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rarity in their eyes, as a thing coming from o far away." L. 11. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

[Apparently it is an attempt to translate the French term culottee, applied to a pipe the bowl of which is coloured by use.]

POEM BY H. F. LYTE. Where can one find the full words of a beautiful poem on a naval officer's grave written by the llev. H. F. Lyte, the author of the well-known hymn begins with the lines
 * ' Abide with me " ? The poem to which I refer

There is in the lone, lone sea

A spot unmarked, but holy. The words have been set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. They are not to be found in Lyte's literary remains -published by his daughter, Mrs. Hogg, in 1850. The poem is of high merit, and not so well known as it deserves to be. Probably many of the readers of ' N. & Q.' would be grateful for its publication in full in these pages, which would be a sure way of saving it from perishing. PERTINAX.

GERMAN VOLKSLIED. It would be very kind if a reader would send me on a postcard the source of the German Volkslied: Es ist bestimnit in Gottes Rath Dass Mann vom liebsten was Mann hat

Musz scheiden, ja scheiden. I cannot remember whether it is by Heine or not. W. K. W. CIIAFY.

Junior Carlton Club.

BARBARA GRANT. Mr. Saintsbury, in his preface to 'Pride and Prejudice,' says :

" In the novels of the last one hundred years, there are vast numbers of young ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love ; there are at least live with whom, as it seems to me, no man of taste and spirit can help doing so. Their names Are, in chronological order, Elizabeth Bennet, Diana "Vernon, Argemone Livington, Beatrix Esmond, and Barbara Grant."

The first four, of course, are well known ; but who was Barbara Grant ? HELGA.

[She figures in Stevenson's 'Catriona.']

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S ARMS. Can any of your readers tell me what was George Wash- ington's coat of arms ? I am told it is still to be seen on the tombs of his ancestors in the north of England. Can any one inform me where? P. A. F. STEPHENSON.

Neuchatel.

["Information concerning the Washington arms will be found 4 th S. i\. :*irJ ; 7 t!> S. vi. 494. Many articles on Washington's ancestors appeared in the .Sixth and Seventh Series.]

'* MUGWUMP. 'When was this term first introduced into American politics? Accord-

ing to * The Century Cyclopaedia of Names/ it was not generally known in any sense before 1884, when it was applied to, and at once accepted by, the independent members of the Republican party, who openly refused to support the nominee (Blaine) of that party for the presidency of the United States. But in the Morning Leader of 26 July, 4 'S. L. H.," writing under * Sub Rosa,' observed :

" The other day I saw this remark quoted from a leading article in the Xew York Tribune, of KJ Feb., 1877 : ' Listen ! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisan- ship was installed in the Commission.' "

The Commission in question would have been that appointed by Congress specially to settle the presidential difficulty between Hayes and Tilden ; and the word mugwump in this relation would seem to have been in the original meaning "from Algouquian mugquomp, a chief or leader " given in * The Century Cyclopaedia of Names.' But it is a distinctly political use, and through it the present application of the term may be possible to be traced. POLITICIAN.

[See 7 th S. i. 29, 172; ii. 117, 177.]

"VINE" INN, HIGHGATE ROAD. Will any reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly refer me to a work containing a history of the " Vine" Inn, Highgate Road, N.W.? T.

"ENGLISH." What is the now generally accepted derivation of "Eng-land," "Eng- "

lish"?

G. C.

[Angle-land. See ' Angle,' ' England,' ' English/ in ' N.E.LV]

" PEARMAIN " : " PEARWEEDS." Has any satisfactory solution been given of "pear- main"? Dean Swift, in one of his letters to Pope, dated 20 April, 1731, has the following : " I suffer peach, and nectarine, and pearweeds to grow in my famous garden of Naboth's vineyard." What did he mean by "pear- weeds"? G. C.

'WILLIAM TELL.' I shall be glad to know the author of this poem, beginning " Place there the boy," the tyrant said ; " Fix me the apple on his head ;

Ha ! rebel now !

There is a fair mark for thy shaft ; There, try thy boasted archer-craf And hoarsely the dark Austrian laughed.

S. J. A. F.

[Stated in Nelson's 'Advanced Reader' to be by Baine, but no Christian name given.]

MACK HAM'S SPELLING - BOOK. In 1815 Daniel Isaac, an itinerant Wesley an preacher, wrote a book on ' Ecclesiastical Claims.' On