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THOMAS E. PICKETT, M. D., LL. D.
        Member of The Filson Club

 

FILSON CLUB PUBLICATION No. 22



THE QUEST



F (.) R 1A



         LOST RAACE


                 Presenting the Theory of
               PAUL B. Du CHAILLU
An Eminent Ethnologist and Explorer, that the English-speaking People of To-day
     are Descended from the Scandinavians rather than the Teutons-
           from the Normans rather than the Germans

                        BY
   THOMAS E. PICKETT, M.D., LL.D.
               MEMBER OF THE FILSON CLUB

         READ BEFORE THE CLUB OCTOBER 1, 1906


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                LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY,
           JOHN P. MORTON  COMPANY
               PRINTERS TO THE FMSON CLUB
                       1907

 


































   COPYRIGHT, 1907

         BY

THE FILSON CLUB


   All Rights Reserved

 

                   PREFACE



T     HE native Kentuckian has a deep and abiding affection
      for the "Old Commonwealth" which gave him birth.
      It is as passionate a sentiment, too-and some might
add, as irrational-as the love of a Frenchman for his native
France. But it is an innocent idolatry in both, and both
are entitled to the indulgent consideration of alien critics
whose racial instincts are less susceptible and whose emo-
tional nature is under better control. Here and there, a
captious martinet who has been wrestling, mayhap, with a
refractory recruit from Kentucky, will tell you that the aver-
age Kentuckian is scarcely more "educable " than his own
horse; that he is stubborn, irascible, and balky; far from
"bridle-wise," and visibly impatient under disciplinary re-
straint. In their best military form Kentuckians have been
said to lack " conduct" and " steadiness' -even the men
that touched shoulders in the charge at King's Mountain
and those, too, that broke the solid Saxon line at the Battle
of the Thames.
   Whether this be true or not-in whole or in part-we
do not now stop to enquire. Suffice it to say that the Ken-
tuckian has been a participant in many wars, and has given

 
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a good account of himself in all. In ordinary circumstances,
too, he is invincibly loyal to his native State; and when it
happened that, in the spring of 1906, there came to Ken-
tuckians in exile, an order or command from the hospitable
Governor of Kentucky to return at once to the State, they
responded with the alacrity of distant retainers to a signal
from the hereditary Chieftain of the Clan. " Now," said
they, "the lid will be put on and the latch-string left out."
   When the reflux current set in it was simply prodigious-
quite as formidable to the unaccustomed eye as the field-
ward rushing of a host; and it was in the immediate presence
of that portentous ethnic phenomenon that the paper upon
the " Lost Race " was first published;-appearing in a
local journal of ability and repute, and serving in some
measure as a contribution to the entertainment of the guests
that were now crowding every avenue of approach.
   It is not strange that the generous Kentuckians, then
only upon hospitable thoughts intent, should imagine for
one happy quart d'heure that the " Lost Race " of the morn-
ing paper was already knocking at their doors. But they
little imagined-these good Kentuckians-that their hospi-
table suspicion had really a basis of historic truth.
   The handsome book now launched from the Louisville
press is merely that ephemeral contribution to a morning



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paper, presented in a revised and expanded form, with such
illustrations as could come only from the liberal disposition
and cultivated taste of Colonel R. T. Durrett, the President of
The Filson Club. The title which the writer has given the
book is recommended, in part, by the example of a great
writer of romance, who held that the name of the book should
give no indication of the nature of the tale. If the indulgent
reader should be unconvinced by the " argument" that is
implied in almost every paragraph, it is hoped that he will
at least derive some entertainment from the copious flow of
reminiscential and discursive talk. The book is addressed
chiefly to those persons who may have the patience to read
it and the intelligence to perceive that nothing it contains is
written with a too serious intent.
   The writer makes grateful acknowledgments to the many
friends who have encouraged him with approval and advice
in the preparation of the work. For the correction of his
errors and the continuance of his labors he looks with confi-
dent expectation to the SCHOLARS OF THE STATE.



The Morning Ledger (Maysville, Kentucky), June 20, 906.



