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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io i " s. in. FEB. 23, 1905.

a strike, which had just taken place in the capital might be called rather a quid pro quo.

TSARSKOE SELO : ITS PRONUNCIATION. In a recent number of Punch (1 February, p. 74) I notice some striking lines on the present situation in Russia, among which occur the following:

And kept unsullied that majestic halo Circling the sacred Head at Tsarskoe Selo.

The name of this place is so much in every mouth just now that it may not be amiss if I point out that this pronunciation is wrong. I find to my surprise that it is so in most of the gazetteers (e.g., Lippincott, 1880, Worcester, 1887, Smith, 1895), but there is one honourable exception Ogilvie gives it correctly, viz. as T&dr-sko-e 8elo. Tsarskoe, which is three syllables, means Imperial. Selo means a village with a church, and Crimes, not with "halo," but with " below." JAMES PLATT, Jun.

"TZAR," NOT " CZAR." When will our daily papers cease to misspell the name of the Ilussian self-ruler? Surely the correct and phonetic transcription of the Russian name (which^is derived from Csesar, like the Ger- man Kaiser) is not its Magyar-Hungarian spelling Czar, but, according to our own pronunciation, Tzar in English, or Tsar in French, or Zar in German and Italian.

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Q IN THE 'H.E.D.' The almost exhaustive character of the great dictionary has perhapa never been better shown than in this section. I have gone very carefully through the various aliases of "quinine" and the other cinchona alkaloids, and have found only one omission, that of quinodia, the alternative form of quinodine. I have counted over fifty words in this group under Q, and have pro- bably missed several. It is somewhat strange that the first quotation for quinetum should be dated 1880, when this drug had already become unimportant on account of the fall in the price of quinine. It must have been introduced four or five years before then.

There is no mention under quacksalver of quacksalver' 1 s spurge or of quacksalver's turltith, both of which are in Gerard as names of different varieties of spurge. Neither of them is in Lyte, which is curious if quacksalver is of Dutch origin.

Quaking ash, a name for the aspen (see Rennie's 'Conspectus of Pharmacopoeias,' 1837), does not appear under Q, but is mentioned in Section A, under ash.

C. C. B.

VICE-CHAMBERLAIN COKE. At p. 203 of ' Duchess Sarah,' by Mrs. Colville, there is a letter from the Duchess to Mrs. Coke dated 1 November, 1709, copied from H.M.C., Twelfth Report, Appendix, part iii. p. 83. Mrs. Colville then adds, p. 204, " Mrs. Coke was the first wife of Mr. Coke, who for so many years, and under two reigns, held the post of Vice-Chamberlain at the Court." The lady to whom this letter was addressed was the second, and not the first, wife of Mr. Coke.

Vice-Chamberlain Coke's first wife, whom he married in June, 1698, was Lady Mary Stanhope (elder daughter of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield) ; but she died January, 1703/4, consequently, as the above-mentioned letter was .dated November, 1709, it must have been written to Mr. Coke's second wife, to whom he had been united in October, 1709. This lady was Mary, daughter of William Hale, Esq., of King's Walden, Herts, a maid of honour to Queen Anne. She died January, 1723/4, leaving one son and one daughter, becoming through the latter great- grandmother of the second Viscount Mel- bourne, Prime Minister, and to that noble- man's sister, who married as her second husband another Prime Minister, viz, the last Viscount Palmeraton.

It may not be uninteresting to record that the Vice-Chamberlain's second wife was a distant connexion of the Maryborough family.

As Mrs. Col ville's book is of great historical interest, I may be pardoned for correcting the above-mentioned clerical error.

FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Broughten Road, Thornton Heath.

"TANDEM." (See 9^ S. x. 308, 455 ; xi. 256, 353.) As instances of the use of tandem in the meaning of a carriage appear to be rare, the following example is worth recording. Under date London, 11 August, 1807, Byron wrote :

"On Sunday next I set off for the Highlands. A friend of mine accompanies me in my carriage to Edinburgh. There we shall leave it, and proceed in & tandem (a species of open carriage) th[r]ough the western passes to Inverary, where we shall purchase shelties, to enable ue to view places in- accessible to vehicular conveyancts." 'Letters and Journals,' 1898, i. 143.

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

BENJAMIN GOOCH. When writing on this able surgeon for the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' I failed to recover the date of his death. He is perhaps identical with Benjamin Gooch, of Halesworth, in Suffolk, surgeon, who died between 20 November, 1775, and 20 March,