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 536 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. DEC. 30.wo* she was born about 1813, and that her father was a bookseller. _ In The Standard of 14 Feb., 1870, is a letter signed "Emma Robinson, author of ' White* friars,' &c.," addressed from 15, South Bank, Regent's Park, complaining that Mr. H. T. Craven had taken his play of ' Philomel' (then being played at -the Globe) from her romance 'Which Wins?1 I have a letter from her father, from the same address, dated 26 Sept., 1873, referring to his daughter. The handwriting looks like that of a very old man. The Publishers Circular, 1859. p. 715, announced a novel, to be entitled 'The Irish Brigadierman,' as by the author of ' White- friars.' The hero was to be the once famous Earl of Peterborough, the friend of Pope and Swift. It does not appear in 'The English Catalogue.' RALPH THOMAS. STAINES BRIDGE (10th S. iv. 469).—What is the span of the arches of this bridge? Nine feet is quite a respectable thickness for piers. L. L. K. JAMES BUTLER, DUKE OF ORMOND (10th S. iv. 407).—In The Gentleman's Magazine, 1745, p. 614, is found, in the obituary of November, •'James, late D. of Ormond, at Madrid, in the 94th year of his age." (I find 94th in my notes, but should verify it had I the volume by me.) The title is now spelt with a final e, as also in Courthope's and G. E. C.'s peerages. W. L. RUTTON. PIG : SWINE : HOG (10th S. iv. 407, 449, 510)' —Once more, at p. 512, we are told that " Swine [is] the plural of sow." But the A.-S. srvin, a neuter noun, has the same form for the singular and the plural, so that modern English likewise has swine, pi. swine. And the plural of sow is sows. Examples : " Boares have great fangs, Sowes much lesse " (Bacon, 'Nat. Hist.,' § 852. "How like a swine he lies" ('Tarn. Shrew,' Induction, 34). It was Dr. Johnson who perpetrated this extraordinarily bad guess. At least, I find it in Todd's edition of his dictionary, s.v. sow. "Perhaps from sow might come sowen, swen, swine ; but see Swine." So that even he was doubtful about it; and it is needless to ade that sowen never occurs as the pi. of sow, thai the contraction of sowen to swen is obviously impossible, as the e would perish rather than the o, and that no one ever heard of -en turn ing into -int. He was thinking of cow, ok plural ky, with the double plural k>/-en whence kine. WALTER W. SKEAT. •THE MORNING STAR' (10th S. iv. 464).— There was a Morning Star published in London, 1832, of which the B.M. has fifteen numbers (P.P. 5358). The title was also used by monthly periodicals in 1840 and 1844. In 1805 The Star was being issued. The Bodleian has a broken run from 1789 to 1808. I have pi-ess cuttings extending the latter date to 1810. Perhaps The Observer advertisement refers to a proposed morning issue of this journal, which it is to be supposed was an afternoon or evening publication. The Morninr/ Star first issued 17 March, 1856, distributed on 5 March a four-page 'gratis" issue (11 in. by 8$ in.) containing history of Covent Garden Theatre and a ull report of its destruction by fire between and 10 A.M. The remaining space was tilized for a prospectus of the " New London )aily Papers, The Hominy Star—The Even- nrf Star." ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Eoad. DORSET PLACE NAME: RYME INTRINSECA 10th S. iv. 89).—Of course MR. BARRON has een Hutchins's (' History of Dorset,' vol. iv. >. 491) derivation of this place: " Ryrae jitrinseca - In - Ryme (so called in contra- diction to the outlying manor of Ryme Jxtrinseca in Longbridy)." And under the leading of Long-Bridy (vol. ii. p. 188) the Dorset historian speaks of a place called ' Dowerfield, or Balling's Manor," as being ,he manor of Long-Bridy, belonging to the manor of " Out-Ryme, or Ryme Extrinsecus." Perhaps the rector of Long Bredy may enow it better by either of these first-men- tioned names. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. Antigua, W.I. TAILOR IN DRESDEN CHINA (10th S. iv. 469). —The title of this query should be ' Tailor riding on a Goat.' This is, or was some bhirty years ago, the usual way of represent- ing a tailor in Austria-Hungary. Boys on seeing a member of the craft would—in those days, anyhow—immediately imitate the voice of a goat or place their hand under the chin and wag_ it to imitate a goat's beard, and ran away without waiting for developments. A great many years ago I saw in a con- fectioner's shop in Budapest a masterpiece in sweetstuffs. It represented a pair of scales. In one dish, low, near the ground, sat a goat wearing spectacles and beaming with smiles; on the other side, high up in the air. the dish was crowded with tailors with their flit irons ; members of the craft were clinging to the edge and swarming up the ropes too. This was in allusion to the light weight of tailors. I forget how many tailors are said to go to the weight of a goat. I have new
 * hen only a farm, though styled in records