Related article: She was a timid woman, as her
treatise on fishing tells us. But,
like all Colcrys Tablets women, she believed that
men and boys should be brave,
and we have learnt from Bale
how anxious she was to guard the
youth of England from ** vain
sloth." This is why she wrote
on hawking and hunting, and
other subjects of worldly interest
in the Scriptorium of a mediaeval
convent.
We know already that Juliana
was alive in 1460. The date of
her birth is not known. But let
us suppose that she was born in
1377, eleven years before her
father's disgrace and execution.
Richard H. had just come to the
throne. Keep this fact in your
mind, and think of all the national
events that happened during Buy Colcrys Online our
heroine's long life. You will
think of Richard H.'s reign,
then of Henry IV.*s; you will
next call up to recollection the
heroic days of Agincourt ; Generic Colcrys then
come the wondrous achievements
of the Maid of Orleans ; and on-
wards your thoughts go till they
reach the 22nd of May, 1455,
when the nuns in Sopwell heard
the Yorkists and Lancastrians
meet in their first crash of battle.
It is thus that Juliana's life should
be clothed and charmed with a
thousand interests, all varied.
I cannot leave my subject with-
out saying a few words to Mr.
Bernard Quaritch, who has long
been trying to prove that Juliana
Bemers is unworthy, of any atten-
tion. You will find his remarks
in his ** General Catalogue,"
264
BAILY S MAGAZINE.
[Apeil
vol. ii., p. -^40. Mr. Quaritch has
a theory in his mind, and is free
to unfold it in the way which
seems best to him. He begins
by saying that the rhymed trea-
tise on the chase is written in
the form of a lesson, in the course
of which a dame speaks to her
pupils very endearingly, calling
them her ** sonnys " and her
** lief chyldre." Well, who were
these children ? Was the treatise
put together that gentlewomen
might teach their sons the art and
language of hunting, to be igno-
rant of which was to be without
one of the distinguishing marks
of good birth and good breeding ?
Mr. Quaritch thinks not. The
verses were written, says he,.**not
for What Is Colcrys scions of the aristocracy, but
for simple foresters who aided in
the chase,'* and whose Colcrys Cost proper
school (mark this !) was active
experience in the fields and forests.
Then Mr. Quaritch continues
thus : —
** We may go much further,
and question the very existence of
the lady, Colcrys Coupon except as a personifica-
tion of the Domns /nlianiy or St.
Julian's Hospital near St. Alban's.
Her book is the Barnes' book of
Hunting . . . and is simply
a work Buy Cheap Colcrys of rhymed instructions
from a supposed schoolmistress
(Dame) to her Barns, or school-
children . . Colcrys Mg ."
Now, as the chase was put
under the protection of St. Hubert,
and not under that of St. Julian,
we naturally ask ourselves why
the Domns Juliani should have
been a sporting school for simple
foresters. With this question in
mind, we go in search of infor-
mation, and we soon learn from
Cussan, Newcome, Dugdale, and
the records of St. Alban's Abbey,
that the Domns Jnliani was — a
leper hospital ! Yes, and it was
a small monastery as well, since
no fewer than five priests Colcrys 0.6 MgColcrys Generic attended
to the needs of six leprous
brothers. Such was its character
throughout the whole of Juliana's
life ; it never became a schcx)!.
No '* supposed schoolmistress''
ever taught there, and its lepers
and its priests were not " simple
foresters who aided in the chase."
Nevertheless, w^e can all admire
the unexpected notion, so Gil-
bert ian in its whimsicality, that
an age of ignorance and of ter-
rible civil war encouraged a kind
of sporting college for rude yeo-
n^en. We may yet be told that
the fifteenth century, in addition
to having studious simple for-
esters who could not read, had
also its gallant Peace Society and
its anti-vaccinationists.
Here I bring this short paper
to a close. Owing to the limits
of my space — and no one can
plant a thorn-bush in a thimble—
I have left many things unsaid, but
it will give me pleasure to reply
to any questions addressed to me
by post. Every sportsman, again,
should study the reprints of Juli-
ana's writings that Mr. Elliot
Stock published in 1880 and
1 88 1. These reprints, I regret
to say, are nothing more than
reproductions in facsimile, so that
their obsolete forms of spelling,
like the blurred print and the
punctuation, are very trouble-
some to ninety- nine persons in
a hundred. Still more important
is the fact that the reprint of 18S1
contains some misleading prefa-
tory chapters, in which the late
Mr. William Blades still lives to
theorise at random, filling his
poor paragraphs with absurd dog-
matisms, provable misstatements,
and self- contradictory sentences.
What we need, therefore, is a new
and modernised Colcrys Online edition of the
"Boke of St. Albans," edited
carefully and with sympathy.
Meanwhile, however, we must
struggle through the reprints we
1899.]
THE PRESERVATION OF AFRICAN GAME.
265
have, rememberiDg always that
Haselwood's (1810) is by far the
best ; and let it never be forgotten
that Dame Bemers, like her great
con tern (K>rary, Christine de Pisan,
compiled noble essays, essays full
of life, that would be «read Colcrys Price with
interest hundreds of years after
the fierce midwifery Buy Colcrys of civil war
had brought forth a better type
of civilisation.
Walter Shaw Sparrow.
The Preservation of African Game.
The statement made in Parlia-
ment by the Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, that it is proposed
to hold in the spring an Inter-
national Conference to consider
what steps can be taken to prevent
the extinction of rare animals and
birds in Africa, has been wel-
comed by sportsmen and natural-
ists alike. The preservation of
the remnant of those species
which have been hunted to the