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rejection-there is no doubt whatever with regard to Coleridge's presence in Manchester in 1796. The circumstances are mentioned both in his Biographia Literaria and in Cottle's Early Recollections of S. T. Coleridge. The author of the Ancient Mariner visited Manchester, and many other towns, in the rather odd character, for him, of a canvasser for subscribers. He had projected a miscellany, under the title of the Watchman, of which ten numbers subsequently appeared, and he travelled through England to obtain sufficient support to justify him in beginning the publication. Robert Owen was still living in Manchester. It was not till the following year (1797) that he visited New Lanark, and purchased the mill and estate there, and not till 1800 that he finally left Manchester for Scotland. But neither in his autobiography nor in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria is there any mention of a meeting between the two at this time. There is a tradition that Coleridge preached two sermons in one day at the Unitarian chapel in Mosley Street, and this incident must have occurred, I think, on the occasion of his Watchman visit.

As an aid to the elucidation of the circumstances with which I have been dealing, I append a table of dates and incidents bearing upon the lives of Owen and Coleridge in connexion with this subject:

1771. Robert Owen born at Newtown, in Montgomeryshire.

1772. Samuel Taylor Coleridge born at Ottery St. Mary's, Devonshire.

1786. Robert Owen, after living in Stamford and London, took a situation with Mr. Satterfield, in St. Ann's Square, Manchester.

1786. Manchester New College founded and opened in Mosley Street, for the education of Unitarian ministers. 1791. Owen (aged twenty) takes the management of 'Drinkwater's mill, at Bank Top, Manchester, the first mill at which, in 1789, a steam engine for spinning - cotton had been erected.

1791. Coleridge enters at Jesus College, Cambridge. 1793. The fourth volume of the Literary and Philosophical Society's Memoirs is printed in Manchester; the first three (1785 to 1790) having been printed in Warrington.

1793. Coleridge leaves the university, and enlists in the 15th (Elliott's) Light Dragoons, under the name of

Comberbach, but is bought off by his friends.

1793. John Dalton appointed tutor in mathematics and natural philosophy at the Manchester New College; and, leaving Kendal, took up his residence in Manchester. Published his first work, Meteorological Essays and

Observations.

1794. Dalton elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, his proposers being Thomas Henry, Dr. Percival, and Robert Owen. His first paper was read to it in the month of his election, and was entitled "Extraordinary Facts relating to the

Vision of Colours."

1794. Owen boarding at No. 8, Brazenose Street, with Robert Fulton, the engineer and inventor of the steamboat.

1794. Coleridge publishes the Fall of Robespierre, an historical drama, and a volume of poems.

1796. Coleridge, in January, visits Manchester on his canvassing tour for subscribers to the Watchman, the first number of which appeared in March. 1797. Robert Owen visits New Lanark, and purchases Mr. Dale's interest in the mills and estate there.

1800. Owen leaves Manchester, and takes up his resi dence at New Lanark, having previously married Mr. Dale's daughter. 1803. Manchester College removed to York. 1834. Coleridge died at Highgate, aged sixty-two. 1858. Robert Owen died at the age of eighty-seven. J. H. NODAL. Heaton Moor, near Stockport.

THE HEART OF RICHARD I.

When exploring the vaults of Rouen Cathedral in 1838, M. Deville, on the 31st of July in that year, discovered, one foot nine inches below the pavement near the archiepiscopal pulpit, a small chest, in size sixteen inches by eleven, and six inches in height, standing in a little square-cut niche in one of the lateral trenches of the foundation of that building. The chest-much such a one as Dean Stanley found in many of the tombs in Henry VII.'s Chapel (see Supplement to Hist. Mem. of West. Abbey, passim)-was made of lead, enclosing another of the same metal lined with thin leaves of silver, and on the lid of the exterior was carved deeply, in letters of the period, the following inscription :

"HIC: JACET:
COR RICAR
DI REGIS :
ANGLORVM:

The outer case was much destroyed by time and damp; nevertheless this inscription was very disand those with him saw the dust of the heart of tinct, and on the chest being opened M. Deville Richard of England, who had died in the Castle of Chalus in 1199. May I ask whether these remains of our Richard's lion-heart are still where M. Deville found them, and, if so, whether arrangements cannot be made for their transfer to our royal Valhalla in Westminster Abbey? England has given up to France the mortal remains of more than one illustrious Frenchman, and it seems but fitting that the heart of so typical an English monarch as Richard should rest in English soil, among English kings, queens, statesmen, and warriors. Roger of Wendover says that Richard ordered his body to be buried at Fontevrault near the feet of his father, whose destroyer he confessed himself to be, and bequeathed his heart to the church of Rouen, ordering his entrails to be buried in the Castle of Chalus in Poictou. To some of his followers he, under a promise of secrecy, revealed the reasons for this distribution of his remains :

