232 NOTES AND QUERIES.
" Tiltups Inn " ; and a barn close to it was
" Tiltups barn," beside the Bath road (1820).
Q. V.
T BSSONS IN RHYME (clvii. 424, 465;
^ clviii. 16, 49, 150). — Under the title
' Rhymes for Youthful Historians,' one
remembers a cloth-bound volume published
by T. J. Allman. Knowledge of history
was thus imparted to boys attending a pri-
vate school fully fifty years ago. Every
page had portraits of English kings. I H. ASKEW.
should like to know who was the author. In-
formation on the point would be esteemed if
traceable.
ANEXJHIN WILLIAMS.
fiYRIACK SKINNER (clviii. 167). - I
^ think that W. E. V. is mistaken in the
statement that Cyriack Skinner's mother was
drowned in the Humber.
The boat accident referred to was the one
in which Andrew Marvell's father, the Rev.
Andrew Marvell, lost his life. According
to the somewhat vague reports of this fatal-
ity, it is related that the reverend gentleman
had become very friendly with a lady named
Skinner, who lived at Barrow-on-Humber
on the opposite side of the estuary from Hull,
where he was a lecturer at the Trinity
Church and master of the Charterhouse.
Mrs. Skinner had an only daughter, of whom
she was intensely fond, so much so that she
would scarcely allow her out of her sight.
At the request of Blarvell she allowed her
daughter to go to Hull to stand godmother
to one of his children, but with strict injunc-
tions that she be allowed to return on the
following day. The young lady accordingly
went to Hull, and the ceremony was per-
formed. When she went down to the water-
side in order to return home, she found the
wind very high and the water so turbulent
that the boatmen endeavoured to persuade
her not to cross then, but to wait till the con-
ditions were more favourable. She, how-
ever, persisted in crossing as she had made a
definite promise to her mother. With much
difficulty Marvell induced some of the boat-
men to attempt the crossing, and volunteered
to go with them. As he was stepping into
the boat he is reported to have exclaimed,
Ho! for Heaven." He threw his gold-
headed cane on shore desiring his friends, if
he did not survive the crossing, to give it to
his son and request him to remember his
father. The boat capsized soon after putting
off, and all its occupants were drowned. The
story continues to the effect that Mrs. Skin-
ner, inconsolable at her loss, reflected on
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young Andrew's position, and made him her
heir, bequeathing to him the whole of her
property.
It is thus evident that the lady who was
drowned was not the mother of Cyriack Skin-
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ner; but she may have been his sister, as
there are strong reasons for believing that
Mrs. Skinner was related to Cyriack.
For this matter I am indebted to ' Kings-
toniana,' by John Symons (1889).
S PRING, BEAUTIFUL SPBING" (clviii.
189).—" Spring, Spring, Beautiful Spring "
was composed by Jules Prudence Riviere (words
of song by Planche), and was sung at Covent
Garden in Boucicault's and Planche's ' Babil
and Bijou,' produced on Aug. 29, 1872. The
song brought Riviere a large sum in royalties.
Ho cleared .£2,000 by this simple melody of
thirty-two bars. The copyright for France was
sold to Chaudens for ,£40.
Riviere was conductor of a series of prome-
nade concerts at Covent Garden. He had a band
at Cremorne, later he was at the Alhambra, both
before and after the fire in December, 1882, and
I remember him at Blackpool, Llandudno, and
Colwyn Bay in the 'eighties. He died in 1900,
and is buried in St. Trillo's churchyard, near
Colwyn Bay. On his memorial stone is in-
scribed, " Music, when soft voices die, vibrates
in the memory." Riviere wrote an interesting
book of recollections which I shall be pleased
to lend your correspondent.
T. W. A. LINOAHD.
The song " Spring, Spring, Beautiful (query,
gentle) Spring " was sung by a choir of boys in
Dion Boucicault's production of ' Babil and
Bijou' at Covent Garden Theatre. It obtained an
encore every evening. I regret I cannot giv©1
the date.
W. M. C.
Jules Riviere, band master of " Riviere'tv
Band," wrote " Spring, Spring, Beautiful
Spring" about 1870, very popular in the
'seventies, and sung everywhere. He conducted
his band at Llandudno and built a large con-
cert hall for his band on the front and was
very well known in Birmingham and the Mid-
lands.
G. GRAINGEB WILKINSON.
This lyric was sung by a strong youthful
chorus (armed with gardening tools, watering-
cans with rose spouts, rakes, etc.), in the fairy
opera ' Babil and Bijou/ first produced at
Covent Garden Theatre in 1872 or 3. The opera
was also remarkable for the first appearances
of Joseph Maas, the tenor vocalist; and Helen
Barry, who led the Amazon Army. Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Paul, and Lionel Brough, who
played Auricomus, were also in the caste. The
opera was revived about ten years later at the
Alhambra, when " Spring" was song in a
Grand Ballet of the Seasons, premiire dauseuse,
Palladino.
WILLIAM BBABBEOOKI.