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. IV. SEPT. 23,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 249 (Edinburgh, Robert Lekprevik, 1566) is given by Mr. J. P. Edmond ('Annals of Scottish Printing,'p. 230) on the authority of McCrie ('Life of Knox,' 1855, p. 3), but no copy has been traced. Information is desired as to the where- abouts of copies of the first and fourth editions. P. J. ANDERSON. University Library, Aberdeen. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED :— Last eve 1 paused beside a blacksmith's door, Ami heard the ringing anvil's vesper chime. In which of Mrs. E. B. Browning's works do these lines occur ?— She never found fault with you, never implied Your Wrong by her Hight; and yet men at her aide Grew nobler, girls purer. A. B. Love that groweth unto faith ; Love that seeth over death ; Love that, with his longing eyes, Looks on into Paradise. K. A. POTTS. The tombs of McClean and McLeod, Of McCleod and McClean, They lie in the cloud and the rain. In the mist of the dim sea-shroud. CHK. WATSON. 261, Worple Road, Wimbledon. < IM i: KHAYYAM.—What books can be read analyzing and critically animadverting on the Kubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam 1 A. W. ['The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,' translated by Edward FitzGerald, with a commentary by H. M. Batson, and a biographical introduction by E. D. Ross (Methuen, 1900), will be found useful. A bibliography of the subject and notes appear in the French translation in verse by Fernand Henry (Paria, J. Maisonneuve, 1903.] CEREMONY AT EIPON.—Wilfrid, the founder and first Abbot of Ripon, was exiled in A.D. 678, but was allowed to return ten years afterwards. He died at Oundle, and was buried at Ripon. This return from exile seems to have been commemorated by the inhabitants, for in a little book published in 1801 we are told :— " On the Saturday following Lammas-day, the effigy of St. Wilfrid is brought into the Town, with great ceremony, the inhabitants go out to meet it, with a band of music, ico."—'Tourist's Guide to Ripon,' p. 5. Can any one tell me when this ceremony was discontinued 1 AYEAHR. FIRST NATIONAL ANTHEM.—I am very desirous of knowing whether there was a national anthem before ' God save the King.' If so, what was it under Elizabeth and in the days of the Stuarts ? Your valuable paper will probably be able to give me the wished- for information. F. E. LANDOLPHE. FAME.— Is the correct representation a woman in flowing garments floating through the air, blowing a trumpet, and holding a wreath 1 Can you kindly inform me? H. J. BARKER. [In ' Samson Agonistes' Dalila says:— Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed. And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.] 4 THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH.'—Charles Reade, in the concluding sentences of this novel, has some words in praise of Erasmus. He says, for example, " Some of the best scenes in this new book are from his mediaeval pen, and illumine the pages where they come." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say what particular scenes of the novel are here referred to, and what are the parallels in the works of Erasmus? W. B. ITALY "A GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION.' —Mr. Justin McCarthy in his ' Reign of Queen Anne' writes (chap, iii.) that, at the time that sovereign came to the throne, " Italy was divided among various lords and masters, and indeed her very name was only, as Motternich long after declared it to be, a geographical definition." But was not the phrase " geographical expression"? and when and where did Metternich first use it ? POLITICIAN. DENNY FAMILY. — In Lodge's excellent pedigree of the Denny family and else- where it is stated that Robert, sixth son of Sir Edmond Denny, Baron of the Ex- chequer, was born on 13 December, 1501, and having died (apparently unmarried) was buried_ in St. Mary's Undershaft, Lon- don. He is not mentioned in his father's will, 1520, from which it would seem pro- bable that he was then dead. In the Denny pedigree in the 'Visitation of Norfolk, 1563 and 1613,' Harl. MS. 1552, this Robert Denny is described as having been buried in St. Andrew's Undershaft, and to have married, and had a son Thomas Denny, " buried by his father." Evidently he had been confused with a Sir Robert Dennie, Knt., who, with Thomas his son, was buried in St. Andrew's in 1421 (Speed's 'Survey of London'). But to the original MS. of the Visitation an addition has been made, in a different ink, by an apparently later hand. This gives as wife to Rooert Denny " Frances, dau. Trigham [or Tresham], Esq., of co. Northants," and makes him have a second