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Mr. A. W. Pollard, from whose pleasant essay ' Indexes,' which appeared in The Cornhill, February, 1908, I have culled the above, adds :

" This at least sounds ferocious, though a devil who could be daunted by stinging-nettles would not have been thought much of in the days of Dr. Faustus. Lord Campbell's proposal ' No index, no copyright,' if it had been carried, would have been more efficacious than any curse."

CHARLES GILLMAN. Church Fields, Salisbury.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xi. 187).

Enjoy your life, my brother, &c. I have read somewhere that the following proverb has been seen inscribed over a cottage in Scotland :

Be happy whilst ye 're leevin,

For ye re a lang time deid.

LIONEL SCHANK.

J. BEW, BOOKSELLER : PATERNOSTER Row (10 S. xi. 188). Timperley's 'Dic- tionary of Printers,' note on p. 838, says :

" Paternoster Row now the greatest book mart in the world did not begin to assume any consequence till the booksellers deserted Little Britain, in the reign of Queen Anne .... From 1774, when we find John Bew publishing the ' Ambulator ' and other small works, the character of the trade in the Row became changed from old bookselling .... to general publishing, and par- ticularly of periodicals."

WM. H. PEET.

John Bew published in 1776 from his house in Paternoster Row a tract which will be found in the British Museum at the press-mark T. 1023 (3). R. A. PEDDIE.

St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.G.

The name of J. Bew, of 28, Paternoster Row, appears as the publisher in 1779 of ' Fantastical Conversion : or Methodism Displayed,' an anonymous and scurrilous attack (in verse) on John Wesley. A list of similar publications issued by the same publisher is appended. M. A. M. M.

I have a copy of ' A Letter to the Earl o: Hillsborough .... on the Present State o Affairs in Ireland,' &c., 8vo, " Printed for J. Bew, in Pater-Noster Row, 1779."

JOHN S. CRONE.

[MR. S. S. McDowALL also thanked for reply.]

POLISH DRAGOONS: "JAGER" (10 S. xi 189). In All the Year Round, vol. xvi pp. 133-8, there is an article entitled ' Cam paigning in the Tyrol,' and mention i made in it of certain Austrian troops

escribed as " Tyrolese jagers." The date f the issue is 18 Aug., 1866. There is no tatement as to whether the jagers were ght armed troops. One of the passages s as follows :

" The loss in officers was disproportionately

great.... the too marked distinction of dress

ad pointed them out to the trained Bohemian

roops and Tyrolese jagers, to whom our raw

nd boyish levies had been opposed."

CHR. WATSON.

294, Worple Road, Wimbledon.

" Jaeger " is the name of the rifleman sharpshooter in the Austro-Hungarian

irmy. In my time they were, and probably till are, divided into independent battalions, xcept the Kaiser Regiment, which con- isted of several battalions. Their counter- part are the Bersaglieri in the Italian army,. ,nd the Chasseurs in the French. I have

never heard of Polish dragoons ; the Polish avalry are lancers. L. L. K.

The British 'Army List' for 1856-7
 * ontained two regiments of the British

foreign Legion, named the 1st Jager Corps,, ommanded by Lieut. -Col. August F. Schroer, and the 2nd Jager Corps, by Major John Montresor. Subsequently the 2nd Jager Corps was commanded by the Hon. John Strange Jocelyn.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate, Kent.

As early as 1740 the Prussian Govern- ment formed a regiment of Jagers, mostly out of men connected with forest-keeping.

A. M. CRAMER.

Amsterdam.

[MR. HOWARD COLLINS also thanked for reply.]

"INCUT" (10 S. xi. 188). "Incut" is a technical term applied to notes inserted in the margin of the text, as distinguished from notes set in the white margin outside the text, which are called " marginal notes."

It is possible that the word " incut " may refer to notes of this kind.

JOHN MURRAY.

50, Albemarle Street, W.

' The Century Dictionary ' says :

" Set in by or as if by cutting ; specifically, in printing, inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the margin ; as incut notes at the sides of the pages in a book."

' Chambers Twentieth-Century Dictionary * also gives " Set in by, or as if by, cutting,, especially in printing, inserted in places left in the text. F. HOWARD COLLINS.

Torquay.