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by the speaker. In this connexion, however, conjugating that offends against modern canons is often sound (Middle) English, e.g., the invariable " slep " for " slept " of the Southern labourer (cf. * Genesis and Exodus,' 1. 1941), and " catched " for "caught" ("cachid" in Wiclif ). H. P. L.

GILES HERON (10 S. ix. 469). He was the son of Sir John Heron of Wanstead, and is referred to in the ' Story of Wanstead Park,' by O. S. Dawson, which, after mentioning that the manor passed from Sir Ralph Hastings to Sir John Heron, states :

"His son Sir Giles Heron, who married the daughter of the worthy but hapless Sir Thomas More, was, in the reign of Henry VIII., attainted of treason, because he would not acknowledge the king's supremacy as the head of the Church, arid his estates were seized by the Crown, and this manor was granted to Robert, Lord Rich."

G. H. W.

See Mr. Joseph Gillow's * Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics,' iii. 281. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BRASS AS A SURNAME (10 S. viii. 350 ; ix. 358). I wish to thank the correspondents at the latter reference, and also DR. S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, who replied to me privately, for their information. It may only be coincidence, but it may, on the other hand, be a point in favour of the Breton deriva- tion, that the Brasses here are noted for their height and their length of limb.

ALEX. RUSSELL.

Stromness, Orkney.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. ix. 488). For the saying " Les beaux esprits se rencontrent," which forms the first half of MR. MORETON'S third quotation, Mr. King ('Classical and Foreign Quotations') refers to Quitard, ' Diet, des Proverbes.' It is not noticed in the 20th ed. of ' Geflu- gelte Worte.' But it is useful to remember that in earlier editions of Biichmann's work the test of what constitutes a " winged word " was often more leniently applied, and several articles were included which were afterwards struck out. In the 10th ed. (1877), for example, the author writes (p. 123) that the earliest allusion to the above saying that he has found is in a German author, Andreas Gryphius (ob. 1664), in whose ' Horribilicribrifax,' Act V. sc. vii., Daradidatumdarides says : " Les beaux esprits lernen einander durch dergleichen rencontre erkennen." Buchmann adds that Voltaire employs the expression in a letter to Thieriot of 30 June, 1760. Both Buch-

mann and Mr. King quote " Great wits jump " from ' Tristram Shandy,' vol. iii. cap. ix. (orig. ed.). EDWARD BENSLY.

The line about which MR. WEBB inquires, ante, p. 28,

And half detected, animate the whole, is with " detected " substituted for " sus- pected " in Sydney Smith's recipe for salad dressing; see " A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith, by his daughter Lady Holland," 3rd ed., 1855, vol. i. p. 426 (chap. xi.).

Considering the wretched salad dressings so general in England, it should be worth reprinting in full :

To make this condiment, your poet begs

The pounded yellow of two hard-boil'd eggs ; _

Two Doil'd potatoes, pass'd through kitchen sieve,

Smoothness and softness to the salad give.

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,

And, half -suspected, animate the whole.

Of mordant mustard add a single spoon,

Distrust the condiment that bites so soon ;

But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault,

To add a double quantity of salt ;

Four times the spoon with oil from Lucca brown,

And twice with vinegar procured from town ;

And lastly, o'er the flavoured compound toss

A magic soupgon of anchovy sauce.

Oh, green and glorious ! Oh, herbaceous treat !

'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat :

Back to the world he 'd turn his fleeting soul ;

And plunge his fingers in the salad-bowl !

Serenely full, the epicure would say,

Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day.

Concerning this recipe Smith says :

" I was not aware how much it had contributed

to my reputation, till I met Lady at Bowood,

who begged to be introduced to me, saying, she had so long wished to know me. I was of course highly flattered, till she added, ' For, Mr. Smith, I have heard so much of your recipe for salads, that I was most anxious to obtain it trom you.' Such and so various are the sources of fame." Ibid., p. 425.

Apparently " brown " at the end of the eleventh line should be " crown."

W. H. Wills, in ' Poets' Wit and Humour,' 1861, in his reprint of the recipe (p. 234), omits the couplet beginning " Four times." He gives " too " instead of " so " in the eighth line, and " soup-spoon " instead of " soupon " in the fourteenth line. Both of these corrections appear to be reasonable. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

The line referring to an onion in salad is to be found in Sydney Smith's ' Recipe for a Winter Salad,' where it reads

And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.

The ' Recipe ' is not to be found in the ' Works of Sydney Smith,' published by Longmans in 1854 ; but I have extracted it from p. 137 of the appendix to ' The Art