About's book is a piece of fun about the Greek Wolverhampton. a mile distant from Cleobury Mortimer, commonly called "Castle Toot," the scene of many a picnic, and the spot where the Foresters and Oddfellows assembled for their annual fête on June 11. It is an elevated spot, where formerly stood a strongly fortified castle, occupied by the Mortimer family, until it was destroyed by Henry II. Toot Hill, at Peterborough, must be well known to many readers of "N. & Q." Concerning Toot Hill, in Lindridge, and other Toot Hills in Worcestershire, see Allies's Antiquities and Folk-Lore of Worces- "Temple Bar was doomed to destruction by the City tershire (1852), pp. 223, 232 to 236, 294, 417. as early as 1790, through the exertions of Alderman Picket. 'Threatened men live long,' says an old Italian Four pages of this work are devoted to the ety-proverb. Temple Bar still stands, a narrow neck to an mology, &c., of Toot Hill. immense decanter, an impeder of traffic, a venerable nuisance, with nothing interesting but its associations and its dirt." CUTHBERT Bede. HUMAN BODIES FOUND IN A GLACIER (5th S. vii. 428, 515; viii. 38.)—The late T. Herbert Barker, M.D., F.R.S.E., in his description of the ascent of Col. du Géant, after stating that glaciers move from sixteen to eighteen inches per day in summer, and less than half that distance in winter, says : TEMPLE BAR (5th S. vii. 466, 492.)-Anent the old Bar, I find the following in Thornbury's Haunted London, ed. 1865, p. 6 :— Nottingham. only of beef-eater, but of salt-beef-eater : F. D. "BEEF-EATER" (5th S. vii. 64, 108, 151, 272, 335.) The following passage leaves little doubt that MR. SKEAT is correct in refusing to accept “A striking fact has in recent years verified the pre-buffet and buffetier. It gives an early instance not ceding observations on glacier motion. In 1820 Russian physician, Dr. Hamel, in an attempted ascent of Mont Blanc, proceeded as far as the Grand Plateau, when three of his guides were swept away by an avalanche and were never more heard of. Some years afterwards Prof. Forbes made some observations on the glacier towards which the men were drifted by the avalanche, and from the rate of the glacier's movement he was led to predict that, within forty-five years from the time of the accident, some remains of the unfortunate guides would be reaching the terminus of the glacier in the immediate neighbourhood of Chamouni. So it has come to pass. In the summer of 1861 human remains were found there, and the colour of the hair and other marks sufficed to identify them with those of the guides in Dr. Hamel's party." Waterford. JOSEPH FISHER. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS (5th S. vi. 483, 544; vii. 40, 153, 294, 437, 476.)-I am interested in obtaining a list of books upon the subject of highwaymen and knight-of-the-road-ism in its many shapes. Although I am not making a collection of such books, I desire to refer to certain of them, and if any contributor can furnish " N. & Q." with a list, I do not doubt it will be of use to others beside myself. The following works of fact, fiction, and fun I already know of:The History of the Rapparees. Published at Belfast. ? date and publisher. The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in all Ballads, Romantic, Fantastical, and Humorous. By Le Roi des Montagnes. Par Edmond About. The first four novels mentioned above contain real adventures used up to suit the stories, and M. "Not much vnlike that wealthie richeman, whome Senec writeth of. Who takyng vpon hym to tel a tale had euer his seruaūts at hand to prompt him when he missed; and beyng him selfe so feble, as scantly he could stand on his legges, would not fear yet vpon confidence of so many poudrebeefe* lubbers as he fedde at home to make a matche with any man at footeball."-Chaloner's trans. Prayse of Follie, second edit., 1577, G v. (first edit. was published 1549). If we are obliged to accept such words as breadwinner without seeking a foreign origin, why should there be any difficulty about beef-eater? Boston, Lincolnshire. R. R. SIR CHARLES LUCAS (5th S. vii. 67, 99, 375.)— I have "A True Relation of that Honourable, though Unfortunate, Expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester in 1648. By Matthew Carter, Quarter-Master General in the King's Forces, one among the Prisoners who Surrendered Themselves." The sixth chapter contains "The Heroic Actions, Character, and Behaviour of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, who were Executed at Colchester Five Hours after the Surrender of that Place, as also that of the Lord Capell, who was Beheaded at Westminster in March following. With many other Curious Particulars." Bury St. Edmunds. " WM. FREELove. "WEMBLE": "REMBLE" (5th S. vii. 148, 216, 377.)-Remble is simply to move. "Wemble it over means to pull over without suffering the object to fall. The expression, "It is wembling over," is a warning that something is hanging over, perhaps in danger of falling. The definitions may * Salt-beef. not be very good, but they express the meaning not give us the origin or true meaning of the exwhere I have heard the words used. THE WHIMBREL (5th S. vii. 250, 395.)