The Quest for a Lost Race - Thomas Edward Pickett

"In living form,"—says Mr. Green, "are now to be heard in the Southwest, words and pronunciations which have remained unaltered at least since the time of Simon de Montfort." "The Virginian"—says the same writer—"has a good opinion of himself; is calm, well-balanced; is self-reliant, and has the English quality of not being afraid to take responsibility." In other words, his blood is Scandinavian or Norman, cooled by the icy currents of Wessex. A correspondent of the Spectator (London) writes: "It is often asked what has become of old English families. I have just gathered white water-lilies from the fields of 'De Vere,' now known as Diver; one of my neighbors is 'Bohun' abbreviated into Bone; 'Roy,' a grand sample of the English laborer, was recently carried into the old church-yard; for many years I employed the tall and stately 'Plantagenet,' known on my labor books as Plant; a shop in the neighboring town is kept by 'Thurcytel,' the modern spelling being Thirkettle; 'Godwin,' the last of his race, died at a grand old age a year ago; 'Mortimer' buys my barley; and around me we have such names as Balding, Harrold, Rolf, Hacon, and Mallett."

[INDEX]

Acland, Sir Henry, Physician, [13]
Alfred, King. "The grim-troubled" sea, [15]
Allen, James Lane. "Summer in Arcady," [1]
Anglo-Norman orators and sheriffs, [29]
leader, Boone or Bohun, [2]
migration to Virginia, [25]
Anglo-Saxon. System of political administration not complex, but solid and enduring.—"Yeoman" as depicted by Andrews.—No conception of freedom in the modern sense.—His decadence.—His progenitors a soldier race.—Incapacity for progress until the Norman came, [92]
their ancestors "harried" the race they dispossessed.—"Harry" an old Saxon word.—William learned the word and all that it implied.—He harried with unsparing ferocity, not the Saxon, but his own kindred, the Northumbrian Danes.—The devastation was never repaired until an industrial civilization revived and regulated the ancient energies of the race.—Elsewhere in England the Norman built at once upon the Saxon's rude but solid work, [93]
Apparatus Criticus. Evolution of, by three Franch brains, Lamarck, Sainte-Beuve, Taine, [51]
"Arcady," sons of. Impression upon their guest, Du Chaillu, [8]
their social traits and habits, [8]
Argyle, the Duke of, on genealogical origin of prominent Irish leaders, [102]
"Assimilative" power of Elizabethan Englishmen (Barrett Wendell), [79]
Battle Abbey Roll, [23]
Bismarck. Unifying the German people by "absorbing" a Scandinavian population, [106]
Blood of Norman in obscure English families, [24]
in Ireland, [24]
in Kentucky, [25]
in Scotland, [24]
in "the States," [24]
in Virginia (earliest migration), [25]
"Blue Grass"; or a Poa found at the Straits of Magellan, [48]
"a cosmopolitan grass" with peculiar affinity for the soil of Kentucky.—The "grass" and the "race."—Opinion expressed by a New England tourist, [49]
Boone, the explorer.—Early "trustee" of Maysville, [2]
name derived from Bohun, [2]
"Bourbon." Famous Kentucky distillate, [4]
Breckinridge, John C. Vice-President United States, [14]
British Association, [188]9.—Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [10]
discusses paper on Scandinavian origin of English race, [10]
British savants stiff in opinion, [34]
Bruce, Doctor. Historian of Roman Wall, [13]
Buckner, a Southern family (foot-note), [7]
Elizabeth, maiden name of the Beautiful Scandinavian, [7]
Cardenas, battle of, [27], [28]
Kentuckians cover retreat to the sea.—Chaplain of expedition killed.—Liberators seize United States fort, [28]
Carlisle, Canon of, quoted.—English surnames are largely exotic. Normandy, he says, was the source of supply.—What was the effect of the "Conquest"?—Anglo-Saxon "grammar" survived, but the stately old nomenclature of the race was hopelessly smashed.—If comparative grammar can deduce the history of the Anglo-Saxon tongue from the habitual speech of an English plough-boy, what historic significance is to be attached to the flood of Norman surnames that were "absorbed" by the Saxon race?—The native speech survived because the dialects which fed it were still living and intact, [141]
