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{in verse) beyond 1809, when Campbell wrote, in * Gertrude of Wyoming' (p. 21) : And ere the wolfskin on his back he flung, Or laced his mocasins, in act to go.

JAS. PLATT, ,Tun.

NAPOLEON ON ENGLAND'S PRECEDENCE. In reviewing * Napoleon's British Visitors and Captives, 1801-15,' by John Gold worth Alger, the Standard (26 August) quotes :

" Before entering into details respecting the captives, I should speak of the unusual bitterness given to the war by Napoleon. Anglophobia, indeed, had been displayed by him even during the peace. The publishers of the ' Almanach National ' were eharply rebuked for proposing to insert 'Angle- terre ' with its Royal Family at the head of the alphabetical list of foreign Powers. They had to relegate it lower down as ' Grande Bretagne,' and curiously enough British representatives at Inter- national Congresses are to the present day seated according to this nomenclature."

ST. SWITHIN.

ENGLISH EXTRAORDINARY. The Italian Lakes and Swiss Gazette, which now boasts of its eleventh "cyar" of circulation, in its issue of 6 August contains the following specimens of foreign English :

" Pay a visit to ' Gola del Pescatore,' very sin- gular precipice full of horrid majesty."

" In this region there are five small lakes That

of Annone is at 226 m. above sea-level and is the largest of all ; a long and skittish band of land divides it almost into two portions, of which the turning to south, the largest, is also called Lake of Oggiono, from the village which rises on the opposite shore. Near the lake of Pusiano you meet a little less extended, at the height of 260 m., with a nice small isle in its middle, said Isola dei Cipressi."

"Mount Generoso. The surrounding panorama which is to be admired from its top, is more than 300 le-agues in diametre. The more propitious time to enjoy this wiew is that of the sunrise and the

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

sunset/

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interast to affix their names and addresses to their querie*, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

PEEL, A MARK. Some recent American dictionaries give as a sense of peel *' a mark resembling a skewer with a large ring " (or, according to their figure, a circle with a straight line drawn down from its circum- ference, like that of the planet Venus, with- out the cross-bar), " formerly used in Eng- land as a mark for cattle, a signature-mark for persons unable to write, or the like." ine usual signature-mark for the illiterate

was a cross, and I have never heard of this alleged mark, or its name peel. Can any one throw any light on it 1 (Statements as to English usage in American books are always liable to error, and there may be some mistake here.) J. A. H. MURRAY.

PEG WOFFINGTON PORTRAITS. As I am preparing a list of the portraits of Peg Woffington for publication, I should take it as a favour to be informed of any such that may be in private collections, whether oil paintings, sketches in pastel, or miniatures. Where any doubt exists as to the authenticity of the portrait, I shall be glad to set the matter at rest on being supplied with a good photograph of the picture.

W. J. LAWRENCE.

54, Shelbourne Road, Dublin.

MARBLE ARCH. I shall feel much obliged bj T your informing me by whom and when the Marble Arch was erected in front of Buckingham Palace, and when it was removed to its present site. PALL MALL.

[A. J. C. Hare, ' Walks in London,' ii. 84, says that the Arch was erected at Buckingham Palace by Nash, and removed to Hyde Park when the Palace was enlarged in 1851.]

LONGFELLOW. I should be glad of in- formation about any critical essays on Long- fellow, especially on ' Hiawatha,' that have appeared, either in magazines, &c., or in volumes of essays, during the last twenty years. P. T. CRESWELL.

Berkhamsted.

[Fourteen articles on ' Hiawatha ' are mentioned in Poole's 'Index to Periodical Literature,' 1882. References to two or three hundred other articles on Longfellow and his poetry are also supplied.]

MANOR COURT OF EDWINSTOWE, NOTTS. Being desirous of perusing a will or letters of administration of one Christopher Cap- perne, c. 1640, which I believe is lodged with the above-mentioned manor court, I seek information as to the locality of this manor and to whom I should apply for permission to search the records.

I should be glad to be enlightened on the procedure of registration of wills, &c., in these manor courts. CHARLES E. HEWITT.

[Edwinstowe is seven miles north-east of Mans- field.]

'TOPOGRAPHIA ANTIQUES PCOM.E.' A book with the following title, "Topogra | phia Antiquse | Rqmae | Joanne Bartholemseo Mar- liano | Patritio Mediolanensi | autore. | Apvd Seb. Gryphivrn | Lvgdvni | 1534," has lately come into my hands. I shall jbe very glad to have any information with regard to