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            INTRODUCTION



W     HILE    the  Home - Coming    Kentuckians were
        enjoying their meeting, in Louisville, in the
        month of June, i906, Doctor Thomas E. Pickett
published a newspaper article which he had written for
the Home-Coming Week, the object of which was to
present the theory of Paul B. Du Chaillu as to the descent
of the English-speaking people from the Scandinavians
instead of the Teutons; and to show that the descendants
of these Scandinavians were still existing in different
countries, and especially in Kentucky. The author sent
me a copy of his article, and after reading it I deemed
it an ethnological paper worthy of a more certain and
enduring preservation than a daily newspaper could
promise, and concluded that it would be suitable for one
of the publications of The Filson Club. I wrote to the
author about it, and suggested that if he could enlarge
it enough to make one of the annual publications of the
Club, of the usual number of pages, and have it ready
in time, it might be issued for the Club publication of
1907. The author did as I suggested, and the book to
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two of The Filson Club publications, entitled "The Quest
for a Lost Race," by Thomas E. Pickett, M. D., LL. D.,
member of The Filson Club.
   Many persons of the English-speaking race of to-day
believe that the English originated in England. The
race doubtless was formed there, but it came of different
peoples, principally foreign, who only consolidated upon
English soil. Half a dozen or more alien races combined
with one native to make the English as we now know
them, and many years of contention and change were
required to weld the discordant elements into a homo-
geneous whole.
   The original inhabitants of England, found there by
Julius Caesar fifty-five years before the Christian era and
then first made known to history, were Celts, who were
a part of the great Aryan branch of the Caucasian race.
Their numbers have been estimated at 760,ooo, and they
were divided into thirty-eight different tribes with a
chief or sovereign for each tribe. They were neither
barbarians nor savages in the strict sense of these terms.
They were civilized enough to make clothes of the skins
of the wild animals they killed for food; to work in metals,
to make money of copper and weapons of iron, to have
a form of government, to build cabins in which to live,
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with long scythes at the sides to mow down the enemy
as trained horses whirled the chariots through their ranks.
They had military organizations, with large armies com-
manded by such generals as Cassivelaunus, Cunobelin,
Galgacus, Vortigern, and Caractacus, and once one of
their queens named Boadicea led 230,000 soldiers against
the Romans. The bravery with which Caractacus com-
manded his troops, and the eloquence with which he
defended himself and his country before the Emperor
Claudius when taken before him in irons to grace a Roman
triumph, compelled that prejudiced sovereign to order
the prisoner's chains thrown off and him and his family
to be set at liberty. There were enough brave men and
true like Caractacus among these Celts, whose country
was being invaded and desolated, to have secured to the
race a better fate than befell them. After being
slaughtered and driven into exile into Brittany and the
mountains of Wales by Roman, Saxon, and Dane for
eight hundred years, the few of them that were left alive
were not well enough remembered even to have their
name attached to their own country.
   The Celt was entirely ignored and a name combined
of those of two of the conquerors given to their country.
Who will now say that Anglo-Saxon is a more appropriate
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Britannia, or Norman-French, or Celt Anglo-Saxon,
compounded of Anglen and Saxon, the names of two
tribes of Low Dutch Teutons, can but suggest the piracy,
the robbery, the murder and the treachery with which
these tribes dealt with the Celts; while Norman-French
reminds us of the courage, the endurance, and the refine-
ment which were infused into the English by the Norman
Conquest. Celt is a name which ought to have been
respected for its antiquity of many centuries since it
left its ancient Bactria and found its way to England
without a known stain upon its national escutcheon.
These Celts were once a mighty people occupying France,
Spain, and other countries besides England, but their
descendants are now scattered among other nations,
without a country or a name of their own.
   There may be doubts whether the Angles, the Jutes,
the Saxons, and the Danes-all of whom shared in partial
conquests of England and in the establishment of the
English race-were Scandinavians or Teutons, Normans or
Germans. They all belonged to the great Aryan branch
of the Caucasian race, and whatever differences or simi-
larities originally existed between them must have changed
in the thousands of years since they emigrated from their
first home. There can be no doubt, however, about the
nationality of William the Conqueror. He was Scandi-



