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in The Morning Post of 21 April, Mr. Andrew Lang writes :

" As for Thackeray, I never could see why an humourist should not be ' sentimental' on occasion. I do not agree with the poet who sings : I sit with my feet in a brook,

And if anyone axes me why? I fetch him a crack with my crook.

For it 's sentiment kills me, says I. Sentiment does not kill me, and Thackeray's senti ment I like, while his humour is exceeding abun dant."

Whose are the lines ? I have known them (with slight verbal differences) for over thirty years, but have never found them in print before, so far as I can remember. I have asked Mr. Lang if he knows their authorship, and he writes me on 24 April, " My own attempts to find the source have failed."

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

Dowanhill Gardens, Glasgow.

[It was stated at 6 th S. xii. 300 that the lines, an outcome of a game at bouts rimds, are assigned to Horace Walpole. Possibly MRS. PAGET TOYNBEE, who contributed many valuable notes on Walpole to the Ninth Series, may now be able to confirm or disprove this attribution.]

"WRONG SIDE OF THE BED." What is the origin of the remark, "You got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning " ?

Dun AH Coo.

Hongkew.

HERALDIC. What family bore arms Per fesse, in chief a fesse nebuly ? The arms are impaled on a seal of the arms of Simon Mychell (a chevron between three swans) affixed to a deed dated 5 Henry IV.

G. B. MICHELL.

SWEDISH KOYAL FAMILY. Is it not a fact that the present royal family of Sweden are descended from Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's marshals 1 If so, what has become of the original royal family 1 BRUTUS.

"By HOOK OR BY CROOK." How did this phrase originate? MEDICULUS.

[This proverbial expression goes back to the fourteenth century. The 'N.E.D.' says: "As to the origin of the phrase there is no evidence ; although invention has been prolific of explanatory stories, most of them at variance with chronology." Quotations from Wycliffe, Gower, and Skelton's ' Colin Cloute ' follow. An amusing example of the "explanatory stories" is pilloried by our regretted contributor J. DixoN at 7 th S. viii. 306 ; and another instance at 8 th S. i. 185 by N. M. & A., whose signature still appears in ' N. & Q.']

YORK 1517 AND 1540. Mr. Charles Sander- son, of 19, Bailen, Bilbao, has pointed out to me that in the list of ' Lord Mayors and Sheriffs [of York] from the Earliest Times,'

published in The Yorkshire Herald of 25 Feb- ruary, there occur the names of John Dodg- son, mayor in 1517, and William Dodgson, merchant, mayor in 1540. The elder had been sheriff in 1497, and the other, perhaps his son, in 1532. To what class of merchants did William belong ? Did he adhere to the Papal religion? Had he any descendants? I should be interested in knowing if he was connected with my grandfather Mr. Thomas Dodgson, born in Yorkshire on 9 May, 1776, who died at Thorpe Grange, Greta Bridge, on 12 May, 1873, and was buried by Mr. Headlam at Whorlton, near Barnard Castle. He was a bachelor of St. Mary's, Cheapside, when he was married by Mr. W. Courthope on 25 May, 1802, in the church of St. John the Baptist at Southover, Lewes, to Selina Juliana Sharpe, of that parish, spinster. His mother was a Miss Butler.

E. S. DODGSON.

BEAUTIFUL Miss GUNNINGS. Any one having an old broadside with engravings of the Miss Gunnings at the top and verses underneath, or other engravings of them, is desired to communicate with the under- signed. One married the Earl of Coventry ; another married the Duke of Argyll, and later the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.

E. FANSHAWE.

132, Ebury Street, S.W.

THE VAN SYTESTEYN MANUSCRIPTS. (10 th S. iii. 341.)

MY attention has been drawn to an article in your most valuable paper by MR. W. ROBERTS on what he misnames ' The Van Sypes^m Manuscripts.'

As the gentleman who unfortunately had to part with a collection which he valued so much (Jonkheer Cornells Ascanius van Sypesteyn, to give him his full name and title: Jonkheer is a title of nobility in Holland) was my grandfather, I am surely entitled most emphatically to protest against the misrepresentation which is conveyed by the late Mr. Dawson Turner's autograph nscription in the copy of the catalogue of hat sale which has come into the hands of MR. ROBERTS. It is not only a gross mis- representation, but an abominable calumny on several members of a most distinguished 'amily, from which I have the honour to descend.

In a certain way MR. ROBERTS is not to alame, as he only gives us Mr. Turner's nar- -ative ; but if, to begin with, MR. ROBERTS