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 lO" s. iv. AUG. 12. loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 125 suiting the Senate, sent in no verses, and thus, in spite of widespread regret, an inter- esting custom of many centuries' standing was destroyed." Modern verses of the sort in Latin, or occasionally Greek, were gener- ally humorous, and harmless, to put the usage on the lowest level, containing refer- ences to current university topics, which the lapse of years would render of interest. I should like to see the best of them reprinted in a little volume, though I would not claim that honour for the indifferent set I com- posed myself, at the request, if I remember aright, of one of the proctors. HIPPOCLIDES. "MAN OF NOSES."—This curious name, used by the eighteenth-century writers for the soft clam, or Mya arenaria, appears to be absent from the ' N.E.D." s.v. ' Man.' Perhaps it can be inserted under 'Nose.' The follow- ing is from John Lawson's ' History of Carolina,' 1714, p. 162 :— " Man of Noses are a Shell-Fish commonly found amongst us. They are valued for increasing Vigour in Men, and making barren Women fruitful ; but I think they have no Need of that Fish ; for the Women in Carolina are fruitful enough without their Help." In the ' Century Dictionary' the term is given only in the form maninose, and said to be " American Indian." JAMES PLATT, Jun. THE OLD THEATRES OF LONDON. (See ante, p. 79.)—In your review of Mr. Gomme's carefully edited volume on 'London' in "The Gentleman's Magazine Library "the author- ship of the remarkable papers under the above heading is not stated ; and it may, therefore, be well to mention that the pseudonym of "Eu. Hood," over which they are written, conceals the identity of Joseph Haslewood, F.8.A., the well-known literary antiquary. The papers were originally reprinted in that scarce volume 'The Itox- burghe Revels,' pp. 85-128, of which a few copies were issued for private circulation at Edinburgh in 1837, under the editorship of the late Mr. James Maidment. I have no wish to criticize the volumes on 'English Topography,' which have been reprinted under Mr. Gomme's editorial care; but a little more fullness of annotation might be desirable, especially with regard to the authorship of anonymous or pseudonymous articles. W. F. PIUDEAUX. INEDITED POEM BY CHARLES KINGSLEY.— In a letter to The Co-operative News (8 July) Mr. J. M. Ludlow, one of the "old guard" of the Christian Socialists, quotes a poem by Charles Kingsley which appeared in ' Politics for the People,' but "for some inscrutable reason has been omitted from the collected poems ":— OLI> AND NEW: A PARABLE. See how the autumn leaves float by, decaying, Downi htred whirls of yon rain-swollen stream ; So fleets eworks of men, back to their earth again, Ancien* -iml holy things fade like a dream. Nay! see the spring blossoms steal forth a-waying. Clothing with tender hues orchard and glen ; So. though old forms go by, ne'er can their spirit die. Look! England's bare boughs show green leaf again! This should have a place in 'N. & Q.' WILLIAM E. A. AXON. DANIEL AND PETER STUART, NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS.—In 1897 (at 8th S. xii. 68) an inquiry was made for information concerning these two brothers. The answer, not given in ' N. & Q.,' was furnished in the following year by the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' Iv. 75-6. To that account I am able to add a few particulars. Peter Stuart married a Miss Fisher, a native of Yorkshire, who had many friends and relations in and near the city of York. In 1813, hearing that Mr. Spence was willing to dispose of his share in The York Herald newspaper, Peter, who was no longer proprietor of The Oracle, and was then living at 85, 1 but<,n Garden, employed Mr. D. Walker, the proprietor of The Gloucester Journal, to enter into negotiations for pur- chase, of which, however, nothing came. Daniel Stuart's second son, Edward, the first vicar of St. Mary Magdalene's, Munster Square, 1852, was a well-known leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, and a man of marked character. He died in 1877, and was buried in the family vault in Willesden Churchyard. The most complete account of him is in The Durham University Journal, xvi. 182 (14 July last). W. C. B. FOOTPATHS. (See ante, p. 80.)—I was mightily pleased, as Pepys would doubtless say, with the paragraph concerning footpaths con- tained in the review at the above reference. I have always had a great love and reverence for these field and meadow paths, and one of my most cherished cuttings is an essay by Thomas Miller on 'Our Old English Com- mons, Bridle Roads, and Free Footpaths'; vide The Illustrated London News of 15 Sep- tember, 1866. One rarely finds such rich intellectual treats as this in the newspapers of the present day : they will bear many a reperusal, and are worthy of careful storage. When 1 returned to my native village, after long years of exile in London, I was speedily