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1 .however perfectly the task were executed, Cole ' depends entirely like the beauty of great hymns upon the pauses. The com- plicated chorus quoted by Miss MOOYAART lacks the simplicity dear to admirers of the legendary song. D.
 * give the truth, for the charm of ' Old King

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 247).

To possess one's soul.

Are the following lines relevant ?

And see all sights from pole to pole,

And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul

Before we die. Matthew Arnold, ' A Southern Night,' st. 18.

V. W. DOWELL.

I am glad to see the French version of " 'Tis Love, 'tis love," &c., referred to (10 S. x. 368, 497), as I think this must be the original. As far as I can remember its burden from hearing it in the sixties, it was something as follows, but I cannot be sure that this is correct :

C'est 1'Amour, 1'Amour, 1' Amour, Qui fait le moiide se tourner, Lt chaque jour, a son tour, Le monde se tourne & 1'Amour.

The tune was the same as that used for the English version, and the accent in singing, was, of course, always on the second syllable

of " Amour." J. FOSTER PALMER.

8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

'Tis Love, 'tis Love, that makes the world go round. Surely this is quoted in ' Alice,' either in Wonderland, or through the Looking -Glass.

G. W. E. R.

The lines sought by K. P. D. E. (10 S. x. 468),

Two men look out through the same bars : One sees the mud, and one the stars,

occur in a little book called ' A Cluster of <Juiet Thoughts,' published by the Religious

'Tract Society. They were written by the Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a clergyman of the Irish Episcopal Church, residing, I believe, at Limerick. W. S R.

THE ' PROMPTORIUM ' (10 S. x. 488).

The E.E.T.S. has lately issued this volume (No. CII. of its Extra Series), edited by the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, and published, as usual, by Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. It is not a reprint of Way's edition, the text being from the Sylkestede MS. of Winchester "Cathedral, with about two hundred pages -ofjvaluable philological notes by the editor.

H. P. L.

The Periodical for September, 1908, p. 268, has the following note :

" Mr. Frowde has become joint publisher to the Early English Text Society, which is including in its extra series 'The Promptorium Parvulorum,' the first English-Latin Dictionary, c. 1440 A.D., edited from the manuscript in the Chapter Library at Winchester, with introduction, notes, and glos- saries, by A. L. Mayhew, M.A."

The December issue notes the publication of the book by the Oxford Press at a guinea net. It will be seen that a different manu- script has been selected for editing, the Camden Society's issue having been edited from the Harleian MSS., with readings from other MSS. ROLAND AUSTIN.

Gloucester Public Library.

[MB. W. R. B. PBIDEAUX and Q. V. also thanked for replies.]

ITALIAN GENEALOGY (10 S. x. 449). There is no Italian equivalent to Burke or Debrett in the sense of being exhaustive as regards all existing titles. An ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana ' has been published annually at Pisa since 1879 ; and there is Count Litta's ' Celebri Famiglie Italiane,' 11 vols., Milan and Turin, 1819-99, the Second Series of which (Turin, 1902) is now in progress. RUVIGNY.

There is a little book published year by year called ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana,' Bari, Direzione del Oiornale Araldico e dell' ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana,' Via Piccinni, 115. The issue of 1893, which I have before me, was the fif- teenth. I bought it at Hoepli's in Milan in 1893, price, I think, 10 lire or about. Fronting the title-page is a portrait of the founder of the book, viz., Comm. G. B. di Crollalanza, who died at Pisa 8 March, 1892. His son Goffredo di Crollalanza, with the same address at Bari, was responsible for the 1893 ' Annuario.'

There is not much of old genealogy in the book, but probably the direttore could give the information asked for.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

For Neapolitan aristocracy consult C. Padiglione's ' La Nobilta Napoletana,' Napoli, 1880, also ' Discorsi delle Famiglie Nobili del Regno di Napoli,' by Carlo de Sellis, 4 vols., Napoli, 1654-1701. Both the foregoing are to be found in the B.M.

For a tolerably full bibliography of books and manuscripts on Neapolitan families see Gatfield's ' Guide to Heraldry andJGenea- logy,' 1892, pp. 595-6. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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