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That of the Discovery, during its voyage to the Antarctic regions under Capt. Scott, was recently printed and published in facsimile. It was type-written, and illus- trated with numerous coloured sketches. Probably the library of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, 1, Savile Row, W., may contain other examples, in manuscript or print, amongst its many curiosities.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

Most of the Atlantic leviathans now have their own daily journal printed on board. One of the latest is produced on the Allan liners, entitled Britannia, conducted by a Liverpool editor. The sheet is demy octavo in size, and the literary page for every day is prepared in advance of each voyage, blank space being left for daily happenings and news en route. WILLIAM JAGGAKD.

MYSTERIOUS NAVAL FOE (10 S. xi. 347). Perhaps the episode to which M. N. G. refers may be found in the thirty-third chapter of Fenimore Cooper's ' Pilot,' where a fictitious naval engagement is described AS taking place during a fog between an English ninety-gun ship of the line and an American frigate under the supposed com- mand of Capt. Paul Jones the Pilot. The action proves indecisive, and bears no resemblance whatever to the celebrated fight between the Serapis and the Bon- homme Richard ; but there is a certain air of mystery about the meeting and parting of the combatants in the North Sea, and the narrative is both exciting and life-like.

N. W. HILL. New York.

"HAWSER": "HAUL" (10 S. xi. 307, 395). The word hawser has nothing what- ever to do with the verb to hoist ; neither does the ' N.E.D.' say that it has. It correctly derives hawser from the obsolete verb hawse, which had indeed the sense of "to hoist," but is really a derivative, as shown, of the Latin altus. Both hawser and the above hawse are of French origin.

But, as the ' N.E.D.' says, there was an early confusion (of course by popular ety- mology) with the Scand. hals, a neck, and its derivative hawse-hole ; but we ought not to he misled by such a specious bit of guess- work. I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my ' Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty- seven years ago) ; and that is why I so fully

recanted my heresy in the ' Supplement ' ; see p. 810 of the third edition of 1898. We are now invited to entangle ourselves once more in the old meshes ; which I decline to do.

The verb to haul has nothing whatever to do with either hawse or hawser.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

Surely the most elementary work on philology shows that our hale or haul, and the corresponding Ger. holen, to fetch, are, by Grimm's Law, cognate with Lat. calare and Gk. /caAeii', to summon, words which have no nautical savour. H. P. L.

RICHARD STEWARD, DEAN DESIGNATE OF WESTMINSTER (10 S. xi. 289, 378). I am aware of the reference to Mr. C. B. Philli- more's edition of Welch's ' Alumni West- monasterienses.' But Mr. Phillimore does not claim Steward as an Old Westminster, and I should still like to know what authority there is for the statement in the ' D.N.B.' that he was educated at Westminster School.

G. F. R. B.

LONDON SHOP FRONTS : " CHAPZUGAR CHEESE " (10 S. xi. 407). In 1907 Mr. B. T. Batsford, of 94, High Holborn, published a handsome volume on ' English Shop-Fronts, Old and New.' It contained a series of finely reproduced photographs and descrip- tive notes. The old-fashioned shop of J. Bell & Co. at 225, Oxford Street, mentioned by MR. ABRAHAMS, is tl e subject of plate xiL G. L. APPERSON.

MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS, in referring to Burgess's Fish Sauce Shop, is at a loss to explain what " Chapzugar cheese "is. I think I can enlighten him. It is evidently Shabzieger cheese, a well-known and popular cheese made of goat's milk and herbs. It has a very pungent smell and a curious flavour. It is to be had at many good West- End cheesemongers', including the Army and Navy Stores. FRANK SCHLOESSER.

Gumley Cottage, Kew Green.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S CLUB (10 S. xi. 147 251, 330, 415). " Gortree's " is a misprint for Goosetree's ; and " Weltie's " looks like a misprint for " White's." R.

NEW CAUSES OF DISEASE (10 S. xi. 345). ST. S WITHIN' s doubts may be dissipated by a statement of personal experience. When I was a lad, illness alone could excuse me from attending the Calvinistic church ; accordingly, I was driven to find that, after an hour's reading of a certain ' Book of all