-This bird, on the east coast of England, is a very common spring and autumn migrant. Here, in North Lincolnshire, it invariably appears with great regularity, and often in considerable flocks, about the first week in May. I have occasionally seen as many as two hundred together at this season in the Humber marshes. They all leave again for their northern breeding stations before the end of the month. The return migration southward commences early; by the middle of July they are on the move, and from that time to the end of September we may on almost any clear still day both hear and see them passing over. This autumn migration takes place at a great height; far in the depth of the blue summer sky they float, mere moving specks. Often altogether beyond the ken of human vision, their southern movement would escape notice altogether were it not for their constantly reiterated call note, resembling the words tetty, tetty, tetty, tet, quickly repeated. JOHN CORDEAUX. Great Cotes, Ulceby. "AWAITS" (5th S. vii. 166, 274, 439.)— And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, The paths of glory lead but to the grave." I must confess that until I saw the criticisms in "N. & Q." I never thought there was any difficulty in rendering the above stanza. The first two lines cannot be the subject of "awaits," for Gray was an exact grammarian, and, moreover, he would hardly represent a fixed period of time as being waited for. I have always regarded "the inevitable hour" as the proper subject of "awaits," it being merely a case of transposition. As "the boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, and all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave," are transitory objects, Gray represented them as in some sort in motion, and "the inevitable hour" as awaiting their approach. The same idea is continued in the fourth line, where the grave is portrayed as the converging point of the paths of glory. W. H. SWAN. Rangoon. "POWDER PIMPERLIMPIMP" (5th S. vii. 369, 392, 418.)-The reference to Swift's Tale of a Tub does pression. Swift only used it as an understood term equivalent to something like "all fools' powder." Barrett, in his Essay on the Life of Swift, 1808, p. 35, says that in a pamphlet pubthe Tale of a Tub, and called A Dialogue between lished about 1690, that is fourteen years before Dr. Sherlock, the King of France, the Great Turk, and Dr. Oates, is the following passage:-"This famous Doctor (Sherlock) plays the Merry Andrew with the World, and, like the powder of Pimper le Pirip, turns up what trump the Knave of Clubs calls for." The expression must be sought for in some writer of the Rabelais class prior to 1690. EDWARD SOLLY. This is a French expression, which means a kind of worthless powder or nostrum used by quacks and would-be sorcerers. See Littré's Dictionary, "Perlimpinpin." GUSTAVE MASSON. s.v. Harrow. LADY ANNE HAMILTON AND THE "SECRET HISTORY" (5th S. vii. 410.)-I have just stumbled upon the following curious statement in an obituary notice of Lady Anne Hamilton in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1846, p. 661. It is professedly taken from a notice of the deceased lady communicated by Dr. Fellowes to the Morning Chronicle: "After Queen Caroline's death, a person of the name of insinuated herself into the confidence of Lady Anne Hamilton, and thus got possession of many of her letters and papers; and under various fraudulent pretences involved her in many and great pecuniary embarrassments. This woman once had the impudence to publish, or get published, a work under the following title: Secret History of the Court of England from the Accession of George III. to the Death of George IV., by the Right Hon. Lady Anne Hamilton. Perhaps there never was an instance of more daring effrontery in the history of book-making than this title-page exhibited; any way sanctioned the publication. But S. W., as Lady for Lady Anne never wrote a page of the book, nor in Anne often speaks of her in her letters to me and others, had woven such a well-contrived web of chicanery and artifice around her victim, as to make her responsible for the slanders of the work and the expense of the publication; and her subsequent demands for compensation for pretended losses incurred, and fictitious wrongs suffered, were at one time so many, and so harassing to Lady Anne's personal comfort, as to cause her to make a temporary residence in France." Dr. Fellowes, who had been, like Lady Anne, a zealous adherent of Queen Caroline, denies, apparently with good authority, that she wrote the book which both Lowndes and Allibone attribute to her. Is it hers or not? And if not, who is the woman that had the "impudence to publish or get published," as Lady Anne's, a book of which Lady Anne never wrote a page "? AN OLD READER, COUNT D'ALBANY (5th S. viii. 28.)