Cavalier. An original product of Normandy.—"The man on horseback," [47]
Guild-hall collection of seals.—Equestrian figure, [48]
"Cavalierism." Origin of the word, [46], [47]
Celt, Normanized, or Scandinavian Celt.—"The Fighting Race," [24]
Childe, Edward Lee. "Life of Robert E. Lee" (Paris, France, [187]4), [46]
Clark, George Rogers, a Scandinavian general.—His "wintry marches" in the Northwest, [88]
Coleridge on England's insular position.—Its effect, [59]
"Commercial Aristocracy," [29]
Comparison of the two races, Norman and Saxon.—Origin of the discussion, [127]
Courthouse (Maysville, Kentucky).—Description of.—Du Chaillu received at, [2]
Craft (says Mr. Freeman) is the dominant quality of the Norman character, [131]
popular recognition of the fact.—The winning cards, [132]
Craik, Doctor George, an eminent British scholar, [34]
Eastern and Northern England from middle of the Ninth Century as much Danish as English, [35]
says English "more Scandinavian (Danish or Swedish) than the modern German," [34]
Scandinavian dialect imported by invading bands in Fifth and Sixth Centuries, [35]
views on a Norman migration, [36]
Danes (who were English Normans) fiercely opposed their kinsman, the Norman invader, [109]
every step obstinately contested in Northumbria, [109]
Northumbria the birth-place of the Puritan and the Virginian (vide Wendell and Fiske), [86]
the Dane's (or English Norman's) passionate love of freedom, [111]
Davis, Thomas A., [9]
Dawkins, Boyd. "Cave Hunter," [13]
a warm debate (Newcastle), [18]
Desha, Governor. Reference to corporations, [68]
Disraeli repeats the miracle of Lanfranc, [103]
Gaston Phœbus as a Gascon noble, [105]
his philosophic insight, [104]
Monsignore Berwick and his inherited traits, [104]
nature's reproduction of type, [105], [129]
temp. Louis le Grand, [105]
the Southern "Colonel" with a Norman name, [105]
Doncaster Races: Chitabob and Donovan—North against South.—Deep popular interest.—Wagner and Grey Eagle in Kentucky.—Extremes touch, [42], [43]
Du Chaillu, Paul. Explorer's visit to Maysville, Kentucky, [3]
committee of reception (foot-note), [9]
date of visit to Kentucky ([187]6), [9]
description of hosts, [6]
encounter with gorilla, [6]
entertained by Limestone Club, [4]
his re-discovery of La Nouvelle France, [9]
interest in "the Beautiful Scandinavian," [7]
lecture at Courthouse, [3]
personal description of, [5]-[7]
"take a horn"—Du Chaillu, [122]
verifies the observations of Maltebrun, [121]
vivid description of, [6]
Edward the Confessor established intimate relations between England and Normandy, [36]
Effrenatissima. Effrenatus use by Cicero, [28]
Elizabeth Tudor and Henry the Eighth, [77]-[79]
her recognition of the people, [78]
"Elizabethan" Englishmen, the Kentuckians are (Professor Shaler), [26]
English farmer of Anglo-Norman type.—Resemblance to Norman farmer of present day, [29]
English Folk. Professor Shaler quoted, [25]
"largest body of nearly pure English" found in Kentucky, [25]
Englishman, the Elizabethan. When the elements balanced, his evolution was complete, [128]
Evans, Sir John. Writer on archæology, [13]
Examples of atavism or reversion. The Scottish blood (which was the "dominant" in the Berwick cross) by a gradual process of selection from continuous or intermittent variations comes at last to the front; first manifested, no doubt, in the invigoration of the moral quality, and finally in a physical "mutation"—a return to the original or characteristic color of eyes and hair in the paternal gens. The theory of transmission or inheritance of moral and physical traits in Gaston Phœbus from the Gascon noble is not materially different.—The problem of "three" bodies (really two) in the genesis of the Englishman, though apparently more complex, is essentially the same, the "dominant" factor in the process being Norman or Norse.—Whether the explanation be convincing or not, beyond all question it shows that the Darwinian "scientist" lacks the simplicity of the Disraelitish seer, [104]
