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 234 NOTES AND QUERIES. no* S.1V.Sw-16.1905 nately I omitted to record the source of this Information. Of more value is the rough draft of a circular issued by “ Messrs. Mensforth & Richards,” announcing their Intention “to engage some rooms near the Plash Dog, Bridge Street Row, wherein an .Academy will be opened on Monday the 2nd of January, 1786.” A later hand has written, In explanation of an asterisk placed against 'the name Richards, “ This was the same person who is now Sir Richard Philipps [sic], 2l822”; and on the next page, against the address, “An Academy of the Muses.” The following is worth quoting from the same circular, although not relevant to the query: “ Ladies and the Mathematics taught in a private Aplartmentn No entrance money, fine money, or ot er Impositions ° Rods or Canes will not be used, in their stead will be introduced rewards and a -knowledge of the disgrace which attend [sic] wrong doing, and the principal cause of usin the above instruments will be omitted, that is, 'Igasks out of School.” ALECK ADRAIIAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N. ABSTEMIU8 IN _/EsoI>'s ‘FABLES’ (1O°“ S. iv. 149).-In addition to the information given in the editorial note, I can supply the followintg. L. Abstemius did not live much a ter 1505, date of his preface to the Aurelius Victor printed in Venice. The ‘HecatomythiuIn’ was first printed in 1495 in Venice with L. Valla’s translation of some of _/Esop’s fables. Other editions are Stras- burg, 1522 ° Paris, 1529 ; Lyon, 1534, 1544, 1545 ; Heidelberg, 1610; Frankfurt. 1660. Other works are his ‘Annotationes Variae in Obscura Loca Veterum,’ and ‘Libellus de ‘Compluribus Verbis Communibus, quze nunc male appellantur deponentia,’ Venice, 1519. A MS. geograghical work of his, ‘De Totius Orbis Civitati us,’ is in the Barberini Library at Rome. LUDWIG ROSENTHAL. 16, Hildegardstrasse, Munich. Was the name of Abstemius assumed by Lorenzo Bevilaqua in reference to the teetotal signihcance of his patronymic? ST. SwI'rIIIN. [Presumably.] MooN AND HAIR-CUTTING (10"' S. iv. 29, 116, 173).-The superstition which connects the cutting of the hair at certain phases of the moon with some contingent advantage to the .shorn one is of ancient origin, and has, if I mistake not, been often mentioned in com- paratively recent folk-lore literature. There ies before me a holograph letter. of most _beautiful calligraphy, dated 8 Februar, 1587, written in her twelfth year by Arabelhz. Stewart to “The right honorable my very good lady and Grandmother the Countesse of Shrewsbury.” The child says :- “Good Lady Grandmother, I haue sent yo' IAP the endes of my heare, which was cutt the nxt day of the moone, on Saturday laste ; and with them a pott of (gelly which nIy seruante made; I pray God you fin e it good ....... Yo' Lai" humble and obbe- diente childe, AnIsI»:I.I.A STEWARD." J . ELIOT HODGKIN. In ‘The Compleat Housw�e_: or Accom- glished Gentlewoman’s Companion] by E-7 -- (third edition, London, 1729, p. 311), is the following:- “An Ointment to cause Hair to grow. Take two ounces of Boar’s-grease, one dram of the Ashes of burnt Bees, one dram of the Ashes of Southern- wood, one dram of the Juice of a white Lilly Root, one dram of Oil of sweet Almonds, and six drams of pure Musk; and according to Art, make an Ointment of these; and the day before the full Moon, shave the place, and anoint It every Day with this Ointment. It will cause Hair to grow where you will have it.” Rossnr PIERPOINT. PICTURES or SCENES IN ‘JUI.IUs C.£SAR' AND ‘Romeo AND J ULIET' (10°" S. iv. 169).- If convenient, MR. HERBERT should apply -Eersonally, if dpossible-at the Memorial Li rary, Stratfor -upon-Avon, where he will probably find copies of all the graphic and Eictoria illustrations which exist by well- nown artists of Shakespearian subjects. For a few pence an illustrated catalogue of the gallery there can be had. TlIe British Museum Shakespeare Catalogue may be consulted with advantage, and the Print- Room there too. The Birmingham Reference Library possesses a large number of Shake- spearian illustrations, as well as the Lenox Library at New York. WM. J AGGARD. James Northcote painted a picture of ‘Romeo and J uliet,’ Act V. sc. iii., of which I have an engraving by P. Simon. LUDWIG RosIINI‘IIAI.. Hildegardstrasse, 16, Munich. R. Westall, R A., painted ‘ Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar! John Opie, Jas. Northcote, and William Miller painted scenes from ‘Romeo and J uliet.’ CONSTANCE Russam.. Swallowiield. Gnoacs: BUCHANAN (10"' S. iv. 147).-“The Witty and Entertaining Exploits of George Buchanan, commonlfy called the King’s Fool. Glasgow: Printed or the booksellers” (no date), is the first chap-book in the three volumes entitled “John Chearé the Chap- man’s Library: The Scottish hw Litera- ture of Last Century, classified. ith Life