-The Count who married (May 15, 1874) Lady Alice Hay was Then, in fourth line, "seems hurt," not "feels hurt." "But wherefore degrading? Consider'd aright, A canister's polish'd, and useful, and bright "; and in the last line "That's the fault." not "Tis the fault." The lines were written by R. B. Sheridan. They will be found in Lord Campbell's "Life of Lord Erskine," in the Lives of the Chancellors-whether correctly or not I cannot here determine. I have before me a newspaper cutting of the date 1828, containing the JABEZ. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. vii. 489, anecdote, and the lines are there ascribed to Sheridan. 519; viii. 38.)— A Sequel to Don Juan.-There is another pretended sequel to Don Juan: "Don Leon: a Poem by the late Lord Byron, &c., and forming Part of the Private Journal of his Lordship, supposed to have been entirely Destroyed by Thos. Moore, &c. London: printed for the Booksellers. MDCCCLXVI." It purports to contain the true cause of separation between Lord and Lady Byron. As this volume is scarce, I may mention that a full notice of it, with extracts, will be found at p. 189 of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum: being Notes Bio-, Biblio-, Iconographical and Critical on Curious and Uncommon Books, London, 1877. FRAXINUS. The copy that I read is probably the same as that mentioned by MR. HALL. If, as MR. RULE states, the sequel that he read was published above forty years ago, there must have been two editions of the work published, the second containing additions, since in the copy that I read events are recounted which only happened thirtysix years ago. I communicated with MR. DANIEL, who stated he was the author of a seventeenth canto, but have come to the conclusion that the work of MR. DANIEL and the one I have read are different. I should like to know if the eleven more cantos mentioned by MR. HALL were ever published. E. R. VYVYAN. There have been many sequels; I have seen ten at least. One of the most fluent and erotic was by Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds, who, as a young man, took up the ideas of other authors, and, having finished Don Juan, took Mr. Pickwick abroad, greatly to Dickens's disgust. HAIN FRISWELL. This, with some slight variation in the wording, is an epigram by M. G. (Monk) Lewis, though sometimes ascribed in error to Sheridan, who was present at the time of its production. The Lady Anne was Lady A. Culling Smith, and the occasion took place at the Duke of York's at Oatlands. The fifth line is spoilt in M. D.'s version. It should run "Yet wherefore degrading? Considered aright," &c. W. T. M. This epigram is by "Monk" Lewis, but is not correctly quoted by M. D. It is printed in The Life and Correspondence of Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1839, vol. ii. pt. ii., and is given in Dodd's Epigrammatists, 1875, p. 609, under Lewis. H. P. D. [Sheridan is not included in the first edition, 1870, of The Epigrammatists, nor is Lewis. Both are to be found in the edition of 1875.] Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. and British interests. The Quarterly Review. No. 237. (Murray.) THE July number of the Quarterly has admirable papers illustrating great questions and passing or impending events. There are two on the Eastern problem Priest in Absolution, of the present time, are, the first Oxford, in the past, and the full of amusement, the second of gravity. Recent archæological discoveries in Rome pleasantly take us to times far off; and a paper on New Guinea and Polynesia AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. viii. to places far away. Electricity in its application in "The hearts of men, which fondly here admire Fair-seeming shows, and feed on vain delight." These lines are in the third stanza of Spenser's" Hymn on Heavenly Beauty." FLEUR-DE-LYS. "Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te." See Martial, xii. 47. W. T. M. "O blessed health," &c. The quotation (very incorrectly given) will be found in Tristram Shandy, c. xxxiii. vol. v. p. 173, Routledge's edit., no date. FREDK. RULE. (5th S. viii. 10, 38.) "Lord Erskine at women," &c. The first couplet should run thus:— "Lord Erskine, at woman presuming to rail, Calls a wife a 'tin canister tied to one's tail.'" peace and in war is an article of great interest, and an essay on "Economical Facts and Economical Fallacies " affords instruction of universal concernment. But first and before all, for the general reader, is the article on Lord Abinger (Scarlett) and the Bar. This refers to the period when Mr. Brougham asserted that it was a barrister's duty to get a verdict for his client irrespective of every other consideration-aye, though the dissolution of the world should be the one universal consequence. Delightful History of the Gentle Craft.