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its sitting occupant. This experiment was many 

 times repeated, with the same result ; and several 

 cases, similar to this, have also come to my know- 

 ledge. Are these cases exceptions to the rule, or 

 is it a proved fact that partridges cannot be 

 scented during the time of their incubation? 

 Some of my informants, who were positive as to 

 this applying to partridges, were doubtful of its 

 application to pheasants. I have been told by 

 more than one gamekeeper, that both partridges 

 and pheasants prefer to lay their eggs close to 

 some path, " riding," or Avaggon-road, in pre- 

 ference to more retired spots within the covers 

 and coppices. Have these circumstances been 

 noted in works on natural history ? 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



Ancient Stone at Hayle, co. Cornwall. — Some 

 years since, whilst workmen were excavating the 

 side of a hill in the grounds of the Messrs. Harvey, 

 at Hayle, in the county of Cornwall, they came to 

 an upright stone, in size and shape not much un- 

 like a common milestone, or it might be a trifle 

 higher. A rudely cut inscription (partly oblite- 

 rated) crossed its face diagonally from left to 

 right. When I saw the stone, in 1849, it had been 

 re-erected by the side of a path, nearly in the 

 same spot where found. I then was not able to 

 get a satisfactory account of the stone, or its in- 

 scription ; and since that time, I have been too 

 far removed to consult the works or persons likely 

 to furnish information on the subject. Can any 

 of your Cornish antiquarian contributors throw 

 any light on the matter ? 



I have some indistinct idea that there is a paper 

 on the subject in one of the annual l^ransactions 

 of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. 



J. H. A. Bone. 



Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. 



Boarding- Schools at Hackney and Bow. — From 

 an early period these suburbs seem to have been 

 famous for their ladies' boarding-schools. Chau- 

 cer's Nonne had been educated at " the Scheie of 

 Stratford atte Bow," or in other words, the nun- 

 nery there. Any particulars of these schools 

 (successors probably of the nunnery) down to the 

 time of The Spectator, or even later, would be by 

 no means devoid of interest. Henry T. Riley. 



Can Wate?-- Drinkers become Poets ? — I believe 

 it is Ci'atinus, who says, — 



" Nulla placere diu, neque vivere, carmina possunt 

 Qufe scribuntur aqua; potoribus." 



Perhaps Chapman, the translator of Homer, may 

 be an exception ; for Antony Wood describes him 

 as a person of most reverend aspect, religious, and 

 temperate; adding, with his usual acrimony, 

 "qualities rarely meeting in a poet." Some of 

 your correspondents belonging to the Temperance 

 League may in all probability be able, for the 



credit of their order, to enumerate a few examples 

 in contradiction of the sweeping denunciation of 

 Cratinus. N. L. T. 



Rue. — In Burke's Romance of the Forum it is 

 said that during the trial of Mrs. Manning, " th(j 

 bench of the dock was, according to custom, 

 strewn with rue." 



What is supposed to be the origin of this cus- 

 tom, and is it confined to the Central Criminal 

 Court ? C. C. 



Colonel Clelajid, Griffith, Will Honeycomb. — 

 I once read that Dr. Griffith had the audacity, in 

 an early number of the Monthly Review, to give a 

 favourable review ofCleland's infamous work — 

 Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known 

 to the sellers and buyers of literary garbage under 

 another name. I do not remember any authority ; 

 and, so far as I have searched the Monthly Review, 

 I cannot find any such article. Can any of your 

 readers give me some information thereon ? Was 

 this book written by Addison's " Will Honey- 

 comb," or by his son ? I have seen it attributed 

 to each of them In print. Henry T. Riley. 



" Athaliah " and " Esther.''' — There was pub- 

 lished at Edinburgh in 1803, a translation of Ra- 

 cine's dramas Athaliah and Esther. Who was the 

 author of this translation ? There Is a dedication 

 by the translator to the Duchess of Gordon. 



R.J. 



" The Art of Complaisance,^'' S^c. — In a little 

 work entitled The Art of CcmmL^isance, or the 

 Means to oblige in Conversa^K ^ox\i\. 1673, 

 12mo., the dedication to Mr^f.TB. is signed 

 with the initials S. C. There is a copy in the 

 Bodleian, but the compiler of the catalogue does 

 not appear to have known the name of the author. 

 There was a Samuel Colvllle, a Scotchman, who 

 printed a work called the Grand Imposture, Edin. 

 1673, 4to., and is better known as the author of a 

 mock poem called The Whigg's Supplication, the 

 first edition of which was printed at London, 1681. 

 Could this gentleman be the S. C. in question ? 

 Perhaps some of your readers might throw some 

 light on this subject ; the work itself is an original 

 treatise, not borrowed from the French, well 

 written, and replete with excellent advice. The 

 author is very severe on the stage plays of the 

 period, and on those dramatic authors who " say 

 they write to please the humour of the age, as If 

 nothing could be agreeable to us, but the seeing 

 the most horrid vices of the most wretched of 

 men render'd amiable under the name of vertues, 

 and by discourses full of rottenness and bawdery." 



J. M. 



Box called " MichaeV — In the north of Eng- 

 land I have heard a large box called a " Michael." 

 Now one name for a large box is also " ark." Is 



