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out disturbing the air, or acting as a fan to raise 

 particles of the insidious enemy. Smolce and soot, 

 the ghosts that perpetually haunt our great me- 

 tropolis, are much more destructive than dust in 

 the country, where books often suffer by being 

 punched and bleached. 



As to damp's affecting leather to a greater ex- 

 tent than paper or cloth, I have doubts, though 

 it is sadly destructive to both. I have often seen 

 books, in perfect bindings, with their interiors 

 spotted and stained by mildew, whilst the ex- 

 terior was little injured — showing how moisture 

 should be guarded against. The state of many a 

 celebrated bihliotheque is disgraceful, from the 

 apathy both of owner and librarian, who estimate 

 little the importance of their trust (for it is but 

 trust after all, books being for all time) ; deputing 

 the removal of literary treasures to upholster's 

 agents, and their purification to the ruthless brush 

 of the housemaid. Luke Limner, F.S.A. 



Regent's Park. 



The best method I have found for preserving 

 books from dust, is gilding the top of each volume. 

 It may appear an expensive mode, but it is really 

 not so. Every book of interest or value, I have 

 had so done; and find the additional cost to vary 

 from one penny to sixpence, according to the size 

 of the volume. If the dust should accumulate, it is 

 easily removed by a soft brush, while keeping the 

 book well closed. The metliods suggested by W. 

 LiMNEE and S. M. S. are all good as helps to- 

 wards the object sought ; but dust will accumulate 

 in spite of all precaution, and the smoother the 

 surface, the easier it is removed. Simon Ward. 



University Hoods (2""* S. vi. 21L) — The very 

 full and satisfactory table upon this subject, drawn 

 up so carefully by Me. Guxcn, will, I am sure, 

 elicit the thanks of all readers of "IST. & Q." 

 There is one hood which is not mentioned in the 

 list, namely, that appertaining to the status of S. 

 C. L. The Oxford S. C. L. is the same as that of 

 a B. C. L. : blue, but without the fur trimming. 

 This status of S. C. L., which has heretofore been 

 found so convenient to the non -graduating mem- 

 bers of the University, will probably drop into 

 disuse ; as, by a recent statute, " no one can be a 

 student of Civil Law who has not passed the ex- 

 aminations, &c., requisite for a B,A. degree ;" and 

 moreover, it is not a necessary step to the supe- 

 rior degrees in the same faculty. A Cambridge 

 S.C.L. wears the same hood as a B.A., by right 

 or by custom. A hood, I believe, has been as- 

 signed to S. Augustin's College, Canterbury. It 

 is, I think, of black stuff, with a crimson stripe. 



Archd. Weir. 



Blue and Buff (2"^ S. vi. 177.) — Mr. Car- 

 RiNGTON is mistaken in supposing that I meant to 

 imply any connexion between Lord George Gor- 

 don's blue cockades, and the blue and buff colours 



of Mr. Fox and the Whigs of that time. The 

 Protestant champions of 1780, however, probably 

 considered "true blue" as the Whig and Presby- 

 terian colour. 



Lord Stanhope mentions that in the election of 

 1713, the Whigs, in order to show their concern 

 for trade, and also for the staple commodity of 

 England, in most places wore pieces of wool in 

 their hats ; while on the other hand the Tories 

 assumed green boughs, as seeking to identify 

 themselves with the most popular event in Eng- 

 lish history — the Restoration. He further adds 

 that on the Pretender's birthday, in 1716, the 

 Jacobites wore white roses, and the Whigs far- 

 thing warming-pans. (Hist, of England, vol. i. 

 p. 42., ed. 12mo.) L. 



Trzce Blue (2"« S. iii. passim.) — Mr. B. Web- 

 ster, in his address to the audience on the closing 

 night of the old Adelphi Theatre (June 2, 1858), 

 in giving a sketch of the history of the theatre, 

 spoke as follows : — 



"How it became a theatre is equally singular. It was 

 consequent upon True Blue in the year 1802, througli a 

 dye of that name having been invented by a Mr. Scott, 

 or True Blue Scott as he was familiarly called, which gave 

 such a delicious tint to the peculiarly delicious habili- 

 ments of the fair sex that a rapid fortune was the conse- 

 quence." 



E.. W. Hackwood. 



Fotheringay Castle (2"'' S. vi. 91. 152.) — As I 

 have not access to the Glossary of Architecture, 

 I cannot tell what sort of representation it may 

 give of the Falcon and Fetterlock badge ; but, I 

 can only say that if that representation should not 

 be sufficient for your correspondent Mr. C. W. 

 Staunton, I shall be happy to send him drawings 

 of the badge, as it appears on the Duke of York's 

 monument in Fotheringay church, and crowning 

 the vane on the tower of the same church (2°^ S. 

 iii. 374.) if he will forward to me his address, 

 through the publisher. 



A description of Fotheringay Castle will be 

 found at p. 420. in the newly published volume 

 (vol. vii.) of Miss Strickland's Life of Mary 

 Stuart. 



Like your correspondents, I have never yet met 

 with a view of the Castle in its ancient state, al- 

 though I have for many years been in quest of 

 one. In Bridges's No)-thampton,shire there is a 

 print of the ruins of Fotheringay, as they appeared 

 in 1718. I had previously noted (P' S. vii. 197.) 

 to what uses a portion of the ruins of Fotheringay 

 had been applied. Cutubert Bede. 



Hymnology (2"* S. vi. 198.) — The error of at- 

 tributing " Come, thou fount of every blessing," 

 &c. to the Rev. Robert Robinson arose through a 

 letter received from Dr. Rippon to George Dyer, 

 the author of Robinson's Life : — 



"By a letter which our autlior received at this period 

 from his esteemed friend Dr. Rippon, it appears that one 



