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 456 iv. DEC. 2, 1905. NOTES AND QUERIES. ICELANDIC DICTIONARY (10th S. iv. 229, 331). —Save that it is in German, the ' Altnord- isches Glossar' of Th. Mobius (Leipzig, 1866), pp. xii, 532, costing about twelve shillings, is just the thing required. An English- (modern-)Icelandic dictionary, ' Ensk-islenzk OrOabok.' by G. T. Zoe'ga, was published at Reykjavik by SigurSur Kristjansson in 1896, in pocket size, pp. viii, 482. I ordered my copy through the Skandinavisk Antiqvariat, 49, Gothersgade, Copenhagen, and the price came to about five shillings. L. E. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg, Germany. DUCHESS OF CANNIZAKO (10th S. iv. 265, 316, 358).—She died 3 January, 1841, at Hanover Square, and her obituary notice in The Gentleman's Magazine of that year is as follows :— "She was daughter of Governor Johnstone, younger brother of Sir W. Johnstone Poulteney, Bart. She succeeded to her immense fortune in consequence of the will of one of her brothers, who had acquired it; and her husband succeeded to the title of Duke of Canizzaro on the death of his father by a family compact, with the consent of his eldest brother, the Prince Larderia." A. FJJANCIS STEUART. "THIS TOO SHALL PASS AWAY " (10th S. iv. 368, 435).—A variation of this story occurs in Scott's letter to Byron dated 6 November, 1813, contained in Lockhart's 'Life of Scott.' The apophthegm is there attributed to Solomon. Will MR. PLATT have the good- ness to send me an impression of his seal ? GEO. WILL. CAMPBELL. The Spinney, Coundon, Coventry. "ADD": "ADDER" (10th S. iv. 406).—The sense in which these words were used is explained in ' Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland,' by the Very Rev. John Lee, D.D., vol. i. p. 213 :— " First Book of Discipline, 1560. It was thought expedient in every town where there were schools, and any resort of learned men, there should be a weekly exercise for the trial and improvement of those who were employed in the service of the Church. The ministers, and other learned persons, in rotation, were to interpret some place of Scripture. One was first to give his opinion succinctly and soberly, without wandering from his text, or introducing exhortations, admonitions, or reproofs; another was then to add what the first seemed to have omitted, or to confirm what he had said, by apt illustrations, or gently to correct any of his mistakes. In certain cases, a third might supply what seemed to have been imperfectly treated by the others. But above the number of three it was not thought expedient to proceed, for the sake of avoiding confusion. The warrant for this exercise was taken from that passage in Paul's exhortations to the Church of Corinth, 1 Cor. xiv. 29-33 This practice of having an exercise and addition was continued in the Church of Scotland, at the meeting of presbyteries, not only in the Brat age of the Reformation, but during the whole of the seventeenth century and part of the eighteenth. One minister was appointed at every meeting to exercise on the following day, and another wa» appointed to add. Soon after the commencement of the eighteenth century they became less regular than they had been in former times. In the course of twenty-one years, from the restoration of presby- terial church government in 1638 to 1659, 1 tind that the Presbytery of St. Andrews, at their weekly meetings, went regularly through the Gospel according to John, generally having an exercise and addition on every verse." In vol. ii. p. 350, it is stated that "all the men of learning were required by the- First Book of Discipline to attend the weekly exercise of expounding the Scriptures, in which all ministers and expectants within six Scottish miles of every principal town were obliged to take their turn At this exercise all masters and students in the three colleges of St. Andrews were required to be present by a statute of the university, dated 7th January, 1561." W. S. LAWSON'S 'NEW GUINEA' (10th S. iv. 407). —My brain has, like ME. EDWARD SMITH'S, had a corner in it for "Capt. Lawson." On he not give us the author's real name? I want it for mv ' Bibliography of Australasia,' if the author has no objection to its appear- ing there or in 'N. &, (j.1 I can assure him that I was by no means annoyed with the book, but enjoyed reading about the highest mountain in the world, tfie enormous frogs, and scorpions a foot long ! I did all I could to help its circulation, and laughed heartily at those critics who took it seriously with its publisher—Fred. Chapman, of Chapman & Hall (it was not issued by Sampson Low 4 Co.), who could do lots of gammoning him- self. I have a note that some one said the author of the ' Wanderings' was Lieut. Robert Armit. E. A. PETHEEICK. Streatham. DETECTIVES IN FICTION (10th S. iv. 307, 356, 417).—The description quoted at the last reference, " an Arabic work of the thirteenth century, entitled ' Nighiaristan,' " requires considerable emendation if it is not to be misleading. Firstly, the book is in the Persian language; secondly, it was written about the year 1335; thirdly, the correct title is ' Nigaristan '—i.e. 'The Picture Gal- lery.' It is a miscellany of stories and poetry upon moral subjects, by Muin-al-Din Juvaini. JAS. PLATT, Jnn. Surely no detective in fiction has ever yet been seen who can compare with him of Poe's ' Purloined Letter.1 He appears to be