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navian by descent from a long line of noble Scandinavian
ancestors. The home of his ancestors was in Norway,
far to the north of the home of the Teutons in Germany.
In this bleak land of Arctic cold and sterility, on the
western coast of Norway, where innumerable islands
form a kind of sea-wall along the shore, his ancestor,
Rognvald, who was a great earl holding close relations
with King Harold of Norway, had his home and his land-
locked harbor, in which ships were built for the vikings
who sailed from that port to the shores of all countries
which they could conquer or plunder. Here, his son
Gongu Hrolf, better known as Rollo or Rolf, was born
and received his training as a viking. On his return
from one of his viking raids to the East he committed
some depredations at home, for which King Harold ban-
ished him. He then fitted out a ship and manned it with
a crew of his own choice and sailed for the British Channel
islands. When he reached the river Seine he went up
it as far as Paris, and, according to the fashion of the
times, laid waste the country as he went. King Charles
of France offered to buy him off by conveying to him
the country since known as Normandy and giving him
his daughter in marriage, on condition that he would
become a Christian and commit no more depredations
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and at once ceased to be a viking, and began to build up,
enlarge and strengthen the domain which had been given
him with the title of Duke. In the course of time his
dukedom of Normandy, with the start Rollo had given
it and its continuance under his successors, became one
of the most powerful and enlightened countries of the
period.
   At the death of Rollo his dukedom was inherited by
his son, William, and after passing through four genera-
tions of his descendants who were dukes of Normandy
it descended to a second William, known as the Conqueror.
Duke William, therefore, could trace his Scandinavian
descent through his paternal ancestors back to Rognvald,
the great earl of Norway, and even further back through
the earls Eystein Glumra, Ivar Uppland, and possibly
other noblemen of hard names to write or pronounce or
remember. It is possible that some of his ancestors
were with Lief the Scandinavian when he made his dis-
covery of America, nearly five hundred years before the
discovery of Columbus.
   In io66, Duke William took advantage of a promise,
solemnized by an oath, which Harold had made before
he was King of England, to assist him to the throne of
England, but which he had not kept. Hence William
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of Hastings slew King Harold and gained a complete
victory over his forces. Duke William was soon after
crowned King of England, and at once began that wise
policy which in a few years enabled him to lay firmly
the foundation of the great English nation. His conquest,
though not complete at first, was more so than had been
that of the Romans, or the Angles and Jutes, or the
Saxons or the Danes. At the time of the Conquest of
William there were hostile Celts, Romans, Angles, Jutes,
and Danes in every part of his kingdom. It was not
his policy to destroy any more of them than he deemed
necessary, but to make as many of them citizens loyal
to him as possible; hence his numerous army and the
still more numerous hosts that were constantly coming
from Normandy to England in time became reconciled
to the people and the people to them, until all were con-
solidated into one homogeneous nation. English history
may be said to have begun with the Conquest of William,
for all previous history in the island was but little more
than the record of kings and nobles and pretenders con-
tending against kings, nobles, and pretenders, and sec-
tions and factions and individuals seeking their own
aggrandizement. The Conquest of William began with
the idea of all England under one sovereign, and he and
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England never went backward from William's Conquest
as it did from others, but kept right on in the course of
empire until it became one of the greatest countries in
the world, and this conquest was made by Scandinavians,
who, if they did not make Scandinavians of the conquered,
so Scandinavianized them that it would be difficult to
distinguish them from Scandinavians.
   The evolution of the English race from so many dis-
cordant national elements reminds one of the act of the
witches of Macbeth, casting into the boiling cauldron so
many strange things to draw from the dark future a fact
so important as the fate of a king. Who would have
thought that from the mingling of the Celts and the
Romans and the Angles and the Jutes and the Saxons and
the Danes and the Normans and the French in the great
national cauldron that such a race as the English would
be evolved But it is not certain that such a race would
have been produced if William the Scandinavian and his
French had been left out. He came at a time when a
revolution was needed in manners and language as well
as in politics, and imparted that refinement which the
French had gotten from the Romans and other nations.
The French language so imparted soon began to infuse
its softening influence into the jargon of the conglomera-
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refine the clownish habits which had come down from
original Celt, Saxon, and Dane. The Saxons and Danes
had inhabited England for the four hundred years which
followed the same period occupied by the Romans,
without materially changing the manners or the language
of the English, but it was not as long as either of these
periods after the Conquest before the Englishman acted
and spoke like a gentleman and belonged to a country
which commanded the respect as well as fear of all other
nations. The Scandinavian's fondness for war soon
infused itself into the English and made them invincible
upon both land and sea, and now with a land which so
envelopes the earth that they boast the sun always shines
on some part of it, they may look back some hundreds
of years to the origin of their greatness and find no one
thing which contributed more to the glory of England
than the Norman-French Conquest.
   But the reader had better learn the views of Paul B.
Du Chaillu, an accomplished ethnologist and explorer,
about the descent of the English from the Scandinavians
instead of the Teutons as set forth in Doctor Pickett's
book than from me in an introduction to it. Doctor
Pickett explains the Du Chaillu theory, and gives
examples of similar tastes and habits between English
and Scandinavians which are striking. He also gives a

