—I lately came across the following curious piece of genealogical reasoning which I think originally appeared in Hood's Magazine, and which I have endeavoured to illustrate by the annexed table:
| George | = | |||||
| 1 | 2 | | | || | |||
| William | = | Anne | = | Henry | || | |
| | | | | || | ||||
| | | David | || | ||||
| | | 1 2 | || | ||||
| Thomas | = | Jane | = |
There was a widow (Anne) and her daughter-in-law (Jane), and a man (George) and his son (Henry). The widow married the son, and the daughter married the father. The widow was therefore mother (in-law) to her husband's father, and consequently grandmother to her own husband (Henry). By this husband she had a son (David), to whom she was great-grandmother. Now, as the son of a great-grandmother must be either a grandfather or great uncle, this boy (David) was one or the other. He was his own grandfather! This was the case with a boy at school at Norwich.
E. N.
Memoria Technica
For the Plays of Shakspeare, omitting the Historical English Dramas, "quos versu dicere non est."
Cymbeline, Tempest, Much Ado, Verona,
Merry Wives, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Errors,
Shrew Taming, Night's Dream, Measure, Andronicus,
Timon of Athens.