statue of his Satanic Majesty, which of erst overlooked mine. He is said to have met Richard Trevithick Lincoln College, is not so certain as that the effigy was in London. By his contemporaries he was charged popular, and gave rise to the saying. After outstanding with having appropriated English ideas, and recenturies of hot and cold, jibes and jeers, cum multis Fulton wrote a Hisaliis, to which stone as well as flesh is heir, it was taken presented them as his own. down on the 15th of November, 1731, says a writer in tory of Inland Navigation, which was, I think, the Gentleman's Magazine, having lost its head in a published by Priestley, of Holborn, one of the storm about two years previously, at the same time the founders of the engineering publishing firm, afterhead was blown off the statue of King Charles I., which wards Priestley & Weale. Was Priestley any connexion of the philosopher of the same name? HYDE CLARKE.

overlooked Whitehall."-P. 16.

I remember to have seen, many years ago, in a little guide-book to the antiquities of the Cathedral of Lincoln, an engraving of an ugly stone figure on a projecting gurgoyle, said to be a representation of the devil looking over Lincoln. If this is in existence it doubtless explains literally the meaning of the allusion of Pope, in his Imitation of the Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, v. 240 et seq. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

SIR THOMAS REMINGTON, OF LUND, KNT. (2nd S. ii. 432.)-The following appeared under this heading

"Sir Thomas Remington, of Lund, Knt.-Can any of your correspondents give me particulars of Sir Thomas Remington, of Lund, in Yorkshire, living about the year 1647; the names, marriages, &c., of his children, of whom he had several, and anything of interest connected with them? Is the family supposed now to be extinct, and if not who is its present representative? Any one who could furnish me with a pedigree of the family, or indicate where such could be obtained, would render me a service.

Hull.

T. P.

"THINK TO IT" (5th S. vii. 126.)-The expression "What do you think to it?" meaning "What is your opinion of it?" is the ordinary one in parts about Bridlington, E. R. Yorkshire. It seems to reverse the French usage. The provincial "What do you think to it?" would be "Qu'en pensezvous?" while the vernacular, "I will think of you," is "Je penserai à vous." In a very similar manner the low Scotch use at for of, following verbs of inquiry. Vide Scott's novels, passim.

is

Athenæum Club.

JABEZ.

To say "think to it," instead of "think of it," also common in Yorkshire; indeed, it is one of the simplest "notes" of Yorkshiremanity. Another of these notes is the word move. A Yorkshireman does not bow to a lady, he moves to her. A. J. M.

[Move is to be found in old English comedies and novels in this sense.]

W AND V (5th S. vii. 28, 58, 75.) In one of the manuscript diaries of my father, the late Benj. Robt. Haydon, I find-in a curious account, dated June 10, 1830, of one of his friends then living the following passage:

[There does not appear to be any pedigree of Reming ton of Lund in the Visitations of Yorkshire. There is one of Remington of Garby, co. York (Harl. MS. 1487, fol. 491 b), deduced through four generations, of which the last three are of the date 1612. In it is included Sir Robert Remington of Saxay, Bart., who o. s. p., only child of John Remington, son and heir of Richard Re"I heard him say in the first society that 'there was mington of Garby, eldest son of Richard Remington of nothink wulgar in Ludovico Caracci....... He talks of Rascall, in the Forest of Galtress, co. York, Gent., with hoil, and one day coming with me into the hall of the whom the pedigree commences. No arms are assigned British Gallery, where Smith, the porter, was cobbling in the Visitation pedigree to the Remingtons. In shoes, he turned round to me with......horror, and said, Burke's Armory the Remingtons of Lund are named, I wonder the Directors allow that man to make such a and the arms assigned to them are, Barry of twelve, stink with Cobbler's Vax.'" argent and azure; over all a bend gules. Crest; a hand It would not be fair to give the name of the person erect, holding a broken tilting-spear, all proper.]" If T. P. is still anxious to receive the information whose peculiarities of pronunciation are here exhe asks, I shall be happy to place him in comemplified, but I may say that it was undoubtedly munication with a friend of mine who is a de-a French name, though the bearer of it was born scendant of Sir Thomas Remington.

JNO. EALES WHITE.

COLERIDGE: FULTON: PRIESTLEY (5th S. vii. 161.) In reference to MR. NODAL'S suggestion, that Coleridge's scheme for a Pantisocracy on the banks of the Susquehanna was greatly influenced by Robert Owen, it may be put to him to be full as likely that the American location was influenced by Robert Fulton, because Owen's notions then were rather in favour of a home site for his new world. Fulton was much in London as well as Manchester, and was known to connexions of

in England. So far as my own experience goes, though I have lived in or near London for nearly fifty-five years, I can call to mind only one case in which, within my hearing, the letter v was substituted for w. It must have been later than the spring of 1847 that this solitary instance_of "Cockney speech" came under my notice. Referring to some street row, a gentleman in a "hairy cap" informed his friend, as I was waiting at Hungerford for a penny boat to London Bridge, that "ven 'e [presumably a policeman] took out 'is trenchin [truncheon], I thought I'd better 'ook it." In a letter from one of my sisters, written in 1834,

FEN (OR FEND?) (5th S. vi. 348, 412; vii. 58, 98, 178.)-As a boy, I distinctly remember using the word fan in playing marbles, and at this time I frequently hear it used in the same game, eg. Nuttall, it may be remarked, is in the neighbour-fan backs, fan everything, &c. I never heard it hood. Isaac Taylor (Words and Places, p. 277) called fen, and fail to find any one who recognizes the word fen as used by ScorO-AMERICUS.

the old sign, kindly undertook, at his hostess's suggestion, to paint a new one. The butcher having supplied the necessary model, the picture was done, and there it now hangs to be seen of all. W. T. M.

