No. 575 of which is dated "Monday, August 2, 1714." Saturday does not seem to be more fatal to our royal family than any other day. Of the fifteen children of George III. three died on Saturday; the Princess Charlotte died on Thursday, and Queen Charlotte on Tuesday. The process of verifying dates where days of the week are concerned, according to both Old and New Style, is extremely simple, but it is only comparatively few who seem to know how to set about it. I hardly think it necessary, however, to give a rule here.

Barnsley.

ALEXANDER PATERSON.

35, PARK LANE (5th S. xi. 108, 136.)—I have understood that the basaltic column was brought from the Valley of Jehoshaphat by Sir Moses Montefiore, and placed by him in the railed enclosure opposite his residence, 35, Park Lane. GERALD PONSONBY.

54, Green Street, Grosvenor Square.

BALCONY OR BALCONY (3rd S. ix. 303, 380, 519; 5th S. x. 299; xi. 39, 56, 78.)-Byron's Beppo, stanza xi. :

They look, when leaning over the balcony,
Or stepp'd from out a picture by Giorgione."
And stanza XV. :—

"I said that like a picture by Giorgione
Venetian women were, and so they are,
Particularly seen from a balcony,
For," &c.

G. S.

EPIGRAM ON BEAU NASH (5th S. x. 429; xi. 12, 71.)-In the Wild Garland, vol. ii., which I compiled and published in 1866, this epigram is given in the two verses, and attributed to Chesterfield on the authority of the Festoon, published in 1767; and, according to the evidence produced up to the present time, Chesterfield must be considered the author. The Festoon and O. Goldsmith state Chesterfield to be the author of the two verses originally appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mrs. Brereton appears as the author of the six verses, which are a dilution of the two. The third and fourth verses prove this; and as a person having made a smart epigram would not afterwards dilute it and spoil it, we may consider that Mrs. Brereton is not the author of the original two verses. MR. ERNEST C. THOMAS, I think, has missed the point of the first of the two verses when he says it can not have belonged to the original epigram, and nobody prefaces his own epigrams with a commendatory verse." The "truth" and the "cruel joke" spoken of is in the fact which the picture being placed in such a position brings to light, or makes patent to all, and thus the commendation is of the act of so placing this picture, and not of the writer of the epigram. J. J. REEVE.

Newhaven.

352; ix. 40, 83; xii. 169, 256; 4th S. viii. 21, 94, "HUE AND CRY" (1st S. xi. 185; 3rd S. viii. 209, 309; 5th S. ix. 508; x. 14, 178; xi. 99.)—I would suggest that these are the Norman word and its Saxon equivalent, used so as to appeal to both the higher and lower classes at once, like "dissemble and cloke," "acknowledge and confess," &c., in the Book of Common Prayer.

Hampstead, N.W.

E. WALFORD, M.A.

MISS MITFORD (5th S. xi. 68, 97, 297.)-MR. WALFORD will find particulars of the descent (as far as her great-grandfather) of Miss Mary Russell Mitford, "the fascinating author of Our Village," in Burke's invaluable History of the Commoners (1836), vol. ii. pp. 284-5. Mr. J. R. Daniel-Tyssen, F.S.A., of 9, Lower Rock Gardens, Brighton, is well up in the genealogy of the house of Mitford. MR. WALFORD should apply to that gentleARGENT.

man.

“DILAMGERBENDI INSULA" (5th S. xi. 269, 295.)-MR. BELLAMY asserts this to be of Indian origin. That is not the fact. If any one possessing the works of the Venerable Bede will examine the same, he will find it is the name of the Isle of Wight at that period. A. S. FETHERS.

THE STING OF DEATH (5th S. x. 308; xi. 290, 312.)-Allow me to point out, what must have escaped the memory of CUTHBERT BEDE, that the monument he describes is very similar to Roubillac's celebrated work in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale in Westminster Abbey, the date of which appears not to be earlier than 1758.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL.

2, Tanfield Court, Temple.

