known of its history prior to its being found THOMAS COTESMORE (12 S. v. 292).-I am one Friday afternoon in August, 1912, at the afraid that my last two lines at the above Caledonian Market, but so far as I am aware, reference are a stupid mistake. The Thomas it was never suggested that it was a forgery. Cotesmore I was writing about, is said to The painting was acquired by Mr. John have died in prison in 1584. The Thomas Glen of 34 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, Cotesmore to whom the passage in the but I am not aware in whose possession itChetham Soc. Publ.' relates was a seminary now is. It was reproduced in The Daily priest ordained in 1580, and sent to England Mail of Mar. 3, 1913. in 1582. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. G. P. THREE CRIPPLES, FIELD LANE (12 S. v. 292). This sign was probably invented by Dickens. There does not appear to have ever been a tavern so named in that district, but there was at one time a Three Cocks in Cow Lane, and a Three Kings in Clerkenwell Close, both near to Field Lane. T. W. TYRRELL. EXCHANGE OF SOULS IN FICTION (12 S. v. 124, 191, 246, 279, 306).-Sir A. Conan Doyle's short story, The Great Keinplatz Experiment, to be found in the volume The Captain of the Polar Star, and Other Tales' (Longmans). R. GRIME. ELEPHANT: OLIPHANT (12 S. v. 238, 301). -I think you will find the facts to be that the origin of the name was William Olifard, who came over with William the Conqueror from France and then attached himself to the Scotch cause. Later another William Olifard, when fighting at the side of his king in an unequal combat with the Saracens, refreshed him when exhausted with a draught of water from his drinking horn made of an elephant's tusk. For that the king knighted him on the field of battle, Sir William Olifaunt, which is one of the old spellings of elephant. It will be remembered that the arms of the Lairds of Gask have two elephants for supporters. It was through the good offices of Sir Walter Scott that the fortunes of the Oliphants lost by the family alliance to the Jacobite cause were restored. W. ELWIN OLIPHANT. Wabern, Berne, Switzerland. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. v. 295).- We'd throw with leaves for hours Till day like night were shady And night were bright like day; And I were lord in May. W. A. HUTCHISON. [Several other correspondents also thanked for replies.] Notes on Bookz. The Oxford English Dictionary.-(Vol. IX SiTh.) Stratus-Styx By Henry Bradley. SweepSzmikite. By C. T. Onions. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, each 58. net.) THE latest section of the Dictionary completes that immense letter S. T had been finished earlier, and so the work of Dr. Bradley and his coadjutors is nearing its end. U, V, and Z, will not. we imagine, be anything like so formidable to tackle as W, which remains the chief task. The letter S, as the interesting Preface added to Mr. Onion's section informs us, extends to 2408 pages, a fact which is sufficient alone to indicate the vast superiority of the Dictionary over any other in any language. The shelter of "Academick bowers" the achievements begun by the late Sir James which Johnson missed, has been amply justified by Murray at Mill Hill. The war withdrew in succession several members of the Dictionary Staff, and the Editor himself in the second half of 1918; but advance through the alphabet has been steady and successful, and the latest parts are full of exhaustive analysis, copious quotations, and new knowledge. Dr. Bradley has dealt with several familiar words which have a wealth of meanings. "Strike" and "Stunt" bring his information quite up-to-date. work of the Dictionary in analysing various The former word is an instance of the wonderful senses. The "strikes" the public have reason to remember are so-called from the development of a nautical phrase. Dr. Johnson in his Dictionary knew nothing of them. It is difficult to be sure that we have missed no example in the imposing display, of quotations; but we think Matthew Arnold's "Strike leftward cries our guide" in his Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse' would be a suitable addition. "Strinel" is one of several words which will be quite new to the average reader. "Strip" is a familiar word which again illustrates the wonderful work of the Dictionary. The derivation of "Stroll" is uncertain, but it may be, we learn, among the High German words introduced in the seventeenth century by soldiers. Swift's "Struldbrug' " is included, an arbitrary invention which has sufficiently impressed itself on the language to lead to "Struldbruggian" and Struldbrugism The quotation for "struma " in 1784 is the title of a book. A notorious instance of that disease was Dr. Johnson, and on p. 4 of the life by Hawkins is a reference to "the struma, or, as it is called, the king's-evil." "Stud "includes two different nouns. "Studio" is first quoted in 1819, though we should have expected to find it in the eighteenth century. Stuff" is obscure in etymology, and is a good, honest English word "Stumwhich has somewhat gone out of fashion. bling-block" was introduced by Tindale in his version of the New Testament, but the phrase "stumble over a block" (of wood) is earlier. The cricket sense of stump is traced back to 1735, but the pulling up of stumps is a still earlier phrase. "Stunning," a popular adjective for a time, answering to the present "tophole," did not last, we gather, beyond the eighties of last century. "Stupefy" is rightly so spelt, following its Latin stupify.' origin, but it was