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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 247. 



determine the date or place of his birth. Dodd, 

 in his Church History, states that he was born in 

 Nottinghamshire, in 1555 ; but F. More, in his 

 History of the English Mission of the Society of 

 Jesus, calls him Henry Garnett, of Nottingham, 

 or, as others write, of Hennary, in the county of 

 Derby. He gives as the date of his birth 1550, 

 and states that he was born of "honourable 

 parentage," which is rather at variance with the 

 " country schoolmaster " of Furvus. I believe 

 that no farther search would be successful, as the 

 above is all the information afforded as to the 

 birth and parentage of Henry Garnett by the 

 most authentic accounts extant. F. C. H. 



A notice of this unjustly condemned man will 

 be found in Walcott's William of Wykeham and 

 his Colleges, p. 403. A Wykehamist. 



A. M. and M. A. (Vol. ix., pp. 475. 599.).— 

 E. G. B,., M. A., before he so positively stated 

 that JuvEKNA was wrong in saying that " Masters 

 of Arts of Oxford are styled M.A. in contradis- 

 tinction to the Masters of Arts of every other 

 University," should have looked into the Oxford 

 and Cambridge Calendars. In Oxford the Bache- 

 lors and Masters of Arts are B. A. and M. A., in 

 Cambridge A. B. and A. M. ; whether the name is 

 expressed in English or not has nothing to do 

 ■with it. In Oxford the Doctor of Medicine is 

 D. M., in Cambridge M. D. A. B. M., Oxon. 



Kutchakutchoo (Vol. x., p. 17.). — Your corre- 

 spondent E. D. is mistaken in thinking that any 

 such " amusement was fashionable about sixty 

 years ago." I can venture to say that it never 

 was heard of in England. There was, indeed, as 

 stated by E. D., a lampoon published in Dublin 

 about 1804 under that title, which was made the 

 vehicle of some satirical remarks on individuals, 

 but which was, as to the existence of any such 

 amusement, a mere fiction, a clumsy mystification, 

 which deceived nobody, and had no success. C. 



Lord Fairfax (Vol. ix., pp. 10. 379.). — Uneda 

 gives the name of the present Lord Fairfax incor- 

 rectly. His name is, as stated in the Book of 

 Peerage, Charles Snowdon Fairfax. His mother, 

 whose maiden name was Snowdon, resides at her 

 country seat, Woodbourne, in the district of Co- 

 lumbia. Her son, known as Mr. Charles S. Fair- 

 fax, went to California about three years ago, and 

 is now a member of the legislature, and Speaker 

 of the House of Representatives of that State. 



W. R. G. 



Washington, D. C, U. S. 



Outta Percha (Vol. ix., p. 233.). — In answer 

 to your correspondent E. B., I beg to inform him 

 that gutta percha may be rendered soluble by 

 means of pure chloroform, which readily dissolves 



it. A coating of this solution may be applied to 

 almost any article, and the gutta percha, after the 

 evaporation of the chloroform, will, in my opinion, 

 be found as hard as it was previous to being made 

 soluble ; the gutta percha used should be that 

 which is in the sheet, liked oiled silk, as it is the 

 purest ; the chloroform should be good, for other- 

 wise the application, instead of perfectly drying, 

 remains glutinous. A simple way of testing the 

 solution for its efiicacy, is to pour a large drop of 

 it on the back of the hand (supposing the solution 

 to be a weak one, namely, half a drachm of gutta 

 percha to one ounce of chloroform). If it be of 

 good quality, it dries off within a minute, leaving 

 on the skin a thin but firm pellicle perfectly dry, 

 not adhering to the finger firmly pressed upon it, 

 and capable of being drawn off in a consistent 

 pellicle of a light colour. On the contrary, if the 

 drop of the solution is long in drying, and not 

 firm but glutinous, the chloroform is not pure. 



c.w. 



Bradford. 



The ^'' Economy of Human Life" (Vol. x., p, 8.). 

 — In the edition of the Economy of Human Life, 

 printed for Thomas Tegg in 1811, the preface is 

 addressed to the Earl of Chesterfield. We wish 

 to know upon what authority the editor or pub- 

 lisher thus ignored Lord Chesterfield's claim to 

 the authorship of this much-admired synopsis of 

 moral duties ? A reference to the original title- 

 page and preface would throw light upon this 

 question. Perhaps some reader of " N. & Q." 

 may possess a copy of one of the earliest editions : 

 the work was first published in 1751.* 



The morals and reflections are obviously the 

 same as Chesterfield inculcated in his writings, 

 while the maxims are similar, and at times iden- 

 tical with the rules upon which the philosophic 

 earl regulated his conduct through life. The 

 style and sentiments are evidently above the 

 humble abilities of Dodsley. We trust this in- 

 quiry may be the means of preventing this minor 

 English classic from sinking into oblivion. Cj. 



Lord Brougham and Home Tooke (Vol. ix.,. 

 p. 575.). — I think Mr. Denton right in sup- 

 posing Lord Brougham's assertion (Vol. ix., 

 p. 398.) to be an inference, certainly not a fact ; 

 but I think Lord Brougham wrong in drawing 



[* The following is a verbatim copy of the title-page of 

 the first edition : " The OEconomy of Human Life. Trans- 

 lated from an Indian Manuscript, written by an ancient 

 Bramin. To which is prefixed, An Account of the Man- 

 ner in which the said Manuscript was discover'd. In a 

 Letter from an English Gentleman now residing in 

 China, to the Earl of * * * *. London : Printed for M. 

 Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster-Row. 1761." It is 



dedicated "To the Earl of ." In the illustrated 



4to. edition published by S. and E. Harding, Pall Mall, 

 in 1795, both the title-page and dedication state that the 

 work was addressed " To the Earl of E * * * *." — Ed.} 