Facile Princeps—An English estimate generally accepted in Kentucky, [135]
Family Names, British. Families bearing Norman names unconscious of their origin, [117]
names now accounted English were originally Norman.—The proof of this exists in two countries (England and Normandy) in practically contemporary records, [118]
one Norman name upon an English record after the Conquest might be suggestive; five thousand names would be almost conclusive.—A legal maxim quoted, [118]
this basis of record proof for purposes of comparison unique, [118]
Fiske, John. On "ethnic differentiation."—The Aryan brothers far apart, [58]
New England founded by East Anglian or Scandinavian Englishmen, [87]
the East Anglian's hatred of tyranny and passion for freedom of thought, [87]
Freeman, Edward A., says Norman a "born soldier" and "a born lawyer," [27]
Galton, Sir Francis. Writer on Heredity, [13]
Gens Effrenatissima (Malaterra), [27]
Gentilhomme, translated "gentleman."—England indebted to Normandy for the word, [46]
Gothic Races. First seen in an historic twilight, [108]
a great racial march or movement across Europe in parallel columns, [110]
a Scandinavian naval station, with dry docks, [112]
"a wild and arid nurse," [111]
description of the peninsular (Scandinavia) milieu, [111]
difficulty of following the Gothic trail in their early Asian home.—Modern illustrations of this Asian mystery.—Warring nations of the same race.—Teuton and Goths.—Yenghees in the North, Dixees in the South.—Divided and belligerent, but racially the same, [109]
drift in the eddies of an archipelagic sea.—What became of it? [114]
ethnic differentiation.—Why should the Norseman differ from the kindred Teuton in the south? [111]
from the Caspian Sea to the mouths of the Elbe and Rhine, [110]
he ravages the shores of Northumbria and the rivers of France, [113]
loitering along the shores of the Baltic.—Peopling Denmark, the Danish Islands, and the Scandinavian Peninsula, [110]
their Asian migrations veiled by the mists of time, [109]
who were the original "comelings" on English soil? [116]
William the Conqueror—fifth in descent from Rolf Ganger, the freebooting admiral of the Northern Seas, [113]
Green, Colonel Thomas M., author of "The Spanish Conspiracy," [9]
Green, Thomas Marshall, an accomplished speaker, introduces M. Du Chaillu to the audience, [9]
Hamilton—Jefferson—Lincoln, [77]
Hamlet. A psychological epitome of his race (Danish).—The historic or legendary basis of the character.—The "original"of the character in its intellectual aspects was afamous French scholar and essayist.—His character and tastes.—His literary work.—The favorite writer of Shakespeare, [96]
advice to Kentuckians who take themselves "too seriously" from a philosophic observer who sometimes, it is thought, did not take things seriously enough.—Essentially a modern thinker, [97], [98]
Hardy, Thomas, the novelist, [23]
his views in "Tess," a powerful work of fiction, [23]
Hengist and Horsa, [45]
Inez. An allusion to Hood's poem, "O saw ye not Fair Inez?" (foot-note), [7]
Isaac le Bon and a Virginian "cross."—The differentiating quality, [105], [129]
Kenton, Pioneer.—Commissioner of Roads for Mason County, [2]
a famous hunter.—Name in State enactments spelled Canton, no doubt as then pronounced, [2]
Kentuckian, the. Loves a "good cross," [129]
Kentuckians and Normans; points of resemblance between the derivative and the original stocks, [133]
not a weak vessel, [130]
transmission of characteristic traits, [130]
Kentucky. Lawless elements.—Origin and distribution, [59]
Anglo-Norman juries.—A technical defense, [60]
political assassination.—Murder as an administrative art, [60]
