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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. 111. JAN. 7, iocs.

O'Donoghue quotes the following statement from a memoir prefaced by John Mitchel to his edition of Mangan's poems : " He n-ever published a line in any English periodical." Tins statement is disproved, by the sudden appearance to the writer of an oversetting of Schiller's poem ' Hope,' which is to be found in vol. vii. N.S. of Chambers' s Journal, April, 1847. This poem, which does not appear in any edition of Mangan's poetry, runs as follows :

The future is man's immemorial hymn.

In vain runs the present a-wasting : To a golden goal in the distance dim

In life, in death, he is hasting. Ihe world grows old, and young, and old, iJut the ancient story still bears to be told.

Hope smiles on the boy from the hour of his

birth ;

To the youth it gives bliss without limit ; It gleams for old age as a star on earth,

And the darkness of death cannot dim it. When the pilgrim of life lies down in the tomb.
 * ts rays will gild even the fathomless gloom

Never deem it a Shibboleth phrase of the crowd,

Never call it the dream of a rhymer ; I lie instinct of Nature proclaims it aloud :

We are destined for something sublimer. Ihis truth which the witness within reveals Ihe purest worshipper deepliest feels.

J. C. Mangan.

J. CRAUFORD NEIL. 2, Dolphin Terrace, S.C.R., Dublin.

." (See 9 th S. xi. 227.) Some American students at Gottingen told me that they have heard the term " black betty " used in the United States of a kind of " black pudding" or "haggis." On p. 50 of 'A .New Dictionary of Americanisms,' by Sylva Clapin, one reads: " Hetty, the straw- bound and pear-shaped flask of commerce, in which olive oil is brought from Italy."

E. S. DODGSON. [The latter meaning is noted in the 'N.E.D.'J

MATTHEW ARNOLD'S ' HORATIAN ECHO.' This poem appeared first in The Century Guud Nobly Horse for July, 1887. Arnold was a constant reader of this magazine, and on his expressing a wish that "something could be done" to render its publicity less restricted, a friend one of the leaders of the Guild suggested that the poet might him- self do something " by sending them a con- tribution. In reply, while pointing out his inability, through pressure of work, to promise anything," the illustrious patron agreed that "if he could make anything of Jam by for years, discarded because of an unsatisfactory stanza, they should have it " Within a few weeks the revised MS. was
 * a little Horatian Echo, in verse, which had

sent, bearing the date 1847 "a relic of

youth quite artificial in sentiment," but

containing "some tolerable lines, perhaps." The friend above alluded to, upon receipt of the poem, wrote back inquiring whether the author had not intended the title to be in the plural or ' An Horatian Echo.' To this "the ex-School-Inspector " answered that if the plural were used it was to be Echoes, not Echos ; but "the composer" thought that " the singular was preferable." Hence the title as we know it ' Horatian Echo.'

W. BAILEY-KEMPLING.

MILLIKIN-ESTWISLE FAMILIES. Extracts are given below from the will of Catherine Price, of the parish of St. Mary, Woolnoth, in the City of London :

" To be buried in the churchyard of Lee, Kent. Mentions indenture bearing date Nov., 1743, be- tween Henry Price, then of the parish of Saint Bride's (my late husband), and Francis Smith, of the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, relating to 10 acres of land in Unwell, in the county of Norfolk; 15 acres in Upwell, in a place called .Netmore, in the occupation of John May ; also lot of 16 acres called Lake's End, in Upwell, in the occupation of John Raper ; also the ' Hen and Chickens ' in Whitechapel High Street, in the occupation of John Allen ; also one undivided third part of tene- ments in Noble Street, in the parish of St. Olave, Sikver [? Silver] Street.

"Bequeaths 'Hen and Chickens' to Mary Ent- wisle, Margaret Entwisle, and Jane Millikin, widow, all of Lombard Street, London, milliners, and immediately after their decease to the use of Halley Benson Millikin, son of the said Jane Millikin. Legacies to ' my cousin Robert Smith,' 4 Elizabeth Caton, niece of my said late husband.' Mary Entwisle sole executrix. Witnesses Basil Herne, Basil Herne [sic], William Herne.

"Dated July 8, 1764. Proved Nov. 14, 1765, by Mary Entwisle, sole executrix." P.C.C., Register Rushworth, fo. 423.

A correspondent says :

" Part of Lombard Street is in the parish of St. Mary, Woolnoth, and I conjecture that in her second widowhood Catherine Price went to live with the sisters Eutwisle.

" As to the houses and land which appear to have been settled on the second marriage of Catherine, it is not clear whether they originally formed part of her estate or of that of Henry Price. Possibly the part of tenements in Noble Street came to her From her first husband."

The purport of the above will be made rather more clear by adding that Katherine Price, younger surviving daughter of Dr. Edmond Halley, had first married, 2 October, 1721, Richard Butler, of St. Martin '8-le-Gran.fi, widower (cp. published 'Register of Church of St. Margaret, Lee,' p. 13). Her second liusband was Henry Price, who died in January, 1764.

Reference to the marriage of James Milli- kin. and Jane Entwisle, 26 October, 1749,