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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io th s. i. APRIL 2, im

ELLISON FAMILY. I am anxious to know more of my father's family (Ellison). They came from the vicinity of Threadneedle Street about 1760. My great-great-grand- father, Joseph Ellison, died in Boston, Mass., in 1771, aged seventy - six. He had two children who came to this country : Elizabeth Ellison, born 1734, died in Boston, unmarried, 1801 ; William Ellison, born 1 October, 1741, married in Boston 1762, and died there 1816. He was my great - grandfather, and had children William, Samuel, James, Mary, and Elizabeth.

(Mrs.) MARY H. CURRAN, Librarian.

Bangor Public Library, Maine.

'DEATH OF BOZZARIS.' In Mr. Morley's ' Life of Gladstone ' (vol. i. p. 137) there is an extract from Gladstone's diary of 24 June, 1836, in which is the note :

" Breakfast with Mr. Rogers, Mr. Wordsworth only there. Very agreeable. Rogers produced an American poem, the 'Death of Bozzaris,' which Wordsworth proposed that I should read to them ; of course I declined, so even did Rogers. But Wordsworth read it through in good taste, and doing it justice."

Who was the author of the ' Death of Boz- zaris'? G. L. APPERSON.

[FitzGreene Halleck.]

^ BATTLEFIELD SAYINGS. Can any reader give instances of witty or humorous sayings, ancient as well as modern, on the battlefield, the occasion on which they were uttered, and, when known, the name of the speaker? An example of what I mean is to be found in the historic phrase of the great general who, being informed that the enemy's arrows were so numerous that they would hide the sun, replied, "Then we will fight in the shade." R. DE 0.

DR. HALL. Will any one intimately acquainted with my Lord Strafford's home affairs kindly tell me who was Dr. Hall, the friend under whose tuition (presumably in Yorkshire) he placed his nephew Wentworth Dillon, afterwards the poet Earl of Eos- common? L. I. GUINEY.

INSCRIPTION ON MUSEUM. Over the en- trance to the museum at Christchurch, New Zealand, is engraved the following inscrip- tion : I' Lo, these are parts of His ways, but how little a portion of them is heard of Him ! " Where do these words come from 1 They do not appear to be in the Bible or Apocrypha. L.

[Slightly varied from Job xxvi. 14.]

./Esop. I recently bought at a very low price a copy of ^Esop which belongs to an

impression which I fancy is not often meb with. The cover, which I do not think is the original one, bears the title AESOPI j FABULAE I A | CORAY. The title-page is :

It has as frontispiece a portrait of ^Esop engraved from the bust in the Albanian Garden at Rome, and another engraving, a portrait of Archilochos from a bust in the Vatican Museum. There is an interesting and scholarly introduction, written in modern Greek, which I take to be from the pen of Koraes, of whose series 'EAAijvtKr; 'Bif3Xio6->]Kij it forms part, being vol. ii. of the Trdpepya. I have learnt that the volumes of Plutarch in the same series are extremely scarce. Perhaps your readers may know something of this book, and can give me information as to its rarity or otherwise.

C. CAMP TARELLI.

PATIENCE, CARD GAME. When was the name " Patience" first applied to the game of cards? I do not know of an instance before 1850. F. JESSEL.

MUTILATED LATIN LINES. Among some papers I purchased a few years ago are some mutilated and, I think, misspelt Latin lines. Some of the letters have disappeared. Will some reader help me to supply the missing letters and correct the lines ? I should be grateful to any Latin scholar for his English rendering of the verse, so far as disjecta membra will permit of anything like a trans- lation.

I think the first word in the first line should be Flamen. Should the first word in the sixth line be Undique ?

amen ut geterni sapiens et dextra parentis

Protexit thalamos Elizabeta suos In quibus infantem longeva puerpera alebas

Misscebas curis et pia vota tuis ....grassantes tota Jordanis in ora ...dique sevirent Parthup Arabsque truces

fratrum membris passique cruore

Jusissent millia capta

Tu secura tamen divini numinis umbra

Figebas nati bassia multa genis. Sic modo cum poenis urgentur regna superba, Juxta aras ccetus protege, Christe, tuos.

scellusque domum descende

es custos no

FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN. 537, Western Avenue, Albany, N.Y.

PRINTS AND ENGRAVINGS. Can any one inform me of a book of moderate price