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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. v. MARCH si,

ber others by name who used regularly to g "colloping and pancaking." My inforraan said that he believed Bloody Thursday ha< reference to the Garden of Gethsemane, anc Nippylug (ear) to the striking off, by Peter of the ear of the servant of the High Priest but he was not able to suggest anything bi way of explanation of Button-Hole Sunday This was the last Sunday in the school term At Eton it is, I believe, the regular usage t leave the last button of the waistcoat un fastened, and I dimly remember something of this myself, though I never heard an\ reason for the custom.

WM. CLEMENT KENDALL.

Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland.

[Collop Monday is explained in the 'N.E.D.' as

the day before Shrove Tuesday, on which fried

bacon and eggs still form the appropriate dish in

many places," the first quotation being from De

Foe's ' Tour Gt. Brit.,' iii. 300 (1769) : " The Monday

Preceding Fastens Even called every-where in

the .North Collop Monday, from an immemoria custom there of dining that Day on Eggs and Col Jops. Smith's American 'Cyclopedia of Names says that "collops of salted meat and eggs" were eaten on the day. For Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday see the ' Encyclopedic ' and other dictionaries At l*t S. x. 87 (1854) it is mentioned that the Thursday before Easter is called Bloody Thursday by some in Northumberland. Further information is not invited on the first three names.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I shall be greatly obliged to any reader who can tell me the name of the author of the Jines

True as the shell

lo the old ocean's melancholy swell, quoted in 'An Appeal from the Shades, an essay which appeared in The London Magazine for August, 1826, and which was farst ascribed to Lamb by Mr. Bertram Dobell in his interesting 'Sidelights on Charles Lamb.' S. BUTTERWORTH.

Who wrote the following lines ? To see the children sporting on the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. They are quoted by Kuskin in his essay on Lord Lindsay's Christian Art,' p. 97 of vol.i. parti., 'On the Old Road'; and by ttazhtt in his essay 'On Living to Oneself.'

,-, JAMES WATSON.

1< olkestone.

Of these lines -some thirty-five to forty years old, I think-I have long, but vainly, tried to find the authorship :

In 'men whom men condemn as ill I nnd so much of goodness still, In men whom men proclaim divine

I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw the line Between the two where God has not.

They are extremely like Whittier in both matter and form, but I cannot find them in his work. F. M.

Whence come the following lines? Because my wine was of too poor a savour For one whose palate gladdens in the flavour Of sparkling Helicon.

CLASSIC.

Where do the following lines occur 1

The old house by the lindens stood silent in the

shade,

And on the gravelled pathway the light and shadow played.

A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern.

Where do the following lines occur 1 ? I think they are a fragment of a song which was popular between fifty and sixty years ago. They are the words of a dying girl to her lover :

We shall meet, we know not where, And be blest, we know not how ;

Leave me now, love ! leave me now !

K. P. D. E.

THE CRUCIFIXION : EARLIEST REPRESENTA- TION IN ART. I have been told that the Catacombs at Rome contain no pictures of the Crucifixion, and that the first representa- tion of the scene in art is on the panels of the door of the church of Sta. Sabina at Rome, which is, I believe, of fifth-century date. I shall be glad to have this contra- dicted or confirmed. HIPPOCLIDES.

LITHUANIAN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY. Some time ago I saw announced, as "in 3 reparation," a ' Litauisches Etymologisches Worterbuch,' by Dr. Zubaty. I shall be glad f any one can tell me who is publishing this, and whether it has appeared, or, failing that, whether there is anything similar already in existence. I possess the excellent 'Lithu- anian - English Dictionary,' by Anthony

alis, but I want something more specially adapted for philological work.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

READ FAMILY. Any information respect- ng John Read, "of King Street, St. James, Westminster," who married Caroline Mercer it "Mr. Keith's New Chapel, Mayfair,' 7 6 February, 1752, would be very highly steemed. He had presumably but one son, ohn, born 29 May, 1754, at King Street, and Baptized at St. James's, Westminster. This on died, at the age of ninety-eight, at Wool-

ich (where he held some appointment afc lie Royal Military Academy), on 22 January, 852, and had issue nine sons : William 1780-1827), Lieutenant-GeneralandD.Q.M.G.