Has it been noticed that the Peshito renders 1 Cor. xv. 55, "Where is thy 'ookso, O death, and where thy victory, O sheol?" I look out the Syriac word in Kirsch's Lexicon (Bernstein), and find it to be "A sting, metaphorically what pricks and annoys the mind, from 'akesh; Chaldee 'akats, he pricked." The Syriac version is allowed to be one of the very best. It renders Hos. xiii. 14 thus: "Where then thy victory, O death, and where thy sting ('ookso), sheol?" The Hebrew, literally rendered, is, "I will be, O death, thy plagues; I will be thy destruction, O sheol." The root of the word rendered destruction is to cut," ," which is not far removed from "stab,"

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"prick." The Syriac has the appearance here of H. F. WOOLRYCH, following the LXX.

Coxheath House, Linton, Maidstone.

DANTE AND THE WORD "LUCCIOLA" (5th S. x. 143, 253, 501; xi. 78.)—I can assure SUSSEXIENSIS that the males of our British glowworm do give light, though not always, nor to the same extent as their partners. I have repeatedly taken them in a luminous state in North Wales. As to "la lucciola," the Italian fire-fly (Lampyris Italica), I have captured individuals shining in a quiescent condition on bushes, at the lake of Como, with their elytra closed. The light proceeds from the last segments of the under part of the abdomen, like that of the English female glowworm. Probably if the insect were pressed closely to the ground it might not be visible, but it undoubtedly is so when amongst the twigs in a hedge. The luminous segments are conspicuous by daylight, being of an opaque white.

Temple.

W. J. BERNHARD-SMITH.

FOLK-LORE: RUBBING WITH A DEAD HAND (5th S. xi. 43, 94.)-I copy this anecdote from my note-book:-On Dec. 12, 1857, old Mrs. Cole, of Stanford, Norfolk, told me that her daughter Mrs. Brock had a puffed neck in her youth, and that she had taken her to Great Cressingham, and rubbed it over with a dead man's hand, when the swelling immediately died away. It was considered to be an infallible remedy; the hand of a man to be rubbed on the part affected in a female, and vice versa. FREDERICK W. MANT.

"LOPPARD" (5th S. xi. 188, 274.)-This expression has reference to fleas, which in the West Riding are called lops. When the housewife enters upon her annual spring or autumn "cleaning down," as it is termed in Yorkshire, or when the house is topsy-turvy under the operation, she says, "We were fair lopper'd" (not fairly, for the adverb is seldom heard), meaning, We were completely overrun with fleas.

Hamilton, Ontario.

BROCTUNA.

FRERE'S EPITAPH ON CANNING (5th S. x. 386, 522; xi. 198, 235.)-Probably the simplest mode of settling the question raised by JAYDEE will be to ask your readers to furnish additional instances of the substantive support being accentuated on the first syllable and pronounced support.

W. A. G.

EDMUND TEW, M.A.

This passage has been translated by Lord Derby :

"For on a razor's edge is balanced now,

To all the Greeks, the chance of life or death." And by Cowper :

"The overthrow Complete or full deliverance of us all In balance hangs, poised on a razor's edge." R. S. K. Compare also Sophocles, Antig., 996; Eschylus, Coeph., 870; and Milton:

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"Ye see our danger on the utmost edge of danger." Parad. Regained. JOHN B. SLACK, B.A.

"THE FLOWER OF SERVING MEN" (5th S. xi. 328.)—A somewhat modern version may be found in vol. iii. p. 87 of Percy's Reliques of English Poetry (the reference applies to Dodsley's first 8vo. edition of 1765). The ballad is here headed The Lady turned Serving Man, and the bishop introduces it with a note: "[This] is given from a written copy containing some improvements (perhaps modern ones) upon the old popular ballad entitled The Famous Flower of Serving Men; or, the Lady turned Serving Man." A.

This ballad is in Ritson's Ancient Songs and Ballads, edit. by W. C. Hazlitt (Reeves & Turner, 1877).