till recently spelt "Stupid" has the same sense, meaning originally "dulled "deadened' faculties." "Sturdy" is an old word, for it originally meant "giddy," and its derivation is still unsettled. All the suggestions offered seem decidedly fanciful in sense, but we cannot say that any of them is farfetched in view of "muscle"="little mouse," and The other known peculiarities of derivation. "stymie" of the golfer is also of obscure origin. It is curious that the Dictionary does not put it back beyond 1856. or in the Looking again at the Preface attached to the section edited by Mr. Onions we find that the number of main words included under 'S' is 27,929, of which 5,487 are obsolete. The number of quotations is 298,006, truly a heroic record of diligence! The section begins in the middle of "Sweep," which with its derivations is an important word "Sweep-stake" originally meant "Sweeping," or taking the whole of the stake, and was used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for "a clean is sweep." Among the derivations of "sweet' Shakespeare's pretty "sweeting" which did not catch on in later language as a term of endearment, though English is generally lacking in such expressions. The original William after whom the "Sweet-william " was named no man knows. "Swelt" will be new to most people, being obsolete for many years, except in dialect. The cognate Sweal." to scorch, is in Barnes's 'Glossary of the Dorset Dialect.' "Swelth," "swench," and "swepe" (whip) are other effective sounding words now lost to the language. "Swig" includes six words. "Swim" in the sense of giddiness has no poetical Farewell. quotation in the nineteenth century. life! my senses swim" occurs in Hood's 'Stansas,' April, 1845. "Swing" is a long and interesting word, and has a special sense derived from a fictitious Captain Swing, under whose name in timidating letters were sent to farmers and landowners in 1830-1. "Swingeing damages," when so spelt, reveals the origin of the verb as "swinge," beat, thrash." The word "Swisser" reminds us that old-fashioned people within our memory used The "switchback" to talk of "Swisserland." railway is a joy introduced apparently in 1888. Swot," the hard work of the schoolboy, is illustrated first from our own columns, which give its derivation at Sandhurst. "Symposium" originally means a drinking party, and Plato's famous dia logue has led to its use for discussions of the driest character, in which there may be much "swotting,' but there is little "swigging." "Syringa" is used by ordinary people for a well-known shrub with white blossoms, but the botanist calls it "Philadelphus.' It is curious that the term "mock-orange." which was quite a good one, should have been discarded in favour of a Greek form of word. The learned names of plants seem to indicate that they were ignored by the common people, and mainly recognised by men of science. L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux. 10 Nov. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. FROM Hrn. Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Bognergasse 2, Wien I.) comes their latest catalogue of books upon the Fine Arts. It mainly comprises the libraries of a couple of connoisseurs, who, judging from the contents of the thick list before us, must have had a trained and practised eye in the selection of their volumes. For here are books on all branches of art, not only modern works, but also the large folios of the eighteenth century, including works on ancient. medieval and oriental art, sculpture and painting, with a fine series of standard books on modern stylists. In all there are sixteen sections, most of them being sub-divided. in which every branch of artistic study is well represented, even down to an excellently arranged section on silhouettes and playing cards. Hrn. Gilhofer and Ranschburg are to be congratulated upon this, their latest compilation, and as the prices are far from excessive, would-be collectors are advised to send for a copy of the catalogue and to place their orders as early as possible. WE have received a copy of Catalogue No. 382, English Literature of the Eighteenth Century, from Messrs. Maggs Bros., 34 and 35 Conduit Street London, W. It contains no less than 516 different items. There is a considerable section on Political Economy.containing many rare pamphlets on the trade and currency of Great Britain. There are also many important Goldsmith items, including the first edition of The Deserted Village.' We notice a number of rare books on Freemasonry, including the first edition of Anderson's 'Constitution of the Freemasons of 1723,' with the engraved frontispiece. Defoe is well represented with an uncut copy of the first edition of A Journal on the Plague Year,' which is probably unique in its Defoe's 'Review of the British uncut state. Nation,' complete with the exception of two numbers; this is Defoe's possibly greatest and certainly scarcest work. No actual complete set is known to exist; up to now the Huth copy was considered the most complete, but Messrs. Maggs' copy is much more complete, as they possess the additional volume which is so excessively rare that Lowndes states only a few numbers exist, and that the latest Messrs. Maggs' volumes known number is 85. comprise up to No. 106, the final number. Ano her interesting first edition is Coleridge's 'Fall of Robespierre,' historical drama, Cambridge, 1794, the author's first publication, and written in con junction with Southey. It is well known that The Proprietor is obliged to warn his readers this drama was produced in one