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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<» S. IX. Mar. 31. '60. 



principal editor, who was, I find, W. H. Winter ; 

 the other identifications in my copy, besides those 

 already noted, are the Caulfields (father and son), 

 Dr. Dibdin (in the character of Vicary Vellum), 

 Davenport, Stoddart, E. Warren, and R. T. Rees. 

 All pencilled, and, in the case of the Porters, de- 

 signated familiarly as Robert, Maria, or Jane, 

 as if it was the family copy. 



I now come to my Query. How long did The 

 Quiz exist ? The copy under remark contains 

 one complete volume, ending with No. 38, and to 

 p. 96. of the second, where it breaks off abruptly 

 in the middle of No. 52. J. O. 



" Comparisons are odorous." < — Who is the 

 author of this saying ? Not Mrs. Malaprop, I 

 assure you, although a Times leader did com- 

 mence thus : " Comparisons, says Mrs. Malaprop, 

 are odorous, and so the Chancellor of the Exche- 

 quer," &c. Now, nice as the aforesaid lady was 

 in " the derangement of her epitaphs," this parti- 

 cular nicety she never achieved. What she did 

 say was this : ''No caparisons, Miss, if you please. 

 Caparisons don't become a young woman." {The 

 Rivals, Act IV. Sc. 2.) So I come back to my 

 original question, Who is the author of tliis say- 

 ing ? Limus Lutum. 



Kenilworth. 



Motiier Hubbard. — I am afraid that I am 

 asking an often-answered Query ; but as an early 

 admirer of Mother Hubbard, I entreat you to tell 

 me whether anything is known of her, or her hus- 

 band, before the publication of Spencer's Mother 

 Hubbard tale, and the equally excellent, if not 

 superior, Father Hubbard tales of Middleton ? 

 Like our modern poems, both the ancient ones 

 show such a love for animals, and such a keen ap- 

 preciation of their virtues and excellences, that 

 they must all have come from the same stock. 



E. H. K. 



Parisian Hoods. — What is the colour and 

 material of the hoods worn in the ancient Univer- 

 sity of Paris, more especially that worn by gra- 

 duates in medicine ? G. A. H. 



Colours at Chelsea Hospital. — Would some 

 one connected with Chelsea Hospital give a list of 

 the colours in the hall and chapel, mentioning the 

 actions in which they were captured? W. H. 



The Letter "W." — Will some of the philo- 

 logical contributors of " N. & Q." inform me in 

 what dialects or languages of the Indo-Ger- 

 manic division (ancient and modern) this letter is 

 found, besides our own language ? C. 



"Raxlinds." — In an old churchwarden's book 

 in Wiltshire is an entry (a.d. 1670) of the "names 

 of the parishioners that contributed to the relief 

 of the English raxlinds in Turkey." This word 

 seems to be so written. Other parish-books else- 



where mention subscriptions in that year towards 

 the redemption of " poor Christian slaves taken by 

 the Turkish py rates." But what in the world are 

 raxlinds ? Is it a corruption of " wrestling," i. e. 

 struggling in captivity ? J. 



Passage in Sir Philip Sidney. — I should 

 be much obliged by an explanation of the follow- 

 ing lines from Sir Philip Sidney's Seven Wonders 

 of England : — 



" The Bruertons have a lake, which, when the sun 

 Approaching warms (not else), dead logs up sends 

 From hideous depth ; which tribute, when it ends, 

 Sore sign it is, the lord's last thread is spun. 



We have a fish, by strangers much admir'd, 

 Which caught, to cruel search yields his chief part : 

 (With gall cut out) clos'd up again by art, 

 Yet lives until his life be new requir'd. 



Of ships, by shipwreck cast on Albion coast, 

 Which, rotting on the rocks, their death do die ; 

 From wooden bones, and blood of pitch, doth fly 

 A bird, which gets more life than ship had lost.'' 



Steele of Gadgirth. — I have a volume enti- 

 tled Sermons, by John Steele, Esq., of Gadgirth.. 

 Minister of Stair ; with a dedication " To the No- 

 bility and Gentry of Great Britain" (8vo. Edin., 

 1778) ; apparently a very earnest book. Where 

 can any particulars be found about this aristo- 

 cratic lay-preacher ? J. O. 



The Termination " ih." — Derived nouns often 

 end in th, as for example, warmth, depth, birth, 

 and month, from warm, deep, bear, and moon. In 

 some cases, as broth, froth, worth, the source is 

 not obvious. Of course th may sometimes be 

 radical, but like t, as in frost, lost, {freeze, lose,) it 

 is in a multitude of cases a mere servile or gram- 

 matical suffix. The same letters, th or t, are con- 

 stantly used in the Hebrew and other Shemitic 

 languages, as well as elsewhere, with or without a 

 vowel termination, as the case may be. I wish to 

 know what account is given of this curious law, 

 as I may term it, or to be favoured with any 

 references to works which will furnish me with 

 the information. B. H. C. 



eaucrtcS uitth QxiMatxi. 



Anthony (Andrew ?) de Solesmes. — Accord- 

 ing to Johnson's Typographia (vol. i. p. 602.), 

 particulars about this Flemish printer of Dutch 

 Prayerbooks in Norwich are to be found in the 

 Bodleian Library among the archives. I should 

 feel thankful for a communication of these par- 

 ticulars. 



Johnson calls the Norwich Caxton, Anthony; 

 others design him as Andrew. Which is the true 

 surname ? 



