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 10* S.V.JAN. 6, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Penny Magazine, 18 Jan. 1840.
 * The Reputed Earliest English Newspaper,'

'Early Newspapers of Modern Europe,' Chambers^ Journal, vol. xli. p. 636.

There is a list of London newspapers appearing in 1803 in * The Picture of London ' for that year, pp. 240-7.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, Elgin Avenue, W.

' KING NUTCRACKER ' (10 th S. iv. 508). I have a translation of this book for children. It is not dated, but from my own memories I should say that the date of its appearance in my house is about 1850. The title-page is as follows :

"King Nut-cracker or the Dream of Poor Rein- hold. A Fairy Tale for Children freely rendered from the German of Dr. Heinrich Hoffman [Author of * Struwwelpeter '] by J. K,Planche, Esq. Author of 'The Golden Branch,' 'Island of Jewels,' etc. Leipsig Friedrich Volckmar. London William Tegg & Co. 85 Queen Street, Cheapside. London A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall-Street," There are twenty-eight leaves, including the title-page, printed on one side only, each having its highly coloured picture or pictures. P. 25 has, after the coloured Struwwelpeter procession picture, one of the three boys who were dipped in the inkstand by "Tall Agrippa"(see * Struwwelpeter'). This is, of course, in black ink. P. 26 has in addition to its coloured picture two little outline drawings.

The pictures appear to be the production of the artist who drew those in the better- known 'Struwwelpeter.' I have no doubt that they are German.

The following is Planche's rendering of the passage given by MR. HEBB :

Up spoke the king to his subjects around,

" The deluge is over long ago,

But though the wicked were then all drowned,

Naughty people are still to be found,

As Hoffman's pages plainly show."

As he spoke he waved his hand,

And forward came a well known band ;

Peter, with hair like horrid hedge hog ;

Cruel Frederick, who whipped the dog ;

Silly Conrad, who sucks his thumbs ;

With fidgetty Philip ; behind him comes

Hans, who never looked where he was going

And Robert, away with his umbrella blowing

Caspar, who never his soup would drink,

And the rogues great Agrippa popped into the ink.

The preceding page is about a Noah's Ark

procession.

The * King Nut-cracker ' which I quote is not a little book : it measures about 10 by 7 inches. The colours are as florid, and the faces in the procession, mentioned above, are the same, as those in the original * Struwwel- peter.'

Messrs. Routledge published in 1850 ' A Picture Story Book, with Four Hundred Illustrations.' The full- page illustrations are well coloured. It contains * The History of Dame Mitchell and her Cat, "The History of a Nut-cracker, 1 and 'The Strange and Interesting Adventures of Prince Hempseed and his Little Sister. 3 The second story in its preface is called 'The Nut-cracker of Nuremberg,' and Hoffman is mentioned as its author. Probably this is Dr. Heinrich Hoffman. The story is a long one. A con- siderable part of it is 'The History of the Crackatook Nut and Princess Pirlipata,' told by " Godfather Drosselmayer."

There is, I think, nothing but (probably) authorship and similarity of names to connect Nut-cracker ; or, the Dream of Poor Rein- hold.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.
 * The Nut-cracker of Nuremberg ' with ' King

St. Austin's, Warriugton.

"FROM PILLAR TO POST" (10 th S. iv. 528). The expression seems certainly to have been taken to refer to the game of tennis, what- ever its real origin ; cf. ' Liberality and Prodi- gality,' II. iv. (Hazlitt's ' Dodsley,' viii. 349):

Every minute tost,

Like to a tennis-ball, from pillar to post. R. B. MCKERROW.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 th S. iv. 529). An original something, fair maid, you would

win me To write but how shall I begin ?

Thomas Campbell, * To a Young Lady who asked me to write something original for her Album.' MARGARET PEET.

[MR. E. YARDLEY also refers to Campbell.]

MOZART (10 th S. iv. 409). I sent a copy of BROCKLEHURST'S query to The Shrewsbury Chronicle, and the following appeared in that paper on 1 December :

" Mozart's 12th Mass. A rather old copy of this work in my possession supplies an answer to the query which appeared lately in the London 'N. &Q., and which was quoted in your ' Notes and Queries' of last week by ' Brocklehurst.' In rny copy, which has the date 1869 written under a former owner s name, appears the following printed note : 'In addition to the original Latin Words, an adapta- tion to English Words has been added by R. G. Loraine, Esq.' " AB YOLIN."

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

CHARLES LAMB (10 th S. iv. 445, 512, 538). MAJOR BUTTERWORTH is doubtless right in the explanation which he offers of the refer- ence to Lamb's continental tour in The Mirror, and it is to be regretted that Lamb