L. P.

criticism. We had marked out a few passages for comparison in the kindred works of these "Two Noble Kinsmen," the Kennedys; but as every reader has his own favourites we will leave the selection to him whom it most concerns, only suggesting that one or both should be compared with Mr. Browning as the best means of enjoying all three. Although, as may be gathered from our estimate of John Symmons, we are disciples of a school of translation widely differing from that of the work before us, or those with which we have classed it, still, to a student intent on Eschylus, intending a tour in light marching order, and necessarily for the nonce an homo unius libri, we can most conscientiously recommend this beautiful little volume of Dr. Kennedy as a fit companion in travel, not less ready for his purpose than was the "expiring" but immortal "Eschylus" of Parson Adams to that most worthy of wayfarers. We may add that the types, Greek and English, are alike distinct and pleasant reading, no mean commendation nowadays in the matter of University printing. Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II. Instancing also the Chief Agents and Adversaries of the King in his Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy. By R. W. Eyton, M. A., late Rector of Ryton. (London, Taylor & Co.; Dorchester, J. Foster.)

A Key to Domesday. Specially Exemplified by an Analysis and Digest of the Dorset Survey. (Same author and publishers.)

THE author of the Antiquities of Shropshire once more offers to the student of history and archæology the assistance of a veteran in those branches of learning. The two books now before us belong to two distinct classes, each most useful, not to say indispensable, as a help to the clear understanding of the particular subject treated. No writer on the history of England during the medieval period can afford to neglect the light thrown on the events of any given reign by the Itinerary of the monarch. A well-compiled Itinerary is a microcosm of English political history for the period which it covers, just as a carefully edited Domesday is a microcosm of the social history of England in the period immediately following the Norman Conquest. Mr. Eyton has devoted much time and thought and much reading to the preparation of works which must necessarily be to a great extent labours of love, and for which the appreciation of

the historical student must be almost his sole reward. We are enabled by the very full and, to a certain extent, classed index to trace the succession of the principal ecclesiastical and civil authorities of Henry II.'s time, the bishops, chancellors, and chief justices of England, and the sheriffs of the several counties. Mr. Eyton has some peculiarities of orthography, which we are at a loss to account for. We do not see why he should throughout write "Liseux " for Lisieux, and almost always" Baieux' for Bayeux, where he does not profess to reproduce the original spelling. We agree, on the whole, with his use of Prince and Princess to denote the sons and daughters of the king, as a convenient and "non-pedantic form"; but what does he mean by speaking, at p. 85, of a "junior Prince of Bourg-Deols"? This designation seems about as applicable as that of "Titular of Kilgraston," in the wonderful Bonar pedigree, so keenly dissected in Popular Genealogists and Pedigree-Making. In his identifications of places we should have liked to have seen Mr. Eyton show more clearly when such identifications are solely his own. Having once preferred Bur-le-Roy to Bur or Bures, in the Pays de Caux, he seems ever after to adopt this view without using any sign to show that there may be a doubt on the point, which is rather an arbitrary mode of procedure. We have left ourselves but little space to express our opinion of Mr. Eyton's Domesday

contribution. The English which he has considered most suitable to render the Norman Latin is sometimes rather appalling. "Geldability" and "Hidation" will, we hope, remain confined strictly to "Domesday English." It would, of course, be easy to make the Survey of Dorset the peg on which to hang an excursus on the "Coliberti, Villani, Bordarii," and other much disputed Domesday characters. But we refrain, from consideration for the readers of "N. & Q.," and refer them to Mr. Eyton's own pages for his view of the subject, as well as for many interesting illustrations of England in the days of the "stark king," who "loved the tall deer as though he was their father." (Trübner), the journal to refer to if any information as THE Library Journal, Aug., 1878, to Feb., 1879 to the conduct of a library is required, as usual contains a large amount of matter both interesting and useful to those specially concerned. Vol. III. is completed, and a most minute index added. In the January number Allibone defends the Indexes to his Dictionary in answer to the well-known strictures of Mr. B. R. Wheatley.

The New Quarterly Magazine this time contains a paper on Harrow which commands attention, proceeding as it does from the pen of one evidently thoroughly con versant with the internal economy of the school.

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