double-name theory, deriving the name which has survived from a Gaelic, or, as he prefers to write it, "Goidelic "" source. But we are not very well satisfied with the suggestion that this surviving name is an epithet of St. Kentigern, viz., "the Greyhound." Prof. Ferguson's paper on "Books of Receipts" contains a large amount of bibliographical detail on a rarely trodden part of the field of literature.

THE Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, vol. i. pt. iii., will be found to contain an important paper by Sir Richard Temple, on the "Political Lessons of Chinese History," with a note on the same subject by Sir Thomas Wade, who was present at the reading, and took part in the discussion. Under existing circumstances, there is much reason for paying attention to the history of the "Middle Kingdom."

PART V. of Mr. James Payn's Literary Recollections gives a good account of Whewell and De Quincey. Mr. Payn's mother showed to a dean of the English Church, then at the head of the High Church party at Oxford, some complimentary remarks of De Quincey concerning her son, and received the astounding reply,Very flattering to your son, madam, no doubt; but who is this Mr. De Quincey.-Shropshire is dealt with in All the Year Round in the Chronicles of English Counties."-Mr. Austin Dobson supplies to the English Illustrated Magazine a singularly interesting and attractive paper on "Changes at Charing Cross. "The Belfry at Bruges" is another paper of much interest.-"A Pilgrimage to Selborne," by T. E. Kebbel, arrests and repays attention in Long

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WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. W. M. ("Call a spade a spade").-The earliest recorded use of this expression is said by Scaliger to have been made by Aristophanes, Αγροικός εἰμι τὴν σκάφην okápnu Néyw. See note to Priapeia, Carmen, ii. 9, 10, in which is told a story of the use of the phrase by Philip of Macedon. "Scapham scapham dicere" occurs in a letter of Melanchthon to Cranmer, dated May 1, 1548. In Mar Prelates Epitome we have the English form, "I am plaine, I must needs call a spade a spade." Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, has "I call a spade a spade," and Ben Jonson writes, "Boldly nominate a spade a spade."

T. A. S. ("Queen Elizabeth's Lodge "). Tradition holds this building to have been a hunting lodge of the queen whose name it bears, and asserts that when she visited it she always rode upstairs on horseback to the great chamber. The topmost landing was once known us the horse-block. The feat of riding upstairs has been accomplished in the present century by one of the foresters. Lysons, in his Environs of London, holds, in opposition to general acceptance, that it was the Chingford manor-honse. A description of the place is supplied in Mr. Thorne's Handbook to the Environs of London.

W. J. GREENSTREET ("Words employed in The Virgin Martyr"). Some of the words after which you inquire are not unfamiliar. 1. Ambry or aumbry, the same as French armoire, is a cupboard, locker, storehouse, repository. It is used by Langland in the fourteenth century, and by Beckford, in the form of ambery, and Mr. William Morris, in that of aumbrye, in the nineteenth, See Dr. Murray's New Dictionary. 2. Upsy-freesy is the

same as upsee Dutch, Frisian being equivalent to Hollander. It signifies being as drunk as a Dutchman, "I do not like the dulness of your eye,

It hath a heavy cast, 'tis upsee Dutch." 3. Super naculum. A mock Latin term, supposed to mean "upon the nail," a common phrase with drinkers. When a glass is emptied, the rim is placed upon the nail, to show that, when a toast has been drunk, no more than enough for one drop is left. Pierce Penilesse, sig. G 2b, gives a full account of the custom of drinking super nagulum; and Ben Jonson says, “He plays super negulum with my liquor of life" (The Case is Altered, vol. vii. p. 348). 4. Lance-prezade. A commander of ten men; the lowest officer in a foot regiment. "The watchful corporall and the lansprezado" (Taylor the Water Poet). 5. Gingle boys. Apparently gold coins; as we say after ass just as in the previous lines it occurs after "yellow-boys." 6. Ass-fellow. The word fellow is used goose and woodcock. Spurgius says, "Beef, mutton, veal, and goose, fellow Hircius." Hircius answers, And woodcock, fellow Spurgius. Whereupon Spurgius keeps up the phrase by adding, "Upon the poor lean assfellow," referring only to the ass on which he rides. So soon as space permits the other words shall appear under "Queries."

C. LAWRENCE.-The lines commencing

"'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in bell," are not by Lord Byron, but by Miss Catharine Fanshawe. They were written in 1816, at Deepdene, the seat of the late Thomas Hope, and the original MS. was long preserved, and probably may still be found in the Deepdene album. We recall having seen the lines in a collection of miscellany poems printed somewhere near 1816 by Joanna Baillie.

W. B. C.-Instead of "often quoted " lines, say "often misquoted," and you will be correct. The real reading

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"So naturalists observe a flea

Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum."

Swift, Verses occasioned by Whitshed's
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ESTE("Foreign Notes and Queries").-The paragraph from a Roman journal you forward is inaccurate We cannot give currency to its misstatement.

LAMBTON YOUNG.-("Our Eye-Witness on the Ice"). -Thanks. The reference has, however, been supplied. CRITO.-Bingen on the Rhine was written by the Hon Mrs. Norton.

C. L. BRANDRETH, M.D. ("Richard Le Davids").No answer to your question has been received. MRS. F. GREEN.

"Ancestral voices prophesying war." Coleridge, Kubla Khan. G. M. FERMOR ("Schubert's Knight of Toggenburg"). -We can hear of no English version.

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