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 iv. DEC. so, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 521 LONDON, SATV1WAY, DECEMBEK SO. 1906. CONTENTS.—No. 105. HOTES :-Qabrlel Peignot. Ml—TAte-a-T«te Pnrtrntts, 522 —Burton's * Anatomy/ 623—Bpltaphiana—Dr. Kdmond Halley, 528—St. Thomas's Hay Custom "Going a- go Ktlng" — Windsor Uniform — P. W. TrepO'pen— Oxford Circus—" Herero ": lu Pronunciation—Aineri- citn Civil War, 627. QUKIUBS:-"From pillar to port"—Descendant* of the Plantagenete, 528-Authors of Quotations Wanted— •• Humanltes"— Roll of Oarlaveruak—Messiah—Name of the Lord—De Qulncey and Swertenltorg—Soubliie, Black Page, 629-' The Complete I), ill Serjeant.'-Mac- rinnell—Tbe Groat.le Buckle—The Lincoln Imp—Heralds' Visitations, Northamptonshire — Mrs. Flizheruert— Knlgma by C. J. Fox—D*ath-birds In Scotland and Ireland—John Dyer, Poet, 5%. BEI'LIKS : -Catalogues of MSi.—Pu"eh. tbe Beverage, 531 —Nelson's Signal. 533 — Trafalgar — Sarah (Jurran, Robert Kmmcr, and Major Slrr's Papern, 534— Toby's Dog-The Author of • Whitefrlars,' 535-Sialnei Bridge —James Butler, Duke of Ormond—Pig: Swine: flog — ' The Morning Star' — Dorset Place-name : Hyme Intrlnseca —Tailor In Dresden China, 5:w — Balnea Family—Eliot Yorke—Dog Training—Dogs In War- • Chevy Chase''—Me'chlur Quy Dickens, 537—Charles Lamb, 638. HOTES ON BOOKS :-'London Vanished and Vanishing ' —Lang on 'The Clyde Mystery' —Index to Hoiace Wnlpole's Letters - Platfs 'Child Music' — 'How to Collect Books'—Cowper and Browning—'Vivian Grey ' —Skcat's 'Primer of Classical and Kngllkh Philology'— •Who's Who'—• Literary Year• Book' —Whltaker's 4 Almanack ' and ' Peerage.' Obituary :—Mr. K. J. Sage. Notice* to Correspondents. GABRIEL PEIGNOT. APPARENTLY the best collection of the •writings of Gabriel Peignot is that in the Wigan Public Library. It is noteworthy that the Lancashire mining town should have been more successful than the British Museum, and apparently also more successful than the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris, in gathering together the rare and curious books and pamphlets of this learned and entertain- ing French bibli6grapher. Amiable in his character, modest in his claims, he is charm- ing by reason of his out-of-the-way erudition and pleasant style. Many of his books and •opuscules were printed in restricted editions. Mr. Henry Tennyson Folkard has reprinted, mainly from the excellent Wigan catalogue, a bibliographical note about Gabriel Peignot, who wrote on a wide variety of topics, such as eccentric wills, the origin of the week, the luxury of Cleopatra in her festivities with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, July as a fatal month, the history of parchment, the laws of Howel the good, and many other subjects remote from the busy life of every •day. Sir. Folkard prints some verses written by Feiguot in his old age:— Le sort que me depart ta volont^ supreme Etre puissant et ban, comble tous mes souhaits, Et, mail re de choieir, j'aurais choisi le memo: Je te rends, 6 mon L)ieu, grace pour teB bienfaits. Des livres ;'i mon gout, dans mon coin si modes te, Rempliesent nies rayons : uti humble coffre-fort Sullii a mes besoins, lea pauvres ont le reste ; Mais ina bibliotheque eat mon plus cber treaor. Sain de corps et d'esprit, j'ai des amis sincere* ; L'etude me distrait sans janiais me laseer ; Comptant du jour natal beaucoup d'anniveraaires, Je vnis, satis mil regret, mon ternie s'avancer. Convive passager au banquet de la vie, Je sais qu'il faut bientot au monde dire adieu ; A renaiire en ton sein ta bonte me cotwie, Et mon cceur en nourrit 1'esperance, 0 mon Dieu ! To these sentiments of the old savant I have tried to give an English dress in the following lines :— The sort allotted by Thy will. Great God, my wishes all fulfil. I should have picked it out by choice ; I thank Thee, God, with heart and voice. My modest little nook of home. Where 'mid my darling books I roam, Some coin ; the poor may have the rest— My books the treasure 1 love best. Sound mind and body ; friends I admire, Study—but not enough to tire. What birthdays since I first drew breath ! Repretless now, I wait for death. A passing guest in Life's great hall, I take a kindly leave of all,. And nurse the hope within my breast To live again in God's own rest. Amongst my own books is a copy of the ' Predicatoriana,' at the end of which there are two tracts which look as if they might also be from the pen of Peignot, but they are not mentioned by Mr. Folkard. I therefore name them, as some reader of ' N. <fe Q.' may be able to give further information. The first is :— "LeSongedu Petit Pere Andre. [Signed] Ebeniite [Colophonj Dijon, imp. de Frantin, 1841, 8vo, pp. 8/ On the first page there is a reference to the recent issue of the ' Predicatoriana.' The second opuscule is :— "Panegyrique de Sainte Madeleine prononc£ a Besan9on pour la fete patronale d'une des paroisses de celte ville, par M. Belon, prelre, Docteur en Thdologie [No place or date], 8vo, pp. 38." The first pages are occupied by a notice of M. Belon, whose sermon in praise of the Magdalen, it is said, caused the ecclesiastical authorities to prohibit his pulpit oratory for some years. He died shortly before the Revolution, according to this notice. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. [We owned ourselves not very long ago a con- siderable collection of Peignot's works, many of them rare.]