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excepting the King, Queen, and Prince of Wales, were present (p. 377).

For much about Mrs. Cornelys see ' The Amusements of Old London,' by William B. Boulton, 1901, i. 119 et seq.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CHANTREY AND OLIVER, MINIATURISTS (10 S. xi. 29). N. Chantry (not, apparently, Chantrey), who exhibited at the Royal Academy 1797-1836, began as a miniature painter, but developed into a portrait painter in the usual sense of the term ; he also painted still life.

The Oliver about whom Miss BEECHEY inquires must be Arthur James Oliver, A.R.A., who exhibited at the R.A. from 1791 to 1841 not, however, miniatures, as a rule. Some of the numbers in the earlier exhibitions would indicate that he occasionally drew on a small scale. Miss BEECHEY will find a complete list of both artists in Graves's ' Royal Academy Exhibi- tors,' vols. ii. and vi. W. ROBERTS.

BARNARD & STAPLES, BANKERS OF CORN- HILL (10 S. xi. 189). See p. 52 of ' A Hand- book of London Bankers,' by F. G. Hilton Price, F.S.A., 1890-91 :

" In 1776 Baron Dimsdale retired from the firm of Dimsdale, Archer & Co., of White Hart Court, and Sir George Cornewall retired from the firm of Cornewall, Staples & Watts, of 50, Corn- hill. Baron Dimsdale in that year appears to have amalgamated with Staples & Watte, under the style of Staples, Baron Dimsdale, John Dims- dale & Josiah Barnard .... In 1785 it became Baron Dimsdale, Sons, Barnard & Staples, which style continued with one or two minor changes until 1814, when it became Barnard, Dimsdale & Dimsdale."

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate, Kent.

Among the bankers in Cornhill in 1769 were Sir George Amyand & Staples, 50, Cornhill. In 1778 the firm consisted of Roger Staples, Baron Thomas Dimsdale & Josiah Barnard, 50, Cornhill.

S. S. M'DOWALL. [DIEGO also refers to Mr. Hilton Price's book.]

" THAT 's ANOTHER PAIR OF SHOES " (10 S. xi. 169). This expression appears to have been first used by Dickens in ' Great Expectations ' (chap, xl.), and to have been intended to convey the meaning that the matter in question was something quite different, or of another character altogether :

"My gentleman must have horses, Pip! Shall

colonists have their horses (and blood 'uns, if you please, good Lord !) and not my London gentleman ? No, no! We'll show 'em another pair of shoes than that, Pip, won't us ? "

But Dickens must have merely enlisted in his service a previously well-known phrase, " To be in another's shoes," which in its turn seems to have been suggested by the still older saying " To wait for dead men's shoes," meaning to occupy the portion of another. In Sir Henry Taylor's historic play ' Edwin the Fair ' (1842) occur the lines (III. viii.) :

With violence and with force of arms he drave

Our Benedictine brethren not alone

Them that were placed by Edred in the shoes

Of seculars that by Edred were expulsed,

But ancient men that had been there aforetime.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

This choice specimen of Early Victorian " humour " is an onomatopoetic jape. It it a Cockney imitation of the sound of " Tout a fait une autre chose," and conveys the same meaning, " Quite another thing." EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

Possibly an adaptation of Fr. " C'est une autre paire de manches," the more familiar " shoes " being substituted for the no longer removable " sleeves." The Fr. expression is old, but none of the earlier dictionaries Cotgrave (1611), Miege (1679), Boyer (1742) renders it by the corresponding Eng. idiom, which apparently is less old, Cotgrave giving " an other manner of matter."

E. W.

[J. C. agrees with MB. HERON- ALLEN as to "une autre chose."]

HESSE-DANISH ALLIANCE (10 S. xi. 129). A daughter of Frederik V. of Denmark (1746-66), Princess Louise, named after her mother, a daughter of George II., was married to Prince Charles of Hesse. This marriage was destined to provide future successors to the Danish throne, the son marrying Princess Charlotte of Denmark, a sister to Christian VIII. (1839-48), their children being Prince Frederik (from whom the present Landgrave is descended) and the late Queen Louise. The daughter married the father of the late King Christian IX., who thereby added his claims of succession to the Danish throne to those of his wife, her brother abandoning his claims in her favour.

Frederik VI. of Denmark (1808-39), a grandson of Frederik V., also married a Hessian princess, this royal family being settled in Denmark during that period ; and his cousins Christian VIII. and Princess Charlotte were children of Prince Frederik son of Frederik V. by his second marriage.

W. B. PRIOR.