"For the above assigned reason he gave his body to his father; he sent his heart as a present to the inhabitants of Rouen on account of the incomparable fidelity which he had always experienced in them; but to the

inhabitants of Poictou, for their known treachery, he left his entrails, not considering them worthy of any other part of him" (Rog. of Wendover's Flowers of History, ed. Giles, vol. ii. p. 178).

Richard was, it is believed, buried in accordance with his instructions, although but two of the three interments have been distinctly ascertained. Roger of Wendover says he was buried according

to his orders at Fontevrault

"and with him, in the opinion of many, were buried alike the pride and honour of the chivalry of the West; of his death and burial some one has published the following epitaph :

'His entrails he gave to Poictou-Lie buried near to Fort

Chalus;

His body lies entombed below-A marble slab at Font
Evraut;

hero's heart.

And Neustria thou hast thy part-The unconquerable
And thus through cities three are spread-The ashes
of the mighty dead,

But this a funeral cannot be-Instead of one this king
has three.""
Ibid., p. 179.

when All Souls' Day begins, the souls of the deceased relatives might come and find a repast prepared for them.

Christmas Day and the eleven following days will
The kind of weather which is prevailing during
be prevailing also during the twelve months of the
not limited to Neuville, as these lines will show:
ensuing year. This superstition is very old, and

"Regarde comme sont menées
Depuis Noël douze journées;

Car en suivant ces douze jours,

Les douze mois auront leur cours." time of the procession, on Palm Sunday, will blow The wind which blows during the mass, at the during the rest of the year more than any other.

At Boos, near the church, is a small pond; when it is full of water (query, at what time of the year?) it is a sign of abundance, when it is dry it announces a bad crop for the next year.

I notice also a cruel custom, now abolished I hope, but which is reported by Dr. E. Bessières in M. Deville, we are told (Revue de Rouen, his book, Préjugés Populaires sur les Maladies de August, 1838), had previously discovered the l'Enfance, as being still in force a few years ago. statue of Richard that had adorned his tomb, In the department of Seine-et-Oise, twelve leagues which, with those of his eldest brother, Henri le| from Paris, when a child had a rupture (hernia) he Jeune (ob. 1183), his uncle William, son of Geoffrey was brought under a certain oak, and some women, Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, husband of the Em- who no doubt earned a living in that trade, danced press Matilda (ob. 1165), and John, Duke of Bed-round the oak, muttering spell-words till the child ford (ob. 1435), was barbarously" destroyed in was cured-that is, dead. HENRI GAUSSERON. 1734, when the interior of Rouen Cathedral was Ayr Academy. undergoing some reparation.

Richmond, Surrey.

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S. R. TOWNSHEND MAYER.

FOLK-LORE.

FRENCH FOLK-LORE. The following notes I extract from an article by M. F. Baudry, published in the first number of Mélusine (Paris, Viaut):

In a district of Normandy (La Neuville, Chantd'Oisel) a newly-built house was to be purified by the slaughter of a cock, the blood of which was shed on the threshold. Should this ceremony be neglected, the tenant was sure to die in the course of the year. M. Baudry was eye-witness of such a sacrifice about fifteen years ago.

In the woods grows a certain herb which it is dangerous to tread upon, for in such a case the traveller, even though he is familiar with every path and bush, will certainly lose his way.

In the forest of Longboël (same district), when the wind harmoniously blows through the branches, it is thought to be the voices of the forest rangers of olden times.

On All Saints' Day, not long ago, it was customary in the valley of Andelle, not far from Neuville, to serve up, a little before bed-time, soup in plates and cider in glasses, and then to retire, leaving open the windows; at midnight,

SUPERSTITION IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS.Illicit distillation in the hills above Port Laire, near to Loch Torridon, has recently attracted the attention of the excisemen. After the officers had destroyed the apparatus, they marched their prisoners to Inveralligan, where they were rescued by men and women with blackened faces. The Scotsman adds :—

"It is rumoured that a curious remnant of an old superstition is to be revived in connexion with the seizure. A clay image of the preventive man is to be made, which, as the initiated well know, will cause him to waste away at the will of the artist. Donald may console himself with the reflection that he was experimented upon in the same way before, but to all appearance the corp criadha' had no effect."

