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lating to that long-shut-up empire " v\'ill be found in 5 th S. v. 232 ; vii. 342, to which I may add Earl Macartney's ' Embassy to China,' by Sir George Staunton, Bart., be- tween September, 1792, and September, 1794.

EVERARD HOME UOLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

" MR. PlLBLISTER AND BETSY HIS SISTER "

(10 th S. ii. 408). This rather long and humorous poem may be found in ' Old- Fashioned Children's Books,' published by Andrew W. Tuer, at the Leadenhall Press, in 1900, entitled 'The Dandy's Ball.' The original date given is 1823, but nothing is said about the author's name. In this edition the poem is profusely illustrated with coarsely executed woodcuts in facsimile.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbouroe Rectory, Woodbridge.

WHITSUNDAY (10 th S. ii. 121, 217, 297, 352). We, too, call the first Sunday after Easter u'eissen Sonntaa. This was, and with Roman Catholics is still, the day when children were confirmed, for which solemnity the girls were dressed in white. Catholics keep this up to the present day ; with Protestants various customs prevail. In my part of the country the girls wore white dresses during the con- firmation, but black ones when receiving the Communion for the first time.

G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

SUPPRESSION OF DUELLING IN ENGLAND (10 th S. ii. 367, 435). Other books on this subject are George Neilson's ' Trial by Com- bat,' 1884 ; L. Sabine's ' Notes on Duels and Duelling, Alphabetically Arranged,' 1855 ; Thomas Comber's ' Discourse of Duels,' 1687 (not in Lowndes); Douglas's 'Duelling Days in the Army ' ; Mackay's ' Extraordinary Popular Delusions,' <fec. ; 'Belgian Anti- Duelling Association,' in Chambers' s Edin- luryh Journal, 28 December, 1839; 'Old London Duelling Grounds,' in Chambers' s Journal, 12 January, 1895 ; an account of De Boutteville, one of the greatest duellists of the seventeenth century, in Macmillaris Magazine, about September or October, 1903 ; 'In the Days of Duelling.' in Pearson's Macia- zme, 1900; 'Duels and Duelling,' a "turn- over" in The Globe, 16 October, 1903.

Duelling was checked in the army in 1792. boon after this an anti-duelling influence was beginning to be felt among civilians. In The Gazetteer for 2 April, 1796, it is said :

" Another duel has been prevented by the inter- ference of Justice Addington, who, at the insti- gation of some friends to harmony, granted a warrant against Messrs. Didelot and Onabatti, two

of the Opera Corps, who had agreed to settle some- difference in an honourable way in Hyde Park. On being apprehended, they were brought before Mr. A. at Bow-street, and persuaded to shake hands it* good fellowship."

The last duel of any note between English subjects on English ground is said to have- been in May, 1845, between two lieutenants,. Hawkey and Seton, the latter being killed. French duels may sometimes have a ridicu- lous ending, and Mark Twain did well to- acquire a French duelling-pistol to hang on his watchchain as a charm, before they be- came extinct ; but we also had our funny scenes. A droll occurrence " took place at Venn (?) between the son of a respect- able chemist of Plymouth and the son of a retired gentleman. It appears that they had a slight quarrel about a young Jady, and neither being dis- posed to relinquish his Love for her, they decided on a duel. They fired, two rounds each, neither wishing to hit the other,, because they regarded their own lives better than. to. give them up for the person they were fighting for." Chemist, and! Druygist, 14 January, 1860.

The last duel in Scotland was, I believe,, between Mr. (afterwards Lord) Shand and another, when the seconds, however, loaded the pistols with a charge of powder only !

J. HOLDEN MA&'MliGHAEL.

I was told by my father, seventy years agoj. that the stoppage of duelling was brought about by an incident at Kingston-on Hull,, when a young married officer, refusing on account of poverty to join the mess, received a challenge in the shape of a Round Robin- from all his fellows, and was killed in the- first encounter. Is any authority for this, story known to exist? H. T.

ANGLES : ENGLAND, ORIGINAL MEANING (10 th S. ii. 407, 471). In connexion with the communications on the above subject, per- haps it may not be out of place to direct attention to the following statement, culled from that great work ' The Conquest of England,' by John Richard Green, M.A., LL.D. (Macmillan & Co., 1883) :

" It may be well to note that the word ' Angul- Saxon' is of purely political coinage, and that no man is ever known, save in our own day, to have called! himself 'an Anglo-Saxon.' The phrase, too, applied strictly to the Engle of Alercia and the Saxons of Wessex, not to any larger area. For the general use of ' Engle ' and ' Saxon,' I must refer my readers to Mr. Freeman's ' Norm. Conq.,' i. A pp. A." -Vide p. 193.

HENRY GEP,ALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Claphsm, S.W.

PENNY WARES W^^BD (10 th S. ii. 369, 415, 456). 'Index to the Periodicals of 1891, f

p. 127, has "Penny Dinners," 'Index, to th