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 io« s. iv. A™. 12, loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 127 tqq. ; and (3) with the Henry Alway who entered Winchester College in 1534, aged thirteen, from Colerne. as recorded in Kirby's for, or against, this proposed identification •mil be exceedingly welcome. I may add that the said Henry Alvar, or Alvarez, was instru- mental in inducing Thomas Pounde to join the Society of Jesus, and that the said Thomas Pounde is reported by his biographers (including the above-mentioned Father Tan- ner and Brother Foley) to have been edu- cated at the College of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Winchester, which the latter inter- prets to mean Winchester College, and not New ^College, Oxford. I hope later on to contribute a note as to the difficulties that would confront any modern biographer of the said Thomas Pounde, both as to his parentage and education. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. LAMB'S PANOPTICON.—Can any one say precisely what was the Panoptico'n of which Lamb speaks in 'The Old and the New School- master,' Lond. May., May, 1821 ? The Panopticon in Leicester Square was not built until 1852-3. Was there a telescope so called on view in London in 1821 ? R. A. POTTS. HOOPER=LONG. — In 1639 my ancestor Roger Hooper married Mary Long. lam not sure, but I am inclined to think the marriage took place at Salisbury, as my family arms are those of the Hoopers, some of whom lived at Salisbury in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The arms are as follows :—Or, on a fesse azure three annulets argent between three boars passant. Crest, a boar's head erased at the neck azure, bezantee, crined or. The genealogy of this family is given in ' The Visitation of Dorset' (Harleian fc>oc., vol. xx., p. 55). I wish to verify the marriage and to trace Roger's connexion with the Salisbury family. I have consulted the authorities quoted in 'The Genealogist's Guide,' but without finding a clue. The arms are the same as those of Dr. Robert Hooper (1773-1835), the celebrated physician of Savile Row. What ia my best course ? W. H. THE WAR OFFICE IN FICTION.—Has the War Office been specifically criticized or attacked in contemporary fiction ? Dickens, of course, dealt with " the Circumlocution Office," but that might have been any Govern- ment department, and not this particular one. The association of the War Office with literature, in the fact that so many of its clerks have been public writers, may, of course, have saved it from assault, except in Parliament and the press; but I do not think so. POLITICIAN. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.—The following lines were on a leaden vase for garden decoration :— If by each rose we see A thorn there grows. Strive that no thorn shall be Without its rose. W. H. W. P. There is a form on which these eyes Have often gazed with fond delight; By day that form their joy supplies, And dreams restore it through the night. D. M. Philadelphia. Words may be as angels Winged with love and light. Bearing God's evangels To the realms of might. J. F. RALLING. 'LOCHIEL'S WARNING,' BY THOMAS CAMP- BELL.—The original autograph manuscript of this poem was lot 537 in Sotheby's cata- logue for sale on 30 June last. It may be worth noting that the second line originally ran "When the Lowlanders meet thee in battle array " instead of " When the lowlands shall meet thee in battle array." The altera- tion seems no improvement. Has any one ever written the "lowlands" for the Lowlanders of Attica ? STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester. TITIAN'S ' VENUS WITH MIRROR.' — The original is, I believe, in the gallery of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. There is a copy by an unknown artist in Hampton Court Palace (Queen's Private Chamber, numbered 757). For whom and when was the original painted? and are there any other known copies of it existing 1 Are they (the copies) of any value ? WILLIAM HARTE. " DYING BEYOND MY MEANS."—Who was it that said on his death-bed, "I fear I am dying beyond my means," when he saw the doctors around him, and knew that he had no estate to provide for their fees 1 P. [Attributed to Oscar Wilde.] EDWARD HARRINGTON IMPEY was admitted to Westminster School 20 Sept., 1825, aged eleven. Particulars of his parentage and career are desired. G. F. R. B. " PERRYWHIMPTERING."—Can any one tell me the exact sense of the picturesque verb "to perrywhimpter," so often used by William Greener in his new book ' The Exploits of Jo Salis'? For example, on
 * Winchester Scholars,' p. 119. Any evidence