If you apply to Rev. W. G. Henderson, D.C.L., Head Master at Leeds, you will find him learned in all matters connected with Sarum and other missals.

On all questions relating to early printers or old typography, you would do well to show your volume to Mr. W. Blades, 17, Abchurch Lane, City, London.

FRANCIS T. HAVERGAL, Librarian of Hereford Cathedral.

THE BOOKWORM (4th S. vi. 527.)-I cannot furnish more than one instance of the ravages of bookworms in any volume of so recent date as 1750; but I have an old copy of St. Jerom of 1616, in folio, which has been very assiduously gone through by bookworms. I could collect from it many examples, but the two following may suffice. One perforation extends through thirty leaves, which together are more than one-eighth of an inch thick. Its greatest length is one inch and one-eighth, greatest breadth three-eighths of an inch. Another pervades twenty-eight leaves, one-eighth of an inch thick, and its greatest length is one inch. About the middle, the worm has made a complete island four-eighths long and three-eighths broad, so that the intermediate paper of the island has fallen out of several leaves, leaving a hole of the above dimensions. The insect seems to be fastidious in his taste, and a gourmet in his way, having a decided relish for the paper of old books, which it seems to take a century or more to season for his palate. As above noted, however, I have one book printed in 1819, decidedly worm-eaten.

F. C. H. I have never seen the bookworm, and, after many enquiries, have failed to discover any one who has. Is he known to entomologists? L'infer from the cessation of his ravages, that about the middle of the last century some new ingredient was introduced in the manufacture of paper which he does not like. I have an edition of Montaigne, 4 vols. Paris 1802, the calf binding of which is extensively wormed, but the paper has not been penetrated. Fair-dealing booksellers, when a book is "wormed," say so in their catalogues; and I do not remember any one so marked of a later date than 1750. H. B. C.

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Though I have been greatly plagued by the ravages of this pest, I am not enough of an entomologist to distinguish the genuine insect from pretenders, and should only be misleading your readers by measuring the diameter of their holes. Generally speaking, the plague is confined to old books, and even some of them appear to be protected by the nature of their paper or other peculiarity. The solitary instances to the contrary, which, as far as I know, I am able to produce, are, a copy of Tasso's Aminta, printed at Florence

in 1824, which the creature has curiously perforated for 280 pages, at about two inches from the top, without any apparent outlet; the second volume of the London edition of Johnson's Lives of the Ports, 1783; and a volume of Whiston's Josephus, 1787. C. W. BINGHAM.

The REV. F. HAVERGAL, Librarian of Hereford Cathedral, will be most happy to give the writer some information, and also some samples of paper eaten recently by bookworms on being favoured with name and address.

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THE ZODIAC OF DENDERAH (4th S. vi. 529.) -I have no knowledge of the calculations of Mr. John Cole in 1824, whereby he estimates the zodiac of Tentyra Denderah) to date from 2261 B.C. This sculpture, of circular form, about five feet in diameter, was discovered by General Desaix, and was brought to Paris in 1821. From the Greek inscriptions on the temples of Denderah and Esne, Champollion and Letronne ascertained (Précis du Système hieroglyphique, Recherches, &c.), that those edifices were constructed or finished during the times of the Roman emperors. But the antiquity of the zodiacal scheme or map there represented is another matter. Depuis carried it to 150 centuries before the Christian era, which, however, was afterwards reduced to about four centuries B.C. (Origine des Cultes, 1796.) When Jollois and Devilliers saw the stone, they at once detected figures nearly similar to those represented on the celestial globes of the present day. Biot (Recherches sur l'Astronomie Egyptienne) showed that this zodiac represented the position which the pole of the world must have occupied about the year 716 B.C.; also, that the zodiac of Esne gave the position of about 700 B.C. It is to be observed that whilst the pyramids coincide with the meridian, the axis of the temple of Denderah deviates 17 degrees, and that of the small temple at Esne 71 degrees from the meridian, both of them being from the north towards the east.

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HAIR GROWING AFTER DEATH (4th S. vi. 524.) As a parallel case to that cited by MR. PICKFORD, I transcribe the following from Hawthorne's English Note Books (vol. i. p. 96):—

"The grandmother of Mrs. died fifty years ago, at the age of twenty-eight. She had great personal charms, and among them a head of beautiful chestnut hair. After her burial in a family tomb, the coffin of one of her children was laid on her own, so that the lid seems to have decayed, or been broken from this cause; at any rate this was the case when the tomb was opened, about a year ago."

Hawthorne wrote on Good Friday, 1854 :—

"The grandmother's coffin was then found to be filled with beautiful glossy living chestnut ringlets, into which her whole substance seems to have been transformed, for there was nothing else but these shining curls, the growth of half a century, in the tomb."

