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Wuckengates. It is the same tendency by which in German dialects the o passes into sounds variously written as oa, ua, uo. So also the Latin ovum yields Italian uovo, Spanish huevo ; and homines results in Italian uomini and Roumanian oameni.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

There is no need to go to Wales for an explanation. We find a similar pronuncia tion in many of the southern dialects in words containing a long o in standard pronunciation, e.g., old (Dorset), oats, stone (many districts, including Oxford), &c. Cf. Wright, ' Eng. Dial. Gram.' and ' E.D.D.'; Horn, ' Historische neuenglische Gram- matik,' p, 83. F. J. CURTIS.

Frankfurt-am-Main.

COMPOSITOR'S "CASE" (10 S. xii. 330). I think the volume Q. V. wishes to see is W. Blades's * Shakspere and Typography ' (1872). It is generally regarded, I believe, as an interesting and valuable work. The writer draws some of his information regarding compositors' cases in the seven- teenth century from Moxpn's ' Mechanick Exercises,' 1683. The customs in that trade were so conservative that he does not seem venturing greatly in presuming that the cases used in Shakespeare's day were similar to those in 1683.

JOHN WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

A complete account, with a plate, of the compositor's " case " as it was used at the end of the seventeenth century will be found in Moxon's ' Mechanick Exercises,' 1683, vol. ii. pp. 19-25, plate 1. Copies can be seen at the British Museum and at the St. Bride Foundation Technical Library.

R. A. PEDDIE.

St. Bride Institute, Bride Lane, E.C.

[MR. A. RHODES also thanked for reply.]

" TACITURN " : GRIEVE IN SMOLLETT (10 S. xii. 327).

"By his garb, one would have taken him [Grieve] for a Quaker, but he had none of the stiffness of that sect ; on the contrary, he was very submissive, respectful, and remarkably taciturn."

Grieve was a country apothecary, and the quotation is at the end of the seventh para- graph of Matthew Bramble's letter to Dr. Lewis dated from " Harrowgate," June 26. See ' Humphry Clinker.' WM. H. PEET.

Grieve is the " Ferdinand, Count Fathom," of Smollett's earlier book, a changed man.

D. C. DA VIES. I MR. W. JAGGARD also thanked for reply.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xii. 328).

Thronging through the cloudrift, &c. D. T. will find this is one of the verses in tLe Epilogue to ' Ferishtah's Fancies,' by Robert Browning. .*& ,>& E. I. WISDOM.

Stockwell, S.W.

This is the beginning of Robert Browning's poem ' Heroes.' The words, set to music by the late John Farmer, will be found in ' Balliol Songs,' privately printed in the eighties. S. WHEELER.

The quotation is from a poem by Robert Browning entitled ' Heroes.' It is in both ' The Balliol Song-Book ' and ' Gaudeamus,' the latter being a collection of songs pub- lished by Cassell & Co. C. W. TERRY. Taunton.

MACAULAY ON DRYDEN (10 S. xii. 329). The passage quoted by W. D. Christie (Introduction to "Globe Edition" of Dryden's ' Poetical Works ') is in the ' His- tory of England,' chap, vii., and deals with Dryden's conversion. The criticism is ex- panded in Macaulay's Edinburgh Review essays ' John Dry den ' and ' Comic Dra- matists of the Restoration.' G. Glasgow.

See the essay on ' John Dryden ' (Janu- ary, 1828), contributed to The Edinburgh Review, and reprinted in ' The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay ' (1860), i. 183. A. R. BAYLEY.

Probably the passage in Macaulay to which T. M. W. refers is one near the beginning of the essay headed ' Leigh Hunt,' on the comic dramatists of the Restoration (' Essavs,' 1864 edition, vol. ii. p. 151).

D. RANNIE.

See Index to Macaulay's Works, " Albany Edition " (Longmans), vol. xii. pp. 557-8.

WM. H. PEET.

[HEER J. F. BENSE, W. A. H., and MR. C. W. TERRY also thanked for replies.]

HOPSCOTCH (10 S. xii. 329). Many years ago I heard a paper on this subject read by Mr. J. W. Crombie. It was called a ' History of the Game of Hop-scotch,' and is published in the Journal of the Anthropological In- stitute, vol. xv. p. 403. The accompanying plate shows twelve varieties of the game. Mr. Crombie told us that it is mentioned in ' Poor Robin's Almanack ' for 1667, and that it appears under numerous aliases in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain,