Friendly faces of three nationalities . usiness of the same name. So early as 1796Christopher Tauchnitz set up a printing press inLeipzig, from which later were issued the cheapand handy Little Greek books with the funny type,They get up well at Leipzig, of which the rather boring Bishop Blougramspeaks. These classics are still published by themillion. A nephew of this Christopher, Bernhard, Baronvon Tauchnitz, was destined to be not only a 10 Baron Tauchnitz great publisher, but what the late Cotter Morrisoncalled—A moral inventor. Born in 1816,following the trade of his uncle, he began hisCo
Friendly faces of three nationalities . usiness of the same name. So early as 1796Christopher Tauchnitz set up a printing press inLeipzig, from which later were issued the cheapand handy Little Greek books with the funny type,They get up well at Leipzig, of which the rather boring Bishop Blougramspeaks. These classics are still published by themillion. A nephew of this Christopher, Bernhard, Baronvon Tauchnitz, was destined to be not only a 10 Baron Tauchnitz great publisher, but what the late Cotter Morrisoncalled—A moral inventor. Born in 1816,following the trade of his uncle, he began hisContinental Series in 1841, of which 2,600 hadappeared in the following fifty years. Ennobledin i860, this prince of pioneers was created oneof the few Saxon life-peers in 1877. He diedin 1895 surrounded by— That which should accompany old age,As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, the noble and ennobling traditions of his housebeing carried on by the present Baron. 11 II MATILDA BETHAM Poet, Miniature Painter, and Biographer. [Toface p. 15 SIR WILLIAM BETHAM, ULSTER KING-AT-ARMS II MATILDA BETH AM What a link with the past does the name ofmy aunt and godmother call up! As a child inthe nursery, to have been taught to take my thumbout of my mouth and make a curtsey by a friendof Charles and Mary Lamb, by one who hadcollogued with the great De Stael, whose dailyintercourse had been with Coleridge and the greatgods of a clean century ago ! A few prefatory words concerning themeasureless Bethams, of whom Charles Lambwrote so humorously but not always with good-humour. There was literature in the family. Threenineteenth-century Bethams figure in the greatDictionary of National Biography, namely, mygrandfather, the Rev. William Betham, compilerof The Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns ofthe World, and other works still to be found onbookstalls; my uncle, Sir William Betham,Ulster King-at-Arms, whose works on Celtic 15 Friendly Faces archaeology and in The Parliamentary
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