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enters and changes the bottles, so that the poisoned wine is drunk by the would-be murderers ; A. retires to his room ill, and the Devil appears to him ; he explains that the charter, which A. believed to be for eighteen years, was only for eleven, the document being ambiguously worded, and, despite the Pope's protests, carries him off to hell.

The history is from Guicciardini, but Barnes shows little regard for accuracy, and some of the incidents, such as the murder of Lucretia, are of his own invention. The legend of the charter seems to be taken from Widman's Faust-book of 1599, though this is not altogether satisfactory as a source. The magic is chiefly from the ' Heptameron, seu Elementa Magica ' of Petrus de Abano. The play is described, with a few extracts, by Prof. Herford in his ' Literary Kelations of England and Germany,' 1886, pp. 197-203. Extracts from it were also printed by Gro- sart in his edition of Barnes's poems.

R. B. McKERROw.

In the ' Poetical Register ; or, the Lives and Characters of the English Poets, with an account of their Writings,' 1723, it is said that this tragedy seems to have been written "in imitation of Shakespear's 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre'; which gives an Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Vlth. For as Shake- spear raises Gower, an old English Bard, for his Introductor in that Play ; so this Author revives Guicciardine for the same purpose. And in the last Age, as well as the present Times, the Poets fre- quently introduc'd dumb Representations, which were very taking with the Spectators." P. 12.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

PASTE (10 th S. i. 447, 477). Has DR. MURRAY tried Crosse& Black well," Elizabeth Lazenby," and the other" makers of these pastes ? Bloater paste was certainly made by one of these firms as early as 1871 or 1872, and the labels in use for the pots looked (even then) like a very antique style of lettering.

H. SNOWDEN WARD.

An early reference to the value of anchovy as a food will be found in the following work, " Lemery and Hay. A Treatise of all sorts of Foods... also of Drinkables... how tochuse the best sort... of good and bad effects... the principles they abound with, the time, age and constitution they are adapted to,... accord to... Physicians and Naturalists anc. & mod 1745," 8vo, pp. 293-4. The name is here spelt anchovis, the plural anchoves, Latin apua.

WM. JAGGARD.

I cannot quite go back to 1840, but can distinctly remember " anchovy paste " in the early fifties. It was then sold in round flat

white boxes about three inches in diameter ginned foods were not then invented), and labelled "anchovy paste" on the top. I forget the name of the firm, but surely DR. MURRAY could find some record of it by some of the older firms, such as Lazenby or Crosse & Black well. "Shrimp paste "and "bloater paste" are certainly of much later date, and are evidently a copy of the old "anchovy paste." In Miss Acton's ' Modern Cookery ' (1855) potted anchovy is spoken of on p. 306 as " paste " ; and on p. 389 " currie-paste " is mentioned in reference to the cooking and serving of anchovies.

J. FOSTER PALMER.

On p. 116 of Mrs. Beeton's 'Household Management,' published 1861, is found a recipe for making anchovy paste. There is no mention of this article of food in Soyer's cookery book, written in 1854.

ANNIE KATE RANGE.

I can remember both shrimp and bloater paste while at Kensington School in 1837.

G. C. W.

We can trace having manufactured anchovy paste since 1835. Probably it was made by the firm before, but we have no record of an earlier date. JOHN BURGESS & SON, LTD.

107, Strand, W.C.

" PURPLE PATCH " (10 th S. i. 447, 477). Lord Macaulay, when working at the third volume of his ' History,' notes in his diary, under 25 October, 1849 :

"Not quite my whole [daily, self -prescribed] task ; but I have a grand purple patch to sew on [the relief of Londonderry], and I must take time." Trevelyan's ' Life,' chap. xii.

His biographer, earlier in the book, but of course later in actual date, and perhaps influenced by his uncle's phrase, says :

"A pointed story, from some trumpery memoir of the last century, and retold in his own words, a purple patch fromsome third-rate sermon orpolitical treatise, woven into the glittering fabric of his talk "

I have had the impression that the vogue which of late years has been gained by the phrase in journalistic writing dated from the publication of Macaulay's ' Life and Letters.' Needless to say Macaulay was appropriating Horace. H. J. FOSTER.

This is, of course, Horace's "purpureus

Sannus," as noted by your correspondents, ut the adjective denotes not only the colour which we call " purple," but any bright colour, especially scarlet. It also means dazzling white, as applied to swans, and I think to lilies. Hence "bright patch" would be a better rendering. C. S. JERRAM.