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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. L JAN. w, wo*.

I and r, is a feature of both the Corean and Japanese languages. On the other hand, Capt. Cavendish (1894) always writes Soul, and says it is "pronounced Sowl by foreigners, but So-ul by the natives." It seems admitted that the word is of two syllables, stressed on the first, and that the second syllable rimes with English "pool." The difference of opinion refers only to the first syllable, which some observers hear as English "say," others as English ^so." The Germans accordingly represent it by the intermediate so (Soul) or sjo. It is charac- teristic of the confusion which prevails that Oppert, in his book 'A Forbidden Land,' 1880, gives Saoul (sic) as the name of the city, but sjo-ur in his vocabulary as the word for capital. JAMES PLATT, Jun.

SHAKESPEARIAN ALLUSIONS. (See ante, p. 6.) The following are perhaps worth adding :

" Truly intending what the Trag. Q. but fainedly spoke,

In second husband let mee bee accurst ; None weds the second but who kils the first : A second time I kill my husband dead, When second husband kisses mee in bed."

' The Philosopher's Banquet,' 3rd edit., 1633, p. 172.

Printed also in the second edition of this book, 1614, p. 150.

" And the longer our life is, the more numerous are our sinnes, even whole miriades: and at last conies death, and with a little pin bores through our wall of health, so farewell man." Ibid., p. 253.

" This goodly frame of the world " (ibid., p. 321) is perhaps reminiscent of Hamlet.

"The frighted judgment of his brain, that then was ray'd with his own hair, standing stiffe an end, like ported feathers of some Porcupine." ' Herba Parietis,' Thomas Bayly, 1650, p. 51.

"/ thought he had been able to have pluckt

bright Honour from the pale-fac'd Moone." Ibid., p. 124.

There sits Ben Johnson like a Tetrarch, With Chaucer, Carew, Shakespear, Petrarch. ' Maronides, a New Paraphrase upon the Sixth Book of Virgil's JEneids,' John Phillips, 1673, p. 108. All in lac'd Coats of Scarlet Chamlet ; And with them, Prince of Denmark Hamlet.

Ibid., p. 109.

This Engine curst Sycorax her self could subdue, And they did a Viceroy out of Trincalo hew. " See the famous ' History of the Tempest, or the Inchanted Island,' where this is explained." ' Maggots,' Samuel Wesley, 1685, pp. 116, 118. When lofty Passions thunder from your Pen, Methinks I hear great Shakespear once again. 'To Madam Jane Barker, on her Incom- parable Poems.' "Philaster," 'Poetical Recreations,' 1688, A. 6.

G. THORN-DRURY.

DOWNING FAMILY. The following entry is to be found in one of the registers of Spex- hall, Suffolk :

"A. U. Fullerton, Esq., 27, Chapel Street, Park Lane, W., writes to me December 1, 1870, thus, in reference to the family of Downing, whose name so early and frequently occurs in this Register Book : ' I have a pedigree of the family from the Conquest downwards.' "

As the author of the ' History of Downing College,' I have in vain tried to find out any- thing about Mr. Fullerton.

H. W. P. STEVENS, LL.D. Tadlow Vicarage, Royston, Herts.

EPITAPHS : THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHY. Notices of works on epitaphs have appeared in 3 rd S. iii. 287, 356, and v. 191, but they do not in- clude various books also existing on the subject, e.g., "A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, by Silvester Tis- sington" (London, 1857), 517 pp., the most comprehensive I know. It would be very useful if a list of works were available up to date, as several have been published in recent years. W. B. H.

DlCKENSIANA : ' MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT.' I

have recently noticed a slip in ' Martin Chuz- zlewit,' which so far as I am aware has not been pointed out by any correspondent in ' N. & Q.'

Pecksniff is in the vestry of the village church. He had just overheard a conversa- tion between Tom Pinch and Mary Graham while he was resting in the churchwardens' pew after a long stroll on a warm summer afternoon ; and he had intended to slip out by a window in the vestry, because Tom Pinch had locked the door of the church on leaving it with Mary:

"He was in a curious frame of mind, Mr. Peck- sniff: being in no hurry to go, but rather inclining to a dilatory trifling with the time, which prompted him to open the vestry cupboard, and look at him- self in the parson's little glass that hung within the

door He also took the liberty of opening another

cupboard ; but he shut it up again quickly, being rather startled by the sight of a black and a white. <iurplice dangling against the wall, which had very much the appearance 6f two curates yvho had com- mitted suicide by hanging themselves.'' Chap. xxxi. vol. ii. p. 96, Gadshill Edition.

Dickens evidently intended to say a gown and a surplice. An academical gown, of course, is black ; a surplice is invariably white. FREDERICK B. FIRMAN, M.A.

Castleacre, Swaffham, Norfolk.

FRAUDULENT AMERICAN DIPLOMAS AND DEGREES. (See references quoted at 9 tb S. xii. 101.) A certain matron is reported in the Aberdeen Free Press, 29 April, 1903, to