2'"' S. X. Nov. 10. '60.] 



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Bachelor, the person who plays the part^ so 

 obligingly performed by himself on one occasion, 

 is sometimes called a " gooseberry picker." This 

 seems more readily comprehensible than the short- 

 ened expression his niece employed, and suggests 

 a possible origin for the saying, in some once no- 

 torious but now forgotten story of a love-plot 

 successfully carried out while the chaperon was 

 innocently picking gooseberries. T. E. S. 



Another version of the phrase may help to ex- 

 plain. The third person picks gooseberries, or is 

 gooseberry-picker to the others. Any third per- 

 son who felt neglected by the exclusive attention 

 of the other two to each other would say, " I 

 shall not stay here to do gooseherTj -picker f " So 

 that the phrase would seem to have originated in 

 the conduct of some considerate third, who facili- 

 tated the junction of two into one by polite inat- 

 tention, discreet distraction, or the like. What 

 does my signature mean ? Duo ay who dvy. 



Feeling as you say " at a loss for the origin of 

 this phrase, you observe very possibly some other 

 correspondents may yet come to our aesistance." I 

 am one of those who can enjoy the joke, and fancy 

 I see the sunny smile on the cheek of the de- 

 lighted girl when she replied to her uncle's ques- 

 tion, "What is doing goosebeiry ? " " What you 

 have been doing now." This was a sly blinking of 

 the question, for she knew that they had been 

 making gooseberry-fool. A. G. 



Clehioai. Longevitt (2°'' S. x. 176.) — The 

 retaining of the name of the Rev. J. R. Holdeh, 

 who was instituted to the rectory of Upminster in 

 Essex in 1798, in Crockford's Clerical Directory 

 for the present year, is an instance, not of clerical 

 longevity, but of clerical neglect. Though his 

 name must have been retained In so many succes- 

 sive annual directories of the kind, the Rev. John 

 Rose Holden, formerly rector of Upminster, died 

 on the 28th Jan. 1827, at no greater age than 

 seventy-six. (Gentleman's Magazine, xcvii. i. 282.) 

 It appears that he had relinquished his prefer- 

 ment before his death, which may account for his 

 name not being tjhanged for another when he died. 



J. G. N. 



Motto of the CoiiLEGE of PHifsiciANS (2"* S. 

 x. 305.) — It is o piosPpaxvs, rj Serex^ij ficiKpi], which 

 is better known as Ars longa, vita brevis. Some 

 wicked homoeopathist, or nothing a bit better, 

 observed that the second is the right reading, 

 seeing that cause ought to go before effect. M. 



[Another correspondent states, that the motto will be 

 found in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, Sydenham So- 

 ciety's edition, ii. 697.] 



God Save the King (2"^ S. x. 301.) — Can 

 Mh. Dickins furnish any information respecting 

 the following verses, which appear, to have been 

 composed for the totisic of " God save the King " 



in the time of Lotils XVIII. ? I have never seen 

 them in print. My copy is written evidently by 

 a French hand, and upon French paper, and is 

 very old and worn. It probably came to the 

 hands of the last generation of my family from 

 those of a French legitimist family with which 

 they formed a connexion. These verses were per- 

 haps the work of some companion of the king's 

 exile in England ; and is it not possible that the 

 singing of them in France by the returned emigres 

 may have given rise to the idea entertained there 

 (erroneously) that the author of the melody, as 

 well as of the lines, was a Frenchman ? - — 



" Oh ! Grand Dieu, sauve le Koi, 

 Nbtre espoir est en toJ, 



Sauve le Roi. 

 Qu'il soil toUjours heureux, 

 Puissant et glorieux, 

 C'est I'objet de nos voeux, 



Sauve le feoi. 

 Oh ! Louis, oh I roon Roi, 

 Vivre ou mourir pour toi, 



Voilk ma loi; 

 Odi, le fer sur le corps, 

 Pret & subir la mort, 

 Je m'ecrierais encor, 



Vive le Roi. 

 Oh ! Angoulgme, c'est toi, 

 Qui consolas le Roi, 



Guidas ses pas ; 

 Jouir de tes vertus 

 Qui jamais en eut plus ; 

 "Vrai bonheur des dlus, 



Vive le Roi." 



T. E. S. 



Stuart Adherents (2"* S. x. 289.)— The " Cer- 

 tain great Lord," to whom Dr. Denis Grenville, 

 Dean of Durham, refers in his letter, dated Corbeil, 

 Nov. 20, 1702, was the Earl of Middleton, who had 

 changed his religion a few months previously. 

 There is a letter preserved in the French archives, 

 written by the widowed Queen of James II. to 

 the Rev. Mother* Angelique Priolo, of the convent 

 of Chaillot, in which she expatiates on the event 

 with great joy. The Memoirs of St. Simon (vol. 

 vi. p. 124.) may also be consulted. There were 

 other noble converts also during the reign of 

 James, and during the residence of the royal 

 court at St. Germain : such as the two Drum- 

 monds ; the Earls of Perth and Melfort, after- 

 wards created dukes respectively ; Simon, Lord 

 Lovat, &c. Whatever may be thought of the 

 sincerity of sohie, there is no doubt of that of the 

 Earl of Perth ; as is quite evident from his inter- 

 esting private correspondence, edited by Jerdan, 

 and printed for the Camden Society. 



John Williams. 

 Arno's Court. 



Deere Family (2°'* S. x. 230. 317.) — I thank 

 C. D. for the arms. Are they those of the Deeres 

 of Ash Hall, and is there a male representative of 

 that branch living ? P. P. P. 