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form on which he was sitting. On my expressing d'aujourd'hui. Paris, A la librairie populaire des villes et my surprise, he said it was an old superstition, des campagnes Imprimerie Walder].—12mo. pp. iv-104. possibly in Kent or Lincolnshire, that when any-examined differs thus: Pp. 1-10, Le Billard. A yellow wrapper on the copy "Paris, Renault et Ce. [Imp. body said that something invariably something Cosson et Comp.]. 1860." M. not wished for-had not happened to him lately, rapping underneath anything near would prevent its fulfilment. UPPINGHAM.

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BILLIARD BOOKS. (Concluded from p. 145.) Billardreglement, neuestes, nach angabe der besten Meister. (1 bgn. mit lithogr. im text in gr. fol.) Weimar, Voigt, 1856.

Billardreglement, neuestes. 6 verb., &c., aufl. (1 bgn. in gr. fol.) Frankfurt-am-M., Jaeger, 1856.

Billiards: its theory and practice; with the scientific principle of the side stroke, the rules of the various games, hints upon betting, La Bagatelle, &c. By Captain Crawley [.e. George Frederick Pardon]. Illustrated by thirtytwo diagrams. London, C. H. Clarke [printed by Jas. Wade]. Price half-a-crown. 1857.-12mo. pp. xii-164; 33 figs. with text. Reprinted, with alterations and additions, from the Field. M.

The game of Billiards. By Michael Phelan. Second edition. New York, D. Appleton & Co. [stereotyped by Vincent Dill]. 1857.-8vo. pp. 238; 38 figs. M.

Billiards game, 500 up. An account of the above game, illustrated by diagrams, showing the position of the balls for the last nine breaks; also one hundred and sixty-three diagrams well adapted for practice. With general observations. By Edward Russel Mardon, Esq. Third edition, enlarged. Brighton, H. Trussell [also printer). 1858.-8vo. pp. viii-432; 172 diagrams. M. Billiards its theory and practice set forth and explained. To which are added the rules and regulations of the various games, from the best authorities. By William White. Dublin: published by the author and proprietor, and sold at his establishment, 3, Lower Abbey Street [J. F. Fowler, printer]. 1858.-12mo. pp. viii-128. Price 2s. 6d. M.

A treatise on the game of Billiards. By E. R. Mardon. Third edition. London, Houlston, 1859. 8vo. 218. Académie des jeux, contenant toutes les règles des jeux usitées dans les diverses classes de la société; règles entièrement révisées par les plus célèbres amateurs

The handy book of games for gentlemen: Billiards, Bagatelle....By Captain Crawley [.e. George Frederick Pardon]. London, Chas. H. Clarke. 1860.-8vo. pp. xii-564. Pp. 1-138, Billiards. 34 figs. M. Prix

1 franc. Paris, Ledoyen [Typ. Allard]. 1860.—8vo. pp. La physiologie du Billard. Par un amateur.

64. M.

A handbook of Billiards, with the theory of the side stroke, the rules of the games, and a chapter on Bagatelle. By George Frederick Pardon, assisted by first-rate London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge players. Savill & Edwards, printers], 1862.-8vo. pp. 96; 20 figs. Price sixpence. One of Routledge's Sixpenny Hand

books. M.

Billardreglement, neuestes, nach angabe der besten Meister. 2 verm. aufl. gr. fol. Weimar, Voigt, 1862. Beeton's handy book of games: Billiards, &c. By Captain Crawley [i.e. George Frederick Pardon]. London, S. O. Beeton [Cox & Wyman, printers]. Price eighteen fortnightly parts, price threepence each. Parts five shillings.-1862-63. Svo. pp. xii-564. Issued in i.-v. pp. 1-138, 34 figs., Billiards. M.

best modes of playing the most popular games in present Hoyle's games modernized: being explanations of the use [Card games, Chess, Draughts, Backgammon, Billiards, and Bagatelle], with the respective rules and regulations adopted at the clubs and by the best players. By George Frederick Pardon. London, Routledge, Warne & Routledge. 1863.-8vo. pp. viii-438. Pp. 351-436, Billiards. M.

