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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 34., Aug. 23. '56. 



There is no doubt that old bindings, if in sound 

 condition, may be furbished up (as bookbinders 

 say) by the npplication of shell varnish ; though 

 the thing most wanting to render the leather 

 supple is an oil or fatty matter to replace the 

 unction dried out of the skin by the action of 

 time. A composition to render old hides soft and 

 pliable, without staining or injuring, would be a 

 desideratum. 



Much harm is done to leather from the want of 

 ventilation ; books require use and air, as may be 

 seen by the condition of the bindings in many 

 large libraries where there are no readers, or 

 where there are readers and but little air. The 

 library of the Athenasum was affected so seriously 

 some years since from this latter cause (gas and 

 heat), that the backs of calf bindings fell away, 

 and the leather crumbled upon touching. 



The library ought to have the same attention as 

 the green-house ; light, air, and equal moisture, 

 ought to be imparted to the leaves in either case. 

 Light without injury to colour, moisture without 

 mildew, and air without soot, are as necessary to 

 the librarian's as to the gardener's charge. 



Luke Limneb, F.S.A. 



Regent's Park. 



Francis's Horace (P' S. xii.218. SIL) — Allow 

 me to add to my reply on this subject in your 

 Number for Oct. 20, 1855. I then stated my 

 belief that the edition of Francis's Horace printed 

 by Woodfall in 1746, was the first edition; and 

 I still think it may have been the first edition of 

 the entire Translation. But a portion had been 

 published in Dublin as early as 1742, for I have 

 now before me two handsome Svo. volumes thus 

 entitled : 



" The Odes, Epodes and Carmen Seculars of Horace, in 

 Latin and English, with Critical Notes collected from the 

 best Latin and French Commentators. 



Musa deditfidibus divos, puerosque Deorum, 

 Et pugilem victorem, et equum certamine primum, 

 Et juvenum auras, et libera vina referre. 



Arte Foetica. 



By the Rev. Mr. Philip Francis. Dublin : Printed by 

 S. Powell, and Sold by T. Moore, at Erasmus' Head, in 

 Dame Street, m.dccxlii." 



After the title-page of the first volume follows 

 " The Names of the Subscribers." A goodly list, 

 occupying six pages in double columns, including 

 the names of many most eminent persons, and 

 headed by those of — 



. " His Excellency Robert Jocelyn, Esq., Lord High 

 Chancellor of Ireland." 



" His Excellency Henry Boyle, Esq., Speaker of the 

 Honourable House of Commons." 



Both of whom subscribed for copies on " Royal 

 Paper." 



I hope this information will be useful to your 

 Querist. M. N. S. 



Hospital Out-Patients (2"* S. ii. 69.) — The 

 days of attendance for out-patients at the Bolton 

 Dispensary are Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 

 The greater the number of days the more con- 

 venient it must be for the poor, whose time is not 

 always their own. It is not expected that the 

 patient shall attend except when ordered to do so 

 by the surgeon. The population of Bolton at the 

 last census was upwards of sixty thousand. 



G. (1.) 



John Ker Strother (2"'' S. i. 211.) — That 

 there was such a person as John Strother Ker, 

 Esq., is most cert9,in, and here are a few notes of 

 his descent, copied fpr the information of HebA-L- 

 Dicus from my History of North Dwham., p. 318.: 



" William Strother of Kirknewton, in Northumberland, 

 was father of Lancelot, father of John, father of William, 

 of Grindon Ridge, in the parish of Norham in North 

 Durham, father of another William who left an only 

 daughter married to Walter Ker, Esq. John Strother 

 Ker, Esq., their son, baptized at Norham, 28th Sep., 1704, 

 married the Hon. Jean Lady Ramsey. — {From Law 

 Papers.) The Register of Norham contains the following 

 entries: Baptized 25 May, 1679, William, son of Mr. 

 William Strother (then a captain in the army), of Grin- 

 don Ridge. Jan. IG, 1681-2, Margaret, his dau., bap. 

 June 25, 1690, Jane, a dau., bap. Aug. 20, 1770, buried, 

 George Strother of Wheeler Street, London." 



James Raine. 



Lord George Gordons Riots (2"'' S. i. 287. 518.) 

 — In reference to the subject of Lord George 

 Gordon's riots, W. W. states that " he can find no 

 mention made of any females being left for exe- 

 cution;" but upon referring to the Westminster 

 Magazine for July, 1780, I find a list of the 

 rioters, among whom are several females : two, 

 Mary Roberts and Charlotte Gardner, were ac- 

 tually executed on Tower Hill, July 11, 1780. 



Fredebick Danby Palmbe. 



Great Yarmouth* 



George Manners (2"^ S. i. 314.)— In answer 

 to your correspondent X. (1.) I will state that 

 George Manners died in Coburg, Canada West, 

 February 18, 1853, aged seventy-five years. He 

 was British Consul in Massachusetts, resident in 

 Boston, from 1819 to 1839. He was the author 

 of several dramas of nierit, and other poetical 

 works. J- P* 



Boston, U. S. A. 



"Ha?/He," or " Haining" (2"-* S. ii. 49. 78.), a 

 place reserved; not cultivated or pastured, A 

 word in common use in the North of England and 

 South of Scotland. In sheep-farms, hained ground 

 means, that which is reserved for a particular 

 purpose, — such as to pasture the lambs upon 

 after they are weaned, or for the purpose of 

 making hay from. It also, in some of the old 

 Scotch acts of parliament, is used for land en- 

 closed by a hedge or other fence. Its derivation 