 

Introduction



long list of names borne by Scandinavians in England
and Normandy eight hundred years ago which are the
same as names borne by Kentuckians to-day. In this
introduction, I have rather confined myself to such
historic matters as are involved, without alluding to the
ethnological facts so well presented in the text by the
author. The work is beautifully and copiously illustrated
with halftone likenesses of the author and Du Chaillu
and by a number of distinguished Kentuckians of Scandi-
navian descent. There was both good taste and skillin
placing among the illustrations the likenesses of Theodore
O'Hara, John T. Pickett, Thomas T. Hawkins, and
William L. Crittenden, who joined the filibustering expedi-
tions of Lopez to Cuba. These distinguished citizens,
like the Scandinavian vikings whom they imitated, lost
nothing of their character by raiding upon a neighbor's
lands, and are among the best examples of the theory
of the descent of the English-speaking people from
Scandinavians rather than Teutons. To be an admirer
of this work it is not necessary to be a believer in the
theory of Du Chaillu, that the English are descended
from Scandinavians instead of Teutons. The truth is,
all the northern nations connected with England were
kinsmen descended from the same stock-Celts, Romans,
Angles, Jutes, Saxons, and Danes all being of the Aryan



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branch of the great Caucasian race. They are so much
alike in some particulars that fixed opinions about
differences or likenesses between them are more or less
untenable. There is one thing, however, in the book
about which there can be no two opinions, and that is
the value and importance of the list of names copied
from records eight hundred years old, in England and
Normandy. As many of them are the same as names
now borne by living families in Kentucky, they can
hardly fail to be of help to those in search of family
genealogy. Doctor Pickett has presented in this work
the theory of Du Chaillu in charming words and with
excellent taste, as the theory of Du Chaillu and not as
his own, and such has been my effort with regard to myself
in this introduction. It is simply the resumption of
a "Quest."
                                   R. T. DURRETr,
                           President of The Filson Club.



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Basil W. Duke.......................
The Marshall Home at "Buck Pond"...
Richard M. Johnson.................
J. Stoddard Johnston ..................
Northumbria .........................
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John T. Pickett ....................
Thomas T. Hawkins ...............
William L. Crittenden................
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                 CONTENTS





                                                 PAGE
THE "SCANDINAVIAN EXPLORER," Du CHAILLU, VISITS KEN-
   TUCKY-A CORDIAL RECEPTION .    ....................  I

                         II
BRITISH ASSOCIATION MEETING AT NEWCASTLE, I889-A
   SENSATIONAL PAPER-INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY OF MODERN
   NORTHUMBRIA-A NOTABLE GROUP OF SAVANTS ....... IO


                        III
REVELATIONS OF ANCIENT RECORDS BEARING UPON THE ORIGIN
   OF THE  ENGLISH  RACE  ....... .....................  20

                         IV
CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS OF THE EARLY NORMANS-TRANS-
   MISSION OF RACIAL QUALITIES-MID-CENTURY KEN-
   TUCKIANS  ............ ...........................  2 7

                         V

DOCTOR CRAIK'S VIEWS-ENGLISH MORE SCANDINAVIAN
   THAN GERMAN-GEORGE P. MARSH-EDITORIAL COM-
   MENT ON THE SENSATIONAL PAPER ................ -  34

                        VI
SCANDINAVIANS  AND   KENTUCKIANS - CHARACTERISTIC
   TRAITS IN COMMON-THEIR PASSION FOR THE "HORSE -
   DONCASTER RACES-" CABULLUS" IN NORMANDY-CRU-
   SADING "CAVALIERS "-THE "MAN-ON-HORSEBACKR-
   HIS "EFFIGIES" ON ENGLISH SEALS-THE PRODUCTION
   OF CAVALIERS-THE GRASSES ...................... 42

 


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                        VII

A FRENCH SAVANT ON ENGLISH TYPES-WEISMANN'S
   "THEORY"-"SNORRO STURLESON" QUOTED BY LORD
   LYTTON-THE "HOMICIDAL HUMOR" NOT INVENTED BY
   KENTUCKIANS, BUT POSSIBLY INHERITED-ANDREW D.
   WHITE QUOTED ..........5........1............. 5 I

                       VIII

JOHN FISKE-ETHNIC DIFFERENTIATION-THE HINDOO AND
   THE KENTUCKIAN-ARYAN BROTHERS-A BROAD HIS-
   TORIC "HIGHWAY" FROM THE BALTIC SEA TO THE BLUE-
   GRASS-STREAMS OF SCANDINAVIAN MIGRATION-" THE
   VIRGINIAN  STATES" - ANGLO-NORMAN  "LAWLESS-
   NESS "-DEGENERATE CASTES OR BREEDS-" POLITICAL
   ASSASSINATION" AS PRACTICED BY NORMAN AND SAXON-
   "THE HOMICIDAL HUMOR NOT AN INVENTION OF KEN-
   TUCKY" (SHALER); NOT INVENTED, BUT DERIVED-
   ANDREW D. WHITE ON THE AMERICAN MURDER RECORD. 58

                        Ix

PECULIAR NORMAN TRAITS-CRAFT-PROFANITY-A" SWEAR-
   ING" RACE-HISTORIC OATHS-KENTUCKIANS FULL OF
   STRANGE OATHS .63

                        x

WILLIAM, THE NORMAN; NAPOLEON, THE CORSICAN; GREAT
   ADMINISTRATORS-THE CONDITIONS OF ENGLISH CIVIL-
   IZATION-AMERICAN STATESMEN .................... . 76

                        XI

EARLY VIRGINIAN HISTORY-RESEARCHES OF DOCTOR ALEX-
   ANDER BROWN-KENTUCKY A DIRECT PRODUCT OF
   ELIZABETHAN CIVILIZATION-THE "VIKINGS OF THE
   WEST"-PROFESSOR BARRETT WENDELL'S VIEWS .   83

 


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                       XII
THE NORMAN AS A COLONIZER-AS A DEVASTATOR-REVIVAL
   OF NORTHUMBRIA BY MODERN INDUSTRIALISM-THE
   POWER OF SCANDINAVIAN ENERGY IN PUSHING THE
   VICTORIES OF PEACE-ENGLISH UNITY ESTABLISHED
   ON SALISBURY PLAIN-THE SCANDINAVIAN IN LITERA-
   TURE-SHAKESPEARE AND HIS HISTORICAL PLAYS-
   PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRASTS OF MODERN SCANDINAVIAN
   RACES-SHAKESPEARE'S FAVORITE AUTHOR-EVOLUTION
   OF THE "MELANCHOLY DANE -ADVICE FROM A THOUGHT-
   FUL FRENCHMAN: "LET US NOT DISOWN THE FORTUNE
   AND CONDITION OF OUR ANCESTORS ..  ................ 90