The illustrated handbook of Billiards. The American game, by Michael Phelan. The French game, by Claudius Berger. New York, Phelan & Collender [stereotyped by Vincent Dill. 1863.-12mo. pp. 104: 1 plate and 51 figs. Price 25 cents. The cover differs thus: "New York, Sinclair Tousey." M.

Billiards: its theory and practice, to which are added the rules and regulations of the various games, from the best authorities By William White. Illustrated by forty diagrams. Second edition. London, R. J. Kennett [printed by James Humphreys]. 1865.-12mo. pp. vi130. M.

The American Hoyle; or, gentleman's handbook of games, containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities adapted to the American method of playing. By

Trumps." Illustrated. To which is added an elaborate treatise on the doctrine of chances. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1865.-Billiards and Pool, by Michael Phelan.

The game of Billiards. By Michael Phelan. Sixth edition. New York, 1865. Svo. Billardreglement, neuestes. nach angabe der besten Meister. 3 verm. aufl. gr. fol. Weimar, B. F. Voigt, 1865. Académie universelle des jeux. Paris, 1866. Billardregeln, neuestes. 2 aufl. (1 tab. in fol.). München, Franz, 1866.

The Billiard book. By Captain Crawley [ie. George Frederick Pardon]. London, Longmans, Green & Co. [printed by Spottiswoode & Co.]. 1866.-Svo. pp. xvi262; 54 plates, 46 figs. M.

Grand dictionnaire universel du xixe siècle. Par M. Pierre Larousse. Tome deuxième. Paris, Larousse et Boyer, 1867.-4to. P. 742, Billard. M.

Pierer's universal-lexikon. Fünfte, durchgängig verbesserte stereotyp. auflage, zweiter Band. Altenburg, H. A. Pierer, 1867.-Svo. Pp. 787-791, Billard. M.

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The game of Billiards. By Michael Phelau. Eighth edition. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867.-12mo. portrait and 51 engravings. Cloth, $1.50.

Practical Billiards. By William Dufton [and Frederic Hardy]. London, G. Routledge & Sons [R. Clay, Son & Taylor, printers] 1867.-8vo. pp. xiv-242; 62 plates, 32 woodcuts with text, engraved portrait of William Dufton. M.

Billiards for beginners. With the correct rules of the several games, and the true principles of the side stroke xplained. Illustrated by forty-six diagrams. By Captain Crawley [i.e. George Frederick Pardon]. London, Griffin & Co. [Savill, Edwards & Co., printers].-1868. 8vo. pp. 90. 1s. M. Billardreglement, neuestes. 7 von einem berühmten Billardspieler zeitgemässumgearb. aufl. Frankfurt-amM., Jaeger, 1868. Gr. fol.

The illustrated handbook of Billiards. The American game, by Michael Phelan. The French game, by Claudius Berger. Illustrated. Third edition. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868. 35 cents.

The game of Billiards. By Michael Phelan. Ninth edition. New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868.—Portrait and eugs. $1.50.

The modern pocket Hoyle: containing all the games of skill and chance as played in this country at the present time. Being an authority on all disputed points. By "Trumps." New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, publishers.-Payne Brothers, electrotypers and stereotypers. Entered 1868. 12mo. pp. 388, paper covers, 50 cents. Pp. 314-337, Billiards. Compiled from writings of

Michael Phelan. M.

Roberts on Billiards. By John Roberts, champion of England. Edited by Henry Buck. With twenty [coloured] diagrams, showing in a novel manner the mode of playing breaks." London, Stanley Rivers & C. Robson & Sons, printers].- 1869. Svo. pp. viii-370. Plate, portrait of John Roberts. M.

Edited by "Cavendish" [i.e. Henry Jones]. Second edition. London, Thos. De la Rue & Co. [printers and publishers]. 1872.-16mo. pp. 28; 16 figs. 1s. M.

The American Cyclopædia. Edited by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1873.-8vo. Vol. ii. pp. 641-643, Billiards. M.

Prize essays on "Billiards as an amusement for all classes, especially in reference to its use in Clubs, Literary, Mechanics' and other Institutes." Manchester: published for Orme & Sons, billiard-table makers, by James Galt & Co. 1873.-4to. pp. 116; engraved portraits of John Roberts, William Cook, John Roberts, Jun. Pp. 19-76, Essays by E. L. Davies, London; J. P., London; W. M. D.. Manchester; D. L. Kirkpatrick, Belfast D. W. Gilchrist, Accrington. Pp. 93-103, Rules of Billiards, revised by John Roberts, Jun. M.