statecraft; enterprise in war.—"A little nation," [106]
"King's Mountain," The Man of, [25]
Lamarck, the famous French savant; referred to in conjunction with Taine and Sainte-Beuve, naturaliste des esprits.—"I began my intellectual life," says Sainte-Beuve, "with Lamarck and the physiologists," [51]
Lanfranc, the scholar, [36]
effects of his work still visible, [36]
restrains William Rufus and Odo of Bayeux, [36]
Law. The Norman of Malaterra and "the forms of law," [28]
Lee, Lionel, accompanies Richard of the Lion-Heart in Third Crusade, at the head of a company of gentilhommes, [46]
Lexicon of Names. A marvelous number and variety of facts. What theory best explains these facts in their relations? A clear judicial faculty required to recognize the force of the cumulative verification, [136]
Library, Free, Newcastle, [13]
a group of savants, [13]
Anthropological Section meets at, [13]
personal description of, [13]
Limestone Club, entertainment by, [3]
Limestone, phosphatic; basis of Bluegrass region, [2]
London Times. A contemporary estimate of Du Chaillu's views. An organ that forms, reflects, and fixes opinion.—Question of the origin and migration of races.—"Time ripe for a new investigation," [39]
letter from Du Chaillu to Times containing challenge to skeptical archæologists, [39], [40]
Longfellow, the poet, [12]
Kentucky racer, [12]
Norwegian barque named, [12]
Lopez at Cardenas, [27], [28]
Louis Napoleon. Places an Austrian Prince on the Mexican throne to unify the Latin race.—Its effect, [106]
Mackintosh, Doctor John. "The man of King's Mountain," [25]
Malaterra, Geoffrey. Describes the Norman in his original habitat, [27]
Mannen, Major Thomas H., [9]
Marshall, General Humphrey. Notably large head, [123]
his aide and secretary Captain Guerrant, [124]
Marsh, George P., quoted.—Peculiarities of Scandinavian tongues observed in English.—"Irreconcilable discrepancies," [45]
Mid-century Figures, [30]
a masculine type, [32]
Montaigne, the French essayist.—A quaint story with a cogent moral, [98]-[100]
Montalembert. His "Monks of the West."—Estimate of the Saxon, [125]
Morgan, General John. His command remarkable for military qualities.—The opinion of Captain Shaler, [124]
Commodore Morgan presents "Yorkshire" to Henry Clay, [44]
Names, the lesson of, [37]
additions to list, [126]
notes, [133]
Virginian names. Alphabetical series of, [101]
Nansen, Fridjof. Arctic Explorer, [15]
Napoleon. The English un peuple marchand, [29]
as an administrator, [6]
Nelson, General William. Description of, [32]
large head, [123]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [10]
Anthropological "Section" organized at ([186]3), [12]
British Association meets at, [10]
"carrying coals" to, [11]
description of, [10]
industrial progress, [10]
northern cattle market, [11]
Northumbrian vitality and vigor, [11]
Newport, Captain of Sea Adventure.—Vice-Admiral of Virginia, [81]
Norman Exchequer, Great Rolls of, [22]
juxtaposition of with English records, [22]
Normanized Kentuckian who has "assimilated" everything Norman but the name, [134]
Normans distinguished from all other nations by their craft (E. A. Freeman), [63], [131]
leaders in England, France, America, [102]
the Norman in his ethnical transformation act, [103]
this Norman craft akin in many respects to the "cuteness" and cleverness attributed to the American people, [63], [102]
Norman Surnames, alphabetical series of. ("The Norman People"), [23]
Norman Race, [20]
Conquest of England by, [21]
desperate and prolonged struggle, [21]
flow of migration post bellum, [21], [22]
great historic march of the Norman people, [124]
is it a "lost" race?, [20]
memorials of, [20]
The Continental recruiting ground, [21]
North and South. Traits in common, [80]
Northmen in communication with peoples of the Mediterranean, [16]
England one of their northern lands, [16]
language of, similar to English of early times, [16]
their settlements in Britain during Roman occupation, [16]