evening, Coleridge, Southey and Lovell each writing one act. Coleridge took the manuscript with him to Cambridge, and there re-wrote part of the drama, and published it under his own name. Southey wrote, "It was written with newspapers before me as fast as newspapers could be put into blank verse. I have no desire to claim it now, neither am I ashamed of it." Six pages of the catalogue are devoted to uncommon pamphlets of the Old and Young Pretenders. We have also received from Messrs. Maggs Bros. their Catalogue No. 383, containing Engraved Portraits. Decorative Prints, Sporting Prints, Etchings, Engravings by the Old Masters, and Historical and Topographical Engravings. Fine prints (302 in number) are catalogued with 34 fine reproductions of the most interesting engravings. Our readers may consider the first part, which contains engraved portraits principally of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to be the most interesting. A charming print is Watson's mezzotint of the Three Irish Graces in a brilliant impression of the first state, printed in a rich brown tone before the title was added. A brilliant open-letter proof-impression of the Duchess of Devonshire after Gainsborough by Barney is very pretty, though some may be inclined to prefer the stipple in colours of Lady Elizabeth Foster after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Other charming ladies are Lady Kent, Lady Sofia Paget by Meyer after Hoppner, and Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse. We also notice some delicate Morlands, and two fine Swiss prints in colours by Freudenberger. Some excellent Wheatleys in colours are all pleasant prints which one would like to keep on one's walls. Among the Dürers the Saint Eustace, of which a good representation is given, will probably be preferred. MR. G. A. POYNDER has sent us his last Catalogue of Secondhand Books, and we understand that other arrangements for 'N. & Q.' will probably have to be made. He has himself been doing the duties from errand-boy to Editor without salary, and cannot continue under such conditions. Notices to Correspondents. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, but we will forward advance proofs of answers received if a shilling is sent with the query; nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them. BRAYE, Windsor.-Hope to insert queries sent. MR. W. A. HUTCHISON (" Philo-Judæus ").-Forwarded to querist. WAINEWRIGHT, and MR. W. R. WILLIAMS. MR. C. E. STRATTON, Boston, Mass, ("Emerson's 'English Traits'").-Anticipated at ante, p. 302. MR. G. D. 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SUBJECT INDEX [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, Books RECENTLY PUBLISHED, A "Abanazar," its meaning as an epithet, 68, 106 Ainslie Bond, its whereabouts and history, 41, 80 Alabaculia, name of racehorse, its origin, 98, 163 Aldersons, Warrington glassmakers, information Aldridge (Ida F.), negro actor, his history, 263 Aliens in Maidstone in 1567, 169 Allen (Edward), painter and engraver, partculars Alleynes or Allens at Westminster school, 291 Ant-bear, its indifference to hunger, 125, 193 Anthologia Græca,' Johnson's translation, 10, 49 Aragonise, a knight, mention and query about, 26 Aristotle on the Greek temperament, 22 Army list, English, of 1740, 270 Army officers, 1727-60, obituary list wanted, 273 338 Arnold (W. H.), author of "The Devil's Bridge," "Art of Conversation," its author wanted, 267 Auchmutz (Robert), American loyalist, his tomb- Audlem near Nantwich, connected with Aldelima, Augury from magpies in Shakespeare, 5, 116 St. James's Church, Sydney, 174 12 Aviation, project, in 1835, 58, 107; prophetic Aylesford, Countless Stones, bibliography wanted, 318 B Badulla, Ceylon, tombstone at, 37, 78, 167 Baillie (Dr. George Robertson), information Baillie (Thomas), particulars wanted of four "Bambino," wax figure, information wanted, 207 Bank of England, its nickname, 238 Bannister (Anthony), his statue, at Hull, 147 'Baptiste Mantuani Carmelite,' poems, particulars Baring family, memorial at Exeter, 89 Barnard, Col., 1778, painted by Romney, particu- Barnard (Dudley) or Bernard, information wanted, Barnard or Bernard family, information wanted, Barr family arms, information wanted, 153 Baxter (Richard), his family, 66, 130 Bell (John), of Scarborough, information required, Bell Tavern, Broad Street, Bristol, particulars Bells, Hampshire church, and their founders, 44, Benedict XII., Pope, statement about him Berkshire tombstone inscriptions, 182 Bernard (Dudley) or Barnard, information sought, ' Bertram de Bourne,' ballad, information wanted, Bewdley apprentices and Mothering Sunday, 65 Bibliography:- Ackermann (A. S. E.), 'Popular Fallacies,' 'Boyle (Capt. Robert), Voyages....of,' 294 Byron (George Gordon, 6th Lord), his Byron as a character in fiction, 80 Byron's 'Don Juan,' cantos 17 and 18, 179, Campbell (Sir Gilbert), his poems, 238 Cistercian Order, 320 'Countless Stones,' Aylesford, 318 de Mandeville (Bernard), editions, 210 De Sanctis' the Anglo-French version, 281 Du Maurier (George), key to his novel Dürer's engraved works, 231 Epitaphs, 68, 129, 161, 192, 218, 274 Hamilton (Walter), F.R.G.S., his articles, 318 Henricus de Hoyta, 265, 298 Henricus Hembuch de Hassia dictus de Immurement (medieval), 320 Irish county and town histories, 147 London Feace Celebrations, 175, 213, 315 Main (David M.), writer on the English Mortars, domestic and others, 250, 277 Plane trees, 205 'Popular Fallacies,' by A. S. E. Ackerniann, Prudentius's 'Psychomachia,' translations, Richard I's captivity, books on, 77 |