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is, no doubt, the same as that referred to by 

 Fouque in Sintram and his Companions ; although 

 there the lock of the hero's hair is used to raise, 

 not still, the storm. Sir Walter probably used the 

 superstition to suit his own purposes in the novel. 

 Is it known whether this superstition did or does 

 Still exist in the Shetland Islands ? C. D. L. 



How to frighten Dogs (l" S. vii. 240.) — With 

 reference to the device adopted by Ulysses to 

 frighten the dogs of Ithaca, and which is said to 

 be still in use in Greece and Albania, I may state 

 that I have myself seen a Malay at Singapore 

 squat down with his back towards a strange dog, 

 and look at him from between his legs. In this 

 instance, the experiment was perfectly successful, 

 as the brute scampered off in a fright, looking 

 back now and then to see what sort of monster it 

 was which carried his head in that unwonted 

 place. But I have heard that once a Malay 

 playing the trick before an English bull-dog, was 

 seized hold of in that part of him which was pre- 

 sented conspicuously to " bully." H. E. W. 



Bev. Charles Hotham (2""* S. ii. 10.) — In an- 

 swer to the inquiry of C. H. and Thompson 

 Cooper, I transcribe the following particulars 

 from Dr. Calamy's Account of the Ejected Mi- 

 nisters : 



" Son to Sir John Hotham, was sometime Fellow of 

 Peter House in Cambridge, and Proctor of the University 

 [1646]. An excellent scholar, both in divinity and 

 human literature. A great philosopher and searcher into 

 the secrets of nature, and much addicted to chymistry. 

 After his ejectment [from the rectory of Wigan in Lan- 

 cashire] he went to the West Indies, but returned to 

 England. In his younger years he had studied judicial 

 astrology, but gave express orders in his will that all his 

 papers and books relating to that art should be burned." 



— Vol.ii. p.413. 



Joshua Wilson. 

 Tunbridge Wells. 



Germination of Seeds (2"* S. ii. 117. 198. 239.) 



— Has T. W. ever observed the growth of wild 

 camomile in places where habitations have been, 

 sometimes marking the precise ground-plan of 

 the buildings ? I have repeatedly noticed these 

 square patches in various parts of England, and I 

 have reason to think that in more than one in- 

 stance they mark the site of buildings belonging 

 to a very remote period ; in one instance that of a 

 Roman villa. I do not pretend to account for 

 this, but I think it might be a guide to the ar- 

 chaeologist in making excavations. G. M. Z. 



Kenilworth. 



Premature Interments (2"^ S. ii. 233.) — Arterus 

 sends a cutting respecting Dr. Graham and a lady 

 being buried for six hours in his earth bath. This 

 reminds me that in Moore's Diary, &c., it is as- 

 serted that the young lady who was Dr. Graham's 

 *' assistant " on these occasions was no other than 



the afterwards beautiful, and unfortunate. Lady 

 Hamilton. Can any of your readers tell me if it 

 was so? Moore also alludes to this subject in 

 another place, where he says that one of our poets, 

 I forget which, went to Malvern, where this earth 

 bath had been established ; and as the poet could 

 not find auditors to hear his lines, he revenged 

 himself by reading his productions to the in- 

 dividuals who were earthed up to the neck, feeling 

 assured that if his audience were not delighted, at 

 least, they were patient listeners. Bag. 



Modern Judaism (2°'' S. ii. 148.) — I would 

 refer the querist on this subject to The Transac- 

 tions of the Parisian Sanhedrim (1807), which was 

 convened by the great Napoleon, for the purpose 

 of obtaining some official definition of modern 

 Judaism, at least as far as the French Jews were 

 concerned. Grace Aguilar's works could also be 

 read with advantage and interest. 



GOODWYN BARMnr. 



" Servers;' " Blawn-sheres" " Sewells," 8fc. (2»'i 

 S. ii. 65. 237.) — My authority for reading the 

 word sewells I transcribe for Q. from Ellis's 

 Letters, 2nd Series, vol. ii. p. 61. (the original is in 

 Cotton MS. Faust, vii. 205.) : 



" We fownde one Mr. Grenefelde, a gentilman of Buk- 

 ynghamsliire, getheryng up part of the said bowke leiffs 

 (as he saide), there to make him sewells or blawn- sherrs 

 to kepe the dere within the woode, thereby to have the 

 better cry with his liowndes." 



The passage I had already inserted in my " Wil- 

 liam of Wykeham and his Colleges." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Engraved Portraits (2"'^ S. ii. 210.) — There is 

 now in course of publication La Manuel de 

 L'A mateur D'Estampes, contenant Un Dictionnaire 

 des Graveurs, et un Repertoire des Etampes, etc. ; 

 Un Dictionnaire des Monogrammes des Graveurs, et 

 une Table Methodique des Etampes decrites par 

 M. A. L. Blanc : Paris, chez P. Jannet, Rue de 

 Richelieu, en Livraisons. 7 or 8 livraisons are at 

 present in publication. The work is very copious : 

 full of information, and of course useful to the 

 collector. It is far more extensive than Bromley, 

 or than the Catalogue of the Evanses. C. F. 



"Standing in another's Shoes" (2°'' S. ii. 187.) 

 — Probably this phrase, or its equivalent, may be 

 found in many languages ; the legal use of the 

 shoe is of remote antiquity. We read in Ruth, ' 

 iv. 7. : 



" Now this was the manner in former time in Israel 

 concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to 

 confirm all things : a man plucked off his shoe, and gave 

 it to his neighbour; and this was a testimony in Israel." 



So, likewise, in Psalms, Ix. 8. : " Over Edom will 

 I cast out my shoe," — God's promise to David of 

 victory over the Edomite : vide 2 Sam. viii. 14. 



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