Billiards. By Joseph Bennett, ex-champion. With upwards of 200 illustrations. Edited by Cavendish [.e. Henry Jones]. London, Thos. De la Rue & Co. [printers and publishers]. 1873.-8vo. pp. x-484; 6 plates. M.

Billiards for beginners; with the correct rules of the several games, and the true principles of the side stroke and the spot stroke explained. By Captain Crawley [i.e. George Frederick Pardon]. New and revised edition. London, The Graphotyping Company, Limited [printers and publishers].-1873. 8vo. pp. 61; 46 figs. Price sixpence. One of the Champion Handbooks. M.

The Billiard News. A [monthly] journal of Billiards and other sports and pastimes. London: printed by R. K. Burt & Co., Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, and published for the proprietors at the office, No. 18, Catherine Street, Strand, W.C. May, 1875.-4to. pp. 8. Price twopence. Contains Lessons on Billiards, by W. Cook, champion. M.

The Encyclopædia Britannica. Ninth edition. Edin-
burgh, A. & C. Black, 1875.-4to. Vol. iii. pp. 674-677,
Billiards. Signed G. F. P[ardon]. M.
Additions to, corrections of, and remarks on this
F. W. F.

The Billiard Echo. Edited by F. de St. Germain. Jacob Strahle & Co., publishers, San Francisco. Estab-list will be welcomed. lished 1870. A bi-monthly news and advertising sheet. Four pages; size 19 x 25 inches; annual subscription, 50 cents.

Hoyle's games modernized: being explanations of the best modes of playing the most popular games in present use, with the respective rules and regulations adopted at the clubs and by the best players. By George Frederick Pardon. London, George Routledge & Sons [Savill, Edwards & Co., printers].-1870. 12mo. pp. viii-440. Pp. 351-436, Billiards. The 1863 edition, with new title and one leaf at end added (Bézique). M.

Roberts on Billiards. By John Roberts, champion of England. Edited by Henry Buck. With twenty diagrams, showing in a novel manner the mode of "playing breaks." Second edition, revised and enlarged. London, Stanley Rivers & Co.-1870. 8vo. pp. xvi-368; 20 coloured plates and portrait plate of J. R. M.

The Field, quarterly magazine and review. London, published by Horace Cox, 346, Strand, W.C., 1870.-4to. Vol. i. pp. 228-234 (August), The origin and progress of Billiards. By "Cavendish" (.e. Henry Jones). M.

Hoyle's games modernized: being explanations of the best modes of playing the most popular games in present ase [Card games, Chess, Draughts, Backgammon, Billiards, Bagatelle], with the respective rules and regulations adopted at the clubs and by the best players. [By George Frederick Pardon.] London, George Routledge & Sons [Savill, Edwards & Co., printers].-1872. Svo. pp. viii-448. Differs from 1863 edition thus: title, new list of contents, and ten new pages at the end. Pp. 351-438, Billiards. M.

new

The spot stroke. By Joseph Bennett (ex-champion).

PANCAKE TUESDAY, A LA HORNE TOOKE, &c.— Most people would suppose that pancake, etymologically speaking, was made up of pan and cake. This is so natural a deduction that the true philologist at once stamps it as impossible. It is manifestly therefore not English. What is it?

We must go to the Greek. Pan-altogether, kakon bad, altogether bad. This manifestly alludes to the indigestible qualities of the article. How clear it is!

But how did the term get into England? Being Greek, it must have been introduced from Greece. The fact is, we owe it to the Crusades. Many of the Crusaders both went and returned by way of the Peloponnesus. The hospitable Greek gave them his favourite dish. They liked it; liked it immensely. They wrung the hands of their Greek hostess, and asked for the recipe.

The Church welcomed its heroes home again. "Have you tasted pancakes?" "No; what are they?" "Quick! nutmegs, lemons, flour!" Cardinals, priors, bishops taste, and are electrified. It becomes the great ecclesiastic dish; for is it not a relic of the Crusades? Every true lover of the Church became a lover of pancakes.

But pancakes became a snare. Gluttony was on surplice, were circulated in the neighbourhood of the increase. A mandate was issued, "No pan- Exeter in the year 1846, and were at the time cakes to be eaten in Lent." Great rush for lemons attributed to the facile pen of Mrs. Henry Swete on Collop Monday. On Shrove Tuesday bishops, | (née Carrington), of Staplake, Starcross :priests, friars, monks, nuns, acolytes, crammed away from morn till night.