Shinfield Grove.

HERALDIC (5th S. v. 428.)-ARGENT will find, in the prefix to Burke's General Armory, ed. 1844, p. 12, that

"when a daughter becomes an heiress to her mother (also an heiress), and not to her father, which happens when the father marries a subsequent wife and has by her male issue to represent him, she is entitled to bear the maternal coat with the arms of her father on a canton, taking all the quarterings to which her mother was by descent entitled; when married, she conveys the whole to be borne on an escutcheon of pretence, and transmits them at her death to be borne as quarterings by her descendants."

Hobart Town, Tasmania.

J. McC. B.

UNRAVELLING GOLD THREAD WORK (3rd S. ii. 8.)-AULIOS, if still a reader of "N. & Q.," will find a full and lively account of this most curious of fashionable amusements in Taine's recently published Ancien Régime. I regret that I have not the book now at hand, so that I cannot give precise paginal reference. Was this idiotic diversion popular in England? MIDDLE TEMPLAR.

Bradford.

KEATS: "THE TWO AND THIRTY PALACES" (5th
S. i. 429.) The passage no doubt refers to the
Buddhist doctrine (in Tibet) of the thirty-two
'places of delight," wherein the lha, the deified
spirits of the pious, receive the reward of their
good deeds by transmigration into other bodies.
See Della Penna of Ancona's account, Markham,
Tibet, p. 320.
A. L. MAYHEW.
Oxford.

AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. vii. 149.)-
Father Tom and the Pope is by Samuel Ferguson, LL.D.
CAPPAGAMMACHI.

(5th S. vii. 169.)

Mr. Curwen (History of Booksellers. p. 226) attributes the authorship of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin and Nights at Mess to the Rev. Mr. White.

(5th S. vii. 189.)

W. E. LANE.

The Last of the Cavaliers and The Gain of a Loss (the first a highly successful novel) were by Miss Rose Piddington.

ED.

"One never rises so high as when one does not know

where one is going."-The words of Cromwell during a

conversation with M. Bellièvre, the first President of the
Parliament of Paris, and repeated by the latter to the
Cardinal de Retz, in whose memoirs the account is to be
found.
F. P. BARNard.

The reference to "the wise poet of Florence, that highte Dant," will be found from lines 6708 to 6714 of Canterbury Tales, near the close of "The Wif o' Bathe's Tale." The allusion is to the lines of Dante, Purg., vii. "Rade volte risurge per li rami

121:
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L'umana probitate: e questo vuole
Quie, che la dà, perchè da lui si chiami."
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A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects, and Doctrines; being a Continuation of the Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by William Smith, D C.J., LL.D., and Henry Wace, M.A.. Professor of Ecclesiastical History, King's College, London, Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn. Vol. I. A-D. (Murray.)

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L'Enfer. Essai Philosophique et Historique sur les Légendes de la Vie Future. Par Octave Delepierre, Docteur en Droit et Secrétaire de Légation. (Trübner et Cie.)

M. OCTAVE DELEPIERRE is well and honourably known in literature for his scholarship and his original application of it. He invariably leads his readers into old and long-untrodden paths, and he always succeeds in captivating their fancies and adding considerably to their stock of knowledge. In the present work he may be said to have exhausted his subject, whether in a philosophical or historical point of view. With many legends illustrating that subject students are familiar enough, but M. Delepierre's extensive reading has enabled him to add many others from out-of-the-way sources, which are new, or as good as new, and which surpass most of the worn out narratives in interest and significance. The book should be read with the Rev. Dr. Réville's singular monograph, a translation of which, under the initials H. A., was published half-a-dozen years ago by Williams & Norgate. The theme is one which has been illustrated for all ages. Most notable is what has been appropriately called that "diabolical pennyworth," by a writer with the as appropriately sounding name of Furniss, The Sight of Hell, and published in 1863, "Permissu Superiorum," as one of the "books for children and young persons." M. Delepierre has gone more in the way with Dr. Réville than with the Rev. J. Furniss. His charity is as amiable as that of Origen, and the philosophy applied to his history is of a quality to gain the respect of those to whom it is addressed.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT-RACE.-Apropos of the coming race, where shall I find the best translation of the certamina classis so rapturously rehearsed in the fifth book of the Eneid? By best translation I mean one in which the enthusiasm and the many technical terms of the original are so rendered as to read (may I say?) like a spirited report by a modern oarsman rather than a translation. H. D. C.

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