                       XIII
A BODY OF ANGLO-NORMAN NAMES IN KENTUCKY-CONCUR-
   RENT TESTIMONY OF MANY COINCIDING FACTS-THE
   RACE "LOST," BUT NOT THE NAMES-ETHNICAL TRANS-
   MUTATIONS-THE NORMANS EVERYWHERE AT HOME-
   DISRAELI ON DESCENT-HIS THEORY OF TRANSMUTED
   TRAITS-HLECKEL-THE JUNGLE OF BOHUN-BERWICK
   AND GASTON PHcBUS-" ISAAC LE BON "-BISMARCK-
   NAPOLEON-MID-CENTURY "CLAIMS OF RACE "-KEN-
   TUCKY A SOVEREIGN COMMONWEALTH-SHELBY AND
   PERRY..           ;................1....... I01

                       XIV
THE GOTHIC MIGRATION-SCANDINAVIAN PIRATES-THEIR
   FOOT-PRINTS ON ENGLISH SOIL-NORMANS HOTLY
   RECEIVED BY THEIR KINDRED, THE DANES-OLD GOTHIC
   WARS- THE YENGHEES AND THE DIXEES "-WEST-
   WARD MARCH OF THE TEUTON AND THE GOTH-GENESIS
   OF THE SCANDINAVIAN-CRADLE OF THE RACE-ROLF
   GANGER A POTENTIAL FORCE-RECONSTRUCTION OF THE
   MODERN WORLD-WILLIAM OF NORMANDY .... ........ IO8

 


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                        xv

STRAGGLERS IN THE GOTHIC MIGRATION-JUTES, ANGLES,
   SAXONS-THE TWO GREAT RACES; TEUTONS AND SCAN-
   DINAVIANS-" MIXED RACES" PLANTED ON THE SOUTH-
   ERN SHORES OF THE NORTH SEA ...14.... ............. 14


                       xvI

AUTHENIC LISTS OF OLD NORMAN NAMES-DESCENDANTS
   OF ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILIES-THE NORMAN CAPACITY FOR
   LEADERSHIP NOT "LOST"-ALPHABETICAL SERIES OF
   NAMES (FROM "THE NORMAN PEOPLE"); ENGLISH
   NAMES ORIGINALLY NORMAN-FAMILIAR AS HOUSEHOLD
   WORDS IN KENTUCKY-A LEGAL MAXIM-ELEMENTS OF
   THE ENGLISH RACE-PREPONDERANCE OF SCANDINA-
   VIAN BLOOD-STEVENSON AND DISRAELI-LORD LYT-
   TON-MALTEBRUN-SCANDINAVIAN CHARACTERISTICS-
   PHYSIQUE-SOCIAL TRAITS-PASSION FOR "STRONG
   LIQUOR"-HOSPITALITY...                      I 7


                       xvII

CAPTAIN SHALER QUOTED-MEASUREMENTS OF AMERICAN
   SOLDIERS BY THE MATHEMATICIAN GOULD-SUPERIOR
   PHYSICAL VIGOR OF THE "REBEL EXILES"-GENERAL
   HUMPHREY MARSHALL-HIS AIDE CAPTAIN GUERRANT-
   GENERAL WILLIAM NELSON- THE ORPHAN BRIGADE"
   -HEREDITARY SURNAMES AS MEMORIALS OF RACE-
   EVERY STEP OF NORMAN MIGRATION NOTED BY THE
   HISTORIC EYE-MONTALEM BERT-' 'MONKS OF THE WEST"
   -THE RUDE SAXON TRANSFIGURED BY THE ELOQUENCE
   OF THE GIFTED WRITER-A FIELD FOR THE PHILOLOGIST 123

 

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                      XVII'
THE ALPHABETICAL SERIES OF NAMES-ANGLO-NORMAN
   SURNAMES-NAMES OF OBVIOUS SCANDINAVIAN DERIVA-
   TION-THE ORIGINAL DISCUSSION OF THE GENERAL
   QUESTION-AN EXCERPT FROM SIR WALTER SCOTT-
   THE "ELIZABETHAN A PRODUCT OF A BALANCED RACE-
   THE MARCH OF THE GOTH RESUMED-THE VIRGINIAN
   HUNTER-THE YANKEE SKIPPER-A MAN OF OAK AND
   BRONZE ......................................... 126