Ash Wednesday is obvious. Indigestion superinduced melancholy, and melancholy remorse. They looked on the grate, the cause of so much mental and physical disturbance. Lo, it is full of ashes. Oh, what coal and wood must have been expended yesterday on a mere fleshly indulgence! Fit act of penitence, indeed, to gather up the dust and heap it on their heads! No wonder Dies Cinerum has survived the day of its origin; so simple, too, in its explanation.

Conclusion. The etymologist could now fitly build up a most interesting paragraph on the wonderful effect of the Crusades on Western habits. C. W. BARDSLEY.

Manchester. "D'ISRAELI": AN ERRONEOUS PREDICTION.The following signal failure of a guess at truth" was made by the American writer, N. P. Willis. He is describing, in his Famous Persons and Famous Places, the scene in Hyde Park of an afternoon in the season, circa 1839:

"Who follows? D'Israeli, alone in his cab; thoughtful, melancholy, disappointed in his political schemes and undervaluing his literary success, and expressing, in his scholarlike and beautiful profile, as he passes us, both the thirst at his heart and the satiety at his lips. The livery of his 'tiger' is neglected, and he drives like a man who has to choose between running and being run against, and takes that which leaves him the most leisure for reflection. Poor D'Israeli! With a kind and generous heart, talents of the most brilliant order, an ambition which consumes his soul, and a father who expects everything from his son-lost for the want of a tact common to understandings fathoms deep below his own, and likely to drive in Hyde Park forty years hence, if he die not of the corrosion of disappointment, no more distinguished than now, and a thousand times more melancholy."

Waterloo Lodge, Reading.

HUGH A. Kennedy.

"SAINT RATTLE DOLL FAIR."-The annual Shrove Tuesday Fair, at Crowland, Lincolnshire has gone by the singular name of "Saint Rattle Doll." I do not know in what way the word "doll" was imported into the title; but the "rattle" was the rattling of dice for nuts and oranges, and this species of gambling was very popular, and formed the chief attraction of the fair. "Saint Rattle Doll," however, now exists more in_name than in fact; and on the past Shrove Tuesday, 1877, the fair was only represented by one stall.

CUTHBERT BEDE.

A RITUALISTIC EPIGRAM.-The following lines, referring to the Bishop of Exeter's (Henry Phillpotts) order to the clergy of his diocese to wear the

"A very pretty public stir
Is making down at Exeter
About the surplice fashion;
And many bitter words and rude
Are interchanged about the feud,

And much unchristian passion. For me, I neither know nor care Whether a parson ought to wear

A black dress or a white dress, Plagued with a trouble of my own, A wife who preaches in her gown, And lectures in her night dress.'

GRIFFIN.

YORKSHIRE FOR 66 "To PLAY."-In this district to play" is rendered by "to lake" (pr. "lääk”) in three different senses:-1st. When a man is out of work either permanently or temporarily, he plays or is playing; in broad Yorkshire, he is "laking "-"Ar Bill's bin lääking a fotnit," "Cur William has been playing a fortnight." 2nd. Nearly all juvenile games are laked" at, not played at-"Let's lääk at cricket, lads"; Well, let's lääk at taws (marbles), then"; and so on. 3rd. I overheard a young man exclaim the other day, in reply to another who had seen the new fountain in the market, "Wor it laaking?" "Was it playing?" J. H. WILKINSON.

Roundhay, Leeds.

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[A writer in the Athenæum (Oct. 21, 1876) quotes "bright and good Mrs. Yates," the actress, relating how in her early days, being with a travelling company in the North, she and the rest of the troop of players, on entering a village, were received with a cry, "Here coom t' laekers; let's smash their heads against t' wall! "] “AWAITS.”—“ Await," in direct construction, but wrong:

"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alíke th' inevitable hour:

The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "Awaits,” in inverse construction, but right :— "The boast of héraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inévitable hour:

The paths of glóry lead but to the grave."

A friend's friend, a Fellow of Pembroke, writesGray's manuscript under his eyes :

"I have consulted the m., which is perfectly clear'Awaits.' The final 's' is as clear as the rest of the word."

***

Somerset House :-(Benæ 26) Will of Sir Peter
MILTON. I met with this the other day at
Wentworth, K.B., of Lillingston Lovell, co.
Oxon, Knt., "To my worthy and verrie learned
friend Mr. John Milton (who wrote against Sal-
matius) one hundred pounds of like money."
Dated Dec. 20, 1673.
W. S. E.

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