A remarkable instance to the contrary will be found in Sir Henry Halford's account of the opening of the coffin of Charles I. in 1813. (The Life of James II., by the Rev. J. S. Clarke, LL.B., vol. ii. App. iv. pp. 669-70.)

"The pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect. The back part of the scalp was entirely perfect, and had a remarkably fresh appearance-the pores of the skin being more distinct, as they usually are when soaked in moisture; and the tendons and ligaments of the neck were of considerable substance and firmness. The hair was thick at the back part of the head, and in appearance nearly black. A portion of it, which has since been cleaned and dried, is of a beautiful dark brown colour. That of the beard was a redder brown. On the back part of the head it was more than an inch in length, and had been probably cut so short for the convenience of the executioner, or, perhaps, by the piety of friends soon after death, in order to furnish memorials of the unhappy king."

The indestructibility of hair is shown by the fact that at the same time a portion of Henry VIII.'s beard was discovered to "remain upon the chin."

It may be thought that the moist condition of King Charles's head prevented the posthumous growth of his hair. But as a general rule moisture induces hair to grow. At Whitby, last year, a young man was drowned while bathing, and his body carried out with the tide. At the flood, two or three days after, his remains were recovered, and his hair was found to have grown between three and four inches.

S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER.

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BARBARA, DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND (4th S. v. 401.) - Your correspondent G. S. S., who is engaged upon a life of this lady, asks for evidence of her" asserted residence at Chiswick." In a MS. note of Horace Walpole's (penes me), I find it stated-"The Duchess of Cleveland died at her house at Chiswick of a dropsy, Oct. 9, 1709." And the burial registers of the parish (which I had occasion to consult some time since) record: "Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, Oct. 13. 1709." EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

AN INEDITED ELEGY BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH (4th S. vii. 9.)-It would be indeed "poor Goldy," as your correspondent "MOORLAND LAD" styles him, if in 1770 he could descend so low as to produce such a specimen of the bathos as this miserable elegy. Any attempt to foist such trash upon the author of the Traveller and the Deserted Village can only be met as the poetaster was of yore, "Musæ furcillis præcipitem ejiciunt"; and I cannot but think that the careful superintendence which is generally exercised over what appears in "N. & Q." was somewhat at fault when such a communication as the one I am referring to was allowed to pass muster without some editorial comment. I can imagine the expression in the face of my friend Mr. John Forster, Goldsmith's admirable biographer, on having the lines MOORLAND LAD has produced put before him as a genuine addition to that charming poetry which JAS. CROSSLEY. he has illustrated so well.

OLIVER THE SPY (3rd S. ix. 21, 87, 362, 523.) The name of this character, once so notorious, appears three or four times in your earlier indexes; his subsequent career after he retired from the public gaze on the conviction of Thistlewood may not be so well known. In 1820 or 1821 he was sent out to the Cape with letters of recommendation for his services to Lord Charles Somerset, then governor of the colony, who appointed him to the lucrative and responsible position of superintendent of public works, in which office he built the present English cathedral and Government House at Graham's Town on the eastern frontier, two of the ugliest buildings that can possibly be conceived, and which cost enormous sums of money, the expenditure of which could never be very accurately accounted for. Oliver died in Cape Town in 1826, under the name of Jones, his widow surviving him for some years. He was, I believe, the last of his class who was rewarded by a handsome colonial appointment for his diabolical treachery to his countrymen at home.

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Concordance to the Christian Year. (Parker.) Musings over "The Christian Year" and "Lyra Innocentium." By Charlotte Mary Yonge. Together with a few Gleanings of Recollections of the Rev. John Keble, gathered by several Hands. (Parker.)

Nothing can show more clearly how tenacious is the hold which The Christian Year has taken of the religious mind of England, and how deep is the reverence in which the memory of John Keble is held, not only by those who enjoyed the blessing of his friendship, but by thousands who know him only by his works, than the two books whose titles we have just transcribed. Nearly two centuries elapsed, after the death of Shakespeare, before the world was furnished with a concordance to his writings; and the same period, or nearly so, before the poems of Milton received the same recognition; and with the exception of the Laureate, to whose poems a concordance was published little more than a twelvemonth ago, Keble is the only modern poet so read and quoted as to call for such an accompaniment to his writings. The second book is of even a more interesting character. It contains, not only gleanings from thirty years' intercourse with Keble from the pen of Miss Yonge, but similar recollections contributed by other friends, which will be read with great interest by all who love to dwell upon Hursley Vicarage and its pious household; but what will be very acceptable to all the admirers of Keble, an interesting running commentary, explaining allusions, clearing up dark passages, and unveiling hidden beauties, in the two series of devotional poems, which have leavened the religious literature of the day to an extent of which it is difficult to foresee the limit.

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