-Under this title Messrs. Tayler & Son (Northampton) publish a time of SS. Crispin and Crispianus to the present time. light and learned history of "feet costume," from the It is well illustrated, and it wins respect for a calling which has been exercised by many men of intellect. Byron only lowered himself in general esteem when he scornfully wrote of Bloomfield and his two brothers :"Ye tuneful cobblers, still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song: As the result of the inquiry pursued in this dissertation, cludes that this epistle could not have been written by that apostle whose name it bears, but that its author was probably a Gentile connected with Alexandria, and writing about A.D. 79. The Greek text, the Latin version, and a new English translation of, and commentary on, the epistle are furnished by Mr. Cunningham, who does but scant justice to his own essay in saying that they will be found the most valuable part of his book. ALTHOUGH intended only by their writers for novices in history, it has always seemed to us that advanced students might derive great advantage, especially before examination, by carefully perusing the small volumes comprising Epochs of English History (Longmans), as in them the respective periods of history are so very carefully and judiciously summarized. This opinion is strengthened by the appearance of The Struggle against Absolute Monarchy, 1603-1688, by B. M. Cordery. MESSRS. LONGMANS also send us The Lady of the Lake, first canto, being one of the useful series of "Annotated Poems of English Authors." The notes are so thoroughly exhaustive that dull indeed must be the intending examinee who cannot turn them to good account. FROM Messrs. Rivingtons we have received Prayers for the Sick and Dying, which has reached a fourth edition. WE strongly advise all visitors this year to North Wales to provide themselves with The Gossiping Guide to Wales, by Askew Roberts (Hodder & Stoughton). Descriptive routes and geological and botanical chapters form part of this useful volume, whose title would be more accurate did it comprise a description of South Wales. We trust that Mr. Roberts will take in hand this portion of the Principality.-Lancashire men have no reason to complain that Mr. J. E. Bailey, F.S.A., has placed within their reach the paper read by him, last April, before the Manchester Literary Club, on John Whitaker, the Historian of Manchester. LIEUT. COL. H. FISHWICK, F.S.A., has printed for private distribution a paper recently read by him in London on Lancashire in the Time of Elizabeth. All readers will agree with the conclusion that the county palatine is infinitely wealthier, and its inhabitants infinitely happier, in the days of Queen Victoria than they were in the "golden days of good Queen Bess." "THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE."-Messrs. Victor v. Zabern, Mayence, and Trübner & Co., Ludgate Hill, will shortly publish Der Ursprung der Sprache, by Ludwig Noiré. The publishers state:-"After a long and earnest effort to overcome the difficulties surrounding a question which, even after Geiger and up to this day, has eluded all attempts at a final and positive explanation, Dr. Noiré has succeeded in producing a solution, entirely satisfactory and convincing, of the most important problem that ever attracted and stimulated human speculation and research." IN Mr. Murray's list of forthcoming works the following are worthy of especial notice:-Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Mycena and Tiryns, by Dr. Schliemann; Cyprus: a Narrative of Researches and Excavations during Ten Years' Residence in that Island, by General L. P. di Cesnola; Purity in Musical Art, by A. F. J. Thibaut, of Heidelberg, translated from the German by W. H. Gladstone, M.P.; Pioneering in South Brazil, by T. P. Bigg Wither; Scepticism in Geology, by Verifier; Livingstonia, by E. D. Young, R.N.; The Talmud: Selected Extracts, chiefly Illustrating the Teaching of the Bible, by J. Barclay, LL.D., Rector of Stapleford, Herts; The Country of the Moors: a Journey from Tripoli to Kairwan, by E. Rae; Notebook of Sir John Northcote, M.P. for Ashburton in the Long Parliament, transcribed and edited, with a memoir, by A. H. A. Hamilton; Notes on the Churches of Kent, by the late Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart.; A Discursive Glossary of Peculiar Anglo-Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases, by Col. H. Yule, C.B., and Arthur Burnell, Ph.D.; Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, vol. iii., the Satires, &c., edited by Whitwell Elwin, B.A.; a fourth edition of a Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors; The English in Spain, by Major F. Duncan, R.A.; a second Series of Leaves from my Sketch Book, by E. W. Cooke, R.A.; and Murray's Alphabetical Handbook for England and Wales. THE privately printed small folio volume, entitled Collections concerning the Manor of Marden, by the Right Hon. Thomas Earl Coningsby (1722), was on Monday last sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson for 3:01. The same copy produced at Bindley's sale 24/. 38., and was sold in 1851 for 121. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. F. R. S. (Magna Charta.)-What is spoken of as the original Magna Charta," which was much shrivelled and mutilated at the fire at the Cottonian Library, and which is said to have been accidentally seen by Sir Robert Cotton at his tailor's just when about to be cut up for measures, may be seen at the British Museum. See Thomson's Historical Essay on Magna Charta, pp. 423-4. 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