is connected with fishermen, this marine allusion
would be very natural and apposite, instead of
forced and far-fetched as it now appears. It
would be interesting to know from some Semitic
linguist if there is any foundation for the above
statement in Hebrew or Syriac; for many of our
maritime terms are taken from animals-
a horse,
a crane, for instance.

HOWDEN.

SWIFT: "TALE OF A TUB" (3rd S. iv. 5, 55.) Has the following passage, from Selden's Table Talk, ever been noted as suggesting to Swift some idea of what is related in the Tale of a Tub?

"Religion is like the fashion; one man wears his doublet slashed, another laced, another plain, but every man has a doublet: so every man has his religion. We differ about the trimming."-Selden's Table Talk, edit. Edinburgh, 1819, p. 162. ROBT. H. NEVILL.

JAMES TELFER (3rd S. xii. 352.)—As supplementary to MR. WHITE's kindly notice, I send the following recollections of Telfer, for which I am indebted to a friend who associated a good deal with him about the year 1854. My friend was at that date stationed in the Liddesdale district as an exciseman, and had often to visit Saughtrees in the discharge of his duties. Telfer said to him — "I once asked Sir Walter Scott for his influence

to get me into the Excise. 'No, James,' said he, I have no influence in that quarter, and if I had I would not give it to you. You remember what ado was made about Burns. Men of a poetic temperament are not suited for excisemen. An exciseman must be a mere machine, and must do a great many things far from agreeable. I repeat, I am ready and willing to serve you in anything else, but recommend you to think no more of the Excise.' At one time of his life Telfer had thoughts of devoting himself to literature, but Sir Walter again stepped in between the poor schoolmaster and his long-cherished object. "James, my man," said he, shaking his head, "you may make literature a staff to go a pleasuring with; but never

trust it as a crutch to lean on.'

"A Lockerbye Licke," by the author of Joe and
the Geologist.
SIDNEY GILPIN.

ASSUMPTION OF A MOTHER'S NAME (3rd S. xii. 66, 111, 154.)-It does not seem to have struck the person who first introduced this subject into the columns of " N. & Q.," that this assumption is liable to the very serious objection that persons who adopt their mother's maiden name may be suspected of illegitimacy, as children born out of wedlock have no right to any other surname than

BAR-POINT.

that of their mother.
Philadelphia.

CAMELOT (3rd S. xii. 415.) In the editorial reply to this query "Shropshire" is, I presume, a clerical error for "Somersetshire." Queen's Camel is certainly in the latter county. H. P. D.

"THE WAEFU' HEART" (3rd S. xii. 188, 317.)

Most of them were

If L. had taken any trouble to investigate the ques-
tion before sending his answer, he might have
learned that Miss Blamire had been dead more
than a quarter of a century before the first volume
of R. A. Smith's Scottish Minstrel appeared in 1820,
consequently his argument falls to the ground
altogether. But what does he think when I tell
him that not a single song or poem of Miss Bla-
mire's, printed during her lifetime, was acknow-
ledged by her signature?
distributed in MS. among her friends and rela-
tives, and remained so till 1842, when they were
collected (as far as they then could be), and pub-
lished in a small volume. Had she bestowed as
much care in preserving her productions as most
authors naturally enough do, it would have been
better for her fame at the present day. In this
respect, however, as well as in point of genius,
she bears a close resemblance to Lady Ann Lind-
The one wrote "Auld
say and Lady Nairn.
Robin Gray," the other the "Land o' the Leal";
and it took fifty years to settle the authorship in
each case, as it also did in that of the song which
completes the trio, "And ye shall walk in silk
attire."
SIDNEY GILPIN.

