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it may be interesting to mention that Byron <(*Childe Harold's Pilgrimage/ canto iv. st. cxlviii.-cli.) refers to the story. A foot- note in my edition says :

" This and the three next stanzas allude to the story of the Roman daughter, which is recalled to the traveller by the site, or pretended site, of that adventure, now shown at the church of St. Nicholas in Carcere [Rome]."

EDWARD LATHAM.

PIDGIN OK PIGEON ENGLISH (10 th S. v. 46, 90, 116, 174). 'The ''FanHwae" at Canton before Treaty Days, 1825-1844,' by an Old Resident (query, Dr. Hunter ?), has several paragraphs on this subject. At p. 60 of the 1882 edition (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.) occurs :

"Pigeon English is the well-known name given to that unique language through the medium of which business was transacted and all intercourse exclusively carried on between the * Western Ocean ' foreigners and Canton Chinese."

A little later it is referred to as " Devils' Talk." The date is indefinite, but the epithet " well known" carries force. "Fan Hwae" of course equals Foreign Devil.

An Englishman whose memory of Hong- kong goes back to 1857 tells me that the term was certainly current there then.

DUH AH Coo. Hongkew.

FEMALE VIOLINISTS (10 th S. v. 229, 256). Ann Ford (1737-1824) married in 1762, as his third wife, Governor Philip Thicknesse :

"The town frequented her Sunday concerts, where Dr. Arne, Tenducci, and other professors were heard, besides all the fashionable amateurs, the hostess playing the viol da gamba, and singing to the guitar."

The viol da gamba was of exquisite work- manship, supposed to have been made in 1612, and was her favourite instrument.

R, J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

TOM THUMB'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN LONDON (10 th S. v. 385). I certainly saw, when a boy, Tom Thumb exhibited at the Adelaide Gallery in the Strand in June or July, 1844, and remember the pink-covered pamphlets which were sold by him, and for which he gave " to ladies only " a kiss, called metaphorically "a stamped receipt." Barnura was acting as his tutor, and carried on conversations with his pupil, and coached him up. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, 1838 (10 th S. v. 389). The Polytechnic Institution, Regent Street, built on premises formerly belonging

to Lord Bentinck, was opened to the public on 6 August, 1838. An engraving of the front of the building and a column or two of descriptive letterpress appeared in The Mirror of 1 September, 1838. The diving- bell, which formed such an interesting feature of the institution, was the subject of an illustrated sketch in The Literary World of 11 May, 1839. In July, 1885, I saw this old friend of my boyhood's days standing dis- carded and forlorn in the grounds of the Albert Palace, Battersea Park. 1 presume it has long since been sent to limbo.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

GALLIE SURNAME (10 th S. v. 309, 394). A respectable family named Galley was resident at Easington and South wick, in this county, about a century ago. " 1787, July 10, Ann, wife of James Galley, South- wick, Gentleman," buried (Monkwearmouth Registers). The author of 'The Norman People/ states that Galley is simply the Norman-French pronunciation of Galet, an opinion evidently shared by Canon Barber (see his * British Family Names,' where he mentions that it occurs as a Huguenot name in London, 1687). H. R. LEIGHTON.

East Boldon R.S.O., Durham.

"ANON" (10 th S. i. 246, 337; v. 274). Is not MR. BAYNE a little hard on Thackeray over his elastic use of the word "anon" 1 ! The novelist might surely have claimed Milton as using the word with the signifi- cance of at other times. In the first book of
 * Paradise Regained ' we find

Full forty days He passed whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar, to defend Him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed.

WALTER JERROLD. Hampton-on-Thames.

CHICHELE'S KIN (10 th S. v. 286). MR. F. HITCHIN-KEMP'S note on this subject made me apprehensive that my family might have been claiming kinship and privileges to which we were not entitled. But in my manuscript pedigree of the Chichele family, which is a very full one, I find that the Tyldens of Milstead, and their no doubt numerous descendants, are the only persons affected. ^

Philippa, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Chichele, knight and Lord Mayor of London, the archbishop's eldest brother, married Valentine Chichele, and it was their daughter Emeleyn Chichele who married Sir Thomas Kempe, Kt., said (it now appears erroneously) to have been of Rosteage, Kent.