they were bold and enterprising navigators at a time when neither the Saxons nor Franks were "sea-faring" people, [17]
Northumbrian Industries, [11]
Odericus Vitalis (an English writer) on the illiteracy of his countrymen at the time of the Conquest, [35]
Orphan Brigade. Captain Shaler's estimate of, [124]
Otto the Saxon and William the Norman.—Conflicting missions, [108]
the shadowy background of the Norman Conquest.—Formative period of Western Europe (foot-note), [108]
Owens, Colonel Francis P., [9]
"Oyez!" of Anglo-Norman sheriffs, [30]
Perry, Commodore. Furnishes "sea power" in [181]2.—Aide to Governor Shelby.—Perry's sea-guns sighted by riflemen from Kentucky, [107]
Philologist, The. His proper field, [125]
Pioneer Commonwealth, "Genesis of a", [83]
Pirates, Scandinavian. Transmission of traits to English within historic times, [41]
Pitt Rivers, general, soldier, and savant, [14]
Profanity. The Normans "fond of oaths."—Rollo and Carolus Stultus, [63]
a regulator of the nerves, [71]
Ben Briler damned.—Desha on corporations, [68]
Colonel Robert Blanchard and the "burnt cork" minstrels. Description of the entertainment.—"Hell's fire, Bob."—Conditions of life in the early West recalling the times of the Plantagenet kings (Barrett Wendell), [69], [70]
"damned Yankee"—the two words fused by the fires of war, [64]
early Kentuckians (like Shakespeare's soldier) "full of strange oaths," [64]
fireside swearing in the auld lang syne, [67]
General William Nelson.—His strong swearing instincts, [72]
"God dern" not a Virginian oath, [74]
imprecation upon a seller of inherited slaves.—Parody on famous line from Villon.—The dusky bondsmen of the past, [67]
King William's oath at Alençon—Profanity of the Virgin Queen.—"A very drab."—"The Virginians addicted to oaths" (Fordham).—Attenuated oaths, [65]
Pecksniff's "wooden damn," [73]
Stonewall Jackson.—Jubal Early.—Governor Scott, of Kentucky.—Uncle Toby's oath.—Bolling Stith.—George Washington (foot-note), [66]
"The Blue Light Elder."—"Does a Puritan swear?" [72]
the devout Moslem.—Jean Gotdam (Bardsley), [73]
the Master's Call, [68]
the modern passion for "good form," [70]
the oath in court.—The vulgar "cuss-word."—The conversational "swear," [71]
the slinking figure of the iconoclast, [74]
Washington, when deeply angered, swore.—The Attorney-General of Charles II "damns the souls" of the Virginian Commissioners to stimulate their commercial instincts, [75]
Quatrain. (A Tennysonian Parody), [18], [134]
Race between Wagner and Grey Eagle, [43]
Racial Transformation. In England; Ireland; France; the United States, [102]
Retrospect, a brief, [135]
Rolf Ganger, the Scandinavian rover.—The world before him where to choose.—Scandinavian place-names, [108]
Romanes, George. Interpreter of Darwin, [14]
description of appearance, [14]
Rome, the Man of Ancient, [129]
Rowena, Lady, [31]
Sainte-Beuve, the French critic. Reference to, [51]
Salisbury Plain.—Political birth of the English people, [78]
researches among Scandinavians of Northern States.—Psychological distinctions, [95]
Sandys, Sir Edwin. Author of the earliest political charters, [82]
Saxon, The. Came directly from the southeastern shores and islands of the North Sea, and is remotely of Gothic descent: The Dane from Denmark and the Danish islands, and is directly of Scandinavian descent; the Norman, remotely Gothic, is immediately Scandinavian.—The conclusion inevitable, not that we are Scandinavians, but that we are deeply Scandinavianized, and that there is a preponderance of Scandinavian blood in the English race, [119]
a regulative element lacking in Stevenson's duplex monstrosity, Jekyll and Hyde.—Norman and Saxon, [120]
Mr. Bart Kennedy in London Mail: Racially, the Kentuckian facile princeps, [120]
Stevenson and Disraeli as writers, [120]
the Kentuckian of Virginian descent a practically definite ethnical product, [119]
Scandinavia and Kentucky. Relations between the two, [45]
