[Illustration: THOMAS E. PICKETT, M. D., LL. D. Member of The Filson Club] FILSON CLUB PUBLICATION No. 22 THE QUEST FOR A LOST RACE 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 Illustrated [Illustration: Acorn] LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY JOHN P. MORTON & COMPANY PRINTERS TO THE FILSON CLUB 1907 COPYRIGHT, 1907 BY THE FILSON CLUB All Rights Reserved FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS NUMBER TWENTY-TWO The Quest for a Lost Race [Illustration: Tree Branch] _Alphabetical Series of Norse, Norman, and Anglo-Norman, or Non-Saxon, Surnames_ BY THOMAS E. PICKETT, M. D., LL. D. MEMBER OF THE FILSON CLUB PREFACE The 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 emotional 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 average 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 restraint. 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 Kentuckian has been a participant in many wars, and has given 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 Kentuckians 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."