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 10*- 8. V. JAN. 27, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

41 OCEAN, 'MID HIS UPROAR WILD " (10 th S. v. 47). Coleridge is quoting his own poem
 * Ode on the Departing Year,' section vii.

W. BENHAM.

Dr.. VOLLMER will find the above in Coleridge's 'Ode on the Departing Year,' 11. 129-30. K. A. POTTS.

DR. VOLLMER will find the lines in the 'Ode on the Departing Year ' in the second edition of Coleridge's poems, " to which are added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, 1797." Lamb in a letter to Coleridge <2 January, 1797) writes: "The address to Albion is very agreeable, and concludes even beautifully :

Speaks safety to his Island child."

S. BUTTERWORTH.

"THESE ARE THE BRITONS, A BARBAROUS RACE" (10 th S. iv. 510; v. 31). My first sip of English history was taken from a humbler vessel than that mentioned by MR. R. B. MARSTON, and yet I believe it to have been the article sought by your Minnesota corre- spondent. In the early forties a little paper- covered book, of some twenty leaves, was put into my hands to minister to my pleasure and my pains. It was called, I think, 'Our Native England ; or, the Historical House that Jack Built,' and had on every page a short verse and a woodcut, referring to the period or the monarch to which it was appro- priated. I do not remember either the name of the publisher or that of the author, but I know the ingenious creature began with the words that head my reply, and that the opening stanza was :

These are the Britons, a barbarous race, Chiefly employed in war or the chase. Who dwelt in Our Native England.

Then he faced the Romans, and, after succinctly arousing the learner's curiosity about them, cleverly ran him back again to the Britons, thus :

These are the Romans, a people bold, Of whom many wonderful stories are told ; They conquered the Britons, a barbarous race, Chiefly employed in war or the chase, Who dwelt in Our Native England.

And so on to good Queen Victoria.

ST. SWITHIN.

In the British Museum Catalogue we find entered t{ Cuckow (G. J.). Our Native England ; or, the Historical House that Jack built ; being the History of England made easy in Familiar Verse, &c., Derby, 1838." This is probably the little book that your correspondent in Minnesota is in search of. It is not by Cook, but by Cuckow.

It may have been issued by the firm of Mozley. H. B. W.

Clapham.

SPLITTING FIELDS OF ICE (10 th S. iv. 325, 395, 454, 513 ; v. 31). The Editor will doubt- less allow me to apologize for my failure to refer to all the notes that had preceded mine. It is certainly advisable that the beginning of a series of notes should be looked up, and I regret that in the present instance I did not do this. Lowell's reference to 'The Prelude' has been known by me since the beginning of 1895, when a copy of his essays came into my possession. F. JARRATT.

CHURCH SPOONS (10 th S. iv. 468 ; v. 13, 56). In Cripps's 'Old English Plate,' sixth edition, p. 349, the pierced spoon is referred to as follows :

" Such caddies [tea] were usually also supplied with a small spoon with pierced bowl and long pointed handle, used for straining the tea and clearing the spout of the teapot before the intro- duction of the fixed strainer at the inner end or insertion of the spout. These are often, but erroneously, called strawberry spoons."

A. R. H.

Eastbourne.

There was originally a spoon amongst the sacramental plate at Hinton St. George, Somerset. It was, however, lost some time previous to 1870, and inquiry as to its where- abouts was made at that time by the incum- bent, but with what success I have never heard. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

THE CONDADO (10 th S. v. 47). "The Con- dado " probably means Barcelona. That city is still constantly called " La Ciudad Con- dal " in the Spanish newspapers, in remi- niscence of the rule of her former "Counts."

E. S. DODGSON.

" PASSIVE RESISTER" (10 th S. iv. 508; v. 32). W. Hazlitt, in his translation of M. Guizot's * Introductory Discourse ' to ' The History of the Revolution in England ' ("Bonn's Standard Library"), says at p. 17, "The new government [i.e., the Common- wealth] encountered at first only jmssive resistance; but this it encountered every- where"; and on p. 18, "To the jmssive resistance of the country were soon added, against the government of the republic, the attacks of its enemies."

The first use of this collocation of adjec- Jive and substantive I should expect to find in the works of some divine to whom the doctrines of " passive obedience" and "non- resistance" (immortalized in the third verse of ' The Vicar of Bray ') were familiar.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.