cranial measurements of Scandinavians, [56]
Scandinavian origin of English people, [15]
animated debate in Anthropological Section, [17]
description of scene, [18]
outline of theory, [17]
Scandinavians infused a spirit of enterprise into the English people they have never lost, [17]
"Scot, the indomitable."—The Lowland Race, [24]
sensational paper on (British Association), [17]
Scandinavian population of the Northern States.—Their energy and brains, [57]
possible fusion of with Scandinavians of the Virginian States to form a Continental empire.—Description of Scandinavians by Maltebrun, [57]
Scholarship, philosophic, seldom narrow and never offensive, [128]
Scott, Sir Walter. His romances popular in Kentucky, [121]
"Scythian hand and foot." A Scandinavian peculiarity transmitted to the Norman and the Anglo-Dane, [57]
"Sea Adventure" wrecked on Devil's Island.—Captain Newport, [81]
Seventeenth Century. "Cromwellian Days," [81]
Shakespeare and Virginia, [81]
Shakespeare's English friends, [82]
Shakespeare's portrayal of the Anglo-Norman kings, [94], [95]
Shaler, Professor (Harvard). Conclusions drawn from Gould's measurements, [123]
on "English Folk" in Kentucky, [25]
Snorro Sturleson, Laing's note to; quoted by Lytton, [56]
Spectacle. The most dramatic in history (Du Chaillu), [129]
Spencer, Herbert. Disappearance of Celtic type in the United States, [105]
St. Aldegonde, the English "Swell," [134]
Stanton, Captain Clarence L., [9]
Taine, Hippolyte. Description of English types—"Male" and "Female."—"Carnivorous regime" or "Conformation of race"?—Mentions more attractive types.—The women described by Shakespeare and Dickens, and the noble historic type represented by William Pitt, [51]-[53]
"erubescent bashfulness" a racial peculiarity, [54]
Taylor, Isaac Canon, description of, [14]
Impromptu parody by, [18]
Turner, Sir William. Reads paper at British Association (Newcastle, '[89]) on the Weismann Theory.—First public appearance of the theory in English scientific circles, [13], [55]
Sir William did not accept the theory in full.—The hereditary tendency in harmony with the theory of natural selection, [55]
Types of Beauty in Kentucky, [31]
United States, genesis of. Beginnings of a great conflict, [83]
Anglo-Spanish conflict closed by Dewey and Schley, [83]
first Republic in New World (Dr. Alexander Brown), [84]
Vikings of the West. Control of the Mississippi, [85]
California appropriated by force "under legal forms," [85]
Cuba. Disastrous attempts at annexation. Prospective annexation on the old lines, [85]
passion for territorial expansion, [85]
Vikings: who were they?, [86]
Virginia. Mason County settled by planters from, [2]
"Piedmont" Virginia, [2]
Virginia and the Virginian States, [39]
Virginia peopled by English countryfolk (Anglo-Danes), [57]
Wall, Mrs. Elizabeth Wall (Portrait), [7]
Judge Garrett S. Wall, [9]
Warren, Charles Dudley. Visit to Kentucky, [51]
Washington, George, of Anglo-Norman blood. Effigies of cavalier on Great Seal of Confederate States, [48]
Jared Sparks derives the family of Washington from William de Hertburn, who came into possession of "Wessington" (Washington), County Durham, prior to [118]3. The family soon after assumed the name of Washington. The de Hertburns, who took the name of the place in Durham, were a Norman family. A Teutonic clan (says Freeman) gave the name Wascingas to a village in the North of England. From this name of a mark, or village, came the name of a family—Washington; Ferguson deriving the name of Washington from Wass (an Anglo-Saxon), a derivation which Lower (one of the best authorities) says is clearly untenable. Ferguson derives the name Gustavus Vasa (a Swede) from huass, keen, bold (old Norse). Not an unworthy etymon (he says) for two great names—Gustavus Vasa and Washington. The first de Washington (says the judicious Lower) was much more likely a Norman who came in with the Conquest, and took the name which came with the estate.
