request of the queen, to deliver up at once for perusal certain collections and commonplace notes in his possession made by Cranmer. Cecil wrote to Archbishop Parker on 25 Aug. 1563 that he had recovered five or six of Cranmer's books from Herd. Herd wrote ‘Historia Anglicana, heroico carmine conscripta: inscripta D. Gul. Cecilio. Continet autem Regna RR. Edw. IV et V, Ric. III et Hen. VII’ (Cotton. MS. Julius, C. ii. 136). At the beginning are several copies of verses in praise of the author. In Sloane MS. 1818, f. 132, is a copy of the part relating to Henry VII. A copy of the entire work is mentioned in R. Scott's ‘Catalogue of Books,’ 1687 (p. 175). Herd contributed to the university collection of verse issued on the death of Martin Bucer, 1550–1.

 HERDMAN, JOHN, M.D. (1762?–1842), medical writer, was born in Scotland about 1762. He became a member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh on 14 Dec. 1793 (List of Members, 1820, p. 40), and a member of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on 26 Dec. 1797, being subsequently elected a fellow (List of Fellows of Coll. of Surg. of Edinburgh, 1874, p. 36). He practised for some years at Leith. On 12 July 1800 he took the degree of M.D. at Aberdeen, and on 31 March 1806 was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians. Removing to London, he was chosen physician to the City Dispensary and physician to the Duke of Sussex. He withdrew from practice upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1814, and M.A. in 1817. Then, having received ordination in the church of England, he preached occasionally at Alnwick, Howick, and other towns in Northumberland. He died at Lesbury House, near Alnwick, on 26 Feb. 1842, aged 80 (Gent. Mag. 1842, pt. i. p. 447). His marriage with the daughter of C. Hay of Lesbury brought him considerable wealth, a large portion of which he spent in charity. His writings are: 1. ‘An Essay on the Causes and Phenomena of Animal Life,’ 8vo, Edinburgh, 1795; 2nd edit. London, 1806. 2. ‘Dissertations on White Swelling of the Joints and the Doctrine of Inflammation,’ 8vo, Edinburgh, 1802. 3. ‘Discourse on the Epidemic Disease termed Influenza,’ 8vo, Edinburgh, 1803. 4. ‘Discourses on the Management of Infants and the Treatment of their Diseases,’ 8vo, Edinburgh, 1804; London, 1807. 5. ‘A Letter proposing a Plan for the Improvement of Dispensaries and the Medical Treatment of the Diseased Poor,’ 8vo, London, 1809.

 HERDMAN, ROBERT (1829–1888), painter, born at Rattray, Perthshire, on 17 Sept. 1829, was the fourth and youngest son of the Rev. William Herdman, minister of the parish, by a daughter of the Rev. Andrew Walker, minister of Collessie, Fifeshire. He was educated at the parish school of Rattray, and on the death of his father in 1838 the family removed to St. Andrews, where he studied for five sessions at the Madras College, gaining a bursary. He then entered the university of St. Andrews, passing through the full arts curriculum, and taking a high place in the various classes; he usually spent the summer months in sketching and painting at Rattray, though during 1846 he taught drawing for a time in St. Andrews. In the same year he attended the university for another session, and in June 1847 went to Edinburgh, where he studied art in the Trustees' Academy, then under the direction of John Ballantyne, R.S.A., and Robert Scott Lauder, R.S.A.; he gained prizes for shaded drawings and for drawing and painting from the life in 1848, 1850, 1851, and 1852. In 1854 he carried off the Royal Scottish Academy's Keith prize and bronze medal for the best historical work by a student in the exhibition; and in November of the following year went to Italy to prosecute his studies, returning in August 1856. Nine water-colour copies from important works by the old masters, which he executed at this time, were purchased by the Royal Scottish Academy, and are now preserved in their art collection. He again visited Italy in September 1868, remaining till March of the