A very favourable critique appeared some years since in the Gateshead Observer on Telfer's Ballads, when he observed to my friend, "I fear the editor has mistaken geese for swans." This pithy remark shows that Telfer had outlived at least some of his romantic day-dreams. It is only proper that the leading incidents of his life should be placed on record; he was well worthy of such a mark of distinction; but I think MR. J. H. DIXON has overrated him in asserting that "he holds a high rank among modern ballad-writers." His "Gloamyne Bughte," and the "Kerlyne's Brock" (I It ends have not seen "Our Ladye's Girdle "), seem to me to be a long way below similar subjects from the pen of the Ettrick Shepherd, or Surtees (of wicked memory!), or Allan Cunningham, not to mention that admirable imitation of the old border ballad,

"FAIR AGNES AND THE MERMAN" (3rd S. xii. 324.)-The ballad of "Fair Agnes and the Merman " has been, so to speak, re-set by Mr. Arnold in his singularly wild and beautiful poem of "The Forsaken Merman." The heroine in the

poem of "The Forsaken Merman" is named
Mr. Arnold's poem begins:-
Margaret, but the plot is altogether the same.

NAME WANTED (3rd S. xii. 347.)-I am sorry not to be able to answer MR. DAVIDSON, who has honoured me by appealing to me. I have no doubt that the coat is the private coat of the bishop, according to the custom which prevails on the Continent.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Slight Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian from 1802 to 1815. By Emma Sophia, Countess Brownlow. (Murray.)

Though Lady Brownlow, with great modesty, characI have a very good plate by the same artist, terises these Reminiscences as slight, they are extremely which shows, not arms, but an impresa. This interesting, and no one can run through her pages withconsists of a sea in base, with a small vessel sail-out rejoicing that, at Lord Carnarvon's suggestion, she has been induced to ing to the sinister, carrying the Brabant flag at the bowsprit, the stern, the masthead, and the peak of the mainsail. This scene is enclosed in an oval cartouche, with twisted scroll-work round the edge. At the top, on a riband, with a tassel at each extremity, is the "soul" of the impresa: "MEDIO TUTISSIMUS IBIS." The whole oval and its accompaniments are laid down upon an anchor which shows its flukes outside the base of the oval. Under the ring of the anchor, at top, are the letters "I. G. M." Just clear of all engraving, on the sinister side, is the name: "L. Fruytiers, scul." Bryan does not mention this artist. But he mentions Philip Fruÿtiers, a painter, who also "etched some plates in a very masterly manner." Philip lived 1620-1677. The engraver of the impresa might very well have been the son of Philip Fruytiers, judging from the style of its execution. I give these details in the hope that they may be of any service to MR. DAVIDSON in discovering the name of the bishop. D. P.

Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells.

HEAD OF CARDINAL RICHELIEU (3rd S. x. 350.) Previous to the Minister of Public Instruction having this remarkable head a second time (and it is to be hoped the last) consigned to the earth,

once

"That undiscover'd country, from whose bourne No traveller returns,"

a friend of mine, a clever draughtsman, got permission to make a chalk-drawing of it, which he afterwards had photographed. A striking head it is, which forcibly reminds one of what Montesquieu said of this extraordinary genius: "Richelieu a fait de Louis XIII le premier Roi de l'Europe et le second homme de France."

P. A. L.

MORRIS (3rd S. xii. 149, 254.)-Is there anything more than a coincidence in the fact that, in Italy, the old game "micare digitis" is called "mora"? C. W. BINGHAM. Town (3rd S. xii. 360.)-MR. E. MASKELL says, "that, in the north of Cornwall at least, a farmhouse is still called 'the Town-place.'" About the centre, and in the west of Cornwall, the farm buildings congregated together make up and are called the "Town-place," and not the farm-house: this being where the farmer lives, and sometimes situate some hundreds of yards from the farm buildings or "Town-place." WM. GILL.

-"write this down, that's riveted, Screwed to her memory.'

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Nor is it the matter alone which gives value to this little book. The glimpses of persons and events which came under Lady Brownlow's notice are, as we have already said, extremely interesting; but the tone in which the reminiscences are told, the high breeding which marks every page, give a charm to the book which is unspeakably pleasant. We trust that Lady Brownlow has not exhausted her stock of recollections.

Abyssinia and its People; or, Life in the Land of Prester
John. Edited by J. C. Hotten. With a New Map and
Eight coloured Illustrations by MM. Vignaud and
Barrat. (Hotten.)

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Manipulus Vocabulorum. A Rhyming Dictionary of the
English Language, by Peter Levins, 1570. Edited, with
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