                       XIX
NORMAN CRAFT-MR. FREEMAN QUOTED-POPULAR ATTRI-
   BUTION OF THE QUALITY-ITS VALUE IN MEDIAEVAL
   DAYS-ITS  PREVALENCE  TO-DAY  ................ ..  . 13I

                       XX

NAMES AND NOTES-KENTUCKIAN AND NORMAN-CHARAC-
   TERIST1CS IN COMMON-NORMAN TRAITS AND SAXON
   NAMES-ESTIMATE OF THE KENTUCKIAN FROM AN
   ENGLISH SOURCE..........               .... 133

                       XXI
SHADOWS IN "ARCADY "-BRIEF PREFACE TO THE ALPHA-
   BETICAL LIST..........                     I36

                   APPENDIX
ALPHABETICAL SERIES OF NORSE, NORMAN, AND ANGLO-
   NORMAN, OR NON-SAXON, SURNAMES ........... .... 141

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THE QUEST FOR A LOST RACE

                          BY

          THOMAS E. PICKETT, M. D.



                           I

U   PON the northern border of Mr. James Lane Allen's
      "Arcady" there rises with picturesque distinctness
against a range of green hills the pleasant old Kentucky
town of Maysville, which, unlike the typical town of the
South, is neither "sleepy" nor "quaint," but in a notable
degree animated, bustling, ambitious, advancing, and up-
to-date. It must be confessed, however, that here and
there, in certain secluded localities, it is architecturally
antique. Constructed almost wholly of brick, and planted
solidly upon the lower slopes of the wooded hills, the
site is indescribably charming, and, looked at from a
distant elevation in front or from the elevated plateau
of the environing hills, presents a pleasing completeness
and finish in the coup d'vil.  At one glance the eye
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crescentic sweep of the river that flows placidly past the
willow-fringed shore and the walled and graded front.
The scene is likewise suggestive, since it marks the
northern limit of the "phosphatic limestone" formation
which assures the permanent productiveness of the over-
lying soil-a natural fertilizer which by gradual disinte-
gration perpetually renews the soil exhausted by pro-
longed or injudicious cultivation.
   The town is of Virginian origin. At one time, indeed,
it was a Virginian town. The rich country to the south
of it was peopled chiefly by tobacco planters from
"Piedmont" Virginia, slaveholding Virginians of a
superior class.
   In the infancy of this early Virginian settlement it
was vigilantly guarded by the famous Occidental hunters,
Kenton and Boone; the former a commissioner of roads
for the primitive Virginian county, then ill-cultivated and
forest clad: the latter, a leading "trustee" of the em-
bryonic Eighteenth Century town. As we pass through
the streets near the center of the place to-day we note
the handsome proportions of a public edifice which has
come down to us from the early mid-century days-an
imposing "colonial" structure with a lofty, well-propor-
tioned cupola and a nobly columned front. It is that
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house. To the artistic and antiquarian eye the building
is the glory of the old "Virginian" town, since it appeals
at once to civic pride and superior critical taste.
   It was here-in the capacious auditorium of the Court-
house, and in the closing quarter of the last century-
that a large and enthusiastic gathering of really typical
Kentuckians, familiar from childhood with tales of wild
adventure, greeted with rapturous applause the renowned
hunter and explorer, Paul Du Chaillu, a native of Paris,
France. A common taste for woodcraft had brought the
alien elements in touch. The Frenchman was a swell
hunter of big game, and had come hither to repeat his
graphic recital of experiences in the equatorial haunts
of that formidable anthropoid-the Gorilla. Du Chaillu's
discovery of the gorilla and the Obonga dwarfs was so
astounding to modern civilization that strenuous
efforts were made to discredit it, notably by Gray and
Barth. But later explorations amply vindicated the
Frenchman's claims.
   He had a like experience later. The adventurous
explorer had come to Kentucky in prompt response to an
invitation from a local club, a social and literary organi-
zation which owed its popularity and success chiefly to
the circumstance that the genial members, though some-
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ary." The social feature was particularly pleasing to
the accomplished Frenchman, who was a man of the
world in every sense, and who dropped easily into con-
genial relations with gentlemen who had an hereditary
and highly cultivated taste for le sport in all its phases.
Take them when or where you might, the spirit of cama