Wendell, Professor Barrett (Harvard), on early life in the West, [70]
dominant traits of the Elizabethan Englishman—Puritan and Virginian, [79], [80]
his "Literary History of America," [78]
White, Andrew D. Excerpt from address on "High Crime in the United States," [61]
William the Conqueror. Administrative methods and machinery, [77]
"A lover of peace"; Roger of Wendover quoted, [89]
descendant of Scandinavian jarls, [87]
effect upon France, [91]
embodied the characteristic traits of his race, [87]
English Unity permanently established upon Salisbury Plain. The foundations of feudalism destroyed.—England made "one and indivisible," [93]
physical characteristics.—Vigor and endurance tested in wintry campaigns, [88]
progenitor of Virginian "Cavalier," [87]
sovereign and subject cast in same mould.—The Norman a race separate and apart, yet mingling with all.—Capacity for colonization.—Their sovereign the most successful colonizer in French history.—A lost art in France.—How to repair the loss, [90]
the Norman's Conquest of England transferred the capacity for colonization to the English race, [91]
the Norman's system of administration rested upon a Saxon basis, [92]
the wild king's passion for war and the chase, [88]
William's gift of political "visualization," [94]
he established a principle (unity); he "created a nation"; he founded a line of Anglo-Norman Princes.—Shakespeare's dramatic characterization of the Anglo-Norman Kings.—The significance of his work, [94], [95]
William the Conqueror and Waltheof.—A judicial murder by a Norman king.—A secret assassination by a Saxon Earl, [61]
"Wolf Larsen." Character depicted by Jack London, [32]
a physical counterpart in "Bull" Nelson, [32]
Wolseley, Lord. "The Americans a race of English-speaking Frenchmen," [63]
Wyon. Anglo-Norman Englishman of Norman origin.—Engraver to the Queen.—Engraved seal of the Confederacy, [48]
"Yorkshire" blood in Kentucky. Transmitted traits, [44]
George P. Marsh quoted, 45
peculiarities of dialect, 44
"Yorkshire," Imported. Gift from Commodore Morgan to Henry Clay, 44
Zen Mays and Poa Pratensis, 49

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Morning Ledger (Maysville, Kentucky), June 20, 1906.

[2] Our Beautiful Scandinavian.—It may interest the general public to know that "The Beautiful Scandinavian" of the French traveler was Mrs. Elizabeth Wall, wife of that popular gentleman, Judge Garrett S. Wall. Her maiden name was Buckner—Elizabeth Buckner—a native of Kentucky and daughter of a famous Southern house. That she was a very beautiful woman, her portrait (taken years after marriage) amply attests; and until her ill-health came, her beauty retained, in almost ideal perfection, its characteristic grace and charm. The Beautiful Scandinavian, from whose portrait in oil a halftone likeness is presented in this book, now takes her place in history and moves down its interminable lines with an escort that recalls the "bands of gallant gentlemen" attendant upon Fair Inez when she "went into the West."

[3] M. Paul Du Chaillu's visit to Maysville (which is here described) took place in February, 1876. His arrival was handsomely noticed in the local papers—in the Eagle, edited by Mr. Thomas Marshall Green, the author of "The Spanish Conspiracy"; the Ledger, edited by Mr. Thomas A. Davis, who still presides over its columns with all the old-time ability; and the Bulletin, edited by Mr. Clarence L. Stanton, a son of Judge R. H. Stanton, and a gallant officer in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. All these gentlemen were present at the lecture, and the distinguished traveler was introduced to the audience by Colonel Thomas M. Green. The lecture was followed by an entertainment at the Limestone Club, which was pleasantly noticed by Captain Stanton in his paper of the following day. The Committee of Reception and Entertainment was composed of Major Thomas H. Mannen, Judge Garrett S. Wall, Colonel Francis P. Owens, and Doctor Thomas E. Pickett (the President of the Club).

[4] British Association for the Advancement of Science, Newcastle Meeting, 1889.